The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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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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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...
Building the Beast: Loaded Week 5 slate—hello, Oregon-Penn State and Alabama-Georgia—will move draft boards
This is the sort of week that makes college football fanatics and NFL Draft nuts the Predator meme. Saturday is absolutely loaded with games that are...
Week 3 Hangover: Chiefs win ugly, Vikings and Commanders cruise, Nick Bosa out for the season
The Chiefs are on the board, while the Vikings and Commanders both got easy wins with their backup quarterbacks at the helm. Robert Mays and Derrik Kl...
Week 3 recap: Eagles score the win of the day, lead parade of 3-0 teams
The Bills, Eagles and Buccaneers are among the 3-0 teams in the NFL. No real surprises there, right? Well, so are the Chargers. So are the Colts! Oh,...
Week 3 preview: Rams-Eagles, Lions-Ravens light up the marquee
Any time the calendar says "September," it's still early in the NFL season. But as we get ready for Week 3, we're starting to know a thing or two abou...
Is This Real?...with Bill Barnwell
Through two weeks of the 2024 season, the Saints looked like a breakout offense while the Broncos ranked in the top five in defensive success rate. On...
Building the Beast: The potential diamonds in the rough are starting to emerge
We're coming off a loaded weekend in the college football world, and the fallout from those games registered in NFL Draft circles. In the latest editi...
The Week 2 Hangover: Joe Burrow's injury, Falcons run over Vikings, and more sad voicemails
Hey, the Bengals finally didn't dig a massive hole in September. Things are going great, right? Right?!? Dave Helman and Derrik Klassen kick off the W...
Week 2 recap: Eagles beat Chiefs...again, Giants-Cowboys fireworks, and how 'bout them...Colts?!?
The Super Bowl LIX rematch was always going to be at the center of Week 2, and this one ended with the same winner as that one back in February did. T...
Week 2 preview: Eagles-Chiefs Super Bowl rematch tops the slate
Week 2 marks our first real preview episode of the season, and what a helluva week it is. For starters, we've got a Super Bowl LIX rematch between the...