NFL final four: lessons learned with Terez Paylor, and an Atlanta Falcons Team Visit with Tori McElhaney
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Robert is joined by Yahoo Sports’ Terez Paylor to review lessons learned from the NFL’s four conference championship teams, and discuss the murky Jared Goff situation in LA, ideal Matthew Stafford destinations, possible Dwayne Haskins landing spots, and much more.
Plus, The Athletic’s Tori McElhaney stops by for an Atlanta Falcons Team Visit to discuss Arthur Smith as the team’s new head coach and Terry Fontenot as the team’s new GM, Matt Ryan’s potential comfort level within Smith’s system, the option to draft their next QB with the fourth overall pick, problems on the defensive side of the ball, and how Dean Pees could change that next season, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:17.8 | Fun show for you guys today. |
| 0:19.3 | Tori McElanee, our Falcons writer, is going to be joining us a little bit later in the show to chat about the direction of the Atlanta Falcons. |
| 0:25.1 | I think they've had a fascinating offseason. |
| 0:26.6 | They're continuing to add to their coaching staff. |
| 0:28.2 | We're going to get into all of that. Before we do that, though, I'm very excited to welcome my buddy, Teres Pailor from Yahoo Sports, and the host, co-host of the Yahoo Sports NFL podcast to the show. |
| 0:26.6 | How you doing, man? |
| 0:27.5 | Robert, my man, what's going on? to res paler from yahoo sports and the host co-host of the yahoo sports NFL podcast to the show how |
| 0:39.4 | you doing man robert my man what's going on not too much it's been too long i wanted to get you on earlier |
| 0:45.2 | than this and i don't know how it didn't happen but it's the week for the super bowl you know the chiefs |
| 0:50.7 | extremely well and i wanted to have you on to talk about a bunch of stuff. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm very glad we can make this happen. Yeah, man. I've always enjoyed doing podcasts with you, man. So, um, you know, look, it's been a, it's been a crazy year for everybody. Okay. So no hard feelings here, but look, I know you love football as much as I do. Like, it just kind of pours out of you like me. |
| 1:12.9 | So, you know, I mean, you already know I'm really excited as someone who loves the game about this Super Bowl. |
| 1:18.3 | And, you know, just to be on the pod with you, somebody who shares that enthusiasm. |
| 1:23.6 | I'm excited. |
| 1:24.4 | So let's do this thing, man. |
| 1:26.0 | So we're going to get into some of the team building lessons from the final four. I think it's worth still looking back now. We've got a long ways until the game, and this is always a useful exercise to me. I've written about it in the past, and I think doing it in the podcast, it won't be great. Before we do that, though, I wanted to talk about some of the quarterback carousel stuff, because it's been in the news and we haven't really discussed it on this show yet. And let's start with Jared Goff. |
| 1:28.4 | We're about... some of the quarterback carousel stuff because it's been in the news and we haven't really discussed it on this show yet. |
| 1:45.0 | And let's start with Jared Goff. |
| 1:47.0 | We're about, I don't know, 90 minutes removed from Les Need having a press conference and |
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