Gerald McCoy - 3-time All-Pro NFL Defensive Tackle
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Gerald McCoy has played 11 years in the NFL. Selected as the third overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft by the Buccaneers, McCoy would play nine seasons in Tampa, being named to six Pro Bowls and earning First-Team All-Pro honors three times.
In 2019, he played with the Carolina Panthers and in 2020, was a member of the Dallas Cowboys before an injury he suffered in training camp ended his season before it started.
Today on the show, we talk to Gerald McCoy about watching his former team in the Super Bowl, not staying bitter, trusting in God during setbacks and why what we say and how we say it matters in building others up.
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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. |
| 0:16.6 | What's up, guys? Welcome back to Sports Spectrum. I am down here in Tampa, Florida, on Radio Row. A very different looking radio row here. Not a lot of people here this year with the pandemic, but we're down here. We're covering the Super Bowl. And we welcome a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer and a long-time NFL player, three-time all-pro, six-time pro bowler. Gerald McCoy joins us here on sports spectrum what's up gerald |
| 0:38.5 | hey how you doing good man so good to have you here on the show looking forward to diving into |
| 0:43.6 | certainly your football career and a little bit about this year's super bowl but also about the |
| 0:47.8 | importance of faith in your life but let's start with the super bowl and certainly we i got to imagine |
| 0:53.5 | there's some emotions when you saw |
| 0:55.6 | your former team win the NFC and now have a chance to host a Super Bowl here in Tampa. |
| 1:00.6 | What kind of emotions were you thinking about as you watched the Buccaneers win the NFC and |
| 1:04.5 | certainly now preparing for Super Bowl 55? |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, it was a lot of emotions. It was bittersweet. The bitter part of it was that I wasn't able to be out there on the grass with them to help. |
| 1:15.1 | Sure. |
| 1:15.5 | It wasn't bitter and I didn't get a chance to do it. It was more of I watched those guys come in. A lot of those guys, we watched each other grow up and we just became family. |
| 1:28.4 | So when that, when that moment happened, it would have been great to be able to help and be, |
| 1:34.4 | you know, help those guys be able to accomplish that moment. But the sweet part of it, |
| 1:39.2 | obviously, was watching them win. And knowing all the hard work they put in and all the time. |
| 1:46.7 | And I seen all the hard Mondays and the rough training camp practices and just all the work |
| 1:53.3 | they put in. |
| 1:53.9 | So to see it all, you know, payoff was excellent. |
| 1:57.8 | I assume you're pulling for Tampa on Sunday. |
| 2:00.8 | Yeah, I got Tampa by 10 points. |
| 2:02.6 | Tampa by 10. Oh, wow. I think that's the first person I've heard that's predicted more than 10. |
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