Braylon Edwards talks friendly rivalry with LeBron James, overcoming opioid addiction, finding his voice in radio
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🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, former Pro Bowl receiver Braylon Edwards joins Peanut and Roman. Braylon didn’t come to sugarcoat. He came to be real. Braylon starts out telling the guys how his Detroit roots came out when he defended an elderly man from an attack at a local YMCA (3:50). He then talks about his wild days in the NFL, which included a friendly challenge for Olympic legend Michael Phelps (10:55), a friendly rivalry with LeBron James (23:14), and a friendly conversation with Jets coach Eric Mangini that led to his trade to the New York Jets (31:40). Speaking of his time with the Jets, Braylon names the coach who he blames for the Jets back-to-back AFC Championship Game loses in 2010 and 2011 (38:10). Braylon also opens up about his struggles finding his identity after football (41:26), and how going back to school to get his college degree helped him find it (44:32). Braylon also discusses how he overcame a dependence to opioids (49:22), and the therapeutic process of writing his book Doing it My Way (55:30). It’s a conversation you won’t want to miss.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.1 | There was pressure with Browns and the Cavs. Not LeBron, though. Like, LeBron is, especially this. Yeah. I think that's what I was trying to go with. It's like competition, though, right? Yeah, yeah. He had the same kind of. It's like the same kind of. We had the same kind of. We something like them. So it's funny, there's a funny story about that. |
| 0:21.5 | So we both had Bentley Coops. |
| 0:22.9 | This is O'Five. |
| 0:23.6 | I had a Mulliner. |
| 0:24.5 | He had... We had the same car. We something like them. So it's funny, though. Here's a funny story about that. |
| 0:21.5 | So we both had Bentley Coops. |
| 0:22.9 | This is all five. I had a Mulliner. He had same exact car, just different wheels. I remember parking my car in Valet, and they had me parked up front. By the time we came out, I was about to try to get in the car. My key's not working. It is, oh, no, that's not yours. |
| 0:36.4 | It's LeBron. |
| 0:36.9 | I was like, where's mine? |
| 0:38.1 | So we parked yours down the street. |
| 0:39.6 | I was like, why did you move mine? |
| 0:41.4 | Come on. getting the car. My key's not working. Oh, no, that's not yours. It's LeBron. I was like, where's mine? |
| 0:38.1 | So we parked yours down the street. |
| 0:39.5 | I was like, why did you move mine? |
| 0:41.4 | Come on. |
| 0:42.1 | Come on, Brayland. |
| 0:42.7 | Don't do that too. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm like, all. |
| 0:44.7 | It's levels to this. |
| 0:45.8 | I said, it's levels to this. |
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