Offseason Interview Series: Defensive coaching legend Wade Phillips
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🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Wade Phillips, former coach for the Cowboys, Texans, Broncos, Rams, Chargers, Saints, Eagles, Oilers and more joins Robert Mays to talk all things defense. What was it like starting as a coach in the 80s and trying to adjust to today's offenses? How would he compare Aaron Donald to some of the legendary players he has coached like Reggie White? And did he ever hang out with Willie Nelson back in the day? These topics and much more as the Offseason Interview Series continues on The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:18.5 | Very excited about today's show. |
| 0:22.8 | This is the third entry in our off-season interview series. And we get to talk to one of my favorite people to talk to, someone that has a |
| 0:28.7 | deeper knowledge of football and the NFL than pretty much anyone you could stumble across. |
| 0:33.6 | Wade Phillips. Wade, how are you doing? I'm doing great, yeah. Doing well. Thanks. |
| 0:36.6 | It is very good to have you on. You and I have talked about several things over the years. I always love picking your brain about stuff. But one thing we don't always get to talk about is you. And I remember a couple of years ago, before you guys played in the Super Bowl against the Patriots, I got to do a story that's one of my favorite things I've ever gotten to work on. |
| 0:56.5 | And I went back through, I got to do a story that's one of my favorite things I've ever gotten to work on. |
| 1:03.2 | And I went back through and I talked to, I don't know, 20 guys that played for you over the course of your career. |
| 1:07.5 | And I essentially asked them a very simple question. I said, what is your best Wade Phillips story? |
| 1:12.3 | And it was a hoot. I mean, just an absolute riot, all the things they told me. But I haven't gotten to ask you about a lot of those things. So I'm actually very |
| 1:17.1 | excited to get to ask you your take on some of those stories. The first one I wanted to ask you |
| 1:22.8 | about was Earl Campbell told me this and Steve Baumgartner confirmed it. |
| 1:27.9 | When you guys were in Houston, I want to say, Willie Nelson, I want to say, came to an |
| 1:33.5 | Oilers practice at one point. Do you remember this? |
| 1:36.8 | Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. |
| 1:38.3 | How did this happen? |
| 1:40.1 | Yeah, we were practicing. We had people show up at times at practice because we had on Saturdays |
| 1:49.6 | in our home games, on Sunday home games, on Saturday we had, you know, walked through practice |
| 1:55.3 | like everybody, but my dad invited families, children, dogs, you know. |
| 2:04.3 | You know, there'd be a bunch of dogs out there barking and kids running around. |
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