Week 9 Recap: Bengals knock off Bills, Eagles outlast Cowboys, Chiefs hold off Dolphins, Ravens crush Seahawks, C.J. Stroud dazzles, and more
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🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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We started the week talking about four big games. It's only appropriate that we end it recapping those four games. Robert Mays and Nate Tice dig into Bills-Bengals, Cowboys-Eagles, Chiefs-Dolphins and Seahawks-Ravens on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. They also discuss C.J. Stroud's big day, Josh Dobbs' heroics, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Robert Mays, joining me tonight. |
| 0:19.6 | It's my good friend Nate Tice. Nate, how you doing, buddy? Doing very well. That was a delightful day of NFL action. I think that's |
| 0:26.6 | word I'm going to go with. I really enjoyed today. I'm really excited to talk about some of these |
| 0:30.8 | games on this show. I thought some interesting stuff happens, as always in the NFL. It's never |
| 0:34.7 | boring as much as people want to say it is sometimes. It is fantastic. |
| 0:38.7 | So I'm doing very well. How are you doing today, Robert? I'm doing great. We knew that there were |
| 0:42.9 | going to be a bunch of good games today. There was really a premium game in every single |
| 0:47.8 | time slot, including the Europe time slot, which is not always the case. And then we knew we had |
| 0:52.4 | Seahawks Ravens at noon, which we'll dig into, Cowboys Eagles was fantastic. |
| 0:56.7 | And then the game that we just watched between two contenders in the AFC. |
| 1:01.1 | So let's start with the game that just finished up. |
| 1:04.5 | Your immediate reaction to how Bill's Bengals unfolded tonight. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm feeling much better about where the Bengals are at, of course, and I'm feeling a little bit worse. |
| 1:16.0 | Actually, I feel whelmed about the Bill's defense. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.8 | And I kind of was seeing this anyways, but this was kind of like confirmation. |
| 1:24.5 | Like, yeah, they can't keep up with the big boys right now. |
| 2:01.7 | That, you know, losing so, all those injuries that they've had. It just, you know, they've been decimated. It's just too tough. But on top of it, the Bengals offense operating like that, they've been on fire with their opening script, the first 15 plays. And then just, I mean, you can tell the confidence they have in Burrow and just everything, the operation of this offense, that first play of the four minute draft, I used the game. They threw the ball, straight drop back, no play action, just wind up, drop back and wing it. That's confidence. Only the confident offenses do that. So it's like, that's how the Bengals feel right now. So that was my first takeaway. I was like, yeah, they're looking really good right now. |
| 1:58.7 | It's just so fun to watch him when he's playing at that level, the ball placement, just his ability to kind of be surgical in areas of the field where it should be really difficult to do that. We got that version of Joe Burrow tonight. and the play that you're talking about late in the game, |
| 2:02.8 | he slides the protection and then pushes the ball down the field in the four-minute drive. |
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