AFC East Preview
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🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
It's been a few years since the Patriots were the big, bad bully in the AFC East, but it's still jarring to see someone other than Bill Belichick patrolling the sidelines in New England. Meanwhile, there's good reason to think any of the Bills, Dolphins or Jets can win the division. Josh Allen! Aaron Rodgers! A fireworks show in Miami! One thing is for sure...it won't be boring. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen preview the AFC East on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Buffalo Bills preview
- Miami Dolphins preview
- New York Jets preview
- New England Patriots preview
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Great show for you guys. Today we're doing our AFC East preview, tons of stuff to dig into. I mean, you know, the Jets and everything going on with the Jets. This Dolphins team has real aspirations. You know, the bill is obviously still one of the best quarterbacks in the league, even if this is a moment of transition. and we have a quarterback in New England, even if we don't have much else to be excited about right now. |
| 0:05.1 | A little bit of transition. And we have a quarterback in New England, even if we don't have much else to be excited about right now. |
| 0:24.4 | A little bit of housekeeping before we get to the AFC East preview, though. |
| 0:27.2 | Next week, next Thursday, September 5th, live in Kansas City, Ravens Chiefs Watch Party at no other pub in the Power and Light District at 6 p.m. Me, Derek, Mike Sando, we're going to be doing a little bit of NFL preview content, a little bit of quarterback tiers content. We're going to be talking about Chiefs Ravens during that game. So if you're going to be in KC for the game, please come hang out with us. We would love to see you. We'd love to say hello. Very, very excited about getting to do some more live events. |
| 0:56.0 | And this is a very fun way to kick it off. |
| 0:58.3 | So please come join us if you're going to be in town. |
| 1:01.6 | For now, though, let's get to our AFC East preview with my buddy Derek Classic. |
| 1:10.1 | The AFFC East today, Derek, one of the most interesting divisions in the entire league. |
| 1:19.1 | We have three teams with very real playoff aspirations and another team completely in transition. |
| 1:24.2 | They draft a quarterback in the top five. |
| 1:26.0 | They're replacing the greatest head coach in modern NFL history. There is a lot to dig into today. And for your |
| 1:32.5 | purposes here, we got some big arm throw the ball hard quarterbacks to talk about today as well. |
| 1:37.7 | We've got big arm throw the ball quarterbacks. We've got it's not even just that these are |
| 1:41.5 | interesting teams. These are very like contentious fan |
| 1:44.6 | bases i mean the bills i've gotten good have gotten chippy the patriots fans are like kind of on the |
| 1:50.6 | opposite end of where they usually are where they're usually at the top now they're at the bottom |
| 1:53.8 | dolphins fans are always ready to chip jets fans are in a weird spot because of all the air and rod |
| 1:58.6 | like it's just a very everyone in this division is very up. It's a lot to dig into and a lot to chew on. Let's start with the Buffalo Bills. For each of these teams, if you guys haven't listened to the other previews, we're recapping their offseason in 60 seconds. The Bills promoted Bobby Babbage to be their DC, signed Dionne Dawkins to an extension, Toron Johnson, Dawson Knox, and both Taylor Rep and David Edwards on smaller deals. Brought in Curtis Samuel and Free Agency, three years 24 million, retained Dayquan Jones, also retained A.J. Epinessa, which we'll get to. Traded Stefan Diggs to the Texans, traded Ryan Bates to the Bears. Obviously, that's the real highlight one. lost Gabe Davis, Leonard Floyd, Dan Jackson, Mitch Morse, Trey White, Jordan Poir, and Tyrol Dotson. Some guys leaving in free agency, some guys because of cost cutting. Drafted Keon Coleman after trading down into the second round. Drafted Safety Cole Bishop, also in the second round. And Dwayne Carter defensive tackle in the third round. For all of these teams, |
| 2:52.5 | we've started this off with essentially a blue chip check-in. How many blue-chip players are on |
| 2:57.0 | this roster? One, because I think it's a good way to gauge a roster heading into the season. |
| 3:01.1 | And two, because there are times where we'll get through these entire train previews and not |
| 3:04.9 | talk about the best players because we kind of know what those |
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