Trent Dilfer, Super Bowl Winning QB
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Episode 231
Trent Dilfer was named the head football coach at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, TN on Friday January 18, 2019. Selected in the first round (6th overall) of the 1994 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dilfer played 14 seasons in the NFL from 1994-2007 with Tampa, Baltimore, Seattle, Cleveland and San Francisco. He was a Pro Bowl selection in 1997 and helped lead the Ravens to the Super Bowl in 2000, beating the Giants 34-7 in Super Bowl XXXV.
After retirement in 2008, Dilfer joined ESPN as an analyst, where he remained until 2017. He's also been involved in the development of high school quarterbacks with the Elite 11 competition each Spring.
On this episode of the podcast, Trent Dilfer shared with us his decision to become a high school football coach, the powerful conversation he had with his wife and daughter, how his faith played a role in that decision, how he moved on from being let go at ESPN in 2017, and his favorite Super Bowl story.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.9 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with former NFL Super Bowl winning quarterback Trent Dilford is brought to you by Compassion International. |
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| 1:18.3 | slash sports spectrum and sponsor a child today. Today's guest on the podcast is Super Bowl |
| 1:24.9 | winning quarterback, longtime ESPN analyst Trent Dilfer. And recently, |
| 1:31.0 | just a few days before taping this podcast, Trent took a new position and embarked on a new career |
| 1:36.4 | as the head football coach at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tennessee. And we talk quite a bit, |
| 1:43.1 | actually, in the beginning of this podcast about the reasoning |
| 1:45.8 | why he took this new job and went into this new adventure as a head football coach and the |
| 1:52.9 | story that he shares and the decision and the conversations that went around it with his wife |
| 1:58.4 | and with his daughter, with his daughter, |
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