Week 4 preview: Eagles-Buccaneers, Colts-Rams, and a Game of the Week that wasn't
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🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
If you looked at Week 4 before the season, you likely would've assumed that Ravens-Chiefs would be the Game of the Week, with Eagles-Buccaneeers at the top of the undercard. Instead, Eagles-Bucs has jumped up to top billing, the Colts and Rams find themselves in the Game of the Week, and the Ravens and Chiefs are both starting down 1-3 records. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman dive into all three of those games to kick off the Week 4 preview episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys also get into the heavyweight matchup between the Browns defense and Lions offense, Jaxson Dart's debut start against a tough Chargers defense, the surprising Jaguars defense getting its biggest test against the 49ers, and a whole lot more.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
1:56 Colts-Rams preview
20:55 Eagles-Buccaneers preview
36:42 Ravens-Chiefs Bizarro Game of the Week
48:16 One Thing From...Browns-Lions
57:05 One Thing From...Jaguars-49ers
1:04:02 One Thing From...Chargers-Giants
1:10:19 Sicko Street: Waking up early for Vikings-Steelers
1:14:45 Sicko Street: You should watch Panthers-Patriots!
1:17:06 Micah Parsons and the shattering of the Wick Scale
1:20:39 What Do You Wanna Know? Dave: Who’s gonna be the first team eliminated from playoff contention, the Titans or Texans?
1:22:49 What Do You Wanna Know? Robert: Who’s gonna be the 10th team at the Table?
1:24:50 What Do You Wanna Know? Derrik: Can the Falcons offense function against a gettable defense?
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| 1:29.0 | Exclused vehicles. Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Week 4 preview for you |
| 1:40.3 | guys today. A couple of really fun games on the slate. We had two games of the week., Bucks, Colts, Rams, a lot to dig into with those. The Eagles and the Bucks has become a mainstay game in the NFL at this point. The teams know each other very well. And the Colts and the Rams might not know each other quite as well, but very interested to see what that Colts team can do against the Los Angeles Rams this week. had a bizarro game of the week. Chiefs and the Ravens probably should be, but who's excited about that? Trying to figure out which team is worse between the Chiefs and the Ravens four weeks into the season is not a place I anticipated being, but here we are. Hit one thing from a couple other fun matches on the week. Jags, Niners, Browns, Lions, and Jackson Darts first start against |
| 2:19.4 | the Chargers, and then a few more odds and ends from week four with me, Dave Hellman and Derek |
| 2:23.8 | Klesson. Let's get to that conversation right now. |
| 2:31.2 | It's the week four preview here on the athletic football show, some great ones on the slate this week. |
| 2:37.9 | We have two games of the week to kick us off today. |
| 2:41.7 | Let's start with the games of the week presented by BetMGM. |
| 2:45.3 | The Los Angeles Rams against the Indianapolis Colts. |
| 2:49.0 | The Rams are three and a half point favorites in this game. |
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