This is the Athletic Football Show.

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Today is Tuesday, August 31st. I'm going to start including that

in the intros because we're going to have a lot of shows coming your way, not only this week,

but in the coming weeks. And I'm very excited today to welcome my good friend, Nate Tice. Nate,

how you doing, buddy? I'm doing very well. So this is a year from our first NFC, or our first preview, I should say. I don't want any spoilers. You can give it away. We're doing the NFC North preview today. Of course, we're doing NFC North, which is a, you know, the successor to the NFC Central, which was our childhood in middle school and all that. So this is a division that holds dear to us. Even if I'm not a fan of any of the teams right now, I did have fandom for two of these teams. So this division, the black and blue division is kind of near and dear to my heart. So this is where we started the show in late August of last year. It was me and you previewing the NFC North.

A lot has stayed the same. That's why we're doing this again and starting off with the NFC North

as we roll through these division previews, which is what we're going to be doing here over the

next two weeks. But a lot has also changed over the last year. If you guys saw on Twitter

today, I announced the new schedule that we're

going to have for the 2021 season. So just to run it through very quickly, Sunday nights into Monday

mornings, same deal as last year. Me and you just going deep on nonsense. If you guys want to watch

it live on YouTube, that is going to be an option for you every single week. Come hang out with us on Sunday nights. You're going to be buzzing anyway. You might as well hang out with us because I know you're not going to bed. If you want the podcast version, it'll be available to you on Monday mornings the same way that it always is. Tuesdays, we're going to have a mailbag coming to you guys every single week. We're also going to include a voicemail line that we're going to put out here in the next couple weeks or so you guys can call in. We'll use some of the voicemails on the show. It's just going to be a rotating cast of the athletic friends, let's call them. Sando will be on there. She'll be on there. Well, some of our team writers on there that I know.

So really just trying to have your guys' impact and feedback as part of the show. You do such a good job with the questions every time we do a mailbag. Just made sense to do one every single week. Wednesday, we're going to have a big picture guest similar to what we had last year. kind of think about the shows I did with Barnwell every once in a while.

She's looking at the league and, you know, some awards.

And where is this thing going? That'll be back. But on top of that, we are also going to have a weekly segment with all pro offensive linemen, my friend Mitchell Schwartz, which I'm very excited about Mitch is a buddy. He has been for a while. He's also one of the most,

one of the smartest,

most thoughtful NFL players I've ever gotten the opportunity to talk with.

If you guys follow him on Twitter,

you know that he's not afraid to say some stuff about what's going on,

his thoughts about X's and O's,

...