Buy or sell their offseason: The Rebuilders
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Every team in the NFL is going to have its own approach to the offseason, in part defined by where it sees itself fitting into the league's hierarchy. We in the media must treat their respective offseasons with that same degree of nuance. After all, the Cardinals—coming off an ugly 3-14 season with no plausible case for considering itself a serious contender in 2026—are going to think about the offseason differently than, say, the Broncos, who very well could have won the Super Bowl if Bo Nix didn't get hurt in the playoffs. It is in that spirit that we launch into an offseason staple around these parts, our Buy or Sell Their Offseason series. Four episodes, eight teams per episode, with similar teams grouped together. We kick it off with The Rebuilders, eight teams simply hoping to take a step back toward relevance in 2026. Those teams are...the Jets, Browns, Titans, Raiders, Dolphins, Giants, Cardinals and Falcons.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Dave Helman
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Last year we did a series of shows, |
| 0:04.5 | four different shows with all 32 teams broken up in four different buckets, and we decided |
| 0:10.4 | if we wanted to buy or sell every single offseason in the NFL. I loved doing those, |
| 0:15.9 | and we're doing them again. So four different shows, all 32 teams, eight teams in each show. Today we are starting |
| 0:22.5 | with the rebuilding teams. So the teams at the bottom, most of these buckets are going to be |
| 0:27.7 | broken up by Super Bowl odds. So these are the teams at the bottom of those odds. If you have |
| 0:31.9 | issues with how we've distributed the teams, take it up with the people in Las Vegas or whoever |
| 0:36.7 | your local sports book is. |
| 0:38.3 | But we're going to dig into this exercise the exact same way we did last year. |
| 0:42.1 | Really enjoyed just kind of taking a step back and taking all of these off-season in totality. |
| 0:46.6 | Doing it with Dave Hellman today. |
| 0:48.3 | Let's dig into the rebuilding teams and buying or selling their off-seasons right now. |
| 0:53.2 | Thank you. teams and buying or selling their off-seasons right now. |
| 1:05.5 | I'm very excited to start this series of shows again. |
| 1:09.0 | I loved doing this last off-season around this same time. |
| 1:11.2 | Just a good way to kind of try to get your arms around what teams have done in combination coaching hires, free agency, and the draft. |
| 1:18.2 | So we're talking off seasons in totality today, Dave, and we're doing the rebuilding teams |
| 1:23.5 | as our first one of these four buckets. |
| 1:25.5 | Call me a hipster. |
| 1:26.9 | Call me a hopeless romantic, but I am even more excited to do the rebuilding teams, like |
| 1:32.8 | the quote unquote bad teams. |
| 1:34.4 | It's more interesting to me. |
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