Joe Flint Of Wall Street Journal on NFL Schedule, Belichick Image Rehab & CFB Playoff to 24 teams? | LWOS Media Podcast

About this episode

T.J. Rives discusses the NFL schedule, Bill Belichick's image rehabilitation, and the proposed expansion of the College Football Playoff with guest Joe Flint from the Wall Street Journal.

We're back as May continues to crank up with more on the world of sports media stories, news and audience info, etc. on the latest "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!" Host T.J. Rives is back with his insight and takes and he's joined this week for an extended conversation with Joe Flint, media writer and insider for the Wall Street Journal, to go over several subjects. They talk the NFL schedule release last Thursday night and the massive amount of standalone games there are now for the league, especially not on Sundays. Joe has thoughts on the less and less impact of the 1 pm Eastern Sunday games, the slate of games that Amazon Prime got for Thursday night football and could Fox Sports eventually, be in some jeopardy to lose NFL games in a high stakes financial game with the streamers like Amazon, Netflix and Youtube? The guys also discuss legendary coach Bill Belichick trying to do some image rehab with interviews in the off season after his dismal year in college football at the University of North Carolina. Will it help, especially, when many in the media and pundant world want to pay him back for being anti-media as a coach. They also discuss the proposed new 24 team…

People in this episode

Host: T.J. Rives

Guest: Joe Flint

Topics covered

• NFL schedule
• media analysis
• College Football Playoff
• Bill Belichick
• sports broadcasting
• sports commentary

Keywords

• NFL
• College Football Playoff
• Bill Belichick
• sports media
• Amazon Prime
• Fox Sports
• sports commentary

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wall Street Journal, Amazon Prime, Fox Sports, Netflix, Youtube

Places: University of North Carolina

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