Lessons to take away from this season's Chiefs, 49ers, Ravens and Lions, with Bill Barnwell; Plus, Mike Macdonald to the Seahawks, Dan Quinn to the Commanders, and more from the coaching carousel
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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, right? So how can the other 28 teams imitate the Chiefs, 49ers, Ravens and Lions? And what can we in the media and football-loving world learn from them, too? ESPN's Bill Barnwell joins Robert Mays and Nate Tice to go over those lessons on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Plus, Robert and Nate break down the latest from the coaching cycle, including the Seahawks hiring Mike Macdonald and the Commanders hiring Dan Quinn.
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:50.6 | Joining me today. |
| 0:51.5 | It's my good friend Nate Tyson. |
| 0:52.6 | How you doing, buddy? |
| 0:53.7 | I'm doing very well. |
| 0:54.8 | We're not wearing a hat, which is very weird for me. We're not doing this on video, so you don't have to worry about it because Bartram was joining us a little bit later and he's not going to be in video. I have to get a haircut at this probably the longest since lockdown that I've gone without a haircut. so I can't wear the hat because I have to get the haircut you know I mean so it's got you know |
| 0:54.9 | can't have the hat because I have to get the |
| 1:11.3 | haircut. You know, I mean? So it's got a, you know, I can't have the hat hair going in. I've made |
| 1:15.1 | that mistake before. But I'm doing very well. Excited for Barwell to join us too. |
| 1:19.7 | Always a treat. Always a treat when we get the trio. When I get the beat of poochie to |
| 1:23.0 | itchy and scratchy. It's always fantastic. Bargo is going to come on a little bit later. We're going to do a show that we've done the last couple years that I like doing. Just the lessons we can learn from how the final four teams were built, what their strengths were, some of the bigger picture takeaways from the best teams in the NFL this season. I think it's a really instructive exercise. It's one that I've really come to love over the last couple of years. So he's going to join us for that in a little bit. |
| 1:45.3 | Before we dig into that, though, we've got a lot of coaching news that we have not been |
| 1:49.1 | able to hit in any capacity that deserves hitting. |
| 1:51.9 | We have two head coach hires that have taken place over the last 24 hours or so, starting |
| 1:56.2 | with the Washington football franchise landing on Dan Quinn as their next head coach as they take |
| 2:03.4 | this step into really the next era, turning the page from the Dan Snyder, debacle into the new |
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