Free Agency Day 3: 49ers & Panthers start spending, the Jaguars get involved, the Cardinals' & Raiders' head-scratching strategies & more with Sheil Kapadia
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🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Catch up on another day of NFL free agency action as Robert Mays and Sheil Kapadia review some of the biggest news as Haason Reddick heads to Carolina, the 49ers break the bank to keep Trent Williams, the Jaguars start spending, and more. Plus, what do the 49ers, Raiders, and Washington Football Team's strategies so far tell us about where the teams are headed?
1 - 8:05 - Hasson Reddick / CAR
8:05 - 11:45 - Trent Williams
11:45 - 18:02 - State of the 49ers
18:02 - 24:09 - Rivera / Washington
24:09 - 34:39 - Jags
3439.22 - 36:32 - Kyle Long
36:32 - 44:17 - Cardinals
44:17 - 51:56 - Raiders
51:56 - 58:34 - Names still out there
58:34 - Sheil’s favorite moves so far
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.3 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Robert Mays, and joining me today, a man who gave the Bears an F for signing Andy |
| 0:23.6 | Dalton and his free agency grades. |
| 0:25.7 | Shia Kappa, how you doing, buddy? |
| 0:27.6 | Well, as I said, my grades are correlated to whether I've eaten recently or not. |
| 0:32.0 | And I haven't eaten recently for this podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | So I'm ready to come out, spit some fire, and just crush some teams here with you. |
| 0:38.4 | It's become just a never-ending kind of stream of information and reactions to that information. |
| 0:43.8 | I tweeted this earlier today. I have, at one point, I had 50 tabs open of different depth charts |
| 0:51.5 | and contract pages and over-the the cap things that I am almost like |
| 0:56.1 | in a fugue state as I wake up in the morning unsure of what's real and what's not as I |
| 1:01.3 | open Twitter and starts scrolling it. So this morning I woke up to the Trent Williams contract. |
| 1:06.2 | I was like, this seems real. This seems like it's actually happening and it's not a dream. |
| 1:10.3 | But there's a lot of stuff that's blurring together at this point. Yeah, absolutely. I do the same thing. Check my phone first thing in the morning. All right, what did I miss during the overnight? And last night it was a huge one with Trent Williams signing that huge deal. So I'm sure we'll get to that and all the rest of the deals that were signed today. So we just had some news come down right before we started recording. |
| 1:30.9 | Hassan Reddick, formerly of the Cardinals, signed a one year base or guaranteed $6 million deal |
| 1:36.2 | with the Panthers up to $8 million. I was really interested in what would happen with him. |
| 1:42.2 | He was in such a unique spot just because it was the one year of sack production. |
| 1:47.9 | Position changed to a certain degree. |
| 1:49.8 | He was utilized more as an edge rusher last year than ever before in Arizona. |
| 1:53.3 | How were teams going to judge that? |
| 1:55.2 | What was his market going to look like? |
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