What we're excited to watch in Week 1 + A new look for The Athletic Football Show
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Football friends, we have made it back to the start of another NFL season. We hope you enjoy the crazy six-month ride with us. To kick off the season, Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman highlight what they're excited to watch in Week 1 on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
5:43 We're in studio!
9:57 Lamar vs. Josh
13:52 Chiefs-Chargers
21:50 The Ben Johnson Bears
27:53 Can the Giants front create the weird Week 1 game?
30:30 The sicko games on the noon slate
36:31 Proof-of-concept matchups (HOU OL vs. LAR DL, Raiders offense vs. Patriots defense)
38:30 The loaded afternoon slate
43:22 The potential uh-oh games
48:47 Aaron Rodgers vs. the Jets
52:00 Michael Penix Jr. vs. Todd Bowles
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Disney Lullaby, a cute playlist with soothing lullaby versions of Disney songs. |
| 0:11.0 | The Disney Lullaby playlist. Listen now. |
| 0:27.2 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:30.7 | Week 1 is officially here. |
| 0:32.7 | You guys are probably listening to this on Thursday morning. |
| 0:36.7 | We've got, I don't know, 12 hours until there's actual football games tonight. |
| 0:38.6 | Could not be more excited. |
| 0:44.3 | We've also got some other fun news to share about the athletic football show overall and what the 2025 season is going to look like. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm not going to spoil that. |
| 0:47.2 | We kicked off the show with that. |
| 0:48.7 | So that is going to come to you right off the top. |
| 0:51.4 | But for our week one preview, we're doing something similar to what |
| 0:54.5 | we did last year. Because these teams are, there's so many unknowns about them coming into the year, |
| 1:00.2 | we didn't really go super deep on any individual matchups and what each side of the ball is going to |
| 1:05.3 | look like. We just talked about the things that we're excited to watch in week one. We hit, I believe, |
| 1:09.8 | on every single one of the games in some capacity during this |
| 1:12.9 | conversation. |
| 1:14.1 | The week one or the week two preview will look and feel a lot different than this one. |
| 1:18.2 | But for today, we really just talked about what we're looking forward to watching on |
| 1:22.0 | the first Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday of the NFL season. |
| 1:26.1 | So let's get to that conversation with me, Dave Hellman, and Derek Klausen right now. |
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