NFL owners meetings, pressure mounts for Joe Brady & Packers-Cardinals TNF preview with Lindsay Jones + what makes a good head coach with Mitchell Schwartz
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
While the NFL owners meetings are underway in New York, Robert Mays and Lindsay Jones discuss the latest with the WFT investigation as well as the league’s stance on Deshaun Watson. They also discuss what’s at stake for Joe Brady and Sam Darnold in Week 8 before previewing the Thursday Night Football showdown between the Packers and Cardinals. Finally, Mitchell Schwartz stops by to talk about his concern for the Chiefs, what makes a good head coach in 2021 and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.7 | The Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:18.0 | Because like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. |
| 0:20.0 | Get a quote today. |
| 0:38.7 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. Today's Thursday, October 28th. I'm Robert Mays. Great show for you guys today. Mitchell Schwartz is going to be joining us a little bit later. We dug into all sorts of stuff. You definitely want to stick around for that conversation. Before we get to that, though, I'm very excited to welcome my good friend, Lindsay Jones. |
| 0:39.4 | Lindsay, how are you doing? |
| 0:40.3 | I'm great. |
| 0:40.9 | How are you, Robert? |
| 0:41.9 | I am wonderful. |
| 0:45.0 | It is a great Thursday night game on the horizon. |
| 0:47.8 | Look, we deserve this. |
| 0:50.9 | After making it through week seven, we deserve this. |
| 0:56.1 | Listen, I do podcasts about the NFL for most of my life. |
| 0:57.8 | This is how I spend most of my time. |
| 1:03.4 | I'll admit, when you get to week seven, week eight, it feels like a grind, right? |
| 1:04.7 | Like, everybody feels that way. |
| 1:08.7 | Like, the NFL season hits this dip, and you need something to kind of keep you going every once in a while. |
| 1:10.3 | And this Thursday night game, that's exactly what this is. I'm very much looking forward to. I'm going to settle in. It feels like fall here now, too. It's like for just a lot of aspects where it's like, you know what? I'm excited about this. There's a cold wind in the air. Like, my leaves are changing. I'm going to settle in with an an autumn scented candle in my basement and I'm going to watch this football game. Maybe some cozy socks. I... Some apple cider. It's a huge part of my life is getting cozy in the fall. So I'm excited about this. We're going to talk about that game, but we're going to start the show by talking about some of the news from yesterday. |
| 1:45.6 | The owner's meetings are going on. |
| 1:47.2 | It's the first time the owners are meeting in person in almost two years, I think, looking at the timeline of it. |
| 1:52.8 | Yeah, the last official owners meetings in person was December of 2019. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah. |
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