Ending Chapters & Starting New Ones

The Adam Schefter Podcast

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4.4 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Adam starts off this week's episode with a breakdown of the news surrounding Deshaun Watson and the Texans. Next, Adam is joined by former Chicago Bears DC Chuck Pagano as he has announced his retirement from the NFL. Chuck tells us what this decision was like and what the future holds for him. After that, the owner and president of the Buffalo Bills, Kim Pegula, calls in to share the excitement felt in Buffalo. Kim explains how Bills Mafia has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. Lastly, ESPN's Evan Kaplan joins Adam to preview this weekend's conference championship games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Adam Schaefter podcast, the conference championship
0:12.6	style edition of the Adam Schaefter podcast. And on today's podcast, we'll be joined by the former
0:19.3	defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears, Chuck
0:22.6	Pagano, who announced his retirement after 36 years coaching in the NFL. We'll talk about
0:29.4	the reasons he stepped away from the game right now and what's next for Chuck Pagano's future.
0:35.3	Plus, we'll be joined by the owner and president of the Buffalo Bills,
0:39.9	Kim Pagula, whose team is in this weekend's conference championship game
0:44.6	against the Kansas City Chiefs.
0:46.7	And then we'll be joined by ESPN statistician and analytics guru Evan Kaplan as he breaks
0:52.5	down and sizes up both of this weekend's conference championship games.
0:58.3	But before we get to the conference championship games, the biggest non-conference championship
1:03.8	game storyline is the saga of Deshawn Watson, the Houston Texan's quarterback who clearly
1:09.9	wants out of Houston.
1:11.2	And as we continue to wonder whether or not Houston would actually trade him and what the
1:16.0	Texans could get back if they decided to go in that direction, I want to make this very clear.
1:21.7	Deshawn Watson dictates where he goes.
1:25.5	That is the power that the Houston Texans gave him when they granted him the rare
1:31.0	no trade clause in his contract that he signed last summer. Once they gave him the no trade clause,
1:38.1	he can say, I know you just traded me to Chicago. I know you just traded me to Atlanta. I know you just
1:44.0	traded me to you pick the
1:45.5	city. If he doesn't want to go there, he doesn't have to accept the terms of the trade. He doesn't
1:52.3	have to report. And so he can dictate to the Texans where he wants to go. In a best case scenario
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