This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Great show on time for you guys today.

We're going to do a series of shows over the next month or so. Looking back at the 2023 season,

when you're covering the NFL, even the way that we do, it's almost impossible to watch and digest

everything. There are teams you're not going to watch much at the end of the year, whether because

they're bad or they're irrelevant.

So we move into the offseason with assumptions about what these teams were on both sides

of the ball.

And I wanted to spend a little bit of time now that we're into the off season digging into

some of those assumptions.

So what we're going to do is we're going to do eight shows, one per division,

looking at some of the lingering questions we have that weren't answered for one reason or

another by the end of last season.

For example, was Will Levis good last year?

I have no idea.

I don't think anybody does.

So that sort of stuff is what we're going to be digging into

on each of these divisional shows. And here to help me kick that off with the NFC North is my good

friend Bill Barnwell from ESPN. Barnwell, how you doing, Mon? Miss, I love a good lingering question.

So I'm very happy that you brought me on to start off this series. It's so much fascinating stuff to get to. And I feel like you gave me a really fun division. Like usually I get the division where you can't find anyone else to do it. You gave me like a peeking, a peaking, exciting division here. So I'm really hyped. We usually start with the NFC North when we do these exercises.

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