IN THE BONUS with Doug Gottlieb

Doug Gottlieb and Dan Beyer close out the week on Radio Row in New Orleans with another loaded guest list!

Guests include:
Terrell Davis
Brian Robinson Jr.
Austin Ekeler
Brian Westbrook
Will Anderson Jr.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pete.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
All right, listen, this is the Doug Gottlieb Show Heres
in the Bonus with Doug Gottlieb. Hey, what up?

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Welcome and I'm Doug Gottlieb and this is ITV in
the Bonus. Today's podcast is from both Green Bay and
from Nola. We'll catch up Dan with all the different
people you've got a chance to sit down with as
a huge part of the podcast. But I do appreciate

(00:32):
you and Jay Stu and our cast up hundreds there
and our bosses that were there, and the forty hours
that was on the ground. I do want to dress
something really quickly. Because I've done it on other platforms,
I haven't done it on my own, so I think
this is a good one. So I spent forty hours
on the ground in.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
New Orleans, and.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Again like I've become far less interactive on social media
over this past year. One because I just I don't
have that much time to get into that vortex. But
two because I I I there are so many people
who to make me feel bad about the jobs that

(01:17):
I'm doing and the way that I'm doing them that
it's like, what, what is really the point? But uh,
but but here's the here's the interesting part. No one
has asked, so I as it has come out, and
I think, Dan, you know this our program, every program
in college basketball has to take one day off a week.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Ours has to take two days off a week.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Okay, because we're on APR probation and it has nothing
to do with us. It has nothing to do with
Sundance twix. It has to do with the team three
years ago. And how APR which is an arcane way
of viewing retention and academics within a program, and it
can penalize you and hold you out of the NCAA
tournament for a year.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Right, So we chose.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Academic probation APR probation, which means we can only go
sixteen hours a week.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Four hours a week.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
My players have to go to study hall and I
can have no personal interaction with those players two days
a week. That's actually by rule. So one of the
two days I was were off. The other day I
had assistants run practice. And here's the funny part about it.
Forget about the fact that every head coach will has

(02:29):
other things going on. Other ones have most have their
own coaches show, some have you know, Deon Sanders has
his own reality show. The interesting part is no one
ever asked, Hey, have you practiced for this?

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Right?

Speaker 3 (02:44):
No one Dan asked me, and I did twenty interviews
the last two days over no one asked did you
ever take time to practice?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
And the answer is yes.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Over the summer, I had a week where I had
each different assistant run a practice. We did it in
the fall as well. Do you know why because I
knew that we had a week off before the game
at the Super Bowl, right, Because that's actually the job
of a coach.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
There's lots of jobs of a coach.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Promoting the program and interacting with all the different stars
that we've had on the show, on and off air
is also valuable to the program. So I appreciate your
concern over my team, but I find it comical that
people act like I can't go down New Orleans for

(03:31):
two days and do this job as well as continue
to do my job as a head coach at the
same time.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
I think, in a scenario like this, if you would
like my two cents, I don't think people realize the
inning the inner workings of a college basketball program. I
would also say, Doug, if you wanted to go watch
a recruit somewhere.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Wouldn't you miss practice time away from that?

Speaker 5 (03:56):
Or maybe because of travel, maybe you got to go
to the State of Mission again, something happens. I don't
think that people totally understand on how your profession works,
but I also don't know if they necessarily care. I
think you said the best the other day. You're not
going to change people's minds. So when you know whether
you're here or not, they're probably still going to continue

(04:16):
to take shots.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, and they just found that as an opportunity to
do so.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Sure, and like, look, we have one in a while,
so it makes it, it makes it easier. But if
you really think that me doing an extra day of
radio somehow is keeping us from winning games, You've never
played team sports at any sort of level before, let alone.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
The college level. I love the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
I do.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
I didn't for the longest time when I was at ESPN,
we never went.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
We just didn't.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
And when I got to CBS then we started going
to Super Obviously, the very first one was in New Orleans.
The best thing about this thing, and like I said,
I've I've been coming here since I went to CBS
in twenty thirteen twelve. The last thirteen years is the
people who and now we're of the age Dan where

(05:13):
a lot of these guys that are the Hall of Famers,
they're right in our wheelhouse. Like I was in high school,
I was in college, I was starting out in the business,
and I watched you play. So I got a chance
to catch up with a bunch and that part of
this podcast you have as well today, which is just
it's so much fun to catch up with so many
of these people.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
Yeah, we got a chance to catch up with Terrell
Davis here on Radio Row. I think that's our wheelhouse
of watching football in that mid nineties era, mid to
late nineties era and the greatness there. I also spoke
with the guy who wasn't born until after the nineties,
Will Anderson, edge rusher of the Houston Texans.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
He was and he was out that he was in
with us.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
Then we had the Commander's due on the backfield, Austin
Eckler and Brian Robinson Junior were kind of enough to
stop by. So a lot of good stuff happening on
Radio Row on this Friday. Obviously, the Commander tailback aren't
happy that the Eagles are here.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
And they aren't, but big things ahead for them.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
All right, Well, let's let's let's get after it. Speaking
of Terrell Davis, let's start the podcast there. It wasn't
a long NFL career, but it was a Hall of
Fame one, and, as he likes to put it, an
efficient one. Here's our chat with Terrell Davis Stug Gottlieb Show.
You're on Fox Sports Radio if you're watching it on
our YouTube channel. He sits down with the gold jacket

(06:27):
and it is the most famous gold jacket in all
of American sports. He's the Hall of Famer, He's TD,
he's the mile High Salute. He's Terrell Davis, and he
joins this on the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Here's the real story, TD.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
I was a basketball player at Oklahoma State and you
guys were winning Super Bowls and my best friend in
the team at the time was Adrian Peterson. He's from
North Little Rock, Arkansas. He's our third all time leading
scored Oklahoma State history.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
He was a huge.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Broncos fan, a huge Treil Davis fan. And if you
go back and watch during that season where you won
your first Super Bowl, we were doing mile high salutes? Right,
that's how big? How did the mile high salute come
to be?

Speaker 6 (07:12):
So the mile high Salute started really in ninety seven,
and it came to be because we were in training
camp and we had just lost the year prior to Jacksonville.
You know, we were ninety six, we were thirteen and three.
We lost in the divisional round. We had to buy
and lost to Jacksonville. And I remember being in training
camp in ninety seven and I remember thinking, damn, you

(07:33):
gotta start all the way over, Like it wasn't like
you can continue all the work you put in last
year and it doesn't. It didn't carry over. So I
was like, dude, trying to you know, trying to get
through training camp I had. I was trying to find
some motivation like something, how like how do we get
through this training camp? And so I got with the
running backs and were like, hey man, we have to
we got we got to, you know, find an avatar

(07:55):
basically like who do we want to be?

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Like what's the mindset?

Speaker 6 (08:00):
So we decided that hey, you know, who's the baddest
joke on his planet? And it was like, man, if
you and a military, if you're a soldier man and
you you you bad, and that's what we decided to do.
I was like, all right, we're gonna be soldiers. And
so saluting came. When we scored a touchdown or did
something good, we would salute each other, and that's how
it came up. So we would do it in practice.
It was only a running backs thing for a while.

(08:21):
We would do it to each other, and then when
we started playing games, we would score touchdowns and we
would salute. So everybody started picking up on the receivers
wanted to try to salute. It's like, nah, man, y'all
can't get in our group, Like, you can't do the salute.
Only we can do that. And then eventually we allowed
the you know, receivers to do it, tight ends and
everybody else man, So it didn't it took off, man,

(08:41):
fans started doing it, and it really incentivized you to score,
to to you know, to make a play because you
wanted to suit.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah. I was gonna say, is that why you scored
all the touchdowns?

Speaker 6 (08:49):
So why I think, son, because you feel like, man,
it was a cool celebration.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
It wasn't one that was over the top.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
That's why it was cool. Yeah, that's why it was cool.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
Like we hear people say Barry Sanders maybe had the
best celebration because it's handled the ball to the referee.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
This was so subtle but so direct.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
It had so much more than any dance that we
have seen in the last ten years.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah, I agree with that, man.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
It was just again, it was class It was classy,
and it was out of respect, man, because we were
respecting our troops man and servicemen and women who fought
for this country. So it was it was kind of twofold, right,
get a chance to score a touchdown, salute your teammates,
but also acknowledging that there's some bad people out there
that allow us to live the way we live.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
What was it like to play with John Elway?

Speaker 4 (09:41):
That's my dude, man, it's fun. John was man.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
I could not have asked for a better quarterback, coming
in as a rookie and playing with a quarterback like
John who was well established, but he didn't you never
felt that for him.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
I never felt like he was no heck, no man it.

Speaker 6 (09:58):
Dude was never yelled at you, was always didn't talk
a lot, and if he had something to say, you know,
it was important. But you measure a person when they
look at quarterbacks and other great players, it's how people
play around them, you know, the elevation of other players.

(10:21):
And John just had a way of doing that. You
watched him play, you couldn't give anything less. You watched
him train in the offseason. You had to follow that.
It was weight I mean, you know, in the weight room,
on the field, his preparation for practice, his preparation for
a game.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
And then the dude was cool.

Speaker 6 (10:37):
As hell, Like he'd go back and throw a few
beers with Like you can go hang out with the
dude and go throw some beers down. And so you
had the best of both worlds with him. Great guy
on the field, handled the fame tremendously great and then
we're just cool with me. So I felt like for
me when I first got in as a as a rookie,

(10:58):
I felt like my number one job was to earn
that dude's respect. So I did everything. It wasn't the coaches.
It was like that number seven, that's the dude that
I need to earn his respect. And that's what everything
I did was always to with that in mind, you know,
trying to be a good teammate, trying to be a
guy that's accountable, making sure that I took a lot
off his plate. And if they gave me the ball,
if he threw me the ball, try to catch it.

(11:19):
I didn't catch a lot of his balls though, John
John had a heater. Man, John John, I didn't like
catching his balls.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Man.

Speaker 6 (11:26):
I was like, hey, dude, like anytime we had a
game plan where they had me catching the football, was
not happy about that. Just just hand it off to me.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Pause. You may think that I'm on my phone question. Yeah, no,
no they're not.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
Who is it?

Speaker 2 (11:38):
I'm on cameo. That's where Tarl Davis. Look at that?

Speaker 5 (11:42):
Did you look at this? You can book Trell Davis
on Cameo's cameo. We're talking birthdays, we're talking Father's Day,
We're talking any message that you want. Absolutely look at
that is that? Look how easy is that? It was
literally boom boom and yeah you can hook uh, you
can hook up with Trel Davis on kan And.

Speaker 6 (12:03):
I do have some advice though, if you book me, man,
do not book me with all these complicated, you know, instructions.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
He happy birthday, Just.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
Just give me happy birthday. You know, Hey, listen, man,
you know, happy Father's Day, congratulations, graduation thing like that.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
You mentioned not having a hangover from the Jacksonville season
because you needed to start fresh. But you mentioned John
Away and when Doug brought him up. He has a
career where there's three losses in super Bowls. Granted they
were eight years before, you know, prior to you guys
actually winning.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Did any of that ever carry over, like, we.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Know this one's for you, this one's for John from
the late Pat bowline, But was any of that to
talk during that time of let's just get John one
like and then obviously you go back to back, But
was there any of that? Did he ever talk about
getting back or that hangover or anything with that.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
We talked about how great it would be to give
John a super Bowl. He never talked about that. That
wasn't something he never mentioned it. So we we knew
what was at.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
Stake, man.

Speaker 6 (13:07):
I mean, it's not you got to be blind and
not to see or understand the gravity of where we
were going to a super Bowl after the man had
already lost three. It's written in every article, it's on
every you know, every you know, media outlet. Is they're
talking about l way not winning one. So yeah, now

(13:27):
if we went one from him for him, that means
we get one too. So so it was kind of
kind of like, hey, man, let's just trying to get
him as first one in to give the city of
Denver it's first championship.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
But we were, you know, we we were dialed in.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Man.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
We knew we had a really good team. We knew
we played more NFC style football. We won an AFC
team like the previous thirteen teams, like they couldn't run
the ball, like we ran the rock, and we were
ran it against defenses that knew we were running the football.
So when we played the Packers, we were confident that
we can stick to our stick to the script, play

(14:06):
the same game plan and and live with that and
whatever happens happened. We weren't gonna go into that game
in dB eight and then lose the game and then say,
you know, we should have run it. We're gonna run it.
If you beat us running the ball, then they, you
know what, more power to you. But you got to
stop this run game.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
How would you describe the weight to get into the
Hall of Fame? You know, like on a yearly basis, Oh, man,
what what was? What was that?

Speaker 7 (14:32):
Like?

Speaker 2 (14:33):
It was?

Speaker 6 (14:33):
It fluctuates. So the first year you have the five
year weight and then you have the first year and
I didn't make anything. There was no mention of me whatsoever.
I don't think. I don't think I made the semi
finalist list. And then I went through about seven six
seven years where I wasn't even I wasn't advancing, and
then I got to a year where I did advance.

(14:56):
But yeah, the longer it took, Doug, the more I
started to believe it wasn't going to happen. I was
like this, you know, it's not going to happen. No
one talks about me. There's new classes coming in every year,
and they're getting further or further away from my career.
So I had really no no expectations that it was
going to happen. And then someone told me. It was

(15:18):
a reporter, and he said, hey, because I was. He
was the interviewing me, and he asked me if I
thought I should be in the Hall of Fame, and
I said, I don't know, man, you know, you know,
I took the humble approach. I don't know, you know,
but I don't you know. I kind of took that
I don't know and approach, and then he pulled me
over afterwards. He said, listen, if you don't tell people,
if you don't think, if you don't believe you belong

(15:39):
in the Hall of Fame, how can you convince anybody
else that you belong in the Hall of Fame? And
I said, you know what, so you so then when
they started asking me, I was like, yeah, I do,
but not being kind.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
You know, you know it's tough because you're humble, but
you have to you support yourself.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
You got to believe in yourself.

Speaker 6 (15:55):
So that's what I thought that if I took that route,
which I do believe, I shouldn't have to care pain
for the Hall of Fame, like the numbers should speak
for themselves. The you know, the eyeball test when you
watch the film and you watch the games, like look
at that, and you tell me was that a Hall
of Fame worthy career? If you don't believe it was,
then okay. And one guy told me flat out, he said,

(16:18):
you won't be in a Hall of Fame because you
didn't play long enough. And I said, well, if that's
your criteria, then Okay, I'm not a Hall of Famer,
but if that seems kind of you know, that seems
like that's not a real good quality measurement.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Sure, well, I think the thing is this TD. My
argument was always and I actually think priest Holmes belongs
to them, believe or not. I don't know how you
feel about that, because there was like two years there
where priest Holmes I think was the best running back
in the league. Yeah, and like, in order to be
a Hall of Famer, you have, don't you have to
be You either have to be one of the three
or four best for a long time or you have
to be the absolute best. For you again, and this

(16:57):
is just me, we don't know each other. I kind
of think you had the perfect NFL career from this standpoint, Right,
do you want MVP?

Speaker 2 (17:05):
You won a Super Bowl, you had.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Two thousand yard season, You're in the Hall of Fame,
and because you didn't stay in it your whole life,
you have all your faculties. Right, Like you look amazing, dude,
like in a heterosexual man to a heterosexual man way,
Like you literally look the exact same that you've looked
the last ten years.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
You've come on radio row.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
I would make the argument you had the perfect NFL
career because you got in, you won, you were great,
and you got out.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
Yeah, when people say you had you know that I
had a short career. I said, no, I had an
efficient career. There you so to your point, and you're right,
because I don't know how long I would have played,
you know, if I was healthy, had I just said, hey,
you know, like, what do I do I take it
upon myself to retire or do I let the game
kick me out? And man, I was getting banged up,

(17:56):
and I remember thinking, man, I can't do this forever, Like,
I can't do this for much longer. So for the
game to say you got seven years and you're done,
You're right, man. Now you know I'm still beat up,
don't get don't get it twisted. I'm still beat up,
But you're right. That's less pounding for the head and
the body and all that stuff to the other.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
The other thing about this Doug, he's got a run. Yeah,
I got I got one more. I know you gotta go.
He never wore a different jersey, right, What do you
mean never?

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (18:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just just Broncos.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, that is kind of cool. Right, so many guys
chase it and wear different jerseys. Is that that does
that have any significance to you?

Speaker 6 (18:32):
Absolutely like to only have played, you know, for one franchise,
Like a lot of people can't say that. Man, like
I'm only Denver.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
I don't go to hall thinking or is he a Bronco?
Is he a cowboy? Is he a giant? Like I'm
a Bronco?

Speaker 2 (18:45):
And I love that he is a Bronco And he's
on cameo.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
Going to charity, going to La Fighter La Fighter Fighters Foundation.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
There you go, Treill Davis thinks so much.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
All right, gentlemen, thanks for.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
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Speaker 3 (19:01):
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Speaker 5 (19:16):
Super Bowl Week at Super Bowl fifty nine of New
Orleans rolls on on Fox Sports Radio. I'm Dan Byer,
joined by a running back tandem that was oh so
close to playing in this game.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
The Elephant in the Room, Brian Robinson and Austin Eckler.

Speaker 5 (19:30):
How much does it sting to see Jalen Hurts and
Saquon Barkley on those banners, knowing you guys were so close.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
I Oh, like it, man, We're gonna just get it
out of the way man right away.

Speaker 8 (19:42):
You know, you have a season, you have so much
going for you, You're building building, building, and to go out
like we did is Yeah, it definitely hurts, you know,
but hey, there's definitely stuff to be proud about. But
you know, again, we're playing for championships and we put
ourselves in a position to get there, and so yeah,
we're definitely still feeling that. It's something that you know,
will feel for you for I mean, we'll never we'llever yeah,

(20:03):
you know, we'll never forget this season for for multiple reasons.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Huh.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
And I'm being honest here. It's been a week and
a half. Does it still suck.

Speaker 8 (20:10):
Yeah, it'll it'll suck to probably after after this, and
I gotta I gotta forget and be like mentally gone
to the next season. And yeah, you know, I'm here
at the Super Bowl, so I mean we're still still
in it.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
Everybody, though, We'll look at outside of being in the
locker room and say what a great season for the
Commanders and what you guys were able to accomplish in
training camp. Dan Quinn comes in our fault, dan Quinn's
the last hire. We're saying, Okay, well this is just Washington.
They're they're gonna have a get ready year with Jane
Daniel's new head coach and the whole deal.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Did you guys feel any different in.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
Training camp with with the coaching staff that you had,
that you could have a season like this.

Speaker 9 (20:47):
I think I think we knew, we knew what type
of team we was putting together. You know, we was
going to work every day preparing together, you know, learning
each other, and you know, we knew what we was
putting together. Whether you know, and if nobody believed in us,
nobody have to believe in us. We believed in each other.
You know, we showed up the work every day and

(21:09):
put the work in. Like like, we knew what we
wanted to where we wanted to go, and what we
wanted to accomplish. And we made everybody, We made everybody
feel it absolutely.

Speaker 8 (21:19):
You know, we had I think we had like sixty
new players on our nine man roster, and so it
was like a ton of just new right, new coaches,
new players, new ownership, and so there's a whole new
vibe when it came to what was going on with
with the Washington Commanders. And for us, you know, we
can't listen to any of the outside noise. If you
do that, you know, you drive yourself crazy. Because for us,
we got to make sure everything's internal. We believe in ourselves,

(21:41):
We set our own standards, we hold ourselves accountable, and
then we push our own ball, our own bar.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
And when we do.

Speaker 8 (21:47):
That, then the expectations of the buzz around the city,
around the media will continued to change because you guys
are more reactive in the media.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
You know.

Speaker 8 (21:55):
That's the only way you can be because you don't
have an inside scoop, you know. So for us, we're
forward thinking, we're in it. We're the ones actually pretty
putting the product together. And so for us, we have
one hundred percent belief in ourselves that everything we're doing,
and so for us, our expectations where hey, we'll go
out there and give it our best instead of high bar.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
Austin Eckler, Brian Robinson of the Washington Commanders here on
behalf of bounty. Can of football without wings, cand of
wings without Bounty. You guys are repping the letterman's jackets,
no doubt. We'll get to that in a little bit.
I'm curious on your dynamic here because Austin, you're the veteran,
but you were in DC for three years, so you're
kind of the new guy.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
How does how does that work? Do you play off
of the.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
Young guy or are you the veteran coming in and
trying to give him even more knowledge?

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Is his career moves on? How did that work?

Speaker 8 (22:38):
You know, Bees established himself and you know, for me,
you know you mentioned I'm the Hey, I'm the veteran.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
You know I did they call you old as you said, veteran.

Speaker 8 (22:46):
Yeah, it finished eight years. But what I've I've appreciated
this about Be this year. And you know, I can
just see his leadership coming through. You know, I've been
a captain on you know, the Chargers for the last
four years, but I can see Bee coming into that
that position now. And so for me, it's really cool
to be beside him and let him lead and be
and let him and see him come into this this
kind of leadership role. That he's he's growing into and

(23:08):
he's been he's been doing a great job. And when
it comes to us as players, obviously we have different attributes,
different you know, bodies, different you know, things that make
us special. And so that was no doubt coming in,
and you know, I didn't know what to expect, you know,
you know, just personalities and stuff like that. But I
feel like we've been able to match pretty well. You know,
we we we do bounce off each other because we

(23:28):
have different styles, different schemes that you know, we're both
used in on our offense with Cliff Kingsbury. So, uh,
in my experience so far, it's been it's been great.
And looking forward to another year with him.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
How did you feel when he came in?

Speaker 5 (23:39):
What did you did you were you open to that,
to being that leader that he kind of talked about.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Definitely?

Speaker 9 (23:44):
Uh, you know, obviously I knew I knew austin game,
you know, well before he came in. Uh, been know
him as a person, so you know, obviously get to
getting to know him as a person, you know, even
better person than he is a player. So you know,
just you know, being out with him, I knew I
knew what you know that was you know what he
was coming there for. He was coming there to, you know,

(24:06):
you know, compliment me, and I was compliment him. You know,
we two completely different type of guys, two completely different styles,
and he's one of the best at what he does,
you know, in his in his style, and I wanted
the best to you know what I do with my style.
So just you know, being able to just compliment each
other well, you know, like with whatever is you know,

(24:28):
put in front of us all the time, just being
able to just make it work between the both of us,
whether it's something I need to do or something he
needs to do. We we are always on the same
page with with how we're gonna get stuff done and
how we're gonna you know, attack our process weekend and
week out best so on Sunday, you know, it's there's
no question that you know, in the running back room,
you know, guys like me and Austin to leave the room,

(24:50):
you know, we ready for whatever that comes with that.

Speaker 8 (24:52):
You know, I think it gives a little give some
credit to just adding Peters two for bringing in and
kind of just seeing and making our roster really ristal
where we have a lot of different players even at
the same position that can do a lot of different things.
And so when you have that and you give that
to Cliff Kingsbury and he's creative, you know, and he's
putting his offense together and you throw Jade and Daniels
on top of that, it's it's a recipe for you know,

(25:12):
a hard, hard thing to defend. And as we could
see this year, and that's that's why we had as
much success as we did.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
When did you know that was gonna work with Jayden?

Speaker 8 (25:20):
I mean it's hard to tell with rookie quarterbacks because
you don't really get to see them, like really playing
until like you get into the games, like you know,
we kind of you know, how to play like a
quarter or like a drive. You know, in preseason you
can see his athleticism, you can see all that, but
until you get into you know, live games where people
are actually taking you to the ground, and how do
you react to that, you know, how you react into

(25:41):
to change that you can't simulate in preseason or you know,
practice is something that you have to see. And so
I think he continued to progress. He learned so much
this year. I know, him just being a runner, you know,
at the beginning. I think this first game he had
like sixteen runs like a Jade's Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
We know you can run. That's awesome. That came alive.

Speaker 8 (25:59):
But okay, now we start to like, let's look to
start running to throw and so you start to see
him doing that. So you start to continue to see
him progress as a player at the quarterback position has
been pretty special then. I mean it didn't take but
more than you know, two three games, know like, okay,
this guy's definitely got some juice into play making ability.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
You mentioned Adam Peters.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
Your owner Josh Harris said on Monday that this name
is going to stay. You're going to be the commanders.
I had never heard of the commander's standard. How much
has that talked about in the locker room every day,
every week, every week, every week? You know, for us,
it's it felt new to us. I don't know, maybe
didn't get on a national level, maybe it was local,
but it felt new.

Speaker 10 (26:34):
I mean that's because it was for us, for us,
nobody else, because at the end of the day, we
don't expect you know, the outside people to you know,
you be on point with our standard or you know,
even live up to our standard, like the standard is
for the gods that's in that room, and.

Speaker 9 (26:51):
We hold ourselves hold each other accountable to that standard.
And that's why we had the success we have on
the season, and people on the outside have no clue
or how or why that happened.

Speaker 8 (27:02):
And so for us, you know, when it comes to
actually your standards, it's an internal thing. And that's been
saying that if we even told you, guys wouldn't understand
it because you don't live in there. You don't feel
the energy in there, you don't see the thing, the
little things that we're doing to make sure that it's implemented,
the accountability that we have.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
What does that accountably look like?

Speaker 8 (27:19):
You know, coaches bringing up different clips, you know, we're
talking through things, Hey, this is this is not it?

Speaker 2 (27:23):
This is it?

Speaker 8 (27:24):
Like all these little things that add up to what
our standard is and how we hold ourselves to that.
So it wouldn't even make sense to go through everything
just because it's I mean, it would take forever because
you'd have to know what we do as a football
team and football players. And so for us, it makes
sense and it worked for us, and it's something that
we're going to continue to hold going forward.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
We'll get to Bounty in this sect. But I got
one more football on for you. Top three craziest games
you guys played this year. Okay, I know Bears seems
to be on top, but you guys beat the Giants
kicking seven field goals.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
That Cowboys game was crazy.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
The I mean the Buccaneers game in the playoff was
was what it was.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
You had a tight one to get, but I mean
it was Falcons game. Yeah, yeah, it was.

Speaker 11 (28:05):
If you had the Eagles games top three, yeah, the
second Eagles, yeah yeah, in the week sixteen, if you
had the Ring I mean the Giant, I'll tell you
what Week two when you guys won on seven field
goals and they didn't have a kicker because you know,
you know, so they had to go for it every time.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
I'm like, maybe there's something the Bengals game than the next.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
Week they I don't think you guys punted, no, I
mean no, we didn't put for two weeks in a row.

Speaker 8 (28:29):
Hey, dude, it's crazy that the whole season was wild. Man,
it was. It was wild for for many reasons. But yeah,
those close games, finding ways to win, and uh, you know,
even even Marcus coming in, you know, and making plays too.
You know, just seeing the team come together and finding
different ways to win with different players. It's pretty special
and it's what contributed to us having a crazy season

(28:51):
like we did.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Well.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
You guys are hear on we have a bounding. We
got to play the wings here. How'd you guys team
up with Bounding before we let go? Yeah, shout out
to Bounty for having us out here. You know, it's
something that we've we've been a part of. Is custom
to us, you know.

Speaker 8 (29:02):
You know the saying you mentioned as we came in,
you can't have football without wings. You can't have wings
without Bounty. And I've used him for a long time
and and a lot of partnerships with them. So glad
to be here repping the brand.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
The Bounty Wingman, Brian Robinson and Austin Eckler, the Washington
Commander things. So much of being on Fox Sports Radio. Guys,
Thanks for having us. I'm Dan Byer here live at
Super Bowl fifty nine.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Thanks for listening to The Doug gottleb Show podcast. Be
sure to catch us live every weekday three to five
Eastern twelve two Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your
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Show here on Fox Sports Radio and Dan easily as

(29:43):
much as I think we would, all non Eagles fans
would agree. We don't like them and they don't care, right,
which makes you feel that way about the team. There
are a couple of Eagles where man, it's really hard
to dislike guys because of how they played. And he's
an Eagles Hall of Famer. He was a Walter Payton
Man of the Year Award winner back in two thousand

(30:04):
and one.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
He was an All Pro. He's Brian Westbrook.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
He's kind of to spend some time with us year
a couple of days before the Eagles fly into another
Super Bowl on Fox Sports and he joins us year
on the Doug Gotlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Brian, how are you.

Speaker 7 (30:16):
I'm doing well, Doug doing well. I'm excited. It's a
Friday before the Super Bowl. This is what it's all about.
You know, you kind of work all season long. We're
all all season long to get to this point as
a player, and now we're here. Now we're a couple
of days away from the big game, and I'm super
excited about it.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
You know, Brian is with us on behalf of Chewie,
the number one online pet retailer.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Pet parents know all about chew He's so glad to
have you with us.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
You've had experience in a Super Bowl with Andy Reid
when you are a first timer and you're going and
you're playing in that game like you were. What are
the experiences that some of these Eagles are first timers?
Because this is I don't want to say buying large
a different team from them two years ago, but there
a lot of new faces.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
What are some of these guys facing heading into this game?

Speaker 7 (31:01):
Well, you know, you kind of get that wide eyed,
what is this type of thing? You know, it's an experience.
The Super Bowl is an event. It's not just a game, right.
It's an event that has a game at the center
of it. And as a player, you can't get overwhelmed
with that because it's easy to get overwhelmed. It's easy
to start looking around and saying I'm trying to enjoy
the event and not doing the things I need to

(31:24):
do to be able to play a perfect game. And
so as long as there's stay focused and remain understanding
and diligent what they're down here for, I think a
lot of the players will be okay.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
But it's awful tough.

Speaker 7 (31:35):
You got a lot of things going on around the
Super Bowl and throughout that entire week, and so they
have to do a really good job of staying focused
and being ready for the game.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
What do you think of how the offense kind of
all gels together, right? I mean, you know, Jalen wasn't healthy.
AJ Brown seems to constantly be some level of unhappy.
Saquon is the gold stand at running back right now
in the NFL, and yet despite all of their success,

(32:05):
it doesn't feel like that's a group that's just so
excited to go to work again. This is an outsider perspective,
but what are your feelings about the offense specifically?

Speaker 7 (32:14):
Well, I think our offense does a great job of
using what they have to their advantage, right, And Saquan
has been so dominant this year over two thousand yards rushing.
He's made guys like AJ Brown, Devonte Smith, Dallas Godden,
even Jalen hurts he's kind of just overshadowed those guys
so much that he's almost made them not mentioned. That's

(32:37):
hard to do, but that's how special Saquan has been
this season, where he's now saying these guys are a
second thought because he's been so dominant to the point
where people are questioning that Jalen Hurts is he good
enough to even win a Super Bowl? Well, of course
he is. But does he need to do all the
things that Patrick Mahomes does to win a Super Bowl?
Absolutely not. He has players around him that can get

(32:58):
it done. And that's been really special to watch about Nick.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
Sirianni because I even think as many years as that
he's there, where like Super Row two years ago, lose
tw coordinators, step back last year. Now you're bringing a
vet like Fangio, you got Kellen Moore, who has experience,
who's likely to be the next Saint's head coach.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
What does Sirianni bring to the table?

Speaker 5 (33:18):
And I kind of mean that in the way of like,
all right, what does he bring because he's got these
veterans around him, But what does he bring to the
Seagulls team.

Speaker 7 (33:24):
Well, he brings leadership and that's what you want the
CEO of your company to bring leadership, you wanted to
bring culture. You want him to do all the things
and make sure all the boxes are checked. As the
head coach or the coach of the coaches, right, and
so I wanted to make sure that everyone is doing
their job on a timely fashion and that they're always
having our players prepared. That's the head coach's job. And now,

(33:48):
of course we have some great head coaches that have
the ability to call plays and all this different stuff,
which is fine. Sometimes you have to dedicate those delegate
those responsibilities. And that's what Nick Sirianni has done this
season as a as.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
A guy who was part of a team that was
so consistent in your level of competitiveness and success when
you're in Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Now you look at.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
What Andy's able to do in Kansas City in terms
of consistency of success. We're starting to get into Patriots
territory here, maybe even more so because the Pats never
won three in a row.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Ye, how does this happen?

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Right?

Speaker 3 (34:24):
This is a league where half the teams don't make
this make the playoffs that made it the year before,
and yet here the Chiefs are if they haven't gotten
to or won a Super Bowl. They've been the AFC
champions who came every year. Mahomes has been a starter.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
How does this happen?

Speaker 7 (34:38):
Well, you just said the right name, Patrick Mahomes. That's
the key to that. If you have that guy as
your starter, you got a chance and you got a
really good chance of winning an awful lot of games. Now,
this is where Andy Reid comes in his philosophy, the
culture that we talked about as a head coach, the
how to get your team prepared.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
He does a great job of that.

Speaker 7 (35:00):
He'd make sure that Patrick Mahomes is ready to play
every single week. And you know every coach says that
that right, but not every coach goes through every situation
sitting down with their quarterback making sure that they know
everything and now the quarterback and the head coach are
thinking with the same brain.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Andy Reid continues to do that, and he's done it
for a long time. The one other thing that.

Speaker 7 (35:19):
I love about Andy he understands your strimps as a
player and he gets the heck out of the way.
He says, listen, you want to get in space, Westbrook,
We're going to get you in space, and you just
go do your thing. You just go do what you're
good at. And he has the ability to do that.
He's done that certainly for this Kansas City team, and
the proof is in the putting.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
They just keep winning. Eagles legend.

Speaker 5 (35:40):
Brian Westbrook joining us here on the Doug Gotlin Show
on behalf of Chewie No matter who wins. On Sunday,
Chewy is donating fifty nine thousand pounds of foods to
the Case Pet Project in the Pennsylvania SPCA to help
animals and need Doug and I have had this conversation
so many times on the show. I think your position,
and I'm not talking about running back, I'm talking about
multifaceted running backs are completely ignored in the Hall of

(36:04):
Fame and how we look at that. I would assume
because you played that position of running back and wide
receiver that you would agree. But why do you think
that what you guys did fifteen twenty years ago, and
I'm talking about you, Tiki Barber, Fred Taylor, Priest Holmes,
just name after name, why do you guys seem to

(36:24):
get overlooked in this process.

Speaker 7 (36:26):
Well, it's because the same way that they do the
same drills in the combine because it's easy to look
on paper and say, this guy has the most rushing yards,
that's why. But the truth is, you know, as a
running back, a guy that does multiple things, and there
was never about how many Russian yards I had. I
really was more focused on the impact. How much impact

(36:47):
did I have in the game. And that's in the
kicking game, return game, that's in the catching the ball
out of the backfield, blocking, that's as well as running.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
That was the most important thing for me.

Speaker 7 (36:57):
And you know, there is a points that I want
to be more selfish, right and be able to say, hey,
I got over two hundred yards west and the I
had a two thousand rushing yard season like Saquan has done.
But for our team at the time, that's not That's
not the way we were built. Andy Reid was never
never a running coach. He's never going to be the
guy that's going to even allow a running by the
year close to two thousand yards.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
He's not going to run the ball that much.

Speaker 7 (37:17):
But you know, for the guys like myself that caught
the ball out of the backfield, the impact that we
have on the game, that's the most important.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Piece.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
He led the NFL in all scrimmage yards, first team
All Pro and you're not the only one who did
that back then, Doug and I. Dug's on the same
page as me, and just of guys we don't even
talk about that group, but there's you know, other guys
that were No no disrespect to the other guys, but
I just think that dual role running back is just
not even considered unless you're Marshall Fault people.

Speaker 7 (37:44):
People want you to say you're a running back, just
run the ball all the time.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Not every teams built that way, No, not every team.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
It is it is built that way. What the persona
of Eagles fans, right, and Sirianni kind of he kind
of plays it up a little bit like as you
travel around as Brian Westbrook. I mean it in the intro,
like everybody likes you, nobody likes the Eagles, and I

(38:14):
just as a former Eagle, do you like that?

Speaker 7 (38:18):
What do you what do you talk about? Nobody likes
the Eagles. I walking around this city, everyone likes the Eagle.
What are you talking about? I don't think that. I
think the idea that nobody likes the Eagle is absolutely crazy.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
I think that. You know, we're a gritty town.

Speaker 7 (38:34):
We're tough, we're hard nosed, we're physical, you know, and
that's what the team as well, has the.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Talk on town.

Speaker 7 (38:41):
But our fan base is passionate, and I wouldn't I
just can't imagine playing in any other city that didn't
have the same type of passion as we did in Philadelphia.
I make this joke and that actually it's true. I
could walk around when I played that one year in
San Francisco. I could walk around San Francisco with my helmet, jersey,
shoulder pads on a grocery store and people would be like,

(39:02):
what are you doing? Like they still wouldn't recognize you.
They didn't care at the time, right, not like that.
In Philadelphia, three hundred and sixty five days a year
is football and that's why one of the reasons why
I love the city now. Dougie laid out how Brian's
teamed up with Chewi, and I said that they're going
to be donating some stuff no matter who wins.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
But if Philadelphia wins, the Birds win.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
On Sunday, Chewi gives away fifty nine thousand free treats
for birds, cats, and dogs everywhere no matter where you
live or who you're root for.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
It's perfect. Chewi does a great job. Listen.

Speaker 7 (39:32):
The biggest and most important thing we all understand getting
your food on time for your dogs. That's important. Chewie
does a great job of that. The fact that they're
giving away is the reason why I've partnered with them.
They're giving away fifty nine thousand pounds of food to
pets that needed all across the country.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
That's the most important piece for me.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
Brian, Listen, loved having you on. Obviously absolutely loved watching
you play. I mean that was That's the best part,
right Like you're one of those guys. Never we never
felt like a cheat. It never felt like you're you
cheated watching Brian must for pray. Thanks so much being
our guest on Fox Sports Radio. Thank you so much,
Take care, Thanks for listening to The Doug Gotleep Show podcast.
Be sure to catch us live every week day from

(40:11):
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Speaker 5 (40:23):
At Super Bowl fifty nine, Fox Sports Radio. I'm Dan Byer,
joining me on this Friday, one of the young I
don't even want to say up and coming because I
feel that you've arrived. Will Anderson, Junior of the Houston Texans,
thanks so much for joining us here in Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (40:39):
You're twenty three years old, two years into the league,
two playoff appearances, Defensive Player of the Rookie of the
Defensive Rookie of the Year last year.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
You're getting Defensive Player of the Year votes this year.
Do you feel you have arrived even had twenty three
years old in the National Football League? No, I haven't.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
It's still so it's still so much more of my
game that I want to continue to improve on, to
get better at. And I feel like I've even reached
a surface that yet. Man, And I'm just so passionate.
I really love this game so much, and I just
want to continue to see my game grow. And I
know that it's so much more left out there, you know,
for me to continue to climb and get better at
and continue to you know, strive to where I want
to be at.

Speaker 5 (41:13):
Will Anderson joining us here at Fox Sports radio on
behalf of Jiff my favorite peanut butter. That's not even
part of the plug, that's just there absolutely and Jeff
Creamy a new moro. You know, when you look at
year one, I play golf. When I go to a
new golf course, I have no idea what to expect.
It's so much easier the second time around. What was
it like for you in year two?

Speaker 1 (41:33):
It was way more easier than this year around. You
know what I'm saying, Like I feel like, you know,
I could play with a sense of freedom and a
sense of peace, like learning the system, just being more confident,
you know what I'm saying, knowing everybody more and I
think more.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
So it is just my faith in God.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Like man, like God, I'm just doing this for you,
So like, just grant me your piece of freedom. Just
go out there and have fun and be a good captain,
to have contagious energy.

Speaker 5 (41:53):
When you are playing, you're always going to be thought
a first round pick, third overall pick. Do you do
you ever let that go? Is there an added pressure
with that? Does it leave after your rookie season? How
do you deal with something like that when there's so
many high expectations with you coming into this league.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
Yeah, I would just say, Damiico ryans Man. When we
got drafted, he sat me in CJ down his office
and he was just like, man, like, I don't care
where y'all got picked at, Like, you don't have to
come in here and be superman. We're not asking you
to come here and do anything out of the ordinary.
We're not asking y'all to come in here and do
nothing else more than what you did in college. And
I think that gave us just a sense of like, dang, like, Okay,

(42:29):
we're good. So we just came in there. We was
being ourselves. Man, we're hard workers. You know, we love
the game of football. And then people noticed that we're
and you know, they respected us for that. And when
you had your teammates behind you, it's easy for you to.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Go out there and playing.

Speaker 5 (42:42):
Now, some of us thought maybe a year ago that
you guys would be playing in this game. Yeah, you
made it as far as you did the year before,
didn't have as many wins as the year before.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
However, how do you characterize this past season.

Speaker 5 (42:54):
I think us in the media would say up and
down for the Texans because we thought you guys were
maybe gonna be playing in this game.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
How do you look at what you guys did in
twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
Yeah, man, I'm super proud of this team, you know
what I'm saying, Like I always have to start with
the positives, man, Like I say, we have a really
special team, man, A bunch of great guys in there,
and we worked our butts off, you know what I'm saying,
Like the word we didn't go unnoticed, you know, from
training camp all the way into like practice every day
up into the game. Like, we had a really great
squad and I think the only thing that we just
mentally got to be better. We have to do a

(43:24):
better job of execution, execution with something that we were
talking about from.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
The first game to the last game.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
And when we could start turning the execute, turn those
mental errors into execution, we can go as far as
we want to go, But it just starts with making
sure that we're mentally prepared. And you know, you can
sit up here and say coach this, coach that, but
as players, we have to look ourselves in the mirror
as being a captain on this team, we have to
make that sure that we're prepared and we're going home
and we're staying after extra and we're getting together and
watching the film a little.

Speaker 5 (43:47):
Bit more on the mental part of it. Is it
different being the hunted as opposed to being the ones
who were hunting like you were in your first year?

Speaker 2 (43:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (43:56):
I mean for me, I don't really look at it
that well, you know what I'm saying. I look at
it is like every since, no matter what your record is,
every week is a challenge. It's the NFL. Every team
is going to be good. Like you see teams with
this record beat teams like this, you know what I'm saying.
So Like to me, I didn't really look at it
that way. I looked at it as like nobody's gonna
lay out for us just because we went and got
all these free agents. We went and got all me see,
like nobody's gonna lay out for us. Every week is

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going to be a challenge, and we're gonna go against
teams who might have a not a good record to us.
We're going to go againsteams who might have a better
record than us. But how are we showing up to
the fight?

Speaker 5 (44:26):
Will Anderson Houston Texans Ed Rusher journeying us here on
Fox Sports Radio I'm Dan byer Well is here courtesy
of Jeff I got the creamy to go pack sitting
right next to me that I'm going to dive into
in a little bit. Let's dive into Demiko Ryance, you
m and c J. Stroud are are the two year guys.
This two year tryangala. I'll just say, but he's a
defensive guy, So how do you work with him? What

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makes him such a unique coach and such a coach
that can have success early on in his NFL coaching career.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
What makes him so special? He understands that he gets
it the players. He knows how to get through to
his players. He has his hands on his players, and
he's so involved with us. And it's not that long
ago that he did that he didn't play, so he
still approaches everything like he's a player. Like he approaches
us with that captain mindset, like I'm like a middle
linebacker wild you know what I'm saying. And it's easy

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for God to grab exactly what he wants. And the
way he approaches us is he wants the best for us.
He wants to go out He wants us go out
there and play to the highest level. That we can
not only to win games because he cares that much
about us, because he's been those shoes before.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Was there friction on the offensive side this year?

Speaker 5 (45:33):
We heard some stuff about maybe the coaches and players
weren't necessarily on the same page.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
Did you experience any of them? I didn't experience any
of that at all. You know what I'm saying. It's football,
And you want to like for me, Me and my
Delon coach. You know, I love him to death, and
we always talk it about it's okay to have a
little scruff for here and there, like that's what you need.
That's how you get the best out of each other.
And I'm excited, you know what I'm saying. I'm excited
for this new year and what's going to happen, you know,
bringing in the new coach whatever like that, and she's

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going to continue the ball. She's just going to get
you to be a good captain over there and you know,
lead those guys and lead this team. And I can't
wait to keep seeing him watch and keep seeing what
the new coach does.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
What are the expectations for twenty twenty five?

Speaker 1 (46:10):
I mean, I've always a super Bowl, but I feel
like The expectation right now is for us to jell together,
keep building that team chemistry, and enjoin our process. We
can't let the outside noise filter into the building. We
can't let what you know offens the media, anybody say,
filter into the building. Like, we have to stick to
our own standard, our own expectation of who we are.
Does it take you often? Someone like me or anybody else?
Says Texans And I'm not the same team this year,

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And like, do you hear that noise?

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Does it bother you?

Speaker 1 (46:35):
It doesn't really bother me because my mind set is
bro Like, I know who we have in the locker room,
I know the type of guys that we have, and
I know the hard work that we put in on
that field every day.

Speaker 5 (46:42):
What does it take to beat Kansas City? You guys
face them twice and they weren't able to get wus
in those games. But how if you're Philadelphia do you
stop them on Sunday?

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Man, it's going to be a battle upfront. Man, they
can get a good job of containing Patrick Mahomes. Man,
it's going to be really good for them. But it's
really just how mentally sounded are you locked in? They're
a really great team, and they know their scheme really well,
and they jael together really well. They've been playing together
for a long time and they know how to win games.
And that's what I command pat On all the time.
Like he's such a great quarterback, but he knows how

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to find a way to win games. And that's what
makes him so dangerous and special.

Speaker 5 (47:13):
Before I ask you how you teamed up with Jeff,
I do have to ask about Alabama. Crimson tied, missed
the twelfth team playoffs. What what's it gonna take here?
What what's it like down in Tuscaloosa right now? With
killing the board? Now I was the head coach.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Yeah, I haven't been down there, but you know, I
never wanted to be the player that love and you know,
dragged the program through the bud and dragged the players
through the mud because I know how hard it is
down there, and I know how much hard work those
guys put in down there, And you know, I think
he's in a good situation. A lot of great players,
great people. They are great fans there and they're going
to continue to have success because that's what Alabama's about.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
What do we not know about Nick Saban that you
know as a player.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
I was, he got a little jokes to him playing,
He got a little he got like a little kiddy
side to him.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Man, he works on TV. I think a lot of
people didn't think he could make the transition.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
But he has a personality like the more you talk
with him, the more you spent time with him, he'll
open up to you, and like, you really get a
chance to see that. And you know, my last year there,
you know, I kind of stayed in his office all
the time just because talking about football, talking about life,
you know, just talk about all sorts of type of things.
And you know, I really got to see a different
side of him. And then I really appreciate him because
he thinks so highly of me, and I just think

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so highly of him, and he's really a great coach.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
How did you team up with Jiff here at the
Super Bowl? Yeah, man, it's all about saving the cellary.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
You know, over a billion people eat wings every day
in the Super Bowl, with every super Bowl, and you know,
I'll partner up with Jeff to save the salary. So
we're gonna save the salary by getting some peed up
butter action in.

Speaker 5 (48:40):
So I'm excited about that. Well, thanks so much for
stopping by it. I know it's busy and O you're here,
there and everywhere. We appreciate your time and good luck.
In twenty twenty five, thank jof for Will Anderson, Houston,
Texans shunning's here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
All right, that's it for the end the Bonus Podcast.
Check out the radio show every day three to five Eastern. Course,
this pod likely rulls into that pod. And a gigantic
thank you to everyone in New Orleans for making my
two day stay and Dan's three shows stay so incredibly hospitable.
And my thanks to Dan for doing so much of

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the legwork, as well as Jay stew Lee Mayock for
booking and commandeering some of these guests, and of course
Iowa Slash Big Apple Sam back in Sherman Oaks for
making sure that everything came across sounding smooth as as
smooth as can be. In the meantime, have a great

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SUPERWL weekend, enjoy it, enjoy the game.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
We'll be back with you Monday. This is the Doug
Outleb Show, Fox Sports Tradio