Monday Mailbag: Frankenstein's NFL team owner, the Colts' path at quarterback, Jonathan Gannon's Cardinals, and more
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🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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How does one determine what is or isn't a successful move in free agency? Which teams could surprise us this year by ending up with top-10 play callers on both sides of the ball? How should we feel about the Jonathan Gannon era in Arizona thus far? Those are just three of the questions Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen get into on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Plus, the guys answer an email of the year candidate weighing the pros and cons of potential fictitious owners.
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| 0:34.7 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Robert Mays. It's another Mailbag Monday here on the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:37.7 | It's another Mailbag Monday here on the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:40.6 | We've been rolling with these all offseason, have thoroughly enjoyed doing them. |
| 0:44.3 | Joining me this week yet again, it is my partner, Derek Classen, and our producer, Michael Bauer, who has done an excellent job of reading these things off. |
| 0:52.0 | So let's get to this week's mailbag right now. |
| 1:00.1 | All right. |
| 1:00.7 | It's another mailbag Monday here on the Athletic Football Show. |
| 1:04.6 | As always, I'm joined by my co-host here at the Athletic Football Show and our producer, |
| 1:08.8 | Michael Bauer, who does just a wonderful job |
| 1:11.1 | of reading us the questions. This is a much better setup. I'm glad we landed on it. |
| 1:15.2 | Another great collection of questions today. Very excited to dig into them. Bella, let's get to it. |
| 1:20.6 | I love being complimented for my reading. It feels good. I've been watching that John Ham show. You know, like every time he's not on screen talking, it feels like an ad. And so, you know, it's nice. It's nice to do some voice work in all |
| 1:32.7 | of this. And so let's get into it. Let's do it. Brett Sillard has the first question for us. He says, |
| 1:37.2 | when assessing free agent signings, how do you measure success? Do you place more weight on the process and potential at the time of the signing? |
| 1:47.4 | How do you weigh injury sidelining a player, for example, Jason Verrett? |
| 1:52.0 | And do you wait until the end of the contract to accurately grade the signing? |
| 1:52.9 | What do you got here, Robert? |
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