Some Mikes are in, some Mikes are out...it's an NFL coaching update; Plus, the state of the New York Giants
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🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
A lot has happened on the NFL coaching carousel in the last week. Mike Vrabel is now the coach of the Patriots. Mike McCarthy is not the coach of the Cowboys, and there are Deion Sanders rumblings in Dallas. Plus, the most sought-after coach in the cycle, Ben Johnson, met with the Raiders, and somehow that actually makes sense. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen get into all of that on this episode of The Athletic Football show.
After that, The Athletic Giants beat writers Dan Duggan and Charlotte Carroll join Robert to discuss why Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen will be back in 2025, and what the team can hope to do to turn things around.
Rundown
- Patriots hire Mike Vrabel
- Mike McCarthy out in Dallas
- McCarthy and the Bears
- Deion Sanders to the Cowboys?
- Why Ben Johnson could pick the Raiders
- Coordinator moves
- The state of the New York Giants
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
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. |
| 0:07.1 | We'll pack show for you guys today. |
| 0:08.7 | Me and Derek Classen broke down the latest in the coaching carousel news. |
| 0:13.4 | Just too much stuff for us to not hit it this week. |
| 0:16.2 | Mike McCarthy out in Dallas. |
| 0:18.3 | Mike Vrable hired as the Patriots head coach. A couple other rumors, Ben |
| 0:22.7 | Johnson to the Raiders, some other stuff that we dug into. After that, was joined by our |
| 0:26.9 | Giants writers at The Athletic, Dan Duggan and Charlotte Carroll, talking about why the Giants |
| 0:31.8 | decided to keep Brian Daibel and Joe Shane, their initial read on those decisions, and what |
| 0:36.9 | that potentially says for the short |
| 0:39.1 | and long-term future of the Giants. So let's get to both of those conversations right now. |
| 0:49.9 | All right, Derek, we're back again. We're doing this every day now. This is just how it's |
| 0:53.4 | going to be for the rest of time as me and you doing this podcast. I hope you're ready to die in that chair. |
| 0:58.1 | I listen, I've been stuck here for it feels like a couple weeks now doing these midweek shows, but you know what? It feels good. It feels this is the part of the season where it feels like every single thing possible is happening. And I have my hand in all of it, both with the podcast and some of the writing. |
| 1:11.1 | So I'm ready to go here. I'm ready to go dive into some of this stuff. I had a bigger picture idea that I was thinking about doing today. And it just seemed silly to do it because there's so much coaching news that we just haven't hit. You know, we didn't talk about Mike Vrable going to New England because it happened over the weekend as we were responding to the games. Mike McCarthy is out in Dallas. We haven't talked about that at all. |
| 1:11.0 | So that's what we're going to the games. Mike McCarthy is out in Dallas. |
| 1:28.4 | We haven't talked about that at all. So that's what we're going to do today. A little bit later in the show, both of our Giants writers here at the Athletic, Dan Duggan and Charlotte Carroll are going |
| 1:32.3 | to be joining us to talk about the Giants decision to retain their coaching staff and general |
| 1:36.8 | manager and just some of the things that John Mara said during his media |
| 1:41.4 | availability last week and kind of what led to those decisions. So please stick around for our |
| 1:44.4 | discussion with them. But let's chat about the rest of the coaching news that has rolled out |
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