Football GM: Difficult GM decisions, Justin Fields’ involvement in Bears draft, checking in on the worst teams from 2022 & more
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🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Before diving into NFL offseason news, Mike Sando and Randy Mueller check in on the NBA playoffs and big decisions facing GMs. Then, they talk about Justin Fields’ involvement in the Bears’ draft and how we feel now about the teams with the worst records in 2022. They wrap with a packed GM Notebook involving the Commanders, the AFC East, the Jaguars in London and more.
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1:13 NBA playoffs & difficult GM decisions
25:34 Ryan Poles involves Justin Fields in Bears draft
31:53 Worst NFL teams in 2022 and how we feel now?
38:27 GM Notebook
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| 1:10.6 | Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast, Mike Sandow here from The Athletic, |
| 1:14.8 | along with the GM, Randy Mueller, also from the athletic. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm still getting used to saying it, still loving it. |
| 1:20.8 | How you doing, Randy? |
| 1:21.9 | I'm doing great, Mike. |
| 1:23.1 | This seems like the first kind of week that the offseason might be upon us, |
| 1:26.9 | so it's kind of a mellow GM notebook this week, a mellow GM podcast. |
| 1:33.2 | Yeah, there's not tons of pressing stuff, but I tell you, the GM notebook has about five items in there. |
| 1:38.1 | There's good stuff in there. I didn't, you know, pull anything out of there separately. We may move it up in the order this week. But it's funny, do you watch much of the NBA? Randy, you've been watching the playoffs at all? I do. I'll tell you, I've always been an NBA guy, even over college basketball. I'll go to a college basketball game occasionally in person, but it doesn't do it for me on TV. But I do love the NBA and have watched it forever. |
| 2:01.6 | Of course, I'm a diehard Seattle Sonic fan, so I'm a little frustrated the last 15 years. |
| 2:06.7 | Oh, I know. But still, I do watch the NBA a lot. I think it's the level that they bring |
| 2:13.2 | athleticism is unbelievable. And for me, no matter the sport, I like to see the best in the world |
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