Mailbag: Defining MVP, DeSean Jackson the Raider, a crazy hypothetical, misleading wins, Vikings & more with Nate Tice
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🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Time to open the Athletic Football Show Mailbag as we set our sights on week 10. Nate Tice is this week's guest with Robert Mays as they dig into your voicemails and emails on Mike Zimmer's standing with the Vikings, DeSean Jackson signing with the Las Vegas Raiders, some misleading wins that had us fooled earlier this year, Bengals talk, what "MVP" really means, Justin Fields' development and more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.9 | Today's Tuesday, November 9th. |
| 0:19.9 | Joining me today, it's my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, buddy? Doing well. I, uh, having a weird feeling a deja vu. I feel like I just saw you a couple hours ago. We haven't spoken in like 16 hours. So that's, not as long as we normally go between podcasts, but we wanted to have you on the mailbag. We hadn't done it yet. We've been cycling in and out. Here's the thing that I learned with these. I just want to have people on that I like talking to. That's it. Yeah. Just want to have it be a nice little breezy conversation on Tuesday as we're decompressing a little bit from the weekend. And I don't know if you know this, my friend. You are one of those people who I enjoy talking to. Oh, I'm the ninth |
| 0:55.1 | draft pick. I'm the last one in the lineup. We just made it to week nine and I made the mailbag rotation. So I'm glad. Sando did it twice before I asked you to do it. So I don't know how that makes you feel. But I will just say I'm the pitcher. So that's why I'm batting ninth. And then we'll just go from there. That's a, that's a easy way to cop out of this. We got some good ones today. |
| 0:54.2 | We got a lot of voicemails. As always, guys, thanks for sending these in. If we could do 100 of them, I would. Unfortunately, that's not beneficial for anyone involved here. But I sincerely appreciate everyone taking the time to do this. I've responded to some on email. I will try to respond to others tonight. Sometimes I do that during the Monday night game. Unfortunately, tonight I will be busy during the Monday night game. It's been a strange experience today with the Bears playing on Monday night. I forget. And then every hour or so, I remember that they're playing on Monday night. I was like, oh, shit. By the time you guys listen to this, it could be hilarious or very sad, depending on what happens. |
| 1:50.6 | How about that Bears game, huh? |
| 1:52.5 | That's all we could say. |
| 1:54.5 | We can just pre-record one sentence of happiness. |
| 1:57.7 | You can say the same line, but one's like just upbeat and one's just, you know, in the doldrums. I'm always kind of sad, no matter what happens. So I think that's just where I'm going to sit. I'm just going to sit at kind of sad. It's pretty much my going rate at this point when it comes to my thing. I think you're saying neutral. That was amazing. I know, no one's saying this right now. |
| 2:18.4 | Robert was acting like it's middle ground and he just goes, kind of sad. So his default setting is kind of sad. That's amazing. In more ways than one. All right. Let's get to the voice mess. We got a bunch of them to get through. Nate and Robert. It's Sean from Nashville at Shawnee Pat on Twitter. |
| 2:16.4 | Try to remember the Midge Content Board of Directors with friend of the show. Nate and Robert. It's Sean from Nashville at Shawnee Pat on Twitter. |
| 2:34.8 | Tartre member of the Midge Content, Board of Directors, with a friend of the show, Meena Kimes. |
| 2:39.2 | Just wanted to ask a simple question, who is on the Go Make Stuff Happen, Mount Rushmore, in today's game? |
| 2:44.3 | Nate loves to talk about the Go Make Stuff Happen, usually in reference to Kyler Murray. |
| 2:49.1 | I grew up in Michigan from 1977 and 1991, so I saw the ultimate forebearer of this and Barry Sanders. |
| 2:55.4 | And again, thanks for all you do to make the game so enjoyable for all of us to listen to the show. |
| 2:59.6 | Bye-bye. |
| 3:00.5 | Wow. |
| 3:01.6 | See, sometimes it's nice. |
| 3:03.5 | The tone of the show is often appreciative, sometimes panicky. |
| 3:08.2 | That's pretty much how the Monday calls go, which is a nice little blend. |
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