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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Riddy first pick.
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It's the night childhood dreams come true as the NFL
Draft takes center stage in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Caam Ward.
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Up an area touch down Miami.
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Miami quarterback cam Ward is widely expected to be the
number one pick needed in Tennessee to help the Titans
turn their fate around.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I'm gonna be happy with whatever team I'll go to,
so I'm just trying to play football.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
While last year's draft made history with six quarterbacks selected
in the first twelve picks, this year's class comes with
its own flare. Like Kentucky's Maxwell Harston, who's stuck is
on the rise. I think the smile on your face
Draft night is going to be as big as it
has ever been.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
It's gonna be so big I'm not gonna be able
to control it.
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The ballhawking cornerback ran the fastest forty yard dash at
the combo. What do fans of that team need to
know about who they're getting?
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Man?
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They getting the high energy, positive, happy and competitive corner.
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And Travis Hunter the rarest of prospects hot.
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Honter touchdown.
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Making plays as both wide receiver and cornerback for Colorado.
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I think first day in the bold and then we'll
see how much I can handle in and see what
I can take in and to see how.
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Before while his college quarterback Shuarar Sanders is ready for
primetime action of his own, his dad Hall of Famer
Dion Sanders.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
I know I'm ready, and I'm prepared, and i know
I'm the best quarterback available.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Over the next three days, two hundred and fifty seven
players will hear their names announced.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Once my name's gets called, it's going to have to
take it all in.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
And for the seventeen prospects invited to walk across this stage,
the safest bet is that they'll show up in style.
How much thought and effort went into picking out your
draft night.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I can't wait to pull that one out.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Just no is details on the inside, and it's even
more details on the outside.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
An entire family is included, even through the dog in.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
There even a shout out to the dog. I cannot
wait to get a look at that suit and all
the accessories of course, and get this. Some mock drafts
have Max Harston projected to be selected by the packers
in Green Bay. Guys, that could be a moment of
the night that we are talking about tomorrow and while
we wait for this clock to count down for the
Titans to get that number one pick. September fourth, mark
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it on your calendars. The NFL season kicks off right
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Speaker 8 (02:57):
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Speaker 3 (03:19):
All Right, all right, all right, and welcome to Let's
Get Jack a welcome, Let's Get jacked Up. That was
a jacked up intro, everybody. I am your host for tonight,
Tim and Hey, happy Draft weekend. Okay, I mean this
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is the NFL Draft is going on or has been
going on? It is now what is it today? Now
a thirty ish Pacific time? So yes, the draft is
likely over. I don't know. I stopped watching, but I
think it's over for tonight, but it will continue tomorrow.
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And guess what, everybody, because it is the draft. It's
the NFL Draft. The NFL Draft Day for one through
thirty two teams. I thought it'd be awesome to listen
to some testimonies of NFL players. I know we don't
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do this very often, but I thought today would be
a great day to do it. Obviously, so I'm going
to play what I like to listen to Sports Spectrum,
and Sports Spectrum is a Christian affiliate and they go
and do interviews with Christian athletes and I really enjoy
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their channel. I follow their stuff and I have a
few interviews I like to play for you, and one
of them is my old Browns quarterback. Yes, twenty eighteen draft,
he got drafted to the Browns, my Browns, and that's
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Baker Mayfield. He is now the quarterback of the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. But he had a really I was surprised.
I didn't think Baker knew about Jesus. And that's the thing, like,
you know, I don't know if they're sincere or not.
You just never know. But you just never know who
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knows about Jesus and who doesn't. So I'm going to
play this interview for you for off the bat. Right here,
this is Tampa Bay quarterback Baker Mayfield. Shares his testimony
of faith in Jesus Christ. I am very excited about that.
I actually haven't heard this whole interview. I heard clips
of it, but shorts of it if you will. And
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so this is the whole thing. It's around twenty three
minutes long. So I hope you guys will enjoy it.
And here we go.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Where's the first pick.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
In the twenty eighteen NFL Draft.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
The Cleveland Browns select Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
What's up, everybody? It's a sports spectrum.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I Matt Forte here with Jason Romano and Jason we
get the pleasure of talking to Baker Mayfield here today.
And uh, Baker, you are a fairly new father. Your
little girl is ten months. Let's talk a little bit
about that. How has that transition been? I got four kids,
but as a new father, Like, what's the dynamic?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Like it's I mean, I think like when you're trying
to have kids or your significant other is pregnant, everybody's like,
just wait. So you see that child for the first time.
You don't know that love and you hear it so
many times you're like, yeah, I get it, But first
time I saw her, that's like, okay, how I understand it,
what that that pure love is and just turn our
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world upside down. It's it's so special.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, especially by the way, for those of you that
don't know who Matt fourtee is, who's looks like he's
the interviewer here, he was the Chicago Bears running back
back in uh well.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Back in the day, I guess.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So there you go, Matt Forte interviewing Baker.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Mayfield to being a girl. Dad first, I think that's important.
I grew up in a household with me and my
older brother, and my dad was a football player as well,
so my mom was kind of she's really tough too,
So I didn't have that kind of softness when it
came to that. So I learned a lot by having
a girl.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Is it.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Have you seen, you know, any changes in yourself just
because your first job being a girl?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah? I mean I've definitely always had a softer, more
sensitive side that I was really close to my mom
growing up, and you know, but as getting the football culture,
you're trying to be the tough guy and all this,
and so you try and bury that down. It's just
the man's ego and uh but as soon as I
saw I'm like, oh, she's got me wrapped around her finger.
(08:10):
So yeah, there's there's definitely, but the protective instincts come
out and you now realize what you're what the priorities are.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Let's talk about your faith, man.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I know, if you've been to PEO's conference a few
times here, you know more than I think three or four.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
This is like your this is fifth one fifth one.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Yeah, just tell me. I guess you can share your testimony. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Basically, so growing up at growing up in a house
that not a faithful household, and that's every time we'd
go to my grandparents' house, we'd go to church on Sundays,
but it was a Baptist church, so it was it
was a little different then when we go back to
where I grew up in Austin, Texas. Uh, we were
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more of a family that was an Easter Sunday or
a Christmas service and two times year. And so for
me growing up, didn't know a whole lot and getting
into high school, the FCA was starting to become a
bigger organization where I was growing up and still not
really knowing what it was all about. And from my perspective,
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I thought it was you do good deeds, and that's
you're a good person. That means you're a Christian. But
that's until I got to college, and basically I was
trying to make things happen on my own and what
I thought was that way until getting into college when
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my first real first adversity of not really knowing who
I was, and somebody introduced me to a pastor, Adam
Starling in Norman, Oklahoma. That changed my perspective that I
didn't have to be perfect. I didn't have to have
it all figured out, that we're all born centers, that
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we've been saved. And he put that in perspective to
me that I don't have to have it all figured out.
I don't have to be a perfect football player leader
to be a good Christian. And so he really introduced me.
And it's not to say that I dove into it
right away, because I didn't. It was one of those
things where it was scary for me at that time.
(10:22):
Fast forward to getting into the NFL. GET drafted to Cleveland,
Drew Stanton and Kristen Stanton, who I think they were
in their ninth year in the league. They were huge
mentors for us and they were the first couple that said,
come to PO. We're going to sponsor you to just
show up, just make sure you get there. And we're like, okay,
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not really knowing what it was. And when we first
showed up twenty we got married in twenty nineteen. In
February of twenty twenty, it was our first PO and
realized that this is what we've been looking for. There
was a lot of emptiness that I had that I
had been searching for and threw ups and downs that
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thought I could fulfill it in other ways and did not.
And my identity at the time was a football player.
It was it was a quarterback, and I thought I
could carry that. I was like, oh, I've done this.
I walked on, I did this, I did that.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Okay. So, for those of you who don't know, PAO
is pro Athletes Outreach. So that's a PAO when he
refers to that pro athletes outreach.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Fast forward a couple of years into my NFL career,
God taught me a lesson and he had to take
take my career down to the studs and make me
realize that I'm more than a football player. It's there's
much more going on in the game of football, and
for me to see that, I had to hit rock bottom.
(11:54):
And that was it wasn't just football, it was in
our marriage. We weren't doing well at all at this time,
trying to have kids wasn't going well, and so that
was when we dove into po But I remember a
couple of years ago we talked about there's that ninety
nine percent of you that you can put on facade
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as a guy, you put on the mask, but behind
closed doors, who are you really? What are you hiding?
Are you being vulnerable? And until my career got stripped down,
I was hiding a lot. And then for me to
climb back up, I had to dive into the word
and accept the grace. And that was something that was
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really really hard for me. And when I eventually did,
I started to see things from a different viewpoint and
that was the biggest change in my life. And that's
a couple of years ago, and I think the best
part that I've learned throughout the process. It's constant work.
It's not like you just get baptized and you're saved.
You have to continue to work because the enemy is
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out to get you. And that's what I thought that Okay,
once I achieved something, I could just move on. Now
there's this is something that has to be part of
the daily routine and you have to make your priorities
aligned with that. And so that's it's been a journey,
but it all happened for a reason, and God's timing
was perfect. Where Tampa feels like home for me now,
but that's because of what I built the foundation on
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and what my wife and I Emily built our foundation on,
and that's that's our faith. And it's been such a
special ride to let God take us through that.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
So many people just see the stars and the lights
and the cameras and all the good stuff and think
it's just you just show up on Sunday, right, Yeah,
but even in faith like that, right, it's like, man,
you walked on first ever, walk on to earn Heisman
trophy like pinnacle of success, and then first pick of
the draft and then you know careers.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So people may think, oh, you don't have any struggles,
what are you wanted about?
Speaker 6 (13:51):
You?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Hear that a lot in a social media atmosphere. So
I went to Tulane. I didn't have the Oklahoma type
of wave. Yeah road wave. I did it have that
type of spotlight shining on me, so to speak, as
far as like Heisman Trophy winner and stuff, and went
in the second round, not you know, first pick of
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the draft. In those moments where you mentioned it, you said,
you know it was a little bit of emptiness also
probably a little bit of you know, pride and knowing
and not knowing my identity and placing it in football.
Walk us through that time, like what were some of
the things, Because the Lord uses so many different ways
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to humble us, and I've seen that in my own
life many many times. Is what was that moment where
you it kind of clicked like I am not what
I do. I'm more than that, and I think the Lord,
I know Pao is a catalyst in that, which it
is for many people.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
But what was that kind of that moment like.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
That was just a few years ago, honestly, I'm not
what I do? Was in twenty twenty two, got traded
from the Browns, went to Carolina, then had a cup
of coffee in La Three teams in the same calendar year.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I mean, by the way, Carolina, I believe Bench Baker.
I mean, when you get benched Carolina Panthers that is
probably rock bottom as far as your NFL career, I
would think. And then he went to where to say,
oh La Rams, and La really changed him as boy
(15:29):
that coach over there for the Rams. He knows what
he's doing and he really helped Baker. And that's probably
where he's going to go into right here, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
This is all shortly after having shoulder surgery, and during
that time period, I was able to go back to
Norman and have a kids camp. And the one thing
that I kept hearing when I was at the kids camp,
it wasn't about my playing time at Oklahoma or the
things I did on the field. It was the passion,
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the energy, and the things I did to try and
elevate the guys around me. And that's when I realized,
it's not that's that's not football talent. That's that's just
God gave me the ability to try and lead and
do that as best as I possibly can. And that's
when I realized that's it's not about the stats anything
on the field. It's about how I carry myself, how
I inspire others, and trying to bring people together and
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create a culture that allows you to be yourself in
the best version of that whatever that looks like.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
So not knowing that and me and Jason often on
this podcast for the specific purpose of sports being such
an identity for people, we talk about our identity being
routed in christ and why and all that stuff. But
and I know it's fairly new, but I want to
ask you, purpose wise, what do you feel the Lord
calling you to.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Through sports?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Because we've even talked to guys such as a basketball
player Jathan Isaac, who for went his career and said,
you know what, forget the millions and the famous stuff,
I'm gonna I'm gonna go serve a little bit, which
we definitely argued that you could do both. Yeah, So
what do you feel about purpose wise right now? In
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the past calendar year, it's been pretty eye opening to
me to see all the journey, the ups and downs
from having the highest of the highs being picked number
one overall to playing a playoff game in clevelande they
hadn't seen in twenty years, and feeling all that rush
to then be coming crashing down, trying to build it
(17:31):
back up, and then financially I can't exactly get into
some detail about this, but financially a lot of struggles
and then losing that identity.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
But then finally I'll get it a little bit in
the detail about it. So Baker's Baker Mayfield's father basically
ripped him off. I don't know how he did it,
but he took a lot of Baker's money, and that's
what he's referring to. Again, I don't know all the
details of it. I just know that that's the basic
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story of it. It somehow, I don't know, through an
agency or what, but Baker Mayfield's dad ripped Baker off
and took a lot of his money. Somehow that happened.
And I believe that's what he's referring to for this
financial stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Ending it through my faith. For me, it's how can
I take all those lessons that we've been through as
a couple, as a man, as a football player, as
a leader, but as a Christian And how can I
take these lessons and teach the younger guys and help
them out throwing along the way. And that's discipleship. And
so for me, it's as soon as these young guys
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come in wide eyed and not knowing what's going on
in our building, when they step in from day one
is how can I lead in a certain way? And
I think that's what God's calling me to do, is
use the lessons I've learned, the ups and downs of
trying to make it happen my own way and being humbled,
And how do I teach that from a perspective of
not I've done this, but I've gone through this, and
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this is how I got out of it. And this
was the only thing that made me feel whole, because
it is the only thing that will make you feel
unlike anything else.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yeah, all right, so I got a little more in
full here, says Baker. Mayfield filed a lawsuit against his
father's company, alleging that over twelve million dollars was taken
from him and his wife without their authorization. The lawsuit
claims that the money was transferred to other companies by
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Camwood Capital Management Group and its subsidiaries. ESPN reports that
the lawsuit accuses Camwood Capital of failing to repay the
money after a settlement was reached in January. So, yeah,
it looks like somehow his father's company took twelve million
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dollars from him and without paying it back. So yeah,
I would say that's a financial hardship.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
So a good friend of mine went to Oklahoma and
was a first round pick as well, Tommy Harris. I
don't know if you remember that. No, I know Tommy
and he's an amazing dude and it was a great
teammate of mine and inspiration. So I know that. You know,
people definitely look up to you. How do you how
do you hold that? You know when when the lower
place is something that is on you. Yeah, we may
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have earned physically the ability to do some of these things,
but we didn't.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
We didn't make the ability.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
But people look up to that, you know, young kids,
when you do camps in Norman or having the platform
of a starting quarterback in the NFL, how do you
you feel like God is calling you to steward that.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I know you said discipleship, but you know, how does
others than that too? The thing I've taken extremely serious
and as I've grown and learned, was how do I
carry myself and how do I treat people? Because no
matter what position or what platform you have, treating people
with kindness and love doesn't take a whole lot. It's
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treat others you want to be treated that that golden
rule that you learn at a young age, but spread
the love and joy. And for me, that's I have
a passion for football, and that's given me the platform
to be able to spread that love and joy and
whatever you're passionate about, you can give one hundred and
ten percent effort into it while encouraging others to be themselves,
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be that authentic self. And that's it's something special when
you're able to see just the pure joy in kids
that do look up to you, because I remember being
at that spot and looking at guys like Tommy Quinn
Griffin that owe you that I would look up to.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
And how do you.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
How do you portray that to a kid? Is enjoy it,
have fun when you're young, figure out what you're passionate
about and then go all in on that. But that's
not who you are. This is something that you're going
to enjoy, but that's not your identity, and so how
do you how do you do that? It's it's always
the tricky part of trying to say that you're not
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just a football player. It's something you can have fun with,
but you have to find your faith and that's something
whenever you're telling stories to these kids, it's how'd you
get here? Trust to God? Did I do that at
the beginning?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
But I trust God to take me through whatever's going through.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Now.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah, we just heard from Ben Stewart this morning. He's
saying one of the things that stuck out to me
was that your identity determines your actions.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
And I was like, man, that makes so much sense.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
We do it the opposite way, after humanity always does
everything opposite.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I'm going to DJJ Nice.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Being in a second, but I wanted to ask because
you didn't know that was.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
His nickname.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
About it kind of goes with DJJ Nice.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I've seen these clips of the dancing with the boy
and I'm like, this is it feels like it comes
out of nowhere.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
I'm like, where did you learn those dances?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Cause I'm one of the best dancers that was on
the team in the locker room and all that I
do to Douggie and all that stuff. You know what
I'm saying, He's self proclaim you but from the South,
and you know, we we had all kind of you know,
homecoming all this stuff, and I did it all. So
I see that and I'm like, you got some experience?
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Was that was that going to the Baptist Church. Was
that was.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
That was not that. Growing up, we would always have
music on in the house, and when I was young,
my favorite musical listening to was the Jackson five Young Michael,
my mom and I. Some of my earliest memories are
us stancing eleven. Remember that, And that's just I don't know.
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Somehow God gave me a little bit of rhythm and
I take it sometimes a little too far. But it's
just fun. And that's trying not to take myself too
serious and enjoy it.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
I like it. I like it.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
Go ahead, We're not dancing now, guys, We're not going
to do it now.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Jason used to see his movies.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
No, you don't want to see any moves here. I'll
just stick to the microphone here. I'll just stick to
the microphone. Keep the camera right at me. Baker, I
want to ask you about your wife, Emily, because I
know a lot of this growth that you've had spiritually
has come in conjunction with her, and being at this
conference together with her and growing together with her. Can
you kind of talk about the growth that both of
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you have had together. You talked about the struggles early
in your marriage and now having a little one, and
what that's been like kind of the evolution of your
faith and your relationship with your wife.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, having obviously having your faith is the most important part,
but having support piece that you can bounce things off
of and ideas and to be vulnerable with and go
deep about your actual struggles. And that's She's been there
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through all the ups and downs, and there were times
I'm sure she was questioning whether we got married too quickly,
but God had her back the whole time. It kept
her strong through a lot of trials and tribulations, and
it's been to me, it's been I've fallen more in
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love with her because of I've seen her faith grow
and I've seen how strong she's been for me in
times where I wasn't able to be as strong. So
it's it's and watching her be a mother now, it's like,
that's that's what it's about.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
It's pretty cool too.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
I think when we had children and my wife and
I have a daughter, I saw God in a completely
different perspective when my daughter came into my life, because
I saw this love of the Father unconditionally for me
and how I saw my daughter. He kind of talked
about it at the top. Do you feel that way?
Do you feel that way as well?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Absolutely? Yeah, And that's it's been another step in my faith.
Was that unconditional love. It's like, that's real. I didn't
know that I was capable of that, but God's been
waiting for me to accept that for a long time.
And then now it's a real thing that I can
try and teach our daughter about, and we will try
and teach our daughter about as she grows up. Is
your love, no matter or what for exactly who you are,
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you made perfectly.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
That's really cool.
Speaker 10 (26:03):
I get a couple more questions, Matt with the Baker Mayfield.
I want to talk you about your foundation. Can you
kind of share because it's been Baker and Emily Mayfield Foundation,
not just the Baker Mayfield Foundation. So I thought that
was really poignant because Matt does the same thing he
does ministry work with his wife. But you and your
wife both putting the name on the foundation and maybe
what it entails.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, putting both of us as on the foundation was
it's important to me because yes, people look at the football,
they might recognize that name quickly, but in season, you know,
you know how it is. You get busy, and there's
you don't want to just only spend your time in
the offseason that's when you're giving. No, you need to
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be able to give end season as well. And so
Emily's done an unbelievable job of organizing things and being
able to help out in the community and be somebody
that around the holidays she's going out and giving out meals.
And basically, our our mission statement is to level the
playing field for youth in those less fortunate to try
and give everybody the same opportunity to grow up and
have the things they need, whether it's education, I mean
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stuff for sports, just funds for school, travel back and
forth for people that have long commutes, and so it's
there's a lot going on. And that was the hardest
part is we're trying to figure out what we want
to do. But our hearts were always tugged towards kids
and because they're so innocent and they all deserve the
same opportunities to do whatever they want to do in life.
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And so it's been it's been really fun to grow
roots in Tampa and start to try and help out
the community.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
That's awesome, Matt.
Speaker 10 (27:37):
You may be asking this question next but I'm going
to ask it anyways, and then if you want to
follow up. But Baker, if somebody young guys coming in,
you're gonna be the big three to oh this year
which is which is? You know that's gonna be the
big four? Oh so milestones But yeah, milestone here for
for both of you guys. But as as a young
guy comes in and he just see you want to
learn more about your faith and he just says, hey, Baker.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Who's who's Jesus to you? What would you what would
you say to that young man? Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Well, I'd say that Jesus is good, obviously, the son
of God. But it is grace, is perfection, somebody that
sacrificed everything that gave us this opportunity to live life.
And for me, when you say he's your Lord and savior,
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you proclaim it whenever you can. But he's the reason
we're here. And the story of Jesus walking among the flesh,
the only perfect man and too.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
To be.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Sacrifice on the cross and die for our sins forever.
And when you accept that grace, that that's it's an
unbelievable feeling that then you dive into the word and
you see the stories and the scripture backs up what
you're saying and the thing you go through. There's whatever
you're going through, there's something in the scripture that can help
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you out, and it's it's been written and it's the truth.
Speaker 10 (29:07):
Something about that word Grace, Matt, Yeah, yeah, you know
that it's powerful.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
We all received that and that the perfect standard obviously
that we can never meet. And for him to think about,
you know, God saying, you know what, I know, y'all
can't do this, so I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
It's just amazing. So last question by me.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
You know, quarterbacks in this league, in this day and age,
you guys uh get paid a lot of money and
running backs. I'm not saying we're jealous because they because
they don't pay us at all, but that with that
comes a lot of responsibility to whom much is given,
much is required. And God spoke on speaks on money
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more than any other subject in the Bible, and you
know that. So was there any fear with sign a
major deal like you did? And then also with that responsibility,
how do you how do you wrap your mind around
how like you know, the Lord blessing you at the
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same time, because you've noticed on more money, more problems,
and not being fearful of like okay, what what has
come in my way?
Speaker 6 (30:24):
Or how should I prepare for that?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, I'd say the hardest thing when the first check
comes through is the expectation of what are you going
to do with it?
Speaker 6 (30:38):
And then.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Obviously people come out of nowhere saying, hey, can you
give money this? Can you give money to that? And
the thing that we learned at PAO was give where
you're fed, and that was something that hit home to
us and it's like, Okay, this is where we've been
able to build a stronger foundation and grow in our faith.
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And so that's something that's so important to us. But
when it comes to logistically the expectations from the outside,
but the expectation in the scripture is to tieth and
so now we've learned throughout the last few years is
immediately when something comes in, take ten percent out, set
it aside, because it's not how do we get our
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ducks in a row? And then what do we have left? Okay,
let's take ten percent of that and give it out.
That's not how it should be. It's none of this
is ours. Yeah, whatever's given to us. We've learned that
to be upfront about it, take it off the top,
and from there give where you're fed and then where
your heart's being tugged at. And that's for us, that's
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youth and people that don't have the same opportunities, and
so it's it's been a learning process. We haven't had
that figured out the whole time, but we've had some
unbelievable help from people to guide us in those directions. Yeah,
I'm so glad you said that, because it's so true.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
Man, you give them your first ruts.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Right when a seat sits somewhere for a long time,
it starts to grow roots. So I feel like that
with money, you don't want that to grow roots in
your heart and to be like it's mine. So I'm
so glad you said that. And thank you for your
time man and joining the sports spectrum. Appreciate you, guys.
Thanks Baker, Thanks guys.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
All right.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Wow, that's Baker Mayfield, one of my favorite quarterbacks. They
used to be on my team on the Browns, and
I miss him. I miss his attitude and I miss
watching him play. But I get to see him with
that Tampa Bay so it's fun. I had no idea
that he was born again believer, so that it makes
me really happy now. And I still have his jersey,
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by the way, as a brown so awesome. Well, folks,
before I get to my next my next one, I
want to tell you about straw At Pizza Bar and Grill.
That's where you could get a great deal for lunch
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Fresno where I live. Okay, you can get an individual
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That's a really good deal, everybody. You could go ahead
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That's five five nine three two three thirteen hundred, or
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you could order online at www dot straw Hat Pizza
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through Friday eleven am to three pm, and I think
that's a good window eleven to three. And they also
have not just pizza over there, they also have games,
(33:45):
they have adult beverages, and they have TVs to watch
sports on. So yeah, you can watch the rest of
the NFL Draft over there, or you could watch baseball
or the NBA playoffs are going on now, so check
it out. And I think hockey is also going on.
It's a lot of sports to watch, so check it out.
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Straw Hat, Pizza, Bar and grill. All right, folks, My
next one and probably the last one for the night.
It's going to be for you Californians over here. And
this is Brock Purty. That's right. Rock Purty was also
about three weeks ago interviewed by this same person, Matt Forte.
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That's right, the X running back of the Chicago Bears.
Bears for you Bears fans out there, and so this
is a Brock party talking about his faith.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
So check it out.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
He wasn't the flashy five star recruit or the big
name college prospect. He was a three star quarterback from
the suburbs of Arizona and the very last pick in
the NFL draft. Mister irrelevant. Rock Purty quickly went from
a third string quarterback to a Pro Bowl the forty
nine ers to a Super Bowl appearance. He is the
definition of defying the odds. When overlooked, undervalued player became
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one of the faces of the NFL.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
What's up, everybody, It's a Sports Spectrum. I'm Matt Forte
here with my man Jason Romano and Jason. We have
on the podcast today the honor of having San Francisco
forty nine ers quarterback Rock Party.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
Welcome to Sports Spectrum again. I've been on there before
a few times.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
I had a bunch of microphones in your face with
Super Bowl appearances and things like that, but I've never
talked to you personally. So this will be good for
our viewers who maybe have never and listeners who maybe
I have never heard you from you, and for me as well.
So I want to start with just your testimony and
your faith in Jesus Christ, kind of your upbringing and
how how that weaves together.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Yeah, well thanks for having me. Yeah, I grew up
in a Christian household in Arizona, and really I gave
my life to Jesus when I was nine years old.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
I was very just fortunate and blessed.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Uh how my dad, my mom you know, just uh
you know, making an emphasis on obviously like the church
life and everything that was great, but at home, like
my dad just like telling us like you know, hey,
this is who Jesus is this is what He's done
for us. And so that was a big part of
my life. And I gave my life to Jesus when
I was nine. And then I'd say, around high school
is when you know, my walk with Jesus became real,
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not really knowing, you know, what my life looked like
after high school, what college and everything. So that's when
I started opening up my Bible and reading about Jesus
and understanding like what he did for me and and
for all of humanity and giving us hope and life
and through his death and resurrection, and so, uh, that's
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really when I feel like my walk's kicked off. And
I got to college and got involved in college ministry
up there called Salt Company, and that.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Helped me with my walk.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
But I was by no means perfect, just going through
an identity crisis throughout college with being the starting quarterback,
also trying to you know, not just live for the
approval of man, but for God and my identity and
soul was like it was a real thing where you know,
I was getting pulled in all these different directions and
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I needed a source of consistency, a rock, a foundation,
and I knew I knew who Jesus was.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
I gave my life to him.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
But that was like a real test man was you know,
I'm trying to play my heart out for this university
and we're winning games, we're losing games. There's all these
inconsistencies of football, and and so I dealt a lot
with you know, my identity, my true identity in Jesus.
And so that was college. It got better towards the end,
got got a drafted last didn't know if football was
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going to be a thing for me and if I
was going to make it in the NFL. And so
then that was a whole other chapter of my life
where just depended on Jesus and leaning into who he
says I am, not not what the world says I am.
And then from there made the team was just where
God had me one day at a time. And you know,
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I was going into the season third string quarterback, in
the second string, and then week thirteen I got thrown
in and I became the starter from there on out.
And so that's sort of just like how my NFL
career kicked off and went through a lot of stuff.
Still am going through a lot of stuff, but more
than anything, man. Like, what I've learned so far is
this identity and where I placed my identity at. You know,
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I got a spotlight on me in the position of
playing quarterback. But Jesus has always been like my rock,
my foundation, and who I fall back onto. He's my purpose.
He's the reason why I'm able to go and do
the things I'm able to do. Not for my story
and the glory for brock Prity, it's you know, for
the glory for Jesus Christ. And so I'm battling that
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every day, the identity part of it. But here we
are and I'm still learning.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
So all right, cut, I mean that's all we need.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
I'm so glad you talked about identity because I think
that's something that everybody in the world can identify with,
is why on earth was I born?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Like?
Speaker 6 (39:13):
Why am I here? Why did guy make me?
Speaker 4 (39:15):
And sometimes it comes to a point where people think
that what they do is what makes them who they are.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
And so so glad you talked about that.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
And do you think that moment or that time within college,
like the lower kind of providentially put you in that
struggle to prepare you for being propelled into the NFL
Because the NFL can make you think, well, you know,
I'm an NFL player, and then you know the way
that your career went where uh, you know, you're a
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backup and then you get forced into the limelight and
then you actually do well, and then you go to
NFC Championship and then you guys go to you lead
them to the super Bowl, and so you're you're getting
the spotlight on you heavier and heavier. You think that
preparation part was then struggle that the lower kind of
brought you to to really show you I'm your rock
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before even getting to the NFL.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
Yeah, there's so many times in college where there was
these great moments, like at my first five games I
played in college, we won five in a row, and
thinking that, all right, dude, I'm the guy.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Spotlight's on me. I've helped my team win.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
This is like me And then we lose a game
against Texas and it was just like a reality shock
in boom, like I'm in the pits, like we just
got out of the Big Twelve contention. My sophomore year,
we're winning and then Oklahoma State game comes around and
I throw three picks in the game. One of them
was a pick six at the end of the game
to end its homecoming game, and then I'm back in
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the pit like there was all the There's like these
moments in college where it was like really cool, like winning,
feeling like I should get the glory, and then I
got humbled. And and then when I got to the
NFL fast forward, it was almost like I was getting
prepared in understanding that I can't be defined by my
circumstances no matter what my circumstances are.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
Good or bad.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Jesus needs to be my identity, my rock, my source
of life, not football and how things are going around me.
And so he definitely prepared me man from college to
the NFL. I so lean back on those experiences, but
I'm also you know, still learning and understanding that you know,
it's not going to be perfect moving forward, but that's
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what he's taught me so far.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Yeah, there's so many ups and downs in sports in general,
and then yeah, the way that sports really humbles you
or the way that things go is like nobody's going
to go in and you win everything or everything's going
to go your way. So it really does teach us
about life and does translate over almost like how the
Gospel tells us that too. It's a kind of a
misnomer thinking that when people come to Christ that everything's
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going to be okay now, and we know that not
to be true because of the way that's prosperity gospel.
Speaker 6 (41:58):
That's not really the true gospel. To you.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
You're at the conference, this your first time coming here
at PAO, and a heavy piece of that has been
talking about grace. Uh, just talk about or I take
a recap of your life and where God's grace has
been sufficient for you and how good that is.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
Yeah, man, that's so true. Like a lot of people
have this misinterpretation of Jesus of all right, I give
my life to Jesus.
Speaker 6 (42:22):
Now I'm gonna be blessed.
Speaker 5 (42:24):
I'm gonna be you know, I'm gonna have everything because
I follow Him, so good things are gonna happen to me.
And I fell victim of that so many times in
my life, especially in college, where right, I'm gonna be
a good boy, I'm gonna do all the things in
a legalistic manner, and it became more of religion over relationship,
and I was like, man, why am I not being blessed?
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I'm following Jesus this and that, and it's so so
selfish at that at that time, I was serving Jesus,
not for Jesus and because of Jesus. I was serving
it because I wanted blessing. It was so selfish instead
of I'm to serve Jesus because I love him and
I get him. And that's, you know, something that I've
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learned and I still, you know, continue to to deal
and battle with. But as I look back in my life,
back to your point, like, man, I can't think for
one moment that all right, this is because like all these,
all these things have happened because of my own will
and what I've done.
Speaker 6 (43:20):
That's completely flipped. It's Jesus has.
Speaker 5 (43:24):
Taken this guy, this kid from Arizona, who wasn't the
biggest or the strongest or the fastest, but He's just
had him in the right time, in the right place
and has allowed him to learn and see that God
can take something that doesn't look the grandest or best,
but he makes it work for his glory and for me. Man,
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I just sit back and be like, all right, I'm
just open palming everything and allowing you to work and
use me.
Speaker 6 (43:52):
However, you need me to.
Speaker 5 (43:53):
And you know, I didn't get recruited like a big
time guy out of high school. I had revisits on
the last three weekends before signing day. I was a
third string quarterback going into college. I was the last
draft pick. I was a third string quarterback on the roster.
And all these things have happened in my life. I
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get UCL surgery once we got to the NFC championship,
hurt my elbow, and then UCL surgery, and then we
go to the Super Bowl, and then a.
Speaker 6 (44:23):
Tough year last year.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
It's just been all these like ups and downs, but
God's grace just all throughout it. And I sit back
and I'm like, dude, I don't deserve any of this, man,
this is just God using me for his story and
his glory.
Speaker 6 (44:35):
Man, And I'm just so honored for that. Yeah, I'm
glad you went into that. We have similar stories.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
I wouldn't heavily recruited, went to TWU Lane, had one
scholarship offer.
Speaker 6 (44:44):
But when we get to the draft, that was different.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
I went the second round and then I hate that term.
You actually broke the term myster irrelevant that I mean,
that's that can't be the name anymore. It shouldn't be
the name anymore because you go last pick in the
draft and certainly wasn't a when that when you were
drafted at that point and that term because people will
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speak things over you and it kind.
Speaker 6 (45:09):
Of it can take root or take set.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
How did you kind of block that because that can
be you know, someone can say that that would make
me think that I'm that, And you don't want to
go into a career or start your career off thinking like, well,
am I irrelevant? So when it comes to you know
how your draft process went, how did you fight through
that to be able to dispel like, look.
Speaker 6 (45:34):
I'm not going to be mister irrelevant.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
I might be on the depth chart right now back here,
but I'm just gonna trust in the Lord and my
opportunity is gonna come.
Speaker 6 (45:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (45:43):
Man, I what went through my mind like at the
time was all right, again, the whole world is trying
to tell me who I am. I'm mister irrelevant, I'm
on nobody, And I feel like God had me go
through those things early in my life to help me
for that kind of moment, and I was just minded
him all right. It doesn't matter what people say about
me about being drafted last, not the biggest guy, not
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the biggest arm, not the flashiest college highlights and all
these things.
Speaker 6 (46:10):
To go.
Speaker 5 (46:11):
All right, dude, just be where you're at and know
who you are in me and being my word, read
my promises, hold on to him, have that steadfast joy
of contentment, like Paul saying he knows the secret to
being content. And for me, I was all right, like,
that's who I'm gonna be. And that helped me. You know,
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I wasn't. I didn't go into you know, Rocky Mini
camp or that first camp going I'm gonna show everybody
that I'm not mister irrelevant. I was just like, God,
where do you need me? And I'm gonna I'm gonna
go hard for you. I'm gonna honor you and use
my talents for you. And then over time it's sort
of just unfolded and it became what it became for
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God and his his story. So that's how I viewed it.
But I really do think He had me prepare for
all of that throughout my life and not listen to
the to the words and the voices of the world
but him and his word.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
Yeah, Yeah, it's so good. I wanted to ask you
too about about prayer. I don't know if you do,
but I would. I got to a point where I
would pray during the game. I might be in the backfield,
like during this nap, and I just knew it was
a run play where I didn't have to think too
much because I just read in the defense and I'd
be praying, like you know, the whole or even on
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the sideline. So do you ever do that? And when
you do, does the Lord ever speak back? You ever
hear his still quiet voice in those moments?
Speaker 6 (47:34):
Yeah, on the sideline for sure.
Speaker 5 (47:37):
With just like the craziness of a game and you
wanting to the fleshly side of us, just wanting control
of it, like come off the sideline. Whatever just happened,
just happened on the field, or we scored or punted
or whatever, and it's like I need the defense to
do this.
Speaker 6 (47:51):
I need the defense to I.
Speaker 5 (47:52):
Feel like this like squeezing in control that I that
I want over the game. And then it's like all right,
the Holy Spirit's like just listen to me and be
with me and talk to me. That's something that I
learned recently is like God wants us to take our
emotions and feelings to him, you know, like question him
and ask him and you know, why am I going
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through this? And what do you want me to learn
by going through this? And that gives me so much
comfort and peace man, in those moments, chaotic moments, knowing
that I can talk to my Creator and through the
Holy Spirit of prayer, and it's a real thing. It's
something that I continue to grow with and I need
to get better at. And but it's it's like our
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secret weapon really in football though, because I feel like
if I didn't have the Holy Spirit and was able
to pray and talk to God, my head and my
mindset would be all over the place because I'd be
I'd want to be in control so bad of a game,
especially at a quarterback, like at the quarterback position where
you make decisions with the ball in your hands every
every snap.
Speaker 6 (48:54):
So something that I've done and will continue to work
on too.
Speaker 4 (48:58):
Yeah, me and Jason, I always talked with him on
some of these podcasts. We say you can question God
as long as you don't question God, and that's something
that my pastor says Charlie days. But I wanted to
ask you one thing and I'm gonna let Jason jump in.
Was about the difference between believing in God and actually
trusting God.
Speaker 6 (49:18):
That's two different things.
Speaker 4 (49:19):
You know, a lot of people may believe God that
they don't believe his word. They may just believe in God.
So you know, God can be your savior. What is
the lord of your life? That's what I'm trying to
get at, talk about the difference between the two and
why we should definitely have both of those as a
part of our daily routine of him being the lord
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of your life but also your savior.
Speaker 6 (49:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (49:46):
Man, I feel like everybody has been written on our
hearts this longing to want to be known, to want
to be loved.
Speaker 6 (49:54):
It's on everybody's heart.
Speaker 5 (49:55):
Everybody feels it, and they ask themselves at some point
in their life, like why am I here? What's my purpose?
And like was I created for? You know, a purpose
and and to be known and loved? And you know,
so I feel like the for coming to know Jesus
and giving your life to him and submitting to him
and having a savior, I feel like everybody comes to
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that point and that's beautiful thing and it's awesome to
know that you're broken you need a savior and that
what Jesus did on the cross is enough, that's beautiful.
But then to say he's lord like and to you know,
submit true submission, like submission isn't submission until you don't
want to do it, like it's something that it's hard.
And so when we say we submit to Jesus, that's
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everything man, denying yourself, picking up your cross and following
him in all areas of your life, from the way
that you think to treating others, your spouse, you know,
doing things that are tough. But because you have submitted
to Jesus and that he's lord of your life. He's
your savior, but he's your lord, it just changes everything
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about everything and how you love and how you lay
down your life for others in your daily habits and routine.
Speaker 6 (51:08):
So those they go hand in hand.
Speaker 5 (51:11):
But I've been a victim in my life where it's like,
all right, Jesus has covered me because it's because of
his blood and what He's done from me on the cross.
So I get to go live how I want and
try to control things. And it's like, bro, I have
to submit twenty four to seven daily and give that
up because Jesus is not only my savior but my Lord.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
And so yeah, yeah, the term, the phrase saying no,
Lord isn't actually an oxymoron, Like it doesn't.
Speaker 6 (51:36):
It makes sense. You can't say no if it's.
Speaker 4 (51:38):
Your really lord, Lord, you can't say no. Yeah, So
I let Jason jump in.
Speaker 10 (51:42):
Yeah, I want to ask you, Brock, because we've talked
quite a few times, and I think the last time
I spoke with you, it was in a scrum of
media of about eighty guys just going at you with microphones,
and I know we talked off camera about how that
week was just a whirlwin at the super Bowl. But
you did give a great answer, which wasn't surprising when
I asked you in twenty twenty three what kind of
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scriptures and verses were you meditating on? And you mentioned
Psalm twenty three in twenty twenty three. What was twenty
twenty four time with the Lord during the season, like
and spending time with God and just meditating on his word.
Speaker 5 (52:16):
Yeah, So, like I said, it's a twenty four seventh
thing with me man with identity. It's funny I can
be on podcasts and telling my teammates about Jesus and
about identity, and then I'll be driving and all these
thoughts come in my head and the enemy's trying to
get me. And so I'm like twenty four seven, always
trying to find like great verses about identity and who
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I am in Christ. And so Galatians two twenty was
mine this year. If I've been crucified with Christ, it
is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives
in me the life I live in the flesh. I
now live by the faith and the Son of God,
for he loved me and gave his life for me.
Speaker 6 (52:51):
And so that was like the verse.
Speaker 5 (52:53):
This year for me of all, right, like no matter
what the outcome is was a crazy year with how
our team and what we went through and what I
went through personally, but I wanted to stay anchored and
rooted in and his promises. And that's what He's promised us,
is dude, Like I've given my life to Jesus, my
old life, my passion's desires of wanting this or that,
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especially in the football world as a quarterback, and thinking
about the future that's been crucified with the Christ and
what he did for me and with me on the cross,
and now I have this freedom to go and live
changed and free through Jesus, and it just sort of
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just redirects me of who I am and my identity.
So that was what I held on to this year,
and we'll continue to go back to.
Speaker 10 (53:43):
Let's reflect a little bit. He just finished year three,
you're getting ready for a year four. So I'm going
to ask you a question. It's kind of generic, but
maybe you can think of a moment. What's been your
favorite sort of God moment in the three seasons that
you've been with the forty nine ers. It might be
a player that you saw come to Jesus, it might
be a time he spent It might be a high
of highs like the Super.
Speaker 6 (54:02):
Bowl, or a low of lows in another situation.
Speaker 10 (54:04):
But do you have a moment that you can point
to where you were like, Wow, I didn't see this coming,
and look at the Lord do what the Lord only
can do.
Speaker 5 (54:13):
Man, there was a lot of cool stuff during you know,
that Super Bowl year with just like our fellowship and everything,
But honestly, man, was probably last year. It was a
tough year. It was my first time in my career,
so I played two seasons. We made the playoffs, but
last year not making the playoffs later in the year
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when we had to show up for about a month
knowing that we weren't in and just seeing how, you know,
guys react to all, right, we're not we're not gonna
be able to accomplish what we set out to do,
and making the playoffs and making a run out of
championship again. But like coming into work every day and
being being who God has called us to be and
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no matter what the circumstances are, to love well, to
honor him with the talents he's blessed us with. And
so with that being said, Chris Conley was a receiver
and he was a couple lockers down from me, and
he and I just throughout like the year, but especially
at the end, just like talking about our purpose and
encouraging one another. And I was like, dude, if we
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didn't have fellowship like this, this could be tough, you know,
trying to handle all this by myself, but having a
brother in Christ in the locker room to remind each
other of our purpose what we're trying to do. That yes,
it may be tough right now, and this is a
tough season of life, but we have to just open
palm it and allow God to teach us and be
willing to listen to God and spend quiet and just
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reaffirming each other that, dude, quiet time with God right
now is so crucial and listening and not just being
so quick to speak and quick to have the answer,
but spend spending time with God and just being quiet
and so Chris Conley, this year tough, tough part of
the end of the season, But I think I learned
a lot honestly just being in the in a low
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valley and understand how crucial fellowship is.
Speaker 10 (56:04):
Yeah, and you'll be better for it no matter what
happened the next year or the year after, You'll be
better for it by having gone through that season.
Speaker 6 (56:11):
I do want to ask you one.
Speaker 10 (56:12):
More for me about just sometimes your best yeses are no's.
And after your platform elevated in such a you know,
a quick way, certainly your rookie year, but then the
next year where it's like all the way to the
super Bowl and you know, you have such an amazing season,
and after that, I'm sure, because we haven't talked since then,
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you had a lot of people grabbing at you. Probably
all the requests in the world to do this. Can
you speak here? Can you sponsor this? How were you
able to discern through prayer, through through wise counsel, what
to say yes to and what to say no to?
Because I really truly believe that sometimes our best yeses
are sorry, this is not going to work for me
right now. How are you able to kind of walk
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through that? When your platform got to work it got
so quickly.
Speaker 6 (56:59):
Yeah. Man, it's so real.
Speaker 5 (57:03):
Going to the Super Bowl, having this story of being
drafted last, and then people wanting to use you for
certain things. The documentary requests all these things like hey man,
we want to tell your story and show it and
this and that and and we're very honored and thankful
for that. But last year I got married March ninth,
and so for me, like what God told me just
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through prayer and being with him was you have to
start small. You have to take care of your wife,
you have to focus on your marriage, you have to
focus on me right now, your family, and I prompt
like He'll take care of you, and I'll take care
of you as God. And for me, that gave me
so much peace because it's there's this whole other weight
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to my shoulders of all right, I need to be
using my platform for God. I need to be telling
everybody about Jesus. I need to. I need to. I
need to. And I feel like that's the enemy wanting
to busy me and pull me really thin and stretch
me thin. But you know, I think something that my
wife and I did was hunkered down on God being
our foundation and just taking it small, focusing on our
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community of the people in our life with family and friends,
my teammates, starting small, focusing on that, and allowing over
time the right opportunities to go and speak and use
our platform for God.
Speaker 4 (58:20):
So that's wise. That's wise. I wish I had known
that earlier. But you mentioned getting married. So you guys
got married last year.
Speaker 6 (58:28):
And you've been.
Speaker 4 (58:30):
A husband for you know, almost a year now. And
proverb says that a wise man leads an inheritance to
his children's children's children. What has your dad Because your
mom and dad's marriage, they've been married for definitely more
decades than myself. I'm thirteen years in. But what can
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you or what are you taking from seeing that marriage
or that relationship into your own marriage That is gonna
be something that you passed down. I would see the
faith aspect is that, but something other than that that
you have seen that's tangible that you can pass down
to bring into your marriage but then pass down to
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having kids and a legacy of rock Party and his wife.
Speaker 6 (59:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (59:21):
Man, there's a lot, but you know, the first thing
that comes to mind is obviously the foundation of Jesus
and the relationship and just us as a family being
so tight with family trips, playing different sports and things
and stuff. But like I saw my parents as a team.
Like my dad worked, my mom helped out around the
house and everything and took us around for practice and everything.
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My dad would come home from work, hit us groundballs,
throwing in the backyard, like running routes for my brother
and I. They were just involved. Man, they were in
our life. And you know, for my wife and I,
like once we get to having kids and everything, I
definitely want to just be in.
Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
Our kid's life.
Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
Practices and moments in the car, like driving to school
my dad dropped me off and he'd have us open
up a devotional and just reading and then my dad's like, hey,
like today, my challenge for you is to you know,
uplift a classmate or somebody in your life today, and
then we'd come home and be so excited to tell
him about who we talk to and lifted up. And
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same with my mom and so that and then seeing
how my dad with kids, he disciplined us, but he
thirty minutes later would always come in the room and
tell us that he loved us and he did it
for a reason, and he didn't just discipline us and.
Speaker 6 (01:00:39):
Go away, but he he more than anything, was.
Speaker 5 (01:00:42):
A loving father who who just wanted the best for us.
And so we'll definitely take that. I've learned that from him.
And then just my dad, man laid down his life
for his family, for his wife. My dad showed my
mom so much love around the house and everything, and
as a kid, we're like, eh, like why are they kissed?
Saying this and that, but it's like now, he loved
her so much man. And same with my mom. My mom,
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you know, making dinner, calling us in from the street
to come in. And so it was a very healthy
family and relationship that I saw out of them. And hopefully,
like Jenna and I can definitely take that and show
our kids that one day too.
Speaker 6 (01:01:16):
Amen. Amen with Brocks, thanks for coming on Sports Spectrum.
I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks, Brock appreciate you. Thanks for
having me.
Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
All right, there you go Brock Pretty from the forty
nine ers a quarterback there, so awesome, good stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:01:30):
Good stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Well, folks, if you want to have that same kind
of piece that brock Pretty and Baker Mayfield we're talking about,
you just go to Jesus and ask him in your
heart and say, you know what, I realized that I'm
a sinner. I asked you to forgive me for my sins,
and I ask you Lord to.
Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
Save me.
Speaker 3 (01:01:55):
And I want to know you for who you are.
And I believe that you are the son of God,
and I believe that you die for my sins. It's
coming to my life and lead me, and you will
be mine. I'll be yours. And Amen Jesus and ame amen.
You pray with that prayer and you meet it in
your heart, that shall be saved. And that's how you
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could have the peace that they were talking about. And
it's not going to be an easier life. In fact,
sometimes it's even harder. But you have something that the
world doesn't, and that is peace and eternal life. Eternal
life is the most it's the best thing you could
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ever have in your entire life. One day we're all
going to pass away, and we're all going to live
on one place or another, and that's either in heaven
with the Lord Jesus Christ or separated from him. And
we don't want to be separated from him. So in
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order to live on with Jesus Christ, you have to
believe in him. Put your faith in Jesus. And that's
how you could have the peace that they were talking about,
and that's how you could have everlasting life. And there
you go. It's really that simple. I know it sounds
too simple, actually, but it is. Christ did all the
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work down here when he died on the cross for
your sins and my sins. He did all of that.
He did the heavy lifting, he did the painful lifting,
and that's dying on the cross. But he didn't stay dead. No, no, no, no, no,
that's what That's what I have Easter, right, because Easter
he rose again on the third day and he is
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in heaven now he's alive. He has risen. He has risen. Indeed,
So I know this was kind of a curveball for
everybody as not our usual let's get jacked up episode.
But on this Draft day, the draft night. I thought
this would be a cool thing to do and hopefully
you got enjoyed it and got something out of it.
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All right, Well, folks, we'll try again next week with
Bobby and Karen and perhaps Jack. We'll see and until
then be in this world but not of this road.
And don't forget. We do have a show that airs
every morning on Fringe radionetwork dot com and that is
called Jacked Up Daily. So you get about thirty to
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forty minutes a morning of Jacked Up Daily and a
good taste of what we.
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Do on this show.
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All right, folks, until then, we'll see you when we
see you, and God bless you.
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