Cardinals new GM, Sean McVay stays, Brandon Staley's future, and more in the post-Wild Card Weekend roundup
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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While 14 teams spent the week getting ready for, and kicking off, the playoffs, the NFL news wheel kept on spinning. Robert Mays and Mike Sando discuss Arizona's hiring of Monti Ossenfort as GM, the state of the Ravens, and coordinator changes on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. They also welcome Jourdan Rodrigue and Daniel Popper to the show to discuss the head coaches running the show for both of the league's L.A. franchises.
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1:55 Cardinals hire Monti Ossenfort as GM
12:57 Something's rotten in Baltimore
24:40 Panthers interviewing DC candidates
27:47 Jim Harbaugh staying at Michigan
31:53 Sean McVay sticking with the Rams
56:19 Brandon Staley's future with the Chargers
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| 0:47.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:50.9 | Fun show for you guys today a little bit later. |
| 0:53.0 | Our Rams writer at the Athletic Jordan Rodriguez is going to join us to talk about the latest Sean McVeigh's decision to return to the Rams for the 20-23 season. Really enjoyed our conversation with Jordan. Then Daniel Popper, who covers the Chargers for us, is going to give us the breakdown about where their coaching staff situation is after a pretty nightmarish excursion to Jacksonville |
| 1:12.8 | on Saturday. Again, enjoyed our conversation with Daniel. Looking forward to you guys hearing |
| 1:17.1 | both of those discussions. Before we do that, though, I am thrilled to welcome the Athletic Zone. |
| 1:22.7 | Mike Sando. Mike, how you doing? I am doing well, Robert. Good to be here. So let's talk about just some things that are looming storylines, I guess, over the weekend and from the last few days. |
| 1:33.9 | We're going to talk about some coaching things. |
| 1:35.6 | We're going to talk about a couple items from your pick six column, about teams that lost yesterday. |
| 1:39.3 | But let's begin with a bit of news that broke right before we started recording this. |
| 1:43.6 | The Arizona Cardinals |
| 1:44.6 | have a new general manager. Mani Asen Fort, who is the Titans director of player |
| 1:50.5 | personnel for the last three seasons after a long stint in New England, is now the Arizona |
| 1:55.8 | Cardinals general manager. Mike, your first reaction to this? I didn't know they were that close to making a hire. |
| 2:02.3 | So if you'd asked me, hey, what do you think of Monty Austin for it with the Cardinals? |
| 2:06.7 | You know, I would have said, well, I mean, he's a good candidate. So I kind of like it, though, |
| 2:11.2 | because I think he's, I don't know him, but I've done a little homework on him, and I've compiled |
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