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Playbook Optional with Daniel Gotera explores what happens when life doesn’t go according to plan. Through personal stories and candid conversations, Daniel goes beyond the scoreboard to talk sports, life after TV, fatherhood, health, career reinvention and the unexpected turns that shape who we become.
מנחים:
תדירות עדכון:
semiweekly
אורך אודיו ממוצע:
30 minutes
ראיונות אורחים
אנגלית
ארצות הברית
14 פרקים
מאז 21 באוגוסט 2026
episodic
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Sometimes moving forward is harder than it sounds.
In this special edition of Playbook Optional, I share a few thoughts from my morning walk about losing a job I loved, dealing with resentment, and trying to understand where life is taking me.
The past couple of years have brought unexpected caree…
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Northwestern's new Ryan Field is an architectural masterpiece. But after attending homecoming, I walked away wondering something I never expected:
What happened to the Northwestern I grew up loving?
In this episode of Playbook Optional, I return to Evanston for my 20th college reunion and my dad's…
The Texans finally have something to celebrate!
After an 0-4 start, Houston takes care of business against Tennessee, and Daniel breaks down C.J. Stroud's performance, the defense's resurgence, and the addition of Marvin Harrison Jr.
But while the Texans are giving him hope, the Chicago White Sox…
Texans fall to the Cowboys 34-30 despite CJ Stroud throwing for 347 yards and two touchdowns. The offense finally showed some life, Nico Collins was back making plays, but the defense once again couldn't finish the job.
In Episode 10 of Playbook Optional, Daniel breaks down what's gone wrong wit…
October baseball is here, and somehow Daniel's Chicago White Sox are once again matched up with the Houston Astros.
For a lifelong Sox fan who lives in Houston, this is pretty much the one playoff matchup he never wants to see. 😂 The history is there — the 2005 World Series, the 2021 ALDS and now …
The Houston Texans are 0–3. Again.
After a 19–17 loss to the Indianapolis Colts, Daniel Gotera tries to figure out how a team with this much talent has found itself in the exact same hole for the second straight season.
Is C.J. Stroud really the problem? Is the offensive line holding everything ba…
In Episode 7 of Playbook Optional, Daniel Gotera starts with football — breaking down the Texans’ 36–31 loss to Buffalo, the reaction surrounding C.J. Stroud, what went wrong and why he’s not ready to panic about the season just yet.
Then the episode takes a very different turn.
While driving ba…
The conversation has changed with the Texans.
Winning the AFC South isn't enough anymore. The Texans have assembled a roster capable of competing with anyone in the AFC — and now the question is whether they can finally break through and make a legitimate Super Bowl run.
In Episode 6 of Playbook O…
In Episode 5 of Playbook Optional, Daniel Gotera sits down with Ben Miller, a former Stratford High School football player whose life changed in an instant when he suffered a stroke during a game as a teenager. Ben survived the stroke and began fighting his way back — believing football was still …
I thought I was healthy. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, everything started to fall apart.
In Episode 4 of Playbook Optional, I tell the most personal part of my story so far — my health journey.
It started with physical stress I couldn't explain. Then came an AFib episode that landed me in the ho…
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