Mailbag: QB’s percent of salary cap, Stefon Diggs’ contract, Lamar Jackson extension talks, the Steelers long-term plan & more
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🗓️ 30 March 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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What percentage of cap space should be devoted to the quarterback? Is Stefon Diggs due for a payday? Where are the Steelers headed over the next several years? Robert Mays and Nate Tice answer your mailbag questions. They also discuss Lamar Jackson’s contract, cold-weather stadiums, the value of the center position and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:16.1 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.3 | Today's Wednesday, March 30th. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Robert May mays joining me today |
| 0:21.8 | it's my good friend nate tisnene doing very well i uh was listening to your show with dane uh well |
| 0:28.1 | was i listened to it today but you recorded it yesterday which this will come out tomorrow so |
| 0:33.8 | but he said just to confuse everybody even more but just he was saying it's's the home stretch. And we're like, we're almost there to the draft. And that's kind of how I feel, free agency. You guys, you kind of, how you guys summed it up. It's like free agency, we've taken the deep breath after that first week of free agency, first two weeks. All right, now we're into this official draft season, even though I think everyone's already worn themselves out already. I'm just getting started. |
| 0:37.9 | See, I've got fresh draft legs right now. into this official draft season, even though I think everyone's already worn themselves out already. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm just getting started. See, I've got fresh draft legs right now. I'm feeling pretty good. |
| 0:59.4 | I know I need it. Typically on this feed, you guys would get Dane and Lance on the draft on Wednesdays, |
| 1:04.5 | as Nate alluded to. Dane and I were on Tuesday this week. So if you want to go listen to some draft |
| 1:09.5 | chatter, I talk with |
| 1:11.0 | Dane, kind of an intro, an idiot's guide with me being the idiot to the 2022 class. If you guys |
| 1:16.4 | want to go check that out, I highly recommend it. I think it's a good primer. I needed one. So if you |
| 1:20.7 | also need one, please go listen. We will be back. They will be back next Wednesday. So in their |
| 1:26.6 | spot today, we decided to do an offseason |
| 1:28.8 | mailbag. So much stuff has happened in the last month, two months since we did one of these. |
| 1:34.7 | Wanted to solicit some questions from you guys. As always, sincerely appreciate everyone taking |
| 1:40.3 | the time to do this. We got way more questions than we could possibly answer. |
| 1:42.0 | I tried to answer some of them. I'm going to try to answer some more of them over email. I'm not going to be able to get to all of them. I would love to be able to get to all of them, but you guys sent too many in. Your engagement and thoughtfulness as part of this process is the reason that we do this. So sincerely, thank you to everyone who set one in. We're going to get started with the voicemail. |
| 1:43.0 | Marissa, cue it up. |
| 2:01.8 | Hey, guys. So I've been wondering what is too much to pay a top |
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