AFC North Preview: Ravens Ready to Roll, Potential in Pittsburgh, Changing Scheme in Cleveland & Can Burrow Lead the Bengals?
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🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
It’s a podcast by committee for the AFC North preview! ESPN analyst and new Monday Night Football color commentator, Louis Riddick joins Robert Mays to discuss Lamar Jackson and the Ravens’ offense as well as the Steelers’ potential to contend this season. Then, The Athletic’s Sheil Kapadia breaks down the changes in Cleveland and expectations for Joe Burrow’s rookie year.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:20.3 | We've got a special approach here today for the AFC North podcast. |
| 0:23.7 | We're going to do this as a podcast by committee. |
| 0:26.2 | It's like how Bill Belichick approaches the backfield. |
| 0:28.9 | Shield Capati is going to be joining us a little bit later to talk about the Bengals and the Browns. |
| 0:33.3 | But before we get to Sheal, joining me today is ESPN analyst and new Monday Night Football color commentator, Lewis, how are you? |
| 0:42.4 | I'm doing good. Thanks for having me on here. |
| 0:44.6 | I mean, it's, wow, one week away from Monday Night Football. |
| 0:48.7 | It's pretty cool, man. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm very excited about hearing you on Monday Night Football. |
| 0:52.0 | When I was building our initial list of guests for these previews, my thought with everybody was, who do I want to talk about football with? And you were definitely on that short list. So I'm extremely glad that we can make this happen. I know you don't have a ton of time, so we're going to get right into this. And we're going to start our AFC North preview with the Baltimore Ravens. I don't know where else we could start. |
| 1:12.0 | Obviously, it was a magical year last season. It went about as well on offense as it possibly could. |
| 1:17.3 | I mean, for most of the year, they were kind of the darlings of the league. I mean, I always like |
| 1:21.3 | when a team has a cohesive vision, abides by that vision, and things unfold in the way they'd |
| 1:27.1 | plan. And I think that's exactly |
| 1:28.3 | what you can say about the ravens last year yeah no question look i think look the quicker that |
| 1:34.5 | people understand who they are and stay true to who they are and do not try to reinvent the wheel |
| 1:41.8 | so to speak and try to be something that they're not, then the |
| 1:46.3 | likely they are to have success more rapidly and they're able to then expand and do other things |
| 1:54.8 | off of that as long as their base is solid and their core is solid and they understand, okay, |
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