Offseason Buy or Sell: The Contenders
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4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
We've arrived at our fourth and final episode in the Offseason Buy or Sell series, and this is the big one. Seven of the eight teams that played in the Divisional Round of the playoffs last season are in this episode, and the eighth is a perennial contender that was ravaged by injury in 2024? So did the Rams, Commanders, Lions, Ravens, Bills and Chiefs do enough to win, say, another game or two in January of this coming season? Can the 49ers get back on track? Did the Eagles do enough to protect their crown? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen make buy or sell calls on those eight teams on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.1 | The last of our buy or sell offseason shows is here. |
| 0:10.3 | We broke up the teams and do four different categories, essentially based on 20, 25 expectations, really driven by like Vegas over unders. |
| 0:18.0 | We did the rebuilding teams. |
| 0:19.4 | We did the middle class teams. |
| 0:20.6 | We did the playoff hopefuls. And today, it did the rebuilding teams. We did the middle class teams. We did the playoff |
| 0:21.6 | hopefuls. And today, it is the contenders with me and Derek Klass. And highly encourage you guys to go |
| 0:27.7 | check out those other three shows. If you have not, pretty much everything we said on them |
| 0:31.6 | holds up. But this is the headline grabbing one. These are the teams at the top of the board. |
| 0:36.6 | And very excited to dig into |
| 0:38.5 | what we thought of their off-seasons with Derek right now. |
| 0:46.0 | Here it is. The fourth and final edition of our buy or sell off-season series. We are hitting |
| 0:52.7 | the contenders today. Derek, I love doing this. |
| 0:56.2 | I was talking to my wife about this this morning when I was prepping for the show. I'm like, |
| 0:59.8 | you know what? I actually really love these. And as long as I do this show, I think we'll continue |
| 1:03.8 | to do them. I think it's a really good exercise just to look holistically at every single one of |
| 1:08.7 | these teams and what they did and how all the pieces fit together. And today we're hitting the best teams in the league, the teams that we think |
| 1:15.4 | are legitimate Super Bowl contenders and have legitimate Super Bowl aspirations heading into |
| 1:21.9 | 2025. Again, based on the Vegas odds. I want to be clear about that. If your team is not on |
| 1:27.2 | here, it's not my |
| 1:27.9 | problem. And I honestly like doing it this way because obviously we've been doing this for a long time. |
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