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The Peter King Podcast

Ed Werder, former ESPN reporter and Jed York, CEO San Francisco 49ers

The Peter King Podcast

NBC Sports

Pro Football Talk, Football, Nbc, Nfl, Nbc Sports, The Mmqb, Peter King, Sports, Nfl Football, Pro Football, Football Morning In America

4.4872 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Peter King talks to former ESPN reporter Ed Werder and 49ers CEO Jed York. Werder details his quiet outrage on being laid off by ESPN and what the ESPN layoffs mean for the future of the journalism business. He explains why he changed his Twitter handle to @EdWerderRFA and talks about the stigma of getting laid off. Jed York on how his new John Lynch/Kyle Shanahan team did in their first draft, on being a lightning rod for angry 49er fans, and on what went wrong in his fiery relationship with Jim Harbaugh.

Transcript

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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 of the San Francisco 49ers just after they had a very newsworthy draft.

0:27.0

I asked Ed Werder if he has a little bit of quiet outrage even a week after being laid off by E-SPN.

0:35.0

I felt like I've never done a better job because I think I'm still as good covering games as anybody has.

0:45.0

I asked Jed York, what do you think of the performance of your two rookies?

0:50.0

Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch in their first NFL draft.

0:54.4

I just, I think they work very well together.

0:56.7

You know, we were very, very prepared going into it.

0:58.9

We obviously knew the board very well.

1:01.5

We knew what we were looking for in terms of scenarios and what could

1:04.8

potentially come out and we executed last night.

1:08.8

Now my conversation with Ed Werder. Back on the MMQB podcast with Peter King, happy to be joined by Ed Werder, formerly of ESPN.

1:20.0

And I really like Ed Werder's new Twitter handle.

1:23.6

It's Ed Werder RFA, which for those who don't know what an RFA is,

1:28.8

it's a restricted free agent.

1:30.8

And Ed is that way.

1:32.4

I'm going to have him explain it here in a second.

1:35.0

But Ed, thank you very much for joining me and welcome to the podcast.

1:40.0

Thanks, Peter. I have all the respect in the world for you. I consider you a good friend and as such it was jarring to just hear you introduce me for the first time as a former ESPN football reporter.

1:50.3

Well first of all talk about Ed Wer RFA. Okay so I got laid off and I

1:56.8

tweeted the fact that that had occurred and before it appeared in the

2:01.4

transactions column I recognized my Twitter handle

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