Monday Mailbag: The Bengals' Tee Higgins decision, benefits of not traveling your corners, a potential cliff for Aaron Rodgers, and more
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🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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The latest installment of The Athletic Football Show mailbag is a doozy. Robert Mays and Nate Tice dish on what they'd do with Tee Higgins if they were Duke Tobin, why it can make sense for elite corners to stick to one side, the possibility that the Aaron Rodgers trade goes deeply wrong for the Jets, and a whole lot more.
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| 0:50.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:50.7 | Joining me today. |
| 0:51.6 | It's my good friend Nate Tyson. |
| 0:52.6 | How you doing, buddy? |
| 0:53.8 | Doing well. Deja vu, double header. I'll just use the same jokes I always do when we. Joining me today. It's my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, buddy? Doing well. |
| 0:54.4 | Deja vu, double header. |
| 0:55.6 | I'll just use the same jokes I always do when we do two of these. But, no, doing very well. I'm realizing, too, like, getting very, very close to your big moment this weekend. And like, every show we do is another step closer to that. So it's kind of, it's, I'm very, very excited for you. |
| 0:52.5 | I think this show is going to come out after. |
| 0:54.5 | So, uh, it's, |
| 0:55.2 | so, uh, it's, |
| 0:55.2 | but. another step closer to that. So it's kind of, it's, I'm very, very excited for you. I think this show is going to come out after. So, uh, it's, far after my wedding, but we're recording it before I get married because we have to play with time a little bit because I'm going to be gone for a couple weeks. But, uh, very exciting stuff on the horizon, both hopefully in my life and on this podcast. We very much appreciate all the questions again. |
| 1:28.3 | Thank you to everyone who sent them in. We have a great time doing these. They're extremely fun. |
| 1:32.9 | And I think they're just a really good exercise to do in the off season. So let's get going. |
| 1:37.3 | Edward Farrar says, hello Robert and Nate, Ed from Reading in the UK here. |
| 1:41.9 | Said as a Bengals fan, I know how stubborn in the front office is. So at draft time, T. Higgins trade was never happening. My question is, with the last cheap years of Burrow incoming and a Jamar Chase extension, a complete certainty, if you were Duke, Tobin decided you couldn't pay two receivers long term, how long would you be willing to not extend Higgins and get him on the tag for his fifth year to go all the way on this window? |
| 2:03.1 | But knowing you'd be getting into a fight with David Muggetta and piss off a very popular player? |
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