One Yard from Everything: Flow, Pressure, and the Play that Changed Football
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Super Bowl isn’t just a physical game — it’s a psychological one.
In this special Game Inside the Games episode, Dr. Michael Gervais is joined by NFL coach Matt Patricia and former All-Pro Brandon Marshall to unpack one of the most defining moments in Super Bowl history: Malcolm Butler’s game-winning interception.
This episode explores what it looks like to perform under pressure when the whole world is watching.
Subscribe and follow along all week as The Game Inside the Games delivers daily episodes leading up to the Super Bowl — revealing the mindset behind elite performance.
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| 0:00.0 | The Super Bowl becomes everything. There is so much noise. |
| 0:07.0 | You have three hours to tell everybody what you know about this game. |
| 0:12.0 | The game is everywhere. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome back to the game inside the games brought to you by Microsoft co-pilot and what an honor. |
| 0:29.8 | What an honor to sit with two legends. Coach, welcome to the podcast. So speaking of winning, I've got one nice little ring that I'm wearing, but how many, you're not wearing any of your rings. No, they're locked. How many, how many, have you participated in? And how many of you won? I've been to six of one three. Oh, my goodness. We have good ones and we have ones that we don't talk about. You know, there's got to be some time that goes by. No, I mean, what an unbelievable week, you know, Super Bowl week. |
| 0:58.1 | It's... Thank goodness. We have good ones and we have ones that we don't talk about. You know, there's got to be some time that goes by. |
| 0:54.9 | No, I mean, what an unbelievable week, you know, Super Bowl week. |
| 0:58.1 | It's obviously the pinnacle of our sport and, you know, celebrate it. It's just so much fun, you know, great to be a part of. Interesting to see this side of it. You know, we're usually behind the house, you know, trying to prepare, get ready to go and kind of in your own little tunnel. |
| 1:10.6 | So great to see, you know, the pageantry and the involvement with the fans and the |
| 1:14.7 | media and all that stuff's really, really cool. I wanted to wait to the end of the episode to bring |
| 1:19.2 | this up, but this is a great transition right here. Really quickly, can you guys walk me through |
| 1:24.4 | Super Bowl 49 and for everybody out there watching, it's one of the most |
| 1:28.6 | controversial moments in the NFL, right? |
| 1:32.1 | Like Pete Carroll, coach Mike, right? |
| 1:35.3 | Like Russell Wilson, Bobby Wagner, right? |
| 1:38.4 | We're talking about this team could be a dynasty and it comes down to one of the last |
| 1:43.1 | play, one of the last plays. The the last plays the last play the last play yeah |
| 1:46.7 | right so i'm just for bringing this up right yeah i love that you're enjoying this yeah no i like that's a |
| 1:52.3 | good one thank you so i'm a team i appreciate that explain to the people right because shall we |
| 1:57.3 | give it to marshal and lint and rumba we call the past when you were the guy on the other side that called the play for Malcolm Butler, who is sitting right here, actually, we're going to get him on the show as well later to talk about this. But you guys go. Yeah, well, it was a defensive call. It was called Goal Line 3 Corner. And it was a play that we knew you know seattle like to run they like to run it |
| 2:18.5 | in those situations uh wait coach coach how did you know that we like to run it because we didn't |
| 2:25.3 | show that play yeah well there's a lot of film study that goes involved with uh with that play and that |
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