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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Which NFL division has the best quarterbacks in 2026?

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Nfl Draft, Robert Mays, Football, Nfl, Sports, Football,

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It's Mailbag Monday, we're in May, and the questions are only getting goofier. This week, the guys discuss which divisions have the best of each position group, ask themselves how we should think about o-line prospects, whether the Cleveland Browns and New York Jets have a chance at a title, and much more. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen, and Dave Helman answer all your questions.


Host: Robert Mays

Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman

Executive Producer: Michael Beller

Senior Producer: Katy Duffy

Social Producer: Scott Krinch


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

0:01.7

I'm Robert Mays.

0:02.5

It's another mailbag Monday here on the Athletic Football Show feed. We are deep into the offseason now. And the questions reflect that. And I mean that in a very positive way. We had a couple really fun ones to chew on as part of this, like picking the best position groups from each division, which we spent a long time doing. That was a great question. But a lot of good ones.

0:21.6

Thank you to everyone who spent the time to send in the questions.

0:24.6

We do this in part because the quality of the questions is so good every single week.

0:28.2

So let's get to it with me, Dave, Derek, and our producer, Katie, right now. It's another mailbag Monday here on the athletic football show.

0:47.2

Very excited to get back to these.

0:49.2

We've got a really good collection of questions.

0:51.1

Sincerely appreciate everyone who spent the time to send them in.

0:55.2

Beller is out today. So Katie, our producer, is going to be reading the questions. I honestly

1:01.8

think you have the biggest shoes to fill of anybody that could be missing on this show right now,

1:07.0

just because of the dulcet tones that Beller brings to this process every week.

1:11.6

I know. I thought about doing an impression of his voice, that i really don't think that would go well so we're just

1:15.2

i kind of i kind of wish you would i would like i don't see what that sounds like that's not going to go

1:19.3

well got some good ones today we are deep in the off season now and some of these questions reflect

1:25.4

that i mean that as a compliment these are like some deep off questions. There are some really fun ones in here that some like actually

1:32.0

spent took a lot of time and some prep and some real thinking and I really am excited to get to a

1:36.9

couple of those. But let's kick this off, Katie. What's our first one? First one is from Discord.

1:42.2

Single T says pure offseason question. What players from the pre-HGTV era of football would you most enjoy having today's level of access of film and analytics to study? What does a Barry Sanders run from the All-22 with the AI trail line and advanced stats look like? What does a Reggie White Bull Rush look like from the end zone cam? Things like that. Robert, go ahead and take this one. I'll throw out two and they're kind of connected. My answer to this is pretty consistently like Dan Marino. Like I would love to go back and watch like 80s Dan Marino from the All-22 and see what it actually looked like. And the game I would really love to watch, and this kind of takes me into the second part

2:21.2

of the thing, is in 85 when Dan Marino was the only quarterback who could beat the 85 Bears.

2:25.6

I would also love to go back, especially on the heels of what the Seahawks were last year

2:29.7

and the fact that defense is really back in the NFL and we have these really, really good defenses,

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