Deshaun Watson trade rumors, what’s at stake for Jared Goff and can the Browns overcome injuries with Lindsay Jones + a New England Patriots team visit with Matthew Fairburn
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🗓️ 21 October 2021
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Robert Mays and Lindsay Jones discuss the latest with the Deshaun Watson trade discussions as the deadline approaches in less than two weeks. Plus, what’s at stake for Jared Goff vs. the Rams and can the Browns overcome their long list of injuries? Finally, The Athletic’s Matthew Fairburn joins the show to talk about what he’s learned covering the Patriots this season, Mac Jones’ development and whether or not New England can contend this year.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.3 | The Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:17.4 | The Athletic Football Show is presented by State Farm. |
| 0:17.6 | Because like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. |
| 0:19.5 | Get a quote today. |
| 0:21.9 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. Today is Thursday, October 21st. I'm Robert Mays. Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:27.8 | Matt Fairburn, our new Patriots writer is going to be joining us a little bit later for our weekly team |
| 0:33.3 | visit. Before we do that, though, I'm thrilled to welcome my good friend, Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, |
| 0:37.4 | how are you doing? I'm great. How about you, Robert? I am doing very well. It is another week in the NFL. It is week seven in the NFL. We were going to dig into some of the injury realities associated with the league right now. I think that was kind of the big topic of discussion. Just a lot of the news was centered around who was hurt, who was going to play. |
| 0:56.5 | Obviously, the Browns were at the forefront of that. |
| 0:58.2 | We are going to get to some of that a little bit down the road. |
| 1:00.2 | But right before we started recording today, there was a report from John McLean, who for people who do not know is a long time, Houston Chronicle writer who has been covering the Texans since their inception |
| 1:12.0 | is kind of an authoritative voice on the franchise. He reported earlier today that it sounds |
| 1:17.8 | like there could be a deal done for Deshawn Watson as soon as the end of this week. |
| 1:23.5 | And with the trade deadline a couple weeks away, it's not shocking. But it feels like there's a lot to |
| 1:28.4 | unpack here. I don't know how far down this road you want to get right now, but it definitely |
| 1:32.4 | felt like something we should talk about because it's going to be a huge topic of discussion here |
| 1:36.9 | over the next couple days. For sure. And this was all kind of developing as we, just as we were |
| 1:41.6 | starting to record tonight. So I think there's probably a lot that's |
| 1:45.0 | going to be developing tonight into Wednesday or this is Wednesday into Thursday. And certainly |
| 1:50.9 | over the next, you know, coming days, coming weeks, depending on how long this takes. It's very |
| 1:56.3 | complicated, right? And we've, we've talked about a lot of so complicated. There's no no it's really hard to look at this from a purely football standpoint because if this was strictly a football story, a trade would have happened probably a long time ago because or not at all or not at all. Or they just refuse to have make it happen because he was playing. So but basically just to kind of reset where exactly we are right now. |
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