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Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

RTAB: Mike Sielski

Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

NFL Business

Sports News, News

4.8607 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Mike Sielski chats with Andrew about the Eagles Super Bowl victory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Contracts, salary caps. Why do our favorite teams make some of the moves they do? It's usually

0:06.2

the money. It's time for the business of sports with Andrew Brandt. Welcome back, boys and girls.

0:14.4

Another edition of the business of sports with Andrew Brand. We are Super Bowl Monday, the day following

0:19.1

the game. I'm in Philly.

0:26.1

Mike Sealski, Philadelphia Inquirer, he's in Philly, got up at crack of dawn.

0:26.9

He's back.

0:28.3

The team's back.

0:33.3

They won the championship, the most unlikely of teams, based on what's happened.

0:44.3

I thought Mike and I would riff about this team, about the Eagles winning the championship over the famed Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, New England Patriots.

0:46.5

What an incredible season.

0:48.6

Mike, I'm just going to open it up with you.

0:52.0

What's your first thought when you think of what just happened?

0:53.6

First thing comes into your head.

1:00.9

First thing that comes into my head is Doug Peterson has avocados in his pants and had them all year. You know, it's funny at the start of the week, just before I left from Minneapolis,

1:07.7

I wrote a column saying that the reason the Eagles could win this game was because of the way

1:12.6

Doug had coached and they had played all season, which was pedal to the medal, defy the conventional

1:19.0

wisdom of conventional football, you know, go forward on fourth and short like you've been doing all year,

1:26.5

be aggressive, all that kind of stuff.

1:28.6

And they did that from beginning to end.

1:30.4

I mean, I don't think you could find a more gutsy or play call than fourth and goal from

1:35.3

the one and having a, you know, a undresseded running back, tossed the ball to an undrafted

1:42.5

tight end who throws a touchdown pass to a backup quarterback.

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