Mailbag: Best football timezone, playing for bad coaches, Elway's ideal QB, trading Derek Carr for Russell Wilson & more
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🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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It's almost playoff time, and your emails & voicemails are flowing in. From teams in need of a refresh to playoff worries, the All-Pro himself Mitchell Schwartz is here to shed light on playing in sour situations, what a Derek Carr for Russell Wilson trade could do for the Seahawks and the Raiders, finding some help for Ravens and Broncos fans, which timezone is truly the best for football and more with Robert Mays as week 18 arrives.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.1 | Today is Tuesday, January 4th. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Robert Mays. Joining me today. It's my good friend, Mitchell Schwartz. Mitch, how is Tuesday, January 4th. I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:21.2 | Joining me today. |
| 0:22.4 | It's my good friend, Mitchell Schwartz. |
| 0:23.5 | Mitch, how are you doing, buddy? |
| 0:21.6 | Doing pretty good. It's kind of nuts. It's the last week of the year already. It both feels that way and doesn't. It's also, Nate and I were talking about this last night. it's so strange for it to be January 3rd and for the regular season not be over. |
| 0:38.6 | It's just weird that we to be January 3rd and for the regular season not be over. |
| 0:44.2 | It's just weird that we still have more football to go because always the last week of the year, |
| 0:48.2 | the last weekend of the year to start of January to me is the end of the football season. |
| 0:54.8 | Black Monday is January 1st. That's just how I have it in my mind. And not having it that way this year, it's going to take some getting used to on my end. Yeah, the one I heard was Green Bay shouldn't |
| 1:00.4 | play Rogers until it was like January 22nd or 23rd. I was like, oh my God, after the |
| 1:07.0 | buy, he doesn't play until like the end of January. That was kind of nuts when I heard that specific date. So yeah, it's different this year. It's going to be probably a few years till we recalibrate. I mean, I think all of us still call the Chargers San Diego every now and again. So that stuff usually takes a little while. All right. Guys, as always, thank you so much for sending in all of your mailbag questions. We got a ton of voicemails this week, a lot of emails. Really appreciate everyone that takes the time to do that. Seriously, I know it's a long, long season. We feel it. I know you guys feel it. We're almost to the playoffs. So thank you for continuing your fervor here with the questions and the interests and all of that. |
| 1:45.3 | Kent, let's get to our first voicemail. |
| 1:48.2 | Hey, Rob. |
| 1:50.1 | So I'm sitting here enjoying the win the Tennessee Titans had today, number one seed in the |
| 1:56.5 | AFC Tennessee Titans. |
| 1:59.1 | And I'm hearing a lot of talk about Mike Brable for Coach of the Year. |
| 2:04.0 | And I'm just kind of wondering, what is it about Brable you think that makes him such a good coach? |
| 2:11.8 | Because he doesn't really fit into, you know, the sort of offensive-minded, young, Lafleur, Shanahan, McVeigh, those kind of types. |
| 2:19.9 | He's really more like a dude. |
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