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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Conference Championship Sunday Preview: Rams-Seahawks III meets the rise of the Broncos and Patriots
Championship Weekend is upon us. On one side, we get a matchup that feels historically familiar, but no one predicted this year when the Patriots and...
The duality of this cycle's coaching hires, and the moves still to come, with Jourdan Rodrigue
Nearly every coaching hire looks fine on paper. Many of them look good. Great, even! But we know not all of them turn out great or good or even fine....
Building the Beast: Shrine Bowl preview and CFP National Championship Game takeaways
The end of the college football season is something of a starting bell for NFL Draft season, and the annual all-star games get everything going. It be...
Divisional Round losers postmortem: What's next for Bills, 49ers, Texans and Bears?
When you're one of the last eight teams playing football in a season, that final loss is hard to swallow. No matter how bright the future appears, the...
NEWS: Bills fire Sean McDermott
The Buffalo Bills were great during Sean McDermott's nine-year run as coach, but not quite great enough. As such, the team relieved him of his duties...
Divisional Round Sunday Recap: Patriots handle Texans, Rams outlast Bears in OT
And then there were four. The Conference Championship games are set. Joining the Denver Broncos in the AFC are the New England Patriots after taking c...
Divisional Saturday Recap: Broncos win but lose Bo Nix, Seahawks rout 49ers
Divisional Round weekend never disappoints. The Seattle Seahawks turned in the most dominant performance of the day - maybe of the entire postseason -...
Divisional Round Preview: The best weekend of the NFL season
Four games, eight teams, all with legitimate designs on winning the Super Bowl. Friends, the best weekend of the NFL season is here. Robert Mays, Derr...
The jam-packed 2026 coaching carousel: It goes up and down, and around
When we last checked in on the coaching carousel on Black Monday, it seemed like it could actually be a relatively quiet year for coaching moves. Sinc...
Building the Beast: Did they stay or did they go now?
We're on the doorstep of the NFL Draft declaration deadline, and most of the big dominos have fallen. One big one, Oregon quarterback Dante Moore, rem...
NEWS: Mike Tomlin steps down as Steelers head coach after 19 seasons
After 19 years as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers—a run that included one Super Bowl Championship, two AFC titles, and eight AFC North crowns—Mi...
Postmortems for Wild Card Round losers
Five teams saw their seasons come to an end on Saturday and Sunday of Wild Card weekend. Where do they all stand as they start to turn the page to 202...
Texans defense rolls over Steelers, leads team to Divisional Round
We've been talking about the Super Bowl potential of the Houston Texans defense for months, especially in a wide open AFC. That was on full display in...
Wild Card Sunday Recap: Bills outlast Jaguars, 49ers take down Eagles, Patriots stifle Chargers
Wild Card Saturday was one of the most exciting days of the season to date, and Wild Card Sunday proved to be a worthy encore. Here's a stat...Hunter...
Saturday Recap: Rams and Bears Leave With Clutch Wins
Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman recap the first games of the 2026 playoffs. Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears take down the Green Bay P...
Wild Card Sunday and Monday Preview
The AFC has long been the quarterback conference, and that hasn't necessarily changed just because Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow aren'...
Wild Card Saturday Preview: Rams-Panthers and Packers-Bears
Wild Card Weekend kicks off on Saturday with the two games that occupy opposite poles in the round. First up is Rams-Panthers, where the Rams are 10-p...
Drake Maye or Matthew Stafford? It's the TAFS 2025 Awards Show!
The regular season is over and the playoffs have yet to start. It's time to hand out some hardware. Are the Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year...
Building the Beast: 2026 NFL Draft order takeaways and Dane Brugler's All-Rookie team
Sure, the NFL playoff field is set. Cool. You know what's really cool, though? The top 18 of the 2026 NFL Draft order being locked in place. At least...
NEWS: Ravens Fire John Harbaugh
The Baltimore Ravens have fired head coach John Harbaugh. Robert Mays and Dave Helman break down the news and react to what's next for Lamar Jackson,...
Black Monday fallout: Four teams turn over a new coaching leaf
Another Black Monday has hit the NFL, and with it came plenty of expected news. Raheem Morris out in Atlanta. Pete Carroll out in Las Vegas. Jonathan...
Week 18 Recap: Seahawks and Broncos lock up top seeds, Panthers back into playoffs, and more
Week 18 had a little bit of everything, as far as stakes are concerned. A game for the 1-seed in the NFC? Check. Winner-take-all divisional matchups?...
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...