Jets-49ers recap + a game of Is This Real? with Mike Sando: Bengals panic, new NFC South playcallers, the Eagles are back, and more
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Week 1 often leaves us asking this simple question...is this real? Bengals panic after the loss to the Patriots...is this real? The Saints and Buccaneers offenses under new playcallers? Really good! The Falcons offense under a new playcaller? Pretty bad! Is this real? Robert Mays and Mike Sando dig into those situations, and more, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Plus, the guys also recap Jets-49ers and scoop up news items coming out of the weekend.
Rundown
- Jets-49ers recap
- Another suit against Deshaun Watson
- Justin Fields likely to start for the Steelers in Week 2
- Malik Willis to start in place of injured Jordan Love
- Rams injuries
- Is This Real? Bengals panic
- Is This Real? The Saints offense is fun and good
- Is This Real? The Buccaneers offense can light it up
- Is This Real? The Falcons offense looks broekn
- Is This Real? The Eagles offense is back
- Is This Real? No more passing touchdowns
Host: Robert Mays
With: Mike Sando
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 |
| 0:08.5 | Prime Video. I'm Robert Mays, really fun show for you guys today. Mike Sando is going to be |
| 0:13.5 | joining us to do the first episode of our little midweek show that we're going to be doing |
| 0:17.2 | over the course of the season. And we're going to use this space on Wednesdays, just kind of play |
| 0:20.7 | around. We're going to do some bigger picture topics and have season. And we're going to use this space on Wednesdays, just kind of play around. |
| 0:21.1 | We're going to do some bigger picture topics and have some fun guests to come on and do that. We'll talk about news on this show. We're going to be doing a Monday night football recap every single week on this show. So just consider this like a little midweek grab bag where hopefully we can surprise you over the course of the season. today, along with wrapping up Monday night football and the Jets Snyder's game and chatting about some of the news that's come up over the last couple days, we're going to play a little, is this real? Obviously, in week one, it's so difficult to know what actually is something that you can count on moving forward and what is a product of teams jumping on an opponent in week one, a shitty opponent in week one. |
| 0:54.7 | It's hard to sift through and understand |
| 0:57.5 | what we can actually take into the rest of the year |
| 1:00.7 | after the first set of games. |
| 1:02.1 | So Mike and I tried to dig through a little bit of that |
| 1:04.8 | and figure out what's real and what isn't. |
| 1:07.5 | One thing I wanted to mention before we really get rolling here, this year on the weekly |
| 1:14.0 | preview shows, we're going to be doing a segment called the airing of grievances. We want to hear |
| 1:19.3 | from you. If there is something on the week one recap show, or even something that dates back to |
| 1:24.8 | our awards predictions, some of the stuff we set on our division preview shows, |
| 1:29.5 | that you disagree with. |
| 1:31.4 | We would like to hear from you. |
| 1:33.1 | We know that every once in a while, |
| 1:35.9 | the football internet can get a little bit echoy. |
| 1:39.1 | There can be a chorus of the same points |
| 1:40.8 | that come up a little bit too often. |
| 1:42.6 | We want to hear your disagreements with some of that stuff. |
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