Mailbag: Taunting rule, Tom Brady vs. Bill Belichick, Frank Reich's value & Thanksgiving food power rankings with Mitchell Schwartz
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🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Super Bowl champ Mitchell Schwartz returns to open this week's Mailbag with Robert Mays as the taunting rule reared it's ugly head again in week 11. Hear a player's perspective on the impact on the game, plus Tom Brady's value vs. Bill Belichick's value, Bills concerns, Justin Fields' development, where Frank Reich ranks in the coaching hierarchy & more before Mitchell and Robert rank their favorite Thanksgiving foods, with a few surprises along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.0 | Today's Tuesday, November 23rd. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Robert Mays. A few quick things to get |
| 0:22.3 | out of the way before we get started today. I wanted to remind you guys, the athletics black |
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| 0:31.9 | for the next 12 months. If you have not subscribed to the athletic yet, I don't know what you're doing. |
| 0:37.1 | This is your best chance to get it. It's the best deal that we do. Please go get your athletic subscription. I'm going to be writing a couple times over the next few weeks as we get toward the end of the season. If that is enough to convince you, please let it happen. If not, there are so many other great writers of the Athletic. I encourage you to go grab a subscription. Just a programming note. We're going to have the mailbag with Mitch today. Tomorrow, Nate and Sheel are going to be joining me for just the Thanksgiving preview. We're going to dig into the three games, do a little bit of a betting guide, try to make what is not that interesting a set of games a little bit more interesting with the ways that you can spend your money. Thursday, Lindsay's going to join me for a special Thanksgiving episode |
| 1:14.9 | and then Friday, normal programming, Friday 5, pick segment. So we're still going to have |
| 1:19.9 | five shows a week coming to you guys if you want to check it out. If you're going to be sitting |
| 1:23.1 | there cooking or waiting for Thanksgiving to start, we will have plenty of stuff for you to listen to. |
| 1:28.5 | For now, though, I'm thrilled to welcome my good friend, Mitchell Schwartz. Mitch, how are you doing, |
| 1:32.7 | buddy? I'm doing good. This is a very good week to be a large person, so I'm excited. |
| 1:38.5 | We're going to get into some food takes later because the things that you and I are on the same wavelength with is football and food. |
| 1:46.6 | You love watches. |
| 1:48.0 | Like that's just an area where I don't have a lot of expertise or interest. |
| 1:51.6 | But football and food, those are the two places where you and I really vibe. |
| 1:55.5 | So we're going to dig into the food takes in this a little bit later in the show. |
| 1:59.6 | All right. |
| 2:00.1 | Well, I'll try not just elevate all over the microphone until then, but I'm getting excited |
| 2:03.6 | thinking about Thursday. |
| 2:05.0 | All right. |
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