Mailbag Monday: A shifting of the QB age cliff, a longer leash for GMs, and a new occupant of the Derek Carr line
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🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Michael Beller went back out to the TAFS mailbox and found another stack of great letters. On this edition of the Mailbag, Robert and Derrik answer questions on the possibility of the QB age cliff shifting (in the wrong direction), whether GMs should get a longer leash before losing their jobs, their ideal—and financially feasible—offensive lines, the new occupant of the Derek Carr Line, and much more.
Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen
With: Michael Beller
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Fancy a fever tree and vodka. |
| 0:03.8 | Yes, vodka, not gin, because this is fever tree Mexican lime soda. |
| 0:10.0 | Yes, soda, not tonic. |
| 0:13.0 | With Mexican lime and Japanese yuzu for a zesty, refreshing lime soda that's just sweet enough. |
| 0:19.6 | Delicious with vodka or on its own. Fever tree, Mexican lime soda that's just sweet enough. Delicious with vodka or on its own. |
| 0:23.1 | Fever Tree Mexican lime soda mix with the best. |
| 0:27.7 | Hmm, now that hits the spot. |
| 0:35.2 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Robert Mays. It's another mailbag Monday here on the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:41.7 | It's another Mailbag Monday here on the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:43.3 | A ton of great questions. |
| 0:45.3 | Really appreciate everyone who sent them in. |
| 0:46.8 | No reason to belabor this. |
| 0:50.4 | Let's get to this conversation with Michael Beller and Derek Klausen right now. |
| 1:00.3 | Southern Mailbag Monday here on the athletic football show, another series of great questions. |
| 1:00.8 | Sincerely appreciate everybody who spends the time to send these in because they're good |
| 1:05.1 | every single time. |
| 1:06.0 | We will never get to all the ones that we want to get to. |
| 1:08.4 | So sincerely appreciate that here to help me work |
| 1:11.4 | through those questions like we always do. It is our co-host here at the athletic football show, |
| 1:16.1 | Derek Classen, and our producer, Michael Beller, whose dulcet tones, you are going to hear |
| 1:20.7 | reading the questions. I'm very glad we've kicked into this version of it, Beller. Make things a lot |
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