Week 6 preview: Commanders-Ravens is must-see TV, just like we all predicted
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Some Games of the Week are easy to see coming. Other Games of the Week are Commanders-Ravens. And yet, that's not only the highlight of the Week 6 schedule, but one of the best games to date this season. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen go deep on the Battle of the B-W Parkway on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys also dig into Lions-Cowboys, the Broncos and Packers offenses, the 49ers' win over the Seahawks on Thursday night, and a whole lot more.
Rundown
- 49ers-Seahawks recap
- Commanders-Ravens preview
- Lions-Cowboys preview
- What's on the Fourth Screen?
- Under the Hood: Broncos offense
- This Might Only Interest Me, But...
- Packers offense relative struggles
- Spencer Rattler time
- Take Tribunal: The Drake Maye panic is overblown
- What We Wanna Learn in Week 6
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on |
| 0:07.9 | Prime Video. I'm Robert Mays. Week 6 is here. A couple of really fun games on the sleigh today |
| 0:14.2 | that we dug into with Derek. Washington and Baltimore, a surprise game of the week. I don't think |
| 0:18.9 | one anybody expected to be this exciting heading into week six. Doug into Dallas and the Lions, some of the week. I don't think one, anybody expected to be this exciting heading into week six. |
| 0:22.8 | Dug into Dallas and the Lions, some of the struggles that the Cowboys have had on both sides of the ball. |
| 0:27.7 | We had a spirited debate, I guess that's what I'll call it, on the Drake May timeline in New England. |
| 0:33.3 | I think Derek is a little bit more optimistic about it than I am. |
| 0:36.2 | Also chatted about Spencer Rattler and what he might look like within the Saints offense. |
| 0:41.6 | Dug into Bo Nix and the Broncos and a little under the hood. |
| 0:45.0 | And also recapped that Niners Seahawks Thursday Night game. |
| 0:49.1 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:59.8 | All right, Derek, let's take into the Thursday night football recap here. |
| 1:03.8 | The Niners win what I will call a weird game over the Seahawks. |
| 1:06.7 | Felt like the Niners were going to let another one slip away. |
| 1:09.9 | Seahawks score with a little less than two minutes left. |
| 1:12.4 | Seattle has all three timeouts, and then Isaac Orendo puts it away which feels right the Seahawks winning that game after the way that |
| 1:17.4 | they played for most of it I felt there would have been some injustice there but the Niners still |
| 1:22.0 | probably a little bit more frustrating than we want where do you want to start digging into this one? |
| 1:29.8 | I mean at the last play, like, |
| 1:35.1 | the Seahawks could not defend the run for pretty much all of this game. And then on the very last play where you have all your timeouts, right? Like, you have a shot to try to get the ball back |
| 1:39.6 | and maybe go win the game. And Jonathan Hankins just gets reached at the nose tackle position. I I will say the Niners ran the ball pretty efficiently when they did run the ball. They didn't run it a ton. Jordan Mesa gets banged up in this game. So I feel like that probably led to some of the decisions they made play calling wise. But I actually thought that the Seahawks defense down to down was okay in this game and not as much of a disaster as they had been for |
| 2:03.0 | stretches of the last couple games. The most frustrating part to me is there was those two |
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