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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The QB2 Series: Charlie Whitehurst and his wildly interesting football life

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

News, Unknown, Football,, Sports News, Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Few backup quarterbacks have lived as interesting a football life as Charlie Whitehurst. He sits down with The Athletic's Kalyn Kahler to detail that life and share his stories in the latest installment of The QB2 Series on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... Apple Spotify YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let's take a second to hear about one of the podcasts that you should absolutely put on your listening list.

0:06.1

Take a listen to the Audible Original, The League.

0:09.6

This new podcast is co-hosted by Super Bowl Champion, Five-Time Pro-Buller, and legendary smack-talker, Richard Sherman,

0:17.7

as well as Sports Broadcaster and Rising Star, Taylor Rooks.

0:21.8

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0:29.3

and unlikely stories connected to America's favorite sport, Pro Football.

0:34.7

You won't want to miss these untold stories spanning from the 1940s through the present day.

0:41.4

Each story goes beyond simply football, and offers equal parts history, entertainment, and social commentary.

0:48.6

Go beyond the game and dive deep into the vaults, a professional football's incredibly storied and detailed history.

0:55.6

Go to audible.com slash the league to listen now.

1:00.1

This is the Athletics Football Show.

1:15.6

Hey everybody, I'm Kaelin Kaelar, senior NFL writer for the Athletic, and welcome to QB2.

1:21.4

This is a show where we interview only my favorite players in football, the Backup Quarterbacks,

1:26.8

because the backups are rarely in the spotlight, but they have the most interesting jobs in football, in my opinion.

1:34.0

So this show right here is where the backups get the floor to share their knowledge and their stories, and this is where we celebrate them.

1:40.9

So today's guest is someone you probably know by his nickname, Clipboard Jesus.

1:45.7

He's one of the most well-known Backup Quarterbacks, but even he isn't entirely sure why that is.

1:51.1

He was drafted in a third round by the Charters in 2006, where he backed at Philip Rivers for several years.

1:57.2

He played for five different organizations and has started nine games in his 11-year NFL career.

2:02.8

He's been traded, he's been cut, he won a week 17 winner-take-all divisional match-up in 2010.

2:09.4

He's been a QB1, a QB2, and a QB3, and he's kept the same hairstyle that made him well-known to all of you.

2:18.2

Welcome to the show Charlie Whitehurst.

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