Ranking the NFL head coach openings and top candidates with Jeff Howe + the state of the Giants amid another reset with Dan Duggan
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
The Athletic
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Which NFL head coach opening is the most attractive? Lindsay Jones and The Athletic’s Jeff Howe break down all of the vacancies, the top candidates for each role and much more. Plus, The Athletic’s Giants’ writer Dan Duggan joins the show to discuss the state of the franchise amid another head coach and GM change.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Lindsay Jones. You're probably used to hearing me here on the Thursday, Athletic Football Show. Today is Thursday, January 13th. I'm Lindsay Jones. You're probably |
| 0:22.6 | used to hearing me here on the Thursday Athletic Football Show with Robert Mays. Robert is out this |
| 0:28.2 | week. He is on our sick list. So I am really excited to have Jeff Howe, my colleague at the Athletic, |
| 0:35.5 | joining me today. We're going to get into all of the news of the |
| 0:39.7 | coaching searches the GM searches and then later in the show we're going to be joined by |
| 0:44.2 | dan dug in our new york giants beat writer to get into everything that is going on with the new |
| 0:49.3 | york giants after they fired joe judge so let's get right into it. Jeff, how you doing? |
| 0:55.0 | Great. |
| 0:55.5 | I hope you don't mind. I just got this new hoodie that I put on just for this show. So for those of you who are listening to the podcast, you can't see, but Jeff is wearing a danger zone sweatshirt. Excuse me. Oh, can they not? They can't see me? See, that's my problem with technology here is I called into this thing through like a |
| 1:14.2 | seashell and I, I'm 38. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm going on 138. |
| 1:20.1 | It's like I can only do so much here. |
| 1:23.8 | Well, we're going to cut a clip of this for social. |
| 1:26.1 | They will be able to see you. And I can see you and I appreciate the effort of you creating this Danger's own sweatshirt as an homage to Bill Belichick who broke that out. Although, did you cut the sleeves off that hoodie? Well, all right. So I have an endless supply with a six-year-old and a four-year-old at home, as you know, Lindsay, I have an endless supply of art stuff. |
| 1:47.3 | So, yeah, I can draw up a little something, something, but I was not going to cut the sleeves off of my favorite Lull high hoodie here. |
| 1:56.1 | So I got to keep that one in place. |
| 1:58.4 | All right. |
| 1:58.9 | So it's not quite a complete commitment to the bit, but we'll let it go for right now. |
| 2:04.8 | So let's just get into all of the coaching updates because usually here on our Thursday show, |
| 2:09.3 | this was our kind of reset week. |
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