Jason McCourty - Former NFL Super Bowl champ on faith, marriage, gratitude and retirement
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast:
- Jason McCourty is a former NFL defensive back who won a Super Bowl with his twin brother Devin in 2018 as a member of the Patriots. Jason played 12 NFL seasons and is now an NFL analyst with CBS Sports.
Topics include:
- Excitement for the 2025 NFL season (02:54)
- What NFL storyline is Jason McCourty most interested in? (03:53)
- Being selected in the 6th round of the NFL Draft as a motivator (05:45)
- The brotherly connection with twin brother Devin (12:18)
- Stewarding his time in retirement from the NFL (23:04)
- The grieving process of his NFL career ending (28:50)
- Sharing his testimony of faith in Jesus (34:15)
- The pruning process as a Christian (40:22)
- What Bible verse impacts him the most (44:27)
- How can we be praying for Jason McCourty? (46:39)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, y'all? I'm Matt Forte here with Sports Spectrum, and today's episode will be brought to you by Tyndale. |
| 0:05.6 | And Jason, today we're talking about the Courage for Life, Study Bible. Let's talk a little bit about that. |
| 0:10.6 | Yeah, this is, let's be honest, Matt, right? Being a man of courage is not easy. And every day we face pressure to stay quiet, play it safe, or believe the lies that culture is thrown at us. But real courage starts with truth and this courage for life, study Bible for men that you |
| 0:21.6 | mentioned has a Bible study on every page. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm actually holding it in my hand and I was looking just to confirm. |
| 0:29.0 | You never know when you're seeing these commercials and you're reading a script. |
| 0:33.2 | But inside it's literally there's a study Bible on every single page plus stories of courageous men and tools to help you live with purpose. |
| 0:36.5 | Pretty cool stuff, right? |
| 0:45.1 | Yeah, it's huge. |
| 0:46.6 | Man, I remember when I first found out that they had study Bibles, I was like, wait, this is way better than trying to read |
| 0:47.4 | on my own and just kind of, you know, gain from that. But there's, you know, it's very useful, |
| 0:54.2 | especially as it meant, as it mentioned, with temptation and life lessons and learning from |
| 1:01.5 | what other people have gone through. I mean, it's, it's great to apply that to your life. Yeah, I don't know what I do |
| 1:06.1 | without a study Bible, if I'm being honest with you. I love God's word, and there is revelation |
| 1:12.7 | when you read it for sure. But I think there's also has to be through transformation, |
| 1:16.6 | understanding what you're reading. And I think these study Bibles have been great. And this one's a |
| 1:21.2 | beautiful Bible as I hold it in my hand, |
| 1:26.0 | this courage for Life Study Bible for men, 1464, as I mentioned, Bible studies, one on every page. |
| 1:27.8 | And if you want more, you can scan the page and the filament app that we've talked about in the past |
| 1:36.4 | gives you even more to explore. And they say there is also a women's version as well. |
| 1:40.4 | So if you're a lady and you want to get the women's edition, you can do that. |
| 1:45.6 | Find out more at courage for lifebibles.com. |
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