A pre-Thanksgiving NFL Draft feast with Dane Brugler
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
The college football regular season is winding to a close, which means our discussions around the 2025 NFL Draft are heating up. Dane Brugler joins Robert Mays to check in on where the class stands on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys also discuss the rookie campaigns being put together by Drake Maye, Brock Bowers, Jared Verse and Bo Nix. Before all that, though, The Athletic's Chargers beat reporter Daniel Popper gets on the mic with Robert to recap the Ravens' win over the Chargers on Monday night.
Rundown
- Ravens-Chargers MNF recap
- Emerging polarization in the 2025 NFL Draft class
- Dane's initial flag planting
- The 2025 quarterbacks, headlined by Shedeur Sanders and Cam Ward
- Intriguing pairings in the top 10
- Drake Maye is a dude
- Should the Jets have taken Brock Bowers?
- Should the Falcons have taken Jared Verse?
- Why the Bo Nix/Broncos pairing is working
Host: Robert Mays
With: Daniel Popper and Dane Brugler
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on Prime video. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm Robert Mays, really fun midweek show for you guys this week. |
| 0:11.9 | Had a fantastic Monday night football game last night between the Ravens and the Chargers. |
| 0:15.4 | Just really good stuff overall. |
| 0:17.0 | Excellent quarterback play, high-quality play from both sides. |
| 0:20.3 | Had our Chargers writer Daniel Popper on to talk about that game and also just a broader |
| 0:24.2 | conversation about this season for the Chargers. |
| 0:26.4 | Things feel very different there. |
| 0:28.5 | They're getting such high level play from Stopgap players on defense, what Jesse Mentor's |
| 0:33.3 | unit has done. |
| 0:34.0 | But I think we've also noticed some of the limitations of where that team is |
| 0:37.6 | on its timeline and its current build. We hit on all of that with Daniel. And then chat with |
| 0:43.0 | our own buddy, Dame Bruegler. Just time for a draft revisit. We did one earlier in the season. |
| 0:47.8 | Obviously, we've had a lot of college football between now and then. So we talked about the state |
| 0:52.1 | of this 2025 class, the quality of it, where it differs |
| 0:55.9 | from the 2024 group, dug into the quarterbacks at the top of this group, Cam Ward, |
| 1:00.5 | Chodor Sanders, what type of prospects we're talking about there, where they might land and |
| 1:05.0 | who might make sense. |
| 1:06.0 | And then for this week's ball knower, we focused all on rookies and just some of the questions |
| 1:10.5 | Dane had about the notable rookies from this class, what they've given their teams, |
| 1:15.2 | and some sliding doors moments that maybe were unexplored in this year's draft class. |
| 1:19.7 | So very excited for you guys to hear those conversations with Daniel and Dane. |
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