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Sophie Cunningham
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Bobby Bones
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Sophie Cunningham
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Bobby Bones
So you're telling me.
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Bobby Bones
Everyone'S job easier to manage just adds more to manage on top of the.
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Bobby Bones
And manage ai to change how you.
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Sophie Cunningham
This is a podcast called twenty five.
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David Pollock
Whistles talking for and they all wear.
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Sophie Cunningham
A whistle yeah it's stupid but what.
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David Pollock
Did you expect it's a podcast called.
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Bobby Bones
Twenty five whistles twenty five whistles we've had some awesome guests sit down with us all through twenty twenty five so let's look back at some of our favorite interviews that maybe you missed first up espn senior writer and new york times best selling author seth wickersham seth's one of the best long form nfl storytellers out there he put out a book called american a biography of the quarterback so we talked about a lot of quarterbacks big thanks to seth here he is seth wickersham all right seth wickersham is on with us great to.
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Seth Wickersham
See you man good to be here.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah congratulations on the book let's talk about arch manning for a second and you know you write about how how ruthless the recruitment was how did they settle on texas so my goal with.
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Seth Wickersham
The book you know like what i wanted to do was show what it's like to do this very uniquely american job very unique american responsibilities at like every level from current high school to college pro retired hall of famer and arch was interesting to me because you know it was a window into this entire iconic quarterback family and so i was able to kind of like or i was hoping to try to tell the entire manning story through arch and specifically through arch's recruitment and it got so competitive i think that like even being there it was interesting to just to see especially in the nil era how hot it got for arch you know i think that it came down to alabama georgia and texas the reasons why he picked texas were i think they were pretty wise i mean in no particular order number one steve sarkeesian he's the play caller and the head coach so he's not going anywhere he's not going to be one of these guys who gets poached to be a head coach coach somewhere else number two he really liked that texas might you know was going to be a team on the upswing and here's a chance to win a national championship there and kind of help elevate it he liked that it was a school that had a ton of talent and i think after being at isidore newman which is obviously a pretty pretty small school in new orleans he wanted to be on a team that had you know other five star players and then finally and this is the one that i personally find the most interesting is that you know austin's a big enough city you don't even call it a college town it's a city that he thought he could be pretty anonymous there and that to me is the most interesting aspect of it all because here you have arch manning and you know member of like you know football royalty and you know part of the reason why he picked texas was because he thought and we'll see how well that works out that you know he could be anonymous there and i think that like even some of the reporting in my book you know shows that like that itself was was too difficult to ask for.
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Bobby Bones
How influential were archie cooper peyton eli all in arch's recruitment and actually helping him achieve his destination of texas he.
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Seth Wickersham
Did it himself and i think that like they're all really hyper aware of looking like they had a hidden hand and nelson stewart you know so so arch's sophomore year obviously they realized he was going to be a top prospect so nelson stewart the head coach at newman and cooper manning get together and they try to think about like how they want recruitment to look like and this is looking like staring at a tsunami from a distance like there's no stopping this thing and so cooper said i want this to be a nineteen seventy five recruitment and coach stewart was like what do you mean and cooper was like i want you to run point i want you to be the gatekeeper and we're not going to take offers we're not going to be posting on social media every time a school offers to us how grateful we are we're going to do things a little bit different to try to give arch a semblance of a normal high school life and you know maintain his love of the game and i think that's really important and so it was arch driving things and obviously like the family members you know could weigh in when they wanted but you know they went to university university of virginia where arch's older sister may goes and as they were walking around campus cooper was like look you know this isn't a bad choice you know it's a beautiful campus great school you know it's not football crazy and i think like maybe your life could be more normal here and you know obviously virginia wasn't a school that he you know ended up considering at the end of the day it was him that was driving this and he's the one who decided on texas really just like peyton did with tennessee and even eli did you know back in the day with ole miss you're.
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Bobby Bones
Right about joe namath and before both of our time obviously joe namath i think about nineteen sixty nine him guaranteeing him wearing the fur coats him being like in new york but it was an odd juxtaposition because he played at alabama like all of that we didn't get to experience it but we're only catching it like through story like folklore even and so yeah what did you think of joe namath cultural impact once you started to really get into it.
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Seth Wickersham
At a deeper level well i mean look all quarterbacks are cultural archetypes of john unitis and joe namath i mean like those two guys are huge pillars and you know as i show in the book there are other guys who who helped set them up especially bob waterfield in the nineteen forties he was married to jane russell they were like the couple's first you're the country's first power couple but really namath is you know a watershed moment in so many ways and it was interesting because i've been with joe namath at events in new york and i've been with him at one event at the university of alabama at the stadium and just my personal opinion opinion i thought that he was way more revered way more sought after almost looked like with a type of reverence that was different when he was at alabama rather than the events in new york i think that like alabama has such a you know a vast you know history in throughout college football and obviously namath has so much cultural template that he started once he was with the jets and kind of blossomed into you know this guy who first offered the idea of quarterback is like a lifestyle but at alabama you know he said that bear bryant said that he was the finest player he ever coached and i think that like you know when you listen to joe nemeth talk about his his career i think in a lot of ways you hear him talking about more joy when he was at alabama than even during his heyday in new york love your.
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Bobby Bones
Work just generally too so good luck i hope the book sells a gabillion copies and hopefully we'll talk to you again soon hey man thank you i.
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Seth Wickersham
Love all the trinkets on your desk and i really appreciate your time and thank you very very much all right.
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Bobby Bones
Seth have a good day man next up is super bowl mvp joe flacco joe has played in the nfl for close to twenty years a lot of memorable moments one of those moments came when the lights went out when he was playing in the super bowl against forty nine ers it was crazy and how his body's feeling playing in his forties which we talk about here congrats to joe on still being in the league playing in his forties here he is joe flacco my partner that i work with a lot is matt castle who played in the league for a long time and he talks about once he started to be a bit older and he had dealt with injuries that the hardest part was not not getting injured it was bouncing back because as you get older it's harder to bounce back at your stage right now is that the hardest part is when something hurts does it take longer to heal.
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Joe Flacco
I think you gotta make sure that you get to the point where nothing you minimize the amount of buildup that happens obviously throughout the course of a game you're going to deal with acute injuries that you have to try to heal from as quick as possible but i think for me as i get a little bit older it's just that maintenance routine it's getting a good routine so that little things don't turn into big things and when i was younger you kind of run through those little things in a week and now that i've turned forty they kind of build up they don't go away and before you know it you're hurting a lot more than you want to does it.
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Bobby Bones
Hurt after every game or is there an occasional game where you're like you look down you're like ah i'm okay.
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Joe Flacco
That'S the beauty about playing quarterback is that yes you do look down after some games and say oh wow i came out of that one great and you don't really deal with anything the other the other ten eleven guys on the field the other twenty one guys on the field when you're when you're out there they are dealing with it week in and week out i would say that i have it easy you know as it comes to the nfl.
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Bobby Bones
Standard why are you still playing you.
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Joe Flacco
Love it i better love it if i'm doing this yeah yeah i listen i have one thing maybe maybe hopefully a couple more than one thing but one thing that i really really enjoy doing one thing that i feel like i can really do at a high level and i i've never really thought about not doing it i've been able to do it since i've been a kid and i kind of just want to keep that dream alive i still feel like i can do it at a high level and have a lot of fun doing it so yeah that's kind of why i still do it it's kind of a weird question and to talk about but it's a lot of fun and i do love it i i love being in that locker room with all the players i love being in the huddle that feeling that you get before before game time i wouldn't say that i'm totally in love with that but when you don't have that for a few months you realize that you miss it it's just something that's pretty special can you give me.
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Bobby Bones
A memory from when the lights went out in the super bowl because that was weird for us i can't imagine you're freaking playing in the super bowl and it all goes down like what are you guys even talking about when.
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Joe Flacco
That happens i remember sitting on the bench and kind of the lights go out and you kind of just look around like what the heck is going on i wish i had more memories of it it's funny because after the game everybody kind of started expressing to me what they what they thought and some people were scared i mean i had a lot of friends and family that were nervous as what was going on and thankfully for me that never really crossed my my mind i kind of just took it for what it was sat on the ground stretched out a little bit you know you think it's going to be two or three minutes you don't realize it's going to be twenty or thirty or however long it was so i think if i had to guess how i how my mindset was it was probably taking it like every two or three minutes feel thinking it was going they were going to come back on and we were going to get right back to it.
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Bobby Bones
Playing at pittsburgh and college and then delaware like to me that's cold weather oh sounds terrible but you've played in cold weather places in the nfl for the most part too is that even a thing do you even get cold or is that just normal there's definitely.
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Joe Flacco
Things about that that are not ideal i think you just you put that big coat on you sit on the heated bench and you deal with it for the five ten minutes that you're that you're not sitting on that bench but we got it we got it pretty easy the fact that we got guys waiting for us on the sideline to throw a big coat over us and sit on a you know one hundred degree warming bench when you're out there playing you're honestly not thinking about it it's like the first thirty seconds that you take that coat off that you're thinking what the hell am i doing or pre game pregame warm ups are actually probably more miserable in the game because you're like do i want to even go out there and warm up or do i just want to kind of hang out in the locker room and say say i'm good i'll be ready to go once the game.
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Bobby Bones
Starts and we're almost probably no adrenaline.
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Joe Flacco
Right yeah exactly you're not you're just like i'm not playing the game why am i going to go out there and do it to myself when i don't have to so it's a little bit harder mental hurdle to get to get out there for pregame at the.
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Bobby Bones
Height of your career or when you will say your arm was the healthiest it may even be now you ever just chunk a ball to see how far you could throw a ball you.
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Joe Flacco
Know i used to when i was in college like when i was in late college early early part of my career in the nfl i was probably more interested in seeing how far i could throw it and doing some long toss these days i just kind of do it to keep my arm in shape i'm not necessarily super worried about where i can throw the ball through the uprights from when even when people ask me i always just say i can probably i could throw it around seventy five yards i don't i don't know maybe give or take a few.
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Bobby Bones
Yards here and there so eighty eighty.
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Joe Flacco
Five if you don't i honestly if i could touch eighty i would probably say eighty i don't think i've ever thrown a football eighty yards unless i unless i was down on the jersey shore on the beach with forty mile an hour winds i wasn't throwing the ball eighty yards so that's a good.
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Bobby Bones
Point because if i'm lying about driving a golf ball i never lie short i always or i always estimate a little long it's like what are you yeah about two hundred sixty five average and really it's not that so i guess right yeah that's a good point when did you realize in your youth that you had a really strong arm.
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Joe Flacco
I guess growing up on the schoolyard just kind of playing two hand touch i could always throw that little ball that you know the little pee wee ball that kind of everybody plays with i think you know we might have had a minnesota vikings or probably a philadelphia eagles rubber football that we could kind of i could throw the length of the schoolyard and nobody else could really do that so you kind of figure all right maybe i could throw.
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Bobby Bones
The ball a little bit when these guys are getting ready for draft day draft night if it's night one or second round or third night like what was your draft night like so i.
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Joe Flacco
Was sitting on my couch at my parents house i really didn't want to let cameras in because i was unsure about where i was gonna be picked and just kind of wanted to be more private in general but obviously i got talked into you know allowing them to come into the house and i was just kind of sitting on the couch and waiting to see what happens and we were all watching the draft excited and kind of eager to see what was going to happen but coming from delaware i didn't know if i was going to be there was a lot of momentum probably behind where i was going to be picked i felt like i was probably going to be picked decently high but i could have been a first round pick i could have been a third round pick i had no idea so i was a little bit i was excited obviously because at that point i didn't really care where i was going to be picked i knew that i was going to be an nfl draft pick and i think that was the most exciting thing but yeah there's probably a little bit of uncertainty in my mind too because you just don't know where you're going to go and where you're going to spend the next you you know you plan on spending the next fifteen years of your life probably wherever you end up getting picked so it was you know definitely definitely a little bit of mixed feelings about where that could be who called you ozzy called me ozzy called me and i think they were i think they traded up with houston i want to say and he said hey joe we're about to you know we're about to trade up here with houston into the eighteenth pick and and select you to become a baltimore raven and you know obviously like the whole room that i was sitting in kind of went nuts because they were you know they realized i was on the phone call and i was kind of giving them a head nod or whatever i was doing to let them know like hey it's about to happen how.
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Bobby Bones
Much sleep do you try to get a night right now yeah.
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Joe Flacco
We'Re gonna pivot into health man i gotta tell you there was a time where like my kids were younger and we could actually enjoy like three hours on the couch me and my wife by ourselves from like seven thirty to ten thirty or eleven o' clock eleven thirty whatever we wanted to do you know we could put those kids to bed but now my kids are getting older they complain about bedtime every night it's getting pushed you know further and further back and i'm usually knocked out on the couch at nine o' clock and then at ten fifteen i'm waking up with my wife going back to bed and i'm sleeping till six thirty six forty five every day so is there a.
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Bobby Bones
You get to a game because there are mornings if i'm either doing the show or if i'm even if i'm touring doing stand up my i just have brain fog some days and if i sleep maybe some i ate you ever get to the game day and you're like man like i'm just not fully there and you have to go all right guys my brain's not clicking the right way i need you to like help me out a little bit.
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Joe Flacco
Listen there's times yeah i don't know about my brain but your body definitely wakes up a little bit tired sometimes and listen it's not ideal for us we're waking up even if most of the time even if you're at home you're waking up in a hotel you don't get to sleep in your own bed and definitely if you're on the road and honestly i'm not great at falling asleep and sleeping well in a hotel i usually can kind of turn my mind off and not worry about anything and i'm the same way the night before the game i'm not really thinking about it i feel like if i do have things on my mind i can actually relax and go to bed and kind of put it out of my mind but just a night's sleep in a hotel i've never quite gotten used to it so there's always probably a little bit of that three.
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Bobby Bones
Final questions that leads me to that so do you stay at home do you stay in the same hotel room in the same bed to at least have some sort of consistency man i've.
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Joe Flacco
Been all over the place the last few years i have no idea that's a good point i think typically yes you're in the same room all year.
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Bobby Bones
Like in baltimore unless you same room.
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Joe Flacco
Hotel room same room same room joe.
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Bobby Bones
We appreciate the time and thank you for spending some time with us no.
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Joe Flacco
I appreciate it you guys have a.
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Bobby Bones
Good one all right thanks joe.
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Bobby Bones
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Bobby Bones
Former nfl and current college head coach jim mora coach mora was the head coach in atlanta when michael vick was their quarterback so i asked him what it's like to coach michael vick especially during that time here's what he said.
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Jim Mora
He was unbelievable number one he was a really good person he is a really good person we stay in touch i'm happy he's coaching he's going to have a great impact on norfolk state and all those student athletes but every single day every single day on practice on the practice field he would do something that you would just like go did he just do that i mean the most unbelievable athlete i've ever been around we're playing the carolina panthers we win the game i think we win the division or i don't know something and it's a fourth down and goal and you know if we don't score a touchdown the game's over our coordinator we call timeout coordinator comes over and gives him you know all these instructions like you know you got to look here you got to look at this guy you got to look at that guy this is your number one read mike starts to run on the field i bring him back and i go hey mike i go listen man if you don't like it just frigging run just take off and go and that's that you can find it on youtube a picture of him diving into the end zone against carolina's knees about an inch off the ground and that was the kind of guy he was like you just like i tell him every every week just go be you you know like we've worked hard all week your skill sets improving your understanding of the concepts are improving but at the end of the day don't be paralyzed by trying to do things that you're not comfortable doing just go be you and he was man he was fun to be around he was just to.
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Bobby Bones
Watch like his old youtube because obviously i watched it as a kid but to watch it now and to just see the separation at almost at will it's crazy to watch now that far removed from it just how athletically superior.
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Jim Mora
He was his burst yeah you know you remember that that that game against the vikings where he split the two defenders and you'd see that every day but his arm is like a whip i mean there was that commercial he was throwing it out of the stadium and i know that was you know that wasn't real but i think he could probably do that it was i mean he was a cultural icon and he made a huge impact on this league i think he changed the direction of how people look at quarterbacks and yeah he was really fun and just fun to know as a person next.
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Bobby Bones
Up our interview with kansas city chiefs chairman and ceo clark hunt clark grew up around the league with his family being a huge part of nfl history and now he's leading one of the most successful franchises in all of sports big thanks to clark for coming on with us here he is clark hunt first of all mister hunt i would like to say that i cannot wait for you to be in the hall of fame i want to say what i've seen from your organization i'm ready whenever you're on television in that jacket i'll be like that's my guy right there so congratulations on just massive success over the past decade yeah well i.
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Clark Hunt
Sure appreciate it it's absolutely been a very special time to be a kansas city chiefs fan you know really from the day that andy reid walked into the building in twenty thirteen we've been building for this moment we've had an incredible amount of success over the last six years and hopefully we'll be able.
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Bobby Bones
To carry that forward the legend of the andy reid interview is nine hours.
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Clark Hunt
Is that accurate that is accurate and it's hard to believe in retrospect i'm not sure what we talked about for nine hours but it was a great opportunity to really get to know each other and i think we just realized that we had tremendous chemistry and that relationship was going to be a good fit i also had a lot of my staff there who got to spend time with andy which i think was good for them and as well as good for andy and there was just a lot of comfort all the way around and we were able to get him to kansas city later that week and he's been there ever since how.
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Bobby Bones
Important was culture versus x's and o's when making that decision well we'd been.
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Clark Hunt
Through a very challenging couple of seasons leading up to that hiring in twenty thirteen and i felt that we needed a very experienced leader somebody who had experience in championship games which andy certainly did interestingly our twenty twelve team had i believe six pro bowl players on it was a team that won only two games so it wasn't like we didn't have some talent on the roster and i think what andy did when he arrived in kansas city was he really changed the culture he changed the expectations he changed the relationship between the coaching staff and the players and he was able to immediately get off on a great start the team won nine straight games at the beginning of that twenty thirteen season and i just think it shows what a great coach he is both from a culture standpoint as well as from the nexus and o's.
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Bobby Bones
If i was the owner i'd want to do like player stuff do you ever go work out with the players like cut off a shirt and hop.
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Clark Hunt
In so during training camp when i spend more time around the team i will occasionally end up in the gym with the players and i have to say it's very humbling or maybe even.
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Bobby Bones
Humiliating that's awesome i feel like i will be doing that all the time the folklore of the mister clark hunt graduating first in his class at smu.
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Clark Hunt
True or false it's hard to believe but it's true i have several children who are at smu or have recently graduated from smu and it's a great university and i had an amazing experience there i'm not sure how i pulled.
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Bobby Bones
That off patrick mahomes as a person what's he like what's your relationship like with him as people yeah he he's.
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Clark Hunt
Just an awesome human being as good a football player as he is he's an even better person of course everyone knows about his leadership ability in the locker room but he's a guy that really cares about the people around him and i think that's part of the reason why his teammates love playing with him is that they know that he cares about them both on and off the field he's a terrific guy you know lot lots of fun loves to play golf he's a tremendous family man and it's you know so much fun to get to see him be a.
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Bobby Bones
Dad i want to make a comparison and you're definitely way more successful way smarter and better looking than me but when i started to have a bit of success and i was like touring i'd have all these people come up like i'm your cousin let me get tickets when you guys started to crush it did you have more friends all of a sudden that wanted to be like you know on the field oh clark it's me your buddy from high school.
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Clark Hunt
You know that's one of the blessings that comes with having a little bit of success and i have a great group of friends and i love having them around for these championship opportunities that that's something when i look back on this time period that i'm going to remember getting to celebrate it with my family and friends so that's totally a positive that that i've got some guys that have reached out that i haven't seen in you had people on.
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Bobby Bones
Twenty three andme i like one percent match they were like i'm your cousin let me get in see i'd be afraid with the chiefs they'd be a lot worse than that mister hunt i'm always super curious about successful people and driven people like what they read i would imagine you're a studious person what are your favorite books yeah so i.
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Clark Hunt
Don'T have a lot of time to read books i spend a lot of time reading literature that's related to the sports business and just sort of staying up on what's going on both in the national football league and you probably know that we're also involved in major league soccer so it's it's really more you know focused on newspapers and magazines that you of course access online today that really you know help me stay up to speed on what's going on.
- [31:03]
Bobby Bones
What about listening to people that have opinions that have no idea what they're talking about do you ever come across that like on social media or anybody like this guy thinks he knows everything.
- [31:12]
Clark Hunt
But he doesn't certainly social media has changed how we consume news and it's opened up the ability to have a lot of other people that are commenting on sports and so you've got a lot more perspectives out there not everybody's going to agree and that's okay when.
- [31:33]
Bobby Bones
You were growing up who was your.
- [31:34]
Clark Hunt
Favorite player it was lynn dawson you know i grew up during during that era where the chiefs went to super bowl one and lost and then made it back in super bowl four and beat the minnesota vikings i got to spend some time around around the team as a kid with my dad and you know lynn was definitely a hero for me i was also a big fan of jan stenrud because i was a soccer player and jan of course was one of the first soccer style place in the national football league and so i love getting to hang out.
- [32:08]
Bobby Bones
With him as well we have three more questions for you mister hunt and you're sitting in front of a wall of accolades a team accolades for sure a lot of balls which ball behind you brings up the quickest greatest memory.
- [32:22]
Clark Hunt
Well i'm not going to stand up and you know pick one of the balls but one of them back there has the signatures of our super bowl team from twenty and that was obviously special because it was our first trip back to the big game in fifty years and you know being able to get across the finish line there and win that game that was so special.
- [32:48]
Bobby Bones
There he is mister clark hunt chiefs owner ceo all right.
- [32:57]
Coca-Cola Commercial Voice
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- [33:40]
Bobby Bones
Hbcu pride going if a lenovo gaming.
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- [34:14]
Sophie Cunningham
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David Pollock
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- [34:44]
Sophie Cunningham
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- [34:58]
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- [36:09]
Bobby Bones
Interview is with former georgia all american and longtime college football analyst david pollock david was one of the most dominant david was one of the most dominant defensive players in the country during his playing days and then he became one of the most recognizable voices breaking down the sport every single saturday thanks to david for hopping on with us here he is is david pollock david good to see you man great to see.
- [36:29]
David Pollock
You brother thanks for having me on.
- [36:31]
Bobby Bones
A couple of things what's a saturday like at your house.
- [36:35]
David Pollock
Probably the laziest human in the world i always wake up and make sure that i get my workout in you know get some steps in because the rest of the day is going to consist of watching football multiple screens and multiple games going i got my laptop in front of me taking notes of everything that i see in the observations and it's literally it's a quick grind from from twelve o' clock to to nighttime it's like what just happened it was it was fast and furious but it's so much dagum fun too it's not like it's really working and think about this man like my wife says like what you want to do something you want to do i like sorry babe i got to work like i got to sit here right on the couch and work so it's a lot of consuming for.
- [37:17]
Bobby Bones
Sure do you still catch the west coast games too or is it bedtime.
- [37:21]
David Pollock
Oh god no we're catching them all brother like we're not going to bed till you know till one or two i mean it's you know i was up watching byu late you know this past after this past saturday after everything was commencing actually i'm sorry sunday morning so no you definitely stay up and watch as much as you can to to make sure you're educated there's some good football out west man like it's fun to it's fun to watch that and consume that as well can you.
- [37:45]
Bobby Bones
Watch nfl though recreationally because you're watching college obviously because you're an expert can you watch nfl with a little less.
- [37:53]
David Pollock
Attention man i just try to i try not to on sundays i try to just get away from it and we've got church and we've got you know small group and we've got other things so it'll be on like during the day at the end of the day but no we definitely try to do more as a family and and get up and move a little bit more and do like i love to play golf in the afternoon if i can if i can sneak that in but no i can't watch any game like like a normal like just sit back and relax and watch like i'm definitely always looking at the game from an analytical view probably one of the only things that won't turn my brain off but nfl football is fun and different and i've played fantasy for years and that's kind of changes the way you look at the game but this year i told i committed i said i'm not watching for fantasy i'm not doing it i'm not getting upset like i'm not just cheering my guy on so i try to decompress a little bit on sundays after you finish playing.
- [38:45]
Bobby Bones
After your injury and i have different friends that played different positions and their bodies did different things after they retired some of them put on a bunch of weight some of them lost a bunch of weight you played a position though where i'm not sure if you had to keep your weight up or down because you played a very athletic position but it was on the line what happened to you physically after you.
- [39:02]
David Pollock
Stopped playing yeah i was a chunky i was a chunky monkey i always was growing up and it's funny your identity gets you know it's okay when you're a football player to be thicker and be bigger and so defensive lineman i was two hundred ninety two at my heaviest and you do you're absolutely right you go one or two ways you either keep the habits you had and if you do you're gonna keep growing or you start to change the eating habits and so i've definitely lost like fifty sixty pounds from my from my top playing weight and it's a different look i eat to survive i'm not one of those person that has a lot of these like temptations and food like i don't care where we go eat i just i want to eat the same thing i want to know what i'm eating and definitely me and my buddies when you go back to reunions it's it's you're one hundred percent right it's one or the other it's get really skinn in trim or it's put on a little bit of weight and you look like you played a totally different position you said you.
- [40:00]
Bobby Bones
Work out every day before or you try to work out every day same with me but i assume our workouts are a bit different just looking at us i would think visually so are you still a guy who does heavy weight or how have you changed your.
- [40:12]
David Pollock
Workouts yeah i'm done with heavy weight man like heavy weight does nothing for me i'm not trying to have any more surgeries or put my body through anything i don't need to i squatted almost seven hundred pounds in college but like i'm not going over you know two hundred and seventy five on a squat now and i'll just do twenty five reps bench i'm not going to do over two hundred twenty five i'll do twenty five to thirty reps if i need to do twenty five to thirty reps or i'll slow it down big time like the other day we did sets of ten and i did you know a five countdown with two hundred twenty five hesitate and then come up well you do ten reps like that it'll hurt like you can make the weight hurt so to me it's more about out moving fast we're big on the row machine we're big on the bike especially the assault bike because that thing will whip your hiney like but it's definitely a different way of training i'm not trying to to get big and to have all this mass you know as we get older trying to fight father time and continue to be able to do some explosive things but not be like a a big corn fed mule i've had those days those days are gone was there ever.
- [41:12]
Bobby Bones
A game where they rushed either where you lost and it's just awkward and you're like oh man these fans are everywhere or the opposite where it happened and you're like man this is crazy like we won and the fans are all down on top of us when.
- [41:23]
David Pollock
You'Re a player that loses you're pissed off and you got all these people that they're not meaning to but they're running into you like they're running on the field and they're they're kind of bumping with you and you literally want to lower your shoulder and eliminate a human being out of your way because you're you're upset right like you're you want to take it out but you you know you can't do that but it is it's hard to keep your composure when that's when that's happening but when you're a student and that's happened for you like the passion and energy because because you get so much like the dog walk at georgia when i was there man like to go through and watch these people's eyes and to watch how much like passion they have like man if if it doesn't get you excited to play i don't know what does if they're that excited you dang sure better be and and the thing i always loved about georgia like you can bark at another human being like a grown adult can bark at you that's and that's socially acceptable like i'm all in for that kind of culture but but i can see how it could lead to some some bad i'm surprised we haven't had more of the other like people getting upset people getting ran over you know because you're you're literally running on the field with a bunch of folks that are you know not not in the greatest of spirits that are sometimes angry and upset because they just lost i mean i.
- [42:34]
Bobby Bones
Think a legera blunt that was not a positive one when they ran down and he punched the i mean that that was a bad one but yeah i think i would that's how i would react the fans ran down and i lost i do not think think i think i would be so triggered from losing that it would not be a positive environment for me yeah i.
- [42:49]
David Pollock
Mean you're you're the emotions are not fun like you're trying your best to be a good sport and like shake hands and do that part and then but now you got people running and bumping into you left and right like yeah that's not going to bring out the best most of the time in a human being in high school for.
- [43:05]
Bobby Bones
You when did you become dominant ninth tenth grade when was it for you physically and mentally that the game game.
- [43:10]
David Pollock
Was very easy so my freshman year was okay i was an offensive lineman a little bit chubby still hadn't grown into my body actually they asked me the first day like what position you play i was like you know full fullback and linebacker they're like not with the six flat forty you play offensive line and then my second year i got a little bit better but i was stuck between jv and varsity and i actually quit i was like bro this sucks like football's hard enough and not playing isn't cool and then between my sophomore and junior year i grew six inches and gained sixty pounds and i don't know if you know this but like football is a lot more fun when you're the hammer and not the nail like it just makes a lot more sense but like obviously my junior year started to have success started to get recruited a little bit but i'll never forget man before my senior year my coach i had a brand new coach he calls me into his office and he was like hey man and i had offers from georgia clemson like ohio state and company going into my senior year he's like if we're going to be a great team i need you to be the best player on the field every single play and i'm like i'm your best player like you know cocky punk at that age and and he put on like six clips in a row of me kind of jogging to the football and i was like oh my gosh like he's not wrong like that's really that's lazy and i started practicing like an animal i started flying around and he helped me see something in myself that i didn't see and it took away that blind spot and showed me i needed to really really work and then i became a really really good football player you know my senior year of high.
- [44:39]
Bobby Bones
School why georgia what was it this.
- [44:41]
David Pollock
Is the simplest answer you've asked yet my baby doll lindsey pollock that was that was that was their best that was the feather in the cap of georgia my dad grew up my dad grew up up north he was a giants fan we didn't pay attention to much college football moved down south when i was four so we watched nfl not college but when i started getting recruited i started seeing all the atmospheres i was like this is dope but my baby doll lindsay pollock my only girlfriend the only girlfriend i've ever had now my wife like i drove to gainesville florida with steve spurrier and i was like oh my gosh that's forever away you know from her and so being fifty five minutes down the road right there in athens was like yeah.
- [45:18]
Bobby Bones
That'Ll work you have your c ball get ball signed behind you so and you do a couple of podcasts but and we're always finding and recommending a good podcast to our listeners so what are we going to hear on that.
- [45:28]
David Pollock
Podcast man i love college football with everything in me and right now with our season of life and my wife like a lot of people know she's she got diagnosed with brain cancer and like so your your priorities and your travel and your schedule is a lot different so like television absolutely not going to be a thing but like football is so fantastic and so great and that's literally what you're going to do i have my buddy that's my neighbor on the podcast with me who works for pro football focus and has all the numbers but like we come to you you know four days a week and just talk football unbiased strong opinions that are not like everybody else's we're going to watch a lot of tape and just i mean it's football it's college football it's the best there is and so just having that and being able to follow it and talk about it is is something that i enjoy and i just can't imagine you know life without it and that's what you'll get several days a week on youtube and on all the platforms for podcasts.
- [46:20]
Bobby Bones
You guys check it out c ball get ball with david pollock hey big fan hated you at georgia when you played us but loved you all the other times and then i was a bank i love watching with the bengals too so yeah big fan of you especially on television so thank you for the time man really appreciate it i hope the podcast is killing it no.
- [46:35]
David Pollock
Thank you so much man appreciate you.
- [46:36]
Bobby Bones
Having me on hey thanks for listening to this episode of some of your favorites from twenty twenty five we hope you have an awesome new year be sure to give us a follow on socials at twenty five whistlesports also leave a comment on spotify subscribe to our show help us out tell your friends appreciate you guys so much have a great week theme song written by bobby bones that's me and performing by brandon ray follow brandon on socials at brandon ray music you can follow the show on instagram at bobby bonesports thanks to our crew co host at producer eddie segment producer at kickoff kevin and executive producer at mike bistro but most importantly thank you for listening bobby bones we'll talk to you next time here on twenty five whistles.
- [47:19]
Coca-Cola Commercial Voice
What a matchup we got y' all this is that classic hbcu vibe non stop action the band is rocking and the crowd lit chance echo drum beat everybody showing that school pride game like this yeah it calls for an ice cold coca cola ah crisp and refreshing that's a game changer right there yeah that taste always hits the right note just like the band at halftime and just like that we're back at it passionate fans school colors everywhere and an ice cold coca cola that's a winning combo no matter the sport no matter the yard everybody knows fan work is thirsty work so grab a coca cola and keep that hbcu.
- [48:04]
Lenovo Commercial Voice
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- [48:37]
Sophie Cunningham
Ten athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and and mental breaking points you are the fittest of the fit only one of you will leave here with an ifit contract worth two hundred fifty thousand dollars this is where mindset comes in someone will be eliminated pressure is coming down trainer games.
- [49:03]
Public Investing Commercial Voice
On prime video january eighth watch the.
- [49:05]
David Pollock
Trailer on trainergames dot com season two.
- [49:07]
Sophie Cunningham
Of unrivaled basketball is here and the talent is unreal paige beckers nafiza collier kelsey plumb brianna stewart and more are back back to redefine the game unrivaled basketball season two sponsored by samsung galaxy tips off january fifth on tnt trutv and hbo max support for the show.
- [49:23]
Public Investing Commercial Voice
Comes from public the investing platform for those who take it seriously on public you can build a multi asset portfolio of stocks bonds options crypto and now generated assets which allow you to turn any idea into an investable index with ai it all starts with your prompt from renewable energy companies with high free cash flow to semiconductor suppliers growing revenue over twenty percent year over year literally type any prompt and put the ai to work it screens thousands of stocks builds a one of a kind index and lets you back test it against the s and p five hundred then you can invest in a few clicks generated assets are like efts with infinite possibilities completely customizable and based on your thesis not someone else's go to public dot com podcast and earn an uncapped one percent bonus when you transfer your portfolio that's public dot com podcast paid for by public investing brokerage services by open to the public investing inc member finra s sipc advisory services by public advisors llc sec registered advisor generated assets is an interactive analysis tool output is for informational purposes only and is not investment recommendation or advice complete disclosures available at public com disclosures this is an.
- [50:32]
Sophie Cunningham
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