NFL Network's/ESPN's Kyle Brandt
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Episode 607 of “SI Media With Jimmy Traina” features a conversation with “Good Morning Football’s” Kyle Brandt.
Brandt talks about working again with Peter Schrager at the NFL draft, what it’s been like since ESPN took over NFL Network, and fooling people into thinking he had a fight with WWE superstar Seth Rollins on set.
In addition, Brandt talks about why he’s in favor of studio shows being on-site, whether he’d like to branch out into covering other sports, why it was so cool to work with Mel Kiper Jr., recently putting on a concert with his childhood friends, and his favorite “Curb Your Enthusiasm” moments.
Following Brandt, Sal Licata from SNY TV and “The Sal Licata Show” joins Jimmy for their weekly “Traina Thoughts” segment. This week’s topics include Netflix’s Hulk Hogan documentary, Dianna Russini’s alleged playlist for Mike Vrabel, a shady practice by the Mets regarding tickets, a bagel store disaster, a Costco disaster, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to S-I Media with Jimmy Traynor. |
| 0:05.4 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:07.3 | We have one of my favorites on the show this week, Kyle Brandt from the NFL network and now ESPN. |
| 0:12.8 | Kyle worked the draft. |
| 0:14.8 | He did some segments with his old partner, Peter Schrager, had the whole thing with Seth Rollins that was all over the internet, and get into all of that, plus much, much, much more with Kyle. And then, of course, we have Salakata and train the thoughts after that. Before we get to it, just want to tell you, we've had some great guests in recent weeks, want you guys to make sure if you missed any episodes, you give them a listen. Brian Curtis from The Ringer was on last week to discuss all of the latest sports media news. |
| 0:42.8 | We had ESPN's Shams Tarania on two weeks ago, Cody Rhodes from the WWE, Adam Shine from SiriusXM, all recent guests. |
| 0:51.4 | So if you missed any of those, download them, give them a listen and make sure you subscribe to S-I Media with Jimmy Trana. Hit that subscribe follow button. Also feel free to leave a review on Apple. I haven't gotten a review in like a month, so maybe the pods have been bad. You guys are making me feel insecure. So leave a review, but the most important thing is to subscribe. If you can subscribe, that helps the most. All right. Let's get to it, Kyle Brandt, followed by Salakana and Trayna thoughts. |
| 1:15.6 | All right here, right now on SI Media with Jimmy Trana. |
| 1:22.6 | All right, joining me now. Always love when an SI Media podcast regular shows up. |
| 1:27.4 | Makes my job very easy. |
| 1:28.7 | And he's had a big weekend from NFL Network, Good Morning Football, and now ESPN. |
| 1:35.1 | Kyle Brandt. |
| 1:36.4 | Kyle, how are we doing? |
| 1:38.3 | Jimmy, when I was just wasting time ready to sign on here, I was scrolling old curb clips. |
| 1:43.8 | Do you have a favorite all-time curb |
| 1:45.1 | moment? Um, it's, you know, I always hate that question. Like when someone says, |
| 1:51.6 | favorite song, like, how do you narrow it down to one? But I would, I would have to sit here |
| 1:59.1 | and think about if it's when Larry refuses that the new house tour from Susie. |
| 2:06.6 | Oh God, that's so good. |
| 2:07.6 | Because I can tell you in all my years on this earth, I've never wanted a house tour from anyone. |
| 2:12.6 | So for Larry- |
| 2:13.6 | I get it, I get it. |
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