people were not going to watch LSU Alabama just to see me. And that's fine. And

people didn't watch the Red Sox, the Bruins, just to see me. And that's what, that's how I

have operated my entire career. So first and foremost, that was, that was an interesting kind of

conversation. I also had with Michael Davies along the way when we were having these talks was,

he really made sure I understood how talent-based

this show is. And I've worked, I've done some self-work to make sure I'm prepared for that

and to goes against kind of like my baseline, I feel like humility chip that I have. I've had to

kind of push some of that aside. But the show, again, I'm just really excited

and happy and it's just different and I'm just ready for different. And I don't know how else to

explain it, but the fact that it is less people, it doesn't bother me. I mean, 10 people could watch

it and I would still be happy to talk about the NFL for three hours today.

Hey, everybody. This is Richard Dyche and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick

Antonetti. We're away from our normal recording studios this week so apologies in advance for the sound

it's not going to be as high quality sound as a podcast usually is that's on me not on

Patrick Anthony at all so we're doing our best but we got a terrific guest this week and I want

to do the podcast even if the sound quality isn't great because

I think the content's really good. Jamie Erdell is the new host of Good Morning Football, which

airs Monday through Friday at 7 a.m. Eastern on the NFL network. She makes her debut on July 25th.

We had a really great conversation. Again, when you read stuff about Jamie and

her colleagues praising her for just really being a professional, a decent person, it's all true.

And so that's someone who's success you're happy for. We discuss why she wanted the good morning football job, how she learned the job

became available, what she had to do to get it, what she expects from the show, got into

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