Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays, and this is episode two of The Money Down,

our four-part mini-series examining the business of the NFL. If you missed episode one with

ESPN's Dominique Foxworth looking at the stagnation of the cornerback market, and that position's

place in football culture, you can find that in

the athletic football show feed wherever you get your podcasts. Today, we're chatting about the

broadcasting side of the league with the athletic senior media columnist Andrew Marchand.

In some ways, the league's broadcasting present and future is set. Most of the recent TV deals

with linear networks and ESPN are set through the end of the decade.

But as Andrew says in this episode, we know the NFL was always looking for new ways to snatch

back part of a pizza it's already sold, only to turn around and sell it again.

With Christmas Day games on Netflix and expansion of the international series and who knows

what else on the horizon, I chatted with Andrew about the league's expansion into streaming, the limits of where

it will broadcast big games, if those even exist, and how the league is thinking about its

relationships with streaming platforms.

We also chatted about the early returns from Tom Brady's days as a broadcaster, the future

of someone like Greg Olson, and much more from the talent side of NFL broadcasts.

So let's get to that conversation with Andrew.

Joining us now, it is the senior media columnist at The Athletic.

It's Andrew Marsan.

Andrew, sincerely appreciate you joining us.

Appreciate it.

Yeah, thanks for having me. My pleasure.

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