Football GM: A dicey TNF, play calling duties in Carolina and a look at personnel in the NFL
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🗓️ 21 October 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Interesting takeaways from TNF. Concerning issues in Philly. A look at the Chiefs receiving core. WR Julio Jones finds a need home with the Eagles. Frank Reich handling over play calling duties. Mike and Randy discuss this along with Aaron Rodgers, teams with personnel issues, and Week 7 picks. Then, The Athletic NFL writer Dan Pompei joins Mike to discuss their book "The Football 100," profiling the 100 greatest players in NFL history.
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| 0:32.5 | This is the Athletic Football Show's Football GM podcast. |
| 0:44.7 | Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast. |
| 0:47.4 | Mike Sando here from The Athletic, along with my colleague, my partner in podcasting. |
| 0:53.4 | Randy Mueller, how you doing, Mr. GM? Doing great, Mike. |
| 0:56.5 | Great stuff to talk about this week. Got a trade deadline coming up not too long from now. |
| 1:00.9 | I love it. You know, when you're a GM, you don't get to. You have to sit on your hands these first |
| 1:06.2 | six or seven weeks. There's very little you can do for helping your team. And so I always felt like |
| 1:11.5 | when the trade deadline started to get even a little bit insight that we would go to work and |
| 1:17.2 | try to figure out some way to make our team better. Nowadays, GMs are way more, they are way |
| 1:24.6 | more willing to make deals than they were 10 years ago. So I'm anxious to see what |
| 1:28.6 | happens on the trade deadline. And that'll be a good topic for next week, I'm sure. Well, I know a good |
| 1:32.8 | column too. You wrote a column recently going through some of the things that you think are important |
| 1:37.2 | for a GM at this time of the year. I've got to say, though, I bet you'd enjoy being a GM even more now because of that |
| 1:47.2 | climate, right? I mean, if you're always trying to make deals, you want to have teams that'll |
| 1:51.1 | do deals, right? That's how you can really make your team better, right? Yeah, no doubt. And, |
| 1:56.0 | you know, like I say, 10 years ago, even 15 years ago, I remember getting a call from Ron |
| 2:00.8 | Wolf one time leading up to the trade deadline. He was the gym of the Packers at the time. And I said, what are you calling me for, Ron? He said, you're the only guy that actually listened to consider a deal, you know. He said, we can't find anybody to make deals at all. So I took that as a compliment. And yeah, but nowadays you're right. People are willing to strike deals. They're willing to be creative in how they create deals. And I think those are kind of |
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