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NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

Jessie Armstead: Legendary Texas Football Stories, “The U” Days, Being in Giants front office

NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

NFL

Sports, Football

4.73.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, Peanut and Roman are joined by Jessie Armstead, 11-year NFL linebacker and current Assistant to the GM for the New York Giants. To start the conversation, Jessie recounts the story of how he was struck with a butcher knife during a fight when he was 12 years old. Jessie survived, stayed out of trouble, and went on to become one of the greatest high school football players of all time. He gives an inside look to what it was like being on the Dallas Carter team that was depicted in the blockbuster film “Friday Night Lights.” Jessie also talks about his time as a blue-chip prospect at the University of Miami, including how he introduced himself to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. While in the NFL, Jessie played for one of the all-time great NFL defenses with the Giants, and he talks about what it was like to play alongside Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor. Jessie also shares why what he did in Super Bowl XXXV that he believes would’ve changed the game if it had counted. Still a member of the Giants organization, Jessie sheds light into his day-to-day life working in the front office, and how he helps the next generation of players manage the expectations of the NFL. Get ready for a one-of-a-kind interview with the great Jessie Armstead.

0:00 – show open

1:17 - Jessie is introduced
2:46 - Jessie tells the knife story
7:19 - Jessie talks about the Dallas Carter High School team
10:24 - Jessie talks about the Dallas Carter legal issues
17:22.- Jessie talks about playing a University of Miami
23:26 - Jessie talks about getting drafted
27:51 - Super Bowl experiences
37:22 - Jessies discusses Joining the Giants front office
45:22 - Jessie’s welcome to the NFL moment
47:44 - Jessie’s best story from University of Miami
50:19 - Jessie’s personal Mount Rushmore

 *NOTE: Time codes are approximate.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

Hey, I'm Jess Armstrongstead, New York Football Giants, NFL player's second axe podcast. What's going on?

0:25.8

I'm Peanut Tillman and welcome to the NFL player segment X podcast.

0:29.8

And with me as always, I got my, I got my trusted advisor, my, my younger, oldest brother.

0:36.6

Yeah. Roman Harper here. Welcome to the show. What's up, baby?, oldest brother. Yeah.

0:38.4

Roman Harper here.

0:39.2

Welcome to the show.

0:39.7

What's up, baby?

0:40.3

I feel good.

0:56.2

This is going to be a great day. It's going to be a great day. First, we start off with compliments. This just never happens. I'm really excited about our guests this morning because I was a big fan that played with him with Madden. And I hadn't even mentioned that to him yet, but a lot of years playing with this young man on Madden. Go ahead.

0:54.5

Yeah, so we're going to dive right in. Let me read some of the resume. Oh, whoa, whoa. I want to make sure our listeners are out there. Hey, continue to give us a follow. Shout out to everybody. Whether you pick, wherever you pick up your podcast, whether it's Apple podcast or iHeartRadio. Thank you or the app, IHeart Radio app.

1:13.8

Make sure you give us a five-star rating a review. And tell a friend to tell a friend. All right, now, peanut, let's get this thing. Let me read the bio. I've got to get back into the magic. Let's go. Played 11 years in the NFL for the Giants and now the Washington Commanders was an All pro made Pro Bowl five times. He is in the NFL for the Giants and now the Washington Commanders was an all-pro made Pro Bowl

1:29.1

five times. He is

1:31.2

in the New York Giants ring of

1:33.3

honor. He won a Super Bowl as a member

1:35.4

of the Giants front office. Now

1:37.1

he's a special assistant to the

1:39.2

general manager. Ladies

1:40.9

and gentlemen, please welcome

1:43.1

Jesse Armstead to the show. All right. Thanks for having me. Yeah, man. Appreciate you being here. Hold on. I got to be honest, because Jesse, you were the first linebacker that I can remember that I can remember that wore like a 90 number and was like balling. Balling, yeah. Ballin. So, like, that's what really stood out to me. I played with you for many years on the game. And I was in now, I'm in awe of you. I didn't know you were from Texas. I didn't know much about you besides the game. And so this is really cool just being in this moment, sharing this room with you, and getting to know you a little bit more after we've done more research and backstory. Absolutely. I'm glad to be here also. And, hey, I'm an open book, man. I'm here to tell you about myself, whatever you want to know.

2:22.3

And I appreciate that. I'm her, like the country accident and all that. Yeah. So I'm a Dallas, or excuse me, not a Dallas. I'm a Fort Hood, Central Texas, Belton, Waco, Temple, Clean. I'm'm in that area. Those are my roots where I play some football. So nothing like Dallas Carter, of course. But we're going to get to that. Yeah, I got a whole, yeah, I got a whole segment for that because, yeah, y'all was great. Y'all was good. Damn, y'all was good. So, Jesse, let's take it all the way back here. You're a young man. You grew up in like Oak Cliff, right? Yes. Is that correct? And you used to always, you guys would have some different things in Bertie Park. All right? Bertie Park, you guys have a lot of action out there, fist of cuffs, going back, whatever it took. And your brother would come and get you and say, hey, man, they talk, let's go, let's go to handle this. And one of these days, one of these times, I guess you guys were fighting and then next you know, a butcher knife was thrown. A third person party came out of nowhere. A butcher knife was thrown. Hit you in the hip. It goes in. You're bleeding everywhere. You go inside the house, your grandma's house or your mom's house. Oh, my mom's house. Breaks off. And now you got to have surgery and get this thing out. They say you maybe not be able to walk. Like, just take us there. This is amazing. This is crazy story. What you were saying? Yeah, yeah. Like, how does all this happen? And let's take it all the way back to Bertie Park for me and just kind of walk us through everything that is Bertie Park and also that day. Yeah. So just got into it with these, actually got into it one brother.

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