June 30, 2025 • 11 mins
Steve Trout is a Supervising Producer and Director for NFL Films, and is involved with the Joe Burrow portion of Quarterback, which launches season two on Netflix on July 8th.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you ready for some football? We are.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is Dave Lapple and you're listening to the Home
of the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
All right, it's four minutes after five o'clock. This is
ESPN fifteen thirty on Mooweger. Thank you so much for
joining us a week from tomorrow night. I am stoked
for this on Netflix as season two of Quarterback, which
season one was terrific, season two is going to be
even better, at least around here because Joe Burrow is
(00:30):
a part of it, which is I think gonna be awesome,
premieres on Netflix next Tuesday, a week from tomorrow. And
one of the producers, and my understanding is the producer
kind of in charge of the Joe Burrow person of Quarterback,
which also includes Kirk Cousins who is a part of
season one and Jared Goff of the Lions, is Steve
(00:51):
Trout from NFL Films, who's kind enough to join us
this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Steve, it's awesome to have you.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'm the world's biggest NFL Films fan, so I can't
thank you enough for doing this.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Good afternoon, How.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
After him?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Noon? Man?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's my pleasure for those who are maybe uninitiated and
aren't familiar with quarterback.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Tell my audience what it is.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's you know what we've done. It's so it's a
it's a series on Netflix that is a joint production
between Austin Omahall Production, which is Peyton Manning's company, and
it started three seasons ago, and it was our idea
together was to really from the inside out, peel off
(01:34):
the labels of what it means to be a quarterback
in the NFL, both from a human journey and from
breaking through all these what we're up to this point
closed doors. And so the first season was quarterback, second
season we branched off and did receiver. And then this
third season is the second incarnation of quarterback, and it
(01:55):
takes a look into what is probably the most pressure
filled in all of sports in a way that has
never been done before. And it's you're at home with
these guys. You they're wearing mics for every game, you're
behind closed doors in the team facility. It really is
a kind of a mold breaking approach to this position.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Joe Burrow says yes to this. Were you guys surprised
that he agreed? To take on the project.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, yes, and no, you know, I didn't know him
well before August, but I did spend the year with him,
and and and hearing how private he was before, you know,
before this, and and yes, after the fact, I am surprised.
But here's all the credit goes to him, because he
(02:48):
has to be the most authentic, and I've been doing
this for twenty two years. The most authentic and genuine
player slash superstar I've ever met in my life.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
He is.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
He doesn't change a thing. And he wore Mike every game,
which no one knew about. You know, of course the
team did and he did, but he wore Mike every game.
He wore a mike at practice, during during the during
the week. Uh, he let us do things we were
at home with him that he's never done before. Obviously,
I think there's a great trust factor there. But he
doesn't change a thing. I think there are some players
(03:21):
who will put airs on and and fake things when
the camera's around. Joe's the exact opposite. And that's what
like a documentary or a documentries like this needs, you.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Know, it's it's interesting, this is you document year five.
So Joe has been here for a while. Everybody here
loves him. He's won a bunch. He has the most
high profile position in all of sports, and yet I
feel like there's still a lot about him that a
lot of people don't know. He's kind of a private guy.
So give us an idea of some of the maybe
(03:51):
behind the scenes, non football stuff you guys take us through.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, it's neat because you're gonna meet his parents. I mean,
he still is one of the biggest goals to try
and do for this is really humanize these guys. So
often I think fantasy him for three hours on Sunday
or Thursday, a mundane and they've got their helmets on,
receee him on the bench. We want to make them
a son or in Kirk and Jared's you know situation,
(04:15):
a husband or a brother or a whatever it takes.
And I think we did that with Joe for the
first time. And again all the credit goes to him
to letting me and letting us in. And you see
him as a son, and you see him as this
you know, he puts his pants on like you and
I do, as this vulnerable and authentic twenty seven year
(04:36):
old whatever he is human being besides the fact he
put up maybe one of the best offensive seasons in
NFL history as a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So obviously you know, NFL Films produces Hard Knocks as well.
The Bengals were part of Hard Knocks last year the
last quarter of the season that aired. All the AFC
North teams participated. So how does this get produced at
the same time as a s like Hard Knocks.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Well, it's funny. And because I'm the lead director of
Hard Knocks of Hard Knocks in season, so it was
a it was a challenging double dip, but it was
a That's why I I wanted to do both, so
it didn't I didn't want Joe to have two different
people to to kind of be the face of these
two shows. And and you know, Hard Knocks is this
(05:24):
fly on the wall approach to the whole team and
by the second or third day, the team forgets we're there.
And that's that's been the truth since we started this
twenty some odd years ago. Now quarterback is just just him,
So it is a difference, uh, in terms of a
team based thing versus just him. Uh. And there was
(05:45):
a line that was drawn early on to make sure
he know what you know what was because obviously Hard
Knocks airs the next Tuesday, right this obviously we take
time to edit these episodes together to air and to
drop in July. But I it's such a good thing
that that how it happened, the fact that he had
such a good season, and a lot of people when
(06:07):
we ask about these shows that they think at the
distraction and I mean he is the the the poster
boy for no, it's really not. He had an incredible
year despite you know, wearing a microphone and grant little look,
our cameras are so far away from him. Uh, We've
we've kind of really made this model of this embedment
(06:28):
series and how to tell these stories and we do
it from afar with with the power of technology.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Joe was asked about taking on the project this offseason,
and he talked about, you know, Peyton Manning and and
I'm sure that doesn't hurt when you can go to
a quarterback and say, hey, look, this is gonna be
a Peyton Manning project. I'm sure that helps if any
convincing is needed. What's what's his role specifically with with
something like this.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, I mean they are a major part of this
and and really Peyton does all the asking in the
off season where we're the production company that takes us
from there. But I think you're right. I think people
get a call from Peyton and what Peyton again another
genuine human being and he knew too, and he played.
There's a power to being able to show your kids
(07:14):
or your grandkids something like this in ten twenty thirty years,
to show what dad did or what grandpa did, and
you know, because it does make him make Joe such
a human being, and there's a power to the history
of that and a legacy of that. And then once
they see how unobtrusive we are, then it spreads like
(07:38):
you know, wildfire, that Okay, this isn't what I thought
it was, And it's a lot easier for me to
be myself around these guys. And look, I think what
NFL Films has had for fifty years is a trust
with NFL players that no one else gets or no
one else has.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I'm sure you're asked this all the time, and I
marvel at it. Because the Bengals were on hard Knocks
and O nine again in thirteen a part of it
this year, And look, NFL Films goes way beyond Hard Knocks.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
But that's when they've been around.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And every year I talk with people with the team
who talk about what you just referenced that after a while,
you don't even notice the cameras.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You don't even notice the crew members. You don't even
How do you do that?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
How do you accomplish being able to capture so much
without getting in the way.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I think of the combination of technology. The first Hard
Knacks I did was O nine with with Marvin and
Chad and Carson. That in that whole year. And so
we have robotic cameras in the in the meeting rooms,
which are a little tiny. You know, everyone knows they're there.
They're not a secret. But that helps us not putting
a manned crew in the in the you know, team
(08:47):
meeting room. We shoot practice from sixty yards away. We're
not in their faces. We are through technology, but we
do it in a way that the cameraman or camera
woman is not right there. And because we've done this
for so long that once we started doing it Hard
Knocks and one with the Ravens, you know, right if
they won the Super Bowl, the Ravens tell the other teams,
(09:10):
oh my gosh, it's amazing no, and you know, it
becomes this power of spreading you know by word that no,
it's not what you you think. And a lot of
times when teams get the assignment or they volunt you
for Hard Knocks, they'll call the last two or three
head coaches and they'll get the same thing. Guys, you
know you're gonna forget it. It's it's there by the
(09:32):
second or third day. And I think that's what allowed
us to expand the Hard Knocks universe and the Hard
Knocks off season, hard Knocks in season, and then ideas
like Quarterback, which Netflix has mastered, h the more individual based.
I think, really we're probably the only ones that could
do it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I can't wait. It's a week from tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Quarterback Season one was terrific and as it was unfolding,
you know, we even talked about here, would that be
the sort of thing that Joe bur whatever decide to do,
and so uh thrilled that he is going to be
a part of it. You guys do an amazing job
with everything you guys do, and so cannot wait. I
know you're busy getting ready for next week, so I
can't thank you enough for the time Steve, appreciate you
doing it and maybe we could do it as the
(10:14):
show airs.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Thank you, you got it.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That's a Steve Trout, not the former Cubs pitcher, the
producer for NFL films and Quarterback Stars. Three guys, Kirk Cousins,
Jared Goff, Joe Burrow. Steve was kind of the guy
im betted with Joe Burrow. And so it's going to
air on Netflix a week from tomorrow, July the eighth.
(10:38):
It's the michelob Ultra five o'clock Happy Hour on ESPN
fifteen thirty on Oegger five one, three seven four nine
fifteen thirty and eight six six seven h two three
seven seven six are our phone numbers. By the way,
congratulations to uh Spencer Steer National League Player of the Week.
We'll get to that coming up when we do sports headlines.
Red's and Red Sox Tonight, Cincinnati coming off a winning
(10:59):
weekend against the Padres. We have an awesome Lli Della
cruise at bat to discuss perhaps a new Reds motto,
and uh, we're gonna give away some tickets in about
twenty minutes. If if you know anything about you know
where this is going, right. The shared History of the
Reds and Red Sox. We're gonna give away Reds Marlins
tickets postgame concert starring Old Dominion.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Part of that night.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
UH ticket giveaway coming up in just about twenty minutes
your phone calls between now and then on ESPN fifteen thirty,
Cincinnati Sports station
Are you ready for some football? We are.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is Dave Lapple and you're listening to the Home
of the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
All right, it's four minutes after five o'clock. This is
ESPN fifteen thirty on Mooweger. Thank you so much for
joining us a week from tomorrow night. I am stoked
for this on Netflix as season two of Quarterback, which
season one was terrific, season two is going to be
even better, at least around here because Joe Burrow is
(00:30):
a part of it, which is I think gonna be awesome,
premieres on Netflix next Tuesday, a week from tomorrow. And
one of the producers, and my understanding is the producer
kind of in charge of the Joe Burrow person of Quarterback,
which also includes Kirk Cousins who is a part of
season one and Jared Goff of the Lions, is Steve
(00:51):
Trout from NFL Films, who's kind enough to join us
this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Steve, it's awesome to have you.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'm the world's biggest NFL Films fan, so I can't
thank you enough for doing this.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Good afternoon, How.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
After him?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Noon? Man?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's my pleasure for those who are maybe uninitiated and
aren't familiar with quarterback.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Tell my audience what it is.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's you know what we've done. It's so it's a
it's a series on Netflix that is a joint production
between Austin Omahall Production, which is Peyton Manning's company, and
it started three seasons ago, and it was our idea
together was to really from the inside out, peel off
(01:34):
the labels of what it means to be a quarterback
in the NFL, both from a human journey and from
breaking through all these what we're up to this point
closed doors. And so the first season was quarterback, second
season we branched off and did receiver. And then this
third season is the second incarnation of quarterback, and it
(01:55):
takes a look into what is probably the most pressure
filled in all of sports in a way that has
never been done before. And it's you're at home with
these guys. You they're wearing mics for every game, you're
behind closed doors in the team facility. It really is
a kind of a mold breaking approach to this position.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Joe Burrow says yes to this. Were you guys surprised
that he agreed? To take on the project.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, yes, and no, you know, I didn't know him
well before August, but I did spend the year with him,
and and and hearing how private he was before, you know,
before this, and and yes, after the fact, I am surprised.
But here's all the credit goes to him, because he
(02:48):
has to be the most authentic, and I've been doing
this for twenty two years. The most authentic and genuine
player slash superstar I've ever met in my life.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
He is.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
He doesn't change a thing. And he wore Mike every game,
which no one knew about. You know, of course the
team did and he did, but he wore Mike every game.
He wore a mike at practice, during during the during
the week. Uh, he let us do things we were
at home with him that he's never done before. Obviously,
I think there's a great trust factor there. But he
doesn't change a thing. I think there are some players
(03:21):
who will put airs on and and fake things when
the camera's around. Joe's the exact opposite. And that's what
like a documentary or a documentries like this needs, you.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Know, it's it's interesting, this is you document year five.
So Joe has been here for a while. Everybody here
loves him. He's won a bunch. He has the most
high profile position in all of sports, and yet I
feel like there's still a lot about him that a
lot of people don't know. He's kind of a private guy.
So give us an idea of some of the maybe
(03:51):
behind the scenes, non football stuff you guys take us through.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, it's neat because you're gonna meet his parents. I mean,
he still is one of the biggest goals to try
and do for this is really humanize these guys. So
often I think fantasy him for three hours on Sunday
or Thursday, a mundane and they've got their helmets on,
receee him on the bench. We want to make them
a son or in Kirk and Jared's you know situation,
(04:15):
a husband or a brother or a whatever it takes.
And I think we did that with Joe for the
first time. And again all the credit goes to him
to letting me and letting us in. And you see
him as a son, and you see him as this
you know, he puts his pants on like you and
I do, as this vulnerable and authentic twenty seven year
(04:36):
old whatever he is human being besides the fact he
put up maybe one of the best offensive seasons in
NFL history as a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So obviously you know, NFL Films produces Hard Knocks as well.
The Bengals were part of Hard Knocks last year the
last quarter of the season that aired. All the AFC
North teams participated. So how does this get produced at
the same time as a s like Hard Knocks.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Well, it's funny. And because I'm the lead director of
Hard Knocks of Hard Knocks in season, so it was
a it was a challenging double dip, but it was
a That's why I I wanted to do both, so
it didn't I didn't want Joe to have two different
people to to kind of be the face of these
two shows. And and you know, Hard Knocks is this
(05:24):
fly on the wall approach to the whole team and
by the second or third day, the team forgets we're there.
And that's that's been the truth since we started this
twenty some odd years ago. Now quarterback is just just him,
So it is a difference, uh, in terms of a
team based thing versus just him. Uh. And there was
(05:45):
a line that was drawn early on to make sure
he know what you know what was because obviously Hard
Knocks airs the next Tuesday, right this obviously we take
time to edit these episodes together to air and to
drop in July. But I it's such a good thing
that that how it happened, the fact that he had
such a good season, and a lot of people when
(06:07):
we ask about these shows that they think at the
distraction and I mean he is the the the poster
boy for no, it's really not. He had an incredible
year despite you know, wearing a microphone and grant little look,
our cameras are so far away from him. Uh, We've
we've kind of really made this model of this embedment
(06:28):
series and how to tell these stories and we do
it from afar with with the power of technology.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Joe was asked about taking on the project this offseason,
and he talked about, you know, Peyton Manning and and
I'm sure that doesn't hurt when you can go to
a quarterback and say, hey, look, this is gonna be
a Peyton Manning project. I'm sure that helps if any
convincing is needed. What's what's his role specifically with with
something like this.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, I mean they are a major part of this
and and really Peyton does all the asking in the
off season where we're the production company that takes us
from there. But I think you're right. I think people
get a call from Peyton and what Peyton again another
genuine human being and he knew too, and he played.
There's a power to being able to show your kids
(07:14):
or your grandkids something like this in ten twenty thirty years,
to show what dad did or what grandpa did, and
you know, because it does make him make Joe such
a human being, and there's a power to the history
of that and a legacy of that. And then once
they see how unobtrusive we are, then it spreads like
(07:38):
you know, wildfire, that Okay, this isn't what I thought
it was, And it's a lot easier for me to
be myself around these guys. And look, I think what
NFL Films has had for fifty years is a trust
with NFL players that no one else gets or no
one else has.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I'm sure you're asked this all the time, and I
marvel at it. Because the Bengals were on hard Knocks
and O nine again in thirteen a part of it
this year, And look, NFL Films goes way beyond Hard Knocks.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
But that's when they've been around.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And every year I talk with people with the team
who talk about what you just referenced that after a while,
you don't even notice the cameras.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You don't even notice the crew members. You don't even
How do you do that?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
How do you accomplish being able to capture so much
without getting in the way.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I think of the combination of technology. The first Hard
Knacks I did was O nine with with Marvin and
Chad and Carson. That in that whole year. And so
we have robotic cameras in the in the meeting rooms,
which are a little tiny. You know, everyone knows they're there.
They're not a secret. But that helps us not putting
a manned crew in the in the you know, team
(08:47):
meeting room. We shoot practice from sixty yards away. We're
not in their faces. We are through technology, but we
do it in a way that the cameraman or camera
woman is not right there. And because we've done this
for so long that once we started doing it Hard
Knocks and one with the Ravens, you know, right if
they won the Super Bowl, the Ravens tell the other teams,
(09:10):
oh my gosh, it's amazing no, and you know, it
becomes this power of spreading you know by word that no,
it's not what you you think. And a lot of
times when teams get the assignment or they volunt you
for Hard Knocks, they'll call the last two or three
head coaches and they'll get the same thing. Guys, you
know you're gonna forget it. It's it's there by the
(09:32):
second or third day. And I think that's what allowed
us to expand the Hard Knocks universe and the Hard
Knocks off season, hard Knocks in season, and then ideas
like Quarterback, which Netflix has mastered, h the more individual based.
I think, really we're probably the only ones that could
do it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I can't wait. It's a week from tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Quarterback Season one was terrific and as it was unfolding,
you know, we even talked about here, would that be
the sort of thing that Joe bur whatever decide to do,
and so uh thrilled that he is going to be
a part of it. You guys do an amazing job
with everything you guys do, and so cannot wait. I
know you're busy getting ready for next week, so I
can't thank you enough for the time Steve, appreciate you
doing it and maybe we could do it as the
(10:14):
show airs.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Thank you, you got it.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That's a Steve Trout, not the former Cubs pitcher, the
producer for NFL films and Quarterback Stars. Three guys, Kirk Cousins,
Jared Goff, Joe Burrow. Steve was kind of the guy
im betted with Joe Burrow. And so it's going to
air on Netflix a week from tomorrow, July the eighth.
(10:38):
It's the michelob Ultra five o'clock Happy Hour on ESPN
fifteen thirty on Oegger five one, three seven four nine
fifteen thirty and eight six six seven h two three
seven seven six are our phone numbers. By the way,
congratulations to uh Spencer Steer National League Player of the Week.
We'll get to that coming up when we do sports headlines.
Red's and Red Sox Tonight, Cincinnati coming off a winning
(10:59):
weekend against the Padres. We have an awesome Lli Della
cruise at bat to discuss perhaps a new Reds motto,
and uh, we're gonna give away some tickets in about
twenty minutes. If if you know anything about you know
where this is going, right. The shared History of the
Reds and Red Sox. We're gonna give away Reds Marlins
tickets postgame concert starring Old Dominion.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Part of that night.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
UH ticket giveaway coming up in just about twenty minutes
your phone calls between now and then on ESPN fifteen thirty,
Cincinnati Sports station
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