David Bakhtiari joins the show, NFL Winston Wolfe/Mike Ehrmantraut with Charles McDonald, and Zac Jackson stops by for a Cleveland Browns Team Visit
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
First, For The Win’s Charles McDonald joins the show and the guys play a little NFL Winston Wolfe/Mike Ehrmantraut, to lay out fixes for the Atlanta Falcons, New York Jets, Houston Texans, and Detroit Lions, all in various degrees of trouble heading into this offseason and beyond.
Then, Robert is joined by Green Bay Packers OT David Bakhtiari to discuss the weirdness of being congratulated on his big-money contract, the biggest difference between the player he is today and the rookie version of himself, his game week process, Aaron Rodgers, empty arenas, and more.
Plus, to close things out, The Athletic’s Zac Jackson stops by for a Cleveland Browns Team Visit to discuss early returns in the Kevin Stefanski Era, the team’s trajectory moving forward, Baker Mayfield’s future with the franchise, critical games against Pittsburgh and Baltimore, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:17.5 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:19.7 | Green Bay Packers left tackle, David Bakhtiari, is joining us a little bit later. |
| 0:23.5 | We had an extended conversation with him. |
| 0:24.9 | It was a really good time. |
| 0:26.4 | Zach Jackson, who covers the Browns for the Athletic, will be joining us later for our weekly team visit. |
| 0:31.5 | Before we get to any of that, though, I am pleased to welcome for the wins, Charles McDonald. |
| 0:37.5 | Have you been introduced that way yet? |
| 0:39.3 | No, I haven't. |
| 0:40.0 | I think this is the first time. |
| 0:41.4 | Look at that. |
| 0:42.3 | This is nice. |
| 0:44.0 | So you used to work for the New York Daily News, which was a very boring job where nothing happened. |
| 0:49.4 | Exactly. |
| 0:50.6 | And so we will just leave it at that. |
| 0:52.7 | You covered the Jets for them. |
| 0:54.4 | You're a Falcons fan. |
| 0:56.1 | And coming off the Eagles game last night, it felt like those two teams, Philadelphia, |
| 1:00.7 | the Lions firing their GM, there's a lot of conversations about tear downs right now |
| 1:05.7 | and what teams need to do over the next year, two years to kind of get back where they want |
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