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Chris Simms Unbuttoned

#50 - Tony Romo on predicting plays and his Cowboys legacy; plus Jerry Rice & Joe Theismann

Chris Simms Unbuttoned

Chris Simms

Sports, Football

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Simms chats with 3 NFL legends: (2:12) Tony Romo on his TV game preparation and how he's able to predict plays, his Cowboys legacy, the game that put him on the map, and a nutty story involving Larry Allen's Lamborghini (18:10) Jerry Rice talks about being the original GOAT, why his uniform always had to be spotless, the 49ers rivalry with the Giants, and why he was envious of Deion Sanders' boxer shorts (28:00) Simms tells Joe Theismann why the infamous broken leg earned him a lot of friends. The Redskins great also discusses the current Washington QB situation, and tells the story about why Notre Dame wanted him to change the pronunciation of his last name

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yo, yo, what up? It's Thursday. Got a good podcast coming for you on Chris Sims Unbutton.

0:24.6

Hope everybody enjoyed Tuesday's pod. You know, Travis Kelsey, Eric Weddle, thought they were great conversations.

0:31.2

Today, we got some heavy hitters. We got Tony Romo, Jerry Rice, Joe Dismman. I had great interviews with all three of these guys.

0:40.0

Unique personalities, NFL legends, and all have an interesting perspective on the game in general.

0:48.3

I want to remind everybody out there before we get to the Tony Romo interview,

0:52.5

hey, starting on Monday, I'm back on pro football talk

0:56.0

live. We'll be back on our normal schedule, me and Florio, I'll be Monday through Thursday.

1:00.4

He'll probably have Big Cat on Friday to cheat on me with, so he'll be there.

1:04.8

Hey, everybody pay attention to Peter King's, Peter King's training camp tour.

1:10.2

It's special. He gets more information and inside

1:13.4

knowledge than just about any writer in the history of media. So check that out on NBC Sports

1:18.2

Digital. He's making his rounds through training camps and going to have some cool

1:21.8

interviews as we know. And the other thing I'm going to plug for my homie, Mike Florio,

1:26.0

the PFT PM podcast.

1:29.0

Mike's always, I don't know what his schedule is.

1:31.3

It's kind of just, I mean, whatever he wants to do, whatever the PM, whatever the posse,

1:36.7

PFT Posse wants, he bows to them.

1:39.9

But I really want to start it up.

1:41.5

Tony Romo, it's the first guy up today.

1:44.1

One of my favorite quarterbacks, the guy who stole my father's job.

1:48.8

What a freaking jerk.

1:50.2

I'm joking, of course, I say that because I know I can joke with Tony Romo.

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