Welcome back to another episode of the Adam Schaefter podcast.

And on today's episode, we are going to be joined by one of the shooting stars in media today, Nate Berluson, who co-hosts CBS Mornings is an analyst on CBS NFL Today Show,

and he's also the co-host of the Wednesday night Nickelodeon show called Slime Time,

that I happen to know one of the correspondents on that show very well.

She's conducted interviews of players for that

show in my own home. And I've watched Nate Berlinson grow from where he used to be a player

with the Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks, Detroit Lions, and briefly the Cleveland Browns.

And he went from becoming a third round pick in 2003 out of Nevada to go on to become arguably

the hottest young star in media today,

thought it would be worth our time to sit down with the incredibly talented Nate Berluson.

And that comes after a week that really was remarkable in the way it unfolded.

And it began happening last Friday when the first email that John Rudin,

the former Raiders coach, and it's amazing to say that right now, the former Raiders coach,

sent to the former Washington football team executive, Bruce Allen, using a racial trope to describe

the NFLPA executive director, DeMara Smith. I happened to be in Ann Arbor, visiting my son that day.

And the moment I saw that email, I got on the phone with some people, and I could tell that

John Gruden was in trouble and that his job and future in the NFL were in jeopardy.

We didn't know how it would unfold.

There were a lot of different ways it could unfold.

And I think the NFL was waiting to see how the

Raiders owner, Mark Davis, handled it. And on Friday, the NFL sent more emails to Mark Davis

that were, quote, unquote, very damaging, detailing more slurs that went beyond what John Gruden

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