PTFO - Confessions of a No. 1 Pick Gone Bust, with Alex Smith

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4.7 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The existential dread of going to work. The self-doubt born of 70,000 boos. The anxiety crank. The loneliness. There is no pressure quite like the expectations placed upon the top pick. And Alex Smith — 14-year NFL QB, ESPN analyst, and host of the new podcast Glue Guys — would know: He had one of the worst rookie seasons in football history. So Alex helps Pablo play armchair psychologist on the abject terror of being Bryce Young, Trevor Lawrence and Caleb Williams, with lessons for every leader on how to own your vulnerability — and develop the next Patrick Mahomes. Even if the paparazzi aren't watching you stretch every morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:05.8	You're alone. Nobody knows what that's like.
0:10.0	Right after this ad.
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0:50.0	Fancy a cheese hit? The club of number one overall picks. Do you remember actually your statistics from 2005 with the
0:57.0	Niners? I cannot get the numbers 1 and 11 out of my head which 11 you know obviously the number that I
1:04.6	wore for most of my career but one touchdown 11 interceptions is just
1:10.5	something that I will never forget. Third and seven and perhaps out of field goal range unless
1:17.0	down the middle, intercepted.
1:19.0	Picked off by Cato, June again, and June out to the 45-yard line as he has a twin picks against young
1:27.6	Alex Smith.
1:29.3	Your adjusted net yards per attempt 1.11. It was that high. You had a positive adjusted net yards
1:41.1	per attempt but your value approximately, according to pro football reference, and this does not really happen very often, for that rookie year in San Francisco, number one overall pick, was minus three.
1:51.4	It had to be negative. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I was well three. It had to be negative.
1:52.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:53.8	Like I was well below any average replacement.
1:56.6	Okay, so negativity.
2:02.4	I want to talk to you about negativity and also replacement.
2:06.7	Because my old friend Alex Smith, the former number one overall pick in the 05 NFL draft taken by the San Francisco 49ers is intimately familiar
2:15.8	with this concept. Alex would go on to have one of the most impressive 14-year
2:21.0	careers in NFL history by the way in terms of not just on-field success, but
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