Mailbag Monday: Second-tier QBs vs. elite coaches, Trevor Lawrence as Gen-Z Matthew Stafford, Bills/Ravens future, and more
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🗓️ 17 February 2025
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Would you rather have Matt LaFleur or Dak Prescott? Is Trevor Lawrence Gen-Z Matthew Stafford? Would you rather be the Bills or Ravens for the next three years? Those are just three questions that Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen answer in this edition of The Athletic Football Show mailbag.
Rundown
- QB vs. coach value
- The Chargers offseason
- Converting contracts into signing bonuses
- Is power football all the way back?
- The Eagles as a blueprint
- The most entertaining division in the league
- Which QB has your real-life skill set?
- WR vs. OL
- Who should be trading for Myles Garrett?
- Trevor Lawrence as Gen-Z Matthew Stafford
- Are the Bills or Ravens in a better spot?
- A documentary on...?
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:36.2 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:39.3 | It is our first mailbag Monday of the off season. |
| 0:43.1 | With a couple exceptions, free agency week, a couple other, we're going to do a combine |
| 0:47.7 | recap coming out of the combine. |
| 0:49.5 | For example, we're mostly going to be doing mailbags every Monday throughout the offseason. |
| 0:55.0 | And this is the first one. |
| 0:57.1 | Had Derek Kasten joined me to dig through a lot of your guys' questions, I'll probably |
| 1:01.0 | say this every single time we do a mailbag. |
| 1:03.6 | I can't tell you how much I appreciate you guys taking the time to send them in. |
| 1:07.0 | I am hopefully going to respond to a lot of them, the ones I didn't get a chance to yet. |
| 1:11.0 | But the fact that you guys take time out of your day to send in such thoughtful questions |
| 1:15.8 | to kind of push us in directions that we might not go on our own, it just makes for good |
| 1:21.1 | conversation. |
| 1:22.0 | And it wouldn't be possible without you guys. |
| 1:24.5 | So I sincerely appreciate everybody who sent in a question. |
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