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The Season with Peter Schrager: Mike Tirico · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Scheger is a production of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's Up Everybody, Look to
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  Speaker 1: the Season with Peter Schreger. I'm Peter Schreger. I host
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  Speaker 1: Good Morning Football Monday to Friday on the NFL network.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also on the Fox NFL Kickoff pregame show on Sundays.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be on Super Bowl Sunday. Just got my assignment.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be assigned to one of the teams throughout the
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  Speaker 1: entire day, so I'll be boarding the buses and giving
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  Speaker 1: reports Super Bowl Sunday as they load up and head
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  Speaker 1: over to the stadium, and throughout the week. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be doing Good Morning Football, but also giving you
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  Speaker 1: insights on all the things happen around the NFL, so
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  Speaker 1: stay tuned for that. And Fox has the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll be playing I don't know if i'd call
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  Speaker 1: it a prominent role, but playing a role of Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl Sunday, and that is pretty cool. But today's monologue
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  Speaker 1: is not based on any of the four teams that
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  Speaker 1: are still playing, and we could have gone that route,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, you'll go elsewhere for that. This is
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  Speaker 1: a very specific podcast. Often about leadership and about coaches
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  Speaker 1: and about gms, and I just want to praise the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. I want to praise the Chicago Bears for
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  Speaker 1: actually getting the guy. Do I know how Ben Johnson
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  Speaker 1: will work out as an NFL head coach. I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea. I've met Ben several times. We've had some
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  Speaker 1: really good conversations, and I think he's a more than
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  Speaker 1: competent guy. He's a father of three kids, thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: years old, and he was the hottest name from the
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  Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball that was out there this year.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that the Bears bought him is such a
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  Speaker 1: big deal to me because here's the bell of the
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  Speaker 1: ball and he could have taken any of these jobs
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  Speaker 1: outside of New England. They went with Rabel obviously, and
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  Speaker 1: he only chose to interview with a few and when
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  Speaker 1: it came down to it, he looked at two possibilities,
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders and the the Raiders clean slate, go and
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  Speaker 1: build the team. Go and work with your GM that
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna probably have input on who they hire. Go
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  Speaker 1: and work with Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback of all time,
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  Speaker 1: as a minority owner, and go build this thing from
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  Speaker 1: the ground up. Now that all sounds great, and there's
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  Speaker 1: probably more money attached to that Raiders job. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: what actually is reported and what was offered, if anything
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  Speaker 1: was offered at all. But with the Chicago Bears, there's
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  Speaker 1: a comfort, and the comfort is I've got the guy.
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  Speaker 1: I've got the quarterback. And obviously Ben Johnson not only
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  Speaker 1: wanted the quarterback, but he wanted that logo and he
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  Speaker 1: wanted the ability to bring this franchise back into relevance.
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  Speaker 1: This was such a big hire for the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 1: Not so much because of what Ben Johnson does with
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  Speaker 1: the x's and o's and the trick plays and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but that Ben Johnson chose them. He chose them. This
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  Speaker 1: was the bell of the ball and not just this season,
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  Speaker 1: but last season and the season before that. I could
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  Speaker 1: tell you a really strong sourcing here that David Tepper
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  Speaker 1: and the Carolina Panthers were ready to give Ben Johnson
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  Speaker 1: everything he wanted two years ago, a UNC guy who
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  Speaker 1: has real Carolina ties. He decided to not go that
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  Speaker 1: route and to go back to Detroit. They have that
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  Speaker 1: amazing offense. They go all the way to the NFC
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  Speaker 1: Championship Game. I could tell you on really good sourcing
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  Speaker 1: and really good reporting that the Washington commanders had Ben
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  Speaker 1: Johnson circled as the guy, knowing they had the number
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  Speaker 1: two overall pick and a young quarterback coming in Ben
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  Speaker 1: Johnson with a new owner and all the stuff that
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing with Dan Quinn right now. That could have
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  Speaker 1: been Ben Johnson's opportunity. He said, no, I've got unfinished business.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going back to Detroit, does another year with Detroit,
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  Speaker 1: has another outstanding offensive season, and these teams are falling
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  Speaker 1: over themselves to meet with them. He was very selective
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  Speaker 1: with who he would actually talk with. It was Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: it was Chicago, and it was Jacksonville. And at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, he's choosing the Bears. Bears fans
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  Speaker 1: take that in for a second. Ben Johnson has had
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  Speaker 1: multiple opportunities to take head coaching jobs and has said
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  Speaker 1: no thanks. He has had countless opportunities to interview with teams.
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  Speaker 1: He said no thanks. He sought out this Bear's job.
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  Speaker 1: Granted there's big money attached, but think about what Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Poles had at stake here. You've already hired one coach
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  Speaker 1: that was a failure in Matt Eberflus. You've already been
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  Speaker 1: through multiple offensive coordinators that have been failures. You don't
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  Speaker 1: get three cracks at this thing. As a guy who's
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  Speaker 1: responsible for hiring a coach, Ryan Poles had to get
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  Speaker 1: this right. And with talk of Eddie George interviewing on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday and Mike McCarthy as one of the leaders in
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  Speaker 1: the clubhouse, they got the bell of the ball, so
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  Speaker 1: Bears fans this week, I don't know, before you start
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  Speaker 1: analyzing who his hires are and what they're gonna do,
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  Speaker 1: and take a moment to just enjoy this that for
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  Speaker 1: maybe the first time in forever, the really attractive girl
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  Speaker 1: at the dance, she chose you. She chose you. She
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  Speaker 1: could have had anyone, she could have had the jock,
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  Speaker 1: she could have had the valedictorian. She chose you. That's
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  Speaker 1: a big deal in Chicago. This was a home run Higher.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's a home run coach. It
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  Speaker 1: was a home run Higher. Now let's bring it over
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  Speaker 1: here to New York where the Jets are set to
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  Speaker 1: make a higher. We're recording this on Tuesday morning. If
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  Speaker 1: things go horrendously wrong, this doesn't happen and something went
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  Speaker 1: off the rails. But from all I gather, the Jets
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  Speaker 1: have zeroed in on Aaron Glenn to be their head coach.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure there's an option number two for the
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  Speaker 1: Jets at the moment. In fact, I think they were
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  Speaker 1: very interested with the Mike Vrabel interview and that went
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  Speaker 1: really well from both sides, and they thought, okay, maybe
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  Speaker 1: Rabel took the Patriots job more than a week ago,
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  Speaker 1: and in the days that have passed since, they have
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  Speaker 1: met with countless different head coaching candidates. But Aaron Glenn
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  Speaker 1: has always made the most sense. If you go back
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  Speaker 1: into his history. He is an all time Jets player.
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  Speaker 1: He was an All Pro for the New York Jets
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  Speaker 1: during the Parcels era. But what I like more about
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn than his playing days and his obvious connection
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  Speaker 1: to the Jets. I like the fact that he took
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  Speaker 1: the road less traveled coming out of his NFL career.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn was very deliberate about what he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do with his career, and it wasn't just skyrocket to
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  Speaker 1: the front of the line. He wanted to wear many
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  Speaker 1: different hats. He was a scouting assistant as his first job,
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  Speaker 1: then he went to Cleveland and learned from that franchise.
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  Speaker 1: Then he eventually went to New Orleans where he would
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  Speaker 1: grow to be the defensive backs coach under Sean Payton
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  Speaker 1: on those great Saints teams of the mid twoenty tens.
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  Speaker 1: He ultimately gets his first coordinator job in Detroit and
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  Speaker 1: saw a great success with the Detroit Lions defense that
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  Speaker 1: was a very young and then be very injured, but
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  Speaker 1: they found a way and in a big game Week eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: put the clamps on Sam Darnold, which I think raised
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  Speaker 1: a lot of eyebrows around the league about whether or
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  Speaker 1: not Aaron Glenn's x's and o's and all that is legit.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: What I like most about him, though, is who vouches
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  Speaker 1: for him. Bill Parcells vouches for Aaron Glenn. If you
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  Speaker 1: think that doesn't matter in twenty twenty five, that Bill
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  Speaker 1: Parcells is some eighty or no, no, no, in this
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  Speaker 1: market with that owner, Bill Parcells matters. Sean Payton vouches
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  Speaker 1: for Aaron Glenn. If you don't think that matters, I say,
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  Speaker 1: trust me. In the NFL circles Sean Payton, who is
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  Speaker 1: in everybody's best friend when he vouches for you and
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  Speaker 1: says that's my guy that matters. Again, this might be
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  Speaker 1: the right higher I don't know if it works out,
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  Speaker 1: but it makes sense as far as the hire goes.
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  Speaker 1: I will say this, and I've been critical of this
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  Speaker 1: Jets process. Put it out there. They didn't meet with
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  Speaker 1: any of the top offensive coaches. They didn't They didn't
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  Speaker 1: meet with Todd Monkin, they didn't meet with Cliff Kingsbury,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't meet with Liam Cohen, they didn't meet with
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  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore, and they didn't even get an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: meet with Ben Johnson. Now, granted, they did meet with
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  Speaker 1: some I think the world of Matt Naggy. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a worthy interview, but Joe Brady's coaching against Matt Naggy,
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  Speaker 1: and the Jets didn't get a chance to speak with him.
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  Speaker 1: You go down the list a lot of these offensive
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  Speaker 1: wonderkin minds that are interviewing for head coaching jobs. The
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  Speaker 1: Jets just did not bring them in. The Jets had
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  Speaker 1: a different set of priorities, necessarily than what other teams have.
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  Speaker 1: They're not looking for a quarterback whisperer. What they are
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  Speaker 1: showing us with this hire and with this process of
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  Speaker 1: interviewing guys like Vance Joseph and Joe Witt, and Ron
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  Speaker 1: Rivera and Rex Ryan and Mike Locksley and Darren Rizzy
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  Speaker 1: for the head coaching job of the New York Jets.
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  Speaker 1: They're telling you they were looking for the CEO leader
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  Speaker 1: of men type and they're figure out the offensive side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball, and they'll figure out the x's and
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  Speaker 1: o's and the hot shot, big name offensive of mind.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't necessarily what they were looking for with this hire. Again,
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  Speaker 1: time will tell. But Aaron Glenn, on the surface, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care how the process got there. I think he
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  Speaker 1: is a worthy head coaching candidate and is a fine
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  Speaker 1: pick considering the Jets market, the people who vouch for him,
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  Speaker 1: and his connection to the franchise, and oh yeah, his
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  Speaker 1: own resume. The fact that he's worn all those hats.
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  Speaker 1: I dig that all right. So that leaves the Raiders,
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  Speaker 1: the Saints, the Jaguars, and it leaves the Cowboys. Where
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  Speaker 1: are they going to go? Well, we're recording this on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: We might have some more dominoes dropping. But if you
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  Speaker 1: think that Vrabel, Johnson and Glenn, who are universally considered
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  Speaker 1: three really good head coaching candidates are off the board.
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  Speaker 1: Let's play a little mix and match for the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 1: Some interesting names. One of them who's been there twice
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  Speaker 1: is Liam Cohen, who was a guest on our show.
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  Speaker 1: And I would really urge you to go find that
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  Speaker 1: YouTube interview or listen to it on Spotify or unesor
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  Speaker 1: wherever you get your iHeart podcasts. Liam's really bright, really smart,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the thought is you put him with
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, a young, bright offensive technician. Maybe that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Sala has now got two interviews with the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: on the books. Robert Sala, who is unceremoniously fired after
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  Speaker 1: five weeks of football with the Jets this season. Could
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  Speaker 1: he get a head coaching job the next Well? Why
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  Speaker 1: Robert Sala? Robert Sala very respected defensive coach, also a
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  Speaker 1: very respected guy in that organization where he did spend
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  Speaker 1: some time in the mid two thousand pens. Sala to
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars after being fired, It's all possible. It's all
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  Speaker 1: on the board. I would also look to the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: and say what do they do because here you have
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  Speaker 1: a blank slate, and you have Brady, and you have
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  Speaker 1: money and you have Mark Davis, and you have private
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  Speaker 1: jets from their owners that are being provided. But like,
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  Speaker 1: would I be shocked if Pete Carroll was the next
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  Speaker 1: day coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. Not one bit.
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  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll comes in stabilizes things. They don't have a quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: they don't necessarily have a GM hired yet. Pete Carroll
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  Speaker 1: could come in and maybe just be that voice of
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  Speaker 1: reason for a couple of years and help transition into
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  Speaker 1: whatever the next phase is, the long play, even though
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  Speaker 1: it seems like a short term higher but the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: might also go with a young hot shot. We will
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  Speaker 1: see what they do. Cowboys, the Dion stuff was fun.
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  Speaker 1: That's fading away a little bit right now. Names like
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  Speaker 1: Robert Sala and Kellen Moore and Brian Schottenheimer being batted around.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you're doing, you know, runs around
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  Speaker 1: the living room if you're a Cowboys fan over those names.
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  Speaker 1: But all along, I don't know if Jerry Jones going
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  Speaker 1: for the big swing big hire was ever actually gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: I think they enjoyed the Dion buzz and that was
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  Speaker 1: a great story for a week that kept us afloat
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  Speaker 1: on this podcast. That also kept us a float on
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  Speaker 1: Good Morning Football. But we'll see if they actually go
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  Speaker 1: that route. We haven't seen many more conversations about that
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  Speaker 1: in the past seven days. I would think more of
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  Speaker 1: a higher of those types of names, Kellen Shoddy, guys
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  Speaker 1: who know Jerry, Guys that Jerry knows, and guys that
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  Speaker 1: can work with Dak Prescott. Last, but not least, the Saints.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a real interesting part of this Saints thing. For
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  Speaker 1: the first time in New Orleans City's history, they've got
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  Speaker 1: like eight inches of snow today. A lot of flights
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  Speaker 1: have been canceled. They were planning on having Aaron Glenn
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  Speaker 1: come in tomorrow. If Aaron Glenn could get out of
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  Speaker 1: this Jets interview and at least have one last look
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  Speaker 1: with the say, I don't know if that could happen
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  Speaker 1: based on the flight schedule, that might expedite things with him,
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  Speaker 1: to say, you know what Jets here here offers on
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  Speaker 1: the table. I can't even get to New Orleans. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not even gonna bother with that interview. But I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure New Orleans is that attractive a job right now.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Mickey loomis very well respected, very well regarded and
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  Speaker 1: an all around legend in the game for building teams
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle and in New Orleans that have played at
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  Speaker 1: the highest of levels. But you got Derek Carr with
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  Speaker 1: forty million dollars due to him, You've got a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of players who are aging out of the primes of
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  Speaker 1: their career. And then you got some wild cards there
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  Speaker 1: that you might like in a Lave and Camara, who
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  Speaker 1: we're not sure how they fit with a quarterback situation
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  Speaker 1: that's going to have to change in the next few years.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to be Derek Carr for the next
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  Speaker 1: decade or the next four or five years. So I
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  Speaker 1: think there's a lot of questions in New Orleans. It's
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  Speaker 1: also the thirty first market, I think, as far as
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  Speaker 1: size goes. If you're a coach who's looking for bright
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  Speaker 1: lights and you want that big challenge, a Dallas, a
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  Speaker 1: New York and of course a Las Vegas with Brady
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  Speaker 1: and all that comes with that might be a more
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  Speaker 1: appealing option than going down to New Orleans. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: how it all plays out. Last year, Dan Quinn was
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  Speaker 1: the last coach hired and was kind of like hired
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  Speaker 1: with like eh Dan Quinn Ghost Washington. He was the
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  Speaker 1: best first year coach out of all these guys. A
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  Speaker 1: couple of years back, Matt Naggy lost a playoff game
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  Speaker 1: to the Tennessee Titans at home and was hired two
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  Speaker 1: days later, and everyone was like, what he was the
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  Speaker 1: coach of the year. The very next season, Brian Dable
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  Speaker 1: wasn't everybody's first pick in New York. He was a
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  Speaker 1: coach of the year. Time will tell. But if you're
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  Speaker 1: telling me the higher and who got it done and
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  Speaker 1: who wins this whole cycle, well, the Patriots are very
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  Speaker 1: happy with Mike Vrabel. But for the Bears to get
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  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, that's a pretty pretty cool deal for Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Kudos to Ryan Poles, the McCaskey family, and of course
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Warren, their president. I don't know if he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a good head coach, but they got the bell,
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  Speaker 1: the ball, and as far as first steps go, that
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  Speaker 1: one is huge. We've got an all time guest coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Turrico's going to join us. I'm giggling just at
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  Speaker 1: the thought of the fact that our POD's going to
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  Speaker 1: have the voice of so many huge moments and truly
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  Speaker 1: a guy who's become a great mentor and friend of mine.
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  Speaker 1: In a second, but before we get to that, we've
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  Speaker 1: got to go to a game that he's not calling.
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  Speaker 1: I want to bring on my producer and pal, Aaron
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  Speaker 1: wan Kaufman, who've been doing this for three years. Erin
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  Speaker 1: and you have been the voice of Bills fans for
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  Speaker 1: three years. You are on the doorstep of the first
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl appearance since nineteen ninety four for the Buffalo Bills,
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  Speaker 1: and I gotta say, I think there's a real shot
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  Speaker 1: this year. I feel differently, and the fact that Mark
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  Speaker 1: Andrews dropped that two point conversion tells me that maybe
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  Speaker 1: this franchise, the curse is over, whatever it is. But
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  Speaker 1: who am I to speak. I'm just an objective guy
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  Speaker 1: who picks the Chiefs every year to win. Aaron Bill's
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  Speaker 1: fan your take now, five days out from another AFC
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  Speaker 1: Championship appearance.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was an incredible game against the Ravens,
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  Speaker 3: and I was texting with one of my best friends
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  Speaker 3: from college. He's a Baltimore native, huge Ravens fan. We
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  Speaker 3: were on a group text and I think both of
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  Speaker 3: us were so impressed with the game overall. I was
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  Speaker 3: we're both doom and gloom. We're both having fun. I
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  Speaker 3: stood up when that pass went to Mark Andrews, and
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  Speaker 3: I just thought he caught it, and I just closed
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  Speaker 3: my eyes. I thought it was over. And then my
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  Speaker 3: partner was like, he didn't catch it, and I was like, wait,
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  Speaker 3: oh my god. So what an incredible game. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: like the Ravens are great. I think I was terrified.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so impressed with the Bills putting all that pressure
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  Speaker 3: on Lamar other than the third quarter, like Derrick Henry
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  Speaker 3: didn't even have I heard this stat. Derek Henry had
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  Speaker 3: less yards this weekend than he did on the first
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  Speaker 3: run of the game earlier in the season, which also
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  Speaker 3: means he destroyed us that game. But here we are
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  Speaker 3: back again with Kansas City since twenty twenty. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we just keep running into them, except for the Bengals
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  Speaker 3: at one time. But it is it's the hill we
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  Speaker 3: have to climb every single time. And the you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think many times throughout the season you've asked me
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  Speaker 3: about the Bills, and every time I'm really quick to
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  Speaker 3: just be like, they can't stop the run.
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  Speaker 1: They're not.
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  Speaker 3: This is a rebuilding year. Who knows this feels exciting.
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  Speaker 3: I don't. It's so easy to get your hopes up,
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  Speaker 3: and I think Bills in particular, like there's just been
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  Speaker 3: a lot of We've been a lot part of a
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  Speaker 3: lot of great games, and we always seem to lose them.
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  Speaker 3: It would really be great to just completely put the
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: clamps down on Kansas City because this team is doing
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: so well in a different way than everything you expect
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: from Josh Allen. This team is like like they did
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: against Baltimore, they just bully balled their way into running.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: They're going out with extra offensive linemen putting pressure on Lamar.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm incredibly nervous and I can't wait too.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I love that take. I believe you're talking about complimentary football,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: which is something not a lot of people expected. But
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: give Brendan being credit. He was willing to let Stefan
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Diggs walk out that door. I think they had to.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: I think that was a big addition by subtraction, if
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: we're talking real, I think he was fine letting Gabe
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Davis leave despite being a twenty four year old stud
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: for this team at wider and found a way to
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: mix and match and put it together. I think the
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: stat that Nanson Romo gave and I could be wrong,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: was They've had thirty rushing touchdowns and thirty receiving touchdowns
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: this year, which is like an insane number and shows
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: just complete balance from Joe Brady. I think they also
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: had the most players on a roster score a touchdown,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: whether it be receiving or rushing, which is great. And
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: even in the biggest moments last week, it was like
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Ty Johnson, who's been a great third down back making
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: huge plays, Ray Davis making huge plays, Keon Coleman making
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: big plays, Mac Collins, Mac Collins has been Mac Collins
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: is their gunner on special teams, and they're leading receiver
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: with touchdowns this year, which just tells you how different
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: in blue collar this team. Is my question to you,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: and I pose this not knowing what your answer is,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: because it could be as simple. Are you kidding? Of course,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: we'd want it the other way. As I'm watching Saturdays
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Texans Chiefs game as a football purist and as a
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: fan and as someone who cherishes the history of it,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I'm watching that game and I'm rooting really hard for
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the history of it all for it to be the Chiefs,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: because I think for Lamar and Josh. It's not the
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: same if you go through Stroud, and I know that
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: sounds dismissive to the Texans. I think their time might come.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe not. But if you just think about, like the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: pure history, if Josh Allen got to the Super Bowl,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: but he did so by knocking off Bo Nicks, Lamar Jackson,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: and c J. Stroud, I think it's a little different
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: than going through Bo Nicks, Lamar Jackson, and then Mahomes
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: in Mahomes's building. As a Bills fan, you might say
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: that I would much rather just play the Texans and
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: them throwing the ball at number fourteen Jared Wayne and
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: John Metchi than having to deal with Travis Kelcey and
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I think for me personally, you hit it round the
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: headlake he Mahomes is the piece and I want the
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Bills to win the Super Bowl first and foremost, but
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: maybe even more than that, I want the Bills to
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: knock Mahomes out. I didn't care if the Ravens won.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I wanted Lamar to knock Mahomes out like this, I
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: don't think is only for Bills in Baltimore fans. Kansas
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: City is the dynasty is the top. They're the villain.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, like, I think it didn't help that, you know,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: they had the bye and then they play Houston, and
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: like if they had played the Ravens first and had
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: this really tough game, it might be different. But no,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I want Josh Allen to come in. I want him
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: to go toe to tote with Mahomes. I want von
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Miller to get a stripsack on Mahome. Like I want
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: everyone to have their day against Kansas City, because Kansas
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: City is the one that keeps stopping us. It's so
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: much more important and full of vengeance that if that
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: result can be a complete return to the people who
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: keep beating us in their state, if we can beat them,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: that'd be so much more fulfilling. I would say, there's
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: two whole games left, but.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: That would be huge.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: All right, let me just before we get to our guests,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: let me just put you in two different sets of shoes.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Fourth quarter bills are up thirty one ten in Arrowhead,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and they show some Arrowhead fans leaving the building with
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: about two minutes left, and Nanson Romo just say, like
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: it was just Josh Allen's time. That's one set of shoes.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: The other set of shoes for you as a Bills fan.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Fourth quarter, down, five three seconds left, You're on the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: one yard line, Josh Allen's there. It's twenty five twenty.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: They call hike, and Josh Allen plows behind Dion Dawkins
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and you guys win a walk off style win in
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Arrowhead to send them home packing. What's the more satisfying win.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: The first one to just demolish them. I mean, that
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: would be amazing to get a walk off. But I
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: want I want the Bills to I want this to
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: be a statement, you know. I don't want this to
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: be something where even with the Ravens game, I think
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: the Ravens played incredibly well other than the turnovers, obviously,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: but the story from the Ravens game is, oh my god,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Mark Andrews dropped that pass, Oh my god, Mark Andrews fumbled,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, Lamar through that interception. I want the
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Bills to win, and I went the story to be
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: about the Bills winning, not oh that you know Kansas
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: City missed this and Josh was able to sneak around.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: You always got to defend him run in that way. No,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: I want this to just be the Bills came in
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: there and it's to steal from Bill Simmons. Nobody believed
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: to us, and we just went at them. And I
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: would much rather that this game ends with Mitch Trubisky
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: taking a kneel down, because like, we've just totally taken
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: them out of it. Yeah, the first one.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Can I give my last take? And Kyle and I
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: were talking about this in the commercial break on Good
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Morning Football Comberate my colleague. I think the outrage and
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the outcry and the public hysteria over the officiating last
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: week actually might help the Bills a little bit going
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: into this game. I think there's going to be a
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: great sensitivity. This has been a big talking point about
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Mahomes flopping and mahomes sideline antics. I actually think the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: refs are going to be really, really sensitive to that,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and I don't think he necessarily gets some of those
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Jordan rules calls that mj and Lebron have gotten in
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the past and that Mahomes seemingly gets. I think that
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: was actually a great advantage for the Bills going into
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: this thing, because that has been one of the number
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: one topics in sports this week, the way that Mahomes
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: games are officiated, and you better believe the league office
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: is very aware of that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: And the three peat is a great news story. It's historic.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: There are other things that are historic. If the Bills
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: win the super Bowl, that's historic. If Jaden Daniels can
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: take his team to the super Bowl, that's historic. Is
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: not the only fun narrative that we have here. So
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I think that you know, there are a lot of
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: great outcomes we could have, and I think for everyone
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: in Western New York there's one in particular, and that
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: would be, like you said, thirty one to ten, Josh
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: is sitting on the bench. He's shaking hands.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Beggars can't be choosers. We'll see how it all plays out. Aaron,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: great stuff. Mike Turco is our guest. He's up after this,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: all right, with no further ado. It's one of my
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: favorite people in the world and the voice of so
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: many amazing moments in so many different sports. He's also
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: just a total mench and a mentor and big brother
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: of mine in this industry. Has been really good to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: me over the years, and he's been good enough to
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: give us some time despite his season finally being over.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: NBC Sports, the voice of everything, mister Mike Turico, how
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: are we doing so.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Strange the postseason? My postseason has now arrived, and so
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: it's a good thing you're getting me early, because about
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: three days away from this gray Beard and all this
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: stuff in a week and just shutting it down, you're
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: going to.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Look like Tom Hanks and Castaways.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Well not exactly, but you get what's it.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Like when you're done but the rest of the games
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: aren't done. It's just like I guess Troy and Joe
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: are feeling it this week too. You called your last
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: game and the show goes on and we all move
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: right along, but like we're done hearing your voice for
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the next eight months.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: The weird part is, honestly, is that it is, you know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: and it's not like we're building a building or we're
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: not building bridges or digging ditches. But it is work right,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: and it's every day. As you know, there's no off
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: day in the NFL season when you do what we do.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: So for gosh, twenty weeks plus a couple of preseason
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: weeks time seven days, so one hundred and forty five
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: to fifty days every single day is something watch GMFB,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: listen to a pod start building my boards, add a game,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: talk to folks, and then you just drop off the cliff.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: So it's it.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: See, I got in the flight on Monday, ago, Okay,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I don't have to start thinking about Okay, have we
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: had these teams? What's the deal? How much carryover stuff?
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: What's that nugget on Liam Cohen that I didn't get
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: during the regular season?
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: That are like damn.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Every game you walk out of it and you go, oh,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: I can't believe I didn't get to tell this story
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: or that story. Right, So you start thinking about that
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: and it's just a daily process. So when it ends,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: it is really like you're hitting a wall, falling off
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: a cliff, all that stuff, and you rediscover important things like, oh,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I've got a thousand thank you notes to write, yo,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the registration for the car needs to be done, all
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: that stuff that you put a suspended animation. You start
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: digging out.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I always say this, and Daniel Jeremiah is the best.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: You do the draft together, right, we both talk about this.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: A lot of people talk about season being over. Go
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: to Vegas. Whatever it is you do to celebrate, go
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: to Daniel says. The Saturday night shower after the draft
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: when he's done with three days, and he says it
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: is the most rewarding thing of his year to just
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: know I could just it's all over. I did it,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: It's done, and we could start anew But like I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: guess that's how you almost feel when you land back
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: in Michigan after doing another incredible, incredible TV moment that
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Rams Eagles incredible divisional round.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Game, the fun and good snow. And I'll say you
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: so that Monday, I got Monday, I got home, and
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: I sat down and you just kind of start doing
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: some basic stuff and go, oh, national championship games tonight.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: And who knew Chris Faller has been a friend since
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one, so this is might you know, and
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: said Herbie a couple of years after this, this are
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: two of my best best pals in the business. And
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I just texted him with luck have a great game,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: and I was just gonna sit back and watch the
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: game and not I don't have to divide attention to Nope,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: We're on a few notes while I'm doing this, because
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: usually my Mondays are you get home, you have a
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: nice dinner, my wife and I sit down, start to
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: watch the Monday night game. And then I open up
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: the laptop and I start to get a little bit
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: ahead on the team. But just to sit and watch
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: a game was just so much fun. It's relaxing. But
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: you're right, Peter, like you miss that assignment, no doubt
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: until you sit down next week and then watch the
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: games and I just watch those guys just do it
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: and have fun. And next year, you know, fortunately is
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: our super Bowl season. So next year we only not
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: only have the super Bowl, next year we have the Olympics,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: which start right at the end of the Super Bowl.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: The Winter Olympics in Italy are right the Friday of
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl weekend in Santa Clara is the start of
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: the Olympics in Italy. So we're going to be cranking through.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: So I'm enjoying every second of these couple of weeks
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: because next year that plus we start with the NBA
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: on NBC, so we're going to be cranking away all
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: fall in with the next year. So I'm enjoying these
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: couple of days for sure.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: And I have to think that this year was not
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: just football because you were in pair for the Olympics
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: and it carried right through and you were the voice
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: of that and Obviously there was a lot of fanfare
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: over Snoops appearances, but beyond Snoop, I mean you were
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: you were unbelievable, and that's not a two day assignment.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: And then you go right from there into training camp,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: into preseason and then boom, football hits you like a
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: ton of bricks.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this was the longest run that I know I've had,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: just because it started with really from the Kentucky Derby
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: in May through because you had the couple of Triple
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Crown races, the Indy five hundred, and then June was
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: all the Olympic trials, making Team USA, which spilled right
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: into the US Open British Open Golf, which is really
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: the Open. But then that was right into the Olympics,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: and the run just got home, had a week off.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: We had a family friend get married that weekend after
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: the Olympics and before our preseason game, and then off.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: So it's been a long run, but it's been it's
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: been great. Such a good year too. You know, sometimes
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: sometimes you get in ruts where you don't have great games.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: We got lucky on Sunday night. We had so many
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: good and exciting games. Like you said, we got to
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: wrap up with an even more exciting game than the
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: first Eagles Rams game that we had, which was Barkley
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: GoF for two fifty five. He kind of does a
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: top five all time playoff rushing appearance in the playoffs
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: in the snow at home in Philly with the Rams
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: coming down the field with a chance to win the game.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: It was really really one of those cool memorable postseason games.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Broadcaster question for you. So there's the four A crews obviously,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: and we're down to the final four games, so you
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: each get it that Sunday night you're calling Tampa versus Washington.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: You don't know the assignment yet for next week. When
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: do you find out that, hey, we don't have Bills
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: versus Ravens. Obviously that's going to CBS, but we actually
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: have an early windows Sunday game, which is not our
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: natural place. When do you find out all that information? Obviously,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Mike North and the schedule gods are working on it.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Do you get a note past you during the game
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: or is it after you're already back in the hotel.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: So it's you. We usually announce it before we go
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: off there. So I'll get I'll leave, I'll leave it
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: unnamed I get, I'll get a friend from one of
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: the networks text me, like, middle of the second quarter,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: hat you know yet? Because usually the league knows, but
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: they really keep it so that only one or two
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: people know. So I didn't know until our game in
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Tampa ended, until z Gonzalez duikes it in. Only then
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: did I know where we were going At some point.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Usually right before that, you may know the options or
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: where we're going to be a Sunday early game, Sunday earlier,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Sunday late. It all varies. I think if that result
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: of that game changes, we are in a different place
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: for a different game. So it is kind of fun.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: So there have been Usually it's in that break before that,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: our producer Rob Hiland will say, hey, here's a peak
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: of the schedule. We're going to show it coming out
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: of the next break. He's got to take it. And
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: that's the same thing with Week eighteen too.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, does it feel like the tournament reveal show?
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Like it does a little bit like I wish I
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: wish we didn't have to fly through it in thirty
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: seconds because you want to start digesting it because okay,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: the early window, this will be the the late window.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: That'll be decided and you kind of know what game
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: is left at the end. It is fun and you know,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: for us, we want to know where we're going, but
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: you also want to are they teams you know really
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: well teams you've had all that stuff, and so it's
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: it makes her a lot of fun, but you don't
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: find out until really the end of that Tampa game.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: I did not know where we were going. And Sunday
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: at three o'clock is a little bit different. You know,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: you've become creatures of habit. Right if you did Good
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Morning Football at five o'clock in the afternoon, it would
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: still weird totally. So for us doing at three o'clock
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon game, I was I was lost all day, Like, wait,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: a different time zone, right, Like what I truly at
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: seven to fifteen in the morning said, Okay, this game
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: kicks off five hours before normal, so right now it
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: should feel like twelve fifteen. I just want to make
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: sure I had like the right stuff ready. So it
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: wasn't panicking around the hotel trying to get ready, but
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: it was. It was cool and the weather timing was
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: incredible with the snow in Philadelphia to start dry begin
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: snow have a change over. It was. It was so
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: much fun, such a fun game, all right.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: One of the coolest things about being a voice in
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the NFL is you get to speak with these players,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: in these coaches the week of the games. Now it
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: used to be you're laying there on a Friday, You're
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: going to practice. Now a little bit more zoom than
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: in person, but I imagine you still get to see
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: these guys. Give us one thing you've gotten to know
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: about Jaden Daniels that the world should know, having done
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: his game obviously Sunday night against the Buccaneers.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: So we had the Falcons game, Yeah, and the Falcons game.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: So we go in on Friday still and go to
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: the home team practice. I think, and I tore my
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: achilles week eleven, so I missed like two weeks, three
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: weeks you getting Friday practice, and I felt lost. I
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: love doing it. I love sitting in the sea line
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: with people, and not only that, but being at practice,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: getting a chance to talk to the people around the franchise, right,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: and that's what helps give you, if not that nugget
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: to that feel and that confidence to say things. So
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: that's the preamble. Let me go backwards. Our one preseason
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: game was New England Washington, and you see you sit
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: there and you go, okay, we'll just come off the
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Olympics and now we're gonna turn around to a preseason game,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: the last preseason game where usually people don't play, but
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: it's two teams we do not have on our Sunday
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: night football schedule. And I remember when dan Quinn got up,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: He's like, hey, I hope we end up seeing you
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: guys before the years over. Like I was thinking the
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: same thing. I hope we're gonna flex into a commander's game.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Both Chris and I walked out of there on the
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: drive back to our hotel like, this team feels like
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: they could do something. Now. Did we see them making
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: the NFC Championship game. No, but we both tabbed them
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: as like the team on the rise, that team that
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: had something unique going and man, it was great. So
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: the point to your question, we did sit with Jayden Daniels.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: He didn't play in that preseason game, but we still
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: met with him because he was the guy, and man,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: did you see why the whole building was is in
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: belief that this guy could be really good? Right away?
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Fifty five starts Arizona State to LSU, so he's done
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: the leave one environment and system, go to a new
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: coaching staff, new teammates, win the room over, win the building,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: over the work habits. That a guy who I think
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: is really someone who deserves a lot of credit in
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: both college and pro football this year but is not
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: getting it is Brian Kelly. Brian Kelly is hard on
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks as any of them who played for but he
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: makes them better. And he really helped Jayden Daniels go
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: from here to here just in the large ess of
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: it of how you go about game planning, how you
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: go about situational football. And you know, Brian Kelly and
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: the LSU staff made it possible for Jaden Daniels done
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: academically essentially his last year at LSU, to get in
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: the gym in the middle of the night and get
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: ready and VR stuff. So that's a reality concept. And
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: he brought all those great in incredible habits to his meetings,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: He brought him all to his practices, and he brought
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: him all to Washington, and Washington gave him the ability
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: to kind of expand and do that. So, yeah, we
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: saw a little bit of why this could be really
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: good and there's no way you could forecast there'd be
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: a championship game. But just a close the thought on
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Brian Kelly, Notre Dame is not in position to play
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: for the championship if Brian Kelly didn't elevate that place
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: all the way through the end and then he hired
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Marcus Freemans he's defensive coordinator. If he did Marcus Freeman
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: three years in takes him to a championship NFL team
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: saying hey, this big guy, we should look at or
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: talk to you somewhere down the line sooner, if not later.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Brian Kelly did a lot of credit for some of
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: the success stories of this football season, and it is
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: not getting a lot of it. But Jade Daniels is
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: wonder those.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: You've been in that premiere Sunday night seat for the
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: entire Josh Allen Mahomes our Borough era. You've seen these
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: guys enter the league and then play their biggest games
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: on those Sunday night regular season afternoons and evenings. What
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: makes Josh Allen a little bit different this year than
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: maybe years prior.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Peter, he just took that step from here to here
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: of greatness, growth and what does greatness growth mean? It
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: means I got the building, all right, I got the
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: whole building. Now it's not. And he was so good
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: about not saying it's Stefan Diggs or anything like that.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Just the oxygen in the building changes every year. Stefan
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Diggs greatness, his ability to bring the bills so many
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: wins was a little bit of that receiver me attitude,
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: and that helped give this team. When Josh Allen was young,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: young ledge, you got it exactly man. And now now
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: like Josh looks around the room and it's him and
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: he's got to be that guy and he has. Now
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: that doesn't mean Dion Dawkins doesn't have an impact. Bernard
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: on defense are all the von Miller's still in the
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: building and still in the room, right. So I'm not
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: saying this is a one man show. But I think
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: the fact that Josh is able to read the room
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: and says, Okay, I know I'm really, really, really good.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: I know it's my time. I've got to lead these guys.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: And he's got a little bit of Rascal in him.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: He's the fun guy in the room, and you get
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: that every time you sit with Josh. There's a laugh,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: it's a humor, it's a it's never an edge, it's
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: always good. But you know, when it comes down to
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: the business, he's got he's got the buffaloes to do it,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: you know. So I love the way he took that
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: step this year. And that's one of the things that
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: you can see. Okay, it's not just Lamar Mahomes Burrow,
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: it's can you carry the Bills franchise? And this generation
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: of Bill's Mafia. The younger fans only know about Jim
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: and Thurman and Bruce and Andre Reid from T shirts
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: and sweatshirts that their parents still wear and all that stuff.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: A documentaries, you know exactly, and Marv Levy's singing his
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: go Bill's song that he wrote, right and all of that.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I think I think Josh is their generations guy, and
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: I'd love to see it. I do think it's the
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: most fascinating thing we're living in in a macro. Part
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: of this NFL JEN is that Lamar and Burrow and
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Josh remind me of Ernie Else and Phil Mickelson of
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: They're like not good, they're exceptional. They're living at a
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: time when one of the best to ever do it
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: is in their way, and they've all got to try
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: to beat Mahomes every single year, and usually they go
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: over when it matters the most. And Ken Josh get
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: that one notch this year. That's the most fascinating thing
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: in the macro to me, that's happening in our NFL
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: It's so interesting because it's so easy to do the
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: NBA thing and we talk about Barkley and Malone and
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Ewing and Gary Payton and Sean kemp At. These guys
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: were all amazing, but it just happened to play in
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: that era. The golf thing is is something I haven't
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: thought of yet. I thought, that's a really good analogy.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: You go into this game and it's Sunday, and it's
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: gonna be on Sunday night. Is there a little bit
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: of pang of jealousy that your voice won't be on
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: the call for this, for this monster game and it's
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: gonna be Nanson Romo.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: We all want to do a great game, right and
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: those legacy games, but you know, the wheel spins, we
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: all get our chance, and especially because you know these
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: guys know their season ends every year if not a
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl season with the AFC Championship game with the
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: NFC Championship game, and you know, and what's the balance.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: The balance is Sunday night, we usually get a really
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: good game. Sometimes those guys will get the short end
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: of the schedule and have a one o'clock game that's
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: not as high profile as a primetime game. So it's fine.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: It's the thing is that I enjoy is that all
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: these guys are friends, acquaintances, whatever you want to say.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: And I love to watch him and Tony do a game.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Jim spin wonderful and kind to me since I was
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: in Syracuse in school and Jim was coming and doing
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: games with Billy Packer and I was working at a
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: CBS station and I got to meet Jim and interview
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: him in the late eighties and early nineties. And we're
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: represented by the same person, Sandy Montag. So Jim's a
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: thirty year acquaintance and friend, and I've got Tony over
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: the years, and save same day with Kevin and Tom too.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm just excited to hear those guys do
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: these games. I remember Kevin and I were texting before
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: the game of Detroit Saturday, and then he texted me
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: after the game about our game on Sunday. So you
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: know this, look at we talked about it all the time.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: We're all friends who do well. We all swim in
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: the same water and root for each other. So yeah,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: would you love to be there, of course. But then
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: when it's four o'clock in the afternoon and you're like
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: the rest of America, you're eating what you want, you're
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: drinking what you want, you're watching great football, and you're
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: watching great people call the game. It's all good. We
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: all get our We all got our swinging at the
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: pitch every once in a while.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: You know how fond I am of your work and
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: you as a man, obviously, but some of your calls
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: have been legendary in just the last couple of years alone.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: I want to play you a call from last year's
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: wild Card round. It's the Rams and the Lions, and
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: the Rams all but wrapped the Lions all but wrap
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: this thing up, and Chris Collinsworth kind of gave you
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: the stage to talk a little bit about what this
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: meant for the city of Detroit.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Take a listen, Mike, you live in this area.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Give me some idea of what this is.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: The turner out here, sol, same old Lions. They always
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: find a way.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: To screw it up.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: And Dan Campbell change that mentality, change that the people
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: who brought in they've lost their last nine playoff appearances.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: It's a team that believes in themselves and they didn't
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: have a great second half, but this will be one
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: of the most memorable nights in Detroit football for that
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: eighty nine year old and the sixty two thousand others.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Here one morning and business is done and Detroit for
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: the first time in thirty two years, your Lions have
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: won a playoff game. How about it?
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Mike Herring that back, what's your reaction.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: I wasn't expecting Chris to do that, which is why
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Christian is the best to work with, because they'll do
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: things at times that you are unplanned. But also like
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: that's Christian's moment to kind of say what he should
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: be saying. But I think he understood that. Having lived
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: in Michigan for twenty five years, I had a different
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: read on the fans and the people, and I thought
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: seeing Kirk herb Street after the championship game on money
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: and I think it was emotional talking about Ohio State
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: was a reminder because Scott Vanpelt used the line as
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: Kirk was getting emotional. Everybody's from somewhere, and I'm not
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: from here. I grew up a Jets fan right and
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: moved here twenty five years ago. So I think as
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: you get older and do this, you have that professional
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: layer of non emotional attachment. But my family, their Lions fans,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: all the people I know. I mean, you go to
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: the cleaners and drop off your shirts on Monday after
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: you come home from Sunday, and all people want to
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: talk about is what about Dan Skipper being eligible and
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. So what it means to the area
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: is what I think I've got the connection with, not
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: just the long suffering fans, but a city that had
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: been a pinata for some a city that got beat up,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: and to see it turn around and parallel with the
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: success with the Lions and the downtown area coming back.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: I just had a really good feel for it and
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: a read for it. And I was really blessed and
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: lucky to do both of those games that will be
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: all time memories for me. Just to be in that
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: stadium the night the Jared Goff chant began. It was
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: the night that it was given birth. And just to
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: be able to help an audience understand it better. And
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: as Sheila hamp the owner of the Lions, reminded me
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: when I saw her a couple of weeks ago, the
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: lines are seven and oh on NBC. When I've done
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: the games going back to the end of the Aaron
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Rodgers in Green Bay era, it's an amazing game. I said,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: I've got nothing to do with it. Bub will happily
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: take the credit for it. That was it.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson calls a hook and lateral and then they
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: throw a fourth down pass the DJ Shark to eliminate
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: the Packers. That you were on that call.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: And that was a Schrager GMFB trivia question, and I
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: think that may have been the answer may have been
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: D because somebody don't know if Jamie brought it up.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Somebody brought up that oftentimes Schrager will just humor you
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: with choice D, which is now open the door for
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Schrager to put the right answer in D. It's you see,
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: you're a great play caller. If they think they've seen
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: this ten times, give it to them the opposite way.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: I love I love that you watch our show. It
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: blows me away that anyone watches our show and the
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: fact you have to recall to do that. I so
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. Another call was from the year beforehand Lamar
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: Jackson's not in the play the game because of injury,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: so Snoop Huntley is the quarterback. And then Sam Hubbard
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: makes the play that made Cincinnati a rock and roll concert.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Here's your call from that.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Game with the right round he reaches. They always some
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Hubbard the Cincinnati could hundred's.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Gonna come by, chased by Andrews what the thugy the
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: TNNY well stop.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: And Sam Hubbard, who grew up with Bengals fan want
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: a state championship at Bowler High School Championship in Ohio State,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: makes the massive play to take it the other way
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: and give the Bengals.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: The leave Mike your thoughts here in that call back.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Well, so we had Cincinnati in the wild card game
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: of the year before with Drew Brees, we did the
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati rad Racers playoff game Bengals on their way to
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. That you who would have thought, right?
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: And what was in interesting with that was you do
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: the research for that game and you're in and Dan
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: Horde is the voice of the Cincinnati Bengals and the
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bearcats. So all SINCEI things that kind of had
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: a little feel for because I've got one of my
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: buddies who I went to Syracuse with it was a
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: part of the Bengals world for the last twenty plus years.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: So for some reason during that wild Card game prep,
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: we were talking about Hubbard and Cincinnati roots and how
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: rare it is and how much a championship would be
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: in to a guy who had just been in Ohio
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: and living in Michigan. You know, the people in Ohio,
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: it means so much to them to contribute, whether it's
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: the Buckeys, but also the high school football in Cincinnati.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: It's Cincinnati is one of those you're from, where you're
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: from your high school or the parish that it went
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: to church, and the Cincinnati thing, you know. So I
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: had just had in my mind in Cincinnati ties, and
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: I hadn't written anything down, but that was the first
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: thing it popped in my mind when he got the ball,
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: and it just one of those He got the ball
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: on the right spot that his number was facing me
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: where I was in the booth, so I could see
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: right away with him at the fifteen yard line, and
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: I just popped in my head. I had no plan.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: It was on my board Cincinnati Kid or anything like that.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: And those are the fun ones when it just pops
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: in your head and just say what you're thinking and
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: feeling and prepared for. So it was nice to have
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: the backstory ingrained in my mind that when it happened
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: that we had something and it was good that he
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: ended up scoring on the play made it a lot
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: of fun.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: So good. All right, I'm gonna wrap with a couple
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: really fun questions that I'm looking for answers that might
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: not be what you would expect.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: I've always said one of the most entertaining production meetings
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: I've ever been a part of was for any relevant
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Saint Louis Rams game against maybe the Tennessee Titans, and
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Greg Williams came in as defensive coordinator under Jeff Fisher
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: and went on an hour long talk about defense and
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: the power of crystals, and people ask me, who is
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: the production meeting guy. I'm like, I don't know where
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: you're starting where you end, but Greg Williams is on
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: my list. Is just sit back and sit back and enjoy. Uh,
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: who's that guy for? You might not have to be
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: don't have to be Andy Reid, like give me like
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: that off the radar guy that you just love listening
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: to talk football.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: So the best, the best players were the best production meetings.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: I always thought, like, if you asked me, who gave
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: the best production meetings the elite quarterbacks, especially when it
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: was Manning and Brady, like you know, Peyton who controls
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: everything in the line of scrimmage and everything else. I'll
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: never forget being an ESPN in those days. And gosh,
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: I'm doing the game with Gruden and maybe Jaws or
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: just Sushi Colbers, our sideline reporter, and Peyton's telling me
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: about how a receiver is going to have a role,
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: and it's somebody who had been on the practice squad, right,
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: So it's like so and so, so and so, and
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: we're gonna be I'm gonna be calling We're gonna be
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: calling up this guy, Mike. He should be make sure
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: you're ready for him to playing all the year. And
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: then and then he got and then he kind of goes,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: and the guy goes. Johnny's got a really good wiggled
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: Bob Moos routes really kind of kind of like stokely
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: on the route running and Susane. He's got a great backstory,
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh my god, this man has just
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: produced the production meeting by telling all and all three
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: of those things you got on the air. So that's like,
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: that's like the Nirvana of production meetings. But I'm gonna
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: tell you a couple that Sean Payton can give you.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: We talk about the flip card for Sean Payton, what
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: it is because I did enough. Sean Payton comes in
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: and what a flip card is for the listeners. It's
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: every player on the roster. And tell him what Sean
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: Payton will do for I don't know if what the
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: point is, but he goes position by position and we'll
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: tell you everything you need to know about each one
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: of these guys. But go on, Mike, tell him now.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: We'll move over to line three and see, I got
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: this here. Okay, here's what he's gonna do. And Sean
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: gives you detail on every single player. He kind of
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: runs the clock out on you. You have no time
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: to answer ask any questions at some point, but he
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: gives you all the details. Mike Tomlin is priceless because
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Mike gives you not just great great great answers, but
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: he also gives us such good detail hill along the
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: way on who's gonna play and why I love like,
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: you'll get to a guy and go, he's our jet
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: sweeper guy. He'll run the tricks and all that stuff,
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: and just it's just Mike Tomlin esque tones and terms.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: He goes, he goes through the flip card and does that.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: So they're they're all, they're all really good production meetings.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think if there's one.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: To kind of the radar guy, give me someone like
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: I just say Greg Williams, like, you know, Jeff Fishery
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: has to show up in leather jackets and do.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: That right, right right. Dan Campbell is like, you can't
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: keep him in his seat, he says, he starts rocking.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: He starts rocking during the meeting, and he start going
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: back and forth. Now he's moving around his chair and
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: he's grabbing his coffee and he's got his dip of
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: the whole thing. He's he is so on brand uh
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: for production meetings. But no, the best ones are the
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: best guys, they really are. So my favorite production meeting
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: story is Belichick, who notoriously gave you very little right,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: and that's in told for years it wasn't bad. When
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: you got to know Bill, it wasn't bad. You had
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: to know what you were getting into and what you
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: were trying to get out of it. So it's Thanksgiving night,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: We're doing a game in Minnesota, I want to say,
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: and the Patriots are playing and we're getting nothing out
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: of Bill, right, And so Melissa Stark is going to
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: ask everybody about Thanksgiving because in case somebody wins there
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: to ducking leg or things like that, you want to
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: make it a Thanksgiving. It's a family show more than
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: an et Zo show. So we started asking Belichick, and
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Belichick goes into this great detail on Army Navy being
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: the Saturday after Thanksgiving in Philadelphia and what a Thanksgiving night,
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: what Thanksgiving Day? Meet you? And he was and of
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: course his dad coaching at Navy. Well, Thanksgiving was the
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: last practice. It was the last practice at Navy. And
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: give us detail about the parade and the train up
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: to Philadelphia. And he went into like fifty it was
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: the greatest fifteen minute history lesson on Army Navy played
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: in Philadelphia for Thanksgiving. Maybe eight seconds of it got
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: on the air, but he was he was so into
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: the storytelling part of it and with detail, like I
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: never really had Thanksgiving dinner, Like Thanksgiving was just the
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: last day of practice with my dad with Navy because
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Friday was the season ended on Saturday with the Army
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: Navy game, So like that, that's a day I'll just remember,
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: just sitting there and going, how cool is this? Like
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: I'm here in the nineteen sixties history of Army Navy
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: from arguably the greatest football coach of my lifetime, and
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: I'm getting football education that I will never ever ever lose.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Because Melissa Stark asked about what's your favorite Thanksgiving side?
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: And that's why those meetings are so informative. You hats
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: so fun and you build bonds with people along the years.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: So you come in and you start talking about all
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: this random stuff and it's all part of the community
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: that you know, you live and you love. When we
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: go to the owner's meetings or the Super Bowl and
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: that whole community is in one room, it's really pinch
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: yourself that you are a part of this cool, cool,
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: cool fraternity.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: It's really special. I know you've got a relationship with
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Brady as well. He's in his first year obviously, he
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: and Kevin are the team and the Fox guys have
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: them locked and loaded. Have you passed any notes along
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: to Tom? Have you exchanged any notes with Tom? I
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: know how much he values his friendship with you, Tom.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Tom. Tom's great, Tom. I've reached out. Look. I live
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: in an Arbert's Michigan, so Brady's connection with Michigan has
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: always been cool. And we had stories about Lloyd Carr
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: over the years. Whenever I'd have Tom for a production meeting,
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: if I saw Coach Carr, who was his coach at Michigan,
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: we'd share stories about that because Coach Carr had been
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: in the area and his grandkids know my kids and
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: all that stuff, and we've gotten to know them. So
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: that's always been a common connection and built a bond
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: there over the years. But you know, Tom was great Tom.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: I shared here's what I do for a game, Tom,
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: anything you need, because Tom had been so helpful to
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: me and to any who did this job all of
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: his years in the NFL. When you didn't get a
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: ton of information out of New England. Tom was great
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: in production meetings and really helped you do your job.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: So I always felt the least I could do for
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: anybody who comes along after, especially if they helped us.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: Could I be an olive branch? Is there anything I
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: can help you with? Answer a question from the side
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: that I do this on and Tom. I shared a
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: couple of things with Tom. Not much. He's done his
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: own thing. He figured out from typical Tom Brady or
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: outwork and everybody getting the most information how to go
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: about it. And he'll go about it and probably adjust
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: it as he goes through this year and on into
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: next year. But I've trained to test with him a
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: fut times. I've enjoyed listening to him, I really have.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: I've enjoyed listening to his view on things. I love
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: his grades of throws right away because if Tom Brady
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: says it to Nay plus star, it's an A plus throw.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: You're not gonna question it, not at all.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: So I've enjoyed that. And you know, one thing that
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: happens with all of us, we'll get in these weird sequences.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: I'll go three weeks in a row where I follow
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: I an Eagle and Charles Davis for Chris, and I
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: will file watching your game so far right for the
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: people wh don't know, like Monday and Tuesday One of
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: the first things we do is go back and watch
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: the entire game broadcast from the last week. At least
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: that I do, just because you want to hear themes,
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: you want to watch the game storylines. You don't want
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: to repeat the same attecdote because you know the fan
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: who's watching the Panthers every week. Okay, dude, I've heard
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: this three times in a row. I don't need to
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: hear it again. So if you do repeat it, say hey,
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of you are familiar with the story of
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: for those who are, and just to acknowledge the fact that, Okay,
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: here's the story, I'm gonna tell it again. So for
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: whatever reason, I think we have three weeks in a
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: row where we followed Kevin and Tom with our game
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: the following week, and I got to listen every weekend.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: This sent Tom a text and I so enjoyed listening
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: to him called the Minnesota Green Bay game because we
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: had Minnesota Detroit the next week. It's it's fun. Our
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: business has become so criticized because tick up Twitter, I
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: hate why did you say this? You said it was second,
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: that was third. Yeah, that's right, that's fine. That's part
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: of life. We get it. But what I do respect
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: a lot, Peter, and you know it because you're around
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: it and you're a nerd of it a little bit.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: I don't think our job has ever been done at
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: a higher level by more people. Like every game you
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: watch is really really well done. Like I learned stuff
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: with Mark Sanchez and Adam Amin are doing a game.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: You know, like, oh man, that's really good. I never
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: thought of that. And we're all constantly listening to each
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: other and rooting for each other. It's the fun part
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: of doing this that I never imagined would be the case,
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: and maybe wasn't the case twenty five thirty years ago.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: But whether it's we've all come up through the same
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: series of places, or we've interacted, or there are more
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: jobs than ever doing this, I love. I love the
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: fraternity of play by play analyst reporters that we all are.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: And you know, you've become friends with people like Charles Davis,
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: like Laura Oakman, I and Eagle and I know each
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: other for thirty five years. So that's what this joy is.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: And the fact that nobody has any property like the NFL,
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: the people watching these numbers. You just am very appreciative
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: of what you do and that you get a chance
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: to do it on a regular basis.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: There's a cool parallel. I talked to Cliff Kingsbury, the
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator of the Commanders, this week, and I said,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: third and five, you're throwing the ball to John Bates
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: with the season on the line, he goes, he goes.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: McVeigh called that same play with Jordan Whittington earlier this
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: season when they played the Cardinals. It's a full back
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: corner route and I saw it and I said, oh gosh,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: you put the full back in there and then you
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: have him run a corner. He's like, He's like, and
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you're okay with me saying that on air.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: He's like, dude, it was a great play call.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: We used it.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: It was, of course, But that's the same thing with us.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: It's like if Dan Orlowsky or Kevin Clark or Ryan
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Clark makes a good comment, like I'm not so insecure
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: to not say, oh no, I'm gonna take this from
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: that comment because that was a really good point.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: And give the person credit who's says it when they
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: say it, and do what they do. Look, people aren't
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: sitting there with a scorecard they're sitting there enjoying it.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: I always remind young broadcasters what we do, and Gruden
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: helped me understand this a lot. What we do is entertainment,
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: and lead courso too when I got to work with
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: the lead back in the nineties. What we do is entertainment.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: It is very important business. It is your team, it's
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: your fantasy team, it's your daily wager, right, it's your parlay.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: Trying to make sure that your running back gets ten
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: yards in each quarter. Whatever it is. You are being
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: at some level entertained. And we're responsible for some of
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: that entertainment. So we got to do that on a
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: regular basis. And to understand that that we are all
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: collectively doing this is pretty fun.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, my last question to you, because Gus, it's two pieces.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: It goes back to your years at the Worldwide Leader.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: But I think of icons, I think of people that
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: you've worked with. Give me your best John Gruden's story.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, Okay, sure it. It may not be
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: the best, but it's my favorite. It's when we go
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: to Philadelphia and the Eagles are not practicing on Saturday
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: for a Monday night game, Friday for a Sunday game.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: But they're doing like this spa day is quote unquote right.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: It's like massage, get your body right, and then be outside.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: And now Chip Kelly's come in and now they have
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: these protein shakes. So every day somebody gets a shake,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: and it's based on what your body needs. So the
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: Schrager shake may be different in week eight than it
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: wasn't week fourteen because you've had a cold, you had
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: an injury, there's something right. So this constant analysis is
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: telling you this is what you need, so you get
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: somebody's making shakes. So Gruden goes, hey, can we get
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: a blender? Can we get a blender in the booth?
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: I'm like, it's very similar to the feeling I had
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: when I was sitting on the set with Marfa Stewart
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: and Snoop dogging what the hell I'm doing? I'm just
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: want called third and five, And like, now my man's
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: bringing a blender to the booth. And it's a meme
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: that shows up every once in a while out there.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: We're in the booth, we're in Philly and John the
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: Eagles go up like by seventeen points and John goes, hey,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: we should did a blender bit now and it was
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: still it was telling a story, but it was in
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: an entertaining way. And so John brings the blenderings thrown
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: bananas and strawberries in this blender. He's just being the
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: mad scientist. And it just reminded me that every great
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: coach and a teacher. Yep. And that was just John's
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: way of giving you an unforgettable moment to say, you
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: know what, this coach is doing something very different. I
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: could have done the story. Hey, no, John, Each guy
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: gets his own protein shake on Saturday, and they're just
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: trying to make sure that they're chemically balanced properly, and
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: blah blah blah sports science and no, but he did
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: it with a blender, and it's still in my head
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: fourteen years later. Whatever the heck it is, that to
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: me was one of a thousand examples of John being
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: as good a teacher as I've ever been around.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you one more, and I'm gonna preface
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: it with my story, which is so limited. I've never
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: worked with this guy. I'm in the Arizona Airport, delayed
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: for a flight Monday morning after the Super Bowl, after
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: the Patriots beat the Seahawks on the Malcolm Butler play, yeah, okay.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: Delayed flight back to LaGuardia delayed four hours. Sitting at
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: the gate, No fancy lounge, I'm sitting there. I'm a nobody.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: No one cares. This larger than life presence wearing a
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: giant what I would describe as a sun hat or
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: a sombrero, comes rumbling down oh Way with people asking
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: for photos and autographs, and then he leans this huge
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: six foot five, two hundred something pound body, leans right
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: into my shoulder and just says, you got the modern
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: day Earl Campbell in the backfield and you're throwing the ball.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: To lock it.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: What it was and it was Chris Berman over my shoulder.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: And I'm like that, and give me your best Chris
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Berman story.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's good. There are so many. First off,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: my favorite one was he's doing West Coast Baseball Wednesday
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: nights on ESPN when ESPND double headers on Wednesday Friday
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: and then Sunday Night baseball, and I'm breaking in doing
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: sports Eights nineteen ninety one, probably August maybe, and the
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: Mariners bullpen was stunningly bad on Wednesday nights in ninety
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: one and ninety two. I can't tell you how many
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: nights we sat on the set and the Mariners gave
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: up three in the eighth and five four in the
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: ninth to send it to X gratings two eight in
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: the morning. Right, So I'm sitting on the set and
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: after those double headers, it wasn't at eleven o'clock or two.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: A sports at the time you do one show at
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: one thirty, and so sometimes it we won from the
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: eleven one from the two. So I did that show
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: with Bob Lee. That's the middle of summer. Everybody off, Yeah,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: and I was like, maybe the first or second JO
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: I'm doing with Bob and Boomer's out there doing the game.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: May have been with Jerry Royce made his House and
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: Bob was Sports's next Bob Lee. Mike Turrico, Mike, welcome, Bob,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: you're breaking in another one. Here, here's the next one.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: Here's the next one. So then fast forward a few
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: years later in the studio with Chris and doing a show,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: and I got to work as like the second host,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: the sub host on NFL Countdown, I think it was
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: back then whatever the shows were called. His nickname is
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: Boomer for a reason. He's the loudest individual ever, he's
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: so loud in such a presence, but it was like
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: walking around with when we travel together, it was like
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: being with Elvis. There's a true story about Bill's Super
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Bowl at the Rosewawn, Pasadena. We did the pregame show
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: and then we're going out. We're in a car. Russell
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: Baxter was our research guy, Tom Jackson, Boomer, myself. I
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: think maybe that may be the whole car. Maybe one
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: other person get a flat on the side of the highway.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: And there we are on the side of the road
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: with Boomer and Tom Jackson. We're waiting for somebody to
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: fix the fly here right with Chris Berman and Boomer. Well,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: the way it happens with the Bills gotta circle the wagons, right,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: we got the flat fis We got there. The Cowboys
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: had an incredible late second quarter. Boomer was disconsolate. He
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: just wanted to see the Bills win once. So sure,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: maybe this will be Maybe this will be the year
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: that the Bills win.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: Maybeeah, maybe it is. And we'll think of Boomer and
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: we'll think of all the different times he predicted the
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: Bills and the forty nine ers in a Super Bowl.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: It might not be there it'll be so, he says,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: for the tenth year, it'll be the Niners and the
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: Bills in the Super Bowl. You can count on it.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: Beautiful, Mike Tarico, we went way over the time I
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: asked you to give us. That was awesome.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: Thank you so, like our regular text exchanges, they want
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: to see the Super Bowl power somewhere down the line
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: here and thanks for all the MFB mornings. You you
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: and that team just just crush it. And like the
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: thing you did on Tuesday in the vein of Mark Andrews,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: of the guys who had great careers at playoff moments,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: that was like, that's like vintage Schrager. That's somefing appreciating
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: that like people don't do right now. I'm like Trey Junkin,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: I forgot about that and it was just really cool.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: The history of football is so great and you do.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: My God, there's a place for it. And I say
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: it to a mad Dog. I do Mad Dog Russo Show,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I think there's a very small group
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  Speaker 1: of us left to care to actually use the platform
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  Speaker 1: to do it, but you're one of them. I think
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  Speaker 1: the history of football still matters.
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  Speaker 2: But Peter, it does because it mattered to us, like
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  Speaker 2: to hear the stories in the greatest game ever played
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty eight. Fifty eight is later, thirty years
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  Speaker 2: later for me to talk to people who are Bill
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  Speaker 2: Curry to talk to me Curry about that, right, sure,
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  Speaker 2: like those things, those things last with me forever and
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  Speaker 2: now as I involved, didn't playoff football and historic stuff.
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  Speaker 2: As I get older and hopefully you know this generation
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  Speaker 2: as the technology and baby, we'll go back and look
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  Speaker 2: at it and see clips. But to keep it alive,
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  Speaker 2: to keep it fresh in people's minds is one of
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  Speaker 2: the many awesome things you do. So thanks for all right, dude,
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  Speaker 2: thank you right back at your season and there you
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  Speaker 2: have it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, that's the Mike Turrico experience. I love that guy.
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  Speaker 1: We've had the honor or. I've had the honor to
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  Speaker 1: work a couple of games with him for NFL Network.
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  Speaker 1: We did a Chargers Ravens game in Carson City on
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  Speaker 1: a Saturday night. It was me and him and Kurtwrner them.
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  Speaker 1: The next year we did Bills versus Patriots in a
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  Speaker 1: big game that the Patriots beat the Bills and said
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  Speaker 1: not yet, it's not your time yet. With Brady as
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback one of his last great wins, and and
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  Speaker 1: it was Tariko, Warner and I and those were those
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  Speaker 1: really fun Saturday night NFL Network games down the Stretchman
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  Speaker 1: we used to work together. Those games have now been
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  Speaker 1: given to the NFL Network people in house. Eisen does
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  Speaker 1: them with Warner and my colleague Jamie and it's great.
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  Speaker 1: But like that, that's where I really connected with Tariko,
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  Speaker 1: and he watches our show, and obviously I watch everything
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  Speaker 1: he does. But Aaron, just listening to Mike talk, like
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  Speaker 1: you could tell why you know, sometimes the good guys,
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  Speaker 1: it's there's a reason they have so much success, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not just the skill and the work, but also
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  Speaker 1: it's cool to hang it's cool to hang with and
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  Speaker 1: it's cool to get to know.
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  Speaker 3: Seemed like a genuinely great guy. And having heard him
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  Speaker 3: on the broadcast so often, it was it was the
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  Speaker 3: same guy, and it made me think he like appreciate
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  Speaker 3: what he does on broadcast even more too. He just
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  Speaker 3: seems so nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was.
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  Speaker 1: His season's done, but ours is still going, and so
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  Speaker 1: is our folks who work at Uber Eats because we're
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  Speaker 1: results presented by those fine, fine individuals. I'm gonna discuss
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: a team or player that delivered from this past week's games,
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  Speaker 1: and I have nowhere else to go than to Dan Quinn,
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of the Washington Commanders. He delivered. This
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  Speaker 1: was against a Lions team that not only was the
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  Speaker 1: number one seed in the NFC playoffs, but they were
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  Speaker 1: the home field team and the heavy favorites nearly double digits.
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  Speaker 1: And incomes a Washington Commander's team that had four wins
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  Speaker 1: last year, and they go in there and they upset
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  Speaker 1: Detroit in Detroit. Dan Quinn's team brought it on offense, defense,
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  Speaker 1: and on special teams. They find a way to win
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  Speaker 1: an advance. Dan Quinn, like we said, the last coach
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  Speaker 1: hired in last year's coaching cycle, and yet one of
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  Speaker 1: the four last coaches remaining in this year's NFL season.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Quinn now heads to Philadelphia with his Washington Commanders
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  Speaker 1: for the third time. They play Philadelphia in what will
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  Speaker 1: be an awesome NFC Championship game on Fox. Dan Quinn
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  Speaker 1: ahea an order. Now all right. There you have it, guys,
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  Speaker 1: A long pod. Enjoy it on your commutes, Enjoy it
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  Speaker 1: on the treadmill, Enjoy it wherever you want. We got
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  Speaker 1: two games left this weekend. Then we got the big
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  Speaker 1: one in New Orleans. Enjoy NFC and AFC Championship game weekend. Folks,
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  Speaker 1: have a good one. The Season with Peter Schrager is
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