This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Really fun show for you guys today.

We're bringing out a couple experts in certain position areas to do an all pro team for the athletic football show. Nate is going to join us a little bit later to do quarterback skill position players. I'm making you guys wait through the rest of the positions to get to those guys. Darius Butler is going to come on to do defensive backs and linebackers. Obviously, he spent a lot of time in the league as a corner.

He's a great insight on that.

Before we do any of that, though, one of my favorite people to talk about football with, somebody who watches more line play than all of you have ever watched combined in your entire lives. My buddy, Brandon Thorne, Brandon. How you doing, man? I'm doing great, Robert, man. I'm excited that you were able to get me on here just because you know, I know what I do is kind of in the weeds, but to have an opportunity to talk about it on here is really cool. So I'm excited to do this. It is in the weeds in the best possible way. You recently started. It's the Trench Warfare newsletter. If you guys have not checked it out,

you absolutely should. It's on substack. I've worked with Brandon a little bit in producing some of this stuff. He is doing work that you cannot find anywhere else. Really detailed analysis of pass rushers, how certain systems help their offensive line. So if you're interested in this kind of thing, please check out the work that he is doing. He's at Brandon Thornton Thurrott

NFL on

Twitter.

Brandon,

let's get

into this.

We could

probably spend

an hour

and a half

just, in this kind of thing, please check out the work that he is doing. He's at Brandon Thornton NFL on Twitter. Brandon, let's get into this. We could probably spend an hour and a half just on these guys. We can't. They're not going to let me, even if I wanted to. Let's go left to right on the offensive line first. So who is your first team all pro left tackle? I went with Tehran Armstead from the Saints. I just think even though

with a couple missed starts, he still has 13 starts this year. He's played almost 80% of the snaps.

And I think when he's been on the field this season, he is the best left tackle in the game.

I just think I've pretty much felt that way last year as well.

I just think right now he's kind of, he's just in his zone.

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