NFL news roundup with Lindsay Jones, fantasy draft value hunting with Jake Ciely & Packers camp visit with Matt Schneidman
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Robert and Lindsay kick off the week catching up on NFL headlines, from the battle between Cam Newton and Mac Jones, Jimmy Garoppolo vs. Trey Lance and more. Then Robert welcomes Jake Ciely of The Athletic Fantasy Football Podcast to hunt for some value picks at QB, RB, WR and more. Then Robert catches up with Packers beat writer Matt Schneidman of The Athletic's Head of the Pack podcast to get the latest on the chaos with Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.2 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.5 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:19.3 | Jake Seeley is going to be joining us a little bit later. |
| 0:21.7 | We're going to hunt for some fantasy value. I know that a lot of you are probably having your |
| 0:25.3 | drafts this weekend. So it's a good time to do a little fantasy football download. Really looking |
| 0:31.1 | forward to that conversation. Also, our Packers writer, Matt Schneidman is on the show today. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm trying to keep track of all the team writer |
| 0:37.5 | interviews that we have stacked up from last week. Today is our visit with Matt from last week. |
| 0:42.7 | So very much enjoyed our conversation. I hope you guys will as well. Before we do any of that, |
| 0:46.8 | though, please to welcome a good friend Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, how you doing? I'm great, Robert. |
| 0:53.0 | Made it through two preseason games. |
| 0:54.7 | We're officially at the like, I hate the preseason point of the year. |
| 0:54.0 | But here we are. I'm so ready for real football. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm so ready for real football. |
| 0:55.6 | The problem was I was at my girlfriend's family reunion this weekend. |
| 0:57.1 | And in the regular season, I would easily be able to wiggle out of something like that because I really do have to watch. |
| 1:00.1 | But it's hard to convince them I need to watch preseason games. |
| 1:05.3 | So I was playing a little bit of catch up here over the last 24 hours as to what happened during the preseason. Some notable stuff. There was some notable stuff. But we're also back in this routine where almost all the teams, it seems like, are doing these joint practices. And the joint practices that happened during the week are actually a lot more interesting |
| 1:08.4 | and telling about what's going on with these teams than what we actually see on these preseason games. |
| 1:30.6 | Or those are important for guys who are near the bottom of the roster, guys that are really trying to make the team, |
| 1:37.4 | you know, some situational football kind of stuff. |
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