Mailbag: Bills & Steelers concerns, the value of QBs, how to watch film, Baker Mayfield & more with Steven Ruiz
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🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Steven Ruiz of The Ringer joins Robert Mays for the next Mailbag, taking your emails and voicemails coming out of week 4. Bills fans are worries. Steelers fans don't know what to do about Ben Roethlisberger. Browns fans are in limbo about Baker Mayfield. And how does Robert watch the NFL when looking to evaluate? These questions and more on a new Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:14.9 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.4 | Today's Tuesday, October 5th. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:23.0 | Really exciting show for you guys today. |
| 0:26.7 | We're doing another mailbag because we do every single Tuesday. And I am thrilled to welcome the ringers, Stephen Ruiz. That is the first time that I have said that. It sounded good. |
| 0:33.0 | How are you doing, buddy? It sounds good, right? It sounds good. I was the ringers Robert Mays for a long |
| 0:37.1 | time. So I understand how that sounds. And it sounds good, right? It sounds good. I was the ringers Robert Mays for a long time. |
| 0:44.8 | So I understand how that sounds and it sounds good on you. I've enjoyed your work. I was very vocal about you getting that opportunity. I'm very glad that you did. And to no one's surprise, |
| 0:49.8 | you have crushed it thus far. So congratulations. To my surprise. No, no, but I appreciate it. I appreciate the support you've given me over the years. And I'm just trying to, you know, following your footsteps. Oh, shut up. That's, you guys are the football coverage is in a much better place now than it was what I was there, which is a testament to all of you guys. So first things first, thank you to everyone again for sending in your |
| 1:11.3 | questions. Like it truly means something to me that all of you take the time to do this. It's the |
| 1:15.6 | reason that we do it. It's appreciated. It's appreciate it on every level. I feel bad that we can't |
| 1:20.7 | get to more of them, that I can't get to all of them. I wish I could. There are not enough |
| 1:25.0 | hours in the day. But for those that sent them, just know it means a lot to me. |
| 1:29.5 | I want to start with one that I thought was pretty appropriate for you coming on because I've always appreciated the eye you have when you're watching games and the amount of work that you've done to really grow your knowledge about the game. |
| 1:40.3 | Because I get so many questions. |
| 1:42.9 | We get so many questions consistently about how you get better |
| 1:47.6 | at watching football, whether it's the way that you take the game in, what you're watching |
| 1:51.7 | when the game is on the screen, resources for how you learn about the sport outside of the |
| 1:57.7 | podcast you would typically listen to. And I know that you've done a ton of work on this. |
| 2:01.6 | Ben Stecker and Ian Kennedy specifically, I wanted to address their questions. |
| 2:05.9 | Watching football smarter questions. |
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