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It'd be easy to sit here and complain about the lack of juice in Week 18. We're not going to do that. We've got Seahawks-49ers for the 1-seed in the NFC. We've got two other divisions hanging in the balance. And we've got a ton of seeding implications on the line, all of which could affect what ends up happening in the playoffs. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman preview Week 18 on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
3:59 Seahawks-49ers preview
30:03 Ravens-Steelers preview
46:24 Panthers-Buccaneers preview
1:03:25 Playoff seeding
1:09:05 Stats and incentives to keep an eye on in Week 18
1:14:42 TAFS Wins Pool Update
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Look, not everyone can win the Super Bowl. Or make the playoffs. Or win at least five games. But even if you're a fan of one of those bad teams, there's probably something positive you can take forward with you into 2026. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen find those silver linings for the worst teams in the league on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
3:34 Las Vegas Raiders
9:18 New York Giants
17:25 New York Jets
30:00 Tennessee Titans
36:00 Arizona Cardinals
43:13 Cleveland Browns
54:44 Washingon Commanders
1:01:44 New Orleans Saints
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The CFP quarterfinals take place on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, and the eight teams remaining are absolutely loaded with NFL talent. So, who among the draft prospects as the most at stake in the quarters? Dane Brugler and Dave Helman dive into that question on this episode of The Athletic Football Show's Building the Beast.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
3:00 Miami-Ohio State
27:30 Texas Tech-Oregon
46:33 Alabama-Indiana
59:24 Georgia-Mississippi
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The Lions, Chiefs and Ravens entered the 2025 season among the inner-circle Super Bowl favorites. The Lions and Chiefs were eliminated from playoff contention before Christmas, and while the Ravens might still win the AFC North, they clearly are nowhere near what they were expected to be. The Falcons were supposed to take a step this year. Instead, they could be handing a top-10 pick to the Rams. The Bengals, Cowboys and Vikings were mostly afterthoughts all year, and the Colts suffered a dramatic second-half collapse. Where did things go so wrong for these eight teams this season? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dive deep into the octet on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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Week 17 was all about the upstarts that have defined this season. The San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Bears gave us a game of the year candidate, with the 49ers coming out on top. The New England Patriots clinched the AFC East and Drake Maye made a case for MVP. The Jacksonville Jaguars took another step toward the AFC South crown. The Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos inched closer to locking up the top seeds in their respective conferences. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman look back at the week that was and set the stage for the final week of the regular season on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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Eleven of 14 playoff berths have already been claimed this season, and one that remains up for grabs—the final Wild Card in the AFC—all but belongs to the Texans. And yet, there is still a ton on the line in Week 17. The 1-seed and bye in both conferences hang in the balance. Seven of the eight divisions have yet to be clinched. We might know who's going to be in the playoffs this year, but the overall playoff picture remains cloudy. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman preview the Week 17 games with all the stakes on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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The Bills and Texans both appear ticketed for the playoffs, but neither exactly covered itself in glory in Week 16 wins over the Browns and Raiders, respectively. So, were those performances cause for concern? Or were they simply late-season, "do-what-we-gotta-do" wins that don't really have much, if any, bearing on their playoff prospects? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig in on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
5:00 Bills-Browns recap
24:55 Raiders-Texans recap
41:07 Monday Mourning: Todd Bowles and the Buccaneers
49:29 Monday Mourning: Is it all over for the Lions
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We're just two weeks away from the end of the regular season, and exactly one team that won its division last year is in first place this year. That would be the Philadelphia Eagles, who clinched the NFC East with a win over the Washington Commanders on Saturday. Every other division, however, is looking quite possibly at a new division winner. That includes the Chicago Bears, who took firm control of the NFC North with a win over the Green Bay Packers. It includes the Jacksonville Jaguars, who went into Denver and took down the Broncos. And it includes the Carolina Panthers, who moved into first place in the NFC South with a win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Robert Mays, Dave Helman and Derrik Klassen recap a crazy Week 16 on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
2:28 Ravens-Patariots
15:09 Jags-Broncos
33:33 Packers-Bears
54:06 Buccaneers-Panthers
1:04:57 Chargers-Cowboys
1:12:49 Steelers-Lions
1:20:56 How could you not be romantic about football?
1:37:51 What did we learn in Week 16?
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Jaguars-Broncos is the Game of the Week. Patriots-Ravens is another game of the week, and it's the former that is leading its division as the latter fights for its playoff life. The defining characteristic of this NFL season—true contender turnover in largely unseen quantities—steps to the fore in Week 16. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman give it the full preview treatment on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
2:18 Game of the Week: Jaguars-Broncos
23:33 Game of the Week: Patriots-Ravens
42:08 One Thing From...Packers-Bears
47:18 One Thing From...Buccaneers-Panthers
57:12 One Thing From...Steelers-Lions
1:00:54 One Thing From...Cowboys-Chargers
1:06:07 Under the Hood: Texans offense
1:15:40 Jaxson Dart vs. Tyler Shough vs. JJ McCarthy...who would you take as your 2026 starter?
1:26:26 Falcons-Cardinals and the saddest Spiderman pointing meme ever
1:30:11 What do you wanna know in Week 16
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Every NFL season brings us some sort of advance in analytics and schematics, and spending some time every December looking back at this season's developments is one of our favorite things to do before we turn the page to the playoffs. Sam Schwartzstein, Amazon Prime's analytics expert, joins Robert Mays on this episode of The Athletic Football Show to dive deep on this season's analytic and schematic trends, and preview the monster Week 16 TNF game between the Rams and Seahawks.
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The College Football Playoffs kick off this week, and while the results on the field will understandably dominate the discussion around the games, it's the performances of the NFL Draft prospects that we care about most here at The Athletic Football Show's Building the Beast. Dane Brugler and Dave Helman dive into the draft-eligible players you need to be watching when you've got the CFP games on this weekend. Before that, the guys discuss the QB movement—or non-movement, as the case may be—for guys like LaNorris Sellers, Arch Manning and Brendan Sorsby.
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We all realize that the 49ers have 10 wins and are a near-lock for the playoffs, right? Has a double-digit-win season ever gone more overlooked? And how dangerous might the Niners be, assuming they do get into the playoffs? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen discuss that on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys also dig into Ravens-Bengals and Vikings-Cowboys from Week 15, and take a couple of sad voicemails from the fans.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
3:35 Ravens-Bengals recap
24:57 Vikings-Cowboys recap
47:06 Titans-49ers recap
1:02:57 Voicemail from a sad Cowboys fan
1:09:34 Voicemail from a sad Packers fan
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One of the big stories of the 2025 season is the rise of new contenders and the fall of the traditional powers. We saw the former on Sunday, with the Denver Broncos winning their 11th straight game, this time taking down the mighty Green Bay Packers. We saw the latter, as well, with the Kansas City Chiefs being officially eliminated from playoff contention after a 16-13 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. And we also saw a team defy that storyline, with the Buffalo Bills clawing back from a 21-point deficit to beat the Patriots and keep the AFC East in play. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman dig into all those games on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Plus, some talk about the Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, Houston Texans, and Philadelphia Eagles.
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In this particuarly topsy-turvy season, there's perhaps nothing stranger than seeing the Broncos and Patriots on top of the AFC. Both of them in Week 15 have massive opportunities to prove they're not just great regular season stories, but legitimate Super Bowl contenders. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman kick off the Week 15 preview episode of The Athletic Football Show by diving deep on Bills-Patriots and Packers-Broncos. They also discuss Lions-Rams, Dolphins-Steelers and Chargers-Chiefs, the return of Philip Rivers, the collapse potential of the Eagles, and the fall of the great quarterback conference.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
3:11 Game of the Week: Bills-Patriots
23:04 Game of the Week: Packers-Broncos
47:36 One Thing From...Lions-Rams
50:44 One Thing From...Dolphins-Steelers
55:38 One Thing From...Chargers-Chiefs
1:13:51 Sicko Street: Philip Rivers is back!
1:19:48 Sicko Street: Could it get worse for the Eagles?
1:23:08 What do you wanna know in Week 15?
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The teams heading to the playoffs and putting themselves in the Super Bowl discussion are, understandably, in the NFL spotlight right now. Before long, however, the teams at the opposite end of the spectrum will steal that spotlight for a couple of days when they hire their new head coaches. Robert Mays and Conor Orr from Sports Illustrated and The MMQB get you ready for those couple of days on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
4:00 Why this will be a unique carousel
7:09 The top candidates
30:02 The second rung
1:04:20 The rest
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College Football Playoff controversy? What College Football Playoff controversy? You won't find any of that here on this episode of Building the Beast. What you will find, though, is Dane Brugler and Dave Helman digging into how the conference championship games and College Football Playoff field helped shape the state of the 2026 NFL Draft conversation as we approach the end of the year.
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The Vikings, Commanders, Titans and Browns have dealt with varying degrees of disappointment this season, but they remain worthy of our attention as we get ready to close the book on them for 2025. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dive into the Vikings' 31-0 win over the Commanders, and the Titans' surprisingly fun 31-29 win over the Browns, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Then, the guys get into a particularly illustrative edition of Monday Mourning with calls from Colts and Falcons fans.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
3:27 Commanders-Vikings recap
30:08 Titans-Browns recap
59:25 Monday Mourning with the Colts and Falcons
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If you caught the Week 14 preview episode of The Athletic Football Show, you know we were excited about this Sunday. Bears-Packers, Colts-Jaguars, Texans-Chiefs, Steelers-Ravens and Bengals-Bills. Welp, the day lived up to the expectations, and the some. Robert Mays, Dave Helman and Derrik Klassen dive deep into an awesome day of football—and consider its implications—on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
0:00 Welcome to the show
0:45 Texans-Chiefs
11:15 Andy Reid
20:30 Jags-Colts
20:45 Trevor Lawrence
27:00 Colts lose Daniel Jones
34:50 Packers-Bears
35:30 Caleb Williams & Bears offense
45:45 Jordan Love & Packers offense
52:30 Bills-Bengals
1:05:30 Steelers-Ravens
1:12:50 John Harbaugh’s future
1:17:00 Buccaneers-Saints
1:27:15 Romantic: Josh Allen
1:28:45 Romantic: Puka Nacua
1:30:00 Minnesota Vikings/JJ McCarthy
1:34:30 What did we learn today?
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It’s a ton of fun anytime you get a game with first place on the line this late in the season. This week, we have three such games. And one of them is Bears-Packers. So yeah, Week 14 just might be the best week of the season. Robert Mays, Dave Helman and Derrik Klassen preview everything we’ve got to come this week on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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Chiefs, Ravens, Eagles and Lions; Chiefs, Ravens, Eagles and Lions. Look back over the last half-decade of the NFL, and you'll see those four teams at the top of the league, year in and year out. They're all such constants, in fact, that it seems we just chisel their names in stone into the playoff picture in August. But this year, the Eagles are sputtering their way into December, and the Chiefs, Ravens and Lions all could easily miss the playoffs. So, what happened to these assumed powerhouses? On this episode of The Athletic Football Show, Diante Lee from The Ringer hops on with Robert Mays to cover the issues for the Ravens, Eagles and Lions, and then former Chiefs offensive lineman Mitch Schwartz joins Robert to break down the problems for his old team, and whether they can come back from them this season.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
8:26 Detroit Lions
24:33 Philadelphia Eagles
36:34 Baltimore Ravens
48:06 Any overarching lessons?
59:40 Kansas City Chiefs
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