Free agency day one, part one: Jaelan Phillips to the Panthers, Tyler Linderbaum to the Raiders, Alec Pierce stays in Indy, and more
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 176 minutes
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Summary
NFL teams know a thing or two about tampering, and they proved that to us once again with the league's legal tampering window opening up on Monday. On part one of two of The Athletic Football Show's Free Agency Day One Bonanza, Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman welcome to the show a bunch of friends and break down a bunch of signings, including Jaelan Phillips to the Panthers, Tyler Linderbaum to the Raiders and Alec Pierce sticking with the Colts.
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Host: Robert Mays
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. We're bringing you guys the audio versions of our live stream that we did on day one of a free agency. |
| 0:13.8 | I felt like we should just drop this in the feed, give it to you guys in its entirety, our live kind of unfiltered reactions to all the signings that were happening. |
| 0:22.5 | I said at the beginning of the stream and I truly mean it, this is one of my favorite |
| 0:25.3 | days of the entire year on the NFL calendar. It's just a blast. Like you wake up in the |
| 0:29.5 | morning and as soon as the window opens, things start flowing in and it really never stops. |
| 0:34.8 | And so we did this last year where we had a bunch of guests just kind of |
| 0:38.5 | pop on throughout the day to help us sort through our thoughts with all this stuff happening in |
| 0:42.8 | real time. And that's exactly what we did today. We think we had 16 total guests that were hopping |
| 0:48.6 | on for about 15 minutes each with me, Derek and Dave. Derek ran into some travel issues. He was not |
| 0:54.0 | able to join us the whole time today, but was around for about half of the stream, Derek and Dave. Derek ran into some travel issues. He was not able to join us the whole |
| 0:54.8 | time today, but was around for about half of the stream, which was great. You will hear him on this |
| 0:59.5 | part of the show, which is part one. Part two of the stream is going to be on its own separate |
| 1:05.7 | episode in your podcast feed. So as soon as you're done with this one, encourage you guys to go over and listen to Part 2. Obviously, a crazy day, |
| 1:14.3 | tons of massive contracts. The Alec Pierce News kicking us off right before |
| 1:18.0 | a free agency started. We have an insane contract for Tyler Linderbaum. |
| 1:23.1 | The Jalen Phillips deal was another great highlight of the day. We have the Mike Evans contract, so much stuff to dig through today. |
| 1:29.8 | Had a blast doing it with Dave, Derek, and all of our guests. |
| 1:33.4 | Let's get to our day one stream from Free Agency here on the Athletic Football Show. |
| 1:50.2 | I sat down at my office desk this morning in about 8.30, a cup of coffee, |
| 1:51.9 | watching some of the news roll in. |
| 1:54.5 | I think Eric Wilson was like one of the first things I saw. |
| 1:58.2 | And I was just sitting there thinking to myself, this is one of my favorite days of the year. |
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