Our guilty pleasure storylines
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
We at The Athletic Football Show like to think that we've established our thoughtful, incisive bona fides. But we aren't above a Taco Bell meal and a slapstick comedy every now and again. We, too, have our guilty pleasures. How does that translate to the football world? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen let you in and indulge in their guilty pleasure NFL storylines 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. I'm Robert Mays. We've got a fun, what I will call a deep |
| 0:08.9 | off-season show for you guys today. The idea for this came about about a week ago, a couple weeks ago. |
| 0:15.0 | I can't remember exactly when this happened. But there was a moment on the NFL internet and the sports |
| 0:19.4 | internet at large where there was a screenshot going around of a conversation that had happened on ESPN that morning. |
| 0:26.4 | I think it was on get up. |
| 0:28.0 | And the screenshot on the cry on said, what is Dak Prescott's legacy in Dallas? |
| 0:33.3 | And the response for most people was to ridicule this. |
| 0:36.9 | It's June. There's an NBA finals going on. |
| 0:39.6 | There was a Stanley Cup finals going on. But when I saw that happen and I started thinking about it a little bit more, there was almost like a tinge of guilt and embarrassment. |
| 0:48.3 | Because my first response to that was I'm kind of interested in that conversation. Maybe not when the finals are going on in |
| 0:55.3 | multiple sports, but at large, I am kind of interested in a discussion about Dak Prescott's |
| 1:02.1 | career and trying to contextualize Dak Prescott's career and talk about what he's been and how we |
| 1:06.8 | figure out players like that. Maybe that's not what those guys were doing. |
| 1:15.3 | But a larger conversation about Dax's place in the league over the last 10 years is interesting to me. |
| 1:16.5 | So when we were talking about shows we wanted to do in June, me and Derek and |
| 1:20.6 | Beller, the idea of guilty pleasure narrative conversations came up. |
| 1:24.9 | Like what are some of these discussions on either the shouty shows or some more mainstream |
| 1:29.9 | sports media that come up that you should be better than, right? |
| 1:34.6 | Like, we don't talk about that kind of stuff. |
| 1:36.5 | But in reality, you actually do want to talk about that kind of stuff. |
| 1:40.3 | So that's what we're doing today. |
| 1:42.2 | Me and Derek are going to pick three or so guilty pleasure |
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