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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Colts Reunion Podcast, a conversation with former

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Speaker 1: Colts players look back at their career, what they're up

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Speaker 1: to now, and how the Colts played a positive role

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Speaker 1: in their lives.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another episode of the Colts Reunion Podcast, our

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Speaker 2: audio series. Here in the summertime, visiting with some former

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Speaker 2: Colts greats. I'm Matt Taylor inside the Indiana Union Construction

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Speaker 2: Industry radio studio with Colts Ring of Honor member Bill Brooks,

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Speaker 2: and today our special guest is the legendary Adam Vinetzeri,

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Speaker 2: who kicked for the Colts for fourteen seasons from two

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Speaker 2: thousand and six to twenty and nineteen. He started his

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Speaker 2: career professionally with the Amsterdam Admirals in nineteen ninety six,

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Speaker 2: a part of NFL Europe, and then, as they say,

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Speaker 2: the rest is history from there. Arguably the greatest kicker

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Speaker 2: in NFL history and one of the most clutch players

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Speaker 2: the game has ever seen, Vinatari played ten years with

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Speaker 2: the New England Patriots before coming over to the Colts

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Speaker 2: as a free agent. All told, Vinitari is a four

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Speaker 2: time Super Bowl champ, a three time First Team All Pro,

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Speaker 2: a three time Pro Bowler, and just a few of

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Speaker 2: his NFL records include most career points in league history,

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Speaker 2: most consecutive field goals made with forty four during the

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Speaker 2: twenty fifteen in twenty sixteen seasons, most combined games played

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Speaker 2: between the regular season and the postseason, was part of

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Speaker 2: two hundred and forty two victories including the playoffs, the

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Speaker 2: most ever by a single player. He also holds the

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Speaker 2: record for most career field goals made with five hundred

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Speaker 2: and ninety nine, and most seasons with at least one

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Speaker 2: hundred points, with twenty one such campaigns. With the Colts,

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Speaker 2: his one thousand, five hundred and fifteen points and three

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Speaker 2: hundred and ninety four field goals made are most in

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Speaker 2: to make it at least two hundred and fifty field

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Speaker 2: goals and notch one thousand points with two separate franchises.

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Speaker 2: So that's the big lead in with the great Adam Vineri,

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Speaker 2: who joins us via the phone line. Now, Adam, thanks

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Speaker 2: a million for your time today, sir. How are you today?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great. It's a pleasure of having me on.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me on. I appreciate you inviting

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Speaker 2: Things are great, absolutely you kidding me. This is an

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Speaker 2: absolute pleasure for us. So before we get going here

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Speaker 2: and talk about all those clutch kicks and go down

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Speaker 2: memory lane and talk about all of your accomplishments, can

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Speaker 2: you tell us what you're up to now, Adam? You

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Speaker 2: know what's what's a typical day now for Adam Vinentery nowadays?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, it doesn't seem like I'm less busy.

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Speaker 3: I've just reprioritized my time getting to the bucket list

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Speaker 3: of stuff and the honeydew list I put off for

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Speaker 3: years and years and years, but really diving into family

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Speaker 3: stuff right now. I had the pleasure of coaching my

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Speaker 3: Now I'm coaching my young son at baseball and football.

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Speaker 3: So so family's occupying some time traveling. I'm a big outdoorsman,

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Speaker 3: love to hunt and fish and do all that stuff.

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Speaker 3: So when when the season's on the and the weather's right,

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Speaker 4: Know, and Iam you just mentioned about your family. You

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Speaker 4: know another one of your passions is hunting. And I

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Speaker 4: guess back in twenty eighteen you had purchased a hunting

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Speaker 4: wondering to know have you had any time to get

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, you've been all over the world Adam hunting.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's been well chronicled, and you know that

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Speaker 3: There's lots of things still on my list. The past

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Speaker 4: Now, Adam, you talk about you hunting and everything, and

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Speaker 4: that's one of your passions. Of course, family is something

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Speaker 4: that's important to you. Does your family goes out hunt

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Speaker 3: Yeah, both my boys really enjoy doing that stuff. My

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Speaker 3: You know, it's just it's it's kind of exciting and

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Speaker 3: That the simple pleasures in life and nature is kind

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Speaker 4: That is that is true? Definitely is true. So you

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Speaker 3: Well? A little bit of both, I guess. Obviously a

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Speaker 2: Yes, sometimes it's just a different voice, you know, you

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Speaker 2: the rewind button a little bit. Adam growing up in

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Speaker 2: I don't think the world ever knows you as Adam

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Speaker 4: Now, you just told us about your try out there

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know how that happened, to be quite

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Speaker 3: And I know Bill Parcells said it to me too.

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Speaker 4: And especially must have been a lot coming from Bill

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Speaker 3: You earned it. If you've got a compliment, you definitely

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Speaker 2: No doubt about that last one on the Patriots and

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Speaker 3: Well? Yeah, well so, so we played it my rookie

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Speaker 3: But when he publicly said that, I knew that I'd

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Speaker 4: Now, you had great ten years with New England and

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Speaker 3: No, absolutely, So my whole thing was leaving a great,

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Speaker 3: Super Bowl and it was pretty sweet for sure.

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Speaker 4: Now, you you definitely earned your stripes here and earned

435
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Speaker 4: that you should have been here, that's without a doubt.

436
00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,320
Speaker 4: Now you played for two organizations. The two organizations had

437
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Speaker 4: a lot of success during your time, both with you

438
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 4: playing here for Indianapolis and with New England as well.

439
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Speaker 4: What were some of the things that were similar about

440
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Speaker 4: both organizations that made them successful And if you can

441
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Speaker 4: tell us, what were any differences that you saw in

442
00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:05,359
Speaker 4: the two organizations as far as New England and in Annapolis.

443
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Speaker 3: Sure well, well, obviously you can't be successful year in

444
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,879
Speaker 3: a year out without great ownership and leadership in the

445
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 3: front office and wanting to be successful and wanting to

446
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:20,040
Speaker 3: commit to whatever it takes to be successful. And I

447
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:24,040
Speaker 3: think both both owners did a great job hiring their coaches. Obviously,

448
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,440
Speaker 3: Bill Belichick in India and Tony Dungee at the time

449
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,440
Speaker 3: when I got to Indy, I mean two Hall of Fame,

450
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Speaker 3: well one Hall of Fame. One I absolutely will be

451
00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 3: a Hall of Famer. And when he's done coaching, I mean,

452
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 3: you know, two great coaches that were that were really

453
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,679
Speaker 3: wanting to All coaches want to win Super Bowls. But

454
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:46,720
Speaker 3: they they did a great job. And I think Bill

455
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:52,639
Speaker 3: Pullyan as well, what a tremendous man on finding talent,

456
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,399
Speaker 3: drafting talent. Like we got to Indy and I was like,

457
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,199
Speaker 3: oh my god, you guys got two per stars across

458
00:21:58,240 --> 00:21:59,959
Speaker 3: the board. I mean, like you just you just look

459
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,920
Speaker 3: at the team and go, you know, y'all should win

460
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 3: back to back to back to back Super Bowls with

461
00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 3: the amount of talent that was here. So I think

462
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:12,400
Speaker 3: so similarities. I think both teams were were all committed

463
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Speaker 3: into winning championships. I think some of the differences you

464
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:21,760
Speaker 3: couldn't find two different coaching styles or or personalities from

465
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Speaker 3: the two head coaches. I mean they're just completely different

466
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 3: the way they coach, the way they address stuff. But

467
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 3: both teams have a ton of talent. You know, I

468
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,440
Speaker 3: think I think you got Tom Brady on one side,

469
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 3: Peyton Manning on the other. Both of these two guys

470
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:39,360
Speaker 3: are exceptional leaders, exceptionally talented men, obviously, But I saw

471
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 3: Peyton like like he was like having a head coach

472
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 3: on the football field at the time. I mean, he

473
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 3: was micromanaging every player. He knew what every person was doing.

474
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 3: I watched him challenge guys during practice in the middle

475
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,119
Speaker 3: of a play. I think it was I think it

476
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 3: was Dylan Gandy that he stopped to play in the

477
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 3: middle of the in the middle of the team, what

478
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Speaker 3: do you do on this place that's not even the

479
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,719
Speaker 3: player we're doing, because I know, what are you supposed

480
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 3: to do? And he's like, well, you know whatever, whatever

481
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 3: the term I scraped to two whatever, Well, you know,

482
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,919
Speaker 3: He's like all right, cool. So like like Peyton was

483
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 3: like the ultimate I don't even know how you described

484
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 3: the quiz guy, like he did it to all the guys.

485
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 3: I remember Austin Colly saying that and some of the

486
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 3: different guys about this guy is so into making sure

487
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,880
Speaker 3: we prepared, and so that goes a long way, because

488
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 3: I don't think every person or every player has that

489
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,040
Speaker 3: commitment to excellence like Peyton did. So I think, I

490
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 3: think and and and obviously is exactly the same way.

491
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Speaker 3: So both teams ton of talent, great coaches, ownership that

492
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 3: wanted to win. I mean, when you have that formula,

493
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 3: I think you you're gonna win a lot.

494
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Speaker 2: Of games, no doubt about it. Adam, you had so

495
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 2: many clutch kicks over the course of your career, and

496
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:54,359
Speaker 2: we can't get to all of them. So for the

497
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 2: sake of time, let's just lump them all together, right,

498
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 2: which is I know is incredibly hard to do. But

499
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,159
Speaker 2: right in the Super Bowl thirty six, you had the

500
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,679
Speaker 2: game winner from forty eight yards out against the Rams

501
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 2: as time expired. In Super Bowl thirty eight, you hit

502
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 2: the forty one yarder against the Panthers and walk off fashion.

503
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 2: But she had twenty nine career game winning field goals,

504
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 2: including twelve with the Colts, and at age forty six,

505
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 2: you became the oldest player in NFL history to nail

506
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 2: a fifty yard field goal to win a game in

507
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 2: the final minute of the fourth quarter or overtime. What

508
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 2: was your process? What was your mental process in set

509
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 2: up as the offense is going down the field and

510
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 2: they're getting close to field goal range late in the game,

511
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,360
Speaker 2: fourth quarter, overtime. What was your mental process to get

512
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 2: ready for that and how did you compartmentalize the stress

513
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 2: and the pressure if you felt that in those moments,

514
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 2: especially in those playoff games or those those big games

515
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 2: in the regular season that ultimately held a lot of magnitude.

516
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think every coach tries to teach a process, right, like,

517
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 3: like you have to trust, you trust the process throughout,

518
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,359
Speaker 3: not only throughout a season. But but I had I

519
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 3: had a process for me as well, you know, like

520
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 3: very very meticulous on when we cross the fifty yard line,

521
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 3: I'm in the net, you know, X amount of kicks

522
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,159
Speaker 3: to get ready. I you know, I always had a

523
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 3: ton of trust in the guys you know that are

524
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 3: going to be blocking for me to snap the hold.

525
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 3: You know. I was very very fortunate throughout my career

526
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 3: to half really great athletes around me that care, that

527
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,160
Speaker 3: really wanted to be well. For instance, Pat mcabee signs

528
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 3: with the Colts, call it tells me, hey, Adam, I've

529
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 3: never held one day in my life that I'm like,

530
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, right, like, holy cow, this is going

531
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 3: to be interesting. Caused me a little bit of stress, obviously,

532
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,639
Speaker 3: but to his credit like, I flew him off to

533
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,119
Speaker 3: North Carolina where Kenny Walters, who at the time was

534
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 3: by far my favorite best holder I've ever had, and

535
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 3: I said, hey, you know, Pat, you're gonna go and

536
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 3: you're going to work with him for a couple of days.

537
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 3: Patt never argued, never complained, went spent several days, learned,

538
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 3: picked his brain, and then came back. And the first

539
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 3: thing Pat did was, Hey, let's practice this. I learned

540
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff. I want to muscle memory and

541
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 3: grain it into my head so I can be really,

542
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 3: really good. And that's what he did, and that's why

543
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 3: I have such a huge respect for him and some

544
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 3: of the other guys that I've played with, because they're professionals.

545
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 3: They want to be good, they want to be great,

546
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 3: they want to be the best. Right, So I guess

547
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 3: what I'm why I tell that story is because now

548
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 3: I can step onto the field and I know that

549
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 3: they're going to do their job. I don't have to

550
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 3: worry about you know, Hey, the guy's up front block

551
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 3: is going to be a good snap, it's going to

552
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 3: be a good hole. I can just trust that and

553
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 3: just really rely on my process about you know, clearing

554
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 3: my mind thinking about what the kick is. Hey, you know,

555
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 3: And that's the other thing, you know, if if you

556
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 3: a good kicker, can not let his mind mess him up.

557
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 3: Because technically, form wise, you know, we've all done it

558
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 3: a million times. Our body knows what to do. The

559
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 3: reason why it fails times is we're thinking about too much,

560
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 3: or we're thinking about the one that we missed last game,

561
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 3: or oh my god, there's so much pressure on this

562
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 3: one or whatever. And so I guess for me, I

563
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 3: don't know. I would say I was pretty good at

564
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 3: clearing my mind and really just focusing in on my

565
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 3: little bubble, my little three yard circle around me, and

566
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 3: not worrying about all the other stuff, just trusting the

567
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 3: process and really just doing my thing. And I think

568
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 3: over years and the more you do it, the longer

569
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 3: you do it, and the more experiences you have. Not

570
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 3: to say the twenty ninth one was any easier than

571
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 3: the first one, but you've built on so many years

572
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 3: of experience that it's a little bit easier maybe to

573
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 3: know that you can do this right. So for me,

574
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 3: it was all about like never letting it get too big.

575
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,479
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously I knew that first Super Bowl game winner,

576
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 3: if you know, or the one in the snow against Oakland.

577
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 3: That's maybe the one that I'm the most proud of

578
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 3: in my entire career. You know, we missed that kick.

579
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 3: We're cleaning out our locker and the season's over. But

580
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 3: if you're going out there onto the field thinking about that,

581
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 3: you're probably gonna miss the kick. You really have to

582
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 3: be I'm thinking, Okay, there's snow on the ground. Short steps,

583
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 3: you know, don't try too much, you know, do all

584
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 3: the little things, all the technical things. And then again

585
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 3: that's that's trusting the process of what you've learned. And hey,

586
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 3: it takes this much time. This is how you do it.

587
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 3: This is you know your form, your you know all

588
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 3: that stuff that goes into it. And and if you

589
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 3: can do that and you can rely on that and

590
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 3: you can really shut your mind from thinking too much

591
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 3: other than that, I think you're you're gonna be in

592
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 3: good shape.

593
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 2: You have a very underrated kick of yours. That that

594
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 2: I will always remember is the the Blizzard game, the

595
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 2: Snow Game in Buffalo, I think it was in twenty seventeen.

596
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, the the aesthetics of that game are

597
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 2: not going to win any prizes, but it was late

598
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 2: in the game. I think the game went into overtime

599
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken, and you have to really clutch

600
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 2: extra point in the snow. I just remember, like Anthony

601
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 2: Costanzo and Jack Doyle out there kicking snow out of

602
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 2: the way to give you a patch of turf to

603
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 2: nail this thing. And it was a line drive knuckleballer

604
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 2: and it went in. I think that was one of

605
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 2: the most clutch kicks I ever saw from you personally.

606
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, that weather up there. I tell you what about

607
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 3: if I had to name my ten worst weather games

608
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 3: I've ever played, at nine of the ten or in Buffalo,

609
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 3: it's just right like that. All the situation in that

610
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 3: particular game. It snowed the entire game, lots and lots

611
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 3: of snow on the ground, like sixt eight into whatever

612
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 3: it was. But yeah, that was one of those that

613
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 3: you know we were going for two. Jack Doyle catches

614
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 3: it in the end zone. They call us on a

615
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 3: pick play. Now all of a sudden, it's a ten

616
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 3: yard penalty or whatever, and coach said, let's kick it.

617
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 3: I'm like, kick it in this on a penalty on

618
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 3: top it's a I don't even remember a thirty eight

619
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 3: or forty three yard extra point. I'm like, oh my god,

620
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 3: this is crazy. But yeah, fortunately know, like I said,

621
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 3: the guys moved as much snow off the ground as

622
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 3: they could, and yeah, and I knew I had to

623
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 3: play it outside the upright. And it's funny. If you

624
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 3: watch the Buffalo Player, he definitely thinks I miss it.

625
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 3: He's like, no good, and it just kind of kind

626
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 3: of hooks back in and goes where, you know, And

627
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 3: I remember Mac Fee, you know, his comments on his shows,

628
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 3: but oh my god, he made that. He like, what

629
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 3: the heck? You know that kind of thing. So there's

630
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 3: been a few of them that I kind of got

631
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 3: to pitch myself and you go, you know, think about

632
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 3: like like, of course I try to play, but but

633
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 3: you know, to to think you know where to kick

634
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 3: it and how to do it and all that stuff,

635
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 3: but then to actually take the kick. I think you're right,

636
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 3: that was probably one of the craziest ones I've ever made,

637
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 3: for sure.

638
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 2: I mean, it's amazing you played twenty four years I

639
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 2: bring up one kick and you knew all the details

640
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 2: about the entire setup. Man, It's just that's that's why

641
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 2: you are the way you are, and that's why you

642
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 2: are one of the greatest of all time. And you

643
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,479
Speaker 2: brought up Pat McAfee and and he was your holder

644
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 2: during that stretch at him where you you still own

645
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 2: the NFL record for or most consecutive field goals made

646
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 2: with forty four between twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen. I

647
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 2: was there for all of them. As I said, Pat

648
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 2: was your guy. Looking back on that streak, how much

649
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 2: were you in the zone for lack of a better term,

650
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 2: during that time? I mean outside of McAfee, How what

651
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 2: else allowed you to get that record? In terms of

652
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 2: how you were feeling physically mentally you were just sharp

653
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 2: as all get out. What else allowed you to achieve

654
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 2: that record?

655
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 3: Yeah? You know, it's funny because I remember that streak

656
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 3: and there was time, you know, there was you get

657
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 3: in the middle of that and for some reason, you know,

658
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 3: everything was going right. You know, it just felt literally

659
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 3: I felt like I couldn't miss right. We would go

660
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 3: through And Patt even said it too in some of

661
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 3: his interviews that he's done. He's like, during that streak,

662
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 3: like he would miss in practice either we'd kick eleven

663
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 3: twelve kicks during practice and he goes there's three or

664
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 3: four weeks that he never missed a single kick. And

665
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 3: I don't know why that is, right. I mean, it's

666
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 3: always our goal to be perfect on our on our

667
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 3: kicks and stuff like that, but it just, yeah, we

668
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 3: were we were grooving it at that point. And I think,

669
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 3: you know, confidence is I think you can build over

670
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 3: time you get streaky good, or or even the other way.

671
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 3: You know, baseball player goes through a slump that he

672
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 3: can't hit the ball and nothing's changed, it's just he

673
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 3: just you know, you might be having bad luck, and

674
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden he's pressuring a little bit

675
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 3: or stressed out a little bit, or trying too hard.

676
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 3: This on the other side, it just seemed like goodness, gracious,

677
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 3: every everything was like I just knew when I was

678
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 3: going out onto the field, like, yeah, I'm gonna make this.

679
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 3: And and there was five or six during that time

680
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 3: or seven during that time. There were fifty plus yarders

681
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 3: and a couple fifty five. And I remember a coach

682
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 3: at one point said, man, I'm sorry for putting you

683
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 3: out for that long of one. I didn't realize it

684
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 3: was in the middle of the streak, and I'm like,

685
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 3: that's part of being a professional. Like the streak doesn't matter.

686
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 3: It's winning football games that matters. And I'm gonna make

687
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 3: it for you anyway. But if I don't, I don't

688
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 3: shy away from because of a stat or of you know,

689
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 3: heck with that, I don't. I never really cared about

690
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 3: stats or records or anything that much. If you do

691
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 3: your job, they'll all take care of themselves along the way.

692
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 4: Now, Adam Matt mentioned earlier that you played twenty four

693
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 4: years in the National Football League over two decades. When

694
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 4: you start out in nineteen ninety six, did you ever

695
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 4: think you have played this that long and had the

696
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,719
Speaker 4: success that you did have in the National Football League?

697
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 3: No chance. If you would have said that, I would

698
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 3: have said I would have laughed at you and called

699
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 3: you liar. Probably. I think when I first got there,

700
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 3: I just wanted to be a guy that could stick

701
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 3: around for a handful of years, start on life, make

702
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 3: a little bit of money, to kind of move forward

703
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 3: in life. And it's funny because you know, I felt

704
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 3: like every year and thank goodness, being surrounded by by

705
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 3: really good athletes and guys. I learned so much just

706
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 3: by watching the older guys and learning and you know, hey,

707
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 3: you get a lot of money, and you got a

708
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 3: lot of fame and fortune and all that, and you

709
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 3: can go to these parties, but that doesn't necessarily mean

710
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 3: it's the right thing to do. You know, like that

711
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 3: smart you know, kind of stay in your zone. And

712
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 3: the only the only party that you should have a

713
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 3: good time and maybe get crazy at is the super

714
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 3: Bowl party after you win it, that's right. But other

715
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 3: than that kind of I always felt like I always

716
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 3: felt like, you know, just just do everything you can

717
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 3: to be successful the next week and the next week,

718
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 3: and then at the end of the season kind of

719
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,439
Speaker 3: look back on the season and go, Okay, what could

720
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 3: I have done better? What should I work on on

721
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 3: this offseason? How can I take care of my body

722
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 3: a little bit better? Can I lean out? Can I

723
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 3: get stronger? Can I eat better? Can I you know

724
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 3: all the little things that that could potentially make you

725
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 3: one percent, two percent, five percent better. And that's kind

726
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 3: of how I addressed it. Every year, I felt like

727
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 3: every single training camp I had to re establish and

728
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 3: reprove myself, like like I felt like I'm fighting for

729
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 3: my job every day, and I think that mindset keeps

730
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 3: you sharp, keeps you on edge, make sure you never

731
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 3: get complacent. And I feel like, you know, I no

732
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 3: if I really ever got complacent with anything. Even toward

733
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 3: the end of my career. I was always like, hey, listen,

734
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 3: this isn't guaranteed. You're not granted a spot just because

735
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 3: who you are whatever. So for me, I, I you know,

736
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 3: years turned into decades and just a year at a time,

737
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 3: and I do remember at one point I'm like, wow,

738
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 3: I've hit ten years and oh, you know, and now

739
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, hey, you're going You're going to

740
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,439
Speaker 3: the colts and and and then you know, oh my gosh,

741
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 3: you got two decades and I'll bet you're four one

742
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:33,359
Speaker 3: K's awesome and stuff like that, contracted year after year,

743
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 3: and the next contract, the next one, and then the

744
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 3: next thing, you know, it's like, I can't believe I played,

745
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 3: you know, a quarter of a century almost it's it's

746
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,320
Speaker 3: it's yeah, I pinched myself. I never ever I remember

747
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 3: playing against Morten Andersen when he was really close to

748
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 3: the end. I think he was in Atlanta at the

749
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 3: time and I was still in New England, and I

750
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 3: just remember meeting him because he was you know, growing

751
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 3: up as a kid, he was the guy along with

752
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 3: some other guys. But I just admired him so much.

753
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 3: And I got to play, you know, against my my idol,

754
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 3: if you will, And I remember like shaking his hand

755
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 3: and saying, you know, this is amazing. I get to

756
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 3: play against you on the same field as you. I said,

757
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 3: nobody will ever touch your records. You're you played so long, right,

758
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 3: and then to be able to to ultimately play pretty

759
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 3: much about the same length of career and actually, you know,

760
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 3: eclipsed all some of his records and the all time

761
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 3: leading scorer and all that, Like I've never thought in

762
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 3: a million years I'd have that opportunity. But again, like

763
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 3: I said, it was just you're in year out. Don't

764
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 3: even think about those kind of things. Just just keep

765
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 3: plugging away until you can't do it anymore and see

766
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 3: where you end up.

767
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, you must have done something right. So the play

768
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 4: of two decades is amazing, and congratulations to you. And

769
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 4: and to play to over two decades, I'm sorry to you.

770
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 4: Must have seen a lot of changes in the National

771
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 4: Football League, especially in the kicking game. What are some

772
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 4: of the changes did you see in the kicking game.

773
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 4: From the time you got in to the time you left.

774
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:56,280
Speaker 4: The National Football.

775
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,799
Speaker 3: League, well, you know, there is absolutely from ninety six

776
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 3: to nineteen or whenever. The last year was tons of changes,

777
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:08,720
Speaker 3: some good, some whatever. A lot of health and safety

778
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 3: things that the CBA and the players Association and the

779
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 3: owners did to make the game safer, less contact during

780
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 3: practice and you know neurocog guy, you know, physicians and

781
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 3: stuff on the sideline to make sure that, you know,

782
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 3: lots of good changes toward the game. The rule changes

783
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 3: to make sure you know, you know, defenseless receivers, and

784
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 3: it's just a lot of things like that. But as

785
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,439
Speaker 3: far as the game itself, you know, players just keep

786
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 3: on getting bigger, faster, stronger. I mean, it's amazing what guys,

787
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 3: you know, back when I first got into the league,

788
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 3: you know, I remember some of the old guys that

789
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 3: were there that they talked about, you know, back in

790
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 3: the seventies and eighties and early nineties, they're like, yeah,

791
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:52,959
Speaker 3: I had to get a second job because they didn't

792
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 3: get paid enough during football season too to be their

793
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,919
Speaker 3: full time. Well clearly that's different now, and guys are

794
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 3: are really you know, taking care of their bodies year round.

795
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 3: It's not an off season versus on season. It's a

796
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:08,720
Speaker 3: you want to play for a long time in this league,

797
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 3: you better not get too far gone kind of thing.

798
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 3: So but but yeah, what what guys are doing with

799
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 3: footballs now? You know, the the well, how the punters

800
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 3: are taking different types of punts, which we didn't have,

801
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 3: all these crazy flip balls or these across the field stuff.

802
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 3: I mean, it just it just didn't exist. I remember,

803
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 3: if you know, if a guy had a forty yard

804
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 3: net was unheard of, and now it seems like two

805
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 3: or three or four guys every year do that. And

806
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,479
Speaker 3: it's just guys are just getting better, you know, more

807
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 3: technically sound than they used to be, even to a

808
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 3: certain degree. When I first got into the league, I

809
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 3: think the league average, you know, was seventy five seventy

810
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 3: eight percent go actresses. So if you make three out

811
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 3: of four, you're doing good. Wow, you don't make it

812
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 3: if you're if you're not eighty three or four or

813
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 3: five percent. Now they're looking to replace. Yet It's just

814
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 3: it's just different because guys are just that much better now.

815
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 3: But you know, it just comes with all the amount

816
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 3: of technical stuff and year round work and stuff like that.

817
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,439
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think I think the sport's never been

818
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 3: more profitable, more healthy, more more exciting to watch. I

819
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 3: think with the way salary caps and drafts and all that,

820
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 3: you never know, like your team might have been bad

821
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 3: last year and they might be in the playoffs or

822
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 3: winning the Super It's just amazing how quickly teams can

823
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 3: turn around. So I think it's fun for fans. And

824
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 3: with fantasy football, I mean, people are getting so engaged

825
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 3: not only with their local team but players across the league.

826
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 3: So I think the sport's never been healthier. I think

827
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 3: it's a good time, you know, for football.

828
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Adam, and you just talked about

829
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,479
Speaker 2: I mean, final couple of things out and we've taken

830
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,879
Speaker 2: up too much your time, But you did talk about

831
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 2: playing all the way up until that twenty nineteen season,

832
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 2: and that season you had surgery, You missed some time

833
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 2: in training camp, you dealt with that injury all season.

834
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 2: Clearly that was a nagging issue for you all. See

835
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 2: can you describe the discomfort you were in during that

836
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen season, and then, for lack of a better term,

837
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 2: were you upset that you know, your last season in

838
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 2: the NFL wasn't a fully healthy one for you. I mean,

839
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 2: does that still kind of nag at you?

840
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 3: No, of course. Yeah, so I had abum knee. I

841
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 3: knew it for several years. Unfortunately, when you're forty seven

842
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 3: years old, as soon as you go get knee surgery,

843
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 3: you're probably done and you they're probably not going to

844
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 3: wait around for you, and no other team's gonna want

845
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 3: you at that point. So we knew, you know, our

846
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 3: staff are our trainers and their docks are really really good.

847
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 3: They are physical therapists, and were, hey, we're going to

848
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 3: keep you healthy and we're going to kind of make

849
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 3: a special program to keep you going. I knew the

850
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 3: year before I was kind of struggling a little bit,

851
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 3: but we meet her through and and my pride got

852
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 3: me a little bit in thinking that I could continue

853
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 3: on when I knew I kind of was needing to

854
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 3: repair stuff. But fortunately, yeah, we got into training camp.

855
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 3: It jumped on me a little bit. I missed a

856
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 3: bunch of training camp. I tried to get back for

857
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 3: the first game that didn't turn out so good, and

858
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,399
Speaker 3: then it's kind of a downhill spiral, so you never

859
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 3: you never want to, you know, getting getting treatments one thing,

860
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 3: injecting your knee weekend and week out to be able

861
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 3: to go is a bad thing. And we got to

862
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 3: a point where we just couldn't continue on. And you know,

863
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 3: my pride was telling me keep going. You know, you

864
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 3: can't let the team down. But I guess being on

865
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 3: the field playing not at your peak is hurting the

866
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 3: team as well. So yeah, I obviously I wanted to

867
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 3: make a you know, after my surgery, after having that surgery,

868
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 3: after that season, in the middle of the season, going

869
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,919
Speaker 3: on IR and doing that, I was like, I'm coming back.

870
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 3: I'm going to make sure that this isn't my last year.

871
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 3: I'm going to push through this and do all that

872
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 3: COVID hit. I couldn't get a lot of treatment and

873
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 3: stuff like that, and the writing was on the wall

874
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 3: a little bit, unfortunately, and all good things have to

875
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 3: come to an end. And I guess I looked in

876
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 3: the mirror and said, you know what, you had a

877
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 3: pretty good career. You didn't want it to end. Statistically,

878
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 3: my last year was not a good year for my

879
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 3: standards or anybody's standards for that matter. But I still

880
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 3: can look in the mirror and go. You know, you

881
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 3: fought through some crazy stuff to try to stay on

882
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 3: the field and help the team. So yeah, you know,

883
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 3: it's a bummer deal. I wish it would ended a

884
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 3: little bit different.

885
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: You know.

886
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 3: If I would have I would have retired the year before.

887
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 3: We wouldn't have went through that. But I think it

888
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 3: was a major learning experience for me too, And sometimes

889
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 3: the toughest things in life make you a little bit

890
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 3: stronger and a little bit better because of it. So

891
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 3: I have no regrets.

892
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, if any every team that I've played on,

893
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 4: there's always been at least one guy and sometimes more,

894
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 4: there's been a prankster on the team. Now's the guy

895
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 4: in the locker room? When you were with the Coats,

896
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,720
Speaker 4: was the biggest prankster? And if you could on air,

897
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 4: if you could, what was the biggest prank that either

898
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 4: you pulled or someone pulled on you?

899
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 3: Oooh, I would say I was always in the top

900
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 3: one or two guys. You why, to be honest, Oh

901
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 3: yeah yeah, And I think the reason being is because

902
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:09,879
Speaker 3: I have a lot of free time, right guys are

903
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 3: in meetings and screwing around and stuff like that, and

904
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 3: uh so, so you know, even starting all the way

905
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,800
Speaker 3: back in New England. Scott's Olac was a backup quarterback

906
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 3: for Drew Blood, so he liked to mess around with us.

907
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:27,959
Speaker 3: He caught he cut the laces out of Tom Tupa's

908
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 3: when he pulled it the latest pot. Well, you know

909
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 3: anything about kickers, you don't mess with their shoes, right,

910
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 3: So ness to say, we destroyed his locker, We tape

911
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 3: his shut so he couldn't even get into it. We

912
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 3: you know, we did lots of crazy things to him.

913
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 3: And uh, they they learned early did not mess with

914
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 3: the kickers. And and Peyton liked to mess around a

915
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 3: little bit. But I think you and I came to

916
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 3: a truce after he realized he's funny. But I got

917
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 3: a lot of free time to see around and so

918
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 3: we kind of had a little truth too. But I

919
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 3: think that probably the funniest prank that I ever saw.

920
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 3: And it's a I'll tell Yeah. So we're I'm in

921
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 3: New England, we're coming back, and we're coming back I

922
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 3: think from Buffalo. Get a huge snowstorm and Blushell got

923
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 3: a driver to pick him up because he lived further

924
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 3: north and he didn't want to come all the way

925
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 3: back to the stadium to pick up his car. So

926
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 3: there was big, big you know trucks or big you

927
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 3: know tractors picking and moving snow and stuff. So Solac

928
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,879
Speaker 3: paid one of the guys to engulf his car. Put

929
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 3: they basically built twenty foot drift all the way around

930
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 3: his car. You didn't even know there was a car there.

931
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 3: Just looked like a gigantic snow drift. And so he

932
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 3: gets to He gets there the next day and he's like,

933
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 3: where's my truck. You know, it's here somewhere. Figured it out,

934
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 3: has to get somebody to help, you know, uh, a

935
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 3: real crew to come and dig his car out. But

936
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 3: he got to last laugh because, uh, you know, the

937
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 3: next week he grabbed Todd Rouchie's keys and Zolac's keys.

938
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 3: I guess Todd was one of the offensive linemen and

939
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 3: he was ultimately the one that that he masterminded. So

940
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 3: he grabbed Todd's key's house. He's got a moving company,

941
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 3: and the mover company went in and took all of

942
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 3: his stuff in his house, including dishes, everything out of

943
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 3: his house, packed it down into his unfinished basement, all

944
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:11,760
Speaker 3: the beds.

945
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 5: Wow, unbelievable, right, unbelievable. So when Todd got to his house,

946
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 5: opened up the door, Bloodshoe was behind him a block

947
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 5: down and said, oh, by the way.

948
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 3: Don't call the cops. Click. He walked into his house

949
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 3: and it looks like it's like like a brand new

950
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 3: house that you're just moving into for the first day.

951
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 3: It took him a week to get all of his

952
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,839
Speaker 3: stuff put back and all that stuff. The other seat,

953
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 3: you're not screw with a guy that makes millions of

954
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 3: dollars and is a prankster because he'll get your back.

955
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he'll spend the money, right, it's worth the money.

956
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 3: But yeah, if you're not, if you're willing to spend

957
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 3: thousands of dollars to get somebody, you can do some

958
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 3: pretty elaborate stuff.

959
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that is that is elaborate right there.

960
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,280
Speaker 2: That's that's phenomenal. So many I have so many questions.

961
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 2: I have so many questions based just off that story.

962
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 2: But we'll leave it at that and close with this.

963
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 2: As we said, you know, fourteen seasons with the Colts, Adam,

964
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 2: you signed six contracts in Indianapolis. Going back and looking

965
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 2: at that's that's amazing right there. But two hundred and

966
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 2: five games for the Colts, a number that puts you

967
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 2: behind only Reggie, Wayne, Peyton, Manning, and Johnny Unitas for

968
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 2: the most in team history. So I know you're a

969
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 2: humble guy. This is just us saying this. I mean,

970
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 2: you truly are a Colts legend. There's no other way

971
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 2: to put it there. And with that, Adam, You're gonna

972
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 2: go into the Hall of Fame. There's there's no doubting

973
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 2: that you're gonna be in the Hall of Fame. It's

974
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 2: just a question of whether or not you're You're a

975
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 2: first ballot Hall of Famer, and I think that you're

976
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 2: absolutely one of those guys. I mean, you're one of

977
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 2: those guys where the presenter stands up in the voting

978
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 2: room and just says Adam VINITII and that's it, and

979
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 2: just sits down like it's a drop the mic moment.

980
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 2: You just get up, you say your name, and you're in.

981
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 2: There's no discussion because everyone knows right. They all know

982
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 2: the resume, they know the NFL records, everyone is aware

983
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,879
Speaker 2: of the clutch kicks and the Super Bowls. There's no

984
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 2: need to go into a debate. I think you kind

985
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 2: of fit into that rare category where they just stand up,

986
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 2: say your name, sit down, and everyone writes your name down.

987
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 2: Now that's me saying that, right. Does it matter to

988
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,720
Speaker 2: you if if you're a first ballot Hall of Famer?

989
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 2: I mean, how important is that for you and your legacy?

990
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,479
Speaker 3: Well, here's the deal. I hope everything that you've said

991
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 3: is accurate and it works that way. I mean, you know,

992
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 3: I never really talked about it when I was playing,

993
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 3: because I was like, I don't jinx anything and don't

994
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 3: do this or that. You know, I've been blessed to

995
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 3: be on great teams, surrounded by great athletes that have

996
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 3: allowed me to be in the position to help, you know,

997
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 3: win games, put icing on the cake, you know, win

998
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 3: super Bowls and that kind of stuff. So, you know,

999
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 3: am I hopeful to make the whole of time? Absolutely?

1000
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,799
Speaker 3: I think any of us that would say that they're

1001
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,800
Speaker 3: not are lying or being silly or what ever. I hope,

1002
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 3: I hope that's the situation. If I'm If I'm lucky

1003
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 3: enough or blessed enough, or the people that think that

1004
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 3: I'm worthy of going in as a first ballot, that

1005
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 3: would be amazing. But for me, you know, I look

1006
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 3: at it this way, and I go couldn't have done

1007
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 3: it without any of all of the guys that helped

1008
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 3: me along the way, my parents that raised me the

1009
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 3: right way, and the coaches that I've had throughout all this.

1010
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 3: So it's really you know, it's a it's an honor

1011
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 3: if it happens that I get to put a jacket

1012
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 3: on and I get to give a speech and all

1013
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 3: that stuff. But it's an accummulation, a culmination of so

1014
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 3: many people's hard work and belief and and work with

1015
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 3: me that got us there. So I'm hoping if it is,

1016
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 3: it's going to be a damn good party.

1017
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a party. That's one of those parties you

1018
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 2: talk about that you're going to attend and get a

1019
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 2: little loose at because that's going to be well deserved.

1020
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,359
Speaker 2: My friend, Thank you so much for for all your

1021
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 2: time today. We can't thank you enough for all the

1022
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 2: stories and the insights and going down memory lane. Anytime

1023
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 2: you're up for it, we'd love to have you and

1024
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 2: talk some football. Continued success, Adam, enjoy your family and

1025
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 2: enjoy summer coming up, and I hope we can do

1026
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:06,919
Speaker 2: it again soon.

1027
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 3: Appreciate it anytime, guys, Thank you