Mailbag: Giants keeping Joe Judge & Daniel Jones, trading Sean Payton, Cowboys’ draft success, active player Hall of Famers & more
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🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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The Super Bowl Champion Mitchell Schwartz returns to the Mailbag portion of the show to dig into some of your best week 16-17 questions, voicemails and emails like what we think of the Giants apparently sticking by Joe Judge and Daniel Jones, what the Jaguars would have to trade to acquire a Sean Payton, the Cowboys' recent draft history, rebooting the Bears and Washington Football Team, which coach-QB relationships are intriguing to think about and more with Robert Mays.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.8 | Today's Tuesday, December 28th. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:20.6 | Joining me today is my good friend, Metro Schwartz. Mitch, how are you doing, 28th I'm Robert Mays joining me today it's my |
| 0:21.8 | good friend metro Schwartz Mitch how you doing buddy I'm doing pretty good how about you I'm doing well |
| 0:26.5 | we're doing another mailbag today coming off of the Christmas weekend were you at home were you in |
| 0:31.4 | Kansas City this weekend no we went down to Miami Key West area we're supposed to be there for a few days and things didn't quite work out. |
| 0:41.1 | So we ended up actually coming back and flying on Christmas morning to get back to Kansas City so we could spend the rest of the day here and with our dog. |
| 0:49.9 | So a little bit of a lot of travel going on, but happy to be back home. |
| 1:44.4 | We were going to go to New Jersey. It's flying on Christmas night to go see my fiance's family, and we did none doing it. And it was nice to be able to just kind of chill out, even though I did miss seeing them, missed out on seeing them. So I think it's been a strange year for everyone. Hopefully, if you guys have been alone throughout the holidays or haven't been able to travel, we've been able to give you guys a little bit of comfort and a little bit of company over this stretch. I really appreciate you guys sending in questions today, as I always do, especially this time of year when everyone's a little bit distracted. People have things going on. They're out of their normal routines. So the fact that we still got a ton of questions means a ton. So thank you guys very much for sending those along. Kent, let's get to our first voicemail here. Hi, Robert. This is Jeff. I'm a life-born giant fan. I remember Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor, winning Super Bowls with Phil Sims and Eli Manning. Even getting to the Super Bowl with Carrie Collins wasn't that bad. |
| 1:48.9 | Now we're announcing that we're keeping Joe Judge and Daniel Joe's for one more season. |
| 1:54.8 | Why now? Why? What has these guys done to make anyone think the things will get better? |
| 2:02.2 | We've gone from beating Tom Brady's Patriots twice in the Super Bowl |
| 2:06.1 | to being the worst franchise in the NFL in 10 years. |
| 2:10.2 | Where do we go from here? |
| 2:12.3 | Awful. |
| 2:13.6 | Thanks for listening. |
| 2:15.1 | Best wishes for a great new year. |
| 2:17.8 | It's a great question. We have not discussed this at all since the report leaked. |
| 2:22.0 | I think it was last week about Joe Judge and Daniel Jones coming back. |
| 2:26.3 | I'm curious what you think about this. |
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