Who has the most at stake in 2025?
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
The Athletic
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Every NFL season is important to every person in the league. But we know that some players, coaches and executives have more at stake in any given season than others. So who has the most at stake in 2025? Robert Mays and Dave Helman answer that question on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Two Titans of Silicon Valley, one prize, dominance in the world of artificial intelligence. |
| 0:07.0 | Supremacy is the real story behind the struggle to own our digital future and potentially the very nature of human experience. |
| 0:16.0 | Supremacy by Parmy Olson, described as a riveting tale by the new scientist, winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year, and now the Waterstone's nonfiction book of the month. |
| 0:27.5 | Listen to the audiobook of Supremacy Now. |
| 0:35.4 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Got a mainstay show coming for you guys today. A sign that training camp is officially here. We've done the show over the last few years. Me and Dave Helman are going to be talking about who has the most at stake in the NFL this season. I appreciate that Dave took this exercise the same way that I took it. |
| 0:56.7 | These are guys that have money at stake, have jobs at stake. |
| 1:00.0 | Depending on how this season goes, could it shift one way or another for their NFL futures? |
| 1:05.7 | Coaches, executives, quarterbacks, pending free agents. |
| 1:08.7 | We hit all of it on today's show. |
| 1:11.2 | Let's get to that conversation with me and Dave right now. |
| 1:19.1 | I love doing this show every year because to me it's a real sign that the season is back. |
| 1:23.6 | I always do the show early in training camp. |
| 1:25.9 | Probably right around this date almost every year. |
| 1:27.9 | If you went and checked out when we did the Who Has the Most at Stakes Show last year, it was probably around like July 27th, July 28th. |
| 1:34.8 | So very excited to dig into this. |
| 1:37.2 | But David, before we dig into the show today, we got a little bit of housekeeping to take care of. |
| 1:42.8 | I'm not sure you're aware of this, but you have something that you want to tell the people. |
| 1:48.2 | Yeah, I guess if you've been wondering why I'm in your ears and on your feed so frequently, it's because I work here now. |
| 1:56.3 | I joined the athletic football show. |
| 1:59.0 | I guess we'll call it a slow rollout. But yeah, I guess I've been |
| 2:03.8 | here for a little bit, but we can mark this as the official start. I'm joining the crew. |
| 2:09.1 | I could not be more excited, Robert. I mean, I've told you this 100,000 times, not on a podcast, |
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