5/11: Chris Spielman on the state of college football, his broadcasting career & more
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Bruce is joined by four-time NFL Pro Bowler and FOX college football analyst — Chris Spielman. They discuss the Ohio State Buckeyes and the most intriguing parts of the roster heading into the season (7:00); Urban Meyer as a coach and broadcaster and what it was like working with him (10:00); Chris tells Bruce how his NFL career led him to become a broadcaster and shares some of his experiences (16:00); How his football and broadcasting careers have helped him as a parent (40:00) and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Audible. |
| 0:10.6 | I am Bruce Feldman, joined by a special guest today because Stu is off to Hawaii on vacation. |
| 0:17.5 | So we're going into the Fox family and getting out a football legend, our own Chris Spielman. |
| 0:23.4 | Chris, thanks for joining us today. |
| 0:26.1 | Great to be here, Bruce. |
| 0:27.8 | So everybody remembers, he remembers you obviously, either as a great player at Ohio State, two-time All-American, long distinguished career in the NFL, but you had a really good run as well as a college football analyst. |
| 0:44.3 | And then last year you did the NFL, and now you're coming, I hope we're not speaking out of school, but you're coming back to the college game this season, and that's a good thing for college fans. |
| 0:56.6 | Doing the NFL as a broadcaster and as an analyst, |
| 0:59.6 | how different is doing college from NFL? |
| 1:03.7 | I think the NFL, because there's only 53 guys, |
| 1:07.3 | and we already know most, if you're a football fan, you know NFL rosters because of the |
| 1:13.2 | amount of information out there. If we follow the draft, if we follow college football, |
| 1:18.7 | and the roster is constantly changing over like it is in college football. So that's, |
| 1:23.8 | that's a little easier. The games are shorter. And to be quite honest with you, the games are cleaner. |
| 1:30.2 | There's just, you know, they're better players. |
| 1:32.6 | I'm not diminishing college football because college football has its own advantages and pluses, |
| 1:38.1 | but the difference for me in the NFL was that, you know, just the quality of play |
| 1:43.2 | and the quarterback play is just phenomenal. |
| 1:46.7 | I think that's what stood out the most. |
| 1:48.7 | Would you critique or comment on guys differently because you know they're professionals |
| 1:53.4 | as opposed to, you know, 2018, 19-year-old? |
| 1:57.1 | Yeah, a little bit, yeah. |
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