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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the NFL Podcast. I'm a niece Williams.

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Speaker 1: Today we will talking with the Youth Football Committee, whose

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Speaker 1: mission is to help guide efforts to preserve and grow

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Speaker 1: youth in high school football from a peer to peer

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Speaker 1: perspective through their expertise and experience as former NFL players

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Speaker 1: and legends. We have with us four incredible NFL legends.

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Speaker 1: Jaguar's Legend, Mark Brunell, nineteen year veteran, three time Pro

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Speaker 1: bowler and Super Bowl champions Should we all bow down

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Speaker 1: before we go? And then we have James Chad Pennington,

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Speaker 1: I said, James's right, that's the Chad Pennington, an eleven

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Speaker 1: year veteran and two time NFL Comeback Player of the Year.

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Speaker 1: And Michael rob Benson, an eight year veteran, Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: champion and on air anchor. And finally, William mcguinnis one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest men I've been around, the great USC Man,

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Speaker 1: a fifty year vet, two time Pro bowler, three time

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion. Fellas, welcome to the show. So let's

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Speaker 1: take a trip back down memory lane the good old days.

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Speaker 1: What is your favorite youth football memory? Mark, my favorite

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Speaker 1: youth football memory? What I was when I was in

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Speaker 1: to play quarterback. And the only reason I got to

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Speaker 1: play quarterback was because my dad was the coach. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and uh well, I mean he he knew me better

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Speaker 1: than any of the other coaches. Obviously he was my

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Speaker 1: think part of him too, you know, wanted to have

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Speaker 1: that point, I was a I was an outside linebacker.

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Speaker 1: I was a fullback. I just really hadn't played quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And it was the first time I that my dad

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Speaker 1: had ever coached me. I just never forgot that it was.

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Speaker 1: It was an important year, memorable year because in that

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Speaker 1: environment we got to connect. He was my coach, I

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Speaker 1: was his player. We got to spend a lot of

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Speaker 1: time together once some games and but when I think

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Speaker 1: of youth football, I think of my The first opportunity

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Speaker 1: I had with my dad as my coach is just

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Speaker 1: a little different dynamic, but I thought it was pretty cool,

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Speaker 1: and from that point on, he continued to be my

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Speaker 1: I coach because of the impression and the influence that

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Speaker 1: they had on me as a young person. What about

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Speaker 1: you chat well, I like Mark, I am a son

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Speaker 1: of a high school football coach. I grew up on

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Speaker 1: dad's high school football players, and so my favorite youth

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Speaker 1: football memories would be centered around when the high school

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Speaker 1: coaches would come watch us play on Saturday at our

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Speaker 1: youth football games, because they were our heroes. That's where

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Speaker 1: we were trying to get to be like absolutely, and

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Speaker 1: so just having those memories of preparing for the game

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Speaker 1: on Saturday and seeing your high school coaches in your

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Speaker 1: community there on the sideline, interested in what you're doing,

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Speaker 1: it just brought a different level of excitement. It made

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Speaker 1: that's those impressions that the game of football made on

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Speaker 1: I've had I got a lot of little league football

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Speaker 1: moments that that helped shape my life. I wish I

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Speaker 1: He just wasn't around. He was affected by the crack

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Speaker 1: and life lessons. I had a coach when I was

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Speaker 1: have to really understand the power of your words. And

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Speaker 1: And so I just didn't I didn't think of the

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Speaker 1: And I stayed with me throughout my entire life. That's

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Speaker 1: First year. I really didn't like it, but I love

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Speaker 1: being around the other boys and and playing the sport

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Speaker 1: wasn't really that good. I was learning. My second year,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Mom had a place where would

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Speaker 1: out that you're a leader. That's youth football. That's what

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Speaker 1: Why is it so important to get involved and become

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Speaker 1: the voices of growing and innovating youth football? Will it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think the message has always been to

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Speaker 1: So I think all of us one thing we all

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Speaker 1: for that matter. For me, it starts at five and six,

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Speaker 1: the NFL. So if we're talking about changing the game,

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Speaker 1: I just either have been beating the table with Troy

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Speaker 1: if I don't know how many years now, and it's

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Speaker 1: finally happened about four years that we need to change

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Speaker 1: the game from the grassroots, and that starts with the

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, once they get

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Speaker 1: I think that's the goal of our committee. When we

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Speaker 1: football as well as the game itself, we're cannibalizing each

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Speaker 1: other and we're not aligning to where a youth park

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Speaker 1: right way. Willy's right. The health of our game lies

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Speaker 1: within the grassroots youth sport youth football in high school

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Speaker 1: The standard and the message must come from the top,

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Speaker 1: which is the NFL. And if we can align those two,

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Speaker 1: Start speaking the same messages, start communicating the same way,

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Speaker 1: start using the same lingo, teaching the right techniques. Now,

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Speaker 1: to them, because quite frankly, most of our youth coaches

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Speaker 1: If we can lend our voices and lend our messaging,

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Speaker 1: they can tap into that experience to become better coaches.

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Speaker 1: Friday Night Tykes is a caricature of football. It's not

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Speaker 1: the game of football. That's a lie, it's false. But

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Speaker 1: the things within our game, it's what matters. And we

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Speaker 1: would love the second with both of these gentlemen said, Um,

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Speaker 1: That's where they become consumers of our game. And when

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Speaker 1: you look at the statistics, it's a one point six

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Speaker 1: the game of football. The greatest invention was the huddle. Man,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter you know where you're from. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: It's all about coming together for this goal. I don't

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Speaker 1: positively affect coaches around the country UM with resources so

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Speaker 1: and know how to teach the game correctly. Like for instance,

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Speaker 1: and I've told these guys this three D defense. Quarterback

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Speaker 1: six figures for thirty years to code, and that's exactly

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Speaker 1: But the brain process is the same. You know, a

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Speaker 1: right now the next ten years and any of you

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Speaker 1: done their job. I got fifty kids that I coach.

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Speaker 1: That want to be a part of it. That's all

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, Mark, and you know, you say

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Speaker 1: league is right, but the mindset and that's why I

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Speaker 1: ask these questions some personal here, because when we change

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you guys for this incredible podcast.

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Speaker 1: If we listen together and work together, we can accomplish

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Speaker 1: incredible things. I'm as Williams. Thanks for listening and the

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