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ESPN’s NFL Live will have some new competition this season, or maybe it’s old competition depending on how you look at it. Front Office Sports reported Trey Wingo is getting the band back together, launching a new NFL show and YouTube channel with former ESPN colleagues Merril Hoge, Mark Schlereth, and Damien Woody. The OG Football Crew will debut with a NFL season preview Sept. 7, with the show continuing through the Super Bowl. Wingo teased the idea a few weeks ago, quoting a social media post praising Hoge by saying, “What if I told you. We were putting the band back together?” It became clear Wingo was being serious about the idea when he added “stay tuned” with a link to his YouTube channel. Two weeks later, the idea seems to be coming to fruition just in time for the NFL regular season. What if I told you . We were putting the band back together? https://t.co/Bm6Ydoez7b — trey wingo (@wingoz) August 18, 2026 According to Front Office Sports, The OG Football Crew featuring a cast of former NFL Live contributors will air on YouTube every Monday to recap four NFL games from the previous day. Like NFL Live, Wingo will anchor the show with Hoge, Schlereth, and Woody contributing as analysts. The old guard of NFL Live was pitted against the new guard earlier this summer when Emmanuel Acho claimed Ryan Clark “built” the show “into the juggernaut it is today” after he was controversially laid off by ESPN. Acho added “nobody was watching NFL Live” when it premiered in 1998. The ESPN studio show might have a larger audience and following today than it did in earlier years, but it’s ridiculous to claim “nobody was watching.” The silly take received plenty of pushback from ex-NFL Live hosts, all who deserve credit for building the show into the juggernaut it is today. It won’t be fair to compare any metrics from The OG Football Crew on YouTube to NFL Live on ESPN this season. But this is still an opportunity to for a group of former NFL Live hosts to prove they’re still capable of building a successful show.