Emmitt Smith talks becoming a Super Bowl champion and Victor Cruz on John Harbaugh coaching the Giants
NFL: Good Morning Football
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4.3 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts Podcast, Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith sits down with Peanut and Roman at Super Bowl Media Row. Emmitt talks about the battles he faced to become a Super Bowl champion and addresses a rumor that he squatted over 800 pounds in college.
Then, former New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz joins the podcast. Victor shares his opinion on the Giants’ hire of John Harbaugh as their new head coach and discusses whether his former quarterback, Eli Manning, should be in the Hall of Fame.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.9 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Peanut Tillman, and this is the NFL players' second X podcast with him. |
| 0:16.2 | As always, my trusty co-hosts, Shormon Harper. |
| 0:19.3 | We're in San Francisco, Super Bowl Week, Meteoro, not radio like it used to be. |
| 0:25.9 | We have, if not, the greatest running back of all time. |
| 0:30.3 | Hall of Fame, running back, Emmett Smith, welcome to the pod, boss. |
| 0:34.8 | Bro, thank y'all. |
| 0:36.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:36.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:37.3 | Thank you. You all are so kind. Appreciate you, boss. Appreciate you. How are you feeling this week, man? You know what? I'm doing pretty good. I'm excited. Super Bowl is back around again. It's good to be out here in San Fran to witness what will be, I expect to be a very good Super Bowl between both of these teams. |
| 0:56.3 | Seahawks look very good. |
| 0:58.1 | Yeah, they do. |
| 0:59.0 | Defensively, you know defense winning championships. |
| 1:01.2 | And I know Mark Vable was going to have his team ready to go. |
| 1:04.7 | It's going to be the Belichick way. |
| 1:06.6 | And I think he's adopted the Belichick way. |
| 1:09.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.7 | And I think that translates into why his team is actually in the Super Bowl this year. Yeah, yeah. They definitely bought into his system real quick. Exactly. So when I was watching you, San Francisco was your biggest rival. So what's it like being out here in San Francisco for this Super Bowl and just like how many battles like do you go back and |
| 1:28.7 | think about because I drove back old Candlestick where it used to be at and I'm just like |
| 1:32.3 | dang man I missed that place because it was some great games I watched there growing up I got to |
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