The Season with Peter Schrager: NBC’s Election and Playoff Guru Steve Kornacki, Dispatches from a Weekend in Buffalo, MVP Talk
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4.5 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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NBC’s Election Night and NFL Playoff Scenario Guru Steve Kornacki shares his unorthodox career path from local NJ county politics reporter to the NFL’s playoff odds authority. Kornacki goes into various team’s playoff scenarios and shares with us his reaction when he was voted as one of People’s Sexiest Men in 2020. Peter and Aaron discuss all things Buffalo, do some MVP chatter, and hit the Giants with die hard Big Blue fan and Internet sensation Eli Racks (@IamEliRacks).
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| 0:00.0 | The season with Peter Shrager. I am Peter Shrager. I am Peter Shrager. I host |
| 0:25.2 | Good Morning Football on the NFL network. I'm also on Fox NFL kickoff on Saturdays |
| 0:31.0 | this week, but usually Sundays and I occasionally am on a sideline during a game |
| 0:36.1 | getting snow slashed ice thrown at the back of me by a fired up crowd in Western Buffalo. I'm joined today by my producer Aaron Wong |
| 0:47.4 | Kaufman who is doing the show remotely so it's the first time we haven't been |
| 0:51.4 | like together in the room. |
| 0:52.8 | Aaron, what's up but not too much. I'm up here in Maine for the holidays and you had you |
| 0:59.4 | had your experience in the snow with Buffalo and I spent the weekend shoveling the driveway so similar I think I'm tough I live in New York City it's cold here we walk the streets we're like all right we got the wind in our face. |
| 1:12.6 | That Buffalo cold hit a different way, |
| 1:14.6 | and I'm sure that Maine cold hit a different way. |
| 1:16.3 | Let me give you a quick recap of the weekend. |
| 1:18.6 | Everyone saw the game. |
| 1:19.8 | I'll give you this stuff you might not have seen, |
| 1:22.0 | and some of the other stuff that I collected during the weekend while I was up in |
| 1:25.9 | Buffalo. Start off with a long conversation with Mike McDaniel, the head coach of the Miami Dolphins in the week leading up. I was assigned to the Dolphins |
| 1:35.5 | sideline so I had an opportunity to sit with Mike and I'll tell you what he is as unique a |
| 1:41.0 | figure in the NFL as you're gonna to find. He is so refreshing. He is such a personality, but he's also |
| 1:47.6 | Empathetic, which I think is a weird word to use when we talk about NFL head coaches. Most of our conversation was about Tua and it was off the record but sort of on the record use it in the game |
| 1:57.3 | broadcast if you want but I didn't get it in the game broadcast so the podcast is perfect. |
| 2:01.2 | Really what he was saying about Tua, |
| 2:03.8 | was that, you know, think about putting yourself |
| 2:06.3 | into his shoes. |
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