Herm Edwards - Arizona State Head Football Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Episode 537
Herm Edwards is the head coach of the Arizona State football team. The former NFL defensive back came to Arizona State in December of 2017 after eight years as an ESPN NFL analyst. He led the Sun Devils to an 8-5 record in 2019 and a victory in the 2019 Sun Bowl over Florida State.
In 1977, after going undrafted, Herm signed with the Philadelphia Eagles and would spend the next nine seasons playing defensive back in Philly. During his Eagles career, he never missed a game, playing in 135 consecutive games until he was released in 1986.
After his retirement, Herm went into coaching and was an assistant for Marty Schottenheimer in Kansas City and Tony Dungy in Tampa before being named the head coach of the New York Jets in 2001. He would spend five seasons with the Jets and then move on to Kansas City, where he was the Chiefs head coach from 2006-2008. In 2009, he signed with ESPN and would spend eight years as a television analyst before signing with Arizona State.
On today's podcast, we talk to Coach Herm Edwards about the 2020 Pac-12 season being postponed, the challenges he's faced during the pandemic, the lessons he learned as an ESPN analyst, being a voice of reason and how his faith has played an important role in his life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast where we bring Jesus into the conversation. |
| 0:18.1 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey, guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:24.0 | My email address, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. Jason at Sportspectrum.com, you can reach me directly. |
| 0:30.5 | Any questions, any guest ideas, any thoughts on today's interview with Herm Edwards. You can email me |
| 0:36.1 | directly, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:39.6 | We are presented today by our partners and sponsors, |
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| 1:02.8 | answers. Check them out over at Ronblue.com. Ronblue.com. I'm really excited today about our guest, Herm Edwards, Arizona State's head football coach, |
| 1:14.5 | and one of the best people you will ever meet. I had the pleasure of working with Herm |
| 1:21.0 | for just about nine years at ESPN when he was there from 2009 to 2017. And let me tell you something about Herm. |
| 1:29.3 | When he walked in the room, it lit up. |
| 1:32.3 | I talk a lot about the difference between being a thermometer and being a thermostat. |
| 1:37.3 | You know, the thermometer, you take the temperature of the room. |
| 1:40.3 | The thermostat sets the temperature in the room. |
| 1:43.3 | Herm Edwards set the temperature in every room. Herm Edwards set the temperature |
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