In the 38-minute pod, Andrew Marchand and John Ourand reunite to talk NFL, ESPN, Netflix, CBS, MLB, UFC, Google YouTube and Amazon. Here’s what you need to know.

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* The ESPN and NFL talks are heating up.

* Why the Red Zone and live games especially work for ESPN DTC

* The groundwork has already been established between the NFL and ESPN

* The next three or four months will decide if an ESPN and NFL deal happens

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* It was convenient for the head of Netflix chief of content, Bela Bajaria, on Matt Belloni’s podcast, to say she was interested in an afternoon NFL package when the NFL could soon have the contractual right to open up its deal with CBS. Maybe a coincidence, maybe not

* Skydance and the NFL are getting along very well

* The NFL could totally switch up how it presents its games

* Is streaming sports the future? Yes. Is it proven? No

* Why the MLB-ESPN showdown is so hard to predict

* ESPN and MLB look at ESPN's $550 million annual fee totally differently

* The problem with national MLB regular season games

* Could Netflix be interested in MLB

* Ourand is big on Google YouTube TV getting more involved in sports

* Ourand thinks the Yankees could be in on the full MLB streaming idea

* The business that Marchand thinks the Yankees could do very well in

* Grant Hill could end up at NBC or ESPN

* Why TV ratings are going up in sports

* UFC rights are up, who is a wild card candidate

* Ourand, formerly a man of the people, talks about the Fashion Show he attended during Super Bowl week

* Ourand shows off about going to Rao's

* Marchand & Ourand were both in New Orleans at the Super Bowl, but didn’t see each other

“Off The Record with Andrew Marchand presented by WSC Sports" is an event series that features the biggest dealmakers in sports, talking about the future of technology in an intimate setting.

ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro is the inaugural guest on March 18th starting at 4 p.m. The location is in midtown Manhattan. In this closed door conversation, Marchand will ask Pitaro to expand on his optimistic thoughts about AI and more.

The event is free and includes light appetizers and cocktails.

Register by clicking here. Space is limited so signing up does not guarantee a spot

* Related Pods: Darrell Rovell and the sports business of niche … Eli Manning is The Main Event… Jim Nantz is The Main Event

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* On-deck Tues.: Marchand & Meterparel: Everybody Loves Sports Media

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On the 33-minute podcast, Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel go inside sports media beginning with the $550 million opt-out showdown between MLB and ESPN, Joe Buck's return to baseball and the NBA All-Star game.

Here is what you need to know about the pod:

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* What is the end game between ESPN and MLB with their $550 million opt-out showdown

* How MLB’s Roku deal for $10 million a year has become an issue

* Joe Buck is coming back to baseball to call Opening Day for ESPN between the Yankees and Brewers

* Big announcement of the first Marchand Sports Media event next month

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* TNT's Draymond Green goes off on the NBA All-Star format

* Please bring back the regular NBA jerseys for the All-Star game

* Too much Kevin Hart and too much talk about the format on TNT's coverage

* Tributes to “Inside the NBA,” but it’s not going anywhere

* Carmelo Anthony will be front and center for NBC

* How Noah Eagle could call NBC's first All-Star game

* ESPN and the 4 Nations NHL success

* Karl Ravech, Ithaca College Class of 1987, needed a math or reasoning course at Marchand and Meterparel's alma mater

* Why Fox Sports' Super Bowl record rating won't be its for long

* All sports TV ratings are about to go up

* Assessing Peter Schrager's Main Event appearance last week

* Could the NFL change its TV format to be more like the Premier League

* Is the Fox Sports new NFL score bug here to stay

* Will Dick Vitale ever do an NCAA Tournament game

* Book Review: Papa Clicker on "World's Fastest Man: The Incredible Life of Ben Johnson* by Mary Ormsby. Big score!

Announcement: “Off The Record with Andrew Marchand presented by WSC Sports" features the biggest dealmakers, talking about the future of sports media.

ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro is the inaugural guest with the focus on technology. Pitaro has said that AI will be additive to sports media. Marchand will ask him to expand on this thought and more.

The event will be held on Tuesday, March 18th at WSC Headquarters at 1410 Broadway on the 21st Floor in New York. The event is from 4-7 p.m.

Marchand and Pitaro are expected to take the stage at 4:30 p.m. and discuss AI and more for about 40 minutes. There will be light appetizers and cocktails. The event is free to attend, but space is limited.

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* On-deck Thursday: John Ourand is The Main Event

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In the 42-minute pod, Fox Sports’ and NFL Network’s Peter Schrager goes inside Super Bowl week and how he works it.

Here’s what you need to know.

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* How not being sent by NFL Network to the Super Bowl in 2024 was crushing for him

* As a result, Schrager paid his own way to go for 18 hours to Vegas for the Super Bowl and slept in a friend's hotel room

* What is Super Bowl week like for Schrager

* What it meant to host Media Night with both teams and how it enabled him to make more connections

* How Fox Sports president of programming and production Brad Zager called him to tell him to be at Bourbon Street at 3 a.m. for an unspecified meet-up that turned into an unbelievable event

* What the Lady Gaga pregame taping was like with Tom Brady, Roger Goodell, Michael Strahan and more

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* It was an emotional night with the first responders, who were honored

* How he lays the groundwork with coaches, players, owners, executives and their significant others

* How Schrager compares to Peter King

* The all-staff Super Bowl dinner with the full Fox Sports crew from Brady to the people in accounting ...

* Schrager doesn't drink all week

* What the Volume party is like and how he was happy to meet Nick Wright and see Omaha’s Logan Swaim and Tim Brown

* How he went to Chris Stapleton's concert with his friend Kliff Kingsbury, which led to seeing more owners, players and SiriusXM’s Ross Zapin, among others

* How he gets to close out the Super Bowl with "Schrager on Ice"

* Going to Jelly Roll with the Los Angeles Rams crew, including Sean McVay

* Michael Rubin's Fanatics' brunch is something out of this world

* Dinner at Rao's with Kevin Costner and Pete Davidson in the room

* Mike Tirico dancing to "Come on, Eileen."

* When does Schrager sleep?

* During the season, he flies every week from New York to Los Angeles and back for Fox Sports NFL Sunday show

* Dinner with Sean McVay and how he thinks he will be great on TV

* Why he went to McVay's wedding

* How he got inside information from it

* How Jay Glazer breaks the Aaron Rodgers' story by having a relationship with Rodgers

* How he has relationships with Jets' ownership, but was critical of their coaching search process

* How Super Bowl week is the biggest week of his year

* He got Miles Teller and Bradley Cooper because he has created relationships

* What was his favorite parts of the Super Bowl

* Should it be called “Super Bowl schmooze” or “Super Bowl hang”

* His thoughts on "StatementGate" with Adam Schefter

* Related pods: Bomani Jones…. Adam Schefter ... Boomer Esiason ... Fred Gaudelli … Peter King

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* On-deck Tuesday: “Marchand & Meterparel: Everybody Loves Sports Media”

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On the 33-minute podcast, Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel analyze Tom Brady’s subpar Super Bowl, Fox’s big broadcast, the next $100-plus million analysts, MLB-ESPN brushback and Bob Iger’s high heat at Netflix.

Here’s what you need to know.

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* Tom Brady brought star power to Fox’s Super Bowl broadcast, but he didn’t say anything

* How Fox went big and won on some elements

* ESPN wanted Fox Sports’ Brad Zager for a big seat

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* A nice touch by Fox Sports in saluting a camera legend

* Rob Gronkowski needs to bring more

* Chad (Ochocinco) Johnson’s really cool gesture

* What did we think of Kendrick Lamar

* Is Marchand hip or not? You make the call

* Props for ESPN’s Marty Smith

* How the Charles Barkley saga ended? (We think it ended)

* Bob Iger with a Netflix brushback pitch — and it’s the right one to fire

* MLB and ESPN’s opt out game of chicken

* Peter King and Michael Irvin story

* Hubie Brown’s goodbye, Dick Vitale’s hello and a Norby Williamson story

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* On-deck Thursday: Peter Schrager is The Main Event

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In the 39-minute podcast, legendary sports writer Peter King shares amazing stories from his decades covering the NFL. Here’s what you need to know.

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* If you were to draft an all-time sportscasting team, Peter King could be your first pick for the NFL

* Growing up in Connecticut, he wanted to be Carl Yastrzemski

* Peter Gammons and Watergate had an enormous influence on his wanting to be a journalist

* He was really into politics, which he thought would be his career focus in journalism

* How college kids wanted to be Mike & the Mad Dog 20 years ago and now want to be Stephen A. Smith and how it influences your career

* How he covered Pete Rose, Tom Seaver and Johnny Bench

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* How he was so fortunate to be given the Bengals beat at the Cincinnati Inquirer at 26 years old to cover the most open coach in the business, Sam Wyche

* How he got Sam Wyche to pose as a magician prior to his first game

* How about if he asked Bill Parcells do that

* He then went to Newsday to cover the Giants

* He broke a Lawrence Taylor story that got him in the door at Sports Illustrated

* How back then Sports Illustrated gave you better access than ESPN

* Seaver and Bench were so good to deal with

* His love for dealing with Michael Irvin

* Michael Irvin being excited about an SI game

* Irvin took him to his office to be interviewed (we won't ruin where Irvin's office was)

* How Deion Sanders invited up to his hotel room to show his work ethic

* Mike Holmgren opened everything about his story

* How he spent three nights at Brett Favre's house

* How he had Favre laid out his history with pain killers and he had to sit on the story for nearly a week

* How he had his own report card by reading all the newspapers

* How Bill Parcells said, "Who the F are you?" to King

* How competitive he was to write the best story each day

* Steve Serby freaking out the rest of the baseball beat

* Bill Belichick holding a grudge

* What is the key to maintaining relationships with sources over the years

* How he ended up getting invited to Tom Brady's house in Montana after the 28-3 comeback Super Bowl win

* Advice for young reporters how to get people to give you insight and time

* How taking the wider lens view is better in covering sports

* How the Monday Morning Quarterback came to be on the internet

* Most of the writers wouldn't write for the internet without extra pay

* If Sports Illustrated could have a do-over to keep it as the No. 1 sports destination, what would it be

* How he realized that MMQB was so big when he led his column about his daughter's softball team

* How NBC Sports president Rick Cordella was so great to him at the end of his career

* How Andy Reid wanted to be a sports writer

* How Adrian Wojnarowski called King to ask what he thought about retiring way before he announced it

* How Adam Schefter is fantastic, but he wouldn't want his life

* Related pods: Rick Cordella ... Adam Schefter ... Boomer Esiason ... Ramona Shelburne ... Cameron Heyward … Fred Gaudelli

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* On-deck Tuesday: “Marchand & Meterparel: Everybody Loves Sports Media”

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In the 33-minute podcast, Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel go deep into why Fox Sports would make the Tom Brady deal again as he ends his rookie TV season by calling the Super Bowl.

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* Why Fox would do Tom Brady’s $375 million deal again

* Should Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady approach the Super Bowl differently compared to other broadcasts this season

* Will this be the highest rated Super Bowl ever

* Are Marchand and Meterparel into Kendrick Lamar’s performance at halftime

* What are Marchand and Meterparel’s watching preferences for the Super Bowl

* Why does Brady have a newsletter

* What do they think of Reggie Miller heading to NBC next season

* How NBC plans to use Miller with Mike Tirico, Noah Eagle and Jamal Crawford

* The latest on Richard Jefferson possibly joining Mike Breen and Doris Burke on ESPN’s No. 1 NBA team

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* Assessing Adam Schefter and the five-minute scoop clip

* What advice would Marchand give Greg Olsen as he wants a No. 1 job

* What is the latest on the Pac 12 negotiations

* Sometimes you have to say the obvious and you have to marvel at what the NFL has created with the Super Bowl

* Shams Charania had a good weekend, but we miss the rivalry with Adrian Wojnarowski

* Kevin Connors and Brian Windhorst excelled on the breaking news

* A little talk about where Woj and Peter King rank in history of sports writers

* The Pro Bowl is a tough watch

* Meterparel’s viral call of the Boston College-Florida State ending

* Ithaca College’s big day on ESPN Saturday

* Sponsor: WSC Sports … Tell them Marchand sent you

* On-deck Thursday: Peter King is The Main Event

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In the 50-minute podcast, ESPN’s Adam Schefter explains how he went from thinking he was going to work in his family’s five-and-dime store the rest of his life to becoming the most prolific NFL insider ever. He details the steps that got him to ESPN, how he does his job, what irks him and how he sometimes wants to be let out of “his cage.”

Here’s what you need to know:

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* How scheduling a podcast with Schefter during the head coaching carousel is a juggling act

* Growing up, Schefter watched all the New York teams, while being a voracious reader of The Post, Times and Newsday

* He would wait for his dad to come home from work to tell him about the latest trade and free agent stories

* His family had a five-and-dime shop that he thought he would work in the rest of his life and never thought sports media was an option

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* How Schefter got rejected by a fraternity, the football and basketball offices at Michigan that led him to the newspaper

* How Mitch Albom meant so much to him and his career

* Bo Schembechler getting red-hot mad at him

* How he found Jalen Rose’s father, Jimmy Walker’s number in 24 hours for Albom’s classic “Fab 5” book

* How thinking about his start in Denver and covering the Broncos makes him emotional

* How amazing the access, including eating breakfast with John Elway, with the Broncos was so instrumental in his career development

* How he thought he was going to be a beat writer for his whole life as he didn’t go to NFL Network until he was 38

* How an NBC Broncos’ feature by Gayle Gardner that Schefter participated in was a big problem and resulted being sent to Dan Reeves’ office

* How Pat Bowlen and Eric Weinberger were influential in bringing him to NFL Network

* How he almost didn’t go to NFL Network, but they told him they envisioned his job being like Peter King and Mike Lupica

* How after he fell in love with TV because he didn’t have to transcribe anymore

* How he didn’t want to leave NFL Network for ESPN,

* What happened with the million dollar ask of NFL Network

* How Chris Mortensen was so important to his arrival at ESPN

* When ESPN hired Schefter he did not have a Twitter account

* ESPN hired him to be on the new 9 a.m. SportsCenter and write a little. That’s it.

* How he couldn’t believe he was on Sunday NFL Countdown with Chris Berman and company

* What is the story he is most proud of

* How do you create sources, which includes regular calls from coaches on their way home from work

* How many phones does Schefter have

* How many hours does he work per day

* How the job takes over your life

* Peter Schrager puts out a statement and Schefter got into trouble for it

* Does he want to retire like Woj? He did get some questions about other jobs on the day Woj left

* His talks with Woj before Woj retired

* What’s the value of transactions five minutes before they are announced

* How he was ahead on Ben Johnson to the Bears, where others said Raiders and his heated response to critics

* How he loves to escape the “cage” that ESPN has him in and do NBA or maybe one day do golf

* How he would have done the pod at 2:15 a.m.

* Related pods: Bomani Jones … Chris Russo … Ramona Shelburne

* Sponsor: WSC Sports … Tell them Marchand sent you

* On-deck Tuesday: “Marchand & Meterparel: Everybody Loves Sports Media”

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In the 37-minute podcast, Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel analyze how Jim Nantz and the phantom flag blew the biggest call of the AFC Championship. Here is what you need to know.

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* How Jim Nantz missed the AFC Championship deciding play by saying there was a flag on the field when there wasn’t

* CBS then missed adequately showing the drop from Bills TE Dalton Kincaid

* How Romo showed some improvement this year, but it is the second year in a row that Nantz and Romo have messed up in the biggest spot of their season

* How Tom Brady had his best game of the year, but isn’t John Madden in his prime just yet

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* Why Kevin Burkhardt has to do more with Brady than he did with Greg Olsen

* Brady’s use of the word “stud”

* How Mike Pereira stepped up on Sunday

* College Football’s TV biggest story was College GameDay’s resurgence

* Notre Dame’s bad look with the media

* How Mike Florio was wrong in his comments about Tom Brady and Fox

* Netflix’s earnings impact on sports: Judge what they do, not what they say

* Stephen A. Smith and Chris (Mad Dog) Russo were totally wrong about the BBWAA Hall of Fame voters

* If you are starting a network today and you didn’t know what sports you would have, who would be your first play-by-play hire

* Could Russo be good on US Open tennis coverage

* Related pods: The Main Event with Jim Nantz …The Main Event with Joe Buck …The Main Event with Boomer Esiason

* Sponsor: WSC Sports … Tell them Marchand sent you

* On-deck on Thursday: Adam Schefter is The Main Event

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In the 41-minute podcast, Boomer Esiason, who has had one of the great playing/media careers ever, is the guest on “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.” Here’s what you need to know:

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* When you combine a playing career with a media career, Boomer Esiason has to be at least be in the Top 10 all-time

* What it is like to work with Craig Carton and Gregg Giannotti

* How Esiason went from the field directly into the Monday Night Football booth

* What went wrong with Al Michaels and why a job Boomer thought would go 25 years instead went two

* How Al Michaels told Boomer not to mention Al Davis, which was the beginning of the end of Esiason’s stint on MNF

* Michaels, Dennis Miller and a PR near actual fight

* How Esiason questioned his decision to retire and join MNF

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* How he ended doing more Super Bowls than anyone ever because he was the top analyst on Westwood One Radio

* How Sean McManus and Joel Hollander were the best bosses he ever had

* The incredible story of how his World Ward II veteran father raised him following the death of Boomer’s mother when Boomer was just 7 years old

* How his son Gunnar has overcome cystic fibrosis

* How Boomer got in position to replace Imus

* His fun spots with Mike & the Mad Dog as the Jets’ quarterback and how he was regular on Imus

* How he told FAN he couldn’t work with Chris Russo

* Tryouts with Monica Crowley and Cris Collinsworth before Carton

* What was it like to work with Carton, whom Boomer called a “radio maven”

* The only real other candidate, besides Gio, to replace Carton was Adam Schein, who didn’t want to leave his other gigs

* How now CBS Sports president David Berson reminded Esiason in 2017 of the power of his WFAN show

* How Boomer turned down the afternoons because he, Jerry Recco, Al Dukes and Ed Scozzare wanted to stay in mornings

* If Boomer had gone to afternoons, it wouldn’t have been with Evan Roberts

* Carton telling Boomer he “humanized” him

* Boomer admits Phil Mushnick was right that there was “Weekend Boomer” and “Weekday Boomer” with his FAN and CBS jobs

* The friction between Mike & the Mad Dog and Carton blew up over a trivia question mishap

* This led to Carton’s Francesa impersonations that Boomer said were “definitely mean”

* Carton telling program director Mark Chernoff that since Boomer and Carton were No. 1, Carton could say what he wanted

* How long does Boomer want to be on WFAN for …

* Who are some of the names on the all-time combo of playing and media careers

* Related pods: Christopher (Mad Dog) Russo … Chris Oliviero … Jason McCourty …Booger McFarland … Eli Manning

* Sponsor: WSC Sports … Tell them Marchand sent you

* On-deck on Tuesday: “Everybody Loves Sports Media” with Marchand/Meterparel

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On the 37-minute pod, Andrew Marchand and Jon Meterparel go in-depth on the NFL playoff broadcast crews, beginning with everything Tom Brady. This is what you need to know:

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* The duo goes into detail about how Tom Brady has improved, where he needs to get better and if he should be treated like Edward R. Murrow.

* Marchand ranks his top two NFL TV game analysts for this year. Where does Greg Olsen stock up?

* Joe Buck and Troy Aikman had the strongest TV performance of the weekend.

* Tony Romo has been a little better this season, but there is still some chemistry missing with Jim Nantz

* Mike Tirico has moved into the top class, while Cris Collinsworth’s style has changed over the years as he’s become less critical.

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* The duo goes into Fox Sports’ Brad Zager’s comments to Marchand in The Athletic about Brady’s perceived conflicts of interest

* Marchand reported for The Athletic that Kevin Harlan is close to a deal with Amazon to join Ian Eagle as the platform’s top NBA play-by-players. What do Marchand and Meterparel think of the move?

* What should we know about the LIV golf and Fox deal?

* Your Questions: Will Nantz and Romo be a team in 2029? Will Fox ever go back to a three-man booth?

* Papa Clicker Book Review: In the “Baseball The Movie” by Noah Gittell.

Rating: 4.35 clickers

* And Jon’s cat, Harry, makes his first appearance on the pod. 🐈

* Related pods: The Main Event with Joe Buck … The Main Event with Eli Manning

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* On-deck Thursday: Boomer Esiason is The Main Event

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