NFC West preview with Mike Sando - Rams, 49ers, Seahawks & Cardinals
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 3 September 2021
⏱️ 88 minutes
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The Athletic’s Mike Sando joins Robert Mays to discuss a division he knows very well, the NFC West. Can Matthew Stafford lead the Rams back to the Super Bowl? When will we see Trey Lance in San Francisco? Can the Seahawks correct the offense? Will the Cardinals finally find a rhythm? They discuss all of that and much more in their annual preview.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.3 | Today is Friday, September 3rd. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm thrilled to be joined today with my good friend, Mike Sando. |
| 0:25.2 | Mike, how you doing, man? |
| 0:26.5 | I am doing really well and I appreciate to have me on. |
| 0:29.3 | We're a little NFC West talk today right in my wheelhouse, spent five years covering the |
| 0:33.8 | NFC West back in my ESPN days. |
| 0:35.8 | So really thrilled to talk about these teams and catch up with you. We are continuing the division previews today. Like you said, we were going with the NFC West. I can't talk about anyone else with... I can't talk about the NFC West with anyone else, especially at this company. You are indelibly connected to the NFC West in my mind. We've talked about this. |
| 0:54.6 | I was in college when you took that job covering the NFC West for ESPN. And I just remember |
| 1:00.6 | like your face under the NFC West coverage with and Paul Kuharski was one of the other ones. |
| 1:06.9 | And all those other guys like I just that is a, was a very important time in sports writing for me. |
| 1:11.8 | So I cannot do the NFC West podcast with anyone but you. Oh, it's so, so great memories. You know, my Twitter handle used to be, because we got on in the beginning, it was like ESPN underscore NFC West. Don't try that now. But that's how linked to the NFC West was. I mean, if I had any sort of marketing sense, I would have had my name in it, you know, |
| 1:29.8 | which I do now, Sando NFL. But then, yes, that's what I did. I used to chart the personnel for every team in the game. Before we had access to things like true media that would do it, I'd be sitting there putting down, 21 21 for every play of all four teams in the division, sick, I know, but that's how into the NFC West I was. Who are the, Mike, Kevin Seafurt was NFC North, right? Yeah, Seafurt was NFC North. We had Tim Graham on the AFC East. That's right. That's right. On the AFC North, Cahawksky, AFC South, Bill Williamson, AFC West. |
| 2:03.4 | NFC East was my good friend Matt Mosley. |
| 2:06.9 | NFC South was Pat Yosinskis. |
| 2:07.5 | Yes. |
| 2:13.1 | And NFC East was, boy, this is embarrassing. |
| 2:15.6 | NFC. East was Matt Mosley. |
| 2:18.0 | Oh, yeah, Mosley was on NCC. |
| 2:19.1 | I think I already said that. |
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