Fernando Velasco talks Michael Penix-Kirk Cousins relationship, Black men getting therapy, reconciling with his father

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🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, former OL turned Falcons Director of Player Development, Fernando Velasco joins Peanut and Roman. Fernando takes us into how he navigates the relationship between rookie QB Michael Penix and veteran QB Kirk Cousins, and how it plays into his role in player engagement with the Falcons. He also gets personal about how he overcame the anger over his father’s violent drug-dealing past that led Fernando to be born to a drug addicted mother. Plus, the guys also discuss the stigma of black men and therapy.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.0	Who are the 25 greatest football players to grace the gridiron since the year 2000,
0:10.3	introducing NFL Daily's top 25 players of the last 25 years?
0:16.1	Join me, Greg Rosenthal, and an all-star cast of media personalities,
0:20.6	including Mina Kime, Steve Weish, Kevin Harlan, and more for a look at football's best
0:26.2	since the turn of the century.
0:28.4	Listen to NFL Daily's top 25 players of the last 25 years, starting on June 30th
0:33.8	on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:39.9	Hello, I'm Fernando Velasco, Director of Player Engagement for the Atlanta Falcons.
0:44.4	This is the NFL Players' Second Act Podcast. Thank you for tuning in.
1:00.4	I'm Peanut Tillman, and this is the NFL players second acts podcast.
1:05.0	And with him as always my trusty sidekick, Roman, I'm Old Harper.
1:11.4	That's all he got.
1:12.5	So that was pretty lame today.
1:14.6	But we let me tell you what's not lame is this studio that we're in right here at the IHeart Radio studio, right here in Atlanta, Midtown.
1:21.3	It's pretty popping over here.
1:22.6	I love the setup and I love and very appreciative to what they've done for us today.
1:26.7	Peanut, who is our next
1:28.0	guest? We got a goodie. He's our former teammate. You know, we was when I'm in Carolina,
1:32.3	Super Bowl 50, eight-year NFL that played for the Panthers two times, the Steelers and the
1:39.6	Titans right now. He is the Atlanta Falcons
1:44.2	director of engagement.
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