NFL Network reporter Steve Wyche and 1979 National League MVP Keith Hernandez, now an author

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Wyche, previewing the 2018 NFL preseason, on the football futures of Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid, on the fate of the NFL's anthem policy, on the budding rivalry between the young Rams and Niners out west, and why he's got a prove-it sense about Jon Gruden and the Raiders. Hernandez, from his broadcast perch with the Mets at Citi Field in Queens, on his new memoir "I am Keith Hernandez,'' on how self-doubt and trying so hard to prove himself fueled much of his career, on love of Strat-O-Matic, and how in the world he wound up on "Seinfeld" for the famous double-episode as Elaine Benes' boyfriend.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, where I interview and have conversations with people in and out of the sport of football and try to educate you about the world I live in.
0:15.0	So this week, our guest, Steve Whitech, highly respected NFL.com and NFL network reporter and analysts. We will preview the National
0:28.3	Football League training camp season which gets underway here in the next week.
0:35.0	And Keith Hernandez, 1979 National League Most Valuable Player,
0:41.0	widely respected voice around Major League Baseball. He wrote a book. He wrote
0:47.3	his memoir. Partial memoir. It stops around 1980. He wrote a book called I am Keith Hernandez.
0:55.4	And for you Seinfeld officinados, you might be disappointed.
0:59.9	It's not a lot about Elaine Benis. Anyway let's start off with three quick thoughts
1:08.5	about my life and about the National Football League. I just began this week my new job. I work now
1:16.2	for NBC Sports full-time. I've taken my column which formerly at Sports
1:22.3	Illustrated was called Monday
1:24.0	morning quarterback now it's called football morning in America and I'll write that
1:29.8	column for the next 46 Mondays and in those weeks I hope that you'll follow me to
1:36.9	NBC Sports.com read my column and sort of follow my adventures covering the National Football League.
1:45.0	For this it's going to be my 35th season covering the NFL.
1:52.0	So, not a lot of emotion. I thought I might have a bunch of
1:55.8	emotion this week when I finished up my first column, but it sort of felt like
2:00.4	I've always done this so it wasn't a lot different. The one thing that was a little bit different this week is I wrote this section of the column called what I've Learned. And that section I had Ben McAdieu, the former
2:16.2	Coach of the Giants talk about what he had learned in his two years as the Coach of the Giants and what he learned when he sort of crashed and burned
2:25.8	at the end of his second year is really kind of educational so I'm going to be
2:30.2	looking to do things like that and taking guys as I go on my training camp trip
2:36.1	starting this weekend I'll be in Burbana a Illinois looking at the bears first
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