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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Troy Aikman on an All-Time NFL Weekend, the Future of Mahomes vs. Allen, Aaron Rodgers, and Why Toughness Matters

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on an incredible NFL postseason weekend (0:28) before he is joined by three-time Super Bowl champion Troy Aikman of Fox Sports to discuss the Chiefs’ overtime win vs. the Bills, just how much the QB position has evolved since the 1990s and 2000s, the Packers’ loss to the 49ers, whether or not Aaron Rodgers’s future includes Green Bay, Troy’s thoughts about jumping to a new team near the end of his career, and more (13:24). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (44:12). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Troy Aikman Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What of the all time football weekends?

0:13.1

We will remember this weekend for the rest of our sporting lives as consumers of it.

0:18.4

We also saw another product this weekend and that was toughness I will explain.

0:22.1

Troy Ackman will go through all of it, even some of his end of the career stuff which

0:25.5

will be a lot of fun and life advice. I've read a lot of stuff this morning and some of

0:31.0

the stuff last night of how this was the greatest weekend ever.

0:35.4

So before I'm not I'm just kidding, that was fucking insane. That was unbelievable.

0:40.8

I mean that really was one of the, I don't know if it's the single best NFL weekend I've

0:44.5

ever had or I've ever experienced. I'm not going to argue against it. We'll worry

0:49.3

about that historically a little bit later, but here's just an example. Saturday still

0:53.4

was a lot of fun. The Green Bay San Francisco game, it still was close the whole time.

0:58.1

You're like, is this actually going to happen? And then it happens. The Packers lose at home

1:02.0

in the playoffs again to a Niners team that didn't look like we could do anything offensively

1:05.7

because they didn't. Then you have Joe Burrow who looks like he's not even going to make

1:10.5

it through the game and then they pull that one out. And then the Rams debacle, which

1:16.1

I was so happy for Stabberg. Because at one point I was so upset for him being like he's

1:19.8

done nothing wrong and they have four turnovers and they're going to end up losing this game

1:23.8

because of Brady. Brady's going to pull this one out. And then we get the main course.

1:28.4

And all time shoot out. And so I was watching NFL rewind last night as I was cooking dinner

1:33.8

at the estate here, a little home meal. It was funny because I was, I was figuring, you

1:38.3

know, there's come stuff I missed or hey, what what happened on some of these plays because

1:41.9

I was just, I just wanted to keep it on. You know, I didn't want to like not do anything

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