Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Slightly different Monday hangover for you guys this week.

Talked about it a little bit last night.

We're going to talk about some teams today that most of them are not going to make the playoffs and what that means.

We're going to do a show a little bit later in the week about teams picking at the top of the draft

and the silver linings associated with their seasons. It's a show we did last year. It's like a good way to kind of just close the book on teams that are not going to be in the playoffs. But that was going to leave a group of teams that we weren't really going to talk about before the season ended. and I wanted to sit with those teams for at least a little bit.

And so that's what we did today.

Teams like the Lions. weren't really going to talk about before the season ended. And I wanted to sit with those teams for at least a little bit.

And so that's what we did today.

Teams like the Lions, the Cowboys, the Bengals, the Colts, the Vikings, teams that maybe

had playoff aspirations heading into the year but did not quite get there.

Why didn't they get there?

And what needs to change this offseason for them to get back to a place they

feel good about heading into 2026. So that's what we did today with me and Derek Klesson.

Let's get to that conversation right now.

Doing something a little bit different for, I assume, I guess are technically our second to last

hangover show of the season, but we're also going to be doing something different next week.

And so the common variance of the hangover shows is done for 2025 because I don't know,

do we really need to spend that much time digging into Jets

Patriots right now considering how much we already know about how the season is ending? I mean, if I just wanted to have fun for an hour and watch Drake May, like, yeah, I'm sure that would have been great or like Saints Titans going back to that and actually watching that. Like I'm sure that would have been fun. But again, we're kind of in a spot where it's like in week 11 that would have been a little bit more instructive but at this point in the season like it's there there's a little bit more things to cover I alluded to this yesterday so what we're going to do today is we're going to spend some time talking about the teams that are not picking in the top 10 but are not going to make the playoffs and part of the reason I wanted to do this is that later this week It was the show we were supposed to do last week when I was sick, we're going to do some silver linings for the teams picking in the top eight.

And so I felt like I wanted to do something where we kind of put a period at the end of the sentence for every team that is not going to be in the playoffs pretty much.

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