Everything you need to know about this weekend's Super Bowl and the off season that

will follow it. Today's one of our special episodes on the comic back

podcast, what we call our free apps, appetizer not a whole full episode but still

media enough to listen to it's a little bit of a detour from what we normally cover in these

conversations but we still try to bring on interesting folks

for these conversations so whether you are a football junkie or not I think you

will enjoy Mike Tanabom who I'm thrilled to have on. Mike has more than two

decades of experience in NFL team front offices. He was an executive vice president of

football operations for the Miami Dolphins and executive vice president and general Operations for the Miami Dolphins and Executive Vice President and

General Manager for the New York Jets between 2006 and 2012 when I first got to

know him. Under Mike's leadership the Jets advanced to the playoffs in three seasons.

Imagine that Jets fans.

They won the Jets won four playoff games and made two AFC championship game appearances.

Mike's ten years general manager of the Jets marked the most successful seven year

period in franchise history and I do have the receipts to prove it. Mike has also

worked with legendary NFL coaches. Two in particular we talk about in this conversation,

Bill Parcells and Bill Bellacek. And today Mike is an E.S.B.N analyst, if you are a sports media consumer, you see him all the time.

He's what E.S.B.N. calls an NFL front office insider and he's on all their shows.

In addition to his E.S.B.SPN role, Mike is the founder of a football think tank

and news and commentary platform called the 33rd team, which I have become a reader of, and we will talk about in this conversation,

and he also teaches football business management, the inner workings of the NFL at Columbia

University. Mike began his NFL career. of the

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