How much better are these NFC teams really?

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Teams like the Vikings, Giants and Seahawks have been active in free agency. There's no doubt about that. But how much better are they really? That's exactly the question Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen strive to answer on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys also discuss the extensions for Ja'Marr Chase, Tee Higgins and Derek Stingley. Rundown Bengals lock up Chase and Higgins Derek Stingley signs an extension with the Texans Vikings Seahawks Giants Panthers Rams Cardinals Bears Buccaneers Packers Saints Commanders Host: Robert Mays Co-Host: Derrik Klassen Executive Producer: Michael Beller Producer: Michael Beller Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... Apple Spotify YouTube Follow Robert on Bluesky: @robertmays.bsky.social Follow Derrik on Bluesky: @qbklass.bsky.social Follow Robert on X: @robertmays Follow Derrik on X: @QBKlass 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.7	Welcome to The Athletic Football Show.
1:20.0	I'm Robert Mays.
1:25.9	Last week, we chatted about the AFC spenders, me and Derek Classen, and how much better those teams actually were after throwing
1:28.8	around some money in free agency than they were at the beginning of the offseason. Today,
1:32.7	we're going to hit the NFC. We talked about, I think, 12 teams today in the NFC and where their
1:39.8	outlook has changed since free agency got going. How much better are they really in the short term,
1:45.1	in the long term after handing out some of these contracts? Same as with the AFC. If we do not talk
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