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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 doing Good Morning Football, but also giving you

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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: 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: 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: 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: and work with Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback of all time,

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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: I've got the quarterback. And obviously Ben Johnson not only

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Speaker 1: This was such a big hire for the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 1: but that Ben Johnson chose them. He chose them. This

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Speaker 1: tell you a really strong sourcing here that David Tepper

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Speaker 1: end of the day, he's choosing the Bears. Bears fans

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Speaker 1: Granted there's big money attached, but think about what Ryan

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Speaker 1: a big deal in Chicago. This was a home run Higher.

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Speaker 1: make a higher. We're recording this on Tuesday morning. If

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure there's an option number two for the

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Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn was very deliberate about what he wanted to

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Speaker 1: What I like most about him, though, is who vouches

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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: They're telling you they were looking for the CEO leader

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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: Robert Sala has now got two interviews with the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: Robert Sala? Robert Sala very respected defensive coach, also a

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Speaker 1: Pete Carroll comes in stabilizes things. They don't have a quarterback,

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Speaker 3: to us, and we just went at them. And I

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Speaker 3: would much rather that this game ends with Mitch Trubisky

427
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Speaker 3: taking a kneel down, because like, we've just totally taken

428
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Speaker 3: them out of it. Yeah, the first one.

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Speaker 1: Can I give my last take? And Kyle and I

430
00:23:07,066 --> 00:23:08,666
Speaker 1: were talking about this in the commercial break on Good

431
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Speaker 1: Morning Football Comberate my colleague. I think the outrage and

432
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Speaker 1: the outcry and the public hysteria over the officiating last

433
00:23:16,346 --> 00:23:19,866
Speaker 1: week actually might help the Bills a little bit going

434
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Speaker 1: into this game. I think there's going to be a

435
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Speaker 1: great sensitivity. This has been a big talking point about

436
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Speaker 1: Mahomes flopping and mahomes sideline antics. I actually think the

437
00:23:29,746 --> 00:23:33,186
Speaker 1: refs are going to be really, really sensitive to that,

438
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Speaker 1: and I don't think he necessarily gets some of those

439
00:23:35,346 --> 00:23:39,026
Speaker 1: Jordan rules calls that mj and Lebron have gotten in

440
00:23:39,066 --> 00:23:41,786
Speaker 1: the past and that Mahomes seemingly gets. I think that

441
00:23:41,866 --> 00:23:44,106
Speaker 1: was actually a great advantage for the Bills going into

442
00:23:44,146 --> 00:23:46,506
Speaker 1: this thing, because that has been one of the number

443
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Speaker 1: one topics in sports this week, the way that Mahomes

444
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Speaker 1: games are officiated, and you better believe the league office

445
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Speaker 1: is very aware of that.

446
00:23:52,546 --> 00:23:56,986
Speaker 3: And the three peat is a great news story. It's historic.

447
00:23:57,266 --> 00:23:59,546
Speaker 3: There are other things that are historic. If the Bills

448
00:23:59,586 --> 00:24:03,386
Speaker 3: win the super Bowl, that's historic. If Jaden Daniels can

449
00:24:03,426 --> 00:24:06,946
Speaker 3: take his team to the super Bowl, that's historic. Is

450
00:24:06,946 --> 00:24:09,786
Speaker 3: not the only fun narrative that we have here. So

451
00:24:10,746 --> 00:24:13,306
Speaker 3: I think that you know, there are a lot of

452
00:24:13,346 --> 00:24:17,226
Speaker 3: great outcomes we could have, and I think for everyone

453
00:24:17,226 --> 00:24:19,826
Speaker 3: in Western New York there's one in particular, and that

454
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Speaker 3: would be, like you said, thirty one to ten, Josh

455
00:24:21,986 --> 00:24:23,986
Speaker 3: is sitting on the bench. He's shaking hands.

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Speaker 1: Beggars can't be choosers. We'll see how it all plays out. Aaron,

457
00:24:29,586 --> 00:24:33,146
Speaker 1: great stuff. Mike Turco is our guest. He's up after this,

458
00:24:42,826 --> 00:24:44,786
Speaker 1: all right, with no further ado. It's one of my

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00:24:44,826 --> 00:24:47,826
Speaker 1: favorite people in the world and the voice of so

460
00:24:47,906 --> 00:24:51,186
Speaker 1: many amazing moments in so many different sports. He's also

461
00:24:51,266 --> 00:24:54,266
Speaker 1: just a total mench and a mentor and big brother

462
00:24:54,346 --> 00:24:56,266
Speaker 1: of mine in this industry. Has been really good to

463
00:24:56,306 --> 00:24:57,946
Speaker 1: me over the years, and he's been good enough to

464
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Speaker 1: give us some time despite his season finally being over.

465
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Speaker 1: NBC Sports, the voice of everything, mister Mike Turico, how

466
00:25:04,426 --> 00:25:05,066
Speaker 1: are we doing so.

467
00:25:05,546 --> 00:25:10,826
Speaker 2: Strange the postseason? My postseason has now arrived, and so

468
00:25:10,906 --> 00:25:12,946
Speaker 2: it's a good thing you're getting me early, because about

469
00:25:12,946 --> 00:25:15,746
Speaker 2: three days away from this gray Beard and all this

470
00:25:15,826 --> 00:25:18,106
Speaker 2: stuff in a week and just shutting it down, you're

471
00:25:18,146 --> 00:25:18,386
Speaker 2: going to.

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Speaker 1: Look like Tom Hanks and Castaways.

473
00:25:20,786 --> 00:25:25,946
Speaker 2: Well not exactly, but you get what's it.

474
00:25:26,026 --> 00:25:28,906
Speaker 1: Like when you're done but the rest of the games

475
00:25:29,026 --> 00:25:31,546
Speaker 1: aren't done. It's just like I guess Troy and Joe

476
00:25:31,586 --> 00:25:33,666
Speaker 1: are feeling it this week too. You called your last

477
00:25:33,706 --> 00:25:36,266
Speaker 1: game and the show goes on and we all move

478
00:25:36,346 --> 00:25:38,666
Speaker 1: right along, but like we're done hearing your voice for

479
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Speaker 1: the next eight months.

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Speaker 2: The weird part is, honestly, is that it is, you know,

481
00:25:44,626 --> 00:25:47,106
Speaker 2: and it's not like we're building a building or we're

482
00:25:47,106 --> 00:25:50,786
Speaker 2: not building bridges or digging ditches. But it is work right,

483
00:25:50,826 --> 00:25:54,546
Speaker 2: and it's every day. As you know, there's no off

484
00:25:54,666 --> 00:25:56,986
Speaker 2: day in the NFL season when you do what we do.

485
00:25:57,386 --> 00:26:01,266
Speaker 2: So for gosh, twenty weeks plus a couple of preseason

486
00:26:01,266 --> 00:26:03,946
Speaker 2: weeks time seven days, so one hundred and forty five

487
00:26:03,986 --> 00:26:08,506
Speaker 2: to fifty days every single day is something watch GMFB,

488
00:26:08,706 --> 00:26:12,186
Speaker 2: listen to a pod start building my boards, add a game,

489
00:26:12,346 --> 00:26:15,386
Speaker 2: talk to folks, and then you just drop off the cliff.

490
00:26:15,786 --> 00:26:16,346
Speaker 1: So it's it.

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00:26:16,866 --> 00:26:19,986
Speaker 2: See, I got in the flight on Monday, ago, Okay,

492
00:26:20,426 --> 00:26:22,866
Speaker 2: I don't have to start thinking about Okay, have we

493
00:26:22,906 --> 00:26:26,066
Speaker 2: had these teams? What's the deal? How much carryover stuff?

494
00:26:26,306 --> 00:26:29,306
Speaker 2: What's that nugget on Liam Cohen that I didn't get

495
00:26:29,426 --> 00:26:30,506
Speaker 2: during the regular season?

496
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Speaker 3: That are like damn.

497
00:26:32,106 --> 00:26:33,826
Speaker 2: Every game you walk out of it and you go, oh,

498
00:26:33,906 --> 00:26:36,466
Speaker 2: I can't believe I didn't get to tell this story

499
00:26:36,506 --> 00:26:38,786
Speaker 2: or that story. Right, So you start thinking about that

500
00:26:38,826 --> 00:26:41,186
Speaker 2: and it's just a daily process. So when it ends,

501
00:26:41,426 --> 00:26:44,026
Speaker 2: it is really like you're hitting a wall, falling off

502
00:26:44,066 --> 00:26:48,226
Speaker 2: a cliff, all that stuff, and you rediscover important things like, oh,

503
00:26:48,306 --> 00:26:50,506
Speaker 2: I've got a thousand thank you notes to write, yo,

504
00:26:51,146 --> 00:26:54,146
Speaker 2: the registration for the car needs to be done, all

505
00:26:54,226 --> 00:26:57,186
Speaker 2: that stuff that you put a suspended animation. You start

506
00:26:57,186 --> 00:26:58,106
Speaker 2: digging out.

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Speaker 1: I always say this, and Daniel Jeremiah is the best.

508
00:27:01,386 --> 00:27:03,986
Speaker 1: You do the draft together, right, we both talk about this.

509
00:27:04,026 --> 00:27:06,226
Speaker 1: A lot of people talk about season being over. Go

510
00:27:06,266 --> 00:27:08,506
Speaker 1: to Vegas. Whatever it is you do to celebrate, go

511
00:27:08,546 --> 00:27:13,786
Speaker 1: to Daniel says. The Saturday night shower after the draft

512
00:27:13,986 --> 00:27:16,626
Speaker 1: when he's done with three days, and he says it

513
00:27:16,706 --> 00:27:19,146
Speaker 1: is the most rewarding thing of his year to just

514
00:27:19,266 --> 00:27:22,906
Speaker 1: know I could just it's all over. I did it,

515
00:27:22,906 --> 00:27:24,986
Speaker 1: It's done, and we could start anew But like I

516
00:27:25,026 --> 00:27:27,346
Speaker 1: guess that's how you almost feel when you land back

517
00:27:27,386 --> 00:27:32,546
Speaker 1: in Michigan after doing another incredible, incredible TV moment that

518
00:27:32,866 --> 00:27:35,466
Speaker 1: Rams Eagles incredible divisional round.

519
00:27:35,386 --> 00:27:37,666
Speaker 2: Game, the fun and good snow. And I'll say you

520
00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:40,426
Speaker 2: so that Monday, I got Monday, I got home, and

521
00:27:40,466 --> 00:27:42,586
Speaker 2: I sat down and you just kind of start doing

522
00:27:42,586 --> 00:27:46,106
Speaker 2: some basic stuff and go, oh, national championship games tonight.

523
00:27:46,306 --> 00:27:49,106
Speaker 2: And who knew Chris Faller has been a friend since

524
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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one, so this is might you know, and

525
00:27:51,186 --> 00:27:53,306
Speaker 2: said Herbie a couple of years after this, this are

526
00:27:53,306 --> 00:27:56,066
Speaker 2: two of my best best pals in the business. And

527
00:27:56,106 --> 00:27:57,986
Speaker 2: I just texted him with luck have a great game,

528
00:27:58,346 --> 00:27:59,906
Speaker 2: and I was just gonna sit back and watch the

529
00:27:59,946 --> 00:28:03,026
Speaker 2: game and not I don't have to divide attention to Nope,

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00:28:03,186 --> 00:28:04,986
Speaker 2: We're on a few notes while I'm doing this, because

531
00:28:05,066 --> 00:28:07,826
Speaker 2: usually my Mondays are you get home, you have a

532
00:28:07,906 --> 00:28:09,866
Speaker 2: nice dinner, my wife and I sit down, start to

533
00:28:09,906 --> 00:28:11,906
Speaker 2: watch the Monday night game. And then I open up

534
00:28:11,906 --> 00:28:13,546
Speaker 2: the laptop and I start to get a little bit

535
00:28:13,586 --> 00:28:15,546
Speaker 2: ahead on the team. But just to sit and watch

536
00:28:15,626 --> 00:28:18,586
Speaker 2: a game was just so much fun. It's relaxing. But

537
00:28:18,626 --> 00:28:24,026
Speaker 2: you're right, Peter, like you miss that assignment, no doubt

538
00:28:24,226 --> 00:28:25,986
Speaker 2: until you sit down next week and then watch the

539
00:28:26,026 --> 00:28:28,106
Speaker 2: games and I just watch those guys just do it

540
00:28:28,146 --> 00:28:30,906
Speaker 2: and have fun. And next year, you know, fortunately is

541
00:28:30,946 --> 00:28:34,066
Speaker 2: our super Bowl season. So next year we only not

542
00:28:34,146 --> 00:28:36,386
Speaker 2: only have the super Bowl, next year we have the Olympics,

543
00:28:36,626 --> 00:28:38,546
Speaker 2: which start right at the end of the Super Bowl.

544
00:28:38,586 --> 00:28:41,946
Speaker 2: The Winter Olympics in Italy are right the Friday of

545
00:28:42,386 --> 00:28:45,746
Speaker 2: Super Bowl weekend in Santa Clara is the start of

546
00:28:45,786 --> 00:28:48,746
Speaker 2: the Olympics in Italy. So we're going to be cranking through.

547
00:28:48,826 --> 00:28:51,226
Speaker 2: So I'm enjoying every second of these couple of weeks

548
00:28:51,346 --> 00:28:53,586
Speaker 2: because next year that plus we start with the NBA

549
00:28:54,026 --> 00:28:56,866
Speaker 2: on NBC, so we're going to be cranking away all

550
00:28:57,266 --> 00:28:59,506
Speaker 2: fall in with the next year. So I'm enjoying these

551
00:28:59,546 --> 00:29:00,386
Speaker 2: couple of days for sure.

552
00:29:00,786 --> 00:29:03,826
Speaker 1: And I have to think that this year was not

553
00:29:04,026 --> 00:29:07,346
Speaker 1: just football because you were in pair for the Olympics

554
00:29:07,426 --> 00:29:09,706
Speaker 1: and it carried right through and you were the voice

555
00:29:09,706 --> 00:29:13,426
Speaker 1: of that and Obviously there was a lot of fanfare

556
00:29:13,506 --> 00:29:16,866
Speaker 1: over Snoops appearances, but beyond Snoop, I mean you were

557
00:29:16,946 --> 00:29:19,626
Speaker 1: you were unbelievable, and that's not a two day assignment.

558
00:29:19,666 --> 00:29:21,746
Speaker 1: And then you go right from there into training camp,

559
00:29:21,826 --> 00:29:24,906
Speaker 1: into preseason and then boom, football hits you like a

560
00:29:24,986 --> 00:29:25,546
Speaker 1: ton of bricks.

561
00:29:25,626 --> 00:29:28,346
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was the longest run that I know I've had,

562
00:29:28,426 --> 00:29:31,906
Speaker 2: just because it started with really from the Kentucky Derby

563
00:29:31,946 --> 00:29:35,226
Speaker 2: in May through because you had the couple of Triple

564
00:29:35,226 --> 00:29:38,066
Speaker 2: Crown races, the Indy five hundred, and then June was

565
00:29:38,066 --> 00:29:41,946
Speaker 2: all the Olympic trials, making Team USA, which spilled right

566
00:29:41,946 --> 00:29:45,386
Speaker 2: into the US Open British Open Golf, which is really

567
00:29:45,426 --> 00:29:48,306
Speaker 2: the Open. But then that was right into the Olympics,

568
00:29:48,306 --> 00:29:50,666
Speaker 2: and the run just got home, had a week off.

569
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Speaker 2: We had a family friend get married that weekend after

570
00:29:53,866 --> 00:29:56,746
Speaker 2: the Olympics and before our preseason game, and then off.

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00:29:57,226 --> 00:29:58,826
Speaker 2: So it's been a long run, but it's been it's

572
00:29:58,866 --> 00:30:01,066
Speaker 2: been great. Such a good year too. You know, sometimes

573
00:30:01,346 --> 00:30:03,666
Speaker 2: sometimes you get in ruts where you don't have great games.

574
00:30:03,946 --> 00:30:05,906
Speaker 2: We got lucky on Sunday night. We had so many

575
00:30:06,026 --> 00:30:08,706
Speaker 2: good and exciting games. Like you said, we got to

576
00:30:08,706 --> 00:30:11,786
Speaker 2: wrap up with an even more exciting game than the

577
00:30:11,826 --> 00:30:14,786
Speaker 2: first Eagles Rams game that we had, which was Barkley

578
00:30:14,786 --> 00:30:17,666
Speaker 2: GoF for two fifty five. He kind of does a

579
00:30:17,746 --> 00:30:21,626
Speaker 2: top five all time playoff rushing appearance in the playoffs

580
00:30:21,666 --> 00:30:24,586
Speaker 2: in the snow at home in Philly with the Rams

581
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Speaker 2: coming down the field with a chance to win the game.

582
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Speaker 2: It was really really one of those cool memorable postseason games.

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Speaker 1: Broadcaster question for you. So there's the four A crews obviously,

584
00:30:35,506 --> 00:30:38,426
Speaker 1: and we're down to the final four games, so you

585
00:30:38,426 --> 00:30:43,626
Speaker 1: each get it that Sunday night you're calling Tampa versus Washington.

586
00:30:44,106 --> 00:30:46,986
Speaker 1: You don't know the assignment yet for next week. When

587
00:30:46,986 --> 00:30:50,186
Speaker 1: do you find out that, hey, we don't have Bills

588
00:30:50,266 --> 00:30:53,706
Speaker 1: versus Ravens. Obviously that's going to CBS, but we actually

589
00:30:53,746 --> 00:30:56,066
Speaker 1: have an early windows Sunday game, which is not our

590
00:30:56,186 --> 00:30:59,266
Speaker 1: natural place. When do you find out all that information? Obviously,

591
00:30:59,306 --> 00:31:01,346
Speaker 1: Mike North and the schedule gods are working on it.

592
00:31:01,466 --> 00:31:03,506
Speaker 1: Do you get a note past you during the game

593
00:31:03,586 --> 00:31:05,666
Speaker 1: or is it after you're already back in the hotel.

594
00:31:05,666 --> 00:31:08,826
Speaker 2: So it's you. We usually announce it before we go

595
00:31:08,866 --> 00:31:12,266
Speaker 2: off there. So I'll get I'll leave, I'll leave it

596
00:31:12,306 --> 00:31:13,746
Speaker 2: unnamed I get, I'll get a friend from one of

597
00:31:13,786 --> 00:31:15,746
Speaker 2: the networks text me, like, middle of the second quarter,

598
00:31:15,786 --> 00:31:18,506
Speaker 2: hat you know yet? Because usually the league knows, but

599
00:31:18,826 --> 00:31:20,786
Speaker 2: they really keep it so that only one or two

600
00:31:20,786 --> 00:31:24,066
Speaker 2: people know. So I didn't know until our game in

601
00:31:24,106 --> 00:31:27,546
Speaker 2: Tampa ended, until z Gonzalez duikes it in. Only then

602
00:31:27,626 --> 00:31:30,946
Speaker 2: did I know where we were going At some point.

603
00:31:31,146 --> 00:31:34,306
Speaker 2: Usually right before that, you may know the options or

604
00:31:34,426 --> 00:31:37,026
Speaker 2: where we're going to be a Sunday early game, Sunday earlier,

605
00:31:37,106 --> 00:31:40,306
Speaker 2: Sunday late. It all varies. I think if that result

606
00:31:40,386 --> 00:31:42,346
Speaker 2: of that game changes, we are in a different place

607
00:31:42,346 --> 00:31:44,786
Speaker 2: for a different game. So it is kind of fun.

608
00:31:44,866 --> 00:31:47,626
Speaker 2: So there have been Usually it's in that break before that,

609
00:31:47,706 --> 00:31:50,346
Speaker 2: our producer Rob Hiland will say, hey, here's a peak

610
00:31:50,346 --> 00:31:51,746
Speaker 2: of the schedule. We're going to show it coming out

611
00:31:51,746 --> 00:31:53,506
Speaker 2: of the next break. He's got to take it. And

612
00:31:53,586 --> 00:31:55,106
Speaker 2: that's the same thing with Week eighteen too.

613
00:31:55,226 --> 00:31:57,906
Speaker 1: Yeah, does it feel like the tournament reveal show?

614
00:31:58,066 --> 00:32:00,586
Speaker 2: Like it does a little bit like I wish I

615
00:32:00,586 --> 00:32:02,386
Speaker 2: wish we didn't have to fly through it in thirty

616
00:32:02,426 --> 00:32:05,026
Speaker 2: seconds because you want to start digesting it because okay,

617
00:32:05,186 --> 00:32:07,426
Speaker 2: the early window, this will be the the late window.

618
00:32:07,466 --> 00:32:09,626
Speaker 2: That'll be decided and you kind of know what game

619
00:32:09,706 --> 00:32:12,186
Speaker 2: is left at the end. It is fun and you know,

620
00:32:12,306 --> 00:32:14,586
Speaker 2: for us, we want to know where we're going, but

621
00:32:14,626 --> 00:32:16,626
Speaker 2: you also want to are they teams you know really

622
00:32:16,666 --> 00:32:20,466
Speaker 2: well teams you've had all that stuff, and so it's

623
00:32:20,146 --> 00:32:21,866
Speaker 2: it makes her a lot of fun, but you don't

624
00:32:21,906 --> 00:32:25,346
Speaker 2: find out until really the end of that Tampa game.

625
00:32:25,506 --> 00:32:28,146
Speaker 2: I did not know where we were going. And Sunday

626
00:32:28,186 --> 00:32:29,906
Speaker 2: at three o'clock is a little bit different. You know,

627
00:32:29,906 --> 00:32:32,306
Speaker 2: you've become creatures of habit. Right if you did Good

628
00:32:32,306 --> 00:32:34,346
Speaker 2: Morning Football at five o'clock in the afternoon, it would

629
00:32:34,346 --> 00:32:37,426
Speaker 2: still weird totally. So for us doing at three o'clock

630
00:32:37,466 --> 00:32:40,906
Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon game, I was I was lost all day, Like, wait,

631
00:32:41,226 --> 00:32:44,266
Speaker 2: a different time zone, right, Like what I truly at

632
00:32:44,306 --> 00:32:46,546
Speaker 2: seven to fifteen in the morning said, Okay, this game

633
00:32:46,626 --> 00:32:48,786
Speaker 2: kicks off five hours before normal, so right now it

634
00:32:48,786 --> 00:32:50,866
Speaker 2: should feel like twelve fifteen. I just want to make

635
00:32:50,866 --> 00:32:52,706
Speaker 2: sure I had like the right stuff ready. So it

636
00:32:52,746 --> 00:32:55,226
Speaker 2: wasn't panicking around the hotel trying to get ready, but

637
00:32:55,266 --> 00:32:57,866
Speaker 2: it was. It was cool and the weather timing was

638
00:32:57,906 --> 00:33:01,546
Speaker 2: incredible with the snow in Philadelphia to start dry begin

639
00:33:01,746 --> 00:33:04,586
Speaker 2: snow have a change over. It was. It was so

640
00:33:04,666 --> 00:33:06,906
Speaker 2: much fun, such a fun game, all right.

641
00:33:07,546 --> 00:33:11,386
Speaker 1: One of the coolest things about being a voice in

642
00:33:11,426 --> 00:33:13,586
Speaker 1: the NFL is you get to speak with these players,

643
00:33:13,586 --> 00:33:16,186
Speaker 1: in these coaches the week of the games. Now it

644
00:33:16,346 --> 00:33:18,506
Speaker 1: used to be you're laying there on a Friday, You're

645
00:33:18,546 --> 00:33:21,466
Speaker 1: going to practice. Now a little bit more zoom than

646
00:33:21,466 --> 00:33:23,906
Speaker 1: in person, but I imagine you still get to see

647
00:33:23,906 --> 00:33:27,146
Speaker 1: these guys. Give us one thing you've gotten to know

648
00:33:27,426 --> 00:33:30,586
Speaker 1: about Jaden Daniels that the world should know, having done

649
00:33:30,986 --> 00:33:33,826
Speaker 1: his game obviously Sunday night against the Buccaneers.

650
00:33:34,066 --> 00:33:36,546
Speaker 2: So we had the Falcons game, Yeah, and the Falcons game.

651
00:33:36,626 --> 00:33:39,146
Speaker 2: So we go in on Friday still and go to

652
00:33:39,186 --> 00:33:41,786
Speaker 2: the home team practice. I think, and I tore my

653
00:33:41,786 --> 00:33:45,346
Speaker 2: achilles week eleven, so I missed like two weeks, three

654
00:33:45,346 --> 00:33:48,626
Speaker 2: weeks you getting Friday practice, and I felt lost. I

655
00:33:48,706 --> 00:33:50,706
Speaker 2: love doing it. I love sitting in the sea line

656
00:33:50,986 --> 00:33:54,346
Speaker 2: with people, and not only that, but being at practice,

657
00:33:54,426 --> 00:33:58,706
Speaker 2: getting a chance to talk to the people around the franchise, right,

658
00:33:59,226 --> 00:34:02,346
Speaker 2: and that's what helps give you, if not that nugget

659
00:34:02,426 --> 00:34:04,866
Speaker 2: to that feel and that confidence to say things. So

660
00:34:05,426 --> 00:34:08,746
Speaker 2: that's the preamble. Let me go backwards. Our one preseason

661
00:34:08,786 --> 00:34:12,186
Speaker 2: game was New England Washington, and you see you sit

662
00:34:12,226 --> 00:34:14,186
Speaker 2: there and you go, okay, we'll just come off the

663
00:34:14,266 --> 00:34:17,426
Speaker 2: Olympics and now we're gonna turn around to a preseason game,

664
00:34:17,506 --> 00:34:21,706
Speaker 2: the last preseason game where usually people don't play, but

665
00:34:22,826 --> 00:34:24,866
Speaker 2: it's two teams we do not have on our Sunday

666
00:34:24,906 --> 00:34:29,026
Speaker 2: night football schedule. And I remember when dan Quinn got up,

667
00:34:29,226 --> 00:34:30,986
Speaker 2: He's like, hey, I hope we end up seeing you

668
00:34:30,986 --> 00:34:33,546
Speaker 2: guys before the years over. Like I was thinking the

669
00:34:33,586 --> 00:34:36,426
Speaker 2: same thing. I hope we're gonna flex into a commander's game.

670
00:34:36,906 --> 00:34:38,906
Speaker 2: Both Chris and I walked out of there on the

671
00:34:39,026 --> 00:34:42,386
Speaker 2: drive back to our hotel like, this team feels like

672
00:34:42,426 --> 00:34:44,626
Speaker 2: they could do something. Now. Did we see them making

673
00:34:44,626 --> 00:34:47,266
Speaker 2: the NFC Championship game. No, but we both tabbed them

674
00:34:47,306 --> 00:34:50,106
Speaker 2: as like the team on the rise, that team that

675
00:34:50,226 --> 00:34:54,946
Speaker 2: had something unique going and man, it was great. So

676
00:34:55,026 --> 00:34:58,106
Speaker 2: the point to your question, we did sit with Jayden Daniels.

677
00:34:58,146 --> 00:35:00,546
Speaker 2: He didn't play in that preseason game, but we still

678
00:35:00,546 --> 00:35:03,546
Speaker 2: met with him because he was the guy, and man,

679
00:35:03,586 --> 00:35:07,626
Speaker 2: did you see why the whole building was is in

680
00:35:07,706 --> 00:35:10,666
Speaker 2: belief that this guy could be really good? Right away?

681
00:35:11,266 --> 00:35:16,426
Speaker 2: Fifty five starts Arizona State to LSU, so he's done

682
00:35:16,546 --> 00:35:19,506
Speaker 2: the leave one environment and system, go to a new

683
00:35:19,546 --> 00:35:22,746
Speaker 2: coaching staff, new teammates, win the room over, win the building,

684
00:35:22,786 --> 00:35:26,026
Speaker 2: over the work habits. That a guy who I think

685
00:35:26,826 --> 00:35:29,266
Speaker 2: is really someone who deserves a lot of credit in

686
00:35:29,306 --> 00:35:31,746
Speaker 2: both college and pro football this year but is not

687
00:35:31,826 --> 00:35:36,786
Speaker 2: getting it is Brian Kelly. Brian Kelly is hard on

688
00:35:36,866 --> 00:35:39,466
Speaker 2: quarterbacks as any of them who played for but he

689
00:35:39,506 --> 00:35:42,906
Speaker 2: makes them better. And he really helped Jayden Daniels go

690
00:35:42,986 --> 00:35:45,426
Speaker 2: from here to here just in the large ess of

691
00:35:45,466 --> 00:35:47,706
Speaker 2: it of how you go about game planning, how you

692
00:35:47,746 --> 00:35:51,426
Speaker 2: go about situational football. And you know, Brian Kelly and

693
00:35:51,466 --> 00:35:54,866
Speaker 2: the LSU staff made it possible for Jaden Daniels done

694
00:35:54,906 --> 00:35:58,666
Speaker 2: academically essentially his last year at LSU, to get in

695
00:35:58,746 --> 00:36:01,546
Speaker 2: the gym in the middle of the night and get

696
00:36:01,546 --> 00:36:05,186
Speaker 2: ready and VR stuff. So that's a reality concept. And

697
00:36:05,226 --> 00:36:08,826
Speaker 2: he brought all those great in incredible habits to his meetings,

698
00:36:09,146 --> 00:36:11,546
Speaker 2: He brought him all to his practices, and he brought

699
00:36:11,586 --> 00:36:15,026
Speaker 2: him all to Washington, and Washington gave him the ability

700
00:36:15,066 --> 00:36:17,626
Speaker 2: to kind of expand and do that. So, yeah, we

701
00:36:17,706 --> 00:36:21,586
Speaker 2: saw a little bit of why this could be really

702
00:36:21,626 --> 00:36:24,146
Speaker 2: good and there's no way you could forecast there'd be

703
00:36:24,146 --> 00:36:26,586
Speaker 2: a championship game. But just a close the thought on

704
00:36:26,626 --> 00:36:30,346
Speaker 2: Brian Kelly, Notre Dame is not in position to play

705
00:36:30,386 --> 00:36:33,386
Speaker 2: for the championship if Brian Kelly didn't elevate that place

706
00:36:34,506 --> 00:36:36,226
Speaker 2: all the way through the end and then he hired

707
00:36:36,266 --> 00:36:39,226
Speaker 2: Marcus Freemans he's defensive coordinator. If he did Marcus Freeman

708
00:36:39,306 --> 00:36:42,066
Speaker 2: three years in takes him to a championship NFL team

709
00:36:42,186 --> 00:36:44,226
Speaker 2: saying hey, this big guy, we should look at or

710
00:36:44,266 --> 00:36:46,626
Speaker 2: talk to you somewhere down the line sooner, if not later.

711
00:36:47,826 --> 00:36:49,626
Speaker 2: Brian Kelly did a lot of credit for some of

712
00:36:49,666 --> 00:36:52,506
Speaker 2: the success stories of this football season, and it is

713
00:36:52,546 --> 00:36:54,626
Speaker 2: not getting a lot of it. But Jade Daniels is

714
00:36:54,706 --> 00:36:55,266
Speaker 2: wonder those.

715
00:37:00,466 --> 00:37:02,986
Speaker 1: You've been in that premiere Sunday night seat for the

716
00:37:03,266 --> 00:37:08,426
Speaker 1: entire Josh Allen Mahomes our Borough era. You've seen these

717
00:37:08,466 --> 00:37:11,786
Speaker 1: guys enter the league and then play their biggest games

718
00:37:11,786 --> 00:37:16,186
Speaker 1: on those Sunday night regular season afternoons and evenings. What

719
00:37:16,426 --> 00:37:18,906
Speaker 1: makes Josh Allen a little bit different this year than

720
00:37:18,946 --> 00:37:19,826
Speaker 1: maybe years prior.

721
00:37:20,506 --> 00:37:23,066
Speaker 2: Peter, he just took that step from here to here

722
00:37:24,386 --> 00:37:28,946
Speaker 2: of greatness, growth and what does greatness growth mean? It

723
00:37:29,066 --> 00:37:32,586
Speaker 2: means I got the building, all right, I got the

724
00:37:32,626 --> 00:37:36,026
Speaker 2: whole building. Now it's not. And he was so good

725
00:37:36,106 --> 00:37:40,266
Speaker 2: about not saying it's Stefan Diggs or anything like that.

726
00:37:40,746 --> 00:37:43,946
Speaker 2: Just the oxygen in the building changes every year. Stefan

727
00:37:44,026 --> 00:37:47,546
Speaker 2: Diggs greatness, his ability to bring the bills so many

728
00:37:47,586 --> 00:37:50,866
Speaker 2: wins was a little bit of that receiver me attitude,

729
00:37:51,626 --> 00:37:54,706
Speaker 2: and that helped give this team. When Josh Allen was young,

730
00:37:55,306 --> 00:37:59,586
Speaker 2: young ledge, you got it exactly man. And now now

731
00:37:59,706 --> 00:38:02,186
Speaker 2: like Josh looks around the room and it's him and

732
00:38:02,306 --> 00:38:04,746
Speaker 2: he's got to be that guy and he has. Now

733
00:38:04,786 --> 00:38:07,986
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean Dion Dawkins doesn't have an impact. Bernard

734
00:38:08,106 --> 00:38:10,426
Speaker 2: on defense are all the von Miller's still in the

735
00:38:10,466 --> 00:38:12,306
Speaker 2: building and still in the room, right. So I'm not

736
00:38:12,386 --> 00:38:15,066
Speaker 2: saying this is a one man show. But I think

737
00:38:16,226 --> 00:38:17,986
Speaker 2: the fact that Josh is able to read the room

738
00:38:17,986 --> 00:38:20,626
Speaker 2: and says, Okay, I know I'm really, really, really good.

739
00:38:20,906 --> 00:38:23,826
Speaker 2: I know it's my time. I've got to lead these guys.

740
00:38:23,866 --> 00:38:25,586
Speaker 2: And he's got a little bit of Rascal in him.

741
00:38:25,626 --> 00:38:28,466
Speaker 2: He's the fun guy in the room, and you get

742
00:38:28,506 --> 00:38:30,306
Speaker 2: that every time you sit with Josh. There's a laugh,

743
00:38:30,386 --> 00:38:32,786
Speaker 2: it's a humor, it's a it's never an edge, it's

744
00:38:32,826 --> 00:38:34,946
Speaker 2: always good. But you know, when it comes down to

745
00:38:35,346 --> 00:38:38,146
Speaker 2: the business, he's got he's got the buffaloes to do it,

746
00:38:38,346 --> 00:38:41,746
Speaker 2: you know. So I love the way he took that

747
00:38:41,906 --> 00:38:45,466
Speaker 2: step this year. And that's one of the things that

748
00:38:45,586 --> 00:38:49,106
Speaker 2: you can see. Okay, it's not just Lamar Mahomes Burrow,

749
00:38:49,866 --> 00:38:54,506
Speaker 2: it's can you carry the Bills franchise? And this generation

750
00:38:54,626 --> 00:38:58,946
Speaker 2: of Bill's Mafia. The younger fans only know about Jim

751
00:38:59,146 --> 00:39:03,546
Speaker 2: and Thurman and Bruce and Andre Reid from T shirts

752
00:39:03,546 --> 00:39:06,506
Speaker 2: and sweatshirts that their parents still wear and all that stuff.

753
00:39:06,426 --> 00:39:12,426
Speaker 4: A documentaries, you know exactly, and Marv Levy's singing his

754
00:39:12,586 --> 00:39:16,466
Speaker 4: go Bill's song that he wrote, right and all of that.

755
00:39:17,306 --> 00:39:20,786
Speaker 2: I think I think Josh is their generations guy, and

756
00:39:21,106 --> 00:39:22,826
Speaker 2: I'd love to see it. I do think it's the

757
00:39:22,866 --> 00:39:25,426
Speaker 2: most fascinating thing we're living in in a macro. Part

758
00:39:25,466 --> 00:39:29,346
Speaker 2: of this NFL JEN is that Lamar and Burrow and

759
00:39:29,546 --> 00:39:34,506
Speaker 2: Josh remind me of Ernie Else and Phil Mickelson of

760
00:39:35,106 --> 00:39:39,066
Speaker 2: They're like not good, they're exceptional. They're living at a

761
00:39:39,186 --> 00:39:41,146
Speaker 2: time when one of the best to ever do it

762
00:39:41,386 --> 00:39:44,066
Speaker 2: is in their way, and they've all got to try

763
00:39:44,106 --> 00:39:48,506
Speaker 2: to beat Mahomes every single year, and usually they go

764
00:39:48,666 --> 00:39:51,426
Speaker 2: over when it matters the most. And Ken Josh get

765
00:39:51,506 --> 00:39:54,586
Speaker 2: that one notch this year. That's the most fascinating thing

766
00:39:54,626 --> 00:39:57,186
Speaker 2: in the macro to me, that's happening in our NFL

767
00:39:57,266 --> 00:39:57,506
Speaker 2: right now.

768
00:39:57,706 --> 00:39:59,666
Speaker 1: It's so interesting because it's so easy to do the

769
00:39:59,786 --> 00:40:02,186
Speaker 1: NBA thing and we talk about Barkley and Malone and

770
00:40:02,266 --> 00:40:05,586
Speaker 1: Ewing and Gary Payton and Sean kemp At. These guys

771
00:40:05,626 --> 00:40:07,626
Speaker 1: were all amazing, but it just happened to play in

772
00:40:07,706 --> 00:40:10,826
Speaker 1: that era. The golf thing is is something I haven't

773
00:40:10,866 --> 00:40:12,906
Speaker 1: thought of yet. I thought, that's a really good analogy.

774
00:40:14,506 --> 00:40:16,866
Speaker 1: You go into this game and it's Sunday, and it's

775
00:40:16,866 --> 00:40:19,226
Speaker 1: gonna be on Sunday night. Is there a little bit

776
00:40:19,266 --> 00:40:21,386
Speaker 1: of pang of jealousy that your voice won't be on

777
00:40:21,466 --> 00:40:23,266
Speaker 1: the call for this, for this monster game and it's

778
00:40:23,266 --> 00:40:24,226
Speaker 1: gonna be Nanson Romo.

779
00:40:24,866 --> 00:40:26,906
Speaker 2: We all want to do a great game, right and

780
00:40:26,986 --> 00:40:29,626
Speaker 2: those legacy games, but you know, the wheel spins, we

781
00:40:29,666 --> 00:40:32,466
Speaker 2: all get our chance, and especially because you know these

782
00:40:32,506 --> 00:40:34,786
Speaker 2: guys know their season ends every year if not a

783
00:40:34,866 --> 00:40:37,586
Speaker 2: Super Bowl season with the AFC Championship game with the

784
00:40:37,706 --> 00:40:40,266
Speaker 2: NFC Championship game, and you know, and what's the balance.

785
00:40:40,306 --> 00:40:42,906
Speaker 2: The balance is Sunday night, we usually get a really

786
00:40:42,946 --> 00:40:45,626
Speaker 2: good game. Sometimes those guys will get the short end

787
00:40:45,666 --> 00:40:47,466
Speaker 2: of the schedule and have a one o'clock game that's

788
00:40:47,546 --> 00:40:51,666
Speaker 2: not as high profile as a primetime game. So it's fine.

789
00:40:51,746 --> 00:40:54,266
Speaker 2: It's the thing is that I enjoy is that all

790
00:40:54,306 --> 00:40:57,586
Speaker 2: these guys are friends, acquaintances, whatever you want to say.

791
00:40:58,066 --> 00:41:00,106
Speaker 2: And I love to watch him and Tony do a game.

792
00:41:00,226 --> 00:41:03,506
Speaker 2: Jim spin wonderful and kind to me since I was

793
00:41:03,546 --> 00:41:05,986
Speaker 2: in Syracuse in school and Jim was coming and doing

794
00:41:06,026 --> 00:41:08,226
Speaker 2: games with Billy Packer and I was working at a

795
00:41:08,266 --> 00:41:10,266
Speaker 2: CBS station and I got to meet Jim and interview

796
00:41:10,346 --> 00:41:13,746
Speaker 2: him in the late eighties and early nineties. And we're

797
00:41:13,786 --> 00:41:16,786
Speaker 2: represented by the same person, Sandy Montag. So Jim's a

798
00:41:16,986 --> 00:41:20,506
Speaker 2: thirty year acquaintance and friend, and I've got Tony over

799
00:41:20,546 --> 00:41:24,026
Speaker 2: the years, and save same day with Kevin and Tom too.

800
00:41:24,106 --> 00:41:26,626
Speaker 2: You know, I'm just excited to hear those guys do

801
00:41:26,826 --> 00:41:29,226
Speaker 2: these games. I remember Kevin and I were texting before

802
00:41:29,626 --> 00:41:32,106
Speaker 2: the game of Detroit Saturday, and then he texted me

803
00:41:32,186 --> 00:41:35,906
Speaker 2: after the game about our game on Sunday. So you

804
00:41:36,066 --> 00:41:38,066
Speaker 2: know this, look at we talked about it all the time.

805
00:41:38,066 --> 00:41:41,266
Speaker 2: We're all friends who do well. We all swim in

806
00:41:41,306 --> 00:41:44,426
Speaker 2: the same water and root for each other. So yeah,

807
00:41:44,466 --> 00:41:46,386
Speaker 2: would you love to be there, of course. But then

808
00:41:46,506 --> 00:41:48,786
Speaker 2: when it's four o'clock in the afternoon and you're like

809
00:41:48,826 --> 00:41:50,626
Speaker 2: the rest of America, you're eating what you want, you're

810
00:41:50,666 --> 00:41:53,386
Speaker 2: drinking what you want, you're watching great football, and you're

811
00:41:53,386 --> 00:41:56,346
Speaker 2: watching great people call the game. It's all good. We

812
00:41:56,426 --> 00:41:58,386
Speaker 2: all get our We all got our swinging at the

813
00:41:58,466 --> 00:41:59,466
Speaker 2: pitch every once in a while.

814
00:42:00,026 --> 00:42:02,026
Speaker 1: You know how fond I am of your work and

815
00:42:02,226 --> 00:42:04,346
Speaker 1: you as a man, obviously, but some of your calls

816
00:42:04,386 --> 00:42:06,386
Speaker 1: have been legendary in just the last couple of years alone.

817
00:42:06,866 --> 00:42:10,426
Speaker 1: I want to play you a call from last year's

818
00:42:10,466 --> 00:42:14,026
Speaker 1: wild Card round. It's the Rams and the Lions, and

819
00:42:14,066 --> 00:42:16,586
Speaker 1: the Rams all but wrapped the Lions all but wrap

820
00:42:16,786 --> 00:42:19,266
Speaker 1: this thing up, and Chris Collinsworth kind of gave you

821
00:42:19,386 --> 00:42:21,226
Speaker 1: the stage to talk a little bit about what this

822
00:42:21,386 --> 00:42:22,706
Speaker 1: meant for the city of Detroit.

823
00:42:22,826 --> 00:42:27,666
Speaker 2: Take a listen, Mike, you live in this area.

824
00:42:28,786 --> 00:42:31,266
Speaker 1: Give me some idea of what this is.

825
00:42:35,906 --> 00:42:40,346
Speaker 2: The turner out here, sol, same old Lions. They always

826
00:42:40,466 --> 00:42:41,266
Speaker 2: find a way.

827
00:42:42,626 --> 00:42:43,266
Speaker 1: To screw it up.

828
00:42:44,026 --> 00:42:48,466
Speaker 2: And Dan Campbell change that mentality, change that the people

829
00:42:48,466 --> 00:42:51,866
Speaker 2: who brought in they've lost their last nine playoff appearances.

830
00:42:52,706 --> 00:42:54,546
Speaker 2: It's a team that believes in themselves and they didn't

831
00:42:54,546 --> 00:42:57,466
Speaker 2: have a great second half, but this will be one

832
00:42:57,466 --> 00:43:01,866
Speaker 2: of the most memorable nights in Detroit football for that

833
00:43:02,026 --> 00:43:05,466
Speaker 2: eighty nine year old and the sixty two thousand others.

834
00:43:05,546 --> 00:43:12,746
Speaker 2: Here one morning and business is done and Detroit for

835
00:43:12,906 --> 00:43:17,146
Speaker 2: the first time in thirty two years, your Lions have

836
00:43:17,266 --> 00:43:19,666
Speaker 2: won a playoff game. How about it?

837
00:43:22,786 --> 00:43:24,626
Speaker 1: Mike Herring that back, what's your reaction.

838
00:43:26,706 --> 00:43:28,906
Speaker 2: I wasn't expecting Chris to do that, which is why

839
00:43:28,986 --> 00:43:30,626
Speaker 2: Christian is the best to work with, because they'll do

840
00:43:30,746 --> 00:43:34,386
Speaker 2: things at times that you are unplanned. But also like

841
00:43:34,506 --> 00:43:37,226
Speaker 2: that's Christian's moment to kind of say what he should

842
00:43:37,346 --> 00:43:40,946
Speaker 2: be saying. But I think he understood that. Having lived

843
00:43:40,986 --> 00:43:43,866
Speaker 2: in Michigan for twenty five years, I had a different

844
00:43:43,946 --> 00:43:45,906
Speaker 2: read on the fans and the people, and I thought

845
00:43:47,346 --> 00:43:50,026
Speaker 2: seeing Kirk herb Street after the championship game on money

846
00:43:50,066 --> 00:43:51,906
Speaker 2: and I think it was emotional talking about Ohio State

847
00:43:52,626 --> 00:43:55,426
Speaker 2: was a reminder because Scott Vanpelt used the line as

848
00:43:55,466 --> 00:43:58,666
Speaker 2: Kirk was getting emotional. Everybody's from somewhere, and I'm not

849
00:43:58,746 --> 00:44:01,146
Speaker 2: from here. I grew up a Jets fan right and

850
00:44:01,426 --> 00:44:04,786
Speaker 2: moved here twenty five years ago. So I think as

851
00:44:04,786 --> 00:44:07,066
Speaker 2: you get older and do this, you have that professional

852
00:44:07,186 --> 00:44:13,386
Speaker 2: layer of non emotional attachment. But my family, their Lions fans,

853
00:44:14,106 --> 00:44:15,706
Speaker 2: all the people I know. I mean, you go to

854
00:44:15,746 --> 00:44:18,586
Speaker 2: the cleaners and drop off your shirts on Monday after

855
00:44:18,626 --> 00:44:20,346
Speaker 2: you come home from Sunday, and all people want to

856
00:44:20,346 --> 00:44:23,986
Speaker 2: talk about is what about Dan Skipper being eligible and

857
00:44:24,026 --> 00:44:27,346
Speaker 2: all that stuff. So what it means to the area

858
00:44:27,826 --> 00:44:30,506
Speaker 2: is what I think I've got the connection with, not

859
00:44:30,706 --> 00:44:33,546
Speaker 2: just the long suffering fans, but a city that had

860
00:44:33,626 --> 00:44:36,546
Speaker 2: been a pinata for some a city that got beat up,

861
00:44:36,626 --> 00:44:40,306
Speaker 2: and to see it turn around and parallel with the

862
00:44:40,386 --> 00:44:43,906
Speaker 2: success with the Lions and the downtown area coming back.

863
00:44:44,066 --> 00:44:46,226
Speaker 2: I just had a really good feel for it and

864
00:44:46,266 --> 00:44:48,866
Speaker 2: a read for it. And I was really blessed and

865
00:44:48,986 --> 00:44:51,026
Speaker 2: lucky to do both of those games that will be

866
00:44:51,546 --> 00:44:54,226
Speaker 2: all time memories for me. Just to be in that

867
00:44:54,466 --> 00:44:57,546
Speaker 2: stadium the night the Jared Goff chant began. It was

868
00:44:57,586 --> 00:45:00,586
Speaker 2: the night that it was given birth. And just to

869
00:45:00,626 --> 00:45:03,146
Speaker 2: be able to help an audience understand it better. And

870
00:45:03,266 --> 00:45:06,346
Speaker 2: as Sheila hamp the owner of the Lions, reminded me

871
00:45:06,986 --> 00:45:08,546
Speaker 2: when I saw her a couple of weeks ago, the

872
00:45:08,626 --> 00:45:12,386
Speaker 2: lines are seven and oh on NBC. When I've done

873
00:45:12,426 --> 00:45:14,266
Speaker 2: the games going back to the end of the Aaron

874
00:45:14,346 --> 00:45:17,226
Speaker 2: Rodgers in Green Bay era, it's an amazing game. I said,

875
00:45:17,386 --> 00:45:19,026
Speaker 2: I've got nothing to do with it. Bub will happily

876
00:45:19,066 --> 00:45:20,666
Speaker 2: take the credit for it. That was it.

877
00:45:20,866 --> 00:45:23,746
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson calls a hook and lateral and then they

878
00:45:23,786 --> 00:45:27,066
Speaker 1: throw a fourth down pass the DJ Shark to eliminate

879
00:45:27,146 --> 00:45:28,866
Speaker 1: the Packers. That you were on that call.

880
00:45:29,266 --> 00:45:33,386
Speaker 2: And that was a Schrager GMFB trivia question, and I

881
00:45:33,506 --> 00:45:35,506
Speaker 2: think that may have been the answer may have been

882
00:45:35,666 --> 00:45:38,626
Speaker 2: D because somebody don't know if Jamie brought it up.

883
00:45:38,706 --> 00:45:42,066
Speaker 2: Somebody brought up that oftentimes Schrager will just humor you

884
00:45:42,186 --> 00:45:44,946
Speaker 2: with choice D, which is now open the door for

885
00:45:44,986 --> 00:45:48,386
Speaker 2: Schrager to put the right answer in D. It's you see,

886
00:45:48,426 --> 00:45:51,146
Speaker 2: you're a great play caller. If they think they've seen

887
00:45:51,186 --> 00:45:54,266
Speaker 2: this ten times, give it to them the opposite way.

888
00:45:54,266 --> 00:45:56,146
Speaker 1: I love I love that you watch our show. It

889
00:45:56,226 --> 00:45:58,426
Speaker 1: blows me away that anyone watches our show and the

890
00:45:58,466 --> 00:46:00,106
Speaker 1: fact you have to recall to do that. I so

891
00:46:00,226 --> 00:46:04,346
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Another call was from the year beforehand Lamar

892
00:46:04,466 --> 00:46:07,106
Speaker 1: Jackson's not in the play the game because of injury,

893
00:46:07,226 --> 00:46:10,106
Speaker 1: so Snoop Huntley is the quarterback. And then Sam Hubbard

894
00:46:10,546 --> 00:46:14,106
Speaker 1: makes the play that made Cincinnati a rock and roll concert.

895
00:46:14,186 --> 00:46:15,306
Speaker 1: Here's your call from that.

896
00:46:15,506 --> 00:46:20,306
Speaker 2: Game with the right round he reaches. They always some

897
00:46:20,546 --> 00:46:24,026
Speaker 2: Hubbard the Cincinnati could hundred's.

898
00:46:23,546 --> 00:46:27,986
Speaker 1: Gonna come by, chased by Andrews what the thugy the

899
00:46:28,146 --> 00:46:31,266
Speaker 1: TNNY well stop.

900
00:46:34,226 --> 00:46:37,666
Speaker 2: And Sam Hubbard, who grew up with Bengals fan want

901
00:46:37,666 --> 00:46:42,586
Speaker 2: a state championship at Bowler High School Championship in Ohio State,

902
00:46:43,506 --> 00:46:45,946
Speaker 2: makes the massive play to take it the other way

903
00:46:46,266 --> 00:46:47,586
Speaker 2: and give the Bengals.

904
00:46:47,186 --> 00:46:51,146
Speaker 1: The leave Mike your thoughts here in that call back.

905
00:46:52,106 --> 00:46:55,626
Speaker 2: Well, so we had Cincinnati in the wild card game

906
00:46:56,386 --> 00:46:59,506
Speaker 2: of the year before with Drew Brees, we did the

907
00:46:59,586 --> 00:47:02,946
Speaker 2: Cincinnati rad Racers playoff game Bengals on their way to

908
00:47:03,026 --> 00:47:04,626
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. That you who would have thought, right?

909
00:47:05,186 --> 00:47:08,066
Speaker 2: And what was in interesting with that was you do

910
00:47:08,186 --> 00:47:11,426
Speaker 2: the research for that game and you're in and Dan

911
00:47:11,626 --> 00:47:13,946
Speaker 2: Horde is the voice of the Cincinnati Bengals and the

912
00:47:14,026 --> 00:47:17,346
Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bearcats. So all SINCEI things that kind of had

913
00:47:17,466 --> 00:47:19,906
Speaker 2: a little feel for because I've got one of my

914
00:47:19,986 --> 00:47:22,426
Speaker 2: buddies who I went to Syracuse with it was a

915
00:47:22,506 --> 00:47:25,706
Speaker 2: part of the Bengals world for the last twenty plus years.

916
00:47:26,666 --> 00:47:29,746
Speaker 2: So for some reason during that wild Card game prep,

917
00:47:29,866 --> 00:47:33,826
Speaker 2: we were talking about Hubbard and Cincinnati roots and how

918
00:47:33,946 --> 00:47:35,706
Speaker 2: rare it is and how much a championship would be

919
00:47:35,786 --> 00:47:37,826
Speaker 2: in to a guy who had just been in Ohio

920
00:47:38,106 --> 00:47:40,106
Speaker 2: and living in Michigan. You know, the people in Ohio,

921
00:47:40,226 --> 00:47:42,786
Speaker 2: it means so much to them to contribute, whether it's

922
00:47:42,866 --> 00:47:46,106
Speaker 2: the Buckeys, but also the high school football in Cincinnati.

923
00:47:46,146 --> 00:47:49,506
Speaker 2: It's Cincinnati is one of those you're from, where you're

924
00:47:49,506 --> 00:47:52,706
Speaker 2: from your high school or the parish that it went

925
00:47:52,746 --> 00:47:56,626
Speaker 2: to church, and the Cincinnati thing, you know. So I

926
00:47:56,706 --> 00:47:59,786
Speaker 2: had just had in my mind in Cincinnati ties, and

927
00:48:00,146 --> 00:48:02,146
Speaker 2: I hadn't written anything down, but that was the first

928
00:48:02,226 --> 00:48:04,786
Speaker 2: thing it popped in my mind when he got the ball,

929
00:48:05,066 --> 00:48:06,666
Speaker 2: and it just one of those He got the ball

930
00:48:06,706 --> 00:48:09,266
Speaker 2: on the right spot that his number was facing me

931
00:48:09,546 --> 00:48:11,226
Speaker 2: where I was in the booth, so I could see

932
00:48:11,306 --> 00:48:13,826
Speaker 2: right away with him at the fifteen yard line, and

933
00:48:13,986 --> 00:48:16,586
Speaker 2: I just popped in my head. I had no plan.

934
00:48:16,666 --> 00:48:19,386
Speaker 2: It was on my board Cincinnati Kid or anything like that.

935
00:48:19,866 --> 00:48:21,426
Speaker 2: And those are the fun ones when it just pops

936
00:48:21,426 --> 00:48:23,546
Speaker 2: in your head and just say what you're thinking and

937
00:48:23,626 --> 00:48:26,026
Speaker 2: feeling and prepared for. So it was nice to have

938
00:48:26,146 --> 00:48:29,146
Speaker 2: the backstory ingrained in my mind that when it happened

939
00:48:29,666 --> 00:48:31,346
Speaker 2: that we had something and it was good that he

940
00:48:31,466 --> 00:48:33,026
Speaker 2: ended up scoring on the play made it a lot

941
00:48:33,066 --> 00:48:33,386
Speaker 2: of fun.

942
00:48:33,906 --> 00:48:35,546
Speaker 1: So good. All right, I'm gonna wrap with a couple

943
00:48:35,866 --> 00:48:40,866
Speaker 1: really fun questions that I'm looking for answers that might

944
00:48:40,986 --> 00:48:42,386
Speaker 1: not be what you would expect.

945
00:48:42,426 --> 00:48:42,546
Speaker 2: Now.

946
00:48:42,546 --> 00:48:46,786
Speaker 1: I've always said one of the most entertaining production meetings

947
00:48:46,866 --> 00:48:49,226
Speaker 1: I've ever been a part of was for any relevant

948
00:48:49,386 --> 00:48:54,426
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Rams game against maybe the Tennessee Titans, and

949
00:48:54,586 --> 00:48:57,666
Speaker 1: Greg Williams came in as defensive coordinator under Jeff Fisher

950
00:48:57,746 --> 00:49:00,746
Speaker 1: and went on an hour long talk about defense and

951
00:49:01,746 --> 00:49:05,226
Speaker 1: the power of crystals, and people ask me, who is

952
00:49:05,346 --> 00:49:08,066
Speaker 1: the production meeting guy. I'm like, I don't know where

953
00:49:08,106 --> 00:49:09,946
Speaker 1: you're starting where you end, but Greg Williams is on

954
00:49:10,026 --> 00:49:13,066
Speaker 1: my list. Is just sit back and sit back and enjoy. Uh,

955
00:49:13,426 --> 00:49:15,386
Speaker 1: who's that guy for? You might not have to be

956
00:49:15,466 --> 00:49:17,786
Speaker 1: don't have to be Andy Reid, like give me like

957
00:49:17,866 --> 00:49:20,226
Speaker 1: that off the radar guy that you just love listening

958
00:49:20,266 --> 00:49:21,106
Speaker 1: to talk football.

959
00:49:21,506 --> 00:49:24,066
Speaker 2: So the best, the best players were the best production meetings.

960
00:49:24,066 --> 00:49:26,146
Speaker 2: I always thought, like, if you asked me, who gave

961
00:49:26,226 --> 00:49:30,106
Speaker 2: the best production meetings the elite quarterbacks, especially when it

962
00:49:30,186 --> 00:49:32,826
Speaker 2: was Manning and Brady, like you know, Peyton who controls

963
00:49:32,866 --> 00:49:34,746
Speaker 2: everything in the line of scrimmage and everything else. I'll

964
00:49:34,746 --> 00:49:37,546
Speaker 2: never forget being an ESPN in those days. And gosh,

965
00:49:37,586 --> 00:49:41,426
Speaker 2: I'm doing the game with Gruden and maybe Jaws or

966
00:49:41,506 --> 00:49:45,786
Speaker 2: just Sushi Colbers, our sideline reporter, and Peyton's telling me

967
00:49:45,866 --> 00:49:48,946
Speaker 2: about how a receiver is going to have a role,

968
00:49:48,986 --> 00:49:51,066
Speaker 2: and it's somebody who had been on the practice squad, right,

969
00:49:51,426 --> 00:49:53,266
Speaker 2: So it's like so and so, so and so, and

970
00:49:54,106 --> 00:49:56,026
Speaker 2: we're gonna be I'm gonna be calling We're gonna be

971
00:49:56,026 --> 00:49:57,746
Speaker 2: calling up this guy, Mike. He should be make sure

972
00:49:57,746 --> 00:49:59,986
Speaker 2: you're ready for him to playing all the year. And

973
00:50:00,066 --> 00:50:01,866
Speaker 2: then and then he got and then he kind of goes,

974
00:50:01,986 --> 00:50:04,146
Speaker 2: and the guy goes. Johnny's got a really good wiggled

975
00:50:04,226 --> 00:50:06,346
Speaker 2: Bob Moos routes really kind of kind of like stokely

976
00:50:06,466 --> 00:50:08,666
Speaker 2: on the route running and Susane. He's got a great backstory,

977
00:50:08,666 --> 00:50:11,186
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh my god, this man has just

978
00:50:11,466 --> 00:50:13,866
Speaker 2: produced the production meeting by telling all and all three

979
00:50:13,906 --> 00:50:16,506
Speaker 2: of those things you got on the air. So that's like,

980
00:50:16,666 --> 00:50:19,826
Speaker 2: that's like the Nirvana of production meetings. But I'm gonna

981
00:50:19,866 --> 00:50:24,466
Speaker 2: tell you a couple that Sean Payton can give you.

982
00:50:24,626 --> 00:50:27,666
Speaker 1: We talk about the flip card for Sean Payton, what

983
00:50:27,746 --> 00:50:30,066
Speaker 1: it is because I did enough. Sean Payton comes in

984
00:50:30,306 --> 00:50:32,266
Speaker 1: and what a flip card is for the listeners. It's

985
00:50:32,426 --> 00:50:35,706
Speaker 1: every player on the roster. And tell him what Sean

986
00:50:35,746 --> 00:50:37,266
Speaker 1: Payton will do for I don't know if what the

987
00:50:37,346 --> 00:50:41,826
Speaker 1: point is, but he goes position by position and we'll

988
00:50:41,866 --> 00:50:44,226
Speaker 1: tell you everything you need to know about each one

989
00:50:44,226 --> 00:50:45,826
Speaker 1: of these guys. But go on, Mike, tell him now.

990
00:50:45,906 --> 00:50:47,906
Speaker 2: We'll move over to line three and see, I got

991
00:50:48,066 --> 00:50:50,746
Speaker 2: this here. Okay, here's what he's gonna do. And Sean

992
00:50:50,826 --> 00:50:54,426
Speaker 2: gives you detail on every single player. He kind of

993
00:50:54,466 --> 00:50:56,146
Speaker 2: runs the clock out on you. You have no time

994
00:50:56,186 --> 00:50:58,426
Speaker 2: to answer ask any questions at some point, but he

995
00:50:58,506 --> 00:51:01,626
Speaker 2: gives you all the details. Mike Tomlin is priceless because

996
00:51:01,666 --> 00:51:04,866
Speaker 2: Mike gives you not just great great great answers, but

997
00:51:04,946 --> 00:51:07,466
Speaker 2: he also gives us such good detail hill along the

998
00:51:07,506 --> 00:51:10,066
Speaker 2: way on who's gonna play and why I love like,

999
00:51:10,146 --> 00:51:12,106
Speaker 2: you'll get to a guy and go, he's our jet

1000
00:51:12,186 --> 00:51:14,546
Speaker 2: sweeper guy. He'll run the tricks and all that stuff,

1001
00:51:14,626 --> 00:51:19,066
Speaker 2: and just it's just Mike Tomlin esque tones and terms.

1002
00:51:19,546 --> 00:51:21,706
Speaker 2: He goes, he goes through the flip card and does that.

1003
00:51:21,866 --> 00:51:25,906
Speaker 2: So they're they're all, they're all really good production meetings.

1004
00:51:26,386 --> 00:51:27,666
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think if there's one.

1005
00:51:27,546 --> 00:51:30,946
Speaker 1: To kind of the radar guy, give me someone like

1006
00:51:31,026 --> 00:51:32,826
Speaker 1: I just say Greg Williams, like, you know, Jeff Fishery

1007
00:51:32,826 --> 00:51:34,266
Speaker 1: has to show up in leather jackets and do.

1008
00:51:34,306 --> 00:51:39,026
Speaker 2: That right, right right. Dan Campbell is like, you can't

1009
00:51:39,066 --> 00:51:42,626
Speaker 2: keep him in his seat, he says, he starts rocking.

1010
00:51:42,906 --> 00:51:45,146
Speaker 2: He starts rocking during the meeting, and he start going

1011
00:51:45,186 --> 00:51:47,666
Speaker 2: back and forth. Now he's moving around his chair and

1012
00:51:47,706 --> 00:51:49,946
Speaker 2: he's grabbing his coffee and he's got his dip of

1013
00:51:49,986 --> 00:51:53,066
Speaker 2: the whole thing. He's he is so on brand uh

1014
00:51:53,346 --> 00:51:56,906
Speaker 2: for production meetings. But no, the best ones are the

1015
00:51:56,986 --> 00:52:00,306
Speaker 2: best guys, they really are. So my favorite production meeting

1016
00:52:00,346 --> 00:52:05,786
Speaker 2: story is Belichick, who notoriously gave you very little right,

1017
00:52:05,986 --> 00:52:09,626
Speaker 2: and that's in told for years it wasn't bad. When

1018
00:52:09,666 --> 00:52:11,546
Speaker 2: you got to know Bill, it wasn't bad. You had

1019
00:52:11,586 --> 00:52:14,066
Speaker 2: to know what you were getting into and what you

1020
00:52:14,146 --> 00:52:17,266
Speaker 2: were trying to get out of it. So it's Thanksgiving night,

1021
00:52:17,786 --> 00:52:22,106
Speaker 2: We're doing a game in Minnesota, I want to say,

1022
00:52:22,466 --> 00:52:25,146
Speaker 2: and the Patriots are playing and we're getting nothing out

1023
00:52:25,146 --> 00:52:28,186
Speaker 2: of Bill, right, And so Melissa Stark is going to

1024
00:52:28,266 --> 00:52:31,386
Speaker 2: ask everybody about Thanksgiving because in case somebody wins there

1025
00:52:31,866 --> 00:52:34,106
Speaker 2: to ducking leg or things like that, you want to

1026
00:52:34,106 --> 00:52:36,226
Speaker 2: make it a Thanksgiving. It's a family show more than

1027
00:52:36,426 --> 00:52:39,426
Speaker 2: an et Zo show. So we started asking Belichick, and

1028
00:52:39,546 --> 00:52:44,026
Speaker 2: Belichick goes into this great detail on Army Navy being

1029
00:52:44,546 --> 00:52:49,386
Speaker 2: the Saturday after Thanksgiving in Philadelphia and what a Thanksgiving night,

1030
00:52:49,466 --> 00:52:51,506
Speaker 2: what Thanksgiving Day? Meet you? And he was and of

1031
00:52:51,586 --> 00:52:54,146
Speaker 2: course his dad coaching at Navy. Well, Thanksgiving was the

1032
00:52:54,226 --> 00:52:57,266
Speaker 2: last practice. It was the last practice at Navy. And

1033
00:52:57,306 --> 00:52:59,946
Speaker 2: give us detail about the parade and the train up

1034
00:52:59,986 --> 00:53:02,306
Speaker 2: to Philadelphia. And he went into like fifty it was

1035
00:53:02,346 --> 00:53:06,866
Speaker 2: the greatest fifteen minute history lesson on Army Navy played

1036
00:53:06,906 --> 00:53:10,426
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia for Thanksgiving. Maybe eight seconds of it got

1037
00:53:10,466 --> 00:53:13,866
Speaker 2: on the air, but he was he was so into

1038
00:53:13,946 --> 00:53:17,106
Speaker 2: the storytelling part of it and with detail, like I

1039
00:53:17,186 --> 00:53:20,066
Speaker 2: never really had Thanksgiving dinner, Like Thanksgiving was just the

1040
00:53:20,146 --> 00:53:22,746
Speaker 2: last day of practice with my dad with Navy because

1041
00:53:22,786 --> 00:53:25,066
Speaker 2: Friday was the season ended on Saturday with the Army

1042
00:53:25,146 --> 00:53:28,186
Speaker 2: Navy game, So like that, that's a day I'll just remember,

1043
00:53:28,306 --> 00:53:31,826
Speaker 2: just sitting there and going, how cool is this? Like

1044
00:53:31,906 --> 00:53:35,146
Speaker 2: I'm here in the nineteen sixties history of Army Navy

1045
00:53:35,466 --> 00:53:38,466
Speaker 2: from arguably the greatest football coach of my lifetime, and

1046
00:53:38,586 --> 00:53:42,106
Speaker 2: I'm getting football education that I will never ever ever lose.

1047
00:53:42,506 --> 00:53:45,546
Speaker 2: Because Melissa Stark asked about what's your favorite Thanksgiving side?

1048
00:53:46,386 --> 00:53:50,026
Speaker 2: And that's why those meetings are so informative. You hats

1049
00:53:50,066 --> 00:53:52,786
Speaker 2: so fun and you build bonds with people along the years.

1050
00:53:53,146 --> 00:53:55,066
Speaker 2: So you come in and you start talking about all

1051
00:53:55,106 --> 00:53:57,586
Speaker 2: this random stuff and it's all part of the community

1052
00:53:57,626 --> 00:54:01,066
Speaker 2: that you know, you live and you love. When we

1053
00:54:01,146 --> 00:54:03,586
Speaker 2: go to the owner's meetings or the Super Bowl and

1054
00:54:03,666 --> 00:54:07,306
Speaker 2: that whole community is in one room, it's really pinch

1055
00:54:07,386 --> 00:54:11,226
Speaker 2: yourself that you are a part of this cool, cool,

1056
00:54:11,306 --> 00:54:12,026
Speaker 2: cool fraternity.

1057
00:54:12,426 --> 00:54:14,546
Speaker 1: It's really special. I know you've got a relationship with

1058
00:54:14,706 --> 00:54:17,066
Speaker 1: Brady as well. He's in his first year obviously, he

1059
00:54:17,106 --> 00:54:19,586
Speaker 1: and Kevin are the team and the Fox guys have

1060
00:54:19,746 --> 00:54:22,986
Speaker 1: them locked and loaded. Have you passed any notes along

1061
00:54:23,026 --> 00:54:24,946
Speaker 1: to Tom? Have you exchanged any notes with Tom? I

1062
00:54:25,026 --> 00:54:27,586
Speaker 1: know how much he values his friendship with you, Tom.

1063
00:54:27,866 --> 00:54:31,666
Speaker 2: Tom. Tom's great, Tom. I've reached out. Look. I live

1064
00:54:31,706 --> 00:54:35,346
Speaker 2: in an Arbert's Michigan, so Brady's connection with Michigan has

1065
00:54:35,346 --> 00:54:39,186
Speaker 2: always been cool. And we had stories about Lloyd Carr

1066
00:54:39,346 --> 00:54:41,666
Speaker 2: over the years. Whenever I'd have Tom for a production meeting,

1067
00:54:41,986 --> 00:54:44,146
Speaker 2: if I saw Coach Carr, who was his coach at Michigan,

1068
00:54:44,466 --> 00:54:46,786
Speaker 2: we'd share stories about that because Coach Carr had been

1069
00:54:46,826 --> 00:54:49,946
Speaker 2: in the area and his grandkids know my kids and

1070
00:54:49,946 --> 00:54:51,986
Speaker 2: all that stuff, and we've gotten to know them. So

1071
00:54:52,546 --> 00:54:54,906
Speaker 2: that's always been a common connection and built a bond

1072
00:54:54,986 --> 00:54:58,786
Speaker 2: there over the years. But you know, Tom was great Tom.

1073
00:54:59,186 --> 00:55:01,346
Speaker 2: I shared here's what I do for a game, Tom,

1074
00:55:02,146 --> 00:55:04,986
Speaker 2: anything you need, because Tom had been so helpful to

1075
00:55:05,146 --> 00:55:07,586
Speaker 2: me and to any who did this job all of

1076
00:55:07,626 --> 00:55:09,946
Speaker 2: his years in the NFL. When you didn't get a

1077
00:55:10,106 --> 00:55:12,146
Speaker 2: ton of information out of New England. Tom was great

1078
00:55:12,146 --> 00:55:15,066
Speaker 2: in production meetings and really helped you do your job.

1079
00:55:15,146 --> 00:55:16,706
Speaker 2: So I always felt the least I could do for

1080
00:55:16,746 --> 00:55:19,626
Speaker 2: anybody who comes along after, especially if they helped us.

1081
00:55:20,026 --> 00:55:21,866
Speaker 2: Could I be an olive branch? Is there anything I

1082
00:55:21,946 --> 00:55:24,866
Speaker 2: can help you with? Answer a question from the side

1083
00:55:24,906 --> 00:55:27,266
Speaker 2: that I do this on and Tom. I shared a

1084
00:55:27,306 --> 00:55:29,186
Speaker 2: couple of things with Tom. Not much. He's done his

1085
00:55:29,306 --> 00:55:33,866
Speaker 2: own thing. He figured out from typical Tom Brady or

1086
00:55:33,986 --> 00:55:37,106
Speaker 2: outwork and everybody getting the most information how to go

1087
00:55:37,226 --> 00:55:40,186
Speaker 2: about it. And he'll go about it and probably adjust

1088
00:55:40,266 --> 00:55:41,866
Speaker 2: it as he goes through this year and on into

1089
00:55:41,946 --> 00:55:44,146
Speaker 2: next year. But I've trained to test with him a

1090
00:55:44,146 --> 00:55:46,706
Speaker 2: fut times. I've enjoyed listening to him, I really have.

1091
00:55:46,906 --> 00:55:49,706
Speaker 2: I've enjoyed listening to his view on things. I love

1092
00:55:49,786 --> 00:55:53,106
Speaker 2: his grades of throws right away because if Tom Brady

1093
00:55:53,106 --> 00:55:54,746
Speaker 2: says it to Nay plus star, it's an A plus throw.

1094
00:55:55,266 --> 00:55:57,506
Speaker 1: You're not gonna question it, not at all.

1095
00:55:57,626 --> 00:56:01,546
Speaker 2: So I've enjoyed that. And you know, one thing that

1096
00:56:01,626 --> 00:56:06,106
Speaker 2: happens with all of us, we'll get in these weird sequences.

1097
00:56:06,626 --> 00:56:09,106
Speaker 2: I'll go three weeks in a row where I follow

1098
00:56:09,666 --> 00:56:11,586
Speaker 2: I an Eagle and Charles Davis for Chris, and I

1099
00:56:11,626 --> 00:56:15,706
Speaker 2: will file watching your game so far right for the

1100
00:56:15,746 --> 00:56:17,586
Speaker 2: people wh don't know, like Monday and Tuesday One of

1101
00:56:17,626 --> 00:56:20,266
Speaker 2: the first things we do is go back and watch

1102
00:56:20,386 --> 00:56:22,826
Speaker 2: the entire game broadcast from the last week. At least

1103
00:56:22,826 --> 00:56:25,586
Speaker 2: that I do, just because you want to hear themes,

1104
00:56:25,786 --> 00:56:28,586
Speaker 2: you want to watch the game storylines. You don't want

1105
00:56:28,626 --> 00:56:31,386
Speaker 2: to repeat the same attecdote because you know the fan

1106
00:56:31,466 --> 00:56:34,546
Speaker 2: who's watching the Panthers every week. Okay, dude, I've heard

1107
00:56:34,626 --> 00:56:36,146
Speaker 2: this three times in a row. I don't need to

1108
00:56:36,186 --> 00:56:38,986
Speaker 2: hear it again. So if you do repeat it, say hey,

1109
00:56:39,186 --> 00:56:40,826
Speaker 2: a lot of you are familiar with the story of

1110
00:56:41,586 --> 00:56:44,386
Speaker 2: for those who are, and just to acknowledge the fact that, Okay,

1111
00:56:44,426 --> 00:56:46,946
Speaker 2: here's the story, I'm gonna tell it again. So for

1112
00:56:47,026 --> 00:56:48,906
Speaker 2: whatever reason, I think we have three weeks in a

1113
00:56:48,986 --> 00:56:52,146
Speaker 2: row where we followed Kevin and Tom with our game

1114
00:56:52,226 --> 00:56:54,026
Speaker 2: the following week, and I got to listen every weekend.

1115
00:56:54,066 --> 00:56:56,546
Speaker 2: This sent Tom a text and I so enjoyed listening

1116
00:56:56,586 --> 00:56:58,426
Speaker 2: to him called the Minnesota Green Bay game because we

1117
00:56:58,466 --> 00:57:02,466
Speaker 2: had Minnesota Detroit the next week. It's it's fun. Our

1118
00:57:02,506 --> 00:57:07,426
Speaker 2: business has become so criticized because tick up Twitter, I

1119
00:57:07,586 --> 00:57:09,906
Speaker 2: hate why did you say this? You said it was second,

1120
00:57:09,986 --> 00:57:13,066
Speaker 2: that was third. Yeah, that's right, that's fine. That's part

1121
00:57:13,506 --> 00:57:16,546
Speaker 2: of life. We get it. But what I do respect

1122
00:57:16,626 --> 00:57:18,346
Speaker 2: a lot, Peter, and you know it because you're around

1123
00:57:18,346 --> 00:57:19,706
Speaker 2: it and you're a nerd of it a little bit.

1124
00:57:20,226 --> 00:57:23,586
Speaker 2: I don't think our job has ever been done at

1125
00:57:23,626 --> 00:57:26,706
Speaker 2: a higher level by more people. Like every game you

1126
00:57:26,866 --> 00:57:29,706
Speaker 2: watch is really really well done. Like I learned stuff

1127
00:57:29,746 --> 00:57:33,026
Speaker 2: with Mark Sanchez and Adam Amin are doing a game.

1128
00:57:33,466 --> 00:57:34,986
Speaker 2: You know, like, oh man, that's really good. I never

1129
00:57:35,066 --> 00:57:37,506
Speaker 2: thought of that. And we're all constantly listening to each

1130
00:57:37,546 --> 00:57:40,066
Speaker 2: other and rooting for each other. It's the fun part

1131
00:57:40,146 --> 00:57:42,426
Speaker 2: of doing this that I never imagined would be the case,

1132
00:57:42,506 --> 00:57:45,266
Speaker 2: and maybe wasn't the case twenty five thirty years ago.

1133
00:57:45,426 --> 00:57:47,826
Speaker 2: But whether it's we've all come up through the same

1134
00:57:48,986 --> 00:57:51,746
Speaker 2: series of places, or we've interacted, or there are more

1135
00:57:51,826 --> 00:57:55,586
Speaker 2: jobs than ever doing this, I love. I love the

1136
00:57:55,706 --> 00:57:59,426
Speaker 2: fraternity of play by play analyst reporters that we all are.

1137
00:58:00,066 --> 00:58:04,426
Speaker 2: And you know, you've become friends with people like Charles Davis,

1138
00:58:04,546 --> 00:58:06,786
Speaker 2: like Laura Oakman, I and Eagle and I know each

1139
00:58:06,786 --> 00:58:09,546
Speaker 2: other for thirty five years. So that's what this joy is.

1140
00:58:09,626 --> 00:58:13,746
Speaker 2: And the fact that nobody has any property like the NFL,

1141
00:58:14,386 --> 00:58:18,346
Speaker 2: the people watching these numbers. You just am very appreciative

1142
00:58:18,346 --> 00:58:19,586
Speaker 2: of what you do and that you get a chance

1143
00:58:19,626 --> 00:58:20,746
Speaker 2: to do it on a regular basis.

1144
00:58:20,986 --> 00:58:23,266
Speaker 1: There's a cool parallel. I talked to Cliff Kingsbury, the

1145
00:58:23,306 --> 00:58:25,826
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator of the Commanders, this week, and I said,

1146
00:58:26,306 --> 00:58:29,626
Speaker 1: third and five, you're throwing the ball to John Bates

1147
00:58:29,666 --> 00:58:32,066
Speaker 1: with the season on the line, he goes, he goes.

1148
00:58:32,746 --> 00:58:36,866
Speaker 1: McVeigh called that same play with Jordan Whittington earlier this

1149
00:58:37,026 --> 00:58:39,386
Speaker 1: season when they played the Cardinals. It's a full back

1150
00:58:39,466 --> 00:58:41,586
Speaker 1: corner route and I saw it and I said, oh gosh,

1151
00:58:41,626 --> 00:58:44,026
Speaker 1: you put the full back in there and then you

1152
00:58:44,106 --> 00:58:45,786
Speaker 1: have him run a corner. He's like, He's like, and

1153
00:58:45,906 --> 00:58:47,866
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're okay with me saying that on air.

1154
00:58:47,946 --> 00:58:49,986
Speaker 1: He's like, dude, it was a great play call.

1155
00:58:50,066 --> 00:58:50,506
Speaker 2: We used it.

1156
00:58:50,586 --> 00:58:53,066
Speaker 1: It was, of course, But that's the same thing with us.

1157
00:58:53,146 --> 00:58:57,906
Speaker 1: It's like if Dan Orlowsky or Kevin Clark or Ryan

1158
00:58:58,066 --> 00:59:00,826
Speaker 1: Clark makes a good comment, like I'm not so insecure

1159
00:59:00,866 --> 00:59:02,746
Speaker 1: to not say, oh no, I'm gonna take this from

1160
00:59:02,786 --> 00:59:04,426
Speaker 1: that comment because that was a really good point.

1161
00:59:04,946 --> 00:59:07,026
Speaker 2: And give the person credit who's says it when they

1162
00:59:07,106 --> 00:59:10,106
Speaker 2: say it, and do what they do. Look, people aren't

1163
00:59:10,106 --> 00:59:12,666
Speaker 2: sitting there with a scorecard they're sitting there enjoying it.

1164
00:59:12,746 --> 00:59:16,746
Speaker 2: I always remind young broadcasters what we do, and Gruden

1165
00:59:16,786 --> 00:59:19,426
Speaker 2: helped me understand this a lot. What we do is entertainment,

1166
00:59:19,466 --> 00:59:21,506
Speaker 2: and lead courso too when I got to work with

1167
00:59:21,546 --> 00:59:23,666
Speaker 2: the lead back in the nineties. What we do is entertainment.

1168
00:59:24,226 --> 00:59:27,786
Speaker 2: It is very important business. It is your team, it's

1169
00:59:27,866 --> 00:59:34,826
Speaker 2: your fantasy team, it's your daily wager, right, it's your parlay.

1170
00:59:34,906 --> 00:59:36,826
Speaker 2: Trying to make sure that your running back gets ten

1171
00:59:36,906 --> 00:59:40,266
Speaker 2: yards in each quarter. Whatever it is. You are being

1172
00:59:40,346 --> 00:59:43,146
Speaker 2: at some level entertained. And we're responsible for some of

1173
00:59:43,186 --> 00:59:45,426
Speaker 2: that entertainment. So we got to do that on a

1174
00:59:45,466 --> 00:59:48,746
Speaker 2: regular basis. And to understand that that we are all

1175
00:59:49,346 --> 00:59:51,426
Speaker 2: collectively doing this is pretty fun.

1176
01:00:00,666 --> 01:00:04,106
Speaker 1: Okay, my last question to you, because Gus, it's two pieces.

1177
01:00:04,506 --> 01:00:06,786
Speaker 1: It goes back to your years at the Worldwide Leader.

1178
01:00:06,826 --> 01:00:08,946
Speaker 1: But I think of icons, I think of people that

1179
01:00:09,026 --> 01:00:12,306
Speaker 1: you've worked with. Give me your best John Gruden's story.

1180
01:00:12,706 --> 01:00:17,506
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Okay, sure it. It may not be

1181
01:00:17,586 --> 01:00:20,226
Speaker 2: the best, but it's my favorite. It's when we go

1182
01:00:20,306 --> 01:00:25,426
Speaker 2: to Philadelphia and the Eagles are not practicing on Saturday

1183
01:00:25,466 --> 01:00:27,586
Speaker 2: for a Monday night game, Friday for a Sunday game.

1184
01:00:28,186 --> 01:00:31,666
Speaker 2: But they're doing like this spa day is quote unquote right.

1185
01:00:31,706 --> 01:00:34,946
Speaker 2: It's like massage, get your body right, and then be outside.

1186
01:00:35,106 --> 01:00:37,906
Speaker 2: And now Chip Kelly's come in and now they have

1187
01:00:38,466 --> 01:00:42,066
Speaker 2: these protein shakes. So every day somebody gets a shake,

1188
01:00:42,146 --> 01:00:44,986
Speaker 2: and it's based on what your body needs. So the

1189
01:00:45,066 --> 01:00:47,946
Speaker 2: Schrager shake may be different in week eight than it

1190
01:00:48,066 --> 01:00:50,626
Speaker 2: wasn't week fourteen because you've had a cold, you had

1191
01:00:50,666 --> 01:00:53,826
Speaker 2: an injury, there's something right. So this constant analysis is

1192
01:00:53,866 --> 01:00:55,586
Speaker 2: telling you this is what you need, so you get

1193
01:00:55,866 --> 01:00:59,266
Speaker 2: somebody's making shakes. So Gruden goes, hey, can we get

1194
01:00:59,306 --> 01:01:01,586
Speaker 2: a blender? Can we get a blender in the booth?

1195
01:01:02,106 --> 01:01:04,826
Speaker 2: I'm like, it's very similar to the feeling I had

1196
01:01:04,866 --> 01:01:07,066
Speaker 2: when I was sitting on the set with Marfa Stewart

1197
01:01:07,106 --> 01:01:09,746
Speaker 2: and Snoop dogging what the hell I'm doing? I'm just

1198
01:01:09,866 --> 01:01:12,426
Speaker 2: want called third and five, And like, now my man's

1199
01:01:12,466 --> 01:01:14,906
Speaker 2: bringing a blender to the booth. And it's a meme

1200
01:01:14,986 --> 01:01:16,666
Speaker 2: that shows up every once in a while out there.

1201
01:01:16,946 --> 01:01:19,106
Speaker 2: We're in the booth, we're in Philly and John the

1202
01:01:19,186 --> 01:01:22,066
Speaker 2: Eagles go up like by seventeen points and John goes, hey,

1203
01:01:22,106 --> 01:01:24,786
Speaker 2: we should did a blender bit now and it was

1204
01:01:24,906 --> 01:01:27,186
Speaker 2: still it was telling a story, but it was in

1205
01:01:27,226 --> 01:01:30,066
Speaker 2: an entertaining way. And so John brings the blenderings thrown

1206
01:01:30,146 --> 01:01:33,426
Speaker 2: bananas and strawberries in this blender. He's just being the

1207
01:01:33,506 --> 01:01:38,146
Speaker 2: mad scientist. And it just reminded me that every great

1208
01:01:38,186 --> 01:01:41,946
Speaker 2: coach and a teacher. Yep. And that was just John's

1209
01:01:42,026 --> 01:01:45,346
Speaker 2: way of giving you an unforgettable moment to say, you

1210
01:01:45,426 --> 01:01:47,706
Speaker 2: know what, this coach is doing something very different. I

1211
01:01:47,706 --> 01:01:50,026
Speaker 2: could have done the story. Hey, no, John, Each guy

1212
01:01:50,066 --> 01:01:52,546
Speaker 2: gets his own protein shake on Saturday, and they're just

1213
01:01:52,626 --> 01:01:55,546
Speaker 2: trying to make sure that they're chemically balanced properly, and

1214
01:01:55,626 --> 01:01:58,546
Speaker 2: blah blah blah sports science and no, but he did

1215
01:01:58,626 --> 01:02:00,546
Speaker 2: it with a blender, and it's still in my head

1216
01:02:01,026 --> 01:02:04,066
Speaker 2: fourteen years later. Whatever the heck it is, that to

1217
01:02:04,226 --> 01:02:06,666
Speaker 2: me was one of a thousand examples of John being

1218
01:02:06,906 --> 01:02:08,786
Speaker 2: as good a teacher as I've ever been around.

1219
01:02:09,386 --> 01:02:11,906
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you one more, and I'm gonna preface

1220
01:02:11,986 --> 01:02:14,466
Speaker 1: it with my story, which is so limited. I've never

1221
01:02:14,546 --> 01:02:18,426
Speaker 1: worked with this guy. I'm in the Arizona Airport, delayed

1222
01:02:18,586 --> 01:02:21,546
Speaker 1: for a flight Monday morning after the Super Bowl, after

1223
01:02:22,186 --> 01:02:26,226
Speaker 1: the Patriots beat the Seahawks on the Malcolm Butler play, yeah, okay.

1224
01:02:26,786 --> 01:02:30,226
Speaker 1: Delayed flight back to LaGuardia delayed four hours. Sitting at

1225
01:02:30,266 --> 01:02:33,506
Speaker 1: the gate, No fancy lounge, I'm sitting there. I'm a nobody.

1226
01:02:33,546 --> 01:02:37,506
Speaker 1: No one cares. This larger than life presence wearing a

1227
01:02:37,666 --> 01:02:40,386
Speaker 1: giant what I would describe as a sun hat or

1228
01:02:40,426 --> 01:02:45,426
Speaker 1: a sombrero, comes rumbling down oh Way with people asking

1229
01:02:45,466 --> 01:02:48,826
Speaker 1: for photos and autographs, and then he leans this huge

1230
01:02:48,946 --> 01:02:53,026
Speaker 1: six foot five, two hundred something pound body, leans right

1231
01:02:53,066 --> 01:02:56,026
Speaker 1: into my shoulder and just says, you got the modern

1232
01:02:56,146 --> 01:03:01,106
Speaker 1: day Earl Campbell in the backfield and you're throwing the ball.

1233
01:03:01,386 --> 01:03:02,026
Speaker 2: To lock it.

1234
01:03:04,906 --> 01:03:09,066
Speaker 1: What it was and it was Chris Berman over my shoulder.

1235
01:03:10,266 --> 01:03:15,026
Speaker 1: And I'm like that, and give me your best Chris

1236
01:03:15,146 --> 01:03:15,986
Speaker 1: Berman story.

1237
01:03:16,066 --> 01:03:21,386
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's good. There are so many. First off,

1238
01:03:21,866 --> 01:03:26,626
Speaker 2: my favorite one was he's doing West Coast Baseball Wednesday

1239
01:03:26,706 --> 01:03:29,986
Speaker 2: nights on ESPN when ESPND double headers on Wednesday Friday

1240
01:03:29,986 --> 01:03:32,546
Speaker 2: and then Sunday Night baseball, and I'm breaking in doing

1241
01:03:32,586 --> 01:03:36,986
Speaker 2: sports Eights nineteen ninety one, probably August maybe, and the

1242
01:03:37,186 --> 01:03:41,426
Speaker 2: Mariners bullpen was stunningly bad on Wednesday nights in ninety

1243
01:03:41,506 --> 01:03:43,626
Speaker 2: one and ninety two. I can't tell you how many

1244
01:03:43,986 --> 01:03:46,306
Speaker 2: nights we sat on the set and the Mariners gave

1245
01:03:46,386 --> 01:03:48,506
Speaker 2: up three in the eighth and five four in the

1246
01:03:48,586 --> 01:03:51,026
Speaker 2: ninth to send it to X gratings two eight in

1247
01:03:51,066 --> 01:03:54,426
Speaker 2: the morning. Right, So I'm sitting on the set and

1248
01:03:54,826 --> 01:03:57,106
Speaker 2: after those double headers, it wasn't at eleven o'clock or two.

1249
01:03:57,146 --> 01:03:58,906
Speaker 2: A sports at the time you do one show at

1250
01:03:58,906 --> 01:04:01,026
Speaker 2: one thirty, and so sometimes it we won from the

1251
01:04:01,066 --> 01:04:03,826
Speaker 2: eleven one from the two. So I did that show

1252
01:04:03,866 --> 01:04:07,506
Speaker 2: with Bob Lee. That's the middle of summer. Everybody off, Yeah,

1253
01:04:07,986 --> 01:04:09,706
Speaker 2: and I was like, maybe the first or second JO

1254
01:04:09,746 --> 01:04:12,346
Speaker 2: I'm doing with Bob and Boomer's out there doing the game.

1255
01:04:12,386 --> 01:04:14,986
Speaker 2: May have been with Jerry Royce made his House and

1256
01:04:15,066 --> 01:04:20,306
Speaker 2: Bob was Sports's next Bob Lee. Mike Turrico, Mike, welcome, Bob,

1257
01:04:20,706 --> 01:04:26,146
Speaker 2: you're breaking in another one. Here, here's the next one.

1258
01:04:26,226 --> 01:04:28,466
Speaker 2: Here's the next one. So then fast forward a few

1259
01:04:28,546 --> 01:04:31,106
Speaker 2: years later in the studio with Chris and doing a show,

1260
01:04:31,146 --> 01:04:33,986
Speaker 2: and I got to work as like the second host,

1261
01:04:34,066 --> 01:04:38,106
Speaker 2: the sub host on NFL Countdown, I think it was

1262
01:04:38,226 --> 01:04:42,146
Speaker 2: back then whatever the shows were called. His nickname is

1263
01:04:42,186 --> 01:04:45,906
Speaker 2: Boomer for a reason. He's the loudest individual ever, he's

1264
01:04:46,066 --> 01:04:49,146
Speaker 2: so loud in such a presence, but it was like

1265
01:04:49,226 --> 01:04:52,306
Speaker 2: walking around with when we travel together, it was like

1266
01:04:52,386 --> 01:04:55,506
Speaker 2: being with Elvis. There's a true story about Bill's Super

1267
01:04:55,546 --> 01:04:58,626
Speaker 2: Bowl at the Rosewawn, Pasadena. We did the pregame show

1268
01:04:59,146 --> 01:05:01,306
Speaker 2: and then we're going out. We're in a car. Russell

1269
01:05:01,386 --> 01:05:05,746
Speaker 2: Baxter was our research guy, Tom Jackson, Boomer, myself. I

1270
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Speaker 2: think maybe that may be the whole car. Maybe one

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Speaker 2: other person get a flat on the side of the highway.

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Speaker 2: And there we are on the side of the road

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Speaker 2: with Boomer and Tom Jackson. We're waiting for somebody to

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Speaker 2: fix the fly here right with Chris Berman and Boomer. Well,

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Speaker 2: the way it happens with the Bills gotta circle the wagons, right,

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01:05:26,826 --> 01:05:29,346
Speaker 2: we got the flat fis We got there. The Cowboys

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Speaker 2: had an incredible late second quarter. Boomer was disconsolate. He

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Speaker 2: just wanted to see the Bills win once. So sure,

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Speaker 2: maybe this will be Maybe this will be the year

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Speaker 2: that the Bills win.

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Speaker 1: Maybeeah, maybe it is. And we'll think of Boomer and

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Speaker 1: we'll think of all the different times he predicted the

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Speaker 1: Bills and the forty nine ers in a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: It might not be there it'll be so, he says,

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Speaker 2: for the tenth year, it'll be the Niners and the

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Speaker 2: Bills in the Super Bowl. You can count on it.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful, Mike Tarico, we went way over the time I

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Speaker 1: asked you to give us. That was awesome.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so, like our regular text exchanges, they want

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Speaker 2: to see the Super Bowl power somewhere down the line

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Speaker 2: here and thanks for all the MFB mornings. You you

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Speaker 2: and that team just just crush it. And like the

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Speaker 2: thing you did on Tuesday in the vein of Mark Andrews,

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Speaker 2: of the guys who had great careers at playoff moments,

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Speaker 2: that was like, that's like vintage Schrager. That's somefing appreciating

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Speaker 2: that like people don't do right now. I'm like Trey Junkin,

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Speaker 2: I forgot about that and it was just really cool.

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Speaker 2: The history of football is so great and you do.

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Speaker 1: My God, there's a place for it. And I say

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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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01:06:40,946 --> 01:06:43,426
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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01:06:49,266 --> 01:06:51,106
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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01:07:01,746 --> 01:07:05,146
Speaker 2: like those things, those things last with me forever and

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01:07:05,186 --> 01:07:09,066
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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01:07:11,786 --> 01:07:13,746
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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01:08:00,306 --> 01:08:03,746
Speaker 1: really fun Saturday night NFL Network games down the Stretchman

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01:08:04,106 --> 01:08:05,986
Speaker 1: we used to work together. Those games have now been

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01:08:06,626 --> 01:08:10,306
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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01:08:14,986 --> 01:08:17,426
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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01:08:24,426 --> 01:08:26,586
Speaker 1: it's there's a reason they have so much success, and

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01:08:26,666 --> 01:08:28,346
Speaker 1: it's not just the skill and the work, but also

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01:08:29,106 --> 01:08:31,026
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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01:08:47,306 --> 01:08:49,986
Speaker 1: His season's done, but ours is still going, and so

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01:08:50,306 --> 01:08:54,186
Speaker 1: is our folks who work at Uber Eats because we're

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Speaker 1: represented by Uber Eats, and it is time for delivering

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Speaker 1: results presented by those fine, fine individuals. I'm gonna discuss

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01:09:00,786 --> 01:09:04,426
Speaker 1: a team or player that delivered from this past week's games,

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01:09:04,666 --> 01:09:08,626
Speaker 1: and I have nowhere else to go than to Dan Quinn,

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01:09:08,826 --> 01:09:12,826
Speaker 1: the head coach of the Washington Commanders. He delivered. This

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01:09:13,146 --> 01:09:15,226
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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01:09:18,586 --> 01:09:21,626
Speaker 1: the home field team and the heavy favorites nearly double digits.

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01:09:21,746 --> 01:09:25,466
Speaker 1: And incomes a Washington Commander's team that had four wins

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01:09:25,586 --> 01:09:28,106
Speaker 1: last year, and they go in there and they upset

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01:09:28,186 --> 01:09:32,026
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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01:09:34,466 --> 01:09:37,786
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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01:09:49,186 --> 01:09:53,106
Speaker 1: for the third time. They play Philadelphia in what will

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01:09:53,146 --> 01:09:56,546
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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01:10:16,546 --> 01:10:21,266
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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01:10:30,706 --> 01:10:34,306
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