Football GM: Assessing the deals in the first week of NFL free agency
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🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Mike Sando and former GM Randy Mueller recap a busy first week of NFL free agency. They discuss the delay in the Aaron Rodgers trade before they assess the deals that have stood out the most so far. Then, they talk about the Bears’ offseason plan, the veteran trade market and much more.Â
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4:09 Aaron Rodgers and the trade delay
18:34 Assessing the deals
20:36 Jessie Bates
21:49 Mike McGlinchey
24:51 Tremaine Edmunds
27:48 Dalvin Tomlinson
28:50 Backup QB deals
42:25 Orlando Brown Jr. deal with Bengals/Jonah Williams situationÂ
46:58 Bears busy week
54:30 Veteran trades
1:02:30 Lamar Jackson’s future
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| 0:48.3 | Welcome, everybody, to the Football GM podcast here on the Athletic Football Show, |
| 0:57.2 | Mike Sando, senior writer of the athletic, along with the GM, Randy Mueller, and Randy, your Sea Dragons. Big winners last night. I look at the headline. |
| 1:05.4 | I'm all excited. Here's the headline that I saw when I was Googling the results. Seattle Sea Dragons fend off self-sabotage, hand Houston Huffinx, first XFL loss. |
| 1:16.5 | The Sea Dragons, three and two, great team bio accounts, but they're minus 10 turnover |
| 1:22.6 | differentials. |
| 1:23.5 | So it sounds like a very stress-free environment watching this, obviously. |
| 1:27.9 | I mean, you must have a talented team to be three and two and minus 10, |
| 1:31.9 | but I'm just glad to get the win last night. |
| 1:33.6 | We might not have had anyone in the GM chair today. |
| 1:36.7 | Yeah, it was one of those three-hour root canals in the dental chair. |
| 1:41.2 | And it's crazy because it's been like that for five straight weeks. I would say this, |
| 1:46.1 | Mike, we're pretty battle tested. We find ways to make up fights and battles and crazy things when |
| 1:52.6 | it shouldn't even be that close. So last night was no, no different at all than the first four |
| 1:57.1 | games. So hopefully we can continue to overcome our own ineptness. It's crazy. |
| 2:02.4 | The numbers guys say that stuff evens out, the turnovers, right? If you have a team that has a whole |
| 2:07.5 | feasts on them one year or one week here, it doesn't, it'll even out. So hopefully that's for you |
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