Matt Cassel talks going from backup to Pro Bowl, replacing Tom Brady, his one career regret
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🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, former Pro Bowl quarterback Matt Cassel joins Roman and Peanut. Matt explains how he made it to the NFL after being a backup quarterback at USC and what it took to lead the New England Patriots to an 11-5 record after Tom Brady tore his ACL. He discusses what an NFL player has to deal with when they get traded, one thing he would have done differently in his career, and plays a word association game based on some of his famous teammates and coaches. He also explains why he went in broadcasting after his playing days and how he ended up as the cohost for the Lots to Say Podcast with Bobby Bones.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Are you ready? |
| 0:05.7 | I'm ready. |
| 0:07.8 | All right. |
| 0:09.0 | Three. |
| 0:09.8 | You just scared that person. |
| 0:11.1 | I know. |
| 0:13.5 | Security. |
| 0:14.9 | Security. |
| 0:15.3 | Security. |
| 0:22.4 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Pina Tillman, and this is the NFL players second X podcast with me. |
| 0:31.3 | As always, my choice to go host, Mr. One, Roman Hopper. |
| 0:32.3 | Oh, thank you so much. |
| 0:34.8 | Okay, thank you so much. |
| 0:55.4 | Wherever you figure your podcast at, I'm really excited about this next guest, played against this guy quite a few times. Go ahead, Pina. I introduce him. He's a pro bowler. 14 year vet. 14 years. 14 years. That's a lot. Bless. Bless. Crazy. 14 year NFL vet. He's an analyst for NBC Sports and he has his own podcast called lots to say ladies and gentlemen welcome to the pod Matt Castle yes hey great to be here with you guys great to be here |
| 1:00.7 | with you guys appreciate it I like you jays yeah you know what I just had to step my shoe game up |
| 1:05.0 | I mean this as you can tell with kids and stuff like that you're walking around I need to |
| 1:08.7 | you know I need to get a little polished up but can we just talk about that? Like, how mad does it make you as a parent when your kid step on your shoes? Bro, this is a real thing. It is a real thing. And I've got five. In any given moment, that kid will walk in. It's muddy outside. And all of a sudden, just not care where their feet go and step right on your white shoe. And I'm just like, oh, especially if it's not the leather where you can just wipe it off, you know, where it just sticks and you got to put it actually in the wash. Yeah. It drives me crazy. How old are your kids? So I've got 14, 13, 13, 11, 9, and 7, man. We knocked it out. Yeah. But we got a lot. So, I mean, I got four. You got five. I got four. He got four. Yeah. It's a blessing. It's a blessing. It's a blessing. It's crazy because we've got, you know, we've got three girls, the two oldest, the youngest, or girls, and my boys are the 11-year-old in the middle and number four. So they all have different personalities. The girls now, |
| 2:02.8 | you know, they're 13, 14. So those sweet little darlings from one day to next just based on |
| 2:07.8 | what stage of life they're in, you're like, what happened to you today? They're at that stage |
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