Priorities for rebuilding teams at the midpoint of the season with Scott Pioli + distractions in the NFL locker room with Mitchell Schwartz
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
What do NFL teams in the rebuilding process prioritize at the midpoint of the season? Former NFL executive and current TV analyst Scott Pioli joins Robert Mays to explain his experiences with player evaluations, the waiver wire and retooling for the future. Then, Mitchell Schwartz and Robert talk about how the Aaron Rodgers and Odell Beckham Jr. situations impact the locker room. Finally, they discuss Wyatt Teller’s deal with the Browns and how players approach extensions and free agency.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.5 | The Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:17.6 | The Athletic Football Show is presented by State Farm. |
| 0:17.9 | Because like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. |
| 0:19.8 | Get a quote today. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:23.5 | Today's Wednesday, November 10th. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:26.4 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:27.6 | Mitchell Schwartz is going to be joining us a little bit later. |
| 0:30.1 | We talked about a whole bunch of stuff. |
| 0:33.0 | Just locker room dynamics as it relates to the Aaron Rogers news, the old El Beckham story. |
| 0:38.0 | We talked about contract extensions, how you stack up yourself with guys at your position. |
| 0:43.9 | Really enjoyed our conversation. |
| 0:45.4 | Before we did that, though, I wanted to bring on someone to talk about teams that are rebuilding. |
| 0:51.8 | Because at this stage of the season, when you have a team that has |
| 0:54.3 | one win, two wins, that's in the first year of a new regime, it's easy to forget about |
| 0:59.0 | those teams, but this is a pivotal time for them. They're thinking about what changes need |
| 1:04.3 | to happen to the roster, the status that they're at, where they need to be looking. So I wanted |
| 1:09.5 | to bring on someone to have kind of a deep dive conversation about what that |
| 1:13.2 | process looks like if you're the lions, the jaguars, the jets. |
| 1:19.7 | And to do that, I wanted to invite on Scott Piole, who has been a GM, multiple places |
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