Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. It is another Mailbag Monday here on the

Athletic Football Show. Me and Derek Classen took your questions, have really been enjoying doing this.

We're not going to have one of these next week because Dane is going to join me for a Combine

Recap, but we've really loved them, and we're going to continue

doing them throughout the offseason. The rest of this week, we're going to be talking to a lot

of our writers from the Combine. I'm getting there a little bit later today. So please be on

the lookout for those over the next few days. But for right now, let's get to the mailback with me

and Derek.

All right, Derek, it is another mailbag Monday.

We are kicking this off for Combine Week.

We're recording this on Sunday, and we will be in Indianapolis all week over the course of the week.

I mentioned in the intro, we're having a lot of our beatwriters on the show this week. So it's going to be good to see everybody, going to be good in the same, could be in the same place. But we didn't want that trip to disrupt what has been a very fun stretch of Melbax that we've gotten to do here at the beginning of the offseason. Yeah, I'm excited to do another one of these.

I mean, these have, I didn't know how we were going to fill out the offseason heading in. So the fact that one, we're going to be doing this every week and two, they've already been as good as they have. Um, going to be a lot busier and a lot more fun of an off season than I was anticipating, which is good. We won't have one next week because Dane is going to join me to do a combine recap a week from today.

But that's really, other than the first day of free agency, which I don't

want to give up too much about that right now, but we've got something pretty fun planned for the

start of that week. So those are really the only two exceptions. Other than that, we will probably

be having them every single Monday for the rest of the offseason. Maybe with draft week is an exception. We might treat the week of the draft or coming out of the draft a little bit differently, but this is going to be a consistent part of what we're doing. I've really enjoyed doing them. A friend of mine was over in my house last night who listens to the show, and he was just like, are you enjoying the mailbox as much as it seems like you're enjoying them? And I was like, yes, that is 100% authentic. That is not a max. I really am enjoying them. So it's fun that even somebody who listens the way that he does was able to notice that. All right, let's dig into this. Caroline Kelly asks, it seems to me the NFL owners who let their front office

GMs do their thing end up with a more successful team.

The owners that are very hands-on, Jerry Jones, Woody Johnson, tend to have bad teams.

Is there a correlation between owners getting out of the damn way and success, or is this

not a pattern and I'm mistaken?

What is you're thinking about this?

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