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The Season with Peter Schrager: Roger Goodell · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Schreeger is a production of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's Up, Everybody, and Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the Season with Peter Schreger. We have another episode
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  Speaker 1: on our feed this week and that's a long, extensive,
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  Speaker 1: in depth interview with Michael Vick.
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  Speaker 2: Vic is incredible in our sit down.
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  Speaker 1: I work with Michael on the weekends on Fox NFL Kickoff,
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  Speaker 1: but this season was kicked off with a premiere of
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  Speaker 1: a movie that he's been working on for three years
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  Speaker 1: as a producer, called The Evolution of the Black Quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: We get into that, we get into a sit down
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  Speaker 1: he just had with Jayden Daniels that's going to air
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  Speaker 1: on the Fox pregame shows this weekend, and we go
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  Speaker 1: down memory lane. Michael Vick in Atlanta early two thousands
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  Speaker 1: outcast is on the scene, Ludacris is on the scene.
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  Speaker 2: Two Chains is just.
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  Speaker 1: Coming out, and where Michael Vick fit in to the
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  Speaker 1: cultural landscape there in Atlanta during that time and is
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  Speaker 1: the introspective And he's interesting in the response and that
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  Speaker 1: he felt such a burden and such a responsibility that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there was pressure. It wasn't like he could
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  Speaker 2: enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: It was pressure that with all that was happening in
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta as such a cultural touch point, he knew it
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  Speaker 1: was on him to kind of make sure that he
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  Speaker 1: brought his best and he brought the Falcons to some glory,
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  Speaker 1: and they did. They had some very good years during
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  Speaker 1: those times. Vick's amazing. I would really urge you to
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  Speaker 1: listen to that. This week on Good Morning Football. I
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  Speaker 1: was in La on Monday and Tuesday, and on Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: with a very special guest, the Commissioner of the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: mister Roger Goodell. And now the history of Goodell and
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  Speaker 1: Good Morning Football is rich and deep.
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  Speaker 2: We always have him on at least twice a season.
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  Speaker 1: He comes in and it is the NFL's network, so
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  Speaker 1: he can come in and it's his network in a way,
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  Speaker 1: and we come in, but we do not get questions
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  Speaker 1: scripted for us. We are told to ask whatever we
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  Speaker 1: want and to you know, present him any questions that
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  Speaker 1: are currently of mind, but also that might be long
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  Speaker 1: term thinking. And oftentimes these interviews with us make news.
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  Speaker 1: We have that green light to ask him questions. And
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  Speaker 1: we just got wrapped with an episode on Tuesday in
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  Speaker 1: which Goodell sat with us for about fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was pretty insightful.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to bring that interview over to this feed
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  Speaker 1: so our listeners to the pod can listen to the
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  Speaker 1: sit down if you didn't catch it on Good Morning Football.
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  Speaker 2: The interviewers and the voices that you hear are myself.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the one who brings him in and asks the
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  Speaker 2: first question about the resurgence of the DC commanders, and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know this. Roger grew up in the DC area.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, his.
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  Speaker 1: Father was in government, so he grew up in DC,
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  Speaker 1: so he has kind of a cool introspective response on that.
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  Speaker 1: The other voice you'll hear is Jamie Erdall, who's one
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  Speaker 1: of the hosts of Good Morning Football, Michael Robinson, who
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  Speaker 1: is a former player and also an NFL Network colleague,
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  Speaker 1: and Kyle Brandt, who was beaming in from New York
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  Speaker 1: City asking some pretty good questions to Goodell as well. So,
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  Speaker 1: with no further ado, here's a little bonus episode. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Roger Goodell on Good Morning Football on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: We're excited here in our LA studios and we have
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  Speaker 3: a very special guest, a gentleman, the Commissioner of the
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  Speaker 3: National Football League, mister Roger gudell.
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  Speaker 4: Y, welcome, thank you, grilled to be here.
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  Speaker 2: What brings you to Los Angeles?
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  Speaker 4: You guys right, yeah this I was out in San
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  Speaker 4: Francisco on Sunday, had some meetings Superior yesterday and stayed
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  Speaker 4: to be with you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Our show is now coast to coast, so we figured
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  Speaker 3: we hit a couple of different markets here and hit
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  Speaker 3: you with some questions.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't mind us just popping you. Is this
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  Speaker 2: a test?
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  Speaker 5: This is a test.
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  Speaker 3: I would like to start in the Nation's Capital. I
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  Speaker 3: think the best story one month into the season is
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  Speaker 3: this Washington Commander's franchise and this young Rokie quarterback and
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  Speaker 3: what he's brought.
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  Speaker 2: You have been with the league.
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  Speaker 3: For many years, you were a historian of the game.
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  Speaker 3: To see that market so enthused right now and energized
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  Speaker 3: with what Jaden and also the new coaching staff an
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  Speaker 3: ownership group has brought. What's it like having the Commanders
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  Speaker 3: being on top of the NFC East and really having
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  Speaker 3: the Nation's Capital is one of the top teams.
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  Speaker 4: Well, like the way you say historian, that means I've
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  Speaker 4: been here a long time, so I've seen this history
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  Speaker 4: but the reality is, you know, I also grew up
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  Speaker 4: in Washington and I know what that franchise means to
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  Speaker 4: that community. It really does, and I think to see
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  Speaker 4: that excitement start coming back. You can see they're on
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  Speaker 4: the right path. Got a great young quarterback, DQ is
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  Speaker 4: doing great. I just think that team is on the
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  Speaker 4: rise and it's going to be fun for the league
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  Speaker 4: because you know, the nation's capital, that's where it's at,
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  Speaker 4: and I think it'll be fun for the league to
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  Speaker 4: have them back.
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  Speaker 2: Very cool.
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  Speaker 6: You probably couldn't be more thrilled with how the International
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  Speaker 6: Series started in Brazil, but also what we have coming
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  Speaker 6: into this weekend an undefeated Vikings team and Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 6: led Jets team, but then the irony that Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 6: is quarterbacking the Vikings. Do you follow stories like this
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  Speaker 6: and when guys just kind of really hit a lull
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  Speaker 6: but then the resurgence within the league.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, to me, it's part of what makes our game
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  Speaker 4: so much fun is to see kids that you know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe don't have a good start at one team and
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  Speaker 4: they move off. I think he's now on his FOURT team,
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  Speaker 4: I believe, and you know, to see him get in
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  Speaker 4: the right system. And I really give a lot of
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  Speaker 4: credit to Kevin. And you know, the GM crazy is
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  Speaker 4: just you know, to get the right kind of guy
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  Speaker 4: to fit their system. He's getting the most out of them.
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  Speaker 4: Got great teammates. It's always great to throw to JJ,
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  Speaker 4: but you know you've got to give him credit to
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  Speaker 4: you know, his determination to get back in there and
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  Speaker 4: say I can do this. And when you see someone
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  Speaker 4: try to overcome that and try to build on the
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  Speaker 4: failures he may have had, that's just something you take
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  Speaker 4: your hat off to.
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  Speaker 7: You got ratings going crazy, man, you know, you got streaming,
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  Speaker 7: you got you know, all the different platforms. Just what
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  Speaker 7: excites you about the National Football League right now? Just
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  Speaker 7: in general? Man, with all the ever changing media platforms.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think all that is another opportunity for us.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think we have the greatest content in
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  Speaker 4: the world. I mean, everybody wants to see every aspect
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  Speaker 4: of the NFL. They want to see our players. I
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  Speaker 4: want to see our coaches. I want to see the teams.
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  Speaker 4: They want to see Kyle. I see you in the
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  Speaker 4: background there, Caud they do.
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  Speaker 6: He's like Oz back there, honestly, Like sometimes you see
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  Speaker 6: his body language.
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  Speaker 7: I'm like Oh God, what's.
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  Speaker 2: Wrong, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 8: Come over to this, this large Orrellian monitor that we
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  Speaker 8: have there in that beautiful set the Roger.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in New York City.
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  Speaker 8: I'm in our Good Morning Football is Lower West Side condo,
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  Speaker 8: of course, home of the league headquarters where your office is.
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  Speaker 8: And you know what, we do really well here at
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  Speaker 8: the NFL. We're really good at branding, and I like
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  Speaker 8: that we branded the new kickoff rule the dynamic kickoff,
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  Speaker 8: and it really feels that way. We're a month into it.
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  Speaker 8: What do you think about the early returns of the
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  Speaker 8: dynamic kickoff?
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  Speaker 4: You know, we always said this is going to be
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  Speaker 4: a working progress. I guess if I had to grade it,
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  Speaker 4: I'd say it's an incomplete right now, and only in
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  Speaker 4: this sense. We wanted to bring back more returns, but
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  Speaker 4: we wanted to do it safely. So we have more returns.
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  Speaker 4: I think we had an eighty five percent increase in returns.
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  Speaker 4: That'll give us more data to find out is it working.
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  Speaker 4: Are we seeing the safety level go back to the
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  Speaker 4: same safety levels we see at the line of scrimmage
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  Speaker 4: plays So far that looks pretty good, but it's really
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  Speaker 4: early to tell, and there's really not enough data yet.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's going to come out where we've brought
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  Speaker 4: the safety back into that play, and then I think
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  Speaker 4: we'll have to make a few changes on the kickoff
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  Speaker 4: that will I think lead to a lot more kickoff returns.
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  Speaker 4: I think the.
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  Speaker 2: Back moving it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I could do the touchback and move it to
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  Speaker 4: thirty five. You know, I think that would be a
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  Speaker 4: game changer right away. Yeah, I think that everything. I've
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  Speaker 4: talked to the coaches and as you know, our special
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  Speaker 4: teams coaches are looking at this. I've talked to some
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  Speaker 4: of them and I think there will be a change,
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  Speaker 4: whether we make it immediate after the season. We're going
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  Speaker 4: to have a competition committee in the next week.
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  Speaker 3: So Jamie's headed to London this afternoon. You'll probably be
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  Speaker 3: there at some point, I imagine for.
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  Speaker 2: The next week, next following week.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: What other big league initiative is the flag football and
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  Speaker 3: something that we have seen explode and you know, we've
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  Speaker 3: all got kids and they're all playing flag football. The
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  Speaker 3: sky is the limit, obviously, How does the NFL play
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  Speaker 3: a role in kind of curating and guiding this thing
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  Speaker 3: to this amazing youth sport and how it can lead
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  Speaker 3: to more fans and of course more players at the
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  Speaker 3: next level.
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  Speaker 4: Well, our international team and all our clubs have really
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  Speaker 4: done a great job, you know they Troy Vincent back
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  Speaker 4: in New York and Peter O'Reilly runs international and all
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  Speaker 4: our events. The idea here is to give kids an
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to play. And I'm what I'm most excited about
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  Speaker 4: is young women playing the game. I see it in
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  Speaker 4: was with Steve Young last year and he brought his
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  Speaker 4: entire team up, thirty young women coach the flag football too,
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  Speaker 4: and two of his daughters are on the team. This
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  Speaker 4: is awesome And it was just to see their confidence
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  Speaker 4: and the empowerment that gave them to say we're playing
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  Speaker 4: and they were wonderful young women and it was just
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  Speaker 4: great to see so and Steve, as a coach, said,
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  Speaker 4: I fell back in love with the game by coaching
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  Speaker 4: these young women. So I think that's the thing we're
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  Speaker 4: trying to share with people, the joy of playing this game,
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  Speaker 4: all the values of playing this game. You know, what
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  Speaker 4: it takes to be on a team that you know
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  Speaker 4: is trying to accomplish something bigger than themselves. I think
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  Speaker 4: young women and young boys are learning those lessons, and
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  Speaker 4: I think that's great and it's just another funnel to
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  Speaker 4: get them into the game, either as tackle players at
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  Speaker 4: some point in time or to move on and take
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  Speaker 4: another role.
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  Speaker 3: We've had fun with the Olympics in twenty twenty eight
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  Speaker 3: in Los Angeles, and I don't know if the NFL
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  Speaker 3: players are involved, and I don't think we're there yet,
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  Speaker 3: but the fact that it's an Olympics sport is a
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  Speaker 3: huge milestone as well.
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  Speaker 4: It's a huge milestone, and I think doing that on
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  Speaker 4: an international basis, Listen, that's the pin of sports on
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  Speaker 4: an international basis. So we're really looking forward to that,
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  Speaker 4: whether players are in it from the NFL level or
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  Speaker 4: whether we're going to have great athletes out there, and
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 6: I was going to ask about something that is very
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  Speaker 6: jarring for us to see sometimes during the week, which
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  Speaker 6: is the turn of Bill Belichick's personality in the media.
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  Speaker 6: Is very concerning to me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand it.
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  Speaker 6: Were you prepared for this version of Bill Belichick? Knowing
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  Speaker 6: him for I just made you very nervous with saying
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  Speaker 6: the word.
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  Speaker 4: Jar What I wanted you know, if you're if you
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  Speaker 4: ever sit around with Bill and you talk football. That's
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  Speaker 4: where he is, I'm sure in front of the camera,
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  Speaker 4: and we all know it's a little bit different. But
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  Speaker 4: when you get him back and you talk to him
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  Speaker 4: about the game of football, it really you see the
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  Speaker 4: joy he has in this game and the passion and
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  Speaker 4: the historical perspective to it. He's he's a he's just
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  Speaker 4: such a student of the game. And you know, since
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  Speaker 4: I lost John Madden, who has played an incredible role
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  Speaker 4: to be brought that perspective. He saw everything on the field,
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  Speaker 4: and he looked at tape and he was he was
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  Speaker 4: Bills in a lot of ways filled that role. He's
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  Speaker 4: been someone that if you can call and you can
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  Speaker 4: have you consult when he studied, well, he's down in
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  Speaker 4: an NFL film all day, so I figured I'd get
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  Speaker 4: a free call. But he really, he really has a
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  Speaker 4: good feel for the game and it's something that can
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  Speaker 4: help us.
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  Speaker 6: It's been said that Belichick kept a mattress in his
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  Speaker 6: office in New England. Does he have one at films?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I haven't checked that one because it will
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  Speaker 4: have to charge him a little different. So if he's stayed.
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  Speaker 2: Overnight, that's good point Roger.
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  Speaker 9: We remember when the first London game was played and
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  Speaker 9: it felt really like history. It was really really special,
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  Speaker 9: and now it's this is what we do. There's multiple countries,
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  Speaker 9: multiple continents. Can you give us a taste of the
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  Speaker 9: future of where this might go? I know that Peter
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  Speaker 9: is part of an investment group that's trying to build
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  Speaker 9: a stadium in Bora Bora, But short of that working,
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  Speaker 9: is there.
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  Speaker 8: Anywhere we might land as a league?
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  Speaker 2: Like, what's the sure of this?
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  Speaker 4: We're not going to take Peter's road map to the
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  Speaker 4: next future marching market. They love football there, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I do, uh, And so my perspective goes back to
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  Speaker 4: the nineties and being in both you know, when we
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  Speaker 4: went to Japan and we went to Berlin and what
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  Speaker 4: you saw was fans that really didn't understand the game.
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  Speaker 4: Now you go over to London and it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: you have a hard time telling you whether you're in
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  Speaker 4: London or whether you're in the Middle Lands or you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's just the fans there are sophisticated. They understand the game,
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  Speaker 4: they appreciate the game, And for me, that's what I
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  Speaker 4: think gives us so much confidence that our game can
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  Speaker 4: be a global game, and when we were down in
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  Speaker 4: Brazil a few weeks ago, it was just it was
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  Speaker 4: the same thing, you know, just a lot of enthusiasm,
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  Speaker 4: excitement over the game, and I believe great potential. So
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  Speaker 4: we'll be back there. I'm sure we're going to continue
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  Speaker 4: to grow. I think we'll end up going to sixteen
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  Speaker 4: games at some point in time, and the owners have
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  Speaker 4: already authorized us to go to eight. But I'm confident,
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  Speaker 4: particularly if we can do the restructuring of the season,
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  Speaker 4: that we would get to sixteen at that point.
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  Speaker 6: I have to imagine you. I've been thinking about that
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  Speaker 6: having a full slate in Europe. Do you have an
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  Speaker 6: advance necessarily Europe?
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  Speaker 4: We got a rest big in the world.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, internationally, sixteen games internationally.
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  Speaker 2: My mistake.
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  Speaker 6: Do you have people that do this, like scouting years
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  Speaker 6: in advance of just the logistics to answer questions that
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  Speaker 6: teams might have. If you're the forty nine ers and
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  Speaker 6: you're being asked to do X, Y and Z, you
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  Speaker 6: want to probably have all of the solutions before teams
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  Speaker 6: come to you with concern.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're absolutely right, James, and the answer is yes.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we're already looking at several markets. We don't
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  Speaker 4: have Peter's list a bit, but we do have a
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  Speaker 4: lot of markets that are interested in the game. But
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  Speaker 4: we have to go do the work because one of
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  Speaker 4: the things that we do, particularly with Brazil, it was
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  Speaker 4: a key factor for us. You want the teams to
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  Speaker 4: feel like it was not disruptive to the season that
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  Speaker 4: it you know, they went that they loved the trip.
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  Speaker 4: I went to Jordan Malatta because that, to me, that
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  Speaker 4: was the best one. Right, How was the trip? How
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  Speaker 4: is a plane? You know, everything was great and you know,
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  Speaker 4: the coaches were good, the players were great. Everybody felt
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  Speaker 4: like this was a great trip. It was not disruptive
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  Speaker 4: that they were able to prepare properly when they got back.
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  Speaker 4: I went back and checked afterwards. Everyone recovered really well.
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  Speaker 4: So and that's an eleven hour trip for these guys.
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  Speaker 4: So when you see that we learned something from every
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  Speaker 4: one of the games and say, okay, what can we
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  Speaker 4: do next ultimately and how do we continue to expand this?
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  Speaker 4: But I do think we can do this. I think
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  Speaker 4: the scheduling, you know, we may have to make changes
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  Speaker 4: to that in some ways, probably roster sizes, do some
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  Speaker 4: other things, but I do think it's something we'll do more.
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  Speaker 2: Real quick super Bowls in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a few months to get there. What's one
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  Speaker 3: thing you're looking to see between now and that day
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  Speaker 3: where we get out?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, there's so much. I keep reminding myself.
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  Speaker 4: We're just centering eight week five here at this point,
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  Speaker 4: and there's so much and there's so many changes between
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  Speaker 4: now and then, but it also goes really fast. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, no one loves football more than I do,
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  Speaker 4: so I love watching everything I can. I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 4: to go over to the international Games. I'm really looking
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  Speaker 4: forward to that run up to the playoffs. Super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: time is just a blasphemy. So I'm I must.
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  Speaker 2: Earliest New Orleans Super Bowl memory? What do you have?
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  Speaker 3: What sticks out?
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  Speaker 2: Madden? I'll tell you what it is.
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  Speaker 3: It earlier than that.
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  Speaker 4: It was nineteen eighty six. I was Pete Roselle's driver.
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  Speaker 4: This is incredible. So, okay, it was the best thing
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  Speaker 4: of the Bears Patriots Bears Patriots. Wasn't a great game, no,
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  Speaker 4: but but I was up in the booth with Pete
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  Speaker 4: and we had an officiating here. Oh, it was not
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: a good day for Pete. He was upset, but the
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: reality is I spent the entire week with Pete basically
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  Speaker 4: living in his in his room. I was his sort
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  Speaker 4: of go to to every thing, and it was it
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  Speaker 4: was the experience of a lifetime to me. I never
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  Speaker 4: thought that I would even be that close to much
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  Speaker 4: less driving.
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  Speaker 2: Them around town. And now you're the commissioner.
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  Speaker 4: Now I'm commit. He had a lot to do with that,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure. And it wasn't for my driving skills.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's tough streets to talk.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, also easy to try to go down twice
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  Speaker 4: just to figure out my way around.
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  Speaker 3: I would have mentioned wh This was fantastic. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: so much for joining us. Have an amazing rest of
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  Speaker 3: the season. Hopefully we'll talk to you again and enjoy
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  Speaker 3: you're up when you go over there as well.
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  Speaker 4: Look forward to it. Thank you, guys, thanks for all
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: you do. We're glad to have you back.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: It was too long while you were going.
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  Speaker 6: It was when I were fresh as a daisy. And
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  Speaker 6: International Games coming up this month in November. You're gonna
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  Speaker 6: drink a beer again in Germany.
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  Speaker 2: If you're there, let's go that.
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  Speaker 5: The t's and TV.
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  Speaker 1: Talk bring on Aaron Wang Kaufman, our producer here on
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: the podcast, who does not work on Good Morning Football.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: So Aaron at the end there we start rattling off
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: some questions and he has a really response to me
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: asking about Belichick, the media mogul, and it hit me
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: in an emotional way that he's like he always had
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: John Madden as this north star, this rabbi if you will,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: this this voice that he could talk to, and when
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Madden passed that they might have been avoid there. It's
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: pretty neat that he says he's talking to Belichick pretty often,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: and the closest thing to Madden that he's had is
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: now this new relationship with Belichick, which he's obviously had
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: in a different capacity. But to have Belichick serve in
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: that Madden role for Commissioner Goodell, I just thought it
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: was cool. I thought Roger was great. He heads over
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  Speaker 1: to London next week. He'll be there for the football
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: game that's going on in London next week. But Jamie
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: rd All, my co host, is flying over now, she'll
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: be there. But Aaron Roger Goodell anytime you get him on,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: you know, without the certain tie on which as he
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: came in with just an unbuttoned shirt and just loose
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  Speaker 1: and comfortable. I always find him to be a very
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: interesting conversationalist.
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  Speaker 2: But also what I love is he is a.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: True story end of the game, Like this guy goes
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: deep and his stories about Pete Roselle in nineteen eighty six,
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  Speaker 1: like that's the stuff I'm here for.
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  Speaker 5: I have a tangential Goodell story when I was at
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: the Fanatics Festival earlier this summer. Goodell was there at
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: the NFL like experience or whatever it is. I think
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: he did a speech or something at something, but then
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: he was just standing there and a bunch of kids
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: were like going to get his autograph, and he stood
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: there and signed autographs with kids the whole time. And
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: you know, it was like a long time that he
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: was just sitting there with this crowd of kids coming
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: up to talk to him and get autographs with him,
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: and he was very into it. I've never personally talked
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: to him or met him. You know, I'm a little
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: too old, I think for the little crowd to get
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: the yeah, to get the autograph. But he was great
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: with the kids and.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: You know everyone.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: So Pete Roselle was his mentor and this guy that
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: he you know, obviously came in, and then it was
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Paul tag Leboo, and it's wild Goodell is He's been
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the commission longer than all those guys, so it's pretty
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: crazy that I still remember when he was ushered in.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: So Roger Goodell, great interview. Appreciate you guys listening. This
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: is a bonus episode. Go find the Michael Vick episode.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: We'd like to give you.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: As much content as possible.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: All Right, enjoy Week five of the NFL season Jets
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  Speaker 1: Vikings nine thirty am.
• 19:25
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  Speaker 2: All right. Peace.
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