The Super Bowl characters who have changed the way we think about them this season
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🗓️ 6 February 2025
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Summary
Consider what you thought about Saquon Barkley before this season. How about Trent McDuffie? How about Nick Sirianni? Might feel a bit different about them now, right? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen discussed nine people involved in Super Bowl LIX who have changed the way we think about them this season on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Saquon Barkley
- Nick Sirianni
- Howie Roseman
- Vic Fangio
- Zack Baun
- Trent McDuffie
- Joe Thuney
- Andy Reid
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:08.0 | Wednesday at Radio Row, trudging our way through Super Bowl Week. |
| 0:12.5 | Our big preview is going to be coming a little bit later in the week. |
| 0:16.3 | Today, I wanted to take some time with me and Derek Klasson to just chat about some of the shifting |
| 0:22.2 | narratives around the main characters involved in this game. |
| 0:27.0 | The way that we kind of got started down this path is me and Derek were talking about |
| 0:30.9 | Sequan Barclay earlier this week and just what Sequan Barclay feels like now and the way |
| 0:36.5 | that we're talking about Sequan Barclay compared to what that discussion might have looked like in August. |
| 0:42.0 | But if you zoom out a little bit, you can apply the same thinking to a lot of guys who are involved in this game. |
| 0:48.5 | Vic Fangio has shifted his legacy a little bit this season. |
| 0:51.7 | What about Zach Bonn and what he is for the Eagles compared to what |
| 0:55.0 | we expected him to be? So there are so many guys where I feel like what they've done in 2024 |
| 0:59.9 | has just reframed the way that we think about them. So that's what we're going to do today. |
| 1:05.2 | We're going to spend some time thinking about how this season has shifted the conversations |
| 1:10.0 | around a lot of the biggest players and |
| 1:12.6 | personalities in this game. So let's get to that conversation with me and Derek right now. |
| 1:22.7 | All right, Derek, here we go. From the Toyota Studio at Radio Row here in New Orleans. Day three at Radio |
| 1:29.7 | Row. How are you feeling? It's a long week and this is your first ones. I've just been trying to |
| 1:34.3 | intermittently check in with you every so often to make sure you're doing okay. This is the perfect |
| 1:38.5 | day to ask me that question because I've realized Wednesday needs to be the like reset day to get |
| 1:43.5 | through the rest of the week, to get through Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night and get to Sunday. So today, we're trying to get through our work. We're going to tone it down a little bit. We're going to get to the rest of the week here. Radio Row is always funny. Monday, Tuesday is much quiet. Okay. And then when you walk in on Wednesday, you can literally hear the difference in what this place is going to feel like the moment you walk in the door. |
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