Peter Schrager on his move from NFL Network to ESPN
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Episode 565 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with ESPN's Peter Schrager
Schrager goes in-depth about his decision to leave the NFL Network and "Good Morning Football" for ESPN, why he wasn't nervous about making the big career move and how he feels about his time on GMFB.
Schrager also reveals when his role will be at ESPN once the NFL season begins, whether we'll see him during "Monday Night Football" coverage and if the prospect of covering other sports besides the NFL appeals to him. Schrager also comments on reports that ESPN is interested in giving him his own show.
Other topics covered with Schrager include the status of the NFL going to an 18-game regular season, sleeper teams for the 2025 season and acts he'd like to see perform at halftime of the Super Bowl.
The conversation with Schrager closes with an in-depth discussion on HBO's excellent two-part Billy Joel documentary.
Following Schrager, Sal Licata from WFAN radio and SNY TV joins Jimmy for their weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. This week, they discuss MLB's gambling problem after the suspension of Guardinas reliever, Emmanuel Clase. Jimmy recaps his weekend of seeing Chris "Mad Dog" Russo's live SiriusXM show in New Jersey and and Jerry Seinfeld's standup show at Foxwoods. The duo also discussed the wave of recent celebrity deaths.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone to S-I Media with Jimmy Trayna. |
| 0:06.1 | Thank you so, so much for listening. |
| 0:08.9 | This is one of our best recent episodes. |
| 0:11.5 | Over the summary here, we have Peter Schrager, made the jump. |
| 0:15.2 | We brought good morning to Paul to ESPN. |
| 0:17.9 | And we get into all of that with Peter and what his role is going to be here at ESPN. |
| 0:23.1 | And we spend a lot of time on the Billy Joel documentary, two-parter on HBO. |
| 0:28.1 | If you are a fan of Billy Joel's music and you haven't watched it, you have to. |
| 0:32.2 | If you don't like Billy Joel's music, you don't have to bother. |
| 0:34.3 | But great conversation with Peter. |
| 0:37.4 | And then Sal Lekata is back after a week off for the train of thought segment. |
| 0:40.7 | I saw Jerry Seinfeld do his stand up over the weekend in Foxwoods in Connecticut. |
| 0:45.9 | And I give you a full review of that. |
| 0:48.1 | So a big show with Schrager and trainer thoughts. |
| 0:52.4 | I'm sure you guys will enjoy it. Make sure you subscribe, |
| 0:56.0 | rate, and review before we get to it. If you missed any recent episodes, I know it's the summer. |
| 1:00.5 | A lot of you doing things and maybe not downloading and listening to pods as much as you do when |
| 1:06.2 | the weather is terrible. So make sure you catch up. Brian Curtis from the ringer on all the latest sports |
| 1:11.6 | media news was on last week. Scott Hansen, host of the Red Zone, signs a new four-year deal. |
| 1:16.8 | He was on the show two weeks ago. Dan Orlovsky from ESPN, who also just signed a new four-year |
| 1:21.5 | deal. He was on a few weeks ago as well. So listen to those episodes, subscribe, catch up, |
| 1:26.7 | rate, and review. All right, let's get |
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