NFC East Preview: Can Cowboys shine, Banged-up Eagles, Judging the Giants & A Reboot in Washington
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🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Three new head coaches and plenty of storylines to follow in the NFC East this season. The Athletic’s Sheil Kapadia sits down with Robert Mays to discuss the Cowboys’ potential under Mike McCarthy, the Eagles’ training camp setbacks, Joe Judge’s tactics with the Giants and a franchise reboot in Washington.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Robert Mays, and joining me today, I could not be more excited about this. |
| 0:24.2 | It's the wonderful, Shil Kapadiyah. |
| 0:26.0 | How are you, buddy? |
| 0:27.0 | Good, good to be here. |
| 0:28.4 | I've been listening to the first couple episodes, and now I'm a part of it, so the bar is said hi. |
| 0:35.1 | I was very excited about having you on. |
| 0:36.8 | Definitely wanted you to be one of the first people. |
| 0:38.8 | And I don't think there's any other choice for us but to do the NFC East. A division that you are |
| 0:43.6 | very familiar with for your time around the Eagles. You're on the Birds with Friends podcast with |
| 0:48.2 | our friends, Zach Berman and Bull Wolf. So this was a necessity. Absolutely. It's a strange division. |
| 0:54.8 | I feel like a couple interesting teams, one not so interesting team and one team that's probably not going to be that good, but it might be the most interesting of all four. |
| 1:03.1 | So we can get into all of those. |
| 1:04.9 | Yeah, I would say that the Giants are not that interesting. |
| 1:07.6 | Washington, for as bad as they're going to be, they are a little bit interesting. |
| 1:11.8 | We'll get into the ins and outs of the non-contenders in this division. But I would like to start |
| 1:16.2 | with what is in my opinion the contender in this division, the team that absolutely is a |
| 1:21.5 | Super Bowl caliber roster, Super Bowl caliber, everything. And that is the Dallas Cowboys. |
| 1:27.2 | The Jason Garrett, the sleepy Jason Garrett era, as I called it in the doc here, is finally over. |
| 1:32.6 | And that was my kind of issue with the Jason Garrett tenure as the Cowboys head coach. |
| 1:37.1 | This is a team with a ton of talent. |
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