February 6, 2025 • 17 mins
On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana and former Pro Bowl linebacker Tedy Bruschi join Peanut and Roman. Joe Montana shares one of his most memorable games, discusses how NFL ball preparation has changed over the years, and makes his picks for Super Bowl LIX. He also talks about the importance of getting vaccinated for pneumococcal pneumonia if you’re above age 50.
Then Tedy Bruschi stops by to talk about the Chiefs defensive game plan in the AFC Championship game against the Bills, how he expects Steve Spagnuolo will plan to stop Saquon Barkley, and gives his Super Bowl picks. He also discusses his work with Abbott Heartmates, a community for people with heart conditions to get advice and camaraderie, and he shares his love of shark fishing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I like sharking, and sharking is something that's done like
a dusk and you throw out some chunk bait out
there and.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
From the beach. You from the beach, you like sharp beach.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
What's up, everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I'm Peanut too, man, and this is my co host,
Roman Harper, and this is the NFL Player's Second Act podcast,
coming to you from New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Super Bowl fifty nine. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Well, look, man, first and foremost, thank you all for tune.
There's always we got to get right to it. Peanut,
tell us about our awesome guests. I mean, I literally
can't stop talking to this guy Rich. I've watched this
guy ever since I was a kid. He is a
Hall of Famer, four time Super Bowl Champion, three times
Super Bowl MVP. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the pot.
Joe Montana.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yes, well, thank you, pleasure to be here. Thanks for
having me. Thanks Joe, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Man.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
We already got to talking a little bit before, but
this is something I would love to know. And if
you could tell any of these young people are somebody
that hasn't watched you play football before, to go back
and watch one game that encapsulates all of who Joe
Montana is as a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Which game would that be? We played the Eagles in
Philly when Buddy Ryan was there. Yeah, and we went in.
We went back there and they just had their defense
was stagged. I mean Reggie y yeah, I mean their
defense in front.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
And never said, well, you guys are a finesse team.
You'll never you can't handle you can't handle this in
the first series. And then they blitzed and we get
man a man, I thot touchdown to Jerry I don't know,
sixty seventy yards and I'm going, dang, this is going
to be easier than that. And then I never picked
myself up off the ground more times in a game ever.
(01:53):
And we got behind and we ended up coming back
to win. We scored like three or four touchdowns late
in the game. But the funniest part is is, like
the last touchdown we scored, all we needed to do
was we went ahead and to run out the clock,
we call a little read route by the back and
he went out and sat down. He was sitting there
wide open, and I threw the threw a go and
(02:17):
you could see our coach goes in our video after
the game, like what the heck are you doing? And
Jerry catches a touchdown to kind of put icing on
the cake. Yeah. Yeah, I would say that's probably one
of the ones I think about the most.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, I love that. So who do you think has
the pretty ball other than yourself? I don't know. These guys.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
If we could have done what they do to the
balls today, then you see those balls.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Like oil, you can do that or that. We weren't
allowed to.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
There was some point where you had to take they
stopped because the kickers were messing with the balls so much. Yeah,
we had to take them out of the box and
they are like glass.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And I think I think.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Maybe and Brady and maybe Peyton actually went in and
said something to the NFL about it because you and
then now all of a sudden, you know, you look
at the ball.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's dark chocolate brown. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Like So when my boys, my boys were going to
start playing, they were trying it out for one one
to the Fortnite and the.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Other was going to go to the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I called, uh, the equipment guys here in Kansas City, Allen, Right,
I said, Alan, what do you guys do to the
ball man just making a look like that. He goes, Oh, man,
we put all this mud and all this stuff all
over it. I said, can you send me some of that?
But man, the grip is so different. Yeah, so these
guys can spin it all. They all can spin it.
I didn't even know that. I think somebody just like
(03:42):
something new that that's weird though. The kickers still kicking,
like the balls that are red. Yeah, that's when they
got caball.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So I don't know the difference, but between a new
ball and a and an older ball, as far as
kickers go, I want the kickers what they were doing
back then.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
They would they'd wet them down, yeah, and stick them
in the dryer and then they were like pump him
up a little bit so they'd be thicker than normal,
so easier to kig. And so they us they made
them all stop doing it, and so to do that,
then they we got penalized. So we had to play
the balls right out of the box and it was
not fun, not fun, especially in cold weather.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Oh yeah, well, well, Joe, we all know how many
championships you are and how successful you've been on the
football field, how impressive has it been from you watching
this Kansas City team get to three straight Super Bowls,
understand how hard it is and winning at the ultimate level,
it's been fun.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I mean at the quarterback level. I don't think there's
anyone more exciting to watch than Mahomes, right. I mean
he can He's not a Lamar with that kind of
running ability, but he can run. But he'll throw the
ball behind his back, you know, a side arm, under arm,
whatever it takes to get it done, and he'll run
if he has to run. Yeah, and he's just fun
(04:55):
to watch. I think it's great to have someone the
first time be a three p would be fun to see.
Would it be fun to see the Eagles win? Yeah, yeah,
it would be fun to have somebody different. But uh,
I think I think Chiefs are going to be hard
to beat. But if they can, if Philly can control
the ball, you know they when you look back on
(05:16):
the successful teams, most of them can run the ball
pretty well.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, so they can do that for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
So I know you're here and you you're you're here
talking about some vaccinations and you're bringing awareness about pneumonia.
So I had it took me about ten minutes to
try to figure out how to say this word new
maccle Yes, newma cockle pneumonia exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Talk to me about new cockle pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
So I've been working with Pfizer now for a number
of years on this, and uh, you know newmacackle pneumonia.
The CDC recently just lowered the age at risk gauge
limit of fifty and above and if fifteen above, you're
six times more at risk than normal. Yeah, and so
(06:00):
we're just trying to get the word out that that's happened.
We want people to go out and check with their doctor,
their pharmacists, whatever, and get vaccinated. I got vaccinated, and
if you've got any questions at all, talk to your doctor.
There's a great website they've put out called vasassists dot com.
That's vax assist dot com. A lot of great information
(06:21):
on that site. So, you know, just trying to get
people to, you know, continue to worry about their health.
Every time you get turned on the news, there's something
that's going on and running around and now you've seen
a lot on TV about this, and yeah, we're just
trying to get the word.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Out that, hey, take care of yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I like it I love it, Joe.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
One more question and uh, your son went to school here, Tulane.
You've been to New Orleans quite a few times. What
is your favorite part or favorite restaurant? Something about New
Orleans that nobody would know about Joe Montana and.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
The time that he gets to spend here in the city.
You know what, There's there's a few places that we've been.
Nicholas took us the first time to a place that
made barbecue like sharboiled oysters.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
And but there's some of the places like tonight where
we where we man actually, mister John to night. We
found a great little place last night, a little hole
in the wall down down on magazine called Miss Shelley's.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Shelley's Okay Shelley. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
And then and then are one of our favorite places
when Nikki was here is Little Atte It's on magazine.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Also a little French place. It's really good.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Well, Joe, I appreciate you coming on the podcast. Mannemonia. Yeah,
isn't it funny? New milcackle Pnemonia both with a P
right in sound. Yeah, thanks for coming on. Appreciate man,
Thanks thanks man, appreciation you.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Our next guest he's all defensive guys all over here,
and you know, kind of get us into it because
we're already talking too much ball that we already got
cut off once. Go ahead, Hey, this guy has won
three Super Bowls and I'm just get right to it.
Ladies and gentlemen, walcome to the bruce to the show.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Thanks fellas. It's nice to be here.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Consider one of the greatest linebackers to ever play at
not only Arizona State, but New England pages.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
The University of Arizona.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Sorry, Universe, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Some respect on the university.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I think it's I just got so excited because Arizona
State had a good year this year.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I just wanted to put everybody in.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But I just want to say, one day I just
saw Darren Woodson that there was on the state.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
How hot was it when y'all had y'all to a days?
That's what I want to know. I know, I know
we and you played like when it was real to days.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, we went down there to Camp co Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
We called it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We sort of try to go south even to try
to beat the heat. But it was just something where
we still practice in the in the morning, practice in
the afternoon and it was you know, you just had
to beat the heat. That's all we did.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
It's just what you know. All right, tell me this
because I love that. You're a real football guy. The
work you do on ESPN is awesome. I already talked
to you about that. What do you think about, Steve
Spagnolo that fourth and five blitz call for the Kansas
City Series. First of all, the tight split allowed for
it to happen, right, nobody saw that coming at all.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You do.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
The DV was coming, I'm telling you in critical situation
because you got to know you guys saw that tight split.
I was I was thinking, oh, here he comes, but
dropping out Bolden and a defensive lineman two. I mean
that the difference was this, I mean Kansas City, that
was like just another play for them, and for the
Buffalo Bills. It was like the Super Bowls here the AFC.
(09:36):
I mean, everything's on the line right here. What are
we going to do? And Josh sort of, you know,
just threw it up. But the Kansas City mentality, I
know how it goes. You're getting the bigger games and
it's just like this isn't a big game.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
They've been there too, many times, too many times.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And the players too. I mean to see them developed
from two years ago, players like McDuffie and the Carlftis
and you know all these guys, these younger guys that
are coming up, Watson, the defensive back, everybody is now
championship mentality and they just know what they have to do.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, they got that experience.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
So what do you think we can expect from Spags
and his Chiefs defense right now?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I can't wait to see it because I remember you
O seven the Patriots offense that team I was on
in Spags was a defensive coordinator for the Giants. Yeah,
and they got Kavika Mitchell I think, I mean a
linebacker blitzing, dropping, faking dropping and then coming. And then
those big guys like straight Hand and Justin Tuck. You know,
they were coming after Tom. And the plan that he
(10:32):
had there even for us was different than what they
had in week sixteen or so, the last game of
the regular season when we went sixteen and oh, Spags,
you'll have to just wait and see if he's gonna
this is going to be a pressure game. How we
stop Saquon or he's gonna make sure you just tackle
Saquon and make it a seven yard game rather than
a seventy yard game.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
How do you stop Saquon?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
He leads me right into my question what he's done
not only for this Philadelphia team, but for the NFL
or how we value or look at running backs this
year I think has really changed the league? And how
did would you try to defend Sakwon Barkley if you
are the Kansas City Chiefs, I think.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I would tell Spags immediately, let's get that safety down.
Being a linebacker with like, this is all I care
about me box, this is how we got to stop it.
I would think that would be the plan. Whether it
be bringing do you bring Justin Reid? How do you
use him? Or is it via pressure you know, some
type of pressure run blitzes in various gaps based on
(11:31):
based on tendencies and formations. I think that's it. I mean,
that's just something that you got to wait and see.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
He's so hard though, because if you blitz one person
gets out, this guy's going to hit his head on
the go post.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
He has home run ability. He's different.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Just how hard of a tackle he is is amazing.
I mean, in the offseason he gets attention for his
training and you joke about his quads and how big
lower body he is. But that makes a tough tackle.
I mean that the quickness to spin him, spend moving ability,
it's just so hard to bring him down. So that's
another thing too. I mean, if it's into the fourth
(12:06):
quarter and he hasn't had a forty yard gain yet,
that's a win. That's got to be considered a win.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, tell us some of the work you're doing with
heart Mats in the Abbot program.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah. Heart Mats is a new program that we have
at Abbot in terms of forming a community with heart
survivors and stroke survivors, anyone that's gone through a cardiovascular
event where there's a community that say someone's gone through
a similar situation as yourself, and you have that community
to talk to. For me, myself, Heartmates is new, but
(12:36):
Abbot's like a twenty year connection for me. Two decades ago,
I had a stroke and I put an Abbot device
into my heart. The upper chambers of my heart had
a hole in it. They say, that's how I had
the stroke. So they closed it. And that was an
Abbot device and Aplatz a recruiter. So twenty years in
the making. Here when I was coming back, I wish
I would have had someone to talk to ask the questions.
(12:58):
All right, man, you've got this stuff in your heart.
What's the healing process? Like, I mean, I mean, how
is it, you know, recovery wise? Three months six months
down the line, I didn't have that. So that's overforming
and heart Mates, and I mean, Peanut, I mean, I'm
inviting you to adjoin Heartmats also because I mean your
your family and what your daughter is through in terms
(13:19):
of this is for caregivers. Also because when my wife
was when I was coming back, my wife and I
were not on the same page in terms of this
is a caregiver here and she wants everything to do
for me, wants to help me, But I'm trying to
come back and play football. So the caregiver perspective, I think,
is a big piece that's also included with Heartmats.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
So speaking of you talking about my daughter and now
we go fishing in my pond all the time, we
catch a little, you know, a little little small bass,
a little small, big mouth baby bass. What's the biggest
fish you called the biggest fish I've caught the biggest
fish you've called.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Not bass or anything.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, it's gonna be a shark.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Got a shark before from the beach. Yeah, So I
like sharking, and sharking is something that's done like a
dusk and you throw out some chunk bait out there and.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
From the beach. You from the beach. You like shark beach.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
It's fun. Yeah, it's fun. I mean, so what we're
talking I've caught you know, brown shark, you know, sandbar shark,
but also some uh not a great bite or anything
else we're talking about like this here now, but from
the shore you can catch sand tigers things like that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
So, but show feet are in the water, you got.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
To bring them in. Yeah. So so so here you
got the chunk bait. You're throwing it out there. You
wait and your drag goes out right, So I've got this,
you know, a bait runner where you click it over
clicks over to your secondary drag and then you bring
it down. You set the hook. It's a circle hook.
Of course, you bring them on shore. Now you bring
them on shore, then someone has to get behind it
and grab the tail. All right, So you grab the
(14:53):
tail if you bring them up and because it's sort
of a team thing. Okay, so you you bring them
up onto the shore, you grab the tail, you know,
you use the flyers and you get the circle hook out.
Take your pictures. Boom.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Sure, I'm gonna grab the tail.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
You you got to get in the water to grab
the tail.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You know what's your biggest bast though your briggs largely probably.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
About six pounds, five or six pounds.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Lake Fork, Texas a few years ago. Nine pounder. Oh okay, yeah,
I haven't gotten the double digits yet.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah. Lake Fork's a great lake down in Texas. I
like that.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
But now we know if we want to get Teddy
Bruski fired up, let's talk about football and fishing.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Football on Sunday NFL Countdown. Me and Moss are on
there s.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Moss loves you, love to fish.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I've been down there on lake like Norman fishing with him.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You know I got that. So my last, my last
question for you, what is your Super Bowl prediction?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Super Bowl prediction? Harrison Bucker for the win Chiefs, Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Okay, Chiefs. Really, what they've done all year?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I had heard them trying to do something that's never
been done before. Absolutely, I respect it. We failed going
for three in a row, we failed going for the
undefeated season. I sort of want to see if it
can be done.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I love it when somebody else roots for other people's greatness.
Most people do not root for Kansas City's greatness.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, and which I don't understand the New England fan
perspective either, when a lot of hate goes toward Kansas
City and I talked to him, it's like, I'm so
sick of the Chiefs and it's like, you.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Know, that was yes, even longer.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
So I just see what I see what they're doing.
I see what they're trying to accomplish, basically, know what
it takes. It's hard, hard in respect.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, absolutely, appreciate you, man. I appreciate that, all right,
appreciate it.
I like sharking, and sharking is something that's done like
a dusk and you throw out some chunk bait out
there and.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
From the beach. You from the beach, you like sharp beach.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
What's up, everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I'm Peanut too, man, and this is my co host,
Roman Harper, and this is the NFL Player's Second Act podcast,
coming to you from New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Super Bowl fifty nine. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Well, look, man, first and foremost, thank you all for tune.
There's always we got to get right to it. Peanut,
tell us about our awesome guests. I mean, I literally
can't stop talking to this guy Rich. I've watched this
guy ever since I was a kid. He is a
Hall of Famer, four time Super Bowl Champion, three times
Super Bowl MVP. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the pot.
Joe Montana.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yes, well, thank you, pleasure to be here. Thanks for
having me. Thanks Joe, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Man.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
We already got to talking a little bit before, but
this is something I would love to know. And if
you could tell any of these young people are somebody
that hasn't watched you play football before, to go back
and watch one game that encapsulates all of who Joe
Montana is as a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Which game would that be? We played the Eagles in
Philly when Buddy Ryan was there. Yeah, and we went in.
We went back there and they just had their defense
was stagged. I mean Reggie y yeah, I mean their
defense in front.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
And never said, well, you guys are a finesse team.
You'll never you can't handle you can't handle this in
the first series. And then they blitzed and we get
man a man, I thot touchdown to Jerry I don't know,
sixty seventy yards and I'm going, dang, this is going
to be easier than that. And then I never picked
myself up off the ground more times in a game ever.
(01:53):
And we got behind and we ended up coming back
to win. We scored like three or four touchdowns late
in the game. But the funniest part is is, like
the last touchdown we scored, all we needed to do
was we went ahead and to run out the clock,
we call a little read route by the back and
he went out and sat down. He was sitting there
wide open, and I threw the threw a go and
(02:17):
you could see our coach goes in our video after
the game, like what the heck are you doing? And
Jerry catches a touchdown to kind of put icing on
the cake. Yeah. Yeah, I would say that's probably one
of the ones I think about the most.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, I love that. So who do you think has
the pretty ball other than yourself? I don't know. These guys.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
If we could have done what they do to the
balls today, then you see those balls.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Like oil, you can do that or that. We weren't
allowed to.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
There was some point where you had to take they
stopped because the kickers were messing with the balls so much. Yeah,
we had to take them out of the box and
they are like glass.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And I think I think.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Maybe and Brady and maybe Peyton actually went in and
said something to the NFL about it because you and
then now all of a sudden, you know, you look
at the ball.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's dark chocolate brown. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Like So when my boys, my boys were going to
start playing, they were trying it out for one one
to the Fortnite and the.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Other was going to go to the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I called, uh, the equipment guys here in Kansas City, Allen, Right,
I said, Alan, what do you guys do to the
ball man just making a look like that. He goes, Oh, man,
we put all this mud and all this stuff all
over it. I said, can you send me some of that?
But man, the grip is so different. Yeah, so these
guys can spin it all. They all can spin it.
I didn't even know that. I think somebody just like
(03:42):
something new that that's weird though. The kickers still kicking,
like the balls that are red. Yeah, that's when they
got caball.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So I don't know the difference, but between a new
ball and a and an older ball, as far as
kickers go, I want the kickers what they were doing
back then.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
They would they'd wet them down, yeah, and stick them
in the dryer and then they were like pump him
up a little bit so they'd be thicker than normal,
so easier to kig. And so they us they made
them all stop doing it, and so to do that,
then they we got penalized. So we had to play
the balls right out of the box and it was
not fun, not fun, especially in cold weather.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Oh yeah, well, well, Joe, we all know how many
championships you are and how successful you've been on the
football field, how impressive has it been from you watching
this Kansas City team get to three straight Super Bowls,
understand how hard it is and winning at the ultimate level,
it's been fun.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I mean at the quarterback level. I don't think there's
anyone more exciting to watch than Mahomes, right. I mean
he can He's not a Lamar with that kind of
running ability, but he can run. But he'll throw the
ball behind his back, you know, a side arm, under arm,
whatever it takes to get it done, and he'll run
if he has to run. Yeah, and he's just fun
(04:55):
to watch. I think it's great to have someone the
first time be a three p would be fun to see.
Would it be fun to see the Eagles win? Yeah, yeah,
it would be fun to have somebody different. But uh,
I think I think Chiefs are going to be hard
to beat. But if they can, if Philly can control
the ball, you know they when you look back on
(05:16):
the successful teams, most of them can run the ball
pretty well.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, so they can do that for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
So I know you're here and you you're you're here
talking about some vaccinations and you're bringing awareness about pneumonia.
So I had it took me about ten minutes to
try to figure out how to say this word new
maccle Yes, newma cockle pneumonia exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Talk to me about new cockle pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
So I've been working with Pfizer now for a number
of years on this, and uh, you know newmacackle pneumonia.
The CDC recently just lowered the age at risk gauge
limit of fifty and above and if fifteen above, you're
six times more at risk than normal. Yeah, and so
(06:00):
we're just trying to get the word out that that's happened.
We want people to go out and check with their doctor,
their pharmacists, whatever, and get vaccinated. I got vaccinated, and
if you've got any questions at all, talk to your doctor.
There's a great website they've put out called vasassists dot com.
That's vax assist dot com. A lot of great information
(06:21):
on that site. So, you know, just trying to get
people to, you know, continue to worry about their health.
Every time you get turned on the news, there's something
that's going on and running around and now you've seen
a lot on TV about this, and yeah, we're just
trying to get the word.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Out that, hey, take care of yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I like it I love it, Joe.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
One more question and uh, your son went to school here, Tulane.
You've been to New Orleans quite a few times. What
is your favorite part or favorite restaurant? Something about New
Orleans that nobody would know about Joe Montana and.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
The time that he gets to spend here in the city.
You know what, There's there's a few places that we've been.
Nicholas took us the first time to a place that
made barbecue like sharboiled oysters.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
And but there's some of the places like tonight where
we where we man actually, mister John to night. We
found a great little place last night, a little hole
in the wall down down on magazine called Miss Shelley's.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Shelley's Okay Shelley. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
And then and then are one of our favorite places
when Nikki was here is Little Atte It's on magazine.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Also a little French place. It's really good.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Well, Joe, I appreciate you coming on the podcast. Mannemonia. Yeah,
isn't it funny? New milcackle Pnemonia both with a P
right in sound. Yeah, thanks for coming on. Appreciate man,
Thanks thanks man, appreciation you.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Our next guest he's all defensive guys all over here,
and you know, kind of get us into it because
we're already talking too much ball that we already got
cut off once. Go ahead, Hey, this guy has won
three Super Bowls and I'm just get right to it.
Ladies and gentlemen, walcome to the bruce to the show.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Thanks fellas. It's nice to be here.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Consider one of the greatest linebackers to ever play at
not only Arizona State, but New England pages.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
The University of Arizona.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Sorry, Universe, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Some respect on the university.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I think it's I just got so excited because Arizona
State had a good year this year.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I just wanted to put everybody in.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But I just want to say, one day I just
saw Darren Woodson that there was on the state.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
How hot was it when y'all had y'all to a days?
That's what I want to know. I know, I know
we and you played like when it was real to days.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, we went down there to Camp co Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
We called it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We sort of try to go south even to try
to beat the heat. But it was just something where
we still practice in the in the morning, practice in
the afternoon and it was you know, you just had
to beat the heat. That's all we did.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
It's just what you know. All right, tell me this
because I love that. You're a real football guy. The
work you do on ESPN is awesome. I already talked
to you about that. What do you think about, Steve
Spagnolo that fourth and five blitz call for the Kansas
City Series. First of all, the tight split allowed for
it to happen, right, nobody saw that coming at all.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You do.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
The DV was coming, I'm telling you in critical situation
because you got to know you guys saw that tight split.
I was I was thinking, oh, here he comes, but
dropping out Bolden and a defensive lineman two. I mean
that the difference was this, I mean Kansas City, that
was like just another play for them, and for the
Buffalo Bills. It was like the Super Bowls here the AFC.
(09:36):
I mean, everything's on the line right here. What are
we going to do? And Josh sort of, you know,
just threw it up. But the Kansas City mentality, I
know how it goes. You're getting the bigger games and
it's just like this isn't a big game.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
They've been there too, many times, too many times.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And the players too. I mean to see them developed
from two years ago, players like McDuffie and the Carlftis
and you know all these guys, these younger guys that
are coming up, Watson, the defensive back, everybody is now
championship mentality and they just know what they have to do.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, they got that experience.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
So what do you think we can expect from Spags
and his Chiefs defense right now?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I can't wait to see it because I remember you
O seven the Patriots offense that team I was on
in Spags was a defensive coordinator for the Giants. Yeah,
and they got Kavika Mitchell I think, I mean a
linebacker blitzing, dropping, faking dropping and then coming. And then
those big guys like straight Hand and Justin Tuck. You know,
they were coming after Tom. And the plan that he
(10:32):
had there even for us was different than what they
had in week sixteen or so, the last game of
the regular season when we went sixteen and oh, Spags,
you'll have to just wait and see if he's gonna
this is going to be a pressure game. How we
stop Saquon or he's gonna make sure you just tackle
Saquon and make it a seven yard game rather than
a seventy yard game.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
How do you stop Saquon?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
He leads me right into my question what he's done
not only for this Philadelphia team, but for the NFL
or how we value or look at running backs this
year I think has really changed the league? And how
did would you try to defend Sakwon Barkley if you
are the Kansas City Chiefs, I think.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I would tell Spags immediately, let's get that safety down.
Being a linebacker with like, this is all I care
about me box, this is how we got to stop it.
I would think that would be the plan. Whether it
be bringing do you bring Justin Reid? How do you
use him? Or is it via pressure you know, some
type of pressure run blitzes in various gaps based on
(11:31):
based on tendencies and formations. I think that's it. I mean,
that's just something that you got to wait and see.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
He's so hard though, because if you blitz one person
gets out, this guy's going to hit his head on
the go post.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
He has home run ability. He's different.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Just how hard of a tackle he is is amazing.
I mean, in the offseason he gets attention for his
training and you joke about his quads and how big
lower body he is. But that makes a tough tackle.
I mean that the quickness to spin him, spend moving ability,
it's just so hard to bring him down. So that's
another thing too. I mean, if it's into the fourth
(12:06):
quarter and he hasn't had a forty yard gain yet,
that's a win. That's got to be considered a win.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, tell us some of the work you're doing with
heart Mats in the Abbot program.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah. Heart Mats is a new program that we have
at Abbot in terms of forming a community with heart
survivors and stroke survivors, anyone that's gone through a cardiovascular
event where there's a community that say someone's gone through
a similar situation as yourself, and you have that community
to talk to. For me, myself, Heartmates is new, but
(12:36):
Abbot's like a twenty year connection for me. Two decades ago,
I had a stroke and I put an Abbot device
into my heart. The upper chambers of my heart had
a hole in it. They say, that's how I had
the stroke. So they closed it. And that was an
Abbot device and Aplatz a recruiter. So twenty years in
the making. Here when I was coming back, I wish
I would have had someone to talk to ask the questions.
(12:58):
All right, man, you've got this stuff in your heart.
What's the healing process? Like, I mean, I mean, how
is it, you know, recovery wise? Three months six months
down the line, I didn't have that. So that's overforming
and heart Mates, and I mean, Peanut, I mean, I'm
inviting you to adjoin Heartmats also because I mean your
your family and what your daughter is through in terms
(13:19):
of this is for caregivers. Also because when my wife
was when I was coming back, my wife and I
were not on the same page in terms of this
is a caregiver here and she wants everything to do
for me, wants to help me, But I'm trying to
come back and play football. So the caregiver perspective, I think,
is a big piece that's also included with Heartmats.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
So speaking of you talking about my daughter and now
we go fishing in my pond all the time, we
catch a little, you know, a little little small bass,
a little small, big mouth baby bass. What's the biggest
fish you called the biggest fish I've caught the biggest
fish you've called.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Not bass or anything.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, it's gonna be a shark.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Got a shark before from the beach. Yeah, So I
like sharking, and sharking is something that's done like a
dusk and you throw out some chunk bait out there and.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
From the beach. You from the beach. You like shark beach.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
It's fun. Yeah, it's fun. I mean, so what we're
talking I've caught you know, brown shark, you know, sandbar shark,
but also some uh not a great bite or anything
else we're talking about like this here now, but from
the shore you can catch sand tigers things like that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
So, but show feet are in the water, you got.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
To bring them in. Yeah. So so so here you
got the chunk bait. You're throwing it out there. You
wait and your drag goes out right, So I've got this,
you know, a bait runner where you click it over
clicks over to your secondary drag and then you bring
it down. You set the hook. It's a circle hook.
Of course, you bring them on shore. Now you bring
them on shore, then someone has to get behind it
and grab the tail. All right, So you grab the
(14:53):
tail if you bring them up and because it's sort
of a team thing. Okay, so you you bring them
up onto the shore, you grab the tail, you know,
you use the flyers and you get the circle hook out.
Take your pictures. Boom.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Sure, I'm gonna grab the tail.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
You you got to get in the water to grab
the tail.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You know what's your biggest bast though your briggs largely probably.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
About six pounds, five or six pounds.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Lake Fork, Texas a few years ago. Nine pounder. Oh okay, yeah,
I haven't gotten the double digits yet.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah. Lake Fork's a great lake down in Texas. I
like that.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
But now we know if we want to get Teddy
Bruski fired up, let's talk about football and fishing.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Football on Sunday NFL Countdown. Me and Moss are on
there s.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Moss loves you, love to fish.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I've been down there on lake like Norman fishing with him.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
You know I got that. So my last, my last
question for you, what is your Super Bowl prediction?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Super Bowl prediction? Harrison Bucker for the win Chiefs, Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Okay, Chiefs. Really, what they've done all year?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I had heard them trying to do something that's never
been done before. Absolutely, I respect it. We failed going
for three in a row, we failed going for the
undefeated season. I sort of want to see if it
can be done.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I love it when somebody else roots for other people's greatness.
Most people do not root for Kansas City's greatness.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, and which I don't understand the New England fan
perspective either, when a lot of hate goes toward Kansas
City and I talked to him, it's like, I'm so
sick of the Chiefs and it's like, you.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Know, that was yes, even longer.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
So I just see what I see what they're doing.
I see what they're trying to accomplish, basically, know what
it takes. It's hard, hard in respect.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, absolutely, appreciate you, man. I appreciate that, all right,
appreciate it.
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