Head coach opening rankings, available offensive coordinator gigs, and the NFL's potential scheme to ruin conference championship games with Mike Sando
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🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Which available head coaching job is the best? Could it really be...Houston? Additionally, one-quarter of the league is going to hire a new offensive coordinator in this cycle, and that doesn't include the teams that are also looking for a new head coach. Robert Mays and Mike Sando dig into all that, plus the horrible idea hosting conference championship games at neutral sites, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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2:32 Ranking the head coach openings
22:29 Open OC gigs, starting with the Ravens
35:14 Chargers
44:19 Rams
46:19 Jets
51:42 Lightning round: Patriots, Buccaneers, Titans, Washington
63:02 Save our conference championship games!
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.2 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:51.1 | Join me today. |
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| 0:53.1 | Mike. |
| 0:53.2 | Sandoam Mike. |
| 0:53.7 | How are you doing? Very well, Robert. Good to be here again. Appreciate you doing this. We got a couple more of these left. Yeah. I believe you'll be with us next week after the conference championship games. And then we will pivot to a slightly different schedule for the Super Bowl. I've really enjoyed doing this with you every single Monday. |
| 1:12.6 | I appreciate you taking it on on top of the 10,000 other things that you have to consistently |
| 1:17.9 | do throughout the week. |
| 1:19.6 | You know, it's been good. |
| 1:20.9 | It's good. |
| 1:21.6 | It's fun to do, but it's a good exercise too because we come up with some topics and we |
| 1:25.7 | have to look at it, right? |
| 1:26.7 | You have to sort of do some homework and we have to look at it right we have to sort |
| 1:27.5 | do some homework and we get better doing that and learn to pick up a couple things that I'll |
| 1:33.1 | use the rest of the week in the season so it's good it's fun we're going to do a couple things |
| 1:38.7 | today there are eight I believe offensive coordinator openings that aren't tied to other head coach openings. |
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