1. During my conversation with Mike Tirico on this week's SI Media Podcast, the NBC play-by-play man threw out a strong take about the future of NFL broadcasts.
With Tony Romo's making a wildly successful transition from the playing field right into the No. 1 analyst job at CBS (Hello, $17 million per year!), Tirico thinks if the other great quarterbacks decide to follow in Romo's footsteps, viewers will be treated to a different kind of broadcast than we normally get.
"I was watching an NFL Films clip and Philip Rivers was miked up," Tirico said on the podcast.