There are two weeks left in the regular season, and the NFL playoff picture still has plenty of pieces that need to be put in place. Robert Mays and Nate Tice dig into five games with massive playoff implications on the Week 17 preview episode of The Athletic Football Show. But first, they break down the Game of the Week, and a potential AFC Championship Game preview: Bills at Bengals.
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7:16 Bills-Bengals
27:36 Derek Carr's future
43:36 Panthers-Buccaneers
51:49 Vikings-Packers
62:29 Dolphins-Patriots
68:46 Jets-Seahawks
73:19 Browns-Washington
80:09 Win My Fourth Screen
82:56 Week 17 picks
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Week 17 Preview — Bills-Bengals showdown, breaking down five games with huge playoff implications, Derek Carr's future, picks and more

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Buying or Selling NFL Offseasons; The Playoff Hopefuls

Robert Mays begins our series about lingering questions from the 2023 season by taking a long, hard look at the NFC North with ESPN’s Bill Barnwell. 
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Lingering Questions about the NFC North

The quarterback draft is back! The rules are simple, which QB (and their contract) would you want leading your franchise over the next three seasons? Diante Lee and Derrik Klassen join Robert Mays to draft this year’s top 15.
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The 2024 Quarterback Draft

On Nate Tice’s final episode of The Athletic Football Show, he joins Robert Mays to talk about the biggest questions we still have following the 2024 NFL Draft. What can we expect from the Seahawks? How good can the Colts be? What will happen with the looming QB extensions? They dig into all of that and more. Plus, they look back on their time together on the show.
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Questions we still have following the 2024 NFL Draft

What did NFL teams tell us about themselves following the draft? Robert Mays is joined by ESPN’s Field Yates to break down the messages we’ve learned from roster building this offseason.
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Week 17 Preview — Bills-Bengals showdown, breaking down five games with huge playoff implications, Derek Carr's future, picks and more

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