Big contract news, defining success for first-year head coaches with Lindsay Jones & processing the Panthers with Joe Person
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🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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What affect do the Josh Allen, Darius Leonard and Xavien Howard contracts have on the rest of the league? How do we define success for first-year head coaches like Urban Meyer, Dan Campbell, Arthur Smith, Brandon Staley, Nick Sirianni, and Robert Saleh? Lindsay Jones and Robert Mays discuss, plus Robert welcomes Joe Person, Panthers beat writer from The Athletic to dive into Sam Darnold and what we could see out of Carolina in 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:18.8 | Joining me today. |
| 0:19.9 | It's my good friend, Lindsay, how you doing? I'm good, Robert. I'm Robert Mays. Joining me today. It's my good friend, Lindsay Jones. |
| 0:21.0 | Lindsay, how you doing? I'm good, Robert. I'm back from my first set of training camp travels. |
| 0:26.8 | I know you are still in the thick of it, but I'm back from Florida and kind of digesting everything |
| 0:32.2 | that I saw and learned over six days with the bucks, dolphins, and jags. |
| 0:38.9 | So we're going to get to one of those teams. |
| 0:40.9 | We already talked about the dolphins on last week's show. |
| 0:44.2 | I want to talk about the Jaguars with you as part of the show we're going to do today. |
| 0:48.1 | What we're going to do today is look at the first year head coaches. |
| 0:52.6 | And it can be tough to talk about sometimes because we don't know what to expect all the time. We don't know. There's really nothing to go off of. It's all predictions with these teams. So that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to talk about what success looks like for this set of first year coaches. So we're going to get to Urban Meyer and all the guys stepping into the first year with their teams. |
| 1:11.0 | We're also going to talk to Panthers writer Joe Person a little bit later on the show. I met with Joe. That was my last camp trip. I went on before going to Nate's wedding this weekend in Las Vegas. So our visit with Joe is going to be coming to you later in the show. Before we do any of that, though, I wanted to hit some of the news because |
| 1:27.8 | over the weekend, as is want to do during training camp, a lot of stuff happened. And I think |
| 1:33.5 | the biggest bit of news that came down over the last several days was the Josh Allen extension, |
| 1:38.8 | the monstrous Josh Allen extension, $250 plus million. It's a six-year extension. When you saw the numbers, |
| 1:47.2 | what was your initial reaction, Lindsay? Yeah, I mean, it seems like real money. Yeah, it's not too bad, |
| 1:52.3 | right? It's a good day to be Josh Allen. Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, I guess it's a good day to be |
| 1:57.5 | the bills. I mean, this is something that Brandon Bean has been planning for for a long time. Our bills writer Matthew Fairburn wrote a really interesting story. He had some time with Brandon Bean after the contract was done. Excellent. If you have not gone and checked it out yet, it's a really cool look at some of the processes and how this stuff works. Matt does a great job covering the bills. I've said it multiple times. You guys should go read that if you are interested in anything about this. And I thought the most |
| 2:20.7 | interesting nugget in there was that this is a contract that Brandon Bean has been preparing |
| 2:26.1 | for since the draft in 2018. This was something that he knew was coming. He believed that much |
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