BONUS POD - Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the National Football League

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Goodell talks about the length of games, admitting that it also drives him crazy. He explains different options the NFL is considering to help decrease all the down time in television broadcasts and talks about a new proposal to make overtime periods just 10 minutes, instead of 15, and how that will help player health and safety and introduce more strategy to the game. He also discusses the potential of centralized replay and announces that there will be some full-time officials at the start of the 2017 season, the beginning of a gradual buildup with the goal of having the referee of each crew as a full-time official.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Peter King. Welcome to the MMQB podcast with Peter King, where I take you
0:07.6	inside the minds of the biggest influencers in the NFL.
0:13.0	This week a podcast conversation with Roger Giddell, straight from the NFL offices in
0:19.2	Manhattan in advance of the NFL owners meetings beginning Sunday in Phoenix.
0:25.0	And I ask Goudel why the big emphasis on shaving time from the average NFL game.
0:34.0	I'm seeing things that disturb me or that I find an intrusion and particularly as we get into this age now where there's so many distractions for our fans.
0:47.0	I don't want to give them an excuse to move off of football.
0:51.0	Now my conversation with the NFL commissioner Roger Giddell.
0:55.0	Back on the MMQB podcast with Peter King here with NFL Commissioner Roger
1:02.4	Giddell.
1:03.0	This is Thursday before the annual NFL meetings, Roger,
1:08.0	and we're sitting here in the Art McNally Command Center
1:12.0	in the NFL offices in New York City.
1:15.0	And it's kind of fitting that we're here because there's going to be quite a bit of stuff
1:20.0	that has to do with both officiating and pace of game which you know a lot of
1:26.0	that occurs right here and we will touch on the possible Raiders move later in
1:31.8	the podcast.
1:33.2	But I'd like to, first of all, thanks a lot for joining me.
1:36.9	Yeah, my thrill, this is great.
1:38.6	Good.
1:39.4	So I want to start by asking you what has happened in your mind in the last say two or three or four years that made you so intent on addressing the pace of the game?
1:55.0	Well it's not that we hadn't looked at it.
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