Lingering questions, episode 3: The Chiefs' lack of explosiveness, Baker Mayfield's late-20s breakout, and the 49ers' relative slide on offense
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🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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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?
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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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| 0:37.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:38.9 | Our lingering questions series rolls on. |
| 0:42.1 | We did the first two of these before I left on vacation and then had to press pause |
| 0:46.6 | because we definitely wanted to revisit them when we had a little bit more time. |
| 0:50.1 | If you haven't listened to the first two editions of this, the premise is pretty simple. |
| 0:58.1 | There are stuff that happens in the regular season that we just don't have time to talk about, |
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| 1:06.9 | when you're talking about the Chiefs after the Super Bowl is over that night from the stadium, |
| 1:11.8 | you're not really talking about some of the systemic issues the Chiefs offense had over the course |
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