The nine most interesting teams of the offseason, Volume 2: Commanders, 49ers and Browns
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🗓️ 26 February 2025
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The second entry in the annual TAFS Most Interesting Teams of the Offseason series features Zac Jackson on the Browns, Matt Barrows on the 49ers, and Ben Standig on the Commanders. How do the Commanders make sure that 2024 wasn't a flash in the pan? Is the window on this version of the 49ers still open? Are the Browns willing to commit to a rebuild? Robert Mays gets into all that with the beat writers, and a whole lot more.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
With: Zac Jackson, Matt Barrows, Ben Standig
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.9 | It's day two of our series of shows on the most interesting teams of the offseason. |
| 0:12.5 | We have three more conversations with our beatwriters here at The Athletic waiting for you guys today. |
| 0:17.5 | First off, a discussion with Ben Standig, our Washington writer here at the Athletic, |
| 0:22.6 | about a big offseason for a team that made the NFC championship game last year. |
| 0:27.4 | Also chat with our Niners writer, Matt Barrows, whose team is used to playing in the NFC |
| 0:31.6 | championship game. Had a down year last year. We talked about some of the pivotal decisions |
| 0:35.4 | facing that group this year. And then rounding out today, |
| 0:39.6 | we also chatted with our Browns writer at the athletic Zach Jackson about what the hell the |
| 0:45.0 | Browns are going to do. Is this team in rebuild mode? Are they going to trade Miles Garrett? Where are they |
| 0:49.4 | going to get their quarterback from? What does the timeline look like? Is this a total tear down? Do they want to do that? |
| 0:55.8 | The Browns feel like such a complicated situation. We tried to unravel all of that with Zach Jackson |
| 1:03.2 | today. So really enjoyed all of these conversations. Hope you guys will as well. Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:14.0 | Joining us now, it is our Washington football franchise writer here at the athletic |
| 1:19.0 | Ben standing. Ben, how are you doing? Robert, I'm doing well. I'll do my best to not say |
| 1:24.1 | the name of the team. You can. That's fine. It's not a podcast dance. No, it is not a podcast dance. I wouldn't put that on somebody else, right? Like, my value system doesn't have to be your value system. So Derek says it. I'm fine with that. Other people say it. I'm not a tyrant. I just have, I'm a principled man. Look, people in my orbit would be thrilled if this was not the name and I didn't say it, |
| 1:45.3 | but yes, it is what it is and they've made it clear that they can tend to keep it. So that's what happens when you have a really, really good year. They had a really, really good year. And a lot of the time when you're looking at teams that have a hundredish million dollars in Cap Space, which they will if they trade Jonathan Allen, sounds like they might, we'll get to that. |
| 1:43.6 | These are teams that are in horrible situations. |
| 1:46.2 | There are teams that have... in cap space, which they will if they trade Jonathan Allen, sounds like they might, we'll get to that. |
| 2:01.4 | These are teams that are in horrible situations. |
| 2:04.2 | There are teams that have no foundation on the roster. |
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