Free agency day one, part two: The edge and DB markets fall into place
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 109 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 Odafe Oweh to the Commanders, John Franklin-Myers to the Titans, and Boye Mafe and Bryan Cook to the Bengals and Tua Tagovailoa to the Falcons
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Part two of our day one free agency |
| 0:09.3 | stream, hitting your guys podcast feed, the audio version of the four hour and 45 minute show |
| 0:16.4 | that we recorded yesterday. If you have listened to part one, you've obviously heard my spiel already, |
| 0:22.3 | but a fantastic day one of free agency. |
| 0:24.8 | One of my favorite days in the NFL calendar. |
| 0:27.3 | We had stuff coming in all day. |
| 0:29.3 | You know, we start with the Alec Pearson News going back to Indianapolis. |
| 0:32.8 | We have stuff with the Tyler Linderbaum contract, |
| 0:34.6 | the GA1 Phillips signing, |
| 0:36.0 | and here to help us sort through all of it, |
| 0:38.3 | we had 15 total guests or 16 total guests on our free agency live stream today |
| 0:43.4 | with me, Dave, and Derek, had such a blast. |
| 0:46.4 | So what you're about to listen to is part two of that live stream. |
| 0:51.8 | I don't know when it's going to start. |
| 0:53.0 | Don't ask me which signing will be first, |
| 0:54.9 | but you're listening to the second half of the four and a half hour stream that we did. Hope you guys |
| 1:00.5 | enjoy it. I know we had a blast recording it. Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:08.6 | We've come to a little. Thankfully, it was when we lost all of our guests. I was going to say it feels so empty. With everybody logging off at the same time. So nothing new has come across here. Okay. For the most part, we're just sitting with everything that we've been talking about already. This is a great opportunity then. Allow me to just be the worst version of myself. We should mention John Harbaugh got his guy, Jordan Stout. |
| 1:31.1 | I'm going to go the bathroom. |
| 1:31.9 | Punter deal? Come on. All pro last year. |
| 1:35.9 | No, it's very funny. |
| 1:38.8 | We say that all the time. |
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