Jeff Saturday, 6-time Pro Bowl Center - ESPN NFL Analyst

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🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Episode 206

Jeff Saturday played 13 seasons in the NFL with the Colts (1999-2011) and Packers (2012). After retirement, Saturday joined ESPN as an NFL analyst in 2013 where he remains today providing analysis for shows such as NFL LIVE and SportsCenter.

Though he entered the league as an undrafted free agent, Saturday was a fixture on the Colts teams that won Super Bowl XLI and represented the AFC in Super Bowl XLIV. The Sporting News named him to the NFL All-Decade Team (2000-09) and he achieved first-team All-Pro honors twice (2005, 2007).

Over a decade-long period with the Colts, Saturday anchored an offensive line that allowed the fewest sacks in the league (242), and his 132 career wins as a Colt are second only to Peyton Manning (141) in franchise history. Together, Saturday and Manning started an NFL record 172 games as a center-quarterback duo.

In January of 2017, Jeff added "coach" to his impressive resume, becoming the head man for Hebron Christian Academy's high school football team in Dacula, Georgia.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Jeff about the adjustment from playing football to talking about football and now coaching football, where his faith in Jesus was rooted, the influence Tony Dungy had on his life, his favorite Peyton Manning story and his biggest spiritual battle during his time as an NFL player.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:19.9	This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Jeff Saturday, six-time Pro Bowl Center and Super Bowl champion with the Indianapolis cults, is brought to you by Compassion International.com slash sports spectrum.
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1:08.6	slash sports spectrum for $38 a month. You can release a child from poverty,
1:13.9	sponsoring them in Jesus' name. Today's guest on the podcast, six-time Pro Bowl Center. Jeff Saturday
1:20.7	joins us here on the show. Of course, Jeff is now an ESPN NFL analyst, and he's also the head coach for Hebron Christian Academy
1:29.8	down in Georgia. He was named the head man there in January of 2017. So he's a high school
1:35.7	football coach and an NFL analyst. He's also a dad. He's also a husband. And Jeff, of course,
1:42.2	from the outside is known for his time playing in the NFL,
1:45.6	came to the Colts in 1999, was undrafted in 98 coming out of North Carolina.
1:52.3	He was signed with the Ravens, but then quickly waived, and in 99, he signed with Indianapolis.
1:57.3	And he was there until 2011, 12 seasons with the Colts, and then finished out his career with the Green Bay Packers in 2012.
2:06.1	Won a Super Bowl with the Colts, Super Bowl 41 back in 2006, the Tony Dungee, Peyton Manning-led Colts, of course.
2:13.9	He's a two-time first team all pro and was named to the Colts ring of honor in 2015.
2:20.2	Retired after the 2012 season, came to work with ESPN a few years later and now can be seen on ESPN talking to the NFL throughout all of their different programs that you can hear and watch every single day.
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