Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Our most interesting teams of the off-season series rolls on today.

We've got three teams with a lot to weigh as we get into the off-season.

Two teams with questions of quarterback, the Indianapolis Colts, and the Minnesota Vikings.

We chat with James Boyd and Alec Lewis, our writers for those teams respectively today. Also sat down for the first

time with our Chiefs writer here at the athletic Jesse Newell about pretty different feeling

off season for the Kansas City Chiefs, picking in the top 10, a lot of different things for them to be mowing over at this time of year that they are not typically talking or thinking about.

So very excited to dig into these three teams, really enjoyed these conversations.

Let's get to it right now.

Joining us now, our first conversation from here on i guess it's radio row it's still radio rome here at the nflbine it is our chiefs writer at the athletic jessie newell your athletic

football show debut i believe little nervous a little shaky but we'll get there yes yeah this is great

i'm i'm gonna shepherd you just fine we We'll be great here. Typically, the Chiefs would not be involved in a conversation like this. Bellar, we've done this. I call him Barnwell every single time I mention his name. Bellar, how many times have we done this? Three or four times, right? This is my fourth combat with you. We've done it every year.

And the chiefs have never been one of these teams. Because how could the chiefs possibly be one of the

most interesting teams of the offseason? They either were in the Super Bowl or just won the Super Bowl

seemingly every single year. A little bit of a different story right now. A lot going on. Yeah,

the 6 and 11 record, which was a shock, obviously, to start with, but a top 10 pick. I mean, they really worked on that down the end of the stretch of the season to get to that top 10 pick. Had a lot of work to do and got there. But, yeah, the first one, I mean, this is the highlight of the offseason or what you always say is, like, their first top 10 pick since Patrick Mahomes in 2017. And even that they had to trade up together.

They had to trade up.

Like to get to this point in any other draft to get to like the ninth pick, they would have to trade like four for three picks. So this is a different opportunity. But like you said, different potential for the chiefs. And they have to kind of figure out their trajectory from here moving forward. the 6th season we can talk about a little bit fluky, a little bit maybe not quite as bad as it

seems on the surface.

But with the moves they've made, the free agents they've signed recently, and what they've got

to do with their cap, there's a lot to do this offseason.

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