February 8, 2025 • 48 mins
Bobby Bones and Matt Cassel have arrived in New Orleans for the Super Bowl! 3x SB Champion Tedy Bruschi talks about the Cassel-led Patriots. Rams DE Kobie Turner shares his experience on 'The Voice' and his nickname, The Conductor. SB Champ Drew Brees shares his memories of bringing a championship to New Orleans. Hall of Famer Warren Moon recalls his transition from the CFL to the NFL! We wrap with Bobby's new jacket from Drew Brees and what's to come in the next few days!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
We got lots.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Just say we got lost. Just said, what a begger
and we cooked mistake because we got lost. Just say, yeah,
we got lost.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Just say, now here's boy that.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I welcome to the show. We are in a Is
this a convention center? It looks like or is this
the stadium? This is where they play the game?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah it might be.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
I mean it's big enough you look at it. I
mean I think this is where they put the floats
for Marty girl. I think the storage. Yeah, for storage.
That's what somebody had told me, you learned something new
every day.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I don't know that I trust that, but you know what,
for this, I'll accept it. But they could have been
lying to you. Hey, the craziest thing and there's a
lot here. Hey, who's the coolest person you've seen? No,
it can't be one of our people that we interviewed.
But do you walk through and just saw ooh crazy?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I saw Joe Montana.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I you know what.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
I saw Joe Montana count too, and immediately I was like,
oh the sixteen San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
How do you not love Joe Montana.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
When I saw him, I said, that's Joe Montana.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I literally it's all I said.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I looked at him and I didn't even say that.
I was like, just mental note, mental note, that's Joe Montana.
That's pretty pretty.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Cool we have. Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Also, I'll say this, they know that you're such a
big deal. They just knew you were Matt Castle. You
didn't bring your wallet.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I didn't even bring my wallet to this deal. I mean,
I know security is very tight because they checked the car,
they did the dog sniffing and all that stuff. Let
me come through, literally walked through the screening area, didn't
check my ID, but gave me my VIP pass and
told me where the green room was and let.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Me walk right in.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Wait, you had a green room.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
There's a green room over here.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
And they just said, hey, if you want to snack
or water, and I was like cool.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Literally never asked me for any form of identification.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You have that former NFL quarterback look about you. They
asked for three a form of identification for me.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
They were like, we need to see a driver's license,
a student ID, checked you for lice, we have a
That's a whole different story because I got kicked out
back in the day when they would do life checks.
I was set home a couple of times. Oh that
was humiliating because they'd pull you out and to be like,
Bobby has lights and.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I'd have to go home.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Oh, I've had my kids have We've got that phone
call before. And if there's one thing that my wife,
for some reason is absolutely petrified of, it is that
the kids got light I.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Was like, honey, they're little bugs. You put oil in
your hair.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
No, you would think that we had some like serious,
serious disease or problem.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
They're related to bed bugs. That's a whole different story.
We're here to talk football today at Super Bowl weekend.
We're going to talk to Teddy Bruce first, who's coming
on stage now.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So what is your relationship like with Teddy? What kind
of guy is he?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
So he's become one of my close friends, and he's
one of those teammates that you know when you leave
the game. It's always about relationships any team that you're
ever on, and Teddy has been one of those guys
from the time I got there in New England two
thousand and five till now that I can call. We
talk about family, this, that and the other. But he
(03:13):
is a guy that I respect so much. What he's
been through the stuff that he does from a charitable standpoint,
especially awareness in terms of the heart and the stroke
that he went through as a player. But just a
tremendous individual. And if you ask anybody that's ever played
with the guy, there's nobody that would say a bad.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Thing about the guy because he's awesome, because they'll beat
him up.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Are both probabely both. I mean, there is the bitter brew.
I told you that there's split personalities here. There's Teddy Bruski,
the man that you see out you know, smiles, very
cordial with everybody, and then there's bitter Bruw. Too many
people around, too many people come up and touch him
at the wrong time.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh man, you better watch out.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
He's coming up now here. He is Teddy Bruski.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, we got lost.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I feel like I in the middle of a family reunion.
I know my place here.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
So Matt, you and Teddy, you guys have met.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Before, yeah, I think for oh yeah, oh yeah, we
go way back, folloween parties, all of that stuff, Derby.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Prank my guy thing.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Now when I first got there in two thousand and five,
I mean, Teddy Bruski is a legend. Well first and
foremost one of the best leaders I've ever been around
in my entire life, but also a dear friend of
mine and incredible human.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I just love you.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
This is a I'm you have anything good to say
about me? Here? I just want a little love here.
It's okay.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Then, yeah, you're a good friend of mine, a lifelong friends.
I'm just locker room. Castle came in and provided a
lot of energy that we needed. I was like, Tom Brady, sure,
you're probably not going to play, you know, we always
be ready. And then Tom went and really, I mean
to still go eleven and five with, you know, with
(04:59):
with Matt Castle at quarterback was probably one of my
favorite teams that I hold on to because in all
of the Brady love that there is, you take him
away and let's let's take Matt Castle and he's still
Matt still made us into a great team, cast dog
as we call him.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So Matt has talked about you when you're not around,
which is.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
How I know he really like it, admires you, and
talks about your leadership skills. So when that happens, so
Brady goes down and this guy who wasn't drafted right
hadn't started a game since high school.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Uh, he as the leader of.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
The team, like one of the leaders of the team.
What is your role then in making sure that he
and the team are maintaining stability?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
I mean specifically towards towards Matt.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, when that happens, that's a whole thing.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Okay, I mean, you know the role that he's in.
All right, So, which is the backup quarterback to Tom
and so does he still take it seriously?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
All right?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Is he still doing things that are being asked of him?
All right? Scout team or what kind of what kind
of a guy is he in the locker room? All right?
Is he a distraction? Anything like that? I mean all
of that was he passed every test with flying colors.
Whenever he was on scout team, did the job, wasn't
a distraction. Was a great locker room guy, great teammate,
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and for a guy that you know you probably won't
be watching play too much. That's what you want, you know,
recognizing work ethic and who the person is. That's important
because the backup quarterback position is unique. It's very unique
that when are you going to get in, You're probably
never going to get in but reality set in when
(06:37):
Tom's knee got hurt, and then cast comes in and
it's like, shit, what are we going to do? You know, shit,
we're still going to win football games. And that's what him.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I thought the same thing. I was going to. Oh,
now I got to play and prove myself.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
You know, I've been hanging on for dear life for
three years, and then all of a sudden, that instance happens,
and in the blink of an eye, overnight, all of
a sudden, you're the guy at the forefront, and you
got to go out there and play. But I was
lucky enough to to have guys like Teddy and and
everybody else in that locker room. We had a veteran
group that, you know, really rallied around me and helped them.
I thought they babied you at first week.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
They did. They helped me back. You didn't need it.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
And it's like, Phella, can we let the guy go?
I mean, why do we have.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Him thirteen bubble screens in a row? What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
There's no joke. That was the game plan against the Jets.
Then we we'd make him.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Remember, we spread about and we knew that Eric Mangini
was gonna go rain every time we went for four open,
and so all it was was immediately to get me
the slip screen.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We threw the slip screen probably seven times in that game.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
And I remember a team meeting I think it was
when Bill was like, oh, it's he almost took accountability
for it and was like Castle, we're gonna let you
go now, and what we on defense were like, finally, man,
I mean, let's let the guy do his job here
and ended.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Up having a great year.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Buddy. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Uh, you got a lot of time in that documentary too,
didn't you.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You got a whole episode. You got me an episode
a hole.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Look like Michael Vick and that.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
They're like, oh look Castle, lot a different type of game,
and all they showed was my running clips.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I was like I threw them all.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, Well what about it just on the defensive side.
It can be mat or it could be a backup
quarterback or just a situation that you did not expect.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Do you go to the guys be like, hey, we
got to step up in.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
A different way.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
We have to create points ourselves. Does that happen in
a situation like that or again, is it still just
forward status?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Quo.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
No, we didn't. We didn't consider I mean, I didn't
change my game when you Cass came in a quarterback,
because it's like, all right, I gotta I gotta try
and get more turnovers. I got to jump interceptions and
I do that in but I miss tackles. I think
we had a mature enough team. I mean, it's a
team that went eighteen and won the year before. Now, okay,
(08:50):
so we're still a pretty damn good team everywhere, and
we still knew we could still win football games. So
there was no panic or anything like that. And if
we noticed anybody was panicking. From a leadership perspective, it was,
you know, just anything, just stay calm and you knowocus
on the plan and just trust the plan.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
You still think about that eighteen and one team, because
we had this discussion the other day. He was talking
about well he AI mean and AI messed up. We
said I had two rings. I was like, no, I
don't have any rate really right, I was like, no,
the one I went to we were eighteen and oh,
and we went to that and the Giants came out
on top. And is it something that you look back on.
(09:31):
I was so proud of that team just being a
part of it, right, But at the end of the day,
we didn't accomplish the end goal, which was to win
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Right. So, I mean, the championships are one thing that
you win, but we won a lot, you know, and
we are a lot of games where we won and
we lost, and sometimes talking about championships, the first thing
I'll talk about is the ones we should have had, right,
And so yeah, I think about seven a lot, especially
in weeks like this when the Chiefs are trying to
(09:59):
get three in a row, which is something also that
we failed that we lost in the divisional round of
the Broncos. But I respect sort of the plight of
trying to do something that's never been done before. And
I think that's what we're thinking in O seven, that
we've got championships in the back pocket, but we're trying
to win the championship that like, in a room like this,
(10:20):
we're all these you see all these Super Bowl champions here,
and it's like, oh, yeah, but you don't have this one, right,
you know, Yeah, you ain't got this, you know. So
being able to say that and so that was important,
That was important. How we wanted to achieve that. We
made sure in captain's meetings that Belichick wasn't going to
take us out when it was debated if we were
going to rest or not. So it was like, don't
even think about taking us out because.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
We want to win all of them. You know.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
But you're talking about the last game of the year
against the Giants and then six year.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Even yeah, that one and even the one before, like
people were talking about resting probably a week fourteen or
something like that, and it was like, don't do it.
You should got to be clear here, Bill, we want
to win them all, so don't take us out.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Final question, as you play in more Super Bowls do
how is the anxiety any changing inside of you by
Super Bowl four year in? Is like we've done this,
let's go, let's get it. Or you still kind of hype,
super hyped.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Yeah, they're.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
You get hype, but there's no anxiety. There's no anticipation,
there's no panic for any big situation. You almost anticipate
every single one. But I would say you almost expect
to win every single time.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
That's why I say that if Kansas City loses this one,
they'll think about this one just as much. As everyone
that they've won, because this is the one that would
have trumped the others that they had. You know, I
know they've got back to back, but this, this three
in a row would be super special. So no, the
anxiety goes away. That's why in on fourth and five
versus the Buffalo Bills, they're just running a play, they're
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just running a defense. But to the Bills, the AFC
championships on the line, it wasn't for them.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Talk about Abbot and what you're doing with Abbot.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Oh yeah, Abbot heart Mates, that's what I'm sort of
here for. Abbot's A heart Mate is a new program
that they've arted to where you know, heart survivors and
stroke survivors have a community of people that can talk
to each other. That's new. But my connection to Abbott
is like two decades old because the heart device in
my heart is an AVID device. So after my stroke
in two thousand and five, I had a hole in
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between the two upper chambers and they said we got
to close the hole. So I said, all right. Then
they tell me about this Abbot Amplatz, a recruiter that
they're going to put in my heart, and you know,
it helped me complete my comeback after that. I played
four years after my first stroke, So I would have
loved to have someone to talk to ask them questions.
And that's what really heartmates is all about. You can
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join heartmats at abbot dot com slash heartmates and there's
a community of caregivers and survivors that you can bounce
those questions off.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Teddy really appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Yeah, you're the man. You are the man.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I remember go back to that two thousand and five
real quick, because that was my rookie year and you
were rehabbing, Yeah, coming back, and.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I remember it was a Buffalo Bill's night game.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Yeah, that was the most excited, emotional moment that I've
ever seen in my entire life that stadium when you
got introduced to run on that field.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I still get goosebumps thinking about my wife and I.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Laura and I were talking about the other.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Day, like people had crying, the emotion, the rally and
the support from the team, the organization, but those fans
it had to be a special.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Moment for you.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Yeah, it was a memorial time. You talk about anxiety.
I had anxiety then coming back from that, and my
wife did too. She said, all right, because we had
we were at odds if I was going to come
back and play. It's like, I want to come back.
She's like, oh, no, you're not. You're my husband and
the hot father of my three children. You are not
going back there there to bang your brain against these
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other guys. And so we had to get through some stuff.
But she gave me the three second rule, and she's like,
all right, when you're down, if you're down for more
than three seconds, I'm getting your ass out of there.
So don't stay down, just so I know you're okay.
So all that stuff's in my brain coming back in
that Buffalo game, man and all of that, And dude,
I played like seventy plays, you.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Had eleven tackles. You're the defensive player that I know.
I was like on punt team. I was talking to
coach like, dude, can you get me on punt team?
At least it was like no, you're back. But yeah,
that was that was That was anxiety field.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Game for me.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Teddy, thank you for coming by.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You can see my guy.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Okay, now we're gonna go over to Kobe.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Turner and who's had a good first year, really good
second year, but everyone kept going, you know, he can sing.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I didn't know if they want to make.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It, give him a record deal or something, or if
they just want me to bring it up, which we
talked about it a lot, and so I went to
looked at him.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Now, yeah, he can really go.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh, he's multi talented.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
When you talk about him as a football player, like
you said, he's got seventeen saxes for two season and
somewhat unexpected so to speak.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But he has really come on there.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
But then, like you said, you go research this guy,
you watch him sing, and I'm like, this guy's got
some pipes. I'm really interested to hear what he has
to say when it comes to because he's done some shows,
hasn't he Like, yeah he did, he did mass singer,
He's performed the national anthem for like the Lakers and
all this stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I mean, he's he's got a career coming up.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
And people come to me all the time like this
person my cousin can sing, And then I hear him
like okay for your small town like yeah, yeah, but no,
like he's legit. The question as he comes up here. Now,
but that year one to year two where they go
that's the most development. Is that more of a cliche
or is that pretty true?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
No? I think it's true because you come in and here.
By the time you're done with your rookie season, you
run on funds, but you've also been able to absorb
everything that's taken place. You've learned from the veterans in
front of you, understand the defensive structure. And then as
you come back, you hit the ground running in year
or two in that offseason and you start to develop
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and you work on specific areas that you want to
get better at. And you could definitely see that show
up in his game this year because he was he
was an alpha out there for that defense and they
needed it.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Here he is coming up. Here's Kobe Turner.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Kobe.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Last couple of nights I was, I do comedy music
and we did a couple of shows. We did a land,
we did mobile and we came over here like, I'm funny,
but I kind of suck singing. So I don't know
if you're funny, but I know you don't suck singing.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
When did you start to actually be good?
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Though?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
When that started to be good?
Speaker 9 (16:41):
So my parents used to tell me that I used
to be singing with BB and CC windings. They'd be
playing on the on the radio and they're like, you
were hitting all the runs.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
As a kid.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
So I kind of just grew up around church music
and listening to that, and so that's kind of when
it really locked in. But you know, your voice changes
all the time. I think that I was solid in
high school, but definitely once we got to college, I
was like, Okay, I got a little something.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
I got a little something to.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Me now for the Rookie Show? Was that something that
any like the Rookie Show is a big deal, right, Yeah?
And so I'm guessing you got up there and nobody
probably a lot of those guys didn't know.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
So the crazy pipes that were about to be presented.
The craziest part is the RAMS didn't even have a
Rookie Show. Oh I was waiting for it.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Literally, me and my fiance were sitting there like, oh,
we're fine, blow this Rookie Show water, like, you know,
they better take a video or southing word for they
kill it. And there was no Rookie Show. So I
don't know what we're doing over there. We got to
get that going.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
What's the biggest stage you sang on as far as
most people watching.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Mass definitely Mass Singer. I definitely think Mass singer.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
That process is weird because you can't tell anybody right,
they lock it down, right, You got to wear a
big costume.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
What what do you do?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Because they they shoot them and how how quickly do
they shoot the episodes?
Speaker 9 (18:00):
So the whole process probably takes I think the first
episode took about four hours because everything was kind of going,
and then as people get knocked down, it takes probably
around three hours. But the hard part is so moving
in that costume. Like everything takes double the stam and
a double HB. So on the last episode of the
group they were like, give a lot of energy in
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the group song. We pre record the group song, but
everything else is live. So I was giving a lot
of energy dancing. But I was the first person up.
So I'm backstage. I walk back stage and I'm just
catching my breath for ten minutes straight because I have
to go out there and deliver like a solid vocus
just me live now.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But that's unfair. They got you if you have to
go front, Yeah, that's unfair.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
They I have the biggest costume too, everybody else just
had like body suits and maybe like the wasp at
a little thing on the back. Buffalos were just in
like a it was basically a bodysuit. And I'm carrying
this big thing that has shoulders. You know, I have
my head sticking up on top on these poles in
the back and I can't even like touch my own chests,
like I can't move.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But but no, it was, it was. It was incredible.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
And if you have a if you have an NFL
defensive lineman, why would you not put them in a
big costume, Like somebody's gonna have to wear a big costume.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Might not be me.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
They should have given you a breakdown like they were
really depending on your cardio in that situation.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Yeah, they were. Well, let's talk about it on the field.
I mean, you've exploded these first two seasons, seventeen sacks
and your nickname, I love the conductor, sir. Right, you
come out and after a sack, you've got to tell
me about the celebration, the sack celebration.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
When you came up with it, when it hit your mind. Yeah,
so I came up with it in college.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
We were dancing around in the locker room and I
just started conducting a little bit. So one of the
guys was like, you have to do it as a celebration.
So next game out, I get a sack. I think
it's the safety so I start conducting and so it
wasn't as clean as it is now. But then the
next game I went to actually try to draw the
Disney like ears and be like it's Disney.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Channel or whatever.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
But the announcers like, the conductor's conducting again, so I
was like, I guess it's sticking.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
So fast.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Fast forward to.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
My rookie year.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
My first game, I get a half sack and I
just start conducting like this, and one of my teammates,
stray Thomlinson, He's like, you got to slow it down,
like you gotta relax. So then Arizona game, I just,
you know, breathe, and I have experienced conducting. I've conducted
a choir, I've taking classes. My you know degree in
college was in music. So it's like, okay, just be
in that moment, gather everybody, prepare them with the breath,
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and then go ahead and go through it. And then
the little throw by I guess is a is a
nod to my fiance as well.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I've seen the sacks where you dominate the guy off
the line of scrimmage, you're on the quarterback down. What's
your best accidental sack where you're like, oh, I can't
believe he went down, like you like flipped his ankle,
and you like, can you think of an accidental sack
you got, Well, you're like, I can't believe that just happened.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Yeah, so I think of.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Well, really, the first one on Rock Party this year,
I really missed him, like I was falling down, but
he went to go jump into the old line and
I just like had my hand on him, but I
didn't like bring him down that time.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So that one was accidental.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
And then I think last year versus the Giant, so
it was one of my two and a half. That game,
we worked an enter your stunt when base personnel they're
out in twelve feet and it looks like they're gonna
run the ball, play action pass. We work a little
stunt and then Tyrod Taylor starts going around the edge
and I, you know, i'd like to consider him.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I'm an athlete, but I'm not Tyrod Taylor fast.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
So I just dive out and I barely clip his ankles,
and so that one was cool. But I've tried that
same tackle on Kyler Murray a couple of times and
you just you can't clip his feat He has two
feet in the ground all the time because of how
shortest strides are.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
But I'd say those two were some of the Accidentally.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Is there one guy that you'd say in the NFL
at the quarterback position that you hate going up against
because of the your your inability to get this guy
down or he makes you miss in the pocket even
though you're in a great position.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
So I would say Kyler is one of the hardest
guys to tackle.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
But also when you execute the tackling plan and when
you're when you're collapsing the pocket five is one, then
it's it's a whole lot easier for him to because
he can't really see around and so if everybody's collapsing in.
But there is one play, I mean, I come clean
off of a stunt. This is our last game against him,
and I'm right there, and coaches are like, he likes
to escape to the sideline, Like he's going to try
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to scramble to the sideline, So he starts to bolt
out to the sideline. I flipped my hips that way
and then he just does a little spin, so I
literally spin in place, and then I think fist ends
up picking.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Up the sack and I'm like, come on, like that
was mine. So he's he's annoying to get down.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
But once everybody's kind of collapsing in on him, you know,
it's a little bit easier.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I congrats on the first two seasons, looking forward to
next season and just seeing the growth.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
That's it's really cool to see season one, season two growth.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
See thank you for the time, really appreciated. That's all.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Congratulations, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
This next one's super cool for me.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I spent a lot of years twelve years in Austin
and Drew Brees played high school ball in Austin.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Didn't really get rud.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
It enough to go to a Texas or Texas A
and m you know, goes to Purdue, but is a
legend in Texas, is a legend here in Louisiana, New
Orleans because of the Saints.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Do you have any relationship do you know Drew at all?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
I've known Drew for a really long time, not only
on the field, but I've seen him at a bunch
of different functions off the field and just an incredible person.
And I used to love watching this guy play. I've
got so much respect for him because even when you
go back when I first came in the league, he
was with San Diego and how that whole situation went
down when he got hurt and blew out his shoulder,
Philip Rivers takes over. They really drafted him to take
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over for Drew prior to him leaving. And then when
the situation haven't, you thought maybe he'll never return, which
would have been a travesty because we all saw what
he was able to do when he did come back.
But then to come here to the city of New Orleans,
and I know what an impact he's made throughout this community,
especially during Katrina and all the different stuff that he's
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implemented through his charitable foundation. He's really a love figure
here and deservedly so.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Here.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
He is legend. Drew Brees, Yeah, we got off. So
I don't know what quarterbacks talk about when they meet.
I said, so, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
You guys do your thing like, don't like a secret handshake,
quarterback handshake.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It's all love, all love, just just a general understanding
of the.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Grind, grind, the respect for one another.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
It's funny because I think that other positions they might
be a little bit more competitive in some ways. And
I know we're competitive, but once you're done with the game,
we're always like, hey, man, what's up. You know, come up,
give a hug, ask about the family. It's just, you know,
it's the respect that everybody has for one another.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
But did jersey swap a thing as you were ending?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah? Thats as my career was ending. Yeah, that became
a thing.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Did everybody want yours and annoys?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Here's the thing, there's I did it a few times.
I would I would rarely proactively go and ask for.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
A jersey swamp.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
In fact, I only did it one time, and it
was a Christmas Day game in twenty nineteen. We played
against the Minnesota Vikings because my son, Balen, my oldest son,
loved Justin Jefferson and it was Jay Jeddah's rookie season
and he's like, Dad, could you please do a jersey
swap with Jets?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And I was like, all right, son, I got you.
Because my son's birthday was coming up. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
It'll be my birthday present, So I seeped out justin
after the game, I'm like, hey, man.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Will you swap jerseys with me?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
This for my son? Like this would be in the
world to him.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
So he autographed it, you know, to Balen and I
think the caption was hit the gritty and in signed
it and literally that it hangs in my son's room
to this day.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
So pretty awesome. Can you imagine if you're justin Jefferson,
like you're a rookie and Drew Brees, one of the
greatest of all time, comes up and says, this is
my first jersey swap ever, Hey, can I have your
jersey for my son? And he's like, absolutely, I'd.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Ritten my thing.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
I'd be like, that's.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Incredible, that's cool. How about the super Bowl being here
in New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
You obviously had credible career here, but just the city
and what it means to you, it means.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So much and it just makes me proud.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It makes me proud of how far the city's come,
especially post Katrina. You know, it's been almost almost twenty
years now, hard to believe, but the way that the
city continues just to respond, you know, through adversity and
the amount of resilience that and you know, we look
at the tragedy of the terrace, you know, attack on
New Year's Day, and yet I think this is just
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the city just has a way to come together and
continue to put their best foot forward. Man, just driving
around town. Yeah, the atmosphere and the energy is pretty awesome.
Like there's no city that can host a super Bowl
like this and keep it so tight, you know, like
French Quarter, CBD Warehouse district, like literally all that is
just walking distance. And then there's the supernome kind of
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bordering you know, to the north there and you got
Mississippi River right here next to us. And so like, man,
we're just all in this like little melting pot together
and you got all the great restaurants and live music
venue using event venues, and here we are in the
Convention Center at Radio Row, and so like there's just
an energy and a vibe to it, like parties and festivals.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's what New Orleans does.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Like Marty Grass every year is ridiculous, Jazz Best every
year is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
So I think this is just what New Orleans really
take pride in.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
And it's more so like, man, not only do we
want you to show you a good time, but we
just want you to experience what this culture is all about.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I was at the super Bowl in Miami when you
guys want won a game. The onside kicked out to
me is my most mimid vivid play memory.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Did you know that was coming.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Like we're going out, We're gonna kick an onside kick?
Or was it a surprise to you like it was
everybody else in the whole world.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
No, we wanted it to be a surprise to everybody
in the whole world, but we knew it was coming.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
First meeting of the week of preparation, Sean came in.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Look, we were playing the Indianapolis Colts, which everyone thought were untouchable, right,
I mean they really could have been undefeated up to
that point because they had rested all their starters the
last two weeks in the season, right, So like they
were this indomitable force.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
How are we going to stop him?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
So Sean knew deep down, like, no, we're gonna have
to steal a possession somehow, And so he had this
idea for this onside kick. Thomas Morstead, who was our
rookie punter, but he was our kickoff guy. Kind of
had like this little, this unique, little kind of side
spin kick that you know, just drifted past ten yards,
and you know, we felt like it was a great
advantage for us. So we nicknamed that play ambush, right,
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very very aptly named.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
And so right at the start of the week, he's like,
it's not a.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Matter of if we're calling it, it's when, right, So
immediately you're just like, oh, man, can you believe we're
going to kick an onside kick in this game at
some point?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
And like we we kind of knew. Look, and he's
gonna come out. They played in this game three years ago.
They're they're gonna be comfortable, they're gonna start fast. All
of a sudden, we're down ten nothing. It was like,
dang it, what happened? But then we kind of clar
our way back and it's ten six going into a halftime,
and we're about to kick off the ball, and you know,
so much of like being a great play caller and
being a great coach is just timing right. And and
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Sean comes in literally right to start a halftime and goes,
all right, we're starting to be half off with ambush,
and so all of a sudden, You're just like, oh,
we go.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I can't believe we're gonna do it, you know. But
then you're also like it has to work, Like it
has to work. It can't not.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Work, right, Yeah, And then sure enough we get the
on side kick after that scrum, and then we go
down and score, and then all of a sudden, like
the momentum just shifts right and we were down ten notnths,
and now we're up thirteen ten in the third quarter,
and it's now you kind of have this glimmer of hope, like, dude,
we can beat these guys.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Right, You know, you were the ultimate competitor when you played.
Is now that you're not playing anymore, is it? Do
you miss it? Do you feel like, yeah, do you
miss the Sundays? You missed the locker room? I know
all of us as players, once you're done and you're
out out of that element and that environment, so to speak,
But do you do you miss the locker room and
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the people and playing.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
So I do, and much like you, you know, I
you missed the locker room because you missed the fellows.
You miss miss you know, just those those lighthearted moments,
you know, and also in a lot of ways you
missed the grind, you know, Yeah, those are stressful moments
in the preparation, you know, throughout the week, but there
is this there's this finality to the week of Man,
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we're going to show up on Sunday and we're going
to see who prepared the best, right, We're going to
see and then there's a there's a winner or loss. Right,
So you can truly define like your week of preparation
by the result of the game, right, and you kind
of build this process accordingly. The other part is just
that game day feeling, right when you walk on the
field and you know you've got this whole week of
work in preparation behind you, and you just go out
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with this feeling of kind of invincibility, like, Man, I've
done everything I can to put.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Myself and my team in the best position to succeed.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
And now I can go out and relax and play
this game, and who knows, Like we may do something
today that's never been done before, right, Like you kind
of just had this feeling of power and so man,
it's hard to replicate that, you know, in any other
line of work, but I think that's what you look
back on with just so many incredible members.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Final question, then I ask about your jacket, because I
gotta get me one.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
That's pretty slick, Jack. Yes, I think we get to
One of my friends is.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
The head football coach at Purdue now, and I'm super
excited for Barry coach odom Yeah and love the dude.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Now, have you had any chance to talk about him
at all? And how? And do you follow Purdue football.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
To the point of like give him a few bucks
like I do Arkansas?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Like, well, like what do you do there?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah, I've always been a huge supporter of the Purdue
football program and the school in general.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I mean, look, I was a Texas kid. I never
thought I'd end up at Purdue University.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I didn't even know where Purdue was right until he
started recruiting me. But very quickly I realized what a
special place it is, what an incredible college experience it is,
And like I had a chance to go there and
play for a great head coach and Joe Tiller throw
the ball fifty times a game like it just it
developed me as quarterback, as a leader, as a person
in so many ways. I met my wife there, got
an incredible education there, So I can't say enough good
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things or have you know enough pride for Purdue University.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Man, this was a tough year for Purdue.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You know, you go one in ten, really struggled, like
really really struggled. And look, we're in a crazy time
with an il and transfer portal, right, and it's it's
become like who has the bigger budget, you know, to
go out and buy players in free agency?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
That's truly what it's become, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
And so I think I think we need to get
back to kind of like the true essence and the
purity of college football and that experience and like the
development of what that is. Like that should be the
opportunity for guys to go somewhere with a commitment, like, Man,
I'm in this right and I'm in it with the
guys that I'm walking in the door with right now,
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and nobody's leaving. Like we're iron sharpens iron, Like we're
gonna get the best out of each other. And man,
we're gonna have to face failure and face disappointment. We're
gonna grow and we're gonna develop through this, and by
the end of this journey, we're gonna leave here champions.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Like that was our That was our mantra. When I
got there as a fresh we.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Were the last place team in the Big Ten when
we all got there, and everybody was talking all kinds
of smack about our recruiting class.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Right, And by the time we leave, we're Big Ten champs. Right,
So there's somebody be said for.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
That journey and then how that equips you to do
things later in life.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So I just want to make sure we're not robbing.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
These these these kids, these student athletes have the right
to develop the right way.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
And so, look, I love my university.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
A look donated you know, two million dollars there back
ten fifteen years ago, and have a building named after me.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Right, that's more important anyway, that's more important.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
But but I will always support the team, support the program.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Every young man young woman that comes to Pretty University,
I want to know, man, we're going to put you
in the best position to succeed in life because of
your experience as a student athlete here on the field,
But how we're going to develop you in the classroom
and in the community. Like, to me, that's what at
a college athletics should be. It's about character and leadership development.
And I promise you that is at the forefront of
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what we do at pre the university.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
What's up with a jacket? What's the Crown roll NFL
thing here?
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Man?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
This is a slick jacket. So this is a partnership
Crown role has with Starter Jacket to create.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
This awesome thing which you guys are going to get
and it's poor sale down and a pop up in
the French Quarter. But all the proceeds from this are
going for charitable efforts, so it's going to the Foundation
for Louisiana, but also in partnership with my foundation, the
Breezedream Foundation, Crown Royal has made a significant donation our
foundation to further our efforts with everything that we have
going in New Orleans. We have job skills training programs,
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we're building affordable housing as part of a public private
partnership with the City of New Orleans, building healthcare facilities
around the state and underserved communities. So we're continuing to
try to do incredible things to impact so many people
in this community, and Crown Royal is helping us to
support that.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I appreciate the time. Yeah, congratulations on everything. Really really
good to spend the time.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Yeah, you guys, you're the man, you need to run
from Mayor here Bro. I mean, you're on it.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
This next one is pretty cool because Warren Moon is
coming toward our stage now. I mean, Warren Moon is
like the og gun slanger to me, like when that's
like when I'm a kid and I'm watching somebody just
chunk it was Warren Moon. So this one's super exciting.
As a quarterback. What do you think of when someone
just says Warren Moon.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
I mean I kind of light up a little bit
because I remember watching him throughout my youth and just
the way he played the game and also how the
ball came out of his hand.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
I mean, he was a competitor.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
But when you go back and you think about his story,
he grew up in LA close to where I was,
not really that close, but in LA and so you
always kind of follow those guys and watch him. And
he's one of those figures that you know that you
see the name Warren Moon and immediately he has reverence.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
Right.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
He's one of those guys that you look at and go,
what a what a stud? And I've known him over
the years and I've run into him at a bunch
of different functions. Always been a gracious, humble man, even
though he's accomplished so much in the league.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
And your functions is alsould be awesome. Everybody's at functions.
He's like, I know this person had a function. I
never been to a single function where somebody was you're here.
I need more functions.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Here he comes now, Warren Moon. Yeah we got locks,
mister Moon. Warren, I don't know, Warren Warren, Okay, I'm
not that old, fair enough.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
What I would like to start with is like, what
if they protected you like they protect these quarterbacks?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
Now, what if they protected you?
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yeah, I mean, but now there's sure you had.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
A few guys fall on top of your career.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
You know.
Speaker 7 (36:43):
That doesn't mean I would have played any longer or
anything like that, but I definitely would have felt better
on Monday mon. I mean, because some of the hits
I look back and say, the hell was that out
there doing? Why was I playing this game? I remember
the first time I left the game and retired. It
was six months later the season started and I was
doing some sideline for Westwood One, and I watched the
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game from the sideline as a regular person now for
the first time, and I watched the speed and I
watched the physicalness and I'm like, what the hell was
I thinking about? For seventeen years playing this game, you
don't realize how fast it is and how physical it is.
You get away from it. And I always tell people
when they think the armchair quarterbacks they could do what
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we do, it'say. Go watch it from the sideline and
tell me the same thing.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah, because you can feel a hit from the sideline.
How the time you're going home? My gosh, that was
a collision.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
Yeah, the speed and the collisions are amazing.
Speaker 5 (37:35):
So obviously you played in the Canadian Football League before
you made that transition to the NFL. When you look
back playing Canadian football, was it a wild adjustment coming
into the NFL because there's obviously significant rules that are
majorly different.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Yeah, what it is, the whole total game is different.
I mean we only have three downs instead of four.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Wait what Yeah?
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Yeah, we have twelve players instead of eleven. H So
you're reading an extra defensive back back there. It's almost
like nickel all the time, even with three linebackers and
there's still nickel back there. Yeah, it's a different game,
so you approach it differently because you only have three downs,
so first down becomes a much more dominant passing down.
And if you're going to run the ball, you better
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run it for a good six seven yards, so you
leave yourself and you know the second manager. But I
love the game up there because it was so wide open.
And then when I came down here and started running
like the running shooting that that played right into what
I had already been doing for all those years. And
now you see the game of the NFL has become
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this wide open, four wide out, you know, empty backfield,
five receiver type of offense, and the quarterback receiver has
become the dominant part of it until the last few
years where the running back is starting to be inserted
a little bit more importance into it.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
I want to make an analogy that's maybe the dumbest
analogy ever. But growing up, I lived in the house
for a long time. They tore the house down, some
other people rebuilt the house on the same plot of land,
but they drove.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
By like you used to live there.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
I'm like, I really lived there. I'll live it like
I lived in that, But that's not my house.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
That is that what it's like with the Titans, with
you like it's not really the same house, but I mean,
you get kind of.
Speaker 7 (39:13):
It's it's a weird existence, not only for myself, but
for all the guys who only played for the for
the Oilers. Those guys for so long didn't have a
team that they could identify with, right They didn't have
a reunion weekend, they didn't have a newsletter, they didn't
have any of the things that were able to keep
up with the teams that we played for. I had
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other teams I played for, so I did have an
identity with other teams. But I played ten years of
my career in Houston, and now all of a sudden
they're gone. My number is retired and on the Ring
of honor of the Tennessee Titans Stadium, which I never
played in. So it's almost like your career didn't exist
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in some ways. I remember when the day I was
having my number retired, I'm addressing the fans there in
the stadium at halftime. I never played in front of
you of those people live, so I didn't know. I
don't know if I'm supposed to thank them or what
because they never saw me play. But that's just kind
of where we were, because that's big business in the
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National Football League. When teams move, everything moves, you know,
the whole identity and the whole history moved with it.
You know.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
It's always amazing because I used to watch you growing up,
and you threw the most beautiful ball and it was
always tight, and I was always jealous of those guys
that just had it right. Did you have that from
a young age? Was that something that just you were
naturally gifted because the ball would just come out and
your deep ball, I mean the deep ball and the accuracy,
which is always the hardest.
Speaker 7 (40:42):
Yeah, it was a lot of throws that went into that. No,
it didn't happen overnight or it wasn't natural. I practiced
so much. I mean I practiced into the night.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
I lived on a.
Speaker 7 (40:54):
Corner in my neighborhood where they had four stops for
street lights on each you know, on each corner, and
me and a buddy that lived down the street. I mean,
I would just throw and throw and throw to my
mother finally made me come in every night. So a
lot of time went into it, There's no question about it.
And because we didn't have quarterback coaches and stuff like
they have today, I didn't get trained by, you know,
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a true quarterback coach. In high school, I kind of
taught myself to throw by watching different people and reading books.
I read a lot of books about pitchers, you know,
the different pictures that like Nolan Ryan. He was somebody
that I really looked up to and saw how he
took care of his body and how he focused on
his lower half and his core and different things like that.
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And then when I finally got into college, I had
a college coach that really kind of helped me with
the fundamentals of it all.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
In your youth, did you play all sports and playing football?
Did you play multi positions?
Speaker 7 (41:49):
Growing up? I played all sports well, basketball, baseball, football.
Baseball was probably my best sport, but it was boring
to me slow. Basketball was my favorite sports to this
day still is. But no, I didn't pitch. I didn't
pitch because I didn't want to wreck my arm. But
I played shortstop in left field, and then in basketball
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it was a point guard. But I just didn't feel
like I was going to be tall enough to play basketball.
So football was always something that intrigued me, just because
of the leadership part of it and being a quarterback,
being the guy who organizes everything, who makes all the
big plays at the end of the ball games. So
much is put in your lap as to be a leader,
and that was something that I loved about it. I
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loved to be the guy that had to make the
play at the right time. You know.
Speaker 5 (42:36):
The last time I saw you, I think we're in
Nashville at a Legends event, and obviously you're a part
of that community. Can you speak about how important that
is and your association with the Legends community for the NFL.
Speaker 7 (42:48):
Yeah, with NFL alumni. That's one of the reasons why
I'm here today is because we have this geared up
for Cancer campaign, So we're trying to fight cancer and
encouraging people to get screenings for cancer, especially for colorectal cancer,
which is the leading cause of death of cancer of
all the different cancers. And it's a cancer you can
be walking around with it not even though you have it,
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because it's not really highly detectable unless you go get
a screening, and sometimes if people wait too long, it's
too late. So we're encouraging people to get out and
get these screenings because we know how cancers affected so
many different people's lives, whether it's the family members, whether
it's the friends or whatever. And I just lost my
godmom to cancer about three months ago. And I've got
a buddy right now with brain cancer, another buddy with
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colon cancer. So it affects you in a lot of
different ways. And we just got to do something to
get rid of it. But in the meantime, go out
and get screened, so early detection is going to help
you where you can at least fight it off.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Final question for you, can you give me a story
about meeting a hero of yours.
Speaker 7 (43:51):
God, I got so many, I got a lot of yours.
I think one that really that really made me feel
good about coming to the National Football League When I
was coming out of Canada. I remember going over to
the Pro Bowl to meet with a few teams over
there when I was going through the free agency process.
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And then I was out on the beach one day,
you know, after some of the meetings, and all the
Pro Bowl guys were over there, and I'm standing up
against a tree like just admiring all the Pro Bowl
guys that were on the beach, And the next ding,
I know, somebody comes and kisses me on the back
of my neck and tells me, Welcome to the Welcome
to the NFL, and I turned around it was Walter Payton.
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I felt so legitimized at that particular moment to have
one of the greatest players that ever play the game,
not just any position, but play the game come up
and welcome me to the league like that. So that
was that was something that really gave me encouragement to Hey,
maybe I have along in this.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
We really appreciate your time. Massive fan of you growing
up and thanks for sharing your story with that.
Speaker 7 (44:56):
Yeah, thanks for having me. You guys are great. Thank you, Matt.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
All right, thanks to Teddy Bruski, Kobe Turner, Drew Raise
warn Moon. Drew left me this jacket.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
It's pretty sick.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
Actually, it's an NFL. It's got patches on it, Crown Royal.
And the thing, here's the thing I've known, I'm never
going to get a Crown Royal endorsement.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
I don't, you know. I don't drink. I've never drank,
But that's a cool jacket.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
What we used to do is keep our change because
my mom drank a lot, so we had a lot
of Crown Royal bags.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
So we kept like a lot of change bullets.
Speaker 4 (45:31):
Yeah, left all that was in those bags, and so
maybe you can get us a Crown Royal endorsement.
Speaker 5 (45:38):
Yeah, you know what, I could, because I have had
a few Crown Royals in my day. I've definitely loved
the bags. I mean about the bag, like you could.
I use it as a golf bag at time where
I put my balls. My little purple I have a
little purple one.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
My poster for wearing the jacket.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Though, if I don't at all drink Crown Like, I've
never had a stem of alcohol, so I don't want
to be the that's.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
Incredible to go with that type of longevity stamina, and
also to persevere and not just say, you know what,
I'm gonna have one sip and see what it's like.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
Hm, I would like to have thousand SIPs.
Speaker 4 (46:12):
If I'm being honest, I am the I'm known as
the Matt Castle not drinking.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
That's yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
Well I'm on the opposite, super superbly not drinking. Okay, look,
here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
We're gonna conclude this episode, but we're gonna have other
stars on in the next episode.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
I think even jayde and Daniels.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Is supposed to come by, which is, which is gonna
right now? What's your plan for New Orleans tonight?
Speaker 2 (46:40):
You know, I got in last night and I.
Speaker 5 (46:42):
Was a little overwhelmed because I haven't spent a lot
of time in this city. I didn't know where I was,
where I should go. But I had a few buddies
that called me and said, hey, there's this party. So
I wandered down the street, found an Italian restaurant, went
in there, had a bite to eat, and then met him.
And it was in the French Quarters, which cool, Serriah. Ever,
like it's so unassuming on the outside, and you go
into these massive homes and you sit there and you go,
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this was what was inside, like the opulence and the
different colors and everything else. So tonight it's another kind
of open area for me.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
I don't really have anything planning.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
But you have so many friends here though, right right.
I think about that. I was like, oh, Matt's not
gonn't know anybody.
Speaker 5 (47:20):
You kind of know everybody, right, I'm gonna put in
a few phone calls, do some work, and probably make
my rounds tonight for sure.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
I bet those are cool phone calls from people you
met at functions. Dan, I can't wait to go to
a function today. You have a function tonight that I
can want to go to a function. Thank you guys
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from New Orleans and super Bowl fifty nine coming really soon.
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Speaker 2 (47:59):
Dr Berry?
Speaker 3 (48:00):
That's Matt Castle and Bobby Bones. We've had lots to say.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Thank you, guys,
We got lots.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Just say we got lost. Just said, what a begger
and we cooked mistake because we got lost. Just say, yeah,
we got lost.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Just say, now here's boy that.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I welcome to the show. We are in a Is
this a convention center? It looks like or is this
the stadium? This is where they play the game?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah it might be.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
I mean it's big enough you look at it. I
mean I think this is where they put the floats
for Marty girl. I think the storage. Yeah, for storage.
That's what somebody had told me, you learned something new
every day.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I don't know that I trust that, but you know what,
for this, I'll accept it. But they could have been
lying to you. Hey, the craziest thing and there's a
lot here. Hey, who's the coolest person you've seen? No,
it can't be one of our people that we interviewed.
But do you walk through and just saw ooh crazy?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I saw Joe Montana.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I you know what.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
I saw Joe Montana count too, and immediately I was like,
oh the sixteen San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
How do you not love Joe Montana.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
When I saw him, I said, that's Joe Montana.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I literally it's all I said.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I looked at him and I didn't even say that.
I was like, just mental note, mental note, that's Joe Montana.
That's pretty pretty.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Cool we have. Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Also, I'll say this, they know that you're such a
big deal. They just knew you were Matt Castle. You
didn't bring your wallet.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I didn't even bring my wallet to this deal. I mean,
I know security is very tight because they checked the car,
they did the dog sniffing and all that stuff. Let
me come through, literally walked through the screening area, didn't
check my ID, but gave me my VIP pass and
told me where the green room was and let.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Me walk right in.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Wait, you had a green room.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
There's a green room over here.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
And they just said, hey, if you want to snack
or water, and I was like cool.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Literally never asked me for any form of identification.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You have that former NFL quarterback look about you. They
asked for three a form of identification for me.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
They were like, we need to see a driver's license,
a student ID, checked you for lice, we have a
That's a whole different story because I got kicked out
back in the day when they would do life checks.
I was set home a couple of times. Oh that
was humiliating because they'd pull you out and to be like,
Bobby has lights and.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I'd have to go home.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Oh, I've had my kids have We've got that phone
call before. And if there's one thing that my wife,
for some reason is absolutely petrified of, it is that
the kids got light I.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Was like, honey, they're little bugs. You put oil in
your hair.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
No, you would think that we had some like serious,
serious disease or problem.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
They're related to bed bugs. That's a whole different story.
We're here to talk football today at Super Bowl weekend.
We're going to talk to Teddy Bruce first, who's coming
on stage now.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So what is your relationship like with Teddy? What kind
of guy is he?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
So he's become one of my close friends, and he's
one of those teammates that you know when you leave
the game. It's always about relationships any team that you're
ever on, and Teddy has been one of those guys
from the time I got there in New England two
thousand and five till now that I can call. We
talk about family, this, that and the other. But he
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is a guy that I respect so much. What he's
been through the stuff that he does from a charitable standpoint,
especially awareness in terms of the heart and the stroke
that he went through as a player. But just a
tremendous individual. And if you ask anybody that's ever played
with the guy, there's nobody that would say a bad.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Thing about the guy because he's awesome, because they'll beat
him up.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Are both probabely both. I mean, there is the bitter brew.
I told you that there's split personalities here. There's Teddy Bruski,
the man that you see out you know, smiles, very
cordial with everybody, and then there's bitter Bruw. Too many
people around, too many people come up and touch him
at the wrong time.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh man, you better watch out.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
He's coming up now here. He is Teddy Bruski.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, we got lost.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I feel like I in the middle of a family reunion.
I know my place here.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
So Matt, you and Teddy, you guys have met.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Before, yeah, I think for oh yeah, oh yeah, we
go way back, folloween parties, all of that stuff, Derby.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Prank my guy thing.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Now when I first got there in two thousand and five,
I mean, Teddy Bruski is a legend. Well first and
foremost one of the best leaders I've ever been around
in my entire life, but also a dear friend of
mine and incredible human.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I just love you.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
This is a I'm you have anything good to say
about me? Here? I just want a little love here.
It's okay.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Then, yeah, you're a good friend of mine, a lifelong friends.
I'm just locker room. Castle came in and provided a
lot of energy that we needed. I was like, Tom Brady, sure,
you're probably not going to play, you know, we always
be ready. And then Tom went and really, I mean
to still go eleven and five with, you know, with
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with Matt Castle at quarterback was probably one of my
favorite teams that I hold on to because in all
of the Brady love that there is, you take him
away and let's let's take Matt Castle and he's still
Matt still made us into a great team, cast dog
as we call him.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So Matt has talked about you when you're not around,
which is.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
How I know he really like it, admires you, and
talks about your leadership skills. So when that happens, so
Brady goes down and this guy who wasn't drafted right
hadn't started a game since high school.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Uh, he as the leader of.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
The team, like one of the leaders of the team.
What is your role then in making sure that he
and the team are maintaining stability?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
I mean specifically towards towards Matt.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, when that happens, that's a whole thing.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Okay, I mean, you know the role that he's in.
All right, So, which is the backup quarterback to Tom
and so does he still take it seriously?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
All right?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Is he still doing things that are being asked of him?
All right? Scout team or what kind of what kind
of a guy is he in the locker room? All right?
Is he a distraction? Anything like that? I mean all
of that was he passed every test with flying colors.
Whenever he was on scout team, did the job, wasn't
a distraction. Was a great locker room guy, great teammate,
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and for a guy that you know you probably won't
be watching play too much. That's what you want, you know,
recognizing work ethic and who the person is. That's important
because the backup quarterback position is unique. It's very unique
that when are you going to get in, You're probably
never going to get in but reality set in when
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Tom's knee got hurt, and then cast comes in and
it's like, shit, what are we going to do? You know, shit,
we're still going to win football games. And that's what him.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I thought the same thing. I was going to. Oh,
now I got to play and prove myself.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
You know, I've been hanging on for dear life for
three years, and then all of a sudden, that instance happens,
and in the blink of an eye, overnight, all of
a sudden, you're the guy at the forefront, and you
got to go out there and play. But I was
lucky enough to to have guys like Teddy and and
everybody else in that locker room. We had a veteran
group that, you know, really rallied around me and helped them.
I thought they babied you at first week.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
They did. They helped me back. You didn't need it.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
And it's like, Phella, can we let the guy go?
I mean, why do we have.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Him thirteen bubble screens in a row? What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
There's no joke. That was the game plan against the Jets.
Then we we'd make him.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Remember, we spread about and we knew that Eric Mangini
was gonna go rain every time we went for four open,
and so all it was was immediately to get me
the slip screen.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We threw the slip screen probably seven times in that game.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
And I remember a team meeting I think it was
when Bill was like, oh, it's he almost took accountability
for it and was like Castle, we're gonna let you
go now, and what we on defense were like, finally, man,
I mean, let's let the guy do his job here
and ended.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Up having a great year.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Buddy. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Uh, you got a lot of time in that documentary too,
didn't you.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You got a whole episode. You got me an episode
a hole.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Look like Michael Vick and that.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
They're like, oh look Castle, lot a different type of game,
and all they showed was my running clips.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I was like I threw them all.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, Well what about it just on the defensive side.
It can be mat or it could be a backup
quarterback or just a situation that you did not expect.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Do you go to the guys be like, hey, we
got to step up in.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
A different way.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
We have to create points ourselves. Does that happen in
a situation like that or again, is it still just
forward status?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Quo.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
No, we didn't. We didn't consider I mean, I didn't
change my game when you Cass came in a quarterback,
because it's like, all right, I gotta I gotta try
and get more turnovers. I got to jump interceptions and
I do that in but I miss tackles. I think
we had a mature enough team. I mean, it's a
team that went eighteen and won the year before. Now, okay,
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so we're still a pretty damn good team everywhere, and
we still knew we could still win football games. So
there was no panic or anything like that. And if
we noticed anybody was panicking. From a leadership perspective, it was,
you know, just anything, just stay calm and you knowocus
on the plan and just trust the plan.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
You still think about that eighteen and one team, because
we had this discussion the other day. He was talking
about well he AI mean and AI messed up. We
said I had two rings. I was like, no, I
don't have any rate really right, I was like, no,
the one I went to we were eighteen and oh,
and we went to that and the Giants came out
on top. And is it something that you look back on.
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I was so proud of that team just being a
part of it, right, But at the end of the day,
we didn't accomplish the end goal, which was to win
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Right. So, I mean, the championships are one thing that
you win, but we won a lot, you know, and
we are a lot of games where we won and
we lost, and sometimes talking about championships, the first thing
I'll talk about is the ones we should have had, right,
And so yeah, I think about seven a lot, especially
in weeks like this when the Chiefs are trying to
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get three in a row, which is something also that
we failed that we lost in the divisional round of
the Broncos. But I respect sort of the plight of
trying to do something that's never been done before. And
I think that's what we're thinking in O seven, that
we've got championships in the back pocket, but we're trying
to win the championship that like, in a room like this,
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we're all these you see all these Super Bowl champions here,
and it's like, oh, yeah, but you don't have this one, right,
you know, Yeah, you ain't got this, you know. So
being able to say that and so that was important,
That was important. How we wanted to achieve that. We
made sure in captain's meetings that Belichick wasn't going to
take us out when it was debated if we were
going to rest or not. So it was like, don't
even think about taking us out because.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
We want to win all of them. You know.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
But you're talking about the last game of the year
against the Giants and then six year.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Even yeah, that one and even the one before, like
people were talking about resting probably a week fourteen or
something like that, and it was like, don't do it.
You should got to be clear here, Bill, we want
to win them all, so don't take us out.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Final question, as you play in more Super Bowls do
how is the anxiety any changing inside of you by
Super Bowl four year in? Is like we've done this,
let's go, let's get it. Or you still kind of hype,
super hyped.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Yeah, they're.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
You get hype, but there's no anxiety. There's no anticipation,
there's no panic for any big situation. You almost anticipate
every single one. But I would say you almost expect
to win every single time.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
That's why I say that if Kansas City loses this one,
they'll think about this one just as much. As everyone
that they've won, because this is the one that would
have trumped the others that they had. You know, I
know they've got back to back, but this, this three
in a row would be super special. So no, the
anxiety goes away. That's why in on fourth and five
versus the Buffalo Bills, they're just running a play, they're
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just running a defense. But to the Bills, the AFC
championships on the line, it wasn't for them.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Talk about Abbot and what you're doing with Abbot.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Oh yeah, Abbot heart Mates, that's what I'm sort of
here for. Abbot's A heart Mate is a new program
that they've arted to where you know, heart survivors and
stroke survivors have a community of people that can talk
to each other. That's new. But my connection to Abbott
is like two decades old because the heart device in
my heart is an AVID device. So after my stroke
in two thousand and five, I had a hole in
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between the two upper chambers and they said we got
to close the hole. So I said, all right. Then
they tell me about this Abbot Amplatz, a recruiter that
they're going to put in my heart, and you know,
it helped me complete my comeback after that. I played
four years after my first stroke, So I would have
loved to have someone to talk to ask them questions.
And that's what really heartmates is all about. You can
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join heartmats at abbot dot com slash heartmates and there's
a community of caregivers and survivors that you can bounce
those questions off.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Teddy really appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Yeah, you're the man. You are the man.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I remember go back to that two thousand and five
real quick, because that was my rookie year and you
were rehabbing, Yeah, coming back, and.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I remember it was a Buffalo Bill's night game.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Yeah, that was the most excited, emotional moment that I've
ever seen in my entire life that stadium when you
got introduced to run on that field.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I still get goosebumps thinking about my wife and I.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Laura and I were talking about the other.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Day, like people had crying, the emotion, the rally and
the support from the team, the organization, but those fans
it had to be a special.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Moment for you.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Yeah, it was a memorial time. You talk about anxiety.
I had anxiety then coming back from that, and my
wife did too. She said, all right, because we had
we were at odds if I was going to come
back and play. It's like, I want to come back.
She's like, oh, no, you're not. You're my husband and
the hot father of my three children. You are not
going back there there to bang your brain against these
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other guys. And so we had to get through some stuff.
But she gave me the three second rule, and she's like,
all right, when you're down, if you're down for more
than three seconds, I'm getting your ass out of there.
So don't stay down, just so I know you're okay.
So all that stuff's in my brain coming back in
that Buffalo game, man and all of that, And dude,
I played like seventy plays, you.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Had eleven tackles. You're the defensive player that I know.
I was like on punt team. I was talking to
coach like, dude, can you get me on punt team?
At least it was like no, you're back. But yeah,
that was that was That was anxiety field.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Game for me.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Teddy, thank you for coming by.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You can see my guy.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Okay, now we're gonna go over to Kobe.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Turner and who's had a good first year, really good
second year, but everyone kept going, you know, he can sing.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I didn't know if they want to make.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It, give him a record deal or something, or if
they just want me to bring it up, which we
talked about it a lot, and so I went to
looked at him.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Now, yeah, he can really go.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh, he's multi talented.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
When you talk about him as a football player, like
you said, he's got seventeen saxes for two season and
somewhat unexpected so to speak.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But he has really come on there.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
But then, like you said, you go research this guy,
you watch him sing, and I'm like, this guy's got
some pipes. I'm really interested to hear what he has
to say when it comes to because he's done some shows,
hasn't he Like, yeah he did, he did mass singer,
He's performed the national anthem for like the Lakers and
all this stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I mean, he's he's got a career coming up.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
And people come to me all the time like this
person my cousin can sing, And then I hear him
like okay for your small town like yeah, yeah, but no,
like he's legit. The question as he comes up here. Now,
but that year one to year two where they go
that's the most development. Is that more of a cliche
or is that pretty true?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
No? I think it's true because you come in and here.
By the time you're done with your rookie season, you
run on funds, but you've also been able to absorb
everything that's taken place. You've learned from the veterans in
front of you, understand the defensive structure. And then as
you come back, you hit the ground running in year
or two in that offseason and you start to develop
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and you work on specific areas that you want to
get better at. And you could definitely see that show
up in his game this year because he was he
was an alpha out there for that defense and they
needed it.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Here he is coming up. Here's Kobe Turner.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Kobe.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Last couple of nights I was, I do comedy music
and we did a couple of shows. We did a land,
we did mobile and we came over here like, I'm funny,
but I kind of suck singing. So I don't know
if you're funny, but I know you don't suck singing.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
When did you start to actually be good?
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Though?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
When that started to be good?
Speaker 9 (16:41):
So my parents used to tell me that I used
to be singing with BB and CC windings. They'd be
playing on the on the radio and they're like, you
were hitting all the runs.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
As a kid.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
So I kind of just grew up around church music
and listening to that, and so that's kind of when
it really locked in. But you know, your voice changes
all the time. I think that I was solid in
high school, but definitely once we got to college, I
was like, Okay, I got a little something.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
I got a little something to.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Me now for the Rookie Show? Was that something that
any like the Rookie Show is a big deal, right, Yeah?
And so I'm guessing you got up there and nobody
probably a lot of those guys didn't know.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
So the crazy pipes that were about to be presented.
The craziest part is the RAMS didn't even have a
Rookie Show. Oh I was waiting for it.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Literally, me and my fiance were sitting there like, oh,
we're fine, blow this Rookie Show water, like, you know,
they better take a video or southing word for they
kill it. And there was no Rookie Show. So I
don't know what we're doing over there. We got to
get that going.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
What's the biggest stage you sang on as far as
most people watching.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Mass definitely Mass Singer. I definitely think Mass singer.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
That process is weird because you can't tell anybody right,
they lock it down, right, You got to wear a
big costume.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
What what do you do?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Because they they shoot them and how how quickly do
they shoot the episodes?
Speaker 9 (18:00):
So the whole process probably takes I think the first
episode took about four hours because everything was kind of going,
and then as people get knocked down, it takes probably
around three hours. But the hard part is so moving
in that costume. Like everything takes double the stam and
a double HB. So on the last episode of the
group they were like, give a lot of energy in
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the group song. We pre record the group song, but
everything else is live. So I was giving a lot
of energy dancing. But I was the first person up.
So I'm backstage. I walk back stage and I'm just
catching my breath for ten minutes straight because I have
to go out there and deliver like a solid vocus
just me live now.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But that's unfair. They got you if you have to
go front, Yeah, that's unfair.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
They I have the biggest costume too, everybody else just
had like body suits and maybe like the wasp at
a little thing on the back. Buffalos were just in
like a it was basically a bodysuit. And I'm carrying
this big thing that has shoulders. You know, I have
my head sticking up on top on these poles in
the back and I can't even like touch my own chests,
like I can't move.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But but no, it was, it was. It was incredible.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
And if you have a if you have an NFL
defensive lineman, why would you not put them in a
big costume, Like somebody's gonna have to wear a big costume.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Might not be me.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
They should have given you a breakdown like they were
really depending on your cardio in that situation.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Yeah, they were. Well, let's talk about it on the field.
I mean, you've exploded these first two seasons, seventeen sacks
and your nickname, I love the conductor, sir. Right, you
come out and after a sack, you've got to tell
me about the celebration, the sack celebration.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
When you came up with it, when it hit your mind. Yeah,
so I came up with it in college.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
We were dancing around in the locker room and I
just started conducting a little bit. So one of the
guys was like, you have to do it as a celebration.
So next game out, I get a sack. I think
it's the safety so I start conducting and so it
wasn't as clean as it is now. But then the
next game I went to actually try to draw the
Disney like ears and be like it's Disney.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Channel or whatever.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
But the announcers like, the conductor's conducting again, so I
was like, I guess it's sticking.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
So fast.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Fast forward to.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
My rookie year.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
My first game, I get a half sack and I
just start conducting like this, and one of my teammates,
stray Thomlinson, He's like, you got to slow it down,
like you gotta relax. So then Arizona game, I just,
you know, breathe, and I have experienced conducting. I've conducted
a choir, I've taking classes. My you know degree in
college was in music. So it's like, okay, just be
in that moment, gather everybody, prepare them with the breath,
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and then go ahead and go through it. And then
the little throw by I guess is a is a
nod to my fiance as well.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I've seen the sacks where you dominate the guy off
the line of scrimmage, you're on the quarterback down. What's
your best accidental sack where you're like, oh, I can't
believe he went down, like you like flipped his ankle,
and you like, can you think of an accidental sack
you got, Well, you're like, I can't believe that just happened.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Yeah, so I think of.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Well, really, the first one on Rock Party this year,
I really missed him, like I was falling down, but
he went to go jump into the old line and
I just like had my hand on him, but I
didn't like bring him down that time.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So that one was accidental.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
And then I think last year versus the Giant, so
it was one of my two and a half. That game,
we worked an enter your stunt when base personnel they're
out in twelve feet and it looks like they're gonna
run the ball, play action pass. We work a little
stunt and then Tyrod Taylor starts going around the edge
and I, you know, i'd like to consider him.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I'm an athlete, but I'm not Tyrod Taylor fast.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
So I just dive out and I barely clip his ankles,
and so that one was cool. But I've tried that
same tackle on Kyler Murray a couple of times and
you just you can't clip his feat He has two
feet in the ground all the time because of how
shortest strides are.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
But I'd say those two were some of the Accidentally.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Is there one guy that you'd say in the NFL
at the quarterback position that you hate going up against
because of the your your inability to get this guy
down or he makes you miss in the pocket even
though you're in a great position.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
So I would say Kyler is one of the hardest
guys to tackle.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
But also when you execute the tackling plan and when
you're when you're collapsing the pocket five is one, then
it's it's a whole lot easier for him to because
he can't really see around and so if everybody's collapsing in.
But there is one play, I mean, I come clean
off of a stunt. This is our last game against him,
and I'm right there, and coaches are like, he likes
to escape to the sideline, Like he's going to try
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to scramble to the sideline, So he starts to bolt
out to the sideline. I flipped my hips that way
and then he just does a little spin, so I
literally spin in place, and then I think fist ends
up picking.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Up the sack and I'm like, come on, like that
was mine. So he's he's annoying to get down.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
But once everybody's kind of collapsing in on him, you know,
it's a little bit easier.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I congrats on the first two seasons, looking forward to
next season and just seeing the growth.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
That's it's really cool to see season one, season two growth.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
See thank you for the time, really appreciated. That's all.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Congratulations, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
This next one's super cool for me.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I spent a lot of years twelve years in Austin
and Drew Brees played high school ball in Austin.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Didn't really get rud.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
It enough to go to a Texas or Texas A
and m you know, goes to Purdue, but is a
legend in Texas, is a legend here in Louisiana, New
Orleans because of the Saints.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Do you have any relationship do you know Drew at all?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
I've known Drew for a really long time, not only
on the field, but I've seen him at a bunch
of different functions off the field and just an incredible person.
And I used to love watching this guy play. I've
got so much respect for him because even when you
go back when I first came in the league, he
was with San Diego and how that whole situation went
down when he got hurt and blew out his shoulder,
Philip Rivers takes over. They really drafted him to take
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over for Drew prior to him leaving. And then when
the situation haven't, you thought maybe he'll never return, which
would have been a travesty because we all saw what
he was able to do when he did come back.
But then to come here to the city of New Orleans,
and I know what an impact he's made throughout this community,
especially during Katrina and all the different stuff that he's
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implemented through his charitable foundation. He's really a love figure
here and deservedly so.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Here.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
He is legend. Drew Brees, Yeah, we got off. So
I don't know what quarterbacks talk about when they meet.
I said, so, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
You guys do your thing like, don't like a secret handshake,
quarterback handshake.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It's all love, all love, just just a general understanding
of the.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Grind, grind, the respect for one another.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
It's funny because I think that other positions they might
be a little bit more competitive in some ways. And
I know we're competitive, but once you're done with the game,
we're always like, hey, man, what's up. You know, come up,
give a hug, ask about the family. It's just, you know,
it's the respect that everybody has for one another.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
But did jersey swap a thing as you were ending?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah? Thats as my career was ending. Yeah, that became
a thing.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Did everybody want yours and annoys?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Here's the thing, there's I did it a few times.
I would I would rarely proactively go and ask for.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
A jersey swamp.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
In fact, I only did it one time, and it
was a Christmas Day game in twenty nineteen. We played
against the Minnesota Vikings because my son, Balen, my oldest son,
loved Justin Jefferson and it was Jay Jeddah's rookie season
and he's like, Dad, could you please do a jersey
swap with Jets?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And I was like, all right, son, I got you.
Because my son's birthday was coming up. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
It'll be my birthday present, So I seeped out justin
after the game, I'm like, hey, man.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Will you swap jerseys with me?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
This for my son? Like this would be in the
world to him.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
So he autographed it, you know, to Balen and I
think the caption was hit the gritty and in signed
it and literally that it hangs in my son's room
to this day.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
So pretty awesome. Can you imagine if you're justin Jefferson,
like you're a rookie and Drew Brees, one of the
greatest of all time, comes up and says, this is
my first jersey swap ever, Hey, can I have your
jersey for my son? And he's like, absolutely, I'd.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Ritten my thing.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
I'd be like, that's.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Incredible, that's cool. How about the super Bowl being here
in New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
You obviously had credible career here, but just the city
and what it means to you, it means.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So much and it just makes me proud.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It makes me proud of how far the city's come,
especially post Katrina. You know, it's been almost almost twenty
years now, hard to believe, but the way that the
city continues just to respond, you know, through adversity and
the amount of resilience that and you know, we look
at the tragedy of the terrace, you know, attack on
New Year's Day, and yet I think this is just
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the city just has a way to come together and
continue to put their best foot forward. Man, just driving
around town. Yeah, the atmosphere and the energy is pretty awesome.
Like there's no city that can host a super Bowl
like this and keep it so tight, you know, like
French Quarter, CBD Warehouse district, like literally all that is
just walking distance. And then there's the supernome kind of
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bordering you know, to the north there and you got
Mississippi River right here next to us. And so like, man,
we're just all in this like little melting pot together
and you got all the great restaurants and live music
venue using event venues, and here we are in the
Convention Center at Radio Row, and so like there's just
an energy and a vibe to it, like parties and festivals.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's what New Orleans does.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Like Marty Grass every year is ridiculous, Jazz Best every
year is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
So I think this is just what New Orleans really
take pride in.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
And it's more so like, man, not only do we
want you to show you a good time, but we
just want you to experience what this culture is all about.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I was at the super Bowl in Miami when you
guys want won a game. The onside kicked out to
me is my most mimid vivid play memory.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Did you know that was coming.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Like we're going out, We're gonna kick an onside kick?
Or was it a surprise to you like it was
everybody else in the whole world.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
No, we wanted it to be a surprise to everybody
in the whole world, but we knew it was coming.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
First meeting of the week of preparation, Sean came in.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Look, we were playing the Indianapolis Colts, which everyone thought were untouchable, right,
I mean they really could have been undefeated up to
that point because they had rested all their starters the
last two weeks in the season, right, So like they
were this indomitable force.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
How are we going to stop him?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
So Sean knew deep down, like, no, we're gonna have
to steal a possession somehow, And so he had this
idea for this onside kick. Thomas Morstead, who was our
rookie punter, but he was our kickoff guy. Kind of
had like this little, this unique, little kind of side
spin kick that you know, just drifted past ten yards,
and you know, we felt like it was a great
advantage for us. So we nicknamed that play ambush, right,
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very very aptly named.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
And so right at the start of the week, he's like,
it's not a.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Matter of if we're calling it, it's when, right, So
immediately you're just like, oh, man, can you believe we're
going to kick an onside kick in this game at
some point?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
And like we we kind of knew. Look, and he's
gonna come out. They played in this game three years ago.
They're they're gonna be comfortable, they're gonna start fast. All
of a sudden, we're down ten nothing. It was like,
dang it, what happened? But then we kind of clar
our way back and it's ten six going into a halftime,
and we're about to kick off the ball, and you know,
so much of like being a great play caller and
being a great coach is just timing right. And and
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Sean comes in literally right to start a halftime and goes,
all right, we're starting to be half off with ambush,
and so all of a sudden, You're just like, oh,
we go.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I can't believe we're gonna do it, you know. But
then you're also like it has to work, Like it
has to work. It can't not.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Work, right, Yeah, And then sure enough we get the
on side kick after that scrum, and then we go
down and score, and then all of a sudden, like
the momentum just shifts right and we were down ten notnths,
and now we're up thirteen ten in the third quarter,
and it's now you kind of have this glimmer of hope, like, dude,
we can beat these guys.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Right, You know, you were the ultimate competitor when you played.
Is now that you're not playing anymore, is it? Do
you miss it? Do you feel like, yeah, do you
miss the Sundays? You missed the locker room? I know
all of us as players, once you're done and you're
out out of that element and that environment, so to speak,
But do you do you miss the locker room and
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the people and playing.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
So I do, and much like you, you know, I
you missed the locker room because you missed the fellows.
You miss miss you know, just those those lighthearted moments,
you know, and also in a lot of ways you
missed the grind, you know, Yeah, those are stressful moments
in the preparation, you know, throughout the week, but there
is this there's this finality to the week of Man,
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we're going to show up on Sunday and we're going
to see who prepared the best, right, We're going to
see and then there's a there's a winner or loss. Right,
So you can truly define like your week of preparation
by the result of the game, right, and you kind
of build this process accordingly. The other part is just
that game day feeling, right when you walk on the
field and you know you've got this whole week of
work in preparation behind you, and you just go out
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with this feeling of kind of invincibility, like, Man, I've
done everything I can to put.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Myself and my team in the best position to succeed.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
And now I can go out and relax and play
this game, and who knows, Like we may do something
today that's never been done before, right, Like you kind
of just had this feeling of power and so man,
it's hard to replicate that, you know, in any other
line of work, but I think that's what you look
back on with just so many incredible members.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Final question, then I ask about your jacket, because I
gotta get me one.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
That's pretty slick, Jack. Yes, I think we get to
One of my friends is.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
The head football coach at Purdue now, and I'm super
excited for Barry coach odom Yeah and love the dude.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Now, have you had any chance to talk about him
at all? And how? And do you follow Purdue football.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
To the point of like give him a few bucks
like I do Arkansas?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Like, well, like what do you do there?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah, I've always been a huge supporter of the Purdue
football program and the school in general.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I mean, look, I was a Texas kid. I never
thought I'd end up at Purdue University.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I didn't even know where Purdue was right until he
started recruiting me. But very quickly I realized what a
special place it is, what an incredible college experience it is,
And like I had a chance to go there and
play for a great head coach and Joe Tiller throw
the ball fifty times a game like it just it
developed me as quarterback, as a leader, as a person
in so many ways. I met my wife there, got
an incredible education there, So I can't say enough good
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things or have you know enough pride for Purdue University.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Man, this was a tough year for Purdue.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You know, you go one in ten, really struggled, like
really really struggled. And look, we're in a crazy time
with an il and transfer portal, right, and it's it's
become like who has the bigger budget, you know, to
go out and buy players in free agency?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
That's truly what it's become, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
And so I think I think we need to get
back to kind of like the true essence and the
purity of college football and that experience and like the
development of what that is. Like that should be the
opportunity for guys to go somewhere with a commitment, like, Man,
I'm in this right and I'm in it with the
guys that I'm walking in the door with right now,
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and nobody's leaving. Like we're iron sharpens iron, Like we're
gonna get the best out of each other. And man,
we're gonna have to face failure and face disappointment. We're
gonna grow and we're gonna develop through this, and by
the end of this journey, we're gonna leave here champions.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Like that was our That was our mantra. When I
got there as a fresh we.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Were the last place team in the Big Ten when
we all got there, and everybody was talking all kinds
of smack about our recruiting class.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Right, And by the time we leave, we're Big Ten champs. Right,
So there's somebody be said for.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
That journey and then how that equips you to do
things later in life.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So I just want to make sure we're not robbing.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
These these these kids, these student athletes have the right
to develop the right way.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
And so, look, I love my university.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
A look donated you know, two million dollars there back
ten fifteen years ago, and have a building named after me.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Right, that's more important anyway, that's more important.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
But but I will always support the team, support the program.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Every young man young woman that comes to Pretty University,
I want to know, man, we're going to put you
in the best position to succeed in life because of
your experience as a student athlete here on the field,
But how we're going to develop you in the classroom
and in the community. Like, to me, that's what at
a college athletics should be. It's about character and leadership development.
And I promise you that is at the forefront of
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what we do at pre the university.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
What's up with a jacket? What's the Crown roll NFL
thing here?
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Man?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
This is a slick jacket. So this is a partnership
Crown role has with Starter Jacket to create.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
This awesome thing which you guys are going to get
and it's poor sale down and a pop up in
the French Quarter. But all the proceeds from this are
going for charitable efforts, so it's going to the Foundation
for Louisiana, but also in partnership with my foundation, the
Breezedream Foundation, Crown Royal has made a significant donation our
foundation to further our efforts with everything that we have
going in New Orleans. We have job skills training programs,
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we're building affordable housing as part of a public private
partnership with the City of New Orleans, building healthcare facilities
around the state and underserved communities. So we're continuing to
try to do incredible things to impact so many people
in this community, and Crown Royal is helping us to
support that.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I appreciate the time. Yeah, congratulations on everything. Really really
good to spend the time.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Yeah, you guys, you're the man, you need to run
from Mayor here Bro. I mean, you're on it.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
This next one is pretty cool because Warren Moon is
coming toward our stage now. I mean, Warren Moon is
like the og gun slanger to me, like when that's
like when I'm a kid and I'm watching somebody just
chunk it was Warren Moon. So this one's super exciting.
As a quarterback. What do you think of when someone
just says Warren Moon.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
I mean I kind of light up a little bit
because I remember watching him throughout my youth and just
the way he played the game and also how the
ball came out of his hand.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
I mean, he was a competitor.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
But when you go back and you think about his story,
he grew up in LA close to where I was,
not really that close, but in LA and so you
always kind of follow those guys and watch him. And
he's one of those figures that you know that you
see the name Warren Moon and immediately he has reverence.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
Right.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
He's one of those guys that you look at and go,
what a what a stud? And I've known him over
the years and I've run into him at a bunch
of different functions. Always been a gracious, humble man, even
though he's accomplished so much in the league.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
And your functions is alsould be awesome. Everybody's at functions.
He's like, I know this person had a function. I
never been to a single function where somebody was you're here.
I need more functions.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Here he comes now, Warren Moon. Yeah we got locks,
mister Moon. Warren, I don't know, Warren Warren, Okay, I'm
not that old, fair enough.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
What I would like to start with is like, what
if they protected you like they protect these quarterbacks?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
Now, what if they protected you?
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yeah, I mean, but now there's sure you had.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
A few guys fall on top of your career.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
You know.
Speaker 7 (36:43):
That doesn't mean I would have played any longer or
anything like that, but I definitely would have felt better
on Monday mon. I mean, because some of the hits
I look back and say, the hell was that out
there doing? Why was I playing this game? I remember
the first time I left the game and retired. It
was six months later the season started and I was
doing some sideline for Westwood One, and I watched the
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game from the sideline as a regular person now for
the first time, and I watched the speed and I
watched the physicalness and I'm like, what the hell was
I thinking about? For seventeen years playing this game, you
don't realize how fast it is and how physical it is.
You get away from it. And I always tell people
when they think the armchair quarterbacks they could do what
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we do, it'say. Go watch it from the sideline and
tell me the same thing.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah, because you can feel a hit from the sideline.
How the time you're going home? My gosh, that was
a collision.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
Yeah, the speed and the collisions are amazing.
Speaker 5 (37:35):
So obviously you played in the Canadian Football League before
you made that transition to the NFL. When you look
back playing Canadian football, was it a wild adjustment coming
into the NFL because there's obviously significant rules that are
majorly different.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Yeah, what it is, the whole total game is different.
I mean we only have three downs instead of four.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Wait what Yeah?
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Yeah, we have twelve players instead of eleven. H So
you're reading an extra defensive back back there. It's almost
like nickel all the time, even with three linebackers and
there's still nickel back there. Yeah, it's a different game,
so you approach it differently because you only have three downs,
so first down becomes a much more dominant passing down.
And if you're going to run the ball, you better
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run it for a good six seven yards, so you
leave yourself and you know the second manager. But I
love the game up there because it was so wide open.
And then when I came down here and started running
like the running shooting that that played right into what
I had already been doing for all those years. And
now you see the game of the NFL has become
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this wide open, four wide out, you know, empty backfield,
five receiver type of offense, and the quarterback receiver has
become the dominant part of it until the last few
years where the running back is starting to be inserted
a little bit more importance into it.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
I want to make an analogy that's maybe the dumbest
analogy ever. But growing up, I lived in the house
for a long time. They tore the house down, some
other people rebuilt the house on the same plot of land,
but they drove.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
By like you used to live there.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
I'm like, I really lived there. I'll live it like
I lived in that, But that's not my house.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
That is that what it's like with the Titans, with
you like it's not really the same house, but I mean,
you get kind of.
Speaker 7 (39:13):
It's it's a weird existence, not only for myself, but
for all the guys who only played for the for
the Oilers. Those guys for so long didn't have a
team that they could identify with, right They didn't have
a reunion weekend, they didn't have a newsletter, they didn't
have any of the things that were able to keep
up with the teams that we played for. I had
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other teams I played for, so I did have an
identity with other teams. But I played ten years of
my career in Houston, and now all of a sudden
they're gone. My number is retired and on the Ring
of honor of the Tennessee Titans Stadium, which I never
played in. So it's almost like your career didn't exist
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in some ways. I remember when the day I was
having my number retired, I'm addressing the fans there in
the stadium at halftime. I never played in front of
you of those people live, so I didn't know. I
don't know if I'm supposed to thank them or what
because they never saw me play. But that's just kind
of where we were, because that's big business in the
(40:16):
National Football League. When teams move, everything moves, you know,
the whole identity and the whole history moved with it.
You know.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
It's always amazing because I used to watch you growing up,
and you threw the most beautiful ball and it was
always tight, and I was always jealous of those guys
that just had it right. Did you have that from
a young age? Was that something that just you were
naturally gifted because the ball would just come out and
your deep ball, I mean the deep ball and the accuracy,
which is always the hardest.
Speaker 7 (40:42):
Yeah, it was a lot of throws that went into that. No,
it didn't happen overnight or it wasn't natural. I practiced
so much. I mean I practiced into the night.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
I lived on a.
Speaker 7 (40:54):
Corner in my neighborhood where they had four stops for
street lights on each you know, on each corner, and
me and a buddy that lived down the street. I mean,
I would just throw and throw and throw to my
mother finally made me come in every night. So a
lot of time went into it, There's no question about it.
And because we didn't have quarterback coaches and stuff like
they have today, I didn't get trained by, you know,
(41:16):
a true quarterback coach. In high school, I kind of
taught myself to throw by watching different people and reading books.
I read a lot of books about pitchers, you know,
the different pictures that like Nolan Ryan. He was somebody
that I really looked up to and saw how he
took care of his body and how he focused on
his lower half and his core and different things like that.
(41:38):
And then when I finally got into college, I had
a college coach that really kind of helped me with
the fundamentals of it all.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
In your youth, did you play all sports and playing football?
Did you play multi positions?
Speaker 7 (41:49):
Growing up? I played all sports well, basketball, baseball, football.
Baseball was probably my best sport, but it was boring
to me slow. Basketball was my favorite sports to this
day still is. But no, I didn't pitch. I didn't
pitch because I didn't want to wreck my arm. But
I played shortstop in left field, and then in basketball
(42:10):
it was a point guard. But I just didn't feel
like I was going to be tall enough to play basketball.
So football was always something that intrigued me, just because
of the leadership part of it and being a quarterback,
being the guy who organizes everything, who makes all the
big plays at the end of the ball games. So
much is put in your lap as to be a leader,
and that was something that I loved about it. I
(42:32):
loved to be the guy that had to make the
play at the right time. You know.
Speaker 5 (42:36):
The last time I saw you, I think we're in
Nashville at a Legends event, and obviously you're a part
of that community. Can you speak about how important that
is and your association with the Legends community for the NFL.
Speaker 7 (42:48):
Yeah, with NFL alumni. That's one of the reasons why
I'm here today is because we have this geared up
for Cancer campaign, So we're trying to fight cancer and
encouraging people to get screenings for cancer, especially for colorectal cancer,
which is the leading cause of death of cancer of
all the different cancers. And it's a cancer you can
be walking around with it not even though you have it,
(43:09):
because it's not really highly detectable unless you go get
a screening, and sometimes if people wait too long, it's
too late. So we're encouraging people to get out and
get these screenings because we know how cancers affected so
many different people's lives, whether it's the family members, whether
it's the friends or whatever. And I just lost my
godmom to cancer about three months ago. And I've got
a buddy right now with brain cancer, another buddy with
(43:32):
colon cancer. So it affects you in a lot of
different ways. And we just got to do something to
get rid of it. But in the meantime, go out
and get screened, so early detection is going to help
you where you can at least fight it off.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Final question for you, can you give me a story
about meeting a hero of yours.
Speaker 7 (43:51):
God, I got so many, I got a lot of yours.
I think one that really that really made me feel
good about coming to the National Football League When I
was coming out of Canada. I remember going over to
the Pro Bowl to meet with a few teams over
there when I was going through the free agency process.
(44:11):
And then I was out on the beach one day,
you know, after some of the meetings, and all the
Pro Bowl guys were over there, and I'm standing up
against a tree like just admiring all the Pro Bowl
guys that were on the beach, And the next ding,
I know, somebody comes and kisses me on the back
of my neck and tells me, Welcome to the Welcome
to the NFL, and I turned around it was Walter Payton.
(44:36):
I felt so legitimized at that particular moment to have
one of the greatest players that ever play the game,
not just any position, but play the game come up
and welcome me to the league like that. So that
was that was something that really gave me encouragement to Hey,
maybe I have along in this.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
We really appreciate your time. Massive fan of you growing
up and thanks for sharing your story with that.
Speaker 7 (44:56):
Yeah, thanks for having me. You guys are great. Thank you, Matt.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
All right, thanks to Teddy Bruski, Kobe Turner, Drew Raise
warn Moon. Drew left me this jacket.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
It's pretty sick.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
Actually, it's an NFL. It's got patches on it, Crown Royal.
And the thing, here's the thing I've known, I'm never
going to get a Crown Royal endorsement.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
I don't, you know. I don't drink. I've never drank,
But that's a cool jacket.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
What we used to do is keep our change because
my mom drank a lot, so we had a lot
of Crown Royal bags.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
So we kept like a lot of change bullets.
Speaker 4 (45:31):
Yeah, left all that was in those bags, and so
maybe you can get us a Crown Royal endorsement.
Speaker 5 (45:38):
Yeah, you know what, I could, because I have had
a few Crown Royals in my day. I've definitely loved
the bags. I mean about the bag, like you could.
I use it as a golf bag at time where
I put my balls. My little purple I have a
little purple one.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
My poster for wearing the jacket.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Though, if I don't at all drink Crown Like, I've
never had a stem of alcohol, so I don't want
to be the that's.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
Incredible to go with that type of longevity stamina, and
also to persevere and not just say, you know what,
I'm gonna have one sip and see what it's like.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
Hm, I would like to have thousand SIPs.
Speaker 4 (46:12):
If I'm being honest, I am the I'm known as
the Matt Castle not drinking.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
That's yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
Well I'm on the opposite, super superbly not drinking. Okay, look,
here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
We're gonna conclude this episode, but we're gonna have other
stars on in the next episode.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
I think even jayde and Daniels.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Is supposed to come by, which is, which is gonna
right now? What's your plan for New Orleans tonight?
Speaker 2 (46:40):
You know, I got in last night and I.
Speaker 5 (46:42):
Was a little overwhelmed because I haven't spent a lot
of time in this city. I didn't know where I was,
where I should go. But I had a few buddies
that called me and said, hey, there's this party. So
I wandered down the street, found an Italian restaurant, went
in there, had a bite to eat, and then met him.
And it was in the French Quarters, which cool, Serriah. Ever,
like it's so unassuming on the outside, and you go
into these massive homes and you sit there and you go,
(47:05):
this was what was inside, like the opulence and the
different colors and everything else. So tonight it's another kind
of open area for me.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
I don't really have anything planning.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
But you have so many friends here though, right right.
I think about that. I was like, oh, Matt's not
gonn't know anybody.
Speaker 5 (47:20):
You kind of know everybody, right, I'm gonna put in
a few phone calls, do some work, and probably make
my rounds tonight for sure.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
I bet those are cool phone calls from people you
met at functions. Dan, I can't wait to go to
a function today. You have a function tonight that I
can want to go to a function. Thank you guys
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Speaker 3 (48:00):
That's Matt Castle and Bobby Bones. We've had lots to say.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
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