TUESDAY MORNING RB - Matt Forte on NFL tie games, storming the field, HOF criteria and prioritizing praise
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🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Today on the "Tuesday Morning Running Back" edition of the podcast for Sept 23, 2025:
- Packers/Cowboys tie game. Do we like ties in the NFL? What's a way to fix the regular season tie game? (01:22)
- Matt on the Bears 25-24 win over the Raiders (11:20)
- Jaxson Dart's rookie debut (17:01)
- Virginia's win over Florida State and storming the field in college football (24:45)
- Matt's Workhorse of the Week for NFL week 4 (31:23)
- Pro Football Hall of Fame criteria for running backs (33:43)
- What we learned at church on Sunday morning (47:11)
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20. |
| 0:06.0 | Splits defenders crossing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run. |
| 0:11.0 | Where Sports and Faith Connect. |
| 0:13.0 | Forte, diving catch, touchdown! |
| 0:17.0 | Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown. |
| 0:21.0 | And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back, Matt Forte. |
| 0:30.9 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome back to the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | But hey, today, you know what it is. |
| 0:35.8 | It's Tuesday morning running back. |
| 0:38.2 | And if you don't know our voices, it's Matt Forte and my guy, Jay Romano, Jason Romano, Jay Nice. I like to do all the names. |
| 0:46.7 | My wife's counsel that we love to talk about on this day is the football weekend. but also not just pro. Let's give the college |
| 0:58.4 | ranks some respect as well. A couple of good games, some surprise, wins and losses, |
| 1:03.9 | which I feel like there's a lot more that in college than in the pros sometimes. Yeah. But at the |
| 1:09.7 | same time, some exciting games out there. Yeah. What stuck out to you? Well, let's start NFL and then I'll get into college because there's a couple topics that I think will be really good to hear your perspective on. The first was the Sunday night game, the Packers and the Cowboys. A lot of people thought, including myself, that Green Bay was going to roll, |
| 1:29.1 | you know, and if you told me, yeah, Green Bay scored 40 points, they were going to, you know, |
| 1:33.5 | that's a dub for them, right? But Dallas also scored 40 points. And it was actually a pretty |
| 1:39.0 | exciting game towards the end. And Green Bay almost blew that, and the clock almost ran out, and Dallas |
| 1:45.7 | almost escaped with a win. But it ended in a tie, 40 to 40. Matt, you never had a tie in |
| 1:52.7 | your 10 years of playing in the NFL. I went and did the old game log on pro football |
| 1:57.4 | reference to see, and you didn't have a tie in any game. You played in a lot of overtime games, but no ties. What's your take on there being ties in the NFL? Yeah, not a big fan |
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