Mailbag: The Baker Mayfield dilemma, QBs in bad situations, when to move on from a coach & more with Mitchell Schwartz
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🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Mitchell Schwartz is here for this week's Mailbag special, answering your voicemails and emails coming out of week 10 with Robert Mays. How should Browns and Colts fans feel about their QB situations with Baker Mayfield and Carson Wentz? When will Seahawks fans know it's time to move on from Pete Carroll? Which players did Mitchell play against with the Chiefs that he dreaded facing? This and much more on a Tuesday Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.9 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.8 | Today is Tuesday, November 16th. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Robert Mays. Joining me today, it's my good friend Mitchell Schwartz. Mitch, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm doing well. We have a little bit of a schedule change here, just laying it out for people. We were looking at how the show was going over the course of the year, and we wanted to kind of give you a little bit more |
| 0:37.8 | real estate. And so over the next few weeks, over the back half of the season, there are going to be some weeks where you're going to be on Tuesdays. Sometimes we're going to do the normal show that we would have on Wednesdays with you. Sometimes we're going to sprinkle in some mailbag questions. and in today's case, |
| 0:35.5 | we're just going to do the entire show as a mailback. |
| 0:38.2 | So I know that could be a're just going to do the entire show as a mailback. |
| 0:55.7 | So I know that could be a little bit, kind of disorienting for some listeners that enjoy the |
| 1:00.1 | routine, but we just thought this was the best way for everyone to get the full experience of what |
| 1:05.1 | we wanted to get them to have on the show. So over the next couple weeks, you're actually |
| 1:08.8 | going to be coming to us on Tuesdays. |
| 1:11.4 | So we certainly appreciate your flexibility because I think that this is going to work out really well. |
| 1:16.4 | No problem. |
| 1:16.9 | All I'm hearing is I'm like six weeks away from taking Nate's roll Sunday night and then I'll be right in there with you. |
| 1:23.4 | No, this will be a lot of fun. |
| 1:25.2 | And I'm enjoying obviously chatting with you and enjoy that people are having fun with it as well. So as always, guys, thank you very much for submitting the questions. Every single week, we have too many to use. I wish I could get to all of them. It's just not realistic. But the reason we do this is because the questions are always so good and so thoughtful. So let's get to them. |
| 1:45.1 | First one here, this is a good one. |
| 1:47.4 | Holden Ziedman says, he saw a tweet about this question and he thought it'd be interesting to hear our takes on it. |
| 1:52.7 | Who is the worst current NFL quarterback who, with a perfect situation, great alliance, |
| 1:57.6 | co-positioned players, running game, coaching, etc., could put up MVP-like numbers. |
| 2:02.1 | For example, think maybe a 2017 Carson Went situation. |
| 2:06.3 | So in your mind, Mitch, who is the worst starting quarterback in the NFL who could win the MVP in the perfect conditions? |
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