Week 8 Recap: Broncos, Eagles, Dolphins get biggest wins of sleepy day
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
What does a football show have to do to get an exciting Sunday around here? Despite the slate of blowouts and correct predictions, some wins were more legit than others. Is the Philadelphia Eagles offense for real or did they just play a hobbled opponent? Does the Baltimore Ravens win say more about their playoff chances or about the Chicago Bears flaws? And did the Dallas Cowboys loss to the Denver Broncos solidify their presence on the sellers market at the trade deadline, despite Dak Prescott's MVP-worthy season? Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman recap the best and worst of Week 8 Sunday in this recap episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
2:15 Packers-Steelers
10:30 Tucker Kraft went crazy
14:50 Micah Parsons, GB defense
17:57 Broncos - Cowboys
27:55 Drake Maye, Patriots-Browns
38:00 Myles Garrett
41:30 Eagles-Giants
51:10 Dolphins-Falcons
1:00:05 Bills-Panthers
1:05:40 Jets-Bengals
1:13:35 How could you not be romantic about football?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:04.9 | Week 8 is in the books, a tough week 8 for a lot of teams around the NFL, a bunch of |
| 0:08.6 | blowout wins. |
| 0:09.6 | I think it was an average of 18 points margin of victory before we even got to Sunday night |
| 0:13.6 | football. |
| 0:14.1 | So some tough weeks out there across the NFL slate, but still plenty to dig into. |
| 0:19.0 | We started with a massive win for the Green Bay Packers against the Pittsburgh Steelers on |
| 0:23.3 | Sunday night football, paid attention to Drake May and the Patriots, the Eagles offense, |
| 0:27.8 | putting together four great quarters and a big win for the Broncos. |
| 0:30.8 | Some WTF moments for the Panthers, Falcons, and Bengals today in a week where there were a lot |
| 0:36.6 | of WTF candidates. |
| 0:38.4 | And then we got romantic about plenty of moments from week eight in the NFL. |
| 0:42.5 | Really enjoyed this. |
| 0:43.4 | Me, Derek Klesson, Dave Hellman. |
| 0:45.3 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 0:56.6 | Week eight is in the books. |
| 1:00.1 | Not the best week from a competitive standpoint. |
| 1:01.8 | We had a lot of blowouts. |
| 1:03.2 | Before the Sunday night game started, |
| 1:05.6 | the average margin of victory was like 19 points across the entire slate. |
| 1:07.1 | It dropped to 18. |
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