Von Miller traded to the Rams, Derrick Henry injured & Mailbag talking Eagles, Cowboys, NFL rule changes & more with Benjamin Solak

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🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Benjamin Solak of The Ringer joins Robert Mays on the heels of the Von Miller trade, which sends the All-Pro from the Denver Broncos to the Los Angeles Rams. They react to it all + the Derrick Henry injury news before diving into your mailbag questions concerning the Eagles, the Cowboys and Kellen Moore, choosing between the Browns and the Bengals, a fun spin on an NFL rule change and much more.

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0:00.0	This is the athletic football show.
0:15.8	Welcome to the athletic football show.
0:18.3	Today's Tuesday, November 2nd.
0:20.0	I'm Robert Mays.
0:21.3	We got a jam-packed show today.
0:23.5	A lot of things went down this morning that we're going to get to, and I'm very excited to welcome
0:27.7	the ringers own Ben Solack.
0:30.7	Still getting used to saying that, but very happy that I get to.
0:34.0	Yeah, I got the breaking news this morning on the phone with our mutual buddy Riley,
0:39.2	who's now the guy who has to deal with all my excessive film face and excitement after
0:43.9	previously for many many years.
0:45.3	He dealt with yours.
0:46.2	So for Riley, he says hi.
0:48.0	And yeah, we screamed about Vaughn Miller for like 20 minutes today.
0:50.8	It was great.
0:51.5	Well, Riley's a Rams fan.
0:52.6	So this is a big moment for him.
0:54.8	The only like real Rams fan I knew in Los Angeles because Riley's fandom is very strange. No one gives a shit about this, but no one knows who Riley Magatia is to listen to this show. Riley was a Kings fan. He was a Rams fan. He was a great person to have in the office. I think Riley and I annoyed a lot of other people in the office whenever I would be there because we would just talk about sports in public in this open space office. And I always appreciate that about him. He's a great office mate. Yeah, he's he's the man. He also has a horrible beard and mustache right now. Oh, God. It should be noted as well. That sounds terrible. It's something else. All right. We have a lot to get to today. Obviously, the Von Miller trade went down earlier today. We were going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the ramifications for both the Broncos and the Rams. And we had some huge Derek Henry news. But let's start with Von Miller. And let's start from the Rams side of this.
1:46.1	Just makes all the sense in the world considering what their timeline is, the way they operate, where their needs are.
1:53.4	I mean, as soon as I saw it, it's shocking, obviously, because he's a Hall of Fame talent.
1:58.4	He is so identified with that franchise.
2:00.6	He's been there for over decade.
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