NBC NFL rules analyst Terry McAulay and Jeff Pearlman, author of a new book about the zany life and predictable death of the USFL

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

McAulay, who retired this year after 17 years as an NFL referee, on the concerns he has about the new rules and interpretations of rules in the NFL this season, on his disdain for some of the roughing-the-passer calls in week two, and on his adjustment to TV after a life as an on-field official. Pearlman on why we should care today about the USFL, which died in the eighties, on the craziest Steve Young story you've ever heard, on what Donald Trump was like as a football team owner, and on the USFL owner who wrote to Trump about wanting to punch him in the face.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, where I talk a lot about football and a little bit about life,
0:08.0	and I bring you hopefully some more knowledge about the game that you really really love.
0:15.6	This week, Terry McCaulay, the NBC NFL Rules Analy analyst and also Jeff Perlman, the author of an insightful, really fun new book
0:27.3	about the Crazy Days of the United States Football League. It's called
0:32.0	Football for a buck, the Crazy Rise and Crazyier Demise
0:36.2	of the USFL.
0:39.1	Let's start for a minute and I want to talk about the officiating in the NFL. I was not going to
0:45.4	have Terry McCauley on this week. I was going to save him for a little bit later in the
0:49.6	season. He has had this job just for a few weeks now with NBC kind of wanted him to get his feet wet a little bit before we we had him on the show
1:02.0	but I really felt like there was something that happened in
1:06.0	the NFL in week two that was to me highly bothersome and what happened in week two And what happened in week two actually centers around one play.
1:17.5	And it's a play that happened just after the two minute warning
1:21.1	in Green Bay, the Packers led Minnesota 29 to 21.
1:26.4	Minnesota was trying to start a comeback.
1:29.3	Kurt Cousins played a very, very good game, had one of the best games of his life at any level of football.
1:37.0	And he went back to pass, he was pressured, and he threw an interception and on that interception with about a minute 50 left in the game
1:48.6	There's a good chance the Packers with even just one first down could have run out the clock and
1:54.4	they would have won that game 29 to 21. But Clay Matthews of the Packers was
2:00.5	called for roughing the passer on Kirk Cousins and I must have watched this play
2:08.2	20 times on replay and I just kept saying to myself,
2:14.0	this is just wrong.
2:16.0	It says nothing to do with who I like, who I don't like.
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