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The Lefkoe Show

Isaac Bruce Special

The Lefkoe Show

Bleacher Report

Sports, Football

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It's a special edition of The Simms & Lefkoe Podcast! On today's episode of the show, Rams legend Isaac Bruce joins Chris and Adam to discuss his thoughts on the Hall of Fame process (2:25); the toughest defender he ever faced (8:30); his Super Bowl loss against the Patriots (10:00); and his current relationship with the Rams organization (17:22). Bruce also talks about why he likes Keenan Allen so much (20:25); his heroes growing up (20:55); Florida athletes (23:50); gambling in the NFL (25:10); whether the Greatest Show on Turf exists in today's NFL (27:00); the top receivers in today's NFL (31:40); and his Super Bowl prediction (34:35). Enjoy the show, and don't forget to leave us a 5-star review on iTunes.

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0:00.0

We are here now with Hall of Famer. I don't need to say future. I don't need to say

0:04.4

pending. Hall of Famer, Isaac Bruce, Sims and Lefko. I don't know if you even know what this is,

0:10.7

but this is a place where you can say whatever the fuck you want. Curcing is allowed,

0:15.9

is real talk is allowed. This is trestry. Well, you guys are safe with me.

0:19.5

Oh, I appreciate you very much. So you're here just because as Stephen Nelson hooked this up,

0:25.5

and I want to say shout out to Stephen double underscore Nelson on Twitter. He is the man

0:30.4

for doing this. It's fascinating to me that we talk about athletes all the time. You guys go through

0:36.8

your whole career and it's your amazing, you're amazing, you're amazing. And then there's this

0:41.0

process where it's like, but we're not sure how amazing you are. You have, you retired second

0:47.3

all time. Was it yards or catches? You were part of some of the greatest teams of all time.

0:53.2

Correct. In the thousand reception club. Yes. Yeah, pub yourself. Feel free to do it.

1:00.1

These are facts. Yeah, these are facts. But yeah, just facts. Yeah. When I retired, I mean,

1:05.2

I was close to a hundred touchdowns. Yes. For a touchdown reception. But when, you know,

1:10.1

I like the factor in the big one is Super Bowl 34. This got to be at least 15 at one catch.

1:15.2

I was there. I was there. Were you really? I was sitting in the stands.

1:19.2

Now, but my thing is is what is it like for your entire life for people to tell you how incredible

1:24.4

you are? And then all of a sudden, there's this part where people go, well, we need to evaluate

1:29.0

this a little bit for it. It's different. And it's important that you always have your own identity

1:36.0

of what type of player you are because you have those values at times when you're drafted and after

1:41.3

you drafted, everybody's scrutinizing the place where you're drafted, the impact that you're

1:46.3

going to make on the team. And from there, once you retire, you know, when you're when you're

1:51.9

being scrutinized to get into the profitable Hall of Fame, you know, they kind of knit pick and

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