The Jake Bowtell Sports Experience

NFL Week 2 is here, and Jake is joined by Minnesota Jack to Pick and Preview the Thursday Night Football matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Cleveland Browns! Tragedy and drama abound as the lads recount Showtime Joe Burrow’s “almost” game-winning drive against the Chargers, and wonder aloud as to whether the powder-keg of personalities in Cleveland can survive a poor start to 2020. The...

NFL Week 1 is in the books, and Jake is ready to chop it up with a surprisingly upbeat Minnesota Jack! The lads spin around the games as they talk about what positives Vikings fans can glean from the loss to the Packers, who won the Retirement Village Royal Rumble in New Orleans, and can Philip Rivers stop lobbing interceptions? Speed round takes us to romantic recollections of Mr. Unlimited’s QB...

The JBFE welcomes David "The Great Oklahuman" Vaughn and Minnesota Jack in for the first of their Weekly NFL Picks & Previews shows! The lads spin around the full slate of Week 1 fixtures in the NFL, as they look at how games will be won and lost, and invest their confidence points from 16 (most confident) to 1 (least confident) in each and every game! Upsets and bold predictions abound as the...

The JBFE is back, and so is the NFL! That's right, Pro football returns with a juicy Thursday Night Football matchup as the Houston Texans travel to play the reigning Super Bowl champs, the Kansas City Chiefs, in Arrowhead! Jake is joined by the Great Oklahuman and Minnesota Jack to preview and pick the game! Support The JBFE on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thejbfe Follow The JBFE on Facebook:...

The JBFE turns 50 in style as Jake is joined by Minnesota Jack and The Great Oklahuman! There is a special announcement, and then the lads get stuck into drafting a stable of 8 NFL teams each, one from every Division, as they embark on the 1st Annual NFL Team Draft War! Support The JBFE on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thejbfe Follow The JBFE on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejbfe Follow...

Jake runs through key injury and trade news as the NFL season rapidly approaches. The Chargers lose a key defensive piece, Fournette gets waived, Ngakoue heads North, and could there be a Dabo/Trevor team-up in Jacksonville? Support The JBFE on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thejbfe Follow The JBFE on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejbfe Follow The JBFE on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thej...

Jake looks back on the 3rd episode of the Rams/Chargers Hard Knocks season. Wide receivers at the Chargers learn that they had better block for Coach Lynn, Melvin Ingram shows his quality, the Rams new home threads look SoFINE (see what I did there?) in their sexy new stadium, and the challenge of building a roster of great talent and great attitude is a tricky hill to climb. Support The JBFE on P...

Jake looks back at Episode 2 of Hard Knocks, as the Chargers and Rams push forward with training camp in the COVID era. Rookies come to terms with the realities of the NFL challenge, Sean McVay continues to morph into Jon Gruden, and both LA teams finally strap on the helmets. Also, how amazing are equipment staff? Support The JBFE on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thejbfe Follow The JBFE on Fac...

Jake sits down with Coach Regier and Coach Nichols of the Balko Forgan Bulls Football team. Discussion ranges from the forming of the Balko-Forgan co-op, between two traditional football rivals, to the process of working together as co-head coaches and guiding their team through an offseason that included both a Global Pandemic, and a tragedy closer to home. Support The JBFE on Patreon: https://ww...

Jake looks back on the first episode of the Chargers/Rams Hard Knocks season. Anthony Lynn is a boss, Sean McVay might be turning into Jon Gruden (and has been lifting), Aaron Donald is shredded, players are being nasal swabbed on the daily, Jalen Ramsey deftly handles the media, and Justin Herbert inspires the most immortal line in all of Hard Knocks history. McVay's dog plays basketball. Support...

Jake is joined by David "The Great Oklahuman" Vaughn and Minnesota Jack to draft an 8 man AFL team from NFL players! There's also some shenanigans with an accent challenge, as well as some time spent chatting about what the 2020 Patriots might look like. 

Jake is joined by Minnesota Jack and David "The Great Oklahuman" Vaughn as the gents go head to head to head in a 7-on-7 Draft... using players from the Australian Football League! As the picks roll on, they discuss the transferable skills from AFL into American football, how to pick a QB when you've never seen a player throw a football, and just how the AFL can get exposure to an American audienc...

Jake dives into a solo show about finding the joy in football, and how watching film of himself trying to learn a 3-Step Drop in the backyard led to all sorts of revelations about the nature of self-evaluation and self-improvement. Support The JBFE on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thejbfe Follow The JBFE on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejbfe Follow The JBFE on Instagram: https://www.ins...

The JBFE welcomes the lads from the Big Dudes In The Trenches podcast to the show! Discussion ranges from the skills of the offensive and defensive line positions, how viewers at home can watch, comprehend and evaluate play on the offensive and defensive lines more accurately, to how we can better represent the trenches statistically in the box score! Support The JBFE on Patreon: https://www.patre...

Jake rides solo to the banging tune of the new JBFE theme music, makes a very exciting podcast announcement, and then dives into the Jamal Adams trade and how statistics in the NFL could be be more representative of what actually happens on the football field. He also bemoans the Joe Kelly silliness against the Astros. Because moral high ground. The JBFE Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thejbfe Fa...

Kira-Lea Dargin, multi-sport athlete and the first Indigenous woman to play pro football in the US, joins The JBFE! We talk about Kira-Lea playing rugby in the Koori Knockout transitioning to American Football for the UNSW Raiders Gridiron Club and NSW Coyotes before taking the massive leap to play for the New York Wolves Football team in 2019.

Jake is joined by the Great Oklahuman himself, David Vaughn! They discuss the contracts being signed around the NFL, the Sensational San Antonio Spurs Ticket Debacle of 2014, and dive into whether Patrick Mahomes can ascend to the level of Michael Jordanism within the NFL!

The JBFE talks with Minnesota Jack about the AFL's efforts to conduct their season of football while navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, also finding time to discuss a traumatic fan experience from Minnesota Jack's childhood, before launching into a full "What if?" scenario to expand and restructure the AFL into a Conference based system... with two new franchises!

Jake is joined by MSU Spartans Club Football Team member John Skroly to talk all things NCFA football! There’s also time for a brief chat about what lies ahead for John’s NY Jets in 2020.

Jake is joined by Butler B’ynote’ and Mike “The Middle Man” Tackett to chat with Butler about his career at The Ohio State University, in the NFL for the Broncos and Panthers, NFL Europe, and the original XFL, as well as the transition from professional playing career to High School Football Head Coach, teacher and pastor!

Jake gets the opportunity to talk with the David Vaughn, the instructor of percussion at Oklahoma Panhandle State University! The topics range from growing up in the football cauldron of Texas, to creating drum lines for College Football, and the satisfaction of teaching!

Jake reaches out to chat with Erie Express football team Head Coach, and Director of Player Personnel, Coach Mark Pilling. They discuss Coach Pilling’s journey into coaching, his love for recruitment, building the culture of a team, and shedding a tear with his players. Stick around to the end to hear a teaser clip for the upcoming episode with Instructor of Percussion at Oklahoma Panhandle State...

Jake is privileged to be joined by Kyle Smith and Tom Cadle of The USFL Project! They talk falling in love with football, how the USFL changed the game, and how The USFL Project continues to breathe life into a league that remains vivid and vital in the hearts and minds of so many people. Stick around to the end for a preview clip of The JBFE's upcoming interview with Head Coach and Director of Pl...

The JBFE is back with a bang as Jake and Minnesota Jack go head to head Drafting All-Star Teams from the active rosters of the NFL!

The JBFE reaches out across the oceans to chat with Daniel Iaciofano in New York! Daniel “Iceman” Iaciofano spent his high-school career as an offensive and defensive lineman, and is now on the path to playing collegiate football. We talk the football lineage in his family, old time helmets, the philosophy of Aristotle, great coaching influences, Hell Week, playing on the line, the bonding and tru...