Welcome to the Greenlight Pod.

I'm your host Chris Long and it is the offseason. I love it. I'm just as happy as I was when I was a player because I was burned out between doing two Greenlight pods, one ringer pod, Thursday night football with

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K-adams James Co on NFL next. It was a lot and now this opens up the schedule a little bit. We're currently figuring out what day of the week we're going to do our one day week with me and my co-hosts making in our traditional Greenlight pod and I'm going to drop in and do content like this whenever I want.

This week I want to talk about Steve Spagnolo. When it came to Super Bowl, there's one guy that I thought was a story line that wasn't

hit enough and that was coordinator Steve Spagnolo obviously famous for his 2007 run with the Giants where he slayed the dragon and Tom Brady.

But also in the middle there there were some rough rough years. Obviously he was a head coach of the Rams that didn't work out. I was there for that.

And all those spags didn't work out in St. Louis. I always rooted for him. He's a good dude. Obviously very good coordinator ended up in New Orleans and had historically bad year heading up that defense but there were a lot of factors there.

We'll discuss those and more and then being able to climb the mountain top again and win a second ring with Kansas City on a defense that I worried was liability on the team going into the season.

Spags who was given a second chance by Andy Reed.

Propel them slowly but surely into a strength and down the stretch in the playoffs. They did enough in the run game, especially those last two games to keep their Kenriot Bay and to keep the Niners at Bay to a degree, keep the points down and allow their offense to engineer three really historic comebacks.

You know when you put them all together along the way to a Super Bowl championship. So I'm going to talk to Ken Flagell. He was my decordinator in St. Louis underspags long time buddy of spags.

We're going to pick his brain about spags and then we're going to talk to spags himself. You know and by the way Ken was in New Orleans with spags and was with me when we won a Super Bowl in Philly.

So I know I know Flagell well. Obviously I've kept in contact with Steve. We're going to talk to Steve here from the horses mouth about this run and what it took to get back up on top of the mountain.

So stay tuned. Let's just bring on. Let's bring on Flagell right off the top. Joining me now on the green light pod. One of my favorite coaches so much so that he's immortalized on my rib cage.

Ken Flagell 21 years he spent in college before he got in the NFL paid his dues 1998 get to start with the Packers Super Bowl champion with the Philadelphia Eagles long time linebacker coach defensive coordinator for the Rams again Ken Flagell one of my favorite coaches Ken how are we doing.

We're doing great and I would just a shout out to you one of my favorite players. There we go. That's what I'm talking about and you and you and you've had a lengthy career coach a lot of them so I will take that as a big compliment but you kind of have to say that when when I lose a bet and get your face tattooed on my rib cage.

Well that's true but you know what I mean it's made your marriage probably survived the wife's least waking up to a good guy every morning.

The funniest thing is when you saw her cap and what did you say to her when you saw her turning cap.

Well I wanted to went over there I turned it well you know if you've got my face tattooed on your body at least I can do the go over in your juice myself and that guy.

I don't think I've met you yet because I know who you are I wake up next to you every morning.

That's just what you want to hear from your wife when she meets one of your coaches but Flage the reason we're on and there's plenty of Eagles to talk about but but we're talking about our friends Steve Spagnolo who who is it now a two time Super Bowl champion did a remarkable job this year I thought with that Kansas City defense how long have you known Spags and how did you guys get involved professionally.

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