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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
The Athletic’s flagship NFL podcast covers the league like only The Athletic can. Host Robert Mays and co-hosts Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman dive into the biggest stories, break down the Xs and Os, and tackle the ins and outs of roster building. They meticulously follow the details of why we all l...
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Everything you need to know about Brendan Sorsby & the NFL Supplemental Draft
The various sagas roiling college football typically fall outside our purview here on The Athletic Football Show, but nothing about the Brendan Sorsby...
Walking in the shoes of a non-playcalling offensive coordinator with Bengals OC Dan Pitcher
The success of coaches like Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay has created a group of coaches that, at one time in the recent past, were quite rare...non-pl...
The under-26 non-QB player draft
The NFL, as always, is in good hands going forward with all the young talent across the league. Just how good? Well, Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and D...
Can you actually find success chasing a trend in today’s NFL?
This week’s mailbag yielded one of the best hypotheticals we have ever received…and a bunch of other very good questions too. Who are the NFL’s best p...
Nine players who quietly defined the 2025 season
For every Will Anderson Jr. and Jaxon Smith-Njigba, there's a Robert Spillane and Parker Washington. In other words, for every superstar who clearly l...
Was Jayden Daniels' injury really behind the Commanders 2025 collapse? That, and more lingering questions
In the first installment of Lingering Questions this offseason, we cheated by asking the same question about four then-rookie quarterbacks. Now, we're...
Which NFC team has the best supporting cast around its quarterback?
In the second and final edition of our annual Supporting Casts miniseries, we flip our attention over to the NFC where, frankly, things are a whole lo...
How "all in" is too far all in?
They say if you give an NFL team an inch (drafting Ty Simpson), they'll take a mile (trading the farm for Myles Garrett)...isn't that what they say? R...
Inside the TE revolution — from someone living it
Tight end Charlie Kolar caught 10 passes for 142 yards and two touchdowns last season. In the offseason, he signed a three-year deal with the Chargers...
Which second-year QB showed the most promise entering 2026?
Our Lingering Questions series is back, and we kick it off this year with a doozy. Four rookie quarterbacks had at least 250 dropbacks last season, an...
Which AFC team has the best supporting cast around its quarterback?
Last season's Seahawks became the latest team to prove that you don't need an elite quarterback to win the Super Bowl. An elite supporting cast can do...
BREAKING NEWS: Myles Garrett traded to Rams
The NFL certainly has a way of grabbing the spotlight, doesn't it? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen break down the stunning trade of Myles Garrett to th...
Who is the best true utility player in the NFL?
You ever think about where an elite middle linebacker of yesteryear might play in today's NFL? You ever find yourself pondering who the best true util...
Offseason beliefs we won't live to regret (unless we do)
As we get closer to June 1 and the true beginning of the summer, the earliest thought embers of what we think about the 2026 season are beginning to g...
Dart throws from the 2026 NFL Draft that will actually make a difference
Let's be honest, a lot of sixth and seventh round NFL Draft picks never come back into our consciousness after draft night...but a few are primed to a...
Which current NFL quarterbacks are worth acquiring for the #1 pick?
Cognitive dissonance in the way we talk about Mike Tomlin and Nick Sirianni? Top-five football heartbreaks? The worst QB the Raiders would've been wil...
Buy or Sell Their Offseasons: The Contenders
Our Buy or Sell Their Offseasons series wraps up, as it always does, with The Contenders. You could fairly quibble with one or two of the teams we hav...
Our surprisingly intrusive NFL thoughts
From genuine interest in the Steelers offense to enduring power of the league's evolutionary instincts, Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen find themselves...
Are coaches more valuable than non-QB players in today's NFL?
Opening up the mailbag this week felt like opening up Pandora's Box. But, you know, the NFL version of Pandora's Box. In this case, it was filled with...
Buy or sell their offseasons: Playoff hopefuls
OK, this is where the Buy or Sell Their Offseasons series gets really good. We've reached the portion of the proceedings where every team in an episod...
The sneaky offseason additions shaping the 2027 NFL season
Sure, Dexter Lawrence got traded to the Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah, Kenneth Walker III signed with the Kansas City Chiefs. Okay, Mike Evans left the Tam...
Position groups that got a facelift in 2026
In a league with as much turnover as the NFL, teams are always going to look different from season to season. What's striking, though, is when a team...
Which NFL division has the best quarterbacks in 2026?
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 posit...
Revisiting our coldest takes From the 2025 NFL season
Picture this: you're in the warm air of the offseason, you're listening to players talk about how they're in the "best shape of their life," you're wa...
Is the 5th-year option still a viable pption for team building?
The 2023 Draft class is proving to be a conundrum at the fifth-year option milestone. Bryce Young, CJ Stroud, and Bijan Robinson highlight some of the...
Buy or sell their offseasons: The Middle Class
Our Buy or Sell Their Offseasons series moves on to The Middle Class, which features a couple of playoff teams from last season. Those teams, the Pant...
How long can an NFL team sustain an elite defense?
It's May, dear TAFS listener, and you know what that means: The real NFL offseason is here. We kick it off by opening up the mailbag, and you all deli...
Buy or sell their offseason: The rebuilders
Every team in the NFL is going to have its own approach to the offseason, in part defined by where it sees itself fitting into the league's hierarchy....
The 2026 NFL Draft dust has settled, but we still have questions
OK, the 2026 NFL Draft is comfortably in the rear-view mirror. We've done in-the-moment reactions, and now-that-we've-slept-on-it reactions. It's done...
Now that you've slept on it...NFL Draft takeaways
One hundred picks were made across the first two nights of the draft, with each one coming right on the heels of the one that happened before it. When...
The messages teams sent in the 2026 NFL Draft
Sometimes, a draft class is more than a draft class. Sometimes, a draft class can tell the entire NFL world what you think about your team. Robert May...
Full recap of the 2026 NFL Draft
The NFL Draft has come and gone - or rather, it was on it's way out the door as we sat down to record this episode - and we have much to discuss. Robe...
2026 NFL Draft night two recap
Night two of the 2026 NFL Draft is in the books and, once again, we implore you to go check out our full, pick-by-pick recap on our YouTube channel. I...
2026 NFL Draft first round recap
Did you miss our first-round livestream on Thursday night? Welp, go ahead and watch it on YouTube. But if you want the Reader's Digest version, we've...
Our final questions before the 2026 NFL Draft
The first round of the 2026 NFL Draft may be mere moments away, but we still have time to squeeze in a last few questions before Roger Goodell takes t...
Are we wrong about running back value?
The NFL Draft is right on our doorstep, and it's looking likely that some team is going to make Jeremiyah Love a top-five pick. That's right, the runn...
Which Fringe Prospects Will SNEAK Into the First Round?
There's something soothing about finishing a mock draft...even a mock draft done by six different people. With just picks 26 through 32 remaining, EJ...
Are "bad" drafts an advantage for the NFL's best or worst teams?
Another Monday, another time opening up the mailbag. This week, Dave Helman and Derrik Klassen answer your questions about whether NFL GM's are judged...
Why we're planting our flags for these day 2 & 3 prospects
Jalon Kilgore, Riley Nowakowski, Reggie Virgil, Peter Woods...what do these guys have in common? They're OUR guys. A week ahead of the draft, we're of...
Which offensive lineman has the highest ceiling in the 2026 NFL Draft class?
Dane Brugler put out his full, seven-round mock for the 2026 NFL Draft, and it included eight offensive linemen going in the first round. That would p...