Silver linings for the NFL's bad teams
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Look, not everyone can be a Super Bowl contender. Plenty of teams aren't even playoff contenders. More than half the league misses the playoffs, and many of those teams are bad. Some are very bad. But that doesn't mean they can't take something from the 2024 season. Robert Mays and Conor Orr from Sports Illustrated and the MMQB find silver linings for those bad teams on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Texans-Cowboys MNF recap
- Jets fire Joe Douglas
- Silver lining for the 2024 Jets
- Silver lining for the 2024 Panthers
- Silver lining for the 2024 Giants
- Silver lining for the 2024 Patriots
- Silver lining for the 2024 Raiders
- Silver lining for the 2024 Browns
- Silver lining for the 2024 Titans
- Silver lining for the 2024 Jaguars
- The Ball Knower...all Lions, all the time
Host: Robert Mays
With: Conor Orr
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.9 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:08.2 | Our old friend Connor Orr from the MMQB in Sports Illustrator is going to be joining us. |
| 0:11.7 | We're going to chat a little Monday night football when we saw from Texans Cowboys. |
| 0:14.6 | But the meat of this show is reserved for a conversation I've been waiting to have on the podcast over the last few weeks. |
| 0:20.3 | There have been so many teams that are down near the bottom of the standings that we just |
| 0:23.6 | aren't talking very much about right now. |
| 0:25.8 | And what we try to do today is we tried to find a silver lining for all of the teams who |
| 0:30.9 | are essentially out of the standings, of the playoff race, of our minds in the 2024 season. |
| 0:37.4 | So teams hanging in the top 10 of all these mock drafts, is there something else based |
| 0:42.6 | on what they've put on the field this year, then we can hang our hat on as we move into |
| 0:47.2 | the 2025 off season. |
| 0:49.3 | Connor brings great perspective to discussions like this. |
| 0:51.7 | Really enjoyed having this conversation with him. Let's get to it. |
| 1:00.9 | Joining us now from the MMQB and Sports Illustrated. It's our old friend Connor or. |
| 1:05.5 | Connor, how are you doing, man? Hey, Robert. I'm doing well. How are you? Doing okay. We're 11 weeks in. |
| 1:14.9 | We've got some fun stuff to dig into today. I wanted to have you on for this conversation about silver linings concerning bad teams because you always have a good way of framing this stuff in the sense of like, all right, what can we really hang on to here? |
| 1:23.6 | That might be from your time and just proximity to the New York teams because you're always |
| 1:28.5 | having to think about things this way, which the timing on this is fantastic because Joe Douglas got |
| 1:33.4 | fired like 45 minutes ago. So we'll obviously have to fold that into the silver lining about |
| 1:39.0 | the Jets if there is one. But I just felt like you had the correct constitution where there's a realistic viewpoint |
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