This is the Athletic Football Show.

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Great show for you guys today.

Damien Harris, former New England Patriots running back, former Buffalo Bills running back,

recently retired, joined us to talk about a whole bunch of stuff.

We got to discuss the running back market and the changes in the running back market from

somebody who played the position and was a free agent last year when things kind of reached

their nadir when guys like Saquan Barkley and Josh Jacobs didn't get deals. So really. who played the position and was a free agent last year when things kind of reached their

near near when guys like Saquan Barkley and Josh Jacobs didn't get deals.

So really great to get his perspective on just the state of the position in the NFL,

but also really great to get his perspective on what happened in New England over the last few years.

I mean, he had a front row seat to that entire Matt Patricia,

Joe Judge experience and everything that happened with Mack Jones, his things started deteriorate

over there. I think some perspective, some insight, and some details about how that went that

we probably haven't gotten from many other people here over the last couple years. So I am very

excited for you

guys to hear his thoughts on the final days of the Belichick era and New England and everything

that went along with it. Also, just one more thing to keep in mind, we recorded this

discussion with Damien before the news about Christian McCaffrey's extension came down. So

just something to keep in mind while we're having that running back

value, running back contract discussion. Obviously, that throws a little bit of a wrench into it,

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