The Storylines of Last Season That Will Define Next Season

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As the 2021 NFL season and Super Bowl LVI become but a faint memory in our collective consciousness, Conor and Gary take one last trip through the biggest developments of the season past and spin them forward to project how they’ll affect football in 2022.

For a second straight year, a veteran quarterback found his way to a new home and immediately won the Super Bowl—was Russell Wilson paying attention? Does the Packers’ success in 2021 all but guarantee Aaron Rodgers is coming back for (at least) one more run? With the Rams punting their draft capital in order to bring in proven veterans, will other teams consider taking a similar route? And will the NFL, always too-late to react on these matters, find a proper way to handle its coaching diversity crisis?

Plus, why the new approach to defending superstar quarterbacks will make edge rushers as valuable as ever. And—did you hear?—running backs running the ball is cool again!

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0:00.0	Hello and And Connor, this is officially our first off-season show of the 2022 off-season, and we're going to,
0:20.0	we're going to try and understand the future by looking at the immediate past, if that makes sense.
0:25.3	It's kind of like a, it's like a bad sort of off-brand Back to the Future type of approach we're taking and we're going to
0:34.9	see how it goes. Well right if you don't study history you're doomed to repeat it
0:39.6	unless you're the bangles which you just do the same thing for so many years and then all of a sudden you make the Super Bowl.
0:47.2	So, you know, we'll see which way it works out for us.
0:50.8	The lesson is either change everything or change nothing.
0:54.0	And then get Joe Burrow at some point and get Joe Burrow. Yeah that's the that's the
0:59.3	big one. All right so what we're gonna do we're going to look at six storylines from the 2021 season and sort of spin them forward to 2022 here.
1:09.5	See how they're going to affect what happens over the next couple of months and we are starting
1:13.7	look we're starting with the most obvious point we've talked about this a ton obviously
1:17.2	and quite frankly we're going to continue to talk about this quite a bit over the
1:21.7	next couple of seasons but we had Tom Brady go to
1:24.3	the Bucks win the Super Bowl in his first season in Tampa the Rams go out and get
1:28.5	Matthew Stafford they win the Super Bowl in his first season in LA if If you are Russell Wilson right now,
1:34.0	and you are maybe a little bit on offense,
1:36.0	you know, you're loyal to the Seahawks organization,
1:38.0	but also you're kind of looking at this and being like,
1:41.0	oh, I remember when we used to play in the Super Bowl.
1:44.2	That was a lot of fun.
1:45.2	That's when we had all those all pro guys on the defense and it worked out really well.
1:50.7	Do you really want to stay around there in Seattle and go through what is at the very least a mini rebuild and a mini rebuild being done with not so much in the way of assets at this point or do you want to go out there and
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