Seahawks GM John Schneider & Patriots Insider Tom Curran

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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(2:10) Peter King reflects on a conversation with Giants co-owner John Mara about the uncharted territory the NFL is about to embark upon, and why 2020 will be all about living on the edge (8:35) Seahawks GM John Schneider on the trade for Jamal Adams, players opting out of 2020, and why the younger generation of GMs is more willing to take some risks (38:00) Patriots Insider Tom Curran gives the inside scoop on the 6 New England players who have already chosen to opt out of the 2020 season

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast. You know, I know it's the end of July.
0:09.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast. You know, I know it's the end of July,
0:14.6	but this is an action-packed,
0:18.8	massive stuff happening.
0:21.8	I mean, it's July 28th as I record this Tuesday night and I mean it just
0:27.7	never ends it just doesn't end. But this week on the podcast we're going to get to two of many things going on around the National Football League.
0:38.0	I will be with John Schneider, the general manager of the Seattle Seahawks.
0:42.0	He made that blockbuster trade dealing
0:46.0	to first round picks to the New York jets for Jamal Adams in return.
0:51.2	Win-win, I think a little bit more of a win for the Seattle Seahawks.
0:56.9	And then we will talk about the strange, strange days of the New England Patriots with Tom Curran of NBC Sports Boston as you know or as you have heard
1:09.9	the New England Patriots have had six players, a league high, six players, opt out for COVID-related reasons of their contracts through 2020.
1:21.6	They're already without Tom Brady and now no Dante High Tower, no Patrick
1:26.4	Chung, no Marcus Cannon. So we will weigh in and it might not be over in Foxborough by the way. We'll have Tom Curran tell us the whole story about what exactly is going on in New England. But I'm going to start off by saying something that I had a conversation over the weekend with John Mara, the co-owner of the New York Giants.
1:55.0	And John, I've known John Mera since I covered the Giants in 1985 for Newsday, a paper in New York.
2:05.0	And, you know, I knew his dad, Wellington Mara,
2:08.0	the, you know, the godfather of the organization
2:12.0	and, you know know really a good human being but anyway so John
2:19.0	Merrill reminded me that last May that I had written and I felt happy about it. Hey, somebody reads me. But John
2:28.8	Merr reminded me of, you know, Peter, you said that this is going to be an imperfect year and people need to get
2:35.8	used to some injustice. And this was after John Mara basically told the owners in a conference call last Friday,
2:46.5	listen guys, we have to get used to football
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