Lessons learned from this season's conference title game participants

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<p>The NFL may be a copycat league, but it's not like the 28 teams that fell short of Conference Championship weekend can just look at the Seahawks, Rams, Patriots and Broncos and say, "Oh, let's do that." After all, Mike Macdonald and Matthew Stafford and Drake Maye and the Broncos defense don't grow on trees. Still, there are lessons that we can draw from those four teams and apply to how we think about the league and each of its 32 teams. Friends of the show Nate Tice from Yahoo and Bill Barnwell from ESPN join Robert Mays to unearth those lessons on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.</p><br><p>Connect with The Athletic Football Show</p><p>Please take our listener survey: theathletic.com/survey26</p><p>YT: https://www.youtube.com/@TAFootballShow</p><p>Podcasts: https://podfollow.com/the-athletic-football-show/view</p><p>X: https://x.com/TA_FootballShow</p><p>IG: https://www.instagram.com/tafootballshow</p><p>TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tafootballshow</p><p>Discord: http://discord.gg/theathleticfootballshow</p><p>Call us: 847-448-0701</p><p>Email us: athleticfootballshow@gmail.com</p><br><p>Host: Robert Mays</p><p>With: Nate Tice and Bill Barnwell</p><p>Executive Producer: Michael Beller</p><p>Video Producer: Katy Duffy</p><p>Audio Producer: Michael Beller</p><p>Social Producer: Scott Krinch</p><br><p>Follow the hosts of The Athletic Football Show:</p><p>Robert Mays on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/robertmays.bsky.social</p><p>Derrik Klassen on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/qbklass.bsky.social</p><p>Dave Helman on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/davehelman.bsky.social</p><p>Robert Mays on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robertmays</p><p>Derrik Klassen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/QBKlass</p><p>Dave Helman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davehelman_</p><p>Subscribe to The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/footballshow</p><br><p>Theme song: Haunted</p><p>Written by Dylan Slocum, Trevor Dietrich, Ruben Duarte, Kyle McAulay, and Meredith VanWoert / Performed by Spanish Love Songs</p><p>Courtesy of Pure Noise / By arrangement with Bank Robber Music, LLC</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>