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🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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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 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
0:05.2 | I am not Robert Mays. |
0:07.2 | I am Michael Beller, executive producer of the Athletic Football Show. |
0:10.3 | And today, your guest host of the Athletic Football Show. |
0:13.5 | Robert is on a much, much deserved, incredibly well-deserved vacation. |
0:19.0 | So I'm going to be steering the ship today. I'm going to be |
0:21.5 | joined by your typical TFS co-host, Derek Klass, and also Mike Sando from the Athletics NFL |
0:27.7 | Newsroom. We're going to be talking about the quarterback battles that we have on tap for the |
0:32.1 | 2025 season. We're going to run through five that are your more typical quarterback battles, |
0:36.2 | Colts, Giants, Saints, |
0:42.4 | Brown Steelers. We'll see how typical that Steelers one is. Maybe by time you listen to this, |
0:46.7 | 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 |
0:51.0 | and early on in the 20-25 season. |
0:54.9 | Thanks for being with us. |
0:55.9 | Let's hear it right now on the athletic football show. |
1:02.9 | Okay, let's get into this, you guys. |
1:04.8 | As I said, off the top in the intro, we are without Robert Mace. |
1:07.9 | He is on a well-deserved vacation. |
1:10.1 | So we're going to be doing this without our fearless leader, but I think we can handle it. |
1:14.0 | First off, joining me, the usual co-host of the athletic football show. It is Derek Klaas. And Derek, what's going on, man? |
1:20.1 | I'm doing good. You know, I've gotten to the, I've gotten used to the three-person show that we've been doing on the mailbags, but now we have a different three-person show. So it's, you know, we're in the middle of the off season. |
1:29.7 | So we're throwing things for a loop. |
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