Football GM: Takeaways from the 2023 NFL Draft, Jordan Love’s contract, fifth-year option lessons & more
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🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Mike Sando officially welcomes Randy Mueller to The Athletic staff as they examine their top takeaways from the 2023 NFL Draft. They talk about Anthony Richardson, Jalin Hyatt and more before revisiting Randy’s top 10 players and where they were selected. Then, they discuss Jordan Love’s contract extension, the fifth-year option and the Eagles-Cardinals tampering case.
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4:01 Randy’s top draft takeaways
24:50 Revisiting Randy’s top 10 players in draft
40:03 Packers sign Jordan Love to one-year extension
44:12 Fifth-year option lessons
47:06 Eagles & Cardinals settle tampering case
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast and not just any football GM podcast. Mike Sanda here. You heard Randy Mueller, |
| 0:57.4 | the GM laughing there because starting Thursday, May 4th, 2023, and timing up nicely with the end |
| 1:05.6 | of the XFL season of which Randy's been a big part as GM of the Seattle Sea Dragons. |
| 1:12.7 | Randy Mueller joins the staff of the athletic, not just on the football GM podcast, |
| 1:17.7 | but as an analyst in the app, as a writer, welcome. |
| 1:22.8 | I mean, you've hit a new low, Mueller. |
| 1:24.2 | You're now in the media room with me. |
| 1:26.2 | I can just see our listeners right now, their eyes rolling and they're shaking their head |
| 1:30.3 | and saying, what the hell this idiot from some logging town in Idaho is going to write? |
| 1:35.1 | He can't even put two sentences together. |
| 1:37.2 | I'm sure they're going to, hey, I know this, that if they like anything they've heard on the podcast, |
| 1:43.4 | maybe they can get a little |
| 1:45.1 | bit more of it on the journalistic side. And you'll coax me through writing a few things that |
| 1:50.7 | might make some sense to some people anyway. So I'm looking forward to it, Mike. It's been a, |
| 1:55.8 | it's been a journey for you and I. This is our third year, going to start our fourth year of the |
| 2:00.1 | podcast. And to be part of the big show on the other side, I'm honored. I think it'll be cool. And hopefully the people will find my column somewhat interesting. And hopefully they can fire back because I don't want it to be just me preaching. I want to hear what they have to say. And they do, as you know, on Twitter. |
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