NFL Cover Zero: Hard Knocks revealed and 49ers LB Eric Kendricks!

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Speaker 1: NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is a production of the NFL and iHeart podcast.

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Speaker 2: Welcome in to a new edition of NFL Cover Zero.

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Speaker 3: Drew Franklin here with Billy Rutledge, as we continue to look back on that San Francisco trip, Billy, it keeps getting farther farther away on the calendar, but we don't care. We just have more content to put out and we're still smiling.

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Speaker 4: I've got plenty more to talk about. And I have not replaced Matt on the show. He's just doing his own thing right now. Just the way that we've lined up these recordings and his vacation time, he will be back.

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Speaker 5: I have not wally pipped Matt on this podcast yet.

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Speaker 2: Well not yet.

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Speaker 3: You know, we still got a few more to go while Matt's away. But we're having fun time doing these these short conversations where we have big news items and set up some of our interviews that lingered from that trip to the Super Bowl. Today, we'll have our interview with Eric Kendricks play for the forty nine ers and made one of the plays of the year for the forty nine ers when he helps sell their victory over the Eagles by breaking up that fourth down pass in the red zone to send them on to the next stage. Didn't reach their ultimate goal, but with a team riddled with injuries, he came in and made a huge play for him and had a big year and as you'll hear in the interview, wasn't sure where his career was heading before the season. So it's a fun interview.

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Speaker 5: Bi.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all pro guy in Minnesota finds a home in San Francisco and makes a difference. That's another cool part of that. We're just talking to all pro players, you know, and then you know it, talked a little bit about being a big car guy, Drew. Could you change your own oil if I asked you to.

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Speaker 3: I can do anything with YouTube. I'm one of those guys. I've fixed a fireplace with YouTube. I've unfortunately had to change my tire more than I wanted. I've had several, well three or four flats once on the side of the highway. Handled it just fine, didn't need help. But oil, I've never given it an attempt. I bet I could figure it out, though, what about you? You cargo?

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Speaker 4: No, no, I will go get it done by somebody else, because I'll make the car worse somehow. I'll forget the Johnson rod or whatever. Yeah, don't forget your Johnson rode.

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Speaker 5: That's right.

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Speaker 4: But no, it was fun to hear from him, and you know, we still got a couple more after this, so looking forward to hearing it again.

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Speaker 3: That's right. And this one's kind of topical. I don't know if you saw this, but just yesterday the San Francisco forty nine Ers general manager John Lynch came out and said that they investigated the conspiracies about that substation leading to injuries, which we talked about with Eric Hendricks months ago. It's actually a headline today. Lynch said they looked into it and it's a big nothing burger that there are no adverse effects on the players by that big electrical substation next to lev Us Stadium. Do you believe him or is that him just trying to push things away? You know, we just talked about him getting your boy, Mike Evans, I know you're worried.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, John's my guy, even though he's taken a legend away from Tampa Bay. Maybe he's covering for the training staff, Drew. I mean you wouldn't want to just have it be their fault, so you know, you know, I'm not sure. I guess if he was covering for the training staff, he would have said it was the electrical station's faults.

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Speaker 2: But you can't put that out there either. Tough spot.

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Speaker 5: So I probably what we expected the answer to be.

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Speaker 4: But nevertheless, there's still something going on in San Francisco with all those injuries.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they hired an independent scientist to come in and study it and then to see if they contributes to their injuries. I would love to just see what they did. They probably walked in it, did nothing, just took that check from the forty nine ers, like, oh yeah, good, keep practicing, you're fine, just.

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Speaker 5: Walking look at you a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Does he just knock on the ground, you know's he got any kind of you know, like a ghost hunters have those readers walking around checking things.

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Speaker 2: What was that noise?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Thank you's got something like that probably, yeah, I mean you got you gotta have something, Yeah, making sure that everything's working fine, knocking on some things in the facility just to see if it's hollow or not. I could definitely see a ghost hunter's re enactment there.

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Speaker 3: We also have some kind of breaking news from the NFL came out this morning. Maybe if you're listening to Cover zero on March thirty first, you're hearing it for the first time. But we have our Hard Knocks team.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, plural this year.

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Speaker 5: I don't know this, so I'm going to be surprised by this. Who is Andrew?

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Speaker 3: Do you have any guesses or who would you like to see? You know, we've had some fun wins over the year. I'm the kind of person that just whatever the team is, I just fall for him. But Jets that year, I'm like, Jets are winning the super Bowl. They did not win the Super Bowl. Dan Campbell, that's kind of what we all learned about him. He actually did get the Lions going in the right direction. But that was a fun one to watch, no matter the team, no matter what their previous record was. For some reason, Hard Knocks convinces me that I love them and I want the best for them, and that they're going to be good.

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Speaker 4: I'd love to see Sean Payton and the Broncos a little bit behind the scenes, you know bo Nick's drama at the end there. I wonder if any of that still lingering, or you could just go like dumpster fire. Let's see what Todd Mounkin and the Browns are doing, right, Deshaun Watson, is he gonna come back? Sharr Sanders switching from twelve to two. There's always gonna be some drama there and some intrigue. Anything that jumps off for you, anything, maybe all the bald coaches in Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, I'd love for the Titans to get on there. I'd love for the Titans. I drove by the new stadium recently, looking beautiful, looking beautiful, loving that. But it is not the Titans. It is drum roll, please, it's a good drum roll. How about for the first time since the first season of Hard Knocks, Oh, the defending Super Bowl champ will be the team. It is the Seattle Seahawks. And with a plot twist, we already know next year we'll be the Patriots. So we're getting both teams from the Super Bowl. Seattle'll be this year, next year the Patriots, which is odd in itself because for years Belichick wouldn't even let a couldn't even take your phone in there with the camera. And now New England with Rabel's gonna open the doors. But ahead of us this year will be Seattle. You excited to see what's going on with the twelfth Man and all the fun they're having since winning.

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Speaker 4: The Lombardy Maybe, I mean, hopefully Mike McDonald becomes more of a likable character if we see more of them. You know, how about Kenneth Walker Super Bowl MVP leaving Seattle to go to Kansas City. That's a big blow for them. But now I'm gonna have to pull you away from the TV when the Patriots come on and all the Mike Rabel loving that you'll be doing watching that.

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Speaker 3: It'll be weird. It'll be weird. But I'm glad we're getting too good team. What was it we had the Bills in season last year? We've had the end season's when thrown me off a little bit. I don't watch those as much as the as the ones with the lead up. It's just really that music is all they gets my juices flowing for football season.

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Speaker 4: The one they did with the Raiders back in the day. It's like the what the wind is an autumn breeze or whatever? Yeah, it's it just it hits, it does. So looking forward to that and you know, I don't think they're doing the preseason what was it, the one with the GM and the Giants.

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Speaker 5: I don't think they decided to do that again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that might have been the end season version. I didn't watch that one loved, but a lot of clips came out from that where they had some pretty horrible takes about their future and those backfired. I hope Sakwon didn't go to the Eagles.

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Speaker 6: Well on Network, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We also before we throw this Sarah Kendricks interview, we also had what everybody loves in the off season. You know, people think combine, they think draft, off season moves, free agency. Now, a lot of people just want to see the coaches photo from the league meetings. And you know, I know we're a podcast, we can't do visuals, but that came out yesterday for everyone that doesn't know. They all meet up somewhere in Florida. Right, it looks like Florida.

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Speaker 2: I should know.

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Speaker 4: Heythout Florida at the Arizona Arizona Arizona's where they were at.

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Speaker 3: I just saw a lot of sunshine and guess Florida Arizona even better. But all the coaches get together they do meeting things, they complain about push pushes, They probably talk about each other. Someone probably have to be separated. But they all get together and do that awkward photo where you have half of them in the front row sitting down with their hands on their knees, the other half standing behind them with their arms crossed. And that came out yesterday. You mentioned Robert solom I guy rocking a hoodie.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know why casual like love love these rocking the hood And he's back in this team photo. You know, he's there with Jets a few years ago. Now he's back and involved. Andy Reid got little pattern, kind of a Hawaiian tight shirt. Least surprising piece of casual. Yeah, at least surprising wardrobe of all of it. But it's always fun watching these guys get together and take this awkward photo.

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Speaker 6: It is.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you've even got Liam Cohen looking cool over there on the side and the sunglasses, T shirt combo.

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Speaker 7: Only person in the entire photo we're in some glasses and looks a little bit a little space between him and Mike McCarthy. I think he's kind of doing his own thing. The Trailblazer that he is. I look at the other side of the photo. I see Clint Kubiak's calf muscles over there.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, do you see that? Oh?

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Speaker 3: I do now now that you're pointed out.

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Speaker 4: I mean, those pants are tight, but he's got some the leg muscles to do it.

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Speaker 5: Also, Joe Brady. Look how big he is compared to Mike Lafleur, the new Arizona Cardinals coach. Like Joe Brady like middle right there, I mean, he looks looks like it's a big boy over there.

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Speaker 3: That Siriani looks like he's either weight or Chief Steaks looks a little big.

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Speaker 2: In front center? Do the Hardballs get to pick? Because I feel like it's.

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Speaker 3: A it's a big spot be in the middle seat, you know, like right there front and center. I would have maybe guessed Andy Reid, he's probably the longest tenured. I guess John Harball is probably close. But you got Jim and John right there in the front a lie. Jim's got on sunglasses. He and Liam Cohen of the two. But the Hardballs gets center stage.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I was looking at John's shoes. He's got kind of like the white sock, black penny loaf for going on right now.

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Speaker 2: So everybody's got their own unique style.

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Speaker 4: Andy Reid I think is my favorite out of this one though, with the Hawaiian shirt. But Mike McCarthy over there looking sharp with his button down too. I don't know how he's gonna do in Pittsburgh. Drew, I just don't know how that's gonna work.

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Speaker 3: You can also kind of tell how these guys feel about their teams. Aaron Glenn looks like he does not want to be there. Over there on the far end, good point. The guys that are smiling, like Sean Payton, who just had a good run with the Broncos. Mike Rabel. It's almost like you could go through and do your season predictions based on facial expressions.

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Speaker 4: Did you see Rabel putting guys through workouts recently?

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Speaker 2: Or he is?

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Speaker 4: I mean he's putting his hands on these guys. Can all these coaches get that same evaluation like Rabel?

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Speaker 2: Can?

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Speaker 5: It just seems like the right guy the job.

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Speaker 3: I miss him so much. This came out and he went to Arizona State's pro day and he just gets down on the three point stance and he's just hitting their draft prospect whose name I do not know, but I mean, you know, as the offensive lineman's kind of got ahold of Rabel's shirt, and his shirt's pulling up a little bit, and you know, he's just in there. Other coaches are on the sideline with their arms crossed and taking notes, and Rabel's like, no, I want to get in there and hit him.

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Speaker 4: I'm worried about his vest, like he could get his hand under his vest and that could rip. I just don't see like Zach Taylor doing something like that, you know. So that's just unique Mike Rabel.

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Speaker 3: I miss him so much.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, don't worry. You'll get him on hard knocks in a couple of years here. And I mean, I don't see the Patriots going away anytime. So no, unfortunately not Drake May shaved his head.

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Speaker 3: That's big news.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 3: Tom Brady went with the buzz cut one year. Yeah, so Patriots fan, I know they're trying to speak Drake May in existence as being the next Tom Brady. But he went and did the full buzz like Tom did. So maybe even he's leaning into it.

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Speaker 5: But that's a good sign. That's like a no nonsense, not dealing with the outside noise. I'm only worried about football kind of cut.

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Speaker 3: You know, that's right, And we're only worried about football here on NFL Cover zero. Yes, and up next to Eric Hendricks, you mentioned fixing his own cars. We talked about the big season the forty nine ers had with his big play and the injuries they had. But he really, you know, had the highs of his career and thought he was on the way out and then found new life in San Francisco. So it was fun talking to him and seeing him at the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and somebody that you know joined San Francisco late into the year and then made a big impact.

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Speaker 5: So looking forward to hearing this again.

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Speaker 3: He played in Minnesota a little bit. We'll have that up for you next After that, we'll have Justin Reid next week. And we're still counting down to my favorite, maybe of all of them, Orlando Brown from the Bengals. We're saving him from the end. He goes into so much about Joe Burrow and the fossils and the Samurai swords and the fun they have in Cincinnati. So we're excited about all of these. But up next on this episode is Eric Kendricks of the forty nine ers enjoy.

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Speaker 6: All right?

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Speaker 1: Happy to be joined now from the this year forty nine ers Eric Kendricks, who, well, what did a exceptional story this year? By the way, it looked like you weren't going to play. You joined the forty nine ers at the end of the year and then made big play in the playoffs. That had to be an awesome Well, first of all, did you feel like midway through the year you weren't going to play this season?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 8: Actually, the people who are I was closest to there, they kind of I feel like maybe they were a little bit more worried than I was.

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Speaker 1: Probably, Oh they thought like you had been away so long you we were just kind of your phones are too creaky.

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Speaker 8: They were just kind of like, so are you going to play or like is that you know? Or are you going to get off the couch or you know, you're you're working out really hard, so like what are you going to put into use?

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Speaker 2: Like what go?

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Speaker 8: You know, kind of showing me off, you know, don't don't do something. And I was like, you know, I got just got a that's got a way, you got a hold?

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Speaker 2: Were you waiting like for the right situation. Is that what it was.

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Speaker 8: Definitely, I feel like, you know, once this the season kind of started and kind of things didn't work out how I thought they were going to be. In the off season this past year, especially after the last season with Dallas, I kind of was like, you know what, let me just wait and maybe someone, you know, a position will open up where they need me and I could fill in.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to go up in shape.

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Speaker 8: But then, you know, as the season progressed, it was kind of like, Okay, if I'm sacrificing, you know, certain things on my end, you know what I mean, I need to.

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Speaker 2: Focus on the things that are important to me, you know.

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Speaker 1: But we're family and friends, like we need you to get out of the house, like you're you're starting to like you know, you're you're sneaking up the place, so we need you to go actually and get a job.

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Speaker 2: I just think that is more.

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Speaker 8: I think it was more of the fact that they just knew that they know what I'm capable of, and they've kind of watched me very closely. I know that a lot of people, you know, are thinking, oh man, this guy wasn't even playing and then he just comes into the game and he and he balls out and.

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Speaker 2: It's like, really, like, no, I've actually really been playing well.

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Speaker 8: I mean in my I mean obviously you know you. I want to see myself do better. As a competitor, I can always do better, but I've really had ten years of straight consistent work at linebackers, so they knew what I'm capable of. They know how how healthy I was, they knew how hard I worked to get back from my shoulder surgery. So they were just kind of eager for themselves to be like no, man, like I trust me, you still got it, Like you need to get back out there.

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Speaker 2: You need to show the world when you can do. So they were just more they just wanted it for me, you know, like more than even you wanted you yourself. Yeah, because they just knew that people were kind of counting me out again.

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Speaker 8: And then you know, like it's kind of crazy how it goes full circle, you know, from when I was in college, it seemed like but uh, I think they were just eager to be like, no, we want you to.

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Speaker 2: We want to we want you to show the world that you still got it.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Eric Gonda telling us here not a lot of athletic accomplishments between the three of us.

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Speaker 2: That's not true. I won seventh grade a golf tournament.

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Speaker 3: That's a big moment. Explain to me the feeling on that fourth down stop in the playoffs to clinch that game and knowing you're moving on.

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Speaker 2: What what goes through?

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Speaker 3: Is it just an instant a relief when you all get that stop and you being the big part of it.

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Speaker 8: I mean, it's crazy how you never know when your moment's gonna kind of happen. Uh, To be honest with you, when everyone was asking you after the game, you know, man, how did it feel?

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Speaker 2: I was like, I should have picked it off.

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Speaker 8: I mean I got I got Stafford, I got you know, I got Tom Brady, I got Russell Wilson, I got a couple you know, super Bowl quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I gotta get. I had to get a Jalen Hurts ball. I'm I'm kind of pissed about that still.

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Speaker 1: So you know, there's kind of a murder's row of interceptions there.

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Speaker 8: I just feel like, uh, you know, to be in a position to like not only you know, help help the team that I joined late succeed, but to just in the in the in the crew, most crucial part of the game, when I could just you know, show my ability and my talents. Uh, it was just pretty surreal. And you know, everything happens for a reason.

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Speaker 4: Eric, You're born in California, you played in college at u C.

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Speaker 6: L A.

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Speaker 4: And then you're drafted and you play eight to nine years in Minnesota. Like, is there like was there any part of you that you're you're feeling you're living your dream, but you're also in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: You get a little hold out there for you. Minnesota. It's freezing up there. It's a beautiful place. It's cold.

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Speaker 8: I tell people all the time. You know, I didn't own a jacket before Benesota. I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know that there was a city. I didn't really know anything about Minnesota. I knew it was cold, and I knew that it was on a different part of the different part of the coast, and I'm you know, not on any coast actually.

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Speaker 2: But you know, different part of the earth that I'm used to being on.

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Speaker 8: So, uh, it completely exceeded all my expectations as far as you know, an organization and just just joining the team early and being able to contribute and the defense fit you know, my style of play, and you know, just all the all the things that are that are great for a young rookie to come in as a linebacker and have success.

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Speaker 2: They were there there.

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Speaker 1: What did you do? Like what do you do off the field in Minneapolis? Like, like, like, what's you know? If you're in Miami, you go to South Beach, right, if you're in LA maybe you go to the beach. What are you doing in Minnesota when things aren't going we are playing football?

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Speaker 8: To be honest with you, during the season, you're really kind of locked in no matter where you are.

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Speaker 2: You may you may go out a little.

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Speaker 8: Bit, you know, on a day off, or you may, you know, enjoy a dinner in the town, or you know, try to have a little team camaraderie someone. But for the most part, everyone's really super locked in and focused for those six months or so. But in the off seasons, you know, when it was a lot nicer weather, they're one of my favorite things to do was get a bunch of the guys, uh and we used to get bird scooters and kind of just ride down the river in downtown the Mississippi River and downtown Minneapolis used to ride up and down.

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Speaker 1: So you're telling me the Minnesota Vikings in their free time do the same thing like sixteen year old girls.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about the scooters around, about the Neil Hunter.

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Speaker 8: I'm talking about like you know, Big Dud Wilson. We were all just rolling down and people would recognize that we were kind of just like all right, see is youeroal?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 2: But we would we would all.

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Speaker 8: You know, work out in the in the like OTA's you know, minute. We would all be working out in the morning. We'd be done by twelve. We would all go hang out downtown. We would all ride down the river together. We would all come back, eat dinner. It was it was It was really a good time.

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Speaker 1: Now, I if I understand Crig, You're a car guy, right, So is that do you own a bunch of cars you like to work on them?

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Speaker 2: Are you a NASCAR fan?

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Speaker 6: Like?

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Speaker 2: What does that mean that you're a car got a little bit of everything? You know.

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Speaker 8: I was more of a NASCAR fan when I was a kid. I just watched more sports in general as a kid. I don't really I feel like I kind of fell off as I got to my profession. As this became my job, I watched more game film now. But that being said, you know, I enjoy working on cars. I enjoy collecting cars. I enjoy going to car shows. I enjoy bringing my you know.

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Speaker 2: So you can you could like change an alternator.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I mean I can if I just like watch a little YouTube video, you know, like, yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 2: You got the wrench for sure, I got, I got.

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Speaker 8: I got a whole set of tools set up to haver Afraid, you know, haver Afraid looking able tools.

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Speaker 2: I have a whole set of tools.

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Speaker 8: And you know, I think, I mean what I did something recently that I like the other day that I do.

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Speaker 1: You have the thing like where you like you lay on it and you scoot under the car.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know I have all I have everything you got I gotta lift.

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Speaker 2: You know you have your own I changed my own oil, you know, change your oil.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, look at you there's a there's there's sometimes with the oil filter is too and I don't want to get my girl messy, so I'll be like, I'm not going to change that oil filter, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: In my gr when I was growing up, my stepdad kept all his oil when he changed it, he keeped the used oil in two liter coke.

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Speaker 2: Models And what do you do with you? I was like to turn it in, but you like drive it down and recycle it. Look at this guy. I mean there's some things on the car that like, I mean, I just changed.

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Speaker 8: I have a I have a twenty twenty two Cadillac Black Wing and and uh my oil filled, my not my oil film, my engine my engine air filter.

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Speaker 2: The light came on and uh, you know, you take it.

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Speaker 8: To the shop and probably probably cast you like six hundred know.

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Speaker 2: I literally I literally pulled up.

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Speaker 8: The Cadillac like I'm like, oh, Cadillac Dealership, pulled up to the Cadillac, went to the parts department. The lady gave me a discount on the part. So the part was one hundred and sixty bucks. She gave me one hundred dollars part. I went into my garage and I changed the oil filter in Loick at this fix ten minutes. I mean it was one hundred dollars. I mean it was really not that like if you've played with legos, if you've done this, Like, there's some things in the car where it's very there's some things that are intimidating. There's other things that are really more straightforward.

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Speaker 3: Do you have a dream car or like a favorite car? Maybe you already have it.

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Speaker 8: I got a thousand dream cars, but I mean one of the dream cars that I have was the R thirty four, like the the the Nissan GTR, the one that Paul Walker, you know, jumped.

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Speaker 6: Over into you got air over.

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Speaker 2: You know, they'll dominant us.

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Speaker 8: I remember that when I remember watching that movie as a kid and you hear the Ludicrous song playing and you hear you see Paul Walker with the blue glow underneath and he sliding through traffic.

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Speaker 2: I thought that was so cool, and it was a Japanese car.

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Speaker 8: It was unattainable and until it's twenty five years old in the United States, which just which had just turned So I got one.

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Speaker 2: You got one. I have one.

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Speaker 3: You hit the button and I.

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Speaker 2: Don't have any nos. It's it's it's pretty stock for the most part. So what are we doing next year? Are you? You played it on? Coming back? Yeah?

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Speaker 8: You know, I'm I'm I feel great. You know, I tell you I take extreme pride and taking care of my body.

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Speaker 2: You know, I feel like after the Eagles game.

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Speaker 8: I played seventy one plays and they kind of were like, how do you feel like? You know, you kind of just jumped in there and played a whole game, and I was like, hey, listen, this is my profession. Like I've been doing this. I do this like I take it seriously. I feel great. And on top of that, like I feel like in high school I was always like a late bloomer.

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Speaker 2: Cos I was a late bloomer.

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Speaker 8: And I just feel like that kind of like that youthful, that youthfulness kind of just place my place of my advantage.

00:21:24
Speaker 1: Get some meta musel, get yourself at those bones worked up, and I look forward to seeing you next year.

00:21:30
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

00:21:31
Speaker 1: All right, There you go, Eric Kendricks, car aficionado. And also he will come over and change your air filter if you need to here on.

00:21:40
Speaker 8: Our cover zero MU charge less than the dealership, but I can make a deal with you if you want.

00:21:44
Speaker 2: Go to task Rabbit and see Eric. Now all right.

00:21:48
Speaker 3: That was NFL Cover zero's interview with Eric Kendricks at the Super Bowl in San Francisco. Loved meeting him, had a great time talking to him, learned about cars. Maybe, Billy, do you think after all that you can go try to change your own well if you had to, Nope, no, I'll still not trying. I think in the last thirty minutes made you change your mind. No, I'm kind of going the other way. Like I think my next car is a Tesla. I don't even want to drive like you know, I'm done with that.

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Speaker 4: I think that, you know, one hundred years from now, we'll probably treat cars like we do horses today, where it's like, you know, kind of do your own thing, go on a track.

00:22:18
Speaker 3: Horses. Yeah, that's the comparison. We're we're going backwards. I did not think you were going to say horses there. I was with you on your point. I thought we're gonna be more like the Jetson's and we just get in something.

00:22:26
Speaker 4: And well, no, I'm saying, like nobody uses horses today, so I don't think many people will use cars.

00:22:32
Speaker 3: I thought you were saying we're going towards versus you're saying our current autumn, my Toyota Hoghland or right now that's about to turn eleven, will be like a horse exactly.

00:22:40
Speaker 4: Yes, and we will, you know, we'll just be the cars will drive us to the destination.

00:22:44
Speaker 5: I don't know, but Jetson's future maybe after that.

00:22:47
Speaker 3: Yep, well after this next week, we'll be back for more of this banter on the latest news. Might have Matt, might be me and Billy again. Whatever the case, we'll have justin read in that conversation from the super Bowl as we continue on into the off season with NFL Cover zero. Thanks for listening.

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