Monday Mailbag: Draft day trade charts, aesthetically pleasing players, rebuilding vs. retooling, and more
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🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
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.
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Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.8 | It is another edition of the off-season mailbag. |
| 0:09.7 | As always, sincerely appreciate everybody who took the time to send in a question. |
| 0:14.2 | Really does mean a lot. |
| 0:15.4 | Part of the reason we do this is because the questions are so good, they make us think, |
| 0:19.3 | and they're just fun to do. |
| 0:20.4 | So Derek joined me to do this week's mailbag as he's going to do all throughout the offseason. |
| 0:24.9 | Little wrinkle today, we're going to have Bell or ask us the questions, just because I think, |
| 0:28.7 | I don't know, it flows a little bit better. |
| 0:30.4 | We talked about that at the beginning of the show, along with a few other things. |
| 0:33.7 | Let's just get to it. |
| 0:40.0 | All right, Derek, time for this week's mailbag. |
| 0:42.7 | Doing a little something different this week. |
| 0:45.1 | Beller is going to actually read the questions. |
| 0:47.6 | We figured that might flow a little bit better. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm also not great at reading on a microphone. |
| 0:52.9 | Like, it's a skill that you think I would have honed over |
| 0:55.8 | many years of having to do this. And I'm not nearly as smooth at it as I want to be. So on multiple |
| 1:01.5 | different fronts, I think this is the right way to handle the mailbox moving forward. |
| 1:05.6 | Well, we're not news anchors, you know, where they're like their whole job is to read off |
| 1:09.5 | of a teleprompter. Our whole job is to like off of a teleprompter our whole job is to |
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