Offseason Buy or Sell: Teams in Transition
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🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
With the 2025 NFL Draft firmly in the rear-view mirror, we are now in full-on offseason mode on The Athletic Football Show. With that comes one of our favorite offseason staples...are we buying or selling what each of the 32 teams did to improve their teams for the 2025 season? We start the series with what we're calling the Teams in Transition, which includes the Titans, Browns, Giants, Patriots, Jets, Raiders, Saints and Panthers. Do we buy or sell what those teams have done since the Super Bowl? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen make their calls on those eight teams on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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- Titans
- Browns
- Giants
- Patriots
- Jets
- Raiders
- Saints
- Panthers
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:34.9 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:38.4 | We are officially to May, and it is time for just some off-season review type stuff. |
| 0:44.2 | We did this last year. |
| 0:45.2 | We looked at every team in the league, split over four shows broken up into four different buckets, |
| 0:50.4 | and tried to figure out if we are buying or selling what they did this off- season. So that's what we're doing today. We're kicking off that series. We're going to do one of those a week over the next four weeks. The first bucket of teams were hitting today, the team's in transition. That's what we're calling them. Teams that drafted at the top of this year's draft, teams that are near the bottom of the Vegas win-loss totals. Teams have a lot of turnover, young quarterbacks, you know, hopefully some young building blocks teams that threw a lot of money around in the free agency this offseason because they had it. So that is the bucket of teams we're digging into today, kicking off with the Tennessee Titans and really just running through most of the top 10 in this year's draft. Joining me to do that is my buddy Derek Klesson. |
| 1:30.4 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:37.0 | All right. |
| 1:37.6 | We're bringing back something that we did last off season that I really enjoyed. |
| 1:41.4 | I thought it was a good way to take every single off season and try to digest it. |
| 1:46.1 | And we're not talking about just the draft or just free agency or just coaching or hiring moves the |
| 1:51.2 | team's made. This is everything. Every off season in the NFL holistic weird, we're going to go |
| 1:56.5 | through all 32 of these, separated out over four shows over the next month. And we're going to have to put it by or a cell next to every single one of them. And here to help me kick off that series, it is my co-host at the Athletic Football Show. Derek Klesson, Derek, how you doing, man? Doing good, man. Feeling pretty rejuvenated. You know, we had obviously long week of doing all the draft work stuff, but this last past weekend |
| 2:19.1 | got to go to like a brew fest for a little bit, kind of just hang out, sit on my heels. So it was, I'm feeling refreshed for something like this. I'm feeling good. Yeah. The post draft week is always its own beast. And then now I think we're pretty firmly in the off season. And so we're going to do a couple different sets of shows over the next month or so that really are kicking off our offseason, you know, content analysis, whatever word you want to use. And to me, this is a pillar of that. We split this into four different shows. We're calling today's show the teams in transition, which is a nice way to talk about the teams that are rebuilding. I will say this off |
| 2:51.2 | the bat. If you have any issues with the way that we are bucketing these teams and which team |
| 2:56.7 | is in which show, you can take it up with the odds makers in Las Vegas or the draft order of the |
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