Free agency day one recap: Seattle makes over its team, Rams sign Davante Adams, Washington trades for Laremy Tunsil, and more
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🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Geno Smith? Traded! DK Metcalf? Traded! Sam Darnold? Signed! The Seahawks entirely made over their team by the end of day one of free agency, and they weren't alone in completely recalibrating their outlook for 2025. From Davante Adams to the Rams, to Laremy Tunsil to the Commanders, to a defensive spending spree in New England, this offseason's free agency window got off to a roaring start. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen recap it all on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- The Seahawks remake their team
- Laremy Tunsil to the Commanders
- Rams sign Davante Adams
- The Pats go on a spending spree
- A couple of left tackles cash in
- Effects on the draft
- Justin Fields to the Jets
- What all the linebackers staying put could mean
- Favorite fits from Monday's moves
- Surprise signings from Monday
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.2 | I am Robert Mays and I am exhausted. |
| 0:08.7 | It is 6 p.m. Central Time in Chicago. |
| 0:11.1 | We have been talking about free agency in some capacity for about seven and a half hours, me and Derek Klesson. |
| 0:17.9 | This is the podcast version of the five-hour live stream, five-and-a-half-hour |
| 0:22.9 | live stream that we did earlier today. We didn't want to drop a five-and-a-half-hour |
| 0:27.2 | live stream into your guys' podcast feeds. I thought that was bad form and just not something |
| 0:32.3 | that I wanted to do. So what we did after the five and a half hour live stream is we came back and did |
| 0:38.8 | an 80 minute podcast recapping all of the signings that we had already talked about. |
| 0:43.4 | So that is what you guys are listening to right now. We ran through some of the like, |
| 0:48.9 | oh my God, moments from the last couple days, the Gino trade, the D.K. trade, Devante Adams, |
| 0:53.8 | going to the Rams, the Laramie Tunsel trade that none of us could have ever seen coming. Talked about some of the big money teams that threw money around today. Panther spending a bunch, Patriots spending a bunch, that Dan Moore contract, which has gotten tons of oxygen today. Talked about the quarterback moves, the ones that have happened, the ones that are still to happen. Talked about the moves that made sense, even in real time. Like, Can't bind him going to the Colts. That was like, all right, I totally understand that one. Josh Swack going to the Cardinals, totally understand that one. Talked about ones that maybe didn't track quite as well. Ones are a little bit more surprising, some team plans and some individual signings that |
| 1:29.2 | snuck up on us a little bit. |
| 1:31.3 | So that's what we did today with me and Derek. |
| 1:33.4 | We're going to be back over the next few days hitting all of this stuff on individual |
| 1:38.2 | shorter live streams in the afternoon. |
| 1:40.4 | 4 p.m. |
| 1:41.2 | Eastern each of the next three days, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, on the Athletic Football |
| 1:45.3 | Show YouTube channel, we will be live recapping the day's news. Those will be the podcast you hear in your |
| 1:51.9 | feed each of the next few days. So if you want to come join us at 4 p.m. Eastern, any of the next three |
| 1:57.7 | days, please do. We would love to have you. The chat was great on today's live stream, and we would love to keep that going all |
| 2:04.3 | week. |
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