2024 QB tiers revisited: Who has the most at stake the rest of the season?
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🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Back in August, 50 NFL coaches and executives told The Athletic's Mike Sando that Lamar Jackson is not a tier-one quarterback. Welp, so much for that. Lamar isn't the only QB playing outside his assigned tier this season. On this episode of The Athletic Football Show, Sando sits in for Robert Mays and discusses with Derrik Klassen four other quarterbacks who aren't lining up with where those coaches and execs placed them in Sando's 2024 QB tiers column. Then, the guys break down four more quarterbacks who have a ton at stake the rest of the season.
Rundown
- Ravens-Buccaneers recap
- Baker Mayfield
- Jared Goff
- Geno Smith
- Aaron Rodgers
- Brock Purdy
- Sam Darnold
- Kirk Cousins
- Jalen Hurts
Host: Mike Sando
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:32.2 | Hello everybody. Welcome into the athletic football show. This very clearly is not. Robert Mays. This is Michael Beller, executive producer of the athletic football show. I was going to do Robert's whole welcome bit, but then Mike Sando stole that for me. You'll see what I mean just about one minute from now. Robert out for this episode. Mike Sando and Derek Classen will be coming your way. |
| 0:55.7 | The guys are going to revisit Sando's 2024 quarterback tiers column. What they're going to do with |
| 1:01.4 | that is take a look at four guys who are playing outside their tier three above, one below. |
| 1:07.3 | And then from there, they're going to move on and discuss four more quarterbacks those |
| 1:11.2 | who we have decided have the most at stake for the rest of the 2024 season let's get to it |
| 1:16.9 | music up welcome i'm not robert maize even though i just stole his little delivery coming in. This is Mike Sando, Robert's esteemed, well, somewhat esteemed colleague at The Athletic here with Derek Classen for the athletic football show. Derek, you're going to be able to do this? You're going to be able to carry me through without our fearless leader? I think so. You know what? I'm excited. We got to work together a little bit in the season opener, but I mean, that was what, a 15-minute wrap-up pod. So it's kind of nice now to be able to jump into a full episode. I think it'll be a fun one. Well, and we are going to hit, today we're going to revisit some of the quarterback |
| 2:01.9 | tier stuff from before the season, and we're going to look at some quarterbacks that are maybe |
| 2:06.6 | above, playing above where the league saw them, Jared Goff, Baker Mayfield, Gino Smith, maybe below |
| 2:13.5 | and Aaron Rogers, and then get into some guys with a lot at stake. |
| 2:18.1 | Brock Purdy is one of them. |
| 2:19.3 | We'll hit on some of the editors. |
| 2:21.0 | But let's acknowledge the games on Monday night because you referenced Derek. |
| 2:28.5 | Remember that first night of the season? |
| 2:31.7 | I wanted to hit on this because we came away from opening night, Baltimore against Kansas City, |
| 2:39.0 | thinking that game showed us the possibilities for the Chiefs offense and the limitations for Baltimore's. |
| 2:45.1 | And I'm not seeing any limitations. |
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