TAFS Goes Camping: Conversations with The Athletic's Vikings, (former) Rams, Patriots and Broncos beat writers
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🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
We've made it. Training camp is over. The season is just about here. And we've got one final Beat Writer Notebook for you to close it all down. On this episode, Robert Mays talks with Alec Lewis, Chad Graff and Nick Kosmider, The Athletic's Vikings, Patriots and Broncos beat writers, respectively, as well as national NFL reporter Jourdan Rodrigue, who remains very plugged in with the Rams.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
3:47 Robert Mays and Chad Graff from Vikings camp
37:56 Robert Mays and Jourdan Rodrigue from Rams camp
1:09:36 Robert Mays and Chad Graff from Patriots camp
1:32:31 Robert Mays and Nick Kosmider from Broncos camp
Host: Robert Mays
With: Alec Lewis, Jourdan Rodrigue, Chad Graff, Nick Kosmider
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:33.1 | Welcome to the athletic football show. I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:38.3 | It is our last beatwriter notebook of the summer. |
| 0:42.1 | We hit almost all of our beatwriters in doing this. |
| 0:45.2 | I think the only team we missed was the Giants. |
| 0:47.2 | And I apologize to Dan Duggan and Charlotte Carroll. |
| 0:49.4 | We've had Dan on a bunch to talk about the Giants in the last couple years, though. |
| 0:52.7 | And I have a creeping feeling that we might be doing that again, depending on how the giant season goes, |
| 0:58.5 | either good or bad. I think I'm going to be interested in the Giants. Today, though, our last four |
| 1:03.6 | beat writer conversations. First off, I went to Minneapolis. It was my last actual training |
| 1:08.7 | camp stop this year to chat with our writer Alec Lewis there. |
| 1:12.6 | Obviously, the Vikings are in a fascinating position. |
| 1:15.9 | We have a roster that's ready to win the Super Bowl, a quarterback we've never seen before. |
| 1:19.2 | And that is a combination you just don't typically get. |
| 1:22.7 | After that, revisited the Rams with our old Rams writer at the athletic and now one of our national |
| 1:28.1 | writers here, Jordan Rodriguez, who still obviously has a complete line into that team. |
| 1:33.0 | Really enjoyed kind of revisiting what the Rams look like right now. |
| 1:36.5 | The Matthew Stafford conversation obviously is at front of mind for everybody. |
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