Brian Griese on Replacing John Elway, Coaching Brock Purdy, and Creating a Support Program for Grieving Children
NFL: Good Morning Football
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4.3 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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On this episode of NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, hosts Charles Tillman and Roman Harper sit down with former quarterback Brian Griese. Brian explains how he dealt with the pressure of replacing Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway as the Denver Broncos starter in the late 90s and shares the lessons he took away from that experience. Brian also discusses his experience as a quarterbacks coach for the 49ers and how he helped develop Brock Purdy. Then Brian shares the struggle of losing his mother at a young age and how that inspired him to found Judi’s House a foundation that supports grieving children and families.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.2 | And so I remember at that time, I sat in a room with kids that were eight, nine, ten years old. |
| 0:11.0 | And we sat in a circle and we're going around the circle to talk about who we, and you say, |
| 0:16.5 | who died, how they died, and your relationship and how old they were. |
| 0:21.4 | And I remember that was the first time I said, my mom, my name's Brian, my mom, Judy, died of breast cancer when I was 12, |
| 0:28.4 | that I started to actually go through the grieving process. |
| 0:32.4 | And I went through it with a group of 10-year-old kids. |
| 0:36.6 | And, man, I'll never forget that. |
| 0:39.4 | And I just making meaning of loss is such an important part of it. |
| 0:44.2 | And starting Judy's house was me making meaning of something that didn't make sense to me. |
| 1:01.1 | What's up, everybody? I'm Peanut Tillman and this is the NFL players second acts podcast and with me as always as my trusty co-hosts, Roman, I love Blue Harbor. Yes, I do love Blue. You do too |
| 1:09.0 | today. So I'm really excited about our next guest. He was, I mean, I just admitted to him how I used to play with him on the video game. So I'm just really excited to actually hear more about his life. He comes from a great family of legacy. He's continued to build off of that legacy with his own children that he was sharing with us. And a former teammate of yours, Peanut, so I'm looking forward to it. |
| 1:29.7 | He is a Pro Bowl quarterback, 11-year vet. |
| 1:33.8 | Michigan standout. |
| 1:35.3 | One of my former teammates, longtime broadcaster, he's a quarterback coach in NFL. |
| 1:40.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the pot. |
| 1:42.9 | Brian Greasey! |
| 1:44.0 | Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! I love it. You got the gallery clapping too. Come on. Oh, it's awesome. One band, one sound, we're a team. That's why we pay the big bucks, Brian. Now I know why we got to do these in person, not zoom or any of that nonsense i think you would be okay |
| 2:02.0 | on zoom peanut definitely you know he was terrible you sound like you know peanut a little this is like |
| 2:07.1 | exactly where we did you're leaving to my first question what were you two like his teammates |
| 2:11.1 | what was peanut like what was brian like give me something on each other you know i was only |
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