Aaron Donald joins the show, Darius Butler talks offensive production from a defensive perspective, and a Miami Dolphins Team Visit with Josh Tolentino
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
First up, nine-year NFL veteran, and cohost of The Man To Man With DB & AB podcast, Darius Butler joins the show to talk about why offensive production has been up so much so far this season, the lack of offseason prep time affecting defenses, Jet Motion, Julio Jones, Bill Belichick, and a lot more.
Then, Robert talks to two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year, LA Rams defensive tackle, Aaron Donald about how he adds new wrinkles to his game, building trust with a coaching staff, if he ever thinks about his place in the history of football as potentially one of the best defensive players ever, conditioning and recovery, and more.
To close things out, The Athletic’s own Josh Tolentino stops by in this week’s Team Visit to discuss the beginning of Tua Time for the Miami Dolphins as Tua Tagovailoa steps in as the team’s starting QB, how he’ll mesh with the offense, and its slowly improving offensive line, where some of the teams draft capital will be directed as their rebuild continues, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:14.3 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm Robert Mays, and boy, do we have a fun show for you guys today. |
| 0:20.3 | A little bit later, Aaron Donald, the Aaron Donald, is going to join us to talk some nerdy football stuff, some ways that he prepares, a ton of stuff that we got to with Aaron. |
| 0:30.5 | We're going to be joined by Josh Tolentino, the Athletics Dolphins writer, to talk about the start of the Tua era in Miami. |
| 0:39.2 | But before that, I'm very pleased now to be joined by nine-year NFL cornerback. He hosts the man-to-man pod with |
| 0:45.2 | Antoine Bitha. He does everything DB on YouTube. You should absolutely check it out. I've learned |
| 0:49.8 | so much from him this football season as he's broken stuff down on Twitter and really examined a level of the game that I don't think or know much about. And that's the defensive backfield. And I really wanted to have him on to talk about what it's been like for the first six weeks of the season. Darius Butler, Darius, how are you doing? How you doing, man? I'm doing good. Thanks for having me. Of course. I, again, I've watched so much of the stuff that you pointed out this year. |
| 1:12.0 | And I think that one of the biggest stories of the season so far has been offensive production. |
| 1:17.2 | Coming into the week, I think it was teams were averaging 2.3 to points per drive, which would be the highest mark of all time. |
| 1:25.1 | I think the record is two points per drive. |
| 1:27.0 | So you just see all of these high. I think the record is two points per drive. So you just |
| 1:27.8 | see all of these high-flying offenses, so many points. And I kind of wanted to talk to you about |
| 1:33.0 | what you were seeing from offenses that's put them ahead of defenses so far. So if you were |
| 1:38.4 | trying to just present it on a general level, why NFL offenses for the first third of the year have been ahead of |
| 1:46.2 | defenses. |
| 1:47.0 | What has jumped out to you about that? |
| 1:49.3 | There's something we talked about just pre pre-snap shifts, motions, but guys are giving, |
| 1:56.3 | you're giving quarterbacks, you're giving coordinators more options, right? |
| 1:59.5 | More options at the line of scrimmage. So's harder for offense good offenses to be wrong you watch the chiefs |
| 2:06.8 | and the bills player the chiefs and whoever play like the the screen games like this |
| 2:10.7 | pan mahons looks like he has two or three options on the screen it's just like it's those |
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