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The Playcallers

The Athletic

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Frequency: 1 episode/37d. Total Eps: 15

The Playcallers is the show about how football happens. Host Jourdan Rodrigue is joined by NFL coaches, scouts and executives where they reveal the unseen work that goes into building a winning franchise.

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Analyzing Everything with Bears’ Ian Cunningham

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 • Duration 36:20

Welcome to The Playcallers, the show about how football happens. As season two continues, you’ll hear from the ascending generation of front office decision-makers. In this episode, Chicago Bears assistant GM Ian Cunningham joins host Jourdan Rodrigue to discuss the art of productive disagreements, how to study and implement new ideas and his in-depth process for analyzing the decisions he makes.

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Defining modern defense with Panthers' Jonathan Cooley

Monday, August 5, 2024 • Duration 49:06

Carolina Panthers Defensive Passing Game Coordinator Jonathan Cooley joins host Jourdan Rodrigue to discuss why John Carroll University is a coaching hotbed, the keys to making complex football strategies simple for players, and how coverages will continue to evolve in the face of offensive innovation.

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Houston Texans' Jerrod Johnson takes us to QB school

Monday, August 5, 2024 • Duration 48:50

Houston Texans QB coach Jerrod Johnson joins host Jourdan Rodrigue to discuss his family's legacy in teaching leading to coaching, transitioning from player to coach, and the coaching process that contributed to CJ Stroud's incredible rookie season.

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Aha coaching moments with Rams OC Mike LaFleur

Monday, August 5, 2024 • Duration 01:01:48

Welcome to The Playcallers: The Bonus Batch, an extra set of three episodes focused on up-and-coming coaches in the NFL. In this first bonus episode, host Jourdan Rodrigue is joined by LA Rams OC Mike LaFleur to talk about growing up in a football family, the gift of being a WR coach, and how to build cohesion between scheme and the players.

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Ep. 1: The kids are all right

Season 1 · Episode 1

Saturday, July 15, 2023 • Duration 01:05:00

Welcome to The Playcallers - a five-part podcast series that explores the innovation, competition and sometimes even self-destruction inside the N.F.L.’s youngest coaching family. In Episode 1, host Jourdan Rodrigue details the origins of the Shanahan/McVay offensive system, which over time grew into the most popular in the sport. Unique circumstances push Kyle Shanahan to start to evolve this system as he joins up with other young coaches in Tampa Bay, Houston and Washington. A collision of forces, dysfunction and talent culminates in the offensive explosion (and then implosion) in Washington with rookie quarterback Robert Griffin the Third. Voices in the episode include Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay, Mike McDaniel, Matt LaFleur, Raheem Morris and Robert Griffin the Third. Playcallers is presented by Miller Lite. To get Miller Lite delivered right to your door, visit millerlite.com/playcallers. Celebrate Responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, WI. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.

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Ep. 2: When football breaks

Season 1 · Episode 2

Saturday, July 15, 2023 • Duration 50:46

Once candidates for the same head coaching jobs, Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay's dynamic gets complicated as they turn into NFC rivals in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Host Jourdan Rodrigue goes inside how both coaches' modern offenses take shape and the untold stories of McVay's hiring process by the Rams. Eventually, McVay's Rams take the NFL by storm in 2017-18. But all the while, one of the greatest coaches in NFL history is lying in wait to teach McVay a humiliating lesson in Super Bowl LIII...just a couple of years after Shanahan's own Super Bowl heartbreak at the hands of that same veteran coach. Playcallers is presented by Miller Lite. To get Miller Lite delivered right to your door, visit millerlite.com/playcallers. Celebrate Responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, WI. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.

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Ep. 3: You are not me

Season 1 · Episode 3

Saturday, July 15, 2023 • Duration 50:08

How far can Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay go to evolve their own offenses? Each coach hires a defensive coordinator who is their perfect schematic opposite. In San Francisco, Shanahan and Robert Saleh's epic practice battles shape what are now the NFL's best defenses. In Los Angeles, McVay's and Brandon Staley's schemes clash as McVay becomes wholly obsessed with finding out how his offense can be solved. Host Jourdan Rodrigue studies the collision of apex systems and how the ripple effects start to shape each team - and the entire NFL. Voices in the episode include McVay, Shanahan, Saleh, Staley, Thomas Brown, Andrew Whitworth, Mina Kimes, and Steve Wyche. Playcallers is presented by Miller Lite. To get Miller Lite delivered right to your door, visit millerlite.com/playcallers. Celebrate Responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, WI. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.

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Ep. 4: Blood can blind

Season 1 · Episode 4

Saturday, July 15, 2023 • Duration 53:57

Sean McVay becomes the first coach from this coaching family to win the Super Bowl, but it costs him more personally than he could have realized. Before McVay gets to the championship, he has to exorcise his "Kyle Shanahan demons" in the NFC Championship game. Shanahan and Mike McDaniel built their offense into a versatile, punishing group as McVay's own system centers around the flourish of the passing game. McDaniel, who becomes the Dolphins head coach in 2022, starts stretching his legs after so much time working under Shanahan. Meanwhile, Matt LaFleur's own Packers offense is built around compromise and a Hall of Fame quarterback. In speaking with host Jourdan Rodrigue, each head coach opens up about how play-calling has shaped their identity. Voices in the episode include McVay, Shanahan, LaFleur, McDaniel, Kevin O'Connell, Zac Taylor, Kevin Demoff, Les Snead, Raheem Morris, Andrew Whitworth, Mina Kimes and Steve Wyche. Playcallers is presented by Miller Lite. To get Miller Lite delivered right to your door, visit millerlite.com/playcallers. Celebrate Responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, WI. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.

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Ep. 5: To resist it is useless

Season 1 · Episode 5

Friday, July 14, 2023 • Duration 40:56

A look at the modern NFL shows that variants of this offensive system - and even the defensive systems it pulled into its innovation loop - are everywhere. What happens when it becomes too saturated? How do coaches know when to jump into what comes next? Host Jourdan Rodrigue also looks at the unintended consequences the explosion in popularity of coaches from this offense have had on the NFL's hiring practices. Meanwhile, coaches across the league are candid about how they try to evolve and adapt in a sport that endlessly moves in patterns and cycles. Voices in the episode include Sean McVay, Kyle Shanahan, Matt LaFleur, Mike McDaniel, Raheem Morris, Kevin O'Connell, Thomas Brown, Kevin Demoff, Les Snead, Andrew Whitworth and Robert Griffin the Third. Playcallers is presented by Miller Lite. To get Miller Lite delivered right to your door, visit millerlite.com/playcallers. Celebrate Responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, WI. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.

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Trailer | The Playcallers

Sunday, July 9, 2023 • Duration 02:06

Trailer for The Playcallers - the latest narrative podcast series from The Athletic. Host Jourdan Rodrigue, the five episode series takes listeners inside the real story of how the N.F.L.’s most popular offensive system evolved through N.F.L. head coaches Shanahan, McVay, Matt LaFleur and Mike McDaniel, and its personal and professional impact on these coaches and many more in their breakneck pursuit of play-calling “perfection.” Playcallers is presented by Miller Lite. To get Miller Lite delivered right to your door, visit millerlite.com/playcallers. Celebrate Responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, WI. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.

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