Football GM: Sean Payton's headscratchers, the Lions' ascendance, the 49ers' dominance, and more
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Sean Payton has dished out more than his fair share of criticism since taking the Broncos job. Seems like he deserves some himself, too. Mike Sando and Randy Mueller discuss that on this episode of The Athletic Football Show's Football GM. The guys also get into, in order, Zach Wilson, the Packers, the Lions, the 49ers, Jimmy Garoppolo, Bill Belichick, Deshaun Watson's shoulder, the Jaguars' performance in London, and Week 6 picks.
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| 0:48.9 | 2020 season heading into week six. |
| 0:52.3 | We got one game in the books, Kansas City Chiefs 19, Denver |
| 0:57.2 | Broncos 8. My co-host, Randy Mueller, texted me during the game, observed that this was not |
| 1:04.3 | the highest level of football. By the way, that's Randy Mueller, the GM. I am Mike Sando, both from |
| 1:09.9 | the athletic. Hopefully you've beenando, both from The Athletic. |
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| 1:19.9 | But Randy, there's a lot to unpack about not just this game. |
| 1:22.3 | We're not going to dwell on just one game and this, |
| 1:28.0 | but there's some tentacles off of the performance that we're going to get to. |
| 1:32.9 | And it's funny initially, Randy, I'd sort of sketched in some, I was looking a little bit more granularly at, okay, the Denver offense or this or that. |
| 1:37.8 | But we're going to zoom out a little bit, which I think sometimes is when we have some |
| 1:43.7 | of our better conversations. |
| 1:46.9 | Broncos fall to one in five under Sean Payton, despite holding Kansas City to 19 points. |
| 1:53.1 | We could certainly blame Peyton's offense. We could get into just how limited the passing game has become lately. |
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