Sherman Smith - Super Bowl Champion NFL Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Episode 536
Sherman Smith is a former NFL player and coach that has been a part of two Super Bowl teams.
He was selected in the 2nd round of the 1976 NFL Drafty by the Seahawks. He played six seasons in Seattle as a running back and retired after the 1983 season. He began his coaching career in 1985 in high school and after spending 10 years coaching high school and college, he would return to the NFL as the running backs coach with the Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans.
His NFL coaching journey took him from Houston to Tennessee to Washington D.C. and back to Seattle. From 2010-2017, he was the Seahawks running backs coach and helped his team to a Super Bowl championship in 2013 and an NFC championship in 2014.
This podcast will share with you Sherman's journey to the NFL as a player and coach. But the story of Sherman Smith and his son Deland McCullough is one of the craziest you'll ever hear and shows you how God can move in the tiny details when you least expect it.
This is one powerful story.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast where we bring Jesus into the conversation. |
| 0:18.1 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey, guys. Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romanoano. Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:21.7 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:23.1 | My email address, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:25.8 | Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:28.3 | We have an incredible story today on the podcast. |
| 0:31.5 | A little bonus episode for you with Sherman Smith. |
| 0:34.5 | Now, Sherman played in the NFL for seven seasons with Seattle from |
| 0:39.6 | 1976 to 1982 and then the Chargers in 1983, selected in the second round of the |
| 0:47.0 | 1976 NFL draft by the expansion back then, expansion Seattle Seahawks. He was a |
| 0:53.6 | quarterback in college at Miami, Ohio, |
| 0:56.3 | and then was selected as a wide receiver and then converted to running back. |
| 1:01.7 | So Sherman's got a fun story on his journey through his NFL career. |
| 1:06.0 | And then when he retires, when he steps away from the NFL playing career. |
| 1:11.1 | He moves into a coaching career that started in high school, moved to college where he |
| 1:15.2 | was with Miami of Ohio and then Illinois. |
| 1:18.1 | And then came to the NFL in 1995 where he coached the Oilers, the old Houston Oilers, |
| 1:23.6 | with Jeff Fisher and then moved over to Tennessee. |
| 1:26.0 | And he was the Titans running back coach until 2007. |
| 1:30.5 | Then he went to Washington with his old teammate Jim Zorn from 2008 to 2009, |
| 1:35.3 | and then the Seahawks in 2010 with Pete Carroll |
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