Jason Kelce on new role with ESPN’s Monday Night Football and if he'll be tougher on Travis

all right Jason we just talked about it a little bit you're officially signing with ESPN we're also recording this on Tuesday by the time you're watching this Jason Kelce will officially be a member of ESPN family that's right couldn't be happy for you dude we grew up watching all of the Legends and ESPN really fueled our sports like fandom our our competition our our knowledge of the games the that and the sports that we were playing and I'm just so happy for you man but um do you want uh you want to tell everyone exact ly what you're doing and uh and uh what you signed up for at ESPN the big thing is uh Monday night countdown that's the main part of the deal we got some other things in the works potentially but uh that's that's the most important thing that we've really tried to iron out when I called you and kind of we started talking about the different opportunities but I mentioned ESPN in particular your exact words I think were man you're gonna be on Monday Night Football and I'm like yeah insane yeah it's crazy you know it's it it was you know this was especially when we were growing up this was the night you everyone thought of with football right Monday Night Football and uh now I'm going to be on there with some incredibly talented people with Scott velt Marcus Spears Ryan Clark um you know all these guys offer not just great expertise but wonderful personalities and I just think it's gonna be a lot of fun man it's GNA be a good time we're going to be at the games traveling around I still don't know what I'm wearing so I guess we'll find out is being going to make you wear a suit they're going to make you button it up dude I don't mind wearing a suit if if uh if that's what it calls I think there's a time to be relaxed uh and uh you know be be off the cuff but there's also a time I think to be a little bit more buttoned up and yeah we'll see we haven't really talked too much about it nice but um well I'm a little biased rolling with it I'm a little biased but I think uh you guys have the best desk in football right now dude that's a that's a hell of a [ __ ] lineup right there it'll be good it'll be good are you going to be able to not be biased if the Chiefs and the Eagles play Monday Night Football I will uh of course be biased and who I'm rooting for uh but in my analysis I think I'll definitely be able to be unbiased I think I kind of always am even while I was a player I was always trying to give my honest perspective and point of view and I don't think that changes now I think now I'm just GNA have more opportunities to to voice that which is either good or bad probably bad if you're a horse racing fan but but good if you're a football fan obviously I'm always going to root for the Chiefs and Eagles especially the Chiefs while you're playing and the Eagles you know it's where I spent my entire career so I always be rooting for those teams but as far as like sharing um you know Sports analysis football analysis on them um I'll always be honest are you uh are you going to be um on my ass are you going to [ __ ] are you going to be harder on on me than anyone else are you going to be more open to [ __ ] [ __ ] on me because it's me no no I won't I wouldn't do that to you no come on I'll make I'm gonna make fun of you for sure but I don't think um you know if you like drop a pass I'm not going to go out of my way to do anything like that but um if you do I need to catch the [ __ ] B silly dance yeah I mean I'll say that but I'm not gonna like jump on top of you but if you do like a silly Endzone dance that I think looks stupid I'll make fun of that for sure can't name one of those you got your first assignment for Monday Night Football now that we've announced that you're going to be uh on the desk with uh SVP Ryan and swagu yeah doing H the first Monday night game um is it in it's in San Fran you're going all the way west coast for your first gig that'll be yeah it'll be a good match up first day on the job I'm going all the way six hours to San Francisco dude I'm excited L py vers Rogers man well that's the thing Aaron's back and healthy uh anybody that watched the Jets last year I mean their defense was ridiculously good so I'm I'm curious to see what they look like with Aaron at the helm uh being the player that he is Sam FR has been the top of the NFC for you know five six years now they've always been up there and uh Salah is going back to kind of where he got was right before he went to the Jets with Shanahan L Union oh that's a good point yeah hell yeah I think it's a it's a great first matchup it'll be an awesome game little pie vers Rogers action yeah man great way to start it off [ __ ] yeah I wonder how Rogers feels because he I think he hurt himself on a the first Monday night right I think he was hurt on Monday night and then he re-enters on Monday night yeah it's a good point it's a good point I'm sure he's just excited to get back out there man's I don't think he gives I don't think he cares Jason now that you're officially a talking head uh give us your keys to the game real quick just rip it just rip it first thing comes to mind rip the keys of it I mean um I think for the Jets they got to stop down stop the run I think whenever I think of a Shanahan offense I think of if you stop the run and you make them be one-dimensional it really hinders the the strengths of that offense it's all built on misdirection motions and predicated on run and play action okay so if you force Brock pie to be a dropback passer that's your best hope even though Brock pie uh proved a little bit especially at the end of last season that he can operate his job back passer so yeah you know they got something really good going on there at Sam Fran but I think that's the biggest thing I'm the Jets stop the run that neutralizes the play action and a lot of the things they like to do and the misdirection off of it if I am San Fran uh yeah I think you are trying to just stop Aaron Rogers the Jets have a great running attack uh but yeah they do Rogers coming back being fresh being the if he can be anywhere close to the quarterback that he has been in the past obviously one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time yeah you know I think that's what I'm looking forward to seeing the most if Rogers can execute I think it's the Jets are going to be really really dangerous this year like a [ __ ] Pro how do you like that one Jets Jake like a [ __ ] Pro you talking head you little Muppet all right and here we go ladies and gentlemen uh that's Jason Kelce as a as a broadcaster I love it and one last thing uh about the NFL schedule before we move on here Tom Brady is making his broadcast debut in Cleveland Brady's first game in the booth the week one match up between the Cowboys and the Browns Boys versus the Browns I actually like that match that'll be a fun one how do we think Tom will do in the booth fantastic because it's [ __ ] Tom Brady yeah he's gonna do [ __ ] great he's the greatest quarterback of all time is's going to be able to share his Insight what he thinks about the game live like he's going to be sharing what was going on in his head while he was playing yeah and he's gonna be doing that for everybody to listen to I [ __ ] can't wait to listen to Tom Brady call games and he's going to kill it um and the fact that he's doing it in Cleveland to start off sucks that he's doing a Cowboys game I mean who wants to watch one of those me I think I I can't wait to hear what Tom sounds like hear what he says about different situations uh his analysis especially on the quarterback position but I mean on everything it's going to be awesome yeah I love my Guy Greg Olsson they kind of did him dirty over there in Fox but I mean it's Tom Brady what can you do right you know you know just uh sometimes just got to do your thing and Greg does a [ __ ] tremendous job he called the he called our Super Bowl game and he was [ __ ] fantastic doing that and yeah I I try not to be biased against the commentators and the like color guys but I think Greg is I mean he's phenomenal at it he always you could tell he makes it a point to really know what he's talking about yeah and teach and teach the game well he's a son I didn't know I for I found out I mean maybe last year but his dad was a coach yeah so you can tell like he thinks about the game not only as a player but he has that type of mindset in him yeah also I feel like at tight end and you would know this like it's interesting to see which guys go into color and what positions they played because obviously you think about the game in a relative manner to what you were doing on the field as a player sometimes where Greg has this beautiful like he was raised by a coach so he thinks about the game from a coaching perspective but then he played tight end and tight end you have to be involved in all of it right like even more so to an extent than the quarterback does the quarterback has to be involved in all but the tight end you're involved in not only all the passing Concepts the formations all of it you're also involved in all the Run schemes all the blocking so I think he's got a beautiful blend of just knowledge and experience to unleash when he's calling games yeah it's a joy to watch Greg call games or listen to it it's my [ __ ] dog yeah yeah so Fox you got two great ones man and again we will we'll probably go uh more in depth to the uh NFL scheduled next week um after we see and they release who uh all the opponents are and where we're playing them and when we're playing them so yeah I think the schedule officially comes out tomorrow if I'm not mistaken or so it's literally the day we release this podcast so yeah so this might be a little bit dat sorry sorry you're going to have to wait a week for all of our other um expert analysis on all this stuff but yeah just our excitement for who the Chiefs got baby let's roll Wednesday at 500 P pm to be specific thank you [Music] Brandon hey