Free agency mailbag: New staffs, Tyler Linderbaum's catbird seat, the cap space tipping point, and more
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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We're all free agency, all the time over the next two weeks on The Athletic Football Show. And what better way to kick that off than with your questions? Robert Mays and Dave Helman tackle questions on how new coaching and front office staffs handle free agency, the great spot in which Tyler Linderbaum finds himself, the idea of the importance of cap space as potentially outdated, and a whole lot more on this episode of TAFS.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. I'm Robert Mays. Another mailbag for you guys today. |
| 0:09.1 | Obviously, Monday was filled with our Combined Recap with Dave and Dane breaking down everything |
| 0:13.9 | that happened to Indianapolis. If you have not listened to that, highly encourage you to check it out. |
| 0:18.0 | If you have not started listening to Building the Beast in general, |
| 0:26.5 | now is the time. We're officially in the off-season schedule and we are creeping closer and closer to the draft. So if you have not been listening to our draft coverage with Dave and Day and |
| 0:30.4 | highly encourage you to get on that train now. Today, we're going to be digging into your questions |
| 0:35.1 | about free agency. Appreciate everyone who sent in some thoughts via Discord or the email. |
| 0:41.2 | No Derek today. |
| 0:42.2 | He will be back with us a little bit later in the week. |
| 0:44.9 | Today, it's me, Dave, and Michael Beller digging into your free agent mailbag questions. |
| 0:50.9 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 0:56.4 | So they're off-season |
| 0:57.7 | mailbag here on the athletic football show. |
| 1:01.2 | Melbag Monday just had such a nice ring to it, but it's not Monday |
| 1:03.9 | because we needed to do a combine recap coming out of the weekend, |
| 1:06.8 | which is available in your guys feed right now, |
| 1:10.4 | Dane Bruegler and Dave Hellman breaking down the week and the weekend that was in |
| 1:15.4 | Indianapolis, but we still needed to hit at least one mailbag this week, even as we kick |
| 1:21.5 | off our offseason and free agency coverage. |
| 1:24.5 | And so that's what we're digging into today, David. |
| 1:26.5 | We're hitting your free agency |
| 1:28.0 | questions as we get ready to dive head first into our free agency coverage on the show over the |
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