Football GM: Bills win on TNF, Lamar Jackson at his best, and the looming NFL trade deadline
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🗓️ 28 October 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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The Bills presented a different type of personnel in TNF…Lamar Jackson is back at an MVP level…Trade discussions begin to heat up around the league…Mike and Randy dive into all of this and share their thoughts on Dalvin Cook possibly being on the move, and how Hunter Renfrow might be a sought-after commodity. Plus, uncertainty in Green Bay, the GM Notebook and Week 8 predictions.
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| 0:32.5 | This is the Athletic Football Show's Football GM podcast. |
| 0:44.9 | Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast. |
| 0:47.3 | Mike Sando here from The Athletic, along with my colleague, the GM himself. |
| 0:52.0 | Randy Mueller, how are you, Randy? |
| 0:53.5 | Doing good, Coach Sando, trade deadline, a lot of GM moving parts. Love this time of year. Here's what I love. Well, I love and don't love about this time of year. You know, I think once you get a certain number of games, you start to think, you know. You start to have a feel. And man, we... You got slapped around last week, didn't we? |
| 1:11.2 | All of us. I got obliterated in the picks, you know, last week. |
| 1:13.7 | But that's one of the things we love about the league and the games is that it does |
| 1:20.5 | throw you curve balls. |
| 1:21.5 | You know, maybe the truce you think over the course of the whole year hold up at a higher |
| 1:25.6 | rate. |
| 1:26.8 | But, man, just when you think you've got one |
| 1:29.9 | thing or you see one thing, sometimes the games go a different way. And that's interesting |
| 1:36.2 | and challenging sometimes on a week-to-week basis. I think that's the ebb and flow of these |
| 1:42.4 | teams and the league and for GMs, the way they build their teams. I mean, it's a constant battling. I've said it on the show. We're always about three weeks away from a total mutiny. We think we have all the answers, and the next thing we know, we've got fights downstairs, we've got scraps out in the parking lot. We've got all kinds of stuff to deal with. So you just never know. You never know. And the narratives do become real because the owners live them and the coaches |
| 2:05.1 | and the players live them and you're always managing all of this stuff from week to week. It is a |
| 2:09.4 | week to week league. Speaking of week to week, week eight, we are coming off the bills, beating the |
| 2:15.0 | bucks. What were your takeaways off of that, Randy? |
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