4 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Conor Orr and Albert Breer remember the late Chris Mortensen and the recently retired Peter King and discuss the many ways they impacted sports journalism in their lengthy careers. We also get into the light ribbing Conor got from Buccaneers GM Jason Licht over his pre season prediction for the team last year before discussing if Caleb Williams to the Bears is a done deal and the start of the offseason tampering period
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the MMQB NFL podcast I'm Conor Alberter's here we're back from Indianapolis |
0:14.2 | Albert stayed a little bit longer than me he likes the shrimp cocktail out there I |
0:18.0 | went home a little bit early we're we're back. The greatest football convention circus |
0:27.1 | sideshow of the year is complete. |
0:29.4 | And we still don't know what the bears are doing, |
0:32.0 | which is kind of fun. And so we're to get into that but I do think it's appropriate to lead off the show with two things that you know we didn't tape last week because |
0:41.7 | We're out at the combine and for anybody who's been there and for you |
0:45.0 | guys at home like you're just working the whole time and I say working in |
0:49.4 | air quotes but working because you're trying to bump into people you're trying to learn things |
0:53.7 | and it's really hard to set a schedule because it's like okay I'll take this time |
0:57.5 | but I ran into this guy and then I ran into this guy and so we figure... |
1:01.6 | It's hard to take yourself off the grid. It's hard to take yourself off the grid. |
1:03.6 | It's hard to take yourself off the grid. |
1:05.0 | Yeah, so I think it's good that we just come back. |
1:07.1 | We're gonna have a nice little wrap up here, but two things to start off with. |
1:10.4 | One, obviously this morning we got the news of Chris Mortenson's |
1:15.8 | passing and I mean just what a loss for the football community. You know that you're one of the great ones when everybody stops and can acknowledge |
1:30.0 | unanimously the gifts that you've given to the community at large and you know it's it's |
1:38.6 | crazy because you know I'm not going to make this about anybody but I will say that when I was when I was |
1:44.4 | young like covering a team and I'm 22 23 years old you know and I'm banging out |
1:49.9 | notebooks and you're you're not even dreaming about doing something where you're going to be able to be on TV or be it |
1:56.6 | Sports Illustrator or whatever. Mort would read everything and he used to credit me on air for like all this jets minutia and I just |
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