February 6, 2026 • 47 mins
Live from Super Week (Super Bowl LX Media Week) Alex Curry, Carmen Vitali, Tracy Sandler, and Nikki Kay preview the Super Bowl with NFL Network Reporter Bridget Condon — delivering picks and analysis straight from the ladies of Fox Sports Radio. Access Hollywood Host Zuri Hall joins the ladies to talk favorites in fashion and couples across the NFL. Veteran QB Kirk Cousins delivers perspective on expectations for young QBs across the league. Former NFL Defensive Lineman Gerald McCoy celebrates Drew Brees' Hall of Fame induction and compares current NFL stars to superheroes. Finally, Mj Acosta-Ruiz from NFL Network brings in all the sights and sounds from NFL Honors on Thursday night.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome to super Week. I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitali,
Bridget Condon, Tracy Sandler and little Nikki Kay coming to
you from Radio Row in San Francisco for our last day.
It has been an absolute blast, and I think this
might be the first time that we have five girls
on set. Six if you include Diana Russini, who's off
to the side, our little baby girl, La boo boo.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeh, Beatris is runs the row?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Who runs the row?
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Guys, you guys, we joined our show yesterday. You heard
about this and then, so now we have her on
the set with us.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, we got the very limited edition hard to get
Bleacher Report.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
La boo boo?
Speaker 6 (00:44):
What you renam?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
We need Beatrice?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yes, Mattie with the Beatrice many.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
With the bee.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Okay, guys, we are just two days away from the
big game.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So excited.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We're gonna spend this been giving our game predictions. Hey,
we haven't done it yet. We've waited till the last day.
We have an expert here who was at you were
at the Rams Seahawks.
Speaker 7 (01:11):
That was the suite.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I think a lot of people think not beforehand, I
was like, this is the talks before.
Speaker 8 (01:18):
So can we give a little left to Matthew Stafford
for winning MVP And you know, I mean how about
his girls?
Speaker 7 (01:24):
Yeah right, Oh my god, they were so cute.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
They were so cute.
Speaker 9 (01:30):
This game is going to be so good. Yeah, I'm
hyping it up because I'm from This is such a
weird situation from Massachusetts.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
But I covered the Seahawks all the time and people
are like, who.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Are you going for. I'm going for a good game.
Speaker 9 (01:42):
The NFC Championship just showed us how dominant the Seahawks
defense is. The Patriots are going to face the best
offense that they've faced this postseason in Sam Donald and
the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 7 (01:54):
Do you want to give my prediction? First?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
I kind of just we.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Usually go down the line ground, but you are like, hey,
I yes, go down.
Speaker 9 (02:03):
The line, Okay, Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna say Sam Darnold
is going to come out on the biggest stage of
his career and take the dub. The Patriots will be
back Drake and Mike Rabel, very young, very new. They
aren't going to shock the world. They know a lot
of people are hoping for that this is Mike McDonald, Yes,
Sam Donald, and that dark side defense.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Is here and that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Okay, I feel like there might be a little theme
here because I have jumped on the Sam Donald fanwagon
here and I've already apologized to him publicly twice.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Good throughout this.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I was a d I've been a Sam Donald truther
for a very long time.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
I was a downer.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I was like, can he be that same guy in
the big games, in the playoffs when it matters. And
there was a point like last season when he lost
Week eighteen and then he lost the Fox came back
playing time, and the Vikings decided not to keep a
big mistake there.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Obviously they fired their GM.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But see what he was able to do in his
first year with the Seahawks with the right fit and
someone wanting him to be the starter, number one quarterback.
Because you have to remember in Minnesota he was the
backup for JJ McCarthy who got hurt and then he
got the opportunity to step in and take over. So
this is his moment and opportunity, and even in the
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NFC Championship games, that was the best game he's ever
played in his life in his career, and he was
still dealing with an oblique injury and he was able
to come out silence all of the doubters. I mean,
obviously it was a little painful because it was against
my rams and I wanted that to happen. But now
I am a Sam Darnold, Sam van Wagon and I
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think he is going to go out there and finish
the job and get it done on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
It's interesting because I got to cover him very closely
when I was covering the Minnesota Vikings covering the NFC North. Yeah,
even going into that and knowing the time that he
spent in San Francisco with Kyle Shanahan, I was like, there's.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Something to this guy.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
He went to the worst possible situation he could have
when he was drafted to the Jets. It wasn't a
much better situation in Carolina. He goes to a Kyle
Shanahan system, gets right, goes to Minnesota, and I'm like,
I am a Sam Donald Truther. I think I've been
a Sam Donald Truther for the last couple of years.
So it's been really cool to see. Even though the
Minnesota Vikings let him go they had just essentially put
(04:21):
too much into JJ McCarthy to not give him that opportunity.
But I really thought that Sam Darnold had exercised. We
just talked to Jeryl McCoy about exercising some demons. He
exercised the amount of demons that he needed to more
than I want to talk about Sam Donaldo with the
Seatle Seahawks, because they are also my pick. It is
this recipe that honestly both of these teams follow, which
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is have a really good quarterback, have a dominant defense.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Now, the Patriots defense became dominant as the season went
on under Mike Rable. They figured out how to get pressure.
But they have been a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
They're just younger.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
They're a little more experience, inexperienced, a little bit more
volatile when you talk about just their consistency, whereas the
Seattle Seahawks defense is the picture of consistency. They don't
have flaws. They are the most complete unit in the next.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Man up time and time again, no matter who is out.
They believe in what they're able to bring to the field.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
As they've been dominant all season. They are dominant at
every single level. Guys like Devin Witherspoon have been guys
that I loved since they came out, And I'm just
this is the most complete unit it possibly could be.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I don't see how that recipe fails.
Speaker 10 (05:28):
Yeah I would. I would agree with that, I think.
And it's the most complete team. I've seen this team
live three times a season. Week one, Week eighteen, the
Divisional Round, the Week one team is a completely different
team than the Week eighteen team and the Divisional Round team.
They're dominant everywhere, and Rashid Shaheed comes in and becomes
this secret weapon, this special team star. And that's the
(05:50):
other thing we all forget about special team. It's but
in a lot of situations we see what a difference
it makes. And this team is it's incredible. Like you said,
the defense is amazing. Sam Donald's great, Jackson Smith and Jig.
But not easy for me to say. The man went
to Ohio State, but he has just been a revelation
for Seattle.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Something State receivers.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
I don't like, No, I don't like it at all.
But this is this is the best team in the NFL.
It's the most complete team in the NFL, from top
to bottom. Mike McDonald has built just a coremendous, tremendous defensive,
tremendous staff, and I I just think they are pretty
much unbeatable. If there is such a thing, Patriots will
be back there. I think these are the two best
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teams if you're going the best safe, the best NFC.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
But the Seattle team.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Is really good top to bottom, no way.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
To anybody.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
So let me say quick if you're sorry, Nick, if
your grandpa's name is dick Hammer, you can't.
Speaker 11 (06:48):
You can't.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I think that's.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
It is time.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
So I think how you feel about js N. I
feel about Sam Donald as a bruin. I have been
intrinsically raised to doubt him, but I think if there's
one question mark going into the Seahawks performance in this game,
it's Sam Darnold. Is he going to turn the ball over?
But I think it starts with the top and the
belief that Mike McDonald has instilled in this team. And
he has been the type of coach to let Sam
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let make those plays, make those mistakes, and work through them.
We saw him do it against the Rams despite turnovers,
coming out with the win. And I think that that
sort of belief is what we'll push the Seahawks over,
you know, the redemption right from the last two teams
or last time these two teams met, and I feel
comfortable saying that the Patriots might have a dynasty in
the making, you know, even even though they yeah, we're back,
(07:38):
but and I'm going to say Seahawks win and I
think js n's taking the MVP home.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Wow, is this dangerous that everybody picked the season? That's
when something goes here and a hard left happens, and
it's gonna.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Be the Patriots.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
I've been literally born and raised twenty minutes from Jillette Stadium. Okay,
so I'm not a fan, I'm unbiased, I'm aer reporter,
come on, but I just know this team well enough
to never doubt them. Different with Tom Brady, Like, remember
I don't know the Seahawks and Patriots Super Bowl and
I was like ready to leave my party. That's the
(08:12):
thing everyone any like, that's why you move someday, That's
why we love this sport.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Anything would happen.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Yeah, Police Seahawks, though, don't uh, don't throw the ball.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
If you're on the.
Speaker 10 (08:20):
Goal line for the Kenneth Walker.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Opening night, They're like, what are you going to do?
With the ball on the watch them like fumble it them.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It is a Super Bowl anythink anything. Obviously, Seahawks are
going in as the favorite, they are.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
The most complete, still four and a half and half
this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
But it's just something like like we saw in the
NFC Championship game. It has to be like it's going
to be a mistake. It's gonna be one and it's
gonna be It can be either side, but that is
going to be the determining factor. Bridget, You've been at
Super Bowl as you work for NFL Network, You've seen
and been around this craziness kind of paint the picture
(09:06):
of like the environment and the vibe for these guys.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
I think Matthew Stafford put it perfectly before the NFC
Championship game when he was asked this very question and
he started laughing and one of the reporters was like,
what are you laughing about? And he's like, I'm just
thinking about like the pregame warm up. So the Super Bowl,
the rock was just there on the sideline like things
like that are gonna happen, and you have to That's
where experience comes in and you're gonna look and like,
(09:29):
I don't know, see the most famous person you've ever
seen in your life right there, and you're trying to
just like throw the ball or catch the ball or
I don't know, stretch out your hamstring. Those are the differences.
But every single player that you talked to says, once
the whistle's blown, it's just it's just football. It's the
same stadium. I mean, the Seahawks are very comfortable in
the stadium. Obviously Patriots haven't played there as much, but
(09:50):
it's just gonna be football.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So but last night, like obviously this weekend, this whole
week has been football, but last night was recognizing the
best and the best in the game NFL Honors, and
Matthew Stafford, who we've all been talking about in this open.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Was just absolutely.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Chef's kiss, our new m VP, his four daughters up
there on stadium as he's accepting his speech, thanking his wife.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
He is so grateful. Was this overdue? Was this the
right choice?
Speaker 9 (10:23):
Thousand percent the right choice? And I understand Drake may
had good numbers, but again, Matthew Stafford, remember during training camp,
I remember being at Rams training camp.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
We were wondering if he was going to be able
to break because.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
He got he was like laying on that glass table right,
like the infinity table or whatever it was.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
I didn't think the one thing I would be saying
after maternity leave is Matthew Stafford and I are more
in common. Now we both had abadural because obviously come
on only strong ones girls. But clearly it worked.
Speaker 11 (10:59):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
He had that back injury and then he went out
and played the best season of his career. He's in
year seventeen. He is the MVP without a doubt. Drake
and May is a very good player and a very
young player. He has time to grow and he will
win the MVP. But that was kind of the last
thing on Matthew Stafford's resume, right, like he's done everything
else and now just check the box. How about those girls,
(11:20):
the way that they had their football persons and.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
The way they look at him, and it just look
he's coming back next year. Yeah, so there's going to
be a year eighteen.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 11 (11:31):
I love.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
I love their little pregame ritual of him coming over
and he makes sure that he says hi and kisses
his little girls and one by one before every game.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
How about him kissing them after he lost the game.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Did you have any of the guests we talked about that.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
We love that, Bridget.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
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We got to take our first break here, but we
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Speaker 2 (13:06):
Welcome back to super Week. We are so excited because
this woman does it all. She's a host of Access Hollywood,
E Life from the Red Carpet, American Ninja Warrior, Zuri Hai.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
We're so excited to talk to you.
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So excited. Hey, I'm already loving the vibe.
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Speaker 4 (13:42):
The one thing social media is good for. It really
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Speaker 2 (13:48):
How are you cover the biggest red carpets, the biggest
events in Hollywood? And the NFL just had their biggest
event last night, NFL Honors. So I want to get
like a pro insiders to and what you think. We're
going to talk a little fashion and we're going to
talk about cut ast couple. Okay, what NFL player do
you think has the best fashion set.
Speaker 14 (14:10):
I'm saying Joe Burrow's fashion game.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Is like it's phenomenal when he walked in the runway show.
Speaker 14 (14:16):
Yeah, like and we love a high fashion moment, you know,
especially like doing Live for Me the red carpet coverage. Like,
fashion is what we love to talk about. So I
always love when the athletes lay in fashion really push
the envelope.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So that's always exciting to see. We love thoughts.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
He's the high fashion I think is the key there
because like heavy on the tour, so many yeah, so
many guys will walk in you know, they use the
tunnel as their.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Runway walking into games.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
But like to get to that level, I that that
is care.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
That is where it starts.
Speaker 14 (14:48):
Like you those tunnel seeds fashion any day, any.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Day is their runway.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And we saw in one of the documentaries, I think
it was Quarterback, that Joey b got a stylist, like
a top tier one of the best in the biz stylist,
and it's like you get it, and that's how you.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Cross over from the sports world to the pop culture world.
Speaker 14 (15:06):
Actually exactly It's just huge, and that's so my show.
Not to shamelessly plug.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I was just gonna asking.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
About it into what you're doing now, which I'm so
excited to hear about.
Speaker 14 (15:17):
Yeah, it's called Not About Sports. It airs every other
week on my YouTube channel. We've had a couple of
really incredible episodes so far. We've got Malcolm Jenkins our
episodes dropping next Tuesday, Yes, champion, Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Eagles Hall of Famer recently.
Speaker 14 (15:31):
And this is all about talking to our favorite names
in the game about everything except the game. Like I
love the human interest, I love the fashion, I love
the why behind what the incredible athletes are doing. And
so that's what the show is all about. So we're
talking about everything except sport.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Which is what we're doing now, which we love. Who
would be like a dream guest for you to, Oh.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
My gosh, there are so many.
Speaker 14 (15:53):
I would love to get Jordan Chiles right now.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Did you see her new kidding?
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Florine is incredible, seam about another ten another ten for her,
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Speaker 14 (16:05):
She has the best personality. She's so we have interviewed
her before quickly on Red Carpet Ship and get her
on Tom Brady. I think he's at a really interesting
point in his life. Very much his questions Michael Jordan
notoriously private.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Do you review like this girl him or something like that.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I'm from Chicago. I literally have twenty three tattooed on.
I got it at last super Bowl at the Jordan house.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
I need to see that.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Sierra and Russ on the show together?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yes, yes, okay, So, like, let's let me lead that
into our next fun question. We're gonna go back to
the fun honor question. Favorite NFL couple.
Speaker 14 (16:44):
Oh, they are so many right, Like we los Hylaor
and Travis.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
We love Normani and DK.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Yeah, Sierra and Russ our favorite oji.
Speaker 14 (16:53):
They're og and they're like the matchmaking couple.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Like the way that they.
Speaker 14 (16:58):
Keep pairing these beautiful young couples together is just so cute.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
So I love seeing that.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
So okay, let's go back to the show not about sports.
How did this whole idea and concept kind of come
to fruition for you?
Speaker 14 (17:11):
You know, it was one of those things of I
so admire the world of sports, and there's so much,
rightfully so around what it takes to achieve excellence, right
from a stat's analytics perspective, like what does that grind
look like? But I'm so curious about like the human
cost of that excellence, Like what does it really take
behind the scenes?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
And who are you when you're not on the field.
Speaker 14 (17:34):
Or on the court or on the ice performing at
the highest level, right, Like what would we be surprised
to know about you?
Speaker 6 (17:39):
One of our guests was akbar about to be a
miller Love.
Speaker 14 (17:43):
Brind and my co host, and he's like, you know,
I'm actually an incredible barista and what really We literally
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We sat down, I got to know him.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
We're talking about marriage.
Speaker 14 (18:00):
He's married four beautiful children, Like what does it take
to sustain a marriage? With Malcolm, we're talking about life
after the NFL, managing money and wealth and his advice to,
you know, athletes who are coming now and like how
to navigate the pitfalls, the highs and.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Lows of that journey.
Speaker 14 (18:17):
We had Lorel Sarkisian, the wife of the Texas Longhorns
head coach Steve Sarkisian. She's talking about becoming a mom
for the first time at thirty nine. Yeah, you know,
she thought best on if it hasn't happened by forty
So just talking about everything except the game they're known for.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I'm so excited. Now tell everyone where they can watch
the show.
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So they can watch on YouTube every other week, YouTube
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in the pipeline.
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Speaker 6 (18:47):
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You too?
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Speaker 2 (19:10):
Welcome back to super Week. We have a very special guest.
This is one of my favorite things about radio row
is if a big star like though one and only
Kirk Cousins is walking by and he has some time,
he will jump right up on set. So we are
so excited to have you, Kirk, and I have to
say you are one of my favorite quarterbacks to watch
in these documentaries.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
You are the most humble, down to earth rad Dad, Like.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
How how do you I need to have that on loop?
Speaker 15 (19:38):
And I waked up at the morning post make sure
you can hear that. People said, you know, Kirk, you
were you were good in you were good in the documentary.
Your wife was great. So my wife Julie really was
the star. But I was glad we were able to
put her on display.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Yeah, the whole family, honestly, and getting to see the
inner workings we were just on. Actually, Zuri Hall does
a show not about sports, where it's more of the
human interest and what it takes to kind of you know,
you're competing at these the highest.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Level of the land, right and what toll though that
takes on the.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Family and how families really support you guys when you're
on the field, but then more importantly off of it.
Speaker 15 (20:15):
Yeah, when I watch as a fan of other sports,
or even when I was growing up watching pro football,
you don't have an appreciation for all that goes into it.
You just kind of see Sunday and then you see Sunday,
or you hear someone gets traded and you just see
them in the next next jersey and you think all
it required was a jersey change, right, And you don't
think about the house selling and the family moving, and
the schools changing and the friends you leave and the
new friends you make. And so there is a lot
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logistically with being a pro athlete that is difficult and
unique to being a pro athlete, and the wives and
the kids have to bear a lot of that more
than just the athlete themselves.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
So I have a question. I'm a new mom.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I have a six month old daughter, and what I
love is you talked about one day a week that
you really are about and focus on your family. And
I've taken that, like my husband and I have taken
that really into consideration. And what is some other advice
that you've kind of given the young guys in the
locker room who have new families and are trying to
balance that like work life balance.
Speaker 12 (21:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (21:08):
I think what's interesting is a guy is you can't
help quite as much when they're newborns. Yeah, And so
it like I found myself wanting to get to the
stage where they are now they're six and eight and
I go out in the yard and we play touch football,
and I was really looking forward to that when they
were two and three. But you have to enjoy each
stage for what it is because you can't go back.
And so I see the photos now of my two
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year old son and my three year old son, and
that was four or five years ago, and I think, oh,
I just want to go hold them and have them
at that age, and I can't.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
And so you have to appreciate each stage for.
Speaker 15 (21:37):
What it is, even if you're looking forward to the
next one, don't wish it to be coming that quickly.
So there are days there's going to be tough where
you're like, I'm so tired of having to do this
again and again and again. But do the best you
can to enjoy it, because once it's gone, it's gone.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
If you'll indulge me a little bit in some football
kind of philosophical questions, Sure, the quarterbacks, you're talking about
the young guys in the league, and the expectations that
it's placed on a lot of these guys, and especially
the ones that are draft at high they go into
maybe not the best situations, and I think we're seeing
more and more how much situation matters. What kind of
expectations do you think are fair for some of these
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guys coming into the league. You know, they are the
best in college, but then they go to these situations.
How much does that situation matter more than even what
their level of talent is.
Speaker 15 (22:21):
Yeah, the environment you're in is just such a team game,
and so the environment is critical. I think the two
quarterbacks starting in the Super Bowl are great proof of
that because both of them, even Drake and a small
sample size, last year, you know, they were not a
winning team. They were not in the playoffs. He didn't
necessarily have a Pro Bowl year. And now he's spent
the MVP conversation in starting a Super Bowl and you realize, well,
he didn't suddenly change or reinvent himself. It was everything
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around him got more stable and got to a place
where it was clearly defined and guys were able to
play with a with a with a with no gray
area and very clear. And then Sam much even more
with larger sample size. You know, he's had incredible success
in Minnesota and Seattle, and yet prior to that was
kind of going from one tough situation to another.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So the environment's a big deal.
Speaker 15 (23:02):
Now the flip side can be true, where a guy
gets drafted really high and he gets a really long
leash and he isn't that good and it's time to
move on, but nobody wants to because they say no,
if we could just give him more pieces around him, right,
we'll be good. And at some point I think you
have to say no. I think I don't think it's
the pieces around him. I think it's he's not doing
his part. So that's for the people on the inside
of the building to discern each time.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
But it's both.
Speaker 15 (23:23):
You've got to get the right guy pulling the trigger
at quarterback, but then you've got to give him the
right pieces. And when you get both, you can be
in the super Bowl. But if you're missing one or
the other, it's going to be a tough deal.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
The transition too, I mean from college.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I know it looks on the outside the college game
in the NFL game are very similar, but the actual
mechanics of it. You gave a really great answer at
the podium a few like later in the season where
you talked about just how you see the field and
how you were taught to see the field in college
that essentially you know, now you're a pure progression kind
of guy, and that's what they teach you in the
NFL because defenses are so sophisticated. Correct, how does that trend?
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How long does that transition take? And how hard is
it going from the college game to the program.
Speaker 15 (24:04):
Yeah, I think it comes down to how much does
the coach want to change what you've done. I mean,
I've been a part of systems where I was in
the shotgun and they wanted my right foot forward, and
you'd be surprised just asking you to switch your feets
so now your left foot is forward instead.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
How much rewiring in my brain that took.
Speaker 15 (24:17):
Where I'm spending time in April and may just trying
to take simple steps to get to where it's natural
to have your left foot forward.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So if the.
Speaker 15 (24:23):
Coach is saying, hey, we're going to try to do
everything we can to make it a natural transition from
what you did in college to what we're doing here,
it's a lot easier to then add a few wrinkles
here and there. But when you're saying everything you do
is now going to be different. Every word you say,
every snap count you say, every footwork pcus, every read,
you'd feel like, well, who did you draft? Because the
guy that you drafted didn't do any of this? So
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now you're basically getting a guy who you didn't draft.
So that's the hard part is if you want the
guy you drafted, you're going to have to do some
things that he's done. Otherwise you're not getting the guy
you picked.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
So let's talk about what you're here with. Would is
Zebra Technologies next gen Stats?
Speaker 11 (24:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
How much does that come into play for you on
a daily base, say it's a week two week basis,
when you're preparing for the game.
Speaker 15 (25:02):
Well, Zebra Technologies put a chip in the ball so
they can measure spend. So it's really interesting feedback. So
you can if you get your arm hit in the game,
you can see from the data and practice, do I
still have the same zip on the ball that I want?
Can I spend it the same way? You know, you
compare yourself to other people? How's my spin rate relative
to their? So that's some helpful information as a thrower.
And then they put it in the shoulder pads so
you can know your general movement and like receivers and
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dbs can know, you know their acceleration, their distance traveled.
It's a big one now with hamstrings and trying to
protect guys so that they can stay healthy. Is how
much high speed yards they had this week? And is
it too much? Is it too little? So that we
can manage their legs so they can be ready for
Sunday and be at their best.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So it's a very practical tool.
Speaker 15 (25:38):
They're actually Zebra's working with eighty percent of Fortune five
hundred companies to handle their tracking and logistics. So it
really is a technology they developed for corporate America and
then we realized, well, that same technology package can work
on an athlete, and so we use it as well.
It's been a great partnership with the NFL for well
over a decade now, but really cool information and the
more sports science comes into the end of the play,
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the more Zebra Technologies becomes a big driver of that
data behind the scenes.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
We love it.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Kirk, Thank you so much for jopping.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I'm with us.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Sure we're big fans of you on the field, but
even more off the field and doing what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
We really appreciate you. Good to catch up, Yeah, go Green,
All right, a go. Thanks.
Speaker 12 (26:15):
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Speaker 3 (26:27):
Welcome back to Super Week. We are so excited for
our next guest.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Former NFL great, current NFL network analyst Gerald McCoy.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Thank you so much for joining the show.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And I like, we got so many messages text carme
and you go way back. But when I tell people
you were coming on the show, They're like, oh, man.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
He's the man. I can't wait for you to meet him.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
So you have a great reputation around media, the league, everywhere.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I'm so excited you're here.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
You know what. First off, Yeah, thank you for having me.
Speaker 16 (26:56):
Yeah, you know, I truly appreciate it. I've been all over,
I've been all over. Yeah, she watched me train. I
trained extremely hard to be great in the fourth quarter. Yeah,
and her since Monday work. So this is where you
turn it on. You see all the greats turn it
on in the fourth ward. Take your game to the
(27:18):
next level in the fourth quarter, to spend.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Every blade of glass, blade of grass for sixty minute.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
You've been here that long. What's been your favorite part
of Super Week? Because a lot of people like they're like, oh,
it's a super Bowl'm like uh uh, Like you have
like an entire week long of events before the main event.
I mean, you're going to be part of the NFL
Networks eight and a half hour pregame special, so we're
gonna be getting a lot of you Sunday. But what's
(27:46):
this week leading up to the Super Bowl been like
for you?
Speaker 16 (27:49):
It's it's been great, It's been incredible. I've done a
lot of work.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (27:53):
For me, I'm a football player first. Yeah, last night.
Speaker 16 (28:01):
Was the best part of the week because every off
season I would leave Tampa and fly to San Diego
to train.
Speaker 11 (28:11):
Who goes from.
Speaker 16 (28:11):
The East Coast to the West coast every week to
train the off season unless it's something special out there.
My trainer Todd Durkin, who trained with Danleien, Thomlinson and
a lot of other greats. He trained Drew Brees every
off season of my career. I trained with Drew Brees
until he retired, which was funny. So that made the
(28:36):
game even more when the Bucks played at Saints. Drew
has been one of my mentors. Uh, He's been like
my big brother. And in Tampa we were a point
where we were called younger. We were so young. I
didn't really have a mentor in Tampa in the building.
I had SAP, but I talked to him when I could,
(28:59):
so a lot out of what I learned that took
my game to the next level. The advice, the work ethic,
everything I did came from Drew Brees. So when I
knew he was going to be up this year, it
was obviously automatic. I didn't go to NFL Honors last night.
To go to NFL Honors, I literally went to be
(29:21):
in the moment when Drew Brees walked on stage and
all of the Hall of Famers went up and hugged
them and shook their hands. I left them, I pay respects.
I waited, and then I walked on stage last so
I can hug Drew in the moment and just tell
him thank you, tell him I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 11 (29:38):
And you have no idea what this moment means to me.
Speaker 16 (29:42):
I understand it's your honor, but what it meant to
me of who you were, everything that's come your way,
that was more of a special moment for me than
probably anybody in their room, because I watched how he worked.
I watched when he went through pain, I watched the
effort he put in and the focus put in and
then I had to compete again.
Speaker 11 (30:02):
Suit.
Speaker 16 (30:02):
Yeah, I know, but you if anybody up here, that guy,
he's your stage.
Speaker 11 (30:07):
Yeah. So that was the moment a week for me.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I got chills when you explain that you can tell
the love and the mutual respect.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
It was always fun though, I mean Buck Saints is
always fun. But knowing that because I remember talking to
you about that while you were doing it, and just
how it was so special because you literally get to
go after Drew Brees, I do every down of the
game that you guys play against each other. I love
that that relationship has blossomed so much. And now you're
both in media and he is. He was moved up
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to the crew with Fox and he's calling games. Is
there anything now that you guys have talked about together
now that you're still in the same aspect of the industry.
Speaker 16 (30:46):
One, we have a kind of a group message where
Todd Darkin, who was our trainer, is three of us
that's actually in the media, Me, Chase.
Speaker 11 (30:56):
Daniels, Andrew Brees. So we all kind of like, hey,
I see you on TV. I see you're doing your thing. Brother.
Speaker 16 (31:04):
Hey, So we kind of just, you know, we're boosting
each other up and keeping each other uplifted, which is
what we did when we trained. So I'm excited to
see Drew's future in that aspect. He's one of the
greatest minds I've ever been around, one of the greatest
man He one day we were training and they was like, hey, Drew,
just give us a play call, and I mean, listen,
(31:26):
it sounded like he was reading off a poem. I said,
what the heck is that? He said, Oh, that was
just one play with a chick was doing our longest plays.
I'm like, yep, wow, give me my three word play
and let me go.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Okay, I got some insight information that you love superheroes like.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Superhero fan We have.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
A diamond encrusted Batman necklast going on right now. So
we're gonna play a little fun game. We're going to
give you an NFL player. You tell us what superhero
he would be. I'm going to start with the Super Bowl,
and we're going to start with Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Who would he be?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Because like he got doubted for his entire career, he's
still like there are still doubters and he's in the
super Bowl and he's proven everybody wrong.
Speaker 16 (32:20):
Trying to think of somebody like that, Sam Donald is,
he's not a superhero. I'm dating myself and a lot
of kids won't notice. But will Do you remember Billy
from Two Power Rangers.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Yes, he was like, oh my god, you're.
Speaker 11 (32:39):
Like I see this like so.
Speaker 16 (32:41):
Just and then when he powered up he was.
Speaker 11 (32:46):
Nobody. Nobody was afraid of Billy. And then when he
became watch out.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
A good one Billy.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
All right, Well then I have to go on the
other side, and I have to go to the young
by the second finished second n MVP voting Drake May.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
What do we think, Drake May?
Speaker 16 (33:10):
Drake May will be Shazam boy wonder. Yes, he's young,
He's just looks like a teenager. But then when it's
time to go supermode Shazam and he turns into who
he needs to turn into.
Speaker 11 (33:29):
So Drake May will be Sham Yes.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
I love these comps.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Okay, let's go to our new MVP. Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 11 (33:38):
Uh.
Speaker 16 (33:39):
Matthew Stafford is Uh, I'm gonna go Sydeclops.
Speaker 11 (33:45):
Wow. Yeah, because.
Speaker 16 (33:48):
Cyclops is a born leader who doesn't get a lot
of praise.
Speaker 11 (33:56):
Usually it's Wolverine gets all the praise. Or people around
him around them.
Speaker 16 (34:01):
But Cyclops everything goes and starts with him. He just
doesn't get the praise you he should get until.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
He's the m v pes.
Speaker 11 (34:14):
Cyclop letters.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
That's some really good parallel, but.
Speaker 16 (34:18):
He doesn't get the credit he deserves for how consistent
Cyclops has been as an X Man leader.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
That's a really good yes, all right.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Last one, the defense the unanimous defensive player of.
Speaker 16 (34:32):
The Marsha Man Hunter. I already got it, Manhunter. He's
not human, he's not from don know, he just he
can morph into whatever he needs to morph into. I've
been calling that dude the Marsha Man Hunter all season.
We're talking about Miles Geared.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
We're talking about if you didn't know, the defensive player
of the Y is the Marshal Man.
Speaker 16 (34:53):
We're sure, absolutely he's the Marsha Man.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I don't know if I know the Martian Man.
Speaker 16 (34:58):
He's the green one that's in the Justice League. He
sometimes can have the human form he forms. He's the
green one with the he's got a cap and he's dope.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Okay, I love that so much.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Okay, So before we let you go, kind of paint
the picture of what we can expect to see in
this eight and a half hour pregame special on NFL Networks.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
That's a lot of pregame talk. But we're ready for it.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
Yeah it is. So it's a lot yeh.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Eight and a half hours.
Speaker 16 (35:27):
Yes, and we don't expect everybody to be tuned in
the whole eight and a half hours.
Speaker 12 (35:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (35:32):
For me, I was just going too. The mind of
how Gerald works is we're going to have to talk
about two teams for that long.
Speaker 16 (35:39):
Yes, And I won't be on Cameon the whole time,
but our one I might talk about something again at
our four or maybe in our one it might be
in hour three and then again at our six.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (35:54):
You just find new ways to talk about the same thing.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Uh huh.
Speaker 16 (35:58):
But for me, I'm not a low hanging fruit person.
I've never been a low hanging fruit person. So I
actually request to go last on. When I prep with
our segment producer Ben McWilliams, I say, tell me what much,
and Kurt said, let them take it. I'll figure it out.
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That forces my mind to be creative and I have
to paint a picture because what I've strived to do
is when the fans are listening, I try and understand
that I may be talking to somebody.
Speaker 11 (36:37):
Who doesn't know about football. So no offense.
Speaker 16 (36:41):
I treat it as if I'm talking to five year
olds because I want it to be very, very easy
to understand. Else, Yes, so when I say I try
and think outside the box. No low hanging fruit. Here's
an example. Championship weekend, we had a topic or segment
about Sam Donald, and the topic bar said, how does
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Sam Donald exercise his demons?
Speaker 11 (37:08):
Because he's had these struggles in the games. So you
see what I'm saying.
Speaker 16 (37:12):
So what most people say, Oh, well he's got to
lean on his run game all the JS and this
and this.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
Not me, what did you say?
Speaker 11 (37:19):
Not me?
Speaker 6 (37:20):
What you say?
Speaker 16 (37:21):
So when we talk about exercise the demons, that's an exorcism,
right it is? So I said, exercise demons, So this
is an exorcism.
Speaker 11 (37:32):
I got it.
Speaker 16 (37:33):
So we went to nineteen seventy three's Exorcism movie and
I literally gave a description of that scene and correlated
it to Sam Donald. So I started with the girl
she throws up on the priests. Okay, Sam Donald, you
might just have a lot of jitters. You might need
to go to trash can and throw up for the game.
It worked for Josh Allen works. It also worked for
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Willie Bemon. So you know you got the crowd is
gonna be screaming. It's gonna be stuff all over the place.
Your head's gonna be spinning. Remember our head was spinning
in the movie. Sam, keep your head on straight. You
gotta keep your head on straight. And then when you
go score touchdown, you go score touchdown.
Speaker 11 (38:11):
Just like her. She started screaming and got it. The
room started rocking. Sam.
Speaker 16 (38:15):
When you go score, you need to get the crowd
into it because that stadium is gonna start shaking. And Sam,
in the fourth quarter, your emotion's gonna be up. You
might start floating away. And just like in the movie
when they said the power of Christ compels you, Sam,
remember the power of the twelves compelled the power it'll
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bring you right back. For me, That's how Gerald works.
I don't want to do hanging fruit. That's what you
can expect for eight and a half hours to bring
those NFL circle.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
This is how you've always worked because you trained with
a quarterback. You trained with the guy you were going
after to understand your position better.
Speaker 16 (38:56):
Absolutely, I trained with Drew Brees and my workout partner
was at actually Darrence Prosrees go to man on the sung,
so I have to keep up with a running back
in order to increase what I can do.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
So I love this so much. I'm excited to tune
in and watch all of you guys. You're with like
all of our home girls too that are gonna be
on it.
Speaker 11 (39:17):
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
What a blast.
Speaker 11 (39:18):
Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
We love this so much.
Speaker 11 (39:21):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
All Right, we'll be right back, guys.
Speaker 12 (39:25):
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Speaker 3 (39:36):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
We are now joined by one of my favorite people in.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
The street, the harness.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Working woman in sports right now. Because you can see
her on ESPN, you can see her on NFL Network,
you can see her on NBA TV. This girl has
shows every single day of the week, and you've been
doing so here at Super Week. I feel like you've
been at every event, every red carpet. You're going to
(40:04):
be a part of the eight and a half hour
pregame show on NFL Network MJA cute everybody.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
She's like, I'm tired of.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Every day women.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
But last night you were on the red carpet NFL Honors.
We all love a fashion moment. Dress, I know your outfit,
all your out this week. Insane my stylist, this is
not me. I cannot do this on my own. She's unbelievable.
Set me up for the entire week.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
Like here, this is what do you wear on Monday? Yes?
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Okay, so take us to the red carpet.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
What is it like seeing these guys really be able
to have fun. We've been talking a lot about fashion
and it's really made its way into mainstream sports with
the tunnel walks and the tunnel photos and the videos.
But this is their biggest night of the year. Who
was your favorite to see?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Who stood out? Who stole the show of the boy?
Speaker 17 (41:06):
So, I mean, you guys know this and it's a
safe space. Obviously we're around the guys great stuff. The
night is for them in the NFL world. But Miss
USA walked by, and I long in my mind, I
was like, b R B right.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
Also cheerleader.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
I mean, girl, you've lived nine lives.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
They don't even know. But of the fellas. I will
say that Will Anderson came through clean. He looked so handsome.
I was like, okay, okay. He had a little texture
on his jacket. There was a what is it velvet?
Speaker 17 (41:45):
A little velvet lapel, and then like an applicuet on
the soup, but it was all black on black, so
it didn't jump out.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
Too much, just like the braids were perfect.
Speaker 17 (41:54):
He really, to me, was of all the guys that
I saw, I think one of the best dressed, but
not the best.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
I love that this is become such a form of expression.
Tell your guys because obviously, like you know, football is
a very regimented sport. You're told when you need to
be there, where you're going, what you're.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Doing, have it.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
And this is something where we finally get to see
some of their personalities and so what are some of
the there's stories behind some of these outfits.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Did you get any of that kind.
Speaker 5 (42:19):
Of intel last night with some of these Yeah, these
guys and what they're wearing.
Speaker 17 (42:23):
Dean Dawkins came up and he had this like deconstructed suit,
like you could see the inside stitching, and I was like, okay,
this is so dis deconstructed. It must be intentional on purpose,
and it was. And he said, you know, I've been
nominated for Walter Payton Man of the Year so many times,
and I feel like this suit, in its deconstruction, represents
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what the man has been through and all of this
look at you all deep and stuff. I thought it
was a really sweet way for him. He's like, and
I'm gonna be comfortable, Like I'm just one thing about
the sneakers. I was like, we need to take a
pat from you. I won't, but I don't that you're comfortable.
Speaker 6 (43:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
I mean you've been a part of like all of
the coverage for NFL, but you guys are doing an
eight and a half hour pregame show.
Speaker 6 (43:09):
Yeah, why are we like this? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
I don't know what can we expect to see from this?
Speaker 17 (43:13):
I mean, first of all, don't expect me at the
four am hour. Okay, girl is gonna leave, but my
call time for the stadium that morning is eight am, so.
Speaker 6 (43:25):
Of a departure.
Speaker 17 (43:26):
But I think what you'll see is, I mean, full
analysis on the game, of course, full lead up to
the Bad Buddy concert in the middle of it all.
We'll talk about him in a second the Apple Music
Super Bowl halftime show is going to be unbelievable for sure,
and I think all of the fun that goes into
it too.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
You know, early in the morning, the game day morning
crew is just you guys.
Speaker 17 (43:49):
Have to remember they're shooting this in Los Angeles on
the West coast, so if you're an East Coaster, you're
getting this at a normal morning.
Speaker 7 (43:57):
I forgot it.
Speaker 6 (43:57):
They're doing it in the middle of the night, right,
They're on air at four am.
Speaker 17 (44:00):
They're up at the latest two A, right, So it's
no joke. So if things get off.
Speaker 7 (44:06):
The rails, yes, if people are just very early, you
know why.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
So you mentioned the.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Bad Bunny concert though, and I know how much I've
just seen from Afar, but I know it connects with
you personally. What does it mean to the cultures to
have him be this winning first Flatin artists, first full
Spanish album to win that award.
Speaker 6 (44:27):
So I interviewed him yesterday.
Speaker 17 (44:29):
I spoke with the man himself, but you.
Speaker 6 (44:35):
But we got to dance a little bit. I mean,
it was Sunday, which is awesome.
Speaker 17 (44:41):
I'm very excited about it, and it was also cool
to be able to do part of the parts of
the interview in Spanish, so wherever we felt so inclined
over just didn't come out in English. We would just
rip off in Spanish and it was awesome. But like
as a Caribbean, Latina the Dominican Republic were so tethered,
like the two islands, and for me seeing him and
his success, it feels like a part of me and
a part of my family is represented up there and
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not something we ever thought was on the board for us.
And that's what he echoed to me yesterday. He's like,
it's just I carry so many cultures and so many
different people with me. But while it's heavy, it also
lifts me up at the same time. You know, they're
the ones propping me up. And he's like, and I
just want everybody to have a good time, Like have fun.
That's that's what I'm leaving out on the stage for everyone.
Speaker 5 (45:23):
He really understands the moment and understands the platform.
Speaker 4 (45:27):
What do you what do you think we.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
Can expect then, because obviously last year Kendrick super Bowl
Halfway was credible. It's it made so many statements, it
was so layered. Correct, can we expect the same thing?
Do you think from bad Bunny. I think yes and yes.
It's going to be a full tribute to Puerto Rico.
It's going to be unapologetically Puerto Rican. Everybody's better understand
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that Puerto Rico is America after this halftime show.
Speaker 6 (45:52):
No, you know what if they don't by now, I
can't help you like this.
Speaker 17 (45:56):
On the internet are available and the Internet is for everybody, Like,
I don't know to.
Speaker 11 (46:02):
Tell you anymore.
Speaker 6 (46:04):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Give you any snippets like sneakers that you can share
with us.
Speaker 6 (46:09):
No, he didn't give me one thing, and that's fair.
I was like, not even for me. You're pretty much
out here, come.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
For me.
Speaker 17 (46:19):
He's like, respectfully, man, we just met.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
We're about family.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
Family, We're hugging.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
The next step farm got it copy far and I'm
so excited to watch you on everything. One of my
favorite hard working follows like always you want to see
a girl work.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
You want to see a girl prepare for a cold
weather game.
Speaker 17 (46:39):
No, like I packed all of my heated You're away.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
Yeah, bye.
Speaker 5 (46:46):
Year for someone for someone that is not used to it,
that to not grow up in it. Girl, you you
understand it really well.
Speaker 17 (46:53):
The thing is I go out there, and like the
first couple of cities, people are like, oh, come on,
don't be a punk, blah blah blah. You did gloves
And then we're like December, they're like, so where did where,
where did you get those?
Speaker 5 (47:03):
I'm like, never apologizing for being cozy, Never apologized for
being cozy.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
No, yeah, never MJ. We love you. Keep crushing it.
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Welcome to super Week. I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitali,
Bridget Condon, Tracy Sandler and little Nikki Kay coming to
you from Radio Row in San Francisco for our last day.
It has been an absolute blast, and I think this
might be the first time that we have five girls
on set. Six if you include Diana Russini, who's off
to the side, our little baby girl, La boo boo.
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Speaker 5 (00:32):
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
Okay, guys, we are just two days away from the
big game.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So excited.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We're gonna spend this been giving our game predictions. Hey,
we haven't done it yet. We've waited till the last day.
We have an expert here who was at you were
at the Rams Seahawks.
Speaker 7 (01:11):
That was the suite.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I think a lot of people think not beforehand, I
was like, this is the talks before.
Speaker 8 (01:18):
So can we give a little left to Matthew Stafford
for winning MVP And you know, I mean how about
his girls?
Speaker 7 (01:24):
Yeah right, Oh my god, they were so cute.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
They were so cute.
Speaker 9 (01:30):
This game is going to be so good. Yeah, I'm
hyping it up because I'm from This is such a
weird situation from Massachusetts.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
But I covered the Seahawks all the time and people
are like, who.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Are you going for. I'm going for a good game.
Speaker 9 (01:42):
The NFC Championship just showed us how dominant the Seahawks
defense is. The Patriots are going to face the best
offense that they've faced this postseason in Sam Donald and
the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 7 (01:54):
Do you want to give my prediction? First?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
I kind of just we.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Usually go down the line ground, but you are like, hey,
I yes, go down.
Speaker 9 (02:03):
The line, Okay, Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna say Sam Darnold
is going to come out on the biggest stage of
his career and take the dub. The Patriots will be
back Drake and Mike Rabel, very young, very new. They
aren't going to shock the world. They know a lot
of people are hoping for that this is Mike McDonald, Yes,
Sam Donald, and that dark side defense.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Is here and that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Okay, I feel like there might be a little theme
here because I have jumped on the Sam Donald fanwagon
here and I've already apologized to him publicly twice.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Good throughout this.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I was a d I've been a Sam Donald truther
for a very long time.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
I was a downer.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I was like, can he be that same guy in
the big games, in the playoffs when it matters. And
there was a point like last season when he lost
Week eighteen and then he lost the Fox came back
playing time, and the Vikings decided not to keep a
big mistake there.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Obviously they fired their GM.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But see what he was able to do in his
first year with the Seahawks with the right fit and
someone wanting him to be the starter, number one quarterback.
Because you have to remember in Minnesota he was the
backup for JJ McCarthy who got hurt and then he
got the opportunity to step in and take over. So
this is his moment and opportunity, and even in the
(03:19):
NFC Championship games, that was the best game he's ever
played in his life in his career, and he was
still dealing with an oblique injury and he was able
to come out silence all of the doubters. I mean,
obviously it was a little painful because it was against
my rams and I wanted that to happen. But now
I am a Sam Darnold, Sam van Wagon and I
(03:42):
think he is going to go out there and finish
the job and get it done on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
It's interesting because I got to cover him very closely
when I was covering the Minnesota Vikings covering the NFC North. Yeah,
even going into that and knowing the time that he
spent in San Francisco with Kyle Shanahan, I was like, there's.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Something to this guy.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
He went to the worst possible situation he could have
when he was drafted to the Jets. It wasn't a
much better situation in Carolina. He goes to a Kyle
Shanahan system, gets right, goes to Minnesota, and I'm like,
I am a Sam Donald Truther. I think I've been
a Sam Donald Truther for the last couple of years.
So it's been really cool to see. Even though the
Minnesota Vikings let him go they had just essentially put
(04:21):
too much into JJ McCarthy to not give him that opportunity.
But I really thought that Sam Darnold had exercised. We
just talked to Jeryl McCoy about exercising some demons. He
exercised the amount of demons that he needed to more
than I want to talk about Sam Donaldo with the
Seatle Seahawks, because they are also my pick. It is
this recipe that honestly both of these teams follow, which
(04:41):
is have a really good quarterback, have a dominant defense.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Now, the Patriots defense became dominant as the season went
on under Mike Rable. They figured out how to get pressure.
But they have been a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
They're just younger.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
They're a little more experience, inexperienced, a little bit more
volatile when you talk about just their consistency, whereas the
Seattle Seahawks defense is the picture of consistency. They don't
have flaws. They are the most complete unit in the next.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Man up time and time again, no matter who is out.
They believe in what they're able to bring to the field.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
As they've been dominant all season. They are dominant at
every single level. Guys like Devin Witherspoon have been guys
that I loved since they came out, And I'm just
this is the most complete unit it possibly could be.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I don't see how that recipe fails.
Speaker 10 (05:28):
Yeah I would. I would agree with that, I think.
And it's the most complete team. I've seen this team
live three times a season. Week one, Week eighteen, the
Divisional Round, the Week one team is a completely different
team than the Week eighteen team and the Divisional Round team.
They're dominant everywhere, and Rashid Shaheed comes in and becomes
this secret weapon, this special team star. And that's the
(05:50):
other thing we all forget about special team. It's but
in a lot of situations we see what a difference
it makes. And this team is it's incredible. Like you said,
the defense is amazing. Sam Donald's great, Jackson Smith and Jig.
But not easy for me to say. The man went
to Ohio State, but he has just been a revelation
for Seattle.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Something State receivers.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
I don't like, No, I don't like it at all.
But this is this is the best team in the NFL.
It's the most complete team in the NFL, from top
to bottom. Mike McDonald has built just a coremendous, tremendous defensive,
tremendous staff, and I I just think they are pretty
much unbeatable. If there is such a thing, Patriots will
be back there. I think these are the two best
(06:32):
teams if you're going the best safe, the best NFC.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
But the Seattle team.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Is really good top to bottom, no way.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
To anybody.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
So let me say quick if you're sorry, Nick, if
your grandpa's name is dick Hammer, you can't.
Speaker 11 (06:48):
You can't.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I think that's.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
It is time.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
So I think how you feel about js N. I
feel about Sam Donald as a bruin. I have been
intrinsically raised to doubt him, but I think if there's
one question mark going into the Seahawks performance in this game,
it's Sam Darnold. Is he going to turn the ball over?
But I think it starts with the top and the
belief that Mike McDonald has instilled in this team. And
he has been the type of coach to let Sam
(07:13):
let make those plays, make those mistakes, and work through them.
We saw him do it against the Rams despite turnovers,
coming out with the win. And I think that that
sort of belief is what we'll push the Seahawks over,
you know, the redemption right from the last two teams
or last time these two teams met, and I feel
comfortable saying that the Patriots might have a dynasty in
the making, you know, even even though they yeah, we're back,
(07:38):
but and I'm going to say Seahawks win and I
think js n's taking the MVP home.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Wow, is this dangerous that everybody picked the season? That's
when something goes here and a hard left happens, and
it's gonna.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Be the Patriots.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
I've been literally born and raised twenty minutes from Jillette Stadium. Okay,
so I'm not a fan, I'm unbiased, I'm aer reporter,
come on, but I just know this team well enough
to never doubt them. Different with Tom Brady, Like, remember
I don't know the Seahawks and Patriots Super Bowl and
I was like ready to leave my party. That's the
(08:12):
thing everyone any like, that's why you move someday, That's
why we love this sport.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Anything would happen.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Yeah, Police Seahawks, though, don't uh, don't throw the ball.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
If you're on the.
Speaker 10 (08:20):
Goal line for the Kenneth Walker.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Opening night, They're like, what are you going to do?
With the ball on the watch them like fumble it them.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It is a Super Bowl anythink anything. Obviously, Seahawks are
going in as the favorite, they are.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
The most complete, still four and a half and half
this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
But it's just something like like we saw in the
NFC Championship game. It has to be like it's going
to be a mistake. It's gonna be one and it's
gonna be It can be either side, but that is
going to be the determining factor. Bridget, You've been at
Super Bowl as you work for NFL Network, You've seen
and been around this craziness kind of paint the picture
(09:06):
of like the environment and the vibe for these guys.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
I think Matthew Stafford put it perfectly before the NFC
Championship game when he was asked this very question and
he started laughing and one of the reporters was like,
what are you laughing about? And he's like, I'm just
thinking about like the pregame warm up. So the Super Bowl,
the rock was just there on the sideline like things
like that are gonna happen, and you have to That's
where experience comes in and you're gonna look and like,
(09:29):
I don't know, see the most famous person you've ever
seen in your life right there, and you're trying to
just like throw the ball or catch the ball or
I don't know, stretch out your hamstring. Those are the differences.
But every single player that you talked to says, once
the whistle's blown, it's just it's just football. It's the
same stadium. I mean, the Seahawks are very comfortable in
the stadium. Obviously Patriots haven't played there as much, but
(09:50):
it's just gonna be football.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So but last night, like obviously this weekend, this whole
week has been football, but last night was recognizing the
best and the best in the game NFL Honors, and
Matthew Stafford, who we've all been talking about in this open.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Was just absolutely.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Chef's kiss, our new m VP, his four daughters up
there on stadium as he's accepting his speech, thanking his wife.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
He is so grateful. Was this overdue? Was this the
right choice?
Speaker 9 (10:23):
Thousand percent the right choice? And I understand Drake may
had good numbers, but again, Matthew Stafford, remember during training camp,
I remember being at Rams training camp.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
We were wondering if he was going to be able
to break because.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
He got he was like laying on that glass table right,
like the infinity table or whatever it was.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
I didn't think the one thing I would be saying
after maternity leave is Matthew Stafford and I are more
in common. Now we both had abadural because obviously come
on only strong ones girls. But clearly it worked.
Speaker 11 (10:59):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
He had that back injury and then he went out
and played the best season of his career. He's in
year seventeen. He is the MVP without a doubt. Drake
and May is a very good player and a very
young player. He has time to grow and he will
win the MVP. But that was kind of the last
thing on Matthew Stafford's resume, right, like he's done everything
else and now just check the box. How about those girls,
(11:20):
the way that they had their football persons and.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
The way they look at him, and it just look
he's coming back next year. Yeah, so there's going to
be a year eighteen.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 11 (11:31):
I love.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
I love their little pregame ritual of him coming over
and he makes sure that he says hi and kisses
his little girls and one by one before every game.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
How about him kissing them after he lost the game.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Did you have any of the guests we talked about that.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
We love that, Bridget.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
We love you so much and thank you for coming on.
We got to take our first break here, but we
will be right back.
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Speaker 2 (13:06):
Welcome back to super Week. We are so excited because
this woman does it all. She's a host of Access Hollywood,
E Life from the Red Carpet, American Ninja Warrior, Zuri Hai.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Thank you for having me.
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We're so excited to talk to you.
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So excited. Hey, I'm already loving the vibe.
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The one thing social media is good for. It really
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Speaker 2 (13:48):
How are you cover the biggest red carpets, the biggest
events in Hollywood? And the NFL just had their biggest
event last night, NFL Honors. So I want to get
like a pro insiders to and what you think. We're
going to talk a little fashion and we're going to
talk about cut ast couple. Okay, what NFL player do
you think has the best fashion set.
Speaker 14 (14:10):
I'm saying Joe Burrow's fashion game.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Is like it's phenomenal when he walked in the runway show.
Speaker 14 (14:16):
Yeah, like and we love a high fashion moment, you know,
especially like doing Live for Me the red carpet coverage. Like,
fashion is what we love to talk about. So I
always love when the athletes lay in fashion really push
the envelope.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So that's always exciting to see. We love thoughts.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
He's the high fashion I think is the key there
because like heavy on the tour, so many yeah, so
many guys will walk in you know, they use the
tunnel as their.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Runway walking into games.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
But like to get to that level, I that that
is care.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
That is where it starts.
Speaker 14 (14:48):
Like you those tunnel seeds fashion any day, any.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Day is their runway.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And we saw in one of the documentaries, I think
it was Quarterback, that Joey b got a stylist, like
a top tier one of the best in the biz stylist,
and it's like you get it, and that's how you.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Cross over from the sports world to the pop culture world.
Speaker 14 (15:06):
Actually exactly It's just huge, and that's so my show.
Not to shamelessly plug.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I was just gonna asking.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
About it into what you're doing now, which I'm so
excited to hear about.
Speaker 14 (15:17):
Yeah, it's called Not About Sports. It airs every other
week on my YouTube channel. We've had a couple of
really incredible episodes so far. We've got Malcolm Jenkins our
episodes dropping next Tuesday, Yes, champion, Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Eagles Hall of Famer recently.
Speaker 14 (15:31):
And this is all about talking to our favorite names
in the game about everything except the game. Like I
love the human interest, I love the fashion, I love
the why behind what the incredible athletes are doing. And
so that's what the show is all about. So we're
talking about everything except sport.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Which is what we're doing now, which we love. Who
would be like a dream guest for you to, Oh.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
My gosh, there are so many.
Speaker 14 (15:53):
I would love to get Jordan Chiles right now.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Did you see her new kidding?
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Florine is incredible, seam about another ten another ten for her,
all so deserved.
Speaker 14 (16:05):
She has the best personality. She's so we have interviewed
her before quickly on Red Carpet Ship and get her
on Tom Brady. I think he's at a really interesting
point in his life. Very much his questions Michael Jordan
notoriously private.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Do you review like this girl him or something like that.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I'm from Chicago. I literally have twenty three tattooed on.
I got it at last super Bowl at the Jordan house.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
I need to see that.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Sierra and Russ on the show together?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yes, yes, okay, So, like, let's let me lead that
into our next fun question. We're gonna go back to
the fun honor question. Favorite NFL couple.
Speaker 14 (16:44):
Oh, they are so many right, Like we los Hylaor
and Travis.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
We love Normani and DK.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Yeah, Sierra and Russ our favorite oji.
Speaker 14 (16:53):
They're og and they're like the matchmaking couple.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Like the way that they.
Speaker 14 (16:58):
Keep pairing these beautiful young couples together is just so cute.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
So I love seeing that.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
So okay, let's go back to the show not about sports.
How did this whole idea and concept kind of come
to fruition for you?
Speaker 14 (17:11):
You know, it was one of those things of I
so admire the world of sports, and there's so much,
rightfully so around what it takes to achieve excellence, right
from a stat's analytics perspective, like what does that grind
look like? But I'm so curious about like the human
cost of that excellence, Like what does it really take
behind the scenes?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
And who are you when you're not on the field.
Speaker 14 (17:34):
Or on the court or on the ice performing at
the highest level, right, Like what would we be surprised
to know about you?
Speaker 6 (17:39):
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miller Love.
Speaker 14 (17:43):
Brind and my co host, and he's like, you know,
I'm actually an incredible barista and what really We literally
had a latte versus latte game. We rented out a cafe,
We sat down, I got to know him.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
We're talking about marriage.
Speaker 14 (18:00):
He's married four beautiful children, Like what does it take
to sustain a marriage? With Malcolm, we're talking about life
after the NFL, managing money and wealth and his advice to,
you know, athletes who are coming now and like how
to navigate the pitfalls, the highs and.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Lows of that journey.
Speaker 14 (18:17):
We had Lorel Sarkisian, the wife of the Texas Longhorns
head coach Steve Sarkisian. She's talking about becoming a mom
for the first time at thirty nine. Yeah, you know,
she thought best on if it hasn't happened by forty
So just talking about everything except the game they're known for.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I'm so excited. Now tell everyone where they can watch
the show.
Speaker 14 (18:34):
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episode with Malcolm drops on Tuesday, So say I'm black
in the pipeline.
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Speaker 2 (19:10):
Welcome back to super Week. We have a very special guest.
This is one of my favorite things about radio row
is if a big star like though one and only
Kirk Cousins is walking by and he has some time,
he will jump right up on set. So we are
so excited to have you, Kirk, and I have to
say you are one of my favorite quarterbacks to watch
in these documentaries.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
You are the most humble, down to earth rad Dad, Like.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
How how do you I need to have that on loop?
Speaker 15 (19:38):
And I waked up at the morning post make sure
you can hear that. People said, you know, Kirk, you
were you were good in you were good in the documentary.
Your wife was great. So my wife Julie really was
the star. But I was glad we were able to
put her on display.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Yeah, the whole family, honestly, and getting to see the
inner workings we were just on. Actually, Zuri Hall does
a show not about sports, where it's more of the
human interest and what it takes to kind of you know,
you're competing at these the highest.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Level of the land, right and what toll though that
takes on the.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Family and how families really support you guys when you're
on the field, but then more importantly off of it.
Speaker 15 (20:15):
Yeah, when I watch as a fan of other sports,
or even when I was growing up watching pro football,
you don't have an appreciation for all that goes into it.
You just kind of see Sunday and then you see Sunday,
or you hear someone gets traded and you just see
them in the next next jersey and you think all
it required was a jersey change, right, And you don't
think about the house selling and the family moving, and
the schools changing and the friends you leave and the
new friends you make. And so there is a lot
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logistically with being a pro athlete that is difficult and
unique to being a pro athlete, and the wives and
the kids have to bear a lot of that more
than just the athlete themselves.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
So I have a question. I'm a new mom.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I have a six month old daughter, and what I
love is you talked about one day a week that
you really are about and focus on your family. And
I've taken that, like my husband and I have taken
that really into consideration. And what is some other advice
that you've kind of given the young guys in the
locker room who have new families and are trying to
balance that like work life balance.
Speaker 12 (21:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (21:08):
I think what's interesting is a guy is you can't
help quite as much when they're newborns. Yeah, And so
it like I found myself wanting to get to the
stage where they are now they're six and eight and
I go out in the yard and we play touch football,
and I was really looking forward to that when they
were two and three. But you have to enjoy each
stage for what it is because you can't go back.
And so I see the photos now of my two
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year old son and my three year old son, and
that was four or five years ago, and I think, oh,
I just want to go hold them and have them
at that age, and I can't.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
And so you have to appreciate each stage for.
Speaker 15 (21:37):
What it is, even if you're looking forward to the
next one, don't wish it to be coming that quickly.
So there are days there's going to be tough where
you're like, I'm so tired of having to do this
again and again and again. But do the best you
can to enjoy it, because once it's gone, it's gone.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
If you'll indulge me a little bit in some football
kind of philosophical questions, Sure, the quarterbacks, you're talking about
the young guys in the league, and the expectations that
it's placed on a lot of these guys, and especially
the ones that are draft at high they go into
maybe not the best situations, and I think we're seeing
more and more how much situation matters. What kind of
expectations do you think are fair for some of these
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guys coming into the league. You know, they are the
best in college, but then they go to these situations.
How much does that situation matter more than even what
their level of talent is.
Speaker 15 (22:21):
Yeah, the environment you're in is just such a team game,
and so the environment is critical. I think the two
quarterbacks starting in the Super Bowl are great proof of
that because both of them, even Drake and a small
sample size, last year, you know, they were not a
winning team. They were not in the playoffs. He didn't
necessarily have a Pro Bowl year. And now he's spent
the MVP conversation in starting a Super Bowl and you realize, well,
he didn't suddenly change or reinvent himself. It was everything
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around him got more stable and got to a place
where it was clearly defined and guys were able to
play with a with a with a with no gray
area and very clear. And then Sam much even more
with larger sample size. You know, he's had incredible success
in Minnesota and Seattle, and yet prior to that was
kind of going from one tough situation to another.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So the environment's a big deal.
Speaker 15 (23:02):
Now the flip side can be true, where a guy
gets drafted really high and he gets a really long
leash and he isn't that good and it's time to
move on, but nobody wants to because they say no,
if we could just give him more pieces around him, right,
we'll be good. And at some point I think you
have to say no. I think I don't think it's
the pieces around him. I think it's he's not doing
his part. So that's for the people on the inside
of the building to discern each time.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
But it's both.
Speaker 15 (23:23):
You've got to get the right guy pulling the trigger
at quarterback, but then you've got to give him the
right pieces. And when you get both, you can be
in the super Bowl. But if you're missing one or
the other, it's going to be a tough deal.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
The transition too, I mean from college.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I know it looks on the outside the college game
in the NFL game are very similar, but the actual
mechanics of it. You gave a really great answer at
the podium a few like later in the season where
you talked about just how you see the field and
how you were taught to see the field in college
that essentially you know, now you're a pure progression kind
of guy, and that's what they teach you in the
NFL because defenses are so sophisticated. Correct, how does that trend?
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How long does that transition take? And how hard is
it going from the college game to the program.
Speaker 15 (24:04):
Yeah, I think it comes down to how much does
the coach want to change what you've done. I mean,
I've been a part of systems where I was in
the shotgun and they wanted my right foot forward, and
you'd be surprised just asking you to switch your feets
so now your left foot is forward instead.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
How much rewiring in my brain that took.
Speaker 15 (24:17):
Where I'm spending time in April and may just trying
to take simple steps to get to where it's natural
to have your left foot forward.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So if the.
Speaker 15 (24:23):
Coach is saying, hey, we're going to try to do
everything we can to make it a natural transition from
what you did in college to what we're doing here,
it's a lot easier to then add a few wrinkles
here and there. But when you're saying everything you do
is now going to be different. Every word you say,
every snap count you say, every footwork pcus, every read,
you'd feel like, well, who did you draft? Because the
guy that you drafted didn't do any of this? So
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now you're basically getting a guy who you didn't draft.
So that's the hard part is if you want the
guy you drafted, you're going to have to do some
things that he's done. Otherwise you're not getting the guy
you picked.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
So let's talk about what you're here with. Would is
Zebra Technologies next gen Stats?
Speaker 11 (24:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
How much does that come into play for you on
a daily base, say it's a week two week basis,
when you're preparing for the game.
Speaker 15 (25:02):
Well, Zebra Technologies put a chip in the ball so
they can measure spend. So it's really interesting feedback. So
you can if you get your arm hit in the game,
you can see from the data and practice, do I
still have the same zip on the ball that I want?
Can I spend it the same way? You know, you
compare yourself to other people? How's my spin rate relative
to their? So that's some helpful information as a thrower.
And then they put it in the shoulder pads so
you can know your general movement and like receivers and
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dbs can know, you know their acceleration, their distance traveled.
It's a big one now with hamstrings and trying to
protect guys so that they can stay healthy. Is how
much high speed yards they had this week? And is
it too much? Is it too little? So that we
can manage their legs so they can be ready for
Sunday and be at their best.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So it's a very practical tool.
Speaker 15 (25:38):
They're actually Zebra's working with eighty percent of Fortune five
hundred companies to handle their tracking and logistics. So it
really is a technology they developed for corporate America and
then we realized, well, that same technology package can work
on an athlete, and so we use it as well.
It's been a great partnership with the NFL for well
over a decade now, but really cool information and the
more sports science comes into the end of the play,
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the more Zebra Technologies becomes a big driver of that
data behind the scenes.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
We love it.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Kirk, Thank you so much for jopping.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I'm with us.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Sure we're big fans of you on the field, but
even more off the field and doing what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
We really appreciate you. Good to catch up, Yeah, go Green,
All right, a go. Thanks.
Speaker 12 (26:15):
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Speaker 3 (26:27):
Welcome back to Super Week. We are so excited for
our next guest.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Former NFL great, current NFL network analyst Gerald McCoy.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Thank you so much for joining the show.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And I like, we got so many messages text carme
and you go way back. But when I tell people
you were coming on the show, They're like, oh, man.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
He's the man. I can't wait for you to meet him.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
So you have a great reputation around media, the league, everywhere.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I'm so excited you're here.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
You know what. First off, Yeah, thank you for having me.
Speaker 16 (26:56):
Yeah, you know, I truly appreciate it. I've been all over,
I've been all over. Yeah, she watched me train. I
trained extremely hard to be great in the fourth quarter. Yeah,
and her since Monday work. So this is where you
turn it on. You see all the greats turn it
on in the fourth ward. Take your game to the
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next level in the fourth quarter, to spend.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Every blade of glass, blade of grass for sixty minute.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
You've been here that long. What's been your favorite part
of Super Week? Because a lot of people like they're like, oh,
it's a super Bowl'm like uh uh, Like you have
like an entire week long of events before the main event.
I mean, you're going to be part of the NFL
Networks eight and a half hour pregame special, so we're
gonna be getting a lot of you Sunday. But what's
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this week leading up to the Super Bowl been like
for you?
Speaker 16 (27:49):
It's it's been great, It's been incredible. I've done a
lot of work.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (27:53):
For me, I'm a football player first. Yeah, last night.
Speaker 16 (28:01):
Was the best part of the week because every off
season I would leave Tampa and fly to San Diego
to train.
Speaker 11 (28:11):
Who goes from.
Speaker 16 (28:11):
The East Coast to the West coast every week to
train the off season unless it's something special out there.
My trainer Todd Durkin, who trained with Danleien, Thomlinson and
a lot of other greats. He trained Drew Brees every
off season of my career. I trained with Drew Brees
until he retired, which was funny. So that made the
(28:36):
game even more when the Bucks played at Saints. Drew
has been one of my mentors. Uh, He's been like
my big brother. And in Tampa we were a point
where we were called younger. We were so young. I
didn't really have a mentor in Tampa in the building.
I had SAP, but I talked to him when I could,
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so a lot out of what I learned that took
my game to the next level. The advice, the work ethic,
everything I did came from Drew Brees. So when I
knew he was going to be up this year, it
was obviously automatic. I didn't go to NFL Honors last night.
To go to NFL Honors, I literally went to be
(29:21):
in the moment when Drew Brees walked on stage and
all of the Hall of Famers went up and hugged
them and shook their hands. I left them, I pay respects.
I waited, and then I walked on stage last so
I can hug Drew in the moment and just tell
him thank you, tell him I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 11 (29:38):
And you have no idea what this moment means to me.
Speaker 16 (29:42):
I understand it's your honor, but what it meant to
me of who you were, everything that's come your way,
that was more of a special moment for me than
probably anybody in their room, because I watched how he worked.
I watched when he went through pain, I watched the
effort he put in and the focus put in and
then I had to compete again.
Speaker 11 (30:02):
Suit.
Speaker 16 (30:02):
Yeah, I know, but you if anybody up here, that guy,
he's your stage.
Speaker 11 (30:07):
Yeah. So that was the moment a week for me.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I got chills when you explain that you can tell
the love and the mutual respect.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
It was always fun though, I mean Buck Saints is
always fun. But knowing that because I remember talking to
you about that while you were doing it, and just
how it was so special because you literally get to
go after Drew Brees, I do every down of the
game that you guys play against each other. I love
that that relationship has blossomed so much. And now you're
both in media and he is. He was moved up
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to the crew with Fox and he's calling games. Is
there anything now that you guys have talked about together
now that you're still in the same aspect of the industry.
Speaker 16 (30:46):
One, we have a kind of a group message where
Todd Darkin, who was our trainer, is three of us
that's actually in the media, Me, Chase.
Speaker 11 (30:56):
Daniels, Andrew Brees. So we all kind of like, hey,
I see you on TV. I see you're doing your thing. Brother.
Speaker 16 (31:04):
Hey, So we kind of just, you know, we're boosting
each other up and keeping each other uplifted, which is
what we did when we trained. So I'm excited to
see Drew's future in that aspect. He's one of the
greatest minds I've ever been around, one of the greatest
man He one day we were training and they was like, hey, Drew,
just give us a play call, and I mean, listen,
(31:26):
it sounded like he was reading off a poem. I said,
what the heck is that? He said, Oh, that was
just one play with a chick was doing our longest plays.
I'm like, yep, wow, give me my three word play
and let me go.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Okay, I got some insight information that you love superheroes like.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Superhero fan We have.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
A diamond encrusted Batman necklast going on right now. So
we're gonna play a little fun game. We're going to
give you an NFL player. You tell us what superhero
he would be. I'm going to start with the Super Bowl,
and we're going to start with Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Who would he be?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Because like he got doubted for his entire career, he's
still like there are still doubters and he's in the
super Bowl and he's proven everybody wrong.
Speaker 16 (32:20):
Trying to think of somebody like that, Sam Donald is,
he's not a superhero. I'm dating myself and a lot
of kids won't notice. But will Do you remember Billy
from Two Power Rangers.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Yes, he was like, oh my god, you're.
Speaker 11 (32:39):
Like I see this like so.
Speaker 16 (32:41):
Just and then when he powered up he was.
Speaker 11 (32:46):
Nobody. Nobody was afraid of Billy. And then when he
became watch out.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
A good one Billy.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
All right, Well then I have to go on the
other side, and I have to go to the young
by the second finished second n MVP voting Drake May.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
What do we think, Drake May?
Speaker 16 (33:10):
Drake May will be Shazam boy wonder. Yes, he's young,
He's just looks like a teenager. But then when it's
time to go supermode Shazam and he turns into who
he needs to turn into.
Speaker 11 (33:29):
So Drake May will be Sham Yes.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
I love these comps.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Okay, let's go to our new MVP. Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 11 (33:38):
Uh.
Speaker 16 (33:39):
Matthew Stafford is Uh, I'm gonna go Sydeclops.
Speaker 11 (33:45):
Wow. Yeah, because.
Speaker 16 (33:48):
Cyclops is a born leader who doesn't get a lot
of praise.
Speaker 11 (33:56):
Usually it's Wolverine gets all the praise. Or people around
him around them.
Speaker 16 (34:01):
But Cyclops everything goes and starts with him. He just
doesn't get the praise you he should get until.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
He's the m v pes.
Speaker 11 (34:14):
Cyclop letters.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
That's some really good parallel, but.
Speaker 16 (34:18):
He doesn't get the credit he deserves for how consistent
Cyclops has been as an X Man leader.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
That's a really good yes, all right.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Last one, the defense the unanimous defensive player of.
Speaker 16 (34:32):
The Marsha Man Hunter. I already got it, Manhunter. He's
not human, he's not from don know, he just he
can morph into whatever he needs to morph into. I've
been calling that dude the Marsha Man Hunter all season.
We're talking about Miles Geared.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
We're talking about if you didn't know, the defensive player
of the Y is the Marshal Man.
Speaker 16 (34:53):
We're sure, absolutely he's the Marsha Man.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I don't know if I know the Martian Man.
Speaker 16 (34:58):
He's the green one that's in the Justice League. He
sometimes can have the human form he forms. He's the
green one with the he's got a cap and he's dope.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Okay, I love that so much.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Okay, So before we let you go, kind of paint
the picture of what we can expect to see in
this eight and a half hour pregame special on NFL Networks.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
That's a lot of pregame talk. But we're ready for it.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
Yeah it is. So it's a lot yeh.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Eight and a half hours.
Speaker 16 (35:27):
Yes, and we don't expect everybody to be tuned in
the whole eight and a half hours.
Speaker 12 (35:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (35:32):
For me, I was just going too. The mind of
how Gerald works is we're going to have to talk
about two teams for that long.
Speaker 16 (35:39):
Yes, And I won't be on Cameon the whole time,
but our one I might talk about something again at
our four or maybe in our one it might be
in hour three and then again at our six.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (35:54):
You just find new ways to talk about the same thing.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Uh huh.
Speaker 16 (35:58):
But for me, I'm not a low hanging fruit person.
I've never been a low hanging fruit person. So I
actually request to go last on. When I prep with
our segment producer Ben McWilliams, I say, tell me what much,
and Kurt said, let them take it. I'll figure it out.
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That forces my mind to be creative and I have
to paint a picture because what I've strived to do
is when the fans are listening, I try and understand
that I may be talking to somebody.
Speaker 11 (36:37):
Who doesn't know about football. So no offense.
Speaker 16 (36:41):
I treat it as if I'm talking to five year
olds because I want it to be very, very easy
to understand. Else, Yes, so when I say I try
and think outside the box. No low hanging fruit. Here's
an example. Championship weekend, we had a topic or segment
about Sam Donald, and the topic bar said, how does
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Sam Donald exercise his demons?
Speaker 11 (37:08):
Because he's had these struggles in the games. So you
see what I'm saying.
Speaker 16 (37:12):
So what most people say, Oh, well he's got to
lean on his run game all the JS and this
and this.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
Not me, what did you say?
Speaker 11 (37:19):
Not me?
Speaker 6 (37:20):
What you say?
Speaker 16 (37:21):
So when we talk about exercise the demons, that's an exorcism,
right it is? So I said, exercise demons, So this
is an exorcism.
Speaker 11 (37:32):
I got it.
Speaker 16 (37:33):
So we went to nineteen seventy three's Exorcism movie and
I literally gave a description of that scene and correlated
it to Sam Donald. So I started with the girl
she throws up on the priests. Okay, Sam Donald, you
might just have a lot of jitters. You might need
to go to trash can and throw up for the game.
It worked for Josh Allen works. It also worked for
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Willie Bemon. So you know you got the crowd is
gonna be screaming. It's gonna be stuff all over the place.
Your head's gonna be spinning. Remember our head was spinning
in the movie. Sam, keep your head on straight. You
gotta keep your head on straight. And then when you
go score touchdown, you go score touchdown.
Speaker 11 (38:11):
Just like her. She started screaming and got it. The
room started rocking. Sam.
Speaker 16 (38:15):
When you go score, you need to get the crowd
into it because that stadium is gonna start shaking. And Sam,
in the fourth quarter, your emotion's gonna be up. You
might start floating away. And just like in the movie
when they said the power of Christ compels you, Sam,
remember the power of the twelves compelled the power it'll
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bring you right back. For me, That's how Gerald works.
I don't want to do hanging fruit. That's what you
can expect for eight and a half hours to bring
those NFL circle.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
This is how you've always worked because you trained with
a quarterback. You trained with the guy you were going
after to understand your position better.
Speaker 16 (38:56):
Absolutely, I trained with Drew Brees and my workout partner
was at actually Darrence Prosrees go to man on the sung,
so I have to keep up with a running back
in order to increase what I can do.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
So I love this so much. I'm excited to tune
in and watch all of you guys. You're with like
all of our home girls too that are gonna be
on it.
Speaker 11 (39:17):
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
What a blast.
Speaker 11 (39:18):
Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
We love this so much.
Speaker 11 (39:21):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
All Right, we'll be right back, guys.
Speaker 12 (39:25):
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Speaker 3 (39:36):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
We are now joined by one of my favorite people in.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
The street, the harness.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Working woman in sports right now. Because you can see
her on ESPN, you can see her on NFL Network,
you can see her on NBA TV. This girl has
shows every single day of the week, and you've been
doing so here at Super Week. I feel like you've
been at every event, every red carpet. You're going to
(40:04):
be a part of the eight and a half hour
pregame show on NFL Network MJA cute everybody.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
She's like, I'm tired of.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Every day women.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
But last night you were on the red carpet NFL Honors.
We all love a fashion moment. Dress, I know your outfit,
all your out this week. Insane my stylist, this is
not me. I cannot do this on my own. She's unbelievable.
Set me up for the entire week.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
Like here, this is what do you wear on Monday? Yes?
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Okay, so take us to the red carpet.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
What is it like seeing these guys really be able
to have fun. We've been talking a lot about fashion
and it's really made its way into mainstream sports with
the tunnel walks and the tunnel photos and the videos.
But this is their biggest night of the year. Who
was your favorite to see?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Who stood out? Who stole the show of the boy?
Speaker 17 (41:06):
So, I mean, you guys know this and it's a
safe space. Obviously we're around the guys great stuff. The
night is for them in the NFL world. But Miss
USA walked by, and I long in my mind, I
was like, b R B right.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
Also cheerleader.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
I mean, girl, you've lived nine lives.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
They don't even know. But of the fellas. I will
say that Will Anderson came through clean. He looked so handsome.
I was like, okay, okay. He had a little texture
on his jacket. There was a what is it velvet?
Speaker 17 (41:45):
A little velvet lapel, and then like an applicuet on
the soup, but it was all black on black, so
it didn't jump out.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
Too much, just like the braids were perfect.
Speaker 17 (41:54):
He really, to me, was of all the guys that
I saw, I think one of the best dressed, but
not the best.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
I love that this is become such a form of expression.
Tell your guys because obviously, like you know, football is
a very regimented sport. You're told when you need to
be there, where you're going, what you're.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Doing, have it.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
And this is something where we finally get to see
some of their personalities and so what are some of
the there's stories behind some of these outfits.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Did you get any of that kind.
Speaker 5 (42:19):
Of intel last night with some of these Yeah, these
guys and what they're wearing.
Speaker 17 (42:23):
Dean Dawkins came up and he had this like deconstructed suit,
like you could see the inside stitching, and I was like, okay,
this is so dis deconstructed. It must be intentional on purpose,
and it was. And he said, you know, I've been
nominated for Walter Payton Man of the Year so many times,
and I feel like this suit, in its deconstruction, represents
(42:43):
what the man has been through and all of this
look at you all deep and stuff. I thought it
was a really sweet way for him. He's like, and
I'm gonna be comfortable, Like I'm just one thing about
the sneakers. I was like, we need to take a
pat from you. I won't, but I don't that you're comfortable.
Speaker 6 (43:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
I mean you've been a part of like all of
the coverage for NFL, but you guys are doing an
eight and a half hour pregame show.
Speaker 6 (43:09):
Yeah, why are we like this? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
I don't know what can we expect to see from this?
Speaker 17 (43:13):
I mean, first of all, don't expect me at the
four am hour. Okay, girl is gonna leave, but my
call time for the stadium that morning is eight am, so.
Speaker 6 (43:25):
Of a departure.
Speaker 17 (43:26):
But I think what you'll see is, I mean, full
analysis on the game, of course, full lead up to
the Bad Buddy concert in the middle of it all.
We'll talk about him in a second the Apple Music
Super Bowl halftime show is going to be unbelievable for sure,
and I think all of the fun that goes into
it too.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
You know, early in the morning, the game day morning
crew is just you guys.
Speaker 17 (43:49):
Have to remember they're shooting this in Los Angeles on
the West coast, so if you're an East Coaster, you're
getting this at a normal morning.
Speaker 7 (43:57):
I forgot it.
Speaker 6 (43:57):
They're doing it in the middle of the night, right,
They're on air at four am.
Speaker 17 (44:00):
They're up at the latest two A, right, So it's
no joke. So if things get off.
Speaker 7 (44:06):
The rails, yes, if people are just very early, you
know why.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
So you mentioned the.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Bad Bunny concert though, and I know how much I've
just seen from Afar, but I know it connects with
you personally. What does it mean to the cultures to
have him be this winning first Flatin artists, first full
Spanish album to win that award.
Speaker 6 (44:27):
So I interviewed him yesterday.
Speaker 17 (44:29):
I spoke with the man himself, but you.
Speaker 6 (44:35):
But we got to dance a little bit. I mean,
it was Sunday, which is awesome.
Speaker 17 (44:41):
I'm very excited about it, and it was also cool
to be able to do part of the parts of
the interview in Spanish, so wherever we felt so inclined
over just didn't come out in English. We would just
rip off in Spanish and it was awesome. But like
as a Caribbean, Latina the Dominican Republic were so tethered,
like the two islands, and for me seeing him and
his success, it feels like a part of me and
a part of my family is represented up there and
(45:03):
not something we ever thought was on the board for us.
And that's what he echoed to me yesterday. He's like,
it's just I carry so many cultures and so many
different people with me. But while it's heavy, it also
lifts me up at the same time. You know, they're
the ones propping me up. And he's like, and I
just want everybody to have a good time, Like have fun.
That's that's what I'm leaving out on the stage for everyone.
Speaker 5 (45:23):
He really understands the moment and understands the platform.
Speaker 4 (45:27):
What do you what do you think we.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
Can expect then, because obviously last year Kendrick super Bowl
Halfway was credible. It's it made so many statements, it
was so layered. Correct, can we expect the same thing?
Do you think from bad Bunny. I think yes and yes.
It's going to be a full tribute to Puerto Rico.
It's going to be unapologetically Puerto Rican. Everybody's better understand
(45:49):
that Puerto Rico is America after this halftime show.
Speaker 6 (45:52):
No, you know what if they don't by now, I
can't help you like this.
Speaker 17 (45:56):
On the internet are available and the Internet is for everybody, Like,
I don't know to.
Speaker 11 (46:02):
Tell you anymore.
Speaker 6 (46:04):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Give you any snippets like sneakers that you can share
with us.
Speaker 6 (46:09):
No, he didn't give me one thing, and that's fair.
I was like, not even for me. You're pretty much
out here, come.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
For me.
Speaker 17 (46:19):
He's like, respectfully, man, we just met.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
We're about family.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
Family, We're hugging.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
The next step farm got it copy far and I'm
so excited to watch you on everything. One of my
favorite hard working follows like always you want to see
a girl work.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
You want to see a girl prepare for a cold
weather game.
Speaker 17 (46:39):
No, like I packed all of my heated You're away.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
Yeah, bye.
Speaker 5 (46:46):
Year for someone for someone that is not used to it,
that to not grow up in it. Girl, you you
understand it really well.
Speaker 17 (46:53):
The thing is I go out there, and like the
first couple of cities, people are like, oh, come on,
don't be a punk, blah blah blah. You did gloves
And then we're like December, they're like, so where did where,
where did you get those?
Speaker 5 (47:03):
I'm like, never apologizing for being cozy, Never apologized for
being cozy.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
No, yeah, never MJ. We love you. Keep crushing it.
Thank you so much for coming on
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