Vernon Davis: Mike Singletary Clash, Colin Kaepernick Drama, and Peyton Manning Praise

All The Smoke

The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts

Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Former Pro Bowl tight end and Super Bowl champion Vernon Davis joins All The Smoke for a wide-ranging conversation. He opens up about his time in the NFL, including the story behind his rocky relationship with Mike Singletary and his perspective on Colin Kaepernick’s legacy. Vernon also shares what it was like playing with Peyton Manning and winning a championship in Denver. Now retired, he talks about his new chapter as an actor, producer, and even his passion for curling.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.3	Welcome back, All the Smoke.
0:06.0	Our next guest is one of the greatest tight ends of all time.
0:09.5	He played on the team that used to smack the shit out of the Cowboys.
0:13.3	Super Bowl champ, two-time Pro Bowler.
0:15.6	Welcome to the show, Vernon Davis.
0:18.4	Hey, hey, man.
0:19.6	Hey, I just want to say this. I'm glad my boy I head, dog.
0:24.6	But every time the football players here, the Cowboys don't need to be in the introduction, bro.
0:28.6	They don't have to?
0:29.6	Damn.
0:30.6	They don't have to.
0:31.6	He's hurting enough.
0:32.6	Jack said he takes a lot of heat from a lot of UCLA energy and 49 of energy.
0:35.6	49 is the team I grew up loving and to this day are my favorite team.
0:40.1	And you for a while held down that tight-in position.
0:43.4	We actually seen each other yesterday.
0:44.7	I just saw on some random shit.
0:46.0	So the Sundance Festival, throwing bar brother Dionne Taylor.
0:49.6	And I found out some interesting news.
0:50.9	I didn't really know about you.
0:51.8	So since retirement, you've been in nearly 30 TV projects and films roughly. Yeah, 30. Somewhere around there. I don't really like to know. So acting,
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