Dr. Myron Rolle Interview: From pro football to helping fight against COVID-19
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CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Sports often intersect with real life and that's especially true in the case of Dr. Myron Rolle. In this special episode of the Pick Six podcast, the former top recruit and NFL safety turned neurosurgery resident, discusses his role on the frontlines fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Rolle talks about how his life has changed in the last month, adapting to help battle COVID-19, what people should and shouldn't be doing right now and how football compares to his current situation.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:02.0 | What's up? |
| 0:03.0 | What's? What's up everybody? Welcome to the Pick Six Podcast, CBS Sports, Daily, NFL Podcast, and sometimes more than |
| 0:18.1 | daily, I'm Wilburinson, I'm your host, an additional bonus podcast for you right now we've been getting some good |
| 0:24.0 | interviews this week and we have another great one coming up with Myron Roll |
| 0:29.5 | former NFL player played for the Tennessee Titans who drafted him in the six round of |
| 0:35.8 | the 2010 NFL draft out of Florida State. |
| 0:38.5 | He was a dynamic player at Florida State. |
| 0:41.3 | ACC defensive rookie of the year, first team freshman All American there. |
| 0:44.8 | Also a Rhodes Scholar and he eventually left football to go be a neurosurgeon, which is pretty |
| 0:50.7 | impressive. |
| 0:51.7 | He is a neurosurgery resident at the Harvard Medical School and |
| 0:54.6 | Mass General Hospital and actually right now instead of doing, you know, where he is, he is |
| 1:01.3 | volunteering to help with Corona and COVID-19 |
| 1:05.1 | uh... patients and as a result is that's just what a lot of our medical |
| 1:08.9 | professionals are doing |
| 1:09.9 | and he has been kind enough to take out uh... some time out of his day and just talk to us. |
| 1:14.9 | I know he also did the Dan Patrick show amongst other spots and you know it's it's cool. |
| 1:21.6 | I think to hear from somebody who's on the front lines battling against |
| 1:25.6 | this this virus and this disease but also you know related to football and so we're |
| 1:30.7 | we're gonna talk about you know what's going on inside the hospital what you know what he sort of seeing from |
| 1:37.6 | His perspective and and maybe learned some helpful things about what people can do moving forward. |
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