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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The NFL GM with Robert Mays, Plus NCAA Transfer Guidelines | Dual Threat With Ryen Russillo

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Russillo talks with The Ringer's Robert Mays about the position of an NFL GM, how the job compares to GM positions in other leagues such as the NBA and MLB, and how sharing executive power with coaches can affect the job (0:10). Then Russillo talks about the NCAA transfer rules, and both sides of the coin when players lose their eligibility when switching schools (23:05). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to a surprise edition.

0:12.8

And we got two more of these for the Dual Threat podcast.

0:15.6

We'll pick it back up again once the book gets rolling along.

0:18.9

And joining me today from the ringer, a guy that's showing me a bunch of times here,

0:22.6

it is Robert Mays.

0:23.6

What's up, man?

0:24.6

All right.

0:25.6

Not too much, man.

0:26.6

Thanks for having me.

0:27.6

I always love doing this.

0:28.6

Yeah.

0:29.9

I do always love the GM stuff and how the job is differing and how baseball's GM

0:36.3

job is evolved into this thing where they think like managers are the most pointless

0:39.6

things ever.

0:40.6

And when you think about it, if you were a baseball team, why wouldn't you spend all of this

0:45.5

money on a baseball GM as opposed to like a backup second basement?

0:49.6

And then a lot of this stuff is shifted.

0:51.1

So a lot of this stuff is important.

0:52.7

The NBA GM, you could argue is more important than the NBA had coach, but ultimately it's

0:57.8

so much a players league that you could also make an argument that it may not matter

1:00.8

who the hell is running the team.

1:02.2

But in the NFL, we have seen kind of this, I don't know if it's a power shift, Robert,

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