The latest on the Washington Commanders investigation with Ben Standing + answering questions about the 2022 OL class with Brandon Thorn
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Robert Mays and Lindsay Jones welcome The Athletic’s Ben Standig to discuss the latest with the investigation into Dan Snyder and the Washington Commanders. Then, Robert and Lindsay talk about Derek Carr’s contract extension with the Raiders, their thoughts on the deal and what is says about the QB market. Plus, Trench Warfare’s Brandon Thorn joins the show to break down the offensive lineman in the 2022 draft class. Brandon shares his thoughts on the top tackles, where Tyler Linderbaum will go, why he loves Zion Johnson and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.8 | Today is Thursday, April 14th. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:21.8 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:23.4 | Brandon Thorne from the Trench Warfare Substack and Podcast is going to be joining us a little bit later. |
| 0:28.6 | He's going to entertain my stupid questions about the offensive line class in the 2022 NFL draft. |
| 0:34.2 | We're going to go through just some of the overarching things with the position and some of the guys available, why they are the top guys, what their upsides are, what their downsides are. excited to do that. Before we get to Brandon, though, I am very excited to be joined by my friend, Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, how you doing? I'm great. How about you, Robert? I'm doing very well. So you and I were trying to figure out what we wanted to talk about, either this week or next week. And the news cycle helps solve that problem for us. Obviously, |
| 1:00.2 | the stuff that's been going on with the Washington football team has been ongoing for months. |
| 1:05.3 | I mean, everything about them, it seems like there's a new scandal or there's a new bit of |
| 1:09.5 | news to dig through every week. |
| 1:11.3 | And I wanted to use this week and what's happened over the last couple days as a chance to |
| 1:18.1 | kind of take a step back and talk about everything that's happened with the Washington |
| 1:22.4 | football franchise, how we arrived at this point, where things go from here. |
| 1:26.9 | I just think it's important to talk about this because we really haven't dug into it at all. |
| 1:31.3 | And I do think that this is a unique opportunity. |
| 1:34.0 | And to help us do that today is the Washington writer from the athletic who can help put all of this into context for us, Ben Standing. |
| 1:41.1 | Ben, thank you very much for joining us today. |
| 1:43.0 | You guys don't want to talk about who's replacing Brandon Scherf? |
| 1:47.9 | We'll circle around to that. |
| 1:49.6 | We will get into some of the football aspects of this because I do think that they're |
| 1:53.4 | intertwined in a certain way. |
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