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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The 10 biggest questions about NFL defenses in 2022

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

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🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Diante Lee joins Robert Mays to tackle the 10 most important questions facing defenses this season. What will the Ravens look like without Wink Martindale? Are the Packers ready to make the jump to the elite tier? Can the Bills be as good as they were last year? Do the Chargers have the right personnel to go full Brandon Staley? The guys get into all of that, and a whole lot more. Follow Robert on Twitter: @robertmays Follow Diante on Twitter: @DianteLeeFB Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show Apple Spotify YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

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because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

0:20.0

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:25.0

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0:30.0

This is the Athletics Football Show.

0:46.0

Welcome to the Athletics Football Show. Today's Tuesday, August 23rd.

0:50.0

Very excited to welcome my good friend, Deontae Lee. Deontae, how you doing buddy?

0:55.0

I'm good man. I saw I think that you saw the tweet last night. I feel like I just won the Super Bowl.

1:00.0

My sister was on a $100,000 period. That's awesome. That's so great. I love that.

1:05.0

Yeah, and she she did. She paired pretty well for herself. We were all watching on the couch, jumping around for everything.

1:11.0

So I'm feeling very, very gratified right now. That is great. We're going to be feeling less gratified doing the show

1:17.0

because we did the top 10 offences with Nate yesterday predicting them. You were scared to compete.

1:22.0

Absolutely. So you decided that you did not want to predict the top 10 defenses.

1:26.0

Absolutely. Yeah, no, no, thank you. I tried that with Mina and I felt like every time I gave a name of the team, I was like,

1:33.0

yeah, this one's going to make me look like an idiot. I'm definitely going to get attacked for this one.

1:36.0

I'm going to get attacked for this one. So I think I want to separate myself from that.

1:40.0

I won't be that kind of takes you today.

1:43.0

You twofold, you did this with Mina already. And second, it's really hard to predict defensive performance.

1:49.0

Yes. The cowboys finish number one and defensive DVOA last year.

1:53.0

Right. If you had pulled a thousand people and asked them who would finish number one, none of them would have guessed the cowboys.

1:59.0

Right. The randomness of defensive performance. It's less ripe for this sort of conversation than offences.

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