First Look: What Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are like in television production meetings. Plus, the NFL's new virtual measurement technology
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Here’s a short clip from our upcoming interview with Rob Hyland, the coordinating producer of Sunday Night Football, and Drew Esocoff, the director of Sunday Night Football. In this clip, Hyland and Esocoff provide insight on what Bills quarterback Josh Allen and Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson are like in production meetings, and whether the new virtual measurement technology can get better for viewers during the season. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dych. My producer's Patrick Antonetti. This is the first look, which the feedback on this has been excellent. You guys seem to like it, where we give you a little bit of a slice or a taste of an upcoming interview. My guests on this edition of First Look are Rob Highland, who is the coordinating producer of Sunday Night Football, also somebody who's been in the business a long time, produced a number of Primetime Olympics for NBC. |
| 0:39.0 | Drew Esikoff is the other guest. |
| 0:42.1 | He is the director of Sunday night football. |
| 0:47.1 | If you've watched football over the last 25 plus years, you've heard Al Michaels and Mike Toriko and many others mentioned Drew Eskopf, a very, very famous director when it comes to sports. |
| 0:52.7 | He's directed seven, eight Super Bowls, |
| 0:56.8 | I believe, many, many memorable Olympic moments. So we have the full interview coming up tomorrow. |
| 1:04.0 | But for this first look, I asked Rob Highland what Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen are like in production meetings, because |
| 1:13.9 | Rob has been in many production meetings with both of those MVPs. We also got into a conversation |
| 1:19.4 | about the new first down measurement, which the NFL will debut this year using Hawkeye |
| 1:24.6 | technology. And it is a work in progress. |
| 1:28.3 | And I think still needs some refinement. |
| 1:32.4 | So Rob and Drew offered some interesting perspective on that. |
| 1:36.9 | So first look coming up, what Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are like in production |
| 1:43.2 | meetings, and then a little bit of a conversation on the new first down measurement coming up on the sports media podcast. |
| 1:52.2 | Rob, for the Bill's Ravens game, you will have the MVP and the runner-up for MVP. |
| 1:59.7 | Yeah, obviously, Lamar Jackson also has won MVP's. |
| 2:02.7 | These are two of the most prominent players in the league. |
| 2:05.0 | Maybe top three, if you want to include Patrick Mahomes in that list somewhere. |
| 2:09.6 | What are, and if you can take them separate, I'd appreciate it. |
| 2:12.3 | What are Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson like in production meetings with regard to being forthcoming with you and your group. |
| 2:21.3 | From my experience, producing this package for the last four seasons, they've both been phenomenal. |
| 2:28.3 | You know, the production meetings are really a relaxed setting. |
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