NFL Is Back! Plus College Football Early Impressions With Scott Hanson and Brad Edwards

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts from the first weekend of college football, including Alabama-Miami, Penn State-Wisconsin, Ohio State-Minnesota, LSU-UCLA, and more (0:30). Then Ryen talks to longtime host of NFL RedZone Scott Hanson about the return of the NFL. They discuss the young QBs in the AFC East, high hopes for the Rams with their new QB Matt Stafford, a Chiefs revenge tour, the reloaded Buccaneers, and more (16:22). Then Ryen talks with his former ESPN colleague Brad Edwards about some of the weekend's biggest college football games, schools putting an emphasis on strength of schedule, CFP expansion arguments, Brad’s new book, ‘Dynasty by the Numbers: Why Alabama Now Owns the Greatest Decade-Plus Run in College Football History’, and more (47:23). Finally, Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:25:50). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Scott Hanson and Brad Edwards Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, I'm fired up early in a Monday here specific time.
0:14.2	We're talking football the entire podcast.
0:16.5	Scott Hansen NFL Red Zone his career and the start of the season and then a deep dive
0:20.9	of the first weekend and bigger playoff expansion stuff by author and my former ESPN co-host
0:26.6	Brad Edwards life advice.
0:28.4	Let's go.
0:29.4	Man, what a weekend.
0:31.8	This this felt awesome.
0:32.8	It felt great to see everybody in these stadiums.
0:36.2	It felt normal.
0:38.5	It's amazing how much you can miss certain things.
0:40.0	I went to my first game since 2019.
0:42.2	I think since the title game, yeah, right?
0:44.0	Because I don't think yeah, I didn't go to a game last year.
0:46.3	So for me personally going to LSU at UCLA and just feeling it again, there's nothing
0:51.8	like it.
0:52.8	There's nothing like college ball and let's talk about it.
0:55.6	All right, I'm going to run through this because we've got one week.
0:58.6	I could do a very simple and predictable not original.
1:02.1	Hey, overreaction Monday, which is still what I'm going to sort of do a little bit there.
1:05.3	But that's just what it is.
1:06.3	We can't help ourselves.
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