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New York Post
31-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
ESPN's Peter Schrager reveals the moment he knew it was time to leave NFL Network
Peter Schrager knew it was time to move on. Reflecting on his March departure from NFL Network, where he had co-hosted 'Good Morning Football' since 2016, the new ESPN personality said this week on the 'SI Media with Jimmy Traina' podcast that once the program relocated from New York to Los Angeles, he started pondering what could be next. 'For me, once they moved the show to L.A., I had a year left on my contract and I started plotting my next step. I don't have anything left to give that show. I love that show. I root for it. In fact, I still watch it in the mornings when I'm flipping around,' Schrager said. Peter Schrager joined ESPN in April. Peter Schrager/X '… I couldn't do another 'Whiteboard Wednesday.' I couldn't do another remote segment where we're interviewing the same whatever-it-is, another year. I just felt like, creatively, it was time, and my contract was up. Once they moved it to L.A., that to me was the future on the wall.' NFL Network announced in March 2024 that the morning show, also starring co-hosts Kyle Brandt and Jamie Erdahl, would be shifting to the West Coast. Although Schrager 'tried getting there as often as possible,' it was hardly a sustainable lifestyle. 'I did a week of shows every month out in the West Coast. But it was waking up at 2 a.m. It just wasn't sensible. I was not moving my family. I did the best job I could until the contract was up,' he said. Peter Schrager had hosted 'Good Morning Football' on NFL Network since 2016. Getty Images Upon exiting NFL Network, Schrager agreed to a multi-year agreement with ESPN in April, offering his commentary on programs such as 'Get Up,' 'First Take' and 'The Pat McAfee Show,' to name a few. 'I am so happy. I am so excited,' Schrager said. 'Already I feel creatively energized and to work with new people and to get new perspectives. It's been really cool.' Schrager began his career at in 2004 before pivoting to Fox Sports two years later.
USA Today
31-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
NFL writer keeps word, gets tattoo after Broncos proved him wrong
Last summer, Peter Schrager (who worked for NFL Network at the time) predicted before the 2024 season that the Denver Broncos would make the NFL playoffs during a segment of "Good Morning Football." In response to that prediction, Jarrett Bailey tweeted: "If the Broncos make the playoffs, I'll get GMFB tattooed on my body." GMFB, of course, was a nod to Schrager's old show (Schrager now works for ESPN). Denver went on to go 10-7 in the regular season and reached the postseason for the first time since 2015. Schrager attempted to pardon Bailey and let him off the bet, but Broncos fans pushed back on social media. Eventually, Bailey gave in. He shared a photo of his new tattoo on his Twitter/X page last week: Lesson learned? Before the draft this spring, Bailey ranked the Broncos 13th out of 32 teams in his NFL power rankings for Touchdown Wire. This was his analysis of Denver ahead of the 2025 campaign: I love the defense. Nik Bonitto and Zach Allen deserve much more credit than they get, and Patrick Surtain just won the Defensive Player of the Year. And yes, I lost a bet to Broncos fans and Peter Schrager, which resulted in me needing to get a tattoo (cheers on the new gig, by the way, Peter). That bet stemmed from me saying they wouldn't make the postseason, followed by clowning the selection of Bo Nix. And while Denver proved me wrong, I'm still not sold on them being a powerhouse. That said, they'll be competitive and back in the Wild Card picture. Certainly a big improvement from when Bailey had the Broncos ranked 30th in his pre-draft power rankings last year. Kudos to Bailey for keeping his word. Social: Follow Broncos Wire on Facebook and Twitter/X! Did you know: These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans.
Pink Villa
24-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
NFL writer Jarrett Bailey gets tattoo after losing bet to Peter Schrager
NFL writer Jarrett Bailey has officially etched his words in ink and on his skin after losing a high-stakes bet to ESPN analyst Peter Schrager. The SB Nation and Sporting News contributor now sports a tattoo of the contraction 'GMFB' (Good Morning Football) on his left thigh, a permanent reminder of a wager gone sideways after the Denver Broncos defied expectations and clinched a playoff spot during the 2024 season. The bet that wouldn't die Back in September 2024, Bailey responded to Schrager's bold playoff prediction with a mocking post on X, writing, 'If the Broncos make the playoffs, I'll get GMFB tattooed on my body.' At the time, Denver was widely considered a longshot, still recovering from a disastrous 2023 season. But the Broncos surged late in the year to finish 10-7, earning a postseason berth and sealing Bailey's fate. Although Schrager offered Bailey a pardon when the bet came due in December, the writer ultimately chose to honor the original terms. Tagging the former GMFB host, Bailey posted saying 'A bet's a bet' this week alongside a photo of the fresh ink, signing 'Cheers, Broncos fans.' No regrets, just ink Bailey admitted he initially tried to find a way out, considering a giveaway or charity donation instead. But fan feedback convinced him otherwise. 'They were right,' he said. 'It's 150 dollars I'll never get back, but also a fun reminder that I'm lucky to talk about football for a living and a fun story I'll have for the rest of my life.' With the 'GMFB' tattoo now inked for life, Bailey joins a rare club of sports figures who've turned online bravado into lasting skin art.
Mint
16-06-2025
- Business
- Mint
TD Bank Uses Automation to Trade More Bonds With Fewer People
(Bloomberg) -- Toronto-Dominion Bank is winning more Wall Street business trading bonds, and doing it with fewer people. The Canadian bank has built up a computer-driven trading team over the past few years that has helped it rise up the US league tables in investment grade corporate bond transactions on the biggest venue for electronic bond trading, MarketAxess Holdings Inc. The bank rose from 20th in 2021, to 9th last year and 6th so far this year — leapfrogging bigger banks like JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. in total number of trades — and it is now at the top of the tables for municipal bond trading. To do this, it has doubled its automation team in the last four years and poached automation experts from rivals like JPMorgan. But the algorithmic trading has allowed it to shed even more employees from the ranks of old-school voice traders who used to dominate the fixed income world from their phones, according to the co-heads of TD Securities Automated Trading, Marty Mannion and Matt Schrager. 'Technology and automation will promote leaner, more efficient teams over time,' Schrager, the 35-year-old co-head of the division told Bloomberg in an interview last month. The changes at TD offer a window into the automation that is sweeping the fixed income industry more broadly and making jobs redundant across Wall Street. Last year, 48% of US investment-grade bonds traded electronically, up from 34% in 2021, according to Crisil Coalition Greenwich. Schrager and Mannion declined to offer a specific number of jobs that have been reduced and said that humans continue to be a necessary part of their operation, in part to oversee the computers and in part to handle trades that are large or require the discretion that a phone conversation can offer. But they estimate that more than 90% of transactions will eventually be automated. TD's efforts to take advantage of this are a central part of the bank's ambitions to join the big leagues on Wall Street. The push is particularly important for TD because it is trying to recover from one of the worst money-laundering scandals in US banking history, which led to a $3.1 billion fine and a cap on the size of its US retail banking business. The capital markets operations — referred to by the company as wholesale banking — are still only about 13% of TD's total revenues, but they are not subject to the asset cap and have been one of the few sources of growth within the company in recent years, accounting for $7.3 billion in revenue in 2024, up from $4.8 billion two years earlier. Meanwhile, headcount in the division shrank 5% last year. The changes at TD have been led, in part, by the acquisition of companies with expertise in US markets. In 2023, it purchased the New York-based investment bank Cowen for $1.3 billion. That came two years after TD bought Headlands Tech Global Markets, a Chicago-based company that specialized in automated bond trading. Headlands was started by top executives from the electronic trading behemoth Citadel Securities. Schrager and Mannion, who were a part of Headlands, said they took TD's offer in part because the bank had little expertise with automation, which gave the newcomers more leverage to push for change. 'TD had no problem plugging us in and saying, 'We don't know how to do this. We want to empower you. Have at it,'' Schrager said. Schrager and Mannion saw parallels between Headlands and Cowen. Both were smaller, more nimble firms with hard-driving cultures and technological expertise. In contrast, TD was 'a little bit conservative', and integrating both acquisitions required openness to change and realism about its own capabilities, they said. Headlands initially focused on municipal bonds, a business that had been viewed as nearly impossible to automate because the market is so fragmented and illiquid. When TD made the acquisition, it was handling almost all muni trades by phone. The Headlands team, which was renamed TD Securities Automated Trading, slowly took over this business and now does almost all of it in computer-driven transactions. The team is now applying the same tools to the corporate bond markets. The company says that algorithmic credit trading business tripled between the first quarters of last year and this year. The success of TDSAT comes with risks. It is slashing the revenue per trade, so that everyone has to do more with less. Meanwhile, automation is allowing some investors to skip market makers like TD and match up with each other directly. This so-called all-to-all trading accounted for 11% of market volume in April, up from 6% in April 2023, according to Crisil Coalition Greenwich. But TD has made a number of moves to cement the place of automated trading at the center of its fixed income desks. Last year, it put all of corporate bond trading under TDSAT, and did the same with its muni bond desk in April. The company has listed e-trading as a key priority in its most recent annual report. 'More and more will become electronic over time, and I think there will be more efficiency on the voice desk over time, which leads to more revenue per headcount,' Schrager said. More stories like this are available on
Time of India
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Is Peter Schrager's Role shrinking at ESPN? Fans ‘not so happy with Peter Schrager's
Peter Schrager has joined ESPN with a multi-year agreement. He has also made special appearances on 'FOX NFL Kickoff' and did sideline reporting as well. Schrager is now helping his new channel, ESPN, build up and have strong coverage for the 2025 NFL. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now It has also been revealed that he shall make appearances on 'First Take' and 'Get Up'. ESPN is not worried about Peter Schrager facing criticism With all his appearances and performances, some fans are left with sadness and are not impressed with his list he created for the show 'FIRST TAKE'. Recently, Schrager landed in trouble after some of the fans complained about him for revealing a 'Top 5 NFL Draft Wild Cards' list during one of his episodes of 'First Take'. One of the fans criticized and tweeted, 'ESPN wasting NO time in making Peter Schrager come up with a stupid list.' Another person said, 'Sports media guys and former athletes sell every ounce of their souls for Disney's money. Pray for inside the NBA.' But the big deal is been Schrager had already briefed ESPN about his content and how he would like to go ahead with his show. He has always been a person with a huge affinity for creating lists like this. One of the people reacted to the list by saying 'boring'. The comment went on to say, 'Here's the way to look at it: you have people like McAfee & Portnoy, guys who carve a unique, brand new path and go against conventional norms; and you have guys like Schrager, who fits in, toes the line, does what the bosses want, and frankly, is boring. Not bad. Just boring.' With haters, there have been supporters of Schrager as well who have appreciated his great work. One of them said, 'Ignore this. you are great. Keep shining.' The hue and cry from the fans and followers has not added worry to ESPN's management. Defending Schrager, the ESPN president of content, Burke Magnus said, 'Peter will have an instant impact at ESPN, combining his charismatic style and deep knowledge of the.'
