This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing well. I had no draft prep for, it feels like the first time and like, since the season ended, like we had the normal draft and then we had our little athletic draft. So I was like, okay, now we're back to just like, okay, encouraging each other's opinions as opposed to maybe dragging each other down. I think dragging each other down every once in a while was a good thing. It was healthy. I don't think we're going to do a draft next week, but I think we are going to do some sort of ranking superlative with coaches. A lot of people have asked for that, honestly, after we did the player draft podcast, people said, or you can do something similar with front offices or coaches. And I said, you know what? That is a good idea because I'm out of ideas. So I appreciate you. Let me have that one. So I think we're going to do something like that next week. Today, though, we're going to talk about Julio Jones in a second because we haven't really done that on the show. But after that, we're going to do something that I feel like taps into one of my favorite conversations or thought exercises associated with the NFL.

One of my favorite things to do every spring is talk to coaches about what they're watching.

You know this as somebody who was a quality control guy for a while. A lot of times the offseason is on projects.

So a coach or a staff will go watch every play action pass that the best play action

pass team did or every red zone snap from the best red zone team.

I remember talking to an offensive play caller about watching, he watched all of the Titans play

action passes, just as a way to get a sense of, okay, why are they good at this?

And I love that as an exercise.

So that's kind of what we did.

We went back and watched the best offenses in the league over the last couple days,

probably too much work for June, if we're being honest with each other.

But we went back and I did the same sort of thing. It was focused. I was. Probably too much work for June if we're being honest with each other.

But we went back and I did the same sort of thing.

It was focused.

I watched every Titans Play Action pass.

I watched every Bills this situation.

Every Brown's certain situations.

Just to get a sense. And we wanted to talk about the lessons we learned from that process.

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