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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 18 Preview: Three division titles on the line, including Seahawks-49ers for all the NFC marbles
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 N...
Silver linings for 2025's bad teams
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...
Building the Beast: The NFL Draft prospects with the most at stake in the CFP quarterfinals
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 am...
Why did these eight teams flop in 2025?
The Lions, Chiefs and Ravens entered the 2025 season among the inner-circle Super Bowl favorites. The Lions and Chiefs were eliminated from playoff co...
Week 17 Recap: 49ers win thriller over Bears, Eagles outlast Bills, Drake Maye dazzles, and more
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...
Week 17 Preview: Massive division title and playoff seeding stakes on the line
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...
Week 16 Hangover: Bills and Texans get necessary, but unconvincing, wins over bad teams
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, r...
Week 16 Recap: Bears stun Packers, Jaguars throttle Broncos, Panthers take NFC South lead, and more
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 w...
Week 16 Preview: Unlikely AFC division leaders step into the spotlight
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 f...
The strongest analytic and schematic trends of 2025, with Sam Schwartzstein
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 devel...
Building the Beast: Alabama/Oklahoma and Miami/Texas A&M loaded with NFL Draft talent
The College Football Playoffs kick off this week, and while the results on the field will understandably dominate the discussion around the games, it'...
The Ravens stay alive, and the 49ers notch their 10th win
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 h...
Week 15 Recap: Broncos quiet doubters, Bills claw back to beat Patriots, and the Chiefs are officially done
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...
Week 15 Preview: Prove-it time for the Patriots and Broncos
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...
Hop aboard the 2026 Coaching Carousel
The teams heading to the playoffs and putting themselves in the Super Bowl discussion are, understandably, in the NFL spotlight right now. Before long...
The effects of Fernando Mendoza's rise and Notre Dame's fall on the 2026 NFL Draft
College Football Playoff controversy? What College Football Playoff controversy? You won't find any of that here on this episode of Building the Beast...
Week 14 Hangover: Hunting for relevant 2026 needles in the 2025 haystack for four also-rans
The Vikings, Commanders, Titans and Browns have dealt with varying degrees of disappointment this season, but they remain worthy of our attention as w...
Week 14 Recap: Bears-Packers delivers, Jaguars and Steelers make big moves, and holy cow, Josh Allen
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, Tex...
Week 14 Preview: Bears-Packers finally means something again
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...
What happened to the NFL's elite?
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...
Building the Beast: Dane Brugler's end-of-season mock draft
It's December. The college football regular season is over. It's Mock Draft Season. Dane Brugler's end-of-season mock draft is now live at The Athleti...
Week 13 Hangover: Division-leading Broncos and Buccaneers get wins, and we get in the muck with Saints-Dolphins
It doesn't always have to be pretty, especially when you're stacking wins. The Broncos and Buccaneers can tell themselves that after picking up victor...
Week 13 Recap: Division races heat up as the season heads into December
December has arrived, and there isn't much more separation among teams at the top of their divisions as there was back when everyone was 0-0. Three di...
Week 13 Sunday Preview: Texans-Colts, Bills-Steelers and a series of Don't-Step-on-the-Rake Games
With Thanksgiving Day now behind us, it's time to get to the rest of the Week 13 slate. Believe it or not, the AFC South is still very much up for gra...
Thanksgiving and Black Friday Preview: A Football Feast!
If you've been a football fan for any meaningful amount of time, you know that great games on the Thanksgiving Day slate isn't a guarantee. That's wha...
Building the Beast: NFL Draft prospects to watch in Rivalry Week
Rivalry Week always has, and always will, mean so many things in the college football world. One of the newer elements of Rivalry Week, though, is tha...
Week 12 Hangover: The Seahawks and Patriots escape with road wins, Cam Ward is good, and JSN is a one-of-one player
Every contender needs to win a game or two on the road when they aren't necessarily at their best. That goes doubly so for surprise contenders like, s...
Week 12 Recap: Cowboys stun Eagles, Rams crush Bucs, Chiefs get much-needed win, Ravens take over first in AFC North, and more
We're through two-thirds of the NFL regular season. Thanksgiving Week is here. The beginning of the home stretch has arrived. And yet, do we even have...
Week 12 Preview: Colts-Chiefs is the Game of the Week, but not in the way we expected
If we told you back in August that Colts-Chiefs would be the Game of the Week in Week 12, you probably would've nodded along. "Sure," you'd say to you...
The Table: Cutting 10 Super Bowl contenders down to eight
Ten teams started the season with a seat at The Lombardi Table, a place where only the teams we deem legitimate Super Bowl contenders can sit. Ten tea...
Building the Beast: Team + position matchmaking inside the projected top 10
There are still seven weeks remaining in the NFL regular season, but the likely composition of the top 10 in the draft order is starting to take shape...
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...