The Playcallers

Giants Assistant GM Brandon Brown joins The Playcallers to discuss the art of communicating in both good and tough times, the marriage of scouting and technology and the critical decisions the Giants are facing in the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vikings VP of Football Operation Demitrius Washington joins The Playcallers to discuss blending data with football, the innovative ways he's gotten that information into coaching rooms and how to balance between what his eyes see and what the numbers say during the scouting process. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Buccaneers’ Assistant GM John Spytek joins The Playcallers to reveal the dramatic changes the franchise underwent when Tom Brady was signed, the delicate team-building layers in going from Brady to Baker Mayfield, and the core scouting and football principles that set the foundation and identity for each of these Tampa Bay rosters. Quick note, this interview was recorded before the Bucs' Monday ni...

Eagles' Assistant GM Alec Halaby represents two ends of the football spectrum: a football junkie with an affinity for analytics. Halaby joins The Playcallers to talk about the marriage of those two mentalities, a peek inside the unique process of Howie Roseman and the Eagles, and the multitudes of inputs he seeks when making a football decision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

Browns' Assistant GM & VP of Football Operations Catherine Hickman joins The Playcallers to dive into her path from the law to the CFL to the NFL, the combination of forces in the talent identification process and how problems get solved at the highest level of professional sports. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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....

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

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 sys...

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 gr...

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...

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 p...

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 hi...

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 purs...