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"And Amira, played by Lauren London, are forced to navigate Ezra pseudo woke parents, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and David Duchovny in a mirror's unyielding and concerned parents, played by Eddie Murphy and Nia long. You people was written by Jonah Hill in Kenya barris and directed by Kenya bears. You people is rated R and is now playing only on Netflix. Welcome everyone to the SI media podcast. I'm your host, Jimmy trainer. Thanks so much for listening. Podcast is actually going to be called SI media with Jimmy trainer going forward. You may see that switch when you're listening to this, you may not, we're trying to get it all settled, so a little tweak of the name, new logo. Hope you like it. Send me some feedback. I like the logo a lot. So hopefully you guys do too. And a new era here as we go forward. And we have a great, great show to kick off here with the new title and logo, Chris Berman, the legend from ESPN, joins the SI media with Jimmy trainer podcast to discuss Super Bowl NFL NFL prime time Swami and a bunch of other stuff, really fun interview with Berman, then we have Sal la cata and train of thoughts following Berman. Get into a lot of stuff about the NFC and AFC title games. Super Bowl stuff, just usual banter with Sal in train of thoughts. Before we get to it, I had a great interview last week with good morning football, Jason McCourty got a lot of good feedback on that. A lot of people like the interview. So if you missed it, check that out in the archives. Chris long was on the pod two weeks ago, Troy Aikman three weeks ago. So going to the archives, check those out, subscribe to the podcast as well. Leave a review on Apple. We have a giveaway with Brady brand in the train of thought segment and if you leave a review, you can win some Brady brand underwear. So a lot going on this week. We got a name change. We got a logo change. We're doing a giveaway. And we've got a legend in Chris Berman on the pod, followed by train of thoughts. We kick it off all right here. On SI media with Jimmy trainer. All right, joining me now, very excited to have him back on the SI media podcast. He was one of my first guests when I took over. A while ago and it's great to have him back. The legendary. Icon from ESPN, they call him boomer, Chris Berman, Chris, how are they? Hi, Julie. Legendary is kind, but you got my chapter, thank you. Listen, you know, I'll start here by doing a little kissing of the butt. You know, Sunday after those two games, flip on ESPN and there you were. And I'm a very, very big nostalgia guy. And I grew up in the 80s. I think the 80s is the greatest decade and I'm all about the 80s. So when I see you on my television, not a streaming service, not my iPad sorry ESPN PR is probably flipping out. When I see you on my TV after a big football game on a Sunday Night, it just feels right and takes me back to a
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Old are you? Because you know why I grew up in the 80s? And I saw the original Lady Gaga act. Her name was Madonna. She's just copying everything she does. So she's Lady Gaga's got a real voice. Madonna doesn't have that. Right. But Madonna was around for like 30 years before Lady Gaga. Did you watch A Star Is Born or no? No. you gotta see it. First of all, if I watched it, I'd watch the original. Yeah, I know I want to go back and do that. But this was a great one. This was a great one. At least you put The Karate Kid song on the list. As long as that's on the list you're okay. Both of those. You're the best. Young hearts, which is fantastic. I don't like you. I don't like doing the movie rocky. Yeah, all of them. I've only seen I definitely seem three, maybe four. You don't know the rocky movies? I just said I've seen I've seen three. Which is the one with the Russian. Four. Then I've seen four. Four. Yeah. Are there only 5? No, there's rocky Balboa, and then there's creed that company. Those are the new focal ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no. I'm talking about good movies. I'm not talking about you'll like rocky Balboa, it's a good one. Let me be clear let me be clear. I'm not saying they're not good movies, but excuse me. The real rocky movies are the ones with Sylvester Stallone is fighting, not where he's a hundred years old. So for me, 5 rockies, I don't think, what was the 5th one? What's this? Tommy gone in the street, my rings outside. Tommy gone in the streets, you know what Tommy Morrison? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I probably saw that one. Yeah. I definitely saw the first four. Probably so 5. Yeah. All right. That list was better than the soundtrack list. Yeah. What's another less you got another list coming up? No, I noticed all that I did this two years ago during the pandemic. It's like the Olympics with me. Every two years I watched the rocky movies in order and rank them. Here's what I find funny about this. There's no one I've said this before. There's no one I know. That hates Twitter or has more bigger or has bigger issues with Twitter than you. And then you're out there putting out lists, which is literally the number one thing to put on Twitter if you want people to come back and attack you. Yeah, I don't even read. To me, it's fun. At that point, that's where I do it to it's a good format to put that stuff out there, but it's also trolling. You know going in, nobody is going to like your list. Simple as that. No, the majority of people can have something to say. How could you put this one over that one? After you put this song on the list. That's my point. And you did it anyway, despite the fact that you say you hate Twitter. But I did it with a smile as opposed to a shock that I'm getting. That's good. Yeah, you seem very zen about it. I'm happy about it. Usually, you're all riled up. You seem about it. I'm glad. That's your friend. I'm in a good spot. Maybe next week we'll read some apple reviews. So enjoy Sunday AFC NFC title games. I'm gonna bet Philly minus two and a half and I'll probably bet over 47 and a half in the Bengals cheesecake. I'll bet Philly and probably the Bengals, not sure. All right, be well. Talk to you later. Bye. All right, my thanks to Jason McCourty and Sal la cotta if you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple. We'll read it during a train of thought segment and one of the near episodes and make sure you subscribe to the SI media podcast. Most important thing is to subscribe if you're not a subscriber, you enjoyed the show, hit the subscribe button and check out some past episodes. Chris long was on the pod last week, trajectory in two weeks ago, Jim Miller, three weeks ago, check those out in the archives and again, subscribe to the SI media podcast. All right, appreciate you guys listening, enjoy the NFC and AFC title games. We'll see you next week. Right here on the SI media podcast. Stay safe and
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Of New York. Tell me you mentioned the 5 30 meetings and someone may be in a, who's pissy at that time, the most often. One of your co hosts. Peter akal, it goes back and forth. I'm the most pleasant one. So Jamie can have her days to, but as going to be Peter or Kyle, and I'm the pleasant one, the peacemaker song. One of those two know that you can count and bank it of which one it is going to be. I will say it always comes from a good place. Those two worked her ass off to make sure that it's a very good show each and every day. That from both of them will say how hard they go to make sure we put a good product on air. What was it like for you the first time you're in the studio and Kyle did angry runs? Is not only doing it, is him trying to catch his breath as he's finishing. I get legitimately nervous. I'm like, he's coming to the table and he's like, Peter, you start. We got it. We got Derrick Henry. I'm just like, is he a pass out? Do we need to go, so it is so impressive. People don't realize as Kyle's doing angry ones. There's no prompter that he's reading from. He has a card with maybe 5 words written down. And he's able to reference things and go from this to that. That was the biggest thing I took away of coming and working with these three every single day of seeing how talented they each are at whatever it is they're crafted. Peter's relationship building, his reporter and journalist I, like, we'll have a discussion and I'll say something. And before I can finish, he's already thrown a question back at me to challenge whatever it is that I'm coming up with. And then Jamie's ability to just keep it all under control and for her that prompter is going a mile a minute of getting it all in and making sure everybody's on the same point. She said she's like the point guard where it's around the back pass is no and everything. So I think as a player you go in and you're just like, these people just sit in front of a camera and just mix stuff up and then you get in there and you get to see the nuances and how talented each member is really cool to see. Before I let you go, give me a Super Bowl prediction. Super Bowl prediction. I am going with the San Francisco forty-niners against the Kansas City Chiefs going to be a rematch of a few years ago and I am going to say Shanahan finally gets his Super Bowl. I just came up with that. You put me on the spot so I may change it tomorrow on the show and we'll see. You know, what I like about this year is I feel like these are the four best teams. I mean, the sort of always rises to the top. And it's crazy. I don't know if you pay attention to the betting odds at all and the betting world, but the odds right now for those four teams to win the Super Bowl. There's not a big difference between one through four. So it tells you how close everything is, which I think is great. For the next couple of weeks, four juggernauts. Yeah, for sure. Jason really appreciate it, enjoy the conversation. And will you do any, do you have any more radio games or you done for this season? The wild card was my last month's call. Join the games for my couch. All right, and we'll be watching you on good morning football every morning Monday through Friday on the NFL network. Jason McCourty, thanks a lot. Appreciate it. Take care. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. My pleasure. Stevenson university online is a leader in advanced technology education with masters and certificate programs in cybersecurity. Digital forensics and digital transformation and innovation. No GRE required, and new online sessions start every 8 weeks, taking your career to the next level, let's Stevenson university, be your partner for professional success. Visit online Stevenson dot EDU. 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My buddy saw the as we prepare for the last real weekend of the football season before the fake game for the fake fans. Sal, how's it going? I always say the same thing. It's a glorified exhibition games. It means the most, but it's a glorified exhibition. Essentially, football season's over. I mean, that's it. There's three games left. It's over. Yeah, to me it's over after Sunday, so. We have a lot. I have a lot of topics here. I'm gonna start with the dumbest topic first because it's so ridiculous. It's not even with disgusting. But for you, you'll get riled up and I might say something, but I'm just gonna say two words. I'm just gonna say two words and I'll let you go and then I'll go. Scott rolling? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? I love it, but I hate it. It's the same thing every year. But it's fun. It's fun to discuss everything. He shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame. You and I know it, you know, you can talk about who's in. It's twofold, right? It's who's been getting in and who's not getting in. But it's at least fun, I guess, to vent at least once a year on it. I'm a hypocrite because I've always said, I always say the same thing every year. If you get worked up about the Hall of Fame, you're an idiot. At this point now, it's like it's a fake thing. It's ridiculous. It's a museum. Don't get worked. Don't get worked up over who is in and out. What does piss me off though is because we're in this ridiculous time where you're not allowed to say anything and Twitter and this and that. If you say that Scott, you don't think Scott Roland should be in the Hall of Fame. And forget not he shouldn't be anywhere and he shouldn't be allowed to see if Cooper's town. Then it's, oh, you're raining on his parade. You're shitting on his moment who are you to say, why? Listen, this is sports. We're allowed to analyze sports. We're allowed to say this was a good game. This was a bad game. This was a good play. This was a bad play. So if you have this building that has become completely meaningless and a complete joke, you're allowed to say whether you think the guy should be in. So, you know, I get a God forbid you say anything negative about everyone sensitive and all that. But I mean, what are we doing?
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Now he's built up his reputation. Well, you're not even playing in the game. He's somebody see them talking about Stefon Diggs and Josh Allen. And now you have randomly adjusting Herbert who gets pissed off and Keenan Allen and they want to jump in. I think that's what makes it so much fun. And I just strictly now as a fan of the game. You look forward to this Sunday watching to interaction between an Eli Apple and a guy on those side maybe whether it's juju whethers, NBS, while the kids in Kelsey space. You look forward to that and it's trash talking all of his antics. The last thing I want to talk about in terms of the playoffs and current teams, this goes, this is overall for the holy, does every player and every team feel disrespected no matter what. I feel like this is like, I've read so many things about Joe burrow's been disrespected because people don't put them. No one's disrespecting Joe borrow. I've read mahomes as disrespected because people talk about Allen and burrow and they don't talk about mahomes. You know, Aaron Rodgers even, you know, he's like, oh, you know, the packers drafted my backup, and they thought I was done. And then I went to no one, I feel like 95% of either they don't get talked about enough or they're disrespected, is the player using it for their own motivation. What's am I wrong on that? No, there's been a fun part of these last several months of now. Now I'm in your world and you realize that no matter what I say, like somebody's gonna find something. So I was just like, going in, you just said, Cincinnati was the underdog. Whether it was a coin, where there was a neutral site game, whatever it was, people lost line, and there's so much doubt on us. And it was just like now going into this week, Kansas City fans, Dirk pistols are just like, now everybody's saying a borough is the best quarterback in the AFC. Oh, don't you remember? In the summer, you guys all picked the Raiders and the Broncos and the charges. Well, look, we're still here. No matter what you say, you're doubting somebody's franchise and you're doubting this quarterback. But as a player, of course, you always found a reason to put a chip on your shoulder and attack whether it's the off season, whether it's darn season. I remember our Super Bowl run in 2018, we lost, we won our first game against Houston, then we lose the Jackson on a roll, and we lose to the lines on a roll. Then we would go on a little bit of a win string, and then we get to the end of the year, we lose to the dolphins and the Miami miracle with a chance to win a division. And we lose on the role to Pittsburgh with a chance to win the division. And throughout that week, the following weeks and especially once we entered the playoffs, we want our last two games against the jets and the bills, but there were all the articles of what everybody was saying about us when we had lost those two straight games earlier in the season. And at the end of the season, the dumbest news over this day and the third and we use that as our motivation and it was just like, well, no, we've lost those two straight games. We look trash. Everybody that was analyzed in the game. It was just calling what they saw on film. So it's not really attacking us or disrespecting us. You lay an egg out there and I have to talk about that game. I have to talk about the fact that you late in a. So I think we all do it when we're playing. Even individually, you'll still get mad at the little league coach that benched you and your first game as you're getting ready to play in the Super Bowl. I wish I wish I wish I remember the details. This happened in college too, because Georgia, which just won the national title. It's one of the national title last year, went undefeated this year. After the game, players were saying like, oh, people picked us to finish. No one did that. You're just making it up. And I guess, you know, I've heard athletes over the years of all told me, like they'll do anything they can to get any sort of motivation and any edge going into a game. It's almost in the NFC eagles niners. I'm just, you know, obviously the story here is Brock purdy. And it's a great story. You don't want to be the one to sort of throw cold water on it. But his two road wins would games have been at Seattle and at the Raiders at Las Vegas. Now, just as a fan, to me, going into Philly with those fans is going to be like nothing he's ever experienced. Is this going to be a challenge? He's not going to really, you know, I feel like he's not ready for that challenge because he hasn't had to go through anything like that. Or am I not giving him enough credit? I will lean on not giving him enough credit. And I will say because of this going into Vegas is different. You're going into a beautiful stadium. There's a club in the background. That's a whole vibe in itself against a struggling team. We're actually a writer's play well in that game, but going into Seattle like Seattle is one of the loudest stadiums I've ever played and put our head obviously right next to that. Now head into Philly is a different atmosphere because now you're entering the northeast where people are just upset. They're mad that they woke up and their local coffee shop the coffee wasn't as hot as it was the day before. And the northeast we just find reasons to be mad. We don't talk to people when we pass them on the street. So there's a different atmosphere in that where you're going to be riding up on the bus and there's going to be a lot of choice boards and gestures for them as he's getting there because that's just filling us just the northeast. But I think as far as atmospheres, obviously a conference championship is something that he's never played in, which is a different level in itself. But I think that rolled presence. I think what he probably saw in Seattle a Thursday night game prime time Seattle still had a ton to play for as we saw they were able to creep into the playoffs and late in the season playing him. I think as a vision opponent, it gives a lot of those playoff vibes of course you get towards the end of the season. But I keep saying this about Brock Brody, we keep waiting for the shooter to fall off and for him to make this crazy mistake that cost and it keeps looking and you're just like, I don't know what you guys are waiting for. That's just not me. You can say I didn't throw any touchdown pass this down to third. This guy's been in control of the office since he's been out there. He's made enough place each and every week and obviously they're Ross and being loaded is very helpful as well. I don't want to talk about football anymore because you're a Jersey guy and you just talk about how we're angry here on the east coast. Give me something you got angry about in the last like something in the last couple of days that made you angry on you said the coffee is not hot enough, give me give me something. Oh man I don't know if there's a specific man. You got to think about we do a show where our morning meeting happens at 5 30 in the morning. So I think upset is just those morning meetings like who's going to be in a pissy mood today because somebody didn't get enough sleep and we're going to talk Aaron Rodgers there. Somebody's going to be pissed that we're talking Aaron Rodgers all right, we'll change the subject. Then we'll talk Tom Brady. I did something that's going to be pissed that we're talking Tom Brady. So I think all of us kind of coming from different areas, but doing something at 5 30 in the morning. We did the worst of each and every person. It's just like it takes turns every morning, but my take on the northeast, I lived in Nashville for ten years and while I was down there, one of my mentors was a guy Chris holt that I played with. He's pumped Rock Hill, South Carolina. We trained together in the off season, and we'd all go to lunch or whatever the case may be and we're walking down the street and this dude is saying hi to everybody we crossed paths with. And I'm like, he looks at me and he's just like, what's wrong with you? Like, say hi, talk to people. So then I got in the habit of doing that. And next, you know, I'm having a conversation with somebody's grandmother and Walmart and heritage about her babies and all of that. And then I come back home and I'll be walking and I'm trying to make eye contact with somebody I was walking past me so I can give a head and out of something and like don't pull out the phone or to look the other way and it's just like as a reminder like you're no longer in the south. So I've had to get used to the warmth of the people of the northeast again. I wear these things. I'm pointing if you're listening and not on YouTube. My AirPods. I wear these in every store I go.
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Just being so good after a job over the years I went on the show went in person would come out via remote through Zoom and stuff and I got a chance to interact with them with all being on there and they just so good at what he does. Now he's doing a for CBS mornings is on NFL Sundays on Nickelodeon. He's all over the place so you're trying to fill those shoes and my one thing I did was I was like I'm not going to go back and study Nate. I want to make sure when I'm starting to show like I'm just being Hawaiian but that's good enough and great. I'll have a nice long run right here on a good morning football by going there and I suck and they're just like, what the heck we need Nate back then I won't be there long and my TV career would be very short. So I think that was kind of how I dealt with it just dive in, head first, give it your best shot and see where it puts you, but it's been really cool even throughout our weeks Nate usually comes on the show once or twice a week and he'll come on just for his one segment and I'll leave that segment on like dang now. Now I see why people miss Nate but this is delivery to things he said. It's quick with it. And so good at being able to come up with stuff and his answers and his knowledge on football and everything in between. I'm one of those guys that I hate change, especially with shows I like and I watch you guys every day and I have to say you and Jamie though I felt like it was pretty seamless and you guys really fit in well. It wasn't jarring at all. I think maybe what maybe ended up helping you a little bit is that they sort of went a year without replacing name. I don't know, I feel like maybe from like you mentioned those quote unquote fans who said, you know, bring back Nate I think a year of rotating hosts probably when you came in then it's not like you're immediately replacing him. So maybe that helped. But as far as from what I've seen in television shows sports TV, this transition or change has been as smooth as I think I've ever seen. Yeah, we felt that way too, and I think me and Jamie talked about it all the time. We were so fortunate to have each other starting to show at the same time opposed and maybe a year ago, all was starting to show as Nate went to CBS more and now I'm the one new person on the show with three of the veteran veteran holson not only better, but they started the show and now I'm starting to know the next thing you know I get comfortable and now we got to do it together and lean on each other and it wasn't just one new kid on a block. So I do think that was helpful. And I will say just from the beginning there's been chemistry. We talked about it. It was in the summer. I did a two day audition and in between those two days, Jamie had fluent from Minnesota and off air the four of us did a show just to see what it felt like and this was the first time we all were meeting each other and getting to know one another and it was really cool and it was kind of a vibe and chemistry early on and the one thing about the show you're going to get better right away because it's every single day. So the more reps you do together the more time you spend together, you start to see the chemistry and the bonds and all this kind of poking fun at each other. It kind of happens right away and I will say the two things that helped it a lot was we traveled to London together and then we traveled to Germany together and when you do that it's a ton of time not only doing our show but going out to eat and waking up together traveling to and from the site together all of that time spent. It helps to develop the relationships and the chemistry. Give me have you had a most memorable moment on the show in your first years or something. If I said, what's a day what's something that happened that sticks out in your mind? Because you guys do some really wacky stuff on that show. I mean, Wall Street is in and of itself, we can get into. But there's always something going on that's, you know, a little off the beaten path on that show, so I'm just curious. One of them would be the first trip to London. That was the first time that I got a chance to do the show with her. It's actually people lined up outside. We're doing a live show from remote and there's an audience there who are energizing us asking questions. We're going out there and interacting with them. That was such a different experience that that was very memorable because it was just like, wow, I'm here on in London. I was just here last year playing in a game. And now I'm here to host the TV show throughout the course of the week. And I would say, probably another one, I don't remember specifically what it was, but anybody that watches our show knows you can never anticipate or know what Kyle grant is going to say or do next. And I won't be time, especially in the summer when I first started to show he would say something and I would kind of look at the camera and the producers would be laughing at my hair because I'm just like, is there like a sensor is he allowed to say some of the things that he's saying? So I think those aspects start to show definitely stand out to me and it happens every single day where you don't know what Kyle or Peter or somebody is going to do and what they're going to come up with. Two weeks ago, Jamie was riding around in the studio in a scooter after she saw Pete Carroll do it down in Seattle. So that's the fun thing about our show that keeps it lively. You never know what the next person's going to do. And tell me, you played in the NFL for 13 seasons. When did you sort of get the sort of bug that you would be in media or wanted to get into TV? Was it something you had thought about for years? Was it something that came up when you retired? How did it go from right from the field onto a daily NFL show? Yeah, I can't say that I'll force all that comment of just from one to the other, literally within a week, but throughout my career, I always had something going on in Tennessee. I remember a guy Joel fan was working for the Tennessee Titans now. I believe it was in Seattle or San Francisco now writing for the beat reporter, but he was there and we would do a little show in between writing our players lounge. We would talk about the team in different things and then from that I had a radio show that Jay Mac show when I was with the Titans. So always kind of doing small things here and there. And then finally at 2018 when I ended up joining New England Patriots, my brother and myself started a podcast double coverage with the McCourty twins that we did for the three or four years there. So I think it was kind of a growing interest as I continue to go through the league and it was something that I started to develop skills and being uncomfortable being behind a microphone or in front of a camera of doing those types of things and then in April last year have gone out the NFL did a broadcast boot camp and went out there was 24 of us and you go out there for about three days and the last day is basically an audition for everybody. What we want from radials there, compass, Fox, CBS, ESPN, NFL network, everybody's there and ended up doing that studio stuff called the game, radio stuff, everything you can think of in the sports media industry. And next thing you knew from there, job opportunity started popping up. I think that's when it really hit me my no, you really have an opportunity to do some things. And that kind of helped push to retirement. No one was there and probably the right move, having something to walk into is a big part of all of us as players we
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"For listening. Got a great show this week. We have Jason McCourty from the NFL network's good morning football first time. He's on the SI media podcast and we talk about his first year good morning football and replacing Nate burleson and he gets into some stories when he played for the Patriots, Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, a little NFL playoff talks, and overall career sort of interview and play a football interview with Jason. And then following mccordy, we have for our weekly train of thought segment, a bunch of topics this week that Sal and I got into Scott Roland making the Hall of Fame, Shannon Sharpe, a Tom Brady, and a lot of bedding talk for the AFC and NFC title games, also some movie soundtrack talks, some rocky talk. So a lot of topics covered with both Jason and Sal. So hopefully you enjoy it. If you do leave a review on Apple, and if you're not a subscriber to the SI media podcast, hit the subscribe button and make sure you check out past episodes if you missed any. Chris long was on the podcast last week. Tri Aikman two weeks ago, Jim Miller three weeks ago, and at the end of the year we had some young review episodes with Peter schrager, Andrew perloff and Brian Curtis. All right, let's get to this week's episode. Jason McCourty from good morning football, followed by Sal hakata and our weekly train of thought segment all right here. On the SI media podcast. All right, joining me now from good morning, football, former Super Bowl champion, played in the league for many seasons. Jason McCourty, Jason. How's it going? Going well, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. My pleasure. I'm a big fan of good morning football and you've been a great addition to the show, so I thank you for coming on. I appreciate that. I appreciate mission as well, has been a lot of fun. It's kind of been a whirlwind of these last few months retiring and going right into the show. Give me a little give me a little recap and taste of what your first full season on good morning football has been like for you. I'll start, I'll say it's a growing up every morning, at least by 5 a.m. to get into the city where obviously we do a live taping of the show, 7 to ten, I guess what I've been surprised about is how much fun we have throughout those three hours that we're on the air, whether it's in the commercial breaks of laughing or just things that happen throughout the course of the show that we maybe didn't expect. I didn't know what to think going in. I think when you have three co hosts that are so much fun and we all get along well, you're able to really enjoy talking football, I thought I was retiring, but having another job. This is just as much of a grind during the season as it was playing. I've become tight with Kyle and schrager over the years. And when the show first started, when I first got to know them, I probably annoyed them to know and about the hours. I was always fascinated. I'd be like, Kyle, what do you wake up? And I know he says the car comes and what fascinates me about the gig, you guys have. Is that on Sundays and Mondays? And Thursdays, this games that go on until 11 o'clock midnight and you were on the air at 7 in the morning and, you know, it blows me away that you gotta try to watch the game and then be on the air a few hours after it's over. That's the toughest thing and you kind of enjoy now this would be championship week and or even last week and during the divisionals because you get to go to bed a little earlier that last game started at 6 30 on Sunday I was thankful for that because by the time I finished the game I saw with enough time to get enough sleep to wake up, but that is the hardest part. Those Thursday night games, especially someone was games throughout the year just like you're watching and the score is three to 6 and a fourth quarter and it's just a brutal watch at time. They're like, nope, I gotta stay up. I gotta talk about this game tomorrow. So it's definitely 100% ground, but I will say everybody behind the scenes on the show tries to make it as seamless as possible. We do our morning start production so when we're talking about it in the car ride into the city and then we do a quick 15 minute zone call after so they make it as easy as possible for us to be able to get on and get out and actually have a good product and we're putting it on the Internet every day. How long would you say it took you to sort of get used to the schedule and the grind from week one when you get those initial the Monday night games that Thursday night games did it take you a little while to get used to this schedule or do you sort of never get used to it? What's that been like? It definitely took a while. I think even before the game started starting to show in the summer, I took at least probably about a month to two months, just getting used to waking up that early and having to go to work. I come home and the kids want to play. I'm just I'm a zombie walking around the house in a bad mood. It's like those old Snickers commercials where you're hungry and you're just snapping at everybody. So I had to figure out I'm not an early sleeper so I had to figure that schedule out and it once the game started. I was thinking probably the most difficult thing for me came on Sundays where I'm used to playing or focusing on whatever one game I was preparing for. Now it's just like Sunday to come and you're trying your hardest to watch every single game at the same time knowing those kind of prime time matchup it may spend a little bit more time on those games versus other games or that was the toughest challenge. I've never done that as a fan of truly sit down and just enjoy watching football and getting into all the teams or Ross was in all of that. It took a while of just I would have on the TV screen I'd have games going on to kind of four box going on didn't have red zone on an iPad, another game on the laptop. So it's a whole production come Sunday. Yeah. I always watch games like that and then I got rid of direct TV and I couldn't I can't wait to do it again with whatever YouTube or whatever because I got really good at watching multiple games. You know this is what I found from one to one 30. It's crazy. But then by one 30 you can sort of weed out a game or two and then it becomes a little easier to focus on multiple games. Exactly and then the longer to show when I started to get I started to understand that of getting an idea. We're going to talk about this game more than that game. And then just understanding TV where you do a show and each hour is kind of its own individual. So and then you have the show open and we go by blocks so we have the a blog blog through E and then realizing that, hey, by the time we get to the end of the show the evil Bella segments only a few minutes, I was like, you don't need to empty the bag and do a ton of research on whatever we're talking about the topic in that last segment because you could probably have 45 seconds to talk. So figuring out all the old things we laughed about it when I started to show certain terms would be used while there were strengths or college or Jamie to all producers and all that and I'd be sitting I have no idea what you guys are talking about just from not having that TV experience so everybody has done a good job of bringing me up to speed and being patient with me. Yeah. And you came in and filled the seat that was occupied by Nate burleson for many years before Nate went over to CBS mornings. And Nate was very popular on the show. Did you feel any pressure in replacing Nate or was it just, you felt pressure just 'cause you're doing TV, you've never done it. Like you said, it's a grind, Monday through Friday. Was the Nate thing a factor as well in terms of maybe nerves or pressure when you first started? Oh, for sure. I think the TV part of it as pressure and then you're kind of used to pressure all your playing games for so many years with 50, 60,000 fans watching this pressure that comes along with that, trying to perform for your team. But starting to show the social media following is big and all me and Jamie were here is that these two start Nate, we wish Nate and Kate was there like that was the added pressure that comes along with it and both of them May and K
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Doing the movie rocky. Yeah, all of them. I've only seen I definitely seem three, maybe four. You don't know the rocky movies? I just said. I've seen, I've seen three. Which is the one with the Russian. Four. That I've seen for. Four. Yeah. Are there only 5? No, there's rocky Balboa, and then there's creed that comes in. Those are the new focal ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no. I'm talking about good movies. You'll like rocky Balboa, it's a good one. Let me be clear let me be clear. I'm not saying they're not good movies, but excuse me. The real rocky movies are the ones with Sylvester Stallone is fighting, not where he's a hundred years old. So for me, 5 rockies, I don't think, what was the 5th one? What's this? Tommy gone in the street, my rings outside. Tommy's gone in the streets. You know Tommy Morrison? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I probably saw that one. Yeah. I definitely saw the first four, probably so 5. Yeah, all right. That list was better than the soundtrack list. Yeah. What's another less you got another list coming up? No, I noticed all that I did this two years ago during the pandemic. It's like the Olympics with me. Every two years I watched the rocky movies in order and rank them. Here's what I find funny about this. There's no one I said this before. There's no one I know. That hates Twitter or has more bigger or has bigger issues with Twitter than you. And then you're out there putting out lists, which is literally the number one thing to put on Twitter if you want people to come back and attack you. Yeah, I don't even read. To me, it's fun. At that point, that's where I do it to it's a good format to put that stuff out there, but it's also trolling. You know going in, nobody is going to like your list. Simple as that. No, the majority of people can have something to say, how could you put this one over that one after you put this song on the list? That's my point. And you did it anyway, despite the fact that you say you hate Twitter. But I did it with a smile as opposed to a shock that I'm getting. That's good. Yeah, you seem very zen about it. I'm happy about it. Usually, you're all riled up. You seem about it. I'm glad. That's your friend. I'm in a good spot. Maybe next week we'll read some apple reviews. So enjoy Sunday AFC NFC title games. I'm gonna bet Philly minus two and a half and I'll probably bet over 47 and a half in the Bengals cheesecake. I'll bet Philly and probably the bangles. Not sure. All right. All right, be well. Talk to you later. Bye. All right, my thanks to Jason McCourty and Sal la cotta if you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple. We'll read it during a train of thought segment and one of the near episodes and make sure you subscribe to the SI media podcast. Most important thing is to subscribe if you're not a subscriber, you enjoyed the show, hit the subscribe button and check out some past episodes. Chris long was on the pod last week, trach in two weeks ago, Jim Miller, three weeks ago, check those out in the archives and again, subscribe to the SI media podcast. All right, I appreciate you guys listening, enjoy the NFC and AFC title games. We'll see you next week. Right here on the SI media podcast. Stay safe and take
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"I agree. It's too funny. You can control your electric bills from Novak without hibernating. Simple actions can put those savings in motion. Set your thermostat at 60 8° or lower. Layer clothing at blankets to stay cozy. Replace baths with short showers. As a not for profit cooperative, novec is here to help. Visit Novak dot com forward slash save. Novak, offering simple ways to save. At the intersection of sports, community and media. You will find the future and to play it forward foundation is paving the way to that future through building, educating and exposing youth to opportunities to play it forward foundation or pith elevates and equips elite young athletes through NIL branding to support their development and secure their future. Learn more at PIF foundation dot org. That's PIF foundation dot org. Playing forward foundation, creating opportunities. Stock up on everything you need to conquer cold and flu season at your local Safeway. They have everything you need for any coffin flu needs this season. Get cold and flu relief from products like vicks NyQuil or dayquil. Tylenol cold and flu, alka seltzer, mucinex, and Bigelow T's. When you're feeling under the weather, Safeway has everything you need to get feeling better fast. Find everything you need at your local Safeway and feel better fast. All right, let's talk about that NFL playoffs here for a little bit. I had said last week, I just want to, you know, I always like to give myself credit when I'm right and then not mention it when I'm wrong. I had said last week I liked the three underdogs and the niners and only the Giants screwed that up for me. So three and one was a nice weekend. It was a bloodbath for me on Sunday. I like both the bills and cowboys. It was ugly. The bills game is still to me a complete mystery. hit the over with the bills for the year, by the way? Yeah. You must have, right? Yeah. The bills gave on something was a mystery because if you're the Buffalo Bills, how are you just scoring ten points? People making it like the snow. And how about the fact that the bangles offensive line? See, that line to me made no sense. That's why it was all over the bills because it just did not add up. If it were four, if it were three, maybe I'd feel differently, but the fact that there was a public push to where that line went to 6 plus points and you heard about the offensive line, anything bought, that was one of the greatest offensive line performances I've ever seen, borrowed and get taught she was carving them up all day long. They couldn't stop them. And then you had the cowboys? Yeah, I like the cowboys. And then once dac throws that first horrible pick and it should have been worse, you just knew. And even ma her missing the frig extra point. I know it didn't end up costing them, but it just said a bad tone. Yeah, we're at Paul getting hurt. They couldn't stop him in the end. They just ran the ball down their throat. They scored the difference making touchdown. And then that was that. But the bills won't bothered me because I thought that the real bills would show up. Not that I was like everybody else picking them the one the Super Bowl, but I was you know what I came away from that game saying the bangles were by far the better team. Like by far, not even close. Yeah. The Bengals and chiefs think to me is so weird because I feel like it keeps shifting. People don't talk enough about the chiefs and borough wasn't getting enough credit. He keeps going back and forth. I do think it's interesting. The line opened with the chiefs minus one or minus one and a half. It went to Bengals minus one. Then it went to Bengals minus two. And then today on Wednesday, all the reports were that mahomes practice he seems fine. Now the line's down to Bengals minus one. This is a big theme with you with the respect. I do think it's a little disrespectful that the chiefs are underdogs at home winning 13 games and being in the title games in super bowls every year. I feel like everybody, myself included after watching the bangles just dominate buffalo, said at that moment, this team is winning the Super Bowl. Now, that may be the case, but everybody's feeling that way. That means I would probably lean the other way and you're right. It's fuel point now. How the hell is Kansas City? You could say it's a pickup. You want to give me Kansas City minus one. You can not have the bangles as a favorite on the road in the championship game against Kansas City. Well, that's the thing. I think it's the mahomes ankle is really what it's all about. To me, I look at it like I'd be curious for you to take on this. Like to me, that game is going to start Sunday and the average Joe schmo sports fan like me and you sitting at home watching that game on TV. We're not going to really know what his ankles like. We don't know what you mean. The pain can he plant his foot. Throw straying. But did he get worse? I mean, because we did see him perform, it was a little limited, but he was still basically Patrick Mahomes. I didn't think he was in that second. If you watch, if you watch, he throws a touchdown pass and it falls to the ground because he's in pain. And he had a very long time planning. Well, he was definitely in pain. I remember he couldn't drop back three steps or whatever to hand it off. And the palming of it was messed up. He was hopping around. He was definitely hampered, but he was still effective. Let's put it that way. Oh yeah, yeah. He can be effective. Home 50% is almost a 100% better than everybody else. Right, my point is he can be effective. I don't think he's gonna be I'm gonna be a 100%. I mean, this may shock you, I'm not a doctor, but I can't see how you hurt your ankle that badly, and then a week later, you're a 100%. I mean, that's my point. When that game starts, is he 90%? Is he 70%? That 50%. We're not going to know that. I mean, we'll know it once the game starts, but going into it. In my mind, as of now, I have been let that factor in how I view that game, because if I'm thinking that he's at all limited, then I think that's why people are going to be on the bangles, thinking that mahomes, mahomes effect. So we're taping this on Wednesday night. As of now, Bengals minus one total 47 and a half. What do you like? God. You could say nothing. You don't have to be an animal. If you don't like the line, you say you don't like a line. I don't do the over unders. Honestly, these games this week, a, I haven't given it too much thought yet on Wednesday. B, I'm still shell shocked from the bath. I took on Sunday. I'm going to do something because I want to have action on these games. I just don't know what yet. And I think I want to root for Cincinnati the win at all. My gut would be saying Cincinnati, if not for now, the overwhelming flip in the public. So push comes to shove I'll probably end up with Cincinnati, but maybe I'll take them as a future to win the Super Bowl as opposed to just in this game. Yeah, I hate the game from the standpoint of I love both mahomes and borrow. I don't want to, you know, I want to see both of them. So I'm touring from that standpoint. Do you have a magic that you want to see? Super Bowl matchup? Do you like weed versus the eagles? I think that's cool. I'm not sure if you get the little history. The Bengals deserve a title. I'd like to see my homes win
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Peter akal, it goes back and forth. I'm the most pleasant one. So Jamie can have her days to, but as Peter a Kyle, and I'm the pleasant one, the peacemaker solved. One of those two know that you can count and bank it of which one is going to be. I will say it always comes from a good place. Those two work their ass off to make sure that it's a very good show each and every day. Abbott Meyer that both of them will say how hard they go to make sure we put a good product on air. What was it like for you the first time you're in the studio and Kyle did angry runs? It's not only doing it as him trying to catch his breath as he's finishing. I get legitimately nervous. I'm like, he's coming to the table and he's like, Peter, you got it. We got Derrick Henry. I'm just like, is he a pass out? Do we need to go? So it is so impressive. People don't realize as Kyle's doing angry ones. There's no prompter that he's reading from. He has a card with maybe 5 words written down. And he's able to reference things and go from this to that. That was the biggest thing I took away of coming and working with these three every single day of seeing how talented they each are at whatever it is they're crafted as Peters or relationship building, has reporter and journalist I like we'll have a discussion and I'll say something. And before I can finish, he's already thrown a question back at me to challenge whatever it is that I'm coming up with. And then Jamie's ability to just keep it all under control for hard appropriate is going a mile a minute of getting it all in and make sure everybody's on the same point. Like she said, she's like the point guard where it's around the back pass is no votes and everything. So I think as a player you go in and you're just like, these people just sit in front of a camera and just make stuff up and then you get in there and you get to see the nuances and how talented each member is really cool to see. Before I let you go, give me a Super Bowl prediction. Super Bowl projection. I am going with the San Francisco forty-niners against the Kansas City Chiefs going to be a rematch of a few years ago and I am going to say Shanahan finally gets his Super Bowl. I just came up with that and you put me on the spot so I may change it tomorrow on the show and we'll see. You know what I like about this year is I feel like these are the four best teams. Sort of always rises to the top. And it's crazy. I don't know if you pay attention to the betting odds at all and the betting world, but the odds right now for those four teams to win the Super Bowl. There's not a big difference between one through four. So it tells you how close everything is, which I think is great. For the next couple of weeks. Yeah, for sure. Jason really appreciate it. Enjoy the conversation. And now will you do any do you have any more radio games or you're done for this season? The wild card was my last month. He had joined the games from my couch. All right, and we'll be watching you on good morning football every morning Monday through Friday on the NFL network. Jason McCourty, thanks a lot. Appreciate it. Take care. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. My pleasure. You can control your electric bills from Novak without hibernating. Simple actions can put those savings in motion. Set your thermostat at 68° or lower. Layer clothing at blankets to stay cozy. Replace baths with short showers. As a not for profit cooperative, novec is here to help. Visit Novak dot com forward slash save Novak, offering simple ways to save. At the intersection of sports, community and media. You'll find the future and to play it forward foundation is paving the way to that future through building, educating and exposing youth to opportunities to play it forward foundation or pith elevates and equips elite young athletes through NIL branding to support their development and secure their future. Learn more at PIF foundation dot org. That's VIF foundation dot org. Play it forward foundation, creating opportunities. Stock up on everything you need to conquer cold and flu season at your local Safeway. They have everything you need for any coffin flu needs this season. Get cold and flu relief from products like vicks NyQuil or dayquil. Tylenol cold and flu, alka seltzer, mucinex, and Bigelow teas. When you're feeling under the weather, Safeway has everything you need to get feeling better fast. Find everything you need at your local Safeway and feel better fast. All right, joining me now as he does every week for our train of thought segment from WFAN radio and S and Y TV in New York. My buddy saw the as we prepare for the last real weekend of the football season before the fake game for the fake fans. Sal, how's it going? I always say the same thing. It's a glorified exhibition game. It means the most, but it's a glorified exhibition. Essentially football season's over. I mean, that's it. There's three games left. It's over. Yeah, to me it's over after Sunday, so. We have a lot. I have a lot of topics here. I'm gonna start with the dumbest topic first because it's so ridiculous, it's not even with disgusting but for you, you'll get rolled up and I might say something, but I'm just gonna say two words. I'm just gonna say two words and I'll let you go and then I'll go. Scott rolling? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? I love it, but I hate it. It's the same thing every year. But it's fun. It's fun to discuss everything. He shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame. You want to know it, you know, you can talk about who's in. It's twofold, right? It's who's been getting in and who's not getting in. But it's at least fun, I guess, to vent at least once a year on it. I'm a hypocrite because I've always said, I always say the same thing every year. If you get worked up about the Hall of Fame, you're an idiot. At this point now, it's like it's a fake thing. It's ridiculous. It's a museum. Don't get worked. Don't get worked up over who is in and out. What does piss me off though is because we're in this ridiculous time where you're not allowed to say anything and Twitter and this and that. Like if you say that Scott, you don't think Scott Roland should be in the Hall of Fame. And forget not he shouldn't be anywhere and he shouldn't be allowed to see if Cooper's town. Brennan, oh, you're raining on his parade. You're shitting on his moment who are you to say, why? Listen, this is sports. We're allowed to analyze sports. We're allowed to say this was a good game. This was a bad game. This was a good play. This was a bad play. So if you have this building that has become completely meaningless and a complete joke, you're allowed to say whether you think the guy should be in. So, you know, I get a God forbid you say anything negative about it. Everyone sensitive and all that. But I mean, what are we doing? Yeah, he was a good player for a long period of time. He's not Hall of Fame. But it's not him. He's not the problem. It's the people who are voting that are the problem. It's the whole process that is a problem. The idea that's got roll on his first ballot can be a 10% guy and then all of a sudden get in years later, it just does not make any sense. There's no logic to it. I don't want to hear about the different stats that they use, the different writers, the different people on the ballot, the whole thing is flawed. And the reason why we care is because that was the one sport that we gave a crap about their Hall of Fame. For years, going up. That's why it matters. I don't care about the football Hall of Fame or the best. It can say anything about it. Baseball used to mean something and it said that year after year it continues to be a problem.
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Got a great show this week. We have Jason McCourty from the NFL network's good morning football first time he's on the SI media podcast and we talk about his first year good morning football and replacing Nate burleson and he gets into some stories when he played for the Patriots, Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, a little NFL playoff talks, and overall career sort of interview and play a football interview with Jason. And then following mccordy, we have for our weekly train of thought segment, a bunch of topics this week that Sal and I got into Scott Roland making the Hall of Fame, Shannon Sharpe, a Tom Brady, and a lot of bedding talk for the AFC and NFC title games, also some movie soundtrack talks, some rocky talk. So a lot of topics covered with both Jason and Sal. So hopefully you enjoy it. If you do leave a review on Apple, and if you're not a subscriber to the SI media podcast, hit the subscribe button and make sure you check out past episodes if you missed any. Chris long was on the podcast last week. Tri Aikman two weeks ago, Jim Miller three weeks ago, and at the end of the year, we had some here in review episodes with Peter schrager, Andrew perloff and Brian Curtis. All right, let's get to this week's show, Jason McCourty from good morning football followed by train of thoughts and our weekly, I'm just gonna pick that up right here. Because I said the wrong thing. All right, let's get to this week's episode. Jason McCourty from good morning football followed by Sal hakata and our weekly train of thought segment all right here. On the SI media podcast. All right, joining me now from good morning, football, former Super Bowl champion, played in the league for many seasons. Jason McCourty, Jason. How's it going? Going well, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. My pleasure. I'm a big fan of good morning football and you've been a great addition to the show, so I thank you for coming on. I appreciate that. I appreciate mission as well, has been a lot of fun. It's kind of been a whirlwind of these last few months retiring and going right into the show. Give me a little give me a little recap and taste of what your first full season on good morning football has been like for you. I'll start, I'll say it's a growing up every morning at least by 5 a.m. to get into the city where obviously we do a live taping of the show 7 to ten, I guess what I've been surprised about is how much fun we have throughout those three hours that we're on the air, whether it's in the commercial breaks of laughing or just things that happen throughout the course of the show that we maybe didn't expect. I didn't know what to think going in. I think when you have three co hosts that are so much fun and we all get along well, you're able to really enjoy talking football. I thought I was retiring, but having another job. This is just as much of a grind during the season as it was playing. I've become tight with Kyle and Trey grow over the years. And when the show first started, and I first got to know them. I probably annoyed them to know I'm about the hours. I was always fascinated. I'd be like, Kyle, what do you wake up? And I know he says the car comes and, you know, what fascinates me about the gig you guys have? Is that on Sundays and Mondays? And Thursdays, this games that go on until 11 o'clock midnight and you are on the air at 7 in the morning and you know it blows me away that you gotta try to watch the game and then be on the air a few hours after it's over. That's the toughest thing and you kind of enjoy now this would be championship week and or even last week and during the divisionals because you get to go to bed a little earlier that last game started at 6 30 on Sunday I was thankful for that because by the time I finished the game I sat with enough time to get enough sleep to wake up but that is the hardest part. Those Thursday night games, especially someone who's games throughout the year just like you're watching and the score is three to 6 and a fourth quarter and it's just a brutal watch at time. Nope, I gotta stay up. I gotta talk about this game tomorrow. So it's definitely 100% grind, but I will say everybody behind the scenes on the show tries to make it as seamless as possible. We do our morning start production so when we're talking about it in the car ride into the city and then we do a quick 15 minutes zone call after so they make it as easy as possible for us to be able to get on and get out and actually have a good product and we're putting on it every day. How long would you say it took you to sort of get used to the schedule and the grind from week one when you get those initial the Monday night games that Thursday night games did it take you a little while to get used to this schedule or do you sort of never get used to it? What's that been like? It definitely took a while. I think even before the game started starting to show in the summer, it took at least probably about a month to two months. Just getting used to waking up that early and having to go to work. I come home and the kids want to play. I'm just I'm a zombie walking around the house in a bad mood. It's like those old Snickers commercials where you're hungry and you're just snapping at everybody. So I had to figure out I'm not an early sleeper. So I had to figure that schedule out. And then once the game started, I was thinking probably the most difficult thing for me came on Sundays where I'm used to playing or focusing on whatever one game I was preparing for. Now it's just like Sunday comes and you're trying your hardest to watch every single game at the same time knowing those kind of prime time matchup it may spend a little bit more time on those game versus other games or that was the toughest challenge. I've never done that as a fan of truly sit down and just enjoy watching football and getting into all the teams of Ross was in all of that. It took a while of just I would have on the TV screen, I'd have games going on, the kind of four box going on didn't have red zone on an iPad, another game on the laptop. So it's a whole production come Sunday. Yeah. I always watch games like that and then I got rid of direct TV and I couldn't I can't wait to do it again with whatever YouTube or whatever because I got really good at watching multiple games. You know, this is what I found from one to one 30. It's crazy. But then by one 30, you could sort of weed out a game or two and then it becomes a little easier to focus on multiple games. Exactly. And then the longer to show when I started to get I started to understand that of getting an idea. We're going to talk about this game more than that game. And then just understanding TV where you do a show and each hour is kind of its own individual. So and then you have the show open and we go by blocks so you have the a blog B block through E and then realizing that, hey, by the time we get to the end of the show the Bella segments only a few minutes, you don't need to empty the bag and do a ton of research on whatever we're talking about the topic in that last segment because you could probably have 45 seconds to talk. So figuring out all the old things we laughed about it when I started to show certain terms would be used while there were strengths or college or Jamie to all producers and all that and I'd be sitting I have no idea what you guys are talking about just from not having that TV experience so everybody has done a good job of bringing me up to speed and being patient with yeah. And you came in and filled the seat that was occupied by Nate barlos and for many years before Nate went over to CBS mornings and Nate was very popular on the show. Did you feel any pressure in replacing Nate or was it just you felt pressure just because you're doing TV? You've never done it. Like you said it's a grind Monday through Friday. Was the Nate thing a factor as well in terms of maybe nerves or pressure
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"Is Kevin Bacon, and a what's more likely with the NFL. So the last style bender that's based on on what? It's based off a TV show I watched the avatar. It's a Nickelodeon show. Okay. And Aang, the main character, he had to realize his destiny as the avatar by mastering all the four elements, which is water earth, fire and air. To realize his destiny, and for me, and this realm, I have to realize my destiny as an avatar by mastering all the elements of martial arts, so a lot of stuff in that show is all kind of coalition with my life with different characters, so even like a tough right here, I think the rough on my skin because and I have a lot of the tattoos that are relate to that show. Okay. And even this one Naruto is another anime I watched that really inspired me. So yeah, you're wearing that shirt, but I just picked it up this morning. Oh, I dressed up nice. Look, man. Again, you're so icy. I couldn't really tell everything. I just don't do it. You slip and fall. You got a lot of good lines. Huh? I don't want you to break your hips. No, I'm not gonna break my head either. No, I'm in shape. I see you. I'm nimble for 50 year olds. I mean, I'm not gonna get in the case. I could not, I don't know if I could do that dance that you did. I'll show you a little two step real quick. So you need. Is that it? Yeah. Well, here's what we're going to do. We're going to keep you for a television only segment. And then you'll try and teach you a little two step because I'd like to do that. I think I limbered up. I did a workout yesterday. In my left foot, but that's just neither here nor that. Sounds fancy. This is either going to be great or not so. All right, Israel, what are we doing here right now? By the way, you've equipped me with some of your eyes. Okay, so what are we doing here? All right, just a quick quick number. What I did, okay? We're
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"What do you got for me? Winning championships are what? Because he's now the second highest paid per annual basis quarterback in the league. He's yet to win a game in the playoffs. He is clearly generationally talented now generationally enriched. What do you think this leads to in Arizona? Jason? I mean, I definitely at this point can't say championship just for the fact that they haven't done anything yet to show us that they have canvassed have written all over them. And I think that's the odd thing about when it comes to contracts. I remember getting my second contract when I was in Tennessee and RGM at the time was rustin Webster and I signed a deal and everything and obviously excited a ton of money, all of that and rusting comes up to me and he's just like, hey, the reason we paid was because we want you to continue to do what you have done since you've been here. The leadership, the way you play, don't think that you have to do anything differently. We paid you because of who you are and how you approach the game. So continue to do those same things. So as I listen like yesterday up here and everybody talk about Kyle and Marian is just like, well, now that they pay them, they expect him to be a leader. They complained about his body language. They want him to change that. And just that in the third and my thing is, you pay a guy, there's different ways you pay a guy. Sometimes you pay a guy because, hey, he's been doing this for X amount of years. A guy like Tom Brady, you pay him because you know it's worth and you know what's going to happen. A guy like Kyler Murray, you know, each year he's been in the NFL. He's improved. So you know for him, the ceiling is still hot. But you can't pay a guy and expect all right, now all of a sudden he's going to walk into the building and be a different person. He's going to all of a sudden walk in and be the most vocal guy in the building. No, he's going to continue to do the same things that he's done. So for me, I do think Arizona is going to continue to improve because as Tyler Murray goes. I just don't know if it breeds championship. The rams are still a very good team in the NFC. I don't know if they've been able to build a roster to get over that hump. Obviously, Deandre Hopkins is going to be missing games early on in the season. And they're going to need guys to step up. So I think you get to a point where this day and age, you need a quarterback to win. And as a market value of what that position demands and they had no choice but to pay them because you just started quarterback and he's one of the better ones in the league. I know my guy Chris brockman across the way from your gets upset every single time I'm like, does he deserve it? He absolutely deserves it because that's what the market pays him. It's his turn. And it was his turn. The question is, how will he earn it? And I think you just kind of gave an assessment that's accurate. We haven't seen Arizona finish strong yet since he and cliff Kingsbury have been together. We haven't seen that big finish to top off what they were able to do in the first half of a season. And now their first half of this season is without Deandre Hopkins and the defending champs with their big, huge moon sized championship rings they got last night. That's going to be a very tall order, Jason. Very tall. Without a doubt and the biggest challenge for the rams is going to be, how do you handle the success? Super Bowl. The goal got the parade. You get the rings, you got the stadium underneath, flip the top off on a ring, show that off as well. Now the season's about to start. What have you been doing all off season? Have you been touring and showing off the rings in a trophy or have you got right back to work and are you as eager and as hungry to win the next one? I think that was always the challenge for me actually being able to win one when I first got to New England and coming back in 2019 of having that same hunger and us going in the off season and really grinding, but at the same time realizing that, hey, we played football all the way to the middle of February last year a lot. We're an old team like we have to figure out ways to get that work and but still take care of our bodies. But the rams gave out money all off season and they got Bobby Wagner there has joined and they were able to re sign Cooper Cup Aaron Donald even was able to give the coach some money as well. So there's no reason to believe that the rams aren't going to be right there at the top of the conference this year. All right, last one for you. This is a classic paparazzi question and since you're now part of us that world, I'll throw it to you. The one quarterback to win a game in 2022. For this year, this year you've got to choose one quarterback to win a football game in a do or die contest. That quarterback is which, who is that quarterback, Jason mccord? What do you have? Josh Allen builds moth and it pains me to say it after playing in the ASC east with New England and with Miami, but I think it's because of that is why I'm saying it. This guy has shown up in big moments. And he's just a monster. This guy can throw the ball all over the field and he also can get the ball in the shotgun position and he was the running back as a lead balker and he's shown his ability to score trust and I was running the ball in a red zone. But I think for me watching Josh Allen developed in and out division and seeing where he was as a young quarterback being able to flash and make plays, but also making a mistake and the interceptions and the fumbles and to see how far he's grown and how much he's gotten better and having a chance to be around him at a conference. One off season. Man, this dude is special and he's continuing to show it. So for me, Josh Allen would be that one quarterback. I think the beauty about him is that when you hear the guys in Buffalo on that team talk about all you see him and Stephon Diggs do a touchdown celebration where they're both dancing and you see the way guys rally around them and that's true leadership because guys want to go out there and perform forehand so that they can go in the press around Monday and call him the best quarterback in the lead. Jason McCourty, thanks for the time. Look for more of my phone calls. Welcome to NFL network NFL media group. Congrats on the good morning football gig. And let's do this again soon. Thank you. Appreciate it. I'm looking forward to him. Right back at you. That's Jason McCourty right here on the rich eisen show. And in terms of Buffalo Bills, just in terms of Allen as well, you know you've reached mega superstar status when you're talking about the other quarterbacks you're facing and how those match ups are going to be must watch. Must see. It takes two to tango, but those are the match ups you want to see. You know, back in the day, when's Brady paying playing Peyton Manning, right? Absolutely. How about this for the Buffalo Bills? First up, against Alfred and the rams. In week three, against tua week four against
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"You want to be the you want to be the parka salesman to USC athletics. Yeah. Yes. Yes, there will now be winter clothing at USC might not need in previous years. But how does it work? What are you hearing? Well, they will probably play 9 games. They'll have three so let's take your beloved Michigan. Yes, right. You want to have your three rivalry games that you must play every year. Because you have to have Michigan play Ohio State, right? You're going to have to have Michigan play Michigan state. Correct? And maybe they play Minnesota because they got that little Brown jug trophy or somebody else, whatever it is. And then you cycle through the rest of the teams and you should be able to get to everybody home and away. So you would maybe play a USC every other year in every four years you would either travel there or they would you would travel there. So you play home and away, but you could stack it up that way. So there is a way to kind of cycle it through where you get to play everybody fairly often. But you do not lose the big television draws and the hardcore rivalries that you that you need such as there's no way you're not having Michigan and Ohio State play every year because they get kind of the biggest game of the year that is 10 million people to watch. So we're not expanding to lose 10 million person games. You get more of them. But for UCLA and USC, extremely challenging, lane kiffin the other day was talking. I remember he coached USC. And he talked about when they would go play Notre-Dame every other year. And it was a big deal of when do you leave because you got to get acclimated? And so they would leave on Thursdays for a Saturday game. And get in early and it's a grind and they would always play that thing in the middle of the season they play at Notre-Dame in mid October when the games in LA they do it at the end of the year. Now you're going to have to do that like week after week after week. Because there's certainly two road games in a row is not uncommon. So you might be USC or UCLA saying, hey, we're going to fly to Illinois and we're going to come back and then we're going to go play over at Rutgers. The next week and we got to go. So the travel for USC football and UCLA football is enormous and same thing for obviously not just basketball, which people will care about. Those are long road trips and all that and you're going get time zones. But then how do you like to be a baseball team or a softball team or the soccer team? You signed a play at UCLA, you think you're playing in warm weather or not like that. A winter spring baseball game in east Lansing. You were signing up for something else. So for these non revenue sports that's even harder. They'll make it work for football, but it will be a challenge. As you see in the NFL, when you're going west to east, it's a challenge for that team in the west. Well, it's a perpetual challenge now. For UCLA and USC competitively. Dan, thanks for the time, man. Look for my call as the season approaches more. Thanks for the thanks for the two cents. Greatly appreciate it. Anytime we're actually talking to him. Right back at you, Dan wetzel, one of the best and finest right here on the rich eisen show from Yahoo, sports. Let us take a break beyond time relatively for Jason McCourty about to join the good morning football breakfast table, but he will join our program next on the rich eisen show. Having just spoken with Dan wetzel of Yahoo sports about the college football world and diving into him his knowledge about that world and the Big Ten scheduling that's coming. I'm going to say something that definitely backs up from so many other Big Ten fans that Michigan, Wolverine, alums like myself, are arrogant and put our program on a pedestal. I know I know TJ up what I'm about to say will upset Penn State country where you're from, I get it. But with all of the additions with UCLA and USC and Dan wetzel saying, well, they're going to they're not going to take away rivalry games with the additions of these new two new teams. The whole idea is to create more watchable games. And they're not going to take away the rivalry games. So you're going to still have those and then you'll figure out what he said they'll still play 9 games, but they're not going to take away the rivalry games. Naming another Big Ten rivalry game that does not include Michigan. Name me one. Name me one. Iowa state. Iowa state is not in the Big Ten. State's not a Big Ten team. Oh yeah. The rich history of that. I mean, it doesn't have the 100 year history, like Michigan. Who is Wisconsin's rival? Great. Ask them. You know who it is? Michigan. Name the one ask any badger, the one team they want to beat the most in the Big Ten. Us, name Michigan state, us, name Ohio State. Us. Now, got broad shoulders. You got broad shoulders, but now you see coming in USC coming in or you want to see UFC play hole Pence to all those great USC Penn State matchups, right? Now you were going to want to see him play Michigan. There's controversy where USC beat us on a phantom touchdown. In a rose bowl, during the years. So it's just going to be another layer of got to play Michigan. Michigan's irrelevant. I hear that all the time. I just want to know. That's why I want to know. How are we going to schedule these things? Michigan,
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"Guest. Post a peacock's pro football talk. Mike florio. Yahoo sports columnist, Dan wetzel, co host of good morning football. Jason McCourty from the showtime drama city on a hill. Actor Kevin Bacon. And now, it's rich eisen. All right, everybody. Welcome to edition of the Richardson show live on the air from Los Angeles, California. We've got ourselves fun three hours getting ready for the final weekend of this entire calendar year in which there will be no National Football League teams in their training camps in their facilities, it'll be fantastic. We've got this by this point next week, watch the brothers point next Tuesday. Everyone's up and at them. Every single facility will be filled all the way through to the end of the regular season. That's how it works. This very weekend, everybody enjoy your last weekend without any football. Even though there should be no such thing. And then off we go. Very, very, very excited for what's to come next week when everybody shows up to training camp and everybody starts digging into their rosters and certainly questions beginning to get answered. There are still some questions that we haven't gotten answered yet. And I know it's a last minute league, but it is definitely something that kind of surprises me that some of these stories have yet to be answered. We'll get to that in a second. I just realized I haven't said hello to you, Chris brocklin. Hey, Richard. Good to see you over there. What's up, man? I realize I haven't said hello to you. DJ Mikey D is how you doing? I also realized I haven't said hold it to you. TJ Jefferson, the candle has been with. Yes, it has. Good to see you. What's going on? Good to see you over there. It's good to be safe. I love it. And it's good to see everybody out there on NBC sports on peacock, NBC sports SiriusXM channel 85.
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"jason mccourty" Discussed on The MMQB NFL Podcast
"If any of us had any money shelby would be a rich man quietly. The most powerful person illustrated true true. Oh patriots dolphins was. I'll i'll i'll say two things about this game to set off he was. It's super with the teams play. Because it's just they're the same team. They just wear different uniforms. Same schematically the same approach that stuff this one particularly with with kyle noise being back on the patriots and now like guys like jason mccourty being on on the dolphins you know like i have a lot of games going at once on sunday afternoon. And you're kind of like. I'm listening versa. And when i hear like oh jason mccourty with the past break up. And i'm like oh. This is so disorienting. Wait what team was that good for. I don't know anymore but that's kind of what this was. And we got a game. That was just a back and forth sort of conservative I don't low scoring. i don't wanna quit. Call the slogs. I think it was a little bit crisper the nap but this was a very patriots. Dolphins game and for a be decided essentially on a patriots. Mistake is not the kind of thing that goes overwhelmed foxborough. Obviously because they're known as a team that generally likes to avoid or tries to minimize those mistakes probably better than anyone else in the league but if you are a patriots fan or a person who works in the patriots organization. You do have to feel good about the way mack jones played. I mean gary you just mentioned with. Trevor lawrence the bizarre rep mismanagement by the jaguars throughout the preseason and it was the opposite right even though mack jones was competing with cam newton. Mack jones was steadily getting more and more wraps even though they weren't sure he was going to be the day one starter and they made sure he had enough reps to be ready for the game and i think you have to be excited about the way. He threw the ball. I mean first of all. He threw an excellent wheel route to james white. Which is pretty much. The i throw. You need to master if you're going to be the patriots. Starting quarterback didn't excellent job with that but just really was in commands. Didn't seem flustered of the five rookie. Quarterbacks i mean a lot of them didn't play much so well two of them didn't play much. We saw brief appearance of trae lance. We were recording this part before the night game is over but we saw just fields for a brief play in the first half and who knows what will happen the rest of the game but regardless he was the best rookie quarterback appearance from this year's class. And of course. It's just one. But i think there was my take away from that game. Was that mack. Jones looks like the real deal for anybody. That's trying to still make sweeping conclusions about the the patriots. I mean you know the the mistakes were things like running back. Fumbles where you know. The patriots had the same running backs coach for twenty five years. It's not like anything has changed..
Patriots Beat
"jason mccourty" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"Then I, I've talked about this since back to free agency since the draft, they don't have enough outside corners. If Gilmore walks, when you face the bills, one of your, you know, one of your starting outside corners is dead. Either Chauhan Williams. Jalen Mills, or Michael Jackson. And I'm not saying those guys can't be good players. I'm saying, we don't know if they are and I said the bills. The Dolphins are weak one. So when you go up against that receive or yeah, DeVante Parker you got Jaylen waddle, you got these guys coming out. You, we want you want. You want you on Williams on Davante? Parker week? One, that's the question, right? And I know they have Joe Jackson. We're going to get to him in a second to hang on. Cuz somebody in the chat said we saw the Patriots Malcolm Moore last year, they had Jason McCourty. If they still got Jason McCourty, it's another conversation. Jason McCourty played 65% of the Patriots defensive snaps last year. He has gone. They didn't bring anybody else in. That's a true outside corner. So that's 65% of snaps. You have to replace in house and I just went off in house options. There is no Jason McCourty in those options. There is no sure thing in those options, you can like, John Williams upside and there is something to like there, but he's unproven, you don't know for sure. And you don't Reserve. I have an insurance plan. The Patriots needs to find Gilmore more than he needs the Patriots, right? So I put up the stat on Twitter earlier today of the Patriots defense with, and without Stephon Gilmore in 2012. And I know that there are some sort of caveats of this, right? First of all, much different front, seven this year compared to last year. So that's going to make life easier on the secondary. I get all that, but last year with Stephon Gilmore, the Patriots allowed, a passer rating of 80.2, which would have been top ten if that had been the entire year. Without Stephon Gilmore, their passer rating, clamp to over a hundred, right. So you're also seeing last year they gave up a touchdown rate of a TD, every six point, like five, percentage of points of throws without with life on Gilmore that dropped 3%. So this is a player that statistically makes a huge impact on this defense. And furthermore, when you watch the tape of this team, You see in Devin McCourty, said this in 2019, when Gilmore was having his Defensive Player of the Year campaign, it all starts with death and what he meant by that was sung, watch the way that they play. They play so much single Hai man-to-man. They play more single Hai man-to-man than just about any team in the league. And if you're going to only play with one deep safety, in the middle of the page, you are going to have to live with the fact that you're outside corners are more or less on the island you have posed, safety help. But for the most part, your one-on-one with your guy out there, and as we walk through the gauntlet of the season and starting a week long with DeVante Parker and Jaylen waddle, if you don't have a lockdown, number one corner in that type of coverage system. Your quarters are going to get exposed, so yeah, the Patriots can change the way that they play. Maybe they play a little bit more off manners, do nor too deep or something like that. To mitigate the fat to Stephon Gilmore is not out there, but if they want to play a game Our bread-and-butter cover one Robber with a one high safety, put another guy in the Box to stop the run, or rush the passer, or do whatever they want to do with them..
Nickel Package
"jason mccourty" Discussed on Nickel Package
"In the same way that i said jalen phillips might have to step up contribute immediately. I actually think john holland. The safety drafted out of oregon. He might actually have to step up pretty quickly with bobby mccain guns so this corners assuming saving howard stays or doesn't hold out that's a weird one because why talked about it with greg is like he's got so many years left you know it's complicated. And but yeah. There's eric rowe who converted safety and in his played well but like in the they brought in jason mccourty but i think i really liked holland before he opted out in two thousand nineteen when he played. I don't know if he's ready to step into this defense immediately but he might have to. He very well might have to. Because who else is going to you. i don't know if you're throwing. I don't know if you're ready to start mccourty up out there. I don't know if you know. Nee highly or tre williams if we're going to be naming we're speaking of great names in this past draft like there's there aren't a lot of their on a lot of other guys who are built for that that starting role right away but that's the that's kind of the the burden you carry when you go early in the draft when you go in the second round you very well might have to fill a an immediate role but it makes sense for them to run so much covers zero. That's why you put so much money into your defensive. Backfield specifically corner obviously with howard. I'm byron jones. And and noah i am not going to disrespect the man by mispronouncing his last name. Egg benign a believes ig monogamy. I mean so mad. If i'm messing up because i have actually. I have practiced this. I wished i he great name not great play last year by the way big manado and i know he ig monogamy sounds about right but i do know he got his welcome to the. Nfl moment against the bills and week to byron joan leaves with a hamstring injury. And he said okay. Go covers the on again. Yes that is tough to bounce back from and but it's a it's a valuable lesson that you know. This is not the sec anymore. Like you you're going to have to come bring it. But so i think the secondary is again turnover forcing i want to say that they led the league and turnovers last year. But i could be wrong. Which by the way. Because did the dolphins have a lot of things where you're like. Oh that really broke like they had a lot of weird special teams stuff turnovers and those are things. When you're looking to next year over. Your lincoln might not happen again. I mean i think their corners are really really good so and we'd discuss their aggressive. So they're they're probably going to get a fair amount of turnovers but a little bit concerned about some regression they're exactly like unsustainable figures just like you. We thought in a couple years ago with the with the patriots defense leading the league in intercepts and he figured they're not gonna get forty interceptions again. I know it's not forty. But you know i'm trying to say here. You figure they're not going to do that. So there's gotta be some room for regression but You know when you are a fringe. Playoff team last year in That's not really what you want to hear that you don't wanna hear about you know possible. Regressions are not being able to not being able to displace. What you're what you're getting from that from that russian I just can't i wanna do. I do want to take this opportunity to bring that little tidbit of history. Backup that this team needed to win one game against the bills. Who sat several starters. Not all of them. But several starters and lost by thirty. And i i'm curious. How much that motivates you going forward. Especially if you're too who played a horrendous game without ryan fitzpatrick available. I'm curious how much how much do you replay that. How much does that kind of. Burn into you as you prepare for the coming season man. That was i think that the optimists case for miami is that even if the dolphins defense regresses a little bit or many things don't go their way to a with a full off season in an offense a new offense in this great compliment skill players that he takes enough of a leap forward to where they go from being a fringe playoff team to an actual wildcard team. And it's totally possible. I'm the so wait and see on this team. I just got to see. Do you know what i mean like. I feel like i got a pretty good handle on like the bills. And you know the pats to some degree the defense but but the miami's a real wild card for me the final team. I actually on the jets. I i feel like the jets last. I have been asking people. I'm not gonna ask. You just probably looked at the depth chart so this isn't that fun. But i have been asking people who cover football for a living all morning. Can you name to jets cornerbacks and none of them could wow is. It is a problem for this team. I could name one before. I went and looked at the depth chart and then i looked at the other names. I was like damn i did not know this man the kiki palmer meam. I not know this. That is how i like the i feel. They drafted somebody. I really liked a couple years ago. I is the name i guess. That's the one i knew. Marcel.
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Patriots' Jason McCourty recovering from groin surgery
"Patriots quarterback choose from recordings recovery from growing surgery tight end Ben Watson says he played the season with a torn Achilles Watson who's one year contract expires in March says will