Yeah, 100 percent<\/a>,\u201d Burleson said. \u201cI say that with the fullest sense of humility as I can.\u201d<\/p>\nIt can be very delicate to talk publicly about aspirations to inherit a job that remains filled by someone else. Burleson did his best to strike the right balance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want James Brown around for as long as I can have him,\u201d Burleson said. \u201cI have learned so much, I wouldn\u2019t be the person I am on-camera if it wasn\u2019t for J.B. So, selfishly, I want to keep learning from one of the greatest to ever do it. And I don\u2019t want a call from anybody else if I ever get that seat. I want J.B. to call me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown, 75, recently made it clear he won\u2019t voluntarily be stepping aside any time soon. Networks, however, have been known from time to time to force awkward transitions, especially if there\u2019s a concern that the designated successor may have a better opportunity at another shop.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s the reality that the looming expansion of international games could result in even more games that begin at 9:30 a.m. ET, which would make the traditional Sunday pregame shows even less relevant than they have become. Especially in an age of non-stop NFL news that makes shows like The NFL Today something other than the absolutely necessary viewing they once were.<\/p>\n
If\/when (when) the NFL gets its wish to stage 16 international games every year, more people who would be watching NFL pregame shows may instead be watching a live NFL game. And, at some point, the folks who count the beans may decide there\u2019s no longer any magic to setting a perpetually-prepared table in the hour or two before a cluster of games commence at 1:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Brown, the long-time host of The NFL Today on CBS, has no plans to retire. Nate Burleson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-805159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}