Monday Mailbag: The best QB who could get traded, changes in Detroit, Travis Hunter's usage, and more
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The mail carrier came knocking and yet again brought us more than our fair share of great questions. Which successful team of the last five years is most realistic for current bottom-feeders to replicate? Are the Steelers still an elite franchise? Why doesn't Sean McDermott get as much respect as Kyle Shanahan? Which quarterback is the best who, in theory, could get traded? Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Michael Beller answer those questions, and a whole lot more, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: 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. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:05.3 | It is another Mailbag Monday here on the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:08.5 | And thank God Michael Bell is back to help us read the questions. |
| 0:11.2 | Just a blanket statement that I say at the top of every single one of these, |
| 0:15.0 | sincerely appreciate everyone who sent questions along. |
| 0:17.9 | We always get so many of them. |
| 0:19.4 | They're always so good. |
| 0:20.4 | I love doing them. Today's was no exception. We have a blast with these and always get so many of them. They're always so good. I love doing them. |
| 0:21.7 | Today's was no exception. |
| 0:22.6 | We have a blast with these, and there were a ton of fun questions. |
| 0:25.9 | So let's get to this week's mailbag with me, Derek Classen, and our producer Michael |
| 0:30.6 | Beller right now. |
| 0:36.6 | It is another mailbag Monday here on the athletic football show. |
| 0:40.4 | I had to read the questions last week, which I didn't enjoy. |
| 0:43.4 | I don't like doing that. |
| 0:44.4 | But thankfully, we have Michael Bell or our producer back in the fold to help us work through |
| 0:49.4 | these. |
| 0:50.0 | We're just better as a trio, Derek. |
| 0:52.1 | I think that that's what we've learned is that I'm just not capable of carrying all of this on my own. It's like when you have an NBA team and you have two good guys, then you add that third piece. And it's just like, oh, this is actually how it should be. That's kind of how I feel about the mailbag progress we've made over the last month or so. And then you have to play some games when they're, you know, sick, injured a little bit. |
| 1:11.4 | And you're like, wait, this actually sucks to do what we were doing beforehand. This isn't as fun. It's going to be, what's going to be fun is a couple of years from now when I'm doing a podcast and we just retroactively decide that Beller wasn't good like they did with Chris Bosch a couple weeks ago where rich Paul was just like you know what like chris bosh actually didn't contribute that |
| 1:11.5 | much to |
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