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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Y Hello, Calm Down Podcast program number
Speaker 1: one in your Heart. Jay Cutler will be our guest today,
Speaker 1: he joins us on the Calm Down Podcast. Where are
Speaker 1: you in this set up? You look great? Thank you?
Speaker 1: I mean my studio in Nashville. My studio in Nashville.
Speaker 1: Are you at the Aldane's house? Is this where he's
Speaker 1: recording his next album? I'm gonna actually going over there
Speaker 1: this afternoon to Watt game. Um. Jay, by the way,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Calm Down Podcast. Thank you. It's a pleasure. UM.
Speaker 1: I need to know on the reality show that you did,
Speaker 1: which I obviously there was a period of reasons you
Speaker 1: did it, but you came across well okay, yeah, fair enough, UM,
Speaker 1: but you came across so likable and you're not like
Speaker 1: didn't we know you obviously from sports in life, but
Speaker 1: people that didn't know you were like, this are rules
Speaker 1: because you basically just like shoot on anything reality TV
Speaker 1: wise and kind of opened up and like pulled back
Speaker 1: that curtain like whatever. Did you enjoy the process at all? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's parts that I definitely enjoyed, and we were we
Speaker 1: were fat. We were so quick, like, you know, the
Speaker 1: producers would come in and you know, we had a
Speaker 1: storyline and all and stuff, and they would come in
Speaker 1: and they were like, all right, and we really only
Speaker 1: filmed when the kids were at school. You know, we
Speaker 1: only filmed in a couple of rooms in the house.
Speaker 1: You know, um, great, it's very true. But we would
Speaker 1: just and they would come in and be like, all right,
Speaker 1: this is what we want you guys. This is kind
Speaker 1: of where we want this to go. And then I mean,
Speaker 1: Christen's i mean she grew up in that world, so
Speaker 1: like she was on it, so you know, we would
Speaker 1: we would click it off pretty quickly and an hour
Speaker 1: later we you know, they're they're rolling out. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't bad. It was fun. I enjoyed it. There's parts
Speaker 1: I didn't enjoy, like it was invasive, like having cameras
Speaker 1: in your house for like four months, because they would
Speaker 1: just leave lights up, like leave everything up. I'd be
Speaker 1: afraid that now I'm gonna fight, and now it's a problem.
Speaker 1: And now we're recording. There's some there're some fights and
Speaker 1: just we're like, this obviously isn't making it, so we're
Speaker 1: cutting that out and Christen wasn't ep so kind of
Speaker 1: had final final say on like every like last cut
Speaker 1: of everything. So that's cool. I know you don't care
Speaker 1: about all the Hollywood stuff, and you've been really great
Speaker 1: about that. But it seems and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: pretend to know your own situation, but it seems like
Speaker 1: you guys have a great relationship in speat of everything.
Speaker 1: Obviously your three children don't even laugh at me. I'm
Speaker 1: being serious, Like that's hard to do. Um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I wouldn't say great, it's it's it's it's working out.
Speaker 1: I mean I think over time it uh you, it'll
Speaker 1: set on. You know, it'll get better. But you know,
Speaker 1: you do the best of us we can. And with
Speaker 1: three kids involved that you've got, there's certain parts you
Speaker 1: just have to figure it out. Yeah. Less, less is
Speaker 1: more probably right now with you know, our relationship. But
Speaker 1: it's fun. Yeah, as someone who's an expert in divorce, UM,
Speaker 1: I get it. Okay, we're gonna have some fun with you.
Speaker 1: You're ready for this? Wait? Can I ask one thing
Speaker 1: I want to ask you not even ask about, but
Speaker 1: I remember one episode and actually my husband was sitting
Speaker 1: and watching. I can't remember ja if you were painting,
Speaker 1: you were doing something. My husband's like being married to
Speaker 1: Monica Geller from Friends, he's really freaking O c D.
Speaker 1: Like I always leave this analogy out there if you
Speaker 1: go out and you have a really good time and
Speaker 1: you just like leave all your crap on the side
Speaker 1: of the bed and it's just like he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: so how long is that going to lay there? And
Speaker 1: I'm like it's been like a night fucking knocks, Like
Speaker 1: it's fine, you know, but god, I forgot if you
Speaker 1: were like painting or we're painting the closet windows actually yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and were you so just detailed with it like you
Speaker 1: were And Jared was like I felt like he was
Speaker 1: really getting attracted to it. Was just like oh my god,
Speaker 1: there's somebody else like me. Like he was like this
Speaker 1: guy's great, like he's great, and I was like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: it was more like that was like that was like
Speaker 1: for camera was so really or not like that? Um,
Speaker 1: I mean with three kids under the age of ten,
Speaker 1: like they literally come home and just destroy stuff. So
Speaker 1: like I I found myself the last year and a
Speaker 1: half like being like all right, I have to have
Speaker 1: everything in order. I've got to like when they're gone,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I don't I don't care, Like there's
Speaker 1: probably I guarantee there's probably like chips and like a
Speaker 1: bunch of ships, like out on the kitchen counter. Right now.
Speaker 1: Let's say you're down at half by a lot in
Speaker 1: an instrumental game, you win, and you're in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: What are you saying to your team? Are you saying
Speaker 1: any saying? What is said? Go? Well, I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna talk to the other see, like if you're struggling,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like all right, like why what what
Speaker 1: are they playing? You know? Are they are they just
Speaker 1: sewing this out? They're playing too high? You know? Are
Speaker 1: we are we just missing blocks? Are we messing up?
Speaker 1: This is a penalty situation. Are we just turning the
Speaker 1: ball over we're doing dumb ship or are they actually
Speaker 1: taking something away where you know, if you just start
Speaker 1: running the football like you probably just weren't calling enough
Speaker 1: runs in the first half and they're just staring you
Speaker 1: to to run the ball. But are you vocal? Are
Speaker 1: you standing up and saying something raw? Raw? Motivation depends
Speaker 1: on the game, you know, I don't think it was
Speaker 1: ever a huge rout raw guy, And there's certain situations
Speaker 1: where you gotta wake some dudes up. But I mean
Speaker 1: I would want to have the conversation with the OC
Speaker 1: like all right, this is what I'm seeing? What are
Speaker 1: you seeing? You know? This was a garbage call. This
Speaker 1: one was on me. This one was because the line sucked.
Speaker 1: This one was because receivers, you know, busted a route.
Speaker 1: Like are we seeing the same thing? You know? Feel
Speaker 1: wise like, this is how they're playing the game versus us,
Speaker 1: and this is what we gotta do. We either got
Speaker 1: to run them out of what they're doing or we've
Speaker 1: got to you know, figure someone else out what happened
Speaker 1: with that interception or Matthew or what what adjustments. I'll
Speaker 1: never forget this, you guys. I was covering every Lions
Speaker 1: game because I was a baby reporter and got all
Speaker 1: the Chip games. And it was the year that they
Speaker 1: recking oh in sixteen and Rod Marinellio at halftime, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, coach, what adjustments are you to make
Speaker 1: it halftime? He goes, that's a great perview you're wearing.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh fuck. I was like this this
Speaker 1: isn't gonna work. Literally, I'm like, all right, I gotta
Speaker 1: make up a report. I'm not kidding. I made up
Speaker 1: a report and I've done that too for a coach
Speaker 1: that I didn't want to throw under the bus because
Speaker 1: he was telling me all the wrong stuff. Dude, attention, attention.
Speaker 1: We could make up reports. You're not gonna say anything
Speaker 1: that's going to put them in a bad spot where
Speaker 1: we saying, Jay, sorry, but I mean, oh, it's six
Speaker 1: and sixteen, Like, what do you say at that point exactly?
Speaker 1: Are you literally have to raise your hand like you
Speaker 1: know what? We're just not very good. We kind of said,
Speaker 1: I wish you would have said that phenomenon. That's the truth.
Speaker 1: Do you have any regret of Jay? Oh? Sorry, no, No,
Speaker 1: keep going wrote it down. Go No. I was just
Speaker 1: gonna say like things to say, do you have any
Speaker 1: regrets in your career? Something you wish you could do over?
Speaker 1: You know, when I was going through the draft, I
Speaker 1: was with I was the Titans kept bringing me in
Speaker 1: just because I was at Banderbilt. Jeff Fisher Um was
Speaker 1: the coach then, and he was like, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: I asked Vince this, I asked Um that line at
Speaker 1: this like he was if you could change anything with
Speaker 1: your career, like what would it be? And I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, and I thought there for a second and
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I don't think there
Speaker 1: is Like it is what it is. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: sitting right here, um and looking back on my career,
Speaker 1: I don't I mean, yeah, then there's certain games you
Speaker 1: want to change, there's certain plays you want to change.
Speaker 1: But like, at the end of the day, there's nothing
Speaker 1: I would change. There's nothing drastic I would change it.
Speaker 1: What I would do really over again, you know. I
Speaker 1: like where I'm at now. Um, you know, enjoyed my
Speaker 1: time in Chicago. There were shitty parts, there were great parts.
Speaker 1: You know, had got three kids out of there, so
Speaker 1: I mean it was it's fun. I mean, I enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Looking back on it, there's a lot of fond memories.
Speaker 1: And whenever we went to the game, you know, we
Speaker 1: took the boys of the game. It was great being back.
Speaker 1: Everyone in Chicago was fabulous. You know, we went to
Speaker 1: dinner like we we had fun. So, you know, I
Speaker 1: would I wouldn't change anything, um ja, I know, I
Speaker 1: make fun of you know, what's gonna happen. You change
Speaker 1: one thing and yeah, totally that's like a movie. Um,
Speaker 1: I know I make fun of you sometimes with the
Speaker 1: don't care comment. Were you surprised by how big of
Speaker 1: a deal that became when you said don't care? I
Speaker 1: don't know if I said it. I mean, do you
Speaker 1: know the story? Tell us that tell us your story?
Speaker 1: Because I think I know the story that everyone like
Speaker 1: you were asked a question and you just said you
Speaker 1: don't care. That's not the story. Well, then set the
Speaker 1: record straight, Jay, the story. I mean, I probably did
Speaker 1: say that in an interview at some point, But the
Speaker 1: story goes that someone came up to me in a
Speaker 1: bar in the bathroom and we're in the we're in
Speaker 1: the bathroom, I'm going to the bathroom at a journal
Speaker 1: and he comes up and he's like, hey, you know
Speaker 1: I went to Vanderbilt two and I just said don't care. Great,
Speaker 1: and that that's your whole story. Yes, whether we want
Speaker 1: to talk about it while you're paying I know, And
Speaker 1: whether it happened, whether it happened, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: was asking about that. I mean, it very well could
Speaker 1: have happened, absolutely, but I can't verify yes or no,
Speaker 1: So I just say I mean probably, but I got
Speaker 1: it okay. Well, because it just became like this bigger thing,
Speaker 1: and you know, in the world of the Internet, memes
Speaker 1: and all this other stuff that was like attached to you.
Speaker 1: So I wondered if you actually cared about about that.
Speaker 1: Um No, because after I heard the story, I was like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, I apologize that to any kid, but
Speaker 1: I honestly I don't care. I apologize the kid at
Speaker 1: the ernal. We couldn't be more excited for our guest today.
Speaker 1: It is one of our favorite guys, favorite NFL players
Speaker 1: on and off the field. Cam Jordan's will join us.
Speaker 1: There is a recipe to beat Braiding Company. You guys
Speaker 1: had it, and you did it decisively at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year. So there is a way, I mean
Speaker 1: given you know so, but just you know, look, we
Speaker 1: don't have time to talk about how dominant you are
Speaker 1: actually we do. Um what what is that recipe though?
Speaker 1: Because it's not just him man um when when I've
Speaker 1: been I've been blessed to be a part of a
Speaker 1: defense this last like what three or four years that
Speaker 1: have been top five against the run? What do you
Speaker 1: finish three or four? You were number one like all
Speaker 1: year long and then well you stack there That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like anyways, and that's the last two years.
Speaker 1: Like it. It's frustrated. Um, but you think about so
Speaker 1: you have a top tier run defense, and then our
Speaker 1: past defense was was decent. The last couple of years,
Speaker 1: they started excelling this year. I don't know what it was,
Speaker 1: whether it be the emergence of a debo, whether to
Speaker 1: be the canjelling of all four uh you know all five,
Speaker 1: I guess you would you say the nickel, the two corners,
Speaker 1: the two safeties, just knowing where everybody's gonna be. I mean,
Speaker 1: they took off and we've always argued like, hey, if
Speaker 1: we get third and favorable, which in my mind is
Speaker 1: anywhere from third and six, like third and six plus, uh,
Speaker 1: party and favorable. Yeah, like third and seven plus would
Speaker 1: probably be more favorable. But I'll take third and six
Speaker 1: because that means the quarterback actually has to do more
Speaker 1: than just a slant route, right, he has to do
Speaker 1: more than just a first read. And if we get
Speaker 1: them more than just first read, now we can really
Speaker 1: affect the quarterback. And that's where you see a lot
Speaker 1: of that change happening with Tampa. Anyways, you get into
Speaker 1: them third and seven and third and mates. Now the
Speaker 1: route has to develop. He can't just toss one up,
Speaker 1: which he still can't because he had Mike Evans and
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin and and yeah, like he had he had
Speaker 1: every receiver. He could just toss up and probably win.
Speaker 1: But that's where you see pastors happening, getting more hits,
Speaker 1: making them uncomfortable. Nothing, nothing says you're gonna win this game.
Speaker 1: Aim like Tom Brady starting to yell. It was off
Speaker 1: the line, and I love that everybody knows it. Like
Speaker 1: he threw his look I didn't see after the game
Speaker 1: he threw his What was it that Microsoft Windows hurt shattered?
Speaker 1: After that? No doubt that said, Oh that's a fine.
Speaker 1: Somebody's got to find him. He won't even feel it.
Speaker 1: But you know what's a fine for Tom Brady? Nothing
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter court of that money.
Speaker 1: Is he a good trash talker? I mean, Cam, you're
Speaker 1: you're one of my favorites out there, and I love
Speaker 1: when you get to hear what you say. I mean,
Speaker 1: what are exchanges like with him? When you know you're
Speaker 1: shirt again under the goat skin? Come on? Is there
Speaker 1: such a thing? No? No, again, He's probably chewing out
Speaker 1: his office. Lineman. He doesn't actually talk trash. He doesn't
Speaker 1: talk to you guys, asked Tyron Matthew. Ah see, I
Speaker 1: got so that means I'm not in his head. I
Speaker 1: got I gotta do better. I mean he's like he's
Speaker 1: literally like, you know, like you hit him. He was
Speaker 1: like you look at it, like look at you and
Speaker 1: look at it off his line. But then I also
Speaker 1: never got that Allen though he had some words for yours.
Speaker 1: That was was coach. Oh yes, that was Ryan Nielsen
Speaker 1: and they had exchange. I'm over there sitting there like
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, my coach with coach, I have
Speaker 1: no idea because probably because he was he like my coach.
Speaker 1: My coach came from USC My coach played d line,
Speaker 1: you know what, like he said he was. He was
Speaker 1: he was like an in a which tackle that with
Speaker 1: nose tackle, so in his mind like every snap that
Speaker 1: we take, he takes. So he was probably like fully
Speaker 1: bought it in as well. Yeah, I just looked at it.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm like, if if Tom and Ryan
Speaker 1: going to a room and there's no space on I
Speaker 1: have my money on not Tom. I just think Tom
Speaker 1: lives too good of a life. He was from Michigan
Speaker 1: State to being they would not like cares some some
Speaker 1: some big tip. But I don't even know what conference said.
Speaker 1: Is that big take? And I only say that because,
Speaker 1: like no, I was in school, they were another conference,
Speaker 1: you know, like they were all the different realignments of everything.
Speaker 1: So you're in your twe you just finished your twelfth year,
Speaker 1: eleven years behind you. Does it feel like a lifetime
Speaker 1: ago you started or does it feel like yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because I mean I remember beating Michigan State just just
Speaker 1: because now you know State back in my sophomore year
Speaker 1: of college. I remember my freshman year of college watching
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson return a punt return against you, University of Tennessee,
Speaker 1: and like knowing he was going to leave, Like at seventeen,
Speaker 1: You're like, that's what looks like, you know, like still
Speaker 1: yeah and still still like I remember, like you know,
Speaker 1: I remember all of it. There's there's key moments where
Speaker 1: you just realized, like some people are just goatd you know,
Speaker 1: like for for me, it was Deshan Jackson and then
Speaker 1: I came in with the class that had me job
Speaker 1: at best. Shane Vereen, Chris County, Miss Schwartz like our
Speaker 1: class all like it was six or sevens to hit
Speaker 1: the league and John in Best beat Deshan Jackson in
Speaker 1: a foot race by like a step or two. And
Speaker 1: I was watching like I was like, this is just unreal.
Speaker 1: Like you know, like when you watch fast people race
Speaker 1: and then like elite fast people race, You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's another levels of this. There's okay. I was like,
Speaker 1: I thought I had quick twitch. I thought it was
Speaker 1: fast issue, not even in the realms. It's cool. I
Speaker 1: think what I love about you, Well, there's a lot
Speaker 1: that I love about you, but I know that you
Speaker 1: are just like a fearless, just unbelievable competitor out there.
Speaker 1: But you're one of the nicest guys to be around.
Speaker 1: Put that on the cosmos. We're talking about like talking
Speaker 1: like shipped to Tom Brady. It's like camp Jordan doesn't
Speaker 1: talk shit. He's a little sweetheart, but is there. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I've ever seen you be an asshole
Speaker 1: on the field cam, Like I know, guy, you I
Speaker 1: know you ripped guys apart, but you don't click, do you.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't ever like switch because you're so sweetheart.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember the whole like talking ship with
Speaker 1: like Cam Newton and to buy the thing of Jordan's,
Speaker 1: like I got your Jordan's and all know I'm a
Speaker 1: drink by Jordan. I got the room and all that,
Speaker 1: but it's like, you're not. I don't know where the
Speaker 1: broom came from. I don't know where the room. I
Speaker 1: felt like I felt like the broom might have taken
Speaker 1: it one step too far. The broom wasn't me. I
Speaker 1: don't think it. I said a bottle of Jordan Wine
Speaker 1: to my man's because he seemed to be with his
Speaker 1: top hats and his suits. He just seemed to be
Speaker 1: a connoisseur of finer things in life, and I just
Speaker 1: wanted to say thank you, you know, thank you for
Speaker 1: being at the helm of these, you know, three straight wins.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's hard. It's hard to be the
Speaker 1: team smart ass, You're just not. I'm just a pure sarcastic.
Speaker 1: Consider myself a pritty because I like I like that category.
Speaker 1: You know, I like, you can't you can't be a
Speaker 1: nice guy. As a defensive Lindman, I'd say sarcastic, endeavoring,
Speaker 1: semi asshole, you know, like not so much, but still
Speaker 1: sort of. If you ask my wife, I'd probably be
Speaker 1: full blown assholes. It was on the day. Is that
Speaker 1: beauty and that wonderful family of yours. By the way,
Speaker 1: do we have what are our plans for the off
Speaker 1: season with the fam man um? And are we pregnant again?
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, I mean impossible snipped. That doesn't mean, that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything the careful No, No, I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: not into with Sean camp. Look, I I sent all
Speaker 1: my specimens in. I was like, are we good? It's
Speaker 1: gone right, all right? And now on Steph Curry. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just I'm just here to like, you know,
Speaker 1: four kids is great. I thought i'd get two boys
Speaker 1: out of it. I got three girls. I got one boy.
Speaker 1: My boys are pure alpha, which is amazing. Like he's
Speaker 1: like he's a straight fighter. I look at him and
Speaker 1: like I try and get mad at him, but I
Speaker 1: know for a fact I've done of exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Like I'm just watching him and like, Nikkia look at me,
Speaker 1: like do you know where this comes from? I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: all of it, all of it. She's like, you did
Speaker 1: this when you're younger. It's fine that you say that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: about five started in the morning, I'm up singing, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't care sometimes who's up? Yeah that was me.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's six years old. I didn't care about
Speaker 1: the rest of the world. That's that's on me. Here,
Speaker 1: my guy is at five thirty in the morning. Everybody's
Speaker 1: sleep and he's just sword fighting in his room, protecting
Speaker 1: the house from the greater dangers of the of the ether.
Speaker 1: So sweet, But that's also why you're such a sweetheart.
Speaker 1: With the three girls. Are you braiding the hair? Are
Speaker 1: you like? No? It's right, they're all tenderheaded. And but
Speaker 1: I don't have his finesse destroy like I destroy things
Speaker 1: with these hands. I don't fix anything in the house.
Speaker 1: I destroy things like could you put in a light bulb?
Speaker 1: I can't. Can you braid the hair? Can you braid
Speaker 1: the hair? I can try, but it's not gonna come
Speaker 1: out well hunting. These hands, these hands built this house. Okay, Jordan,
Speaker 1: the house of Jordan, which, by the way, that painting
Speaker 1: behind you stay awhile he's the artist. Let's give some
Speaker 1: cred here, right, not forget forget Josh ween girder. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Josh we know Josh okay perfect. You know, he's just
Speaker 1: just a local fight before her. You know, So this
Speaker 1: was this was season I think this is season one
Speaker 1: of trust levels. So cool background pretty like the mustache
Speaker 1: that was such an elite mustache. It's such a great Yeah.
Speaker 1: The handlebar, Yeah, it was disgusting. It got it like
Speaker 1: it got in the way of every meal. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: like everybody was like, why don't you go back? I
Speaker 1: will never like I always wanted one and got it.
Speaker 1: It was like, this is gross. I like this one better. Hey,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite thing about being a girl, dad? What's
Speaker 1: your favorite thing to do with your girls? I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's so much like I try it, like I send
Speaker 1: my joke, but they have so much love that I
Speaker 1: never knew, Like I like this too much love. Like
Speaker 1: literally my saying is I'm like, all right that he's
Speaker 1: had too much love. That is too much love. Like
Speaker 1: they're like they hug and they kiss and they're like
Speaker 1: hold all the time. And I'm just like like the
Speaker 1: times three you know what I'm saying, Like I'm their
Speaker 1: favorite more times than not, you're not home as much
Speaker 1: as your wife is. I'm the fun but of course
Speaker 1: you are like you know, like and there's probably resentment there.
Speaker 1: Come home and they look at you and all they
Speaker 1: want to do is love you and hug you and
Speaker 1: they fight me. M Do they like it? They like?
Speaker 1: They Well depends on which one. My eldest is like
Speaker 1: the girly girl, and I'm not sure how I got one,
Speaker 1: you know, Like my my my second daughter is I
Speaker 1: think she I think she could be a UFC fighter. Like,
Speaker 1: she's just overly aggressive, trying to fight. Yes, just jabs
Speaker 1: jabs on air, um like, so I'm thinking I'm thinking
Speaker 1: Judo might be for her. Um. And then the third
Speaker 1: one is just too young. She's one, so we're giving
Speaker 1: her time to figure out what she is. But they love,
Speaker 1: they love it. I mean they love dressing up for
Speaker 1: it more than probably like actually watching. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: I thought I had some worts enthusiasts, like you know,
Speaker 1: I took them to a couple of the Pelicans games individually,
Speaker 1: you know, like I get individual dates with the kids.
Speaker 1: You learned which one actually likes sports. My oldest daughter,
Speaker 1: she's unless something switches sometime soon. She's just strictly there
Speaker 1: for pictures. She's already like just taking for a lot
Speaker 1: of the wags too, you know a lot. Luckily luckily
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have one of those. No, mine
Speaker 1: is mine is purely competitive, wants to be out there.
Speaker 1: She could, luckily she played basketball, ships suits off to
Speaker 1: play football. But had she You know, I make fun
Speaker 1: of I make fun of non contact sports. I probably
Speaker 1: gonna stop. Cam. You you do it at a high
Speaker 1: level every single year. Cam. We love you, We appreciate you,
Speaker 1: Thank you for you know you guys kicking me off
Speaker 1: like you kick me off there never kicked off. We
Speaker 1: would have you one forever if we could, no doubt
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. It is the NFL off seasons, but
Speaker 1: we have the biggest name of the off season, the
Speaker 1: winning quarterbacks of the winners Rams. Matthew Stafford joins us today,
Speaker 1: sweetest Angel, to talk to him. Um. You know he
Speaker 1: has uh told us that his This is only gonna
Speaker 1: be the second time he's done a podcast, his first
Speaker 1: being Kelly's in the Morning After. So we feel honored
Speaker 1: to have him on. Calm Down. We will not calm down.
Speaker 1: So many questions to ask him about his off season.
Speaker 1: It's time Detroit, his wonderful family and for all your
Speaker 1: RAMS fans, the idea of running it back, so sit
Speaker 1: back and the Jorge. So, first of all, we'd be
Speaker 1: remissed if we didn't start off with the congratulations. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much, thanks for having what a time. Well, no,
Speaker 1: we're not congratulating you for being on. We're congratulating you
Speaker 1: for winning the Super Bowl. Exciting your commercial was on
Speaker 1: and I was watching the NBA yesterday in your case,
Speaker 1: guy on all the time, which is a great commercial.
Speaker 1: It's very it's I don't know who wrote the spot
Speaker 1: for you, but it is a microcosm of who you are, humble, appreciative.
Speaker 1: And also the wink. When did the wink become a thing?
Speaker 1: Because it feels like the fact that you know, national
Speaker 1: commercials are branding you with a wink, because this is
Speaker 1: a whole different Matthew Stafford, Yeah, I don't know, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I feel like I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've done it for a while, but
Speaker 1: it's catching fire. I guess. The A T n T
Speaker 1: spot was kind of fun. Whoever wrote it was genius.
Speaker 1: They it was too easy. It was too well written
Speaker 1: for me to mess up. So that's why it's doing good.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, how many takes with the wink? Uh?
Speaker 1: The wink was an early take and then we tried
Speaker 1: a bunch of different endings as you got, all that
Speaker 1: stuff happens. But yeah, lially, the female that works for
Speaker 1: a TNT does all the commercials. She's awesome. She was
Speaker 1: a stud helped me through it, kind of showed me
Speaker 1: the ropes made it, made it easy for me. But
Speaker 1: the wink was an early and early thought. Did you
Speaker 1: overthink it at all? I mean, I think this could
Speaker 1: be a Curb or Seinfeld episode where it's like do
Speaker 1: I go hard? Do I did? I mean, how did
Speaker 1: that play out for you? Yeah? Have I not had her,
Speaker 1: that would have been completely lost. Uh. After alone, they
Speaker 1: call it like line reading in the business, where you
Speaker 1: know the director would be like, hey, can you make
Speaker 1: me feel this way when you say this? I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: If you tell me how do you want it to sound,
Speaker 1: I can then repeat it for you. I was like,
Speaker 1: my whole life is somebody talks in my ear. I
Speaker 1: repeat that. So they did that for me a couple
Speaker 1: of times, which I think is a no no in
Speaker 1: the real biz, but they helped me out. Um, I
Speaker 1: that's wonderful that you're always getting credit to other people.
Speaker 1: You know, it's somebody can give you the route to run,
Speaker 1: or the or the play you know, to initiate, but
Speaker 1: you have to actually do it. So part of that commercial,
Speaker 1: which I loved, and it was about talking about turning
Speaker 1: in your old phone after twelve years, the pun therefore
Speaker 1: was leaving Detroit. You still care so much about the
Speaker 1: city that made you who you are. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: raising your family there, you and Kelly starting a life
Speaker 1: there together. When you look back on it now, does
Speaker 1: Detroit feel like a long time ago? Does it feel
Speaker 1: like everything that's happened to you within this last year,
Speaker 1: does it feel like you lived in Detroit ten years ago? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sometimes for sure. I also haven't been back, you know.
Speaker 1: Kelly and I are going back this weekend actually for
Speaker 1: a charity thing that we kind of did right before
Speaker 1: we left, and they're starting to break ground on it.
Speaker 1: So we're pumped to go back and see some old
Speaker 1: buddies and do all that and I'm sure that will
Speaker 1: bring me right back and it'll be like I left
Speaker 1: there yesterday. But at the moment, yeah, not having been
Speaker 1: back and all that's transpired, in the last year, both
Speaker 1: for me professionally and us as a family. It definitely
Speaker 1: seems like a long time ago. But I still have
Speaker 1: a bunch of good friends and get people that I
Speaker 1: know there that I'm excited to go see. So I'm
Speaker 1: sure after this weekend it'll feel little bit different. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, what are you anticipating? I mean, what
Speaker 1: do you even think that's going to be like for you? Well,
Speaker 1: I got a video from my man Hank this more
Speaker 1: and it's snowing in Detroit currently, So hoping that's it
Speaker 1: stops um and I don't have to deal with that.
Speaker 1: I think it's supposed to be a little bit better
Speaker 1: by the time we get there. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm excited knowing it's the April. How horrible
Speaker 1: is that? Also? Look at her Tan, I mean Detroit,
Speaker 1: not only are they so sad you're gone, And I mean,
Speaker 1: I know you know all the stories about just how
Speaker 1: it just appreciative, how they were in on the whole
Speaker 1: Super Bowl run for you, that was so cool. But
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be pissed about you walking back
Speaker 1: with that Tan just weekend. You're probably I'll keep it
Speaker 1: indoors until Friday, try to try to get a little lighter.
Speaker 1: But now it's it's it's pretty nice out of here.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie easter outside is it was nice
Speaker 1: as opposed to Easter and the snow in Detroit? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We Um, you and I sat down for NFL films
Speaker 1: before the start of the season, and who talked about
Speaker 1: you know, you come to l A and it's this
Speaker 1: whole idea that you're gonna, you know, be brought in
Speaker 1: to bring this team to a place that they haven't
Speaker 1: been for I've been to in a while. Um, their
Speaker 1: last couple of will run fell short. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: save this team, of course with the help of some
Speaker 1: of the other big guys that they brought in. The
Speaker 1: storybook ending, the Hollywood ending is you win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you use that line in your your interview,
Speaker 1: by the way, Chrissa, because I used that too right
Speaker 1: before a NYC championship we uncovered that. I mean, what
Speaker 1: the hell what happened? So that's when you think about,
Speaker 1: of course, you do you put in all the work.
Speaker 1: I know you're at the breakfast. What do you in
Speaker 1: Cooper call your guys, breakfast and meetings, breakfast club, the
Speaker 1: breakfast club. So wait, we want to dive to five
Speaker 1: thirty am every morning where you guys, but in the
Speaker 1: QB room, UM just turned the tape on watch you
Speaker 1: know whatever. It is kind of there for the day,
Speaker 1: talk about all sorts of things, drink some coffee, eats
Speaker 1: and breakfast and kind of just get ahead. That's all
Speaker 1: he's you know, unlike any team that I've ever had,
Speaker 1: just a great, great work or a great teammate. Um.
Speaker 1: And uh, part of that was in like we didn't
Speaker 1: even talk about it. I went in there the normal
Speaker 1: time I used to go in when I was in Detroit,
Speaker 1: and I walked in their day one and he was
Speaker 1: in there, and I was like, all right, So we
Speaker 1: just just kind of organically happened. And and uh, every
Speaker 1: day of the year that we were in there at work,
Speaker 1: we were in there. Really oay. So you put in
Speaker 1: the work as you have done for the previous twelve
Speaker 1: years of your career, and now it last year with
Speaker 1: all the pressure, you end up winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Was there a moment afterwards or even weeks afterwards, that
Speaker 1: you thought to yourself, oh shit, I did it. Like
Speaker 1: when did that oh shit moment actually got got the chick. Um.
Speaker 1: The first time that that really kind of hit me
Speaker 1: was really during the game. A D makes the great
Speaker 1: play on fourth down that I did not know it
Speaker 1: was fourth down because I couldn't watch attention. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was sitting there on the bench just like, oh God, there,
Speaker 1: take us through that. Sorry to interrupt you, but how
Speaker 1: the hell does that happen? Like, take us through that?
Speaker 1: So you know that, you know that's well, what the
Speaker 1: hell did you know? Yeah? I didn't know that was all, yeah,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? I was I was eating a
Speaker 1: hot dog like on the sideline, but no, I uh I, Um,
Speaker 1: I was sitting there and looking down. I was just
Speaker 1: looking down at my feet on the bench. Cooper I
Speaker 1: think was doing like the exact same thing down um,
Speaker 1: you know, four or five seats away from me. But
Speaker 1: I thought that was to be honestly, I thought it
Speaker 1: was third down. Um, I think I missed the run,
Speaker 1: you know, on third down and incomplete pass eighty makes
Speaker 1: unbelievable rush, gets Joe to you know, have to throw
Speaker 1: away before he wants and scramble around, do all that
Speaker 1: whole thing, and then people started going crazy on the
Speaker 1: sideline and I was like, what's going on And one
Speaker 1: of our young receivers came up and was like, we won,
Speaker 1: we won whatever that was. Fourth down. I was like,
Speaker 1: holy shit. But I kind of went like right before
Speaker 1: I stepped back on the field, it just kind of
Speaker 1: hit me, kind of went down into a squat and
Speaker 1: Sean ran over to me and and you know, it
Speaker 1: was just hugging me up and stuff and talking about
Speaker 1: how excited we were. But that was kind of the
Speaker 1: first time. And then as far as afterwards, I don't know,
Speaker 1: there was you know, a week or two. It was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a blur, but it was a
Speaker 1: whole lot of fun. Uh, I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: celebrated with all the people that help me get there.
Speaker 1: You know. That was the cool part, was being able
Speaker 1: to do that with teammates and family and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Can I go back to the fourth down?
Speaker 1: I don't know if you ever saw what was it
Speaker 1: THET thirty where they did the Fab five And I
Speaker 1: thought one of the best things about it was where
Speaker 1: they showed the time out and all you've heard was
Speaker 1: like a heartbeat and it was so well done. What
Speaker 1: are you hearing at that moment, Matthew, where you don't
Speaker 1: know if it's third or fourth down. Are you hearing
Speaker 1: your heartbeat? Are you hearing the music? Like? What the
Speaker 1: hell is going on in your head? Um? To be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I don't know why I wasn't watching.
Speaker 1: I have so much trust in our defense. I think
Speaker 1: that's what I was just saying to the ground. I
Speaker 1: was probably just going a one stop, one stop, just
Speaker 1: just one stop. And uh, you know the first play
Speaker 1: they I thought, to be honest with I watched the
Speaker 1: very first play that drive and they throw that little
Speaker 1: stop route to Jamaar Chase, and I thought I was
Speaker 1: like watching Jalen for some reason, and he had such
Speaker 1: a good brake on it, and if he looks back,
Speaker 1: I think he picks it and runs back, runs it
Speaker 1: back for like a game winning pick six. And he
Speaker 1: just went for the tackle. Jamar made a great play
Speaker 1: and they got it out to you know whatever that
Speaker 1: was like on the first play. And then I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, me standing and watching his bad luck,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna set my ass down and stare at
Speaker 1: the ground and see if that brings us some better luck.
Speaker 1: And then it did. Are you superstitious a little bit.
Speaker 1: Grew up playing baseball a little bit, so I have
Speaker 1: a few things here and there, but I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: something's not working. If I'm sitting down on the sideline
Speaker 1: and our defense is just shutting people out, there no
Speaker 1: reason for me to get up, and kind of vice versa.
Speaker 1: What I love about that story is, of course your
Speaker 1: wonderful wife, Kelly, who we love at a door and
Speaker 1: she also has a great podcast for anyone that hasn't
Speaker 1: heard The Morning. He tells some stories. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: the college stories especially give me um. But the fact
Speaker 1: that she couldn't watch either, and she was in the
Speaker 1: hallway with her down not watching the last drive and
Speaker 1: somebody thought that she was sick, I could drink too much,
Speaker 1: and they're like, man, do you are sleeping? She was
Speaker 1: definitely Neither of you guys couldn't um watch is cute
Speaker 1: and sort of speaks to the fact that you just
Speaker 1: have trust and you know what is going to be.
Speaker 1: But that's so awesome. I mean, I had the privilege
Speaker 1: of covering you for a long time with my NFC
Speaker 1: North assignments, and there was a lot of games where
Speaker 1: you know, you had were on the other side of that.
Speaker 1: So the biggest for you in your life that's changed
Speaker 1: since winning the Super Bowl is oh man, um shorter
Speaker 1: offseason for sure. We start tomorrow, which blows my mind.
Speaker 1: I don't know, to be honest with you, My day
Speaker 1: to day is pretty similar. You know, for the most part.
Speaker 1: The people that I knew and talked to before I
Speaker 1: still know and talked to. And there's not too much
Speaker 1: of a difference. You know, probably more opportunities to do
Speaker 1: a T and T commercials and things like that. But
Speaker 1: from the day to day, I'm just getting ready to
Speaker 1: go play another season. And and uh, I think a
Speaker 1: fun moment will be the ring ceremony, like whenever we
Speaker 1: get that whenever that happens. Just getting that same group,
Speaker 1: because our group is going to be different, but getting
Speaker 1: that group back together that won that Super Bowl, you know,
Speaker 1: players and coaches that have moved on to bigger and
Speaker 1: better stuff. To get those guys back in the building
Speaker 1: and be able to hang with them will be a
Speaker 1: lot of fun moment. I mean, where I have seven
Speaker 1: thousand questions for you, Um, can I ask I think
Speaker 1: you mentioned this, I don't know, maybe last week, but
Speaker 1: I want to know this song. Is there a song
Speaker 1: that you listen to maybe before you went out on
Speaker 1: the field for the Super Bowl, or is there a
Speaker 1: go to song you've had since U G A or
Speaker 1: anything like that. I am not a huge pregame music guy.
Speaker 1: I kind of especially when we play, you know, away
Speaker 1: games or even home games. A lot of guys like
Speaker 1: to like put that on to kind of get lost
Speaker 1: and listen to what they're familiar to I kind of
Speaker 1: like the opposite. I like to hear the opposing fans
Speaker 1: screaming at me or the home fans cheering for I
Speaker 1: like part of that to me is the fun part
Speaker 1: of why I get to do what I do. Like
Speaker 1: no other part of your life, you walk around with people,
Speaker 1: they're either chairing for your, chairing against you. You know,
Speaker 1: go to the grocery store and people do that. So
Speaker 1: it's like it's kind of it's on Lincoln, it's the huge,
Speaker 1: huge continued, there's dangerous section. They are lively, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's just like it helps me get into I enjoyed
Speaker 1: that whole atmosphere. So I don't really do that. The
Speaker 1: only time I really listen to music, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, So we play in New York City. I
Speaker 1: usually listen to Frank Sinatra, you know, just kind of
Speaker 1: get it going. I don't know, it's just I feel
Speaker 1: like it think the same game music. So what about
Speaker 1: what was the first tune that you remember hearing? Maybe
Speaker 1: with like four cigars hanging out of your mouth like anything?
Speaker 1: Come on now, I don't even know if I can,
Speaker 1: I can't point one out. I just know right when
Speaker 1: I walked into the locker room, it was like a
Speaker 1: cigar in my mouth, bud light and somebody handing me
Speaker 1: Happy Van Lincol straight out of the bottle. I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, we're doing this, and uh, yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was a fun forty hours really really only Ford.
Speaker 1: So I had to wake up and take my kids
Speaker 1: to Disneyland the next day, which was a beating, but
Speaker 1: uh it was fun. It was an epic video that
Speaker 1: Kelly on her podcast, the video of you just walking
Speaker 1: straight into the pool. So where did this a just
Speaker 1: for a way for you to wake up? Was it
Speaker 1: a bet? What? What? What's the story behind that? This
Speaker 1: was after an hour of sleep on my couch with
Speaker 1: like one foot on the ground and doing her podcast,
Speaker 1: which I don't know, I mean, I was just struggling through. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I needed a little pick me up. I knew, Uh
Speaker 1: we had a nine am. I believe the Disneyland bus
Speaker 1: was outside the front door you take us. So I
Speaker 1: was like, I need to uh spark it up a
Speaker 1: little bit here and just just went face first in
Speaker 1: there to to a cold pool. Try to wake me up.
Speaker 1: Matthew super Bowl post game party. What do you regret?
Speaker 1: What are you glad you got to do? And what
Speaker 1: do you wish you had done more of any of that? Um?
Speaker 1: Regret not much. I mean the biggest, the hardest thing
Speaker 1: for me was like there were a ton of people.
Speaker 1: We had like a little after party thing, and there
Speaker 1: were a ton of people that whether it would be
Speaker 1: high school buddies, college people I met while I'm in
Speaker 1: the NFL family, Like it was almost it was hard
Speaker 1: to spend time with everybody. I got to say hi
Speaker 1: to everybody. I feel like I wanted to say hi too.
Speaker 1: If I miss you, I'm sorry, but that would be
Speaker 1: the only regret is maybe not being able to spend
Speaker 1: as much time is everybody. Yeah, exactly, Um highlights, Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean the whole thing was a blast. I think
Speaker 1: really even before the party. The thing I'll remember the most,
Speaker 1: and like chairsh the most that I got with a
Speaker 1: microphone on filmed, you know, for the for the NFL
Speaker 1: is that time with my family down on the field,
Speaker 1: which was super cool. To be able to have the
Speaker 1: audio and the video of that is awesome. I mean,
Speaker 1: went to Drake's which was fun. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I was there, but I was there. I don't know
Speaker 1: who else was there. It was dark and it was late.
Speaker 1: Who does look, I've been setting all weekends for Congratus
Speaker 1: men were so excited for you for all things, and
Speaker 1: and for RAMS fans for you to run it back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thank you, guys. Calm Down with Aaron
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