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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Colts Reunion Podcast, a conversation with former

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Speaker 1: Colts players look back at their career, what they're up

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Speaker 1: to now, and how the Colts played a positive role

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Speaker 1: in their lives.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Colts Reunion Podcast, our audio series here

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Speaker 2: in the summertime, catching up with former Colts players to

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Speaker 2: talk about their lives after football and their memories with

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Speaker 2: the Indianapolis Colts. I'm Matt Taylor with Ring of Honor

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Speaker 2: member Bill Brooks. We're inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry

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Speaker 2: radio studio, and our guest today is arguably the greatest

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Speaker 2: tight end in the history of the Indianapolis Colts franchise,

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Speaker 2: Dallas Clark. Dallas played for the Colts from two thousand

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Speaker 2: and three to twenty eleven, and what a story he has.

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Speaker 2: A walk on in Iowa to play linebacker, and then

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Speaker 2: the Hawkeye coaching staff influenced him to move from defense

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Speaker 2: to tight end, and what a payoff that was. Clark

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Speaker 2: turned into the best tight end in college football. He

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Speaker 2: won the John mckew Award in two thousand and two

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Speaker 2: and was drafted right away by former Colts GM Bill

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Speaker 2: Polly in the following season. In the first round. Clark

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Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl with the Colts, was named the

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Speaker 2: Pro Bowl and First team All Pro in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and nine, caught over five hundred passes and over fifty

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Speaker 2: six hundred yards and fifty three touchdowns, and eleven seasons

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Speaker 2: in the NFL, and he holds the franchise record for receptions,

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Speaker 2: receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns by a tight end. And

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Speaker 2: that's the setup with number forty four, Dallas Clark, Dallas.

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Speaker 2: Great to hear your voice again, man, Thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for the time today.

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Speaker 3: How are you, Matt?

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Speaker 4: I am phenomenal and I can't thank you guys enough

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Speaker 4: for asking me and Bill, I appreciate you so what

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Speaker 4: people don't know When I was a rookie and Bill

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Speaker 4: Brooks was one of the first guys he took us

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Speaker 4: to the Rookie Soap Posium with him with Steve Champlin,

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Speaker 4: and those two guys like instantly kind of became like

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Speaker 4: your brothers of kind of you know, guys within the

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Speaker 4: organization that obviously Bill with his amazing resume, but uh,

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Speaker 4: but to have a guy like that for a player

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Speaker 4: to come in and I've always looked up to Bill,

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Speaker 4: obviously as a kid watching him play on TV. So

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Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, like, holy crap, this is

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Speaker 4: Bill Brooks and he's showing me around and telling me

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Speaker 4: what to do it. And now you know, and obviously,

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Speaker 4: you know, being a big part of the Colts family,

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Speaker 4: obviously at that point I had no idea whether I

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Speaker 4: nine years with him, so you know, you never know.

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Speaker 4: So I've always, uh, I've always had the best respect

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Speaker 4: for Bill, and this is exciting to to uh to

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Speaker 4: be be on here with you guys.

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Speaker 5: Well, thanks, Dallas, I appreciate that. But it was easy

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Speaker 5: working with you because you're a guy that had you

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Speaker 5: put your head down and worked hard. So very easy

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Speaker 5: to be around you and help you. And you did

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Speaker 5: a tremendous job while you're here with the Colts.

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Speaker 4: Well I know I had some big eyes that you

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Speaker 4: had to probably has been a mile of a million

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Speaker 2: No doubt, no doubt. So we're going to get into

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Speaker 2: all of that. But uh, before we talk about your

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Speaker 2: lane a little bit with you, Dallas. Can you tell

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Speaker 2: us a little bit about yourself now, you know, kind

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Speaker 2: right now here in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 3: If you don't mind, well we don't.

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Speaker 4: We don't want to lose our listeners. Matt I am

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Speaker 4: first year living buddy. I moved back to Iowa, back

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Speaker 5: I know, Dallas, it seems like you're really enjoying, you know,

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Speaker 4: Like I don't care about that. We're not talking about that,

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Speaker 4: to go play its a big boys today. You know

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Speaker 4: that that's physically and just obviously not possible. Well, this

424
00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,399
Speaker 4: this arena, it's pretty darn cool to me for me

425
00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:41,080
Speaker 4: to be about thirty five minutes behind the best in

426
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Speaker 4: the world, like and oh, by the way, just so

427
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 4: people don't know, I learned this. So the ConA Championship,

428
00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:49,399
Speaker 4: the only people I get to do Kona is you qualified.

429
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Speaker 4: You finished in the top five and your age bracket

430
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Speaker 4: at a ConA event the prior year. That's the only way.

431
00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 4: And then obviously if you're pro then I'm sure you

432
00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,359
Speaker 4: get exemptions and things like that. Than that if those people,

433
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,119
Speaker 4: and then the Ironman Foundation athletes, which is me. I

434
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,000
Speaker 4: had a guy come up to me so he says, hey,

435
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,560
Speaker 4: are you Dallas. I'm like yeah, He's like, hey, guess what,

436
00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:12,359
Speaker 4: there's only two people out of four thousand athletes because

437
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:15,080
Speaker 4: they had to make up for ConA or for COVID,

438
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,520
Speaker 4: so they had two days of this. They're like, hey,

439
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 4: out of all four thousand athletes, there's only two people

440
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Speaker 4: that have never done a full Ironman.

441
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Speaker 3: You and me.

442
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:29,159
Speaker 4: Boy, No boy, that guy and this guy were the

443
00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,160
Speaker 4: only guys that our very first iron Man full Ironman

444
00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,520
Speaker 4: was COONa, which is like the super Bowl, going right in, Yeah,

445
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 4: going right into the calculus and say, hey, you're your

446
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,720
Speaker 4: best test teacher. What do you got? So but to

447
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:43,440
Speaker 4: be able to be on that course and to be

448
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 4: able to so what it took me to basically bike

449
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Speaker 4: my one twelve. I think I finished my bike in

450
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Speaker 4: five little over five hours. My swim is my best.

451
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,119
Speaker 4: I finished my swim in an hour and twenty minutes.

452
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Speaker 4: And it was that was I mean, that's like swimming

453
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Speaker 4: a queer. I mean that water was absolutely perfect, gorgeous

454
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,800
Speaker 4: and just I mean I was and obviously just jacked up.

455
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Speaker 4: So but then the then the run, I mean the marathon.

456
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Speaker 4: But Tony Can was out there with me. I saw

457
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Speaker 4: him on the track. We've passed each other twice and

458
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Speaker 4: man getting a hug from Tony kanan Uh in the

459
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Speaker 4: middle of the races. You know, it's just I mean,

460
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,960
Speaker 4: that guy, if you don't know Tony, that guy is

461
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:26,200
Speaker 4: a beaming beam of light like wherever he goes. Yeah,

462
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:30,920
Speaker 4: always the sweetest human on this earth and just so

463
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,240
Speaker 4: encouraging and just great, great, great guy. And so to

464
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Speaker 4: have him see him on the path and I saw

465
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,440
Speaker 4: him late it was like I had about eight miles left.

466
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 4: It was pitch dark, and so we actually pass each

467
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Speaker 4: other on a on a feeling station and it was

468
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Speaker 4: just by chance. It's like Tony, hey, give it, give it,

469
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Speaker 4: you get it here. I mean it was awesome. He's like,

470
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 4: you got this, you got it was awful. So just

471
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Speaker 4: it was like, I mean I can if I if

472
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Speaker 4: I let myself get I mean, it's it is a

473
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Speaker 4: it's an emotional I mean I cried like a couple

474
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Speaker 4: of times. I don't know why. I don't know what.

475
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Speaker 4: It's just it's amazing. I don't I don't understand that part.

476
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 4: But it's just like there's just something very like taking

477
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Speaker 4: your body to a place that you're like what, I

478
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,119
Speaker 4: don't know, I don't know, but it's it's like, but

479
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 4: you know, there's something going on, like when all of

480
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 4: a sudden you just start crying and you're like and

481
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 4: and the best part coming across and Mike Riley and

482
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 4: again another tradition I never I never knew about. I mean,

483
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,639
Speaker 4: I heard Dallas Clark, you are an iron Man. I

484
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Speaker 4: just assume Mike Riley did that for the guy that

485
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 4: and the gual that win it. I didn't know he

486
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 4: does it for every athlete and hearing and this is

487
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Speaker 4: his last year. And if anyone doesn't know, that's like,

488
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 4: you know, that's like you know Al Michael's retiring or

489
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 4: or John Madden, you know, I mean, I like that's

490
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 4: he's the voice of iron Man. And he told the

491
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Speaker 4: story at the at the kind of ceremony, uh, the

492
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Speaker 4: opening ceremonies a few days before they had a big

493
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Speaker 4: thing for him, which is very very honored and very deserved.

494
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,719
Speaker 4: But he told the story about how he came up

495
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 4: with that, about how he had he was he was

496
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Speaker 4: an iron Man himself and he was hurt that day.

497
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 4: And the guy, the guy that running the iron Man

498
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 4: was like, hey, you know all these athletes, why don't

499
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 4: you just want you announce uh because you know all

500
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 4: the athletes coming across and he met a guy that

501
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 4: was racing and he just didn't have it. He's just like,

502
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Speaker 4: he's like, Mike, I don't got it today. And he's like, oh,

503
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 4: come on, man, hey, don't forget you are an ironman.

504
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Speaker 4: And so so the guy does well, he crosses the line.

505
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 4: I forget the guy's name, but he's like, hey, hey,

506
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 4: Bill Brooks, remember I told you you are an iron man.

507
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 4: And the crowd he erupted and he was like, whoa,

508
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 4: what was that? And so that the next person came across,

509
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 4: he's like, you know, uh, you know, Dallas Cart, you

510
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 4: are an Ironman. And he's just like and all of

511
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 4: a sudden, the crowd got crowd got bigger and bigger,

512
00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 4: and he was just like, Matt Taylor, you are the

513
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 4: and he's like, holy cod, I got something here. So

514
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 4: that's the birth of you are in iron Man. I'm

515
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 4: getting goosebumps tell about it. But here hearing that guy

516
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Speaker 4: stay your name, and then seeing my beautiful children and

517
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 4: uh and and and and the lights and uh, it's

518
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 4: so intimate and uh, I mean, I mean, it's it's amazing.

519
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 4: It is it's just I mean, I mean, and obviously

520
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 4: we we we we got to the top in in

521
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Speaker 4: uh in the NFL and and I mean and and

522
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,160
Speaker 4: no offense to the Super Bowl, you know, but it's

523
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Speaker 4: there's some very similar like, you know, just kind of

524
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Speaker 4: like some you know, I don't know, there's just very

525
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 4: similar feelings there of like wow, there's just an accomplishment.

526
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Speaker 4: Uh there. So it was pretty it's pretty wild.

527
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Speaker 2: Well, it's fascinating stuff. And again you are to be congratulated, Dallas.

528
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Speaker 2: We can't thank you enough for for sharing that and

529
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Speaker 2: the work that you did, all the money that you're

530
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Speaker 2: raised again for Peyton Manning's Children's Hospital in Indianapolis and

531
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Speaker 2: the University of Iowa's Stead Family uh Chill Dan's Hospital. Obviously,

532
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 2: it's very rewarding for yourself because of what you accomplished,

533
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 2: but the way that you took other people along with

534
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 2: you in your journey is just it's simply amazing. Let's

535
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 2: hit the rewind button a little bit, go back to

536
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 2: where it kind of all started there at Iowa best

537
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 2: tight in the country in two thousand and two, Dallas,

538
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 2: you won the John mackew Award coming out of college.

539
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 2: Then you get drafted in the first round by the

540
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Speaker 2: Indianapolis Colts. You come to Indianapolis in two thousand and three,

541
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Speaker 2: and at that point, Dallas, the Colts, they weren't yet

542
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 2: like the twelve and four juggernaut, right. They weren't winning

543
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 2: AFC South Divisions every year. The Colts made the playoffs

544
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 2: two of the three years before you got there, but

545
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 2: they weren't that perennial team that was a threat to

546
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 2: win the Super Bowl every single year. But they did

547
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,199
Speaker 2: have a ton of pieces on offense in place already,

548
00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:00,879
Speaker 2: like Peyton Manning and Reggie Wayne and Marvin Harrison, Edrin James,

549
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 2: Tara Glenn up front, Jeff's Saturday up Front. What were

550
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 2: your initial thoughts walking into the Colts locker room at

551
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 2: that point in time with all of that talent on offense.

552
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, Matt, you knailed it right there. I

553
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 4: mean I walked into that huddle with all those people

554
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 4: you just named, and You're like, where, okay, I'm at

555
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 4: the wrong place, Like where they don't They're fine, they don't,

556
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 4: they don't need this guy.

557
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Speaker 3: I mean, it was just like it was incredible.

558
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 4: I mean to be surrounded by those dudes, and I mean,

559
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 4: so it just I put in my mind, you know,

560
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 4: I mean, it was a true like, you know, I

561
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 4: had the walk on mentality. I walked on as a linebacker.

562
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Speaker 3: You know.

563
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 4: Thank god coach parents saw that I really really was

564
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 4: a bad linebacker and and you know, maybe let's try

565
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 4: this tight end thing. And thank god, otherwise we would

566
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 4: never have met. I'd be a great teacher and the

567
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 4: coach somewhere, which would have been perfectly fine. But but

568
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 4: it was a It was one of those things where

569
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 4: I walked into the huddle of my Okay, I see

570
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 4: what I gotta do. I I gotta I gotta earn it.

571
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 4: I gotta prove myself every day. And uh and obviously

572
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 4: that's the name of the business anyway, but I didn't

573
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 4: know that. I mean, it was just more of a

574
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 4: I could care less about the NFL. It's just more

575
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 4: about like belonging, being being accepted into that huddle, you know,

576
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 4: being knowing my role and doing it the best I

577
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 4: can and and to be and to be to be

578
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 4: looked at as an equal in in that huddle. And

579
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 4: so that was my challenge of like, Okay, I'm not

580
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 4: gonna I'm not gonna, you know, certainly, and I don't

581
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 4: want to make Bill pull In look bad for obviously

582
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 4: picking me because you know, I'm sure people like who

583
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 4: the hell, like what what first pick? But that's who

584
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 4: we were getting a kid from. I like, what what

585
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 4: are we doing? You know? So uh so there, you know,

586
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 4: there's a lot of things to uh to get after

587
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 4: and and uh and proven myself. Uh day one was

588
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 4: was definitely that and uh and and that just kind

589
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 4: of that just never leaves. I mean that's just kind

590
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 4: of one of those things that you know, no matter

591
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 4: what the accolades are, no matter with that, it's just

592
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 4: all always about, you know, bring it the next day.

593
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 4: And that's kind of that environment. I mean it's like

594
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 4: we don't we don't sit it in the locker room

595
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 4: and talk about how awesome we are. Is you sit

596
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 4: in that locker room like okay, what what do we

597
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 4: gotta do next? What do we gotta do? I mean,

598
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 4: you just you know, that's what that's what these podcasts

599
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 4: are for. We can talk about how Austin we were.

600
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 4: You know, you don't have time to do that when

601
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 4: you're in the locker room. I mean, you got you

602
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 4: got the Titans, the Patriots wanted to kill you, so

603
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 4: we gotta we gotta, we gotta gotta state. We gotta

604
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 4: they starts now, Dallas.

605
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Speaker 5: You you know, you play some big time football at

606
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 5: Iowa and you played it well. But playing college football

607
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 5: and playing pro footballs and adjustment. What was your biggest

608
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 5: adjustment going from playing college football at Iowa to playing

609
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 5: professional football with Indianapolis Colts.

610
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Speaker 4: Well, if you'd ask Tom Moore or all of the

611
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 4: offense coordinator, you're probably saying, going on, going on two

612
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 4: or going on you know every time outside just like brother,

613
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 4: we go you know, we don't go on one here

614
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 4: like we we we have different snapcuts.

615
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 3: That's pretty good.

616
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 2: That's pretty good right there.

617
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Speaker 4: But yeah, I've had I've had plenty of It's not

618
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 4: good when you do Tom Moore's voice to Tom Moore,

619
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 4: he he puts up of it. But I know deep

620
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 4: down inside he'd want to strangle me. So uh but

621
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 4: but I'm like, hey, so but uh but yeah, it

622
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 4: was just uh, it was the complexity, you know. I

623
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 4: mean obviously, I mean I think just going from college

624
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 4: to the NFL would just be a massive jump anyway.

625
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 4: But to go from the to Ile football to the

626
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 4: Indianapolis Colts, Tom Moore Peyton manning offense now it's like,

627
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 4: holy Lord, we got we got some things, we got

628
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 4: some things to learn, you know, and and it was

629
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Speaker 4: a you know, I mean, I think that's kind of

630
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 4: the ongoing like, hey, when did you truly feel comfortable?

631
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Speaker 4: To me? It is like we are year two, like

632
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 4: the middle of the year. Like it was just kind

633
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 4: of where I'm like, I feel like I'm I can

634
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 4: play fast, like you know, there's zero thinking right now,

635
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 4: and so just real act right exactly. I mean, you

636
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 4: think you're dead. I mean, if anyone watched Maverick this

637
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 4: this summer blockbuster movie Tom Cruise, if you think you're

638
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 4: dead and and I can't believe I just pulled out

639
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 4: a line from but but I love that movie. But anyway,

640
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 4: but it's it's the NFL. If you think you're dead

641
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 4: and uh and and you just can't you can't do

642
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 4: it and uh and so that's kind of that's the

643
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 4: the honing in on the craft that you have to

644
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 4: work the offseason, work all you know, Thank god you

645
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 4: have a quarterback that's just a perfectionist, because we're going

646
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 4: to run that route until he feels great about it,

647
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 4: until and and usually if he feels great about then

648
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 4: you feel good about it. Uh. And so it's one

649
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 4: of those things. It's just the camaraderie, it's the timing,

650
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 4: it's the trust. That's there's just so many little little

651
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 4: things that if one of them isn't right, then the

652
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 4: whole boat just kind of starts rocking a little bit,

653
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 4: you know. And so so it's that it's that game

654
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 4: of of of learning that holds the whole gamut and

655
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 4: just the whole intricacies of the offense. And and that

656
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 4: was just kind of the true, the true challenge. And

657
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 4: then obviously the thing that Tom Moore always points out

658
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 4: as well, you know about week ten, Yeah, about week nine,

659
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 4: week ten. He did it every year. Hey rookies, Hey,

660
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 4: guess what your football season is over? Our football seasons

661
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 4: just beginning. And it's like ten thousand it's so true.

662
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 4: But you're just like, good guy, can you put ten

663
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 4: thousand more bricks on my shoulders? But because I already

664
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 4: had the world out of my shoulder, now you're putting more,

665
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 4: no doubt, But it's so true. It's just like and

666
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 4: your body's you know, body's waving a white flag. You know,

667
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 4: it's like, hey, hey, we're done by now, you know,

668
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 4: we're going. We're on Chris's break right now. Sure, and

669
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 4: it's now that the teeth are just showing now in

670
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 4: the NFL. And so it's learning, you know, learning to

671
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 4: take care of your body. It's listening to your body.

672
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 4: It's you know, it's all that I'm trying to stay healthy,

673
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 4: trying to stay sharp, you know. So it's just it's

674
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 4: amazing and it is the funnest. It's incredible. I mean,

675
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 4: there's no environment anywhere else in the world. And uh,

676
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 4: and to be part of it is a true honor,

677
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 4: true joy. And to come back and you know, targ

678
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 4: going last year, Peyton, Bill, Marv you know whoever you

679
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 4: throw a dart on an old colt and a Hall

680
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 4: of Fame nod, you know, to get together with you

681
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 4: know Bill, it's it's seeing you guys. It's seeing you know,

682
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 4: seeing you. You know you haven't seen each other, you know, year,

683
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 4: two years, whatever it is. But man, it's like we

684
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 4: just saw each other yesterday, you know, and and and

685
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 4: that stuff. It is priceless. And people that aren't in

686
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 4: it can say, oh gosh, that's so uh cliche.

687
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 3: It's so no.

688
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 4: I mean, no, I it's it's the it's the best

689
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 4: part of it, and it's and then, but it just

690
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 4: confirms that you're doing it with the right people, because

691
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 4: I think if you're doing it with the wrong people,

692
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 4: you don't have those feelings. It's because I think we

693
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 4: cared and loved so much for each other. We wanted

694
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 4: to battle for each other. We wanted we had each

695
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 4: other's back. And I'm talking to to Wade our our

696
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 4: ganitorial staff, to Frog Tea in the equipment room, to

697
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 4: Doug Melton in the mail room, like everyone and all.

698
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 2: Those guys are still here.

699
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 4: They're all still here, exactly exactly. I went back to

700
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 4: this last summer and introduced my kids to these people,

701
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 4: and my kids like, yeah, Doug Melton, I'm like, no, no, no, no,

702
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 4: this guy he never stopped smiling. You can learn from

703
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 4: this guy. Like this guy, Like if you're having a

704
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 4: bad day, if you can't feel your back because you

705
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 4: got drilled by Ted Bruski or whatever, like this guy

706
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 4: makes you feel better. Like the surround yourself around people

707
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 4: that make you feel better. And that's what that whole

708
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 4: building is.

709
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, Dallas, that is true. That's what this building's like,

710
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 5: and it's it's everyone helping one another. And you know,

711
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 5: is everyone helping you during your rookie season now talking

712
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 5: about your rookie season and talking about what who the

713
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 5: coast is drafted this year? They drafted a tight end

714
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 5: in the fifth round. Will be a rookie this year

715
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 5: from from Miami? Well we'll Mallory, I'm sorry. Now, if

716
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 5: you had an opportunity to talk to him, what advice

717
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 5: would you give him going into training camp and to

718
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 5: get ready for his first regular season?

719
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 4: I would I would tell will you know what I

720
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 4: would tell all rookies. I'm like right now, like you

721
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,479
Speaker 4: have you have a chance? They So you did someone,

722
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 4: you impressed the scout, you impressed the gentleman, if you

723
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 4: pressed in somebody, all right, you did you did enough

724
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,919
Speaker 4: work to get a place at the table. Now they're

725
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 4: gonna come around here in a few months, and they're

726
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 4: gonna they're gonna get that, you know, leave. You know,

727
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 4: tables have leaves in them and and they and they

728
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 4: can make the table smaller, right and and in a

729
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 4: couple of months, they're gonna make this table way smaller.

730
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: You know.

731
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 4: And but you have a chance right right now, you

732
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 4: have an equal mind. I don't care when you're drafted.

733
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 4: If you're a free agent, all that matter is nothing

734
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 4: because you have to do the same work. Whether you're

735
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 4: a first first rounder a free agent, you have to

736
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 4: do the same type of work. And and I think

737
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 4: guys like when you're kind of in that environment. I

738
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,439
Speaker 4: think guys kind of like sometimes picked the wrong people

739
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 4: to follow, and and and and they might feel like, gosh,

740
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 4: normally I'd be working harder, Normally I'd be doing something,

741
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 4: but cash this guy doesn't seem like like I would say,

742
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 4: show coaches, show them the front office that you are

743
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 4: willing to do anything everything at any time. To never

744
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 4: like special teams doesn't matter. I mean, like just to

745
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 4: be in the weight room, to to to Hey, what

746
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 4: else can I do? Be a bug in their ear?

747
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 3: Hey?

748
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 4: Hey, I you know I struggle at this, like I

749
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 4: can't uh you know, uh tight reach you know I

750
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 4: can't I can't reach the end or whatever. My footwork

751
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 4: is terrible. Get in your coach, Hey, got filmed, give

752
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 4: me something, and just be a student of the game,

753
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 4: and and and and just I mean immerse yourself into

754
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 4: the environment and and and and understand that this is

755
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 4: your job. You got one chance. And to use the

756
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 4: people in that building. I tell people every time, like

757
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 4: everyone in there wants you to succeed. That's the beauty

758
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 4: of those people. They're there because they love what they

759
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 4: do and they love helping people. They want to help you.

760
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 4: This doesn't mean like hey, yo, go make me a sandwich.

761
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 4: That's no, no, no, that's not that's not helping. That's rude.

762
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 4: It's like, hey, you know, I need to gain weight.

763
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 4: It needs to be good weight. What can I do

764
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 4: to you know? You know all that stuff I get

765
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 4: just it's from the second you wake up and the

766
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 4: last thing you think about when you go to bed.

767
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 4: It's got to be on your mind. And that's the

768
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 4: best thing about this job is you have to commit

769
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 4: one hundred percent to it. Otherwise, you know, all your

770
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,720
Speaker 4: left is was like oh gosh, man, you know, because

771
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 4: what's the worst thing? The kids? You know, like, oh

772
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 4: I could have if it wasn't for this, you know,

773
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 4: the thing you want because a lot of those guys,

774
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 4: you know, we all get cut, we all get fired,

775
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 4: we all have that. And the last thing you want

776
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,240
Speaker 4: to look in the mirror and go, you know what, Damn,

777
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 4: I didn't I didn't give it everything. You know I

778
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,919
Speaker 4: could you know I should have. You know, oh man,

779
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 4: there's nothing better than look in the mirror, like you

780
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 4: know what, I freaking crushed it and it just you know,

781
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 4: I got hurt or you know what, I was doing

782
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 4: everything right. I felt great, but it you know, it

783
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,479
Speaker 4: just didn't. It just didn't work. You know, That's okay,

784
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 4: you know, but I promise if you do right, a

785
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 4: door is going to open, especially in this organization, where

786
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 4: your next your next path, in your next step will

787
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,959
Speaker 4: be definitely defined because you're you're because of the people

788
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 4: in that in that in that building and so. But

789
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 4: here's it's a two way street. You can't just walk

790
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 4: in and say, hey, give me a starting dower. Hey,

791
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do. It's like no, no, no, no, no, no,

792
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 4: you got you got to learn it. You got to

793
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 4: go take it.

794
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 2: Dallas doubling back to to your time here in Indianapolis.

795
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 2: You know when when you played for the Colts, you

796
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 2: played on teams or a franchise that won seven division titles,

797
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 2: two conference championships, one Super Bowl, And I know you

798
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 2: talked about you know, moving back home and like, uh,

799
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 2: being you know, away from Indianapolis to have a little

800
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 2: bit of a different identity right to not be necessarily

801
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 2: Dallas Clark the football player, not Dallas Clark the former

802
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:58,240
Speaker 2: great But how often do you sit back and just say, damn,

803
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 2: like what a run? What a special era? That's going

804
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 2: to be really hard to replicate.

805
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 4: Me?

806
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 2: How often do you find yourself thinking about how special

807
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 2: that time was?

808
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 4: I try not to, but but you know, there's certain

809
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,439
Speaker 4: what's kind of crazy is you know, like my dad

810
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 4: was one of them, and there's a lot of people

811
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 4: like when someone would ask me for my autograph, and like,

812
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 4: hey do it, you know, because they're not always going

813
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 4: to ask for your autograph, you know, and it's like,

814
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 4: you know what, I'm forty freaking three years old and

815
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 4: people are still asking from outer. Its blows my mind.

816
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 4: I don't get it. I don't understand it. But I

817
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 4: think it's just kind of it's an impression that it's

818
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 4: lasting a long time. I mean, I think it just

819
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 4: kind of speaks for itself. I mean, if it wasn't

820
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 4: such a big deal, like I think I would have

821
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 4: fizzled off like a like a you know, like a candle,

822
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 4: you know. I mean, it's one of those things. I

823
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 4: feel like it was such a special group. And obviously,

824
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,399
Speaker 4: I mean it's the Peyton Maning effect. Let's not let's

825
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 4: not kid ourselves. I mean, you know, but but I

826
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 4: you know, I feel like it's all the pieces that

827
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 4: you know, we we did some special things and and

828
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 4: what was great about that is like we we created

829
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 4: a culture and we we we we set expectations that

830
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,720
Speaker 4: you look back at like, man, we're we're kind of greedy,

831
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 4: Like I mean, we didn't settle for mediocre. I mean

832
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 4: we we never I mean that was never. I mean

833
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 4: it was I mean it was straight Winter Division. You

834
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 4: know when when the conference win the super Bowl, you know,

835
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 4: that's that was kind of our free step to success,

836
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 4: uh via coach Dungee, you know. And so it's one

837
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,919
Speaker 4: of those things that yeah, you can look back, Yeah

838
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 4: you do look back. But what I love about it

839
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 4: the most is it, for whatever reason, it gives a chance.

840
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 4: And because my my kids are at that that age,

841
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 4: it's it's awesome just you know, to go to their

842
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 4: tournaments and to have some kids like like, hey do

843
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 4: you play in there? You know, and all you know,

844
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 4: so for a split second, I have them, I have

845
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 4: them right right, I can look them in the eye

846
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 4: and I can tell them, hey, are you working hard,

847
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 4: How's how's ball going? And you like do you like

848
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 4: you like football? Do you like back baseball? Hey?

849
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: What?

850
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 4: What? Whatever? I can I can engage Listen. I'm not

851
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 4: gonna say I'm gonna change his life for the rest,

852
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 4: you know, but for a split second, I can look

853
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 4: in this kid's eye and for whatever reason, because I

854
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 4: played this game and because we did so well, I

855
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 4: got his attention or her attention, and I can and

856
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 4: I can just say, hey, you're gonna be You're gonna

857
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 4: be great, You're you're gonna do great things if you

858
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,959
Speaker 4: want to, like, hey, find your passion whatever. The little

859
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 4: message that the Lord puts them at and connecting with

860
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 4: complete strangers is amazing. And and to be able to

861
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 4: just tell a kid and hey, hey, pick your head up,

862
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 4: great job, Hey, you know whatever, it is like it's

863
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 4: just it's something that just you know, will resonate and

864
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 4: and and will have a longing effect more than the games.

865
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 3: Right.

866
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 4: I mean, I think that's the part that I love

867
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 4: the most, is that it's that sitting there talking about

868
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 4: how awesome we were. It's just the feeling that that

869
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 4: that kids like just all of a sudden, like instantly

870
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 4: like oh, I should look up you and and for me,

871
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 4: it's like instantly I should be like, hey, I have

872
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,360
Speaker 4: a chance here, and they're like, ah, yeah, yeah, we're awesome. Peyton,

873
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 4: he's cool. You know. It's just like, hey, why don't

874
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 4: we just take a little step further and and and

875
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 4: and and ask this kid like, hey, how are we doing? Hey?

876
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 4: How school whatever? And and and and I don't know

877
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 4: and and and what that does? Who knows? Anybody go

878
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 4: and eat their you know, eat their fruit snacks and

879
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 4: and forget about it. That's cool, you know, But if

880
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 4: there's a kid here and there that that kind of

881
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 4: I don't know. I needed to hear that I need

882
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 4: I needed someone to pass, you know, I needed I

883
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,360
Speaker 4: need an encouraging today, you know, and and or I

884
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 4: need a challenge that day or whatever it is. I

885
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 4: think that's the part that's that's really cool, that that

886
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 4: we you don't really think you sign up for that.

887
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 5: That is that is neat Dallas and and I agree

888
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 5: with you, and you know, you're talking about leaving impression

889
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,280
Speaker 5: on people, and one of the things that left impression

890
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,280
Speaker 5: on me was of course your play on the field.

891
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 5: But beyond that was in a time where receivers and

892
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,439
Speaker 5: tight ends wear gloves out there in the football field

893
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,959
Speaker 5: to catch catch the football. When you played, you didn't

894
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 5: wear gloves.

895
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 4: And I noticed that.

896
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,760
Speaker 5: That's something that stood out to me. And I was wondering,

897
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 5: why didn't you wear gloves while you played Dallas? You

898
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 5: went pretty much bare handed for the most part. And

899
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 5: if you did wear gloves, its many been once or

900
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 5: twice that I can remember that you wore gloves, But

901
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 5: I really don't think you did. So what was the

902
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 5: reason why you didn't wear gloves?

903
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 4: I wore so when I so I earlier, I said

904
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 4: about two hours ago. And when we started talking, I apologize.

905
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 4: I like talking, but I talked about I played linebacker, right, So,

906
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,919
Speaker 4: growing up, my brother Derek, he was my hero. Dan

907
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 4: my hero. He was a quarterback at a Division III school.

908
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 4: My brother played linebacker in Iowa State at the enemy.

909
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 4: But watching him play, like, that's that's when I That's

910
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 4: when I had They're playing it is a night game,

911
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 4: his very first game as i State he transferred as

912
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 4: a as a junior college. Is a night game. They're

913
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 4: playing Wyoming. I'm sitting in the nosebleed seats and guys.

914
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 4: To this day, I could smell it, I could see it,

915
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,760
Speaker 4: and I it's all clear and I and I remember

916
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 4: like I want to do this. And I was a

917
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 4: junior and I was still kind of like I love basketball.

918
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,240
Speaker 4: I loved all these I love baseball, baseball and basketball,

919
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 4: two sports. I probably tried the most, like I practiced

920
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 4: the most, but I see it. I'm like, I want

921
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 4: to do this, and so from then on it was like,

922
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 4: I want to be a linebacker like my brother. And

923
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 4: so so I played linebacker and I'm at Iowa. Uh

924
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 4: getting there, that's a whole other podcast story. But I

925
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 4: get to Iowa and I'm playing linebacker and I sucked,

926
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 4: but I got the next role. I got the gloves

927
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,800
Speaker 4: everything right. So he says, all right, you're switching to

928
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 4: tight end. I said, heck no. But a year later

929
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 4: he's kept pushing, kept pushing. I was like, no, I'm

930
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 4: going to be like my brother. I'm going to be

931
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 4: better than my brother. And he was like, Dallas, you

932
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 4: are not you stink, And I'm like, all right, fine,

933
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 4: I'll play tight end. So I made that switch that

934
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 4: spring is two thousand and I made the switch, and

935
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 4: so my best friend Kyle mccannon, he's our quarterback. That

936
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 4: whole spring every day is kind of like that camaraderie

937
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 4: that with Peyton is just the same thing. I guess,

938
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 4: you know, going Foxborough, playing in front of Lucas Oil

939
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,320
Speaker 4: like all that stuff's fun, guys, But truly it's the

940
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 4: summer running route just John with the defense guys, you know,

941
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 4: just just playing with your friends. I mean, give me that,

942
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 4: give me that, like, that's that's that's football. That's what

943
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 4: it's about. That's football that I know. What ever in

944
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 4: fancy like oh my god, catching the game when he

945
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 4: touched you know, all that bull craft. Yeah, that's cool.

946
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 4: But it's it's it's the people, right, So what does

947
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 4: that mean. It's it's it's going to work with those guys.

948
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 4: It's going to eight o'clock, you know, six o'clock workout

949
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 4: and then going on the field and running routes or

950
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 4: conditioning with these guys, watching guys puke because they haven't

951
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 4: been conditioning. Oh that good. I mean, it's just it's

952
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 4: that's football. So anyway, I'm I'm two thousand and that's

953
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 4: that spring summer. I'm running out and I'm wearing gloves

954
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 4: because that's what, you know, and I felt like a linebacker.

955
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 4: I'm like, screw that, I'm taking these gloves off. So

956
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 4: I took cloves off, and oh my lord, it was like,

957
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 4: I mean the college football, let's let's not here. So

958
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 4: the best easiest thing to catch. I mean, it's just

959
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 4: it's perfect. It's cute. I mean, it's just perfectly round.

960
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 4: It's just perfect catching it catching. I'm like, yeah, this

961
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 4: is it. And so that goes to the NFL, bigger ball,

962
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 4: you know, doesn't have to stripe to kind of see

963
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 4: it and all that stuff. So I'm just like, uh,

964
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 4: you know, I I think I'm still gonna do it.

965
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 4: And so it was just one of those things like

966
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,320
Speaker 4: I felt like an athlete. I felt like a receiver.

967
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 4: I felt like a tight end with no gloves, which

968
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 4: is so I saw backwards, but uh, but it was

969
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 4: it was. And then I so I I never wore

970
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 4: gloves with the Colts. But then like when we're we

971
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 4: played in Chicago, was with the Ravens, and I put

972
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 4: on gloves because it was just terrible wind and and like,

973
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 4: I don't know, it was just it was kind of

974
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 4: like usually when rain, like gloves don't work in rain,

975
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 4: but I've never played it. The wind was, Hey, do

976
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 4: you really called Chicago windy city anyway? But uh, but uh,

977
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 4: it was insane. That's why I thought.

978
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 5: I saw you wore some gloves of time. That's why

979
00:46:59,120 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 5: I said maybe one.

980
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:04,280
Speaker 4: So it's just it was just one of those things

981
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 4: that and then obviously I started just locating fingers and

982
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 4: breaking fingers, and then you know, the tape comes and

983
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 4: play and and so so then the tape just kind

984
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 4: of became my that was kind of my safety blanket, like,

985
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:17,800
Speaker 4: you know, I put the tape on the knuckles and

986
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, and and then the wrist bands

987
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 4: because the wrist bands are actually stopping from the sweat

988
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 4: to get down to my hands to try to keep

989
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 4: my hands somewhat dry. Yeah, and during you know, during

990
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 4: terra haute days, you know, changing wristbands and yeah, eight am.

991
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 4: I mean there's no movement in terror. I don't know

992
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 4: if you've been to down there. Yeah, God bless you

993
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 4: people down there. Thank God for smart people. Uh. I

994
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 4: that's the only reason I would be allowed on that

995
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 4: campus is to go either mobi lawn or play football

996
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 4: on the lawn. Other than that, they would not they

997
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:57,879
Speaker 4: have no need for me there.

998
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 2: Well, Dallas, you caught more passes, you caught more touchdowns

999
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,400
Speaker 2: than any tight end in the history of this franchise.

1000
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 2: I know you're not going to say it, so I'll

1001
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 2: say it for you. You are the greatest tight end

1002
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,879
Speaker 2: in the history of the Indianapolis Colts. I know you're

1003
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 2: not going to go there because you're a pretty humble guy.

1004
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 2: I'm saying you are over a guy like John Mackie.

1005
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 4: Right, Don Mackey's on that list, I mean, are you

1006
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,879
Speaker 4: kidding me? Well, forget about it. I don't you can

1007
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 4: throw numbers John Mackie. Come on, well, like John Mackey,

1008
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 4: like what he did for the game. I mean not

1009
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 4: only for the Colts, but sure the game of football.

1010
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 4: I mean, come on like that. And and to be

1011
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 4: able to meet that guy was when I won the

1012
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 4: Mackie Award. I went out out. I think it's Connecticut.

1013
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 4: I forget where they give I think it's the Oh,

1014
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 4: I forget where it was is some awesome dinner and

1015
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 4: met him and his beautiful wife and and and that

1016
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 4: was when his dementia was was getting pretty strong, and

1017
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 4: so you know, just to see him, to be able

1018
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 4: to verse with him, and I know he wasn't always

1019
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 4: in on the conversation, but to but to be able

1020
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 4: to be in the presence of him, and to win

1021
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 4: his award, his statue, and to see him and then

1022
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:13,800
Speaker 4: obviously as a young buck from Iowa and not knowing

1023
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 4: really like but to be able to learn again that's

1024
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 4: the whole thing about learning this game, learning about you know,

1025
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 4: the people before you, learning you know, the the rich

1026
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 4: history and and and to see you know, watch film,

1027
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 4: watch this guy. I mean, it's like, holy cow, he Okay,

1028
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,359
Speaker 4: that's that's yeah, end of the story. Like that, that's

1029
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 4: the guy that is. And to to see him and

1030
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 4: to and to meet him was before he passed, UH,

1031
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 4: was was one of the greatest. And then to go

1032
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 4: to the franchise where he you know, he made his

1033
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 4: mark and I mean, it's just and to pass him,

1034
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 4: are you freaking kidding? And then I mean and then

1035
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 4: to pass them I passed his touchdown record in Baltimore.

1036
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 4: Uh on the one hand, on the one handed catch,

1037
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 4: I had a crappy I I didn't I think that's

1038
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 4: the only catch I caught. I it was just a

1039
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:06,439
Speaker 4: crappy game. But I can't I make that one hand

1040
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 4: cat that.

1041
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 3: You know, and but it was that was the record breaker,

1042
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 3: and it was just like holy cow, like this is

1043
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 3: this is huge, This is like I mean, this is

1044
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:17,479
Speaker 3: like I am.

1045
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 4: Never ever taking for granted that he's he's he set

1046
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 4: the bar that will never be reached. You can talk

1047
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 4: about numbers, but he has another bar that is just untouchable.

1048
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 2: Well, Bill, that's exactly how I thought Dallas would would go, right,

1049
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 2: That's exactly how I thought that question.

1050
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 5: That's who he is.

1051
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:36,439
Speaker 2: You are the greatest tight end I ever saw playing

1052
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 2: a cold uniform. All right, let's let's let's rephrase it,

1053
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,279
Speaker 2: make it now. We can all agree as far as

1054
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 2: that goes.

1055
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 4: But because Marcus, no, I'm not listen.

1056
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,760
Speaker 2: I love Marcus Pollard. Okay, we all love Marcus Pollard,

1057
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 2: but I'm not gonna let you have that one.

1058
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 3: All right, What that guy taught me about this.

1059
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 2: League, I understand that.

1060
00:50:57,719 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's the man.

1061
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,959
Speaker 2: I understand that. No, Well, my last one, my last

1062
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 2: one for you, Dallas, because I know you got to

1063
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 2: you gotta get back to everything that you're doing, and

1064
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 2: we can't well exactly, that's right, that's right, no question

1065
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 2: about it. So we can't thank you enough for your time.

1066
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 2: But you just talked about a great catch. That was

1067
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 2: the record breaking catch, my favorite, one of my favorite

1068
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 2: moments of yours. You got to remember, Dallas, I'm I'm

1069
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 2: from here, and I grew up here, and I grew

1070
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 2: up a Colts fan. I was just an adolescent. I

1071
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 2: was a teenage kid that just watched the Colts every

1072
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 2: Sunday because that's what you did. So my favorite catch

1073
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 2: of yours was in Miami, actually on a Monday night

1074
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 2: football game. You run down the middle of the field.

1075
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 2: You're running a scene. Peyton puts it a little bit

1076
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 2: out in front of you. You have to tip it

1077
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:51,399
Speaker 2: to yourself about four or five times. You run it down.

1078
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 2: Then you're running stride for about a sixty yard touchdown.

1079
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,399
Speaker 2: You know, big moment. I think it was the first

1080
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 2: series of the game. Do you have a favorite catch

1081
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 2: or a favorite touchdown in your career?

1082
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 4: You almost told that cast perfectly. You forgot about when

1083
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 4: I ran over the stafety, so.

1084
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 2: YouTube it.

1085
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:13,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, I need to I ran over. I didn't catch

1086
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 4: license plate number. I was going too fast. I was god. Uh,

1087
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,399
Speaker 4: you know what's funny about that game? So that game

1088
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 4: unbelievable viral. I mean there's like there's something about like Miami, Jacksonville, Tay,

1089
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 4: like those those stadiums, and I mean you feel so

1090
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 4: fast like that that that that that bent grass whatever

1091
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 4: they you know, whatever the grass idiot. I mean you

1092
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:39,800
Speaker 4: feel like Michael Johnson. I mean you feel so fast

1093
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 4: and it's and I remember we were sitting there and

1094
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 4: Miami obviously party town they play they play Black Eyed Peas.

1095
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,799
Speaker 4: I got a feeling and it's this news and it's

1096
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 4: their new song. I don't know where I was. I

1097
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:55,439
Speaker 4: must have been in the film room had not heard

1098
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 4: that song, and they're playing that song before the game,

1099
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 4: and I'm just like, jam, I'm like, dang, this song

1100
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 4: is this thing? Is this one? Yeah? And I'm talking

1101
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 4: to Fletcher and I'm like our other tight that Like Fletch,

1102
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 4: I go, this is an old song. Like He's like, no,

1103
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 4: this is me. I'm like, Jesus, I don't know. So

1104
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 4: blame Black Eyed Peas U dang fast Craft. But I

1105
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 4: mean I was, I was hyped. I mean it was like,

1106
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:22,800
Speaker 4: all right, let's go, and then Payton just threw I

1107
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 4: mean first play of the game. Never you know, it

1108
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 4: was never done that before that was incredible. So yeah,

1109
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 4: that was fun. But mine back to your original question.

1110
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 4: You know, my favorite has to be it's the it's

1111
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 4: the Baltimore, not the tight end and not the not

1112
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 4: the not the touchdown catches. The playoff game where there's

1113
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 4: like thirty thirty field goals. I think we won fifteen

1114
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 4: to nine. Did yeah, And and and it was just

1115
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 4: one of those like if you do the quick mask

1116
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 4: people at home, fifteen to nine, what does a touchdown do?

1117
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 4: Oh crap, we lose, right, And it was just one

1118
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 4: of those like both teams were just like on the

1119
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 4: cusp of like having that big play and it's just

1120
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 4: gonna break your hearts, like it's just gonna just put

1121
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 4: the nail on the coffin. But no team did it.

1122
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 4: And it was just like good lawyers like, oh, you know, offensively,

1123
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 4: you felt the pressure like cannot give them the ball,

1124
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 4: cannot give them the ball, and we're going down. We

1125
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:17,880
Speaker 4: have the ball like two minutes, three minutes left. It

1126
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 4: is just I mean, we can ice it with the

1127
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 4: first down. It's third down and like nine, right, and

1128
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 4: we call a ten yard out route and the fricking

1129
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 4: I mean, and and here we go Baltimore I mean,

1130
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 4: they they are so smart, they're so good. Forget Ivy,

1131
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 4: maybe I can't. I think it was Cory. I can't

1132
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 4: remember who is guarding me. He runs the route for me.

1133
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 4: I can't. And I remember coming out of the breaking

1134
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 4: my gosh, pains, I gotta throw me to the ball,

1135
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 4: and I remember turning. I'm like, holy crappy through it

1136
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 4: and he's threw it wide obviously because the only and

1137
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 4: so I just remember, you know, just throwing out a

1138
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 4: hand because that's all I I mean, just get some

1139
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 4: fingers on it. That that ball rolled up my arm.

1140
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:02,879
Speaker 4: I mean it was like only yeah, came up. I mean,

1141
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:03,919
Speaker 4: talk about nail.

1142
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 3: That was the nail, no doubt.

1143
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 4: And we go down and uh and run that, you know,

1144
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 4: run more time off the clock and feel the game

1145
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 4: and we we we get we get to go and

1146
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 4: go well r c A Dome, play our beautiful friend Theriots,

1147
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 4: and and then and then to go super Bowl. So

1148
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 4: I mean it was just that, you know, it's just

1149
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 4: that whole like that playoff run. I mean, I mean

1150
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:29,319
Speaker 4: that was like I mean, I you know, came back

1151
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,959
Speaker 4: from my injury and just I mean you talk about

1152
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:33,759
Speaker 4: his zone. I mean it was just like I mean,

1153
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 4: I mean Dion and his prime couldn't cover me.

1154
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 3: Like I no chance.

1155
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:44,880
Speaker 4: Maybe, but not not today, buddy, not today like it

1156
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 4: was uh maybe mel Blunt.

1157
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 3: I mean he.

1158
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:54,799
Speaker 4: He came and talked to us, and I remember Coach Dunzee, like, wait,

1159
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 4: he's a corner, Like what in the world, like that

1160
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 4: guy as a grown ass fan, And I mean it

1161
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:02,400
Speaker 4: was just he might have been able to cover me,

1162
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 4: so but it was. It was. It was a great run.

1163
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:05,839
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1164
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 2: I remember exactly where I was during that game. I

1165
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:11,800
Speaker 2: remember the emotion I had when you did make that

1166
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 2: game ceiling one handed snag. It was remarkable. Just just

1167
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 2: so many memories again, like I said, growing up here

1168
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 2: watching that team, watching that ear of greatness, as I

1169
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 2: always like to say, twelve and four every year, winning

1170
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 2: the AFC South, going to the playoffs, hosting playoff games,

1171
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 2: and again you're one of our favorites because of what

1172
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 2: you mean to the Colts, because of what you're still

1173
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 2: doing to give back. You're an amazing person. Dallas. We

1174
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 2: can't thank you enough for your time today. We got

1175
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:43,880
Speaker 2: a million questions that we didn't get into because we

1176
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 2: could just talk to you forever all day long No, no, no, great, No,

1177
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 2: that's that's us.

1178
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 4: We know the iron Man. It took a little bit,

1179
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:54,919
Speaker 4: I got. I haven't talked about that in a while,

1180
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 4: and it's just kind of that, Yeah, I apologie. That

1181
00:56:58,080 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 4: was no. No, we'd love to hear that.

1182
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 5: That's what we want to hear. We want to hear

1183
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:02,320
Speaker 5: that passion.

1184
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:02,760
Speaker 3: Dallas.

1185
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 4: Thank you.

1186
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 2: We we want to do five different podcasts with you

1187
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 2: talk about those Iowa days. But we know we got

1188
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 2: to let you run to get back with that family

1189
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:13,359
Speaker 2: and and that beautiful farm. So again, can't thank you enough.

1190
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 2: We hope that we see you in Indianapolis here soon,

1191
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:19,600
Speaker 2: hopefully enjoy your summer. Best of luck with everything, and

1192
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 2: again just a million thanks for all your for all

1193
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 2: your time today, hey, and and when I.

1194
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 4: Come back to when I'm gonna come to Indy here

1195
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 4: soon and and present a check that check to uh

1196
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 4: Peyton Stildren's Hospital.

1197
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 2: So oh fantastic, you guys know, please do and and we'll.

1198
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 4: Make sure we get to stay high again. And and

1199
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 4: I can't thank you guys enough for the support and

1200
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 4: uh and all of you Colts fans out there, It's

1201
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 4: gonna be a fun year. Let's go have a great summer,

1202
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 4: be safe and be healthy, and uh I can't wait

1203
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 4: to see you soon.

1204
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 2: Indeed, you're the man.

1205
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Dallas, Thanks Bellas, Thanks Bill, Thanks Matt,