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NFL Steelers Legend Kordell Stewart Talks About Slash And Burn On HBO Max · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, I want to thank you for checking out the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: but did you know that Arrow.net is a podcast network? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when you get tired of listening to the rock stars,
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  Speaker 1: the sports stars, the authors, and you're looking for something
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  Speaker 1: with a little bit more of a grip or grit, well,
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  Speaker 1: your exploration. Cordell, I hope your ears have been burning
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  Speaker 1: because here in Carolina, we have been talking about you
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  Speaker 1: all weekend because we've all seen the HBO special and
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  Speaker 1: my God, Steeler fans are all over the city.
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  Speaker 2: You know it.
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  Speaker 1: You've played here. You know it's yellow and black, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: or gold and black.
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  Speaker 2: Black and gold. Yes, it is. Black and gold. I
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  Speaker 2: love it, man. It's just we're Steelers fans are everywhere, man.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what makes being a fan of the Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 3: Steelers so unique is we're everywhere. It doesn't matter in
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  Speaker 3: all corners, all avenues, all attics, all roofs, all backyards.
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  Speaker 2: Pick a spot. They're everywhere. So can't get rid of them.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just say that you can't get rid of them.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, dude, our team owner is from the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he had 5% of your team, and now
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  Speaker 1: he owns us. So, yeah, I mean, to me, as
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  Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned, we're in Steeler country.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, it doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, to know that you have an owner
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  Speaker 3: that understand the Pittsburgh Steeler way and when it's tough nose,
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  Speaker 3: you know, gritty, grimy in the sense of how you
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  Speaker 3: play the game.
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  Speaker 2: The game of football is played in the dirt.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, that mentality of doing it the old
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  Speaker 3: fashioned way will apply. But yet at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: knowing that you will get a good brand of ball
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  Speaker 3: and going to run the organization really well to make
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  Speaker 3: the people there in the city of Charlotte really happy
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  Speaker 3: about the Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, man, I was so excited
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  Speaker 1: when I heard that Brian was part of this project
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  Speaker 1: with you, because this man understands how to share an
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  Speaker 1: authentic story that affects our emotions. You already have our heart,
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  Speaker 1: but this really drives it home. And fans have a
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  Speaker 1: story now that is so authentic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they do.
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  Speaker 3: Brian Rivera is who you're speaking of, the director that
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  Speaker 3: actually runs it all, that put it together, going through
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  Speaker 3: countless Zoom calls and minutes and hours to be able
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  Speaker 3: to get this story conveyed in the right way, with
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  Speaker 3: the right sentiment, the right compassion, right passion, right resolve, anger, frustration, anxiety,
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  Speaker 3: ups and downs, ebbs and flows of all that, to
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  Speaker 3: the point where you put it on film and It's
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  Speaker 3: so dynamic, whether it's NFL films with Brian Rivera to
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  Speaker 3: HBO and HBO Max, by the way, because if you
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  Speaker 3: can't catch it on HBO, you got to go and
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  Speaker 3: stream it on HBO Max. It's really, for me, a
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  Speaker 3: monumental moment. of my life, my career, because it affected both.
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  Speaker 3: It was very unique and cathartic to say the least,
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  Speaker 3: but it affected both. And to be able to tell
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  Speaker 3: this story 28 years to the day of, from.
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  Speaker 2: November 1 of 1998 to November 1 of 2026 was
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  Speaker 2: 28 years to a science.
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  Speaker 3: To be able to have such a platform to tell
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  Speaker 3: that story and have that film shown on HBO to
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  Speaker 3: the point where I'm telling everybody I'm on HBO. The
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  Speaker 3: network that I saw growing up as a kid and
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  Speaker 3: saying that if you got cable and you don't have HBO,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have TV. And so now I'm on it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on it.
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  Speaker 3: And I get a chance to tell my story, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and give you the perspective in which came through my
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  Speaker 3: lens and give it through the lens of HBO and
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  Speaker 3: NFL films. With Brian Rivera leading the charge. And I
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  Speaker 3: can't say enough, guys.
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  Speaker 2: I'm serious. From the bottom of my heart, I can't
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  Speaker 2: say enough.
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  Speaker 3: Because when you hold on to something for that long
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  Speaker 3: and wanting to talk about it, or worst case scenario,
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  Speaker 3: at least just get it off of you to have
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  Speaker 3: that chance and be heard properly.
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  Speaker 2: And you know some documentaries.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. Not everyone is excited about the messaging because you'd
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  Speaker 3: be like, I.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't mean it that way.
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  Speaker 3: Well, in this one, I meant it 100 percent from
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  Speaker 3: top to bottom, exactly the way it's been said. And
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  Speaker 3: Brian knows how much I appreciate him. And we've we
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  Speaker 3: talked every other day when we we see how everything
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  Speaker 3: is being reported and stuff like that, because what we
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  Speaker 3: were trying to get out of it from the story.
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  Speaker 3: And those that's a part of the documentary and telling
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  Speaker 3: the stories, not talking to those guys is great, man.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great time in a Stuart household. It's a
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  Speaker 3: great time to be a Slash and Cordell Stuart fan
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  Speaker 3: to my friends and everybody. And it's a time to
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  Speaker 3: really be excited and trust me. It's not that I
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  Speaker 3: never wanted to talk about it. It's just I wanted
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to have this one time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Right. Where when I do speak on it, I'm done.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: And of course, doing this run right here with my
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  Speaker 3: interviews and going on this tour right now, it's something
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  Speaker 3: that I had to do. And and I'm glad that
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  Speaker 3: we're finally getting a chance to have the proper perspective
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  Speaker 3: on it to where it becomes more about the game
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  Speaker 3: and not any other foolishness that derived around it.
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  Speaker 1: I've always lived by the mantra, share your story or
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  Speaker 1: someone will write it for you. Now that we have
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  Speaker 1: your story, now we can grow forward because I'm so
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  Speaker 1: tired of all these people writing your story and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: are you in his shoes? Did you wear his jersey?
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  Speaker 1: Hell no, you didn't. Now this man is giving it
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  Speaker 1: to us on HBO Max.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's that's about as great as you could say,
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  Speaker 3: because in respectfully, you know, to the pundits, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: communication major.
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  Speaker 2: I was on the radio. I was on tune.
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  Speaker 3: I did a whole bunch of stuff when it came
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  Speaker 3: to reporting. I have my little short window of opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: So I get it. And in people who have the
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  Speaker 3: power of the pen, you know, you know, ignorantly. And
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  Speaker 3: I say that to the true definition of it, not
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  Speaker 3: knowing any better. We write stuff sometimes that's salacious, that
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  Speaker 3: just doesn't add up. To the sentiment of what took
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  Speaker 3: place and is sometimes dead wrong more times than not.
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  Speaker 3: And truth be told, when writing, it's an opinion, right?
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  Speaker 3: It's more in an opinion form when you're a pundit
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  Speaker 3: of covering certain things. Well, so I'm not the pundit. Well, no,
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  Speaker 3: you know what? I am the pundit and I am
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  Speaker 3: the freaking one that lived it. So when I give
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  Speaker 3: you this perspective, this is not. you know, just sitting
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  Speaker 3: up here, just telling, I'm telling everything that truthfully happened,
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  Speaker 3: how it came through my lens and not trying to
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  Speaker 3: convince anyone to think any other way than what they
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  Speaker 3: remember thinking, but put a different perspective on it so
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  Speaker 3: that you can understand the story and the run and
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  Speaker 3: the journey. And most importantly, identify the effects that it
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  Speaker 3: not just had on me, but many other people that
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  Speaker 3: have to endure, you know, some things that go along
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  Speaker 3: with being a gray athlete a superstar or or one
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  Speaker 3: of some stature when it comes down to greatness on
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  Speaker 3: the field.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move there's a lot more energy and
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  Speaker 1: fun with cordell stewart coming up next cordell stewart slash
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  Speaker 1: on hbo max we are back Well, this is a
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  Speaker 1: Christmas gift to fans of all NFL because once they
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  Speaker 1: see this Cordell, they're going to say, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 1: he was the originator. You know, we love some Cam Newton,
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  Speaker 1: but that ball and that moving on that field did
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  Speaker 1: not start with Cam Newton. It started with you, Cordell.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: I like to say respectfully to Randall Cunningham and he
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  Speaker 3: can even go to John Elway and Steve Young, man.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. A lot of guys, a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: put work in. But when you have the.
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  Speaker 3: Type of talent that I had playing wide receiver and
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  Speaker 3: was considered as one of the best wide receivers and
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  Speaker 3: on the field and in-house saying that if I would
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  Speaker 3: have stayed at receiver, I could have been a Hall
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  Speaker 3: of Famer. That's what I hear with the insiders in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 2: And so when I hear that, I come back to say, well, damn, man.
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  Speaker 3: I did go to two AFC championship games as a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I did become the MVP.
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  Speaker 3: I did end up being the first quarterback in the
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  Speaker 3: organization's history to complete over 60% of my passes dating
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  Speaker 3: back to 1933. So while I could have been a
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  Speaker 3: Hall of Fame wide receiver, I was also a quarterback
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  Speaker 3: that was capable of doing whatever we needed to do.
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  Speaker 2: At will on the football field.
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  Speaker 3: First quarterback in the history of the game to throw
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  Speaker 3: for over 20 and to rush for over 10. When
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  Speaker 3: you start putting this in, I'm third all time in
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  Speaker 3: passing yards in Pittsburgh Steelers organization and the leading rushing
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  Speaker 3: quarterback in the history of the organization. So to me,
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  Speaker 3: while some saying I could have been a Hall of
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  Speaker 3: Fame wide receiver, a quarterback ain't too shabby.
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  Speaker 2: Okay? He ain't too shabby. So you can't separate the two.
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  Speaker 2: You have to bring them together.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, I would love to say that I had
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  Speaker 3: my footprint into identifying, helping identify a player like Cam
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  Speaker 3: Newton that was extremely dynamic in his own right. He
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  Speaker 3: was a Heisman Trophy winner, national championship, national champion there
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  Speaker 3: at Auburn to being number one taken overall and also
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  Speaker 3: taking his team to a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: So you know what? I'm not taking anything away from Cam.
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  Speaker 3: And of course, I would like to say I have
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  Speaker 3: my footprint in some capacity in his success from the
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  Speaker 3: standpoint of scouts management identifying his talent to be one
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  Speaker 3: that can fit in the Charlotte area as well as
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  Speaker 3: the Donovan McNabs as well as the Michael Vicks and
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  Speaker 3: even for myself even for myself when it comes down
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  Speaker 3: to the the Randall Cunninghams the Steve Youngs as well
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  Speaker 3: as the John Elways and going back to Fran Tarkington
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  Speaker 3: for the sake of conversation. And then I was the
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  Speaker 3: first quarterback in the history of the game at that
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  Speaker 3: time to throw three in a rush for two. Two
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  Speaker 3: times in my career. Josh Allen has done it four
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  Speaker 3: times now.
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  Speaker 2: And that's 20. What? I mean, almost 30 years later
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  Speaker 2: that someone else has done. And I'm still here. I'm
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  Speaker 2: still alive. I'm still healthy. I'm a coach here.
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  Speaker 3: Offensive coordinator here at South Forsyth High School here in Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: We got a chance to play this upcoming weekend to
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  Speaker 3: win this game. We go to the postseason. Got the
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  Speaker 3: third-rated quarterback in the country in Kale Samfunk-Talaya. He's got
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  Speaker 3: offers from everybody under the sun. So taking that talent
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  Speaker 3: of what I did on the field, giving it to
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  Speaker 3: these kids through the standard, which is sacrifice, leadership, adaptability, standard,
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  Speaker 3: and honor, and a preseason Appreciating my run playing in
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  Speaker 3: the National Football League without being denied based on some
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  Speaker 3: not identifying it the right way, but being able to
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  Speaker 3: learn that it was done the right way to where
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  Speaker 3: when you look at the game today, I really can
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  Speaker 3: pat myself on the back, give myself some flowers and
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  Speaker 3: enjoy watching the game. Because if you wait on somebody
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  Speaker 3: to give you flowers, you may wait for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: So if I got to go to the podcast, If
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  Speaker 3: I got to go to the forest myself and get
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  Speaker 3: myself some of those begonias and some lilies, I'll do
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  Speaker 3: it and sit it in my yard, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: sit in my yard and contribute it to myself, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and do something for myself.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's the way it works every once in
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  Speaker 2: a while. You got to come back to this show.
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  Speaker 1: Please come back to this show, man, because the door
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  Speaker 1: is always going to be open for you, dude. You
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  Speaker 1: have a great day today and be brilliant. Okay, Cordell?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Appreciate you, brother. Thank you.