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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Ja Morant’s Massive Leap With Chris Vernon. Plus Willie Colon on Big Ben’s Goodbye and Playing With Antonio Brown.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares some NBA observations on the Grizzlies’ win over the Cavaliers, Kyrie Irving’s return, the uptick in fouls, and more (0:40). Then Ryen talks with The Ringer’s Chris Vernon about Ja Morant and the fourth-place Grizzlies (14:25), before talking with Super Bowl champion Willie Colon about Ben Roethlisberger’s looming retirement, Willie’s six years with the Steelers, what makes head coach Mike Tomlin special, and being teammates with Antonio Brown (32:08). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:06:25). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Chris Vernon and Willie Colon Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's podcast, little NBA open on the Memphis Grizzlies and how much I love watching

0:16.0

them.

0:17.0

Some stuff with the nets and Kyrie returning and also free throws.

0:20.1

But Chris Vernon who covers the Grizzlies and part of the ringer, going to talk a little

0:23.4

bit more on Memphis and their win against Cleveland, just big picture where they're at.

0:27.4

And when it's on football with Willie Cologne who was a teammate of Ben Rothlesburgers for

0:31.4

a bunch of years on Ben's retirement on Mike Tomlin and also a couple of years with

0:36.1

AB and where we're at now and of course life advice.

0:39.2

Enjoy.

0:40.3

Before we get to our guests on today's show, I just want to talk a little NBA because

0:44.6

Monday's are always a little, you know, look we're still pretty football heavy, we're

0:47.2

going to be through the playoffs as well.

0:49.2

National Championship for next Monday.

0:52.7

But you know, a lot of the opens are going to start bearing towards the NBA stuff more and

0:55.9

more as we get past all the football.

0:58.1

But getting caught up on everything from the weekend and then last night, Memphis,

1:01.7

beaten Cleveland was a fun game.

1:03.7

Very close game, back and forth type of stuff.

1:07.8

You can argue both teams are kind of missing somebody important in their guard rotation.

1:11.3

I think a coral being available for Cleveland would have been a huge deal considering,

1:15.5

you know, they try to figure out a stop jaw and jaw is pretty much unstoppable.

1:19.2

And that's kind of where the Memphis story starts at least for this season.

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