Free Agency Day 1: Patriots make moves, big OL deals & more with Lindsay Jones + the players' side of free agency with Geoff Schwartz
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
It was a busier than expected day 1 of the NFL tampering period. Lindsay Jones joins Robert Mays to react to some of the biggest deals including Joe Thuney to the Chiefs, the Bucs keeping Shaq Barrett, the Patriots making numerous moves and tons more. Then former NFL offensive lineman and current host of 'Geoff Schwartz is Smarter Than You', Geoff Schwartz chats with Robert about his experience from the player's side during free agency.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.0 | Really fun show for you guys. |
| 0:20.4 | A little bit later in the show, |
| 0:21.8 | Jeff Schwartz from Jeff Schwartz is smarter than you. He is on Sirius. He shows up a lot of different places. Former NFL offensive linemen. He's going to talk about what free agency is like for a player who's in demand. He told some really fun stories. Excited for you guys to hear that. Before we do that, though, joining me today. |
| 0:19.4 | It's my good friend Lindsay Jones. |
| 0:20.4 | Lindsay, how are you? |
| 0:21.5 | I'm good. |
| 0:22.3 | Happy almost on stories. Excited for you guys to hear that. Before we do that, though, joining me today. |
| 0:38.3 | It's my good friend, Lindsay Jones. |
| 0:39.4 | Lindsay, how are you? |
| 0:40.4 | I'm good. |
| 0:41.2 | Happy almost New Year, Robert. |
| 0:44.2 | What if we did our real New Year's this way? |
| 0:46.5 | Like, we had two days leading into New Year's. |
| 0:48.7 | I really enjoy the fact that I screw up the free agent calendar every single year. |
| 0:54.6 | We were going to do something on Wednesday because that's when free agency opens. |
| 0:58.3 | I've only covered the NFL for like seven years. |
| 1:00.8 | So by now I should know that all of these deals were going to roll in on Monday. |
| 1:04.6 | So we decided this morning, let's just go with it because it's been a really fun day of NFL news. |
| 1:09.5 | I wanted to kind of add some urgency |
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