Flag Football Extravaganza!
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
NFL
4.5 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Gregg Rosenthal and Jourdan Rodrigue are joined by DB Mike Daniels and DC Rudy Fernandez of USA Football's Men's National Team ahead of the IFAF World Championships in Germany. Gregg and Jourdan talk to Mike and Rudy about getting into flag football as a novice fan, the differences between flag and tackle football and some of the skillsets that separate the two, how the game has evolved and more! Mike and Rudy also talk about flag football becoming an Olympic sport and possibly becoming the first team to win an Olympic Gold Medal in flag football.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.7 | Welcome to NFL Daily, where we've got a flag football extravagance. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Greg Rosenthal here in the Chris Wesleying podcast studio next to Flag Football Expert. |
| 0:22.3 | I don't know if she's going by that these days. |
| 0:27.3 | Novice trying to become an expert by the Olympics. More of an expert than me. Jordan Roderick, |
| 0:32.5 | who has helped to put together this program and our esteemed guests on this program. And we're starting the show with them. We've got Rudy Fernandez, defensive coordinator, assistant coach of the USA football men's national team. |
| 0:41.3 | We also have Mike Daniels defensive back that does it all on the field. |
| 0:46.7 | We're going to get into what both of these men do on the field and obviously as a coach. |
| 0:51.7 | But just to introduce for the listeners, |
| 0:54.3 | this is a long gestating idea from Jordan here |
| 0:58.1 | and from like a growing sport that we are trying to cover |
| 1:03.2 | and wrap our minds around here at NFL media. |
| 1:06.7 | And I'm excited. Are you ready, Jordan? |
| 1:08.7 | Yeah, understatement, me being fired up. |
| 1:11.5 | I've been so excited about this, you guys. |
| 1:12.8 | I went to see some of the summer series last year. |
| 1:15.1 | I've written about this, a sport at theathletic.com. |
| 1:18.5 | I'm so excited about the potential here. |
| 1:21.3 | And then also about you guys representing us in the LA Olympics. |
| 1:25.7 | I know we got a long way to go between now and then when |
| 1:29.5 | flag football makes its debut in the Olympics. But I know I speak for a lot of people, like millions |
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