Hall of Famer John Lynch on the Call with Kyle Shanahan that led to his GM job, Choosing the NFL over MLB, Hitting Advice from Ronnie Lott
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4.3 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Hall of Famer John Lynch sits down for an incredible conversation about the hits, the legends, and the moments that defined his iconic football career. Lynch shares what it meant to be a hard-hitting safety in the NFL, the influence Bill Walsh had on his career at Stanford, and what he learned from Ronnie Lott about how to hit hard. He explains how he got back into the game as an executive, why he misses the wins and losses, and how John Elway helped give him his start in football operations.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Way back in my rookie year, you guys probably too young for this guy, but Craig Ironhead, |
| 0:09.6 | Hayward. |
| 0:10.2 | Yeah, God bless his soul. |
| 0:12.8 | And he was playing for Atlanta, and they were running the run and shoot. |
| 0:16.1 | And Herm Edwards was my DB coach. |
| 0:18.7 | Okay. |
| 0:19.3 | And we're playing these guys. |
| 0:21.7 | And Herm Edwards says, he used to call me Lynchburg. He goes now, now Lynchburg, here's what's going to happen. They run what we call the Atlanta draw. And the seas are going to part. You're going to see it. And you're going to go in there. And I know you, Lynchburg. you're going to try to take him high and don't do it with this guy because |
| 0:38.1 | you will come out faster than you went in. And he said, I'm urging you to go low on him. You know, |
| 0:43.5 | I'm urging you to tackle. I know that is not your style, but I'm, well, what do you do when someone |
| 0:47.9 | tells you that? Well, I'm going to show herm. And bad idea. Ironhead earned that nickname for, |
| 0:54.6 | and it had that nickname for a reason. |
| 0:56.9 | I felt everything in my body with that hit, |
| 1:01.4 | and Herm was exactly right. |
| 1:03.0 | I came in and it was like I got rejected. |
| 1:06.2 | And I said, man, that's a bad man right there. |
| 1:09.5 | I never felt anything like that in my career. |
| 1:11.9 | Ironhead Hayward. |
| 1:18.6 | What's up, everybody? |
| 1:19.9 | I'm Peanut Tumman, and this is the NFL players second acts podcast. |
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