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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Today on the "Tuesday Morning Running Back" edition of the podcast for October 28, 2025
Topics include:
- Cam Skattebo's gruesome injury (00:51)
- Gambling in sports (14:50)
- Matt's Workhorse of the Week. (26:49)
- Former Jets teammate Nick Mangold's death at age 41 (29:50)
- What Matt learned at church on Sunday (38:41)
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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. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello everybody. What's up, man? It's Matt Forte and my guy Jason Romano on Tuesday |
| 0:35.9 | morning running back. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the |
| 0:38.9 | podcast. And hey, a lot to talk about obviously over the weekend, a lot of craziness, a lot of |
| 0:44.9 | stuff like all over the world of sports. But let's let's start with, man, my surprise team, |
| 0:51.4 | my surprise team that I picked had a big loss, a big loss. Scataboo goes down. |
| 0:58.5 | And unfortunately, man, a pretty gruesome injury when it comes to, you know, any kind of injury. |
| 1:05.6 | You never want to see somebody who gets kind of the weight of the defender falling down on the back of their legs and |
| 1:11.2 | they get caught under the guy. And it's nothing like, because it's something that when you're |
| 1:17.2 | out there, you're not even thinking about how to protect yourself from something like that. |
| 1:21.4 | It's kind of like it happened. Like it's just you can't control anything about that. That's kind of one of the |
| 1:28.5 | worst things when it comes to an injury of that magnitude. You, you're a rookie. Your, your name is |
| 1:36.0 | getting out there. You're starting to make a name for yourself as a tough runner. Like, you're an asset |
| 1:40.2 | to the offense. You and Jackson Dart have, you know, got this bond together as rookies and taking on the league and stuff. |
| 1:47.0 | And then, boom, you get hit with that. |
| 1:49.0 | My assessment, though, from, you know, kind of, I guess my experience of being in the NFL, the mental battle is harder than the physical part about it. |
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