MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — It’s a Tuesday morning at NFL Films headquarters and Brian Baldinger is trying to explain that he was a film junkie during his 12-year NFL career. But as Baldinger describes how he had a projector at home during his playing days, his eyes can’t escape the footage of Sunday night’s Bears-Rams game playing on the 80-inch television monitor on the wall of his office.



“(Rams quarterback Jared) Goff can’t run this play into this. You don’t have enough blockers,” Baldinger says. “What happens is, I’m guessing, (Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio) is changing this late. He’s got (cornerback Bryce) Callahan right there to take away the weakside run, but (the Rams) might be out of time. Why would you run that play into this?”



Without missing a beat, Baldinger finishes his thought about how he always wanted to carve out an X’s and O’s niche when he got into broadcasting.