Peter Schrager’s travel schedule gets very busy during the NFL season between his roles at Good Morning Football Monday-Friday on NFL Network in New York City and on FOX NFL Kickoff in Los Angeles every Sunday. When he is on FOX NFL Kickoff, his role is a little different because he is looking to give you information that is different from other NFL insiders.
Schrager was a guest on the SI Media With Jimmy Traina podcast this week and he mentioned that the scoops he looks to give has to be different than what Adam Schefter might report on ESPN or Ian Rapaport on the NFL Network.
“I think if you are a self-motivated individual in the competitive world that we are in, you don’t want to get stomped on and have Schefter and Rapoport and all these guys have 6 new things to bring to the table and then I come on at 11 AM and I’m like what they said a hour ago, I’m going to tell you what’s happening too. You can just read Twitter.”
Schrager said that he has different relationships than what other NFL insiders might have, which leads him to finding information that they might not necessarily get, such as the big news about Kliff Kingsbury late last year.
“I’ve got a different kind of role through GMFB and FOX where I might have some information that I know they are not going to have. One of them last year was Kliff Kingsbury telling me last year after he got fired that he was going to Thailand on a one-way ticket. I sit on that for an entire week, get to FOX on a Sunday and I drop that bomb and it was the biggest story in sports for a week.”
With everyone looking for any NFL news they can get their hands on, what kind of news could Schrager be looking for?
“The personal stuff,” he told Traina. “What Dan Quinn said to his team the night before, what footage of an old boxing match did he show his Cowboys defense? No one else is going to have that. I’ll have that.”
