Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of the peanut punch? Have you
Speaker 1: ever heard of the peanut punch?
Speaker 2: The peanut punch? Yes, sir, please say no, no, I'm
Speaker 2: going to.
Speaker 3: Leave that to go.
Speaker 1: I want to leave that alone.
Speaker 2: Word.
Speaker 4: What's up, everybody?
Speaker 5: I'm Peanut Tillman and this is the NFL Player's Second
Speaker 5: Acts podcast and with me is always my trusted co host,
Speaker 5: mister Roman Harper. What's up, Peanut? Hey, look, man, this
Speaker 5: is gonna be another great one. We have our guest today.
Speaker 5: I'm super excited. Considered one of the greatest, if not
Speaker 5: the greatest defensive player in NFL history, super Bowl champion
Speaker 5: and Hall of Famer, mister Lawrence Taylor.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5: All Right, LT, I know you don't mind me calling
Speaker 5: you that. Let's jump right into it.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: I want to tell you when I give out these stats,
Speaker 5: I want you to tell me how does it make
Speaker 5: you feel?
Speaker 4: And then continue off of this.
Speaker 5: But the Lawrence Taylor Family Foundation, what you guys have
Speaker 5: done provided more than eighty six thousand dollars in scholarships
Speaker 5: to different families, provided more than ten thousand meals, and
Speaker 5: created more than fifteen other programs and events for young people.
Speaker 5: How does the Lawrence Taylor Family Foundation continue to build
Speaker 5: off those things? And tell me what it feels like
Speaker 5: to have put up those type of numbers.
Speaker 3: Well, I tell you it's not me. I'm just a face.
Speaker 3: I'm a face.
Speaker 4: And and.
Speaker 3: But my daughter is incredible.
Speaker 4: What's your name? What's your daughter?
Speaker 6: Taylor Joones? She is incredible. And she has a staff,
Speaker 6: which are all volunteers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and.
Speaker 3: The things they do, you know, they try to empowering teaching.
Speaker 6: I mean, I tell you the things they do. I
Speaker 6: wish I would have had an opportunity to be a.
Speaker 1: You know, absolutely yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: Had opportunity. But she's she's very good at what she does.
Speaker 6: And it's a nonprofit we and we do and I
Speaker 6: remember the times I would come and we have food drives,
Speaker 6: and I mean.
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable and it's good to be a part of that.
Speaker 1: Is absolutely see that, yeah.
Speaker 6: You know, And and I've always seen people do that,
Speaker 6: other people do that well.
Speaker 3: But I'm sure she's enjoyable when you are a.
Speaker 6: Part of absolutely yeah, And people appreciate that.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm sure she's got that philanthropic spirit from you.
Speaker 5: All Right, Now, let's pivot and go to a different
Speaker 5: question for you. We'll talk a little bit of football.
Speaker 5: If you could have played offense, what position would you
Speaker 5: have played?
Speaker 3: Tight end?
Speaker 1: Tight end?
Speaker 4: Tight end?
Speaker 6: I because the tight end, especially in this league, you
Speaker 6: always guard against the wide receivers, You always guard against
Speaker 6: the running back. The only person that can catch the
Speaker 6: ball and really doesn't.
Speaker 3: Get noticed is that tight end. Is that tight end?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean that's.
Speaker 6: I keep saying, Man, somebody got in the defending tight end.
Speaker 6: Somebody gotta get him because you think, oh, he's he's
Speaker 6: blocking his plate. But the tight ends don't block no more. No, hey,
Speaker 6: just because that's where they catch you. They put on
Speaker 6: so and so Kelsey's up tight end, he ain't no
Speaker 6: damn that And people we'll forget to count them in
Speaker 6: defense and you don't.
Speaker 3: You don't.
Speaker 6: You don't count for him because he's a tight end.
Speaker 6: So hey, hey, Kate hurts. Yeah right, So tell me this.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 4: The saying is always want a giant, always a giant.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Because if you could have played for any other team,
Speaker 5: would it a what team would that have been? I'm
Speaker 5: not saying I'm forcing you to pick another team.
Speaker 4: You for.
Speaker 3: Another team, I would have you're asking.
Speaker 6: Of course, everybody coming out of college always wanted to
Speaker 6: play for Cowboys, America's team, and so but I would
Speaker 6: have really enjoyed playing with San Francisco. Yeah, yeah, because
Speaker 6: of you know, yeah Joe Montan.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: Great defensive players, running backs, wide receivers. I mean, and
Speaker 6: I looked like, I, you.
Speaker 3: Know, like a California like that.
Speaker 4: I thought he was. I think he was going to
Speaker 4: say that.
Speaker 5: Okay, So being a fellow defensive player, all three of
Speaker 5: us up here were great defensive players. I have a
Speaker 5: little peanut punch technique that I do as far as
Speaker 5: how I create takeaways. Now, there is an interview of
Speaker 5: you a while back saying you were describing how you
Speaker 5: take the ball away. Can you describe to us and
Speaker 5: tell us what was your technique as far as stripping
Speaker 5: the football.
Speaker 3: Out stripping the football? I just I remember when I
Speaker 3: was in college, you know what, and.
Speaker 6: I was, I was, I was a good player, but
Speaker 6: nobody really knew me. Right and my junior year and
Speaker 6: the biggest play I made my junior years when I
Speaker 6: rushed and I stripped the football, picked it up and
Speaker 6: went in for a touchdown, and the press gave me
Speaker 6: so much, you know, accolades except for doing that.
Speaker 3: So I sided.
Speaker 6: I said, you know what, it's great to make a tackle,
Speaker 6: it's great to make a sack, but if you can
Speaker 6: take the ball away, if you can take the ball away, man,
Speaker 6: we got thirty yards to go into it for a touchdown.
Speaker 6: Show we can do that. And that's what I started
Speaker 6: working on. And I did it so much that they
Speaker 6: started teaching it. We used to have segments where we
Speaker 6: all we work on is stripping the ball, Stripping the ball,
Speaker 6: you know, And I guess I was called King Stripper.
Speaker 1: King. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, King Stripper.
Speaker 4: I'll take it to you in the right city.
Speaker 1: You Yeah.
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard of the peanut punch? Have you
Speaker 2: ever heard of the peanut punch? The peanut punch? Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: please say no no, I'm going to leave that.
Speaker 3: I want to leave that alone.
Speaker 4: No worries.
Speaker 5: We can talk about it at another time. But it's
Speaker 5: another punch. It's another stripping technique. Okay, I'm you know
Speaker 5: what I'm I'm excited about this part. What's the best
Speaker 5: part of your golf game? Because I'm a golfer.
Speaker 4: I know you.
Speaker 5: I've seen you at golf tournaments. I know you like
Speaker 5: to play. What's the best part of your golf game.
Speaker 6: My game has been suffering a little bit now because
Speaker 6: I'm serious.
Speaker 4: You just don't hit the ball as far as you
Speaker 4: used to.
Speaker 6: I don't hit the ball as far as and listen,
Speaker 6: and I'm playing with guys that wanted the tee off
Speaker 6: in the locker room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm saying like, hey, yeah, I've been hit
Speaker 3: the ball.
Speaker 6: As far as uh uh my my. My chipping has
Speaker 6: gotten really bad. I guess I think I need to
Speaker 6: go get some glasses. But I'm still help hu and
Speaker 6: I can still uh hit the driver is I got
Speaker 6: one final question for answer. Super Bowl prediction, Chiefs or Eagles.
Speaker 6: I thought I would get away, you know, okay, you
Speaker 6: know it's all about what I would want to happen.
Speaker 3: Would happen.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: What I would want to happen is Philadelphia goal and
Speaker 6: finish this off. Yeah, Chikwani had a great year. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean and and and and and uh phill the
Speaker 6: Belfy Eagles, they quarter back and all they had the
Speaker 6: great seasons. Hey, go ahead and finish this off, you know,
Speaker 6: go and finish this off. But Mahomes always seems to
Speaker 6: have something.
Speaker 3: Up in sleep. Yes, sir, yeah, you always have some
Speaker 3: or somebody up in sleep. Okay, well.
Speaker 6: No, but I I think and you can't if I
Speaker 6: think it's.
Speaker 3: Going to be a lot of points. But you can't.
Speaker 6: You can't give my homes, uh the football with two
Speaker 6: minutes left.
Speaker 4: You can't get.
Speaker 3: Nowhere on the field. Can you give them what two
Speaker 3: men's left?
Speaker 4: No, not at all, absolutely right.
Speaker 3: You can't give it to him.
Speaker 4: Can't do it to them.
Speaker 5: So how do you feel about Saquon Barkley being a
Speaker 5: Giant leaving the team going to a team within the division.
Speaker 5: Now he's an Eagle and he's he's in the super
Speaker 5: Bowl potentially for the winners the ball.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that?
Speaker 3: I probably feel the same way eighty five thousand fans
Speaker 3: right now. I feel like.
Speaker 7: I got Yeah, I got you, I got you, I
Speaker 7: got you. You got screwed over? Yeah, screwed over. I mean, okay,
Speaker 7: you have a quarterback. I don't want to get in jail.
Speaker 3: But you gave him.
Speaker 4: We got some money.
Speaker 1: They paid him.
Speaker 6: Okay, he got paid and you have your your best
Speaker 6: running back. But if I was mistaken, they're fighting over
Speaker 6: a million dollars or it was. It was it was
Speaker 6: something petty, you know, uh to want you know, he
Speaker 6: reminded me of the way he played this year.
Speaker 3: You remember when.
Speaker 6: Dallas Cobo had that great offensive line, right and they
Speaker 6: had what's the running back? Emms Smith and miss Smith
Speaker 6: everybody something like, how am miss Smith? He gets the
Speaker 6: ball the first ten yards and I hit him because
Speaker 6: the off line and pushed him there. And listen, he
Speaker 6: got fifteen yards to run before he even gets back
Speaker 6: to a line of scrimmage. You know, so hey and
Speaker 6: what because they're gonna sit there and push everybody Sequan,
Speaker 6: I mean he.
Speaker 3: And he made it look.
Speaker 4: Easy jumping over pea.
Speaker 3: That's nasty when you make it look easy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sure that's what a lot of people said
Speaker 5: about Lawrence Taylor.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: As a player, I appreciate it. Man, Yes, man, that's awesome.
Speaker 5: All right, well, lt Man, we're gonna let you get
Speaker 5: up out of here. Man, appreciate it, man, Thank you everyone.
Speaker 5: Coming to the point, I'm going to get me uh
Speaker 5: uh some type of one ear ring to rock. I'll
Speaker 5: never be able to do it as good as you,
Speaker 5: but I will get my own.
Speaker 4: Ear ring at some point. Yeah, I might have to
Speaker 4: hook it up. I'm not gonna get yours. It's fine,
Speaker 4: but that's just only you can pull that off. It's
Speaker 4: all good.
Speaker 1: Only you can pull that one.
Speaker 4: All good. What's up? Everybody?
Speaker 5: Welcome to the NFL Players Second Act Podcast. I'm Peanut
Speaker 5: Tillman and with me as always as my.
Speaker 1: Co host, Rome Pop. What's up?
Speaker 3: What's up? Mayby?
Speaker 5: It's good man. I can't wait to get to this one.
Speaker 5: You already cut me off three times. Let's just get
Speaker 5: it right to the interview.
Speaker 4: Who's our guest?
Speaker 5: Hey, he's a Super Bowl champ. He's a heart and
Speaker 5: soul off the West side of Detroit.
Speaker 1: What up though?
Speaker 4: He's a Hall of Fame running back? Up though? Drome
Speaker 4: Bette's walk up to the pot?
Speaker 8: Up than?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 5: Jerome, look man, you're a running back. You want the
Speaker 5: greats of hell to do it? How did it feel
Speaker 5: seeing Saquon get into two thousand yards this man?
Speaker 9: I was so happy for him to see that happen,
Speaker 9: but I was so disappointed that his coach took his
Speaker 9: choice away from him. Now I get it. If you
Speaker 9: say you know what, Kwan, I'm gonna let you make
Speaker 9: that decision. And if you decide not to, that's one thing.
Speaker 9: But but let me make that decision, right, I mean,
Speaker 9: that's the that's the part that is disappointing because on
Speaker 9: one hand, you look at Mike Evans, you see what
Speaker 9: they did. The whole team got behind that. They celebrated
Speaker 9: that moment. It made sure that moment happened, right, Yeah.
Speaker 9: And then conversely, you see on a different level, now,
Speaker 9: if Mike Evans said in that game, coach, hey, don't
Speaker 9: worry about it, take me out. I'm good, I don't
Speaker 9: want it. That's fine, right, But that's his choice to make.
Speaker 9: Let him make that choice, right. And if says, you
Speaker 9: know what, guys, I'm too valuable to this process that
Speaker 9: one hundred yards, let's not worry about it, and you say, fine,
Speaker 9: let's go, let's keep going, but you don't take that
Speaker 9: choice out of that play, because what happens is ten years,
Speaker 9: fifteen years from now, that's when it's like, man, I
Speaker 9: was that close to what it was. Our thinking I
Speaker 9: had this opportunity and this would have this would have
Speaker 9: meant so much, and then all of a sudden it's
Speaker 9: ripped away. So I just thought, you always let the
Speaker 9: player make that call in that situation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, do you think they celebrated it enough as the
Speaker 5: fact that he hit two thousand yards?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, and that was such an accomplishment.
Speaker 1: Right, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 9: I just thought that that it was It was not
Speaker 9: The appreciation was not there the way it should have been,
Speaker 9: because obviously, yeah, we got this goal. I get it.
Speaker 9: We want to get to this I get it. We
Speaker 9: want to be champions, I get it, but we cannot.
Speaker 9: You just miss these opportunities because they are they are
Speaker 9: very far and far between. You've got to give him
Speaker 9: an opportunity just to least look at the possibility.
Speaker 8: What if he decides no, then you live with it.
Speaker 5: You talk about appreciation, you know, with the NFL maybe
Speaker 5: talking about going to eighteen games. It's already at seventeen,
Speaker 5: which is more than what me and you played.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 5: Do you think the the well, the appreciation of these
Speaker 5: records will that tarnished a little bit once they get
Speaker 5: more and more games because we already look at it
Speaker 5: a little bit different or do you not look at
Speaker 5: it different?
Speaker 9: No, it's going to be different. I don't think it's
Speaker 9: tarnished because you know, you look at what happened. O. J.
Speaker 9: Simpson had the record, he was but he I think
Speaker 9: it was fourteen games, right. Then they go to sixteen games, right,
Speaker 9: and then now Eric Dickerson gets the record. So it's
Speaker 9: understandable that it's going to happen as a result of that.
Speaker 9: And we didn't we didn't put an asterisk by Eric
Speaker 9: Dickerson because you know, he had extra two games, right,
Speaker 9: So I think that'll happen when it happens. And now
Speaker 9: for that short term, oh yeah, he had two more games,
Speaker 9: that'll be the argument. But then you can say, hey,
Speaker 9: well you had two more games when you beat that record.
Speaker 8: So it's it's.
Speaker 9: That's just part of the nature of records, right when
Speaker 9: they get beat, somebody's upset, somebody got a right, and
Speaker 9: somebody's overjoyed.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 8: So that's just a process.
Speaker 1: So we're here in New Orleans Super Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 4: We've all played in Super Bowls.
Speaker 1: Some of us wonder, here we go, here we go,
Speaker 1: here we go.
Speaker 5: I don't even like that. I don't even like you
Speaker 5: stop crying. It's fine messing step it on my feet.
Speaker 5: But anyway, we're in New Orleans Super Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 5: We have all played in the Super Bowl. What was
Speaker 5: it like when you won Super Bowl forty.
Speaker 9: I mean, it was amazing because you know, there was
Speaker 9: a lot a lot of you know, subplots to that
Speaker 9: because it was my final game, it was my hometown. Yeah,
Speaker 9: so it was that special, special time for me to
Speaker 9: celebrate a career because I retired on the podium that
Speaker 9: was it done. So you know, my whole career kind
Speaker 9: of was up, you know, the crescendo to that point. Yeah,
Speaker 9: in that moment in time. And so it was really
Speaker 9: special because we won the Super Bowl. But for me,
Speaker 9: it was bittersweet because my career was ending. This was
Speaker 9: the last game I was going to ever play and
Speaker 9: I would never put that helmet on again. So it
Speaker 9: was it was incredible, but it was still that moment
Speaker 9: where you know that finality that it's over.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you said that, though, because when when I
Speaker 5: think about the game. We talked about this on our podcast.
Speaker 5: Most people don't retire when they want to retire, it's
Speaker 5: football retires. You and super Bowl fifty, I was you
Speaker 5: were my inspiration. I was like, if we win super
Speaker 5: Bowl fifty, this is it. I know I'll be done,
Speaker 5: I'll be happy. So I'm kind of glad to hear
Speaker 5: I've never.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that before.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so what happens you'd already made that decision, yep,
Speaker 5: all right, And did you have any hesitation to come
Speaker 5: back any second thing? No?
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 9: I I talked to mister Rooney, the Steelers owner before
Speaker 9: the game, told him that I was retiring winn a
Speaker 9: loud when win, loser draw, This was it. And I
Speaker 9: was comfortable with that in my spirit because I decided
Speaker 9: to come back for one more year.
Speaker 8: Anyway.
Speaker 9: I had actually retired the year before I was done.
Speaker 9: They convinced me to come back only because the Super
Speaker 9: Bowl was in my hometown of Detroit. So I was like,
Speaker 9: I gotta got back. So I was really on by
Speaker 9: all time already. You know, internally I was ready, you
Speaker 9: know what I mean. So I decided to come back
Speaker 9: and you know, muster it up and put some more
Speaker 9: gas in the take for one more but but that
Speaker 9: was it, and I knew I was done after that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So talk to us about what some
Speaker 5: of the work you're doing with the CDC.
Speaker 9: So so I'm I'm very fortunate to be working with
Speaker 9: the CDC. Foundation UH, and and the whole idea of
Speaker 9: what we're doing is we're trying to shine a light
Speaker 9: on heart health, right.
Speaker 8: And some of the issues that.
Speaker 9: Are there are are killers, you know, hypertension, high blood pressure,
Speaker 9: all these things are there. But there's simple things that
Speaker 9: we can do in our life to change that, right
Speaker 9: and change what happens. And you have just taking a walk,
Speaker 9: I mean just small things in your daily routine, taking
Speaker 9: walks or getting some exercise, changing your eating habits. These
Speaker 9: are small things that you can do that really can
Speaker 9: change your quality of life. And so those are the
Speaker 9: things that we're trying to bring attention to and we
Speaker 9: want people to understand that you can make a difference.
Speaker 9: I lost my father right after we won the championship.
Speaker 9: He died of a heart attack, and so it's personal
Speaker 9: to me. I understand the importance of it. So we're
Speaker 9: trying to really bring that forward UH and let that
Speaker 9: people see. And so as you can see you see
Speaker 9: Live to the Beat, right, and there's a website Live
Speaker 9: to Thebeat dot org slash Legacy that you can actually
Speaker 9: get some of those stories and hear about the other
Speaker 9: issues that people have had and the small things they've
Speaker 9: done to change their life.
Speaker 5: All right, well, yeah, listen better. We appreciate you coming
Speaker 5: on the pod. Appreciate appreciate the work you're doing with
Speaker 5: the CDC. That's also. You need to walk more. That's right,
Speaker 5: you need to you're the old guy. You need to
Speaker 5: walk more. You know he older than you, right, you
Speaker 5: need to walk more.
Speaker 8: We we all need to walk, thank you, We all
Speaker 8: need to.
Speaker 1: Can you let me just do that one time, because
Speaker 1: he it's a wee. Let me clown him one time.
Speaker 4: Who wins the game? Who wins the game?
Speaker 9: I think if the Eagles can run the ball, they
Speaker 9: win the game. If it's a field goal game, the
Speaker 9: Chiefs win.
Speaker 4: I like it. Appreciate you.
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