Bonus Pod- Dick LeBeau - The Life and Times of A Coaching Legend

The Peter King Podcast

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🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A special episode on the life and times of Tennessee defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau, who turns 80 on Sept. 9, the day before Oakland-Tennessee opens the season with LeBeau calling plays from his perch upstairs. LeBeau talks about the birth of the zone blitz and a Hall of Fame life in football. LeBeau has touched many people in the NFL, and a dozen of them, including Rod Woodson, Bruce Arians and James Harrison, join the podcast to talk about LeBeau's life in football and his influence on them.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Peter King. Welcome to the MMQB podcast with Peter King, where I take you
0:07.6	inside the minds of the biggest influencers in the NFL.
0:13.3	This week, a special edition of the MMQB podcast with Peter King on the life and
0:18.9	times of Dick Laboe.
0:21.6	You may have heard of Dick Laboe. In fact, if you're a football fan, you certainly
0:26.4	should have. He's the defensive coordinator of the Tennessee Titans. He's a member of the
0:31.5	Pro Football Hall of Fame. He started 171 consecutive games at
0:38.0	cornerback for the Lions, which is still an NFL record for durability at that position.
0:45.0	And now, entering the 2017 NFL season,
0:50.0	Leboe, who will turn 80 years old the day before the September 10 season opener of the Titans against the Oakland Raiders.
1:00.0	Leboe will become the first coordinator in NFL history to boss a defense or an offense at age 80.
1:09.4	It's never been done before people and I'm here to tell you today on this podcast exactly why it's
1:17.5	happening. So I'll tell you how we're going to do this. As I went on my NFL
1:22.1	training camp trip this summer. I went on my NFL training camp trip this summer. I brought my
1:25.6	paraphernalia with me and almost everywhere I went I would record someone for 25 30, 40 seconds. Just give me your
1:37.2	thoughts on Dick Laboe. What would you want to say? What would you learn from
1:39.9	Dick Laboe over the years? So I talked to some of his players who played for him. People like
1:45.8	James Harrison and Rod Woodson and Carnell Lake. I talked to some of the people who coached
1:51.3	with him, like Kirby Wilson Wilson a former running backs coach
1:55.1	like Ken Wisenant and Bruce Aerians and Dom Capers and I talked to people who
2:01.4	played against him.
2:03.6	Joe Thomas, the great tackle of the Cleveland Browns,
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