Free Agency Day 4: New NFL TV contracts, Mitchell Trubisky to the Bills, Bears moving on from Kyle Fuller & more with Lindsay Jones
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🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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As NFL free agency continues, the league announces new TV contracts through the 2033 season. Robert Mays and Lindsay Jones discuss the streaming age of football before diving into the Bills deal for Mitchell Trubisky. Plus, they weigh in on Kenyan Drake’s contract with the Raiders, the Bears’ decision to move on from Kyle Fuller and Phillip Lindsay’s departure from Denver.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.9 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.4 | Joining me today, my good friend Lindsay Jones. How are you? I am great, Robert. I'm probably doing better than you are because I'm not a fan of the Chicago Bears, so let's go. All right, we're going to get into all of that. So we're not doing a live stream today. It wasn't enough news. It didn't feel like it was warranted. |
| 0:38.6 | We're recording this at 7 p.m. |
| 0:41.1 | Central Time on Thursday night. |
| 0:43.2 | You guys will be listening to it on Friday morning. |
| 0:45.6 | So just the normal disclaimers about signings that might happen, everything else. |
| 0:49.8 | So just to give you a sense of the timeline and the wondrous time travel that goes along with podcast recordings. |
| 0:56.2 | Before we get into anything that happened in free agency today, though, I wanted to talk about the TV deal announcement that happened. |
| 1:02.3 | That's something that you've been following for a little while now. |
| 1:04.8 | We knew it was going to come down at some point relatively soon. |
| 1:08.3 | That day was today. |
| 1:10.2 | What do you think is the most important takeaway |
| 1:12.6 | that people should have about this new media rights deal that the NFL announced? |
| 1:17.2 | So there's two, I think there's two important things. One is this, this deal is going to be worth |
| 1:21.6 | over $100 billion. That's billions with a B. Is that a lot? |
| 1:29.7 | This is a massive amount of money. |
| 1:32.9 | It might even be like $113 billion. |
| 1:37.8 | So, you know, you can do a lot of math and figure out how much money that means for both teams. |
| 1:38.2 | And, you know, we've spent a lot of time here on this podcast and in the virtual page or the digital pages of the athletic over the last |
| 1:46.1 | couple weeks talking about the depressed salary cap and you know the all these teams trying to |
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