Eric Wood talks Damar Hamlin’s strength, finding competition in media, Kobe Bryant motivation
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🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Ep #11: Former Bills center Eric Wood was in Payco Stadium in Cincinnati when Damar Hamlin fought for his life on the field during a Monday Night Football game against the Bengals and he joins Roman to talk about the eeriness in the stadium that night. They both also speak on Damar’s remarkable recovery, and how that fateful night displayed the deepness of the NFL brotherhood. Eric also shares his story of being told of his NFL career was over while in the delivery room with his wife in labor. He also explains how he’s maintained his 65-pound weight loss from the 308-lb playing weight. Eric talks of scratching his competition itch in his media career, and how Kobe Bryant has inspired his business career. And he offers Roman, and all men, marriage advice that includes a grading system.
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| 0:09.7 | Welcome in, listeners. |
| 0:11.3 | I want to mention that, hey, today is a little different. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm missing my compadre. |
| 0:16.4 | So I'll be having to get my Oprah on, solo acting it without my man Peanut Tillman today. |
| 0:22.5 | He's busy doing a couple of things. |
| 0:24.3 | But that's not a big deal. |
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| 0:39.0 | else you listen to your podcast. Now, it's been a crazy two weeks in the NFL. Very dramatic, |
| 0:46.2 | week 18, teams fighting for playoff positioning. The playoffs start this weekend, really looking forward |
| 0:51.5 | to that. The NFL's just now starting to heat up. We all know |
| 0:55.1 | once the playoffs starts, everything ratches up another level. Another thing that happened during |
| 1:00.4 | the last week, the last two weeks is, and this is probably what's really got everybody's emotions |
| 1:04.4 | going is the NFL community really getting behind and really trying to show some love |
| 1:10.6 | in the country as well all rally behind |
| 1:14.2 | Bill's player, Damar Hamlin. After he was injured last Monday in the game against the Bengals, |
| 1:20.2 | we all saw it and we will talk about Demar and much more in this episode today with our guest, |
| 1:28.7 | Eric Wood. |
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