Mailbag Monday: Worst QB rooms of the past decade, Protector of the Year Award, which low-expectations teams can make the playoffs, and more
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🗓️ 23 June 2025
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Our fine listeners once again did not disappoint when we opened the mail over the weekend. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen tackle questions on evaluating play callers based on the talent at their disposal, the worst QB rooms of the past decade, the new Protector of the Year Award, current players becoming coaches, low-expectations teams that can make the playoffs, and a whole lot 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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| 1:05.8 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 1:07.7 | It's Mailbag Monday here on the Athletic Football Show. |
| 1:10.4 | Sincerely appreciate everyone who took the time to send in questions. So many good ones. This is a fun one. It's a little bit looser. We're getting a little bit deeper into the offseason. We talked a little bit about movies. We talked about fandom. So a lot of fun ones on this show. Really enjoy digging into this with Derek Classen and our producer Michael Bell are reading the questions yet again. So let's get to that conversation with both of those guys |
| 1:31.8 | right now. |
| 1:38.4 | It's another mailback Monday here on the athletic football show. I've had such a blast doing |
| 1:43.6 | these over the course of the |
| 1:44.7 | offseason. We're keeping it rolling today here to help me dig through your mailbag questions. |
| 1:50.6 | A sincere thank you to everyone who sent those in again. We had so many good ones that we could |
| 1:55.3 | not get to them all the same way we pretty much have every single week. It is my producer here at the athletic football |
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