Thomas Dimitroff, GM Atlanta Falcons and Russell Wilson, QB Seattle Seahawks

The Peter King Podcast

NBC Sports

Pro Football Talk, Football, Nbc, Nfl, Nbc Sports, The Mmqb, Peter King, Sports, Nfl Football, Pro Football, Football Morning In America

4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this week's episode, Peter talks to Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff and Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson. Dimitroff talks about what he learned from embedding with the top racing team in the Tour de France in 2016. He also discusses how important "incremental speed" is to the Super Bowl Falcons and shares the most important lesson he learned in years of working for Bill Belichick. He also describes his experience of being a vegetarian in a sport of meat-eaters. Wilson divulges the secrets he has on the Super Bowl teams after being the only quarterback in the league to beat both New England and Atlanta in 2016. He gives his advice for first-time Super Bowl quarterback Matt Ryan and talks about the future of Earl Thomas, who has made noise about retiring. He also talks about what it's like to face a Bill Belichick defense.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael Strayhan, and join me for Giant Steps to Make It A Big Blue First Super Bowl champion
0:08.4	in oral history from the Players Tribune powered by digital media.
0:13.0	Relived the moment that shaped the 1986 giants as told by the men who contributed to that
0:18.6	legendary defense, Bill Parcells.
0:21.2	It puts these guys together forever and that's never going to change because they're each other's guys and there's only a few of them.
0:29.1	Harry Carson, Pepper Johnson, Elvis Patterson, George Martin, Leonard Marshall,
0:33.3	Carl Banks, and of course, L.T. Lawrence Taylor.
0:37.0	Nobody played with us.
0:38.3	We was absolutely dominant.
0:40.7	It was like men playing with boys.
0:42.0	Nobody played with us. You can smell it. You can feel it. We could do anything anything
0:46.8	Subscribe via iTunes or wherever you get your podcast so that you can get giant steps to make it a big blue first Super Bowl champion.
0:55.0	Hello I'm Peter King.
0:58.0	Welcome to the MMQB podcast with Peter King,
1:02.0	where I take you inside the minds of the biggest influencers
1:06.2	in the NFL.
1:08.8	This week, Atlanta General Manager and Super Bowl Architect, Thomas de Mitroft, and Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson,
1:17.3	the only passer to beat both New England and Atlanta in 2016. I asked Mitrov who cut his teeth under Bill Bellicick in New
1:26.9	England what's the one big thing he learned that's helped him the most as a
1:32.2	franchise architect in Atlanta.
1:34.0	One thing that really stands out is indisputable role understanding.
1:39.0	And they obviously say it in a different way.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NBC Sports, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NBC Sports and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.