What we learned from our 2021 NFL take mistakes with Lindsay Jones
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
The Athletic
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
What take mistakes did we learn the most about during this NFL season? Robert Mays and Lindsay Jones look back on their takes from 2021, what has changed and why. They discuss Kyler Murray, defenses across the league, Browns’ hype, the concept of “saving” QBs and much more. Plus, they also talk about the Raiders’ GM and head coach search, where Dan Quinn will land and other news from the interview process.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:17.6 | The Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:18.1 | Because like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. |
| 0:20.0 | Get a quote today. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. Today's Thursday, January 20th. I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:26.6 | Joining me today is my good friend Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, how you doing? I'm great. Happy to be back with you this week. |
| 0:32.6 | Glad you were feeling better. We're ready to do this. I am happy to be back. I'm happy to be back with you. Thank you very |
| 0:39.2 | much for holding down the fort. Speaking of that, if you guys have not listened to yesterday's |
| 0:43.6 | episode with Dean Bruegler and Lance Dirline, the first of their draft podcast that's going to be |
| 0:48.6 | coming to you guys weekly, at least through the draft every single Wednesday. Please go check that |
| 0:53.3 | out. They did such a great job. I'm so thrilled to have them just as part of our overall coverage. We're trying to give you guys different voices, different perspectives, and really make this kind of a well-rounded look at the NFL every single time in the calendar. And half the league is looking forward to the draft now. So if you're one of those teams, you're one of those fans, please go check out the work that Lance and Dane are doing. They kind of laid out what the 2022 class looks like. How diluted is it at the top? What does the quarterback landscape look like? What sort of teams are really going to define the first round? So please go listen to that if you have not. Today, we're going to do a couple different things. We're planning on more news having happened before the show today. It's been a really slow process with some of the coaching and GM hires. We can talk about that in a second. But because there's not a ton to dig into there, what we're going to do today is look back a |
| 1:44.3 | little bit. |
| 1:45.0 | We're going to look at, we're going to do some take forensics, I guess is what you can call it. |
| 1:49.4 | We're going to look at some of the opinions or thoughts we had, either coming into the season |
| 1:54.4 | or early in the season that we learn from, that are going to be informative as we think |
| 1:59.5 | about the league moving forward some stuff |
| 2:01.8 | that maybe didn't doesn't look as great in retrospect but we're not afraid of that we're not |
| 2:06.8 | shy in a way here this isn't a fear-based podcast Lindsay absolutely not so this will be admitting |
| 2:12.2 | our mistakes and finding ways that we can all be better with our takes moving forward. |
| 2:20.0 | First of all, let's dig into some of this news. |
| 2:21.9 | I guess first things first, just on a general level. |
| 2:24.6 | Why do you think it's been a little bit slower this year? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.