NBC's Sports massive opening NFL week — Cowboys-Eagles and Bills-Ravens
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Episode 541 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Rob Hyland, the coordinating producer of Sunday Night Football and Drew Esocoff, the director of Sunday Night Football. NBC's NFL coverage begins on Sept 4 with the Cowboys at Eagles followed by the Bills-Ravens on Sept. 7. In this podcast, Hyland and Esocoff discuss what will be unique about Sunday Night Football this season; the opening games for NBC's NFL schedule; what Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen are like in production meetings; why a Super Bowl year is always challenging for the host broadcaster; NBC's confluence of doing the Super Bowl, the Winter Olympics and the NBA All Star Game all within the same month; the NFL's in-game coach and coordinator interviews and locker room footage prior to kickoff; whether the new first down measurement can be a value-add for viewers; the challenges of doing NFL games abroad; keeping memorabilia from assignments, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dyche, my producer's Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:18.1 | Two guests this week. Both these gentlemen have been on this podcast before, |
| 0:21.5 | but with the start of the NFL season, they are excellent guests, and I wanted him back. |
| 0:28.1 | Rob Highland is the coordinating producer of Sunday Night Football. He's also served as the producer |
| 0:34.1 | of NBC's Primetime Olympics coverage for the Tokyo Games, the Beijing |
| 0:38.2 | Games, and the Paris Olympics. Both of my guests have too long resumes for me to list all |
| 0:44.6 | of their accomplishments. But Rob Hyland, again, has produced some of the most important and |
| 0:50.7 | most viewed sporting events of our lifetime. |
| 0:58.1 | Drew Ethschoff is the director of Sunday night football. |
| 0:59.4 | If you've watched that product, |
| 1:03.4 | that is a name that you have heard many times at the end of broadcasts, when the broadcasters give salute to the production truck. |
| 1:07.2 | Drew has directed seven Super Bowls, |
| 1:22.8 | and his eighth Super Bowl, of course, will come this year because NBC has this year's Super Bowl, along with the Olympics, along with the NBA All-Star Game. |
| 1:25.0 | We'll get into that crazy month of February with these guys. |
| 1:35.8 | The promo, the 20th season of NBC Sports, Sunday night football kicks off with the Eagles hosting the Cowboys on Thursday, September 4th on NBC Peacock and Telemundo. |
| 1:41.7 | Fun fact, Eagles Cowboys is the most played matchup in Sunday night football history. |
| 1:46.3 | And then three nights later, the official opener for Sunday night football is Bills and Ravens, |
| 1:48.5 | which should be an awesome game. |
| 1:49.9 | And with that, |
| 1:51.1 | I bring in Rob Highland and Drew Escoff. |
| 1:52.8 | Welcome, fellas. |
| 1:53.8 | Thanks for having us. |
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