The Annual NFL QB-NBA Player Comp With Ceruti. Plus, the Transfer Portal Explained With Max Olson, and Life Advice With TV Writer Bill Callahan

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Russillo is joined by Ceruti to make their annual NFL QB–NBA player comp list (0:43). Then Ryen talks with Max Olson of The Athletic about the current version of the NCAA transfer portal, why and how it changed, its affect on team-building and staffing, how it ties in with NIL and boosters, its impact on high school players, and more (22:16). Finally Ryen is joined by writer-producer Bill Callahan to discuss his origins in show business before answering some listener-submitted writing Life Advice questions (56:54). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Steve Ceruti, Max Olson, and Bill Callahan Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's podcast is gonna be fun. We do our annual NFL QBs as NBA players.
0:18.3	Surrey and I, so he's gonna stop by do that. Max Olson,
0:21.5	most of the athletic, he covers the college football transfer portal. Do you
0:26.2	not understand it? Well, you will now. And everything else that goes into it. It's a lot of
0:29.6	fun there. And we're doing life advice with a real writer, producer, my long-time friend,
0:33.9	Bill Callahan, incredible resume out here in Los Angeles. So some life advice, emails on that
0:39.2	career path. Enjoy the podcast. We're to start today's podcast with the 17th annual NBA players,
0:47.7	NFL QB comps. Surrey is here hanging out. What's up? What's up? Alright, so here's the premise we've
0:56.2	done this for years. We're gonna take an NBA player and compare him to an NFL quarterback. So Surrey
1:03.1	and I worked on this for a little bit. We've run through it. You're gonna toss them in me. There
1:06.7	could be some surprises in there. And then we're gonna work out whether or not we think the comp is
1:10.2	like right on unfair, but still unfair, but right on or totally off. But for the most part,
1:16.7	the premises are trying to get these as right as we can, right? Yeah, they're not exact.
1:21.0	Some of them have like off-field things involved. Some of them are just purely on-field. Like,
1:25.7	hey, I watch you two guys and they're similar. So, you know, it's a fun exercise. Try to get two
1:29.9	mad at us. Exactly. Or get wicked mad. Okay. Okay. Alright, the first one. This one you'll love. Your
1:36.2	boy, Russell Wilson, I think his comp is James Harden. Here we go. Once great, both basically forced
1:43.8	trades away from their team and left the team with trade of them. Probably having buyers or more.
1:48.3	I don't want to say they're washed, but they're definitely past their prime. So Russell Wilson is
1:52.3	James Harden. I'm not ready to go wash them either one of these guys right now. Okay. Harden just
1:56.3	got back to the first time in a while. The Houston game was pretty ugly. Not a big deal.
2:00.4	Personality-wise, I would rather hang out with James Harden. I would live with James Harden before
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