Keefer (but this week, Robert) and the Beats: The Commanders choose a path, the Giants lose their QB, and the Vikings have a new folk hero
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🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Zak Keefer spent the week in Germany for Chiefs-Dolphins, so Robert Mays takes his chair on this week's episode of Keefer and the Beats. Robert is joined by The Athletic NFL beat writers Ben Standig, Dan Duggan and Alec Lewis to discuss the Commanders finally choosing a path, the huge decisions facing the Giants, and the birth of a folk hero in Minnesota.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome, the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Robert Mays, and this is not Kiefer in the Beats. This is Robert |
| 0:22.3 | Mays takes over Kiefer in the Beats for at least one week. Zach was covering the game between |
| 0:27.2 | the Dolphins and the Chiefs in Frankfurt, so I am stepping in. Really appreciate him giving me the |
| 0:32.6 | chance to do that. Very excited about some of the conversations to be coming on this show. It was an |
| 0:37.3 | eventful day in the NFL, and we're going to dig into, well, not only what happened on Sunday, but some of the longer term perspective that comes with some of those results. Ben Standig, who has not joined us this year, is going to come on and chat about what happened over the last week in Washington. They trade away Montes, sweat, and Chase Young. What does that signal |
| 0:55.0 | for the future of this franchise? What does it signal for the future of Ron Rivera? What sort of |
| 0:59.7 | input does Josh Harris, their new owner, have on what this looks like and why? Very excited to talk to |
| 1:05.3 | Ben. Josh Dobbs had a wild day, a wild week going to Minnesota and then having to take over as their |
| 1:12.7 | starting quarterback yesterday on very short notice, all of even the operational aspects of what |
| 1:18.8 | that offense looked like for the Vikings and their win against Atlanta were fascinating. |
| 1:22.9 | Alec Lewis, our Vikings writer at the Athletic is going to join us to discuss all of that and how it all came together for Josh Dobbs and the Vikings yesterday. |
| 1:31.9 | And then also joining us today, Dan Duggan, who covers the Giants for us and has for several years, it's familiar territory now for Dan. |
| 1:39.0 | What was a playoff team last year is now a team that is greening toward another lost season and potentially |
| 1:45.6 | a top pick in this year's draft. Dan is going to join us to talk about the whiplash that |
| 1:50.6 | has happened with this Giants team over the last year or so, how they've arrived in this |
| 1:54.6 | moment and what the future looks like for a team in New York that is facing down a reality |
| 1:59.9 | they did not expect to see in |
| 2:01.6 | 2023. Let's get to it. It's time now to chat with our Washington correspondent at the |
| 2:07.8 | athletic who covers the Washington football team for us. It's Ben standing. Thank you very much for |
| 2:12.1 | joining us. I love that you're sticking to not calling them by whatever nickname they currently have. |
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