Matthew Berry, ESPN.COM and David Johnson, RB Arizona Cardinals

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Peter King talks to ESPN's senior fantasy analyst Matthew Berry and Arizona Cardinals running back David Johnson. Berry talks about how he went from being a TV writer in Los Angeles to a senior fantasy analyst. He explains how he created a cottage industry out of his fantasy sports hobby. Berry tells stories of helping out celebrities with their fantasy football teams, and the time he made an appearance at Jay Z's fantasy draft. David Johnson discusses the job he had in college that motivated him to be a great football player so that he wouldn't have to do jobs like that anymore. He also talks about how he takes criticism and hard coaching from Bruce Arians. Johnson, a triplet, explains what it was like growing up as the lone boy in a triplet set.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Peter King. Welcome to the MMQB podcast with Peter King, where I take you inside the minds of the biggest influencers in the NFL.
0:12.0	This week, the Maestro. in the NFL.
0:13.0	This week the maestro of fantasy football and a fantasy sports Matthew Berry of
0:18.6	E-SPN.com and also the most exciting young Russia in all of the National Football League,
0:25.8	David Johnson of the Arizona Cardinals.
0:28.5	I ask Matthew Berry, how in the world did he ever get started in this crazy business?
0:34.0	I sent them a note and I said I'm a professional writer living out here in Hollywood but fantasy
0:37.6	sports is my passion and so could I write a column on the side or something like that?
0:41.4	I just think that'd be so much fun and they
0:43.4	wrote me back the next day and said we looked you up on IMDb
0:46.0	married with children is our favorite show of all time you're hired so because I had
0:49.2	written unmarried with children I got a shot to write this a free column for roto World on this internet site that no one had ever heard of.
0:55.0	But I was thrilled.
0:56.0	And I asked one of the leading Russers in the National Football League David Johnson how he got so motivated to be good at football by simply doing a summer job.
1:05.8	The first thing that came to my mind after the first day working out there, I was thinking to myself,
1:11.2	I'm going to make this football thing last as long as I can so I do not have to have a job like this.
1:17.0	Now my conversation from the E-SPN campus in Connecticut with Matthew Berry.
1:23.0	Back on the MMQB podcast with Peter King.
1:26.0	I'm here up in Bristol, Connecticut on the E-SPN campus with Matthew Barry who most of you will know because most of you who listen to this
1:37.9	are among the 42 million people not who listen to this podcast
1:42.1	but who play fantasy football in the United States. But anyway, Matthew,
1:47.5	thanks for an audience today up in the middle of fantasy football season.
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