Week 9 Recap: Bills knock off Chiefs, big wins for the Steelers and Vikings, and the Packers lost to who?!?
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🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Now that's more like it. After a blowout-filled Week 8, the NFL got back to its down-to-the-wire ways in Week 9. Of course, Bills over Chiefs goes down as the big story of the day, and that's where Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman begin the Week 9 recap episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys also discuss eye-opening wins for the Steelers and Vikings, a fireworks show between the Bears and Bengals, a puzzling loss for the Packers to the Panthers, a rock fight between the Broncos and Texans, and plenty more.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
3:14 The Bills beat the Chiefs, and might have found something on defense
22:47 The Steelers have our attention after taking down the Colts
34:45 The Vikings have our attention after upsetting the Lions
53:49 WTF?!? Packers lose to the Panthers
1:06:29 Bears/Bengals craziness
1:17:09 Broncos/Texans rock fight
1:22:23 John Parker Romo deprives us of a dramatic finish in Falcons-Patriots
1:26:25 How Can You Not be Romantic About Football?
1:31:50 What did we learn in Week 9?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:05.4 | Week 9 is in the books. |
| 0:07.4 | It was a good one today. |
| 0:08.7 | We had a great Chiefs' Bills game, a phenomenal performance by the Buffalo |
| 0:12.8 | Bills in this game. |
| 0:13.9 | One of the worst games of Patrick Mahomes' career in the regular season, |
| 0:17.2 | an excellent performance by Josh Allen and the bill's offense. |
| 0:19.8 | We dug into all of that. Talked about grabbing performances from the minnesota vikings and j jay mccarthy's return and a great game from the pittsburg steelers front shutting down a colts offense that had been absolutely rolling so far this year no shortage of w t ftf week nine. Talked about a bewildering Packers |
| 0:40.4 | loss to the Carolina Panthers today. A wild finish and an embarrassing performance from both |
| 0:46.8 | defenses in Bears and Bengals. Chated about a rock fight between the Texans and the Broncos. And also |
| 0:53.5 | just a little bit of a disappointing finish in Falcons |
| 0:56.0 | Patriots that probably should have been a little bit more |
| 0:58.7 | exciting than it was. |
| 1:00.6 | Dug into plenty more from an excellent |
| 1:02.9 | week nine slate with Dave Helman and Derek |
| 1:05.1 | Klesson. Let's get to that conversation right now. |
| 1:13.3 | I feel like the football gods knew that Derek was back this week. |
| 1:16.9 | We had a couple of sleepy weeks, a couple weeks where the witching hour was, |
| 1:21.3 | there was no witching. |
| 1:22.3 | There was nothing enjoyable about it. |
| 1:24.0 | There was nothing mystical about it. |
| 1:25.8 | And then when we come in today, there was a point in the early |
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