This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

That's my good friend Mitchell Schwartz. Mitch, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing good. How are you? I'm doing well. I should intro you in a different way than I intro Nate, considering you're like a multiple time all pro offensive lineman who's won a Super Bowl and he's not. I think you got the right intro. People always talk about that it's soothing to them. People always talk about like five people on Twitter. I've mentioned this over the last five years. I've said it's soothing to them. And that makes me happy because it's literally the only way I can intro the show. I just don't know any other way to do it. And I'm not flexible or talented enough to figure out a different way. So the fact that it works is a big win for me. Yeah, it's like hitting a golf ball or hitting a baseball. Like if you shut your brain off and you just do what's smooth and what feels right, you'll probably have a bit more success. So I think that's the way you've got to start the show. Just get into your element and loose and flowy and see how far you can hit it.

There is nothing smoother flowy about my golf game or my golf.

When I golf, there's nothing smoother, flowy about the experience.

We've tried to golf together but never have just based on schedules and a lot of other stuff.

And you've gotten to escape what it's like to golf with me for four hours because I get

very upset with myself over the course of the entire thing. So we'll get there eventually.

You'll see how much self-loathing goes into that process. All right, we're doing a mailbag today.

It's week 14. It's the middle of December. We haven't done one all a year. Just felt like it was time to grab some questions from you guys and do our best to answer some things that might have been lingering as the seasons kept going here.

And I wanted to start with one that has become particularly relevant after Kyler Murray's injury last night, which I do want to get into here.

So John Tracy asked, with the Russell Wilson trade contract looking worse by the day, and the Ravens dragging their feet on the Mars extension, do you think smart GMs might be less likely to lock up mobile quarterback for long-term deals moving forward? Seems like simple Matt to me. The average running back plays for three years, quarterbacks can play into their mid-40s. Mobile quarterbacks are a hybrid of those two positions, so maybe eight to ten-year extensions aren't a great idea. I think this is, again, particularly relevant after what we just saw happen with Coward Murray. So before we dig into the part of this conversation, just on a general level, what do you think about this and committing long-term financial resources to these quarterbacks who use their legs and inevitably

get hit more than a Tom Brady guys in that mold.

I think there is some merit to it for sure, but the difference is Wilson is on what is

third or fourth contract at this point?

Yeah, his second and third contracts weren't bad.

I mean, the Russell Wilson example is he actually was a very good player for those second

and third deals that he got. Right. So I think where you'd look to see the differences, once they get

maybe into the 29, 30, 31 range, are they still running? I mean, most guys tend to back off

the running a little bit. It's more strategic. I mean, even a guy like Cam Newton, who's just a

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