Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Really fun show for you guys today.

Started things off with a little Trent McDuffie news.

Trent McDuffie heading to the Los Angeles Rams for just an astronomical amount of draft picks.

Understand it for both teams, though.

Makes sense for the Rams and where they are.

Makes sense for the Chiefs.

We dug into that at the top of the show.

And then me, Dave, and Derek remembered some guys today. We wanted to do some historical comps. And by historical, I mean, I don't know, most of them are over the last four or five years. But I think it's a fun way to view free agency, just trying to think about players in this class and talk about the archetypes they compare to from free agency groups before this. So this can be a good thing where this is the optimistic

case for what this guy can look like. This can be a bad thing, as we'll get into today,

the history of free agency is littered with a lot of guys getting a ton of money in it not working out. So today,

it's historical comps for the 2026 free agent class. Let's get into it right now. I'm very excited

about today's show because guess what, Dave? This is going to give us a chance today to remember some guys. And that's all I ever really want in any podcast we ever do is just to spend an hour remembering some guys. Isn't that why you get into podcasting? Isn't that why you get into liking football? Like that's the meat of the whole thing. It's like, ah, 2011 Darren Sproles. What a

guy. That's what we're going to do in part today. We wanted to look at this year's

free agent class and try to find some historical comps just in terms of archetype, like guys

that maybe play the same position and slot it in a similar spot in the hierarchy of

their position as we were hitting free agency. I think some of these examples will be positive

examples. Some of these will be the way that this could work out. I know that at least some of

mine are potentially dangerous examples where this could not work out. Derek, we we joked yesterday, who was the player yesterday that you couldn't, that there's no way that you remembered him? Oh, man. I don't know now. See, now I'm already not remembering. Mike Turner. That's right. Oh, yeah. Come on. So I assume that your historical comments may not go back as far as ours unless you were remembering, you know, the Michael Turner's of the world when you were in second grade like you claimed to be yesterday. I didn't go quite that far. I tried to limit my window to like, I think 2021 is my earliest signing that I have. I'm trying to keep into like modern NFL here. I went into the way back machine a couple of times, but it's funny you say that because looking through this, A, I had a

great time remembering some guys and some heinous free agency deals. And B, once you go past

like 2018, it starts to not even feel like the same sport. Like when you're talking about the

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