Week 7 preview: Why doesn't Chiefs-49ers have the juice of a typical Super Bowl rematch?
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🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
On paper, Week 7 is the best week of the 2024 season to date. It's highlighted by the Super Bowl rematch, that doesn't quite feel like a Super Bowl rematch, between the Chiefs and 49ers, and it doesn't stop there. Vikings-Lions, Texans-Packers and Ravens-Buccaneers would all be worthy Game of the Week choices, as well. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig into all those games on this episode of The Athletic Football Show, but it is, of course, Chiefs-49ers that gets the full Game of the Week treatment. The guys also discuss the Giants front, the Chargers friskiness, their approval of midseason trades like Amari Cooper to the Bills, and more.
Rundown
- Broncos-Saints recap
- Game of the Week: Chiefs-49ers
- Lions-Vikings: Ben Johnson vs. Brian Flores
- Texans-Packers: Appreciating C.J. Stroud and Jordan Love
- Ravens-Buccaneers: Can the Bucs offense keep up?
- This Might Only Interest Me, But...
- Wins Pool update
- What Do You Wanna Know in Week 7?
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:37.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, presented by Thursday Night Football only on Prime |
| 0:41.5 | video. I'm Robert Mays. The week seven preview is here. Man, what a great collection of games. |
| 0:48.3 | We have four games of the week this week. We did the normal treatment for Chief Snyders as a Super Bowl rematch. We gave that |
| 0:55.6 | the full game of the week perspective. But then we just hit a couple of things. We're really |
| 0:59.2 | excited to watch. And Texans Packers, Bucks Ravens, Lions Vikings. There are tons of great games |
| 1:05.8 | to dig into today. We also chatted about the Dallas Cowboys in the state of the Dallas Cowboys in an extended |
| 1:12.4 | fourth screen conversation. Chat a little bit about whether the Chargers are actually the frisky |
| 1:16.9 | team in the NFL now to watch as they get set to play the Cardinals. Did a little love for the |
| 1:21.6 | New York Giants defensive line and what that might look like against the Eagles and a few other |
| 1:26.9 | things that are on the |
| 1:27.7 | week seven agenda. We also recap the Thursday night football game and you know, you'll hear the tone. |
| 1:34.7 | We talked about the Thursday night football game and the way that the Thursday night |
| 1:37.4 | from last night deserved to be talked about. So let's get to it with Derek. |
| 1:59.6 | Well, Derek, I hesitate to start off the show with this tone because of how many great games we're going to talk about a little bit later as we preview week seven. |
| 2:01.1 | But we're starting this off the same way we start off all of our preview shows. And that is with a recap of Thursday night football. |
| 2:05.3 | There was part of me that was a little bit happy that we were going back to schlock Thursday |
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