TAFS Goes Camping: Conversations with The Athletic's Eagles and Jets beat writers
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🗓️ 3 August 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Robert Mays went to so many training camps in the previous week, we had to split this weekend's Beat Writer Notebook into two episodes. On this edition of the Beat Writer Notebook, Robert speaks to Brooks Kubena and Zack Rosenblatt, The Athletic's Eagles and Jets beat writers, respectively. What do the Eagles do to live up to a Super Bowl encore? How does Aaron Glenn transform the Jets? Learn the answers to those questions, and a whole lot more, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
With: Brooks Kubena, Zack Rosenblatt
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:27.5 | Listen to the audiobook of Supremacy Now. |
| 0:35.5 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. It's our second beat writer notebook of |
| 0:41.0 | the weekend. We had five of these and we just thought it was best to split it up into two shows, |
| 0:45.6 | have really been enjoying these conversations with all of our beats as I'm traveling around here. |
| 0:50.9 | Today, little northeast swing. We chatted with our Eagles writer at the athletic |
| 0:55.3 | Brooks Kubina about an Eagles team trying to repeat. You know, when you have a team at this stage, |
| 1:00.7 | it's really about the nitty-gritty stuff. What's the second corner spot look like? What does |
| 1:05.5 | the defensive line rotation look like after losing some guys in free agency? What does Kevin |
| 1:09.8 | Patula look like in his first year as the offensive coordinator? |
| 1:12.7 | Really enjoyed visiting with Brooks in Philadelphia. |
| 1:15.3 | And then we also shot up to Florin Park, New Jersey to chat with our Jets writer here at |
| 1:20.2 | the athletic Zach Rosenblatt. |
| 1:22.0 | Obviously, a new regime with the Jets. |
| 1:25.6 | A lot of excitement about Aaron Glenn. |
| 1:27.3 | What does that team look like? |
| 1:28.6 | Some young intriguing pieces, are they going to be better potentially than people think, |
| 1:32.5 | especially on defense? |
| 1:33.6 | How quickly can that young offensive line gel and really drive that running game as the |
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