Ron Rivera talks about building bonds, coming up short, and overcoming cancer
NFL: Good Morning Football
iHeartPodcasts and NFL
4.3 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Ep. #22: This week, Peanut and Roman are joined by Washington Commanders Head Coach, Ron Rivera. He talks about how important it is for him to build bonds with his players and Peanut and Roman recount their years together playing for Rivera and how much it meant to them. Ron also discusses the life lessons he picked up from his father and how so many of them have impacted his life and career. Roman and Peanut always talk about how much respect they have for Coach and Roman recalls receiving a thank you letter from him as his time with Carolina was ending and asks him how that all began. The guys also recount what made the 2015 Carolina Panthers such a unique team and how Coach wanted to approach his new opportunity with the Washington Commanders. In talking about his new team, Roman and Peanut ask Ron about the process of bringing in new offensive coordinator and assistant head coach, Eric Bieniemy, and why he is so excited to have him. Coach also talks about how he was able to overcome cancer and how important it was for him to be around the team at such a difficult time. We then get to hear about Rivera’s “Welcome to the NFL” moment as he began his coaching career while we also hear a little bit about Peanut’s own introduction to the league. Finally, they close things out by discussing Rivera’s Mount Rushmore and what his advice would be for players about to enter their second act.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm Peanut Tillman. |
| 0:18.1 | This is my guy, Roman Harper, and this is the NFL player second acts podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | We're here in Phoenix, Arizona at the NFL annual meetings, and it's been a great time. |
| 0:28.7 | We've had tons of interviews, tons of coaches, former players, head coaches, GMs, got some golf. |
| 0:34.9 | We got sunshine. |
| 0:36.9 | I mean, keep going with the list, you name it we got it and uh we |
| 0:39.7 | kind of did it all here today also before we get started and going too far i want to make sure we |
| 0:44.7 | tell all of our listeners to continue to tell a friend to tell a friend to tell a friend to go out there |
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| 0:57.3 | Make sure you can find us on any one of those places, platforms, and make sure you give us a like, a review, and a comment. |
| 1:03.4 | This next guy we have coming up, I mean, I can't say enough about them. |
| 1:08.9 | One of my favorite people in the world has poured a lot into my life, a lot in your life |
| 1:14.4 | personally. |
| 1:15.4 | An amazing man, this is the head coach of the Washington commanders. |
| 1:20.4 | Ron Rivera, take a listen. |
| 1:23.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:23.9 | I appreciate that. |
| 1:23.9 | I appreciate it. |
| 1:24.5 | It's good to be here. |
| 1:25.2 | Good to see some of my favorite players too as well, you know, very fortunate to have coach guys like you. I mean, guys that epitomize what football is really about. I mean, they play the game the right way, do things the right way. But really it's about team and family. Yeah, it really is. And, you know, coach, I'll just tell a personal story. I remember it my first year coming to you guys. I would |
| 1:46.0 | been with the Saints for eight years. So I was a rivalry and I kind of heated up that whole thing |
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