NFL free agency winners
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The dust has pretty much settled on the 2023 version of NFL free agency. So...who were the big winners? Robert Mays and Nate Tice highlight their favorite signings, favorite team-wide hauls, favorite zags, and more on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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2:35 Teams getting smarter in FA?
7:40 Favorite signings
28:26 Best team-wide haul
44:54 Favorite flag-planting move
49:30 Favorite zag
57:31 Favorite one-year deal
60:59 Favorite bargain
63:28 Favorite "oh wow, they needed that" move
70:34 Favorite player/team marriage you didn't know you wanted
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:50.8 | Joining me today. |
| 0:51.7 | It's my good friend Nate Tyson. |
| 0:52.7 | How you doing, buddy? |
| 0:53.8 | Doing very well. I'm glad we oriented ourselves with the hat selections. And we have pride with it. We both decide certain days. We're going to wear hats. And then we're like, no, we can't be wearing the same exact thing. Sometimes the Midwest jumps out of both of us at the same time, and today was one of those days. No one could see us as I'm saying this, but I just want to say that me and Robert made a stylistic choice before we started this podcast. We got the same hat on when we started recording. We decided it was completely unacceptable, but that's fine. We've righted the wrongs. We're ready. We're set to go. |
| 1:28.1 | There's only two, one fedora per group. There's only one backwards white hat per group as well. |
| 1:34.3 | All right. We are about a week after the real start of free agency. We're recording this on Tuesday afternoon. Things have died down for the most part. You know, we have a couple other dominoes that I think are still going to fall. |
| 1:46.7 | I'm sure we'll have a couple trades here and there over the next couple months before |
| 1:51.7 | the draft leading up to the draft, maybe during the draft. |
| 1:54.1 | But for the most part, free agency, the big wave of free agency is already over. |
| 1:59.7 | So we're going to do our first kind of reset look back at what free agency looked like today. |
| 2:05.7 | We're going to talk about some of our favorite moves in a bunch of different categories. |
| 2:11.0 | You know, bargains, some flyers, some fits, all of those. |
| 2:15.0 | Before we get into that, though, I wanted to start with kind of a bigger picture |
| 2:18.1 | conversation with you. Do you think that teams on the whole are just getting smarter about the |
| 2:25.8 | way that they approach this time of year? Because when I was looking at all of the science, |
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