Week 8 preview: Can the Cowboys or Broncos prove they're the real deal?
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Cowboys-Broncos? Packers-Steelers? Browns-Patriots and Giants-Eagles and Panthers-Bills? Sure, those games might not have jumped out at us back in August, but they combine to make Week 8 one of the more compelling slates we've had all season. At least as we sit here previewing them. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman get you ready for Week 8 on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. It's the week eight preview. Me, Dave Helmand, Derek |
| 0:08.6 | Classen, dove into a host of games today. Two games of the week. We had the Cowboys and the Broncos. |
| 0:14.9 | We've not talked a lot about the Dallas Cowboys and not really studied the Dallas Cowboys in any of these preview shows. |
| 0:19.6 | Use this as an opportunity to do exactly that in a big game against Denver, trying to figure out how serious we should be taking the Cowboys. Aaron Rogers is playing against the Packers this weekend. Not sure if you've heard about that. Beyond the intrigue that comes along with him playing against Green Bay, we also have a Steelers team that's still at the top of the AFC North. We have a Packers team that currently has the number one seed in the NFC. |
| 0:39.3 | So a lot to tune into in that one. |
| 0:41.6 | We hit one thing from Ravens Bears, Eagles Giants, Bill's Panthers and Brown's Patriots. |
| 0:49.9 | Spent a little bit of time on Sicko Street with Joe Flacco playing against the Jets and then |
| 0:55.0 | shouted about what we want to know coming out of week eight in the NFL. |
| 0:58.9 | Enjoyed this one. |
| 0:59.7 | Hope you guys do as well. |
| 1:04.4 | Digging into the week eight preview on the athletic football show. |
| 1:08.6 | We got two games of the week today presented by BetMGM. |
| 1:13.8 | Started with the Cowboys and the Broncos, Dave. |
| 1:16.1 | And the reason this is a game of the week, |
| 1:17.7 | and the reason we wanted to talk about this, |
| 1:19.7 | is that somehow this is one of the only football programs in America |
| 1:23.7 | where the Dallas Cowboys have been severely under-discussed. |
| 1:26.7 | I think probably a new experience for |
| 1:28.4 | you. I was going to say, I kind of love it because that's been my life since I got into this industry |
| 1:33.1 | is talking about the Cowboys. And don't get me wrong, I owe a lot to being able to talk about the |
| 1:39.0 | cowboys. But it's nice to look at everything else and say, hey, this is what I can bring to the table with |
| 1:45.2 | other things. And then this is what I know about the rest of the league. But it's like an old |
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