Host of 'The Athletic Football Show' Robert Mays joins Andy the day before NFL kickoff
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Andy is joined by special guest Robert Mays, host of The Athletic Football Show, to preview the NFL season! The guys cover major NFL storylines including Trevor Lawrence, Urban Meyer, and the new-look Jacksonville Jaguars; Mac Jones piloting the Patriots, and Justin Herbert's second season running the show in Los Angeles, among other topics. What qualities does Robert believe all great coaches have? What about quarterbacks? Is this the Golden Age of Quarterbacks? Why have coaches simplified offenses, and how are defenses devising their schemes around one player?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show crossover edition. |
| 0:12.9 | It's a home and home. |
| 0:14.2 | I'm getting the return game. |
| 0:16.1 | I went on Robert Mays podcast, the athletic football show a few weeks ago. |
| 0:19.4 | Now he comes back because this is |
| 0:22.5 | the big week for him. It was the big week for me last week, college football starting. Now it's |
| 0:28.7 | the big week for him with the NFL kicking off on Thursday night with the bucks and the cowboys. |
| 0:33.9 | And I feel like we should just be complete football fans here. |
| 0:37.6 | We all love the sport. |
| 0:39.1 | The crossover is huge. |
| 0:40.2 | I guarantee most of you who are watching games all day Saturday are also going to be watching games all day Sunday. |
| 0:45.4 | So there's no reason we can't talk a little NFL on this podcast. |
| 0:49.7 | Plus, I've been covering a little team in Jacksonville with a little coach named Urban Meyer and a quarterback with fabulous hair. |
| 0:55.8 | So there will be some crossover between the pros and college. |
| 1:01.8 | So Robert, welcome. |
| 1:03.8 | And how excited are you to finally get this thing off the ground? |
| 1:08.0 | I'm very excited. |
| 1:08.9 | You mentioned that the game is on Thursday. |
| 1:12.0 | That feels like it's 20 miles away right now. I can't even see Thursday right now with everything that we have stacked |
| 1:18.3 | up over the next week here on the athletic football show, the stuff I'm writing for the athletic. |
| 1:22.6 | It's really fun. It's a fun time. It always gets to be a hectic time in the two weeks before the season starts. But then you get to the finish line and then the real work starts. So that's always good. You get there and it's like, oh yeah, now the season actually gets going, which is always a fun feeling. Well, and it's interesting with the NFL because college football, there is that excitement to start the season. Everybody has the hope built up. |
| 1:45.8 | But in reality, there's maybe four or five, six teams that could win the national title. |
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