67. Jake Bequette

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

For most football players, making it to the NFL is the high point of their careers. Then again, Jake Bequette isn’t like most football players. Sure, his football life reads like a movie script: He was a third generation Razorback from Little Rock who ended up playing a vital role on teams that went 21-5 over a two-year stretch. And perhaps the program’s biggest win in the SEC era—against LSU to clinch a Sugar Bowl berth—came in his hometown, in the stadium where he played in high school. He topped off his Razorback career by getting drafted by the most successful NFL franchise of the past two decades—the New England Patriots. But his four-year NFL career was marred by injuries, and when he retired in 2015, he knew what he wanted to do: Join the Army. And it’s been the culmination of a longtime goal for Bequette, who has completed Ranger School and served a tour in Iraq as a First Lieutenant in the 101st Airborne Division. While many Razorback fans will remember what he did on the field, Bequette hopes to one day be known for serving a greater purpose.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Bo Manningley, and I wanted to say thanks.
0:02.6	Thanks for listening to the Hog Pot.
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0:07.4	great razor backstories every week.
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0:31.0	more Razorback fans are aware of the hog pod and that we can continue to tell these great stories.
0:37.0	If you're not looking forward to the best days of your life, right?
0:40.0	If tomorrow is not going to be the best day of your life, then you should just stay in bed.
0:43.6	I always want to have that mentality, that my best days are ahead of me, not behind me.
0:48.0	And it might sound crazy, but I truly hope that my football and athletic career is just kind of an interesting footnote in the
0:54.2	story of my life. I mean it's been a great honor, great pleasure to play football for as long
0:58.6	as I did and play for the university and hopefully represent myself well but it's been an incredible journey in the military and it still is.
1:05.2	And I just, I hope that my mentality always stays, you know, looking forward to the next great thing,
1:10.0	the next great goal and journey instead of looking in the past.
1:13.2	Welcome into the Hog Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made
1:27.0	possible by our friends at Core Brewing Company. First Security Bank,
1:31.2	Seras and Resort, Rockin' Pro Team, CPAC, and Lindsay Golf.
1:36.7	For most football players, making it to the NFL is the high point of their career, but Jake Beckett isn't like most football players.
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