Monday Mailbag: Draft day trade charts, aesthetically pleasing players, rebuilding vs. retooling, and more

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

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Once again, the TAFS mailbag was jam-packed with great questions from all of you out there. On this edition of the mailbag, Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen tackled questions on what a draft day trade chart looks like in a "down" year, prioritizing pass-catchers or pass protection for an elite quarterback, the best way to rebuild a scuffling team, current players who would've thrived in an earlier era, and more. Fill out The Athletic's listener survey. Three people will win $100 in vouchers at Amazon: theathletic.com/athletic/survey25 Host: Robert Mays Co-Host: Derrik Klassen With: Dane Brugler Executive Producer: Michael Beller Producer: Michael Beller Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... Apple Spotify YouTube Follow Robert on Bluesky: @robertmays.bsky.social Follow Derrik on Bluesky: @qbklass.bsky.social Follow Robert on X: @robertmays Follow Derrik on X: @QBKlass Follow Dane on X: @dpbrugler Theme song: Haunted Written by Dylan Slocum, Trevor Dietrich, Ruben Duarte, Kyle McAulay, and Meredith VanWoert / Performed by Spanish Love Songs Courtesy of Pure Noise / By arrangement with Bank Robber Music, LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Robert Vinlo and I'm from New York Times Games and I'm here talking to people about
0:04.0	wordle and the Wordle Archive. Do you all play a wordle?
0:06.0	I play it every day.
0:07.0	Alright, I have something exciting to show you. It's the Wordle Archive.
0:10.0	What?
0:11.0	Oh, okay, that's awesome.
0:13.0	So now you can play every wordle that has ever existed. There's like a thousand puzzles.
0:17.0	What?
0:18.0	Wordle Archive.
0:19.0	Oh, cool. Now you can do yesterday's wordle if you missed it.
0:23.6	Yeah.
0:24.6	New York Times game subscribers can now access the entire Wordle Archive.
0:27.6	Find out more at NYTimes.com slash games.
0:34.6	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. It is another edition of the off-season mailbag.
0:40.2	As always, sincerely appreciate everybody who took the time to send in a question.
0:44.7	Really does mean a lot.
0:46.0	Part of the reason we do this is because the questions are so good, they make us think,
0:49.9	and they're just fun to do.
0:51.0	So Derek, join me to do this week's mailbag as he's going to do all throughout the
0:54.8	off season.
0:55.5	Little wrinkle today, we're going to have Bellar ask us the questions just because I think,
0:59.3	I don't know, it flows a little bit better.
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