From Super Bowl or Bust to Mock Draft Enthusiasts, breaking all 32 teams into six tiers; Plus, Davante Adams to the Jets and Amari Cooper to the Bills
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Never a dull moment for the New York Jets, huh? The Athletic's Jets beat reporter Zack Rosenblatt joins Robert Mays on this episode of The Athletic Football Show to break down the tumultuous week in Jets land. Then, David Helman from Fox Sports hops on with Robert to separate all 32 teams into six tiers, from Super Bowl or Bust (think Chiefs, Ravens, Lions) to Mock Draft Enthusiasts (think Panthers, Browns, Patriots).
Rundown
- Davante Adams traded to Jets
- Behind the Robert Saleh firing
- Super Bowl or Bust
- Locked-In Playoff Teams
- Deserving Wild Cards
- Clinging to Playoff Dreams
- BREAKING: Amari Cooper to the Bills!
- Outside Looking In
- Mock Draft Enthusiasts
Host: Robert Mays
With: Zack Rosenblatt and David Helman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:07.1 | Great midweek show for you guys today. |
| 0:09.0 | It's a big week in Jets world. |
| 0:11.5 | We have our fantastic Jets writer from the Athletic Zach Rosenblatt on to walk us through all of the Jets-related news chat a little bit about last night's Monday night football, and just discuss what the Devante Adams trade and all of these moves are actually for. |
| 0:25.0 | After that, welcome my good friend, David Hellman, from the NFL on Fox podcast. |
| 0:30.4 | We're six weeks in, and I feel like we have a decent handle on these teams. |
| 0:34.8 | It's time for team tiers. |
| 0:36.1 | Very simple. |
| 0:37.1 | Nothing crazy about this idea, |
| 0:38.8 | nothing out of the ordinary. We are going to tier every single team in the NFL. We had six |
| 0:44.4 | different categories that we were dropping these teams into. Really enjoyed this conversation |
| 0:48.3 | with David. It felt like it was the right time in the calendar to do a little bit of a check-in |
| 0:52.6 | about the overall landscape of the league. |
| 0:54.9 | So we had some really good discussions about four or five teams in particular that I think |
| 0:58.6 | we saw a little bit differently. |
| 1:00.3 | So excited for you guys to hear that. |
| 1:01.8 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:08.9 | Joining us now, it is our, let's say, busy jet's writer here at the athletic it's |
| 1:14.4 | Zach Rosenblacks like how you do man I'm busy as always it's never a dull moment when you |
| 1:21.1 | cover this team but especially over the last week or so we typically reserve the start of these |
| 1:26.0 | shows to recap Monday night football. |
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