'Is this anything?' Workshopping our half-baked takes for the 2023 NFL season with David Helman
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🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Speculation is a big part of the fun of following the NFL, especially during training camp. That's the spirit of today's episode of The Athletic Football Show, where Robert Mays and David Helman of Fox Sports trot out a bunch of half-baked (albeit thoughtful!) takes and ask, 'Is this anything?'
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| 0:36.7 | with a quick note for you all before we get going. |
| 0:39.9 | Today's episode was recorded before the injuries to Joe Burrow and Jalen Ramsey. |
| 0:44.1 | In case you haven't heard, and most likely you all have, but just in case you haven't, |
| 0:47.5 | Joe Burrow suffered a calf injury in practice on Thursday. |
| 0:51.0 | Sounds like the Bengals caught a bit of a break here. |
| 0:53.3 | Burrow has a calf strain, according to multiple reports. There's no timetable for his return just yet, but it appears as though he won't miss much, if any time in the regular season. Unfortunately, the news is worse for Ramsey and the Dolphins. The Star Corner was carted off the practice field on Thursday because of a knee injury and will undergo meniscus surgery. Multiple reports indicate he will get a full repair |
| 1:13.0 | of the meniscus and that would keep him out |
| 1:14.8 | until December. Again, today's episode was recorded |
| 1:18.0 | before either injury happened, so please keep that in mind |
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| 1:23.0 | Thanks and enjoy. |
| 1:27.6 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 1:43.8 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 1:44.6 | It's our good friend from Fox Sports. It's David Hellman. David, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing wonderful, Robert. It's a thrill to be back with you, man. Thanks for having me. I always love chatting about this stuff with you. And I wanted to have you on today because we're going to trot out something that I think is pretty fun at this stage of the calendar. This is a time of year where we're doing some prognosticating, some thinking, some looking forward to the season. |
| 2:05.9 | And I want us to workshop some of our lukewarm takes that we have for this year. |
| 2:12.1 | Stuff that maybe we don't really all the way believe, but there's a kernel of something there. What we're tentatively |
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