Mailbag Monday: Contract-year players, best QB + coach upgrades ever, the importance of aging on rosters, and more
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🗓️ 30 June 2025
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Summary
Mailbag Monday rolls on as we get deeper into summer and closer to the start of training camp. Among the questions answered by Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen on this edition...where would Baltimore fall among QB supporting classes in the NFC? Which contract-year players have the widest range of outcomes this season? What are the best single-offseason QB/coach upgrades of all-time? Hear their answers to those questions, and a whole bunch more, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen
With: Michael Beller
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. It's another mailbag Monday here on the athletic football |
| 0:07.5 | show. You guys know the drill. Got a ton of great questions yet again. I say this every single time |
| 0:13.1 | we do one of these. I'm going to continue to say it. I really appreciate how engaged everybody is |
| 0:17.4 | with sending in questions, how thoughtful so many of the questions are. |
| 0:21.0 | It's just one of those small things that I'll just never take for granted. |
| 0:24.4 | Like how engaged and thoughtful and smart and fun our listener base is and your guys' |
| 0:31.8 | ability to contribute to something like this, I think is rare and cool. |
| 0:36.1 | And I just will never tire of acknowledging it and letting you guys know that I have a lot |
| 0:40.8 | of gratitude about it. |
| 0:41.9 | So thank you to everyone who sent stuff in. |
| 0:44.5 | Really enjoyed doing this yet again. |
| 0:46.3 | Let's get to another mailbag with Michael Beller and Derek Classen right now. |
| 1:01.3 | It's another mailbag Monday here on the athletic football show. As always, very excited to dig into your questions with our producer Michael Beller and my co-host, Derek Klesson. |
| 1:06.0 | Bellar, let's just get right into it. No reason to beat around the bush here. We got a lot to get to, |
| 1:09.8 | so I don't want to waste any time before we start digging into the questions. Absolutely not. Let's get to it. |
| 1:15.3 | Blake Burr with the first question for us. He said you guys did the AFC supporting cash show last week. |
| 1:20.6 | So this is a little bit old of an email. And then the NFC won as well. Baltimore, number one in the |
| 1:26.2 | AFC. But do they even crack the top five or six in the NFC? |
| 1:32.6 | What do you guys think? |
| 1:33.3 | Robert, take this one first. |
| 1:35.2 | I think it's important to remember that I was tiering these teams in the NFC before we |
| 1:38.9 | start this conversation, right? |
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