Who'd You Rather?: A series of this-or-that decisions with Yahoo's Charles McDonald; Plus, Jon Robinson's firing with Joe Rexrode
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🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
It's a staple of sports talk. Would you rather be this team or that team for the future? We've had some fun with it on The Athletic Football Show this season. So much fun, in fact, that we decided to make a whole episode out of it. Charles McDonald from Yahoo joins Robert Mays on this episode to dig into such Who'd You Rathers as Lions vs. Jaguars, Justin Jefferson vs. Micah Parsons and Broncos vs. Cardinals. Plus, The Athletic's Titans beat reporter Joe Rexrode joins the show to discuss the stunning firing of GM Jon Robinson.
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3:47 Lions or Jaguars
14:40 Vikings or Titans, but you have to keep Cousins/Tannehill
21:10 Justin Jefferson or Micah Parsons
27:59 Derek Carr or Jimmy Garoppolo + $5m
38:24 Falcons or Panthers
45:25 Broncos or Cardinals
57:29 Titans fire GM Jon Robinson
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:18.5 | Fun show for you guys today. |
| 0:19.9 | Joe Rex Road, one of our Titans |
| 0:21.1 | writers at The Athletic is going to be joining us a little bit later to talk about pretty shocking |
| 0:25.3 | news that the Titans decided to fire their general manager in December when they were winning |
| 0:30.0 | the division and had just given him an extension in February. They're a consistent playoff team. |
| 0:35.6 | I can't remember any timing like this for this sort of move for a team that's positioned like the Titans are. So excited to talk to Joe and just get some clarity on what the hell is going on there. But before we get there, I am very pleased to welcome from Yahoo, one of our favorite guests here on the athletic football show. Charles McDonald, how you doing, man? |
| 0:55.7 | I'm doing good. |
| 0:57.1 | I'm trying to convince myself that I haven't hit like that late season wall yet. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm trying to keep myself going, but I'm happy to be here and talk some ball. |
| 1:08.6 | It definitely beats riding, you know, so I get a nice little break from that. |
| 1:13.1 | You don't have to tell me. |
| 1:18.7 | I'm trying to be post-writing at some point, you know? |
| 1:21.5 | Well, listen, we're on the same page there. |
| 1:23.5 | I do miss it. |
| 1:24.5 | I do miss it. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm chipping away in some stuff right now. |
| 1:26.9 | I may be writing here before the end of the year. Yeah, the post, I always miss it. I do miss it. I'm chipping away in some stuff right now. I may be right in here before the end of the year. |
| 1:29.5 | Yeah, the post, I always hit a wall like right around Thanksgiving. And I usually, I come in for a landing. We go to Miami for Thanksgiving. And even not having to record on that Thursday and like getting a couple of days, I usually feel refreshed. And then I woke up this morning after doing the hangover with Sando yesterday and realized I'm not refreshed. It's December. We're 13 due to the season. So it's going to be okay. Playoff time is right around the corner. We're almost there. The playoffs often save us. So we're in that little bit of a lull where the cream is kind of separated itself. We know who the playoff teams are. |
| 2:01.8 | We know who the teams are. They're going to be drafted in the top five. If you guys want to go back and listen to some teams that are in rebuilding mode or really kind of had disappointing seasons, we talked about 10 different teams last week with Jordan Roderick and Daniel Jeremiah on this show. We'll have plenty of time as we get going here over the next |
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