Create Your Shot: Mohamed Massaquoi

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

Sports, Underdog Sports, The Underdog, Basketball, Nba, -- None --, Create Your Shot

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The guys hit the gridiron this week and are joined by Mohamed Massaquoi, former Cleveland Browns and University of Georgia wide receiver. Currently a motivational speaker and entrepreneur in the Atlanta area, Mo talks about his HS, College and Pro career as well as going deep on his recent injury, his prosthetic hand and the philanthropic outlets he's gotten involved with since his surgery and rehab. A former second round pick in the NFL draft, Mo tells about athletes mindsets on and off the field as well as what coaching style worked the best on him during his playing career. He drops some financial knowledge on the guys and talks them through the best restaurants in Atlanta, GA. Mo can be found on Twitter and Instagram @Ironmassaquoi. 0:28 Tyler and Smallz Introduction 8:59 Mohamed Massaquoi joins CYS 11:20 Playing at Georgia and going through the recruiting process 19:10 Being a student athlete and dealing with the spotlight 26:30 The NFL draft process 30:54 Mohamed's accident and the impact it has had on him 34:50 Finding life after football while embracing new passions and outlets 39:59 Using his accident to help others 43:20 On athletes finding themselves during and after their career's 47:55 Exploring creative outlets and interests 52:42 Coach Speak â€” What type of coaching did Mo respond to 1:02:30 City Review â€” Atlanta, Georgia 1:06:13 Ten Touches 1:16:06 Parting Shots

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0:00.0	The following podcast is part of the underdog sports
0:07.9	podcasting network for a full list of our shows as well as breaking sports news and engaging feature stories.
0:15.3	Visit us at www. The Underdog Sports.com. Come. of Create your shot. I am Tyler Lorry and I am joined as always by my spectacular co-host,
0:35.8	Christopher Smalls, Angelos, and Smalls, this week's episode is, I don't want to say that like,
0:44.0	Create Your Shot has finally made it, but we actually
0:47.8	talk to a guy who I used to play, I used to use Georgia
0:51.6	in NCA football 2006, Massiqua freshman number one and what a phenomenal interview not even sure how this really got set up but yeah this week Mohammed Massaquah former Georgia and
1:05.4	Cleveland Browns wide receiver who is now an entrepreneur in the Atlanta area and
1:10.6	small is totally unbelievable.
1:13.2	An interview where like in the middle of it, I actually like had some goosebumps
1:18.2	based on some of the stuff he was saying and just we're fortunate to get to talk to people
1:22.3	like this.
1:23.0	That's that's pretty much it.
1:24.8	Yeah, I mean, yeah, for me it was kind of surreal
1:30.3	speaking to a person like that who's went through an insane experience that changed his life.
1:39.2	So yeah from that perspective gaining that knowledge and just hearing him speak and how he's approaching life now and what he wants to do in the future.
1:49.0	That's the stuff we do this for. That's why we want to do it. We want to engage and learn and hopefully it reaches the audience or reaches a person.
2:00.0	But his story is just so unique and interesting.
2:03.5	It was exciting to have him on. It was introspective. It had everything.
2:08.2	And I'm just excited to, I'm excited for this one to listen to it back too. And I might listen to it a couple times I don't know about you
2:17.1	Yeah, actually what I should say Smalls is we kind of buried the lead here
2:20.3	Stop listening to us for a second.
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