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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Lingering questions, episode 3: The Chiefs' lack of explosiveness, Baker Mayfield's late-20s breakout, and the 49ers' relative slide on offense

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

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

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We're into June, and we've still got Lingering Questions about the 2024 season that will inform how the coming season goes. On this edition, Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen ask, and attempt to answer, the following...Are explosives ever coming back to the Chiefs offense? Is Baker Mayfield's late-20s breakout for real? How much of the Niners' relative slide on offense was about more than injuries?


Rundown (timestamps are approximate)

5:34 Are explosives ever coming back to the Chiefs offense?

25:50 Is Baker Mayfield's late-20s breakout for real?

44:48 How much of the Niners' relative slide on offense was about more than injuries?


Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen

Executive Producer: Michael Beller

Producer: Michael Beller

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

0:05.6

I'm Robert Mays.

0:06.5

Our lingering questions series rolls on.

0:09.8

We did the first two of these before I left on vacation and then had to press pause

0:14.2

because we definitely wanted to revisit them when we had a little bit more time.

0:17.7

If you haven't listened to the first two editions of this, the premise is pretty

0:21.4

simple. There are stuff that happens in the regular season that we just don't have time to talk about,

0:25.8

right? You're moving on to the playoffs, you're breaking down playoff matchups immediately after the

0:31.3

regular season ends for some of these teams who didn't make the playoffs. And, you know,

0:34.5

when you're talking about the Chiefs after the Super Bowl is over

0:37.6

that night from the stadium, you're not really talking about some of the systemic issues the

0:42.3

chiefs offense had over the course of the entire year. You're talking about what this means

0:46.4

for the Eagles. So we wanted to go back and revisit questions about the Chiefs, the Bucks,

0:51.4

and the Niners, all on offense on this show.

0:54.6

Here to help me do that, it is my co-host at the athletic football show, Derek Klesson.

0:58.5

Let's get to that conversation right now.

1:06.9

We are back with our lingering questions series.

1:10.8

For those of you who missed the first two episodes of this before I went on vacation,

1:14.4

they can see it is pretty simple. There's so much stuff that happens during the regular season that we can't hit,

1:18.8

that we wanted to kind of swing back around and try to answer some questions that we felt didn't get the proper amount of time or energy as we got to the end of the regular season last

1:28.7

year and even into the playoffs. So we're digging into our third iteration of that. We will have a

1:33.3

fourth one next week. We're going to do at least four. We'll see how we're feeling after that

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