The early training camp storylines that actually matter
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Teams have been at training camp for a couple weeks now, so you know what that means. We've got plenty of storylines floating around out there. Some of them matter. Many of them don't. Dave Helman and Derrik Klassen wade through them and separate what actually has meaning from what doesn't on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
6:09 Matthew Stafford's back injury
13:27 Ben Johnson's aggressive approach to training camp
24:07 The Saints QB battle
32:20 Depth chart silliness
52:57 Rookie WRs turning heads
1:01:45 Aireontae Ersery pushing for a starting job in Houston
Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 1:05.4 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 1:07.9 | I am Dave Hellman and as training camp rolls along, we figure it is time |
| 1:12.2 | for another check-in. A lot of news flying around, a lot of injury updates, a lot of position |
| 1:18.1 | battles. Dept charts got released, and oh, by the way, the first batch of preseason games |
| 1:23.8 | is finally upon us. It's a lot to get to. And Derek Classen and I decided we're going to |
| 1:28.6 | help you sift through it all. Not everything you hear this time of year is concrete, is definitely |
| 1:35.2 | going to age well as we get closer to the season. But some of it is very, very important. |
| 1:40.4 | So the goal of this show was to look around the league at different training camp headlines, decide what matters, maybe what doesn't matter. Get into the nuts and |
| 1:49.2 | bolts of all of it. Really fun show, Derek Klasson. Let's get into it. |
| 1:57.7 | All right, Derek, I definitely don't want to call it a lull because training camp is all encompassing all summer long. |
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