1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: This is Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's the thing. 2 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 1: Andrew Luck was the number one draft pick in the 3 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: National Football League. Last year, he was hired to replace 4 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: one of his heroes, Peyton Manning, as quarterback of the 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts. The hype about Luck was enormous, and many 6 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: doubted that the Stanford graduate could live up to it, 7 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: but Luck delivered, setting a new NFL record for the 8 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: most passing yards by any rookie. Luck also led his 9 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: team to eleven victories and a spot in the playoffs. 10 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: This was a team that won just two games the 11 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: year before Luck arrived. Andrew Luck, a self described nerd, 12 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 1: is nothing if not level headed when he talks about 13 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: the transitions from high school to college to pro football. 14 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: They're definitely large differences along the way. But but I 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: also know a lot of the challenges are the same. 16 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: I think fresh on my mind still. You know, first 17 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: singer key year, you know what what what what was 18 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 1: similar about rookie year to being a sophomore in high 19 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: school and starting on varsity you know wants to to 20 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 1: being in college and starting as a sophomore as well. 21 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: I think you know the same things presents of how 22 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: as a young kid, you know, how is a fifteen 23 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: year old kid do you play with? Eighteen year olds? 24 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: How is it? How is the nineteen year o kid 25 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: do you play with twenty two years? That? What you did? 26 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 1: And yeah? And how is the how? How was it? 27 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: And it it's weird? You know, you want to remember 28 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: what what do you remember about high school ball? So 29 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: I just wanted to keep my mouth shut you in Houston, 30 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: In Houston, which they do have like a somewhat of 31 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: a religious cult following, you know of high school football 32 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 1: and touch it truly is and you know it's sensationalized 33 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: a bit with the movies in the in the books, 34 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: but people get into I mean, we had we had 35 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand people watching games for for for a bunch 36 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: of high school kids. Yeah, but but I do remember, 37 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: you know, being a rookie, thinking back to you know, 38 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: being a sophomore, how how do you how do you 39 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: earn the respect to the guys older than you? You know, 40 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: how do you how do you go there? And so 41 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: would you say that's seen each step by the way, 42 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: if he was proving yourself to people who when you 43 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: show up, the vets are there or the guys who 44 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 1: have a few more seasons under their belt and you 45 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: want to show them you belong there. No, absolutely, I 46 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: think describe it was like when you went from Houston 47 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,119 Speaker 1: to Stanford the same thing, you know, one it's it's 48 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 1: it was. It was fun for me to be out 49 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: in California and you were a scholar. You did very 50 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: well in school. I did all right. I managed to 51 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: get by. I studied architecture, which was fun for me 52 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: and which I enjoyed, which you know, I don't much 53 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: better I think on projects than writing papers, you know. So, 54 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: so I'm glad I studied something I enjoyed. But do 55 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: you think that that kind of pursued academically, like something 56 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 1: that involves geometry and math and so forth, and measurements 57 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: helped you at a quarterback? I don't know. People have 58 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: asked me to compare the too it I you know, 59 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: it can't hurt, But you know, realistically, how much could 60 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: could solid a bath problem help at a football game? 61 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 1: It might be just intrinsic. How you just see things, 62 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: you know, when that guy's going deep over the middle, 63 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: maybe you're saying this looks like the Louve to me, 64 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: and then when you went to Stanford, what was that 65 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: like you should have then when you talk about that 66 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 1: idea of showing up and proving yourself, what was it 67 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: like for you? It was great? Uh, you know a 68 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: lot of a lot of great people at Stanford. Everybody 69 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: has got such an amazing story. You know, you're you're 70 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: meeting princes and princesses of royal families from midd the 71 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: Middle East. You you know, you get classmates that are 72 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: inventing you know, apps and and and and doing all 73 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: these great enemating environment there it is and it really 74 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: they cultivate the environment of creating great things and people. 75 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: I think, and so I think, you know, as a 76 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: as a football team, we wanted to be out there 77 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: as well. And then in the athletic world, you showed 78 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: up your freshman year and what was your first year like? 79 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: The first year was great? Didn't play red shirt? And 80 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: which was which was? Which was difficult describe for people 81 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: exactly how red shirting works. So red shirting is a 82 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: process where you know, you go to school and everybody 83 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: has four years of eligibility to apply. Uh, but you 84 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: can red shirt a year which doesn't take away your 85 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: eligibility uh, one of those years. And but but you 86 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: still practice with the team, you still do everything with 87 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: the team. You're just not allowed to play in a game. 88 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: So it's theoretically year. Yeah, and then you go to 89 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: school for you know, be in school for five years, 90 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: so it gives you a year too, and you read 91 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: shirted your first year. I red scruted my first year. 92 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: I wasn't ready to play h and I needed to 93 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: get bigger, faster, stronger, you know, physically wise and also 94 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: mentally just catch up today. So when you come to 95 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 1: a school like that, when they take you there and 96 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: they and they recruited you, correct, and when they recruit 97 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: you to come, they recruit you. The red shirt thing 98 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,119 Speaker 1: was something they had in mind. So at that level, 99 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: at the Stanford level, they have you come and they 100 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: say we're gonna bring you here and we're going to 101 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 1: develop you for the first year. Yeah, you know, and 102 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: some guys in my class, we're we're good enough to play, 103 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: you know, as freshman. But but I know in my 104 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: recruiting process that that was a thought that came up. 105 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: The muscle up and get stronger, and and and mentally too, 106 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: I think mentally catch up to the playbook having to 107 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: learn that, and you know, the game is faster in 108 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: college than it is that it is in high school. 109 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: So it definitely helped, and I enjoyed it. And what 110 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 1: was that experience like because someone said that to me once, 111 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: They said that, you know, you go from high school 112 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: and you're a dominant player in high school. Then you 113 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: go to college and you're in a room full of 114 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 1: high school dominant players. It's uh. Was it really kind 115 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: of inspiring to you to see that everybody was faster 116 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: and stronger. It's humbling. Let's say that you get knocked 117 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: off your high horse very very quickly to everybody's in all. 118 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: So you go from being in you know, the top dogs, 119 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: probably starting on every everything. Yeah, and everything you've ever 120 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: played in the cheerleaders one a date, you know everybody. 121 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: You go to college and you're just exactly so you 122 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:35,919 Speaker 1: read shirt that year and then you come back the 123 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 1: second year and I'm assuming you were stronger and you 124 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: had development and did you and you felt better? You 125 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: felt strong? No, I think I put on like pounds. 126 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: You know, my mind was working much quicker. When you're 127 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: on the football side. I think we're getting ready, getting ready, 128 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 1: And what happens in that second year coach Harbaugh, Who's 129 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: who's whose coach? Game? Jim, he gave me a shot, 130 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: managed to to roll with it, got got to play 131 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: in all their games. I got hurt the last game 132 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: of the season and miss miss down on a ball game. 133 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: We had a We had a great running back to 134 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: that year. Toby Gerhardt, who's backing Adrian Peterson up in 135 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: Minnesota right now, did you get smacked around a lot? 136 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: I mean you're playing football at Stanford. What was that 137 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: like for you? That that threat every day and it's 138 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: a pure adrenaline when you say to yourself, I can't 139 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: think about that, I can't afford to think about that 140 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: where every minute you're out there. Do you think these guys, man, 141 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 1: they really if they hit me, it's really gonna hurt. 142 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: Like no, I think that. You can't. You can't let 143 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: yourself think about gun it. You have to. I think 144 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: as soon as you start getting skittish about about being hit, 145 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: then then your play is gonna plummet. Yeah, there's a 146 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: little bit of pride involved in it too. I think 147 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 1: it's a football player at least at least in my mind, 148 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: I sort of enjoy getting hit every now and then 149 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: and being able to stand back up and say, okay, 150 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: you hit me whatever. Man, you know, yeah, I'm getting 151 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 1: back off down right. You didn't get me down right. 152 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 1: So so that I think, I think for a lot 153 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: of players there's a bit of that. What did Hardball 154 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: give you was a coach? What would you say distinguished 155 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: him as a coach? I think, yeah, he built great 156 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: relationships with players, everybody on the staff. And and he's 157 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: he's an unbelievable motivator, you know, uh, And I think 158 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: he doesn't and he feels guys you feel, you know, senses, 159 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: you know what's going to motivate them. I think he 160 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: was a great job of of of using different ways 161 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: to motivate different guys. H You always on game day, 162 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: you always felt like, you know, the guy was gonna, 163 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: you know, run through hell and back with you if 164 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: you had to. You felt like you had your back, 165 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: if you wanted to be in a brawl in an 166 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: alley you wanted, you want to coach hardball with you. 167 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: And when you went into the pros, because I want 168 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: to come back to when when you finished Stanford in 169 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: in a minute, but when you were in the Pros, 170 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: Pagana was very sick, and that was a big thing 171 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: in the NFL. That's a big story this year. You 172 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: know what was that like for you with you when 173 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: you found out your coach was seriously, seriously ill. Yeah, 174 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: it was. It was a little bit of an unprecedented situation. 175 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: I think when coach Pagano went down, Uh in week 176 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: three maybe had you seen it coming? No, no clue, 177 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: So everybody kept it quiet. Yeah, we didn't know. We 178 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: didn't know. We you know, we we had we had 179 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: o we played a game, We had a bye weekend 180 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: or an early week so you know, we were off 181 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: for the weekend. Uh, we came back, you know, expecting 182 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: to see coach Pagano. They find out, you know, there's 183 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: a there's a doctor from from IU Health and and 184 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: and our offensive coordinator we called the place sitting up 185 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 1: there telling us, you know, coach Bagana sick, you know, 186 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: seriously sick, you know, with lukemia, and uh, well you 187 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: know see how it goes, and it was this is 188 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,839 Speaker 1: an odd It was tough too, you know, tough, but 189 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: we were lucky. We had a lot of good coaches 190 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: rally you know, rally us. We managed to win a 191 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: couple of games, you know when when he was out 192 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,599 Speaker 1: and uh, I know, I know as as players, we 193 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: felt like, you know, if we can just win, win 194 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 1: this game, maybe it'll give coach bagan On something to 195 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: be happy about this. So there was yeah, yeah, there is, 196 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: I think and we didn't say that at the time 197 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: because I don't think we wanted to admit you wanted 198 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: to be exactly. I don't think we wanted to sensationalize, 199 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to make it something it's not. 200 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,599 Speaker 1: But well, speaking of sensationalizing, so you get to to 201 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: you finish out Stanford, how does what's it like when 202 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 1: you leave standard? Because you you you you read shirted 203 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: your first year, then played and you finished the Stanford 204 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: We didn't leave three years. So I so I graduated. 205 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: I had one year of eligibility left, but and you 206 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:31,439 Speaker 1: didn't and it was time to go. It was time 207 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: to How did you know it was time to go? Uh? 208 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: You know my degree? I got my degree exactly really 209 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 1: didn't make any sense to stay? Yeah, it didn't. I 210 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: had I had enough fun and then what happened? And 211 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: then tell me where you're sitting when that when you 212 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: find out what's going on for NFL. Was, how does 213 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 1: that develop? Yeah, it's it's a it's it's actually sort 214 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: of long process. And I was drafted before I graduated school, 215 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 1: so you finish your college season. I took a We 216 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: were on the quarter system at Stanford, so I took 217 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 1: the winter quarter off to go train and prepare that 218 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: they have a calm buying. Uh where in Indianapolis, which 219 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 1: you know it was funny enough, was where I ended up. 220 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: It's not the manning passing, that's not that's a camp 221 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: and in Louisiana and Thibodeaux, but the combine it is. 222 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: It a really interesting, weird sort of dynamic where they 223 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: fly all these players and they have all the coaches, 224 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: they have all the team doctors, and it's three days 225 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: and you're there pick and you know this is before 226 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 1: so this is a chance for all the teams to 227 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 1: meet the players that to see NFL. It's not just Indie, 228 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's league wise. It's all the teams 229 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: flying in with all their personnel and I'll stay and 230 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: then the players sort of cycle through. It's were like 231 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: cattle in a meat market. Yeah, I remember, you know, 232 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: walking up on stage with nothing but my little Skimpy's 233 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: on and they announced, you know, Anthon's Secret runway exactly. 234 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: You're you're you're gonna stage with strength coaches, head coaches 235 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 1: and all these coaches sitting and bleachers around you that 236 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: that you walk up in middle and it's you know 237 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 1: Andrew Luck Stanford University, you know, six four, two thirty five, 238 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: and guys are there with ads going, I don't like 239 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: the ratio to his rib cage, that they don't let 240 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: that rib ratio. God knows what they're saying. And then 241 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: you turn around, you and you walk off. That's just 242 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: one of the you know guys where you're getting a 243 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: hundred X rays on every part of your body. They 244 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: move your your knee this way. They have all your 245 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: medical records. You know, they're going back to Hey and 246 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: you know it says here in two thousand, six oh, 247 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 1: sixteen years old, two thousands, you know, yeah, you sprained 248 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: your right ankle. How did you find that you stole 249 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: that candy bar from the drug store when you were 250 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 1: a fourteen? We got that down here too. They do 251 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: I I a lot of private detectives, but which which 252 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 1: makes sense because there's so much money invested this teams 253 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: and the model. Yeah, so way, what's you're there and 254 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: you you take your clothes off and except your underwear, 255 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: they size you up, You turn on, you leave. What 256 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: happens next to the combine? Then you then you go 257 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: do a bunch of physical you know, running a forty 258 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: throwing about a bunch of physical tests, you know, a 259 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: bunch of psychological tests, i Q tests, mental health tests. 260 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 1: What's like, what's the what's the quiz they give you? Now? 261 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: The test? Oh, what's it called the wonderlick? The wonderlick? 262 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: The wonderlick? To do that because because because because it's 263 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: presumed that the playbooks now were so complicated, they need 264 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: people that can literally together. But I think some put 265 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: it together better than others. Some do and then and 266 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: then you know, some take stock in the wonder like 267 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: some don't. You know. I think different teams have different 268 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: ways of evaluating guys. So so that was an interesting experience. Uh, 269 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:48,439 Speaker 1: then you sort of then you leave the comment. And 270 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: I had I had a fairly good sense that I 271 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: would be drafted number one by Indianapolis just from the 272 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: signals I was getting from the team and other things, 273 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: and managed to you know, and then school started again 274 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: for me. So if you go and going back to 275 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: school and flying and you know, visiting teams and draft 276 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: happens in New York, which is which is a which 277 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: is a pretty neat experience. Describe what happened for you. 278 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: I remember walking out on stage and some people applauding 279 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: and some people booing. I don't know, you just NFL 280 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 1: fans boo. How did you feel? I mean, you knew 281 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: it was gonna happen kind of when everybody let you 282 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: know that in advance, everybody put the cats out of 283 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: the bag. But when it happens, at the moment happened, 284 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: did you just feel great? You would number one in 285 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: the draft that year? Man? Yeah, I felt on top 286 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: of the world. I'm not gonna lie a little nervous. 287 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: I didn't want a trip. Walking out on stage, she 288 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,839 Speaker 1: hugged the commissioners. He's into he's into these hugs. When 289 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: you walk on, glad you're there. It's gonna make a 290 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: lot of money. Yeah, So so that was fun. I 291 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: remember I remember having a little a little pin that 292 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,319 Speaker 1: my mom was trying to you know, little pen and 293 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: just trying to pin on my suit and she was 294 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: really nervous because he took about two minutes to get 295 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:04,439 Speaker 1: you know, I don't go How did your dad feel? 296 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: Your dad was a high school quarterback, he played for 297 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 1: West Virginia, he played for the Oilers. How did he 298 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 1: feel to see you do this? That's a great thing 299 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: for a dad who's a scholar athlete as well to 300 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: see his son. What did he say to you? I 301 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: think he was very proud. He just said congratulations. I 302 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: don't remember specifics, but he didn't. She just he just 303 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: kept smiling. Yeah, he felt good. He did, and we 304 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: have a great relationship. It's easier for me having a 305 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: dad who played in the NFL and and and did 306 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: a lot of couple of seasons where he played, and 307 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: then he backed up Warren Moon for we did back 308 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: up Warren. He also backed up Archie Manning his roop 309 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: few years. So we have sort of a connection with 310 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: the man and family. Now, as soon as you you 311 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: the draft is over, I would assume there's a euphoria, 312 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: But you snapped right out of it because like it's 313 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: down to business now. Yeah, there wasn't for and then 314 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: I wish you would would have been down to business. 315 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: Had to go back to school. And finish up, and 316 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: you try sitting in a lecture. You know, after you've 317 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: been you've been drafted by a team, you have a job, 318 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: you know where you're going. Honestly, I honestly don't feel 319 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: sorry for you because I can't think of anything I'd 320 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: like more than to go back to Stanford having been 321 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: the number one draft again. So you go back. How 322 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: long are you back there? Back for maybe a couple 323 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: more months to finish that last finished Q? What time 324 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: of year is then you got the draft? Is win? 325 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 1: The draft is like April, right, and you gotta go back. 326 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: Where's the summer quarter? It was the spring quarter and 327 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: we finished up in mid June. So so you were 328 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: in the quarter and you went to the draft and 329 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: came back. So in the first it's draft, come back, 330 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: and then you finish and you're dub with Stanford. You 331 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: get your degree in architectic somehow right, they went me, 332 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: they went me past. You were good for Stanford. And 333 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: so now when do your report? Uh so we report 334 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: late July was when training camp starts. When you know 335 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: the actual that's the formal training, formal training. You show 336 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: up for your first pro training camp. Now you are 337 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: in the center ring in ain't high school? In eight 338 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: college and ain't big ten and ain't it's professional football? 339 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: What's that like? I mean, did you're asked tighten just 340 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: a little bit? These guys are huge, they are They 341 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: are the apex of physical freaks. You know. There are 342 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: some guys that that are three hundred pounds that are 343 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: running faster than you know, running than your high school 344 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: running back, that are just that are just absolutely physical. 345 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: And you know, some of the guys you're walking along 346 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: a room, you're you're playing with thirty five year olds, 347 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: thirty six year old with with you know, with three 348 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: kids in it in the house, and you know a 349 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: bunch of rookies are three years old that you know, 350 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: I don't know right from left. So so it's it's 351 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: it's a different dynamic than college, where you're sort of, well, 352 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: everybody's with your yeah, with you, with your your buddies, 353 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: you're going back to the dorm, you know, you're hanging out. 354 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: In the NFL, it's different, which makes it fun when 355 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: you win and come together as a team, you know, 356 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: because you really do have so many different types of guys. 357 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: And I would imagine that your teammates, I mean, on 358 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: one hand, people in the pro like if you go 359 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: to college, it's just assumed under ordinary circumstances, certainly things 360 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: can change, but under ordinary circumstances, you're going to be 361 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: there for the four years. This is your team, this 362 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 1: is your this is your family. But in the pros 363 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: where people move on, where the teams have only their 364 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: loyalty to the players only extends so far. Do you 365 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 1: walk in there and people feel you out and you 366 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 1: earn your way into that family or do they treat 367 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: you like family and everybody coheses right away. No, it 368 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:29,919 Speaker 1: doesn't happen overnight. It doesn't happen in the first day. 369 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 1: I will say that people gotta get to know you. Yeah, 370 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 1: you gotta get you know, I think you have personalities 371 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 1: come out and you know, see what meshes that, especially 372 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: during training camp where you're gonna have you know, a 373 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: hundred guys that are in training camp and then one 374 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: day you wake up and look and there's only fifty 375 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: three guys left, you know, just under half gone, half 376 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 1: or gone. And then that's when there there there is 377 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: a little bit. But but once the final cuts are made, 378 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: which is a those cut days are very sad days 379 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: because you see buddies go. You see guys you built relationships, 380 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: you know, guys you admired. Maybe, yeah, absolutely, guys you 381 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: looked up to, guys that helped you out, you know 382 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 1: when you first walked in the door, and then they're gone, 383 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 1: and that fifty three players, that's when everything starts to cohes. Yeah, 384 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:11,640 Speaker 1: I think I think that's when that's when you come 385 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:14,160 Speaker 1: together a little more. But but still, you know, even 386 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: guys are traded in the middle of the season. You know, 387 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: guys are cut. Still guys are picked up. So it's 388 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: it is it's a lot different, you know, just to 389 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:22,639 Speaker 1: what you said at that than than the you know, 390 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: you know you're gonna be in college for four years. 391 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 1: You know who's in your class, you know who's you know, 392 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: you know guys on the lot of familiarity. Now, one 393 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: thing I think about when I think about the NFL 394 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: is this idea of the biggest, strongest, fastest men hitting 395 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 1: each other in this very violent game. And the rules 396 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 1: have been changed in order to protect players, the equipment 397 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: has evolved. Obviously, there's a lot of discussion about concussions 398 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: and so forth, over a lot of brain injury research 399 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 1: and issues, and people donating the brains of their deceased 400 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: suicide victims, a little lot of heavy duty stuff. But 401 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: I want to ask you when you go out there. 402 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 1: I mean, it's a competitive game and people want to win. 403 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: But at the same time, guys don't necessarily want to 404 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: hurt each other the way they wouldn't want to get 405 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: hurt either. Do you find it's a weird balance of 406 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: those two because football is as violent now on one 407 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: hand as it was before, but because equipment changes and 408 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: rule changes, it seemed more violent back then. Yeah, you know, 409 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: I I don't think guys are any less aggressive when 410 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: it when it comes to hitting. I no, no, it doesn't. 411 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: And I think, you know, maybe there's a thought too 412 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: that all these these equipment changes and and and you 413 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: feel safer in it, so so you feel like you 414 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: can hit harder. But there's also I think you know, 415 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: guys are are being taught, especially at a young age 416 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: now too. You know how to tackle correctly, to how 417 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: to how to and I think there is a mutual 418 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 1: respect between players where you know you're not going to 419 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:49,479 Speaker 1: try and take out someone's achilles or a cl you know, 420 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 1: some guys maybe, do you know, I don't I don't know. 421 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: Some guys play very aggressive and things happen. We understand, 422 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: you know, we know what we sign up for. I 423 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: think when you when you play football, and I like 424 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: it and I of it. And as a quarterback, you know, 425 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: I'm on the wrong side of the hit. You know, 426 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: I don't ever get to dish it out per se. 427 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: But you know that's fine with me. Right. Let's let's 428 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: talk about quarterbacking. Let's talk about what it's like to 429 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 1: have that job where I played touch football with my 430 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: friends until I was forty years old. Be played every 431 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 1: weekend during a season in the fall in New York 432 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 1: in Central Park, and then that game moved to Los 433 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 1: Angeles because almost all those guys I played with were 434 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 1: my UH colleagues and the entertainment business. And of course, 435 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: the difference between a sandlot game, the difference between a 436 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 1: flag game and a bunch of geezers playing football, the 437 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: difference between high school and cause is the speed and 438 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: the velocity of the game. And you dropped back to pass, 439 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: and on average, how much time do you have to 440 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: throw the ball. I think a little between three and 441 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 1: four seconds. You have that much time in a perfect world, 442 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 1: So you have three to four seconds to read the defense. 443 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: You know from the past play and you are this 444 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 1: architecture student. We're not you know, you know, you know 445 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: the trapezoids out there where, who's going where? And you 446 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: have a couple of seconds to drop back and ascertain 447 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: who you're going to throw the ball to, who's open, 448 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 1: who's more likely going to be open, because sometimes you're 449 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: throwing the ball to someone anticipating they're gonna be open. 450 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: Once the ball gets there, you throw the ball to 451 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 1: a spot very often, unless it's a broken play and 452 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 1: they come back to you to come back, and then 453 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,199 Speaker 1: someone's improvising. What percentage of plays would you say, do 454 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 1: you throw the ball at a spot that's a preordained route? 455 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 1: And how many plays is it more improvised? What's the ratio? Well, 456 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: every place is called you know, hopefully it's not taft 457 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: him for ries. You know you're gonna the defense. Yeah, 458 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: it breaks down probably a third of the time. Who 459 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: drove you nuts this season? And the defensive backfeld? What 460 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: team drove you insane? Read on the Baltimore Ravens, Because 461 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 1: you know there's a you're you're taught there's a structure 462 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,359 Speaker 1: to defense. You know, if one guy's blitz in that 463 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,399 Speaker 1: someone else should be covering his spot. If if you're playing, 464 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: you know, cover three three guys consequence for everything they do, 465 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: then then you should have, you know, a corner on 466 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: the right, a safety in the middle of the field, 467 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 1: and another corner on the left. Everything. He's everywhere. You know, 468 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 1: he's down on the box, he's on the line of scrimmage, 469 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: he's running, he's responsible for the middle zone, and he's 470 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 1: all the way over and he's a war lot. Yeah, 471 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 1: he's he's he's he's a renegade. But but but he 472 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: does it. I think because he understands football so well 473 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 1: and studies the offense. You know, he says, okay, I 474 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: know when they're in this formation, there's these these and 475 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: that's innate skill people have. This is good God given skill. 476 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 1: They have it. I think it is. But I also 477 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: think he works at it and watches film and knows, 478 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: you know, and and studies and and it's played for 479 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: so long. But that's what I want to ask you. 480 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: How much do you think that people it's innate? Like 481 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: when you watch football, you see people do things that 482 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: other people don't do. You see magic happen when you watch. 483 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna talk. I'm gonna date myself obviously, 484 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: because I'm talking about guys from from you know, the 485 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: glory days. And when I was watching NFL, you know constantly, 486 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: I got a lot of you know, a little less 487 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 1: time to watch every Sunday now, but I catch a 488 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 1: game every weekend or or or the highlights. But like 489 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: if you watch Sanders and you watch someone moved the 490 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: way sand where you say, nobody does that. When you 491 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: watch Nameth what made name of the name of in 492 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:27,120 Speaker 1: spite of all of his notoriety, you never saw somebody 493 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: throw the ball on the dead run to their receiver. 494 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 1: Maynard never had to break stride and he and and 495 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: that ball would hit him in the tips of his 496 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: fingers on the dead run and he would take it 497 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: into the ends, of which a lot of guys have 498 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: to come back to the ball or whatever. They got 499 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: to jump up and do the ballet move for the ball. 500 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 1: You see people and it's work. But do you look 501 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: at them sometimes and say, it's just God given, it's 502 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: genetic with some of these people. They just have gifts 503 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: the mental as well as physical. Yes, I think, and 504 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: at least once a week it seems like you're watching 505 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 1: film of and you stop and say, how did that 506 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 1: person do that? You know, there's no hope for me 507 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: in this guys, QBS. You grew up admiring Peyton, Manning 508 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: love Peyton. Still a big fan of Peyton. Um Steve McNair, 509 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: you know who whose since passed away. But but he 510 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: was a tough guy who could sling the ball, oh 511 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: all over the field. So those two. What do you 512 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 1: admire most about Peyton? You you had the tough job 513 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: obviously replacing Peyton. Yeah, you know, I always admired how 514 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: how Payton commanded everything that Yeah. Never Quitton was like 515 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 1: a general out there three minutes left down by Yeah, 516 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 1: So it was fun to watch and he seemed like 517 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 1: he knew where everybody was going all the time. There's 518 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: no surprises for him. And you know it was like 519 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: everything was so well rehearsed that that it happened and 520 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,199 Speaker 1: whatever the defense put out there, there's no there's no 521 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: very young year. How old Now, I'm not supposed to 522 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: laugh at that. You're I'm old enough to be your father. 523 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 1: He's only twenty three. But Andrew Luck has been working 524 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 1: towards this moment for more than a decade. In a minute, 525 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: we'll hear about what kind of football Luck prefers and 526 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:13,120 Speaker 1: the strength training he thinks is most important. I think 527 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: your core and your asses cannon out of a canoe 528 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: were so much powers generated. This is Alec Baldwin and 529 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: you're listening to. Here's the thing. Growing up, Andrew Luck 530 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: went to school in Europe. His father, a former quarterback himself, 531 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: led the World League of American Football, the NFL's experiment 532 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: with starting a league abroad. When his father changed jobs 533 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: in the family landed in Houston, Andrew was ready to 534 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 1: play ball himself. At age four, team Andrew attended the 535 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 1: Manning Passing Academy in Louisiana. So you know that the 536 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: Manning family obviously sort of the first family of quarterbacks, 537 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: you know, in the in this league. You know. So 538 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 1: I was in eighth grade in Houston, and uh, I 539 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: went to the camp as a as a camper, and 540 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: it's this was this was it's in Louisiana. It used 541 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,880 Speaker 1: to be Hammond, Louisiana is where I went as a camper, 542 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 1: and you stayed stayed in these dorms looked like a 543 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 1: Soviet era, like old Gray, you know, like like the summertime. 544 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: It was so summer in Louisiana and you're in the yeah, 545 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:44,479 Speaker 1: the cinder blocks exactly. But we had a blast. And 546 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: I think I was on cloud nine when Archie Manning 547 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: came up and said, how you doing sign I played 548 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,159 Speaker 1: with your dad. You know, I'm in heaven. Shoot me 549 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: now I've lived. And then then you go to you 550 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: go to college whatever, and they invite all these college 551 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 1: quarterbacks come down and be counselors, and I think it's 552 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 1: a great thing. It's like, it's a great way to meet, 553 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,399 Speaker 1: you know, thirty other quarterbacks around around you know, the 554 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: n C A A and then get to know him. 555 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: So I went down to the past and my last 556 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,919 Speaker 1: two years of college, and you know, I got to 557 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 1: know the Manning family obviously a little better through that, 558 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: and a bunch of bunch of quarterbacks from from from college. 559 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,199 Speaker 1: So it's Kapernick was at that camp. I got to 560 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 1: I got to know call in there, a little bit, 561 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: a lot of guys, a lot a lot of guys, 562 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: and it's fun. It really is fun, and it's it's 563 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: it's a unique opportunity because it's not often around your 564 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,639 Speaker 1: peers and in a relaxed setting like that when you 565 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: want to work on your passing skills and but I 566 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 1: don't mean the timing and reading offenses, the mechanics of 567 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 1: you throw. What's your primary set of exercises and work. 568 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: Did you have a coach when you got to the pros? 569 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: Did they come in as they often do and dissect 570 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: your throwing motion and get into the mechanics if you're 571 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: throwing again? Not? Not in the pros. I think I 572 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: think there's a thought that if you've made it this far, 573 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 1: don't don't change your throw on motion. You They didn't, 574 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: but not like Tebow where they're coming to you but 575 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: you're not Tebow. But I'm saying people have the assumption 576 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: that on the pros they want to strip you down 577 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: and say okay, let's start all over again. That they 578 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 1: didn't need to They didn't feel they needed to re 579 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: teach you how to throw the football. No, absolutely not. 580 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 1: What's I'm very thankful for because I I don't think 581 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: I would have handled it very well. I think that 582 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: I think quarterbacks are are very particular about their own 583 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: motion and in a little bit anal you know, is 584 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: this is the way? Because what do you think you 585 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: had to develop and if you wanted to improve when 586 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,440 Speaker 1: you were younger, when you added pounds, when you wanted 587 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: to muscle up and strengthen up. Because I said that 588 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: Joe Montana once what I was doing a film and 589 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: Montana came to visit the director on the set and 590 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: I had the quickest, most fleeting conversation. It wasn't very real. 591 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: Iz said to him, I go, what was your strength training? 592 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: He said, I avoided weights as much as possible. I 593 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: didn't want to get muscled up. He said. I took 594 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: medical tubing like hose and I put a strap in 595 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: a doorway and I just did the throwing motion over 596 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: and over, you know, like a thousand times with this 597 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: tension thing. Just to strength than the rotation. What exercises 598 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 1: do you think it to strengthen your legs in your 599 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: back as much as your upper body. I think I 600 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: think your core and your asses is so much cannon 601 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 1: out of a canoe. There where so much powers generated, 602 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: and I think that's that's a lot of leg training, 603 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: a lot of leg training, a lot of weight training, 604 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: run training. I hate running, but yeah, you have to do. 605 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: But I think it's more weight and just rotation it's 606 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: almost like golfers. You know, you're very one boxing and 607 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 1: boxing you're very one sided. It's almost like throwing a 608 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: right cross, you know, could you throw that punch? You 609 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 1: gotta punch absolutely and and you become very one sided. 610 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 1: You're always torking in the same direction, so making sure 611 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: your left, making sure you're evening out, you know, your 612 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: right side of the body per se. But but I 613 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: I and that's something that I that I learned more, 614 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 1: you know of in college. And then the legs. You 615 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: know how important your lower body is to throwing. I 616 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: would play in sand a lot of pickup games with 617 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: my friends. And of course when you play for fun 618 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: with guys when you're you know, when I'm in my 619 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: thirties and forties, just for fun. Half the guys bring 620 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 1: their own favorite ball, and the ball is deflated or 621 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 1: inflated to the level they prefer. The ball is scuffed 622 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: to the level they prefer. And when you pick up 623 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 1: a ball in the NFL, forget about weather conditions. Is 624 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 1: the ball always a crisp, waxy, brand new ball or 625 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: do they allow you to treat the ball the way 626 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 1: you want to for your preference. I hate the crisp waxy. 627 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: You can't stand it. There's a our our equipment managers 628 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: for their colts, Frog Tea and Danny, the three great 629 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 1: guys that work with their quarterbacks. They have it. They 630 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: have a top secret protocol for for for them to 631 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 1: treat the ball. Treating the balls, it's secret. They won't 632 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: tell me. I don't think they tell Peyton when I 633 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: know what it is by the women to tell you, 634 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: it's they pee on it. It's their own urine. They 635 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: use their own urine to strip the waxy film off. 636 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 1: Who is the baseball player that used to pee on 637 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: his hands to avoid Callus's There was a Cubbs player 638 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: Like yeah, but I know I soon they have a 639 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 1: patented top secret Theca cola and then the football is treated. 640 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 1: But you do treat the ball. You do, and it's 641 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 1: sat out of the box. It's not out of the box. 642 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: And I've seen different stages of it, Like I know, 643 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: I know they put the balls in the the sauna 644 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: for like a couple of minutes that they're allowed to 645 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: do something that allows them to treat the ball. They do. 646 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: Did every team get to use their own ball? Like 647 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 1: when when you come out on offense. We go get 648 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,480 Speaker 1: the box, we go open the crate of your opponents balls. 649 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: Everyone brings their own ball on the field as long 650 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: as it's the approved ball. Yes, and and for what 651 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: I understand, it used to not be that way. It 652 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: used to be like there's a certain you know, all 653 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 1: the balls for game day were open an hour before 654 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 1: and each team used the same ball. But I think, uh, 655 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: I think Peyton and and Tom Brady sort of this 656 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 1: was before my time. Let it. Let a coalition against 657 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 1: that and got it change where teams can use you know, 658 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: what about the inflation level of the ball. Does the 659 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 1: ball have to be inflated to a certain Yeah, I 660 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: think it does, and referees check it and they mark 661 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: the balls off before the ball that we approved in 662 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: one way. But you're allowed to treat the exterior of 663 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: the ball. Yeah, that's amazing. So when you're there and 664 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,719 Speaker 1: you're throwing the ball, is it completely unconscious When you 665 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 1: throw the ball and you think you're ineffective? Do you 666 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: sometimes say to yourself, even at the pro level, that 667 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 1: you've got to go back to a basic You got 668 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 1: to remember, you're bringing the ball in behind your ear. 669 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? What's the firing sequence in 670 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 1: your mind of throwing a pass? I think you don't 671 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: want to think about. No, you don't, And that's what 672 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: I shouldn't say. Ever, when you if you if you're 673 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: going on a string and balls are dying on you, 674 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 1: and you say why what if you're having a shitty 675 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: day and you're not throwing the ball? But yeah, I 676 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: think that that's when you, when you, when you maybe 677 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: not during the dead you have fresh button, you look 678 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 1: at the film and you say, what am I doing 679 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: different than than than you see sometimes you did? Yeah, 680 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 1: I think, what did you do differently? I think, I look, 681 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: you know, you're dropping the ball too low, and it's 682 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 1: elong dating your whole wind up. You know, it's almost 683 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 1: like a picture now instead of a quarterback, you know, 684 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 1: instead of throwing a football. And that's what's causing you 685 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 1: to be late on all your routes. You know, makes 686 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,600 Speaker 1: you know, so so that that we can practice. You're 687 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 1: gonna work on keeping that ball, you know, higher and 688 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: and and maybe shortening that that motion. Uh So, I 689 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 1: think it's you're still tweak it every now and then 690 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 1: if if it's not working out, if you feel like it, 691 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: you know, it's inhibiting you from from doing, you know, 692 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: from being better. Um for fans like myself, when we 693 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 1: watch you play pro football and you're doing your job 694 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 1: and you're just humming that ball out there, you're you're you're, 695 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: you're hitting that ball, first downs, whatever, and the other 696 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 1: guy drops the ball. Did he come back and apologize 697 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 1: to you? Every now and then? Different guys are different. Uh. 698 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 1: You know, I I probably apologize too much for throwing 699 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 1: interceptions to the guys on the line because I know 700 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 1: they get fed up when they're blocking their butts off 701 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: against some werewolf of the defensive end and they're doing 702 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,840 Speaker 1: a great job. I know, Yeah, their quarterback throws an interception. 703 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: Good job, QB. But you know, some guys apologize, some 704 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 1: guys don't. It's just the nature of the game that 705 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: we're humans, you know, human errors occur. Let's talk about 706 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: the season, and I'll talk about it the season beginning, 707 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: actually when the season ends. So your season ended and 708 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,680 Speaker 1: you I did not go to the Super Bowl, yes, 709 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 1: and you were eliminated by the Super from playing in 710 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. How we were limited in the first 711 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,600 Speaker 1: round of the playoffs by the Ravens, which is no fun. 712 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: And you don't prepare for you know, the end of 713 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,800 Speaker 1: the season is there in the player. You want to 714 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:15,440 Speaker 1: go to the Super Bowl, so you think there's more 715 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,399 Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, so you show up. So you show 716 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,240 Speaker 1: up Monday and you have a few more blank pages 717 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 1: on your schedule. Yeah you do, you really do. And 718 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,120 Speaker 1: you show up Monday and it's guys are cleaning their 719 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,800 Speaker 1: lockers out. He's very similar to the film business. Trash bags. 720 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 1: You're saying, well, you know, all right, see you man. 721 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,880 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe maybe you're back next year. Maybe you're not. 722 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 1: You know, you don't know, so so it's odd. And 723 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,160 Speaker 1: then I remember sitting around for a couple of days 724 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: and you know, all right, I gotta get out of town. 725 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,319 Speaker 1: I gotta you know, I can't sit around. And I 726 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 1: apartment and and leave. So I went to Sundance Film Festival. 727 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 1: It was awesome. It no, I can't see actually that's 728 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,279 Speaker 1: no motorcyclists, but but had a great time. They're a 729 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 1: nice way to sort of get away. It's not not 730 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,520 Speaker 1: not the crowd that wreck noises football players too much. 731 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 1: So it's a nice way to get away. Which now 732 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: I'm blowing my cover. I'm sure for next year be 733 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,040 Speaker 1: careful out of here, but hopefully next year we're in 734 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,600 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Uh, I'll travel a little bit overseas somewhere. 735 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, do you still have a bug for Europe? 736 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 1: I think I've lived in London too. I lived in London, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, 737 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 1: some suburbs outside. Go over there, what do you like 738 00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 1: to do? I see the sites like any other tourists. 739 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna go back and look at all. 740 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,160 Speaker 1: You know what you're trying to see? Friend over there? 741 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,319 Speaker 1: Is that what you're trying to know? The girlfriend's coming with. 742 00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,920 Speaker 1: There's a couple of gondolas with your girl. We understand 743 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,240 Speaker 1: what you're saying. A couple of drinks here, it's very romantic. 744 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:44,399 Speaker 1: Covering a little shopping, Yeah, but no shopping. I can't 745 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: stand for your girlfriend, so girl, maybe maybe. Andrew Luck 746 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,640 Speaker 1: has other things on his mind besides shopping. He wants 747 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,879 Speaker 1: to relearn German in the off season, and of course 748 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:03,520 Speaker 1: he's hoping to bring a championship back to Indianapolis. I'm 749 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: still young, hopefully got some time and it gives you 750 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 1: a little motivation for next seasons. A party that really 751 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 1: is looking forward to getting back. Yeah, there is, and 752 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,400 Speaker 1: that will continue to grow as the off season sort of, 753 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,439 Speaker 1: after a few more gone to the trips with that girl, 754 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,239 Speaker 1: they will be sick with each other and ready to 755 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 1: He'll work out again. This is Alec Baldwin and you're 756 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,120 Speaker 1: listening to here's the thing.