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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Draft Day Stories: Part 3 With Matt Leinart, Jeff Saturday, Tedy Bruschi, and Michael Vick. Plus Carson Palmer and the Worst Loss of the NBA Season.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the Celtics' loss to the Thunder, and trying to find meaning in games during the last month of the NBA season (2:00). Then Ryen talks with three-time Pro Bowl QB Carson Palmer about his time with the Bengals, making his way to the Cardinals, dealing with media criticism, his thoughts on some of the top QB prospects in the 2021 NFL draft, and more (13:00). Then in Part 3 of a three-part series, Ryen talks with Matt Leinart, Jeff Saturday, Stanford Steve, Tedy Bruschi, and Michael Vick about their draft experience (41:00). Then Ryen makes an announcement (1:20:00) before answering some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:30:00). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Matt Leinart, Jeff Saturday, Tedy Bruschi, Michael Vick, Carson Palmer, and Stanford Steve Producer: Kyle Crichton Producer: Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The best one was Chicago.

0:04.8

I had multiple agents maneuvering me from the first pick with the bangles down to the

0:12.8

fourth pick with Chicago.

0:14.4

And one guy was like, you know, here's what we're going to do.

0:17.8

You're going to totally go up and blow up your pro day.

0:20.0

You're going to throw a bunch of dinks that, you know, they don't even spiral into the

0:23.4

third.

0:24.4

And I was like, hold on, dude, we got to go.

0:26.7

But, no, I mean, there was some really, and looking back, had I gotten to the Bears,

0:35.2

initially, that was a really good team.

0:37.2

And obviously with Lance Briggs and Erlacker and just, you know, peanut tillman, all the

0:42.4

players they had on defense, they got to a Super Bowl.

0:44.8

They're pretty quickly.

0:46.0

But that was, you know, that was one of the first meetings I had with an agent where I

0:51.1

was like, oh, this is for real.

0:52.7

Like, I might be getting traded.

0:54.6

There's going to be a lot of fun today.

0:56.7

The third installment of our draft day stories, then we also spent some time talking with Carson

1:00.3

Palmer almost a bear at one point and taking his pro day on purpose to avoid Cincinnati

1:06.1

and a little NBA at the top and life advice.

1:09.0

Tough loss by the seas, but I'm going to tell you a good loss in the grand scheme of

1:12.3

things.

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