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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Free Agency Recap, Day 3: Baker Mayfield speaks out, Chandler Jones to Raiders, Ravens sign Za'Darius Smith, Titans to release Julio Jones & more

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Sports, Football, Nfl Draft, Robert Mays, Nfl, Football,

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Free agency continues as the NFL’s new league year is officially underway. Robert Mays and Sheil Kapadia discuss Baker Mayfield’s message to the city of Cleveland as his future with the Browns remains uncertain. They also talk about the Raiders deal for Chandler Jones and their trade for Rock Ya-Sin, sending Yannick Ngakoue to the Colts. Plus, Za'Darius Smith signs with the Ravens and the Titans are set to release Julio Jones. They recap all of that, their favorite moves and much more.


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0:00.0

This is the athletic football show.

0:15.8

Welcome to the athletic football show.

0:18.4

I'm Robert Mays.

0:19.4

Today is Wednesday, March 16th. Joining me today is my good friend, Shookapati. How you doing, buddy? I'm ready to go. I've got you. I've got an iPad here where I'm trying to look at the news. I know Marissa's going to send us updates. I have a feeling something's going to happen during the show, something good, something big.

0:39.2

So I'm ready to have our wild reactions go viral.

0:43.7

So for those of you not watching live as we do this on video, I am at an Airbnb in Louisville, Kentucky,

0:51.0

celebrating my brother's bachelor party for the rest of the week. And I was in the car prepping for this and I was slacking Sheel. I was like, oh man, nothing's really happened yet. And then he's like, it was like such like an L.O.O. You jinxed it. And then the Chandler Jones signing happened. And then the news started to cascade. It's inevitable. It's always going to come in at random times. There's no way to account for this. I don't know how your brain is doing

0:54.5

over, it's a cascade. It's inevitable. It's always going to come in at random times.

1:10.9

There's no way to account for this.

1:12.7

I don't know how your brain is doing over the last three days.

1:16.0

You have graded every single free agency signing for the athletic over the last 72 hours.

1:21.6

How are you feeling?

1:22.6

Are you just mostly putting up top right now?

1:25.4

I've realized I'm kind of like the you know, the NBA where it's like

1:29.4

layups and three-pointers. I feel like that is where I thrive with my analysis. Either I just

1:33.9

need to fire off a take as soon as something happens or I need like a week to do, you know,

1:38.6

all kinds of research and reporting and figure it out. So this is more the, you know, just let it rip. You know,

1:44.9

I did the free agency stuff beforehand. I had thoughts on every player. I have thoughts on every

1:50.4

team. So something gets announced. It's just like the first thing you think of, go ahead,

1:54.8

type out a few paragraphs. I can change my mind later. No one will notice. So it's all good.

2:00.2

So we're going to break down some of the signings that have happened over the past 24 hours. Obviously, news trickling and alluded to the Chandler-Jones signing. There's been some other big names that have been on the move in the last couple hours. We will talk about some of the broader big picture elements of this, some of the signings that you've liked as you've kind of thought

2:18.0

about this in every single way from every single angle. Before we do any of that, though, I want to

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