The ManningCast will be entering its third season when the NFL starts up again in September. The alternate broadcast of Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli Manning has been a hit for ESPN so far, but in year three, it could be time for a refresh.
Eli Manning was on with Pat McAfee on Wednesday and said that the brothers don’t want to stray too far from their original vision.
“We’ve stayed pretty true to what the original plan was,” Manning said. “We wanted to make it feel like what it’s like to sit on the couch with Peyton and I and watch a football game. That’s still the idea. We’re gonna talk some Xs and Os, we’re gonna make fun of each other, and every now and then, Pat McAfee pops in in the living room and we start talking with him or we’re talking with Snoop Dogg.”
He added that the two still do game prep. It just looks considerably different than it used to. It is something the younger Manning has had an easier time with.
“I always tell Peyton ‘Hey, I’ll watch these games. You watch those and we can trade notes.’ I’ll leave Peyton like an eight-minute voice memo out of the notes, what I saw, ‘Hey if you want to watch it, here are four or five plays that are interesting.’ Peyton leaves me a 45-minute voice memo with the breakdown of the plays.”
While the ManningCast airs on ESPN, the show is produced by Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions, which provides a lot of programming to ESPN+. With creative control, Manning has insisted on limiting the number of games he and his brother do each season in order to keep their passion for the project high.
