The MVP case for Cooper Kupp & Jonathan Taylor, should the Vikings want the playoffs & the Browns' Baker Mayfield conundrum with Zac Jackson
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
A lot is happening as week 16 in the NFL arrives. Lindsay Jones is here for her weekly visit as she and Robert dive into the MVP case for non-QB candidates Cooper Kupp & Jonathan Taylor. Will their historic seasons at their respective positions be enough to sway the committee? Plus, the Vikings are somehow Stayin' Alive, personnel updates across the league, appointment viewing for Thursday before The Athletic's Browns writer Zac Jackson joins the show to dig into the Baker Mayfield conundrum hanging over Cleveland, the offseason plan, Myles Garrett's DPOY campaign and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome, the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.7 | Today's Thursday, December 23rd. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:22.1 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:26.1 | Our Browns writer at The Athletic, Zach Jackson, is going to be joining us a little bit later. |
| 0:30.9 | Before we get to Zach, though, I'm thrilled to welcome my good friend, Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, how are you doing? I am great. Getting ready for Christmas. It's sneaking up on me this year, it feels like. It's |
| 0:38.0 | sneaking up on me. We were supposed to go to New Jersey to see my fiance's family on Christmas |
| 0:44.8 | night because typically I fly the day after Christmas, but the day after Christmas is a Sunday |
| 0:49.7 | this year. Can't do a lot of flying on Sunday. I don't know if you know this, but I work on Sundays. |
| 0:54.3 | So it's a little bit difficult for me to travel. So we were going to do that. And now we are not because of the everything about the world. So I'm going to be able to spend all of Christmas and all of Christmas evening with my family and my brothers and my mom. And I'm very much looking forward to that. But I don't know. for whatever reason, it feels like it happened very quickly this year. It feels like Thanksgiving just happened. |
| 0:54.5 | It's weird that it's on a weekend, too, because it is very much overlapping with all of our NFL stuff. Like sometimes it falls in the middle of the week and there's these weird practices, but we're going to get to not only spend this weekend Christmas with our actual families. we're going to get to spend it with Aaron Rogers and Jonathan Taylor and |
| 1:30.6 | Kyler Murray. |
| 1:31.6 | So we'll get into one of those games a little bit later. |
| 1:33.9 | It's going to be spoiler alert part of our appointment viewing. |
| 1:36.9 | We're also going to do another segment of staying alive about the Minnesota Vikings as we |
| 1:41.4 | continue to pour over all of the teams that are somehow still in the NFL |
| 1:45.0 | playoff picture. I wanted to start, though, with something that I thought of yesterday while |
| 1:50.9 | watching the Rams play the Seahawks. And we're not going to talk about those games. By the time this |
| 1:54.6 | comes out, it's going to be Thursday morning. It'll be two days since that game has happened. You |
| 1:58.9 | guys all watched it. We'll dig into |
| 2:01.0 | game analysis on Sunday night the same way we typically do. But I was watching Cooper Cup |
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