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NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

What Does an NFL Player Eat? with Joe Thomas

NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

NFL

Sports, Football

4.73.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

An NFL athlete’s diet is an important component of their performance in a time when marginal gains can spell the difference between victory and defeat! This week on the NFL explained. podcast, join Aditi and Mike as they answer the question, "What does an NFL player eat?". Aditi brings some knowledge directly from her conversation with Katy Meassick, the Cleveland Browns’ Performance Dietician. And later in the episode, Aditi sits down with former Cleveland Browns offensive tackle Joe Thomas as he reflects on what he ate as a player and what's changed since his retirement.

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1:05.8

Adi, I don't know if you can hear that. My stomach is actually growling. I am so hungry and this probably not

1:13.1

the episode to listen to if that's the case. Welcome to NFL Explain. I'm like, yeah, she's a

1:17.5

ditty kickobwala. I'm feeling very bad for you. The cereal is not cutting it from this morning.

1:22.8

And people are like, why are you talking about food right now? Well, that is actually today's episode.

1:27.1

How to Feed an NFL

1:28.6

team. We should be doing the episode on how to feed broadcasters, although I think I'm the only

1:33.3

person Adidi that needs to listen to that episode because it looks like you're fueled up for the show.

1:38.7

I feel like that's a knock right there. Well, no, it's very rare for me to actually miss an meal,

1:43.3

A, but B, I do eat on the run. That's why there are crumbs everywhere. That's why you actually just saw my daughter picking things to eat off of my desk because there are always things to eat at my desk. Well done. It's a good strategy. Eat on the run. You're burning the calories while you're intaking them, although I don't know if that's the exact way to do it, but for some NFL players, maybe that's their strategy. In fact, when it comes to snacks during the games, that's actually something we're going to learn a little bit later in this episode that I found out based off of one of your conversations. But I'm excited for today's episode of DEDE because food, I think, is something that is just, it's

2:19.0

always on my mind. And I think I'm not the only person that would agree with that assessment.

2:22.9

Well, and it's not just what's on someone's mind. It's a cultural thing often. You know,

2:27.4

when NFL teams go on the road, they do their best to maintain their same general food options, but most teams will offer something that's

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