Monday Mailbag: Rule change proposals, 'can't-miss prospects' that miss, the shifting dynamics of fandom, and more

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

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With free agency fully in the rear-view mirror, we're back to our normal schedule on TAFS. And that means we're back to opening up the mailbag on Mondays! Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig into questions about the recent rule change proposals, why it's hard to find difference-making off-ball linebackers, supposed can't-miss prospects who end up missing, building through the draft vs. making big swings, and a whole lot more. Host: Robert Mays Co-Host: Derrik Klassen 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 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	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. We are back to the mailbags here on the
0:08.8	Athletic Football Show. Very excited to start doing these again on Mondays throughout the offseason.
0:14.7	We're going to be doing them every single week. Pretty much the whole off season is the plan all
0:18.4	the way through the draft. then from you know may first until
0:22.3	we get to training camp really enjoy doing them really enjoy the questions that you guys send along so
0:26.6	we are back with their class and hitting all of the things you guys want to know just a quick reminder
0:32.7	mentioned this last week but worth bringing up again we are now in our offseason cadence on the athletic
0:38.0	football show, four shows a week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. That is what we're going to be
0:42.2	doing all the way through the draft. We'll be having our live draft show again this year.
0:47.5	Very excited about that. Details on that still to come, but we're going to be rolling along with
0:52.3	that. Very excited to do that with Dane and some fun new
0:54.6	guests. So keep that on your radar. But on the podcast side of things, four shows a week all the
0:59.8	way through the off season. And this is the way that we're kicking that off with another bailbag
1:04.2	with me and Derek Klasson. Let's get to it. All right, Derek, we are back with the mailbag routine.
1:14.4	Got off track a little bit in a good way during the free agency period.
1:18.0	There was a lot of stuff that we had to react to.
1:19.9	But as I mentioned earlier last week, we're going to be back in our off-season cadence now moving forward.
1:25.9	And that's going to include a mailbag every single
1:28.1	Monday because I like doing them and they're fun. And you guys do a great job of sending along the
1:32.6	questions. And this was no exception. Very excited about a lot of these. I think it's a really
1:36.2	good mix of stuff. Yeah, I'm glad to be doing the mailbags again. One, just because after,
1:41.6	I mean, the free agency week was fun, right? But it's a slog. It's a lot going on
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