Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Dave
Speaker 1: Pash Podcast. I'm Dave Pash, voice of the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: and ESPN play by play broadcaster. We are sponsored by
Speaker 1: bet MGM, the official sports betting partner of the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals and Hila River Hotels and Casinos. Man, what a
Speaker 1: win on Sunday. First of all, it was phenomenal just
Speaker 1: to be back in the stadium with fans. I'll never
Speaker 1: take for granted again being in a stadium live after
Speaker 1: calling the Cardinal games last year off of a monitor
Speaker 1: because of the COVID nineteen pandemic. And how about the dominance.
Speaker 1: A complete game, not a perfect game, but a complete game.
Speaker 1: And if Kyler Murray plays like that, I've said this
Speaker 1: all along, the sky's the limit. He's that good. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals can be a championship team if Kyler Murray continues
Speaker 1: to play like that. Now, he's not going to account
Speaker 1: for five touchdowns every week. But it wasn't just what
Speaker 1: he did on the field. It was his leadership. It
Speaker 1: was the intensity that we saw several times with him
Speaker 1: motioning and talking to his own guys on the sideline.
Speaker 1: Clearly the Cardinals have surrounded Kyler with weapons on offense,
Speaker 1: and I believe that Rodney Hudson might beat their best
Speaker 1: offensive weapon. You watched the tape. They didn't even get
Speaker 1: into the backfield against Rodney Hudson, in my opinion, the
Speaker 1: best center in the National Football League Chandler Jones. Is
Speaker 1: there anything else that really needs to be said? Five
Speaker 1: sacks at a game, three in the first half. He
Speaker 1: completely controlled the game, and I'm really encouraged with what
Speaker 1: I saw from Isaiah Simmons played a great first game
Speaker 1: and the young corners looked like vets in particular Marco Wilson.
Speaker 1: Lock it up, Julio Jones. This week it's the Vikings.
Speaker 1: You went from Derrick Henry, the leading rusher in the
Speaker 1: National Football League each of the last two years, to
Speaker 1: the second leading rusher in twenty twenty, Dalvin Cook, who
Speaker 1: had a big fumble in Week one that led to
Speaker 1: a loss against the Bengals at overtime. Let's see if
Speaker 1: the Cardinals can go too. And oh and it would
Speaker 1: be great to have the red seed back at State
Speaker 1: Farm Stadium. As for our guest today, it is Scott Hansen,
Speaker 1: host of NFL Red Zone, and he also is a
Speaker 1: multidimensional broadcaster for NFL Network. He joined the network in
Speaker 1: two thousand and six, and since two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: he's hosted every single episode of NFL Red Zone. That's
Speaker 1: well more than two hundred episodes, and he goes all
Speaker 1: day long without a bathroom break. Maybe the most impressive
Speaker 1: part of Scott's job. We'll ask him about that and
Speaker 1: much more on the Dave Pash Podcast. Scott, you've been
Speaker 1: doing this for a long time. I was reading up
Speaker 1: on the broadcasting history since you joined the NFL Network
Speaker 1: and I didn't realize that NFL Red Zone debut in
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, you've been doing over two hundred episodes.
Speaker 1: That means that's two hundred Sundays that you don't go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom at all. That's pretty impressive. Man. We're
Speaker 1: starting with the bladder integrity portion of my career. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what day it is the thing, for better
Speaker 1: or for worse, that I have become known for. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say famous or infamous. People can make
Speaker 1: their own determination there, but everyone thinks they're the first
Speaker 1: person that's asked me about the bathroom thing. And I
Speaker 1: think it's because everyone can relate to it. People sit
Speaker 1: home and they watch an NFL Red Zone for seven hours,
Speaker 1: and they got their snacks and their beverages, and invariably
Speaker 1: nature calls that they get up, and they don't want
Speaker 1: to get up from the TV because not doing any commercials,
Speaker 1: the next great touchdown could be five seconds away, and
Speaker 1: so they don't want to go. But you know, invariably
Speaker 1: the biological needs went out, they go to the restroom.
Speaker 1: They come back and I'm still talking and they go,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, when does Hampson go to the bathroom?
Speaker 1: And yeah, the answer is I don't. And thankfully the
Speaker 1: streak is alive, and here we are in season thirteen
Speaker 1: of NFL Red Zone. Well, I want to get back
Speaker 1: into broadcasting and your job. But since we're on the subject,
Speaker 1: because first of all, I don't know how you do
Speaker 1: it as somebody. I know you're one year older than me,
Speaker 1: so I got a year ago before I hit fifty.
Speaker 1: But I can't go sometimes seven minutes without going to
Speaker 1: the bathroom. So how you do it for seven So
Speaker 1: do you not drink coffee or anything? You have like
Speaker 1: a period of time leading up to the show where
Speaker 1: you have no liquids whatsoever. One hundred percent. It is
Speaker 1: about managing, you know, without getting too descriptive. Input equals output,
Speaker 1: so it's managing my morning on Sunday morning leading up
Speaker 1: to the show. I don't drink coffee. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you remember that. For those who are listening right now,
Speaker 1: Dave and I go back, Oh goodness, I mean we
Speaker 1: go back to college back in the early nineties. I
Speaker 1: know it's when I was thirty years by one or
Speaker 1: ninety two something like that. Yeah, but yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you knew that about me. I don't drink.
Speaker 1: I don't need that caffeine to get me going. I'm
Speaker 1: naturally energetic and fired up, and I love my job,
Speaker 1: so the coffee issue isn't isn't there for me? But
Speaker 1: I cut off all my liquids about what would it be.
Speaker 1: I eat breakfast at six forty five am on the
Speaker 1: Dot every Sunday morning during the football season, and that's
Speaker 1: the last bit of liquids that I have. The show
Speaker 1: begins at ten ten am Pacific, and sixty five to
Speaker 1: seven seven am would be the only time I would
Speaker 1: have anything. So three hours before the show, I cut
Speaker 1: off everything. I use the men's room twice in the
Speaker 1: last hour leading up to the show, and then it's
Speaker 1: it's the willpower of a ninja after that straight hours, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you every halftime football, basketball game doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I am sprinting for that restroom. So I don't know
Speaker 1: how you do it. I can't make it an hour.
Speaker 1: You're making it seven Bro's. That's impressive, all right. Another
Speaker 1: thing is, as you know this as a broadcaster, is
Speaker 1: keeping your your whistle wet, so to speak. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of people will drink because they feel like
Speaker 1: to get the best out of their voice, they need
Speaker 1: to constantly have liquids, you know, and whatnot. And that's
Speaker 1: the balance. For me, it's not so much Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I gotta go, I gotta go. It's not that it's
Speaker 1: being able to project and broadcast while my mouth is
Speaker 1: quite dry. But I've just learned to live with it
Speaker 1: and hopefully the hopefully it doesn't show up too bad
Speaker 1: on air. Do you do anything to warm up your
Speaker 1: voice or to protect your voice? I sometimes take the
Speaker 1: singer spray. I stopped doing it recently, but I've used
Speaker 1: that before, or just you know, a lot of water.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there was any specific that you did. No,
Speaker 1: I don't you have a fantastic voice. I've always been
Speaker 1: been not jealous of your voice, but but admirer of
Speaker 1: your voice. You've got great pipes to use them so well.
Speaker 1: You're the type of broadcaster who I say, the really
Speaker 1: really good ones can hit the notes when when DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins pulls down the Harold Mary Passy, you are on
Speaker 1: your game. And a lot of people sound awkward when
Speaker 1: they're doing that, when their emotions lead to that. But
Speaker 1: your your instrument is so strong. I'm pretty blessed too.
Speaker 1: My dad had a great voice, and I inherited that
Speaker 1: from him. But there's no real exercises or training I do.
Speaker 1: I avoid really really cold liquids because that'll constrict the
Speaker 1: vocal cords a little bit. Um. You know, later in
Speaker 1: the season in December, if you're dealing with a cold
Speaker 1: or the flu or something like that, maybe some hot
Speaker 1: tea with honey and lemon. But other than that, it's just, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is me and this is how I talk, and
Speaker 1: hopefully it projects well. Last one on the bladder and
Speaker 1: then we'll get to the serious stuff. Okay, is there
Speaker 1: a backup plan, like if you get a stomach ache
Speaker 1: or you have to go and you I mean, besides,
Speaker 1: like a water bottle under the table. Is there a
Speaker 1: backup plan? Is there another announcer standing by? There is
Speaker 1: no other announcers by for bladder considerations. If you really
Speaker 1: want the inside scoop, we do have people that are
Speaker 1: standing by at NFL Films Headquarters. Now I broadcast out
Speaker 1: of NFL Network or NFL Los Angeles they call it
Speaker 1: in LA. We have a brand new facility at Sofi
Speaker 1: Stadium where the Rams and Chargers play, So that's where
Speaker 1: I broadcast out of. But Lord forbid. But if we
Speaker 1: had an earthquake and electricity was knocked out in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles or whatever disaster or something that knocked us off
Speaker 1: the air, there is a crew standing by in New
Speaker 1: Jersey suburban New Jersey outside of Philadelphia is where NFL
Speaker 1: Films Headquarters is located, and there is a pseudo backup
Speaker 1: team that is that is ready to go on should
Speaker 1: we get knocked off the air. But no for bathroom breaks.
Speaker 1: If I had to take one, and it's not like
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be a hero, if I had to
Speaker 1: take one, they could they could say, look at Scott,
Speaker 1: We'll find at whatever. The buccanteers are on a drive
Speaker 1: right now. We think Tom Brady's gonna get some first downs.
Speaker 1: You got two minutes, go ahead, turn off your microphone,
Speaker 1: run down the hall, do your thing. I could do
Speaker 1: that if I had to. It's just that I don't
Speaker 1: want to because I don't want to miss the next
Speaker 1: great touchdown. So yeah, so that's how. That's how we
Speaker 1: manage things. And we've got a good system. And my
Speaker 1: infamous or famous streak, depending on your perspective, is still
Speaker 1: alive here. Who knew that back then, when we were
Speaker 1: idiots at Syracuse drinking all that beer, that it was
Speaker 1: just practice. The drinking and passing out was practice to
Speaker 1: hold it in over an extended period of time. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's let's get serious here, because I do want to
Speaker 1: get into your history because it's it's I don't know
Speaker 1: that a lot of people realize how you got into
Speaker 1: this business, what you were doing before you got into broadcasting,
Speaker 1: and then the multiple stops that you had, it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: And I've had a close up view of it being
Speaker 1: friends with you for three decades. So I do want
Speaker 1: to get into that. But give me your thoughts on
Speaker 1: Week one. What stood out to you about the game
Speaker 1: Sunday the Arizona Cardinals, and I'm not picking the low
Speaker 1: hanging fruit, just being with you right now, but the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals statement, road wind in the early window as well,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole time change. I'm a believer in
Speaker 1: that that some Pacific time teams have a hard time playing,
Speaker 1: and that ten am body clock window. But all the
Speaker 1: things involved and what we expect out of the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans this year, Arizona statement, and then of course the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints pounding. I'll put actually i'll put that
Speaker 1: surprise in two categories, the New Orleans Saints looking as
Speaker 1: good as they did and the Green Bay Packers looking
Speaker 1: as bad as they did, because I don't think it
Speaker 1: was one hundred percent. New Orleans was just a steamroller
Speaker 1: and we weren't aware of that. And they're going to
Speaker 1: do this other teams. I don't think that's necessarily the
Speaker 1: case yet, although I thought New Orleans looked better than
Speaker 1: what almost everyone anticipated. But the Green Bay Packers fell apart.
Speaker 1: They were just spitting up on themselves all throughout the game.
Speaker 1: That was a shock that Aaron Rodgers couldn't write the
Speaker 1: ship and you know, couldn't even get in the end zone.
Speaker 1: So that was a surprise. The NFC West that I
Speaker 1: and everybody else predicted was going to be the strongest
Speaker 1: division in football this year. Who looks like that is
Speaker 1: going to be the case. Yeah, And other than that,
Speaker 1: it was just great to be back. The crowd noise
Speaker 1: was fantastic at all these stadiums, and the feel of
Speaker 1: real football being back for the first time, and it
Speaker 1: was over two hundred and fifty days since the last
Speaker 1: full NFL Sunday, not non playoff NFL Sunday. Just felt
Speaker 1: good to be back. So do you have a producer
Speaker 1: in your ear constantly telling you Arizona, Tennessee Red Zone?
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Green Bay? Is somebody consistently giving you direction
Speaker 1: when you need to switch to another game? Yeah? Yes
Speaker 1: and no. It's a little bit like the coach to
Speaker 1: quarterback communication system how we operate on NFL Red Zone,
Speaker 1: except it's more of a two way street. Because my producer,
Speaker 1: Brian Nettles is in the control room watching all nine
Speaker 1: games in the early window, I'm standing in the studio
Speaker 1: four feet away from a wall of monitors watching all
Speaker 1: nine games and we bounce things off of each other.
Speaker 1: We're like, okay, hey, we're on this Cardinals drive right now.
Speaker 1: It's third and eight and they're on the fifty yard line.
Speaker 1: If they don't get the first down, they're gonna punt.
Speaker 1: So we'll get away and we'll go to a different game.
Speaker 1: You know, Dallas is close to the red zone right now,
Speaker 1: they're on the twenty six yard line. Maybe we'll go
Speaker 1: to Dallas, but keep an eye on Seattle because they're
Speaker 1: in commercial break. And remember they're first in goal from
Speaker 1: the eight when they come out of the two minute
Speaker 1: warning time out. So we'll discuss all these things and
Speaker 1: then whatever happens. Okay, the Cardinals didn't get the first down, Jeff,
Speaker 1: Cardinals are punting. You know what, Let's go to Dallas.
Speaker 1: They're close to the red zone. Wait, wait, wait, they
Speaker 1: just came out and break in Seattle. Let's go there
Speaker 1: right now. Russell Wilson first and goal from the eight.
Speaker 1: So we roll with it. It's like my produce will
Speaker 1: call plays in my ear, multiple plays, and then based
Speaker 1: on what I see what we have on the air,
Speaker 1: will audible and go to wherever the action is hottest.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely fly by the seat of your pants, unscripted.
Speaker 1: We're reacting to what's going on in the NFL and
Speaker 1: trying to trying to spin as many plates and make
Speaker 1: it seem flawless or seamless, at least to the best
Speaker 1: of our ability. It's a it's a thrill ride, Dave.
Speaker 1: If you weren't busy on every NFL Sunday, I would
Speaker 1: have to have you out to the studio to see
Speaker 1: how we rock and roll. It's it's different than any
Speaker 1: other sportscasting than I've ever been around. Yeah, I'd love
Speaker 1: to see it. I mean, obviously, doing you know, play
Speaker 1: by play is entirely different doing studio work or hosting
Speaker 1: a radio show or podcast. It's just the job you
Speaker 1: have is is so incredibly unique. So you're sitting there
Speaker 1: watching all these games on Sunday and I assume the
Speaker 1: cardinal game keeps catching your eye, like when do you
Speaker 1: make the determination? Okay man like Jones gets the force fumble,
Speaker 1: Corey Peters recovers it, it's a touchdown, but then it's
Speaker 1: overturned and now you're in the red zone. It's first
Speaker 1: in goal. So how do you guys handle that, believe
Speaker 1: it or not? That one got us. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, that one caught us because we're trying to
Speaker 1: go bang bang bang from stadium to stadium so quick.
Speaker 1: When you get something that looks like something at face
Speaker 1: value and then all of a sudden, whether it's a
Speaker 1: coach of challenge or an automatic boots review that overturns it,
Speaker 1: we're like, wait a second, wait a second. And what
Speaker 1: we'll do in those instances If we thought we saw
Speaker 1: a touchdown, like let's say a defensive touchdown in a game,
Speaker 1: but then the offense is back on the field, We're like, okay,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you know what, let's just go to
Speaker 1: what's happening lies and we will take whatever the first
Speaker 1: down play is. And then during that play, we're looking
Speaker 1: back at the video. Our folks in the replay area
Speaker 1: at NFL Red Zone, we'll be looking back at it
Speaker 1: and say, okay, yeah, you know what, it was a
Speaker 1: strip sack fumble with a recovery, but they didn't give
Speaker 1: him the touchdown. That's why the offense is on the field.
Speaker 1: And then before the forty second play clock runs out
Speaker 1: before second down for the Cardinals in this instance, then
Speaker 1: I'll interject and go, hey, here's how the Cardinals got
Speaker 1: the ball originally. Okay, challenge Jones, strip sack, fumble, recovery
Speaker 1: touchdown originally, but they reviewed it down by contact and
Speaker 1: so this is why we're at second down for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: It's I hope it sounds reasonable the people that are
Speaker 1: listening it. Listening to it right now, I think it
Speaker 1: flows well when you have the audible. When I'm giving
Speaker 1: audible instructions or recap of what's going on coupled with
Speaker 1: the visuals, it's hopefully it's more coherent than what I
Speaker 1: just made it sound right there, because people are you know,
Speaker 1: we've got to sophisticated football audience too, and people understand that,
Speaker 1: oh okay, things might look one way at first blush,
Speaker 1: but yeah, replay overturned it or I saw that he
Speaker 1: was down by contact. So I understand where we're at.
Speaker 1: But we want to catch ups. I've as possible. Eighty
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the stuff that we do is live.
Speaker 1: But when we can't catch something immediately, we have very
Speaker 1: very skilled replay folks, and our production crew is the
Speaker 1: best in sports television for my money, and we can
Speaker 1: get something back and just say hey, here's the context.
Speaker 1: Of why this team has the ball at this point
Speaker 1: right now, you've seen every great quarterback that's coming to
Speaker 1: the NFL the last two decades. And look, you played
Speaker 1: football at Syracuse. We'll get into that a little bit later.
Speaker 1: Not many people know that that you were on the
Speaker 1: football team, so you're around good quarterback. Syracuse was actually
Speaker 1: very good back then. Every year they were good. Back then.
Speaker 1: They had first round picks all over the place. Although
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones, you know, even though it was you know,
Speaker 1: almost a decade ago, right was a first round pick
Speaker 1: out of Syracuse. But where does Kyler Murray do you
Speaker 1: think right now rank? If you had Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, most people are going to say one, two
Speaker 1: is Kyler Murray? Is he climbing the list in your mind?
Speaker 1: As he top five, as he still have work to
Speaker 1: do to depend on the team's success, How do you
Speaker 1: think you would rate him right now? Yeah? Right now now.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be a prisoner of the moment
Speaker 1: and say, hey, a five total touchdown performance game out
Speaker 1: of Kyler stamps him as top three, top five. Just yet.
Speaker 1: This will be the season that we get to see
Speaker 1: him blossom into everything that people had hoped for. He
Speaker 1: had a nice season last year, and if people had
Speaker 1: already known about his physical gifts in terms of being
Speaker 1: able to evade rushers like very very few quarterbacks on
Speaker 1: a design pass play, I would still say Lamar Jackson's
Speaker 1: the best running quarterback in the NFL. But being able
Speaker 1: to evade pass rushers, I say it like this. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you describe it. He looks like a
Speaker 1: punt returner scooting back and forth. You remember Dante Hall,
Speaker 1: spectacular punt returner back in the day for the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. He reminds me of Dante Hall. When the
Speaker 1: pocket collapses and he just just tries to well scoot left,
Speaker 1: scoot right, step up, step back, roll out this way,
Speaker 1: roll out that way, jukes, somebody either run or throw.
Speaker 1: Guys can't get there that Not only can't they sack him,
Speaker 1: they can't get a hand on him, and maybe because
Speaker 1: of his stature too. I think it looks like a
Speaker 1: guy who just caught a punt where the gunners and
Speaker 1: the coverage team is trying to converge on him and
Speaker 1: nobody can touch him because he's that much quicker with
Speaker 1: everyone else. But the great thing about Kyler is and
Speaker 1: he'll grow even this year. I believe he was already
Speaker 1: very good at doing this, but I think he'll grow
Speaker 1: in this aspect of this game is being able to
Speaker 1: do that while keeping his eyes downfield and not losing
Speaker 1: sight of his eligible receivers. That makes him lethal, lethal
Speaker 1: with his decision making. If he could evade pass rushers
Speaker 1: know that, oh it's third and eight, I could probably
Speaker 1: run for this first down with my speed and the
Speaker 1: angles that I see. But I can also still pick
Speaker 1: up d Hop or somebody else downfield twenty yards downfield
Speaker 1: and just it's like stopping to try trying to stop
Speaker 1: water with your fingers. At that point, forget about it.
Speaker 1: And it would not surprise me at all if by
Speaker 1: the end of the year we are talking and universally
Speaker 1: talking about Kyler as a top five, top three quarterback
Speaker 1: in the NFL. The area that he needs to grow
Speaker 1: the most, and he's talked about this is leadership and
Speaker 1: being consistent. Last year, he had games like Week one
Speaker 1: and in the middle of the season, after the Hail
Speaker 1: Mary against Buffalo, the Cardinals are six and three, everybody's
Speaker 1: talking about Kyler as an MVP candidate, and then he
Speaker 1: doesn't play as well, the team doesn't play as well.
Speaker 1: They missed the playoffs, So obviously being consistent is key.
Speaker 1: And look, he does things, Patrick Mahomes Scott, Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you feel. He's the greatest football
Speaker 1: player I've ever seen. I've never seen anybody that can
Speaker 1: do the things that Patrick Mahomes can do. Now, there
Speaker 1: are some things that La Murray can do that Mahomes can't.
Speaker 1: You talked about the quickness, the quick feat he's a
Speaker 1: better runner. Now will he ever? If he gets to
Speaker 1: that point, the Cardinals are going to be a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl contender every year? Do you think? And you talk, Look,
Speaker 1: you work for NFL network, You're talking to former players
Speaker 1: all the time, You're watching NFL games every week. The
Speaker 1: weapons that the Cardinals have surrounded him with, do you
Speaker 1: feel like it's enough for him to help take that
Speaker 1: next step and get them to the playoffs? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. I like probably a lot of Cardinal fans
Speaker 1: would say, show me the running game. Show me the
Speaker 1: running game as a legitimate running game, not just as like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, we gotta balance Tyler taking a shotgun snap
Speaker 1: and doing what Kyler does with a legitimate first and
Speaker 1: ten run for five yards to get you ahead of
Speaker 1: the sticks against the defense. Show me that aspect of
Speaker 1: the game. And then a complimentary defense where that defense
Speaker 1: playing with the lead. And I'm not saying it's just
Speaker 1: about playing with the lead. Of defense had to be
Speaker 1: good whether it's zero zero or thirty five, nothing but
Speaker 1: playing with the lead where the other team feels stress
Speaker 1: on offense. Oh, that's some complimentary football. And you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta see it when the NFC West schedule takes
Speaker 1: into the city, because I could I could be talking
Speaker 1: to you know, a Rams or a Seahawks or the
Speaker 1: Niners fan base, and everyone has reason to think we
Speaker 1: are the team to beat in the division. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at it, it's not out of the realm of possibility. Mathematically,
Speaker 1: we got to see how it could end up. All
Speaker 1: four of these teams can end up been the postseason,
Speaker 1: all four of these teams. And I would say, in
Speaker 1: terms of the Cardinals growth and the Cardinals leap into
Speaker 1: an elite status in terms of a top ten or
Speaker 1: maybe even the top five team in the NFL, is
Speaker 1: not so much about the growth of Kyler and the
Speaker 1: support staff around him, although obviously that all plays into it.
Speaker 1: It's how and they manage those division games that are
Speaker 1: coming up, because those six games, even in the seventeen
Speaker 1: game schedule, will determine A. Are they in the dance
Speaker 1: at the end and B do they get a home
Speaker 1: game at the end or how far can they go
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Give me your thoughts on the Vikings
Speaker 1: the Cardinals week to opponent. You obviously were paying close
Speaker 1: attention to the overtime loss against Cincinnati. I love Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins as a guy, and I think he's a really
Speaker 1: good quarterback, but I don't know that he's a winning quarterback.
Speaker 1: I say that because he consistently puts up big numbers
Speaker 1: that entices you to give him the big contract because
Speaker 1: he's putting up these huge numbers, but he's not always
Speaker 1: winning big games. I don't know how you feel about him.
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook clearly is an elite back and normally doesn't
Speaker 1: do what he did on Sunday where he fumbles the
Speaker 1: ball in a key situation they lose the game. Are
Speaker 1: you buying the Vikings as a contender in the NFC
Speaker 1: North I was prior to yesterday. You lose to a
Speaker 1: Bengals team and the Bengals are much improved, more weapons,
Speaker 1: Burrow in the second year, and it was at Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: But but you lose to the Bengals, and the Packers
Speaker 1: are still probably the team to beat in that division,
Speaker 1: even though everybody, everybody's all and one in the NFC North.
Speaker 1: As you and I talk right now, UM, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're a contender in the NFC. But
Speaker 1: prior to yesterday, would have said, yeah, I think they
Speaker 1: could be. I think they could be a playoff team,
Speaker 1: but a contender to win the NFC. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: on the Cousins angle of that. I would describe it
Speaker 1: this way. I'm not so sure you will win because
Speaker 1: of Kirk Cousins, but you can win with Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: Does that makes sense? Fair? That's fair. He's not a
Speaker 1: he's not a Mahomesian talent or even a Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: could put a team on his back. Um, and he can't.
Speaker 1: He can't win games like where it's like, well, the
Speaker 1: reason we won the game was Kirk Cousins. He that
Speaker 1: could be individually. I don't think that's sustainable over whole season.
Speaker 1: I don't think you will see that out of Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: but I think you can win with him. You don't.
Speaker 1: They aren't losing games because of Kirk Cousins, like exclusively,
Speaker 1: Like oh, if they had a better quarterback, everything else.
Speaker 1: The infrastructure is there to be a contender in the NFC.
Speaker 1: So I think they've got they've got other issues. And man,
Speaker 1: they just shot themselves in the foot and whatnot. You
Speaker 1: better hope you get that version of the Vikings because
Speaker 1: they were Yeah, they were sloppy. They were sloppy, and
Speaker 1: they still could have won the game. It was an overtime,
Speaker 1: lass they still could have won the game. I would
Speaker 1: say this, Kyler d hop the rest of the receivers
Speaker 1: they ought to be licking their chops because the Vikings
Speaker 1: defense did not look as good as what a lot
Speaker 1: of people have projected going into the season. They can
Speaker 1: be had in medium to deep passing pass patterns. They
Speaker 1: can be had in that area, and we've seen the
Speaker 1: Cardinals be able to exploit teams that don't have that
Speaker 1: strength in the back half. So you already took us
Speaker 1: through a Sunday in the life of Scott Hansen. I'm curious, Scottie,
Speaker 1: what did you think when the opportunity was first presented
Speaker 1: to you. Do you remember how it went down when
Speaker 1: somebody came to you and said, Hey, we want you
Speaker 1: to host this thing called NFL Red Zone, where we're
Speaker 1: going to take viewers from game to game so they
Speaker 1: can see the best moments of a game and do
Speaker 1: it for seven straight hours on a Sunday because it's
Speaker 1: become a national phenomenon for football fans. Yeah, oh, I
Speaker 1: remember it. Like I said, we're in season thirteen, but
Speaker 1: I still distinctly remember that time in my life and
Speaker 1: my career. And to be accurate about it, they didn't
Speaker 1: come to me at first. I went to them. I
Speaker 1: had heard a rumor in the summer of two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine, just office scuttle butt. I was already working
Speaker 1: for NFL Network as a roving reporter, so they knew
Speaker 1: about me and I knew about them, and I had
Speaker 1: heard that, Hey, you know, we're gonna start this channel up.
Speaker 1: That's going to be every touch down from every game,
Speaker 1: no commercials, both the early window in the late window,
Speaker 1: so seven hours, right, And I'm like thinking, are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Now? I'll add this as an aside, our friend,
Speaker 1: our mutual friend and fellow Syracuse orangeman Andrews Siciliano. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you have Andrew or you'll ever have
Speaker 1: him on the podcast, but we both know him and
Speaker 1: respect him as a broadcaster so much. He had been
Speaker 1: doing what's called the Red Zone Channel over on Direct TV.
Speaker 1: Some people, I'm sure that are listening are familiar with this,
Speaker 1: but some people are always like, what, there's two of them?
Speaker 1: What there's the Red Zone Channel. Very similar concept but
Speaker 1: a different production, different studio, different hosts, different different execution,
Speaker 1: but a similar concept had been running on Direct TV,
Speaker 1: exclusively on Direct TV, which it still is broadcast on today,
Speaker 1: and so we borrowed some things from that when we
Speaker 1: started NFL Red Zone. But when I heard about the concept,
Speaker 1: I was like, this thing is going to be a
Speaker 1: galactic hit if we could execute it the way that
Speaker 1: I think it can be executed. So I called them.
Speaker 1: I called one of my bosses, the talent coordinator at
Speaker 1: NFL Network, and said, who is this true? We're doing this?
Speaker 1: He said yep. I said who you got to host it?
Speaker 1: He's like, well, we're looking at some people. I said,
Speaker 1: is my name on the list? He said, yeah, your
Speaker 1: name is on the list. And he kind of he
Speaker 1: kind of chuckled a little bit because he knew my enthusiasm, passion,
Speaker 1: hopefully my knowledge of the game and thought it would
Speaker 1: be a good fit. And we did. We did tryouts,
Speaker 1: we did auditions, and the average audition for television can
Speaker 1: get or take. Usually it's like fifteen minutes. They put
Speaker 1: you up on their set. You know, you're trying to
Speaker 1: become the weekend sports guy in Denver, Colorado or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they put you up on set, want to see
Speaker 1: how you look, how you sound, can you do some
Speaker 1: cross talk with the co hosts, and can you handle
Speaker 1: a teleprompter or all these type of things. But because
Speaker 1: stamina is part of the name of the game. For
Speaker 1: Red Zone, the audition for NFL Red Zone was five
Speaker 1: hours long, and again fifteen minutes for those who don't know,
Speaker 1: it's about the average. This thing was five hours. They
Speaker 1: ran one whole set of three hours of games, and
Speaker 1: then they started a second set of games and went
Speaker 1: the halftime of those games. So it's five hours long.
Speaker 1: I was flop sweating through my suit. What they did
Speaker 1: it was in the middle of the summer, there were
Speaker 1: no NFL games going on, so they took a random
Speaker 1: week from the season before and queued up eight games
Speaker 1: to the kickoff, pressed play on eight different machines at
Speaker 1: the same time, and said, talk go. Basically, I'm like
Speaker 1: trying to follow everything, trying to identify every player, trying
Speaker 1: to do all this right without the benefit of a
Speaker 1: computer handling like live scoring and everything else like that.
Speaker 1: And I was nervous. I thought, I either I either
Speaker 1: got the hosting role because I put the best passion
Speaker 1: and energy and excitement into it that I could. I said,
Speaker 1: I either got the hosting role or I just set
Speaker 1: back my broadcasting career by five years. And I embarrassed
Speaker 1: myself with how I performed. But a couple of weeks later,
Speaker 1: after all the auditions were done and they auditioned a
Speaker 1: handful of would be hosts, the executive producer Eric Weinberger,
Speaker 1: the executive producer at the time of NFL Network, called
Speaker 1: me up and said, Hey, Scott, I want to offer
Speaker 1: you the hosting role of NFL Red Zone. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's great. You know, I'm I can't wait.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tear the cover off the ball on
Speaker 1: this thing and whatnot. I said, So, Eric, so you
Speaker 1: watched the five hour audition, and he goes, Scott, I
Speaker 1: watched the first fifteen minutes and I knew you were
Speaker 1: my guy, and out loud I said, I said, oh, Eric,
Speaker 1: that's great man. I appreciate it. But I remember thinking
Speaker 1: in my mind, why in the you had me do
Speaker 1: five hours and think that I was like fallen on
Speaker 1: my face there. But all's well, that ends well, and
Speaker 1: there's not a day that goes by where we don't
Speaker 1: hear from fans that NFL red zone has changed the
Speaker 1: way people watch football, which is very gratifying, very gratifying. Scott,
Speaker 1: I remember when you were out of television. I think
Speaker 1: there were two different stints. One early on you and
Speaker 1: I were at Syracuse about the same time, and then
Speaker 1: we reconnected about a year out of college when I
Speaker 1: was working in Detroit and you are from the area.
Speaker 1: So I think you got out of television to that
Speaker 1: point and then got back in. And then I believe
Speaker 1: the last time you were at our house you were
Speaker 1: again out of television and doing full time mission work
Speaker 1: for Mother Teresa. Is that correct? And then how did
Speaker 1: that lead to getting back into television? Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: might you might joke that my current boss is Roger Goodell.
Speaker 1: One of my previous employers was mother Teresa. She was
Speaker 1: alive here on this earth. Yeah. Boy, it's hard to encapsulate,
Speaker 1: but let me let me try for a second. So
Speaker 1: I grew up as a kid in Rochester, Michigan suburb
Speaker 1: of Detroit, and football was everything to me. Football was
Speaker 1: just it, And I was convinced when I was eight
Speaker 1: years old I was going to be an NFL football
Speaker 1: player and that was it. That was what I was
Speaker 1: gonna do. Right. Well, you know, you don't grow up
Speaker 1: to be six five, two fifty running a four to
Speaker 1: five forty, so those dreams start to diminish. Even though
Speaker 1: I played football my whole life all the way through
Speaker 1: college and I was I was a good high school player,
Speaker 1: and I could have gone to like Division three college
Speaker 1: probably and been a significant or contributing player, like at
Speaker 1: a lower level. But when I knew I wasn't going
Speaker 1: to the NFL, I decided, you know what, those guys
Speaker 1: on TV sound like they're having a heck of a
Speaker 1: fun time calling the game. Maybe I could do that.
Speaker 1: So I researched. My dad and I are research schools,
Speaker 1: and where could you get the best communications degree Syracuse University. Right,
Speaker 1: all the great sportscasters, Bob cost Is, Dick Stockton, Marv
Speaker 1: Albert len Berman, Marty Glickman back in the day, Mike Tarico,
Speaker 1: Dave Bash, all the Iron Eagle, the great the great
Speaker 1: broadcasters that we have seen in years passed and that
Speaker 1: we enjoyed today. Got a Syracuse education set. So I'm
Speaker 1: going there and did well in school, you know, graduated
Speaker 1: with honors, walked on the football team, played there for
Speaker 1: four years. And you're an offensive lineman, right, Scott, You're
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman. Not exactly, Not exactly. I was a
Speaker 1: long snapper, so regard I would line up, yeah, on
Speaker 1: the line. You're an offensive line. Well know what I
Speaker 1: ended up doing is the way I can describe my
Speaker 1: college football career was this. Did you see the movie Rudy, Right,
Speaker 1: everybody's seen Rudy. I was Rudy without the glorified sack
Speaker 1: on my last game as a senior, being carried off
Speaker 1: the field and under the shadow of the Golden dough.
Speaker 1: I was a walk on. I was a walk on,
Speaker 1: and I was I was a scrub to be honest
Speaker 1: with you. I was a scout team player, a scrub
Speaker 1: by the standards of Syracuse at the time was a
Speaker 1: perennial top twenty five, you know, ten win team each year,
Speaker 1: upper upper echelon at the time football program. But I
Speaker 1: loved it. I ate it up because I love the game.
Speaker 1: I love my teammates, I love my coaches. I love
Speaker 1: being a part of that. And it was great. But
Speaker 1: I was at Syracuse to get the broadcasting degree that
Speaker 1: I ended up walking away with from from Syracuse and
Speaker 1: got into. And this is all I'm trying to encapsulate this.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it would be tough, and I apologize
Speaker 1: for going too long, but Dave's television and my TV
Speaker 1: career was everything to me. It was what was going
Speaker 1: to bring me my fulfillment in life. It was going
Speaker 1: to give me my hope for the future. It was
Speaker 1: going to be everything to me. You could almost put
Speaker 1: it like TV was my god. It was an idol
Speaker 1: that I looked at that I was like that, that
Speaker 1: is what I want. I want to be the guy
Speaker 1: that people recognize when I walk into a steakhouse. I
Speaker 1: want all the girls to like me because I'm on TV.
Speaker 1: I want to be rich and famous and all of that.
Speaker 1: And I was, and I was obsessed with it, Dave
Speaker 1: obsessed with it as a as a teenagers, as a
Speaker 1: young man in my early twenties, and at that time,
Speaker 1: about mid twenties, my life changed. And without getting into
Speaker 1: all the details on all of that, some folks what
Speaker 1: I say right now will understand. Other folks will be like, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe roll their eyes, and I get olive reactions. But
Speaker 1: I had an epiphany, an awakening, a rebirth as a Christian.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ changed my life in my mid twenties and
Speaker 1: continues to to this day. And again I won't go
Speaker 1: into the whole spiritual aspect of it and whatnot, but
Speaker 1: my whole life changed and my priorities changed. And there's
Speaker 1: an old hymn that says, you know, turn your eyes
Speaker 1: upon Jesus, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim.
Speaker 1: And not that I didn't care about television and sportscasting
Speaker 1: and football, but they changed the perspective. The order in
Speaker 1: my life of those things became less, and my newfound
Speaker 1: faith was so fantastic and so wondrous and so amazing
Speaker 1: to me. I decided to leave television and explore and
Speaker 1: grow and serve. As I left television and grow in
Speaker 1: my faith, and so it ended up. I ended up
Speaker 1: with a group called the Missionaries of Charity, which was
Speaker 1: the group that Mother Teresa founded. Everyone's familiar with her reputation,
Speaker 1: you know, serving the poorest of the poor, the lost,
Speaker 1: the broken, the worst of the worst. And I lived
Speaker 1: and worked full time with a group of what they
Speaker 1: call them religious brothers in the Catholic Church. It's they're
Speaker 1: kind of a male equivalent of a nun basically. And
Speaker 1: I lived and worked with these guys as a volunteer
Speaker 1: and serve people, and it was amazing grew in my
Speaker 1: faith and to try and put a button on the story.
Speaker 1: After about a year away, and when I left TV,
Speaker 1: I didn't know if I would ever come back. Quite honestly,
Speaker 1: I was twenty five, twenty six years old, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people in my family and in my world
Speaker 1: had all different types of reactions to what I was
Speaker 1: going through. And even is Scott still in his right mind,
Speaker 1: you know, he was going to be this great future sportscaster,
Speaker 1: and he's saying, no, I want to go and serve
Speaker 1: the poor and the homeless, you know. And I ultimately decided,
Speaker 1: through a lot of prayer, a lot of contemplation that
Speaker 1: I had been pretty I'd been blessed with some gifts
Speaker 1: that I thought I could use to grow in my
Speaker 1: faith and glorify God in my faith through my faith
Speaker 1: in my TV career. So I ended up getting back
Speaker 1: into television and circuitous route, but ended up working for
Speaker 1: the NFL and now host one of the most washed
Speaker 1: and popular football shows in our in our country, and
Speaker 1: we're international, so people that consume the NFL around the world,
Speaker 1: many of them are consuming in on NFL Red Zone.
Speaker 1: It's a kind of a crazy, remarkable story. But I'm
Speaker 1: so thankful and consider myself a very, very blessed man
Speaker 1: for the past that I've been down through now fifty
Speaker 1: years of life. Well, look, it is an incredible story.
Speaker 1: And as you know, if you call yourself a Christian,
Speaker 1: which you and I both do, whether you are working
Speaker 1: for Mother Teresa, NFL Network, ESPN, the Arizona Cardinals, working
Speaker 1: for APS or SRP, your job is to serve other people.
Speaker 1: That's our job, regardless, that's our vocation, regardless of what
Speaker 1: our job is. And I've always told people when people
Speaker 1: ask me, Hey, who has had the biggest impact on me,
Speaker 1: Whether it's broadcasting or just in life and Scott, your
Speaker 1: name is always mentioned because you've had a tremendous impact
Speaker 1: on me, going back over the course of our thirty
Speaker 1: years knowing each other, going back just the beer drinking
Speaker 1: days at Syracuse to then seeing you a year later, like,
Speaker 1: what's happened this guy? He's totally different. And then you're
Speaker 1: sharing the gospel with me. You know, you've run with
Speaker 1: the bulls in Spain, you climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa,
Speaker 1: You've hyped the Great Wall of China, You've gone uh
Speaker 1: great White shark cage diving in various count incontinent. So
Speaker 1: if you were an NFL player, I don't know that
Speaker 1: the owner would be okay with that. How does how
Speaker 1: does NFL network feel about you doing these things? You know,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. Don't don't out me in that regard.
Speaker 1: I want them to think that I'm out there, you know,
Speaker 1: like I'm violating some obscure claws in my contract here.
Speaker 1: But yeah, well, thankfully I don't. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: need to have you know, ligaments, joints and bones completely
Speaker 1: all aligned and perfected the way NFL football players do.
Speaker 1: To perform my duties but yeah, I got bit by
Speaker 1: an adventure bug. UM probably my thirties or so. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this world is a wild, wide, wide wild place, and
Speaker 1: I want to see some of it. Um. One aspect
Speaker 1: about my life that's different than yours is that you know,
Speaker 1: you have a wife and kids, and you've you've gone
Speaker 1: the family route. I'm a very family oriented person, but
Speaker 1: I am not married. I don't have kids. So I've
Speaker 1: had some free time in the off season and some
Speaker 1: disposable income where I can say, you know what, I
Speaker 1: can spin a globe and stick my finger on it
Speaker 1: wherever I land. Let's go to see a new country.
Speaker 1: And I try and do that in the summer when
Speaker 1: the NFL players are on vacation June early July, and
Speaker 1: I'll go and pick a new country and I'll say,
Speaker 1: you know what, let me go serve some people there.
Speaker 1: My partner with a Christian ministry somewhere and say, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come and serve. I don't need I don't
Speaker 1: need anything to help me show me where there's need,
Speaker 1: and I'll come and serve folks there with whatever you've got.
Speaker 1: And then I'll do that for about a week. After that,
Speaker 1: I'll I'll go adventure for a week, and whether it's
Speaker 1: climbing a mountain or getting up close and personal with
Speaker 1: great way sharks, are running with bowls or whatever. I've
Speaker 1: had some pretty good heart pounding moments in my life
Speaker 1: and and it quite it dovetails quite well with the
Speaker 1: television show Thrill Ride that I get to host Sunday.
Speaker 1: Nothing being told and you're bladder for seven hours going
Speaker 1: Great White shark caging and various continents and hiking the
Speaker 1: Great Wall of China and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. That's nothing
Speaker 1: compared to hold in your bladder for seven hours before
Speaker 1: I get you out of here. Let's I just want
Speaker 1: to go back to football and talk big picture about
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, because I think everybody after Week one, the
Speaker 1: Cardinals are the talk of the NFL. You touched on
Speaker 1: that for the Arizona Cardinals to be a Super Bowl team,
Speaker 1: other than the obvious staying healthy, getting breaks, what do
Speaker 1: you think has to happen for the Cardinals Because twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen was the last time they were in contention. They
Speaker 1: lost to the Panthers in the NFC Championship Game. The
Speaker 1: last time they were in the Super Bowl. You were
Speaker 1: just starting your gig with NFL Red Zone. What do
Speaker 1: you think has to happen for the Cardinals to be
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl contender? Well, okay here, now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: sound a little bit boring or maybe cliche in what
Speaker 1: I'm about to say. To win in the NFL, you
Speaker 1: need to have excellent quarterback play. Elite level quarterback play
Speaker 1: it and you don't have to always that. We have
Speaker 1: seen teams win with quarterbacks that haven't been top two
Speaker 1: or three, but that's the thing that cures a lot
Speaker 1: of ills. And you need to take care of the football.
Speaker 1: You guys, last year, I say you, guys, the Cardinals
Speaker 1: last year were a if I remember about the middle
Speaker 1: of the pack, takeaway giveaway team. In fact, what I'm
Speaker 1: looking them up right now? You know what you guys
Speaker 1: were plus minus last year, not knowing me to put
Speaker 1: me to put the Cardinals guy in the spot here. Zero. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Cardinals were right in the middle your plus minus you
Speaker 1: were zero. Now you get up into the double digits.
Speaker 1: Those are playoff teams. When you're plus ten plus eleven,
Speaker 1: plus twelve, that's elite. You have to take care of
Speaker 1: the football, more important to not give it away. Than
Speaker 1: it is to take it away. But turnovers are going
Speaker 1: to happen, So if you're taking it away from the
Speaker 1: other team at a little higher clip than giving it away,
Speaker 1: that's a formula for success, right. And then it comes
Speaker 1: down to there will be two to three on average
Speaker 1: division games that are coin flip games going into the game,
Speaker 1: and they're coin flip games at the two minute warning
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, and someone out of those twenty
Speaker 1: two on the field needs to make a play. That
Speaker 1: is the difference between winning and losing. And coaches will
Speaker 1: tell you one play doesn't win or lose a game. Well,
Speaker 1: yes and no, because there will be the way the engine,
Speaker 1: the way the NFL is engineered for parody, and every
Speaker 1: team legitimately has a shot. The Cardinals are going to
Speaker 1: find themselves in a game with the Rams, in a
Speaker 1: game with the Seahawks, in a game with the Niners
Speaker 1: where it is tied up or a one point game
Speaker 1: or whatever, and the teams the team's gonna have the
Speaker 1: ball with a chance to win the game, do they
Speaker 1: do it or don't they do it? And I can't
Speaker 1: tell you and you can't tell us, David. You know
Speaker 1: the Cardinals better than anyone. But it's gonna come down
Speaker 1: to that, right Their roster is such where they will
Speaker 1: be in those games, in my opinion, And then do
Speaker 1: they break through, do they win more of those and
Speaker 1: lose more of those? And could they win the division?
Speaker 1: Get the home game, which this year would be unbelievable
Speaker 1: right at down there in Glendale, and then make some
Speaker 1: noise because guess what, and even if they don't even
Speaker 1: if they don't win the division, remember the reigning Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champions were a wild card team last year. The
Speaker 1: Buccaneers did not win the NFC South, So figure a
Speaker 1: way to get the dance and then make a run.
Speaker 1: So that that might sound cliche, but the cliches are
Speaker 1: true in that regard excellent quarterback at play, take care
Speaker 1: of the football, win your division, and then let's see
Speaker 1: what happens in mid to late January. It's extremely hard
Speaker 1: to make the super Bowl, but the formula to be
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl team is pretty simple, and you just
Speaker 1: outlined it. So great job, man, you nailed it. Hey listen, man,
Speaker 1: you continue to inspire me with how you live your life,
Speaker 1: your faith, and how you do your work. Again, it's
Speaker 1: such a unique position in broadcasting there's no other job
Speaker 1: like it, and I know you do a lot more
Speaker 1: things for NFL Network than just hosting Red Zone, but
Speaker 1: it is. It's near miraculous what you do, the energy
Speaker 1: you have, how you're able to do that every single
Speaker 1: week for five straight months, it's just it's fantastic. So
Speaker 1: appreciate you, Scott. Thanks again, Man for spending some time
Speaker 1: with us. Well, Dave, you wouldn't end an interview this
Speaker 1: way usually, but since we've known each other for about
Speaker 1: half our lives twenty five years or so or more.
Speaker 1: I love you, brother, I love you man, and all
Speaker 1: the best this season. Thanks a lot for having me
Speaker 1: on the podcast much success. I love you too, Bro.
Speaker 1: Thanks Man. So great to catch up with Scott, somebody
Speaker 1: that I've known and respected and admired who's had such
Speaker 1: a big impact on my life in so many ways
Speaker 1: over the last three decades. His job in broadcasting is
Speaker 1: one of the most unique positions in this industry, and
Speaker 1: for many of you who spend your sundays consuming NFL football,
Speaker 1: Scott is the voice and the face of NFL football
Speaker 1: for so many of you because of what he does
Speaker 1: as the host of NFL Red Zone as well as
Speaker 1: being a multidimensional broadcaster for NFL Network going back to
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. For more, you can visit NFL
Speaker 1: dot com slash red Zone. I just thought the process,
Speaker 1: the mechanics that go into his Sunday, the preparation that
Speaker 1: he goes through to host, and then during those seven
Speaker 1: hours of commercial free live programming, the conversations that go
Speaker 1: on between him and his producer, how he's constantly monitoring
Speaker 1: every game, making split decisions about which game do we
Speaker 1: go to, what do we risk missing if we switch
Speaker 1: to another game, And if we don't switch to another game,
Speaker 1: if we stay in the game that we're currently on,
Speaker 1: what are we missing then? So it's just a interesting
Speaker 1: perspective on the NFL broadcasting world. So very grateful Scott
Speaker 1: could spend some time with us and not only talk
Speaker 1: about that, but talk about the Cardinals. He believes, like
Speaker 1: most of us do, right, the Cardinals are going to
Speaker 1: go as far as Kyler Murray takes them. Everything else, defense,
Speaker 1: the kicker, the offensive line, all those things are important.
Speaker 1: But ultimately we've learned over the last two decades that
Speaker 1: it's very rare that you're a super Bowl team unless
Speaker 1: your quarterback is phenomenal and if Kyler Murray plays like
Speaker 1: you did Week one, I can't wait to see what
Speaker 1: the future holds for the Cardinals. We're sponsored on the
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Speaker 1: You can keep up with us on Twitter at Pash
Speaker 1: pod to get information on future guests and also relive
Speaker 1: some of the highlights from previous guests. Our thanks once
Speaker 1: again to Scott Hanson, and we'll talk to you next
Speaker 1: time on the Dave Pash Podcast