Behind the scenes at the combine with ESPN's Dan Graziano; What do the Ravens need to do to get over the hump?
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🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
The combine may be a draft event, but behind the scenes it's as much about the players already in the league as it is anything else. So what discussions are going on in back rooms in Indianapolis about Matthew Stafford, Kirk Cousins, Sam Darnold, Tee Higgins, Trey Smith, and the other big names who could be on the move in the next month or so? Dan Graziano of ESPN joins Robert Mays to dig into all that on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Then, The Athletic's Ravens beat writer Jeff Zrebiec joins Robert to discuss what the Ravens need to do to get over the hump in 2025.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
With: Dan Graziano and Jeff Zrebiec
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather. |
| 0:25.6 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, nonstop sunshine. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:42.1 | Wrapping up the week here in Indianapolis at the Combine. |
| 0:48.4 | Now that we're toward the end of things here, and we've had a few days to kind of scoop up all the rumors. |
| 0:52.8 | You hear the scuttlebutt, you hear the murmurs in these back rooms, Indianapolis. |
| 0:54.2 | That's what other people are doing. |
| 0:58.5 | There's no like palace intrigue about my life. I'm not more important. I'm not that important. |
| 1:04.6 | I do love spending a little bit of time at the end of this week, though, trying to hit on what the discussions have looked like Indianapolis, talking to someone who is having a lot of them. To do that |
| 1:09.4 | today, we welcomed Dan Graziano from ESPN. |
| 1:13.0 | Love always chatting with Dan, super plugged in, does the work, always having these sorts of |
| 1:17.8 | conversations. We hit a lot of stuff. The Abdul Carter news from last night, what's going to happen |
| 1:23.4 | with Matthew Stafford? Depending on what happens with Matthew Stafford, what do the Giants do a quarterback? Why would the Giants want Matthew Stafford? Where do the Rams go? If they trade Matthew Stafford, what are the Raiders going to do? What does the Sam Darnold market look like? What does that mean for what the Titans might do at number one? What does that mean for what the Browns might do at number two? Are the Browns going to trade Miles Garrett? I don't know. |
| 1:44.5 | What's T. Higgins market going to look like? What does Chris Godwin do if he leaves the Buccaneers? Where is Trey Smith going to go? This is all stuff that we talked about. Really, really enjoyed our conversation with Dan. On the back end of this show, we're going to kick off something that we're going to roll out here over the next week or so. We did the most interesting teams of the off |
| 1:43.8 | season last week, but there were so many of these |
| 2:04.9 | teams that are right there. They're right there on the edge that I wanted to pick the brains of |
| 2:10.0 | those writers who cover those teams while we were here in Indianapolis. So we're going to start that off |
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