Biggest questions of the 2025 offseason
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🗓️ 14 February 2025
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Summary
Where will the on-the-move quarterbacks get off the carousel? How will the Bengals address their defense? Will the Rams turn the page to a new era? Where will the big-name free agents land. Those are just four of the offseason questions Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen addressed on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. We are fully in off-season mode now here at the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:11.2 | And we're kicking that off in a big way with a show that we do most years at this point and really do it at the same time every year. |
| 0:17.8 | It's the Friday after the Super Bowl. We kind of set the stage for what |
| 0:21.6 | the offseason could potentially look like by asking the biggest questions we have heading into |
| 0:26.9 | free agency season, heading into draft season. What do these teams need to do to catch the teams |
| 0:32.8 | that were playing in the Super Bowl last weekend? Me and Derek Klasson asked all of the big offseason |
| 0:38.6 | questions that we have. Where do the quarterbacks go? Where do some of the free agents go? |
| 0:44.3 | Derek's wondering how the Bengals add some physicality to their defense. What does Kansas City do |
| 0:49.0 | along the offensive line? So we got some team specific stuff in there. We got some bigger |
| 0:52.9 | picture stuff in there. Either way, I love doing the show every year. I think it's a really good way to kind of clear the |
| 0:58.7 | decks before we really get into the offseason in earnest. So let's get to that conversation |
| 1:03.5 | with Derek Klesson right now. |
| 1:14.6 | All right, Derek, this show means that the offseason is officially here. |
| 1:17.3 | We've done this podcast in some capacity. |
| 1:20.4 | I don't know, Beller, but the last like three or four years, right? I mean, it's become a staple of our early offseason programming. |
| 1:24.0 | And it means that the Super Bowl is over. |
| 1:26.1 | This means that we are officially turning the |
| 1:27.6 | page to Combine Talk, free agency talk, whatever comes next this spring. So welcome. Welcome to |
| 1:33.7 | your first athletic football show offseason. We were officially here. It's fun. You know, when we had |
| 1:38.5 | this on the schedule, this is, we had scheduled this before the Super Bowl, but it wasn't something |
| 1:42.7 | I thought about at all until after the Super Bowl. but it wasn't something I thought about at all |
| 1:44.4 | until after the Super Bowl. So I was kind of scrambling like Tuesday, like, what are my |
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