This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today is my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, buddy? Doing great. I was just thinking about how every one of these shows for the next month, you're just going to have a changing background. Oh, it's going to be something completely different. Is it not in Zoom at all? Actually, you moving from hotel room to hotel room. The next time I talked to a college class or a journalism student and they asked me what the job is like,

I'm just going to tell them about this beautiful view I have right now of the Buffalo airport that as I'm staring out this window over a parking lot,

it's been a heck of a two days in a fun way.

Like it is so good to be back on the road and back around football.

But I mean, I've spent the last two days

at Colts and Browns training camp and most of the highway in America between Chicago and

Buffalo where I am right now. But it's been great. And we have a really fun show for you guys today.

I've been on the road. And as part of this show, we're going to have check-ins from both of the

camps I've been to, the Colts and the Browns. And that includes sit downs with athletic writers from both teams. Zach Kiefer and Zach Jackson, really enjoy talking to both of those guys. Great insight. And that's the hope over the next few weeks is I want to be able to give you guys a sense of what this time of year is like around the NFL and what it's like to be

at these camps. And sometimes that's going to mean conversations with the writers who know these

teams way more than I do, way more than you do. Also, I wanted the show to kind of be a window

beyond that into what this trip is like for me every year. And that's going to include some of the

sit downs that I'm going to have with various coaches and players that I talk to you. In years past when I've done this, all the stuff is either gone out the window or it's been gone into the writing that I've done. I think this year is a real opportunity to kind of have these conversations on the show. And we're starting that off today with Brown's tight end coach

Drew Petzing, who has worked with Kevin Stefanski for years, dating back to their time in Minnesota.

He's an up-and-coming assistant in the league. I'm really hoping that conversations like that can

give you guys some insight into the voices and personalities around the league and into, again,

what this time of year is like for us.

And maybe it won't.

Maybe it's a terrible idea, but we're going to give it a try anyway.

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