Ranking Title Contenders, Playoff Bubble Teams and Football in Ireland with Michael McQuaid
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🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On the eve of the first ever National Football League game on Irish soil, Gregg Rosenthal sits down with the gridiron football authority of Ireland, Michael McQuaid, for a wide-ranging discussion about the context of the NFL in Ireland, what Croke Park will look like on Sunday, and what to expect from the Vikings and Steelers on what Gregg expects to be the first of many NFL games in Ireland going forward. Plus, Gregg shares his NFL team tiers as of Week 4. Don't miss the Minnesota Vikings take on the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday morning at 9:30 AM ET on NFL Network!
Michael McQuaid (@McQuaidNFL) - Pro Football Ireland (@NFLIreland)
Topics:
— The history and growth of American football in Ireland
— NFL Team Tiers:
- "Shocked if they make the playoffs"
- "Surprised if they make the playoffs"
- Playoff bubble teams
- Playoff caliber teams
- Title contenders
— Ireland Game Preview
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to NFL Daily where it's the Irish Super Bowl this week. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm Greg Rosenthal, and I could not be more excited to be joined by the unofficial host of Vikings Steelers, the first ever game in Dublin, |
| 0:26.4 | Michael McQuaid. How are you doing? Are you going a little crazy? Now you're running all over the |
| 0:31.2 | place this week. Greg Falsh, welcome to Ireland. I know you've a lot of fans on this island, both north and south. It's funny, it was talking to a few people before we came in here. I really mean this. It really means a lot to us to see not just yourself, but the lead come over here. So it's good to see him. How are you doing? I'm doing great. And yeah, like I get to the airport, the entire gate are Steelers fans in their jerseys. |
| 0:57.3 | Did you fly from L.A.? From L.A. |
| 0:59.4 | So that's Steelers fans in L.A. Oh, yeah. I mean, there's Steelers fans everywhere. |
| 1:02.8 | But the fact that it's all Steelers fan on a like red eye in L.A. like, okay, that feels different. |
| 1:09.0 | Get off the flight. You see the Steelers and all the |
| 1:12.6 | NFL stuff all over the city. Get to the hotel. There's literally 20 Steelers fans all taking |
| 1:18.0 | pictures with their jerseys on. And it just, you've been on a bus around town with literally |
| 1:25.8 | the bus Jerome Bettis. |
| 1:35.0 | And it does feel like a special week for football in this country and the NFL in general. And I have got a present for you from all of us lads here, including Marks, and Bustaitis. |
| 1:40.0 | I have got you an Irish terrible tile. |
| 1:42.7 | Oh. |
| 1:43.0 | Which I don't believe is available in Pittsburgh. So you can keep that as a memento. I mean, I'm not keeping this thing. I'm a Rogers hater. But I will give this. Give it to a deserving person. To a deserving friend, my good buddy, Anthony Jettlenick. We're here with a big fan of the Jesselnik and Rosenthal Vanity Project, |
| 2:01.9 | JRP, Mark Hogan here. And I'm going, I'm giving this straight to him. He will, he will really |
| 2:07.0 | appreciate that. And yes, if you're, if you're listening to this, what's this show all about? |
| 2:12.3 | We wanted to get a little bit of local flavor, a little bit of knowledge about the growth of the game here. We're going to |
| 2:19.0 | talk a little Viking Steelers. We did preview the game on our preview show, but just a few |
| 2:23.9 | more thoughts about it before we get ready, what that game is going to look like. And I'm actually |
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