How much better are these AFC teams really?
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Teams like the Patriots, Colts and Jaguars have been active in free agency. There's no doubt about that. But how much better are they really? That's exactly the question Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen strive to answer on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Patriots
- Colts
- Jaguars
- Titans
- Jets
- Bills
- Broncos
- Chiefs
- Dolphins
- Raiders
- Texans
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
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. |
| 0:06.9 | Free agency rolls on day four. |
| 0:09.5 | It's been another quiet day in the free agency news cycle, same as yesterday. |
| 0:13.3 | Yesterday we took a second, took a pause to talk about the fan bases who might be freaking |
| 0:17.8 | out a little bit about what their teams have done so far in free agency. |
| 0:21.3 | We're going to do another bigger picture look today at the teams that have spent some money |
| 0:26.7 | and try to figure out if they're actually better off and how much better off they are now |
| 0:31.7 | than they were at the beginning of this week. That's a complicated question sometimes because |
| 0:36.4 | it's not just as is the roster better immediately? |
| 0:38.6 | If you're throwing around a lot of money, you're obviously going to be better immediately, |
| 0:42.3 | but is the overall health of your organization and your team better after the set of moves |
| 0:47.7 | that you made this week? That's the question I tried to answer with Derek Klesson about |
| 0:52.7 | 11 teams in the ASFC. The other five, |
| 0:56.6 | we talked about yesterday. So if you're a fan of one of those teams, please go check out that show. |
| 1:00.5 | But that's what we're doing today. Are you better off now than you were earlier this week for the |
| 1:05.7 | teams that have shelled out money in the AFC? Just a quick programming note, we're going to be doing the NFC version of this show on Monday. We didn't want to record it on Friday and release it over the weekend just because there's so many things that could potentially happen. Who knows what Aaron Rogers is going to do? Who knows what potential trade is hanging out there? So we didn't want to record a show and then wait a couple days to release it. So we're just going to do this on Monday, 11 a.m. |
| 1:30.4 | Eastern on YouTube and then the podcast will go up very shortly after that. |
| 1:35.4 | So if you're looking for the NFC version of it, be on the lookout on that sort of timeline. |
| 1:40.2 | Today, we're doing the AFC with me and Derek. |
| 1:42.8 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:49.1 | Joining me today. |
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