NFC West Preview: The Favored 49ers, Seattle Seeks Middle Ground, Rams Ready to Run & Could the Cardinals Make Noise?
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🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Mike Sando is Robert Mays' special guest for this episode as they preview the NFC West division, from their faith in Kyle Shanahan, to what Seattle is doing wrong with Russell Wilson & more. Plus Where does Sean McVay stand right now as a coach, and how should we feel about Kyler Murray?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Robert Mays and joining me today, Mr. Mike Sando. |
| 0:22.9 | Mike, how are you doing? |
| 0:23.9 | It is good to be reunited, friend. |
| 0:26.2 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm excited. |
| 0:27.8 | We're talking NFC West, which is my old stomping grounds. |
| 0:30.3 | And, of course, you and I were sort of together. |
| 0:32.4 | You were at Granlin. |
| 0:33.0 | I was at ESPN. |
| 0:33.9 | So we've been teammates before. |
| 0:35.3 | We have been teammates before. We have been teammates before. We've seen each other around for |
| 0:37.8 | many years. I remember I was writing a Tyron Matthew story at like three in the morning in Miami during |
| 0:42.7 | Super Bowl week this year sitting next to you at the hotel bar. I was telling somebody this the other day. |
| 0:49.0 | I was telling them that I remember in 2007 when they started the divisional reporters at ESPN and you were covering the NFC West. |
| 0:56.6 | I was in college. |
| 0:57.8 | I remember vividly reading you in the newsroom when I was at Missou when you got that job. |
| 1:02.4 | It was you doing the NFC West. |
| 1:04.8 | It was Kevin Sefer doing the NFC North, right? |
| 1:08.0 | It was Pat Yasanakis did the NFC South. Pat Yis. Yisinskis. Yisinskis. Yasanakis did the nfcc had ysinskis yesinskis yesinskis yes yes yes |
| 1:13.8 | Sinskis to the NFC South and then there was one more. Well, we had, oh, in the NFC, |
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