In The Pocket: Will Levis takes over, Joe Burrow is back, how teams are using tempo, and more
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Every football fan knows that Joe Burrow is great. But do we all know why he's great? Robert Mays and Chase Daniel dig into that question on this episode of The Athletic Football Show's In The Pocket. The guys also discuss Will Levis taking over in Tennessee, how teams are using tempo this season, and more.
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome to the athletic football show in this edition of In the Pocket. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:52.4 | Joining me today, long time NFL quarterback, |
| 0:55.3 | Chase Daniel. Chase, how you doing? Good, good. We're at the midway point, man. It's crazy. It's wild. Like, I was doing a show the other day and talking about, like, someone brought it up. It's the midway point. I was like, what? It's already the midway point. Like, It's wild because when you're playing, it seems like the days just drag on and the |
| 1:13.7 | weeks drag on because of the monotony of just like you're doing the same thing every Tuesday |
| 1:17.8 | same thing every Wednesday same thing every Thursday and then so when you're playing it feels a lot |
| 1:22.6 | longer but when you're not playing and newly retired and on the show, it's like, oh, like, |
| 1:27.6 | it's already, it's already been through nine weeks. |
| 1:30.0 | Like, it's, it's completely different. |
| 1:31.5 | So my mind, my mind's crazy. |
| 1:33.1 | I played in a charity golf tournament on Monday. |
| 1:37.0 | And I just felt like, for whatever reason, the first time I felt like, I need to be doing |
| 1:43.0 | something else and having fun. Like, I feel like I need to be preparing for a game time I felt like I need to be doing something else and having fun. |
| 1:44.7 | Like I feel like I need to be preparing for a game or I feel like I need to be studying film. And then it's like, well, no, no, step back. Like you've done it enough. Like you can do it. So like I think that was just like a big reckoning for me like, hey, hey, it's good. Just relax a little bit. For me, the first quarter of the season |
| 2:02.7 | felt like it happened very fast, but when you get four games in, you still don't make any |
| 2:07.4 | definitive statements. It's still such a small sample. And so that felt like it went a long time. |
| 2:12.9 | We're like, ah, it's only four games. And then to me, it felt instantly like we were at the |
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