Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Today we're chatting about the position groups around the NFL that just were made over this offseason, the groups that have changed the most and how that might mean we should recalibrate our expectations for those groups specifically and the units that they play for.

This is a good thing to do every offseason

because we have these kind of lingering understandings

of what certain position groups feel like.

And when they're totally remade in a single offseason,

we should change our overall expectations

for what that unit can be.

We talk about at the beginning of the show,

but the Bears' offensive line from last year

I think is a really good example.

We started this show with like three or four different offensive lines

that might have that different sort of feel.

So really enjoyed this conversation with Dave and Derek.

Let's get to it right now. Every off season, there are certain position groups around the league that just feel completely different than they did the year before.

And I think it's important for us to clock those as we move through the off season because it can and

should in a lot of situations change the way we talk and think about a team an example from last

year like the bears offensive line right like the bears offensive line was completely remade last

year and it helped in part remake what the bears were and there are a lot of offensive lines we're

going to talk about today.

But I wanted to take some time, Derek, today just to kind of take a step back and think about

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