Tony Dungy on the NFL's All-Time team, and Mark Schlereth on the NFL's most interesting guy

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

(2:20) Peter reflects on his conversation with Bills coach Sean McDermott about the heroics of his WR John Brown, who threw a TD on a trick play against the Cowboys on Thanksgiving. (8:10) Peter tells the inside story of how 49ers TE George Kittle was able to play the last couple weeks with a significant ankle injury. (11:40) Tony Dungy & Peter discuss the challenges of voting for the NFL's All-Time team, comparing football across different eras, who he'd vote for the #1 player ever, the biggest snub from the team, his thoughts on the evolution of black quarterbacks and how players like Lamar Jackson, Russell Wilson, and Patrick Mahomes are all MVP candidates. (37:10) Former NFL offensive lineman Mark Schlereth have a laugh about the toughest and most interesting guy he ever met in the NFL - Jumpy Geathers.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast. It's the first week of December.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast.
0:12.0	It's the first week of December. Welcome to the Peter King Podcast.
0:12.8	It's the first week of December.
0:15.0	We're heading it to the home stretch of the NFL season.
0:18.1	And we have a very little podcast for you this week. We're to have Tony Dungy, the Hall of Fame
0:24.4	NFL coach. He is going to discuss something that is going to garner a lot of
0:31.8	attention, a lot of criticism,
0:34.0	hopefully not all criticism, but a lot of attention,
0:37.4	a lot of criticism over the next month or two,
0:41.0	and that is the NFL's all-time team.
0:44.8	Tony and I were two of the 25 voters on that team.
0:50.9	About a third of it has been released to this point and it's already creating some tempests out in the media and the public.
1:00.5	Tony and I are going to discuss that.
1:04.0	And also this week, it's going to be a little bit unusual.
1:07.0	I'm bringing back a interview I did, a short interview in the summer with Mark Schlerith. You all know him
1:17.2	has been on TV for ESPN and Fox. He's now a game analyst for Fox Sports and I ran into him at Denver Broncos training
1:28.4	camp and he was telling me about the most memorable character he has met in his NFL journeys.
1:35.6	And Mark Schlerith is one of the most interesting guys
1:39.1	that I've met in all my years covering football.
1:42.0	He's an Alaskan. He went to college at Idaho. He is in the
1:46.9	Idaho Vandals Athletic Hall of Fame. He's got three Super Bowl rings. He's had 24 surgeries with encompassing all of the injuries he had as a football player.
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