MVP favorites, Washington is Stayin' Alive, rebooting the Steelers & more with Lindsay Jones & Mark Kaboly
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
The Athletic
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🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Lindsay Jones and Steelers writer Mark Kaboly of the Athletic are this week's guests as Robert and Lindsay discuss their current picks for MVP and discuss candidate odds of Tom Brady, Kyler Murray, Aaron Rodgers, Jonathan Taylor, Dak Prescott and more before discussing the Washington Football Team's refusal to exit the playoff conversation, the most intriguing games this weekend and more + Kaboly joins the show for an extended convo on the current state of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Ben Roethlisberger, the draft and all the chaos that Steelers fans are currently experiencing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:18.0 | Today's Thursday, December 2nd. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:22.0 | Great show for you guys today. Mark Aboli, one of our Seeler's writers, The Athletic Football Show. Today's Thursday, December 2nd. I'm Robert Mays. Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:24.8 | Mark Cablelley, one of our Steelers writers at The Athletic. |
| 0:28.0 | It's going to be joining us a little bit later to do a Steelers team visit. |
| 0:31.3 | Check in with a franchise that is in kind of a weird place, man. |
| 0:33.2 | A place that I am not used to them being. |
| 0:55.0 | We dug into the current Steelers, the future Steelers, all of that stuff with Mark. I really hope you guys enjoyed that conversation. Before we do that, though, very excited to welcome my good friend, Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, how you doing? I am great. And I was really excited to talk to Mark, who is playing hurt. He is like the champion of our athletic NFL staff right now, which is another thing that we'll get into when we talk to him in a little bit. |
| 1:00.2 | God, the perils of this job that you just never think about, which I appreciated him powering through. |
| 1:00.9 | It was a good chat. |
| 1:02.0 | All right. |
| 1:02.8 | Here's what we're going to start today. |
| 1:05.7 | I want to talk about who the MVP of the NFL is because it seems like this year, and I may be struck by recency bias here, and this may be |
| 1:14.8 | the true every year, but it feels particularly true this year. |
| 1:17.4 | We are 12 weeks into the season. |
| 1:19.3 | I have no idea who the MVP is. |
| 1:23.1 | There's just so much going on there. |
| 1:25.1 | I want to chew on all of it. |
| 1:26.9 | I want to dig into this at length. |
| 1:29.0 | We talked a couple weeks ago about I thought Dak might have a path to it. |
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