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Peter Schrager

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3980 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

Their salary cap situation is no good either.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

Bleak in that it feels like the other two teams have surpassed them in their division and they're still going to have to pay Micah Parsons and they've got Dak on this contract and CD and like, I don't know how they're going to pay all these pending free agents that they have and that it's going in the wrong direction. But gosh, you know, you hire, you don't even do a full search.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

Bleak in that it feels like the other two teams have surpassed them in their division and they're still going to have to pay Micah Parsons and they've got Dak on this contract and CD and like, I don't know how they're going to pay all these pending free agents that they have and that it's going in the wrong direction. But gosh, you know, you hire, you don't even do a full search.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

Bleak in that it feels like the other two teams have surpassed them in their division and they're still going to have to pay Micah Parsons and they've got Dak on this contract and CD and like, I don't know how they're going to pay all these pending free agents that they have and that it's going in the wrong direction. But gosh, you know, you hire, you don't even do a full search.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

And it's like, we're just going to keep it going with Brian Schottenheimer. It's hard to, it's hard to look at your fan base and say, well, it's totally going to be different. Well, we just elevated the guy who was number two to Mike McCarthy, and we're not going to have any new fresh talent besides what we already have. And we missed the playoffs last year.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

And it's like, we're just going to keep it going with Brian Schottenheimer. It's hard to, it's hard to look at your fan base and say, well, it's totally going to be different. Well, we just elevated the guy who was number two to Mike McCarthy, and we're not going to have any new fresh talent besides what we already have. And we missed the playoffs last year.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

And it's like, we're just going to keep it going with Brian Schottenheimer. It's hard to, it's hard to look at your fan base and say, well, it's totally going to be different. Well, we just elevated the guy who was number two to Mike McCarthy, and we're not going to have any new fresh talent besides what we already have. And we missed the playoffs last year.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

The question is how does Dak return from injury? Because he's the highest paid quarterback in the NFL.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

The question is how does Dak return from injury? Because he's the highest paid quarterback in the NFL.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

The question is how does Dak return from injury? Because he's the highest paid quarterback in the NFL.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

Could happen. And you're in a market that... It's a good team with a great tradition and a great city, but it's not like New Orleans is due to by the NFL as like the Cowboys or the Giants or one of these premier franchises.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

Could happen. And you're in a market that... It's a good team with a great tradition and a great city, but it's not like New Orleans is due to by the NFL as like the Cowboys or the Giants or one of these premier franchises.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

Could happen. And you're in a market that... It's a good team with a great tradition and a great city, but it's not like New Orleans is due to by the NFL as like the Cowboys or the Giants or one of these premier franchises.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

Well, it can go. This is like a social experiment in a lot of ways. I went out of my way at the Combine to meet a lot of these people that I had never met before. That's always what I like to do. I like to put a list down of like, here are 10 names. They're all going to be in Indianapolis. Get to know them. They're young. They're up and coming.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

Well, it can go. This is like a social experiment in a lot of ways. I went out of my way at the Combine to meet a lot of these people that I had never met before. That's always what I like to do. I like to put a list down of like, here are 10 names. They're all going to be in Indianapolis. Get to know them. They're young. They're up and coming.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

Well, it can go. This is like a social experiment in a lot of ways. I went out of my way at the Combine to meet a lot of these people that I had never met before. That's always what I like to do. I like to put a list down of like, here are 10 names. They're all going to be in Indianapolis. Get to know them. They're young. They're up and coming.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

And I was doing the math in my head. I'm like, all right, I know how old I am. I know where I was like. when, when OJ was on the chase and Ewing was playing a large one, he wasn't born yet. And that's where I like, that's like, this is how young he is. Josh McCown tells me he was with him in Minnesota. This kid's brilliant, but that's your offensive coordinator.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

And I was doing the math in my head. I'm like, all right, I know how old I am. I know where I was like. when, when OJ was on the chase and Ewing was playing a large one, he wasn't born yet. And that's where I like, that's like, this is how young he is. Josh McCown tells me he was with him in Minnesota. This kid's brilliant, but that's your offensive coordinator.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

And I was doing the math in my head. I'm like, all right, I know how old I am. I know where I was like. when, when OJ was on the chase and Ewing was playing a large one, he wasn't born yet. And that's where I like, that's like, this is how young he is. Josh McCown tells me he was with him in Minnesota. This kid's brilliant, but that's your offensive coordinator.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Mavs Fans in Hell, Bleak NFL Situations, an Oscars Recap and RIP Gene Hackman | With Peter Schrager and Wesley Morris

Your head coach, Liam Cohen, who I've known, he was UMass's quarterback. And I wrote a book with Victor Cruz way back when in 2011. And when Victor Cruz liked the sensation, his quarterback was, was Liam Cohen in college. So I got to know Liam then when we were working on this book and, I've seen Liam Bowser. Liam is a young, really untested head coach, first time head coach. So you got that too.