“To me, that story sums up (Chris) Mortensen’s ethos. Fighting for his life, but the news takes precedence even in some very dark hours.” – King on Mortensen breaking the news of Peyton Manning’s retirement while battling cancer

“The fan experience won’t ever be the same. So many of my favourite football memories involved me sitting in Ireland and being transported thousands of miles away to somewhere I’ll probably never be.” – FMIA reader Mark Hogan on King’s retirement

“And to all of you: My appreciation for reading, for watching, for listening, for making my life’s work so incredibly rewarding. Until we meet again, my everlasting thanks. Onward.” – King’s final thank you to his audience

STAMFORD, Conn. – March 4, 2024 – In his final Football Morning in America column, Peter King remembers longtime NFL journalist Chris Mortensen and shares letters from readers around the world following 27 years of writing his Monday morning column, available now exclusively on NBCSports.com.

King joined NBC Sports exclusively in 2018, writing his FMIA column, presenting The Peter King Podcast, making weekly appearances on PFT Live and contributing to Football Night in America.

For more NFL coverage, Peacock offers daily programming on the NBC Sports channel for free, including Pro Football Talk at 7 a.m. ET, The Dan Patrick Show at 9 a.m. ET, Brother from Another at 3 p.m. ET, plus Chris Simms Unbuttoned on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and the weekly The Peter King Podcast. To learn more about the NBC Sports on Peacock channel and how to sign up, click here.

The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King, Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all these videos and more, click here to subscribe.

The following are highlights from this week’s edition of Football Morning in America:

CHRIS MORTENSEN

King on Chris Mortensen breaking the news of Peyton Manning’s retirement while battling cancer: “To me, that story sums up (Chris) Mortensen’s ethos. Fighting for his life, but the news takes precedence even in some very dark hours.”

King on Mortensen: “That’s why people told him things for decades. Players and coaches and commissioners could trust him.”

Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning on Mortensen stepping in to help at his camp: “This one year, a bunch of guys left, and we were going around to the different groups that Sunday, and there was Mort, coaching some of the campers. I don’t know what the parents of those campers thought, seeing Mort coaching their kids. But he saw a need, and he just stepped in to help.”

FMIA READER LETTERS

Mark Hogan (Kildare, Ireland): “The fan experience won’t ever be the same. So many of my favourite football memories involved me sitting in Ireland and being transported thousands of miles away to somewhere I’ll probably never be.”

Tanmay Patel (Surat, India): “Your reach is as far as Surat, a mid-sized city in India. I’ve only followed this game for three years. No one in my life knew anything about this game. You are the person who made me fall in love with this game and the beauty of the plays you discuss every year especially with coach Andy Reid. Very grateful to you. Will forever be an NFL fan because of you.”

Jorge Medina (Malaga, Spain): “A lot of times I have thought about writing a mail to thank you for your work or to discuss football things, but I always find myself thinking I can’t bring anything of interest to a man who has talked with Tom Brady, Joe Montana. I always thought it would be a correct time to write you, another day, another year. And here we are, no more FMIA.”

Davide Lavarra (Vicenza, Italy): “By reading your articles I was able to imagine what was going on in a locker room, in a media session, in a training camp, on a bus with John Madden. Those articles gave me an enormous amount of joy. My routine has been the same for decades on Monday evenings: wash my teeth, go to bed, and a full read of (Monday Morning Quarterback), later FMIA.”

Gabrielle Ducharme (Los Angeles, Calif.): “If I learned anything from that time, and all those years of reading your work, it’s, ‘The job of a journalist is to take readers where they cannot go, and teach them what they do not know,’ as you wrote in that 2021 article. When I write, I think back on how you’ve managed to make a predominantly male-dominated sport more approachable to so many, myself included.”

Justin Carlson (Hillsborough, N.C.): “Not going to lie, it’s made for more than a few uncomfortable conversations with bosses, clients, or even my spouse because, well, I NEED to spend 30 minutes with your column every Monday, client meetings be damned.”

Chuck Cooperstein (Dallas, Texas): “Can I quote John Phillips and Cass Elliot? ‘Mondays will never be the same.’”

Jack Blake (Port St. Joe, Fla.): “One of my most memorable reads of yours was a struggle but I endured, and I was finally able to download your column while in the Antarctic. Yes, I’ve read you throughout those 25 years in all seven continents and I’ve always admired your humility, your thoughtfulness, your creativity in reporting. Please accept my simple but heartfelt thanks for what you’ve meant to me.”

FINAL THANK YOU

King: “And to all of you: My appreciation for reading, for watching, for listening, for making my life’s work so incredibly rewarding. Until we meet again, my everlasting thanks. Onward.”

Read the full FMIA column here and catch the weekly Peter King Podcast here.

The following are additional highlights of NBC Sports’ NFL coverage:

• • PFT Live with NBC Sports’ Mike Florio (Mondays) and Florio and Chris Simms (Tuesday-Thursday) streams on Peacock from 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. ET on weekdays & is available on-demand. The Dan Patrick Show streams at 9 a.m. ET, Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry at Noon ET, Brother From Another at 3 p.m. ET, PFT PM at 5 p.m. ET. At 6 p.m. ET, Chris Simms Unbuttoned streams Tuesday-Friday.
  • com continues to provide the latest news and updates.
  • NBC Sports EDGE’s Rotoworld Football Show continues the NFL discussion and Bet The Edge Podcast provides daily betting insights.
  • The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King – including his interviews with players and coaches at training camps – Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all of these videos and more, click here to subscribe.

It was announced in May 2019 that King signed an exclusive agreement with NBC Sports Group that included writing a weekly Monday morning NFL column for NBCSports.com; making regular appearances on PFT Live with Mike Florio; and continuing to contribute to Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports.

—NBC SPORTS—

“To be a long-termer in an increasingly short-term business, to write this column for 27 years and to be a sportswriter for 44, well, that’s something I’ll always be grateful for. Truly, I’ve loved it all.” – King on his career as a sportswriter

“I think FMIA and The Peter King Podcast could not exist without the support of so many, and I must thank those vital people.” – King on those who made FMIA happen

“Some of you have stayed with me since I started this in 1997…We all like to feel like we’re read, and your reactions, good and bad, 250 or so every week over the past few years, have really added a lot to my life in the business.” – King on his audience

STAMFORD, Conn. – Feb. 26, 2024 – Peter King announces his retirement and recalls his fondest memories covering the NFL in his final edition of Football Morning in America, available now exclusively on NBCSports.com. King also discusses his favorite game, people, interviews and more from his 27 years writing his Monday morning column. Peter King joined NBC Sports exclusively in 2018, writing his FMIA column, presenting The Peter King Podcast, making weekly appearances on PFT Live and contributing to Football Night in America.

For more NFL coverage, Peacock offers daily programming on the NBC Sports channel for free, including Pro Football Talk at 7 a.m. ET, The Dan Patrick Show at 9 a.m. ET, Brother from Another at 3 p.m. ET, plus Chris Simms Unbuttoned on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and the weekly The Peter King Podcast. To learn more about the NBC Sports on Peacock channel and how to sign up, click here.

The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King, Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all these videos and more, click here to subscribe.

The following are highlights from this week’s edition of Football Morning in America:

RETIREMENT

King on his career as a sportswriter: “Who’s complaining? Not me. I’m the luckiest man on the face of the earth. To be a long-termer in an increasingly short-term business, to write this column for 27 years and to be a sportswriter for 44, well, that’s something I’ll always be grateful for. Truly, I’ve loved it all.”

King’s response to Chiefs head coach Andy Reid asking if he’d retire last year: “I didn’t know what to say, because I’d been thinking about it. But I still liked doing the work so much that I decided to come back for the year, pretty sure it would be my last.”

King on what his family has meant to him throughout his career: “The sacrifices my wife, Ann, and my kids, Laura and Mary Beth, and their families have made for me to do this job at the highest level have been significant.”

King on the joy he found in his career: “There are things about this job I’ll never find in another gig, no matter how much fun any future job is. Breaking the four-game Lawrence Taylor drug suspension in 1988. Brett Favre spilling the secret to me of going into rehab, and why, in 1996.”

King on the importance of his audience throughout the years: “We all like to feel like we’re read, and your reactions, good and bad, 250 or so every week over the past few years, have really added a lot to my life in the business.”

FAVORITES

Moment: Steve Young’s hotel suite, Post-Super Bowl XXIX

King on 49ers quarterback Steve Young celebrating in bed with IVs in both arms: “This was one of the strangest post-game celebrations in Super Bowl history. (Steve) Young had maybe 40 family members and friends in the room and spilling out into the hotel hallway, and even the wooziness wasn’t affecting his glee.”

Interviews:

King on his interview with former Packers quarterback Brett Favre after winning Super Bowl XXXI: “I went to the team party at the Fairmont Hotel in New Orleans, espied (Brett) Favre with a ton of people around him, waved my arms, got his attention, and pointed to a stairwell near him, and we met in there for 20 minutes or so. We sat on a luggage cart.”

King on former New York Giant DE George Martin: “In 2007, disgusted by the lax federal support of sick 9/11 first-responders, (George) Martin decided to walk from the George Washington Bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge, 3,000 miles, to raise money for the cause. I met him in western Tennessee, outside of Memphis, to walk 18 miles with him, including mile 1,000.”

Game: Jan. 3, 1993: Buffalo 41, Houston 38

King on the Bills coming back from a 32-point deficit to win: “(Frank) Reich went out and threw four TD passes in the second half and the Bills won in overtime. Reich played/sat for 13 NFL seasons, starting 42 games. He had one four-TD game. This was it. Pretty crazy to think that those four touchdowns came in a playoff game, in 23 minutes.”

MR. NICE GUYS

King on QB Tom Brady: “I’ll always appreciate when he entered the sphere of international megastar and still made time for me, long past the time when I could really do anything for him.”

King on QB Phil Simms: “Other than (Peyton) Manning, I’ve never met a player as intensely interested in talking football at any time of the day or night. Great guy to cover for my four years on the Giants’ beat in the eighties.”

King on QB Charlie Batch: “His work with the needy in hardscrabble areas of Pittsburgh is inspirational. Should write a book on how players, even non-superstar players, can make a huge difference in their hometowns.”

King on LB Harry Carson: “One of the best leaders I’ve seen in sports, and one of the kindest. Amazing to read in Gary Myers’ book “Once a Giant:” Carson today still considers himself the captain of the players on the Giants in the eighties. When they need him, he’s there.”

King on OT Anthony Munoz: “What always amazed me about (Anthony) Munoz, in the one season I covered him (1984) and every time I’d see him after a game after that, is how calm and thoughtful he could be 15 minutes after doing battle with the best pass-rushers in football.”

THANK YOU

King on his daughters: “It takes a special family to make this wonderful life possible. My daughters Laura and Mary Beth grew up mostly without a weekend dad for five to six months a year; maybe they liked the freedom, I don’t know. But they never complained.”

King on those who made FMIA happen: “I think FMIA and The Peter King Podcast could not exist without the support of so many, and I must thank those vital people.”

King on what he’ll miss the most: “The training camp tour. Best month of the work year. Forty-five minutes in Andy Reid’s cinderblock dorm room, real time with quarterbacks and other key guys, watching practice to see things like Josh Allen sprint downfield to chase an interceptor—you learn a lot in that month.”

Read the full FMIA column here and catch the weekly Peter King Podcast here.

The following are additional highlights of NBC Sports’ NFL coverage:

• • PFT Live with NBC Sports’ Mike Florio (Mondays) and Florio and Chris Simms (Tuesday-Thursday) streams on Peacock from 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. ET on weekdays & is available on-demand. The Dan Patrick Show streams at 9 a.m. ET, Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry at Noon ET, Brother From Another at 3 p.m. ET, PFT PM at 5 p.m. ET. At 6 p.m. ET, Chris Simms Unbuttoned streams Tuesday-Friday.
  • com continues to provide the latest news and updates.
  • NBC Sports EDGE’s Rotoworld Football Show continues the NFL discussion and Bet The Edge Podcast provides daily betting insights.
  • The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King – including his interviews with players and coaches at training camps – Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all of these videos and more, click here to subscribe.

 

A new “Football Morning in America” posts every Monday morning exclusively on NBCSports.com through the NFL season. It was announced in May 2019 that King signed an exclusive agreement with NBC Sports Group that included writing a weekly Monday morning NFL column for NBCSports.com; making regular appearances on PFT Live with Mike Florio; and continuing to contribute to Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports.

—NBC SPORTS—

“One of the problems with looking back seven years and seeing a player nine teams passed on, a player who might become the best quarterback ever to play, is that revisionist history dots the landscape.” – King on Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes 

“We all know now that what makes Mahomes Mahomes is his ethos. He’d cut off his left pinky to win. He’s the latter-day (Tom) Brady in that way. And that is so, so important.” – King on Mahomes

“Watching this game, you see, at crucial times, KC rushers in on Brock Purdy in a split-second, and you know that’s the imprint of defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo.” – King on Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo

STAMFORD, Conn. – Feb. 19, 2024 – Peter King discusses the events leading up to the Chiefs drafting Patrick Mahomes with the tenth pick of the 2017 NFL Draft in this week’s edition of Football Morning in America, available now exclusively on NBCSports.com. King also discusses the gameplan of Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, his Super Bowl LVIII thoughts, and more.

For more NFL coverage, Peacock offers daily programming on the NBC Sports channel for free, including Pro Football Talk at 7 a.m. ET, The Dan Patrick Show at 9 a.m. ET, Brother from Another at 3 p.m. ET, plus Chris Simms Unbuttoned on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and the weekly The Peter King Podcast. To learn more about the NBC Sports on Peacock channel and how to sign up, click here.

The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King, Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all these videos and more, click here to subscribe.

The following are highlights from this week’s edition of Football Morning in America:

DRAFTING PATRICK MAHOMES

King on Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes: “One of the problems with looking back seven years and seeing a player nine teams passed on, a player who might become the best quarterback ever to play, is that revisionist history dots the landscape.”

King on Mahomes: “We all know now that what makes Mahomes Mahomes is his ethos. He’d cut off his left pinky to win. He’s the latter-day (Tom) Brady in that way. And that is so, so important.”

Former Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians on Mahomes’ pre-draft workout with the team: “One of the best quarterback workouts I’ve seen in my life. Maybe only Andrew Luck’s was better.”

King on pre-draft reports on Mahomes: “Teams questioned Mahomes because he had malleable mechanics, because at Texas Tech there wasn’t much discipline to his wild-horse game, because Texas Tech had a lousy history of producing pro quarterbacks in the wide-open offense, and because Mahomes took lots of chances playing with a bad team. Basically, he was a formative Brett Favre.”

King on the nine teams that passed on Mahomes in the 2017 draft: “And the others that passed on Mahomes—Chicago, San Francisco, Jacksonville, Tennessee and the Jets—have had their share of quarterback misadventures over the past seven years. Drafting quarterbacks might be the most inexact science in all of sports. But the nine teams that passed on Mahomes on April 27, 2017, will remember the night for a long, long time.”

King on the Chiefs’ post-draft plan with Mahomes: “Kansas City drafted Mahomes with a rock-solid plan—sit behind Alex Smith in year one, soak in everything from a great tutor and good player, work on mechanics, learn the NFL.”

STEVE SPAGNUOLO

King on the impact of Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo in the Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVIII win: “Watching this game, you see, at crucial times, KC rushers in on Brock Purdy in a split-second, and you know that’s the imprint of defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo.”

Spagnuolo on the 3^rd-and-five play call in the fourth quarter that held the 49ers to a field goal and gave Mahomes time for an overtime-forcing drive: “(Nick Bolton) likes the play. So I change it. We change personnel. But that’s the thing about Nick—we’ve built up this trust. I trust him, he trusts me. When he nodded, I knew it was the right call.”

Spagnuolo on King comparing the 2023 Chiefs defense to the 2007 Giants defense: “Wow, that Giants team. You’re right. Same thing…Everybody playing a role along with the big names. I hadn’t thought about that ’07 win over the Patriots, but it was the same thing. The number one glue guy on that defense was Antonio Pierce, the middle of the defense. Look where he is now—coach of the Raiders. That’s so great for him. And the glue guy for us is our guy in the middle of the defense, Nick Bolton.”

King on Chiefs head coach Andy Reid’s offensive system: “This franchise is not a democracy, but in terms of play-calling, it’s a meritocracy. All ideas welcome, and the best ones get used.”

SUPER BOWL

Independent analyst Mike McRoberts on agreeing with 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan’s decision to receive the overtime kickoff: “Whoever designed this rule did a good job, because the outcome should not be determined by the coin flip, and each team gets at least one full possession. It’s not gimmicky at all.”

King on the 49ers not knowing the overtime rules: “I understand one part of the criticism leveled at (Kyle) Shanahan about taking the ball to start overtime. Many of his players say they didn’t know the new overtime rules, and so if they’d scored a TD on the first possession, they could have gotten an unsportsmanlike penalty that would have shortened the field for Mahomes.”

King on the criticism of 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy’s Super Bowl LVIII performance: “Of course there are five or six throws he wishes he could have back, but for a guy with the weight of the world on his shoulders entering this game, and then to start 8-of-9, looking like he was playing in a May 7-on-7 drill, well, I found his poise to be pretty impressive on the big stage.”

Read the full FMIA column here and catch the weekly Peter King Podcast here.

The following are additional highlights of NBC Sports’ NFL coverage:

• • PFT Live with NBC Sports’ Mike Florio (Mondays) and Florio and Chris Simms (Tuesday-Thursday) streams on Peacock from 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. ET on weekdays & is available on-demand. The Dan Patrick Show streams at 9 a.m. ET, Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry at Noon ET, Brother From Another at 3 p.m. ET, PFT PM at 5 p.m. ET. At 6 p.m. ET, Chris Simms Unbuttoned streams Tuesday-Friday.
  • com continues to provide the latest news and updates.
  • NBC Sports EDGE’s Rotoworld Football Show continues the NFL discussion and Bet The Edge Podcast provides daily betting insights.
  • The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King – including his interviews with players and coaches at training camps – Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all of these videos and more, click here to subscribe.

 

A new “Football Morning in America” posts every Monday morning exclusively on NBCSports.com through the NFL season. It was announced in May 2019 that King signed an exclusive agreement with NBC Sports Group that included writing a weekly Monday morning NFL column for NBCSports.com; making regular appearances on PFT Live with Mike Florio; and continuing to contribute to Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports.

—NBC SPORTS—

“I don’t know how you could watch Super Bowl LVIII and not know for sure that the game has its certain heir to Thomas Edward Brady. What Brady was to the first 20 years of this century, (Patrick) Mahomes has every chance to be in the next 20.” – King on Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes 

“A sports team is always its best when the best players are the best leaders. Derek Jeter with the Yankees, for instance. Michael Jordan with the Bulls. Tom Brady with the Patriots. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce with Kansas City.” – King on the Chiefs’ teammates among sport’s all-time greats

“(Travis Kelce)’s wound up so tight. He says, ‘Don’t count me out! I’m good! I can do this!’ I love that intensity. It radiates.” – Chiefs head coach Andy Reid on his sideline interaction with TE Travis Kelce

“He makes the difficult look easy at the highest possible level in the whole world. There’s only 32 in the whole world, and he’s the special of the special.” – Reid on Mahomes

STAMFORD, Conn. – Feb. 12, 2024 – Peter King speaks with Kansas City head coach Andy Reid after the team became the first in nearly 20 years to win back-to-back Super Bowls after defeating the San Francisco 49ers, 25-22, in overtime in Super Bowl LVIII in this week’s edition of Football Morning in America, available now exclusively on NBCSports.com. King also discusses the 49ers’ Super Bowl performance, this year’s Hall of Fame inductees, and more.

For more NFL coverage, Peacock offers daily programming on the NBC Sports channel for free, including Pro Football Talk at 7 a.m. ET, The Dan Patrick Show at 9 a.m. ET, Brother from Another at 3 p.m. ET, plus Chris Simms Unbuttoned on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and the weekly The Peter King Podcast. To learn more about the NBC Sports on Peacock channel and how to sign up, click here.

The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King, Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all these videos and more, click here to subscribe.

The following are highlights from this week’s edition of Football Morning in America:

CHIEFS

King on Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes: “I don’t know how you could watch Super Bowl LVIII and not know for sure that the game has its certain heir to Thomas Edward Brady. What Brady was to the first 20 years of this century, (Patrick) Mahomes has every chance to be in the next 20.”

King on the Chiefs: “A sports team is always its best when the best players are the best leaders. Derek Jeter with the Yankees, for instance. Michael Jordan with the Bulls. Tom Brady with the Patriots. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce with Kansas City.”

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid on his sideline interaction with TE Travis Kelce: “(Travis Kelce)’s wound up so tight. He says, ‘Don’t count me out! I’m good! I can do this!’ I love that intensity. It radiates.”

Reid on Mahomes: “He makes the difficult look easy at the highest possible level in the whole world. There’s only 32 in the whole world, and he’s the special of the special. I watched Tom Brady turn the keys over to him which was cool. Tom said, ‘Hey, this is your league now, man.’”

Reid on the Tom Brady/Mahomes connection: “I watched Tom Brady turn the keys over to him which was cool. Tom said, ‘Hey, this is your league now, man.’”

Reid on his team’s adjustments from the first half to the second quarter: “If you’re the veteran that’s dropping the ball or you’re the veteran getting the penalties, you better figure it out. Figure it out quick. This season’s going to go down.”

King on the Chiefs’ playoff run to winning their second consecutive Super Bowl: “Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid took the worst offensive team of the six Mahomes has piloted, and they beat the 6, 2 and 1 seeds in the AFC and the 1 seed in the NFL, to win a third world title. This is officially a team for the ages.”

Reid on what he texted Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce before the Super Bowl: “I just said, Hey, beautiful facility, first of all. And I appreciate you kicking our tail (on Christmas Day) because you taught us a lesson.”

49ERS

King on 49ers QB Brock Purdy: “Call (Brock) Purdy a game manager, a game warden, I don’t care. He went toe-to-toe with the great Mahomes for five quarters, didn’t turn it over (Mahomes threw a pick and fumbled twice) and acquitted himself very, very well.”

King on his Super Bowl MVP pick as the 49ers led in the second half: “I struggled with my MVP vote through the second half, going from Nick Bosa if the Niners won, to maybe Jauan Jennings with his receiving and passing TDs, to the redeemed Christian McCaffrey or the steady Purdy…and as for Kansas City, I was totally up in the air until the final drive of the game. As the confetti started falling, I texted “Mahomes” to the keeper of the ballots.”

HALL OF FAME

King on a few of the modern inductees: “(Julius) Peppers and (Dwight) Freeney were superior edge players at the time the position came of age. I was surprised (Devin) Hester didn’t make it last year. Nobody’s had a two-year period of dominance in the return game that Hester had in his first two seasons with the Bears.”

King on WR Andre Johnson: “I always looked at (Andre) Johnson playing, and watched his speed and physicality and thought, If he keeps going, he’ll make it to Canton. Glad he did.”

King on tight end Antonio Gates not being selected on this year’s ballot: “Making the Hall is hard, and only five of 15 can make it in a given year. My feeling is (Antonio) Gates didn’t knock down the door, but I’m one voter, and others might disagree. I bet he makes it in 2025.”

King on former NFL head coach Buddy Parker: “I was unhappy with (Buddy) Parker not making it. He improved the Steelers when he went there, and he was most responsible for developing the nickel defense in pro football.”

KING’S SUPER BOWL LVIII AWARDS

Offensive Players of the Week: Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City & Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco

King on Mahomes: “His third Super Bowl win in six starting seasons puts him in ridiculously rare air. Watching him early, you’d never have thought he’d finish 34 of 46 for 333 yards, but he did. A virtuoso performance.”

Defensive Players of the Week: Trent McDuffie, Kansas City, & Nick Bosa, San Francisco

King on Bosa: “Played one of his best games ever, with 10 pressures, consistently getting Patrick Mahomes off his preferred throwing spot. Shined brightest when the game was the biggest.”

Special Teams Players of the Week: Mitch Wishnowsky, San Francisco, & Chris Conley, San Francisco

King on Conley downing a third quarter punt at the two-yard line: “(Chris) Conley was in such a perfect spot to down it that you’d have thought he could read the future. Conley downed the perfect punt at the KC two-yard line.”

Coach of the Week: Andy Reid, head coach, Kansas City

King on Reid: “Reid’s third Super Bowl victory was an example of the patience he shows with his team. First nine drives: five punts, six points. With Patrick Mahomes, he knows it’s never over, and he called the game aggressively till the end of overtime.”

Read the full FMIA column here and catch the weekly Peter King Podcast here.

The following are additional highlights of NBC Sports’ NFL coverage:

• • PFT Live with NBC Sports’ Mike Florio (Mondays) and Florio and Chris Simms (Tuesday-Thursday) streams on Peacock from 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. ET on weekdays & is available on-demand. The Dan Patrick Show streams at 9 a.m. ET, Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry at Noon ET, Brother From Another at 3 p.m. ET, PFT PM at 5 p.m. ET. At 6 p.m. ET, Chris Simms Unbuttoned streams Tuesday-Friday.
  • com continues to provide the latest news and updates.
  • NBC Sports EDGE’s Rotoworld Football Show continues the NFL discussion and Bet The Edge Podcast provides daily betting insights.
  • The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King – including his interviews with players and coaches at training camps – Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all of these videos and more, click here to subscribe

A new “Football Morning in America” posts every Monday morning exclusively on NBCSports.com through the NFL season. It was announced in May 2019 that King signed an exclusive agreement with NBC Sports Group that included writing a weekly Monday morning NFL column for NBCSports.com; making regular appearances on PFT Live with Mike Florio; and continuing to contribute to Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports.

—NBC SPORTS—

 

“I don’t know how you could watch Super Bowl LVIII and not know for sure that the game has its certain heir to Thomas Edward Brady. What Brady was to the first 20 years of this century, (Patrick) Mahomes has every chance to be in the next 20.” – King on Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes 

“A sports team is always its best when the best players are the best leaders. Derek Jeter with the Yankees, for instance. Michael Jordan with the Bulls. Tom Brady with the Patriots. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce with Kansas City.” – King on the Chiefs’ teammates among sport’s all-time greats

“(Travis Kelce)’s wound up so tight. He says, ‘Don’t count me out! I’m good! I can do this!’ I love that intensity. It radiates.” – Chiefs head coach Andy Reid on his sideline interaction with TE Travis Kelce

“He makes the difficult look easy at the highest possible level in the whole world. There’s only 32 in the whole world, and he’s the special of the special.” – Reid on Mahomes

STAMFORD, Conn. – Feb. 12, 2024 – Peter King speaks with Kansas City head coach Andy Reid after the team became the first in nearly 20 years to win back-to-back Super Bowls after defeating the San Francisco 49ers, 25-22, in overtime in Super Bowl LVIII in this week’s edition of Football Morning in America, available now exclusively on NBCSports.com. King also discusses the 49ers’ Super Bowl performance, this year’s Hall of Fame inductees, and more.

For more NFL coverage, Peacock offers daily programming on the NBC Sports channel for free, including Pro Football Talk at 7 a.m. ET, The Dan Patrick Show at 9 a.m. ET, Brother from Another at 3 p.m. ET, plus Chris Simms Unbuttoned on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and the weekly The Peter King Podcast. To learn more about the NBC Sports on Peacock channel and how to sign up, click here.

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The following are highlights from this week’s edition of Football Morning in America:

CHIEFS

King on Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes: “I don’t know how you could watch Super Bowl LVIII and not know for sure that the game has its certain heir to Thomas Edward Brady. What Brady was to the first 20 years of this century, (Patrick) Mahomes has every chance to be in the next 20.”

King on the Chiefs: “A sports team is always its best when the best players are the best leaders. Derek Jeter with the Yankees, for instance. Michael Jordan with the Bulls. Tom Brady with the Patriots. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce with Kansas City.”

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid on his sideline interaction with TE Travis Kelce: “(Travis Kelce)’s wound up so tight. He says, ‘Don’t count me out! I’m good! I can do this!’ I love that intensity. It radiates.”

Reid on Mahomes: “He makes the difficult look easy at the highest possible level in the whole world. There’s only 32 in the whole world, and he’s the special of the special. I watched Tom Brady turn the keys over to him which was cool. Tom said, ‘Hey, this is your league now, man.’”

Reid on the Tom Brady/Mahomes connection: “I watched Tom Brady turn the keys over to him which was cool. Tom said, ‘Hey, this is your league now, man.’”

Reid on his team’s adjustments from the first half to the second quarter: “If you’re the veteran that’s dropping the ball or you’re the veteran getting the penalties, you better figure it out. Figure it out quick. This season’s going to go down.”

King on the Chiefs’ playoff run to winning their second consecutive Super Bowl: “Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid took the worst offensive team of the six Mahomes has piloted, and they beat the 6, 2 and 1 seeds in the AFC and the 1 seed in the NFL, to win a third world title. This is officially a team for the ages.”

Reid on what he texted Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce before the Super Bowl: “I just said, Hey, beautiful facility, first of all. And I appreciate you kicking our tail (on Christmas Day) because you taught us a lesson.”

49ERS

King on 49ers QB Brock Purdy: “Call (Brock) Purdy a game manager, a game warden, I don’t care. He went toe-to-toe with the great Mahomes for five quarters, didn’t turn it over (Mahomes threw a pick and fumbled twice) and acquitted himself very, very well.”

King on his Super Bowl MVP pick as the 49ers led in the second half: “I struggled with my MVP vote through the second half, going from Nick Bosa if the Niners won, to maybe Jauan Jennings with his receiving and passing TDs, to the redeemed Christian McCaffrey or the steady Purdy…and as for Kansas City, I was totally up in the air until the final drive of the game. As the confetti started falling, I texted “Mahomes” to the keeper of the ballots.”

HALL OF FAME

King on a few of the modern inductees: “(Julius) Peppers and (Dwight) Freeney were superior edge players at the time the position came of age. I was surprised (Devin) Hester didn’t make it last year. Nobody’s had a two-year period of dominance in the return game that Hester had in his first two seasons with the Bears.”

King on WR Andre Johnson: “I always looked at (Andre) Johnson playing, and watched his speed and physicality and thought, If he keeps going, he’ll make it to Canton. Glad he did.”

King on tight end Antonio Gates not being selected on this year’s ballot: “Making the Hall is hard, and only five of 15 can make it in a given year. My feeling is (Antonio) Gates didn’t knock down the door, but I’m one voter, and others might disagree. I bet he makes it in 2025.”

King on former NFL head coach Buddy Parker: “I was unhappy with (Buddy) Parker not making it. He improved the Steelers when he went there, and he was most responsible for developing the nickel defense in pro football.”

KING’S SUPER BOWL LVIII AWARDS

Offensive Players of the Week: Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City & Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco

King on Mahomes: “His third Super Bowl win in six starting seasons puts him in ridiculously rare air. Watching him early, you’d never have thought he’d finish 34 of 46 for 333 yards, but he did. A virtuoso performance.”

Defensive Players of the Week: Trent McDuffie, Kansas City, & Nick Bosa, San Francisco

King on Bosa: “Played one of his best games ever, with 10 pressures, consistently getting Patrick Mahomes off his preferred throwing spot. Shined brightest when the game was the biggest.”

Special Teams Players of the Week: Mitch Wishnowsky, San Francisco, & Chris Conley, San Francisco

King on Conley downing a third quarter punt at the two-yard line: “(Chris) Conley was in such a perfect spot to down it that you’d have thought he could read the future. Conley downed the perfect punt at the KC two-yard line.”

Coach of the Week: Andy Reid, head coach, Kansas City

King on Reid: “Reid’s third Super Bowl victory was an example of the patience he shows with his team. First nine drives: five punts, six points. With Patrick Mahomes, he knows it’s never over, and he called the game aggressively till the end of overtime.”

Read the full FMIA column here and catch the weekly Peter King Podcast here.

The following are additional highlights of NBC Sports’ NFL coverage:

• • PFT Live with NBC Sports’ Mike Florio (Mondays) and Florio and Chris Simms (Tuesday-Thursday) streams on Peacock from 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. ET on weekdays & is available on-demand. The Dan Patrick Show streams at 9 a.m. ET, Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry at Noon ET, Brother From Another at 3 p.m. ET, PFT PM at 5 p.m. ET. At 6 p.m. ET, Chris Simms Unbuttoned streams Tuesday-Friday.
  • com continues to provide the latest news and updates.
  • NBC Sports EDGE’s Rotoworld Football Show continues the NFL discussion and Bet The Edge Podcast provides daily betting insights.
  • The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King – including his interviews with players and coaches at training camps – Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all of these videos and more, click here to subscribe

 

A new “Football Morning in America” posts every Monday morning exclusively on NBCSports.com through the NFL season. It was announced in May 2019 that King signed an exclusive agreement with NBC Sports Group that included writing a weekly Monday morning NFL column for NBCSports.com; making regular appearances on PFT Live with Mike Florio; and continuing to contribute to Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports.

—NBC SPORTS—

“(Brock Purdy) is so confident in who he is as a person. He’s one of the most confident, humble people I’ve ever been around.” – Shanahan on QB Brock Purdy being unaffected by media attention

“It hurts. It doesn’t kill you. You understand what happened. You understand you can handle it. You can take it. ‘Haunted’ is just such the wrong word. It makes you stronger, really.” – Shanahan on his first Super Bowl appearance losing a 28-3 lead as the Falcons offensive coordinator

“Putting (Patrick) Mahomes on after six starting seasons is easy. There are few quarterbacks, ever, except maybe Otto Graham, (Tom) Brady and (Joe) Montana, who’d be strong candidates for the Hall of Fame after their first six professional years starting.”– King on placing Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes on his all-time team only six years into his career

“Every game he’s like a Barry Sanders highlight reel.” – Shanahan on Mahomes

STAMFORD, Conn. – Feb. 5, 2024 – Peter King reports on his ride to work last week with San Francisco 49ers head coach  Kyle Shanahan as he prepared the 49ers for Super Bowl LVIII against the Chiefs in this week’s edition of Football Morning in America, available now exclusively on NBCSports.com. King also discusses 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy’s rise from being pick No. 262 in the 2022 NFL Draft, his all-time NFL roster, and more.

NBC Sports provides comprehensive coverage this week leading up to Super Bowl LVIII across Peacock and NBC Sports digital platforms, featuring live shows and an array of 80+ interviews from Las Vegas. Daily live on-site coverage from Radio Row at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center this week on Peacock includes Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry (Noon-1 p.m. ET), PFT Live (1-3 p.m. ET) and Brother from Another (3-4 p.m. ET). In addition, The Dan Patrick Show begins each day on Peacock from 9 a.m.-Noon ET and will broadcast live from the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas. For NBC Sports’ Super Bowl week coverage, click here. To learn more about the NBC Sports on Peacock channel and how to sign up, click here.

The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King, Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all these videos and more, click here to subscribe.

The following are highlights from this week’s edition of Football Morning in America:

49ERS

49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan on his first Super Bowl appearance, losing a 28-3 lead as the Falcons offensive coordinator in Super Bowl LI: “It hurts. It doesn’t kill you. You understand what happened. You understand you can handle it. You can take it. ‘Haunted’ is just such the wrong word. It makes you stronger, really.” 

Shanahan on the heartbreak of losing being worth it: “You get to go through something you love, something that’s more important in life than almost anything. That’s what I learned about football growing up, but it only gets stronger as I get older.”

Shanahan on 49ers QB Brock Purdy being unaffected by the media attention: “(Purdy) is so confident in who he is as a person. He’s one of the most confident, humble people I’ve ever been around. Borderline cocky, which is such the wrong word because he’s so humble and such a good dude.”

King on Purdy’s tools as a quarterback coming into the Super Bowl: “The other thing you notice about Purdy, something that could be vital next Sunday, is his ability to stay with a play till the last split-second, even with heat in his face.”

Shanahan to Purdy on the possibility of signing Tom Brady: “Don’t worry. You’re our guy. But how cool would it be if Tom Brady would be the quarterback here for one season? How cool would it be for you to learn from him?”

King on Purdy being compared to all-time great 49ers quarterbacks: “The numbers don’t mean you should intentionally deflate Purdy because you think there’s no way he belongs in the same league with (Joe) Montana and (Steve) Young. Purdy is existing in his era, in his time, with a coach who produces terrific plans, with an excellent supporting cast, and he’s doing what’s asked of him, and doing it superbly. In the end, that’s what counts, in any era.”

Shanahan on Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes: “With Patrick, it’s about the way he creates the time he buys, the way he throws so fluidly, so confidently, from all platforms. Every game he’s like a Barry Sanders highlight reel.”

Shanahan on Chiefs TE Travis Kelce: “To me he’s got the best hands in football. [His chemistry with Mahomes] is so great.”

KING’S ALL-TIME ROSTER

King: “Early this season, a reader asked if I would name my all-time team, seeing as I was in my 40th season covering the NFL…Instead of a first and second team, I’ll name a full team of 53 players. The last few will not be the best players, necessarily. But one of the things I’ve grown to like about the sport is how much of a team game it is. So, on my team, I’m not going to have all the locks, all the obvious guys.”

King on placing Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes on his all-time list only six years into his career: “Putting (Patrick) Mahomes on after six starting seasons is easy. There are few quarterbacks, ever, except maybe Otto Graham, (Tom) Brady and (Joe) Montana, who’d be strong candidates for the Hall of Fame after their first six professional years starting.”

King on Eagles center Jason Kelce being the only center on the list: “(Jason) Kelce was the most versatile center I’ve seen. He could mash and he could get out on the sweep and he could corkscrew the Tush Push. If there was an all-interview team for my 40 years, he’d make that too.”

King on former Pittsburgh wide receiver Hines Ward: “(Hines) Ward’s here because he’s the best blocking wide receiver I’ve seen, and he caught 1,000 passes. Loved his unselfishness. Teams with diva wide receivers who don’t block might have hated Ward (I can tell you—they did), but he knew his job, and his job was to be the most physical blocking receiver on the team, and to catch passes.”

King on former New England linebacker Tedy Bruschi: “(Tedy) Bruschi, who played inside and outside as a Patriot, you might be surprised, but I loved him as a heart-and-soul, totally unselfish player for the greatest team of the last 40 years. He ran down on special teams late into his career, five times exceeded 100 tackles, had a stroke in early 2005 and missed only four games due to injury after the near-miracle of his return.”

King on naming safeties Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu to his list: “(Ed) Reed and (Troy) Polamalu are the most instinctive safeties I’ve ever seen. Polamalu, obviously, is the more physical one; he lived to jump over the center at the precise right moment to ruin the play for the offense, and his timing was impeccable. There is one player in the top 30 all-time in interceptions who played exclusively in this century: Reed.”

King on naming former Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin to a bench spot on his all-time list: “First, (Michael Irvin) will be ticked off he’s not one of the top four receivers on the squad. I mean, ticked off. But I want someone who will despise losing, who will lead in the locker room and on the field, and who will play great when it matters.”

Read the full FMIA column here and catch the weekly Peter King Podcast here.

The following are additional highlights of NBC Sports’ NFL coverage leading up to Super Bowl LVIII:

• From Monday-Friday, daily live on-site coverage from Radio Row at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on Peacock includes Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry (Noon-1 p.m. ET), PFT Live (1-3 p.m. ET) and Brother from Another (3-4 p.m. ET). In addition, The Dan Patrick Show begins each day on Peacock from 9 a.m.-Noon ET and will broadcast live from the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas.ProFootballTalk.com continues to provide the latest news and updates.
• Chris Simms and Ahmed Fareed will host the Simms Unbuttoned podcast from Las Vegas next week, and NBC Sports’ podcasts Bet the EDGE and Rotoworld Football Show will be live from Las Vegas. King will provide exclusive digital content and interviews throughout the week from Las Vegas for “The Peter King Podcast.”
• Additional NFL content and interviews throughout Super Bowl week will post across NBC Sports’ digital platforms, including the NFL on NBC YouTube channel, which offers daily football content for free.

A new “Football Morning in America” posts every Monday morning exclusively on NBCSports.com through the NFL season. It was announced in May 2019 that King signed an exclusive agreement with NBC Sports Group that included writing a weekly Monday morning NFL column for NBCSports.com; making regular appearances on PFT Live with Mike Florio; and continuing to contribute to Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports.

—NBC SPORTS—

“It’s what quarterbacks do in the biggest moments that tell their story, and Purdy was huge in the second half of the title game.” – King on Purdy’s performance against the Lions

“Think playoff experience doesn’t matter? Kansas City had zero panic, zero moments in the game you thought, what are they doing?  Baltimore will rue this first AFC title game in the city since 1971, for a long, long time.” – King on the Chiefs’ composure throughout the AFC Championship game

“The lukewarm interest in Bill Belichick and (Mike) Vrabel on the open market is part of the trend. It’s amazing one or both of those men won’t have a team to coach in 2024.” – King on coaching cycle

STAMFORD, Conn. – Jan. 29, 2024 – Peter King speaks with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy after the team’s 17-point comeback to win the NFC Championship Game and clinch a spot in Super Bowl LVIII in this week’s edition of Football Morning in America, available now exclusively on NBCSports.com. King also discusses the Chiefs’ return to the Super Bowl, the Ravens’ AFC Championship Game mistakes, and more.

For more NFL coverage, Peacock offers daily programming on the NBC Sports channel for free, including Pro Football Talk at 7 a.m. ET, The Dan Patrick Show at 9 a.m. ET, Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry at Noon ET, Brother from Another at 3 p.m. ET, plus Chris Simms Unbuttoned on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and the weekly The Peter King Podcast. To learn more about the NBC Sports on Peacock channel and how to sign up, click here.

The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King, Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all these videos and more, click here to subscribe.

The following are highlights from this week’s edition of Football Morning in America:

49ERS

49ers QB Brock Purdy on his role: “I know I have a really good team around me. I have great play-calling. Great coach. Great organization. If I can just do my job well, everything will fall into place how it needs to.”

Purdy on his team’s composure down 24-7 at halftime: “There’s so much experience and veteran leadership on this team where guys just know what their job is and what we have to do. There’s not a lot of ‘rah-rah’ or anything.”

King on Purdy’s resurgence in the second half against the Lions: “It’s what quarterbacks do in the biggest moments that tell their story, and (Brock) Purdy was huge in the second half of the title game.”

King on Purdy’s fit as QB for the 49ers: “What’s Purdy? Other than an incredible story, I mean? He’s a player who isn’t the best at anything – other than taking what his coach asks and being superb at carrying it out. And that’s what great players do.”

CHIEFS

Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes on their mentality throughout the season: “We always had everything we wanted in front of us. Coach (Andy) Reid preaches that every single day we come into the building. And now we’re going to the Super Bowl.”

King on the Chiefs’ composure throughout the AFC Championship Game: “Think playoff experience doesn’t matter? Kansas City had zero panic, zero moments in the game you thought, what are they doing?  Baltimore will rue this first AFC title game in the city since 1971, for a long, long time.”

Chiefs CB L’Jarius Sneed on his critical forced-fumble at the Chiefs’ one-yard line: “All that was in my mind was, catch up and make the tackle. And that’s what I did. And when I saw him stretch the ball out, I just punched at the ball, and it came out.”

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Ravens WR Zay Flowers on falling short in the AFC Championship Game: “I’m angry about, you know, losing. We were a game away from the Super Bowl. We’ve been waiting all this time, all these moments, for an opportunity like this, and fell short. We scored once. That’s not like us.”

King on the Ravens’ careless and costly mistakes: “So many Baltimore errors, many of them so, so careless – and many by veterans. Kyle Van Noy, trusted 10-year vet, head-butting Travis Kelce for a penalty. Lamar Jackson, throwing a fourth-quarter pick into triple-coverage.”

King on Detroit’s offensive line being a difference-maker in the game: “The athleticism and raw power of the Lions’ offensive line overwhelmed the Niners’ front seven in the first half, and then life changed, drastically, in the second half.”

COACHING CYCLE

King on the non-hirings of Bill Belichick and Mike Vrabel: “The lukewarm interest in Bill Belichick and (Mike) Vrabel on the open market is part of the trend. It’s amazing one or both of those men won’t have a team to coach in 2024.”

King on a possible reason for Belichick not being hired: “Belichick’s been lukewarm, at best, to analytics. So, an owner who hires Belichick might have to fire a part of the building in which they believe strongly.”

King on what Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni must address this offseason: “The most important task for Sirianni and (offensive coordinator Kellen) Moore will be getting (Jalen) Hurts back to all-in. His laconic play, his aloof attitude and his tepid support of Sirianni in his post-playoff-loss press conference must be addressed by the coach…It’s all concerning, particularly after the Eagles trusted him enough to make him the highest-paid player, by a lot, in franchise history.

King on the Commanders’ plans: “The coaching/coaching-agent industry is sold that Detroit offensive coordinator Ben Johnson will get the Commanders’ job. Along with drafting a quarterback at No. 2 overall (or somewhere, if new GM Adam Peters trades out of two), Washington owner Josh Harris seems likely to bury the Dan Snyder Era once and for all.”

King on the Seahawks head coaching position: “I don’t think, by the way, because (Dan) Quinn has the Seattle connection that he’s the favorite for the job.”

KING’S CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS

Offensive Players of the Week: Brock Purdy, San Francisco, & Travis Kelce, Kansas City

King on Kelce: “What a game. What a player. Eleven catches, 116 yards, making himself the most productive pass-catcher in NFL history. Kelce has caught more playoff passes in 21 games than Jerry Rice caught in 29 in his prime.”

Defensive Players of the Week: L’Jarius Sneed, Kansas City, & Fred Warner, San Francisco

King on Sneed: “This very good corner, who went almost all season without allowing a touchdown in man coverage, made the play of his career at the start of the fourth quarter.”

King on Warner: “(49ers head coach) Kyle Shanahan couldn’t say enough about Warner afterward, as a player and leader who spoke up at halftime and said, basically, We’re not going down like this.”

Coach of the Week: Steve Spagnuolo, defensive coordinator, Kansas City

King on Spagnuolo: “KC’s offense didn’t score in the second half but Spagnuolo’s D – with three turnovers in the game – made sure it didn’t matter.”

Goat of the Week: Zay Flowers, Baltimore

King on Flowers: “Tough to call a receiver the goat when he has a 115-yard day with his team’s only touchdown. But Flowers made a big error, followed by a gigantic one midway through the second half that cost Baltimore dearly.”

Read the full FMIA column here and catch the weekly Peter King Podcast here.

The following are additional highlights of NBC Sports’ NFL coverage:

• • PFT Live with NBC Sports’ Mike Florio (Mondays) and Florio and Chris Simms (Tuesday-Thursday) streams on Peacock from 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. ET on weekdays & is available on-demand. The Dan Patrick Show streams at 9 a.m. ET, Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry at Noon ET, Brother From Another at 3 p.m. ET, PFT PM at 5 p.m. ET. At 6 p.m. ET, Chris Simms Unbuttoned streams Tuesday-Friday.
  • com continues to provide the latest news and updates.
  • NBC Sports EDGE’s Rotoworld Football Show continues the NFL discussion and Bet The Edge Podcast provides daily betting insights.
  • The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King – including his interviews with players and coaches at training camps – Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all of these videos and more, click here to subscribe

 

A new “Football Morning in America” posts every Monday morning exclusively on NBCSports.com through the NFL season. It was announced in May 2019 that King signed an exclusive agreement with NBC Sports Group that included writing a weekly Monday morning NFL column for NBCSports.com; making regular appearances on PFT Live with Mike Florio; and continuing to contribute to Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports.

—NBC SPORTS—

“With these two teams, these two guys, Josh (Allen) and Patty (Mahomes), man, instant classic. These are the moments you miss in the off-season. It’s why you play the game.”– Chiefs TE Travis Kelce on Kansas City’s 27-24 win over Buffalo

“It’s just one mountain after another. They said we couldn’t win two playoff games in a row. Now we’re going to keep climbing that mountain.” – Lions DE Aidan Hutchinson on their playoff success

“If (49ers GM) John Lynch hadn’t traded for (Christian) McCaffrey 15 months ago, the Niners would be out of the playoffs this morning.” – King on San Francisco depending on their star running back

STAMFORD, Conn. – Jan. 22, 2024 – Peter King speaks with Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid after the team’s Divisional Round win over the Buffalo Bills, to advance to their  sixth straight AFC Championship Game, in this week’s edition of Football Morning in America, available now exclusively on NBCSports.com. King also discusses Lamar Jackson’s Super Bowl aspirations, the 49ers holding off the Packers, and more.

For more NFL coverage, Peacock offers daily programming on the NBC Sports channel for free, including Pro Football Talk at 7 a.m. ET, The Dan Patrick Show at 9 a.m. ET, Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry at Noon ET, Brother from Another at 3 p.m. ET, plus Chris Simms Unbuttoned on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and the weekly The Peter King Podcast. To learn more about the NBC Sports on Peacock channel and how to sign up, click here.

The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King, Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all these videos and more, click here to subscribe.

The following are highlights from this week’s edition of Football Morning in America:

CHIEFS

Chiefs TE Travis Kelce on Kansas City’s 27-24 win over Buffalo: “With these two teams, these two guys, Josh (Allen) and Patty (Mahomes), man, instant classic. These are the moments you miss in the off-season. It’s why you play the game.”

King on the growing Mahomes-Jackson rivalry: “The game loves quarterback rivalries like this one. It’s odd. Thirty years ago, it was (John) Elway-(Dan) Marino. Fifteen years ago, (Tom) Brady-(Peyton) Manning. Now, most of these rivalries feature two mobile quarterbacks. Times change but the players, and the game, are still great.”

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid on the playoff atmosphere in Buffalo: “The environment, this environment, is football. It’s NFL football. Like Arrowhead. NFL football at its best. That’s what we felt out there for three hours, for all of three hours.”

King on the beauty of games like Chiefs-Bills: “As always, the sudden, awful finality of a season’s end for one contender, the thrill of victory for the other. It’s agonizing. It’s exhilarating. It’s sports, at the highest level.”

RAVENS

Ravens head coach John Harbaugh on their season long motivation: “It’s just the idea that everything that we do, everything that (Lamar Jackson) does, every game up until this point was to put us in position for this. This is when it begins.”

Ravens QB Lamar Jackson on his mentality and goals throughout the season: “I’ve thought, finish 13-4, get the one seed, first-round bye, then it’s only two games at home to get to the Super Bowl. That’s got to be our goal.”

King on Jackson’s ability to take over a game: “Jackson’s never going to have the biggest stats, but this game, particularly the second half, was a perfect illustration of who he is as a player. He knows how to control a football game.”

King on Jackson’s versatility: “Jackson was football’s Mookie Betts here, a five-tool player you might hold down for a few series but eventually he’s going to kill you with his arm and legs, and he doesn’t care which extremities he uses.”

DIVISIONAL ROUND

Lions DE Aidan Hutchinson on their playoff success: “It’s just one mountain after another. They said we couldn’t win two playoff games in a row. Now we’re going to keep climbing that mountain.”

King on San Francisco depending on their star running back, Christian McCaffrey: “If (49ers GM) John Lynch hadn’t traded for (Christian) McCaffrey 15 months ago, the Niners would be out of the playoffs this morning.”

King on the 49ers and QB Brock Purdy needing to play better: “There’s something both impressive and worrisome about the Niners now. Brock Purdy was terrific on the game-winning late drive, with or without (Deebo) Samuel this weekend against Detroit, the 49ers need Purdy to be better for four quarters.”

King on the Packers exceeding expectations with the youngest team in the league: “You’ve got nothing to be ashamed of, and a heck of a lot to be proud of. Such as all those new receivers.”

KING’S DIVISIONAL AWARDS

Offensive Players of the Week: Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco, Jahmyr Gibbs, Detroit, Lamar Jackson, Baltimore, Mike Evans, Tampa Bay, & Travis Kelce, Kansas City

King on Gibbs’ 31-yard go-ahead touchdown run in the fourth quarter: “It’s like he picked out a point near the left pylon and sprinted for it, and made it, and made sure Detroit advanced to its first NFC title game in a million years.”

King on Kelce: “Five catches for 75 yards in one of the biggest wins in recent times for Kansas City. That’s more like it.”

Defensive Players of the Week: Aidan Hutchinson, Detroit, Dre Greenlaw, San Francisco, & Christian Harris, Houston

King on Hutchinson: “How must GM Brad Holmes be feeling today, for many reasons? But the biggest reason for joy, I believe, is the fact that on draft day 2022, the Jacksonville Jaguars picked Travon Walker instead of Hutchinson with the first pick in the draft.”

King on Harris: “In the last three weeks, as the Texans have exploded onto the scene of football that matters, Harris has been the most vital defensive piece.”

Special Teams Players of the Week: Eric Wilson, Green Bay, & Steven Sims, Houston

King on Sims’ punt-return for a touchdown: “The touchdown, capped by Sims striding a la Deion Sanders to the end zone, kept the Texans in the game at halftime, 10-10.”

Coach of the Week: Todd Monken, offensive coordinator, Baltimore

King on Monken after his adjustments to the gameplan at halftime: “The word I heard about Monken around the Ravens post-game: ‘collaborative.’”

Goats of the Week: Tyler Bass, Buffalo, & Anders Carlson, Green Bay

King on Carlson: “In the middle of the fourth quarter of a playoff-elimination game, nursing a four-point lead that you’re trying to expand to seven, you simply can’t hook a 41-yard kick wide left. You can’t.”

Read the full FMIA column here and catch the weekly Peter King Podcast here.

The following are additional highlights of NBC Sports’ NFL coverage:

• • PFT Live with NBC Sports’ Mike Florio (Mondays) and Florio and Chris Simms (Tuesday-Thursday) streams on Peacock from 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. ET on weekdays & is available on-demand. The Dan Patrick Show streams at 9 a.m. ET, Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry at Noon ET, Brother From Another at 3 p.m. ET, PFT PM at 5 p.m. ET. At 6 p.m. ET, Chris Simms Unbuttoned streams Tuesday-Friday.
  • com continues to provide the latest news and updates.
  • NBC Sports EDGE’s Rotoworld Football Show continues the NFL discussion and Bet The Edge Podcast provides daily betting insights.
  • The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King – including his interviews with players and coaches at training camps – Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all of these videos and more, click here to subscribe

 

A new “Football Morning in America” posts every Monday morning exclusively on NBCSports.com through the NFL season. It was announced in May 2019 that King signed an exclusive agreement with NBC Sports Group that included writing a weekly Monday morning NFL column for NBCSports.com; making regular appearances on PFT Live with Mike Florio; and continuing to contribute to Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports.

—NBC SPORTS—

“This was always the vision for what we could do here. I knew this was a sleeping giant. And we gave them something today.” – Lions HC Dan Campbell on the Lions first playoff win 32 years

“No way Jerry Jones slept Sunday night. Mike McCarthy probably didn’t either. How do you explain laying a dinosaur egg against a team with nearly zero playoff experience and being behind 27-0 before the first Tall Boy is drained?” – King on the Cowboys

“C.J. Stroud is playing quarterback like Yo-Yo Ma plays the cello.” – King on Texans Rookie QB C.J. Stroud following the Houston’s 45-14 win over Cleveland

STAMFORD, Conn. – Jan. 15, 2024 – Peter King speaks with Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell after the team’s Wild Card win over the Los Angeles Rams, Detroit’s first playoff win in over 30 years, in this week’s edition of Football Morning in America, available now exclusively on NBCSports.com. King also discusses C.J. Stroud’s continued success, the Packers’ dominant upset over the Cowboys, Peacock making streaming history, and more.

For more NFL coverage, Peacock offers daily programming on the NBC Sports channel for free, including Pro Football Talk at 7 a.m. ET, The Dan Patrick Show at 9 a.m. ET, Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry at Noon ET, Brother from Another at 3 p.m. ET, plus Chris Simms Unbuttoned on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and the weekly The Peter King Podcast. To learn more about the NBC Sports on Peacock channel and how to sign up, click here.

The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King, Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all these videos and more, click here to subscribe.

The following are highlights from this week’s edition of Football Morning in America:

LIONS

Lions head coach Dan Campbell on his message to the team after their Wild Card win over the Rams: “For where this team’s been over the last 30 years and beyond, really, it was time to change. I just thought, We can do it here, though, and make it special, and we will do it.”

Campbell on his team’s performance on Sunday: “A day like this, this is what we’ve worked for. This was always the vision for what we could do here. I knew this was a sleeping giant. And we gave them something today.”

Lions LB Alex Anzalone to King following Detroit’s Wild Card win: “You imagine days like this when you’re five years old, thinking of what it’d be like to play in a big football game. This was a big football game. It had everything.”

King on Lions-Rams: “It was a beautiful athletic contest, with skill and strategy, and two very good teams playing at the top of their games on the biggest day of their seasons. It was apt, 24-23, because it was so close, and a shame one team had to lose a game there was absolutely no shame in losing.”

TEXANS

King on the Texans moving forward in the playoffs: “The Texans are going to be a problem in the divisional round. A big problem. They put up 31 offensive points on the game’s best defense Saturday, the coordinator consistently found ways to get his receivers way clear of Cleveland’s noted DBs, C.J. Stroud is playing quarterback like Yo-Yo Ma plays the cello.”

Texans QB C.J. Stroud on his negative pre-draft assessments: “I’m too blessed to stress, I mean, it’s just extra motivation. I don’t play this game to prove people wrong.”

Texans backup QB Case Keenum on Stroud’s success as a rookie: “We’ve seen it since day one. I can tell you—we didn’t put in any rookie gameplans this year. There weren’t any games we’re like, ‘Hey let’s give this young guy some confidence.’ From Week 1, it’s been serious NFL football that he’s playing.”

King on former Texans and current Browns QB Deshaun Watson’s return to Houston: “What must (Deshaun) Watson have been thinking, listening to this crowd shower his successor with love, knowing that could have been him with this rebuilt team if he hadn’t gotten himself exiled to Cleveland? Whatever Watson thought, this city’s moved on. It’s Stroudtown now.”

WILD CARD WEEKEND

King on the Cowboys’ head coaching speculation following their playoff loss to the Packers: “I can’t believe Jerry Jones, with a star (fading though he is) like Bill Belichick on the free market, wouldn’t go hard after him to try to salvage this era of Cowboys history.”

King on Rams rookie WR Puka Nacua’s Wild Card performance: “Best performance in a losing effort: Puka Nacua, wide receiver, Rams. Masterful, tough as nails, incredible hands, physical, one man cannot bring him down.”

King on the Cowboys after being upset by the No. 7 seed Packers: “No way Jerry Jones slept Sunday night. Mike McCarthy probably didn’t either. How do you explain laying a dinosaur egg against a team with nearly zero playoff experience and being behind 27-0 before the first Tall Boy is drained?”

King on Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa’s struggles towards the end of the season: “Tua (Tagovailoa) fell off the face of the earth too. He went from MVP candidate as December dawned to six TDs and five picks in his last six games.”

King on the success of the Peacock exclusive Wild Card game Saturday night: “NBC released its numbers for the game late Sunday night, saying the average audience in streaming and over-the-air (in Kansas City and Miami markets) was 23 million. This game became the biggest live-streamed event in the young history of live-streamed events.”

KING’S WILD CARD AWARDS

Offensive Players of the Week: Jordan Love, Green Bay, Jared Goff, Detroit, Laremy Tunsil, Houston, Rashee Rice, Kansas City, & Puka Nacua, Los Angeles Rams

King on Love: “His first seven drives of the game: TD, punt, TD, TD, TD, TD, TD. Any questions left about his fitness as the heir to the (Brett) Favre / (Aaron) Rodgers throne? I didn’t think so.”

King on Rice: “And he set the Kansas City rookie record for a playoff game with 130 yards receiving on eight catches. (Patrick) Mahomes has been waiting for one of the guys in his receiver room to emerge as a true threat, and the rookie from SMU did that Saturday night.”

Defensive Players of the Week: Jaire Alexander, Green Bay, George Karlaftis, Kansas City, & Derek Barnett, Houston

King on Alexander: “From doghouse to mansion, Alexander made an acrobatic contested pick late in the first quarter at Dallas that led to the Packers’ second touchdown and a 14-point lead early.”

King on Barnett: “Great acquisition by GM Nick Caserio, claiming Barnett from the Eagles on waivers Nov. 27. Two huge plays from Barnett turned the tide against Cleveland.”

Special Teams Player of the Week: Harrison Butker, Kansas City

King on Butker: “Yes, four chip-shot field goals. Those four field goals—from 28, 26, 32 and 21 yards—occurred in ridiculous cold. Butker made all six of his kicks, including two PATs, with footballs that had to have felt like rocks when he kicked them.”

Coach of the Week: Bobby Slowik, offensive coordinator, Houston

Houston backup QB Case Keenum on Slowik’s gameplan Saturday: “A genius gameplan, Bobby did a great job of setting guys to get in space while making sure C.J. (Stroud) was protected against the game-wreckers they have on defense.”

Goats of the Week: Joe Flacco, Cleveland, & Dak Prescott, Dallas

King on Flacco: “The Flacco fling was fun while it lasted, but we might have seen this coming: Flacco turned it over nine times in his five valiant regular-season rescue jobs for the Browns. It was a bit of a storybook six weeks.”

King on Prescott: “Another huge game of Prescott coming up small, with two interceptions leading to 14 first-half points for Green Bay. A bad time for a bad game for Prescott.”

Read the full FMIA column here and catch the weekly Peter King Podcast here.

The following are additional highlights of NBC Sports’ NFL coverage:

• • PFT Live with NBC Sports’ Mike Florio (Mondays) and Florio and Chris Simms (Tuesday-Thursday) streams on Peacock from 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. ET on weekdays & is available on-demand. The Dan Patrick Show streams at 9 a.m. ET, Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry at Noon ET, Brother From Another at 3 p.m. ET, PFT PM at 5 p.m. ET. At 6 p.m. ET, Chris Simms Unbuttoned streams Tuesday-Friday.
  • com continues to provide the latest news and updates.
  • NBC Sports EDGE’s Rotoworld Football Show continues the NFL discussion and Bet The Edge Podcast provides daily betting insights.
  • The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King – including his interviews with players and coaches at training camps – Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all of these videos and more, click here to subscribe

 

A new “Football Morning in America” posts every Monday morning exclusively on NBCSports.com through the NFL season. It was announced in May 2019 that King signed an exclusive agreement with NBC Sports Group that included writing a weekly Monday morning NFL column for NBCSports.com; making regular appearances on PFT Live with Mike Florio; and continuing to contribute to Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports.

—NBC SPORTS—

“I want the ball in my hands at the end of the game. That’s how it’s been for my entire career. That’ll never change.” – Bills QB Josh Allen

“That’s who Derrick Henry is. He’s the kind of superstar who doesn’t realize he’s a superstar, who acts like he’s the 43rd player in the roster.” – King on Titans RB Derrick Henry

“I trust that when I call a bad play, he’s going to get us out of it. That’s a huge thing for a quarterback.” – Packers HC Matt LaFleur on QB Jordan Love

STAMFORD, Conn. – Jan. 8, 2024 – Peter King speaks with Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen after  the team’s win over the Miami Dolphins to claim the AFC East title in this week’s edition of Football Morning in America, available now exclusively on NBCSports.com. King also discusses Jordan Love’s successful takeover in Green Bay, Bill Belichick’s possible farewell in New England, and more.

For more NFL coverage, Peacock offers daily programming on the NBC Sports channel for free, including Pro Football Talk at 7 a.m. ET, The Dan Patrick Show at 9 a.m. ET, Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry at Noon ET, Brother from Another at 3 p.m. ET, plus Chris Simms Unbuttoned on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and the weekly The Peter King Podcast. To learn more about the NBC Sports on Peacock channel and how to sign up, click here.

The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King, Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all these videos and more, click here to subscribe.

The following are highlights from this week’s edition of Football Morning in America:

BILLS

Bills GM Brandon Beane to King following Buffalo’s Week 18 win: “Start of the day, we could have been the 2 or 8 seed — home for the playoffs or no ticket to the dance. And this happens. Crazy.”

Bills HC Sean McDermott on QB Josh Allen rushing for a first down on third-and-13 late in the fourth quarter: “He knew what was on the line — everything. He was going to run through a brick wall for the first down right there.”

Bills QB Josh Allen: “I want the ball in my hands at the end of the game. That’s how it’s been for my entire career. That’ll never change.”

King on Buffalo and Allen coming into the playoffs: “Buffalo is one of the three or four most dangerous teams in the tournament, warts, and all. The quarterback turns it over too much, but the quarterback is one of the best players in the sport.”

PACKERS

King on the Packers drafting QB Jordan Love with QB Aaron Rodgers still under contract in 2020: “There aren’t many franchises in football who would draft a quarterback when they have an MVP-caliber one on the roster with a good three or four years left. Green Bay GM Brian Gutekunst did. That’s because the Pack is a continuum.”

Packers HC Matt LaFleur on his increasing trust with Love: “I trust that when I call a bad play, he’s going to get us out of it. That’s a huge thing for a quarterback.”

King on the Packers young core in the playoffs: “Love’s poise and ability, particularly getting to know this new group of sub-25 receivers, has been remarkable to watch. The Cowboys might have a game on their hands this weekend.”

BELICHICK

King on if Belichick the power he would have on a potential new team: “If Belichick coaches elsewhere in 2024, I’m most interested in seeing whether the new owners/club president will give him the power and latitude he’s had for 24 years in New England. I wouldn’t.”

King: “Giving him full unchecked power at this point of his football life is a huge risk, but a (Chargers owner) Dean Spanos or (Commanders owner) Josh Harris might be star-struck and hand him the farm.”

Former Jets QB Mark Sanchez on playing against Belichick: “Our coaches, the reverence they had for Belichick was so noticeable. We must have met eight to 10 hours more that week than any normal week. Like, Here’s what you gotta know, here’s the pitfalls, every little detail matters, they will be in prime position for everything we do. We held him in such high regard. The anxiety, the angst that week. I kept thinking, ‘Good God, who is this wizard up north?’ Then I watched tape, and man, he made good quarterbacks look bad. Really bad. So I went into that game knowing we had to be close to perfect.”

WEEK 18

King on the Eagles’ continued struggles: “Who kidnapped the Eagles? This is the one of the weirdest collapses I’ve seen in 40 years covering the NFL.”

King on Titans RB Derrick Henry: “That’s who Derrick Henry is. He’s the kind of superstar who doesn’t realize he’s a superstar, who acts like he’s the 43rd player in the roster.”

King on Saints backup QB Jameis Winston overruling HC Dennis Allen’s call to kneel and scoring a last-minute touchdown: “What kind of control of his team does Dennis Allen have if his backup quarterback, citing a ‘team decision,’ changes a play and runs up the score in the process, enraging and embarrassing the opposition?”

King on Lions rookie TE Sam LaPorta getting hurt in Week 18: “I think the Lions should sign Zach Ertz. Today. With Sam LaPorta appearing to be lost with a knee injury, and one of the best playoff tight ends in recent times healthy and on the street, what’s there to ponder?”

KING’S WEEK 18 AWARDS

Offensive Players of the Week: C.J. Stroud, Houston, Isaac Seumalo, Pittsburgh, & Breece Hall, New York Jets

King on Stroud: “Made the signature play of his rookie season on the Texans’ first offensive snap of a win-and-in game in Indianapolis Saturday night. His 75-yard touchdown strike to Nico Collins silenced a hyped crowd at Lucas Oil Stadium.”

King on Hall: “In the Jets’ first victory in Foxboro since mastodons roamed the earth, Hall ran his way through the snow and wind on 37 carries for 178 yards, the best performance in his two-year career. Jets, 17-3.”

Defensive Players of the Week: T.J. Watt, Pittsburgh, & Bryce Huff, New York Jets

King on Watt: “A shame, obviously, that Watt strained his knee in the 42^nd minute of the game, but he’d already done enough the be the defensive player of the game: two sacks, a tackle for loss, five pressures, eight tackles. What a player. He’s giving his big bro a run for his money.”

Special Teams Players of the Week: Matthew Slater, New England, & Deonte Harty, Buffalo

King on Slater’s career: “What an amazing career — a record 10 straight Pro Bowls, all the while proving he was a first-class person and citizen. Slater and Steve Tasker have left their marks on the game as the best two special-teams’ players in NFL history.”

King on Harty’s punt-return touchdown against Miami: “In an era of diminishing special-teams impact, Harty, from the football powerhouse of Assumption (Mass.) College, blasted through the guts of the Miami punt team and was never challenged on the way to a 96-yard TD.”

Goat of the Week: Trevor Lawrence, Jacksonville

King on Lawrence’s poor performances down the stretch: “The Jags were 8-3 and coasting six weeks ago, a prime favorite to win AFC home-field. They went 1-5 down the stretch, and all five losses were on Lawrence’s ledger.”

Read the full FMIA column here and catch the weekly Peter King Podcast here.

The following are additional highlights of NBC Sports’ NFL coverage:

• PFT Live with NBC Sports’ Mike Florio (Mondays) and Florio and Chris Simms (Tuesday-Thursday) streams on Peacock from 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. ET on weekdays & is available on-demand. The Dan Patrick Show streams at 9 a.m. ET, Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry at Noon ET, Brother From Another at 3 p.m. ET, PFT PM at 5 p.m. ET. At 6 p.m. ET, Chris Simms Unbuttoned streams Tuesday-Friday.
• com continues to provide the latest news and updates.
• NBC Sports EDGE’s Rotoworld Football Show continues the NFL discussion and Bet The Edge Podcast provides daily betting insights.
• The NFL on NBC YouTube channel offers daily football content for free, with exclusive videos from Peter King – including his interviews with players and coaches at training camps – Mike Florio, Chris Simms, and more. To access all of these videos and more, click here to subscribe

 

A new “Football Morning in America” posts every Monday morning exclusively on NBCSports.com through the NFL season. It was announced in May 2019 that King signed an exclusive agreement with NBC Sports Group that included writing a weekly Monday morning NFL column for NBCSports.com; making regular appearances on PFT Live with Mike Florio; and continuing to contribute to Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports.

—NBC SPORTS—