Offseason Buy or Sell: The Playoff Hopefuls
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🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Seven of the eight teams in this edition of Offseason Buy or Sell made the playoffs last year, and the one that didn't, the Bengals, had one of the best offenses in the league. In other words, each of these teams goes into this season with realistic playoff hopes, and some of them are harboring even bigger dreams than that. So how do we feel about what they all did this offseason? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen make buy or sell calls on the Steelers, Vikings, Bengals, Buccaneers, Packers, Broncos, Texans and Chargers on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:34.7 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm Robert Mays. Our buy or sell series on NFL |
| 0:40.1 | off-seasons continues today. Derek Kasten, join me to chat about the teams that were |
| 0:45.3 | bucketing as the playoff hopefuls. These are teams with over-unders from like eight and a half to |
| 0:50.8 | nine and a half-ish teams that are going to be on the cusp of wildcard |
| 0:54.3 | births, a lot of really good conversations here. We had some back and forth about the chargers |
| 0:59.3 | and whether or not we're actually into how measured they were in their approach about the Vikings, |
| 1:04.0 | the Bengals, a lot of really interesting teams in this group. Very much enjoyed this conversation |
| 1:08.9 | with Derek. So let's get to it right now. |
| 1:17.8 | Buy or sell rolls on today. We are getting into the really good teams. We're getting into the |
| 1:23.6 | teams that are supposed to make the playoffs by virtue of betting odds and expectations and all of that good stuff. So this is our third of these four shows. We will be hitting the contenders |
| 1:32.3 | in this exercise next week. I don't know about you, Derek. When I was prepping for this this morning, |
| 1:38.0 | I was really enjoying it. This is one of those shows I was very excited to do. We did the lingering |
| 1:42.3 | questions. We started that yesterday and I'm feeling the juice of, like, |
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