WEBVTT - All About The Team with Eli Manning & The Jay Fund 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.320 Okay, so full disclosure. When I was a kid boy, 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:07.440 I really didn't follow sports at all. I followed rock 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:11.760 and roll, and for some reason, those two things were 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:16.880 not going hand in hand for me. But as I've 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.720 grown older, I've become more and more of a sports fan. 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.200 It was kind of moving to New York and I 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.600 think falling in love with the New York Knicks, and 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:33.279 I now really do both enjoy it and admire the 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.000 people that do it incredibly well. A lot of it 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:38.960 is because I just look at it and go, man, 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.559 that's something I just can't do and never will be 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.879 able to. So it's very exciting to me today to 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.960 get a chance to speak to our next guest, the 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.560 great two time Super Bowl champion quarterback of the New 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.920 York Giants, Eli Manning. I think you're going to enjoy 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.520 our conversation, and I think I think you'll be surprised 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:02.320 at his guest. 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:03.520 So lean in. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:17.080 I'm glad you're here. Well, thank you the great Eli 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:22.200 Manning for being here with me today. You are our 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:27.240 first celebrity from the world of sport as they say 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.600 in the UK, or sports as you would know it 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:35.720 in this country. You know it's there's so much There's 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.040 so many things that are so fun about this conversation 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.759 to me, one of which is that you're doing one 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.920 of those jobs that like I look at that and 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.400 I go, there is no chance I would make it 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:55.280 through five minutes of that job. The amount of training, 0:01:55.560 --> 0:02:00.320 the amount of concentration, the way that you you know, 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.160 put your body on the line all the time. I mean, 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.000 you know the funny thing about being an actor is 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.160 that you know, for inside, just give you an example, 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.280 like I've played I think four Marines, okay, And so 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.160 sometimes people will come up to me and say, boy, 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.880 you really seem like a marine. And I'll say, let 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.359 me tell you something that I could never be a marine. 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.800 I've met marines and I've seen what they do, and 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.799 and I am. I am actor boy. So what does 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.200 that feel like to, uh, you know, make those kind 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.440 of sacrifices with your body. 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.360 Day in and day out. I think I think you 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.160 just get used to it. You start doing it at 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.080 such a young age I was. I mean, I played 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.200 flag football growing up. I really didn't start tackled till 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.080 eighth grade, and you just get used to hitting as 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.600 the quarterback. I think a lot of your hits are 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.080 after a throw. That's kind of when you're your most vulnerable. 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.560 You're kind of throwing your in a bad position. Someone 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.680 comes hits you, but at that moment, you're so focused 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.480 on wondering what happened after the throw. You're trying to 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:08.360 look in between cracks of linemen and people. Sometimes you're 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.440 just listening to the crowd. You know, if you're at 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:13.520 home and you hear tears, you know, all right, that 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.760 was completed. If you hear kind of nothing, or who's 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.519 maybe you know, incomplete, if you hear you know, booze 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.480 or you know, real silence, you know, maybe interceptions. So 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.400 I think you're so you're so focused and on those 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.920 things that you don't have time to think about the pain. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.239 It's really the next the next morning after the game 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.280 is where you you know, you know you're gonna have 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.720 some bumps and bruises. But as I've as I've retired 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.760 from football, watching it and having been gone, you know, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.280 been out of it for three years, I like see 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:43.840 the hits and I think the same thing. I'm like, 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:45.720 oh my god, there's no way this guy's getting up 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.360 after that hit. And they you know, most of the 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.360 times get up and they're on to the next place. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.640 So having been away for for a little bit, it 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.720 looks a lot worse, uh now than then I remember it. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.480 When I was playing, I think you just got to 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.920 put it. You just don't even think about It's like, oh, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.320 that's just part of the game, and and you don't 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.280 worry about the big hits. But uh, they look they 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:06.880 look more painful now that I remember. 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.360 Well, you know, it's funny because you led me right 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.600 into two things. One was one was you know, talking 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.200 about the next day, and I'll never forget. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:14.680 I think the. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:19.000 Movie was North Dallas forty and Nick Nolty climbs into 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.520 the ice bath after the game, and I remember looking 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:26.280 at that and going, oh, I don't care how hurt 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.600 I was. I'm not climbing into a bath, a bath 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.040 full of ice cubes and unless there's you know, it's 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.520 filled with vodka and all of But you know, I 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.800 just I just found that. I just found that so powerful, 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.800 that that image from that movie. And I didn't grow 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.600 up as an athlete. I'm terrible with ball sports. We 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.400 played on the street, We played Grumphilly and we played 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.240 on the street and played you know, stickball, and and uh, 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.279 you know, football in the street, you know, tag whatever, 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.799 But but I definitely didn't have like the high school, 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.880 you know, and to this day, I'm an awful, awful athlete. 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.520 But the other thing that you I was I wanted 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.279 to ask you about this and you mentioned, you know, 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.920 you're in the middle of taking a hit and you've 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.359 thrown the ball and you don't know what happens to it. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:22.200 And so for those of you that haven't seen the 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:28.200 helmet catch, uh to David Tyree, you have to watch this, 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:33.000 uh this replay on YouTube because it's just amazing of 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.640 one of them, I'd say it's certainly one of the 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.120 most famous plays in Giant's history, I would think, and 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.720 probably one of the most famous you know throws and catches. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:49.560 And Eli is completely surrounded and miraculously about to be 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.279 thrown to the ground and he lets the ball go 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.040 and then the camera goes off of him. And what 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.400 I thought to myself was he didn't even get to 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.800 watch see this catch, like, like what you must have 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.240 been on the ground already, right, I mean, you did 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:03.880 you even? I mean, was it that thing that you 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.000 mentioned just before where you're like I hear whether or 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.839 not people are booing me or cheering. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.320 Yeah, exactly, and and I, uh, I kind of got hit. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.240 I didn't get all the way knocked down to the ground, 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.520 and that went so but it was still crowded, and 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.919 David was kind of Rodney Harrisimmons, the defender. He's hanging 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.960 all over him, and I see him go to the 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.400 ground and they, you know, they call for the catch, 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.919 but at that moment, you know, you never know, like 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.080 you're trying to maybe run up there and spike it 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.240 real quick so they can't review it. But we had 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.560 to call a time out under that situation. So and 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.840 they're they're they're gonna review it. And I remember going 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.279 up to David. I'm like, hey, did you did you 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.240 catch it? And He's like, yeah, I caught it. And 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.240 I've been lied to by receivers. These receivers that they 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.960 may tell you, they tell you they're open, and then 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.039 you watch the film they were the double teemed and 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.120 on the ground they tell you they caught it. I'm 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.640 rather through one to Plexico Burus and you know it's 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.560 like a third and it was a second and ten, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.240 so and you call it the first down, and you know, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.200 you're kind of hey, did you catch it so we 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:05.960 can start thinking about when we will run on third 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.000 down or what our first down? Please? Yeah, I caught it. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:09.600 And you see the replay in the bounced like three 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.320 times before it got there. I'm like, why are you 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.720 lying to me. It's not going to make the call 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:14.400 any different. 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:16.320 Videotape. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.320 Yeah, there's video. There's a video. They're going to analyze it. 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.600 They're going to get the right call. So David, you know, 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.280 it's like, no, don't lie to me. Did you really 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.040 catch it? And said, I promise you the ball never 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.040 touched the ground. I had it on my helmet, and 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.320 that was kind of the first time I was like, really, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:30.720 you caught it off your helmet. 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:35.880 And uh, you did not see the catch live? You 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.880 had you had to go to the video. I had 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:40.880 to go to video, and I kind of watched it. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.520 Watch it up there and you see it, you know, 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.880 real quickly, and you know and touching the ground. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.120 Never touches the ground. But we really didn't have time 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.360 to analyze like what a great catch it was at 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.000 that moment, just because hey, we we still had to 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.040 go score a touchdown and try to win the Super Bowl. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.920 Great catch, but it almost if we don't win the game, 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.640 then that great play probably is not talked about as much, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.200 or is it, you know, become the great play because 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.360 it has to lead to the win of winning a 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:13.600 Super Bowl, which makes it special. And sure I remember 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.280 after the game, maybe it was like after the game, 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.040 you know, you have an after party. Obviously you're celebrating 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.280 your friends and family. I get back to the hotel 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.880 with my wife at you know, three in the morning, 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.840 and we had an early press conference next morning, so 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:28.520 I at like a six o'clock wake up, Paul, and 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.120 I'm gone, well, I haven't seen like the replay yet. 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:32.920 I want to see the highlights. I got to go 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.640 watch ESPN, and I want to see like the the 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.880 David Tyree catch again and see see how good it was. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.000 Yeah, that's amazing to me. And you know, speaking of which, 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:47.240 as as as you know, as we know, you did 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.440 go on to win that Super Bowl, and that was 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.680 the first one, right, that was the yeah, two thousand 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.959 and eight, and and you know, it was quite as 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:04.520 a spectacular moment. And actually the scoring touchdown was sort 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.680 of like the polar opposite catch, right, because it was 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.480 just like a just a nice little toss and you 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.080 just kind of went up, I got the ball and 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:13.200 we just wanted to right. 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.240 It was wide open, Yeah, it was. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:21.040 It was with drama. There was there was no drama 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.479 in that catch at all. So it was a great contrast. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.839 When you become an actor, you know, you you go 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:38.520 out there and you go, well, I'm gonna make this movie. Uh, 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:43.079 you know, and I'm not even going to entertain this thought, 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.680 but way sometimes in the back of your mind you're thinking, 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.480 this is going to be a breakout hit, or this 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.400 is going to be an Oscar winner, or this is 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.800 going to take me to the next level or whatever 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.400 it happens to be. You know, you sometimes have these 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:04.800 like kind of overreaching fantasies, delusions of grandeur. But it 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:09.800 takes a long time to find out what the upshot 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:11.880 is of the of the project that you've done. And 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.800 and you know, sometimes a year or so after after 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.199 you've made it, the film comes out when you're the 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:21.400 middle of a football season. Uh, you're constantly in the 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:27.719 in the moment. My question is when you start out, 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:32.400 do you uh, do you keep in the back of 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:36.320 your mind the idea that you could win a Super 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.400 Bowl and that stranger things have happened, or do you 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.800 have to just kind of go game the game, the game, 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.240 the game and put that out of your head. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:45.400 Yeah, I think you really, you really got to go 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.599 game the game, the game. And I think once you 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.080 even you know, you go through stretches where you're playing 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.520 great football. We went through stretches where we you know, 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.800 we won six games in a row, and you feel like, oh, 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.160 we can't you know, we can't lose, like we're playing 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.040 great And once you start thinking that, usually you get 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.280 humbled real quickly and you just got to have one 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.120 of those games where nothing goes right and you and 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.040 you get beat quickly and badly, and it kind of 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.000 gets you. All right, let's get back to the basics. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.679 Let's get back to focusing on doing you know, what 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.679 we need to do. Make sure we're preparing correctly all 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.480 week and and because if you don't, if you don't 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.000 go out there and and and like do the little 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.760 things really well and pay attention to the details and 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.360 have great you know, everybody you know has to have 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:31.359 great weeks of preparation and work, then then you get embarrassed. 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.000 And so it's not just one person, it's I mean, 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.360 it's all twenty two guys, eleven guys on offense, eleven 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.640 guys on defense that you know, they all have to 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.120 do their job. If one person, you know it has 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.520 an off week where they don't prepare well, they don't 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.840 know the assignments, it's a it's on a script. You know, 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.000 the each play does not have a chance if even 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:53.720 one person is doing something wrong or or just not 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:55.959 doing it at a high level. And so it's you 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.320 got to everybody has to buy in, uh to the idea. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.440 It's just one week at a time. It's about this week, 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.640 how we perform, how are we gonna go out there 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.160 and prepare and let's go play hard and worry about 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.960 this one and just getting into the playoffs. It's about 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.120 it's about finding a way to get to the playoffs. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.840 And then there that's when really anything can happen, and 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.480 you can get hot at the right time and and 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.480 you know, play a team that might be better than 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.600 you and they might beat you ninety nine at one 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.520 hundred times, but that one day you might catch the breaks. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.079 You might you know, just you know, find a guy 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.200 who's struggled, or you know, ball bounce in certain ways 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.360 where you can win that certain day and that's what 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:32.960 you're playing for. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:40.239 M Now, going back, your dad, Archie Manning, was a 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:45.199 great player in his own right and you know, had 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.120 a you know, fantastic career. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:48.040 You and. 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.240 Your brother Peyton, but also your other brother. We're all 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:58.920 of players, all football players. Was there any a moment, ever, 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:00.840 a moment where one of you was thinking, I don't know, 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:06.440 maybe dental school or or I don't interior design anything that. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.559 Were there ever any other options there? Or was it 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:10.200 all it? Did it have to be football? 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.800 It didn't have to be football? But we we definitely 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:18.640 were into sports. And I mean I played basketball pla basketball, Yeah, 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.360 through high school, all through through high school. So what 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:23.920 I think a lot of people maybe assume my dad 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.920 had this master plan of creating NFL quarterbacks as he 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.880 was an NFL quarterback, And nothing could really be further 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.360 from the truth. Uh, you know, we had we did 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.520 well in school, but we played, We played a lot 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:39.160 of sports. He just thought, you know, sports were great, Uh, 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.920 you know, great way to learn life lessons and dedication 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:47.640 and hard work and commitment. Uh, dealing with losses, dealing 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.880 with success, in handling all those things. Uh, you know, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.080 just the team work that goes into it, and so, 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.640 uh he wanted us to play sports, but he never 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.120 got too involved in our sports. Uh he He kind 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.760 of always said, hey, I live my sports dream. You know, 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.640 if you want to get into it, I'm here to 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.920 support you. But I'm never going to be the guy saying, hey, 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.679 you got to go out and work out, or you know, 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.679 I'm going to put you in this drill. You know, 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.120 he just wanted us to make our own decisions, for 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.440 us to find our own path, and it just so 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.440 happened just from an early age. I don't know why. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.280 We could just throw the football pretty well. So I 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.920 mean even like in fifth grade at recess at school, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.520 you know, I mean you've quickly learned if whatever team 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.440 we were all on and playing quarterback, we usually won 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.600 that game. And so eventually I just became the permanent 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.040 quarterback on both sides. To make it fair, I mean. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.600 Steady steady we call it. We would play with a steady. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.000 Yeah, steady. So I remember after a while, I was like, hey, 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.000 I want to try something else. I want to play receiver. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.240 I want to catch it touched down, And I quickly 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.120 learned that I'm not very fast. I don't catch the 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.440 ball very well, and so I wasn't getting fall that often, 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.240 and I was like, this is this is worse. I'll 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.080 go back to play steady and being able to permanent QB. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.120 All right, Oh wow, that's that's fascinating. And what about 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.400 your mom? I mean, did she did she have moments 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.960 of like, I'm I'm sending my little boys out here, 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:13.320 you know, to get sacked. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.840 Yeah, I think that was that was hard. I feel 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.440 I feel for my mom. She she has had to 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.680 watch way too many football games where you have I 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.120 think with the with my dad, it wasn't too hard 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.080 if he got hit, but with their with their little 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.480 boys and her kids, you know, just getting getting hit, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.680 getting sacked a bunch you know, losses. So all she 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.640 cared was us coming out of the game healthy and 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.840 she was always there for a big hug afterwards, win 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.200 or lose, and just wanted us to be you know, 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.800 be safe, be healthy. And but she's watched, she's watched 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.480 a lot of football games. She's had to deal with 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:48.840 a lot of losses. But uh, you know, we got 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.560 a couple of championships to to be happy about as well. 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.880 I love what what what your dad was pointing out about, 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:00.200 uh learning to deal with successes and failures, because I 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.760 really feel like that is you know, I have two 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.440 kids that they're not athletes, but they are in in 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.520 uh my son's a musician and my daughter's an actor. 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:14.120 And and you know, you are thrown into this world 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:20.000 where you don't have a steady gig. The the success 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:25.520 or failure of your of your career trajectory is all 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.400 on on wins and losses, and like that's a real 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:33.080 kind of seesaw sort of life to have to live 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:39.920 and uh and the idea that in order to uh 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.360 accomplish those successes you have to be part of a 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:48.200 team are really really good messages I think for for 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.000 young people. And and you know, we but like I said, 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.360 they don't they were not playing sports. But I think 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.600 that we've tried to kind of you know, pound that 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:03.040 into them. Uh that both but both of those concepts 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:08.520 teamwork and also you know, don't don't get too happy, 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.040 don't get too full of yourself when it when you 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.480 when you have a win, because you know, you know 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.040 things are going to change down the road and and 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.000 you know when you have a when when things don't 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.280 work out, you know, are you in it for the 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.120 long haul? Are you going to let this this one, 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.719 you know, knock you knock you down forever? So so 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.720 those are those are great messages I've had to I've 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:32.359 not had to. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:33.120 I have. 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.320 I luckily have a band with my brother that we've 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.720 had since nineteen ninety five. And there's two things about 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.400 you know, I'm constantly trying to find things that, as 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.480 I said at the beginning of the podcast, it's very 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.359 hard for me to relate to this, to you and 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.320 the life that you've had and the and the gig 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.920 that you do. But so I'm trying to find these 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.159 kind of you know, connections, which is about this what 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:59.359 this podcast is about. You know, I get this question 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.440 all the time, and I find it ultimately, I find 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.959 it sort of irritating. But you work with your brother 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:14.240 in you know, multiple capacities, whether it's commercials or your 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:22.040 or your broadcast together, and how how is that working relationship? 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:22.560 You know? 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.800 Basically there's a lot of rock bands that have ended 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.119 up literally taking a swing at each other on stage. 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:30.200 Who are brothers? 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:30.439 You know? 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.840 I mean there's like that's a face like the Everly's 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.400 hate each other. You know, the Kinks, the Oasis. It's 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.239 like the list just goes on and on and on. 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.040 So everybody always says to me and Michael, you guys, 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:43.320 how can you play together? You must hate each other. 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:48.840 Uh So I'm curious about about I'm sending this dumb 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:50.000 question back your way. 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.160 Yeah. No, I think I think Peyton and I are 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.640 fortunate that for our broadcast, I'm in New Jersey doing 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:58.560 it and he's in Denver, so we're not even in 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:02.040 the same room. So okay, no punches can be thrown, 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.520 and we definitely take shots at each other, and that's 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.639 we're both uh uh. You know, I think it's a 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.080 football player just deal with the media, deal with the 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.480 locker room. Like our number one rule is you can't 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.639 be sensitive. There's no sensitivity in here because if you 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:21.000 if people find that out, then they'll they just come 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:24.840 at you even more. And so we just you know, 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.240 we're we kind of go. You know, we're gonna take 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.520 you know, if you mess up, it actually works out 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.520 better I think and broadcasting. If you mess up, if 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.120 I say something wrong, I you know, pronounce a name 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.720 incorrectly or make a wrong call, Peyton's gonna call me 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.760 out before the media has the opportunity to call me 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:43.399 out because he's gonna be a media and if I'm 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.520 gonna get called out by somebody, rather really be for 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:47.680 my brother. But we definitely take shots at each other. 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:49.800 And I think it's also good that we don't do 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.480 every game. We kind of we'll do maybe two or 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.480 three in a row, and then we need a break, 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:56.760 and usually during that break for a week or two, 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:58.480 like we don't even talk to each other. It's like, 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.600 all right, I need I need a full time from you. 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:02.520 I don't want to talk to you. I don't have 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:06.440 to see that often. But we we have a good relationship, 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:10.640 and I think it's I think it's because, uh, he's 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:12.840 five years older than me, so growing up, we never 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:17.000 really competed against each other. It's always been a support deal. 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.560 It's always been, you know, him kind of helping me 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.320 through high school or helping me through college. And then 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:24.680 we got to the NFL. We competed against each other 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.040 three times, and then it didn't work that well for 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.520 me at three against some so I didn't I didn't 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:32.159 have much to fight about or to argue. 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:34.679