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 pass blocking RBs? What are some current NFL trends that may seem archaic in the near future? And are defense-first Super Bowl champions here to stay? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen answer that and more.

0:00 Welcome to the show
1:21 Finishing piece to a Super Bowl-losing team
1:55 Policing time travel rules
2:08 New England Patriots right tackle
2:31 Ezekiel Elliott & Atlanta Falcons
3:07 Lane Johnson & Carolina Panthers
3:38 JJ Watt & Seattle Seahawks
4:01 Myles Garrett & San Francisco 49ers
4:12 Revolutionary!
4:50 Best pass blocking RBs
5:14 Christian McCaffrey
6:40 Jahmyr Gibbs
7:06 Rhamondre Stevenson
8:12 LeQuint Allen Jr.
10:29 NFL trends that will seem archaic soon
18:38 Creating vs chasing a trend
27:20 Position groups with most potential lost to injury
27:42 49ers skill position groups
28:03 Ricky Pearsall
28:18 Various offensive lines
28:30 Detroit Lions secondary
28:51 Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive line
29:13 Green Bay Packers & Micah Parsons
29:37 Drafting QBs if all other picks were voided
30:03 One of the best questions we’ve ever gotten
30:41 Robert is crazy
31:32 Michael Penix Jr
31:57 JJ McCarthy
32:15 Jared Goff & Carson Wentz
33:37 Tua Tagovailoa
34:35 Sam Darnold
34:45 Mitch Trubisky & Mike Glennon
35:01 Daniel Jones
35:29 Patrick Mahomes
38:45 Lamar Jackson
40:45 Bo Nix
41:43 Are defenses getting smaller?
44:43 Historical trend of defense-first champions
48:52 Bryce Young contract extension

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