NFL Black Monday: Brian Flores, Matt Nagy, Mike Zimmer out & more news with Mike Sando
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Robert Mays and The Athletic’s Mike Sando break down all of the NFL firings on Black Monday. They begin by discussing the Bears’ decision to move on from Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace and the end of Mike Zimmer and Rick Spielman’s tenure in Minnesota. They also talk about the surprise firing of Brian Flores and why the Giants are sticking with Joe Judge. They wrap by examining potential head coach candidates.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.8 | The Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:18.2 | Because like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. |
| 0:20.1 | Get a quote today. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Today is Monday, January 10th. Just so you guys know, |
| 0:28.9 | we're recording this at about 1 p.m. Eastern time on what is normally referred to as Black Monday. |
| 0:35.3 | We didn't want to wait until Tuesday to address some of the moves that have been made. |
| 0:40.5 | Some of the coaches that have been fired, some of the GMs that have been fired. |
| 0:43.3 | We're going to recap everything that has happened in a pretty hectic news day in the NFL. |
| 0:49.0 | And to help me do that, I'm very excited to welcome the athletic zone. |
| 0:52.3 | Mike, how you doing? |
| 0:54.1 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:55.1 | It is always a day where we watch Sunday and we're so into everything and it's all irrelevant like the next morning because we're all on this other stuff. |
| 1:03.5 | So let's get into this. |
| 1:04.9 | It's such a straight. |
| 1:05.8 | I was telling Nate this when we were talking today. |
| 1:08.2 | That show we did last night is such a strange show. |
| 1:15.4 | Because games happen, but the actual particulars of the games don't seem to matter, |
| 1:19.9 | even though they really matter because they determined who made the playoffs and who didn't. |
| 1:23.1 | But after the season ender, after the season finale, it's always such a strange just pile to dig through because of all of the implications and all of the |
| 1:30.5 | wide-ranging consequences that come down from Sunday night. We had plenty of that this morning. |
| 1:36.0 | Let's start in Chicago. Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace are both fired, which is a little bit surprising |
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