WEBVTT - Andrew Whitworth: Hollywood couldn't script it better 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:13.119 Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:17.800 NFL Players Second Acts Podcast. I'm Peanut Tuman and as always, 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:23.400 I got my guy, my uncle Roman Harper with us today. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.400 What's up? What up? Hump? I'm doing good man. Obviously, 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.800 we are a Southern family because anytime the uncle is 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:34.440 younger than the nephew, it's it's a little bit of 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.520 unique situation. So I always think that of us when 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:39.800 we see each other. And I feel good because our 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.040 guest today shares a little bit of something with me 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:43.880 in common. Not only did he play in the SEC, 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:48.000 but he's also a silver Fox himself, So I'm kind 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.760 of proud of that, and we both rocket proudly and 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.440 uniquely and beautifully as well. So before we jump into 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.680 it and you introduced our our guests today, I want 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.279 to thank all the listeners for tuning in. I want 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.000 to ask you to get to spread the word, tell 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:02.760 a friend, to tell a friend, to tell a friend, 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.160 give us a rating, a review, and to follow on 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:10.400 Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever else you listen 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.920 to your podcast. So, pe Nut, with all due respect, 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:15.720 go ahead, my man, go ahead and kick us off 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.800 with this one. So let me list these accolades of this, 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:21.280 uh twenty of me. It's a lot, it's a lot. 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.840 I don't know Roman numerals. But he won the Super 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.560 Bowl when he was in LA. He's a two thousand 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.559 and twenty one Walter Peyton Man of the year, four 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.520 time pro bowler. Won the two thousand and three BCS 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.320 Natural Championship with LSU drafted by the Bengals and O 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.440 six in the second round. Retired from the Rams in 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.560 two thousand and twenty one. Ken y'all, please show some 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:51.480 love for Andrew with worm we sol fallas. Appreciate that. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.040 Appreciate that. Well, let's go ahead, let's talk about those 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:58.040 accolades and then we'll ball. Okay, So you won three 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.800 back to back, took of your off and then won 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.720 it again. You won three national chair excuse me, three 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.359 high school championships in football, right, yep? Do y'all get 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.160 y'all got rings in Louisiana? Oh yeah, we got rings. Okay, Hey, 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.720 Monroe's real, Doug like where he's at. They played some 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.639 real ball. It's a lot of guys that they put out. 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:22.120 Did you want a state championship in tennis? No, that 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:26.240 is a great question. Though, so it's actually a fantastic story. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.880 I was at LSU and you know, you're going through 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.280 the process of sports directors like hey, we need to 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:34.320 like keep pubbing you up or how well you're playing. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.480 We're gonna try and get you on the All American team, 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.480 get national attention. So let's name some things you've done, 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.359 like you know, before you got here. So you know, 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.000 I'm like, all right, I want a high school sta attention. Football. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.920 I won the five A state championship in powerlifting in 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.120 the heavyweight class, so like we're naming that. And then 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.119 he's like any other things you want as a kid, 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.440 like baseball and did you go the World Series or anything. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.000 I was like, well, I did you know? We went 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.320 to the state title game in baseball when I was 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.480 twelve and I won like a tennis deal when I 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.400 was eleven or ten, So that starts that year. This 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.720 is like my sophomore year in college. By the time 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.919 I got to the draft, like I'm going with scouts 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.160 and they're like, man, so what year was it that 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.400 you won the high school championship in tests? I'm like, what, Like, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.920 I won like the local like you get a little 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.440 Caesar slice a pizza if you're the one that beats 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.960 the other kid camp in tennis, Like I can't win 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.000 anything that that care is a trophy. So it's carried 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.720 on throughout my career. I always get asked about it, 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.080 and it's hilarious because it literally came from like a 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.519 two minute conversation of stuff you've done as a kid, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.760 and it has lived its own life throughout my career. Man, 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.160 just go win it, Just go win it. Just like, yeah, 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.680 I'm just I'm just like the white, three hundred pound 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.880 male version of Serena and Venus combined, Like that's that 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.360 is who I am. Like, I'm just I'm not real. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.280 We were literally talking before. I'm like, how's he running 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.200 around dominating people at close to three hundred pounds. I 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.880 couldn't imagine it. I'm like, how does this even possible? 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.360 I can play tennis, but I ain't like that. I 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.960 promise you that I'm a lefty. I grew up being 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.240 an andre Agasy fan. I had me a wild thing 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.920 racket when I was little. But you know, I was 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:10.560 a big fan of the game. But no, I was 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.640 never good enough to win in high school, that's for sure. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.560 Pickleballs my sport. There we go. See I'm a golfer, 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.239 though you know he is a golfer. Now most people 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.080 do not know this. I don't even know if if 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.440 wit remembers this, but the first time I met Andrew 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:30.479 Whitworth was at in Arizona. We were both selected to 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.039 be Playboy All Americans going into our senior year in 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.240 two thousand and five, and that was the first time 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.919 I met this large human being. And I just randomly 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:39.599 was walking around the whole place and he was out 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.960 at the driving range, hitting bombs on the driving range. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.640 And he's the first one that really got me to like, 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.360 you know what, I should maybe start to pick up 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.600 golf a little bit. And I hung out with him 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.240 and we actually got really cool at that point in time, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.320 talking way back when we both were seniors in college. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.680 And so I know he can golf, I know he 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.280 can do all these other things. I just think it's 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.640 awesome that you were able to accomplish that. So also 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.920 you were also a Playball All American as well. So 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.360 two thousand and five great classes. You know, just want 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.039 to shout us all out out there. And sure, now 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:14.719 I want to start off with this just a little 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.719 bit because I'm sitting here with two of the guys 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.360 that won one of the biggest accolades that I believe 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.560 the NFL gives out, which is the Walter Paydon Man 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.039 of the Year award. And you know, we see that 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.280 you got a lot of recognition the longer you played. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.320 It was like, man, we really loved this guy, and 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.440 we appreciate you more and more, and we were able 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.920 to give you your flowers before you retired. And could 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.880 you talk about how special that award is because I 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.800 know Peanut was also a person that won the Walter 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.200 Payd Man of the Year you also wanted. I did not, 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.800 and I wanted many other accolades, but that one alone, 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.240 it's such a special deal. Could you maybe just give 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.800 us a little bit insight into that. Yeah, I just 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:51.760 think when you when you think about that award and 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.680 what it stands for, it was even tough to go 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.120 through the process of being nominated for it and then 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:58.680 be up for it, because it's kind of hard to 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.479 be like, you know what, Like I mean, I'm getting 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.839 acknowledged this and it's great and I think it's wonderful, 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.120 But I'm looking across the league at the other thirty 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.920 one nominees and I'm like, wow, like so much respect 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.480 for everything they do, and it almost every year I 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.160 got nominated, it was like man invigorated and be like, man, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.240 all right, I love I love the guys that I 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.520 played a sport with man and their passion for people, 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:20.920 because that's one thing I just to me, that's what 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.120 life's all about. And so going through that really, for me, 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.839 it was more of a reflection and a reminiscent of 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.680 over my career just the impacts of people and communities 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.680 and the special moments I've had of realizing not only 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.719 just the impact that I was able to have on them, 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.400 but more importantly to me, the impact they had on me, 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.960 and that it gave me a you know, a passion 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.960 and a purpose to play football, not just for sports, 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.560 not just for you know, success i'd want to have 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.560 on the field, but you know what, it created opportunities 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.320 for me to go impact people off of it, and 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:53.839 so I think that's one of the things I'm most 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:55.839 grateful for the opportunity to play in the NFL for 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.320 is I've had some really cool opportunities and a lot 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.000 of growth as me as a person, and standing up 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.279 there on that stage as y'all know, I mean offensive linement. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.640 You know. My my level of media experience leading up 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.640 to that moment was like the local registry. You know, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.160 college kid who's got a tape recorder. You know. I 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.480 don't get a lot of press conferences and podium so 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.760 I was a pretty nervous when I walked up there. 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.280 But I'll tell you what, after I watched the video 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.960 and just thought about the moment and where I was, 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.720 it was like, man, I'm just I'm just gonna tell 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.320 a story about you know, what I think so impactful 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.920 to me and what I think so important in life. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.360 And it was a really special moment for me and 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.040 my family for sure. Okay, so it was very it 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:40.040 was I think it was. It was very natural. You know, 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.840 the story that you told. I think people could resonate 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:47.240 with with that. And again, congratulations, It's it's one of my, 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.160 if not my greatest accomplishment while playing, you know, winning 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.680 that award it means it definitely means a lot, especially 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.800 being in Chicago, being from Chicago. Yeah, at a little 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.240 bit sweeter. Yeah, yeah, I think I think even looking 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.240 at my situation and like I thought it was, what 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.240 was really cool was in that little couple of minutes 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.040 they give you, you're telling this story about Derek Barnes, 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.960 and really how cool that interaction was. But I think 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.720 what was hard to paint the picture of it is 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.920 like I think people walked away from it like, oh man, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.040 this impact you had on Derek Barnes, And it was 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.960 like I wanted to make sure people understood it was 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:19.720 the impact he had on me as well. I was 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.040 a rookie in the NFL. I was in the Midwest, 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.760 somewhere I had never been. I was lonely, trying to 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.200 figure out who the heck I'm going to be as 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.240 a person. And this young six seven eight year old 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.320 kid was my buddy that like we hung out and 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.559 threw the football and shield as a person girls club 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.920 and yeah, like he was as much there for me 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.400 as anything I was there for him. So that happened 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.920 in my last year before I retired. I thought it 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:42.840 was just such a cool story to tell because it 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.400 was a great moment in my career that it's like, Wow, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.160 think back to who you were sixteen years ago and 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.880 where are you at and where you stand right now. No, yeah, 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.000 but the people that you impact on the day to day. Basically, 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:57.040 you never know. You just never know. You can influence 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.760 who's watching you, and that's really the true definition of 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.600 character is And so you got that award literally your 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.280 last year playing. And so at what point in your 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.360 NFL career did you ever begin flirting with the idea 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.720 of retiring. I mean, you played sixteen years, so you 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.040 had a long time to think about this. Yeah, I 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:16.480 don't know. You know, it's like, do you count the 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.640 years that it seemed like every sports reporter is like 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.040 trying to put it in your head that you probably 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.240 should retire, or it's like you've entered the age just 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.280 like I can remember at some point it's like I'm 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.200 not bringing this up, y'all are bringing this up like 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.320 you know, like you know, is this it? Is this 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.600 the last years? You know, it's like they'd ask you 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.840 those questions and you'd go through those seasons where you'd 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.480 ponder it, and then a lot of the times I 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.680 would think about, hey, you know what, like did I 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.800 come up with this idea? Is this more like, hey, 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.320 because you've reached a certain age or because you're at 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.040 a certain experience level. That's just the narrative people want 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.240 to talk about and so I think for me, it 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.280 was just continuing to be like, you know what, do 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.839 I feel good? Do I feel like I sell the 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.200 passion to play this game? And then at some point 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.120 it became at my age because I was an older 0:09:56.160 --> 0:10:00.120 player coming into the league, it was like, man, the mentorship, 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.160 the brotherhood and my little brothers. You know, a lot 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.600 of them called me uncle. A couple at the end 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.280 called me grandpa, which is really offensive, but the gray, 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.360 you know, it's like you guys have yeah, it just 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.520 you know, it started to be like, hey, you know 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.440 what the impact I get to have with these guys 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.160 every years so much fun too, Like it was like 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.840 I'm chasing playing because I just love the bond. I 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.080 love the brotherhood. I love being able to be there 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:23.559 for a guy when he has his first kid, or 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.000 he's getting married, or he wants to know about you know, 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.600 this next lifestep he's going through with his mom or 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.360 his family or whatever, and so those kind of moments 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.480 or things I remember almost as much as anything I 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.719 did on the field. Yeah that's cool. So after retiring, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.760 you got into broadcasting run away, I was that was 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.760 something that I did as well, you know, I retired 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.680 I took like, I don't know, maybe the off season, 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.080 a couple of months off, and then I started to 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.880 I got into broadcasting right away. And Rome and I 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.800 we talked about this often where when Roman hired, he 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.719 took exactly three hundred and sixty five days off of 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.960 doing nothing. I'm just hanging out, kids, fam just whatever. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.360 He wanted to do a lot of shopping, time with 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.480 the wife, you during the day. Yeah, we did a 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.120 lot of that. We did a lot of that. And 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.120 I always say, if I could go back and do 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.160 it again, I probably would have took a year off 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.920 and just did nothing, because that's probably the one I 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:18.760 probably said that was probably my big mistake. It is 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.720 just taking a year off and not doing nothing, trying 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.720 to get right back into just doing something right after retiring. 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.599 So my question to you is, what have your experience 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.920 has been like just getting right into football just I'm 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.240 excuse me, getting right into broadcasting having no time off, 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.400 you know, I think it was my first year was 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.160 pretty crazy to have like now kind of sit here 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.440 and enjoy a little bit of being retired. It's been 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.439 nice out. The season's over and I'm kind of sitting still, 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.280 but like I remember being at some point in like 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.280 October November, like I'm having a blast doing this, like 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.440 this is fun traveling. But I'm like, man, I don't 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.960 even know what's happened the last six months, Like I 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:58.959 have no idea where it's gone or what happened. I 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.240 thought I was gonna have all this time, and I 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.120 feel like I just go from one thing to the 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.200 other every second. And I tell people this all the 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:06.959 time too, And I'm sure you guys feel the same way. 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.560 You forget too. Football was kind of your excuse to 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.480 get out of things too, like hey, like why don't 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.160 you come to this? Ah? You know what? Actually, like 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.560 we gotta practice or I got OTAs or I got whatever. 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:18.920 And now you have no excuse to say no. You 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.520 better know the word no, because if you don't, you're 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.360 gonna be busy all the time because they're like, now 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:25.920 you're not playing no more, so you can come to 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:27.600 this event or you can come to this thing. And 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:29.600 you're like, oh, man, crap, I don't have an excuse. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.480 So yeah, I think my year got pretty crazy. It did. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.200 I was agreeing to anything and everything is like I'm retired. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.079 I want to go play in you know, Larry Fitzgild's 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:38.800 golf tournament or I want to go play in this 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:40.960 And then before I knew it, I was like, man, 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:45.560 I'm here Monday, they're Thursday, this place Sunday, Like, oh, like, 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.880 what did I get myself into? But no, I mean 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.880 getting into the broadcast part, I think is probably the 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.400 most enjoyable part of everything. It's it's been a lot 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.600 of fun. I would say that in coaching my kids' 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.080 sports has been the two things that like have been 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.680 an absolute blast. And my wife's enjoyed it too, just 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.560 to get to have me around so much. And so 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.640 it's that part's been really fun. All Right. Number one, 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:08.280 what sports are you kids playing? And then number two, 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.240 I want you to kind of take me through some 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.560 of the challenges. You know, you talked about you you 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.280 really didn't do any big media press conferences. You're old linons, 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.280 You're not getting a whole bunch of cameras in your 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:22.920 face week after and so now you're I mean you're 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.120 a prime time You're right there on Thursday night football 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:26.800 is you're right there with Amazon. It's a great path. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.480 It's a great crew too. I really enjoy you guys, 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.920 And is it safe to say that you're kind of 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.240 a trailblazer. You are. You're not the only one because 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.839 Joe Thomas was up there too, So you two guys 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.080 are leading the way for you big guys on the 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.120 tit television screen right now. Yeah, I tell you all. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.679 For the kids. Uh, you know, we're a little bit everywhere. 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.120 I mean, the boys probably play almost all the three majors. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.280 I'd say, basketball, football, baseball. They're doing all that. You know. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.280 I've had one to mess around a little bit wanting 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.440 to play some golf, but he didn't want to do that. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:00.320 He likes suping too much, so you know, they play those. 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.719 My daughter Sarah is a volleyball player. I'm trying to 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.000 get her on the basketball court. She's tall and lean 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.440 and but she enjoys volleyball right now. And then my 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:14.080 youngest daughter, Catherine, who's eight, uh, just started basketball, so 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.640 I'm excited about her. She's having a blast. That's guy. 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.480 That was always my favorite sport growing up and something 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.400 I still did when I played. I kept the court. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:22.600 You know. I had a little half court at my 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.520 house and had a little you know, your little old 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.480 men leagues. You know. I had specific rules though at 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.520 my size because the general guys didn't like me down 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:30.880 the paint, so I had to I had to shoot 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:39.520 from the outside, but uh, out in the paint. And 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.280 see that's the guy that I don't like. I'm like, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.120 why the big guy always trying to bring the ball up? 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.680 You take your shirt off the time, just dunking, dribbling. 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:50.960 Come on, yeah, I'd have been just shirt off, sweat dripping, 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.480 I've been get bagging it up, getting in Oh my, 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.560 come on, y'all, I'd have been guy hated to play again. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.640 Oh yeah, they hated me there, you know, doubt about that, 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.560 but you know, so that that part was fun. But yeah, 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.280 as far as the you know, being on Thursday night 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.720 football and really the challenges, I think it has been 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.120 a lot of fun. And I think for me, I 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.160 do think of it that way. Like it's an offensive lineman. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.760 You don't have a lot of voice in the league 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.280 when it comes to like press conferences and media stuff. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.840 I think that's why it's so cool to see right now. 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.360 Jason Kelsey, you know, Joe Thomas, you know, you know, 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.640 you've had O'Hare, you had some guys that you know 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.360 have been out there. But it's like get to see 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.440 those guys really spreading out who they are. Taylor Lawan, like, 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.800 you know, guys, it's like regardless of like their personalities 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.440 and who you like and don't like actually having a 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.760 personality and showing it. Because I think in the offensive 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.760 line room especially and you guys know this, you've played 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.600 long enough, like that was kind of always a room 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.520 where it's like be quiet, do your job, and that's 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.520 kind of how the they were taught, Like you brought 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.840 in young Lineman, it's like don't say a word, don't speak, 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.840 just block, you know, like that kind of thing. And 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:50.960 just seeing now that there's a little bit of these 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.200 guys showing who they really are and having a personality 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.160 and talking about what they enjoy and they're passionate about. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.080 I love being on the side of not being the 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.480 trail blazer but changing that narrative and for all those 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.280 guys because you trouble. Yeah, so I enjoy that, man, 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:07.680 you know. But it's funny, like even when you go 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.600 through these meetings, like I met with agents to talk 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.040 about media, right, they would say stuff that I just 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.760 get so fired, Like they'd be like, well, somebody can 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:16.320 hire you, and like you could talk about on an 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.520 alignment and I'm like, bro, Like, I don't know if 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:24.240 y'all understand when football, like offensive linemen have to know 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.480 so much more than how to block somebody that to 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.920 even be good at what they do. So like to 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.120 think that that was even the what your own agent 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:33.840 might think. It's like, oh, man, you could talk about 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.840 alignment blocking people, and I'm like, bro, I can talk 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.840 about anything in this game, you know, you know, So 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:40.360 I think you have to be an intelligent guy to 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.760 play that position and also have a great concept of 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.320 the game and how it moves and motions and coverages 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.600 and how they rotate, and like to understand how to 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.280 pick all those things up. You better know how the 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.880 defense dances. Yeah, And so I gotta know how the 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.800 offense what our plan is, and I gotta know what 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.040 the defense how they're gonna dance to it, and and 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.280 so you know that you can watch tape and understand 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.560 those things from a Figger complex in just your job. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.680 So it's been fun to have a chance to do 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.560 that and get to do it with Sherman Fitz and 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.840 Tony and Charissa, all people who are just such special 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.240 personalities in their in their own right, it's been a blast. 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.879 I tell you that the biggest surprise to me. I 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:16.720 didn't know i'd love it and have so much fun. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.800 I mean, I've had an absolute blast doing it. That's 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.240 the best thing about it. So I didn't really watch 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.760 a ton of football when I played. I didn't watch 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.560 Monday night football, Sunday night football because we sit in 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.000 the meeting room all day in a dark room, and 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.040 you just watched the wide angle of plays all day long. 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.800 So when I retired, I watched more football than I 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:38.600 ever have in my life. Wish I didn't think I 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.560 would do. So being retired, do you do do you 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.960 feel more connected to the game just because you're doing 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.040 the analyst thing or do you just did you think 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:48.880 you weren't going to be watching that much football after 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.399 being retired? Peter, I gotta tell you, I'm in the 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.439 same boat. I don't know if I watched a single 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.479 game when I played, Like, I don't think I were 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.480 you serious, I didn't have to do with my was 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.359 more and who I was just playing? I do it 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.919