NFL Free Agency: the remaining questions & the latest on Deshaun Watson
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🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
First, Robert and Lindsay discuss Deshaun Watson and the sexual assault allegations he’s facing in sixteen civil lawsuits brought against him, what’s happening on the NFL-side of things, and how long it could take for these cases to be resolved, one way or another.
Then, they break down the remaining questions they still have after the first big wave of free agency has crested, including why the Bengals haven’t done much to help protect Joe Burrow, how can the Ravens improve their passing game, where are the Colts going to find an LT and an edge rusher at this point, which team outside the draft’s top five will make a splashy trade to move up and get a QB, if anything about George Paton’s tenure in Denver has been surprising so far, why the Eagles want Joe Flacco to back up Jalen Hurts, if the return of Dak Prescott makes the Cowboys an NFC East contender again, and what Tua’s second year in Miami will look like.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:17.8 | Joining me today. |
| 0:18.8 | My good friend, Lindsay Jones, Lindsay, how are you? |
| 0:20.7 | I'm great, Robert. How are you doing? I'm doing well. We are about a week into free agency. I can never actually understand where the barriers are because I think it technically started on Wednesday, so it's about to be a week. No matter how we describe free agency and when it actually begins and ends, we're about a weekend. |
| 0:39.1 | And I think that this is now a time where we can let those conversations peter out a little bit and start looking forward. |
| 0:44.9 | So what I wanted to do today as kind of our last little free agency wrap up before we get to our draft coverage is ask what big questions we still have now that the first wave |
| 0:56.5 | of free agency is over. Obviously, there are going to be some signings trickling in. We're going |
| 1:01.0 | to have some guys get signed to one-year deal. Some veterans are going to find homes, all of that. |
| 1:05.8 | But the big names are off the board. So I feel like this is going to be a good time to kind of shut |
| 1:10.6 | the door on the conversations we're going to be a good time to kind of shut the door |
| 1:11.1 | on the conversations we're going to have about a free agency and start looking a little bit into |
| 1:15.5 | the future. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think we've learned a lot and you and Nate got into a lot of |
| 1:19.8 | the messaging and what we've learned about these teams. But we have a pretty good idea now, |
| 1:24.6 | what rosters are going to look like. And also what holes are still |
| 1:28.5 | left and what teams might end up doing in the draft. It's almost kind of silly to have those |
| 1:33.0 | draft conversations in early March because so much, you know, so many things about rosters |
| 1:38.0 | change through free agency. But now we have a pretty clear plan of which teams still need |
| 1:42.8 | quarterbacks, which teams are really going |
| 1:44.9 | to be in the market for the best corners. And we're going to get into a lot of that today on the show. |
| 1:49.5 | That's exactly right. I mean, now it's the draft is less theoretical and it's more, okay, |
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