February 6, 2023 • 43 mins
Dave Chamberlin has been working on NFL Honors since the very first time it aired eleven years ago. Days before Thursday night’s event, Chamberlin takes us through all the planning, booking, and execution that’s needed to put the NFL’s grandest night together. Peter also goes through the construction of both Super Bowl teams’ rosters and what makes them so unique.
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The season with Peter Schreger as a production of the
NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. Welcome everybody to have a
season with Peter Schreger. I have Peter Schreger. It is
Super Bowl Week. I am jumping out of my seat excited.
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I can't tell. It is wall to wall super Bowl everywhere.
And as you're listening to this, this is posting on Tuesday.
I am en route to Arizona, where I'll be doing
Good Morning Football from the lovely state of Arizona Wednesday morning,
Thursday morning, Friday morning, and then I'm going to be
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on the Fox pregame for the Super Bowl all day
Sunday and what sounds like a pretty significant role. I
was a little surprised, but my bosses have enough faith
in me to say, hey, you're gonna be a big
part of the pregame. I'm like, awesome. So I will
be trying to gather as much information as possible and
also trying to bring as much insight that maybe no
one else has leading up to the game all day Sunday.
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You know, my initial look at this game is that
we have the two number one seeds. We have two
teams that have been just locomotives over the past few weeks,
and we have two really young, promising and I would say,
like awesome ambassadors of the sport at quarterback. Yet, as
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I always do, I want to look at the business
of how these two teams operate and how they got here.
And I look at what the Eagles and Chiefs have
done in the past twelve months to go from teams
that didn't make the Super Bowl to teams that did.
Let's start with Philly embarrassing loss in the wild card
round to Tampa Bay. I still hear Merril Reese, the
radio announcer, being like this Gammer's finally over. That's what
he said to end the radio call, which was a
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blowout to the Buccaneers. And you know, they could have
sit on their hands and been like, all right, let's
see what we do in the tray aft and let's
see if we can get a couple free agents. They
could have aggressively pursued DeShawn Watson. A lot of people
thought last year that the Eagles were a real team
because of Howie Roseman's aggressive nature and you know Deshaun
watson skills as the player. They could have gone after
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him and said, let's make a big splash. Instead, they
doubled down on building around Jalen Hurts, and I thought
that was cool. Let's look at what they've done free agency.
Hassan Reddick is on the block, guy who's a South
Jersey native who went to Temple nearby and who had
just an outstanding season last year for the Carolina Panthers
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on a one year deal and before that had an
outstanding season for the Arizona Cardinals. They give him a
pretty economically sound offer and they add Hassan Reddick in
free agencies. So you add that piece. Then what do
they do in the draft? Well, they draft Jordan Davis,
which I think is a big piece of the future
at defensive line. But they have a second first round pick,
and we knew that wide receiver was an area of emphasis,
and yet five wide receivers had already been taken in
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the first round. And they're at the eighteenth pick and
trailing Burks is on the board, and you could probably
grab one of these other guys. A Christian Watson was
still available, Sky Moore was still available. No, they trade
a the eighteenth overall pick and a third rounder and
they get a j Brown. I mean that is aggressive.
So so far, you add Hassan Reddick and aj Brown.
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As the offseason continues, they add guys like James Bradberry,
They add guys like Chauncey Gardner Johnson. They add guys
that they think and play immediate roles and help this
team in big spots. I thought when Jordan Davis, the rookie,
went down, they didn't just sit on their hands. They
went out there and they went and acquired Robert Quinn,
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who hasn't played a role. But the fact they went
out and got them from the Bears. I love. They
went and they lured you know, Lynn Vaal Joseph out
of his semi retirement to come join the team. They
did the same with Damien Sue. They add, they add,
they add their relentless and for that I give them credit.
A lot of teams don't have that approach. A lot
of teams would say, hey, look, we draft really well,
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we're sound, We've got this great offensive and defensive line.
Let's just go to war with what we got. No,
Howie Roseman and that front office would not sleep until
they felt like they had a Super Bowl ready roster.
And guess what twelve months after losing to the Buccaneers
and embarrassing fashion. The Eagles not only are in the
Super Bowl, they're the number one team. They've got what
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appears to be the number one offensive and defensive line
in the sport. And Jalen Hurtz is on the cusp
of superstardom. And that's because of not only his hard
work and all things that he's put into this thing,
but because of what they've done to surround him with
the right pieces. That's the Eagles. The Chiefs. Chiefs had
a whole different philosophy. Chiefs, how about this stat Chiefs
went to the AFC Championship Game last year, twenty one
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of the fifty three players on the roster are different
this year. That's forty percent of their roster is different
than what they've trotted out for the AFC Championship Game
last year. The biggest move, of course, was trading tie Rekill.
And let me tell you something knowing that organization and
I reported it when it happened. This was not a
unilateral decision by Brett Veach. This was a conversation that
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involved Patrick Mahomes, It involved Andy Reid, involved Clark Hunt.
Do we pay Tyreek Hill thirty million dollars and deal
with what we have to deal with on the roster,
or do we trade Tyreek Hill, get picks and then
have some free space to maybe pick up some other
players that can help us do the job. Well, Tyreek
Hill's probably the greatest Chiefs wide receiver to ever live.
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They trade him and he made thirty million dollars this
year for the Miami Dolphins, and he was outstanding. He's
in finalist for Offensive Player of the Year. Tyreek Hill
is amazing. I think Tyree Hills a Hall of Famer.
That's a whole of the argument. But I think he's
a Hall of Famer already. But they paid thirty million
dollars to Dolphins for Tyree Hill this season, The entire
Chiefs wide receivers room, all those guys, twelve guys combined,
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make fifteen million dollars total. So what did they do well?
They signed Juju to a short term deal. They signed
Marquez veld a scant link to a short time deal.
They went out and they got Justin Watson, who was
an outstanding practice player for the Tambay Buccaneers and who
came in training camp and blew everybody away for the Chiefs.
This year, they drafted sky Moore. They found resources with
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the Tyreek deal, and they spent them where they thought
was important. Tyrn Matthew was a captain on this team.
Maybe his best days were done. They were able to say, hey,
rip the band aid off, say farewell, and they bring
in Justin Reid who appears to be playing some of
the best football of his career at the safety spot.
They draft well, they make key plays, and they also
made key free agent acquisitions. I thought bringing in a
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guy like Carlos Dunlap, a veteran guy to add to
the defensive line. Smart sound. This offensive line that they'll
be trotting out, it's completely different than the one that
you lost saw in a Super Bowl when they played
the Buccaneers. Completely different, top to bottom, all new guys.
That is what Brett Beach does. He has not had
to endure the rebuild. He has not had to endure
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the pain that the other teams have. When you pay
the quarterback that huge salary, it's because they draft well,
it's because they unload salaries and try to bring on
others that might make more sense. And it's because they
do the same thing that the Eagles have done for
jam and Hurts. They've surrounded Patrick Mahomes. I am a
geek for this stuff. I love roster building. I think
what the Chiefs and the Eagles have done are two
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very separate paths to being in the Super Bowl. But
both of these rosters are among the best in the league,
and they've rebuilt teams on the fly. Chiefs lost the
Super Bowl two years ago. Their team right now, aside
from a few players, looks completely different than the one
that played in that Super Bowl. The Eagles won a
Super Bowl a few years ago. They've only got seven
guys from that team on this team, and of course
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four of them are key contributors. Fletcher Cox and Brandon
Graham on defense, and then Jason Kelsey and of course
Lane Johnson on offense. You've got that core four. They
were the lead dogs in that Super Bowl run. They're
still all coming back, and of course you've got all
these new players, and then you've got a couple of
the other holdovers that were there on that team. I
love both of these rosters. I think these gms are fearless,
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smart and decisive, and it's a testament to be aggressive.
But also think about things a year down the line,
two years down the line. You don't bring back Tyreek
Hill unless you feel like there's a future plan and
a greater future and a greater runway if you can
trade them and get all the picks and all the
money that they got in exchange for that Tyreek deal.
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Eagles versus Chiefs, I'm here for it. I love both teams.
I am flying out as you're listening to this. I
will be on the ground soon and let me give
you a quick rundown of what I've got planned, because
I think this is kind of the other part of
the Super Bowl. You've got obviously the game and then
the work. But here are some of the things that
I'm excited for. Wednesday night, Fox is having a big
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pre super Bowl dinner and at all the other ones
I've been too for Fox. I've been with Fox twenty
years and fifteen years, and you know, every three years
there's a Super Bowl. Jimmy Johnson gives like this riveting speech.
I cannot wait for it. I like, I'm giddy for it.
Jimmy gives a speech to the entire production crew, like
camera guy up on the top, you know, left of
the stadium, bring your a game, and you know this
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game right now? You know what's it gonna mean to you?
Greg Olsen, like you know, it's a fired up speech,
So Jimmy, you'll bring that other part of it. As
of right now, I don't know if I'm breaking news.
I don't want to steal any shine from the sports
media reporters out there, But sounds like Sean Payton's with
us all week. So Sean's the new coach of the Broncos.
We've had a great year with him. I'll have plenty
of stories from being alongside him riding shotgun on the
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pregame show, which I love. That'll be Wednesday night. Colin
Coward invited me to a party. I don't know what
that consists of, but Coward is one of my favorite
guys in sports media, and I will be there. Colin
Coward's having a party, I will be there. I want
to see what Collins party's like and who he's hanging with.
That's Wednesday, Thursday night NFL Honors. Also, I'm gonna try
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to double dip on this one. Howie Long is winning
a very coveted award and he's been really good to me.
Over the course of my career. The Pats I'm a
Roll Foundation is awarding Howe Long this year. I'm gonna
try to make it to that. That's going to be special,
So that'll also be Thursday night. I'm gonna try to
double dip on that, hopefully have some stories from that event.
Friday's an interesting one. So Friday is like your big
party night and everyone's going out and who's party going to?
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Who's party going what are you gonna do that? I
don't know yet. I haven't been invited to any. We'll see, um,
hopefully I get invited to one, or to be honest,
probably sounds like a night where hey, do you want
to get dinner and then see where it goes? Um?
But yeah, I will not be necessarily on TMZ Friday night.
Not really my scene as far as that goes. But
if you do see a photo of me with Drake
Um on a DJ booth and on a DJ booth,
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is that what they call it? Aaron on a DJ booth?
I don't know. In a DJ booth what do we
even call it? I'm more of a in It depends
how crazy you're getting. You could be on top having
a really big night. You could be on the djoth,
but generally I think you're at the booth. I could
be at the booth. Okay, last year, no joke. My
wife came with me and we went to the Justin
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Bieber concert and we went to Biber and it was
awesome and I hung with George Kittle and Josh Allen
and uh luminout, Tony Gonzalez. Jeff Bezos was there. Is
it Bezos or Bezos? What do you call him? It's Bezos,
isn't it? I think I think I think it's I
think I go with Bezos. Let's go with bezas Jeff Bezos.
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It does. But nothing sinister about him popping his head
the Biber, I'll tell you. Um. So we're there, and
then the party like is winding down a little bit,
and someone's like, oh, Marshmallow's going on next, and I'm like,
party's winding down. We're staying Marshmallow on the one. Two's
I love Marshmallow. All In was out late that night,
and then Saturday was recovering. But this year's Saturday, we
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have a full rehearsal for Fox, and then Sunday is
a super Bowl. Um, it's busy, it's action packed. I'm
very fortunate to go to another super Bowl. I know,
Aaron you will be out there. Jason English, who's in
the house, is gonna be there. I hope to link
up with you guys. But let me tell you, by
the time that that that super Bowl actually arrives, it's
almost like an afterthought for everybody else because there's so
many other events going on. And one of the events
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is going to be Thursday night, the NFL Honors. I'll
tell you what, I love this event. I think it's cool.
You get all the players and the coaches and the owners,
and they all get dolled up, and there's a red
carpet and they're being interviewed by Kevin Frasier, like it's
entertainment tonight, and you've got Papa Razzi, you know, Alvin Camaro,
what are you wearing tonight? Then the show starts and
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it's a really fun show. I love it so much
that I said for our guests this week, like to
start this thing off, let's go behind the scenes, Like
what does it take to put together the NFL Owners?
What does it take to put together the big show
of the week. I feel like outside of the Super Bowl.
This is the biggest event for everyone at home, and
it's where you find out who wins the MVP, the
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Walter Payton Man of the Year, the Rookie of the
Year's award, the Coach of the Year, and like, it's
a celebration of football. It's Thursday night, it's on NBC
and the executive producer it's a gentleman named Dave Amberlain.
I thought it would be fun. Let's go a little
behind the scenes. What's Dave Chamberlain's week, Like, let's get
him on the podcast, Dave Chamberlain after this. One of
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my favorite nights of the year is the NFL Honors event.
I've been lucky enough to go probably the last ten
of them. It's it's cool. It's the Academy Awards for football.
It's the only place you can see your favorite players,
coaches and media personalities mixing with celebrities, and there's an
award show, and there's also comedy and there's it's just tremendous.
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And now that we've got this podcast up and running,
I was listening to a different podcast. It's called The
Town and it's with a gentleman named Matthew Bellni for
a company called Puck and on his podcast, he had
the executive producer who was putting on the Grammys a
couple of days ahead of the Grammys and was going
going into what to take put them the show on?
Is this show going to be a hit? And it
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was kind of got me excited for the event as
a hole, And I said, I'm going to steal that
exact idea, and I'm going to get one of the
men who puts on the NFL Honors event, and we're
gonna go deep dive into what it takes putting on
an award show and colliding all these wonderful worlds. And
with that, I bring on one of the men who's
gonna be putting on the NFL Honors Dave Chamberlain. Dave,
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Welcome to the season with Peter Schreker. Thanks so much,
Really appreciate you having me on Psyche for NFL Honors. Dave.
You lead, Yeah, you lead a team that does not
just NFL Honors. You guys have done things like the SPS,
You've done the Oscars Red Carpet Show, You've done thirty
for thirty. When you got the call for NFL Honors,
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what year was it and what kind of opportunity did
you see that being in the car? Sure, So I
got involved with NFL Honors from the beginning. I worked
with a woman named Moriamt for many years, who goes
way back with you know a lot of the folks
that were at the NFL that had been at the
ESPN around when the SPS, you know, we're coming up.
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So they called up Moura to produce that show back
in I think it was twenty eleven, twenty twelve, and
I was working closely with her. So I've been involved
from the beginning, and you know, it was such a
when we got that call. It's such a great idea,
you know, and such an interesting fun thing to jump into. Um,
you know, that first year, I think the show was
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in February. We got to call in October, so we
didn't have a lot of time to put it together.
But it's it's really been fun to see what it's
grown into over the years. You know. I went back
and I watched, you know, Alec Baldwin was the host,
and I'm watching and like I was curious, I'm like,
what was the vibe? As I'm doing research on this
thing and there's this really cool moment where like Jim
Harball wins Coach of the Year and Alex Smith goes
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up and accepts it and he's taken it from Chris Evans,
and I'm like, this is almost like a time to it.
You could see like what was going on in the
world when this happened. And I feel like, now that
we're eleven years to this, you could probably have a
separate story for each one of these award shows in
the making of it, and of course where you were
in that moment in time. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
I think we have one of the kids from Twilight
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present on that show, and it does like Tim Tebow
was a big story in the NFL at the time. Yeah,
it totally takes you back to that moment. How do
you pick the host because that was Baldwin We've had
of course, Steve Harvey has done multiple years. Last year,
Keegan Michael Key. I want to say Rob Riggles done
it in the past, cone in one year this year,
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Kelly Clarkson. What goes into the selection of the NFL owners. Sure, So, look,
we always want somebody that's going to be entertaining, right
and that the people in the room, you know, the players, owners,
the NFL family, it's in the room, is going to
respond to and be excited for. But and you know,
I think what goes into that is somebody that's a
genuine fan, you know, somebody that really loves the game
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and has a lot of respect for it and can
talk about things and kind of rid people and make
fun of things from that fan perspective. So, you know,
we don't want to just go out and get anybody
somebody that's like a real football fan that's also an
incredible entertainer. Yeah, so Clarkson gets the call win, how
does that all go down? And when do you guys
start putting those cards on the sure? So, yeah, we
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went to Kelly late last year, you know, I probably
around November something like that. And because she's been a
presenter in years, I know that. Yeah, she's she's done
the show a couple of times, which is part of
what you know, identified her as somebody in our mind
that would be great. She's obviously hosts a talk show
every day. She's I think one of the most personable
and charming talents out there, and she can do so
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many things. Well, so, yeah, we had her on the
show last year. I got to talk to her a
little bit and we thought she you know, we thought
she'd be a lot of fun. She's also one of
the busiest people in show business, so when we first
started talking to her, you know, it's uh navigating her
being able to do this around her schedule was a
little tricky. But you know, luckily, after going through a
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few different things and trying to make it as as
simple for her as we could, you know, she agreed
to do it, which we were thrilled about. You know,
it's funny because this super Bowl site kind of dictates
where this thing is going to be, So I would
imagine a super Bowl in Minnesota in the freezing cold.
Is harder to get commitments from certain celebrities, and maybe
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one that might be in Vegas next year, or one
that was in Los Angeles last year, Arizona, it's gonna
start a little earlier than it does when it's in
Atlanta or some other places. How hard was it to
get the celebrity presenters on board or is this something
that they line up to do. You know, it's a
great question, and to be honest with you, when you
know the show was on Saturday for many years, and
last year we shifted to Thursday, you know, which I
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think is great. It gives us a little bit of
a separation from the super Bowl, so you know, hopefully
a little more chatter around around our show. But I
was I was a little concerned about getting celebrities to
Arizona on a Thursday night. But it's worked out great.
We've got an incredible list of celebs that are coming,
you know, coming in early and enjoying all the super
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Bowl festivities in Arizona. And you know, all the players
seem to be coming out early. So it's it was
proved to be less of a challenge than I expected
it to be. No, it's good. And you know, you
talk to some of these agents and some of these
sales and marketing guys, Hey get us there on Thursday.
We'll make up Friday and Saturday. We'll make sure we
make the most of our money, and we'll make sure
both of your time like while you're there. And that's
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what it's good. They've got, they've got an ad of
incentive to come. I can only imagine last year when
you get the call or you get the results that
Andrew Whitworth is Walter Payton Man of the Year and
it's in Los Angeles and his team is in the
Super Bowl. That was the biggest shock to me that
you actually got him and Cooper Cup in person. How
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did that go down? And what kind of stuff do
you have with like the history of just like close
calls and like the amazing way that this thing could
come together. Yeah, you know, um, that was really interesting. Um,
you know, when we found out that Andrew was winning
in and then you know found out obviously the Rams
were gonna be in the game. We'd never had in
the history of the show anybody from either of the
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Super Bowl teams come to the show. Obviously when it
was on Saturday, that's a lot trickier, you know. Um,
the one big benefit of the show moving to Thursday was,
you know, depending on the team, you know, different teams,
different coaches look at this in different ways, but you know,
there's a little bit more of an opportunity to try
to get those players to come to the show. The Rams,
you know, I think, really bought in and were excited.
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And look, we also didn't want to We didn't want
either Cooper or Andrew to know that they were winning,
right that's um, yeah, you got to keep that close
to the vest. Yeah for sure, and not only for them,
but for everybody else that's nominated. But the Rams were
really incredibly to work with on that front. And you know,
I think Man of the Years obviously probably the you know,
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most important award in the NFL. So knowing that was
on the table there, I think really meant a lot
to the Rams, um. And they were an incredible partner
in getting those guys. You know, we tried to make
it as easy and seamless as we could getting them
in and out. Um. And you know, uh, Andrew kind
of popped in backstage and walked out on stage, made
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an incredible speech. Um, and then you know headed out
back to back to Yeah. But a lot of things
converging there right Like, um, it was their home stadium,
so you know that makes things all a little bit easier. Um.
Uh in LA you know so Um. But yeah, we've
you know, look, we've had obviously players winning that we're
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in the Super Bowl in the past and have tried
to do different things. Um. But it's tricky, you know,
it's tricky the coach. This is not the coach's priority,
you know, No absolutely. Um, sports and comedy is really hard.
We've seen attempts fail. You know, whether it be a
TV show that this is gonna this is gonna be
the daily show for for sports and it never works,
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or this is good, this funny gimmick on a pregame
show you're gonna love it rarely works. Yeah, you guys
have nailed it though these monologues over the years, whether
it be as Seth Myers, or whether it be a
cone in or whether it be Steve Harvey just roasting
the shit out of the NFL the past few years.
Last year I thought Gig and Michael Key was incredible.
It's really hard threading that needle. Um, and yet you
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guys have been able to succeed with that. I feel
like there's one hundred percent universal approval rating from the
NFL Honors monologues. How have you guys been able to
nail that? And when does it get to the NFL
with what is going to be in the content of
those scripts because some of them are pretty close to
the edge. Those are those are my favorite meetings every year.
So you know, look, it starts with the host, right,
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Like I said, having a host that's a genuine fan
that you know it can really speak to these things
from a level of from a place of passion, I
think really helps. We have an amazing writing staff led
by Bennett Webber. He's a huge football fan, as are
all of our writers. Um. And you know, look it
helps only having to do it once a year, right.
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I don't envy people that have to come up with
ways to make sports funny on a daily show or
on a weekly show. Um. So we've got a lot
of material to work with, um and some incredibly talented
people to pull those jokes off. Um. But uh, yeah,
we we generally get a script to the league a
couple of days ahead of time and everything. Or is
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it like you leave a little bit of room here, Well, no,
we we usually we get them everything. We don't want
to We don't want anybody to have surprises, right because
we want to come back every year and do the show.
Um uh. And you you know how it goes. There
will generally be a few things in there that we
know they're gonna cut, so that maybe they don't cut
the things that are actually our favorites. Um uh. And yeah, frankly,
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I've been surprised some years at what we've been able to,
uh to get through UM. And you know, it helps
that we've been doing it year after year with some
of the same people. And I think, you know, when
things come from a place of love and passion and
not of like sort of picking and attacking, UM, that
that helps helps us get those things approved. There's so
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many sentimental moments. And we talked about to Walter Payton,
Man of the Year, and I always end up at
Bolleteers and I'm like, I didn't plan on crying tonight
at the NFL Howners, but I do. Uh, your favorite
funny moment in the eleven years of this show has
been a success, Like, what's the one moment where you're like,
oh shit, that that one sticks out? Oh boy, that's um,
that's great. We uh early on Alec Baldwin's favorite player
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of all times, Joe NAMATHUM and I can't remember the
first show or the second show. We Alec did a
great bit in the audience, UM with Joe Namath Phil
Simms next to exactly that's exactly right. It's yeah, yeah,
I love this. I remember it telling where you know
it was about playing in New York and and and
playing in the spotlight and how you navigate that and
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he was, you know, sitting next to Phil Simms, um,
who's very stayed U and uh, you know Phil's Phil
was kind of like, oh, you know, it's you go
home early and uh and do your job. And then
Nameth just kind of popped out. Uh. Um. And you
know he obviously navigated New York a little bit differently. Um.
That Uh, that was one of my favorites. Alec Baldwin,
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if I recall Alec Baldwin asked them the question how
about you, Joe, and he goes, well, I don't remember it, yeah,
which is an amazing line. Yeah, that's that's It's great. Um.
I thought Steve Harvey was hilarious both years he did it,
And I felt like if there ever was a script
that went to the NFL that I don't know whatever
I heard on TV. That's a great point. That's a
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great point. Look Steve, Um. You know, Steve hadn't done
stand up for a long time before he hosted that show.
He hadn't told jokes in front of in front of
an audience like that, and he was so excited to
do it. Um. We also had the benefit those years
the show wasn't live live, right, so we had maybe
an hour or two hours to trim things and edit things.
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So you know, Steve just kind of went out and
let it rip, and we we knew there were things
that we were going to have to edit and cut
out ed. Uh, you know that worked. That worked pretty well.
And you know Steve also wasn't always going off teleproper.
Steve just you know, he had things he wanted to
do and say, and then he'd just go the great
The great thing about him too is you may remember
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he you know, usually during a show, the host goes
out does their bits, and then in between they're you know,
prepping for the next thing, working with the writers on
a script, or you know, just taking a break, taking
a breather. You know, it's more exhausting to do this
than he might think. Steve, though, in commercial breaks would
go out and entertain the audience just because he had
fun doing it. Um. So he'd go out there and
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chat with everybody during commercial breaks, um, just to have
some more fun. So good. And there's this whole backstage
scene that I was able to frequent once and it
was like if you could pick the most random celebrities
and most random football players, but it was like at all,
just just hanging out backstage. I'll never forget. I went
back stage and Paul Rud's back there and he calls
me over and he's like, Peter, do you know Klais Campbell?
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And I'm like, yeah, I guess. And we were like
this like intense conversation, like Paul read Klais Campbell and me,
and I'm like, this is the show. Now, are you
in the truck or do you get a chance to
frequent that backstage? I'm backstage on backstage, so yeah. Usually
there's a lot of things happening around me and behind
sort of a setup with monitors, and I get headphones on,
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but there's a lot happening around everyone, so I look around, like, oh,
there's Mark Wahlberg and Andrew Whitworth. I mean a conversation
about God knows what you know? Um, yeah, it's a
it's a fun it's a fun scene back there. You
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mentioned the name Moura matt And for the listeners, she's
one of the all time legends in television sports TV
and she passed right before the pandemic. I wanted to
say in like February of twenty twenty. But she's the
touch point for any favor that Moura man ever needed
from Aaron Rodgers. He'd run to do it. Peyton Manning,
run to do it, Paul Rudd, run to do it,
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you name it. Her legacy is all over the NFL honors.
Her footprint is there. Can you tell us a little
bit about who Maura was and really what this show
means to her legacy and how you guys are going
to keep it going. Absolutely? Yeah, she was incredible. Um,
you know, as you said, so many people. She could
get people to do things that nobody else could get
to do owners because people loved her so much and
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loved her passion so much. Um, she was a force
of nature. When she wanted something to happen, she would
just go, go, go, go go. She'd get know so
many times and you know, just try to push through
it and flip a note to it. Yes, And she
always approached you know, uh these shows from a place
of telling stories and moving people and you know, trying
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to make the world a better place through some of
the you know, silly shows that we make. And I
think she was largely successful in doing those things. And um,
you know, It's funny. I was just talking to somebody
this morning, like, I can't tell you how many times
a day doing this show, it goes through a mind, well,
what would More do? How would More handle this situation?
And you know, I can never I could never do
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a lot of the things she was capable of doing.
But you know we, I think all of us have
that in our heads as we go through, you know,
the creative of the show and trying to decide what
we're going to do and how we're going to handle things,
and how we're going to navigate talent and just try
to do her justice. You know, she was such a
huge part of making this show to what it is. Yeah,
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and it's the same she was. And obviously, you guys
work on the SP's for years. There's like this high
quality of not only the show itself, but the guests
that attend and are willing to participate and have fun
and laugh about themselves, which we don't see on a
day to day basis for a lot of these athletes
and performers. Yeah, absolutely, she was. She was so great
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at getting people comfortable with doing things that you know,
they had no business doing. You know, we we think
of an idea and like, oh, that person's never going
to do that. She's like, give me, give me, give
me trying give me shot. And you know she was
almost always successful, really good, really good at doing Yeah,
I've had I had a chance to get to know
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her briefly. I mean, just an incredible toward a force.
And you guys are carrying on the torch and you're
doing a fine job. What's the measure of success for
this year's NFL Honors? I know it's gonna be great
and everyone's gonna have a blast. But the next morning
you wake up Friday and you're like, what are we
looking at? Is it ratings? Is it the Twitter reaction
or is it just an overall high quality night where
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everyone feels good about the NFL. You know, obviously pay
attention to the ratings, and I hope as many people
watch the show as we can, and you know, hopefully
if if the ratings are good, you know that that's
good for us. But you know, I think the way
I think about during success on the show is the
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people are partners in this show, right and the stakeholders
in this show. Do they walk away happy? You know,
do they feel good about the show we made, whether
that's our host, you know, certainly the those in the
league and the commissioner and you know, the owners and
the people that you know have a say in, and
if this show continues to get made year after year,
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you know, were those people did they come in feeling
like this was a great event and something the league
should be proud of. And then obviously the players, you know,
the players and legends that are there that we're celebrating.
We want them to walk away feeling like, man, that
was that was cooler than I thought it would be,
or that was more fun than I thought it would be,
or you know, that meant more to me than I
thought it might. So having those those people walk away
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feeling great about their experience and great about the show
and the event we made, I think is our biggest
marker of success on this show. You know, last year,
I remember being there and Aaron Rodgers is sitting in
the front row and Josh Allen was nearby, and during
a commercial break, the two of them were chopping it
up like it's pretty cool. Now they've got to know
each other. They golf, they do all this stuff, and
but that's cool, like to see like you know, thirty
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eight year old Aaron Rodgers with twenty four year old
Josh Allen and they're cleared up, and I'm like, who
makes the seating chart? That's you know. I've got a
meeting a little bit later today to go through the
first draft of that. It's fun. We have an incredible
seating team that are just freshly here from the Grammys.
I saw him as they got in here this morning.
They do you know, I sat with Harry Styles was yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Dana Kennerson and his team are so good at this.
So they'll they'll put together an initial draft, which is
what we're going to go through this afternoon. We look
at it on a big monitor and it's got everybody's
names on it, and they do it based on their
experience on this show and the run of show and
how we're doing things. And then you know, the director
and myself and a couple other producers will kind of
go through and say, wow, maybe we'll move this here
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for that reason, or move this around here. It'd be
great when we do this comedy bid if we have
this person here and then can go to that person.
So it's team effort. But like I said, Dana and
his team are are really good at this. I gotta
cut more for you because I love this the Awards show.
You know, behind the scenes of the in the machinations. Um,
have you ever had to put the music on and
cut somebody off during a speech? Not in this show.
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We've you know, a couple of things right, like one,
I think generally the athletes that were honoring don't tend
to want to go on and on and on. Not
as for boats. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so that helps us.
And then you know, like I said, excuse me. For
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for many years we were on a bit of a
tape delay, so we had like an hour to trim
things if we needed to to get our show to
times we're off the air on time, and so we
had the luxury of being able to do that and
not having to cut people off. Last year we were
live for the first time. ABC was kind enough to
let us go. I think we went four or five
minutes long. Andrew's speech at the end of the night,
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I was significantly longer than we expected it to be.
But it's incredible, and like you know, it's the last
thing in the night. The last thing we want to
do is like you know, play someone off like that. Well,
there are times when will you know, flashing the telepropter,
please wrap it up? And you know, if they don't
do it, we'll just start flashing it a little more often,
and they generally, you know, will take those cues from us.
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All Right, you personally, Dave Chamberlain, you don't, you know,
get into sports and do all this stuff if you're
not a fan at heart, who was the one athlete
that you've met doing the NFL Honors that you're like,
all right, that's pretty cool. Uh, you know, I probably
I'm a giant Indianapolis Colts fan. I grew up in
Indianapolis and love that, you know. I Mora was close
with Peyton, as you said, So I think I'd met
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Peyton before NFL Honors, but spending time around him and
with him through this was incredible. There was one year
he always you know, generally he'll come present one of
the bigger awards. Yeah, there was one year. I think
it was in Houston. He was getting ready to present
an award and he's just standing next to me backstage
and he's starting to point out things that I'm not
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even noticing, And I was like, dude, you're better at
this than I am. How how does this work? Um? Yeah,
so you know, being able to sit there producing a
show with Peyton Manning giving me notes that are really
good notes, smart notes, that's pretty cool. I was thinking
you'd be like, you know, there's this guy Ted Marcha
Brota or Joseph die was in there. Dominic Rhodes walked
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right in and I couldn't talk. Peyton Manning's pretty good.
And then my last one is this, like when you're
at the Switch and you're at the Levers and you're
doing all this stuff and it's going on, do you
have a chance to appreciate and enjoy the night or
is it just a pressure cooker? This is work, all
of the above, all of the above. Last year, you know,
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like I said, we were live for the first time.
As you might remember, getting into the event was a
little bit of a challenge, like the traffic and the
secure walk. Yeah, we're right right next to the stadium,
so there were a lot of challenges that came with that.
And at the top of the show, a lot of
people that were supposed to be there, we're not there. Um,
So we on the fly, while we're on the air,
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making decisions and and and talking to writers and stage
managers and talent people like, Okay, we're gonna move that.
We're gonna get rid of this person. He's going to
do that by himself. We got to change the script,
write that script so we can move him in there.
That's the fun stuff, right, Like doing doing those things
on the fly is the fun stuff. And you know,
while it's like there's you know, you're you're trying to
get everything done at the same time, I do feel
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like I have some appreciation for like, man, this is
fun as hell. Um. You know, it's uh, there's nothing
like live TV, um, and I really really enjoy that
aspect of it. I can't wait. I'll be there. I'll
I'll be hovering around. I'll probably try to yeah, I'll
be denied, and then I'll have to be like, no,
I know, Dave Chamber on my podcast, You're the man,
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give us real quick the rundown. When does red carpet start?
Where can we find this? And just you know, let's
get excited for this. This is one of the rare
nights we can all just appreciate and celebrate football and
what it's meant for us this year. Absolutely we are
super excited. So there's a rid carpet show on NFL
Network from eight pm to nine pm, and then we
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are on live on NBC from nine to eleven hopefully
eleven pm sharp, and we don't go any longer. But yeah,
it's it'll be a lot of fun. We've got, you know,
obviously a lot of great awards. Man of the Year,
we're gonna be. You know, we couldn't do a show
like this about the NFL season without, you know, having
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a big tribute to the first responders and medical personnel
that you know work with the mare Hamlin So yeah,
and we've got some great celebs, Tracy Morgan, Tiffany Hattis,
Joel McHale, you know, Cheryl Lee, Ralph her and some
amazing players were get you know, We've done our best
to talk some players into having some fun with us
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and doing some fun things with Kelly. So hopefully you'd
be a great show of everybody really enjoys. Now, I
don't know if Mahomes is going to win the MVP yet.
I don't know if he's going to be in the building,
but if he is not in the building, feel free
to call me up to accept the Award on his
behalf just so I can get my face on TV.
I mean it's cool. I'm down with that. Absolutely, Yeah,
it's good. That makes sense. That makes a lot of sense, dude,
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Thank you, thank you for joining everybody. The NFL Honors,
presented by a Visilon is going to be on NBC
this week on Thursday. Of course, the Red Carpet Nate
Burlison will be running the show. Kevin Frasier will be
there as well on NFL Network on Thursday beforehand. Dave,
I know you're a busy man. Thank you so much
for joining and giving us the lowdown on what it
takes to put on an event like the NFL Honors. Absolutely,
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thank you for having me. Dave Chamberlain awesome insight on
what it takes to put on a live events, what
it means to do the NFL Honors gig, and then
really like all the bells and whistles that goes into
it that maybe you don't realize when you're watching it
on TV. Aron, did I come across as thirsty in
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a way trying to like beg for camera time multiple times? No? No,
I thought that was an appropriate amount. Like if I'm
going I think it's like three o'clock, like it was
like a local. Like if I'm going at three o'clock,
like I thought, if you don't ask to be called
up to accept Mahome's award, if he wins, they're never
gonna offer it. Who else are they gonna who else? Like?
Who's going up there? Like Kingsbury is still in Thailand?
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I know that. So he's the college coach. He's not
going up there his agent. I don't want to see
any agent accepting or other does Brittany and Jackson. Jackson
might come up. That would be a you know what,
That might be the move and that might go viral.
Jackson might have a dance or whatever like to go
with it. That could be a whole thing. Um, I
don't know. I thought that I was. Now that I've
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recorded it with him already, I feel a little bit
gross that I was selling myself so hard, But you understand,
people in my business are so much worse than that.
I'm serious. I don't think. I mean, I think you
were fine. Like he understands you know that you've been
backstage already. If if he sees you back there one time, yeah,
you've been there before. It was cool. It was cool.
Um Dave is cool and his company puts on the SPS,
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it puts on NFL honors. My big prediction, I don't
know anything, and I want you to predict too, So
like that Walter paid Man of the Year is the
most important award. It's what everyone does, and it's like
unsavory to predict. I gotta be honest, A good Morning Football.
When we got the thirty two nominees, I put together
like a little pool and I'm like, everyone, pick who
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you think? Who do you think the NFL is gonna
pick form Walter paid Man? There, Everyone went with DAK
because he was like the biggest name. But the NFL
loves their Cameron Hayward of the Steelers and they love
de Mario Davis of the Saints. Those are my two
wild cards. I think Cam Hayward might win it from
the Steelers. I think Demaro Davis might win it. But
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there are so many good nominees and they're so many
beloved guys, But DAK is the biggest name. What do
you think they just give to the biggest name or
do you think that maybe you get one of my guys?
De Mario or Kid was kind of wondering if they
would give it to Jared Goff, because Jared Goff, he
had the scenes in Hard Knocks this year in the
preseason with him doing m I forget the name of
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his foundation, but he was working with kids on the show,
and so there's been he's a nominee. I wonder if
he would get it. I like it. Your your bet
is Jared Goff. I'm gonna go with de Mario. Davis
is my bet tomorrow, Davis, New Orleans Saints UM. And
if Dak wins it, Dak deserved it. It's something about that,
just yeah, that Dak is a very famous player and
he's nominated for it, UM very unsavored. A debate, who's
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gonna win Walter Payton Man of the Year. When all
these guys give their time and their money to these causes,
and yet here we are Super Bowl week. Aaron, We've
got plenty more common. We've got multiple episodes this week
that are in works right now, big names, influential names.
Not to tease too much, but something different that only
our podcast can bring. I'm getting excited for the Super Bowl,
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but I am also aware that it's it's just getting started.
Aaron Kaufman, Jason English, Matt Schneider, of course, Jason Kleinman
who churns out these social clips that help meg It
go viral. Meredith Batton at the NFL, who has been
so good to work with on this podcast all season.
And then our maestro on the one twos is a
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gentleman named Jack Rudd. I love the theme music to
this podcast. Guys, plenty more to come. This is just
the first one. We'll see you later this week. The
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The season with Peter Schreger as a production of the
NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. Welcome everybody to have a
season with Peter Schreger. I have Peter Schreger. It is
Super Bowl Week. I am jumping out of my seat excited.
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I can't tell. It is wall to wall super Bowl everywhere.
And as you're listening to this, this is posting on Tuesday.
I am en route to Arizona, where I'll be doing
Good Morning Football from the lovely state of Arizona Wednesday morning,
Thursday morning, Friday morning, and then I'm going to be
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on the Fox pregame for the Super Bowl all day
Sunday and what sounds like a pretty significant role. I
was a little surprised, but my bosses have enough faith
in me to say, hey, you're gonna be a big
part of the pregame. I'm like, awesome. So I will
be trying to gather as much information as possible and
also trying to bring as much insight that maybe no
one else has leading up to the game all day Sunday.
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You know, my initial look at this game is that
we have the two number one seeds. We have two
teams that have been just locomotives over the past few weeks,
and we have two really young, promising and I would say,
like awesome ambassadors of the sport at quarterback. Yet, as
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I always do, I want to look at the business
of how these two teams operate and how they got here.
And I look at what the Eagles and Chiefs have
done in the past twelve months to go from teams
that didn't make the Super Bowl to teams that did.
Let's start with Philly embarrassing loss in the wild card
round to Tampa Bay. I still hear Merril Reese, the
radio announcer, being like this Gammer's finally over. That's what
he said to end the radio call, which was a
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blowout to the Buccaneers. And you know, they could have
sit on their hands and been like, all right, let's
see what we do in the tray aft and let's
see if we can get a couple free agents. They
could have aggressively pursued DeShawn Watson. A lot of people
thought last year that the Eagles were a real team
because of Howie Roseman's aggressive nature and you know Deshaun
watson skills as the player. They could have gone after
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him and said, let's make a big splash. Instead, they
doubled down on building around Jalen Hurts, and I thought
that was cool. Let's look at what they've done free agency.
Hassan Reddick is on the block, guy who's a South
Jersey native who went to Temple nearby and who had
just an outstanding season last year for the Carolina Panthers
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on a one year deal and before that had an
outstanding season for the Arizona Cardinals. They give him a
pretty economically sound offer and they add Hassan Reddick in
free agencies. So you add that piece. Then what do
they do in the draft? Well, they draft Jordan Davis,
which I think is a big piece of the future
at defensive line. But they have a second first round pick,
and we knew that wide receiver was an area of emphasis,
and yet five wide receivers had already been taken in
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the first round. And they're at the eighteenth pick and
trailing Burks is on the board, and you could probably
grab one of these other guys. A Christian Watson was
still available, Sky Moore was still available. No, they trade
a the eighteenth overall pick and a third rounder and
they get a j Brown. I mean that is aggressive.
So so far, you add Hassan Reddick and aj Brown.
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As the offseason continues, they add guys like James Bradberry,
They add guys like Chauncey Gardner Johnson. They add guys
that they think and play immediate roles and help this
team in big spots. I thought when Jordan Davis, the rookie,
went down, they didn't just sit on their hands. They
went out there and they went and acquired Robert Quinn,
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who hasn't played a role. But the fact they went
out and got them from the Bears. I love. They
went and they lured you know, Lynn Vaal Joseph out
of his semi retirement to come join the team. They
did the same with Damien Sue. They add, they add,
they add their relentless and for that I give them credit.
A lot of teams don't have that approach. A lot
of teams would say, hey, look, we draft really well,
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we're sound, We've got this great offensive and defensive line.
Let's just go to war with what we got. No,
Howie Roseman and that front office would not sleep until
they felt like they had a Super Bowl ready roster.
And guess what twelve months after losing to the Buccaneers
and embarrassing fashion. The Eagles not only are in the
Super Bowl, they're the number one team. They've got what
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appears to be the number one offensive and defensive line
in the sport. And Jalen Hurtz is on the cusp
of superstardom. And that's because of not only his hard
work and all things that he's put into this thing,
but because of what they've done to surround him with
the right pieces. That's the Eagles. The Chiefs. Chiefs had
a whole different philosophy. Chiefs, how about this stat Chiefs
went to the AFC Championship Game last year, twenty one
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of the fifty three players on the roster are different
this year. That's forty percent of their roster is different
than what they've trotted out for the AFC Championship Game
last year. The biggest move, of course, was trading tie Rekill.
And let me tell you something knowing that organization and
I reported it when it happened. This was not a
unilateral decision by Brett Veach. This was a conversation that
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involved Patrick Mahomes, It involved Andy Reid, involved Clark Hunt.
Do we pay Tyreek Hill thirty million dollars and deal
with what we have to deal with on the roster,
or do we trade Tyreek Hill, get picks and then
have some free space to maybe pick up some other
players that can help us do the job. Well, Tyreek
Hill's probably the greatest Chiefs wide receiver to ever live.
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They trade him and he made thirty million dollars this
year for the Miami Dolphins, and he was outstanding. He's
in finalist for Offensive Player of the Year. Tyreek Hill
is amazing. I think Tyree Hills a Hall of Famer.
That's a whole of the argument. But I think he's
a Hall of Famer already. But they paid thirty million
dollars to Dolphins for Tyree Hill this season, The entire
Chiefs wide receivers room, all those guys, twelve guys combined,
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make fifteen million dollars total. So what did they do well?
They signed Juju to a short term deal. They signed
Marquez veld a scant link to a short time deal.
They went out and they got Justin Watson, who was
an outstanding practice player for the Tambay Buccaneers and who
came in training camp and blew everybody away for the Chiefs.
This year, they drafted sky Moore. They found resources with
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the Tyreek deal, and they spent them where they thought
was important. Tyrn Matthew was a captain on this team.
Maybe his best days were done. They were able to say, hey,
rip the band aid off, say farewell, and they bring
in Justin Reid who appears to be playing some of
the best football of his career at the safety spot.
They draft well, they make key plays, and they also
made key free agent acquisitions. I thought bringing in a
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guy like Carlos Dunlap, a veteran guy to add to
the defensive line. Smart sound. This offensive line that they'll
be trotting out, it's completely different than the one that
you lost saw in a Super Bowl when they played
the Buccaneers. Completely different, top to bottom, all new guys.
That is what Brett Beach does. He has not had
to endure the rebuild. He has not had to endure
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the pain that the other teams have. When you pay
the quarterback that huge salary, it's because they draft well,
it's because they unload salaries and try to bring on
others that might make more sense. And it's because they
do the same thing that the Eagles have done for
jam and Hurts. They've surrounded Patrick Mahomes. I am a
geek for this stuff. I love roster building. I think
what the Chiefs and the Eagles have done are two
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very separate paths to being in the Super Bowl. But
both of these rosters are among the best in the league,
and they've rebuilt teams on the fly. Chiefs lost the
Super Bowl two years ago. Their team right now, aside
from a few players, looks completely different than the one
that played in that Super Bowl. The Eagles won a
Super Bowl a few years ago. They've only got seven
guys from that team on this team, and of course
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four of them are key contributors. Fletcher Cox and Brandon
Graham on defense, and then Jason Kelsey and of course
Lane Johnson on offense. You've got that core four. They
were the lead dogs in that Super Bowl run. They're
still all coming back, and of course you've got all
these new players, and then you've got a couple of
the other holdovers that were there on that team. I
love both of these rosters. I think these gms are fearless,
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smart and decisive, and it's a testament to be aggressive.
But also think about things a year down the line,
two years down the line. You don't bring back Tyreek
Hill unless you feel like there's a future plan and
a greater future and a greater runway if you can
trade them and get all the picks and all the
money that they got in exchange for that Tyreek deal.
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Eagles versus Chiefs, I'm here for it. I love both teams.
I am flying out as you're listening to this. I
will be on the ground soon and let me give
you a quick rundown of what I've got planned, because
I think this is kind of the other part of
the Super Bowl. You've got obviously the game and then
the work. But here are some of the things that
I'm excited for. Wednesday night, Fox is having a big
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pre super Bowl dinner and at all the other ones
I've been too for Fox. I've been with Fox twenty
years and fifteen years, and you know, every three years
there's a Super Bowl. Jimmy Johnson gives like this riveting speech.
I cannot wait for it. I like, I'm giddy for it.
Jimmy gives a speech to the entire production crew, like
camera guy up on the top, you know, left of
the stadium, bring your a game, and you know this
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game right now? You know what's it gonna mean to you?
Greg Olsen, like you know, it's a fired up speech,
So Jimmy, you'll bring that other part of it. As
of right now, I don't know if I'm breaking news.
I don't want to steal any shine from the sports
media reporters out there, But sounds like Sean Payton's with
us all week. So Sean's the new coach of the Broncos.
We've had a great year with him. I'll have plenty
of stories from being alongside him riding shotgun on the
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pregame show, which I love. That'll be Wednesday night. Colin
Coward invited me to a party. I don't know what
that consists of, but Coward is one of my favorite
guys in sports media, and I will be there. Colin
Coward's having a party, I will be there. I want
to see what Collins party's like and who he's hanging with.
That's Wednesday, Thursday night NFL Honors. Also, I'm gonna try
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to double dip on this one. Howie Long is winning
a very coveted award and he's been really good to me.
Over the course of my career. The Pats I'm a
Roll Foundation is awarding Howe Long this year. I'm gonna
try to make it to that. That's going to be special,
So that'll also be Thursday night. I'm gonna try to
double dip on that, hopefully have some stories from that event.
Friday's an interesting one. So Friday is like your big
party night and everyone's going out and who's party going to?
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Who's party going what are you gonna do that? I
don't know yet. I haven't been invited to any. We'll see, um,
hopefully I get invited to one, or to be honest,
probably sounds like a night where hey, do you want
to get dinner and then see where it goes? Um?
But yeah, I will not be necessarily on TMZ Friday night.
Not really my scene as far as that goes. But
if you do see a photo of me with Drake
Um on a DJ booth and on a DJ booth,
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is that what they call it? Aaron on a DJ booth?
I don't know. In a DJ booth what do we
even call it? I'm more of a in It depends
how crazy you're getting. You could be on top having
a really big night. You could be on the djoth,
but generally I think you're at the booth. I could
be at the booth. Okay, last year, no joke. My
wife came with me and we went to the Justin
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Bieber concert and we went to Biber and it was
awesome and I hung with George Kittle and Josh Allen
and uh luminout, Tony Gonzalez. Jeff Bezos was there. Is
it Bezos or Bezos? What do you call him? It's Bezos,
isn't it? I think I think I think it's I
think I go with Bezos. Let's go with bezas Jeff Bezos.
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It does. But nothing sinister about him popping his head
the Biber, I'll tell you. Um. So we're there, and
then the party like is winding down a little bit,
and someone's like, oh, Marshmallow's going on next, and I'm like,
party's winding down. We're staying Marshmallow on the one. Two's
I love Marshmallow. All In was out late that night,
and then Saturday was recovering. But this year's Saturday, we
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have a full rehearsal for Fox, and then Sunday is
a super Bowl. Um, it's busy, it's action packed. I'm
very fortunate to go to another super Bowl. I know,
Aaron you will be out there. Jason English, who's in
the house, is gonna be there. I hope to link
up with you guys. But let me tell you, by
the time that that that super Bowl actually arrives, it's
almost like an afterthought for everybody else because there's so
many other events going on. And one of the events
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is going to be Thursday night, the NFL Honors. I'll
tell you what, I love this event. I think it's cool.
You get all the players and the coaches and the owners,
and they all get dolled up, and there's a red
carpet and they're being interviewed by Kevin Frasier, like it's
entertainment tonight, and you've got Papa Razzi, you know, Alvin Camaro,
what are you wearing tonight? Then the show starts and
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it's a really fun show. I love it so much
that I said for our guests this week, like to
start this thing off, let's go behind the scenes, Like
what does it take to put together the NFL Owners?
What does it take to put together the big show
of the week. I feel like outside of the Super Bowl.
This is the biggest event for everyone at home, and
it's where you find out who wins the MVP, the
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Walter Payton Man of the Year, the Rookie of the
Year's award, the Coach of the Year, and like, it's
a celebration of football. It's Thursday night, it's on NBC
and the executive producer it's a gentleman named Dave Amberlain.
I thought it would be fun. Let's go a little
behind the scenes. What's Dave Chamberlain's week, Like, let's get
him on the podcast, Dave Chamberlain after this. One of
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my favorite nights of the year is the NFL Honors event.
I've been lucky enough to go probably the last ten
of them. It's it's cool. It's the Academy Awards for football.
It's the only place you can see your favorite players,
coaches and media personalities mixing with celebrities, and there's an
award show, and there's also comedy and there's it's just tremendous.
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And now that we've got this podcast up and running,
I was listening to a different podcast. It's called The
Town and it's with a gentleman named Matthew Bellni for
a company called Puck and on his podcast, he had
the executive producer who was putting on the Grammys a
couple of days ahead of the Grammys and was going
going into what to take put them the show on?
Is this show going to be a hit? And it
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was kind of got me excited for the event as
a hole, And I said, I'm going to steal that
exact idea, and I'm going to get one of the
men who puts on the NFL Honors event, and we're
gonna go deep dive into what it takes putting on
an award show and colliding all these wonderful worlds. And
with that, I bring on one of the men who's
gonna be putting on the NFL Honors Dave Chamberlain. Dave,
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Welcome to the season with Peter Schreker. Thanks so much,
Really appreciate you having me on Psyche for NFL Honors. Dave.
You lead, Yeah, you lead a team that does not
just NFL Honors. You guys have done things like the SPS,
You've done the Oscars Red Carpet Show, You've done thirty
for thirty. When you got the call for NFL Honors,
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what year was it and what kind of opportunity did
you see that being in the car? Sure, So I
got involved with NFL Honors from the beginning. I worked
with a woman named Moriamt for many years, who goes
way back with you know a lot of the folks
that were at the NFL that had been at the
ESPN around when the SPS, you know, we're coming up.
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So they called up Moura to produce that show back
in I think it was twenty eleven, twenty twelve, and
I was working closely with her. So I've been involved
from the beginning, and you know, it was such a
when we got that call. It's such a great idea,
you know, and such an interesting fun thing to jump into. Um,
you know, that first year, I think the show was
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in February. We got to call in October, so we
didn't have a lot of time to put it together.
But it's it's really been fun to see what it's
grown into over the years. You know. I went back
and I watched, you know, Alec Baldwin was the host,
and I'm watching and like I was curious, I'm like,
what was the vibe? As I'm doing research on this
thing and there's this really cool moment where like Jim
Harball wins Coach of the Year and Alex Smith goes
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up and accepts it and he's taken it from Chris Evans,
and I'm like, this is almost like a time to it.
You could see like what was going on in the
world when this happened. And I feel like, now that
we're eleven years to this, you could probably have a
separate story for each one of these award shows in
the making of it, and of course where you were
in that moment in time. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
I think we have one of the kids from Twilight
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present on that show, and it does like Tim Tebow
was a big story in the NFL at the time. Yeah,
it totally takes you back to that moment. How do
you pick the host because that was Baldwin We've had
of course, Steve Harvey has done multiple years. Last year,
Keegan Michael Key. I want to say Rob Riggles done
it in the past, cone in one year this year,
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Kelly Clarkson. What goes into the selection of the NFL owners. Sure, So, look,
we always want somebody that's going to be entertaining, right
and that the people in the room, you know, the players, owners,
the NFL family, it's in the room, is going to
respond to and be excited for. But and you know,
I think what goes into that is somebody that's a
genuine fan, you know, somebody that really loves the game
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and has a lot of respect for it and can
talk about things and kind of rid people and make
fun of things from that fan perspective. So, you know,
we don't want to just go out and get anybody
somebody that's like a real football fan that's also an
incredible entertainer. Yeah, so Clarkson gets the call win, how
does that all go down? And when do you guys
start putting those cards on the sure? So, yeah, we
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went to Kelly late last year, you know, I probably
around November something like that. And because she's been a
presenter in years, I know that. Yeah, she's she's done
the show a couple of times, which is part of
what you know, identified her as somebody in our mind
that would be great. She's obviously hosts a talk show
every day. She's I think one of the most personable
and charming talents out there, and she can do so
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many things. Well, so, yeah, we had her on the
show last year. I got to talk to her a
little bit and we thought she you know, we thought
she'd be a lot of fun. She's also one of
the busiest people in show business, so when we first
started talking to her, you know, it's uh navigating her
being able to do this around her schedule was a
little tricky. But you know, luckily, after going through a
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few different things and trying to make it as as
simple for her as we could, you know, she agreed
to do it, which we were thrilled about. You know,
it's funny because this super Bowl site kind of dictates
where this thing is going to be, So I would
imagine a super Bowl in Minnesota in the freezing cold.
Is harder to get commitments from certain celebrities, and maybe
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one that might be in Vegas next year, or one
that was in Los Angeles last year, Arizona, it's gonna
start a little earlier than it does when it's in
Atlanta or some other places. How hard was it to
get the celebrity presenters on board or is this something
that they line up to do. You know, it's a
great question, and to be honest with you, when you
know the show was on Saturday for many years, and
last year we shifted to Thursday, you know, which I
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think is great. It gives us a little bit of
a separation from the super Bowl, so you know, hopefully
a little more chatter around around our show. But I
was I was a little concerned about getting celebrities to
Arizona on a Thursday night. But it's worked out great.
We've got an incredible list of celebs that are coming,
you know, coming in early and enjoying all the super
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Bowl festivities in Arizona. And you know, all the players
seem to be coming out early. So it's it was
proved to be less of a challenge than I expected
it to be. No, it's good. And you know, you
talk to some of these agents and some of these
sales and marketing guys, Hey get us there on Thursday.
We'll make up Friday and Saturday. We'll make sure we
make the most of our money, and we'll make sure
both of your time like while you're there. And that's
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what it's good. They've got, they've got an ad of
incentive to come. I can only imagine last year when
you get the call or you get the results that
Andrew Whitworth is Walter Payton Man of the Year and
it's in Los Angeles and his team is in the
Super Bowl. That was the biggest shock to me that
you actually got him and Cooper Cup in person. How
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did that go down? And what kind of stuff do
you have with like the history of just like close
calls and like the amazing way that this thing could
come together. Yeah, you know, um, that was really interesting. Um,
you know, when we found out that Andrew was winning
in and then you know found out obviously the Rams
were gonna be in the game. We'd never had in
the history of the show anybody from either of the
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Super Bowl teams come to the show. Obviously when it
was on Saturday, that's a lot trickier, you know. Um,
the one big benefit of the show moving to Thursday was,
you know, depending on the team, you know, different teams,
different coaches look at this in different ways, but you know,
there's a little bit more of an opportunity to try
to get those players to come to the show. The Rams,
you know, I think, really bought in and were excited.
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And look, we also didn't want to We didn't want
either Cooper or Andrew to know that they were winning,
right that's um, yeah, you got to keep that close
to the vest. Yeah for sure, and not only for them,
but for everybody else that's nominated. But the Rams were
really incredibly to work with on that front. And you know,
I think Man of the Years obviously probably the you know,
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most important award in the NFL. So knowing that was
on the table there, I think really meant a lot
to the Rams, um. And they were an incredible partner
in getting those guys. You know, we tried to make
it as easy and seamless as we could getting them
in and out. Um. And you know, uh, Andrew kind
of popped in backstage and walked out on stage, made
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an incredible speech. Um, and then you know headed out
back to back to Yeah. But a lot of things
converging there right Like, um, it was their home stadium,
so you know that makes things all a little bit easier. Um.
Uh in LA you know so Um. But yeah, we've
you know, look, we've had obviously players winning that we're
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in the Super Bowl in the past and have tried
to do different things. Um. But it's tricky, you know,
it's tricky the coach. This is not the coach's priority,
you know, No absolutely. Um, sports and comedy is really hard.
We've seen attempts fail. You know, whether it be a
TV show that this is gonna this is gonna be
the daily show for for sports and it never works,
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or this is good, this funny gimmick on a pregame
show you're gonna love it rarely works. Yeah, you guys
have nailed it though these monologues over the years, whether
it be as Seth Myers, or whether it be a
cone in or whether it be Steve Harvey just roasting
the shit out of the NFL the past few years.
Last year I thought Gig and Michael Key was incredible.
It's really hard threading that needle. Um, and yet you
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guys have been able to succeed with that. I feel
like there's one hundred percent universal approval rating from the
NFL Honors monologues. How have you guys been able to
nail that? And when does it get to the NFL
with what is going to be in the content of
those scripts because some of them are pretty close to
the edge. Those are those are my favorite meetings every year.
So you know, look, it starts with the host, right,
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Like I said, having a host that's a genuine fan
that you know it can really speak to these things
from a level of from a place of passion, I
think really helps. We have an amazing writing staff led
by Bennett Webber. He's a huge football fan, as are
all of our writers. Um. And you know, look it
helps only having to do it once a year, right.
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I don't envy people that have to come up with
ways to make sports funny on a daily show or
on a weekly show. Um. So we've got a lot
of material to work with, um and some incredibly talented
people to pull those jokes off. Um. But uh, yeah,
we we generally get a script to the league a
couple of days ahead of time and everything. Or is
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it like you leave a little bit of room here, Well, no,
we we usually we get them everything. We don't want
to We don't want anybody to have surprises, right because
we want to come back every year and do the show.
Um uh. And you you know how it goes. There
will generally be a few things in there that we
know they're gonna cut, so that maybe they don't cut
the things that are actually our favorites. Um uh. And yeah, frankly,
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I've been surprised some years at what we've been able to,
uh to get through UM. And you know, it helps
that we've been doing it year after year with some
of the same people. And I think, you know, when
things come from a place of love and passion and
not of like sort of picking and attacking, UM, that
that helps helps us get those things approved. There's so
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many sentimental moments. And we talked about to Walter Payton,
Man of the Year, and I always end up at
Bolleteers and I'm like, I didn't plan on crying tonight
at the NFL Howners, but I do. Uh, your favorite
funny moment in the eleven years of this show has
been a success, Like, what's the one moment where you're like,
oh shit, that that one sticks out? Oh boy, that's um,
that's great. We uh early on Alec Baldwin's favorite player
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of all times, Joe NAMATHUM and I can't remember the
first show or the second show. We Alec did a
great bit in the audience, UM with Joe Namath Phil
Simms next to exactly that's exactly right. It's yeah, yeah,
I love this. I remember it telling where you know
it was about playing in New York and and and
playing in the spotlight and how you navigate that and
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he was, you know, sitting next to Phil Simms, um,
who's very stayed U and uh, you know Phil's Phil
was kind of like, oh, you know, it's you go
home early and uh and do your job. And then
Nameth just kind of popped out. Uh. Um. And you
know he obviously navigated New York a little bit differently. Um.
That Uh, that was one of my favorites. Alec Baldwin,
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if I recall Alec Baldwin asked them the question how
about you, Joe, and he goes, well, I don't remember it, yeah,
which is an amazing line. Yeah, that's that's It's great. Um.
I thought Steve Harvey was hilarious both years he did it,
And I felt like if there ever was a script
that went to the NFL that I don't know whatever
I heard on TV. That's a great point. That's a
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great point. Look Steve, Um. You know, Steve hadn't done
stand up for a long time before he hosted that show.
He hadn't told jokes in front of in front of
an audience like that, and he was so excited to
do it. Um. We also had the benefit those years
the show wasn't live live, right, so we had maybe
an hour or two hours to trim things and edit things.
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So you know, Steve just kind of went out and
let it rip, and we we knew there were things
that we were going to have to edit and cut
out ed. Uh, you know that worked. That worked pretty well.
And you know Steve also wasn't always going off teleproper.
Steve just you know, he had things he wanted to
do and say, and then he'd just go the great
The great thing about him too is you may remember
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he you know, usually during a show, the host goes
out does their bits, and then in between they're you know,
prepping for the next thing, working with the writers on
a script, or you know, just taking a break, taking
a breather. You know, it's more exhausting to do this
than he might think. Steve, though, in commercial breaks would
go out and entertain the audience just because he had
fun doing it. Um. So he'd go out there and
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chat with everybody during commercial breaks, um, just to have
some more fun. So good. And there's this whole backstage
scene that I was able to frequent once and it
was like if you could pick the most random celebrities
and most random football players, but it was like at all,
just just hanging out backstage. I'll never forget. I went
back stage and Paul Rud's back there and he calls
me over and he's like, Peter, do you know Klais Campbell?
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And I'm like, yeah, I guess. And we were like
this like intense conversation, like Paul read Klais Campbell and me,
and I'm like, this is the show. Now, are you
in the truck or do you get a chance to
frequent that backstage? I'm backstage on backstage, so yeah. Usually
there's a lot of things happening around me and behind
sort of a setup with monitors, and I get headphones on,
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but there's a lot happening around everyone, so I look around, like, oh,
there's Mark Wahlberg and Andrew Whitworth. I mean a conversation
about God knows what you know? Um, yeah, it's a
it's a fun it's a fun scene back there. You
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mentioned the name Moura matt And for the listeners, she's
one of the all time legends in television sports TV
and she passed right before the pandemic. I wanted to
say in like February of twenty twenty. But she's the
touch point for any favor that Moura man ever needed
from Aaron Rodgers. He'd run to do it. Peyton Manning,
run to do it, Paul Rudd, run to do it,
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you name it. Her legacy is all over the NFL honors.
Her footprint is there. Can you tell us a little
bit about who Maura was and really what this show
means to her legacy and how you guys are going
to keep it going. Absolutely? Yeah, she was incredible. Um,
you know, as you said, so many people. She could
get people to do things that nobody else could get
to do owners because people loved her so much and
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loved her passion so much. Um, she was a force
of nature. When she wanted something to happen, she would
just go, go, go, go go. She'd get know so
many times and you know, just try to push through
it and flip a note to it. Yes, And she
always approached you know, uh these shows from a place
of telling stories and moving people and you know, trying
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to make the world a better place through some of
the you know, silly shows that we make. And I
think she was largely successful in doing those things. And um,
you know, It's funny. I was just talking to somebody
this morning, like, I can't tell you how many times
a day doing this show, it goes through a mind, well,
what would More do? How would More handle this situation?
And you know, I can never I could never do
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a lot of the things she was capable of doing.
But you know we, I think all of us have
that in our heads as we go through, you know,
the creative of the show and trying to decide what
we're going to do and how we're going to handle things,
and how we're going to navigate talent and just try
to do her justice. You know, she was such a
huge part of making this show to what it is. Yeah,
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and it's the same she was. And obviously, you guys
work on the SP's for years. There's like this high
quality of not only the show itself, but the guests
that attend and are willing to participate and have fun
and laugh about themselves, which we don't see on a
day to day basis for a lot of these athletes
and performers. Yeah, absolutely, she was. She was so great
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at getting people comfortable with doing things that you know,
they had no business doing. You know, we we think
of an idea and like, oh, that person's never going
to do that. She's like, give me, give me, give
me trying give me shot. And you know she was
almost always successful, really good, really good at doing Yeah,
I've had I had a chance to get to know
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her briefly. I mean, just an incredible toward a force.
And you guys are carrying on the torch and you're
doing a fine job. What's the measure of success for
this year's NFL Honors? I know it's gonna be great
and everyone's gonna have a blast. But the next morning
you wake up Friday and you're like, what are we
looking at? Is it ratings? Is it the Twitter reaction
or is it just an overall high quality night where
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everyone feels good about the NFL. You know, obviously pay
attention to the ratings, and I hope as many people
watch the show as we can, and you know, hopefully
if if the ratings are good, you know that that's
good for us. But you know, I think the way
I think about during success on the show is the
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people are partners in this show, right and the stakeholders
in this show. Do they walk away happy? You know,
do they feel good about the show we made, whether
that's our host, you know, certainly the those in the
league and the commissioner and you know, the owners and
the people that you know have a say in, and
if this show continues to get made year after year,
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you know, were those people did they come in feeling
like this was a great event and something the league
should be proud of. And then obviously the players, you know,
the players and legends that are there that we're celebrating.
We want them to walk away feeling like, man, that
was that was cooler than I thought it would be,
or that was more fun than I thought it would be,
or you know, that meant more to me than I
thought it might. So having those those people walk away
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feeling great about their experience and great about the show
and the event we made, I think is our biggest
marker of success on this show. You know, last year,
I remember being there and Aaron Rodgers is sitting in
the front row and Josh Allen was nearby, and during
a commercial break, the two of them were chopping it
up like it's pretty cool. Now they've got to know
each other. They golf, they do all this stuff, and
but that's cool, like to see like you know, thirty
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eight year old Aaron Rodgers with twenty four year old
Josh Allen and they're cleared up, and I'm like, who
makes the seating chart? That's you know. I've got a
meeting a little bit later today to go through the
first draft of that. It's fun. We have an incredible
seating team that are just freshly here from the Grammys.
I saw him as they got in here this morning.
They do you know, I sat with Harry Styles was yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Dana Kennerson and his team are so good at this.
So they'll they'll put together an initial draft, which is
what we're going to go through this afternoon. We look
at it on a big monitor and it's got everybody's
names on it, and they do it based on their
experience on this show and the run of show and
how we're doing things. And then you know, the director
and myself and a couple other producers will kind of
go through and say, wow, maybe we'll move this here
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for that reason, or move this around here. It'd be
great when we do this comedy bid if we have
this person here and then can go to that person.
So it's team effort. But like I said, Dana and
his team are are really good at this. I gotta
cut more for you because I love this the Awards show.
You know, behind the scenes of the in the machinations. Um,
have you ever had to put the music on and
cut somebody off during a speech? Not in this show.
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We've you know, a couple of things right, like one,
I think generally the athletes that were honoring don't tend
to want to go on and on and on. Not
as for boats. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so that helps us.
And then you know, like I said, excuse me. For
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for many years we were on a bit of a
tape delay, so we had like an hour to trim
things if we needed to to get our show to
times we're off the air on time, and so we
had the luxury of being able to do that and
not having to cut people off. Last year we were
live for the first time. ABC was kind enough to
let us go. I think we went four or five
minutes long. Andrew's speech at the end of the night,
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I was significantly longer than we expected it to be.
But it's incredible, and like you know, it's the last
thing in the night. The last thing we want to
do is like you know, play someone off like that. Well,
there are times when will you know, flashing the telepropter,
please wrap it up? And you know, if they don't
do it, we'll just start flashing it a little more often,
and they generally, you know, will take those cues from us.
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All Right, you personally, Dave Chamberlain, you don't, you know,
get into sports and do all this stuff if you're
not a fan at heart, who was the one athlete
that you've met doing the NFL Honors that you're like,
all right, that's pretty cool. Uh, you know, I probably
I'm a giant Indianapolis Colts fan. I grew up in
Indianapolis and love that, you know. I Mora was close
with Peyton, as you said, So I think I'd met
(34:51):
Peyton before NFL Honors, but spending time around him and
with him through this was incredible. There was one year
he always you know, generally he'll come present one of
the bigger awards. Yeah, there was one year. I think
it was in Houston. He was getting ready to present
an award and he's just standing next to me backstage
and he's starting to point out things that I'm not
(35:13):
even noticing, And I was like, dude, you're better at
this than I am. How how does this work? Um? Yeah,
so you know, being able to sit there producing a
show with Peyton Manning giving me notes that are really
good notes, smart notes, that's pretty cool. I was thinking
you'd be like, you know, there's this guy Ted Marcha
Brota or Joseph die was in there. Dominic Rhodes walked
(35:36):
right in and I couldn't talk. Peyton Manning's pretty good.
And then my last one is this, like when you're
at the Switch and you're at the Levers and you're
doing all this stuff and it's going on, do you
have a chance to appreciate and enjoy the night or
is it just a pressure cooker? This is work, all
of the above, all of the above. Last year, you know,
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like I said, we were live for the first time.
As you might remember, getting into the event was a
little bit of a challenge, like the traffic and the
secure walk. Yeah, we're right right next to the stadium,
so there were a lot of challenges that came with that.
And at the top of the show, a lot of
people that were supposed to be there, we're not there. Um,
So we on the fly, while we're on the air,
(36:20):
making decisions and and and talking to writers and stage
managers and talent people like, Okay, we're gonna move that.
We're gonna get rid of this person. He's going to
do that by himself. We got to change the script,
write that script so we can move him in there.
That's the fun stuff, right, Like doing doing those things
on the fly is the fun stuff. And you know,
while it's like there's you know, you're you're trying to
get everything done at the same time, I do feel
(36:41):
like I have some appreciation for like, man, this is
fun as hell. Um. You know, it's uh, there's nothing
like live TV, um, and I really really enjoy that
aspect of it. I can't wait. I'll be there. I'll
I'll be hovering around. I'll probably try to yeah, I'll
be denied, and then I'll have to be like, no,
I know, Dave Chamber on my podcast, You're the man,
(37:05):
give us real quick the rundown. When does red carpet start?
Where can we find this? And just you know, let's
get excited for this. This is one of the rare
nights we can all just appreciate and celebrate football and
what it's meant for us this year. Absolutely we are
super excited. So there's a rid carpet show on NFL
Network from eight pm to nine pm, and then we
(37:27):
are on live on NBC from nine to eleven hopefully
eleven pm sharp, and we don't go any longer. But yeah,
it's it'll be a lot of fun. We've got, you know,
obviously a lot of great awards. Man of the Year,
we're gonna be. You know, we couldn't do a show
like this about the NFL season without, you know, having
(37:48):
a big tribute to the first responders and medical personnel
that you know work with the mare Hamlin So yeah,
and we've got some great celebs, Tracy Morgan, Tiffany Hattis,
Joel McHale, you know, Cheryl Lee, Ralph her and some
amazing players were get you know, We've done our best
to talk some players into having some fun with us
(38:09):
and doing some fun things with Kelly. So hopefully you'd
be a great show of everybody really enjoys. Now, I
don't know if Mahomes is going to win the MVP yet.
I don't know if he's going to be in the building,
but if he is not in the building, feel free
to call me up to accept the Award on his
behalf just so I can get my face on TV.
I mean it's cool. I'm down with that. Absolutely, Yeah,
it's good. That makes sense. That makes a lot of sense, dude,
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Thank you, thank you for joining everybody. The NFL Honors,
presented by a Visilon is going to be on NBC
this week on Thursday. Of course, the Red Carpet Nate
Burlison will be running the show. Kevin Frasier will be
there as well on NFL Network on Thursday beforehand. Dave,
I know you're a busy man. Thank you so much
for joining and giving us the lowdown on what it
takes to put on an event like the NFL Honors. Absolutely,
(38:55):
thank you for having me. Dave Chamberlain awesome insight on
what it takes to put on a live events, what
it means to do the NFL Honors gig, and then
really like all the bells and whistles that goes into
it that maybe you don't realize when you're watching it
on TV. Aron, did I come across as thirsty in
(39:17):
a way trying to like beg for camera time multiple times? No? No,
I thought that was an appropriate amount. Like if I'm
going I think it's like three o'clock, like it was
like a local. Like if I'm going at three o'clock,
like I thought, if you don't ask to be called
up to accept Mahome's award, if he wins, they're never
gonna offer it. Who else are they gonna who else? Like?
Who's going up there? Like Kingsbury is still in Thailand?
(39:39):
I know that. So he's the college coach. He's not
going up there his agent. I don't want to see
any agent accepting or other does Brittany and Jackson. Jackson
might come up. That would be a you know what,
That might be the move and that might go viral.
Jackson might have a dance or whatever like to go
with it. That could be a whole thing. Um, I
don't know. I thought that I was. Now that I've
(40:00):
recorded it with him already, I feel a little bit
gross that I was selling myself so hard, But you understand,
people in my business are so much worse than that.
I'm serious. I don't think. I mean, I think you
were fine. Like he understands you know that you've been
backstage already. If if he sees you back there one time, yeah,
you've been there before. It was cool. It was cool.
Um Dave is cool and his company puts on the SPS,
(40:23):
it puts on NFL honors. My big prediction, I don't
know anything, and I want you to predict too, So
like that Walter paid Man of the Year is the
most important award. It's what everyone does, and it's like
unsavory to predict. I gotta be honest, A good Morning Football.
When we got the thirty two nominees, I put together
like a little pool and I'm like, everyone, pick who
(40:43):
you think? Who do you think the NFL is gonna
pick form Walter paid Man? There, Everyone went with DAK
because he was like the biggest name. But the NFL
loves their Cameron Hayward of the Steelers and they love
de Mario Davis of the Saints. Those are my two
wild cards. I think Cam Hayward might win it from
the Steelers. I think Demaro Davis might win it. But
(41:04):
there are so many good nominees and they're so many
beloved guys, But DAK is the biggest name. What do
you think they just give to the biggest name or
do you think that maybe you get one of my guys?
De Mario or Kid was kind of wondering if they
would give it to Jared Goff, because Jared Goff, he
had the scenes in Hard Knocks this year in the
preseason with him doing m I forget the name of
(41:26):
his foundation, but he was working with kids on the show,
and so there's been he's a nominee. I wonder if
he would get it. I like it. Your your bet
is Jared Goff. I'm gonna go with de Mario. Davis
is my bet tomorrow, Davis, New Orleans Saints UM. And
if Dak wins it, Dak deserved it. It's something about that,
just yeah, that Dak is a very famous player and
he's nominated for it, UM very unsavored. A debate, who's
(41:48):
gonna win Walter Payton Man of the Year. When all
these guys give their time and their money to these causes,
and yet here we are Super Bowl week. Aaron, We've
got plenty more common. We've got multiple episodes this week
that are in works right now, big names, influential names.
Not to tease too much, but something different that only
our podcast can bring. I'm getting excited for the Super Bowl,
(42:11):
but I am also aware that it's it's just getting started.
Aaron Kaufman, Jason English, Matt Schneider, of course, Jason Kleinman
who churns out these social clips that help meg It
go viral. Meredith Batton at the NFL, who has been
so good to work with on this podcast all season.
And then our maestro on the one twos is a
(42:31):
gentleman named Jack Rudd. I love the theme music to
this podcast. Guys, plenty more to come. This is just
the first one. We'll see you later this week. The
(43:05):
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