Mark Leibovich, author of "Big Game: the NFL in dangerous times," and veteran NFL reporter Ed Werder.

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Leibovich, who reads a passage on the NFL trying to own the sports media landscape all year, on whether unpopular commissioner Roger Goodell can survive in the short or long term, on the snarky tone of his tome, on whether another NFL owner after Jerry Richardson will be caught in the #MeToo movement, and on the similarities of covering politics (Leibovich's full-time job for the New York Times) and covering the NFL. Werder on being part of the massive ESPN buyouts a couple of years ago, on what it feels like to be in his prime and being paid to NOT work, and on the future of the Dallas Cowboys, Jason Garrett and Dak Prescott.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, where I hope to teach you a lot about the sport of
0:08.5	pro football and a little about all the other things in life that I'm interested in.
0:14.1	This week, the author of Big Game, the NFL in Dangerous Times, Mark Leibovich, with a tremendous
0:21.7	book, Very, very intelligent writing about the current state of the
0:26.9	NFL and also we'll have ed worder who I think is his Twitter handle really tells his story the best
0:36.2	Ed Werder RFA, Edwarder restricted free agent.
0:39.4	We're going to find out whatever happened to Edwarder and why isn't he on
0:43.6	ESPN anymore and what's he doing right now. We'll get to those conversations
0:49.2	in a moment but first I want to tell you two or three things about week three in the NFL that totally fascinated me.
0:56.7	So what has happened, I think, in the NFL in the last three, four, five years, I've noticed
1:02.1	it especially since the last collective bargaining
1:06.1	agreement was made in 2011 where the work rules were relaxed an awful lot for players and there isn't as much
1:16.5	physical contact anymore. There are no more two a days at training camps and so I think what you're seeing early in the season in week three we saw some very, very strange events.
1:30.0	We saw the Detroit Lions man handle the New England Patriots.
1:35.0	We saw Buffalo go on the road the biggest underdog in an NFL game to win a game since 1995.
1:42.0	They went to Minnesota 17 point underdogs. Manhandled, I like that word,
1:48.4	manhandled the Minnesota Vikings in Minneapolis and there were all other sort of strange events and
1:56.8	strange occurrences that happened in week three in the NFL and And I think, you know, the smart people who look at and analyze the NFL will tell you
2:09.4	that it's very hard to know anything about the NFL in any week, but now particularly early in the season.
2:16.3	I have no idea how or why you would gamble on the NFL, especially early in the season.
2:23.7	And I think there's a couple of things at play here.
2:26.0	Number one, I think that the first month of the season has become what 10 or 15 years
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