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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Lions and Seahawks put on a show, our first 2025 NFL Draft check-in of the season, and more with Dane Brugler

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

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

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Dane Brugler makes his triumphant return to The Athletic Football Show to start laying groundwork for the 2025 NFL Draft. He and Robert Mays take a big-picture look at the class, and dig deeper into prospects who have caught Dane's eye, including Travis Hunter and Ashton Jeanty. The guys start the show by recapping Seahawks-Lions and Titans-Dolphins, and wrap it up by discussing Malik Nabers, the rookies in the Rams' defensive front and the top-two quarterbacks from the 2024 NFL Draft.

Rundown

  • Titans-Dolphins recap
  • Seahawks-Lions recap
  • Movers on Dane Brugler's 2025 NFL Draft big board
  • Upon Further Review: Jalen Milroe
  • Upon Further Review: Chargers defense and Chiefs offense check-ins
  • The Ball Knower: Malik Nabers is already a top-10 WR
  • The Ball Knower: Jared Verse and Braden Fiske are doing work
  • The Ball Knower: Is Ryan Poles sweating yet?


Host: Robert Mays

With: Dane Brugler

Executive Producer: Michael Beller

Producer: Michael Beller

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Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on Prime Video. I'm Robert Mays. Great show for you guys today. Our old buddy, Dan Bruegler, is here. We're talking a little bit of draft. Obviously, for those of you guys are unfamiliar with Dan's work, he's our draft expert here at the Athletic, covers the space in a way that really no one else does. And it's to have Dane on just to talk about what the 2025 draft is shaping up to be. What is this class overall? What does the quarterback landscape look like? Some weaknesses for certain positions, some strengths. What are teams making of Travis Hunter? Which position is he going to play? Really enjoyed all that draft chatter with Dan. We also recapped both of the Monday night games that we got to watch last night.

1:13.6

Talked a little about where the dolphins are right now,

1:15.7

what we saw from a great Lion Seahawks game.

1:18.3

And then chat about some rookies.

1:19.4

Obviously, those are guys that Dane is paying attention to in year one after studying them as prospects.

1:24.0

So talked about a lot of really good stuff.

1:26.6

Let's get to it.

1:27.3

Thank you. them as prospects. So talked about a lot of really good stuff. Let's get to it.

1:37.7

Joining us now, it is our draft expert here at The Athletic and someone I am thrilled to have back on the show. It's Dan Brugler. Dan, how you doing, man? Good, Robert. How are you? Doing okay.

1:43.3

We're still in Detroit. We did a live event with the Athletic in the New York Times last night. So I'm doing this from a hotel and we'll get back a little bit later tonight. But a fantastic Monday night football game, which we're going to dig into along with a lot of draft chatter. We're letting you put out a couple different hats today. Typically when you're here, it's like all draft talk all the time, but we're going to do a little rookie talk because

2:04.4

obviously you're paying attention to those guys and the people that you were analyzing and

2:08.7

breaking down throughout the entire draft process last year. But we're also going to let you talk

2:12.5

some actual NFL football and talk about both of those Monday night games. So get to spread

2:16.4

your wings a little bit today. I just want to thank you for allowing me to watch that Dolphins Titans game in depth and

2:23.5

just the joy of watching those two quarterbacks. And yeah, a little bit of sarcasm in my voice there.

2:32.1

I deeply sorry for that. It was funny because last night we were at the bar watching Seahawks Lions in Detroit. And so they didn't really have the Dolphins Titans game on many of the TVs. It was hard to pay attention to. And I was telling Derek as we're sitting there, I'm like, I already resent the fact that when I wake up tomorrow morning, I have to rewatch this game. I'm already upset that I have to do it. You're a trooper, man. I don't, if you just won't look at the box score of that, and it's like, okay, I think we can maybe just surface level pass on that. But credit to you, because that's, there's a lot of bad football played in that game. Let's chat about that game first because I do do think that more than just hand-waving it away, I do think there's some stuff to dig into, particularly with the dolphins and where they sit right now. When you look at what's happening with them on offense, I mean, they're one of the worst offenses in football down-to-down and have been essentially since two got hurt. And even they didn't really have a great outing against the Jags in week one when he

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