Eric Wood - Former Buffalo Bills Pro Bowl Offensive Lineman
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Eric Wood played nine seasons in the NFL with the Buffalo Bills from 2009-2017. He was selected in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft by Buffalo and would become a staple on the offensive line, starting all 120 games that he participated in.
The former Louisville alum was selected to the Pro Bowl in 2015 and was a part of the Bills team in 2017 that won nine games and ended an 18-year playoff drought.
After retiring because of an injury in 2018, Wood moved into the broadcasting arena and is currently a football analyst with the ACC Network and part of the Buffalo Bills radio team. He also is the host of the "What's Next with Eric Wood" podcast.
Today on the show, Eric shares his love for Bills Mafia, the adjustment into retirement, being a broadcaster, giving his life to Christ in 2012 and the difficulty of playing the Center position in the NFL.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:13.6 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:16.4 | What's up, guys? Welcome to the show. I am Jason. This is Sports Spectrum. And I'm really excited about |
| 0:22.1 | today's show with Eric Wood, the former Buffalo Bills, Pro Bowl offensive linemen. And this is |
| 0:28.8 | Super Bowl week. So we had to get a guy who knows a little about playing in the NFL. In fact, |
| 0:34.4 | Eric played nine seasons in the NFL, all with the Buffalo Bills. He was a |
| 0:39.4 | first round selection, picked number 28 overall by the bills in 2009, made the Pro Bowl in 2015, |
| 0:47.9 | and then an injury that he'll talk about here on the show is what ended his career |
| 0:52.7 | probably earlier than he expected. I think he was 31 |
| 0:56.1 | when he had to call it quits. And I think he wanted to play a few more years. But God had other |
| 1:01.6 | plans. And so we talked to Eric about that. We talk about his blossoming broadcasting career and |
| 1:06.5 | what it's like to host a podcast because he's the host of a show called What's Next with Eric Wood, |
| 1:12.0 | a podcast that he happened to have me on as a guest recently as well. And he does a great job |
| 1:16.9 | with that show. But he also works for the ACC Network as a color analyst and a sideline analyst. |
| 1:23.2 | He's the Buffalo Bills radio color commentator. So he's doing a lot of things in this post-NFL journey, |
| 1:29.5 | and it's a blossoming career that we talk about as far as broadcasting. But of course, |
| 1:33.9 | I had to ask him about Bill's mafia. And I had to ask him about playing the center position in the NFL. |
| 1:40.9 | And what is, what it entails, we'll just say. It's it's a lot more complicated than you |
| 1:47.5 | would think just a guy bending over and snapping a ball to the quarterback. There's a lot that goes |
| 1:51.3 | into playing the position that Eric played for nine seasons. We also talk about his faith journey, |
| 1:56.9 | of course, his faith in the Lord and a pivotal moment in 2012 where he gave his life fully |
| 2:02.5 | over to the Lord. So this is a great conversation with Eric Wood. Before we get to our conversation |
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