Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Fun one for you guys today. A little slow on the news with the free agency over the last day or so. So instead of running through all the signings that have happened over the last day, Derek and I decided that we were going to take a step back and talk about the teams who haven't done much over the first couple of days of free agency.

There are a lot of fan bases who I think are freaking out a little bit, a little bit concerned about their team's approach over the first 48 hours of the free agency period of the tampering period.

So we decided to talk to those fans and discuss whether or not they should

be freaking out, how worried they should be. So we've got nine teams that we are going to hit today

that for one reason or another, there has been some consternation among their fan base. And Derek and I

decided to discuss whether they should be worried or not.

So we're going to do that today with those nine teams.

Let's get to that discussion with Derek Klesson right now.

Joining me today, it's my car.

I'm going to Chris.

Derek, how are you feeling there?

Doing all right. This is the week of slowing down a little bit. Monday was as crazy as it could be. It was an absolute whirlwind. Tuesday, we still got some stuff popping. And Wednesday is giving us the freedom to do a little bit of what we want here. So I think it's going to be a fun one. Every year is a little bit different when it comes to this. You know, there are some years where

there's really a steady stream of stuff every single day. You know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

we've got a bunch of stuff to react to as we do these afternoon recordings to scoop everything up.

This year has not really been like that. There were so many things that happened on Saturday and

Sunday that it felt like most of the news was front-loaded. So there are some signings that have happened over the last day or so. A couple of the bills made that I think are notable. Joey Bosa, Michael Hoyt went to Buffalo. We're going to talk about those moves on tomorrow's show when we're going to discuss the AFC teams that have done some spending. Just try to gauge how much better those teams in the AFC are, and then we're going to do the NFC a little bit later in the week and into next week. What I wanted to reserve today's show for were the fan bases that may be feeling a little bit scared right now, maybe feeling a little bit uneasy about their teams and the way that they've approached free agency.

There's no clean way to do this. Like there's no, oh, you have to have spent this amount and to qualify for this conversation. There are some teams that have made trades. So even though they haven't spent a lot in free agency, you know, they've done enough where we're not really going to talk about them. Washington's a good example of that, right? Washington hasn't spent a ton when you look at just free agent money handed out.

They're actually in the bottom third of the league, but they've made tons of trades. Some of these teams, like the Seattle that we're going to talk about here, they're at the top in terms of spending, but that's because they signed a quarterback in free agency. So this is more about just taking the temperature of some of the fan

bases online over the last few days, a lot of them who haven't spent very much, and just

gauging whether they should be freaking out at this stage now that most of the big names are off

the board, and it still feels like there are a lot of holes left for them to fill. So that's what we're going to do today. We're going to run through these eight or nine teams and try to figure out, should you be freaking out? And if so, why or why not? And I'm excited for it because there's still some decent players out there, obviously for free agency. But most of the heavy hitters are pretty much off of the board now. And so there's

not a whole lot left for these teams to do to really change what their fortunes might be. So this is,

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