Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Our buying or selling offseason series continues.

Today with me and Derek Classen, last week we did the teams in transition.

You know, teams with the lowest over-unders, teams that were picking in the top 10.

Today, we're getting to the teams in the middle class.

You know, teams that maybe aren't necessarily expected to make the playoffs, but also aren't expected to be at the bottoms of their divisions either. Teams like the Colts, the Jags, the Bears, the Cardinals, the Falcons. Falcons, you could probably make an argument. It'll be in the next, could be in next week's group with the playoff teams, but take it up with Vegas

and the overrunners. I don't know what to tell you. That's how we mostly structured these.

So if you have an issue with the buckets, it is not an issue with me as an issue with the odds

makers. But really enjoyed digging into this again, we're going to be hitting all 32 teams,

talking about all the moves they made this offseason and whether we are buying

or selling those off seasons as a whole. And let's dig into the teams in the middle class

with me and Derek Klesson right now. All right. We are back today with our buying or selling every NFL offseason series.

If you missed the first installment of this show, we did the teams in transition.

That's what we were nicely calling them last week.

A lot of the rebuilding teams, teams picking in the top 10.

Today we are digging into the group we were calling the NFL's middle class, maybe one step down from the real kind of tried and true wild card and playoff contenders, but teams that are definitely a step up from the ones that we talked about last week. Here to help me dig into the next eight teams on our list here. It is my co-host at the athletic football show Derek Classen. Derek, how are you doing, man? I'm doing really good. This one is, this one was more fun to prep for it because I think the last show you went in with, or the last time we did this where it's all teams in transition, you go in with the same mindset. It's like, well, I'm viewing this through the lens of, are you just better than being a team that's going to pick in the top 10 again that's the goal but for a lot of these teams that are a little bit more in the middle class the stakes are a lot different their timelines are so much different this was a lot more fun to i think prepare for and actually sort out how i feel about all these teams here yeah there, there were a few that I was pretty torn on,

and we'll get into those where I was like, I guess I'm going to buy it, but I don't necessarily feel good about it. So excited to talk about all of these. Let's kick it off with the Indianapolis Colts. Again, the way that we're divvying these up, a lot of it is just over unders in Vegas. And so these are a lot of teams that are in the seven and a half to nine and a half sort of bucket.

So again, just below what we would call pretty confident playoff teams at 10 wins. And the Colts are firmly in that range. For all of these, I'm just going to run through very quickly some of the details from this off season for the Colts. Coaching changes Luano Rumo in as the defensive coordinator for Gus Bradley. Chris Hewitt comes over as the passing game coordinator from Baltimore. We're here in the same role. Free agency, Cam Bidam, four years, 60 million, $30 million guaranteed. Travarius Ward, three years, 54, 35 guaranteed. Daniel Jones, one year, 14 million. Drafted Tyler Warren in the first round, JT.

Toomalo in the second round from Ohio State,

Justin Wally, the defensive back in the third round.

And they lost Will Fries,

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