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In the 41-minute sports media podcast, Andrew Marchand & Jon Meterparel explain the Mike Tomlin to TV scenarios, review the divisional round booths, including Jim Nantz & Tony Romo, judging them on Super Bowl competency.

Plus, Pat McAfee and college football, Meterparel’s “hook and lateral” crusade and more about the Chris Oliviero interview and sports radio.

It’s “Marchand & Meterparel: Everybody Loves Sports Media”

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Full Rundown …

* The favorites for Mike Tomlin are Fox and NBC, but they are not alone

* The Fox/Tomlin rumor is not true ….yet

* Kirk Cousins showed some potential on CBS

* Cris Collinsworth shined with his excitement on NBC

* Why the Manningcast ratings were down

* Tony Romo calls Josh Allen “Mahomes” … huh

* The Fox-Tomlin rumors … stop texting

* How long does Tomlin want do be in a studio

* Fox should’ve been quicker to Bo Nix story

* Marchand’s on-the-road lightning made him look like …

* The Travis Kelce TV free agency decision

* Nantz and Romo were disjointed.

* CBS Sports executives know what they are doing so …

* Would they have confidence in Nantz/Romo if they had the Super Bowl

* When viewers are confused, it is often on the booth

* Nantz is legend on golf, but he is a good NFL play-by-player, not great

* Brady and Burkhardt are so much more confident compared to last year

* Burkhardt is an unselfish broadcaster

* Brady explaining “cage rush” is good TV

* NBC should go into the Super Bowl confident in Mike Tirico and Collinsworth

* At end of Sunday night’s game, there was no clear shot of Sean McVay-Ben Johnson handshake

* How will the NFL look at the big streamers in next deals in comparison to old ESPN premiums

* The Fox wild card Sunday afternoon number compared to Amazon’s Prime Video’s Saturday ratings …

* Meterparel vs. the world on the term “Hook and Ladder”

* X went crazy ….

* Marchand kind of understood the “hook and ladder” side

* Nick was right on his advice to his dad on X

* ESPN’s president of content Burke Magnus and ESPN top reseracher, Sr. VP Flora Kelly, had issues with The Athletic college football reader survey that was very positive about ESPN

* Pat McAfee is undoubtably popular, which ESPN’s internal metrics show

* The reader survery had Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit as best college team, which can be questioned

* The reaction to the Oliviero WFAN interview and a “lazy take”

* There is a little expertise on the FAN, but there could be more

* Why Mike Francesa was good in his heyday

* Meterparel likes the “Boomer & Gio” show

* Cakes are baking ….

* On Deck: Jay Glazer is The Main Event

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