Mailbag: A new team for Lions fans, Eagles needs, rookie QB expectations & more with Mike Sando
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🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Mike Sando, Senior Writer of The Athletic NFL, host of the Football GM here on the Athletic Football Show, and Pro Football Hall of Fame Voter returns to the Mailbag portion of things as we hit week 7 and react to week 6. Lions fans are seeking out a new team to root for, and we might have the perfect answer. Who would you rather manage going forward - the Miami Dolphins or New York Giants? What should we realistically expect from rookie QBs in 2021? These questions and more voicemails and emails from YOU on a new Athletic Football Show with Robert Mays.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:05.3 | The Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:18.5 | The Athletic Football Show. Today is Tuesday, October 19th. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Robert Mays. I'm very excited to welcome today. My good buddy, Mike Sando. Mike, how you doing? I'm doing well. Thank you. I appreciate you doing this. We had such a good time. The first time you did one of the mout bags that I figured we would have you back. If you're up to me, you would just do this every single week, but you're a busy person. So I'm not going to ask you to do that. You also already host the show on this feed for people who do not know. You host the football GM with Randy Mueller on Saturdays. You can find that on the athletic Apple Audio Plus side of things. So please go check that out if you have not already. But we're going to steal you to do this as often as we can, Sando. So unfortunately, you're stuck with me here. I love doing it. I like the visceralness of hearing the voices. It is outstanding. It is great. Because no one does voicemails really anymore. Like if, you know what I mean? If you called me and left a voicemail, I'd just call you back before I even listen to it. You know, that's what everybody does. And we actually get to hear it. There's like something lost there. So I like it. |
| 0:55.2 | I totally agree. As a, the most analog, 34 year old man in |
| 1:16.7 | America, it definitely resonates with me. So this is definitely, it vibes with who I am as a person. |
| 1:22.5 | All right. Speaking of those voicemails, let's get to our first one. |
| 1:27.3 | Hey, Robert. I'm glad to hear you doing it with Sando again this week. My question for you |
| 1:31.6 | is kind of a fun one. If you could take one player and just switch him to another team or |
| 1:38.0 | another scheme, another coordinator, who would you switch and just drop them onto that team? |
| 1:44.1 | I've got kind of a trooper for you that I think you would like, |
| 1:47.4 | taking Chris Godwin and Corey Davis and putting them on the Niners. |
| 1:52.7 | For their blocking and their route running, |
| 1:55.0 | I think they would thrive with Kyle San Annes. |
| 1:57.3 | I love the question. |
| 2:17.9 | That is Nate Tice's fever dream as having those two guys in that type of offense. So I'm glad that we could speak to Nate in that way. I love stuff like this. These are some of my favorite questions than we get. I had a couple that came to mind, but Mike, why don't you go first? Who jumped to the forefront for you here? I just think it would be so fun to put Derek Henry on the bills because it's just such a thing that wouldn't happen. But there's such a passing team and all that. But they have this quarterback who's a lumberjack. I mean, he's just, he's a problem. He's like Cam Newton Light. You know, he's just this huge dude. He can throw it all over. 300 pounds of combined running back and quarterback. Be absolutely ridiculous. Or 500. |
| 2:18.7 | He's just this huge dude. He can throw it all over. Three hundred pounds of combined running back and quarterback. It'd be absolutely ridiculous. Or 500. He's 500 pounds. |
| 2:39.0 | Yeah. Could you imagine him closing out games with Derek Henry or just having just having him as one of their guys on early downs? |
| 2:44.1 | I just, I mean, it would be so unfair, but he's just such a unique player. So you could probably put him on any team, but I just think that team, you know, |
| 2:53.0 | that sort of has it all right now anyway would be hilarious. |
| 2:56.6 | It's funny that you mentioned the bills because I had Terry McCorren and I wanted to put him on the bills. |
| 3:01.5 | I just want to see him with a cannon armed quarterback that can push the ball down the field so we can just see what Terry |
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