Week 9 Hangover: The Seahawks make another big statement
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
We might not have thought of the Seahawks as Super Bowl contenders before the season began. We definitely do now. They showed us why yet again in their dismantling of the Commanders on Sunday Night Football in Week 9. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dive into that performance on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys also discuss the Jaguars' 30-29 win over the Raiders, and the Eagles and Dolphins getting trade deadline week going with a deal for Jaelen Phillips.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.0 | It's the week nine hangover with me and Derek Klasson, who is back in studio, which is very, very exciting. |
| 0:10.8 | We only hit two games on The Hangover today because we want to spend a little bit of time talking about the Jalen Phillips trade. |
| 0:16.7 | Jalen Phillips goes to the Eagles for a third round pick. |
| 0:18.9 | That's how we kicked off the show and then spent a while digging into the Sunday night game last night. Talked a lot of Seahawks stuff. Talked about Sam Donald's MVP case. What has made the Seahawks offense so good. What makes their defense so good? We talked a little bit about where JSN fits in like the overall hierarchy of NFL players at this point. |
| 0:39.3 | Doug a little bit into what has not worked for Washington's defense and what is starting to feel |
| 0:43.9 | like a little bit of a lost season for that group. |
| 0:46.7 | Second game we hit was the Jags and the Raiders, which is a fun one, good quarterback play |
| 0:50.5 | on both sides, enjoyed what Gino and Trevor brought to the table, thought the Brock Powers and that monster game that he had, hopefully a sign of what's to come for the Raiders and then, you know, the Jags offense doing just enough. Still don't know what to do with this team. Still have absolutely no idea what I think of the Jacksonville Jaguars halfway through the season. My what do I want to know coming into week nine that we did on the preview show last week was, |
| 1:12.9 | how should I feel about the Jags after the buy? |
| 1:13.9 | Still no idea. |
| 1:16.4 | So it's going to take a little bit long before we get an answer there. |
| 1:19.6 | Really enjoyed this collection of conversations with Derek. |
| 1:21.0 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:31.4 | It's the week nine hangover, officially halfway through the season with these. |
| 1:33.6 | And it's good to have you back in person to do. |
| 1:34.6 | Very excited about that. |
| 1:35.4 | This is a good one. |
| 1:39.5 | I feel like us having to do a little bit of like picking a Trevor Lawrence game for this. |
| 1:41.4 | I think it's perfect for me being back. |
| 1:44.0 | Got two games that we're going to dig into today. |
| 2:04.5 | We originally said on the recap show that we were going to do three. Unfortunately, we had some trade news, or fortunately, because it's fun things to talk about. Yeah, exactly. So we had a trade happen earlier this morning that we wanted to dig into that, plus a couple other things that cropped up. We're only digging into two games today. So we were going to lose Niners Giants. apologies for that. I think that most of you will probably live. I'm sure we'll dig into more of this Niners team as the season goes on. And then I think there would be some bigger picture questions to be asking about the giants in the back half of this season that I'm sure we will get to at some point. But we're going to talk about the Sunday night game today and the Jaguars knocking off |
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