The QB2 Series: Case Keenum on the Minnesota Miracle and other tales from life as a backup
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
The Athletic
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Not many perennial backup quarterbacks can say they authored one of the most iconic plays in NFL playoff history. Case Keenum, however, is an outlier. He sits down with The Athletic's Kalyn Kahler to discuss his football life in the latest installment of The QB2 Series.
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| 0:47.7 | Hey, everybody. I'm Kaylin Kaler, senior NFL writer with the Athletic. |
| 0:52.1 | And welcome to QB2. |
| 0:53.5 | This is the show where we interview my favorite players in football, the backup |
| 0:57.5 | quarterbacks. |
| 0:58.4 | I love to talk to them because they have the best stories in the game and they are |
| 1:02.6 | underrepresented in interviews and press conferences around the NFL. |
| 1:08.0 | Today's guest is a real miracle worker. |
| 1:15.6 | He had one college offer and he turned that into an 11 year and counting NFL career, |
| 1:19.5 | including one very important playoff win in a career defining play. |
| 1:25.0 | He went undrafted out of the University of Houston in 2012 and then signed with the Texans and became a starter halfway through his second season in the league. |
| 1:28.3 | He's probably best known as the architect of the 61-yard touchdown pass to Sifon Diggs, |
| 1:33.8 | the Minneapolis Miracle, his first playoff appearance, and his first playoff win. |
| 1:38.4 | He's now in his 11th season in the NFL and his first at the Buffalo Bills. |
| 1:42.9 | Welcome to QB2, Case Keenum. |
| 1:46.4 | Appreciate it. Quite an introduction there. Thank, Kayla. Appreciate that. I know. It's really fun when I |
| 1:51.7 | have you guys on to just kind of go through your whole careers and be like, oh my gosh, so much has |
| 1:56.9 | happened here. Like, how do I put this into four or five sentences and like get to the |
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