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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 l...
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Week 11 Hangover: The Bears move into first, the Steelers stay on top, and the Falcons lose another season
The Bears and Steelers are in first place after Week 11? Sure, yup, just how we all drew it up back in August. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig into...
Week 11 Recap: Huge wins for the Eagles, Broncos and Rams, Josh Allen goes off, Niners cruise in Purdy's return
We spent all last week getting pumped about the Week 11 slate. And then it delivered the goods. The Kansas City Chiefs nine-year reign atop the AFC We...
Week 11 Preview: Seahawks-Rams headlines a loaded slate
There are certain weeks where we don't need to get cute with these descriptions. The Rams and Seahawks play on Sunday in a game that could determine t...
2025 NFL Midseason Awards
Doing your midseason awards at the exact midpoint of the season might be cool, but you know what's even cooler? Doing them 55.6% of the way through th...
Dane Brugler's updated Top 50: Arvell Reese, Ty Simpson top the list
Ah yes, the familiar hallmarks of mid-November. Leaves falling off trees, Thanksgiving preparations being made, and Dane Brugler's updated Top 50. Dan...
Week 10 Hangover: Giants fire Brian Daboll, Ravens and Chargers put Steelers in panic mode
Brian Daboll appeared to be on thin ice dating back to the end of last season. The ice finally broke on Monday, with the Giants making a change at hea...
Week 10 Recap: The Rams and Seahawks are on a collision course
The late window in Week 10 may have been nothing but blowouts, but it did lay bare for us one clear and obvious truth: the Rams and Seahawks are two o...
Week 10 Preview: The top of the NFC takes center stage
The second half of the NFL season kicks off with a bang, with four games pitting current playoff teams against one another. Two of those games—Eagles...
The players and coaches defining the 2025 NFL season
It's a familiar refrain in sports media. "You can't tell the story of SPORTS TOPIC without talking about FAMOUS PLAYER/COACH." Well, who are the playe...
Building the Beast: Arvell Reese continues his climb
After a week away, Dane Brugler is back on this episode of The Athletic Football Show's Building the Beast. He and Dave Helman hand out some game ball...
Trade Deadline Madness! Sauce Gardner to the Colts, Quinnen Williams to the Jets, and more
Thank you, New York Jets, for making the 2025 NFL Trade Deadline one of the most active on record. First, the Jets swung a blockbuster deal with the C...
Week 9 Hangover: The Seahawks make another big statement
We might not have thought of the Seahawks as Super Bowl contenders before the season began. We definitely do now. They showed us why yet again in thei...
Week 9 Recap: Bills knock off Chiefs, big wins for the Steelers and Vikings, and the Packers lost to who?!?
Now that's more like it. After a blowout-filled Week 8, the NFL got back to its down-to-the-wire ways in Week 9. Of course, Bills over Chiefs goes dow...
Week 9 Preview: It's Bills-Chiefs Week
We've talked a lot in recent weeks about how every NFL season is going to throw us its fair share of curveballs. There are constants, however, and one...
Who's winning—and losing—the trenches this NFL season?
Even a casual NFL fan can tell which quarterbacks, running backs and receivers are among the best in the league. It takes a more discerning eye to wat...
Building the Beast: All-Rookie Team for the first half of the NFL season
We're just about halfway through the NFL season, which means that we know a thing or two—maybe not more, but definitely a thing or two—about this year...
Week 8 Hangover: Ravens and Texans grind out critical wins; Bucs take firm control of the NFC South
It's safe to say that the first half of the 2025 season hasn't gone exactly as the Ravens or Texans drew it up. Yet after big wins for both teams in W...
Week 8 Recap: Broncos, Eagles, Dolphins Get Biggest Wins of Sleepy Day
What does a football show have to do to get an exciting Sunday around here? Despite the slate of blowouts and correct predictions, some wins were more...
Week 8 preview: Can the Cowboys or Broncos prove they're the real deal?
Cowboys-Broncos? Packers-Steelers? Browns-Patriots and Giants-Eagles and Panthers-Bills? Sure, those games might not have jumped out at us back in Aug...
The kickers strike back
Sixty-yard field goals! Landing zones! The K ball! The kicking game seemingly has never played a bigger role in the NFL than it is this season. The At...
Building the Beast: The 2026 WR draft class is taking shape
As we get to the final Saturday in October, certain elements of what will be come the 2026 NFL Draft picture are at least approaching a degree of focu...
Week 7 Hangover: Celebrating the 49ers defense, the Chiefs offense, and Drake Maye's rise
The 49ers mash unit defense showed up in a big way against the Falcons. The Chiefs got Rashee Rice back in Week 7, and had one of their best offensive...
Week 7 recap: The Colts and Rams lead the way with big wins in impressive fashion
When we previewed Week 7, we made Colts/Chargers and Rams/Jaguars audition for a Game of the Week spot. Neither of those lived up to the billing, than...
Week 7 preview: Buccaneers-Lions, a Game of the Week faceoff, a deep dive on the Falcons defense, and more
Every mini-era of the NFL gives us a handful of short-term rivalries that are the result of teams from different divisions running into one another fo...
Team tiers from Super Bowl or Bust to Mock Draft Enthusiasts
We're one-third of the way through the NFL regular season, and we know a thing or two about each of the league's 32 teams. We know enough, in fact, to...
Building the Beast: The NFL Draft prospects to know from Indiana, Texas A&M, and this season's CFB surprise teams
Indiana is the #3 team in the country. Yes, in football. And they aren't the only big surprise this season. Texas A&M, Missouri and Cincinnati all hav...
Week 6 Hangover: Brian Callahan fired, Packers and Rams post unimpressive wins, and sad voicemails from Eagles and 49ers fans
The AFC North feels like one big, collective hangover this season, so it's no surprise that both games in the Week 6 Hangover feature teams from the d...
Week 6 recap: Statement wins for the Chiefs, Buccaneers and Seahawks
Remember that wild time three weeks ago when there were some simmering concerns about the Chiefs? Safe to say those have been put to bed after their c...
Week 6 preview: Lions-Chiefs and 49ers-Buccaneers at the top of a loaded slate
The last time the Lions played the Chiefs, they made clear that they had arrived as contenders. Two years later, they just might be the best team in t...
The rise of Puka Nacua, Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jaxon Smith-Njigba, with Matt Harmon
Take a look at any wide receiver stat leaderboard for 2025, and you're going to see Puka Nacua, Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jaxon Smith-Njigba at the top. F...
Building the Beast: Dane Brugler's midseason top-three at every position
We're just about halfway through the college football regular season, and boards for the 2026 NFL Draft look different than they did in August. How di...
Week 5 Hangover: The Patriots break through, the Lions cruise past the Bengals, and the Saints get their first win
For the first time since 2014, no NFL team made it to 5-0. The Bills nearly did it, but, instead, Sunday Night Football turned into a coming-out party...
Week 5 recap: The Buccaneers and Seahawks put on a show, the Broncos take down the Eagles, and the Ravens hunt for the panic button
Buccaneers-Seahawks was one of our Games of the Week in Week 5, and it absolutely delivered the goods. The Bucs may have come out of the game with a 3...
Week 5 preview: Two surprisingly fun matchups take center stage
We've turned the calendar to October and reached the bye-week portion of the schedule, which means that while it's still relatively early in the seaso...
Early returns on five new offenses across the NFL
When a team goes out and brings in a new playcaller during the offseason, be it the head coach or offensive coordinator, they're telling us one thing:...
Dante Moore's NFL Draft stock up, Drew Allar's down after Oregon-Penn State tilt
College football's loaded weekend delivered with Oregon, Alabama and Mississippi picking up huge wins. Those games, not to mention the rest of the sla...
Week 4 Hangover: The Texans get their first win, the Lions survive the Browns defense, and the Bills stay undefeated
If ever there were a game that felt like a hangover, it was the Texans 26-0 win over the Titans in Week 4. That's where Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen...
Week 4 recap: Huge wins for Chiefs and Rams + Packers-Cowboys craziness highlight a loaded Sunday
Allow us to take you behind the curtain. This was, by far, the hardest recap show for us to program thus far this season. That's how much happened in...
Week 4 preview: Eagles-Buccaneers, Colts-Rams, and a Game of the Week that wasn't
If you looked at Week 4 before the season, you likely would've assumed that Ravens-Chiefs would be the Game of the Week, with Eagles-Buccaneeers at th...
Why are these four offenses stuck in the mud?
The Texans are 32nd in offensive success rate. The Broncos are 31st. The Raiders are 30th. The Falcons are 20th, but they just got shut out by the Pan...