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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Kirk Cousins to the Falcons, the Eagles' spending spree, Tee Higgins' trade request, and more from day one of NFL free agency

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Sports, Football, Nfl Draft, Robert Mays, Nfl, Football,

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Well that was quite the first day of free agency, huh? Oh, excuse us. It was quite the first day of the tampering period. Kirk Cousins to the Falcons! Saquon Barkley, and lots of others, to the Eagles! Guards and defensive tackles cashing in! Tee Higgins wants out! And a whole lot more. Robert Mays and Nate Tice break it all down on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.

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Welcome to the athletic football show.

0:49.7

I'm Robert Mays.

0:50.6

Join me today.

0:51.4

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

0:52.3

How you doing, buddy?

0:53.5

I'm doing wonderful. We had Tampa Palooza. All the stars came out. We had Les. We had Howie.

1:02.8

We had Trent. All the guys, all the guys came out today. So it was a good day one, raucous day one.

1:09.6

No, so I'm doing wonderful. It's a good, good start to free agency. I'm glad we get to do these live in the heat of it. There's a lot going on. I don't know if I'm just misremembering how it's gone the last couple years when we did this. It seems like there's more happening. And as I said earlier today, a lot going on. I, there's so much happening.

1:28.5

My nerves are so afraid.

1:30.2

And it's partially because I've had, I'm just Ken stuck in my head since like 10 p.m.

1:34.9

last night.

1:35.8

And so there's, there's just a lot happening to my synapses right now with all of the stimuli

1:40.5

from today.

1:41.2

So if I just go off the rails at any point, know that it's because I've been enduring a lot over the last 20 hours or so. How is structuring the notes? That was fine. I don't even know how I managed to do it. Everything was rolling in at different times. So if this feels all over the place, it's because this day has been all over the place. But we are going to start with the biggest domino that we were all waiting to fall.

2:02.7

I mean, this was the discussion at the Combine last week. This was going to be the biggest

2:06.7

kind of moment that happened early in free agency to dictate how the quarterback market will go,

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