The Schrager Hour

Peter puts away the football and devotes the episode to

this unprecedented New York Knicks playoff run. The City Game. New

York City is absolutely alive and magical right now and it's all

because of the hometown team. Peter brings in Knicks die-hard and

fellow NYC resident Gary Vaynerchuk, the CEO of VaynerMedia and

Chairman of VaynerX. Gary is a pioneer in social media storytelling,

branding, and online retailing, and one of the first breakthrough

voices in the digital world. He also happens to be a real deal New

York Knicks fan. Peter and Gary Vee go through this team, what it

means, the teams of yesteryear, and why nostalgia is such a drug. They

end the pod with a deeper discussion on the future of alternative

sports, why he's bullish on collectibles, and why experience and

physical media are about to have a moment.
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Mike North is the VP of broadcast planning at the NFL and for 32 years has worked on the making of the NFL schedule. In this episode, Peter and Mike discuss all of the key stakeholders -- Netflix, Amazon, Fox, CBS, Disney, ESPN, YouTube, 32 different NFL teams, coaches, and fan bases-- as well as international partners, and how the schedule was made. This conversation evolves from a football, one to a media, Tech, and big business one. North is excellent and an open book, and the schedule is just the starting point of one that involves satisfying multiple important parties, utilizing AI, and fielding multiple requests from influential voices.
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Peter gets into the bonanza that has become the annual

schedule release week for the NFL and why it's grander than ever

before. Craig Kilborn joins to talk Vikings, Timberwolves, Pooh

Richardson, Vlade Divac, his career, his life in Hollywood, his

favorite movies, his best Robert Evans stories, and the broadcasters

and athletes he loves watching today. An absolute thrill ride with an

all-time legend of sports media.
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Peter reviews and reacts to the revelations from the new ESPN documentary "The Pick Is In", which had inside access to the Raiders, Cowboys, and Browns war rooms. He, then, highlights why he's so high on Dallas this off-season, and how a lot of it comes from the juice flowing from the hire of new defensive coordinator Christian Parker. Bengals coach Zac Taylor joins to discuss the Bengals 2026 off-season. Zac takes us behind the Dexter Lawrence trade that was "weeks" in the making, the importance of adding to the defense, the linebacker spot, the return of 11 offensive starters, and the showcasing of three assistant general managers who had previously always been behind the scenes. Peter and Zac talk the new look AFC North, why he doesn't mess with Joe Burrow's off-season whereabouts, and what he hopes to establish in his 8th season as the Bengals HC.
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Peter offers his five biggest takeaways from the 2026 NFL

Draft, including an emptying of the notebook on the Rams' selection of

Ty Simpson with the 13th overall pick. He, then, goes through his

favorite moments of the entire weekend, culminating in the special

shared experience of the Eli Heidenreich selection on Day 3. Peter,

then, brings on Arif Hassan, the Chief Writer at the Wide Left

newsletter, to do a deeper dive on the "Consensus Big Board"

conversation that has boiled to the surface after curious drafts from

both the 49ers and Jaguars last weekend. Lastly, Peter has on his

resident Jets and Giants fans, Danny from Lot E and Ditro, to talk

about the Jets and Giants drafts. 

 

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