Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.

My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

This is an emergency podcast.

Very exciting.

I haven't done a ton of these.

Maybe we'll do more in the future because it's fun to do.

But it is off the major news broken on. haven't done a ton of these. Maybe we'll do more in the future because it's fun to do.

But it is off the major news broken on Wednesday night by the New York Post, Andrew Marchand, just a phenomenal scoop here, that Fox lead NFL analyst, Troy Aikman, is nearing

and deal with ESPN to become the network's new lean analyst on Monday Night Football.

Sources that both those networks confirmed that reporting to me at the Athletic, confirm that reporting to my upcoming guest, Jimmy Trina, as well.

But this is a massive story that will have reverberations at multiple networks.

So I wanted to do something really quick and just talk about it with somebody.

And very, very pleased to be joined by Jimmy Trana of Sports Illustrated.

All right.

So as I said, very excited to bring in Jimmy Trana of Sports Illustrated for this emergency podcast.

Jimmy, this is the first emergency podcast.

I think me and you have done ever, perhaps.

I'm glad you're able to do it I was worried about you

with with the shakes and the tremors you know with the Twitter was doing fun I'm glad you're

able to do this good so far so good and uh I feel like uh mental health wise it's uh it's it's a

it's a smart move but again we're we're early stages on this. All right. So let's get to

this story. First of all, phenomenal break by Andrew Marsha in the New York Post. I got to give it up to him.

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