Big Daddy & Friends Podcast

Bill Guerin is the general manager of the Minnesota Wild. The two-time Stanley Cup champion was the 5th overall pick in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft and went on to play 18 seasons, becoming the first player of Hispanic descent to play in the NHL. Guerin won two more Stanley Cups as the assistant general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins and was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2013.

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Dan Kaplan is a sports business reporter for The Athletic. Before joining the Athletic in May 2019, Kaplan spent over two decades writing for SportsBusiness Journal. 

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Adam Jones is a professional baseball outfielder for the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Baltimore Orioles and Arizona Diamondbacks. The Mariners selected Jones in the first round of the 2003 MLB draft. He came up in the Mariners' minor league system as a shortstop before transitioning to the outfield. He made his MLB debut with the Mariners in 2006 and was traded to the Orioles before the 2008 season. Jones is a five-time MLB All-Star, a four-time Gold Glove Award winner, and a Silver Slugger winner.

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Neil O'Donnell is a former quarterback who played in the National Football League for 14 seasons (1990–2003) with the Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets, Cincinnati Bengals, and Tennessee Titans. He played college football at Maryland.

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Peter Koch is an American actor and a former football player. Koch was a defensive end who played five seasons in the NFL including for the Bengals, Chiefs, and Raiders. He was selected 16th overall in the 1984 NFL Draft.

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Ronald Lott is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback, free safety, and strong safety in the National Football League for 14 seasons during the 1980s and 1990s. Lott played college football for the University of Southern California and was honored as a consensus All-American.

When Lott talks football, it would behoove us to listen. He did just that joining Rich Salgado on the Big Daddy & Friends podcast focusing on the upcoming NFL Playoffs while giving us a prediction of who will play against one another in Super Bowl LV this coming February.

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Three-time Super Bowl champion and two-time Dallas Cowboys Pro Bowl fullback Daryl “Moose” Johnston provides color commentary for the  FOX NFL broadcasts with play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt. He played college football at Syracuse University. He was the General Manager of the San Antonio Commanders of the Alliance of American Football in 2019, and currently serves as Director of Player Personnel for the Dallas Renegades.

Longtime Dallas Cowboys fullback Daryl Johnston recently caught up with Rich Salgado on Big Daddy & Friends to discuss his remarkable path to the NFL, his friendship with Cowboys legend Emmitt Smith, and how he was following the prolific ball-carrier long before their days as three-time Super Bowl champions in Dallas.

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Mike Tannenbaum is a professional American football executive. He was the Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Miami Dolphins. Prior to that, he served as the general manager for the New York Jets of the National Football League.

ESPN analyst and former New York Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum recently sat down for an interview with Rich Salgado on Big Daddy & Friends to discuss his humble beginnings en route to eventual emergence as an NFL executive.

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Darren Heitner, Esq. is the Founder of Heitner Legal, which is a law firm with many practice areas, including sports law and contract law. Heitner has represented numerous athletes and sports agents as legal counsel, including but not limited to NFL players Antonio Brown, Brandon Marshall, Darius Leonard, Frank Gore, Johnny Manziel, LeGarrette Blount, Terrell Owens, ; tennis players Anna Kournikova and Alexa Noel; NBA players Andrew Wiggins, Arron Afflalo, De’Aaron Fox, Montrezl Harrell; MLB players Alex Avila, Ervin Santana, Jose Bautista, Luis Castillo, Manny Ramirez, Pablo Sandoval, and Rafael Furcal.

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Kelli Masters has represented more professional athletes than any woman in the industry, having served as agent/contract advisor to players in every NFL draft since 2006 as well as numerous athletes in the MLB draft and the Olympics. 

Kelli is a former National and World Champion baton twirler, and was also Miss Oklahoma 1997, winning awards for talent and community service at the Miss America pageant that year. Currently, Kelli serves as an Adjunct Professor at Oklahoma City University and Oklahoma Christian University, teaching Sports Law. 

Masters is also about to release her first book, which is titled High Impact Life: A Sports Agent’s Secrets to Finding and Fulfilling a Purpose You Can’t Lose. It’s available for pre-order on Amazon and will release on August 3, 2021.

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