Free Agency Recap, Day 5: Packers trade Davante Adams to Raiders, Baker Mayfield requests trade, Allen Robinson signs with Rams & more
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🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Robert Mays is joined by Mike Sando to break down the latest madness in NFL free agency. They discuss the Packers trade sending Davante Adams to the Raiders. They examine both sides of the move, Adams’ new contract and more. Plus, Baker Mayfield wants out of Cleveland. They talk about what’s next for the Browns at QB. They wrap by assessing the Rams deal for Allen Robinson.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.6 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.0 | Today's Friday, March 18th. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:20.7 | Joining me today, the Athletic Zone, Mike, Friday, March 18th. I'm Robert Mays. Joining me today, |
| 0:21.7 | the athletic zone, Mike, how you doing? I'm doing well. I was just thinking about this new |
| 0:27.2 | NFL that we're in. It is unbelievable. It is really fantasy football now. It's crazy. |
| 0:34.6 | So let's go through kind of what last night felt like because it has been a week. It has been |
| 0:41.0 | unceasing. Every single day has brought something new. It's been fun. It's been exhausting. Like you said, |
| 0:48.0 | I mean, this is a new feeling for how this stuff operates. And when the news came down that the Raiders had traded for Devante Adams, |
| 0:56.2 | it felt fake. It just felt like something that would be drummed up by some fake Adam Schaefter |
| 1:02.7 | account in the midst of everything rather than a trade that would actually happen for a bunch |
| 1:07.9 | of different reasons. But it is very, very real. So I'm curious, when you say that, |
| 1:13.3 | when you say that this is new and it's not normally like this in the league, you have such a |
| 1:19.1 | great sense of the historical precedence that this stuff is comprised of. Why do you think it |
| 1:24.5 | feels different right now? Why do you think this rash of moves and these sort of huge splashes are happening in ways that we're not used to? |
| 1:33.0 | I do think the money is bigger and bigger, which means different things to different teams. |
| 1:38.6 | I think in the case of like the Rams with their big trade of golf. |
| 1:46.2 | The owner's a billionaire now. |
| 1:46.9 | It's not mom and pop. He can eat the golf contract. |
| 1:48.3 | So the rules that used to constrain teams and apply about whether it's dead money or cash, |
| 1:55.7 | you have to be careful. |
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