Super Bowls Are Won in the Trenches. Chris Long Explains How.

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We’ve all heard the football adage, “games are won in the trenches.” And this year’s Philadelphia Eagles are a prime example of this mentality. Philly has dominated along the line on both sides of the ball: their defensive line has the third-most sacks in NFL history, while their vaunted offensive line has kept Jalen Hurts safe, and is led by two generational talents in Lane Johnson and Jason Kelce. All that being said, the trenches are still the part of the field that most people understand the least. What offensive and defensive linemen actually do is really hard to comprehend, especially if you have never done it. Chris Long won a Super Bowl with the Eagles in 2018, and he shines a spotlight on the d-line he played on, and the o-line he faced in practice every day…two units that could very well decide the fate of Super Bowl LVII. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, with Super Bowl 57 just a few days away now, I wanted to talk to retired Eagles defensive
0:06.3	lineman Chris Long, a former Walter Payton man of the year about the craft, the violence
0:12.9	of his old job down in the trenches, and specifically in Philly.
0:17.4	But first, we had to discuss something even more important.
0:28.6	There's a way to start this where I list off all of your accomplishments, like 11 years
0:34.3	in the NFL, Super Bowl's two of them.
0:37.5	You got those.
0:38.5	You have your own show.
0:39.5	I'm talking to you from your fancy studio, the Greenlight podcast with Chris Long.
0:42.8	You should check it out.
0:43.8	He's good at this.
0:44.8	But the way I want to start is actually just by noting that our history limited as it is
0:49.8	takes place in the realm of fantasy football.
0:53.6	And this season was controversial for you mostly because I was awesome.
0:58.5	I think I finished third.
1:00.0	I got my money back.
1:01.4	You struggled.
1:02.4	You were not the man of the year.
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:05.0	So, our friend Tommy Alter, who people know from Old Man in the three and JJ and Tommy
1:11.1	equally great guys.
1:12.8	Sure.
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