Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Corrissa is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. It is the NFL off season, but
Speaker 1: we have the biggest name of the off season, the
Speaker 1: winning quarterback of the Inner Rams, Matthew Stafford joins us
Speaker 1: today Angel to talk to him. Um, you know, he
Speaker 1: has uh told us that his this is only gonna
Speaker 1: be the second time he's done a podcast, his first
Speaker 1: being Kelly's in the Morning After. So we feel honored
Speaker 1: to have him on Calm Down. We will not calm
Speaker 1: down so many questions to ask him about his offseason.
Speaker 1: It's time Detroit, his wonderful family and for all your
Speaker 1: Rams fans, the idea of running it back. So sit
Speaker 1: back and Jorgan Matthew Stafford, Ladies and gentlemen, the long
Speaker 1: awaited special guest. Very excited that this is actually coming
Speaker 1: to Fruition because Aaron did a little tease in the
Speaker 1: biz about two months ago. She said, I have a
Speaker 1: very special guest, but you're gonna love it, and then
Speaker 1: it was a no show. He was busy trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, make that Super Bowl run. So first of all,
Speaker 1: we'd be remissed if we didn't start off with the congratulations.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thanks for having
Speaker 1: me on. What a time. Well, no, we're not congratulating
Speaker 1: you for being on, we're congratulating you for winning the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Appreciate it. I'm exciting your commercial was on.
Speaker 1: I was watching the NBA yesterday and your kids guy
Speaker 1: on all the Time, which is a great commercial. It's there.
Speaker 1: It's I don't know who wrote the spot for you,
Speaker 1: but it is a microcosm of who you are, humble,
Speaker 1: appreciative and also the wink. When did the wink become
Speaker 1: a thing? Because it feels like the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: national commercials are branding you with a wink, because this
Speaker 1: is a whole different Matthew Stafford, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I feel like I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've done it for a while, but
Speaker 1: it's catching fire. I guess. The A T and T
Speaker 1: spot was kind of fun. Whoever wrote it was genius.
Speaker 1: They it was too easy. It was too well written
Speaker 1: for me to mess up. So that's why it's doing good.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, how many takes with the wink? Uh?
Speaker 1: The wink was an early take and then we tried
Speaker 1: a bunch of different endings as you got. All that
Speaker 1: stuff happens. But yeah, lially the female that works for
Speaker 1: a TT does all the commercials, she's awesome. She was
Speaker 1: a stud helped me through it, kind of showed me
Speaker 1: the ropes made it, made it easy for me. But
Speaker 1: the wink was an early and early thought. Did you
Speaker 1: overthink it at all? I mean, I think this could
Speaker 1: be a Curb or Seinfeld episode where it's like do
Speaker 1: I go hard? Do I do? I mean, how did
Speaker 1: that play out for you? Yeah? Have I not had her,
Speaker 1: that would have been completely lost? Uh. After alone, they
Speaker 1: call it like line reading in the business, where you
Speaker 1: know the director would be like, hey, can you make
Speaker 1: me feel this way when you say this? I'm like no,
Speaker 1: but if you tell me how you want it to sound,
Speaker 1: I can then repeat it for you. I was like,
Speaker 1: my whole life is somebody talks in my ear. I
Speaker 1: repeat that. So they did that for me a couple
Speaker 1: of times, which I think is a no no and
Speaker 1: the real biz, but they helped me out. Um I
Speaker 1: that's wonderful that you're always giving credit to other people.
Speaker 1: You know, it's somebody can give you the route to run,
Speaker 1: or the or the play you know to initiate, but
Speaker 1: you have to actually do it. So part of that commercial,
Speaker 1: which I loved, and it was about talking about turning
Speaker 1: in your old phone after twelve years, the pun there
Speaker 1: of force was leaving Detroit. You still care so much
Speaker 1: about the city that made you who you are. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, raising your family there, you and Kelly, you
Speaker 1: starting a life there together. When you look back on
Speaker 1: it now, does Detroit feel like a long time ago?
Speaker 1: Does it feel like everything that's happened to you with
Speaker 1: him this last year, does it feel like you lived
Speaker 1: in Detroit ten years ago? Yeah? Sometimes for sure. I
Speaker 1: also haven't been back, you know. Kelly and I are
Speaker 1: going back this weekend actually for a charity thing that
Speaker 1: we kind of did right before we left, and they're
Speaker 1: starting to break ground on it. So we're pumped to
Speaker 1: go back and see some old buddies and do all that.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that will bring me right back and
Speaker 1: it'll be like I left there yesterday. But at the moment, yeah,
Speaker 1: not having been back and all that's transpired in the
Speaker 1: last year, both for me professionally and us as a family,
Speaker 1: he definitely seems like a long time ago. But I
Speaker 1: still have a bunch of good friends and good people
Speaker 1: that I know. They're that I'm excited to go see.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure after this weekend it'll feel a little
Speaker 1: bit different. I was gonna say, what are you anticipating?
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you even think that's going to
Speaker 1: be like for you? Well, I got a video from
Speaker 1: my man Hank this morning and it's snowing in Detroit currently,
Speaker 1: So hoping that up um and I don't have to
Speaker 1: deal with that. I think it's supposed to be a
Speaker 1: little bit better by the time we get there, But
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just I'm excited to know it's April.
Speaker 1: How horrible is that? Also, look at your tan, I
Speaker 1: mean Detroit, not only are they so sad you're gone,
Speaker 1: And I mean, I know you know all the stories
Speaker 1: about just how it just appreciative, how they were in
Speaker 1: on the whole super Bowl run for you, that was
Speaker 1: so cool. But I think they're gonna be pissed about
Speaker 1: you walking back with that tan this weekend. You're probably
Speaker 1: I'll keep it indoors until Friday, try to try to
Speaker 1: get a little wider. But now it's it's it's pretty
Speaker 1: nice out of here. I'm not gonna easter outside? Is
Speaker 1: it was nice as opposed to the the eastern and the
Speaker 1: snow in Detroit? Yeah? We Um, you and I sat
Speaker 1: down for NFL films before the start of the season,
Speaker 1: and who talked about you know, you come to l
Speaker 1: A and it's this whole idea that you're gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: be brought in to bring this team to a place
Speaker 1: that they haven't been for been to in a while. Um,
Speaker 1: their last sup of will run fell short. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna save this team, of course with the help of
Speaker 1: some of the other big guys that they brought in.
Speaker 1: The storybook ending, the Hollywood ending is you win the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I can't believe you use that line in
Speaker 1: your your interview, by the way, Chriss, because I used
Speaker 1: that too right before NYC Championship we uncovered that. I mean,
Speaker 1: what the hell what happened? I know? So that's when
Speaker 1: you think about, of course, you do you put in
Speaker 1: all the work. I know you're at the breakfast what
Speaker 1: do you in Cooper call your guys breakfast meeting, breakfast club,
Speaker 1: the breakfast club? So wait, we want to dive into
Speaker 1: that five thirty am every morning where you guys but
Speaker 1: in the Q room. UM just turned the tape on,
Speaker 1: watch you know whatever is kind of there for the day,
Speaker 1: talk about all sorts of things, drink some coffee, eats
Speaker 1: and breakfast and kind of just get ahead. That's all
Speaker 1: he's you know, unlike any team I've ever had, just
Speaker 1: a great, great work or a great teammate. Um. And uh,
Speaker 1: part of that was him, Like we didn't even talk
Speaker 1: about it. I went in there the normal time I
Speaker 1: used to go and when I was in Detroit, and
Speaker 1: I walked in their day one and he was in there,
Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, So we just just
Speaker 1: kind of organically happened. And and uh, every day of
Speaker 1: the year that we were in there at work, we
Speaker 1: were in there. Really Okay, So you put in the
Speaker 1: work as you have done for the previous twelve years
Speaker 1: of your career, and now it last year with all
Speaker 1: the pressure, you end up winning the Super Bowl. Was
Speaker 1: there a moment afterwards or even weeks afterwards that you
Speaker 1: thought to yourself, Oh ship, I did it? Like when
Speaker 1: did that oh ship moment? Actually got got the check? Um.
Speaker 1: The first time that that really kind of hit me
Speaker 1: was really during the game. A d makes the great
Speaker 1: play on fourth down that I did not know it
Speaker 1: was fourth down because I couldn't watch or pay attention. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was sitting there on the bench just like, oh God,
Speaker 1: out there, take us through that. Sorry to interrupt you,
Speaker 1: but how the hell does that happen? Like, take us
Speaker 1: through that? So you know that, you know that's the well,
Speaker 1: what the hell did you know? Yeah? I didn't know
Speaker 1: that was down at all? Yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: I was I was eating a hot dog on the sideline,
Speaker 1: but no, I uh I, Um, I was sitting there
Speaker 1: and looking down. I just looking down at my feet
Speaker 1: on the bench. Cooper, I think was doing like the
Speaker 1: exact same thing down um, you know, four or five
Speaker 1: seats away from me. But I thought that was to
Speaker 1: be honestly, I thought it was third down. Um, I
Speaker 1: think I missed the run, you know, on third down
Speaker 1: and incomplete past eighty makes unbelievable rush, gets Joe to
Speaker 1: you know, have to throw away before he wants and
Speaker 1: scramble around, do all that whole thing, and then people
Speaker 1: start going crazy on the sideline. I was like, what's
Speaker 1: going on? And one of our young receivers came up
Speaker 1: was like, we won, we won. Whatever that was fourth down?
Speaker 1: I was like, holy shit, but I kind of went
Speaker 1: like right before I steped back on the field, it
Speaker 1: just kind of hit me, kind of went down into
Speaker 1: a squat and Sean ran over to me and and
Speaker 1: you know, it was just hugging me up and stuff
Speaker 1: and talking about how excited we were. But that was
Speaker 1: kind of the first time. And then as far as afterwards,
Speaker 1: I don't know, there was you know, a week or
Speaker 1: two that was a little bit of a blur, but
Speaker 1: it was a whole lot of fun. Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just celebrated with all the people that helped me
Speaker 1: get there. You know. That was the cool part, was
Speaker 1: being able to do that with teammates and family and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Can I go back to
Speaker 1: the fourth down? I don't know if you ever saw
Speaker 1: what was it the thirty for thirty where they did
Speaker 1: the Fab five, and I thought one of the best
Speaker 1: things about it was where they showed the time out
Speaker 1: and all you've heard was like a heartbeat and it
Speaker 1: was so well done. What are you hearing at that moment, Matthew,
Speaker 1: where you don't know if it's third or fourth down?
Speaker 1: Are you hearing your heartbeat? Are you hearing the music, Like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is going on in your head? Um,
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I don't know why it
Speaker 1: wasn't ACTU and I have so much trust in our defense.
Speaker 1: I think that's what I was just saying to the ground.
Speaker 1: I was probably just going at one stop, one stop,
Speaker 1: just stop, just one stop, and uh, you know the
Speaker 1: first play they I thought Jalen, To be honest with here,
Speaker 1: I watched the very first play that drive and they
Speaker 1: throw that little stop route to Jamar Chase, and I
Speaker 1: thought I was like watching Jalen for some reason, and
Speaker 1: he had such a good break on it, and if
Speaker 1: he looks back, I think he picks it and runs back,
Speaker 1: runs it back for like a game winning pick six,
Speaker 1: and he just went for the tackle. Jamar made a
Speaker 1: great play and they got it out to you know
Speaker 1: whatever that was like on the first play. And then
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, well, me standing and watching his
Speaker 1: bad luck, so I'm gonna set my ass down and
Speaker 1: stare at the ground and see if that brings us
Speaker 1: some better luck. And then it did. Are you superstitious
Speaker 1: a little bit? Grew up playing baseball a little bit,
Speaker 1: so I have a few things here and there, but
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, something's not working. If I'm sitting down
Speaker 1: on the sideline and our defense is just shutting people out,
Speaker 1: there no reason for me to get up, and kind
Speaker 1: of vice versa. What I love about that story is,
Speaker 1: of course you're on wife Kelly, who we love at
Speaker 1: a door and she also has a great podcast for
Speaker 1: anyone that hasn't heard. The Morning After tells some stories.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the college stories especially give me UM.
Speaker 1: But the fact that she couldn't watch either, and she
Speaker 1: was in the hallway with her down not watching the
Speaker 1: last drive and somebody thought that she was sick like
Speaker 1: a drink too much and they're like, man, do you
Speaker 1: aren't sleeping? She was, definitely, But neither of you guys couldn't.
Speaker 1: Um watches cute and sort of speaks to the fact
Speaker 1: that you just have trust and you know what is
Speaker 1: going to be. But that's so it's so awesome. I
Speaker 1: had the privilege of covering you for a long time
Speaker 1: with my NFC dorts assignments, and there was a lot
Speaker 1: of games where you know, you had we're on the
Speaker 1: other side of that. So the biggest for you in
Speaker 1: your life that's changed since winning the Super Bowl is
Speaker 1: oh man, um shorter offseason. For sure. We start tomorrow,
Speaker 1: which blows my mind. I don't know, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, my day to day is pretty similar. You know,
Speaker 1: for the most part. The people that I knew and
Speaker 1: talked to before I still know and talked to. And
Speaker 1: there's not too much of a difference. You know, probably
Speaker 1: more opportunities to do a T and T commercials and
Speaker 1: things like that. But from the day to day, I'm
Speaker 1: just getting ready to go play another season. And and uh,
Speaker 1: I think a fun moment will be the ring ceremony,
Speaker 1: like whenever we get that, whenever that happens. Just getting
Speaker 1: that same group, because our group is going to be different,
Speaker 1: but getting that group back together that won that Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you know, players and coaches that have moved on to
Speaker 1: bigger and better stuff. To get those guys back in
Speaker 1: the building and be able to hang with them will
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun moment. I mean, I have
Speaker 1: seven thousand questions for you. Um, can I ask I
Speaker 1: think you mentioned this, I don't know, maybe last week,
Speaker 1: but I want to know this song. Is there a
Speaker 1: song that you listen to maybe before you went out
Speaker 1: on the field for the Super Bowl, or is there
Speaker 1: a go to song you've had since U G A
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I am not a huge pregame
Speaker 1: music guy. I kind of especially when we play, you know,
Speaker 1: away games or even home games. A lot of guys
Speaker 1: like to like put that on to kind of get
Speaker 1: lost and you listen to what they're familiar to. I
Speaker 1: kind of like the opposite. I like to hear the
Speaker 1: opposing fans screaming at me, or the home fans cheering
Speaker 1: for I like part of that to me is the
Speaker 1: fun part of why I get to do what I do.
Speaker 1: Like no other part of your life, you walk around
Speaker 1: and people are either cheering for your chairing against you.
Speaker 1: You know, go to the grocery store and people do that.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's kind of it's on Lincoln, it's
Speaker 1: the huge, huge, continued there. You'll get late happy hours,
Speaker 1: dangerous section. They are lively, but you know, it's just
Speaker 1: like it helps me get into I enjoy that whole atmosphere.
Speaker 1: So I don't really do that. The only time I
Speaker 1: really listen to music, to be honest with you, So
Speaker 1: we play in New York City, I usually listen to
Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra, you know, just kind of get it. Going.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just I feel like it. I
Speaker 1: think the same three gave music. So what about what
Speaker 1: was the first tune that you remember hearing? Maybe with
Speaker 1: like four cigars hanging out of your mouth like anything?
Speaker 1: Come on now, I don't even know if I can.
Speaker 1: I can't point one out. I just know right when
Speaker 1: I walked into the locker room, it was like a
Speaker 1: cigar in my mouth, bud light and somebody handed me
Speaker 1: Happy Van Lincal straight out of the bottle. I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, we're doing this, and uh, yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was a fun hours, really really twenty four So
Speaker 1: I had to wake up and take my kids to
Speaker 1: Disneyland the next day, which was a beating, but uh,
Speaker 1: it was fun. It was an epic video that Kelly
Speaker 1: on her podcast, the video of you just walking straight
Speaker 1: into the pool. So where did this a just for
Speaker 1: a way for you to wake up? Was it a bet? What? What?
Speaker 1: What's the story behind that? This was after an hour
Speaker 1: of sleep on my couch with like one ft on
Speaker 1: the ground and doing her podcast, which I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was just buggling through. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: needed a little pick me up. I knew, Uh, we
Speaker 1: had a nine am. I believe the Disneyland bus was
Speaker 1: outside the front door. You take us. So I was like,
Speaker 1: I need to uh spark it up a little bit
Speaker 1: here and just just went face first in there to
Speaker 1: to a cold pool. Try to wake me up. Matthew
Speaker 1: super Bowl postgame party. What do you regret? What are
Speaker 1: you glad you got to do? And what do you
Speaker 1: wish you had done more of any of that? Um?
Speaker 1: Regret not much. I mean the biggest, the hardest thing
Speaker 1: for me was like there were a ton of people.
Speaker 1: We had like a little after party thing, and there
Speaker 1: were a ton of people that whether it would be
Speaker 1: high school buddies, college people I met while I'm in
Speaker 1: the NFL family, Like, it was almost it was hard
Speaker 1: to spend time with everybody. I got to say hi
Speaker 1: to everybody. I feel like I wanted to say hi too.
Speaker 1: If I miss you, I'm sorry, But that would be
Speaker 1: the only regret is maybe not being able to spend
Speaker 1: as much time as everybody. Yeah, exactly, Um highlights, Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean the whole thing was a blast. I think
Speaker 1: really even before the party, the thing I'll remember the
Speaker 1: most and like chairs the most that I got with
Speaker 1: a microphone on filmed, you know, for the for the
Speaker 1: NFL at that time with my family down on the field,
Speaker 1: which was super cool. To be able to have the
Speaker 1: audio and the video of that is awesome. I mean,
Speaker 1: went to Drake's which was fun. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I was there, but I was there. I don't know
Speaker 1: who else was there. It was dark and it was late,
Speaker 1: but who cares. Yeah, I mean I was just along
Speaker 1: for the ride at that point. Somebody could have told
Speaker 1: me we were going somewhere else and I've been ready
Speaker 1: to go. But yeah, you know, stolen hour of sleep
Speaker 1: and there was out of again the next days that
Speaker 1: in my life. I don't know, dark, it was late,
Speaker 1: I don't know who was there. But now here's the deal.
Speaker 1: So as a entertainment reporter, I guess, um, every week
Speaker 1: the headlines of you and buying Drake's house and all this. God,
Speaker 1: you know that living in l A comes with a
Speaker 1: lot of headlines that are true or false or not.
Speaker 1: Are you ever surprised by some of this stuff? I mean,
Speaker 1: has there been a headline that has come out about
Speaker 1: you that you just go where would they get that? Um? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Most of the time that kind of stuff happens after
Speaker 1: Kelly's podcast comes out, and there's intricate parts of my
Speaker 1: personal life that are blasted all over the Apple news
Speaker 1: feed that I get, and I asked her, why the
Speaker 1: hell am I reading about this? That's usually when I
Speaker 1: when I noticed that the most you know, how are
Speaker 1: you with that? Matthew? How are you with that? Because
Speaker 1: you are so I mean, I think for people that
Speaker 1: don't know you, so, I mean reserved whatever. And Kelly's
Speaker 1: a fire cracker. I mean she's just amazing with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how are you with handling that? It was yeah, right,
Speaker 1: let me tell you to take you back now. Um
Speaker 1: when she when she said she was gonna do you know,
Speaker 1: start this and what she wanted to talk about, I
Speaker 1: was like, what you know, Like that is not something
Speaker 1: I really wanted to have out there and talk about.
Speaker 1: But she does such a great job, and yeah, it's
Speaker 1: something that I'm I guess getting better at and learning
Speaker 1: to just not let it bother me. Skip past those
Speaker 1: those articles, don't read too much it. But it's I
Speaker 1: don't know how she does that, Like I cannot um
Speaker 1: the amount of stuff that she is able to share
Speaker 1: and relate to people with kind of blows my mind. Um,
Speaker 1: I could never do that. But that's probably what makes
Speaker 1: us work is I'm the complete opposite when it comes
Speaker 1: to that, and I appreciate that part about her, and
Speaker 1: I think she knows that I'm a on a sounding
Speaker 1: board when it comes to is this too much you
Speaker 1: know to share with people? And and we go, we
Speaker 1: go with that. You guys have such a special relationship
Speaker 1: and dating back all the way to college. When you
Speaker 1: think about there was that moment on the field of
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game when I told the story on
Speaker 1: here where she I was like, Okay, I'm gonna capture
Speaker 1: everything for you. I'm not gonna miss nailed it. I've
Speaker 1: crushed it. Okay, somebody hired me on National Geographic. I'll
Speaker 1: get that zebra, no problem. But I missed the whole
Speaker 1: thing up. Luckily, there was like seven million cameras to
Speaker 1: capture the moment. But you mentioned it earlier, like being
Speaker 1: able to share that with your family. What do you
Speaker 1: think about, Mathew, the journey that you guys have been
Speaker 1: on together. You were babies when this thing it and
Speaker 1: now you have four babies. How has being a husband
Speaker 1: and a father of four girls made you a better quarterback. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think for me, stability in my life
Speaker 1: and my job helps me out so much. And I
Speaker 1: know what Kelly is all about. She knows what I'm
Speaker 1: all about. So you know, as far as being able to,
Speaker 1: you know, have her in my corner, it's huge. And
Speaker 1: then I think another thing too, is you know, the
Speaker 1: second you're married, you're part of a team, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you learned that you're not just doing it
Speaker 1: for yourself anymore. And that's kind of how I try
Speaker 1: to go about my job in football as well. And
Speaker 1: then it becomes even more apparent when you have a
Speaker 1: bunch of the kids running around and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: there's moments where it's tough, you know, and Kelly and
Speaker 1: I are wanting to, you know, rip each other's heads off,
Speaker 1: and you know, and do the same to our kids
Speaker 1: at the same you know, It's just there's tough times
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, just gives you perspective and patience
Speaker 1: and and then you know, you you know, Hunter was
Speaker 1: in here in the office saying hey to you guys
Speaker 1: before we hopped on and she's just pointing at random
Speaker 1: things in my office? Is that yours? I'm like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's like, did you win? Like she has no clue
Speaker 1: and doesn't care, and that's yeah, helps put it in
Speaker 1: perspective for me, because there are plenty of times where no, hunty,
Speaker 1: I did not win. There are plenty of those times,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know it's it's uh, they just made
Speaker 1: me smile and you know, put life in perspective for me.
Speaker 1: So it's it's a lot of fun. There's a line
Speaker 1: from one of Chris and I his favorite movies with
Speaker 1: Cameron Diaz Sweetest Thing, where she's talking about this guy
Speaker 1: she likes and she says, and he's funny, And I
Speaker 1: feel that way so much about you. I mean, this
Speaker 1: sneaky humor and we both know, all three of us
Speaker 1: know your wife is on you a little bit to
Speaker 1: kind of let some of that out. You see that
Speaker 1: with Tom that you know now that he's left the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if half the stuff on
Speaker 1: Twitter is from him, but I guess it's funny. Um,
Speaker 1: any thoughts about that now that you've won, Like you're
Speaker 1: gonna let all the hair down or what are you thinking? Oh?
Speaker 1: Probably half of half down? You know. I'm really funny, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little relaxed, I think, but I mean, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, it's like, too many years of doing
Speaker 1: interviews and answering in a certain way, it's just sometimes
Speaker 1: easier to, um, you know 'spec like in season football stuff,
Speaker 1: to just kind of do what you do and move on.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, this is my second podcast ever
Speaker 1: to be on the side my wife. So I step
Speaker 1: out there. I'm stepping out there. That's very sweet. Um,
Speaker 1: you know the pressure did you feel when you got
Speaker 1: here that if you didn't win at all, that it
Speaker 1: would be a failure. Um. I don't think that I
Speaker 1: felt that, but I heard it, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't not hear that. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: when I was in Cabo and got traded to the Rams,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like, oh, let's go win the super Bowl
Speaker 1: the first year, you know, it was like, hey man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna enjoy working with you, coach. Coach, I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna enjoy working with me. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: get to work with these guys. And I knew we
Speaker 1: had a good team, but so many things have to happen.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the craziest thing that kind of
Speaker 1: goes not unnoticed but kind of untalked about. Is I
Speaker 1: mean von Miller O'Dell, you know, the whole year without
Speaker 1: can then he comes back. I mean, there were so
Speaker 1: many moving parts, guys that we hadn't Robert Woodstairs. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's just so many moving parts that it wasn't this
Speaker 1: storybook season where I got here and we sailed through
Speaker 1: and we want every game by four touchdowns, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a lot of ups and downs,
Speaker 1: like every Super Bhowl year. So we're no different than
Speaker 1: a lot of other teams in that regard, I feel like.
Speaker 1: But getting back to your question, I didn't feel that
Speaker 1: because I knew there's more seasons than just that one.
Speaker 1: But I definitely heard it because I know, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it was a storyline out there. Okay, now, but what
Speaker 1: about the pressure to run it back? I mean, especially
Speaker 1: if you look at the NFC and I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, Chris and I cover it, everybody has gone
Speaker 1: to the a f C. What kind of pressure is
Speaker 1: that on you now, not just you know, Matthew, it's
Speaker 1: only on you, but just to run it back, to
Speaker 1: do this thing again. Yeah, I mean, I think the
Speaker 1: biggest thing for me is I'm excited. Yea, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to have that opportunity. There have been zero
Speaker 1: times in my career that I've ever had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to run it back because I ever want before, and
Speaker 1: knowing what it feels like, it just makes me want
Speaker 1: it that much more. You know, you get a little
Speaker 1: bit of a taste of it, of what it's like
Speaker 1: and how cool it is with a group of guys
Speaker 1: that you go to work with every single day to
Speaker 1: get that done. I also and not lost on so
Speaker 1: many things have to go right, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: it doesn't just because you got the best team on
Speaker 1: paper in September, it doesn't mean you're gonna go win
Speaker 1: at all. And it was lucky to be a part
Speaker 1: of it and just pumped for the opportunity to try
Speaker 1: and do it again. I wouldn't mind being in Arizona Stadium,
Speaker 1: you know, getting it done. You know, next February, let's
Speaker 1: go down to the field for more. Aaron, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: taking that guideline. Hey, I think this is crazy, and
Speaker 1: we learned this about you. You have not sat back
Speaker 1: and watched the Super Bowl? Yeah, unless you have done
Speaker 1: it since week we watched the final few minutes of
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, which with you, which I told Crisa
Speaker 1: was one of the coolest experiences hearing you kind of
Speaker 1: narrate it and listening to Kelly go, oh, my gosh,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that happened. So you haven't watched it yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I still haven't really watched it. I was in Vegas
Speaker 1: with Coope and with and it came on the miked
Speaker 1: up like thirty minute version of the game basically where
Speaker 1: they have everybody's deal, which is super cool. We all
Speaker 1: kind of we're just kind of flipping through and we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's on, and we just stopped and watched it. And
Speaker 1: that was a cool moment getting to do that with
Speaker 1: those guys and their wives and that group of people.
Speaker 1: But as far as you know, front to back TV
Speaker 1: copy all that kind of stuff, and I haven't. I
Speaker 1: haven't peeked at it. I probably need to at some point,
Speaker 1: so when people ask me certain things that were said
Speaker 1: or happened, I'm I'm dialed. But it was I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just a world win after the game, which kind
Speaker 1: of kept it moving. Do you go, no know, I
Speaker 1: was just gonna ask when guys are Mike Depp. This
Speaker 1: is totally off the subject and its time to talk.
Speaker 1: You know some crap, don't you feel Do you ever
Speaker 1: watch those mic deups when they come out and you know,
Speaker 1: the guy knows he's got it on and he just
Speaker 1: like lays it on thick. I mean, can you spot
Speaker 1: those guys a mile away? It's like, dude, come on,
Speaker 1: we got it. Yeah, there's some guys to take liberties
Speaker 1: with that. I feel like they enjoy the opportunity to
Speaker 1: have the voice, you know, spread all over um, you know,
Speaker 1: doing all that kind of stuff. But sometimes you remember
Speaker 1: you have it on early and then once the game starts,
Speaker 1: it's just like you just go trying to say something
Speaker 1: funny and uh in warm ups or something other than that,
Speaker 1: you're done. Yeah. What I thought was funny is in
Speaker 1: the postgame press conference. This is just it's just so
Speaker 1: perfect because you're a father and a husband first before
Speaker 1: a football player, and you're sitting there in the biggest
Speaker 1: moment of your professional career, just winning a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and you're answering questions. And I was a chandler, so
Speaker 1: they were both on your lap and then hunting went
Speaker 1: hunting behind and holding her and what I love the
Speaker 1: most is you like, I don't think that's a good
Speaker 1: idea or like you got it, like you said something
Speaker 1: where it's like it's a perfect example of like you're
Speaker 1: being the father and the husband but also answering questions.
Speaker 1: And the picture of Kelly from behind was incredible. I
Speaker 1: love Yeah, I mean it was. It was pretty funny.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to concentrate, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: Like Kelly's down here barely holding on the hunter so
Speaker 1: she doesn't fall off and uh, you know, hurt herself
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I know she's making faces at the
Speaker 1: camera just because I know her and the two in
Speaker 1: my lap we're asking a question. It was. It was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a whirlwind. Probably not my best
Speaker 1: football answers at the moment, but the fun moment that
Speaker 1: I will always remember, and that photo is that's gold.
Speaker 1: The fact that they caught Kelly back there squatting down,
Speaker 1: holding hunting on it was. It was fun. So I
Speaker 1: I you know, I'm a big, like you know, Monday
Speaker 1: morning quarterback kind of person. So I tell you you're
Speaker 1: gonna spend twelve years in Detroit. You're gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of seasons that aren't going to go the way
Speaker 1: that you want to, but it's all going to culminate.
Speaker 1: Move to l A and win a Super Bowl? Is
Speaker 1: it worth the twelve years? Because I had so much
Speaker 1: fun this past season and um something I'll never forget
Speaker 1: the group of guys, the season, winning the super Bowl
Speaker 1: and all that. But I'm not here at this point
Speaker 1: without all that, you know, both like in the scenario
Speaker 1: that you just put out there, but also just in life,
Speaker 1: like I learned so much about dealing with failure, how
Speaker 1: to motivate, how to play through things, all sorts of stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, while I was in Detroit, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: I grew out as a person and all that. So
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm the version of myself that I
Speaker 1: am today without those twelve years. So it's a hundred
Speaker 1: percent worth it. You win a super Bowl, your wife
Speaker 1: wears the blazer. Do you think people will understand now
Speaker 1: it's Matthew, not matt damn it. I mean, where does
Speaker 1: this come from? I tell us the whole thing behind it.
Speaker 1: We got a little intel to ask you this. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a I mean I'm Matthew to all my close friends,
Speaker 1: to all my people that they were grown up with
Speaker 1: my mom, my dad, and my sister. All that. I
Speaker 1: think probably some probably Dallas Morning News writer in two
Speaker 1: thousand and four talking about me as a high school kid,
Speaker 1: probably got lazy. And when I feel Matt Stafford because
Speaker 1: you don't have to do h g W. And I
Speaker 1: also I defer too much more than my wife would
Speaker 1: like when people go, hey, is it Matthew? You prefer
Speaker 1: Matthew Matt And I go, oh, I don't care, it's whatever,
Speaker 1: and she just gets so mad because she knows that
Speaker 1: I do care. Um, But yeah, I mean we'll see,
Speaker 1: there's still gonna see gonna be plenty of mats out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's plenty of people locked in on that
Speaker 1: for life. And that's uh, that's okay. You know, we'll
Speaker 1: get over it. Hey, speaking of Highland Park, how about
Speaker 1: your high school, Scottie, what's going on down there? We
Speaker 1: got a Masters, got a World Series champion, and we
Speaker 1: got a Super Bowl champion coming out of Highland Park.
Speaker 1: Things are going on down there. Yeah, something in the water.
Speaker 1: I had a buddy text me to say, I mean,
Speaker 1: the last fifteen year run of guys coming out there's
Speaker 1: pretty it's pretty crazy. To get all those three things,
Speaker 1: and Clayton's want all those cy youngs and Scotty. Scotty
Speaker 1: actually want his first tournament. The Sunday we won the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. So that's gotta be like the most obscure
Speaker 1: stat ever that some teamager people from the same high
Speaker 1: school when you know, this, that, and the other all
Speaker 1: the same day. So it's, uh, it's pretty cool. It
Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me because there's a lot of great athletes
Speaker 1: coming out of there. But I mean, you gotta takes
Speaker 1: a lot of luck and a lot of hard work
Speaker 1: to get to all three of us are. So do
Speaker 1: you think you play golf and now having one Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: do you think it would be harder to win a
Speaker 1: Major or a super Bowl? Probably a Major, to be honest,
Speaker 1: you because you can't really rely on anybody else. You know,
Speaker 1: like there's you could be a really good hunter and
Speaker 1: be on a really good team and win a super Bowl, um,
Speaker 1: you know, or be a part of a team that's
Speaker 1: you know, you're less integral part, but you're out there
Speaker 1: hitting the golf ball by yourself. There's nobody else to
Speaker 1: to lean on or to blame or anything. So you
Speaker 1: I would imagine that's that's pretty darn tough. And also,
Speaker 1: especially with the way golf is now so global, like
Speaker 1: you're not beating only the best players from America to
Speaker 1: beat the best players from around the world. There are
Speaker 1: a few, I'm sure we're an NFL players, but not
Speaker 1: as many, so they're having to go up against you know,
Speaker 1: seven billion or whatever the number of people. It is nowadays.
Speaker 1: Better weekend to be out with your buddies the Masters
Speaker 1: or super Bowl weekend? One man, I got, Guys, I'm
Speaker 1: here with the question. Super Bowl probably just less rules. Um.
Speaker 1: Masters is a great time. We all know that. But
Speaker 1: you know, can't take your shell phone in there. Maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit more buttoned up. We're a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you could probably uh loosen it up a little bit.
Speaker 1: Um get lost lost in the fray. But I've been
Speaker 1: to both. They're both equally fun. Wait, hold on, I
Speaker 1: don't know how much time you have, but I have
Speaker 1: to have the story since you brought up the Masters. Um,
Speaker 1: you and Matt Ryan are close? How about him? Okay,
Speaker 1: going to Indie? But you, guys, the last time I
Speaker 1: saw you together, you were at the Masters. You were
Speaker 1: speaking on a camper there and this didn't happen there.
Speaker 1: But you and Matt Ryan were at a golf course
Speaker 1: and someone asked you to do something, really share the story.
Speaker 1: If you're not, Yeah, I need to make sure I
Speaker 1: know all the details. I can get it right. I
Speaker 1: have a friend that actually tells this story better. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the reason I'll set the stage here so we are all.
Speaker 1: We all love Larry David and like the awkwardness of
Speaker 1: situation sations where you can't get out of You and
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan are you know, two of the nicest, have
Speaker 1: the best reputation you know, in in your profession. Um,
Speaker 1: so I can only imagine how awkward this was. And
Speaker 1: if Larry was writing a script for it, it would
Speaker 1: make perfect sense because you didn't know what to do
Speaker 1: to get out of it. Yes, Matt and I were
Speaker 1: playing golf. Someone we know kind of came up to
Speaker 1: us and I asked if maybe we would sit down
Speaker 1: and talk with his son or his I believe it
Speaker 1: was his son that was a was a football player
Speaker 1: and aspiring football player. UM wanted some advice, maybe some coaching, um,
Speaker 1: you know, And we did the very polite thing of absolutely,
Speaker 1: we'll do that. Let's get our calendars together and get
Speaker 1: those a line and we'll figure something out. You know.
Speaker 1: It took a little bit of time. We saw him
Speaker 1: maybe once or twice more without actually getting to see
Speaker 1: his son. And so we're on the first team playing
Speaker 1: together and this gentleman, super nice guy, cares about the people,
Speaker 1: walked up and basically wrote Matt Ryan and I both
Speaker 1: a check for a large sum of money to our charities.
Speaker 1: On the first tea, shook our hands and we're like,
Speaker 1: can't wait to get that, you know, time with my son.
Speaker 1: I know he'll really appreciate it. And then we knew
Speaker 1: the clock was on, so we were like, Okay, now
Speaker 1: this is a real thing. We gotta get this done.
Speaker 1: It was a bold move by the gentleman and in question.
Speaker 1: But so then we set up a time and we
Speaker 1: showed up for the lunch. I believe it was to
Speaker 1: kind of sit down and talk, and we got stood up,
Speaker 1: which was just electric ending to a awkward story. Um,
Speaker 1: it was pretty awesome, to be honest, and I think
Speaker 1: if you give that, you know the nuts and bolts
Speaker 1: of that. To to Larry David, there's got to be
Speaker 1: a curved episode out there that happily guest star in
Speaker 1: or appear in if you need somebody to play the
Speaker 1: part of me. It's funny, it's ballsy to just go
Speaker 1: up the charity check and then your guys are how
Speaker 1: to go in because there's a charity involved, and you're
Speaker 1: the assholes if you don't go and then you go.
Speaker 1: The excavation is that the dude doesn't show up. It's phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Did you guys cash the t No? Can't, I did not.
Speaker 1: Can't turn down the money because now you're like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm hurting somebody on the back end of this thing.
Speaker 1: Can't take the money and not show up. Just so many,
Speaker 1: so many thoughts, so many emotions at that moment, but
Speaker 1: the stand up was was a bold play. I love
Speaker 1: him more for it, to be honest with you. Um
Speaker 1: solid move move, Yeah, Hey, can I ask before we
Speaker 1: let you go? Kelly talked about the Vanity Fair party
Speaker 1: on her podcast. You had mentioned it was such a time,
Speaker 1: I guess for you. I mean, people are star struck
Speaker 1: when they meet you. Even that guy was star struck.
Speaker 1: Apparently not. It didn't last long. Who did you enjoy
Speaker 1: seeing and why was it so much? Fine? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: it was awesome. I think one of the coolest parts,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, is that, like, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure that Kelly and I have been I don't want
Speaker 1: to come up the wrong way, but we haven't been
Speaker 1: to like a party where we're all there to see
Speaker 1: somebody else. Know, in a lot of time, like at
Speaker 1: some point, like whether it was the super Bowl or
Speaker 1: my birthday or things. You know, it's it's Herbert, you know,
Speaker 1: we're always kind of celebrating or people are excited to
Speaker 1: see us. And it was so fun, but that we
Speaker 1: were like total backburner getting to just get excited to
Speaker 1: see everybody else. It was insane. I was actually getting
Speaker 1: a drink at the bar right when Will Smith showed
Speaker 1: up and started dancing, So we didn't know that was
Speaker 1: gonna be as big of a thing as it was,
Speaker 1: you know. After, I mean, it was just we saw
Speaker 1: I mean doctors. We spent some time with James Gordon,
Speaker 1: which was awesome. He's a super Bowl guy. Jason Bateman
Speaker 1: was a really nice guy. I mean they were I
Speaker 1: mean and Diesel in a in a dark corner somewhere. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was Billie Eilish. It was kind of all over
Speaker 1: the place, right, John Legend and Christie Teagan around Pacino
Speaker 1: was there. It was wild. I was just every head
Speaker 1: was on a swivel having fun, just taking it all in.
Speaker 1: You're in l A now, having won a super Bowl
Speaker 1: for this city. You can meet one person? Oh, guy,
Speaker 1: I could meet one person? Um uh yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know I haven't met that I would love to meet.
Speaker 1: Would be Tiger. I know he's not a l A guy,
Speaker 1: but I would love to meet Tiger. That would be
Speaker 1: super cool, especially after I mean watching him do what
Speaker 1: he did coming back from the car, You'll playing in
Speaker 1: the Masters, making the cut, doing all that, watching him
Speaker 1: battle back has been pretty cool. Who do you want
Speaker 1: to have beers with or drinks with? Mm hmm um CALLI.
Speaker 1: I would say a guy that us that came to
Speaker 1: a bunch of games this year and I think Kelly
Speaker 1: was trying to meet him at some point, would be Sadakis.
Speaker 1: I feel like, yes, can we come? Yeah? I feel
Speaker 1: like it would be a lot of laughs. And uh
Speaker 1: from Kansas City is fun. Yeah. Scenes that are all
Speaker 1: from Kansas City. They seem like they're a fun time.
Speaker 1: You don't have to love football to love you in
Speaker 1: your family and your you know, incredible commitment on and
Speaker 1: off the field. You represents something. You represent perseverance to
Speaker 1: a lot of people. Um, having your tenure in Detroit
Speaker 1: and also just doing it the right way. You're synonymous
Speaker 1: with you know, I know you didn't want to leave there.
Speaker 1: Um that was start. Didn't wanted to end your career,
Speaker 1: but making that decision to move on. That said, what
Speaker 1: advice do you have for people who are not having
Speaker 1: the success that they want, whether it's in a job,
Speaker 1: a relationship, anything, and then being able to come out
Speaker 1: on the other side, the perseverance and the perspective that
Speaker 1: you have now being able to look back. I think
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing for me is just, um,
Speaker 1: the only way I got through that. For all, there's
Speaker 1: a few things like I got to rely on so
Speaker 1: many good teammates around me. And that's not even for
Speaker 1: the stuff that happened on the field, but just in
Speaker 1: the locker room talking about you know, because everybody's going
Speaker 1: through it. It's a team game, you know, And there's
Speaker 1: plenty of times where certain guys on our team are
Speaker 1: having good individual seasons, but we're not winning games or
Speaker 1: whatever that is. And I got to rely on that.
Speaker 1: So surround yourself with good people if you can't in um,
Speaker 1: you know what I think for me as well, just
Speaker 1: you know, there were times where we weren't winning. I
Speaker 1: felt like I was, you know, playing good, good football
Speaker 1: or decent football, and just being able to trust that
Speaker 1: process and know that if you're doing everything that you
Speaker 1: possibly can, that that's enough, you know, and it may
Speaker 1: not be in the eyes of some other people, but um,
Speaker 1: your time will come. You just gotta keep working for it.
Speaker 1: You know. Those are the two things that kind of
Speaker 1: stick out to me. And then you know, I have
Speaker 1: great perspective getting my twelve years in Detroit and and
Speaker 1: getting to you know, where we are now. But I
Speaker 1: also have a wife who has pretty unbelievable perspective when
Speaker 1: it comes to that too, you know, on her battle
Speaker 1: and through what she battled through. Being able to watch
Speaker 1: her do that and try to be a small part
Speaker 1: of it was really cool and and something that gave
Speaker 1: me perspective on some of the things that I was
Speaker 1: quote unquote struggling with or having trouble with. So being
Speaker 1: able to watch her do that on like a real
Speaker 1: life basis is uh, something that you know, probably helped
Speaker 1: keep me going, you know, and keep me battling through. No,
Speaker 1: You're the Hollywood Ending and the happily ever After. Matthew
Speaker 1: staff last act off the field. Guys. Look, I've been
Speaker 1: setting all weekend for this sneaky funny this guy. Okay man.
Speaker 1: We're so excited for you, for all things and uh
Speaker 1: and for RAMS fans for you to run it back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, Thank you, guys. Calm Down with Aaron
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