Decoding 10 team-building plans for the NFL’s new regimes with Sheil Kapadia
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🗓️ 25 March 2022
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There are several teams around the league that have had GMs and/or head coaches in place for only a season or two. So what did the most recent free agency frenzy teach us about the mentality these teams have right now when building a roster? Sheil Kapadia joins Robert Mays to break down the front office thinking of the Lions, Bears, Falcons, Dolphins, Jets, Giants, Raiders, Broncos, Chargers, & more as they head toward the Draft.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.0 | Today is Friday, March 25th. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Robert Mays, and joining me today, it's my good friend, |
| 0:23.1 | Shia Kopite. |
| 0:23.6 | How you doing, buddy? |
| 0:21.5 | I'm doing well. No monstrous traits to talk of now. Don't say that. I know. Because now it's going to happen. That's okay. That's fun. On a pod, something happens. we have to react, so we'll figure it out if it does. But looking forward to some more |
| 0:37.9 | big picture thoughts rather than, hey, this was the transaction that happened yesterday. |
| 0:42.2 | So obviously, we've been reacting to stuff in real time, essentially for the last week and a half. |
| 0:46.7 | You know, you were on one of our draft recap shows. Something has happened every day. And I wanted |
| 0:51.8 | to kind of take a step back and remove ourselves from the |
| 0:55.3 | conversation about the teams doing a lot of stuff necessarily. You know, the team's making all the |
| 1:00.1 | splashy signings because there are a couple teams I found myself thinking about in some quiet |
| 1:04.7 | moments over the last week. And the two teams that really spurred this on were the lions and |
| 1:09.1 | the Vikings. I'm like, man, the lions and the Vikings aren't doing a lot. They're not signing all the biggest free agents. But I found myself thinking about, right, how does this fit into their bigger plan? Like the Lions aren't signing a lot of guys. The Vikings just signs the Darius Smith. How does that fit into what they're trying to be? So I wanted to use those two teams as a way to get into a larger conversation about most of the teams that are within their second or first year with a new regime. |
| 1:35.3 | That could be coaching staff, front office. |
| 1:37.3 | The parameters are vague for a reason here. |
| 1:40.2 | Just talking about teams that are just getting going and trying to figure out what the past week and what their activity and free agency can teach us, what their moves and what their strategy so far, what kind of light it can shed on who they want to be and how they want to build this thing. So we picked 10 teams, 10 teams either in their first or second year with a new regime of some sorts. |
| 2:01.6 | And we're going to try to decode what we can figure out from what they've done so far in |
| 2:07.0 | free agency. |
| 2:09.1 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 2:10.5 | Sounds good. |
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