Congratulations.
First of all, I was rooting for you,
So I was very excited that you won.
I always root for the underdog.
So I was like this is so, what a game.
I mean the entire game was incredible.
And the gutsy moves.
Every play you all did was gutsy and brave.
And especially that one, and you called that, right?
It's just sort of a gut feeling.
Coach Pederson and I had talked about it
and, we had talked about it a couple of days
before when we wanted to do it, second half,
different situations.
But fourth and one in the Super Bowl,
you're going against the Patriots,
you're going to have to do some stuff that is
sort of risky to win this game.
And the Philly Special came to mind
and went over there and asked him.
And Coach Pederson being the great coach
he is, he's like all right, let's do it.
It worked!
So, the whole thing, is it a blur or do you remember?
Do you remember that feeling when that happened?
Yeah the feeling of playing in the Super Bowl, that's
a question you asked, friends ask you, and it's just,
it is surreal.
It was a dream as a kid and to do something
like that in the Super Bowl.
We were so fortunate to be a part of it
and just to be the underdogs, like you said.
Everything that happened, it's been unreal,
and I've really had time the last couple of days
of just getting away, resting to sort of reflect with my family.
And to sit there and just be like, what just happened,
this is unbelievable.
So that night, because you play the Super Bowl,
first of all, the night before, can you sleep the night before?
You know I sleep really well before games.
And then that night, can you sleep after?
I mean that.
No.
No, did not sleep for three days.
I was too excited I was too excited.
Wow and your daughter was just listening to music
the whole time, didn't even care.
She had more interesting things to listen to.
She doesn't care.
To be able to share and have that picture
to show her when she grows up to say,
you were part of dad won the Super Bowl.
I mean that's--
There she is.
All alone on the field you left her.
She's somewhere.
And then you did these interviews afterwards
and you talked about failures.
Which I loved that you did that.
And people would say, why, but explain why.
I think just I spoke from the heart.
I spoke from my experience.
I was going to stop playing the game two years ago.
There was different things going on in my life.
My wife and I and in my career as well
to where I'd lost the joy of the game.
And I can't do something unless my heart's in it.
Especially the game of football, that's a seven day a week job.
You got everyone depending on you when you play quarterback.
You're in the huddle, you're doing everything,
it was like if I don't love this, and it's not in my heart,
I can't do it.
I didn't touch a football for a long time.
And then I had my family there, the support of my wife
there support me through it all.
And my wife wrote me a letter and in the letter
she just talked about wanting me to go back and play.
But not to be out there and play, but because she knew I
wasn't finished yet.
She knew that I had so much going on in my heart
that I had to face my fear, basically.
Because it was almost paralyzing to go back and play.
And I prayed about it, and I realized
that the tougher decision, the thing I was more afraid of
was to go back and play.
I would've been fine going in a different way in life
and I would have done whatever and helped people in any
which way possible.
But I knew to make more growth, I
had to go back in and face that fear.
And face my failures, and I did it.
There was never an 'aha' moment.
It was a tough decision and when I took a step in that faith,
I still was like, this is going to be tough,
I don't know if this is the right decision.
But I did it and it was the fourth day of training camp
with the Kansas City Chiefs where
all of a sudden, like a veil was lifted,
and the joy came back in my heart.
I remember I broke down one morning, I was journaling,
and I always read the Bible in the morning and journal
and I remember just crying because I was like I love
the game of football again.
But it was a different feel.
It was a totally different feel because
of what I'd gone through and it was those failures.
And as athletes, we have an opportunity to speak about it
because I feel like athletes we try to be perfect.
And we're not, we fail just like anyone else,
we have issues like everyone else.
We have life, life happens.
It's OK to share those things because I
think that's what makes us strong
is overcoming those failures.
Yeah I agree.
We're going to take a break.
I know that Drew Brees texted you right before the game.
What a great guy he is, right?
I know you love Drew.
As you should, as you should.
He is a good man.
We have that, there's his jersey.
I mean, that really got me into the game of football.
Because I hadn't really been paying attention till they
made it to the Super Bowl.
And now I'm obsessed.
But that's why I was just so impressed with you
and how you played in the game.
And I agree with you, I think failure, it's cliche,
but builds character in a way that you don't
have unless you have failed.
If people just succeed and succeed,
you have to have failure so.