Anthony Richardson vs. Daniel Jones highlights the NFL's QB battles
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
We've got some honest-to-goodness quarterback battles to look forward to this summer, a few of which have real stakes for their teams and the league at large. Derrik Klassen, Mike Sando and Michael Beller dig into those battles—including the Colts, Giants, Saints, Browns and Steelers—and also touch on a few QB situations that aren't battles but they're still watching closely on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen
With: Michael Beller and Mike Sando
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
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| 0:35.2 | Welcome to The Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:37.5 | I am not Robert Mays. |
| 0:39.5 | I am Michael Beller, executive producer of the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:42.6 | And today, your guest host of the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:45.8 | Robert is on a much, much deserved, incredibly well-deserved vacation. |
| 0:51.3 | So I'm going to be steering the ship today. |
| 0:53.3 | I'm going to be joined by your typical |
| 0:55.5 | TFS co-host, Derek Klass, and also Mike Sando from the Athletics NFL Newsroom. We're going to be |
| 1:01.0 | talking about the quarterback battles that we have on tap for the 2025 season. We're going to run |
| 1:05.7 | through five that are your more typical quarterback battles, Colts, Giants, Saints, Brown, Steelers. |
| 1:28.0 | We'll see how typical that Steelers one is. Maybe by time you listen to this, let alone later on in the offseason. Then we're going to talk about four other situations that aren't really battles, but they were still going to be keeping an eye on through the summer and early on in the 2025 season. Thanks for being with us. |
| 1:30.0 | Let's hear it right now on the Athletic Football Show. |
| 1:37.1 | Okay, let's get into this, you guys. |
| 1:40.2 | As I said, off the top in the intro, we are without Robert Mace. |
| 1:42.1 | He is on a well-deserved vacation. |
| 1:44.8 | So we're going to be doing this without our fearless leader, |
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