First impressions of new units and faces after Week 1
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
One of the best parts of Week 1 is that we finally get to see a bunch of new stuff in action. Like the Geno Smith/Chip Kelly offense in Las Vegas. Or Nick Caley running Houston's offense. Or Cam Ward playing in the NFL and Robert Saleh back with the 49ers. What are our first impressions of all these new things? Robert Mays and Dan Pizzuta of Snaps and Stats dig in on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:36.1 | Welcome to the athleticic Football Show. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:39.1 | Week 1 is in the books, and me and my buddy Dan Pizzuda today are just running through |
| 0:43.7 | some initial first impressions from some new situations around the NFL. |
| 0:48.8 | That can mean anything, really, right? |
| 0:51.4 | And so today we're going to talk about a couple new quarterbacks that we saw |
| 0:55.2 | this week, one playing for a new team, one playing for the first time. We're going to talk about |
| 0:59.3 | quarterbacks in new places, a couple new offensive coordinators, a defensive coordinator |
| 1:03.9 | returning to his old team with a bunch of young defensive players that we've never seen before. |
| 1:08.2 | So this was really a chance to do a deeper dive into |
| 1:11.7 | four, five, six units that we really haven't gotten a chance to chew on since those week one |
| 1:17.4 | games wrapped up. So really enjoyed my conversation with Dan talking about our first impressions |
| 1:22.7 | of these groups. Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:35.7 | Joining me for the first edition of our Thursday show on the athletic football show this season from the snaps and stats. |
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| 1:41.9 | It is a football content machine run by our guy here, Dan Pizzuna. Dan, how are you? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm doing fantastic. We're back to football. And I'm very excited to have this conversation with you. Yeah, absolutely. Are you sure you're doing well? This is the first time I think you've talked since being at the Bears game. You're doing okay. I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay. Yes. I, you know, listen, I think that there |
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