The Thicc Six Episode: The Making of Big Man TDs

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🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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“Thicc Six.” It’s a phrase that has exploded across Twitter this NFL season, usually when a quarterback throws a touchdown to an open…and eligible…offensive lineman. But, why are we seeing so many Big Man touchdowns all of sudden? And what makes them so awesome? Mike Golic Jr. takes us into the trenches and into the psychology of the NFL’s largest men, and explains why their moment in the spotlight brings so much joy to so many. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Mike Oleg, Jr., look, not a lot of good things happen for the New York Jets this season,
0:06.3	but the day after Christmas against the Jaguars, something happened that I need you to describe for me
0:14.0	because it might be their play of the year. Yeah, let's take this walk back, Pablo.
0:22.6	It's fourth and goal.
0:24.5	The Jets are up by one in the fourth quarter.
0:27.2	They start off with a play fake.
0:29.1	Wilson takes the snap, fakes the handoff, looking end zone, being flushed, now scrambles to the right.
0:34.3	Zach Wilson, their rookie quarterback, goes through every possible read.
0:39.7	He looks right.
0:40.9	He looks left.
0:42.4	Nobody's open.
0:43.8	He's got a scramble.
0:44.8	And then he sees his beacon in the night.
0:48.5	Six foot eight, three hundred and ten pound Connor McDermott standing in the end zone. It throws in the back of the end zone. He's got Connor McDermott standing in the end zone.
0:54.5	It throws in the back of the end zone.
0:56.2	He's got Connor McDermott.
0:58.0	His offensive lineman, who is a tackle eligible on the play.
1:02.7	He is being mobbed by his teammates in the corner in the end zone.
1:07.5	Zach Wilson throws it up.
1:08.8	McDermott makes the leaping grab in a play that Zach Wilson has called.
1:13.1	Probably the highlight of my entire life so far, that touchdown pass. I just see this big dude with his hands in the air in the back of the end of the end of no one around him. I was like, oh my gosh, should I throw it to him? Like, is this happening?
1:26.3	Pablo, that was one of just many of what I have dubbed the thick six.
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