TAFS goes holiday shopping!
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It's the holiday season and we're getting in the spirit on The Athletic Football Show. From the right offensive coach for Caleb Wiliams to a new team for Myles Garrett, Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen are giving gifts to players, teams and coaches across the NFL on this episode of TAFS.
Rundown
- A want for more from the Cowboys for Jerry Jones
- A ball-winner for Lamar Jackson
- The right offensive coach for Caleb Williams
- The fountain of youth for Matthew Stafford
- Wolverine blood for the Lions
- Framed depth charts for John Schneider
- A new team for Myles Garrett
- One of the dudes for the Jaguars
- A partner in crime for Christian Gonzalez
- An apology card for the Falcons
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, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on Prime Video. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Robert Mays. It is a special Christmas edition of the Athletic Football Show today. |
| 0:13.9 | Derek Kasten joined me for this Christmas Eve show to chat about some gifts that we want to hand out to people around the NFL. |
| 0:19.8 | He wanted to get in the holiday spirit, in the festive spirit. |
| 0:23.2 | And so we figured, why not? |
| 0:24.4 | Let's just lean into this. |
| 0:25.5 | So we picked, I think, nine different people, organizations, folks around the league that |
| 0:30.8 | we wanted to give something to this holiday season because we felt like they needed it. |
| 0:35.6 | So let's get to it. |
| 0:42.8 | Music season because we felt like they needed it. So let's get to it. Dick, how you're doing, man? I'm doing good. This is probably the most unique show that I think |
| 0:48.1 | we've done to this point so far. So it's fun to have a take a little holiday detour and just do |
| 0:53.1 | kind of a silly little show here. |
| 0:55.4 | We were doing more of this a couple years ago. |
| 0:57.7 | I think I started taking myself a little bit too seriously, so I'm glad we're waiting back into these waters. |
| 1:02.3 | What we're going to do today is we're going to hand out some Christmas gifts to people around the NFL. |
| 1:06.7 | Some of these are serious. |
| 1:07.7 | Some of them are not quite as serious, but just things that we feel like people around the league could use as we get closer to the holidays. |
| 1:16.8 | Before we dig into this, what is your Christmas situation? |
| 1:19.8 | Are you, your family like big Christmas family? |
| 1:22.7 | We're really not actually because growing up, my mother was a nurse and she worked like nights a lot and she used to |
| 1:29.5 | work a lot of holidays just because like well you get it you get a lot more pay so why not work the holidays as nobody else wants to do it so like kind of growing up I kind of got accustomed to like we just don't do a whole lot so it's uh in a way it's kind of nice because the holidays are more chill for me than a lot of other people. |
| 1:24.2 | A lot of other people seem to be, you know, |
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