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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic’s flagship NFL podcast covers the league like only The Athletic can. Host Robert Mays and co-hosts Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman dive into the biggest stories, break down the Xs and Os, and tackle the ins and outs of roster building. They meticulously follow the details of why we all love this sport and have plenty of fun along the way, bringing the expertise necessary to cover the NFL at the highest level. You want year-round draft coverage? You"ll get that here, too, with draft

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1:13:15

Week 18 Preview: Three division titles on the line,...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2026/01/02

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

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1:03:07

Silver linings for 2025's bad teams

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2026/01/01

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 Raiders9:18 New York Giants17:25 New York Jets30:00 Tennessee Titans36:00 Arizona

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1:08:06

Building the Beast: The NFL Draft prospects with the...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/31

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 State27:30 Texas Tech-Oregon46:33 Alabama-Indiana59:24 Georgia-MississippiConnect with The Athletic Football

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1:14:04

Why did these eight teams flop in 2025?

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/30

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

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1:34:15

Week 17 Recap: 49ers win thriller over Bears, Eagles...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/29

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

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1:06:41

Week 17 Preview: Massive division title and playoff...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/26

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

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53:36

Week 16 Hangover: Bills and Texans get necessary, but...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/23

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 recap24:55

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1:41:48

Week 16 Recap: Bears stun Packers, Jaguars throttle...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/22

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

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1:30:41

Week 16 Preview: Unlikely AFC division leaders step...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/19

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:

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1:05:30

The strongest analytic and schematic trends of 2025,...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/18

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.Connect with The

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1:03:15

Building the Beast: Alabama/Oklahoma and Miami/Texas...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/17

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

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1:09:18

Week 15 Hangover: The Ravens stay alive, and the...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/16

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 recap24:57

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1:29:43

Week 15 Recap: Broncos quiet doubters, Bills claw...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/15

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

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1:24:37

Week 15 Preview: Prove-it time for the Patriots and...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/12

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

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1:10:20

Hop aboard the 2026 Coaching Carousel

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/11

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

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55:54

The effects of Fernando Mendoza's rise and Notre...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/10

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.Connect with The Athletic Football ShowYT:https://www.youtube.com/@TAFootballShowPodcasts:

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1:12:04

Week 14 Hangover: Hunting for relevant 2026 needles...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/09

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

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1:38:37

Week 14 Recap: Bears-Packers delivers, Jaguars and...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/08

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 show0:45 Texans-Chiefs11:15

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1:34:22

Week 14 Preview: Bears-Packers finally means...

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/05

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.Connect with The Athletic Football ShowYT:https://www.youtube.com/@TAFootballShowPodcasts:

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1:25:06

What happened to the NFL's elite?

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL ·

2025/12/04

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 three assumed

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