Troy Aikman + Traina Thoughts
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Episode 423 of the "Sports Illustrated Media Podcast" hosted by Jimmy Traina features a conversation with ESPN's Troy Aikman.
The "Monday Night Football" analyst gives his perspective on what it was like to be in the stadium and on the air during Damar Hamlin's terrifying medical incident and shares his thoughts on how Joe Buck and his ESPN colleagues handled coverage of Hamlin.
Aikman also talks about what his first year calling "Monday Night Football" was like after being at Fox for 20 years, flex scheduling coming to "Monday Night Football" next season, why he thinks the NFL product has been watered down, the wild-card playoff matchups, why Tom Brady is still so good, whether there are too many teams in the playoffs and much more.
Following Aikman, Sal Licata from WFAN radio and SNY TV in New York joins Jimmy for their weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. This week, Jimmy and Sal discuss wild-card weekend wagers, the problem with college football's national title game and another tipping controversy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast. I am your host Jimmy Trina. |
| 0:08.3 | Thank you for listening. We have an excellent excellent show this week. |
| 0:13.0 | Troy Aikman from ESP on Monday Night Football is on and brutally honest about so many, so many topics, talked about what it was like to be in the stadium and on the air for the terrifying |
| 0:25.2 | de Mar Hamlin medical situation. Troy gives us his perspective on that. We get a little |
| 0:30.0 | bit into the controversy with Joe Buck and the NFL saying they never said |
| 0:34.6 | five minutes warm up we're gonna replay so Joe weighs in on that excuse me Troy |
| 0:39.7 | weighs in on that and talks about just what that night was like when we get into the NFL playoffs |
| 0:44.0 | he's got Buccaneers Cowboys this weekend |
| 0:48.0 | shares his thoughts on what can happen if the Cowboys lose |
| 0:50.0 | no one you know better connected to the Cowboys and Troy also |
| 0:54.0 | talk about the other playoff match-ups Troy gives us a little review of his first |
| 0:58.8 | GRDSPAN and calling Monday Night Football after 20 years at Fox. |
| 1:02.9 | So great interview with Troy Aikman. |
| 1:04.8 | And then after that, we have our trainer thought segment |
| 1:06.8 | with Salicato, where we get into a little bit |
| 1:08.9 | about the NFL playoffs and some other things going on. |
| 1:12.4 | So excellent episode with Trey Aikman and Train of Thoughts. |
| 1:15.8 | Before we get to it, just quickly, |
| 1:17.5 | if you've missed any recent episodes |
| 1:19.5 | of the SI media podcast, check them out in the archives. |
| 1:22.4 | Jim Miller was on the show last week. |
| 1:25.0 | We talked about how ESPN did a great job |
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