Chargers’ hype, Sam Darnold’s fit in Carolina, the Colts’ roster approach and more: Answering all of your NFL questions
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🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Can the Chargers live up to the hype? How will Sam Darnold fit in Joe Brady’s offense? What price is too high for a proven QB? Robert Mays and Nate Tice answer your offseason questions. They also discuss long-shot MVP candidates, their biggest hits and misses on draft prospects and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.9 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.7 | Joining me today. |
| 0:20.8 | It's my good friend Nate Tice. |
| 0:21.9 | Nate, how you doing, buddy? |
| 1:11.2 | Doing good. It's not only, is it just me and you, it's our audience. We got, wait, we, it's like me, you, and everybody else on this episode. It's going to be great. So we were going to have Lindsay Jones on today. Lindsay ran into some parenting stuff that she had to handle, which goes down when you have a young child, which she does. So we miss Lindsay. We're going to have her on a ton over the next couple months. Just wanted to lay this out in kind of a housekeeping way. We're doing a mailbag show today. Thank you guys so much for the questions. I feel like I get emotional every time we do this because I sincerely appreciate the thoughtfulness that you guys put into them. It's why I don't mind leaning on them and doing them as often as we do just because I get so much out of them. A lot of these questions kind of push me to think about things in a different way, which I sincerely appreciate all the responses. |
| 1:16.3 | I got a lot of them in my email that I will try to respond to just because they're really good. |
| 1:21.9 | Some of them will hit in more considered ways as the offseason goes, which is kind of what I wanted to address. |
| 1:23.5 | So we're going to do one show this week. |
| 1:24.7 | This is going to be it. |
| 1:25.9 | This is going to run on Wednesday. |
| 1:28.5 | Starting next week, we're doing our offseason program, I guess is what we'll call it. We're going to be doing two shows a week. |
| 1:33.8 | One of them is going to involve the people that you know. Nate, Lindsay, rotating cast of guests, |
| 1:39.6 | we're going to do some really fun, just kind of gimmicky ideas that we've been throwing around that I think are |
| 1:44.2 | great and perfect for May and June when the offseason schedule opens up a little bit. |
| 1:49.6 | The other show every week is going to be reserved for an interview. |
| 1:53.6 | We're going to have GMs, head coaches, players. |
| 1:57.6 | I don't want to say any of the names yet because I don't want to jinx them before that happen. But the list and the growing list, I'm very excited about it. So that is going to |
| 2:06.6 | start next week, be on the lookout for that two days a week, Wednesdays and Fridays. Before that, |
| 2:12.8 | we're going to get into the mailbox. A lot of fun stuff. We're going to start with a question that |
| 2:16.9 | I got in various |
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