What's keeping this season's Super Bowl contenders up at night?
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
As we head into the final month of the 2024 regular season, we know who the true Super Bowl contenders are. What's just as clear, however, are their flaws. Robert Mays and Fran Duffy from PHLY of the ALLCITY Network dig into those flaws on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Browns-Broncos recap
- What's keeping the Steelers up at night?
- What's keeping the Vikings up at night?
- What's keeping the Packers up at night?
- What's keeping the Ravens up at night?
- What's keeping the Bills up at night?
- What's keeping the Chiefs up at night?
- What's keeping the Eagles up at night?
- What's keeping the Lions up at night?
- Another way the run game is back
- An argument for quarterbacks should exhaust their college eligibility
- What the rest of this season means for the 49ers
Host: Robert Mays
With: Fran Duffy
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:36.2 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on |
| 0:40.3 | Prime Video. I'm Robert Mays. Great show for you guys today. My buddy Fran Duffy from |
| 0:44.9 | P.HLY of the All-City Network who does a fantastic job covering the Eagles, but is also a draft |
| 0:49.8 | expert and just somebody I love chatting about football with is here to talk about last night's |
| 0:55.2 | shockingly exciting Monday night football game between the Browns and the Broncos, |
| 0:59.9 | not what I expected to enjoy as much as I did. |
| 1:02.8 | And then after that, I wanted to talk about the contenders as we head into the back half of |
| 1:07.7 | the season. |
| 1:08.1 | And you'll hear me lay out what a contender means later in the show. |
| 1:11.9 | But we picked eight teams with the best Super Bowl odds. |
| 1:14.7 | And we just picked one thing about those teams that as we get into the home stretch |
| 1:18.9 | is keeping us up at night. |
| 1:20.5 | What's something we're worried, a potential big flaw with these teams that you |
| 1:24.8 | should have in the back of your mind as we get toward the playoffs. |
| 1:27.9 | So very much enjoyed my conversation with Fran. |
| 1:30.1 | Let's get to it. |
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