About this episode

The episode discusses the offseason performance of eight NFL teams, making buy or sell calls on their player acquisitions.

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 Panthers and Steelers, are outside of the top two groups of teams for understandable reasons. They're joined here by the Saints, Commanders, Colts, Vikings, Buccaneers and Bengals. Did those eight teams do well for themselves during the player-acquisition period over the last three months? Robert Mays and Dave Helman make buy-or-sell calls on all eight of them on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Host: Robert Mays Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman Executive Producer: Michael Beller Senior Producer: Katy Duffy Social Producer: Scott Krinch Follow Robert on Bluesky: @robertmays.bsky.social Follow Dave on Bluesky: @davehelman.bsky.social Follow Robert on X: @RobertMays Follow Dave on X: @DaveHelman_ Theme song: Haunted Written by Dylan Slocum, Trevor Dietrich, Ruben Duarte, Kyle McAulay, and Meredith VanWoert / Performed by Spanish Love Songs Courtesy of Pure Noise / By arrangement with Bank Robber Music, LLC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Robert Mays

Guest: Dave Helman

Topics covered

• NFL offseason
• team analysis
• player acquisition
• buy or sell
• middle class teams

Keywords

• NFL
• offseason
• Panthers
• Steelers
• buy or sell
• team performance
• player acquisition

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Athletic, Spanish Love Songs, Pure Noise, Bank Robber Music, LLC

Places: Panthers, Steelers, Saints, Commanders, Colts, Vikings, Buccaneers, Bengals

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