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NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

Coy Wire makes Peanut cry, talks Flava Flav being his biggest fan, going from NFL to CNN

NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

NFL

Sports, Football

4.73.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, former defensive back Coy Wire joins Peanut and Roman. Coy talks about playing both running back and linebacker at Stanford before being drafted to play defensive back and having to cover Randy Moss. Coy then explains why he decided to go into journalism after football, what it is like to work at CNN, and shares stories from the Paris Olympics. He also looks back on the emotional story he reported about Peanut and his daughter’s heart surgery.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

I'm Coy Wire, former Buffalo Bill and Atlanta Falcon, current CNN Anchor and correspondent,

0:09.5

and you're watching NFL Players Second Acts Podcast.

0:18.5

Thank you for tuning into the NFL Player's Second Acts podcast. I'm Pina Tina Tillman and this is my guy, Roman Harbor. What's up? How you feeling? Are you going to bring the energy today? Well, I feel all right because you feel all right. You feel all right? Come up with a weird nickname. So that was awesome. But I will, first and foremost, like to thank Iheart Radio for allowing us to be in their studios today right here in Midtown, Atlanta, I believe is the name of the location. Or if you want to be very fancy, the upper west side of Atlanta. So it doesn't even sound right. It doesn't even sound right, Peter. That doesn't even sound right. You know, we fancy today. So here we go. Tell us about our next guest. Our next guest is a 10-year vet in the NFL for the Bills and the Falcons, and he was team captain for both of those teams.

1:01.5

He is a CNN correspondent.

1:03.7

He is a play-by-play caller for the Falcons, and he's an author.

1:09.0

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the pod, Corey Wire.

1:11.5

Yes.

1:13.7

Happy to be here, fellas.

1:16.0

Appreciate you blessing us, man.

1:17.7

It is my pleasure.

1:19.2

I have to tell you, you know, we didn't chat before this,

1:21.1

but I've been watching you guys, the podcast.

1:24.1

And it is so powerful.

1:27.3

I was brought to tears at the episode with John Abraham,

1:30.7

former teammate of mine. I encourage everyone out there. If you haven't seen it, watch the episode

1:34.7

with John Abraham. You know, that's a guy who I did not know all he was going through. And that

1:39.4

was my teammate. And I wish I would have known. I could talk to him more. You know, as one of the team

1:43.2

captains, that's what you take pride in doing. But for him to be so open with you all, and it's a big credit to you all, for the conversation you allowed him to have and share with the world, as you mentioned, it's going to impact the lives of so many people, not just former football players, people around the world who are going through some troubles and can find a way to get through hearing his story, man, that was so powerful. So I commend you all for what you're doing, the work you're doing, the time you put in to help us share our stories and hopes that it can help someone else. It's good stuff. I love that, man. I appreciate that first and foremost. I received that. We're starting off with good vibes

2:17.8

already. But the fact is like when you have people like a John Abram, go up there and talk about

2:23.2

those stories and people like him that are so talented, so good that we don't know, that are really

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