Hello, it is Coach Us Up Chuck Wednesday December 29th already 2022 is right around the corner, but today we have a packed show.

A lot of things that happen on the show yesterday, more specifically things that happen with Aaron Rogers on the show yesterday have thrown us into quite a conversation with a lot of people.

Here's your mind. I'll get a doctor on the show. Doctor, truth here. Can't wait. Chat with him.

Out Michaels, friend of the show, back talking about John Madden, the legend that we lost in the NFL community, Pete Schrager, Coach Chuck Pagano, and Davis Mills, quarterback for the Houston Texans, AJ, Hawkes Back, the boys crush it.

What a day. If you like the show by the end of it, please be a friend, tell a friend. If not, just act like it never happened. Here we go.

I would like to lead off though, because I learned about a man last night while watching a documentary that I have the immense amount of respect for. I was not a gamer growing up.

He retired in 2009, the year I got into the NFL, so I didn't get a chance to meet John Madden or listen to him calling me the games we were on. I had heard his work, but because I wasn't a gamer, because I didn't meet him personally, I don't think I necessarily had an affinity for John Madden.

John Madden, I got the people like them. I understood John Madden was a big deal. The name was a big deal. After watching the all maddened documentary last night, I was wrong for not learning about this man more.

What a trailblazer in the coverage of sport, more specifically football broadcasting, the ability to connect with people both in the large cities and in the world that is the Midwestern United States of America.

His ability and graciousness to talk to everybody and do everything and make a game, not only informative, but entertaining.

I love that documentary last night, Fox Sports One, because obviously he passed away in the world was mourning his loss, especially at all four major networks in which he worked and had friends with.

And the amount of people he brought together in connection and the people, Peyton Manning, Bill Bellichek, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, you name everybody was in this thing talking about his influence on the game of football.

I do not know enough about him while he was alive. That's on me. 100%. I would like to say it's probably because there was this one time when I was 12 years old.

I was playing my brother in Madden, my brother, big time gamer, Polaroopsie human in me, my brother, big time gamer, great at video games. I was not.

I bounced around playing Madden against my brother, 2 3 a.m. one of his friends houses. I had to lead. It's the fourth quarter, fourth time. I'm up four.

He caught a time out with like 16 seconds left, 10 seconds left. I had to punt him the ball. I had the ball. I had to punt him the ball.

Poor clock management looking back on it now. I probably could have maybe kept a guy in bounds and not had, you know, like there's something I did wrong probably in the final two minutes at lost that game, but it came down to basically a punt play to end it me up for first time ever going to beat my brother.

I punt him the ball. He returns it all the way to the end zone, turns around, runs back to his end zone, turns around, runs all the way back and scores and beats me.

Obviously no time left. At that exact moment I said I fucking hate punting. Hate it. Don't love it. I fucking hate video games and I hate this Madden game for sure. In that one night, 2 a.m. 3 a.m. against my brother, you know, really probably set me on a course to never really play video games again.

If I would have stuck in it, I probably would have been a much better football mind before I got in the NFL. I probably would have learned football at a much better rate. I probably would have got a chance to enjoy the brain that is maddened that I'm learning about, but because I had that one experience with a much better madden player against me, it kind of changed my life.

That is the thing I thought about last night. If I were to kept a guy in bounce and let's clock run and I win that game, I probably get addicted to Madden. I probably learn all these things about John Madden. I probably know so much more about football and that is what Madden was the football. That video game introduced the world to the NFL. It introduced the world to football. It taught people football and that was by design.

John Madden wanted the world to understand the sport that he loved so much. He was a coach literally until his dying day who gave everything he had to the sport of football and he didn't in a different way.

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