Hall of Famer Doug Williams talks Coach Prime and HBCUs, His Legacy, His Top 4 Current QBs

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4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Episode #8: Doug, one of the NFL’s true OGs, joins Roman and Peanut on the pod. Roman gives Doug his flowers for achieving “GOAT status” for all of his contributions to the HBCU football community as a player and ambassador (3:31). Doug has continued to give back to the HBCU community, and he credits his former Grambling St. coach Eddie Robinson for instilling that in him (5:12). Doug also talks about his current second act with the Washington Commanders, and the historic nature of working with the NFL’s first Black team president Jason Wright (7:36). Doug discusses his goals for the coaching fellowship named in his honor (14:00), and the importance of having a pipeline of Black QB coaches (17:50). Doug gives the origin story of how he created the Black College Football Hall of Fame (22:05). He also talks about the Deion effect of the recent spotlight HBCU football has enjoyed (29:10). Doug gives his top 4 QBs to watch right now, and why he loves Josh Allen’s “I don’t give a damn” attitude (39:20). He also talks why he was “born too soon” when looking at current QB contracts (43:21). And, Doug tells the incredible story of being recruited by Eddie Robinson at Grambling St.(46:30).

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:37.7	Guaranteed Human. Bro, that white thing that's behind your microphone. What is? Right in front of your strap on. Your strap on right there. That white thing. Right in front of you. Your white strap on. Right behind the mic, the wind screen. Oh, wait. Oh, that's not behind you. Oh, it's on the door. Oh. Oh, yeah. Sorry, it's my daughter's, uh, no, I don't know what that is. Oh, that's the chair. Oh. That the microphone sits on. Hold on. Let me get this right. Sorry. Behind you. I was like, what is that? It's like right there. I don't see it.
0:40.6	Oh, what?
0:41.8	Well, there goes the vein in the forehead.
0:44.0	There it goes.
0:50.3	What's going on, everybody?
0:52.1	I'm one of the hosts with the most peanut till men, and I got my guy who's always with me,
0:58.5	my trusty sidekick, Roman, Deacon Hopper.
1:04.0	What's going on, Rome?
1:05.4	What's up, Peanut?
1:06.2	And you are the host with the most out of me and you.
1:09.2	You do have more.
1:10.3	You're older than me. You have more kids. Slightly. Slightly. You have a longer career. Your house is bigger. My house is only bigger because I have a basement. You live in Carolina. So y'all in Charlotte. Y'all don't have a base. Yeah, we don't do basements here. But thank you, man, for the introduction, as always, man. And you want to let the people know who we got on our guest. Who's our guest today? Yeah, well, unfortunately, I wasn't able to do this interview, but we had the chance and honor and privilege to have Doug Williams on the show. And he was, he was phenomenal. I know you did an awesome job. You know, this is what you do. You know,
1:46.0	you're the Martha Stewart. You're the Barbara Walters of these interviews, man. And just, hey,
1:52.1	what did you think? What were you impressions of Doug, Mr. Williams? First and foremost,
1:57.4	it was a pleasure to have Doug on. You got to understand growing up in a family that both parents attended HBCUs.
2:04.0	He was part of the Mount Rushmore.
2:06.0	I know we like to always ask our guests who's on their Mount Rushmore.
2:09.0	He was one of those.
2:10.5	He, Eddie Robinson, Jerry Rice, Walter Payton, the list can go on and on.
2:14.7	But Doug Williams being the first African-American quarterback to lead a Super Bowl team,
2:19.6	he kind of talked to some of his experience with that, the things that he still holds on to this day.
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