DL513: Josh Zerkle on Pro Bowl Reform, BEN, Super Bowl Plans & Is Ines Sainz Still A Story?

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Josh Zerkle of With Leather, KSK and the House of Punte Podcast joins the show to preview Super Bowl week. Not the Super Bowl, but the week leading up to the Super Bowl which can be, in a way, as entertaining as the game.

First we talk about the Pro Bowl and give a huge rundown of suggestions for how to make the game better. We cover everything from helmet cams to a skills competition to Zerkle suggesting the game be played between free agent veterans and rookie wage scalers with the winning team getting a bigger piece of the contract pie.

That, and robots. Exploding robots.

We talk a lot about Ben Roethlisberger and if fans really care that he was an accused rapist a few months ago. Is it a big storyline heading into the Super Bowl? Of course it is, because there isn’t much else to talk about this week. But will it be an awkward moment after the game between Ben and Terry Bradshaw, and does Roger Goodell really want Ben holding the Lombardi Trophy at season’s end this year? Conduct schmonduct.

Speaking of stories that won’t go away, SportsBusiness Journal’s Liz Mullen got ahead of Super Bowl week by going on an epic Twitter rant about Ines Sainz, which included this doozy:

Now that’s some imagery. Yikes.

YIKES.

But is she right? Will the media take media day and turn it into anther Sainz firestorm of coverage? Are there better things to cover? Is she even still newsworthy and why, going back to the original incident, was she lambasted by so many female media types in the first place? This seems like a good topic for two white dudes to discuss.

On to the game…where we expect greatness. It really is a good matchup and with a run of really interesting and close games lately, should we expect another good one this year? Why not, even if we’re, gulp, due for a clunker.

We also talk about our plans for the game — last year we were both in Vegas — and how the Black Eyed Peas are allowed anywhere near the city of Dallas, let alone on the field at halftime.

Thanks to Punte, and you for listening.

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