Creating alignment between the front office & coaching staff with Marvin Lewis + dissecting the 2022 CB class with Fran Duffy
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Former NFL head coach Marvin Lewis sits down with Robert Mays to talk about creating alignment between the front office and coaching staff during the draft process. They discuss Lewis’ experiences in Cincinnati, the importance of communication and working through disagreements. Then, Eagles & NFL analyst Fran Duffy joins the show to break down the 2022 CB class. Fran explains the traits he’s most excited/worried about and the scheme he believes is best for players like Sauce Gardner, Derek Stingley Jr., Andrew Booth Jr., Trent McDuffie and more.
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| 0:31.6 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.6 | Today's Tuesday, April 19th. |
| 0:52.7 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 1:12.9 | A little bit later, Fran Duffy, who does X's and O's work for the Eagles, is going to be joining us to chat about the corners in this year's draft. We're going to talk about some highs, some lows, potential fits for all of those guys. Really intriguing class. Enjoyed our conversation with Fran. Before we get to that, though, we talk a lot on the show about the idea of alignment when it comes to front offices and the coaching staffs and how you create that alignment |
| 1:17.9 | and dialogue between those two sides of the buildings as you get into these processes, |
| 1:22.7 | into the free agency process, into the draft, into the team-building aspect of who you are as a franchise. |
| 1:29.5 | And to dig a little bit further into that, I wanted to talk to somebody who's pretty familiar |
| 1:33.8 | with it. |
| 1:34.4 | And that's Marvin Lewis, who's a longtime head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, really enjoyed |
| 1:39.0 | our chat with Marvin. |
| 1:40.2 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:43.8 | I am thrilled now to welcome longtime NFL head coach, |
| 1:48.1 | head coach who was with the Cincinnati Bengals for a number of years, |
| 1:51.7 | and I think is a great person to have this conversation with. |
| 1:54.6 | Marvin Lewis, Marvin, thank you very much for joining us today. |
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