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Kyle Brandt returned to Good Morning Football aft taking immoderate clip disconnected during nan NFL off-season and addressed being portion of ESPN aft their takeover of nan NFL Network.
“It’s awesome to beryllium here. Thrilled to beryllium present connected ESPNFLNetwork. Right? That’s our deal. That’s our thing,” Brandt said astatine nan opening of nan show connected Monday, April 6.
Addressing immoderate changes to nan show now that ESPN took complete nan NFL Network, he said, “Not arsenic acold arsenic I know. Not correct now. Not astatine all. We’re going to talk shot this morning. We’re going to talk shot tomorrow morning. We talked shot complete nan weekend, it’s draught season.”
“Our world is awesome correct now,” he continued. “I’ve been doing this for 10 years connected this show. Whatever network, immoderate you wanna put us. We will beryllium friends, talking astir football, and really, only football. We are an NFL every-single-day-year-round show, connected immoderate network, immoderate postulation you wanna put america on, we are fired up to beryllium here. Let’s talk astir immoderate off-season teams, let’s talk immoderate draft… Let’s do what we’ve ever done astatine Good Morning Football since 2016, and let’s do it for fun, because that’s what we deliberation shot is.”
ESPN officially took complete NFL Network connected April 1 arsenic portion of the woody it announced backmost successful August 2025, under which nan sports broadcaster would return complete alongside nan RedZone Channel.
The restructuring saw 5 NFLN unit members modulation into VP roles wrong nan ESPN organization, which included Charlie Yook (VP, Executive Producer of Content Production), Todd Sperry (VP and Executive Editor, pinch a attraction connected NFL coverage), Jessica Lee (VP, Production Operations & Engineering, pinch oversight of NFL Network and its Hollywood Park accommodation successful Los Angeles), Tony Cole (VP, Media Operations), and Sarah Parsons joins (VP, Programming & Acquisitions, pinch oversight of NFL Network).
No changes to NFL Network shows are expected now amid nan restructuring.
Burke Magnus (President of Content) and Rosalyn Durant (Executive Vice President, Programming & Acquisitions) shared a missive past week welcoming their caller squad members.
“Today we officially invited our NFL Network colleagues to ESPN, bringing america 1 measurement person to afloat integrating and onboarding them. We are excited astir really we will service NFL fans successful nan early pinch afloat entree to NFL Network programming and innovative imagination experiences,” publication nan missive from April 1.
“We look guardant to getting to cognize these caller leaders, their teams, and learning much astir their work. As we summation a deeper knowing of really NFL Network operates and is organized, please statement that reporting structures whitethorn evolve.”
