The 12 guys who can swing the 2023 NFL season
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
The Athletic
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Any reasonable NFL observer saw a wide range of realistic outcomes for Jalen Hurts one year ago at this time. Hurts ended up playing like an MVP, and the Eagles nearly won the Super Bowl. Who could be this year's version of Hurts? In other words, who are 2023's biggest wild cards? Robert Mays and Bill Barnwell of ESPN offer up their candidates on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Follow Robert on Twitter: @robertmays
Follow Mike on Twitter: @billbarnwell
Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show...
The Football 100, the definitive ranking of the NFL’s best 100 players of all time, goes on sale this fall. Pre-order it here.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Change isn't coming. It's already here. Commerce is going digital and tax complexity is multiplying. |
| 0:07.0 | Tax rules evolve, rate shift, data floods in. Vertex connects it all. |
| 0:15.0 | A global tax compliance platform powered by tax-ready data and intelligence systems. |
| 0:21.6 | Smarter tech, continuous tax compliance, built-in confidence. |
| 0:26.3 | Learn more at vertexinck.com. This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:47.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:51.0 | Joining me today, it's our old friend from ESPN. It's Bill Barnwall. Barnwall, how you doing, buddy? Mays. Joining me today, it's our old friend from ESPN. |
| 0:54.9 | It's Bill Barnwell. |
| 0:55.7 | Barnwell, how you doing, buddy? |
| 0:57.9 | Mays, we're in the thick of it. |
| 1:01.2 | Oh, we sure are. |
| 1:02.4 | There's no escaping it anymore. |
| 1:04.3 | No pretense of summer. |
| 1:06.4 | No days off to look forward to. |
| 1:09.4 | We're in the training camp grind. |
| 1:44.6 | Some of us, fortunately for me, more than others. You don't have to tell me that we're in the thick of it. I was in Spartanburg, South Carolina today. It was like 88 degrees. I just feel the sweat dripping down my back. I'm sweating through my shirt. Very jealous of Greg Alman, formerly of the athletic who now covers the NFC South for Fox. Greg is a grizzled veteran at this. He's got his bucket head on like a smart man. I'm just sweltering out there in the heat. But it's good. It's good to be back doing this. It's good to be back having football conversations. Also, the Panthers this morning. I'm currently in Atlanta. going to spend a couple days with the Falcons very much looking forward to that. It's just good to be back talking |
| 1:49.0 | ball with everybody and seeing familiar faces, some new faces. It's a fun time a year, even if we |
| 1:54.8 | are definitely back to it. Do you feel the power of being at Falcons Camp where if you literally tweet out Kyle Pitch |
| 2:04.8 | catching a football, you can move his like fantasy football ADP up three rounds with the right |
| 2:10.9 | video? |
| 2:11.8 | I am not engaging in the fantasy discourse this year. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.