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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Dave

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Speaker 1: Pash Podcast. I'm Dave Pash, voice of the Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 1: and ESPN play by play broadcaster. We are sponsored by

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Speaker 1: bet MGM, the official sports betting partner of the Arizona

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Speaker 1: Cardinals and Hila River Hotels and Casinos. Man, what a

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Speaker 1: win on Sunday. First of all, it was phenomenal just

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Speaker 1: take for granted again being in a stadium live after

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Speaker 1: calling the Cardinal games last year off of a monitor

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Speaker 1: because of the COVID nineteen pandemic. And how about the dominance.

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Speaker 1: A complete game, not a perfect game, but a complete game.

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Speaker 1: And if Kyler Murray plays like that, I've said this

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Speaker 1: all along, the sky's the limit. He's that good. The

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Speaker 1: Cardinals can be a championship team if Kyler Murray continues

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Speaker 1: to play like that. Now, he's not going to account

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Speaker 1: for five touchdowns every week. But it wasn't just what

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Speaker 1: he did on the field. It was his leadership. It

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Speaker 1: was the intensity that we saw several times with him

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Speaker 1: Clearly the Cardinals have surrounded Kyler with weapons on offense,

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Speaker 1: and I believe that Rodney Hudson might beat their best

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Speaker 1: offensive weapon. You watched the tape. They didn't even get

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Speaker 1: into the backfield against Rodney Hudson, in my opinion, the

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Speaker 1: best center in the National Football League Chandler Jones. Is

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Speaker 1: there anything else that really needs to be said? Five

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Speaker 1: sacks at a game, three in the first half. He

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Speaker 1: completely controlled the game, and I'm really encouraged with what

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Speaker 1: I saw from Isaiah Simmons played a great first game

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Speaker 1: and the young corners looked like vets in particular Marco Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Lock it up, Julio Jones. This week it's the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: You went from Derrick Henry, the leading rusher in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League each of the last two years, to

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Speaker 1: the second leading rusher in twenty twenty, Dalvin Cook, who

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Speaker 1: had a big fumble in Week one that led to

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Speaker 1: a loss against the Bengals at overtime. Let's see if

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals can go too. And oh and it would

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Speaker 1: be great to have the red seed back at State

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Speaker 1: Farm Stadium. As for our guest today, it is Scott Hansen,

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Speaker 1: host of NFL Red Zone, and he also is a

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Speaker 1: multidimensional broadcaster for NFL Network. He joined the network in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and six, and since two thousand and nine,

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Speaker 1: he's hosted every single episode of NFL Red Zone. That's

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Speaker 1: well more than two hundred episodes, and he goes all

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Speaker 1: day long without a bathroom break. Maybe the most impressive

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Speaker 1: part of Scott's job. We'll ask him about that and

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Speaker 1: much more on the Dave Pash Podcast. Scott, you've been

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Speaker 1: doing this for a long time. I was reading up

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Speaker 1: and I didn't realize that NFL Red Zone debut in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, you've been doing over two hundred episodes.

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Speaker 1: That means that's two hundred Sundays that you don't go

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Speaker 1: to the bathroom at all. That's pretty impressive. Man. We're

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Speaker 1: starting with the bladder integrity portion of my career. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you know what day it is the thing, for better

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Speaker 1: or for worse, that I have become known for. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to say famous or infamous. People can make

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Speaker 1: their own determination there, but everyone thinks they're the first

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Speaker 1: think it's because everyone can relate to it. People sit

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Speaker 1: home and they watch an NFL Red Zone for seven hours,

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Speaker 1: nature calls that they get up, and they don't want

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, when does Hampson go to the bathroom?

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Speaker 1: And yeah, the answer is I don't. And thankfully the

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Speaker 1: of NFL Red Zone. Well, I want to get back

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Speaker 1: into broadcasting and your job. But since we're on the subject,

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Speaker 1: because first of all, I don't know how you do

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Speaker 1: it as somebody. I know you're one year older than me,

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Speaker 1: But I can't go sometimes seven minutes without going to

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Speaker 1: do you not drink coffee or anything? You have like

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Speaker 1: about managing, you know, without getting too descriptive. Input equals output,

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Speaker 1: so the coffee issue isn't isn't there for me? But

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Speaker 1: I cut off all my liquids about what would it be.

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Speaker 1: seven seven am would be the only time I would

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Speaker 1: it's the willpower of a ninja after that straight hours, Man,

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Speaker 1: You're making it seven Bro's. That's impressive, all right. Another

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Speaker 1: to get the best out of their voice, they need

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Speaker 1: I don't know if there was any specific that you did. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't you have a fantastic voice. I've always been

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Speaker 1: You're the type of broadcaster who I say, the really

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Speaker 1: My dad had a great voice, and I inherited that

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Speaker 1: no other announcers by for bladder considerations. If you really

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Speaker 1: standing by at NFL Films Headquarters. Now I broadcast out

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Speaker 1: of NFL Network or NFL Los Angeles they call it

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Speaker 1: Stadium where the Rams and Chargers play, So that's where

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Speaker 1: Jersey suburban New Jersey outside of Philadelphia is where NFL

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Speaker 1: We'll find at whatever. The buccanteers are on a drive

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Speaker 1: Let's let's get serious here, because I do want to

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Speaker 1: Burrow in the second year, and it was at Cincinnati.

429
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Speaker 1: But but you lose to the Bengals, and the Packers

430
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: are still probably the team to beat in that division,

431
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: even though everybody, everybody's all and one in the NFC North.

432
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Speaker 1: As you and I talk right now, UM, I don't.

433
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Speaker 1: I don't think they're a contender in the NFC. But

434
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Speaker 1: prior to yesterday, would have said, yeah, I think they

435
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Speaker 1: could be. I think they could be a playoff team,

436
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 1: but a contender to win the NFC. I'm not sure

437
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 1: on the Cousins angle of that. I would describe it

438
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 1: this way. I'm not so sure you will win because

439
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,160
Speaker 1: of Kirk Cousins, but you can win with Kirk Cousins.

440
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Speaker 1: Does that makes sense? Fair? That's fair. He's not a

441
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 1: he's not a Mahomesian talent or even a Kyler Murray

442
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 1: could put a team on his back. Um, and he can't.

443
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 1: He can't win games like where it's like, well, the

444
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: reason we won the game was Kirk Cousins. He that

445
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Speaker 1: could be individually. I don't think that's sustainable over whole season.

446
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 1: I don't think you will see that out of Kirk Cousins,

447
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: but I think you can win with him. You don't.

448
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 1: They aren't losing games because of Kirk Cousins, like exclusively,

449
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 1: Like oh, if they had a better quarterback, everything else.

450
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: The infrastructure is there to be a contender in the NFC.

451
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 1: So I think they've got they've got other issues. And man,

452
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 1: they just shot themselves in the foot and whatnot. You

453
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 1: better hope you get that version of the Vikings because

454
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: they were Yeah, they were sloppy. They were sloppy, and

455
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 1: they still could have won the game. It was an overtime,

456
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: lass they still could have won the game. I would

457
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Speaker 1: say this, Kyler d hop the rest of the receivers

458
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 1: they ought to be licking their chops because the Vikings

459
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 1: defense did not look as good as what a lot

460
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Speaker 1: of people have projected going into the season. They can

461
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Speaker 1: be had in medium to deep passing pass patterns. They

462
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 1: can be had in that area, and we've seen the

463
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Speaker 1: Cardinals be able to exploit teams that don't have that

464
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Speaker 1: strength in the back half. So you already took us

465
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Speaker 1: through a Sunday in the life of Scott Hansen. I'm curious, Scottie,

466
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Speaker 1: what did you think when the opportunity was first presented

467
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Speaker 1: to you. Do you remember how it went down when

468
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 1: somebody came to you and said, Hey, we want you

469
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Speaker 1: to host this thing called NFL Red Zone, where we're

470
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Speaker 1: going to take viewers from game to game so they

471
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Speaker 1: can see the best moments of a game and do

472
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Speaker 1: it for seven straight hours on a Sunday because it's

473
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Speaker 1: become a national phenomenon for football fans. Yeah, oh, I

474
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Speaker 1: remember it. Like I said, we're in season thirteen, but

475
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Speaker 1: I still distinctly remember that time in my life and

476
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Speaker 1: my career. And to be accurate about it, they didn't

477
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Speaker 1: come to me at first. I went to them. I

478
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: had heard a rumor in the summer of two thousand

479
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 1: and nine, just office scuttle butt. I was already working

480
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Speaker 1: for NFL Network as a roving reporter, so they knew

481
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Speaker 1: about me and I knew about them, and I had

482
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 1: heard that, Hey, you know, we're gonna start this channel up.

483
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Speaker 1: That's going to be every touch down from every game,

484
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 1: no commercials, both the early window in the late window,

485
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 1: so seven hours, right, And I'm like thinking, are you

486
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Speaker 1: kidding me? Now? I'll add this as an aside, our friend,

487
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: our mutual friend and fellow Syracuse orangeman Andrews Siciliano. I

488
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 1: don't know if you have Andrew or you'll ever have

489
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 1: him on the podcast, but we both know him and

490
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,439
Speaker 1: respect him as a broadcaster so much. He had been

491
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Speaker 1: doing what's called the Red Zone Channel over on Direct TV.

492
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Speaker 1: Some people, I'm sure that are listening are familiar with this,

493
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: but some people are always like, what, there's two of them?

494
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: What there's the Red Zone Channel. Very similar concept but

495
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: a different production, different studio, different hosts, different different execution,

496
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: but a similar concept had been running on Direct TV,

497
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Speaker 1: exclusively on Direct TV, which it still is broadcast on today,

498
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: and so we borrowed some things from that when we

499
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 1: started NFL Red Zone. But when I heard about the concept,

500
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: I was like, this thing is going to be a

501
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 1: galactic hit if we could execute it the way that

502
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,360
Speaker 1: I think it can be executed. So I called them.

503
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: I called one of my bosses, the talent coordinator at

504
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: NFL Network, and said, who is this true? We're doing this?

505
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: He said yep. I said who you got to host it?

506
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 1: He's like, well, we're looking at some people. I said,

507
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: is my name on the list? He said, yeah, your

508
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: name is on the list. And he kind of he

509
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: kind of chuckled a little bit because he knew my enthusiasm, passion,

510
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: hopefully my knowledge of the game and thought it would

511
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: be a good fit. And we did. We did tryouts,

512
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:41,479
Speaker 1: we did auditions, and the average audition for television can

513
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: get or take. Usually it's like fifteen minutes. They put

514
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: you up on their set. You know, you're trying to

515
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: become the weekend sports guy in Denver, Colorado or whatever,

516
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: and they put you up on set, want to see

517
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 1: how you look, how you sound, can you do some

518
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: cross talk with the co hosts, and can you handle

519
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: a teleprompter or all these type of things. But because

520
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: stamina is part of the name of the game. For

521
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: Red Zone, the audition for NFL Red Zone was five

522
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: hours long, and again fifteen minutes for those who don't know,

523
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,679
Speaker 1: it's about the average. This thing was five hours. They

524
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: ran one whole set of three hours of games, and

525
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: then they started a second set of games and went

526
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: the halftime of those games. So it's five hours long.

527
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: I was flop sweating through my suit. What they did

528
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: it was in the middle of the summer, there were

529
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: no NFL games going on, so they took a random

530
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Speaker 1: week from the season before and queued up eight games

531
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Speaker 1: to the kickoff, pressed play on eight different machines at

532
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: the same time, and said, talk go. Basically, I'm like

533
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: trying to follow everything, trying to identify every player, trying

534
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: to do all this right without the benefit of a

535
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: computer handling like live scoring and everything else like that.

536
00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: And I was nervous. I thought, I either I either

537
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: got the hosting role because I put the best passion

538
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: and energy and excitement into it that I could. I said,

539
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: I either got the hosting role or I just set

540
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: back my broadcasting career by five years. And I embarrassed

541
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: myself with how I performed. But a couple of weeks later,

542
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: after all the auditions were done and they auditioned a

543
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: handful of would be hosts, the executive producer Eric Weinberger,

544
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: the executive producer at the time of NFL Network, called

545
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: me up and said, Hey, Scott, I want to offer

546
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: you the hosting role of NFL Red Zone. And I

547
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's great. You know, I'm I can't wait.

548
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 1: I'm going to tear the cover off the ball on

549
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: this thing and whatnot. I said, So, Eric, so you

550
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: watched the five hour audition, and he goes, Scott, I

551
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: watched the first fifteen minutes and I knew you were

552
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: my guy, and out loud I said, I said, oh, Eric,

553
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: that's great man. I appreciate it. But I remember thinking

554
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: in my mind, why in the you had me do

555
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: five hours and think that I was like fallen on

556
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: my face there. But all's well, that ends well, and

557
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: there's not a day that goes by where we don't

558
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: hear from fans that NFL red zone has changed the

559
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: way people watch football, which is very gratifying, very gratifying. Scott,

560
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: I remember when you were out of television. I think

561
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: there were two different stints. One early on you and

562
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: I were at Syracuse about the same time, and then

563
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: we reconnected about a year out of college when I

564
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: was working in Detroit and you are from the area.

565
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: So I think you got out of television to that

566
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Speaker 1: point and then got back in. And then I believe

567
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: the last time you were at our house you were

568
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Speaker 1: again out of television and doing full time mission work

569
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Speaker 1: for Mother Teresa. Is that correct? And then how did

570
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: that lead to getting back into television? Yeah, so you

571
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: might you might joke that my current boss is Roger Goodell.

572
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: One of my previous employers was mother Teresa. She was

573
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Speaker 1: alive here on this earth. Yeah. Boy, it's hard to encapsulate,

574
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: but let me let me try for a second. So

575
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: I grew up as a kid in Rochester, Michigan suburb

576
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: of Detroit, and football was everything to me. Football was

577
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,959
Speaker 1: just it, And I was convinced when I was eight

578
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: years old I was going to be an NFL football

579
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: player and that was it. That was what I was

580
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: gonna do. Right. Well, you know, you don't grow up

581
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: to be six five, two fifty running a four to

582
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: five forty, so those dreams start to diminish. Even though

583
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: I played football my whole life all the way through

584
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: college and I was I was a good high school player,

585
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: and I could have gone to like Division three college

586
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 1: probably and been a significant or contributing player, like at

587
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: a lower level. But when I knew I wasn't going

588
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: to the NFL, I decided, you know what, those guys

589
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: on TV sound like they're having a heck of a

590
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: fun time calling the game. Maybe I could do that.

591
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: So I researched. My dad and I are research schools,

592
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: and where could you get the best communications degree Syracuse University. Right,

593
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: all the great sportscasters, Bob cost Is, Dick Stockton, Marv

594
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: Albert len Berman, Marty Glickman back in the day, Mike Tarico,

595
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: Dave Bash, all the Iron Eagle, the great the great

596
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: broadcasters that we have seen in years passed and that

597
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: we enjoyed today. Got a Syracuse education set. So I'm

598
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: going there and did well in school, you know, graduated

599
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: with honors, walked on the football team, played there for

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Speaker 1: four years. And you're an offensive lineman, right, Scott, You're

601
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Speaker 1: an offensive lineman. Not exactly, Not exactly. I was a

602
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: long snapper, so regard I would line up, yeah, on

603
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Speaker 1: the line. You're an offensive line. Well know what I

604
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 1: ended up doing is the way I can describe my

605
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: college football career was this. Did you see the movie Rudy, Right,

606
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: everybody's seen Rudy. I was Rudy without the glorified sack

607
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: on my last game as a senior, being carried off

608
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: the field and under the shadow of the Golden dough.

609
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: I was a walk on. I was a walk on,

610
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: and I was I was a scrub to be honest

611
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: with you. I was a scout team player, a scrub

612
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: by the standards of Syracuse at the time was a

613
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: perennial top twenty five, you know, ten win team each year,

614
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: upper upper echelon at the time football program. But I

615
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: loved it. I ate it up because I love the game.

616
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: I love my teammates, I love my coaches. I love

617
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Speaker 1: being a part of that. And it was great. But

618
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: I was at Syracuse to get the broadcasting degree that

619
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Speaker 1: I ended up walking away with from from Syracuse and

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00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: got into. And this is all I'm trying to encapsulate this.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, it would be tough, and I apologize

622
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: for going too long, but Dave's television and my TV

623
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: career was everything to me. It was what was going

624
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Speaker 1: to bring me my fulfillment in life. It was going

625
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Speaker 1: to give me my hope for the future. It was

626
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: going to be everything to me. You could almost put

627
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: it like TV was my god. It was an idol

628
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: that I looked at that I was like that, that

629
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Speaker 1: is what I want. I want to be the guy

630
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: that people recognize when I walk into a steakhouse. I

631
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: want all the girls to like me because I'm on TV.

632
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: I want to be rich and famous and all of that.

633
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: And I was, and I was obsessed with it, Dave

634
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: obsessed with it as a as a teenagers, as a

635
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: young man in my early twenties, and at that time,

636
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: about mid twenties, my life changed. And without getting into

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00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: all the details on all of that, some folks what

638
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: I say right now will understand. Other folks will be like, oh,

639
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: maybe roll their eyes, and I get olive reactions. But

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00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: I had an epiphany, an awakening, a rebirth as a Christian.

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00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ changed my life in my mid twenties and

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00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: continues to to this day. And again I won't go

643
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: into the whole spiritual aspect of it and whatnot, but

644
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: my whole life changed and my priorities changed. And there's

645
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 1: an old hymn that says, you know, turn your eyes

646
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,919
Speaker 1: upon Jesus, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim.

647
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,399
Speaker 1: And not that I didn't care about television and sportscasting

648
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: and football, but they changed the perspective. The order in

649
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: my life of those things became less, and my newfound

650
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: faith was so fantastic and so wondrous and so amazing

651
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: to me. I decided to leave television and explore and

652
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: grow and serve. As I left television and grow in

653
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,359
Speaker 1: my faith, and so it ended up. I ended up

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Speaker 1: with a group called the Missionaries of Charity, which was

655
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: the group that Mother Teresa founded. Everyone's familiar with her reputation,

656
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: you know, serving the poorest of the poor, the lost,

657
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: the broken, the worst of the worst. And I lived

658
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: and worked full time with a group of what they

659
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: call them religious brothers in the Catholic Church. It's they're

660
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 1: kind of a male equivalent of a nun basically. And

661
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: I lived and worked with these guys as a volunteer

662
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: and serve people, and it was amazing grew in my

663
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: faith and to try and put a button on the story.

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Speaker 1: After about a year away, and when I left TV,

665
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: I didn't know if I would ever come back. Quite honestly,

666
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: I was twenty five, twenty six years old, and a

667
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 1: lot of people in my family and in my world

668
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 1: had all different types of reactions to what I was

669
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,280
Speaker 1: going through. And even is Scott still in his right mind,

670
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: you know, he was going to be this great future sportscaster,

671
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: and he's saying, no, I want to go and serve

672
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:34,720
Speaker 1: the poor and the homeless, you know. And I ultimately decided,

673
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: through a lot of prayer, a lot of contemplation that

674
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Speaker 1: I had been pretty I'd been blessed with some gifts

675
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: that I thought I could use to grow in my

676
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Speaker 1: faith and glorify God in my faith through my faith

677
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: in my TV career. So I ended up getting back

678
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: into television and circuitous route, but ended up working for

679
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,800
Speaker 1: the NFL and now host one of the most washed

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00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: and popular football shows in our in our country, and

681
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: we're international, so people that consume the NFL around the world,

682
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: many of them are consuming in on NFL Red Zone.

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Speaker 1: It's a kind of a crazy, remarkable story. But I'm

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Speaker 1: so thankful and consider myself a very, very blessed man

685
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Speaker 1: for the past that I've been down through now fifty

686
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Speaker 1: years of life. Well, look, it is an incredible story.

687
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Speaker 1: And as you know, if you call yourself a Christian,

688
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: which you and I both do, whether you are working

689
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: for Mother Teresa, NFL Network, ESPN, the Arizona Cardinals, working

690
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,879
Speaker 1: for APS or SRP, your job is to serve other people.

691
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: That's our job, regardless, that's our vocation, regardless of what

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00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 1: our job is. And I've always told people when people

693
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: ask me, Hey, who has had the biggest impact on me,

694
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: Whether it's broadcasting or just in life and Scott, your

695
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: name is always mentioned because you've had a tremendous impact

696
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: on me, going back over the course of our thirty

697
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: years knowing each other, going back just the beer drinking

698
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: days at Syracuse to then seeing you a year later, like,

699
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: what's happened this guy? He's totally different. And then you're

700
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: sharing the gospel with me. You know, you've run with

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00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: the bulls in Spain, you climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa,

702
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,359
Speaker 1: You've hyped the Great Wall of China, You've gone uh

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00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: great White shark cage diving in various count incontinent. So

704
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: if you were an NFL player, I don't know that

705
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: the owner would be okay with that. How does how

706
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: does NFL network feel about you doing these things? You know,

707
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: that's a good question. Don't don't out me in that regard.

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00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: I want them to think that I'm out there, you know,

709
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: like I'm violating some obscure claws in my contract here.

710
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,439
Speaker 1: But yeah, well, thankfully I don't. I don't. I don't

711
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:47,839
Speaker 1: need to have you know, ligaments, joints and bones completely

712
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: all aligned and perfected the way NFL football players do.

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00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: To perform my duties but yeah, I got bit by

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Speaker 1: an adventure bug. UM probably my thirties or so. I'm like,

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00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: this world is a wild, wide, wide wild place, and

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00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: I want to see some of it. Um. One aspect

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00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: about my life that's different than yours is that you know,

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Speaker 1: you have a wife and kids, and you've you've gone

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00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: the family route. I'm a very family oriented person, but

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Speaker 1: I am not married. I don't have kids. So I've

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Speaker 1: had some free time in the off season and some

722
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: disposable income where I can say, you know what, I

723
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 1: can spin a globe and stick my finger on it

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00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: wherever I land. Let's go to see a new country.

725
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: And I try and do that in the summer when

726
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: the NFL players are on vacation June early July, and

727
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: I'll go and pick a new country and I'll say,

728
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 1: you know what, let me go serve some people there.

729
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: My partner with a Christian ministry somewhere and say, hey,

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00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come and serve. I don't need I don't

731
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 1: need anything to help me show me where there's need,

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00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: and I'll come and serve folks there with whatever you've got.

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Speaker 1: And then I'll do that for about a week. After that,

734
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Speaker 1: I'll I'll go adventure for a week, and whether it's

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Speaker 1: climbing a mountain or getting up close and personal with

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Speaker 1: great way sharks, are running with bowls or whatever. I've

737
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: had some pretty good heart pounding moments in my life

738
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: and and it quite it dovetails quite well with the

739
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: television show Thrill Ride that I get to host Sunday.

740
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: Nothing being told and you're bladder for seven hours going

741
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: Great White shark caging and various continents and hiking the

742
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: Great Wall of China and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. That's nothing

743
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 1: compared to hold in your bladder for seven hours before

744
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 1: I get you out of here. Let's I just want

745
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: to go back to football and talk big picture about

746
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, because I think everybody after Week one, the

747
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: Cardinals are the talk of the NFL. You touched on

748
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: that for the Arizona Cardinals to be a Super Bowl team,

749
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: other than the obvious staying healthy, getting breaks, what do

750
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: you think has to happen for the Cardinals Because twenty

751
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: fifteen was the last time they were in contention. They

752
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: lost to the Panthers in the NFC Championship Game. The

753
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: last time they were in the Super Bowl. You were

754
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: just starting your gig with NFL Red Zone. What do

755
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: you think has to happen for the Cardinals to be

756
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:08,399
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl contender? Well, okay here, now I'm gonna

757
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: sound a little bit boring or maybe cliche in what

758
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 1: I'm about to say. To win in the NFL, you

759
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: need to have excellent quarterback play. Elite level quarterback play

760
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: it and you don't have to always that. We have

761
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: seen teams win with quarterbacks that haven't been top two

762
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: or three, but that's the thing that cures a lot

763
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,280
Speaker 1: of ills. And you need to take care of the football.

764
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: You guys, last year, I say you, guys, the Cardinals

765
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: last year were a if I remember about the middle

766
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,399
Speaker 1: of the pack, takeaway giveaway team. In fact, what I'm

767
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: looking them up right now? You know what you guys

768
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: were plus minus last year, not knowing me to put

769
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: me to put the Cardinals guy in the spot here. Zero. Yeah,

770
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: Cardinals were right in the middle your plus minus you

771
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: were zero. Now you get up into the double digits.

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00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,720
Speaker 1: Those are playoff teams. When you're plus ten plus eleven,

773
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 1: plus twelve, that's elite. You have to take care of

774
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: the football, more important to not give it away. Than

775
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: it is to take it away. But turnovers are going

776
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,320
Speaker 1: to happen, So if you're taking it away from the

777
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: other team at a little higher clip than giving it away,

778
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: that's a formula for success, right. And then it comes

779
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: down to there will be two to three on average

780
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: division games that are coin flip games going into the game,

781
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: and they're coin flip games at the two minute warning

782
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, and someone out of those twenty

783
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: two on the field needs to make a play. That

784
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: is the difference between winning and losing. And coaches will

785
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: tell you one play doesn't win or lose a game. Well,

786
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 1: yes and no, because there will be the way the engine,

787
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: the way the NFL is engineered for parody, and every

788
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: team legitimately has a shot. The Cardinals are going to

789
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,800
Speaker 1: find themselves in a game with the Rams, in a

790
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,280
Speaker 1: game with the Seahawks, in a game with the Niners

791
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,479
Speaker 1: where it is tied up or a one point game

792
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: or whatever, and the teams the team's gonna have the

793
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: ball with a chance to win the game, do they

794
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: do it or don't they do it? And I can't

795
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: tell you and you can't tell us, David. You know

796
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: the Cardinals better than anyone. But it's gonna come down

797
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: to that, right Their roster is such where they will

798
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: be in those games, in my opinion, And then do

799
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: they break through, do they win more of those and

800
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: lose more of those? And could they win the division?

801
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: Get the home game, which this year would be unbelievable

802
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: right at down there in Glendale, and then make some

803
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: noise because guess what, and even if they don't even

804
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: if they don't win the division, remember the reigning Super

805
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 1: Bowl champions were a wild card team last year. The

806
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: Buccaneers did not win the NFC South, So figure a

807
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: way to get the dance and then make a run.

808
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: So that that might sound cliche, but the cliches are

809
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: true in that regard excellent quarterback at play, take care

810
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 1: of the football, win your division, and then let's see

811
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,399
Speaker 1: what happens in mid to late January. It's extremely hard

812
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: to make the super Bowl, but the formula to be

813
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl team is pretty simple, and you just

814
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: outlined it. So great job, man, you nailed it. Hey listen, man,

815
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: you continue to inspire me with how you live your life,

816
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: your faith, and how you do your work. Again, it's

817
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,959
Speaker 1: such a unique position in broadcasting there's no other job

818
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: like it, and I know you do a lot more

819
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 1: things for NFL Network than just hosting Red Zone, but

820
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: it is. It's near miraculous what you do, the energy

821
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: you have, how you're able to do that every single

822
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 1: week for five straight months, it's just it's fantastic. So

823
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: appreciate you, Scott. Thanks again, Man for spending some time

824
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: with us. Well, Dave, you wouldn't end an interview this

825
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: way usually, but since we've known each other for about

826
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: half our lives twenty five years or so or more.

827
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Speaker 1: I love you, brother, I love you man, and all

828
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: the best this season. Thanks a lot for having me

829
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: on the podcast much success. I love you too, Bro.

830
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 1: Thanks Man. So great to catch up with Scott, somebody

831
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: that I've known and respected and admired who's had such

832
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: a big impact on my life in so many ways

833
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: over the last three decades. His job in broadcasting is

834
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: one of the most unique positions in this industry, and

835
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: for many of you who spend your sundays consuming NFL football,

836
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: Scott is the voice and the face of NFL football

837
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: for so many of you because of what he does

838
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 1: as the host of NFL Red Zone as well as

839
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: being a multidimensional broadcaster for NFL Network going back to

840
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. For more, you can visit NFL

841
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:48,840
Speaker 1: dot com slash red Zone. I just thought the process,

842
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: the mechanics that go into his Sunday, the preparation that

843
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:58,240
Speaker 1: he goes through to host, and then during those seven

844
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 1: hours of commercial free live programming, the conversations that go

845
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: on between him and his producer, how he's constantly monitoring

846
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: every game, making split decisions about which game do we

847
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,760
Speaker 1: go to, what do we risk missing if we switch

848
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: to another game, And if we don't switch to another game,

849
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: if we stay in the game that we're currently on,

850
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: what are we missing then? So it's just a interesting

851
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: perspective on the NFL broadcasting world. So very grateful Scott

852
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: could spend some time with us and not only talk

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Speaker 1: about that, but talk about the Cardinals. He believes, like

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Speaker 1: most of us do, right, the Cardinals are going to

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Speaker 1: go as far as Kyler Murray takes them. Everything else, defense,

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Speaker 1: the kicker, the offensive line, all those things are important.

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Speaker 1: But ultimately we've learned over the last two decades that

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Speaker 1: it's very rare that you're a super Bowl team unless

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Speaker 1: your quarterback is phenomenal and if Kyler Murray plays like

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Speaker 1: you did Week one, I can't wait to see what

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Speaker 1: the future holds for the Cardinals. We're sponsored on the

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Speaker 1: pod to get information on future guests and also relive

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Speaker 1: some of the highlights from previous guests. Our thanks once

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Speaker 1: again to Scott Hanson, and we'll talk to you next

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