Mailbag: Justin Tucker's value, Matt Nagy replacements, protecting Mac Jones & more with Charles McDonald
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🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Charles McDonald of For The Win is this week's special guest for our weekly Mailbag. Who are some coaches who could replace Matt Nagy if things continue to go south in Chicago? Is the Steelers offense completely toast? What would the Falcons look like with Joe Burrow? What is Justin Tucker's trade value? All this and more of your emails and voicemails with Robert Mays.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:14.9 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.7 | Today is Tuesday, September 28th. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Robert Mays. Fun show for you guys today. |
| 0:23.5 | Joining me for the wins, Charles McDonald, for this week's Melbaugh, Charles, how you doing, man? |
| 0:28.8 | I'm doing good. You know, we're at three weeks since the season. You know, my Falcons are not |
| 0:33.5 | having much fun, but I, you know, I'm excited for you on you. You have me on the show. |
| 0:38.6 | It's always great to talk to you. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm also in a very bad place with my team, but we're just going to lean into it today. |
| 0:45.0 | Let's get to just the tone that most of today's voice mails took. |
| 0:49.5 | Let's just say that. |
| 0:51.3 | I wasn't a member of the fineie crowd until the game against the Brown. It feels |
| 0:57.8 | functionally impossible to be that stupid of a coach that you wouldn't have any more than two |
| 1:06.6 | six-man protections for a whole game when you know you're up against that |
| 1:11.1 | G-line, when you know you've got a mobile |
| 1:13.1 | lock your quarterback, is he just |
| 1:14.7 | that bad that he can't actually |
| 1:17.7 | scheme like any other coach in the league? |
| 1:21.6 | Even Zach Wilson got |
| 1:22.9 | 160 yards |
| 1:24.3 | last week, and yet we can't. |
| 1:27.9 | It has to be time to fire him, no? |
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