Mailbag with Bill Barnwell and a Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Visit with Greg Auman
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
First up, Robert reunites with former podcast partner, ESPN’s Bill Barnwell, to open up the mailbag and answer listener questions about fixing the Chicago Bears, rebuilding the Jets in five moves, how analytics effect the game, if they’d take Patrick Mahomes or seven non-QB starters, and many more.
Then, in this week’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Visit, The Athletic’s Greg Auman joins the show to discuss the Bucs’ blowout loss to the Saints, the tone around the team now as opposed to what it was like when they were rolling a few weeks ago, Tom Brady, Antonio Brown, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:17.1 | Fun show for you guys today. |
| 0:19.0 | Greg Almond from The Athletic is going to be joining us a little bit later for our team visit to discuss the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. |
| 0:24.8 | But before that, joining me today, my good buddy, Bill Barnwell. |
| 0:29.2 | Bill, how are you? |
| 0:30.1 | Oh, just the tenor of your voice and how you built out to my name is very disconcerting. |
| 0:35.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:36.0 | I don't know if I can live up to that tone, but I will try my best. So for people who don't know, we used to do a podcast together. Literally. Like, I would be sad if nobody knew. Someone to listen to this did not know, but I'm sure it's possible. There might be people. I'm sure there are people out there. Well, I'm not sure, but there might be people out there who are listening to this show and did not listen to our old show. |
| 0:37.7 | But we had old show. |
| 0:57.6 | But we had a show on Grantland back in the day. And as part of that show, we used to do a lot of mailboxes. We thought they were fun. We used to get really good reader questions. So we decided this week, in part because we didn't have any other better ideas, that we were going to do a mailbag. |
| 0:55.5 | So that's what we have done. |
| 0:57.3 | That's true. questions. So we decided this week, in part because we didn't have any other better ideas, |
| 1:11.0 | that we were going to do a mailbag. So that's what we have done. That's true. Uh, yes, I concur with |
| 1:17.9 | all of that. I solicited questions from everybody on Twitter through email. First things first, |
| 1:24.7 | thank you to everyone who sent a question in. They were very good. I got a bunch of |
| 1:28.7 | them. I'm going to try to get to some of them in my email and respond to ones we couldn't get to |
| 1:32.7 | on here because they were so good. I actually got like a little bit emotional reading some of them |
| 1:37.4 | because they were so nice. Like I sincerely just like people being very nice and, you know, they wrote |
| 1:43.3 | notes along with their questions. |
| 1:44.9 | I wasn't getting emotional just at the questions. |
| 1:46.9 | But I really did appreciate everyone engaging and sending them in. |
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