Mailbag: Coaches helping QBs, trading for coordinators, confused about the Patriots & more with Ted Nguyen
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🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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The Athletic's Ted Nguyen, @FB_FilmAnalysis on Twitter, joins Robert Mays for this week's Mailbag as they dive into your voicemails and emails coming out of week 5. Which current head coaches are HELPING their QBs the most? How should Bengals fans feel after the OT loss to the Packers? If you could trade for coordinators, what would your first move be? And more! Send your questions or CALL each week at 872-222-7073 / athleticfootballshow at gmail dot com.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.9 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.5 | Today's Wednesday, October 13th. It's our mailbag day, and I'm very excited to welcome my good friend, Ted Nguyen. Ted, how you doing, buddy? Good, good. Week 5 and some crazy games ahead, so excited to answer these questions. We got some good ones. As always, guys, I appreciate you sending these in. I appreciate everyone who called in. |
| 0:37.6 | I appreciate everyone who sent an email. |
| 0:39.7 | We try to get to as many of these as we can. We don't want the show us to be four hours long. But I just want you to know every single week. I know I always say this, but I genuinely appreciate you guys taking the time to do this. It means a lot. It's the reason that we do it because of the quality of the questions. |
| 0:36.5 | And your guys' engagement truly is something that I appreciate and I'm grateful for. |
| 0:40.6 | So thank you again. It's the reason that we do it because of the quality of the questions. And your guys' engagement truly is something that I appreciate and I'm grateful for. |
| 0:57.2 | So thank you again. |
| 0:58.4 | Let's start with the voicemail this week. |
| 1:00.8 | Kent, cue it up. |
| 1:02.9 | Hi, this is Bryson from Lexington. |
| 1:05.6 | And my question is, which quarterback is most helped by their play caller and which quarterback is most |
| 1:16.8 | disadvantaged by their play caller especially in light of Herbert's amazing performance this |
| 1:26.0 | past Sunday just trying to get a feel for which coach is helping |
| 1:31.6 | their quarterback or hurting their quarterback. |
| 1:35.7 | Appreciate that question from Bryson. |
| 1:37.6 | I always like these questions, just kind of a landscape of the league. |
| 1:40.7 | And I wanted to ask you this, Ted, because you do such a great job kind of digging into the granular aspects of the X's and O's of the league. And I wanted to ask you this, Ted, because you do such a great job kind of digging |
| 1:45.0 | into the granular aspects of the X's and O's of the game. So I really like what Sean McVeigh is doing |
| 1:50.9 | for Stanford. Obviously, Stanford's helping him out too. But just as far as wide open guys, they've |
| 1:56.5 | even left plays on the field where, you know, Stanford might miss by a yard or two or two. So, |
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