Monday Mailbag: Head coach trades, the case against Travis Hunter, the most fun trade-up scenarios in the first round, and more
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🗓️ 7 April 2025
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The TAFS mailbag is once again chock full of great questions from all of you out there. This time around, the mail carrier brought us questions on head coach trades, GM job security, the Lions' approach to the regular season, the most fun trade-ups that could happen in this year's draft, and a whole lot more.
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. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.7 | Another mailbag Monday is here. |
| 0:09.3 | Had a couple quick news things off the top. |
| 0:11.2 | They're pretty stale at this point, but we wanted to talk about them. |
| 0:13.5 | We recorded this on Friday. |
| 0:14.9 | Gino Smith and Tray McBride, both getting contract extensions. |
| 0:17.9 | Feels like there's some stuff to dive into with each of those. |
| 0:20.4 | So chatted about that with Derek before Beller joined us to read. contract extensions. Feels like there's some stuff to dive into with each of those. So chat |
| 0:20.9 | about that with Derek before Beller joined us to read a great set of mailbag questions. As always, |
| 0:28.2 | sincerely appreciate you guys sending them in. It's one of the reasons we do this is the quality |
| 0:32.2 | of the questions. So let's get to those right now. |
| 0:42.9 | All right, Derek, it's another mailbag Monday. |
| 0:47.2 | But before we dug you into the questions, I wanted to hit a couple bits of news that came out on Thursday. |
| 0:48.3 | It's going to be several days since this happened when you guys are listening to this. |
| 0:51.8 | But I wanted to respond to it anyway, because I thought |
| 0:55.0 | there was some interesting moments. And I thought it was stuff that was worth at least touching on |
| 0:59.4 | before we got into the mailbag questions. We're recording this on Friday when we typically |
| 1:02.8 | record the mailback. So that is why there's a little bit of a gap here. But we had two bits of |
| 1:07.0 | contract news that came out yesterday afternoon after you, me and Dane finished recording. First off, Trey McBride gets a monster deal from the Arizona Cardinals. Four years, |
| 1:16.1 | $76 million, $43 million guaranteed. Makes him the highest paid tight end in the league. |
| 1:20.8 | By a lot. Tide end market's kind of weird. |
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