Austin Blythe | WUW 418

Washed Up Walkons

Tyler Kluver

Sports, College Football, Ncaa Team, Nfl Draft, Big Ten, Athletes, Hawkeyes, Iowa

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Austin is from Williamsburg, IA and was a standout high school wrestler and football player. He went on the play for the Hawks as a critical starter at Center from 2011-2015. After his career with the Hawks he was the sole Iowa guy drafted in the 2016 NFL Draft and spent 4 years with the Colts, before spending the last 3 years of his career between LA, Seattle, and Kansas City. Austin talks about the length of his career, the ups and downs, and why it was finally time to hang it up. He talks about the differences of organization at each stop a long the way, we have some fun conversation about Pete Carrol, We talk about the biggest road bump of his career that came early on, and whole lot more!If you love the show and want to show support, tell your friends! And, check out our exclusive content at Patreon.com/washedupwalkons where you can find extra podcast episodes, exclusive merchandise, Merch discounts with every tier, private Walkon discord channel access, and more!

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0:00.0	Fresh off of retirement from the NFL, a seven-year career, the only man selected in the 2016
0:08.0	NFL draft from the Iowa Hawkeyes, Austin Blythe joins the show. Incredible episode today talking to an old friend, an old teammate, a great
0:16.8	Hawkei. Hope you guys enjoy this one. As always, sit back, relax, and let's have a day.
0:22.4	Let's go. Oh, I're back. This used to be the Wash Walkman's podcast, but now it's the Friendship
0:56.9	Podcast. Klooper's not here because he's putting his daughter to sleep. He said he'll
1:01.3	be here in, you know, as sure as he can we're
1:04.2	here with a fantastic guest newly retired guest from a hell of a career in the
1:11.4	NFL former captain of ours all a hell of a career in the NFL.
1:13.0	Former captain of ours always will be a guy that we look up to as that leader.
1:18.0	A guy that I definitely go to battle with.
1:21.0	Austin Blythe, welcome back to the podcast,
1:23.7	and it's always a pleasure to talk to you, man.
1:26.7	It's great coming back.
1:28.5	It's crazy what you guys are done.
1:29.6	I don't remember.
1:30.2	I was before episode 100, wasn't I? And now you guys are on 400 something.
1:35.0	Yeah, it's like 400.
1:37.0	A wild ride man, but yeah you were at least 300 episodes ago.
1:42.0	Yeah, I was so stupid that we still have this part. at least 300 episodes ago. Yeah.
1:43.0	And it's so stupid that we still have this podcast, but here we are.
1:46.0	No, that's not stupid at all.
1:48.0	You guys do it, you guys, like you said, it's a quality show.
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