Yahoo Sports NFL: Zero Blitz
532 episodes - English - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsYahoo Sports' new podcast home for all things football. Zero Blitz features four distinct NFL shows that air weekly during the football season; from game recaps to offbeat conversations to the latest rumors and predictions from Yahoo's NFL insiders, featuring Jason Fitz, Charles McDonald, Charles Robinson, Frank Schwab & Jori Epstein.
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Aaron Rodgers, Kyler Murray & the teams most likely to make a QB change
February 28, 2022 01:06 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBAfter a two-week post-Super Bowl break, You Pod to Win the Game is back in action for the NFL combine, free agency, and the start of the 2022 league year. Charles Robinson & Dan Wetzel open the show briefly acknowledging the war in Ukraine and this surreal moment in world history before diving into the latest NFL stories percolating during the brief desolate news period between the Super Bowl and the combine. What has been happening in that period? Well, there's the latest in the ...
Super Bowl LVI Recap: Donald wrecks & Kupp drops MVP performance to bring Lombardi back to L.A.
February 14, 2022 22:16 - 56 minutes - 52 MBOn Sunday night, the Los Angeles Rams made it two wins in a row for teams playing the Super Bowl in their home stadium. L.A. took home the Vince Lombardi trophy in Super Bowl LVI with a 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in a tense, defensively-minded game with many ups and downs for both teams. Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab recap it all the morning after the game: from Odell Beckham, Jr.'s feared ACL tear, to the monstrous performances from Rams stars Aaron Donald & Coope...
Super Bowl LVI preview: Joe Cool's big stage, McVay v. Taylor & LA's all-in moment
February 11, 2022 01:47 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBIt's finally here. Super Bowl LVI kicks off on Sunday afternoon, and the entire You Pod to Win the Game crew is in Los Angeles for the occasion. Recorded live at Radio Row, Charles Robinson welcomes Yahoo's Frank Schwab and Shalise Manza Young to talk about all the big stories heading into Sunday's game. They open the show sharing a few memories of Terez Paylor on the anniversary of his passing and the empty hole we all feel not having Terez at the Super Bowl for the first time. L...
Grading the NFL's head coaching hires & what happened to Jim Harbaugh?
February 07, 2022 04:23 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBFive of the nine open head coaching positions in the NFL have been filled. Six, if you include the reported, but unofficial, hire of Ram's offensive coordinator Kevin O'Connell in Minnesota. On the eve of Super Bowl week, Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab look back at the new head honchos in for the Denver Broncos, Chicago Bears, New York Giants, Las Vegas Raiders and Jacksonville Jaguars; how these hires came to be, whether they fit with their new teams & whether they can fix these ...
Tanking, fraud, racism, sexual harassment: NFL's very bad Super Bowl bye week
February 04, 2022 06:02 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBIn under a week and a half, the NFL will crown its next Super Bowl champion in the Cincinnati Bengals or the Los Angeles Rams, what should be a celebratory occasion marking the end of another successful season. In the meantime, the NFL is mired in one of its worst PR disasters in recent memory. Charles Robinson welcomes Yahoo Sports' Dan Wetzel and Liz Loza onto the podcast to discuss the week's two largest stories, where allegations of racism, fraud & sexual harassment serve as a ...
Sunday Night Double Down: Bengals & Rams advance to Super Bowl 56, Tom Brady retires?
January 31, 2022 06:16 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBConference championship weekend continued the streak of nail biting games on Sunday as the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams advanced to Super Bowl 56. But the drama wasn't contained to Sunday, as ESPN reported Saturday afternoon that Tom Brady would be retiring after 22 seasons. Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab dedicate the first half of tonight's podcast to the two conference title games. The Kansas City Chiefs suffered a stunning collapse from leading 21-3 over Joe Burrow's...
Sean Payton's future, why head coach hirings are slow & conference championship preview
January 27, 2022 01:43 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBNew Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton shocked the NFL world on Tuesday by announcing he would be, "stepping away," from the franchise and, at least temporarily, from the head coaching ranks. Charles Robinson is joined by The Ringer's Kevin Clark to react to the news that one of the league's best coaches was suddenly a free agent. Beyond the Dallas Cowboys, who have been rumored to be interested in Payton for years, what other teams could be interested in bringing in the Super B...
Divisional Round Sunday Night Freestyle: Four stunning finishes for NFL's final four
January 24, 2022 06:14 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBFour games, four amazing finishes. In arguably the best divisional playoff weekend in NFL history, the Cincinnati Bengals, San Francisco 49ers, Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs came out victorious in games that all came down to the final moments. Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab recap these four historic games, mourn for another painful Buffalo Bills loss and wonder what's next for Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady and the Tennessee Titans. Stay up to date with the latest NFL news an...
2022 divisional round preview & updates on the Terez Paylor scholarships
January 20, 2022 04:39 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBThe NFL's elite eight has been set and all the contenders have their case to win Super Bowl LV. Charles Robinson is joined by Yahoo's Jay Busbee to preview the four matchups in this weekend's divisional round playoffs. Can the overlooked Tennessee Titans hold onto home field advantage with Derrick Henry likely returning to action after missing the latter half of the season? Will Aaron Rodgers take it to the San Francisco 49ers team who bounced his Green Bay Packers from the playoff...
BONUS! Rams smoke the Cardinals on MNF + live listener mailbag
January 18, 2022 06:46 - 56 minutes - 52 MBCharles Robinson & Frank Schwab are joined by producer Brett Rader and Yahoo Sports head of audience development Akshay Mirchandani on Twitter Spaces following the Los Angeles Rams Monday night blowout of the Arizona Cardinals. They chat about why the Los Angeles Rams suddenly look like world-beaters heading into Tampa Bay next week, what's next for Arizona after their latest collapse and then take a number of live questions from listeners. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and o...
Wild Card Sunday Night Freestyle: Refs a factor in Cowboys & Raiders losses while Bills, Chiefs & Bucs dominate
January 17, 2022 07:26 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBFive of the six Wild Card games are in the books, and they certainly did not finish without controversy. Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab recap the five weekend games from 2022's Wild Card slate, opening with the Dallas Cowboys' 23-17 loss to the San Francisco 49ers. Were the referees really at fault for the timing of the final play? Should Mike McCarthy lose his job for this playoff collapse? Can the SF run game be Green Bay's achilles heel in the second round? Charles & Frank disc...
Black Monday postmortem, rookie head coach rankings & Wild Card weekend preview
January 13, 2022 05:02 - 1 hour - 81.2 MBBlack Monday wasn't quite Black Monday this year — mostly because it extended from Sunday to Tuesday. The Denver Broncos fired Vic Fangio before most of the rest of the league even kicked off on Week 18, and after waffling for an extra day, the New York Giants parted ways with Joe Judge in a surprisingly unsurprising move on Tuesday. Between then, the Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings & Chicago Bears also relieved Brian Flores, Mike Zimmer & Matt Nagy of their respective services. ...
Week 18 Sunday Night Freestyle: Chargers-Raiders insanity, Colts clown show & Fangio's firing cap wild season finale
January 10, 2022 08:46 - 1 hour - 64 MBSunday kicked off the first Week 18 in NFL history, and boy, did the league get every minute's worth. There were three overtime games including a nail biting Chargers-Raiders classic that saw the Black Hole earn their first playoff berth in 5 years thanks to a Daniel Carlson field goal in the final seconds of OT. Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab react to one of the wildest finishes in recent memory on today's podcast & run through the key stories as the league shifts into post-seaso...
Playoff scenarios, more Antonio Brown fallout & 2022 head coaching candidates
January 06, 2022 03:06 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBThe end of the NFL regular season brings two major topics: playoffs and awards. Charles Robinson is joined by Yahoo's Shalise Manza Young to kick off the mid-week podcast discussing the MVP award and recent comments made by Chicago based reporter Hub Arkush that he would not be voting for Aaron Rodgers to take home his second consecutive trophy. Moving onto the playoffs, Charles breaks down where the playoff seeding stands with just one more weekend to go and why the NFC has gone f...
Week 17 Sunday Night Freestyle: Antonio Brown quits, Green Bay clinches, Ja'Marr is unstoppable
January 03, 2022 07:17 - 1 hour - 59 MBThe most surprising moment of the 2021 season happened on January 2nd, 2022. In the middle of the third quarter of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' come-from-behind win over the New York Jets, Antonio Brown removed his shoulder pads, threw his undershirt into the crowd, jumped up and down in the end zone and ran off into the locker room, for what may be his last time ever as a professional football player. Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab kick off this Sunday night podcast reacting to the ...
Steelers' future after Big Ben, RIP John Madden & the Jaguars' head coaching search
December 31, 2021 03:11 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBThe NFL world lost a giant on Tuesday when John Madden passed away at the age of 85. Charles Robinson is joined by Yahoo's Eric Edholm and they open the podcast remembering the legendary figure who revolutionized coaching, broadcasting and video games. Next, Charles & Eric react to Ben Roethlisberger's quotes on Thursday that Sunday would likely be his final home game with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The guys talk about Big Ben's legacy and what the Steelers should do at quarterback n...
Week 16 Sunday Night Freestyle: Be afraid, be very afraid of the Chiefs and Cowboys
December 27, 2021 06:45 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBIs 56-14 an emphatic enough win for the Dallas Cowboys over the Washington Football Team? Yeah, probably. With the offense and defense firing on all cylinders, Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab open the Sunday night podcast asking: is there a scarier team in the NFL right now than Dallas? Some other contenders may be the Cincinnati Bengals, who were lifted to a 20-point win over the division rival Baltimore Ravens thanks to Joe Burrow's 525 passing yards, or the Kansas City Chiefs, w...
Playoff confidence index, AFC North buzzsaw & what's happening in the MVP race
December 23, 2021 02:36 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers' loss on Sunday Night Football three days ago feels like it took place last month, mainly because there have been FOUR NFL games since then. And if we didn't already get our Christmas wish, get ready, there's more Thursday, Saturday and Monday night football to come. After discussing the state of the MVP race, Charles Robinson welcomes Yahoo NFL editor Joey Gulino to the podcast to recap the quartet of weeknight games we've had since Sunday – another loss f...
Week 15 Sunday Night Freestyle: Down go the top seeds in NFL's most frustrating weekend
December 20, 2021 07:20 - 1 hour - 56 MBThe last 5 days in the NFL have been wild. Top-seeded Arizona, Tennessee, New England and Tampa Bay all took losses of various magnitudes, shaking up the playoff picture. Shaking up the schedule picture, the NFL postponed three games into Monday and Tuesday as COVID diagnoses obliterate rosters. Oh, and Urban Meyer got fired. Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab pick up the Sunday night podcast trying to recap the wild weekend that was in the NFL. Was Detroit's win bad for both the Lion...
Urban Meyer implosion & best soon-to-be available NFL coaching jobs
December 15, 2021 15:11 - 1 hour - 65 MBThings continue to not look great for Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer. His team is 2-11, his press conferences have and increasingly frosty, yet defeated attitude and the man can't even muster a proper hand-shake for opposing head coaches. The drumbeat grows ever stronger that, despite the financial implications for owner Shahid Kahn, Urban may be a one-and-done NFL head coach. To weigh in on the state of Urban, Charles Robinson welcomes none other than College Football...
Week 14 Sunday Night Freestyle: Aaron Rodgers, Bears co-owner, leads a Sunday of OTs and blowouts
December 13, 2021 07:42 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBIn the immortal words of Dennis Green, "they are who we thought they were!" You could apply that to just about every team in Week 14? The Green Bay Packers? They whalloped the Chicago Bears. That's what they do. The Kansas City Chiefs? Smoked the Las Vegas Raiders. That's who we thought they were. Even the Buffalo Bills in a dramatic overtime loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, playing valiantly on the back of a monstrous Josh Allen performance but ultimately falling short — that's wh...
Buying into the Patriots, parsing the playoff picture & teams that should rebuild
December 08, 2021 18:03 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBA football team winning a 14-10 game in which the quarterback only threw three times sounds like something out of an experimental junior college in Montana. But that was the New England Patriots on Monday night football, securing a half game lead for the AFC's top seed with only five weeks left in the 2021 NFL season. Charles Robinson is joined by Yahoo Sports managing editor Al Toby to talk about the Patriots odd MNF win, why there's still some cause for Mac Jones hesitancy and if...
Week 13 Sunday Night Freestyle: Detroit's first win, Lamar's 2-point overthrow, Kyler's return to MVP race
December 06, 2021 07:03 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBCharles Robinson is joined by Yahoo's Frank Schwab to recap everything from Sunday's Week 13 NFL slate. They kick things off with Tampa Bay's solid win over Atlanta, more specifically, the Antonio Brown-sized hole in the Buccaneers roster following the wideout's suspension for lying about his COVID-19 vaccination status. Charles explains the wild situation coming out of Florida and why Brown maintains some leverage in the situation because of his relationship with Tom Brady. Later ...
Seahawks in panic mode, Cowboy's Kellen Moore conundrum & Bills/Pats MNF battle for AFC supremacy
December 02, 2021 02:48 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBTwo NFC teams in quicksand. Two AFC teams vying for conference supremacy. These are the focus of today's episode. Charles Robinson & Liz Loza go deep in the weeds on why the Seattle Seahawks are struggling and Russell Willson's murky future in the pacific northwest, why Mike McCarthy's COVID diagnosis in Dallas opens up a game of 5-D chess about OC Kellen Moore's place in the organization & the upcoming Patriots-Bills matchup on Monday night setting the table for these rival franchi...
Week 12 Sunday Night Freestyle: Ravens, Patriots & Bengals hold on as AFC playoff picture becomes murkier
November 29, 2021 07:28 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBAnother Sunday in 2021, another day when we ask ourselves, "is anyone in the NFL good?" More specifically, is any team in the AFC a legitimate Super Bowl contender? The Baltimore Ravens are holding onto the top seed at the current moment. They also some how eked out a 6-point win over the division rival Cleveland Browns despite Lamar Jackson's 4 interceptions. The New England Patriots housed the Tennessee Titans in a tale of two 8-4 teams trending in wildly opposite directions. Els...
Thanksgiving mailbag: NFL D-League? Has Pete Carroll lost the Seahawks? Plus, biopics & Southwest flights with Kurt Warner
November 23, 2021 21:44 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBIt's the time of the year to be thankful & this Thanksgiving, we're thankful for all of the listeners of You Pod to Win the Game. That's why Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab are opening up the listener mailbag for an almost 100% listener-driven episode. Charles & Frank answer questions about a relegation league, Pete Carroll's future with the Seattle Seahawks, Baker Mayfield's with the Cleveland Browns, Nick Sirianni's progression as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and much, m...
Week 11 Sunday Night Freestyle: The Chiefs are alright, Chargers miraculously don't Charger
November 22, 2021 07:40 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBWeek 11. It was another wild one with ugly losses (lookin' at you, Titans), incredible see-saw wins (lookin' good Chargers) & impressive shut-downs of high-powered offenses (nice one, Chiefs). It's the NFL in 2021, there shouldn't be anything surprising about tons of surprises. Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab react to all of the Sunday Week 11 games including the aforementioned wins, Green Bay's frustrating loss, Jonathan Taylor's MVP chances, Arizona continuing to rack up wins wit...
Can we trust any of the NFL's contenders to go on a Super Bowl run?
November 18, 2021 02:02 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBThe last few weeks of the 2021 NFL season have been...interesting. Heavy Super Bowl favorites like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys & Buffalo Bills have all suffered embarrassing losses to marginal teams. That doesn't even get into the confounding Kansas City Chiefs who, after two straight Super Bowl appearances, have spent much of the year hovering just under .500 while QB Patrick Mahomes has looked merely mortal. Now, someone has to win the Super Bowl th...
Week 10 Sunday Night Freestyle: Lions don't lose, Cam wins, Russ struggles & more from a weird week
November 15, 2021 07:25 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBDoes any team in the NFL want to win a game? Other than the Detroit Lions (who still remain winless, by the way)? In what feels like the second or third consecutive week of wacky results where favorites took a beating (looking at you, Tampa Bay) and last week's darlings looked like this week's chumps (hello, Denver), Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab react to everything Week 10 and try to make sense of it all. Detroit got themselves their first half-win of the season, the Dallas Cowb...
Mid-season awards, taunting penalties & what does OBJ really have left?
November 11, 2021 01:31 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBCharles Robinson is joined by Yahoo's Dan Wetzel this week for a conversation about the reignited backlash against taunting penalties, sparked by a questionable call against Chicago's Cassius Marsh on Monday Night Football. Washington Football Team star edge rusher Chase Young also calls in for five minutes to give his thoughts on the taunting penalty, WFT's upcoming name change & his work with USAA in honor of Veteran's Day this Thursday. Later in the podcast, Charles & Dan chat a...
Week 9 Sunday Night Freestyle: Can any team be trusted right now?
November 08, 2021 07:11 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBIt's a simple question. Can you trust any team in the NFL right now? The simple answer, after today's lopsided results, is a resounding no. A number of underdogs won outright leading to one of the most confounding NFL Sundays in recent memory. Charles Robinson is joined as always on a Sunday evening by Frank Schwab to talk about the Tennessee Titans upsetting the Los Angeles Rams, the Denver Broncos nearly shutting out the high-octane Dallas Cowboys, Josh Allen (not that Josh Allen...
Aaron Rodgers' sneaky vaccine untruth, Von Miller's trade, OBJ's unlikely future in Cleveland & more
November 04, 2021 03:13 - 1 hour - 57 MBThe last 72 hours have moved at light speed in the NFL. Since we last released a podcast, there was a barrage of massive stories around the world of football. As always, the trade deadline itself went out with a whimper, but not before a blockbuster trade sending Von Miller to the Los Angeles Rams on Monday. What else happened? Derrick Henry underwent surgery for a Jones fracture in his foot and will likely miss at least the remainder of the regular season. Michael Thomas announced...
Week 8 Sunday Night Freestyle: Night of the backup quarterback
November 01, 2021 06:30 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBOn a spooky Halloween in the NFL, the scariest thing a handful of teams faced were competent backup quarterbacks. Cooper Rush, Trevor Siemian, Mike White and Geno Smith all pulled out victories today, keeping playoff hopes alive for the likes of the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints while actively frustrating fans of the Cincinnati Bengals & Minnesota Vikings Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab talk about all of the Week 8 results including Rush's fourth quarter heroics, the Saints...
Emails, legal fees & s**t-talking: inside WFT, Watson and NFL owners' impending knife-fight
October 28, 2021 00:23 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBA story broke on Wednesday that may have gone under-the-radar for most NFL fans, but has the potential to snowball into the largest story of the year. ESPN's Seth Wickersham reported that emotions reportedly ran high during a closed-door meeting of the NFL's owners on Tuesday. Los Angeles Ram's owner Stan Kroenke made it clear he no longer plans to cover the other owners' legal fees as the league is currently embroiled in a legal battle over the Rams relocation from St. Louis to L.A...
Week 7 Sunday Night Freestyle: Will the Bengals make the playoffs while the Chiefs miss out?
October 25, 2021 06:17 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBCharles Robinson is joined as always on a late Sunday night by Yahoo's very own Frank Schwab to react to all of the games from Week 7's Sunday slate, starting with the evening's rain-slicked mess in San Francisco. It wasn't pretty but, Carson Wentz led the Indianapolis Colts to a win thanks to a baller Jonathan Taylor performance and a barrage of 49er turnovers. The two key results of the day were Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals torching the division rival Baltimore Ravens an...
Baker & Lamar at contract crossroads, AFC's power vacuum & trade deadline buyers/sellers
October 21, 2021 00:05 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBBaker Mayfield & Lamar Jackson, the first and last picks of the 2018 NFL draft, are at a crossroads. A handful of games into their fourth season, Mayfield has a torn labrum in his non-throwing shoulder and is expected to miss at least a week in what may be a lost season for both the young QB and his franchise. Jackson, on the other hand, has been electric and his Baltimore Ravens are 5-1, in pole position for AFC's top seed in the playoffs. Charles Robinson is joined this week by E...
Week 6 Sunday Night Freestyle: No more questions about Dallas & Arizona
October 18, 2021 06:47 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBAfter five weeks, maybe you thought the hot starts by the Dallas Cowboys & Arizona Cardinals were a fluke. Neither performed well in 2020, so maybe 2021 was just more smoke & mirrors from these two NFC squads. Well, after exciting & impressive wins over the New England Patriots & Cleveland Browns, it may be fair to call these teams legit Super Bowl contenders. Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab kick off the podcast reacting to Pittsburgh's OT win over Seattle, they dive into Dallas & ...
Gruden's emails, an impending NFL legal disaster & 3 teams we're worried about
October 14, 2021 03:11 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBEveryone knows the headline by now. On Monday evening, after a plethora of disgusting & offensive emails were leaked, first by the Wall Street Journal, and later by the New York Times, Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden abruptly resigned, likely never to hold a significant position in or around the NFL ever again. Charles Robinson is joined by NBC's Michael Smith to discuss the aftermath of this seismic blow to one of the league's most storied franchises and iconic coaches. A ...
Week 5 Sunday Night Freestyle: Bills claim revenge for AFC title loss, Chargers prove they may be best in west
October 11, 2021 05:42 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBThe second lightning storm in the AFC West this week wasn't going to stop the Buffalo Bills from claiming pole position for the 1-seed. The Bills came into Arrowhead, where they were defeated last January and put a number on the Kansas City Chiefs and made the case that they are the best team in not only the AFC, but perhaps the league. Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab react to all of the games from Sunday's Week 5 action including the aforementioned Bills/Chiefs rematch, a nail bit...
Urban Meyer's folly delights league & the impact of the Stephon Gilmore trade
October 07, 2021 00:27 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBBy now, we've all seen the video of Urban Meyer getting cozy with a woman at his bar in Ohio, the night after his Jacksonville Jaguars suffered a Thursday night loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. It's not great. Even worse, Meyer spent the following days sheepishly apologizing for his behavior, invoking his grandchildren, making comparisons to Trevor Lawrence's bachelor party. Overall, it was not a good look — and the 31 other teams in the NFL absolutely loved it. Charles Robinson is ...
Week 4 Sunday Night Freestyle: Brady outlasts Pats in the rain, Cards make case as best in the west
October 04, 2021 06:27 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBCharles Robinson is joined by Frank Schwab to recap all of the games from Sunday's Week 4 slate. Tom Brady pulled out an emotional win over his former New England Patriots in a rainy, sloppy affair that concluded with a Nick Folk field goal ricocheting off a goal post. The Arizona Cardinals upset the Los Angeles Rams on the road and made the case that they may not only be the best team in the NFC West, but the entire league. They also chat about the New York Jets and Giants pulling...
Inside the Brady/Belichick beef & why every rookie QB is hitting a wall
September 29, 2021 22:24 - 1 hour - 63 MBNews flash: Tom Brady is returning to Foxboro this week. Maybe you've heard about it. In light of the NFL's game of the week and a revealing new book from Seth Wickersham on the rise and fall of the Kraft/Brady/Belichick era, Charles Robinson welcomes Boston native Pete Thamel onto the podcast this week to react to the book's outlandish stories and preview the weekend's Bucs/Pats game. Later in the show, we lean on Pete's expertise in the college landscape to answer three major que...
Week 3 Sunday Night Freestyle: Are Matthew Stafford and Derek Carr MVP candidates?
September 27, 2021 06:39 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBWhile the likes of Aaron Rodgers, Josh Allen, Derek Carr and Matthew Stafford kept the QB play at peak level this week, one might argue the key moments of Week 3 were all the results of field goal kicking. Charles Robinson and Frank Schwab react to all fourteen games from Sunday Week 3 action, including Mason Crosby's game winner in San Francisco, Justin Tucker's NFL-record FG in Detroit and the amazing 109-yard return in Jacksonville, the result of a missed 68-yarder from Arizona'...
What Aaron Rodgers gets right and wrong about his critics & why Bezos should own a London NFL franchise
September 22, 2021 21:27 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBAfter an embarrassing Week 1 loss to the New Orleans Saints, Aaron Rodgers had his critics. He was soft after a summer of vacationing with movie stars and hosting Jeopardy! He looked uninterested on the sidelines! His man-bun was a symbol of his waning manliness and interest in football! Rodgers had some thoughts for his detractors after a solid eighteen-point win over the Lions on Monday night. Charles Robinson welcomes Dan Wetzel onto the podcast this week to talk about why Rodge...
Week 2 Sunday Night Freestyle: Quoth the Ravens, 'game'
September 20, 2021 06:42 - 1 hour - 69 MBFaced with a 4th and one near midfield with a one-point lead, Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens had two choices: punt the ball and give Patrick Mahomes about a minute to win the game, or go for it and ice the Kansas City Chiefs. Coach John Harbaugh left the choice up to Jackson and the rest was history. Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab kick off the Sunday night podcast reacting to all 14 games from Sunday's Week 2 action including the Ravens' incredible upset of the Chiefs, the...
Teams that need to get their s**t together in Week 2
September 16, 2021 01:19 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBSunday wasn't a good day for the Tennessee Titans or Green Bay Packers. Two favorites to win their division got rocked and earned a donut in the win column on Week 1. After recapping Wednesday afternoons injury to Cowboys pass rusher Demarcus Lawrence, Charles Robinson is joined by Josh Norris of Underdog Fantasy to look back to what went wrong in Week 1 for a handful of teams and look ahead to what they might do to change their fates in Week 2. Charles & Josh discuss the Baltimor...
Week 1 Sunday Night Freestyle: Should Browns, Bills, Packers calm down or freak out?
September 13, 2021 06:48 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBWeek 1 of the NFL season always creates a number of surprising outcomes, and this season was no exception. The Green Bay Packers and Buffalo Bills, two consensus Super Bowl favorites, suffered unexpected opening-day losses to conference opponents. The Cleveland Browns, after leading the Kansas City Chiefs for most of the game, succumbed to Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City D once again. Charles Robinson is joined by Frank Schwab to recap all fourteen of Sunday's games including t...
2021 season preview: Ravens a low-key mess, Packers have the eye of the tiger
September 09, 2021 03:22 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBThe 2021 season kicks off in less than 24 hours, so it's time for our yearly season preview. Charles Robinson is joined by Yahoo's lead fantasy analyst, Liz Loza to kick the tires on all eight divisions, pick some winners, make some prognostications and ultimately predict the winner of Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles next winter. In the early part of the episode, Charles & Liz chat about the end of another season of Hard Knocks and the saccharine view the show depicted of Jerry Jones...
Urban Meyer, Bill Belichick & why NFL coaches have no choice but to lie about cutting players due to vaccine status
September 01, 2021 23:06 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBJacksonville Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer did an amazing thing Tuesday. Something he almost never does. He told the truth. Meyer revealed that cutting players due to their vaccination status against COVID-19 was, "certainly in consideration." Meanwhile, all the way up the eastern seaboard, Cam Newton was released from New England the same day. One can't help but wonder if his vaccination status played into the team's decision to part ways, especially after COVID protocols kept hi...
Why the Patriots' COVID snafu could cost Cam Newton his job
August 25, 2021 21:14 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBAfter a "misunderstanding" led New England Patriots QB Cam Newton out of the league's structured COVID testing protocols, the former league MVP has been sidelined all week, opening the door for rookie Mac Jones to get first team reps at a pivotal week in training camp. Meanwhile in Dallas, owner Jerry Jones continues to be a vocal proponent of vaccines and even joked on Tuesday night's Hard Knocks, "I've had more shots than a cocker spaniel." Charles Robinson is joined by Yahoo col...