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Matt Miller

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

ESPN NFL Draft Analyst and Insider Matt Miller joins the podcast for the first time to talk about the difficulty of predicting a players success in the NFL, Texas football and the upcoming college season, Peyton and Eli Manning on 'Monday Night Football,' seeing the Turnpike Troubadours live at Red Rocks earlier this year, his favorite kinds of beer, working in sports journalism and being professional in the locker room, and his picks to win the NCAA College Football National Championship and Super Bowl LVII in February.

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0:00.0

Matt Miller, huge fan, not even sure what to call you other than an ESPN NFL.

0:18.9

What does your bio on Twitter say?

0:21.5

NFL draft analysts and insider, which titles for like working in the draft,

0:26.4

it's a made up perfection, right? Like Mel Kuyper made this job up.

0:29.4

I was going to make. My Twitter bio should probably be want to be Mel Kiper or, you know,

0:34.2

Knell Kiper Jr. Jr., you're probably in my Twitter bio. But no disrespect, but kind of like weather men and women, it's like they're not held to a

0:44.8

degree of success rate.

0:46.6

It's like, yeah, it's going to rain.

0:48.8

It doesn't.

0:49.2

Who cares?

0:49.7

Nobody like, hey, you were wrong.

0:52.4

Nobody really goes back to Mel Kiper and maybe they

0:55.4

do here and there on like a funny clip, but 10 years ago, you said this about so and so.

0:59.6

It's like they do it a little bit to kind of create this like funny thing.

1:03.2

But does that make it hard?

1:05.0

Like, do you get in your head a lot when you're kind of analyzing a guy coming out to,

1:09.0

oh shit, I got to really, yeah, I can imagine

1:10.9

especially because I'm not Mel Kiper. And like I've like fought and clog my way to get to ESPN. You know, I spent a decade at Bleacher Report. Before that, I just did this as like a hobby. And so I think when you're not the top guy, you know when you mess up, you know, because you you want to be right because it's a it's a very competitive field.

1:30.1

I love to the SPN.

1:30.9

There's a couple guys in NFL network. And then there might be like, you know, some offshoot, uh, you know, like networks or brands that might have a draft guy, kind of like I was a Bleacher report. But it's, it's so competitive that anytime you miss on on a player you're like shit like I have second

1:45.3

round grade on Patrick Mahomes and it haunts me to like I'm like why so to the bears why am I so

1:50.3

stupid right so the bears right so you definitely it bothers me more than like the fans would

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