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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

NFL Playoff Draft Revisit, Coach Luke Fickell on Taking Cincinnati to the Playoff, Plus 'Ozark' EP Chris Mundy

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on all six Round 1 NFL playoff matchups (0:37) before revisiting the NFL playoff draft from November with Ceruti and Kyle (13:10). Then Ryen is joined by Cincinnati football head coach Luke Fickell to discuss the 13-0 regular season, matching up with Alabama in the CFP semifinal, QB Desmond Ridder, his friendship with Titans head coach Mike Vrabel, his season as Ohio State interim head coach, building the program at Cincinnati, and more (20:27). Then Ryen talks with ‘Ozark’ showrunner Chris Mundy about building the show’s characters, the difficulty of trimming story lines, writing for kids, working with Jason Bateman, and more (50:18). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:24:04). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Luke Fickell and Chris Mundy Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's podcast is loaded. Our NFL playoff weekend preview. We revisit our playoff draft

0:17.6

for NFL teams. Check out high in this one. We're also going to talk to Luke Fickle, the head

0:22.0

coach of Cincinnati on what he learned is one year old house date and what he's learned

0:25.4

after playing Alabama and the college football playoff. An incredible year for the Bear

0:29.2

Cats and Chris Mundy is the showrunner producer of Ozark season four coming out on Netflix

0:34.8

in a couple weeks and life advice. I wasn't quite sure what I was going to open with today

0:39.0

but I knew I had to do some NFL but I'm like you know what I probably should go out

0:42.3

get somebody to eat leave the house a bit. I'll go and state Milwaukee's on. Okay that

0:47.3

didn't go great for golden state and that was Milwaukee doing that without Drew Holiday.

0:55.2

That was that was scary. That was scary stuff but with no dream on green you know I don't

0:59.9

know how much we can put into it but at least for a night there it could be a potential

1:04.2

finals preview. It'll be interesting kind of how this game is treated if that ends up

1:07.8

being the finals preview matchup because that was horrifying if you were golden state.

1:12.5

So shout out to Milwaukee who I believe now 16 and three when they have their three guys

1:17.6

but again Drew didn't even play last night. They've had Dave and Chenzoe back and if you

1:21.9

look at where Milwaukee was after kind of hey we just want it and we're starting this

1:25.3

season early to like another point after their start was kind of lingering around 500.

1:32.2

The Bucks are you get arguing are actually kind of horrifying but we'll see we'll see

1:36.8

because without dream on I know that we can't fully fully you know that to me is not a

1:42.8

hey this is Milwaukee and this is golden state and this is the gap between them because

1:46.7

no dream on and then you know Clay's still slowly working himself back in and Stetspin

1:50.7

struggling now for a couple of weeks in the offense now for almost a month has been bottom

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