Jayden Daniels coming-out party, another big night for Josh Allen, concerns for the Bengals defense, and the reasons why offenses have fallen behind with Mitch Schwartz
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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Look, NFL, you can give us as many two-game Monday nights as you want, so long as we get to watch quarterback performances like we saw from Jayden Daniels, Josh Allen and Joe Burrow in Week 3. Mitch Schwartz joins Robert Mays to break down Commanders-Bengals and Jaguars-Bills on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys also add their answers to the question about leaguewide offensive struggles and play a round of The Ball Knower.
Rundown
- Commanders-Bengals recap
- Jaguars-Bills recap
- Why are offenses struggling?
- The Ball Knower
- What Mitch Knows He Knows: Josh Allen is the league's second-best quarterback
- What Mitch Thinks He Knows: The Vikings are for real
- What Mitch Wants to Know: If the run game is back, where are the superstar running backs?
Host: Robert Mays
With: Mitch Schwartz
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on Prime Video. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Robert Mays. Another midweek show for you guys, and a midweek show coming off of a very notable |
| 0:13.4 | collection of Monday night games. Obviously, we had two Monday night games. We're going to talk about |
| 0:17.1 | both of those with our guest, Mitchell Schwartz, today. We'll chat about what Jane Daniels look like, what that means for Washington after a phenomenal performance. What it means for the Bengals defense, which I also think is an important thing to mention after the way they've played over the first few weeks. We dug into the Bill's big win over the Jags. Josh Allen just looking like he's reached a different level. He's playing some exceptional football right now. |
| 0:38.4 | Really enjoyed our discussion about that. And then really, what's going on with the Jags? |
| 0:42.0 | Obviously, the defense was a disaster last night, but a lot of questions about Trevor Lawrence, |
| 0:46.5 | that offense, where they take things from here. After wrapping up the Monday night games, |
| 0:50.9 | we spent a good chunk of this show chatting about why we think offenses are |
| 0:56.3 | struggling right now. This has been something that we've danced around a little bit on this show |
| 0:59.9 | in a bunch of different ways. Derek and I have kind of poked at it as we've talked about certain |
| 1:04.2 | offenses and defenses. But I wanted after the way that this was talked about over the last week or so |
| 1:09.3 | in a bunch of different forums to really dig into this with Mitch. What are the actual root causes for why offense feels |
| 1:16.3 | so hard and why quarterbacks are having as much of an uphill battle as they are right now? |
| 1:21.9 | And then we rounded things out with something we're doing on all these midweek shows, |
| 1:25.8 | just a series of questions about what we think |
| 1:28.1 | we know, what we know we know, and what we want to know. So excited to dig into all that with Mitch. |
| 1:32.8 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:40.0 | Joining us now, tomorrow of our old friends here on the athletic football show. It's Mitchell Schwartz. |
| 1:43.6 | Mitch, how are you doing, man? I'm doing good. You know, two Monday night football games twice as much as we need, but Bill's did a good job of making sure that we got the correct amount. I don't mind the two Monday night games only for this reason. It means there's one fewer game on Sunday. And the fact that we got seven early games and five late games on |
| 2:02.3 | Sunday and you actually got to watch most of what was going on and there weren't three |
| 2:06.6 | games happening under the shroud of darkness at noon, that I actually enjoyed. So if that's |
| 2:13.0 | one of the downstream effects from having two Monday night games, I think I'm okay with it. I just don't want |
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