Rams quarterback Jared Goff, Denver tight end Jake Butt, and Booger McFarland of ESPN Monday Night Football.

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Goff on how far he's come since a shaky rookie year in 2016, on the difference Sean McVay has made in his life, on what he's learned to make some of the deep-ball throws that have been the trademark of early success this year, and how much help his dad and former major-league catcher Jerry Goff has been to him on and off the field. Butt, 23, who suffered his third ACL tear last week, on the heartbreak of this injury followed by the one that wrecked his rookie year in 2017, on his positive outlook and where it comes from, and his determination that he'll still have a standout NFL career. McFarland, the former Tampa Bay first-round pick, on the very unlikely road to network sideline reporter, on what led to him taking a perch 10 feet above the field for every Monday night game, and on impressions of Patrick Mahomes after watching him up-close and personal Monday night in Denver. Plus ... a glimpse into my Sunday night regimen with a phone call with Bears coach Matt Nagy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, where I try to educate you a little bit about football and a tiny bit about life.
0:11.0	This week, I've got Los Angeles Rams quarterback and MVP
0:15.4	candidate Jared Gough. I've got one of the most intriguing stories of this NFL
0:21.2	season and if you haven't heard it you've got to listen to it.
0:25.0	Denver Broncos tight end Jake Butt.
0:28.0	And we'll also be joined by Booger McFarland
0:32.0	who's in that funny contraption on ESPN Monday Night Games,
0:36.3	hovering above the field, commenting about games like the third guy in the booth,
0:41.3	but he's not on the field, he's not in the booth, he's in some funny
0:45.2	contraption 10 feet above the field, and you'll hear from Booger as well.
0:51.5	But first, over the years I have sort of developed this way of doing my job on Sundays.
0:58.7	I don't go to as many football games as I used to. Most Sundays now for the last few years, I've sat at home,
1:06.2	I've put on the NFL games both on my computer and on my home TV in my office. Either that or I watch the Red Zone channel
1:18.7	with Scott Hansen. And so over the years what I've done is I've tried to develop this thing where after games I'll talk to four or five six people coaches players
1:32.0	executives after important games or important events of the day.
1:37.0	Then I'll write my column on Monday and I will sort of develop what I think is the best story of the day for the top of my column.
1:45.4	So I thought one of the things that I would do this week is just sort of explain that to you and explain how I do it and then also give you a little clip of something that happened to me this past Sunday that I think would be fun.
2:02.2	It'll see it'll show you basically how the donuts get made.
2:06.0	So on Sunday night, one of the people I really wanted to talk to was Matt Nagee,
2:12.0	the rookie head coach of the Chicago Bears.
2:14.0	They have been really under fire on offense because
2:18.0	Mitchell Trubiscy has not been playing well.
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