The Season with Peter Schrager: Shepherd University HC Ernie McCook
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In what’s far and away the most fun story of the week, Peter goes on a deeper dive to get to know Bears rookie QB Tyson Bagent. Peter is joined by Bagent’s college coach, Shepherd University (WV) HC Ernie McCook. Coach McCook dazzles us with stories of Bagent’s absurd college exploits on the field, as well as some of the intangible magic he has off of it. He also tells us about the Bears QB’s incredible work ethic, and what it’s like training and preparing at a DII school as opposed to a Division 1 power. Coach McCook says that no Division I school offered Bagent a scholarship and how being in his life since he was a teenager helped him land the recruit of a lifetime. Finally, he tells us which NFL legend he compares Bagent to and sheds light on how Bagent got prepared for a 2023 NFL season in which he was no guarantee to make the roster.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the NFL in partnership with IHeart Radio. |
| 0:22.1 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:25.1 | Welcome to another episode of The Season with Peter Schrager. |
| 0:31.6 | We're entering week eight of this NFL campaign, and we're coming off a week where the Patriots beat the bills. |
| 0:40.5 | The Vikings beat the 49ers, and the New York Giants got back on track beating the Washington Commanders. There was so much intrigue going into this week about the Detroit Lions and then the Baltimore Ravens absolutely |
| 0:45.5 | walloped them in Baltimore and did so physically. I'm watching Ronnie Stanley block poor Kirby |
| 0:52.5 | Joseph. I think he's in the stand somewhere. |
| 0:54.7 | He threw him around so hard. |
| 0:56.9 | It's just week to week. |
| 0:58.6 | It's hard to do like power rankings. |
| 1:00.7 | And this is the MVP because things change week to week. |
| 1:03.1 | And that's the beauty of the sport. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm joined here by Aaron Wong Kaufman, our producer. |
| 1:08.5 | Aaron, I'm still thinking about the Sunday night game, though, and what the Eagles did to the Dolphins. Did you watch that game? Oh, yeah. Yep. I was texting with one of my friends who's a writer who is a huge Eagles fan. And the difference in our emotion, like me having watched the Bills game earlier in the day and him currently |
| 1:27.5 | watching the Eagles game, I mean, it was, it was, they were very good. It was, it was like strength |
| 1:33.1 | for speed and it was, oh. Your friend's a writer? What's he right? He writes for NFL writing. He |
| 1:40.8 | works at SB Nation. What's his name? Ben Nathan? What's up, Ben? You got to read his |
| 1:47.3 | stuff. Here you all along. I thought you were my buddy and that you and I are the ones texting. |
| 1:50.8 | And now you've got this other side chick, Ben Nathan at SB Nation that you're texting. It's like |
| 1:57.0 | finding out your wife has a whole other thing going on with some other guy in the same exact line of work. |
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