September 7, 2021 • 36 mins
Peyton and Eli Manning join Colin to discuss the launch of Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli, how it will differ from a traditional game broadcast (1:00), what elite QB trait Eli possessed from an early age (12:00), what Eli learned from Peyton when he visited him at Tennessee (15:00), how they learned to adapt to living in new cities (22:00), Eli's memory of his first trip to New York City (24:00), the reality check Tony Dungy gave Peyton upon arriving in Indy (27:00), Tom Coughlin's first "purple moment" with Eli (31:00), the comment Colin made on-air about Peyton and his center Jeff Saturday (33:00), the unusual drill that helped Peyton win a Super Bowl with the Colts (35:00), and the prank that Eli's center Shaun O'Hara played on him (36:00).
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both number one picks, both two times Super Bowl champs.
(01:07):
Both have been recruited heavily to join the broadcast world. Peyton,
I want to start with you. Was it the success
of Soup with Coop that led you to believe this
broadcasting thing would work for you without a doubt. That
just solidified everything that I thought. If you can have
(01:27):
a show involving soup, hey, that that just tells you
there's there's a future there. And you have my brother.
I mean, I have all these people that text me, Hey,
I'm doing soup with Coop, And I'm like, like, why
are you telling me? Like what do you think? Are
you apologizing to me? Are you congratulates you? I'm not
sure what that means. I mean, Eli and I haven't
(01:48):
even been asked to be on soup with Coup, Like,
I don't right, Yeah, I mean, what do you have
to do to get it in? By it? Eli? I
guess he knows I don't really like soup that much. Yeahistory, Yeah,
it's interesting because Peyton I always it was very obvious
you did a lot of commercials. You were funny. Everybody
(02:09):
knew that and that you had a lot of options.
Eli is the Derek Jeter of New York football. He
now he's suddenly Chris Rock. We had no idea until
he retired. He's the funniest guy in the world. So
give me a backstory. I didn't think of Eli as
broadcast guy. I thought of you as broadcast guy. Are
(02:30):
you a little surprised that Eli is now doing a
stand up at Sheboygan on weekends? He's like, mister funny guy.
Suddenly it's free. It's free to get into see Eli
and do comedy. You don't have to pay anything. Actually
they pay you to come in and listen. You know,
I think I think Eli and I will probably both
tell you that what we're doing, Colin, I'm not sure
(02:51):
what it is. I'm not sure what to call it,
but it's not It's not your typical broadcast. Um you know,
teak if you will, it's at least in my mind.
Maybe I'm just lying to myself, but I kind of
see it as just two brothers watching an NFL game
at a bar, and the viewer is watching it with us,
(03:12):
and we're watching it as a fan, right, I mean
you may use the word ambassador, but really as a fan.
I mean I love watching football. I mean since I
stopped playing, everybody said, hell, you're not gonna want to
watch football, You're gonna miss it too much. Not true.
I got to do it for a long time. I
love the fact that I got to play it, and
now I'm a fan. I like watching Mahomes play, just
(03:33):
like I used to like watching Rett Farr play. I
like watching Josh Allen play. So I think the fact
that I get to watch a Monday night game with
my brother that I haven't done since nineteen ninety three.
You know, Eli never flew to Indianapolis from Monday night
dinner in two thousand and seven, and so that's cool.
And we get to maybe take the viewer behind the
(03:54):
ropes a little bit on what the coordinator is saying
to the quarterback in his helmets, and I'll call the
play to Eli and then ELI will repeat that to
the huddle. Right, take people behind the ropes on what
that sounds like. What's the quarterbacks coach saying to the
quarterback when they're looking at those pictures, those tablets on
the sideline. Eli and I can give you those conversations.
(04:17):
But the second and one running play Colin that nobody
cares about. We're not gonna diagram that. We're gonna be
having a conversation with Charles Barkley on that play about
why he didn't play football. Was he scared to get hit?
You know, I mean, how do you change basketball? So
it's a conversational. It's more casual. But last thing I'll say,
(04:37):
I'll let Eli go. I'm gonna be hard pressed to
say anything negative about a quarterback or a lot of
players if they got those an interception. I'm probably gonna say,
watch this play by this safety, right, this is an
awesome play, you know, because I know what it was
like as a quarterback. I'm not gonna say how can
you do that? Because I did it? Right? I do
(04:58):
six interceptions against the chart 's one game, Like, you know,
what right do I have to say? How can you
do that? So I know how hard it is. I'm
going to be a quarterback defender, a player defender, but
I think it'll be fun kind of taking a different approach. Sorry, Eli,
I took up all the time. What's your answering? Well,
that's what I want to hear. I like the idea.
By the way, this is what I want to hear, Eli.
(05:19):
I want to hear two brothers talking. I'm not looking
for al Michaels. I love him, I love Joe Buck.
That's not what I want. How do you interpret it, Eli? Yeah,
I think the same way. I think we can give
you a you know, I think we'll build tell fun stories.
I think we'll you know, if if they're playing a game,
uh and and you know Arrowhead, we you know we've
played a Narrowhead, we'll have stories about, you know, when
(05:40):
we've played there. But also you know, we'll be talking
through some plays. But when there's a great play, when
a quarterback changes up protection and picks up an overload
blitz and you know, we can we can tell the fans, hey,
what you know, what he did right there, why he
did that, how he did that, and how that was
communic without giving away secrets of what the team is doing.
(06:02):
But just what it's like to play quarterback. And when
you play quarterback, you don't just know the quarterback position.
You know what the receivers are supposed to do. You
know what the offensive line is supposed to do. You
know every defense where they're supposed to be lined up,
in the in the rules, the coverages. So the quarterback
is you got to know what every position their responsibilities.
And so we can break that down. Um, you know,
(06:24):
when there's really cool plays in the design of a play,
in the design of a defense, um, you know, we
can just kind of give an inside look at some
of those details. And have the ability to break those
downs on why a play was successful, um, from a
defensive standpoint and an offensive standpoint. So I think it's
just a more casual way to watch the game. I
(06:46):
remember we were doing a couple of breakdowns and you know,
we're watching, um, you know, watching the Vikings play and
I'm saying, hey, watch Kendricks right here, how he does
this great job of of of kind of you know,
bait the line in the think he's not blitzing. He
blitz And they're saying, well, hey, it's actually better if
you say the number, Like all the fans might not
know who Kindreds is, so you know, you don't have
(07:07):
to know every number. Just say number fifty four. That's
that's better for us because the fans, you know that
they that they'll be able to understand what you're doing
and how you're breaking down that film. And so I'm like, oh,
that's even better. I don't have to know every single
player Uh's name that's playing. We can we can say numbers.
And so it's just, you know, it's just more of
of a fan kind of watching a game that wants
(07:27):
to know a little bit more what's what's going on
we can we can dive into that. You know, it's
what's really fascinating about your family. Um, and I said
this two days ago on the air. I said, like,
it's it's really it's an American football royalty that each
of you, your father, Eli, and Peyton, you all have
different styles. So I'm mid fifties. I watched your dad
(07:49):
on those Terrible Saints teams. I remember him well. He
was a mover. He was mobile, you know, he and
Tarkenton moved most guys didn't. Then it was Starbox was
the next guy to move, most guys didn't. And then Eli.
When I look at you and Peyton, your your traditional
pocket quarterbacks, but I view you differently. The first time
(08:12):
Elia watched you it was your second year and I
talked to Ernie Corsey about this once. I was like,
he's so good in the two minute drill like nobody
and the sec back in those days, Eli, that you
came out of and you two Peyton was much more
of a run conference. Peyton. Did you did you ever
watch Eli? We'll start with you, and did you ever
watch Eli and go? You know, my little brother he
(08:34):
does something. Did you ever you know? Comics talk show host.
We steal bits and pieces right from people that were like, oh,
his teasing's good, his storytelling is good. Peyton. Was ever
a time that you watched the elantin and went, you know,
my little brother, he's pretty good that like, what did
you admire about his game? Yeah? It was funny. College.
(08:56):
I go to college at Tennessee. Right, I'm a freshman.
Eli's freshman in high school, right, eight five years younger, right,
eighth grader. I'm coming back. I'm coming back once a
year to New Orleans, right on a bye week, maybe
once in the summer. So I'm seeing Eli, you know,
twice a year. Every time I see him. He's getting
(09:17):
a little taller, he's growing. He's still not saying much.
I mean he's still very quiet. I'm not saying he's
speaking a lot, but he's I just see a different
kid each time I see him. Right, all four years
in high school, I'm playing for the Colts. Now he's
an old miss. I'm seeing him once a year, and
each year I just see this development. And so I
(09:38):
kind of got to witness that right before my eyes,
that a he's a different kind of quarterback because of
how calm and cool and collected, he is. I I
was telling Calm before the show, Eli that Cooper and
I used to, you know, try to compete over who
could make you cry first as a when you were
like a three year old, and like we couldn't do it,
(10:00):
and we were trying everything, pulling out all the all
the stops, and I think that just kind of served
him well, Colin that just nothing bothered him. It didn't
rattle him. He couldn't get rattled and got what a
great characteristic and a trait to have as a quarterback,
especially when you're playing against the Giant for the Giants
in New York, and especially in a two minute drill.
(10:21):
So um, I did kind of have a sense early
on that that Eli wash was unique and had some
special traits, and it was just fun to kind of
witness that growth, uh in kind of one year installments.
You know, Eli, you are in the shadow of what
many believe Peyton Manning is one of the great football
(10:42):
prodigies of my life. In fact, I think Eli, you're
pee Peyton. You're the only quarterback that was number one
high school, number one college, number one pick and ended
up being great. Like most of the time, it's overlooked,
you know, Aaron Rodgers junior college, Big Ben Miami of Ohio.
Like you're a number one, number one, number one legend.
(11:03):
That's it. And Eli, you grew up in a little
bit of the shadow of that. And yet I can
honestly say this, there's never been animosity like you're You're
so good around each other. Right, I've seen images of
you watching each other play. What do you think, Eli
go to a moment of being Peyton's brother where you realized,
(11:26):
oh my god, my big brothers. This is a big thing.
Like he's not Peyton, he's Peyton, Like the first moment
you knew, Okay, my brother's like it's not just a
brother thing, like he can't be in public. Yeah, I
mean it was probably it was probably when he was
at Tennessee his senior year at Tennessee, kind of summer
(11:48):
going into that. I was in I was in high
school and I went up to stay with them that
summer for a week and I was gonna workout with them,
you know, in the weight room and just go throw
with them with his receiver verse there, and it was
that was kind of the first time that I saw
like his work ethic in person, I think, and that
(12:09):
was like it just you know, I'm you know, I'm
in high school. I'm a you know, a sophomore in
high school, and I'm just kind of enjoying playing all
the sports. And I just saw I kind of said,
I want to know what your normal week is and
what that looks like in college. And I don't think
what he was doing in college was what other normal
college quarterbacks was doing. Just the amount of film study,
(12:30):
what he did in the work out, how he can,
you know, kind of just commanded his offensive group and
his receivers and had them out on the fields, how
he conducted those seven on seven drills and the one
on ones, and it was just, you know, it was
just such a learning thing for me to see him
in action, and then also to see him how he
(12:51):
conducted himself kind of going to dinner and around a
college campus where he was, you know, kind of the
guy there and this everybody looked up to him and
wanted to be around him, and so, um, I think
that was the first time and it was just kind
of a wow, my brother's pretty pretty freaking awesome, Like
this guy's got it, you know, and not only see
(13:14):
you know it knows exactly what he wants to do. Uh,
he wants to be great. And it's not about how
he talks about being great, it's how he works at
being great. And then it's how he treats people and
how he handles it the limelight and doing all that.
And it was just kind of hoping your eyes to, uh,
to kind of the mindset and the work ethic that
(13:35):
was on a take if I wanted to have some
sort of of that same success and and he's just
always been able to take it to a higher level
at every you know, when you think you're working hard,
all of a sudden, you know, you I kind of
wonder what Peyton's doing, and I know he's doing something more,
whether he's watching more film, whether he has more code words,
(13:56):
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NFL and all of a sudden, he's, you know, change
the change in the game of the NFL and going
to a no huddle offense and he's basically the offensive
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how do you try to match that? And I think
early on I just said I don't know if I
can match everything he's he does. All I know is
(14:17):
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possibly work and try to be the best I can be.
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You know, it really speaks well of your parents. Now
(18:25):
I'm old, okay, so this is just how I see this.
You have remarkable parents, because there's two things you guys
do that is real for anybody listening to this podcast.
I have six kids between my two biological I'm divorced
and I have four I inherited for with my wife.
And the two things I try to you know, tell
(18:46):
our kids be humble. We're luckier than most. You guys
are so humble considering your dad's famous and you've been
You've done very well. The second thing I love about
you guys is that I'm I fascinated that pay and
now lives in Colorado and you I can't get over this,
and that you Eli are like a New York, New
(19:07):
Jersey guy. And the reason I say that is because
the South can be its own culture. It's got its
own feel and food and and it's it really is
all my Southern friends like they could never leave the
South and you guy, Peyton's a Westy and you're a
Northeast guy, and it's like, okay that that goes back
to parenting. There is something that you guys are comfortable
(19:28):
in different environments, and Peyton speak to that. It's not
this is not typical, like you live in Colorado. I
can't get over that well. And I can't get over
the fact that Eli h uses a season as a
verb when he tells me he's summering in the Hamptons.
I'm like, who are you? Used to be a Southern
(19:51):
chief from New Orleans and now you're summering and hamps.
Don't talk to me over again. Uh, you know, I
think it speaks to both of it, like how connected
we were with the teams we were playing for. I
mean that's kind of what Eli I said. I remember
talking to him last year. It's like I played here
seventeen years. All my friends are here. I love New York,
(20:12):
I love the people. I'm gonna live here. I'm just
gonna move somewhere else. And I always thought I would
have lived Indianapolis Columns where I was drafted to, where
I lived year round. And then you know, you get
hurt and you get injured, and you got to go
find somewhere else to play. And then you know, kids,
as you mentioned kind of coming to play. Ashu and
I had kids as we got here to Denver. They're
in school, moving to a pain in the butt. And
(20:34):
Denver is a great city. And I have a connection
here because I got to play for the Broncos and
so it's powerful that connection that football can provide someone
with that city, and it's just it just seems like
the right place for me to be. And I do
feel far away sometimes from Eli, and we probably don't
(20:55):
see each other as much anymore with the New York
to Denver for connection, but obviously that's why we were
doing this Monday night thing so we can be together
every for ten mondays of fall. You know, it's just
it's gonna be a hit. Eli take me. I'm a
West Coast guy that moved to the northeast, lived in
Connecticut ten years, and I can remember when I fell
(21:15):
in love with it. And it was the Fall and
it was a Yankee Red Sox series and I was
at a game and I remember, as a kid that
grew up on the coast to Washington, thinking I would
have never experienced this. I had no idea this existed,
driving over the tapan Zee, you know, you go, You're
in Brooklyn, and I remember just sitting at Yankee Stadium thinking, God,
my life, this is I'm in the center of the world.
(21:38):
And it was a cool thing. Eli, take me to
the your first recollection of New York where you were like,
I like it. I'm okay here, Like I like it.
You know, I think that's yeah, that thing. That's my
my rookie year. You know, actually it's probably my second year.
I think it's probably my second year more where I
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was in there. I'm the starting quarterback. You know. You
win a game on a Sunday and you're and your
teammates go out to New York City and go to
go to eat and go kind of get to celebrate.
And it's just that's when it seemed right. And I
think just all the different things in New York has
to offer. I mean the fact that you know, like
you said, I've been the Yankees games, I've been the
Mets games, I've been the Nets games. I've been the
(22:18):
Knicks games. I've been the Rangers games. You know. Uh, shoot,
I went to a Jets game once and watch Hayton
and I guess you know, uh, you know, so it's like,
you know, you know, you have all these sports. You have,
you have the food, you have, the music, you have,
the theater, you have, just the museums. There's just so
much action going on and it's just, uh, you know,
(22:39):
during the season, it's you know, it's always hard to
get it. But that's why we you know, we kind
of stayed here in the all season. Um a bunch
in January and February and not a whole lot's going on.
You say, hey, we can kind of this is our
time where we can you know, kind of get to
know New York City a little bit, and my wife
and I are kids and get them, uh to kind
of know all the things that it has to offer.
(23:00):
Why it is the greatest city in the world. Let's um,
you know, let's take part of him. We live in
New Jersey. But I think that's why we stayed up here.
I think there's still aspects of the city. And I
know right now it's kind of a weird time with
everything going on. Um, but there's still so much you know,
of New York and of New Jersey and the Northeast,
and we kind of I didn't get to experience because
(23:21):
I was playing and and and and just didn't have
the time that we still, you know, want to make
this home to to you know, uh, take all those
things in. So it's just such a wonderful place. And uh,
I think, I think, I think you're I think you're
selling yourself short column. I remember when Eli told me, uh,
he said, guess what I did last night? I said,
what said? He said? I was at Rayo's and I
(23:42):
say New York, New York with Yogi Barral. I'm like, okay,
you got me there, Okay. I went to Saint Almos
in Indianapolis. I had the shrip cocktail. You win that battle.
So I think that was that was that was that
was after that was after our first super Bowl, and
I was feeling really good about myself, and you know,
like I had the world figured out and I was
(24:04):
the greatest player and the greatest New Yorker of all time.
And I asked Yogi how many championships he won? He
said nine? He said nine? Said, all right, I got
a lot of I thought a lot of work to do.
Speedy kid, no autograph. Yeah, you know it's your most
successful coach. Dungee's very I know Tony because I covered
him in Tampa. He's he really gave you the offense
(24:25):
as he should. You had Coughlin, who went from angry
Tom to more laconic Tom. He changed. It is interesting,
is that was Tony the perfect coach for your personality? Peyton?
And I wonder was Tom in retrospect, you're like intense
Tom Eli may have been perfect for you, whereas Peyton,
you're so intense. Tony may have been perfect for you.
(24:49):
He was. He kept me calm. I remember our first meeting,
you know, he told me said, Peyton, I love how
aggressive you are. I love some of these throws you make,
but you throw too many interests and I'm telling you,
if you keep it up, we're not gonna win games,
and defenses are counting on you being impatient, getting frustrated,
and you're gonna throw him one late in the game.
(25:10):
It's gonna cause us the game. So kind of right
off the bat, I mean, he's so direct and to
the point, but in this calm, nice manner, right, I mean,
he's not, you know, pointing his finger at me and
yelling at me. He's just as calm as he always was.
Tony Dungee was as calm in the fourth quarter of
Super Bowl as he was out there at practice every day.
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And that's why you loved him, because when your leader's calm,
it's easier for the people following that leader to be
calm as well. What Tony really did for me as well, Colin,
he's known as a defensive guy, but he also was
a college quarterback at Minnesota, so he saw it from
both sides. But he took me into the defense's mind
and he told me, Peyton, this is what the defense
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is being taught to do. This is what this safety,
this is what his coach is telling him to do.
These are the rules of the defense. So these are
the holes in those rules. So the plays that you
want to call need to be these kind of plays
to take advantage, and I've never been taught that side
of it before. My message to young quarterbacks is, go
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spend time with the defensive coordinator on your team, watch
some film with him, and see what he's teaching his players,
and then you know what they're thinking. And Belichick has
done that with Brady over the years. I've heard Tom
talk about it. You've seen him watching film together. So
Tony just had that great insight for me, and it
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just took my game to a whole new level. As
you know, I asked John Lynch one time. I said,
you must be way more comfortable drafting defensive players. He goes, No,
I covered offensive guys because I've had more success with
the Niners drafting offensive guys because I know weakness. And
you know, Eli, you had Tom. You have a very
nice dad, a very quiet dad, your college coach David
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cut a southern gentleman, and then you got Tom, who
turns purple. Was there Take me to the first purple
moment with Coughlin, Eli and your reaction. I mean Tom
literally looked like a plum in when he would get mad.
Give me take me to the first moment in your
reaction to him. You know, I think I just appreciated
coach Kauflin, and I always liked tough coaches, um, And
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I just think that's that's just kind of what football
is about, is the demanding coach and Kauflin. I mean,
if you if you showed up five minutes early for
your meeting, if you worked extremely hard and prepared and
and you just liked and loved football, you know, he
was okay. He didn't get on you. So you know
he saw the hard work. If you couldn't do those
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three things, he really shouldn't be playing professional football anyway.
And those are the people he had a problem with.
But I mean, he was so much just on preparation.
I remember my rookie year. I'm not starting, but it's
the first game and he says, hey, Eli, I want
you to break down all the blitzes, um, that the
Eagles have done. That's who were playing the first game.
Break down all the all their blitzes and for these
(28:04):
you know four protections kind of our four main protections,
And I want you to draw up the blitz and
how you'd pick them up that they'd done. And so
you know, I just kind of did their you know,
their preseason games, and they hadn't done that many blitzes.
I did them up, and so all of a sudden
next week I kind of do it, you know, do
it then, and all of a sudden still week eight
and I'm at to do you know, it's not just
the last four weeks the blitzes. It's eight weeks of
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every blitz that the team done. Drawing off the four protections,
and you know it would take a while. And I
thought like I was like, no way, he's looking at
every one of mine, like I'm doing a few of them.
I just kind of like made up or just like
you know, just kind of got tired. I just I
would skip one sure enough. You know, he's like, what
the hell is this? You live? You're skipping the seventy
six protection on the front of Like my sorry, coach.
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I mean he went through everyone red and you had
the red ink and you know if I made a mistake,
I mean it was it was three hundred, three hundred,
you know drawings that I would do a week on
all their protections, and he looked through everyone the mixture.
I was knew what I was doing, making the Paul
and picking up every blitz that they had done the
right way, and so, you know, but it just it
taught me, you know, you know, all of a sudden,
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when I got to play in my next year, I
knew my protections and I knew I never took a
hit from a guy who I never came to the sideline.
Said well, I thought I was gonna be protected there
when I wasn't. You know, I always knew everybody's assignment,
what they were doing, and just taught me, you know,
so much about preparation and how much you had to
do at this level to get an edge on knowing
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what you're doing and what the opponents is doing. Finally,
ten weeks Monday Night football. The reason this is going
to be great because, first of all, I think everybody
understands what this is gonna be. This is gonna be
brothers at a bar talking football, and so I think
everybody's gonna get it and everybody's gonna love it. But
I also think there's something you guys have in common,
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and this is it speaks again, because you're so you're
just different. I mean, you're you're upbringing. You both had
centers with a sense of humor, Jeff. I love Jeff Saturday.
And so Jeff Saturday came up to me when I
was at ESPN and he just retired, and he came
up to me and he goes, Hey, you don't remember this,
but my contract was up a couple of years ago,
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and you went on the air and talked about me
a center for ten minutes. And he said, you said,
and I don't, he said, you said on the air, listen,
Peyton's great, but he's so intense you better understand it
being the center for Peyton's No Day at the Beach,
and he goes, literally Polly and hurt it. And I thought,
oh Jesus, And then the true story and then you
(30:34):
had I just watched the other day Cooper was interviewing
your center. We have these glimpses of the center quarterback
relationship in both of your lives. I mean, I got
video of you barking at Saturday barking back at you.
But I always felt Peyton, and I'll start with you,
that's a really unique relationship of trust that I don't
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think fans get. I just I think we all think
you and Saturday you went back and forth at each
other like brothers. Absolutely you know, people talk about a
quarterback and you got to get that timing with your
receiver right. That's the first first goal. And you gotta
have a great relationship with your left tackle. He protects
your blindside. That's bs the most important relationship you can
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have as a quarterback is with your center. Saturday and
I are lockers. We're right next to each other. Every
other colts section was divided by positions right, defensive backs
over here, wide receivers over here, quarterbacks over here, except
for me, because I wanted to be right in the
middle of the offensive line. I was riding between Jeff
(31:39):
Saturday and Ryan Dean by center and my tackle. Saturday
and I sat next to each other on the plane ride. Okay,
we flew the whole flight together, watching film together. This
is kind of in the pre iPad era, right, we
still had a computer. We're drawing things up on a
piece of paper. I didn't room with him because he
sleeps naked. I just I don't want to deal with that,
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you know, hotel in Minnesota. And I apologize to the
viewers for that vision in your in your mind, but
I mean, you know, we took you know, thirty snaps
before every practice simulating a full speed game. We're pouring
water on the ball, simulating a wet ball drill. Jeff's like, Peyton,
(32:21):
we're playing in the RCA Dome this week, why aren't
we doing the wet ball drill. I'm like, there might
be a leak in the roof. I don't know. But
during enough we're playing this. We play in the Super
Bowl and there's a monsoon in Miami and Saturday and
I have zero fumbled snaps. The Bears have two, Jeff.
That's why we were doing the wet ball drill back
(32:41):
in October in two thousand and three. So, uh, it
is funny that O'Hara and Saturday look like each other.
They did were similar. Eli. I remember the time of
the Pro Bowl when when when me, you and O'Hara
were talking and Carrie Collins walks up. He's like, hey, Peyton,
Hey Eli, Hey Jeff, And Sean O'Hara's like, uh, actually,
(33:03):
I'm Sean, Carrie. I stabbed at you for a full
season in New York. Who I am? Yeah? The quarterback
center relationship is I mean, you know, our hands are
at places that you know usually don't do, not go
near another another man. Uh, you know, it's just you
(33:24):
get close real quick, and especially especially when O'Hara we
go out for a jog through and he thought it'd
be a good idea to cut a hole in his shorts. Um,
So I put my hands under center and I get
a nice surprise. What what's going on? But I can't
say anythings. I know Coffin's gonna rip them and like
(33:45):
make a big deal if you know, if he finds out.
So I just had to know. I kind of go
to shotgun and you know power, How are we running
power out of shotgun? Like, what's going on? You shotgun?
Give me out of here. Well, guys, you've been great. Um,
I really appreciate this. Eli. We've done some events. You're wonderful. Payton,
(34:07):
you were so patient with me and all my nonsense. Um,
this is gonna be great. Ten weeks Monday Night football,
It's gonna it's gonna be exactly what it should be. Unique, fun,
smart brothers. I can't wait. I just I am. I
don't even need to root for you. It's gonna work. Um,
it's gonna be. As a broadcaster, I love new stuff,
(34:28):
and this is gonna be so smart and fun and
just go kick ass. I can't wait for it. Just
say no paying. Coop just sent me a text saying
that me and you can go on soup with Coop
if he can come on Monday night football. I say
no deal, No, no, I think that's a path. No. Yeah,
I don't like being leveraged like that. But Colin, we
(34:48):
do need guests and we do need uh. You know,
football player guest and non football player guest. You are
in that non player guest. I know you played a
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or junior high, but you're in that non football guest.
But you're on for the third quarter of week three.
I've already talked to your agent. I've already got a book.
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love to have me back on the air. They just
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Both have been recruited heavily to join the broadcast world. Peyton,
I want to start with you. Was it the success
of Soup with Coop that led you to believe this
broadcasting thing would work for you without a doubt. That
just solidified everything that I thought. If you can have
(01:27):
a show involving soup, hey, that that just tells you
there's there's a future there. And you have my brother.
I mean, I have all these people that text me, Hey,
I'm doing soup with Coop, And I'm like, like, why
are you telling me? Like what do you think? Are
you apologizing to me? Are you congratulates you? I'm not
sure what that means. I mean, Eli and I haven't
(01:48):
even been asked to be on soup with Coup, Like,
I don't right, Yeah, I mean, what do you have
to do to get it in? By it? Eli? I
guess he knows I don't really like soup that much. Yeahistory, Yeah,
it's interesting because Peyton I always it was very obvious
you did a lot of commercials. You were funny. Everybody
(02:09):
knew that and that you had a lot of options.
Eli is the Derek Jeter of New York football. He
now he's suddenly Chris Rock. We had no idea until
he retired. He's the funniest guy in the world. So
give me a backstory. I didn't think of Eli as
broadcast guy. I thought of you as broadcast guy. Are
(02:30):
you a little surprised that Eli is now doing a
stand up at Sheboygan on weekends? He's like, mister funny guy.
Suddenly it's free. It's free to get into see Eli
and do comedy. You don't have to pay anything. Actually
they pay you to come in and listen. You know,
I think I think Eli and I will probably both
tell you that what we're doing, Colin, I'm not sure
(02:51):
what it is. I'm not sure what to call it,
but it's not It's not your typical broadcast. Um you know,
teak if you will, it's at least in my mind.
Maybe I'm just lying to myself, but I kind of
see it as just two brothers watching an NFL game
at a bar, and the viewer is watching it with us,
(03:12):
and we're watching it as a fan, right, I mean
you may use the word ambassador, but really as a fan.
I mean I love watching football. I mean since I
stopped playing, everybody said, hell, you're not gonna want to
watch football, You're gonna miss it too much. Not true.
I got to do it for a long time. I
love the fact that I got to play it, and
now I'm a fan. I like watching Mahomes play, just
(03:33):
like I used to like watching Rett Farr play. I
like watching Josh Allen play. So I think the fact
that I get to watch a Monday night game with
my brother that I haven't done since nineteen ninety three.
You know, Eli never flew to Indianapolis from Monday night
dinner in two thousand and seven, and so that's cool.
And we get to maybe take the viewer behind the
(03:54):
ropes a little bit on what the coordinator is saying
to the quarterback in his helmets, and I'll call the
play to Eli and then ELI will repeat that to
the huddle. Right, take people behind the ropes on what
that sounds like. What's the quarterbacks coach saying to the
quarterback when they're looking at those pictures, those tablets on
the sideline. Eli and I can give you those conversations.
(04:17):
But the second and one running play Colin that nobody
cares about. We're not gonna diagram that. We're gonna be
having a conversation with Charles Barkley on that play about
why he didn't play football. Was he scared to get hit?
You know, I mean, how do you change basketball? So
it's a conversational. It's more casual. But last thing I'll say,
(04:37):
I'll let Eli go. I'm gonna be hard pressed to
say anything negative about a quarterback or a lot of
players if they got those an interception. I'm probably gonna say,
watch this play by this safety, right, this is an
awesome play, you know, because I know what it was
like as a quarterback. I'm not gonna say how can
you do that? Because I did it? Right? I do
(04:58):
six interceptions against the chart 's one game, Like, you know,
what right do I have to say? How can you
do that? So I know how hard it is. I'm
going to be a quarterback defender, a player defender, but
I think it'll be fun kind of taking a different approach. Sorry, Eli,
I took up all the time. What's your answering? Well,
that's what I want to hear. I like the idea.
By the way, this is what I want to hear, Eli.
(05:19):
I want to hear two brothers talking. I'm not looking
for al Michaels. I love him, I love Joe Buck.
That's not what I want. How do you interpret it, Eli? Yeah,
I think the same way. I think we can give
you a you know, I think we'll build tell fun stories.
I think we'll you know, if if they're playing a game,
uh and and you know Arrowhead, we you know we've
played a Narrowhead, we'll have stories about, you know, when
(05:40):
we've played there. But also you know, we'll be talking
through some plays. But when there's a great play, when
a quarterback changes up protection and picks up an overload
blitz and you know, we can we can tell the fans, hey,
what you know, what he did right there, why he
did that, how he did that, and how that was
communic without giving away secrets of what the team is doing.
(06:02):
But just what it's like to play quarterback. And when
you play quarterback, you don't just know the quarterback position.
You know what the receivers are supposed to do. You
know what the offensive line is supposed to do. You
know every defense where they're supposed to be lined up,
in the in the rules, the coverages. So the quarterback
is you got to know what every position their responsibilities.
And so we can break that down. Um, you know,
(06:24):
when there's really cool plays in the design of a play,
in the design of a defense, um, you know, we
can just kind of give an inside look at some
of those details. And have the ability to break those
downs on why a play was successful, um, from a
defensive standpoint and an offensive standpoint. So I think it's
just a more casual way to watch the game. I
(06:46):
remember we were doing a couple of breakdowns and you know,
we're watching, um, you know, watching the Vikings play and
I'm saying, hey, watch Kendricks right here, how he does
this great job of of of kind of you know,
bait the line in the think he's not blitzing. He
blitz And they're saying, well, hey, it's actually better if
you say the number, Like all the fans might not
know who Kindreds is, so you know, you don't have
(07:07):
to know every number. Just say number fifty four. That's
that's better for us because the fans, you know that
they that they'll be able to understand what you're doing
and how you're breaking down that film. And so I'm like, oh,
that's even better. I don't have to know every single
player Uh's name that's playing. We can we can say numbers.
And so it's just, you know, it's just more of
of a fan kind of watching a game that wants
(07:27):
to know a little bit more what's what's going on
we can we can dive into that. You know, it's
what's really fascinating about your family. Um, and I said
this two days ago on the air. I said, like,
it's it's really it's an American football royalty that each
of you, your father, Eli, and Peyton, you all have
different styles. So I'm mid fifties. I watched your dad
(07:49):
on those Terrible Saints teams. I remember him well. He
was a mover. He was mobile, you know, he and
Tarkenton moved most guys didn't. Then it was Starbox was
the next guy to move, most guys didn't. And then Eli.
When I look at you and Peyton, your your traditional
pocket quarterbacks, but I view you differently. The first time
(08:12):
Elia watched you it was your second year and I
talked to Ernie Corsey about this once. I was like,
he's so good in the two minute drill like nobody
and the sec back in those days, Eli, that you
came out of and you two Peyton was much more
of a run conference. Peyton. Did you did you ever
watch Eli? We'll start with you, and did you ever
watch Eli and go? You know, my little brother he
(08:34):
does something. Did you ever you know? Comics talk show host.
We steal bits and pieces right from people that were like, oh,
his teasing's good, his storytelling is good. Peyton. Was ever
a time that you watched the elantin and went, you know,
my little brother, he's pretty good that like, what did
you admire about his game? Yeah? It was funny. College.
(08:56):
I go to college at Tennessee. Right, I'm a freshman.
Eli's freshman in high school, right, eight five years younger, right,
eighth grader. I'm coming back. I'm coming back once a
year to New Orleans, right on a bye week, maybe
once in the summer. So I'm seeing Eli, you know,
twice a year. Every time I see him. He's getting
(09:17):
a little taller, he's growing. He's still not saying much.
I mean he's still very quiet. I'm not saying he's
speaking a lot, but he's I just see a different
kid each time I see him. Right, all four years
in high school, I'm playing for the Colts. Now he's
an old miss. I'm seeing him once a year, and
each year I just see this development. And so I
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kind of got to witness that right before my eyes,
that a he's a different kind of quarterback because of
how calm and cool and collected, he is. I I
was telling Calm before the show, Eli that Cooper and
I used to, you know, try to compete over who
could make you cry first as a when you were
like a three year old, and like we couldn't do it,
(10:00):
and we were trying everything, pulling out all the all
the stops, and I think that just kind of served
him well, Colin that just nothing bothered him. It didn't
rattle him. He couldn't get rattled and got what a
great characteristic and a trait to have as a quarterback,
especially when you're playing against the Giant for the Giants
in New York, and especially in a two minute drill.
(10:21):
So um, I did kind of have a sense early
on that that Eli wash was unique and had some
special traits, and it was just fun to kind of
witness that growth, uh in kind of one year installments.
You know, Eli, you are in the shadow of what
many believe Peyton Manning is one of the great football
(10:42):
prodigies of my life. In fact, I think Eli, you're
pee Peyton. You're the only quarterback that was number one
high school, number one college, number one pick and ended
up being great. Like most of the time, it's overlooked,
you know, Aaron Rodgers junior college, Big Ben Miami of Ohio.
Like you're a number one, number one, number one legend.
(11:03):
That's it. And Eli, you grew up in a little
bit of the shadow of that. And yet I can
honestly say this, there's never been animosity like you're You're
so good around each other. Right, I've seen images of
you watching each other play. What do you think, Eli
go to a moment of being Peyton's brother where you realized,
(11:26):
oh my god, my big brothers. This is a big thing.
Like he's not Peyton, he's Peyton, Like the first moment
you knew, Okay, my brother's like it's not just a
brother thing, like he can't be in public. Yeah, I
mean it was probably it was probably when he was
at Tennessee his senior year at Tennessee, kind of summer
(11:48):
going into that. I was in I was in high
school and I went up to stay with them that
summer for a week and I was gonna workout with them,
you know, in the weight room and just go throw
with them with his receiver verse there, and it was
that was kind of the first time that I saw
like his work ethic in person, I think, and that
(12:09):
was like it just you know, I'm you know, I'm
in high school. I'm a you know, a sophomore in
high school, and I'm just kind of enjoying playing all
the sports. And I just saw I kind of said,
I want to know what your normal week is and
what that looks like in college. And I don't think
what he was doing in college was what other normal
college quarterbacks was doing. Just the amount of film study,
(12:30):
what he did in the work out, how he can,
you know, kind of just commanded his offensive group and
his receivers and had them out on the fields, how
he conducted those seven on seven drills and the one
on ones, and it was just, you know, it was
just such a learning thing for me to see him
in action, and then also to see him how he
(12:51):
conducted himself kind of going to dinner and around a
college campus where he was, you know, kind of the
guy there and this everybody looked up to him and
wanted to be around him, and so, um, I think
that was the first time and it was just kind
of a wow, my brother's pretty pretty freaking awesome, Like
this guy's got it, you know, and not only see
(13:14):
you know it knows exactly what he wants to do. Uh,
he wants to be great. And it's not about how
he talks about being great, it's how he works at
being great. And then it's how he treats people and
how he handles it the limelight and doing all that.
And it was just kind of hoping your eyes to, uh,
to kind of the mindset and the work ethic that
(13:35):
was on a take if I wanted to have some
sort of of that same success and and he's just
always been able to take it to a higher level
at every you know, when you think you're working hard,
all of a sudden, you know, you I kind of
wonder what Peyton's doing, and I know he's doing something more,
whether he's watching more film, whether he has more code words,
(13:56):
or you know. And then you see him in the
NFL and all of a sudden, he's, you know, change
the change in the game of the NFL and going
to a no huddle offense and he's basically the offensive
coordinator on the field, and it's like, how do you
how do you keep competing with this? How do you
how do you try to match that? And I think
early on I just said I don't know if I
can match everything he's he does. All I know is
(14:17):
I'm gonna work as hard as I think I can
possibly work and try to be the best I can be.
And that's that's his you know, That's that's all I
can ask for. If I try to keep up with
him and compete with him, it's gonna be really hard
because I know he's he's gonna have the mindset that
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You know, it really speaks well of your parents. Now
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I'm old, okay, so this is just how I see this.
You have remarkable parents, because there's two things you guys
do that is real for anybody listening to this podcast.
I have six kids between my two biological I'm divorced
and I have four I inherited for with my wife.
And the two things I try to you know, tell
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our kids be humble. We're luckier than most. You guys
are so humble considering your dad's famous and you've been
You've done very well. The second thing I love about
you guys is that I'm I fascinated that pay and
now lives in Colorado and you I can't get over this,
and that you Eli are like a New York, New
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Jersey guy. And the reason I say that is because
the South can be its own culture. It's got its
own feel and food and and it's it really is
all my Southern friends like they could never leave the
South and you guy, Peyton's a Westy and you're a
Northeast guy, and it's like, okay that that goes back
to parenting. There is something that you guys are comfortable
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in different environments, and Peyton speak to that. It's not
this is not typical, like you live in Colorado. I
can't get over that well. And I can't get over
the fact that Eli h uses a season as a
verb when he tells me he's summering in the Hamptons.
I'm like, who are you? Used to be a Southern
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chief from New Orleans and now you're summering and hamps.
Don't talk to me over again. Uh, you know, I
think it speaks to both of it, like how connected
we were with the teams we were playing for. I
mean that's kind of what Eli I said. I remember
talking to him last year. It's like I played here
seventeen years. All my friends are here. I love New York,
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I love the people. I'm gonna live here. I'm just
gonna move somewhere else. And I always thought I would
have lived Indianapolis Columns where I was drafted to, where
I lived year round. And then you know, you get
hurt and you get injured, and you got to go
find somewhere else to play. And then you know, kids,
as you mentioned kind of coming to play. Ashu and
I had kids as we got here to Denver. They're
in school, moving to a pain in the butt. And
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Denver is a great city. And I have a connection
here because I got to play for the Broncos and
so it's powerful that connection that football can provide someone
with that city, and it's just it just seems like
the right place for me to be. And I do
feel far away sometimes from Eli, and we probably don't
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see each other as much anymore with the New York
to Denver for connection, but obviously that's why we were
doing this Monday night thing so we can be together
every for ten mondays of fall. You know, it's just
it's gonna be a hit. Eli take me. I'm a
West Coast guy that moved to the northeast, lived in
Connecticut ten years, and I can remember when I fell
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in love with it. And it was the Fall and
it was a Yankee Red Sox series and I was
at a game and I remember, as a kid that
grew up on the coast to Washington, thinking I would
have never experienced this. I had no idea this existed,
driving over the tapan Zee, you know, you go, You're
in Brooklyn, and I remember just sitting at Yankee Stadium thinking, God,
my life, this is I'm in the center of the world.
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And it was a cool thing. Eli, take me to
the your first recollection of New York where you were like,
I like it. I'm okay here, Like I like it.
You know, I think that's yeah, that thing. That's my
my rookie year. You know, actually it's probably my second year.
I think it's probably my second year more where I
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was in there. I'm the starting quarterback. You know. You
win a game on a Sunday and you're and your
teammates go out to New York City and go to
go to eat and go kind of get to celebrate.
And it's just that's when it seemed right. And I
think just all the different things in New York has
to offer. I mean the fact that you know, like
you said, I've been the Yankees games, I've been the
Mets games, I've been the Nets games. I've been the
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Knicks games. I've been the Rangers games. You know. Uh, shoot,
I went to a Jets game once and watch Hayton
and I guess you know, uh, you know, so it's like,
you know, you know, you have all these sports. You have,
you have the food, you have, the music, you have,
the theater, you have, just the museums. There's just so
much action going on and it's just, uh, you know,
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during the season, it's you know, it's always hard to
get it. But that's why we you know, we kind
of stayed here in the all season. Um a bunch
in January and February and not a whole lot's going on.
You say, hey, we can kind of this is our
time where we can you know, kind of get to
know New York City a little bit, and my wife
and I are kids and get them, uh to kind
of know all the things that it has to offer.
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Why it is the greatest city in the world. Let's um,
you know, let's take part of him. We live in
New Jersey. But I think that's why we stayed up here.
I think there's still aspects of the city. And I
know right now it's kind of a weird time with
everything going on. Um, but there's still so much you know,
of New York and of New Jersey and the Northeast,
and we kind of I didn't get to experience because
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I was playing and and and and just didn't have
the time that we still, you know, want to make
this home to to you know, uh, take all those
things in. So it's just such a wonderful place. And uh,
I think, I think, I think you're I think you're
selling yourself short column. I remember when Eli told me, uh,
he said, guess what I did last night? I said,
what said? He said? I was at Rayo's and I
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say New York, New York with Yogi Barral. I'm like, okay,
you got me there, Okay. I went to Saint Almos
in Indianapolis. I had the shrip cocktail. You win that battle.
So I think that was that was that was that
was after that was after our first super Bowl, and
I was feeling really good about myself, and you know,
like I had the world figured out and I was
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the greatest player and the greatest New Yorker of all time.
And I asked Yogi how many championships he won? He
said nine? He said nine? Said, all right, I got
a lot of I thought a lot of work to do.
Speedy kid, no autograph. Yeah, you know it's your most
successful coach. Dungee's very I know Tony because I covered
him in Tampa. He's he really gave you the offense
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as he should. You had Coughlin, who went from angry
Tom to more laconic Tom. He changed. It is interesting,
is that was Tony the perfect coach for your personality? Peyton?
And I wonder was Tom in retrospect, you're like intense
Tom Eli may have been perfect for you, whereas Peyton,
you're so intense. Tony may have been perfect for you.
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He was. He kept me calm. I remember our first meeting,
you know, he told me said, Peyton, I love how
aggressive you are. I love some of these throws you make,
but you throw too many interests and I'm telling you,
if you keep it up, we're not gonna win games,
and defenses are counting on you being impatient, getting frustrated,
and you're gonna throw him one late in the game.
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It's gonna cause us the game. So kind of right
off the bat, I mean, he's so direct and to
the point, but in this calm, nice manner, right, I mean,
he's not, you know, pointing his finger at me and
yelling at me. He's just as calm as he always was.
Tony Dungee was as calm in the fourth quarter of
Super Bowl as he was out there at practice every day.
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And that's why you loved him, because when your leader's calm,
it's easier for the people following that leader to be
calm as well. What Tony really did for me as well, Colin,
he's known as a defensive guy, but he also was
a college quarterback at Minnesota, so he saw it from
both sides. But he took me into the defense's mind
and he told me, Peyton, this is what the defense
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is being taught to do. This is what this safety,
this is what his coach is telling him to do.
These are the rules of the defense. So these are
the holes in those rules. So the plays that you
want to call need to be these kind of plays
to take advantage, and I've never been taught that side
of it before. My message to young quarterbacks is, go
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spend time with the defensive coordinator on your team, watch
some film with him, and see what he's teaching his players,
and then you know what they're thinking. And Belichick has
done that with Brady over the years. I've heard Tom
talk about it. You've seen him watching film together. So
Tony just had that great insight for me, and it
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just took my game to a whole new level. As
you know, I asked John Lynch one time. I said,
you must be way more comfortable drafting defensive players. He goes, No,
I covered offensive guys because I've had more success with
the Niners drafting offensive guys because I know weakness. And
you know, Eli, you had Tom. You have a very
nice dad, a very quiet dad, your college coach David
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cut a southern gentleman, and then you got Tom, who
turns purple. Was there Take me to the first purple
moment with Coughlin, Eli and your reaction. I mean Tom
literally looked like a plum in when he would get mad.
Give me take me to the first moment in your
reaction to him. You know, I think I just appreciated
coach Kauflin, and I always liked tough coaches, um, And
(27:21):
I just think that's that's just kind of what football
is about, is the demanding coach and Kauflin. I mean,
if you if you showed up five minutes early for
your meeting, if you worked extremely hard and prepared and
and you just liked and loved football, you know, he
was okay. He didn't get on you. So you know
he saw the hard work. If you couldn't do those
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three things, he really shouldn't be playing professional football anyway.
And those are the people he had a problem with.
But I mean, he was so much just on preparation.
I remember my rookie year. I'm not starting, but it's
the first game and he says, hey, Eli, I want
you to break down all the blitzes, um, that the
Eagles have done. That's who were playing the first game.
Break down all the all their blitzes and for these
(28:04):
you know four protections kind of our four main protections,
And I want you to draw up the blitz and
how you'd pick them up that they'd done. And so
you know, I just kind of did their you know,
their preseason games, and they hadn't done that many blitzes.
I did them up, and so all of a sudden
next week I kind of do it, you know, do
it then, and all of a sudden still week eight
and I'm at to do you know, it's not just
the last four weeks the blitzes. It's eight weeks of
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every blitz that the team done. Drawing off the four protections,
and you know it would take a while. And I
thought like I was like, no way, he's looking at
every one of mine, like I'm doing a few of them.
I just kind of like made up or just like
you know, just kind of got tired. I just I
would skip one sure enough. You know, he's like, what
the hell is this? You live? You're skipping the seventy
six protection on the front of Like my sorry, coach.
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I mean he went through everyone red and you had
the red ink and you know if I made a mistake,
I mean it was it was three hundred, three hundred,
you know drawings that I would do a week on
all their protections, and he looked through everyone the mixture.
I was knew what I was doing, making the Paul
and picking up every blitz that they had done the
right way, and so, you know, but it just it
taught me, you know, you know, all of a sudden,
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when I got to play in my next year, I
knew my protections and I knew I never took a
hit from a guy who I never came to the sideline.
Said well, I thought I was gonna be protected there
when I wasn't. You know, I always knew everybody's assignment,
what they were doing, and just taught me, you know,
so much about preparation and how much you had to
do at this level to get an edge on knowing
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what you're doing and what the opponents is doing. Finally,
ten weeks Monday Night football. The reason this is going
to be great because, first of all, I think everybody
understands what this is gonna be. This is gonna be
brothers at a bar talking football, and so I think
everybody's gonna get it and everybody's gonna love it. But
I also think there's something you guys have in common,
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and this is it speaks again, because you're so you're
just different. I mean, you're you're upbringing. You both had
centers with a sense of humor, Jeff. I love Jeff Saturday.
And so Jeff Saturday came up to me when I
was at ESPN and he just retired, and he came
up to me and he goes, Hey, you don't remember this,
but my contract was up a couple of years ago,
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and you went on the air and talked about me
a center for ten minutes. And he said, you said,
and I don't, he said, you said on the air, listen,
Peyton's great, but he's so intense you better understand it
being the center for Peyton's No Day at the Beach,
and he goes, literally Polly and hurt it. And I thought,
oh Jesus, And then the true story and then you
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had I just watched the other day Cooper was interviewing
your center. We have these glimpses of the center quarterback
relationship in both of your lives. I mean, I got
video of you barking at Saturday barking back at you.
But I always felt Peyton, and I'll start with you,
that's a really unique relationship of trust that I don't
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think fans get. I just I think we all think
you and Saturday you went back and forth at each
other like brothers. Absolutely you know, people talk about a
quarterback and you got to get that timing with your
receiver right. That's the first first goal. And you gotta
have a great relationship with your left tackle. He protects
your blindside. That's bs the most important relationship you can
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have as a quarterback is with your center. Saturday and
I are lockers. We're right next to each other. Every
other colts section was divided by positions right, defensive backs
over here, wide receivers over here, quarterbacks over here, except
for me, because I wanted to be right in the
middle of the offensive line. I was riding between Jeff
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Saturday and Ryan Dean by center and my tackle. Saturday
and I sat next to each other on the plane ride. Okay,
we flew the whole flight together, watching film together. This
is kind of in the pre iPad era, right, we
still had a computer. We're drawing things up on a
piece of paper. I didn't room with him because he
sleeps naked. I just I don't want to deal with that,
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you know, hotel in Minnesota. And I apologize to the
viewers for that vision in your in your mind, but
I mean, you know, we took you know, thirty snaps
before every practice simulating a full speed game. We're pouring
water on the ball, simulating a wet ball drill. Jeff's like, Peyton,
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we're playing in the RCA Dome this week, why aren't
we doing the wet ball drill. I'm like, there might
be a leak in the roof. I don't know. But
during enough we're playing this. We play in the Super
Bowl and there's a monsoon in Miami and Saturday and
I have zero fumbled snaps. The Bears have two, Jeff.
That's why we were doing the wet ball drill back
(32:41):
in October in two thousand and three. So, uh, it
is funny that O'Hara and Saturday look like each other.
They did were similar. Eli. I remember the time of
the Pro Bowl when when when me, you and O'Hara
were talking and Carrie Collins walks up. He's like, hey, Peyton,
Hey Eli, Hey Jeff, And Sean O'Hara's like, uh, actually,
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I'm Sean, Carrie. I stabbed at you for a full
season in New York. Who I am? Yeah? The quarterback
center relationship is I mean, you know, our hands are
at places that you know usually don't do, not go
near another another man. Uh, you know, it's just you
(33:24):
get close real quick, and especially especially when O'Hara we
go out for a jog through and he thought it'd
be a good idea to cut a hole in his shorts. Um,
So I put my hands under center and I get
a nice surprise. What what's going on? But I can't
say anythings. I know Coffin's gonna rip them and like
(33:45):
make a big deal if you know, if he finds out.
So I just had to know. I kind of go
to shotgun and you know power, How are we running
power out of shotgun? Like, what's going on? You shotgun?
Give me out of here. Well, guys, you've been great. Um,
I really appreciate this. Eli. We've done some events. You're wonderful. Payton,
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you were so patient with me and all my nonsense. Um,
this is gonna be great. Ten weeks Monday Night football,
It's gonna it's gonna be exactly what it should be. Unique, fun,
smart brothers. I can't wait. I just I am. I
don't even need to root for you. It's gonna work. Um,
it's gonna be. As a broadcaster, I love new stuff,
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and this is gonna be so smart and fun and
just go kick ass. I can't wait for it. Just
say no paying. Coop just sent me a text saying
that me and you can go on soup with Coop
if he can come on Monday night football. I say
no deal, No, no, I think that's a path. No. Yeah,
I don't like being leveraged like that. But Colin, we
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do need guests and we do need uh. You know,
football player guest and non football player guest. You are
in that non player guest. I know you played a
little bit of a little bit of high school ball
or junior high, but you're in that non football guest.
But you're on for the third quarter of week three.
I've already talked to your agent. I've already got a book.
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So thanks for being available. Yeah, I'm sure ESPN would
love to have me back on the air. They just
love that. Hey, it's great, guys, great talking you. Thanks,
thanks a lot. I appreciate college. All right, kick app
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