Episode 194: Life and Work of an NFL Beat Writer with ESPN's Jordan Raanan
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🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Raanan is one of the NFL's top beat writers, covering the Giants for ESPN. He sits down with Adam Levitan to discuss how he got his job, how the information flow in the NFL works, what goes on behind the scenes in beat reporting, fantasy football impact and tons more.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
- Adam and Jordan's start in media together
- How beat writers get their information
- Injury information
- Health of Saquon Barkley
- Jordan's dustup with Ereck Flowers
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 194 of the official EstablishTheRun.com podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | My name is Adam Levittent. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm one of the co-finders here at ETR. |
| 0:26.4 | I am your bronze tennis adonis and today, today, I am joined by one of the truest, |
| 0:35.0 | oldest friends of the show. |
| 0:36.3 | This is a young man I met 17 years ago at a place called the Sports Network. |
| 0:41.0 | He's covered European soccer, he's covered the Eagles, he's covered the Sixers, he's |
| 0:46.3 | covered the Giants, he's been in a bruja with Eric Flowers, he knows every golf course |
| 0:52.8 | in every NFL city. |
| 0:54.6 | He's worked for Metro. |
| 0:55.9 | He's worked for Comcast, he's worked for NJ.com. |
| 0:59.1 | He's made his way to the worldwide leader. |
| 1:01.4 | It is, of course. |
| 1:02.7 | Yes, yes. |
| 1:03.7 | You used to be a tennis partner. |
| 1:04.7 | Yep, yep. |
| 1:05.7 | Before I got him to all these tennis bets, I used to hit with him all the time. |
| 1:08.6 | It is, yes, he has Jordan, Ron on Jordan. |
| 1:11.6 | How's it going, buddy? |
| 1:12.6 | Good. |
| 1:13.6 | Thanks for having me, Adam. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah, long time. |
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