Buy or Sell Their Offseasons: The Contenders
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Our Buy or Sell Their Offseasons series wraps up, as it always does, with The Contenders. You could fairly quibble with one or two of the teams we have among this octet, but you cannot argue with the idea that each of these eight teams clearly has what it takes to make a deep playoff run. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen make buy-or-sell calls on the offseasons of the 49ers, Chiefs, Chargers, Patriots, Bills, Ravens, Seahawks and Rams on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Senior Producer: Katy Duffy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Before we get in today's episode, |
| 0:04.1 | which is our buying or selling contender off-season, just a little bit of housekeeping. |
| 0:09.5 | Our merch competition, merch design competition, is currently ongoing at the Athletic Football Show |
| 0:15.7 | Discord. We are accepting designs, ideas. We have a whole competition going about what you guys want the athletic football show |
| 0:23.6 | merch to look like. |
| 0:24.6 | And so if you want to be involved in that, please join the Discord, throw your hat into |
| 0:29.4 | the ring. |
| 0:29.8 | We would love to see the creative stuff that you guys are bringing to the table. |
| 0:33.4 | That competition has been going through early June is when it will close and then we will start |
| 0:38.1 | the voting on the winner. So you still got a couple weeks to get involved if you want to, |
| 0:42.6 | encourage you guys to do it. If you are interested in joining the Discord at all, |
| 0:46.7 | we would love to have you. It is a constant ongoing football conversation, |
| 0:51.3 | essentially 24 hours a day, 365 a year it's a really fun |
| 0:54.9 | community that we've started to put together and if you want to be involved and |
| 0:59.9 | chatting with and being in touch with like-minded people who are thinking about |
| 1:03.8 | football in a certain way I do think it will be a fun hospitable place for you |
| 1:08.1 | so encourage you to join the Discord even if Discord, even if you are not going to be |
| 1:11.6 | involved in the merch design contest today. Me and Derek buying or selling the contenders. |
| 1:18.4 | It's interesting because I think that in a lot of ways, the rebuilding teams and the teams near the |
| 1:23.2 | bottom have the more interesting off seasons because they've done more. But the set of conversations that we had today, |
| 1:29.4 | I think we're probably my favorite that we've done over these four shows. |
| 1:33.5 | And so really enjoyed digging into the teams at the top with Derek today. |
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