Lingering questions, episode 2: Bryce Young's turnaround, the Chargers' talent, the Seahawks' defense's breakout
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
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Summary
Bryce Young put himself on the right track in the second half of last season. The Chargers shortcomings in 2024 owed to a lack of talent. The Seahawks defense is primed for a breakout in 2025. That's all true, right? Right?!? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen answer three more of last season's lingering questions on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:34.8 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:37.8 | Our lingering questions series rolls on today. |
| 0:41.2 | For those of you guys who did not hear the first episode of these, each off season, |
| 0:45.1 | we did this last year too. |
| 0:46.3 | I like just addressing some questions that we didn't have a chance to answer over the course |
| 0:51.2 | of the regular season last year. |
| 0:52.6 | You get distracted by playoff seating, what the postseason is going to look like. |
| 0:56.3 | There are some teams just kind of fall off your radar. |
| 0:58.4 | You can't really do deep studies on them around Christmas as you're trying to figure out what the playoff seedings and playoff picture is going to be. |
| 1:05.1 | So we're going to hit three more of those today. |
| 1:07.4 | How real was Bryce Young's turnaround last year? What can we expect from him moving |
| 1:10.8 | forward? Is the Chargers problem really about talent on offense and defense? Derek and I both |
| 1:17.1 | took one side of the ball unknowingly, which I think is kind of a fun wrinkle to this. And three, |
| 1:22.0 | what is the ceiling for the Seattle Seahawks defense after they looked like a top 10 to top five unit |
| 1:28.9 | in the back half of last year. |
| 1:30.5 | Like, is this going to be potentially the next really, really good defense in the NFL? |
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