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Fantasy Feast: NFL Fantasy Football Podcast

The NFL's Chief Medical Officer discusses 18 games, all grass fields, & banning low blocks

Fantasy Feast: NFL Fantasy Football Podcast

Fantasy Football, NFL, NFL Football

Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ross is joined by Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL's Chief Medical Officer to discuss many of the league's changes from a player safety standpoint including: The new kickoff rule: 4:20 Safer helmets: 7:35 Fewer practices: 9:00 Adding an 18th game: 16:15 Playing surfaces: 17:55 And more! Download the DraftKings Sports Book App and use code ROSS! Connect with the Pod Website - https://www.rosstucker.com Become A Patron - https://www.patreon.com/RTMedia Podcast Twitter - https://twitter.com/RossTuckerPod Podcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rosstuckerpod/ Ross Twitter - https://twitter.com/RossTuckerNFL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Draft Kings Network.

0:05.0

We've got way, way large amounts of variance among fields now all over the place, both artificial and grass in terms of their properties.

0:16.0

We'd like to see that narrow and have playing surfaces become more consistent overall.

0:25.6

You're tuned in to the Ross Tucker football podcast, guiding your gridiron journey,

0:28.9

none other than your host, former NFL lineman, Ross Taylor.

0:36.7

Oh, yeah, it is.

0:40.7

But it's not just any Ross Tucker football podcast.

0:44.1

It is a Monster Monday presented by Draft Kings.

0:46.2

The Crown is yours.

0:51.6

Big week in the NFL because they've got the May owners meetings,

0:56.2

which is when they're going to vote on a bunch of different things, including whether or not to ban the tush push. Also, some playoff seating stuff, which is very

1:04.9

fascinating to see what happens there as well. We've got Dr. Alan Sills, and he is going to be the guy that we

1:14.2

talk to about all the health and safety stuff. Now, this interview was at the Super Bowl,

1:20.7

so we didn't get into Tush Push that much, but we did talk about an 18th game. We did talk

1:25.1

about all grass fields. We did talk about eliminating any low

1:29.6

blocks. A lot of good stuff with Dr. Sills and a lot of good stuff to get to later on in the show

1:36.6

because Brock Purdy got a huge deal. There's wild Caleb Williams news on multiple levels.

1:46.2

And there's some other things to talk about as well as the owners might even vote

1:50.1

to let players play in the Olympics in 2028.

1:54.6

There's a lot going on, including a new week,

1:58.4

which means if you spread the word via social media at Ross Tucker

2:02.9

pod or me at Ross Tucker NFL or just rate and review the show or take advantage of any of the

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