Monday Mailbag: Player/team personality fits, Justin Jefferson's unique traits, the outlook for an all-rookie team, and more
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🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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We're digging into the mailbag on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. This time around, Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen tackle questions on how a team made up entirely of rookies would fare in the NFL, how the original Antonio Brown/Raiders trade affected the league, what makes Justin Jefferson so special, and a whole lot more.
Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen
With: Michael Beller
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.7 | Another Mailbag Monday here on the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:10.0 | Our producer Michael Bauer here to ask our questions. |
| 0:13.4 | Derek Classen also join me to run through all of these. |
| 0:16.6 | As always, sincerely appreciate everyone who sent them in. |
| 0:19.5 | We love doing these all the way throughout |
| 0:21.4 | the off season you guys do a great job of making it worthwhile and this week was no exception |
| 0:26.0 | let's get to those questions and those conversations right now it's time for another |
| 0:35.2 | mailbag monday here on the athletic football show. |
| 0:38.8 | I am joined by my co-host, Derek Classen, and our producer, Michael Beller, who has done a fantastic job of reading these questions all offseason. |
| 0:46.2 | Beller, let's get to it. |
| 0:47.2 | What is the first question you got for us on this week's mailbag? |
| 0:51.2 | Okay, here we go. |
| 0:52.3 | Glenn Sheldon writes in. He says, what an offense of Cam Ward, |
| 0:56.6 | Ashton, Jente, Travis Hunter, Colston Loveland, Will Campbell, et cetera, and a defense of Abdul |
| 1:01.0 | Carter, Mason Graham, Jahad Campbell, Travis Hunter again, et cetera, actually be able to compete |
| 1:05.8 | against NFL teams. Could they make the playoffs? Wils the team composed entirely a first round picks or, |
| 1:12.0 | you know, first guy picked at his position would clearly have a higher average level of |
| 1:15.6 | talent than most teams. Do you think their lack of experience at the NFL level would hold |
| 1:18.9 | them back? Overall, assuming an average level of coaching and schedule, how many wins would |
| 1:23.2 | an all rookie team get? What do you got here, Robert? Not many. I think they'd be pretty bad. |
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