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The Peter King Podcast

Rams GM Les Snead, NFL Network host Scott Hanson, and Mike Lombardi, former club exec with the Niners, Raiders and Patriots and author of an insightful NFL book, "Gridiron Genius"

The Peter King Podcast

NBC Sports

Pro Football Talk, Football, Nbc, Nfl, Nbc Sports, The Mmqb, Peter King, Sports, Nfl Football, Pro Football, Football Morning In America

4.4872 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Snead on his surprise at the Rams making it to the Super Bowl after being in dregs two years ago, on what Jared Goff did to be better than Drew Brees in the NFC title game, and what it feels like to be the architect of a team trying to beat Belichick and Brady in the Super Bowl. Hanson on the success of the NFL's RedZone channel, why people have flocked to RedZone at the expense of their own team's game on Sunday, and his pick for the Super Bowl. Lombardi on learning that Sean McVay, in the week before the Super Bowl, is listening to his book on the way to work, on what his former boss Bill Walsh would think of McVay and his offense, and on knowing Belichick so well and trying to figure out how Belichick will defend McVay's Sunday.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, where I try to tell you quite a bit about football and just a smidgin about life.

0:10.0

So this week we're at the Super Bowl in Atlanta. I'm recording this late on Monday night

0:17.8

After the mania of media night, which is insane and I'm gonna be very get off my lawn if we get into talking about that by the way

0:27.3

Because it's ridiculous but anyway. Let's not throw cold water.

0:32.7

Let's not really put a damper on this festive time of the year.

0:37.2

One game left out of 267, the Super Bowl.

0:41.4

And we're going to preview it with the Rams General Manager, Less Sneed.

0:46.2

Also, NFL Network host Scott Hanson, and Mike Lombardi, the former club executive

0:52.4

with the Niners, Raiders, and Patriots, and now an author

0:56.0

of an insightful NFL book, Grid Iron Genius, that the coach of the New Orleans Saints, McVeigh has been listening to on his way to work.

1:07.0

But first, a few thoughts about this matchup.

1:10.0

You know, the reason why I like this game a lot

1:15.1

Rams Patriots Super Bowl 53 Atlanta Sunday evening 630 Eastern is because we usually don't see games with teams that don't know each other very well at all and think about it

1:31.9

Sean McVeigh has been calling plays for five years.

1:36.8

Three years is the Washington Offensive Coordinator.

1:40.7

That's 2014, 15, 16, and then two years as the coach of the ramps and that's 17 and 18.

1:51.6

And in those five years, Sean McVeigh has played Bill Bellicheck in the New England Patriots one time.

1:59.0

That was in 2015, was he, when he was in in Washington this almost reminds me of the old world series

2:07.8

in Major League Baseball when when you think about it the world series before interleague play was basically a

2:17.4

series with two teams that didn't know each other at all and when those teams

2:21.6

didn't know each other at all it created some really interesting match-ups with teams that in many

2:28.6

cases a pitcher was seeing a batter for the first time in his life.

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