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SCHOOLED WITH THE PROFESSOR
Giving thanks for football and family with Larry Fitzgerald Sr.

It’s Thanksgiving week and it’s time to be thankful. It’s time for family, friends, food and football. One thing we can be thankful for is Larry Fitzgerald Sr.’s gift to football. He has been a sports writer for years and is the father of NFL future Hall of Fame receiver Larry Fitzgerald...one of the great gentlemen in sports.

Larry Sr. lives in Minnesota and has covered the Vikings for decades. He joins us on Schooled with the Professor to talk about the Vikings, the NFC West and the Seahawks. Larry knows his football. We talk about the Cardinals’ new Kliff Kingsbury offense and also dive into the struggles of the Los Angeles Rams. Larry offers great praise for the San Francisco 49er offense and Russell Wilson. We have a long, deep discussion about the Minnesota Vikings and how they’ve turned their offense around but also discuss some of the struggles they are having on defense.

It’s a feast of football knowledge with Larry Fitzgerald Sr. on Schooled.

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A year into hitting the reset button in Arizona with Kent Somers

Even though no one expected the Arizona Cardinals to be good this year, they remain one of the most interesting teams in football. They surprised everyone by signing Kliff Kingsbury as head coach and then drafted Kyler Murray with the first pick in the draft.

On Schooled with the Professor, we break down the Cardinals season with Arizona Republic’s Kent Somers. Somers has covered the Cardinals for many years as a beat writer and now as a columnist. We go in depth about the Cardinals problems on defense.

We spent a lot of time talking Kingsbury and Murray. David Johnson is making $13 million as a running back but he’s now a backup. Somers tells us why.

We talk about how the Cardinals use their wide receivers in the Air Raid offense. The NFC West is the league’s best division. How long will it take the Cardinals to catch up? We get some answers on Schooled.

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The State of Officiating in the NFL with Kevin Seifert

Published: Thursday, January 02, 2020 | Runtime: 21:48

Officiating has been a major topic this year in the NFL. The NFL installed a coach challenge system for pass interference that has created nothing but controversy and confusion this year as to what is interference and what isn’t interference.

Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com joins us on Schooled with the Professor to go through this season of change. We start off by discussing officiating in general this year.

The officials agreed to a five-year extension but there could be as many as two dozen officials leaving the league because of a lucrative severance program for officials who have been in the league for two decades.

We talk about how much tougher it is to find people willing to be officials. That has a major impact on high school, college and pro sports league. There have been seven referee changes in the past two years. Some of the best of the best have left and more may join them. Kevin then breaks down the pass interference experiment. Officiating is the main topic on Schooled.

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