Football’s New Evolution: Why Star Centers & TEs Rule the Modern Game

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Former NFL Lineman Geoff Schwartz joins the show to tell the story of how his wedding day landed on the same day as legal tampering. How he was with his groomsmen, readying to walk the aisle while making the decision to join the NY Giants. Then Geoff gives his thoughts on why having a star center and star tight end is the latest chapter in the continuing evolution of professional football. He says it's in response to the plethora of incredible pass rushers. He adds that all the talk about how hard it is on the players to move is ridiculous. You're rich. You're fine. Then Director Bryan Bishop stops by to chat the Academy Awards. His documentary, Growth, is a must watch. He says One Battle After Another is a lock, and thinks that the drop off of Hamnet is for the best. As Vince Lombardi once said, "It ain't bragging if you done it." Dave Dameshek and the gang did just that on this episode of Football America! (NOTE: This episode was recorded before the Kyler Murray trade to the Vikings.) AUDIO Football America! is available wherever you listen to podcasts. Leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/football-america/id1831757512 Follow us: Dave Dameshek: https://x.com/dameshek Geoff Schwartz: https://x.com/geoffschwartz Host: Dave Dameshek Guests: Geoff Schwartz Team: Gino Fuentes, Ethan Bedowsky Director: Danny Benitez Senior Producers: Gino Fuentes, Mike Fuentes Executive Producer: Soup Campbell Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Rams, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tennessee Titans, Washington Commanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, we've got Jeff Schwartz on Free Agency and bald Brian Bishop on the Oscars.
0:04.5	But first, for all the obsessive professional evaluation of football players, measuring them
0:09.8	every way possible, making the right draft pick is still just a coin flip, and that's because
0:15.2	there remains no good measure for how a player is going to perform under pressure.
0:19.2	But of course, coming through under pressure isn't about rising to some better version of
0:23.3	your standard self.
0:24.6	Instead, it's just about being able to perform exactly the same with the weight of the world
0:28.8	on your shoulders and the clock against you.
0:31.3	I agree life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it, but you just
0:36.7	don't know what that reaction's
0:38.1	going to be till you're in it. Well, let it be known to all, my pal, the reigning champ of our
0:43.6	fantasy league, plus handicapped golfer, professional grade funny man, handsome enough to make all
0:49.3	the ladies swoon, comfy in his own skin like no one else. The guy we call the Dutch mook, Paul cohorst,
0:56.0	is good under pressure, and I don't just mean in how he's dealing with the return of his cancer.
1:02.3	For once, I'm not saying this just to be cute. There is a difference between just surviving and
1:07.8	really living. Let me tell you something. Time's a motherfucking bully. It never
1:12.5	lets anybody else win. So I guess all we can do is what Paul's done. Live! When I caught him just a few
1:18.8	days ago, he said he was headed into surgery and asked for good luck, said it wasn't a slam dunk he'd even
1:24.1	make it through. We can agree that's a pressure-packed moment, right?
1:28.2	Heavy shit, and here's the photo he sent along with it. Thumbs down, sticking his tongue out,
1:35.3	at cancer. I don't know, I just thought this was great, defining even, stiff upper lip,
1:41.6	fat, not glib enough for the Dutch mook. this was silly unbothered quintessentially who he is
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