Matthew Stafford
Appearances
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
A hundred percent. She probably saw me walking to the pool in Mexico and was like, fuck this.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I remember he's got my film up on his phone. He's like, do you remember this? I'm like, yeah. I'm trying to have a margarita and some chips, bro.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
A hundred percent.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Well, yeah. I mean, like, I was – you know, I ran into him right kind of when they told him the news that they were, you know, talking about trading him. And, you know, obviously that one is tough. You're around this game long enough. Those kind of things happen, you know. And it's –
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
it's tough, especially for a guy that's meant so much to me in my career and how he helped me kind of, you know, get in with the Rams and, you know, just in that locker room and what it's all about to be a part of that team. He was such a huge part of that for me. So it's tough. And I've spent probably more time with him as a teammate than really any other teammate, you know, in my career.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And that just kind of happened organically. You know, I would go in there early and You know, sure enough, Cooper being there, he'd walk in, you know, as I'm walking in and we start watching tape together. And then it just turned into a thing that we just did every day. And so I spent a ton of time with him. He's meant a ton to me, you know, as a player, but even more probably as a person.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
You talk to guys, including Sean, guys around that team that have been with him for extended periods of time. And he's a fantastic player. He means a ton to our team. But just as a human being, as a person, he's as good as it gets. Yeah. Whether he's with us, which I love Cooper and would love opportunity to continue to play with him, or if he's somewhere else.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I mean, whoever gets him, it's going to be – he's a fantastic person for the locker room, for the team, and shoot. When he's healthy, he's still balling.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
He's dialed in, dude. I mean, he's like the nicest guy in the world, right? And so the story behind that is he's doing this interview post-game, which he doesn't love being in front of the camera anyways. And he's doing an interview, and the reporter asks him a question. He answers it. She asks him another question. He answers it. It's like a third question. He's like, okay, what is going on here?
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And he's like, I'm trying to get off the field, get in the locker room and go. She asks him one more question. And so he's like, you know what? I'm just going to go top rope way over your head so that you're just going to go –
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Brilliant. He answered with just like the, I mean, we saw the zone pressure. I knew it was that Mike was working away because we got three out. Matthew changed protection. I'm like, you just went like rogue football on this reporter. And she was just like, and that's Cooper Cupps. He was like, thank God I can go take a shower and get out of here.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
But it was a pretty veteran move by Coop to get together.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
He's pretty dialed in. Like, he asks me really good questions. Nice. You know, just from a quarterback perspective, I mean, he knows as much or more than any other teammate I've ever, you know, had. You know, this guy will be watching practice or something, and he's like, hey, run that play back. And I'm like... And it's some run play.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And he's like, we really could, you know, knock it back, tag it back one here with these angles and single high. And I could just block the mic instead of having to go out to the nickel in this two by two set. And I'm like, yeah, I mean, if you want it to change, go ahead. He's grinding on every like run play, every single thing he's meticulous about.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And shoot, it's, you know, part of what makes him great.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
D-Rob. One of my favorite teammates of all time. He's so great. D-Rob is the man. I love D-Rob. He's been great for our team. I think he's got some crazy streak where he's been on like – he's played for nine years, played for a few different teams, and he's made the playoffs every single year. Dude, it's ridiculous.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
You just got to bring him back. But he's – no, he's a great player. You know, okay to not know to, you know, tag it back one in a single high. He's okay with not knowing that. And it's good, baby.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
but like instinct wise got great instincts great like you could just tell him out there be like hey we're gonna run wide zone at you and he'd probably end up on the right guy you know he just gets it um so much fun to play with uh even puka man yeah
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Coop is a monster, man. For a young guy to come in and, you know, done what he's been able to do the last couple years is pretty outstanding. Obviously had a great guy to learn from with Coop as far as, you know, kind of where to be in that offense. And then, you know, once the ball's in his hand, that's, you know, some of the best stuff he does is just running physical and playing physical.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
It's pretty cool to see. Heck, yeah.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, you won't play if you're not. Right. You know what I mean? And that's kind of the way it is. And, you know, a lot of two-by-two sets where the F and the X, where Coop and old D-Rob are out there together. There we go.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
So there were two peas in a pod out there with the two by two sets. Kind of rely on your teammates. Not illegal to communicate out there.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
For sure. There's give and take from everybody, and no doubt it happens. It's fun to watch.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I mean, any guy that just says, yeah, I'll just show up there and we'll win the Super Bowl.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Obviously. No, it was... You know, I was excited about the opportunity. I didn't think it was going to happen there just because I didn't... I think I was going there just because of, you know, the contract stuff they had just done with Jared and all that. Sure.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
You know, but I ended up there and... Yeah, I mean, I knew we had a talented team, but I just knew that... I felt a ton of pressure because... I think they returned 10 guys on offense except for me.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And maybe all 11 guys on defense. And I'm like, I'm not going to be the asshole that doesn't know what's going on. You know what I mean? So it was like a lot of pressure, especially at my position. I'm supposed to know everybody's job in and out. So spent a lot of time and a lot of hours just kind of making sure that when I stepped into the huddle day one, they weren't like –
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
this guy you know what I mean yeah so it was like all right not only physically could I do what I could do but I want to make sure that mentally they were like okay this guy's on it and so it's been a bunch of time and I knew we were talented um I didn't know how talented but you guys have been on those teams it's like you know the week one starters we had compared to you know what we were doing at the end it's it's totally different and so being able to navigate that whole thing was uh was incredible it was an incredible year you know we had so many talented guys uh you know especially late after we signed Odell we signed Vaughn I mean it was like
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
But going out to practice was like, I mean, this was just unbelievable practices we had against each other. Swag champs, man. You get two swag champs like that.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah. They were fun teammates to have, and I still talk to those guys. But it was a special moment. I mean, just a lot of years. But, you know, in Detroit, not knowing if that was ever going to be an opportunity to get them playing those games and, you know, going through the playoffs and, you know, winning those games to get to that point was special.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And then getting to do it at our home stadium was crazy.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, what the fuck was it like throwing to Calvin Johnson, dude? He was a monster. Dude, Megatron, man. Yeah, just a creative player. He didn't say much, you know, and I wish I was. I wish I would have got, obviously, more time with him. Anytime you got a great player like that, you're like, man, I wish I had more time to play with that guy.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
But I just think about, like, plug and play him in the system we're in right now, and I'm like, oh, my God. Oh, boy. Would have been scary.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yes, exactly. He was literally playing. Wow.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, he can figure it out. But he is an incredible player. I've been lucky to play with a bunch of talented receivers, all kind of different styles and body types and all that kind of stuff. But he is, I mean, it was crazy. Yeah. Throwing balls to him, I was like, it feels like you're throwing to a D end. I mean, like, that's what he looked like running out there.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
No, it's cool. It is. It's something that, you know, I feel like lucky to be a part of. You know what I mean? It was incredible watching both those guys do it in completely different ways. You know, Cooper, like majority from the slot, just unbelievable finding his way through catch and run guy. And then Calvin just line him up on the outside and let him go to work on people.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
It was it was cool to be a part of both. I definitely am proud of it and that, you know, we got that done. It's a special thing, I guess. I guess I can get that number one guy the ball a lot if he's getting open.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
It was. And then, like, we would get to the point where I would – it was hard down there in the goal line to see leverage. Sure. You know, for me, like, was the guy playing inside of you or outside of you or whatever? So I got to a point where, like, Calvin and I would just have – he would just signal to me whether he wanted the fade or the glance kind of.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And he would just go open hand, closed hand on the inside hand. He just closed hand. I'm on the fade. Sneaky son of a bitch. Open hand. Biggest dude on the field. Sneaky. Just one hand open. I'm like, ooh, here comes this one right here. Yeah.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
so but yeah I mean it was crazy and then we went and played the Saints and they ended up vicing him you know down to like punt pro and then the next year on there for you we're playing at Arizona and like the first third down of the game he's in the slot and we're running like 525 F post swing like you know and and he's he's viced on third down third down third down from like our like minus 20 you know like opening possession of the game like jeez guys
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, I get it. I can completely relate. And I threw it to like Pettigrew and we didn't get the first down or something. And I come back and I'm like, how was it? He's like, I still got open. And I'm like, fuck.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
We're going to cancel him out since there's two guys vicing him. Still won. I'm like, God. He was crazy.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah. Well, both my parents went to Florida State, so I wasn't like a Texas kid growing up. I wasn't like Longhorns or Aggies or any of that kind of stuff.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I did, but I loved Florida State. I wanted to go to Florida State. I ended up getting an offer from them, but the offensive coordinator at Florida State for a long time was Mark Richt. He then became the head coach at Georgia, so I started watching Georgia. My sister went there the year before me. Really, the couple years before I went to Georgia, they were second and fifth in the country.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
It was a really good program. I frankly wanted to be doing what I'm doing right now, playing pro football as fast as I could.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I went there took a visit it was like a pro style offense yeah felt like I had a chance to play early and uh I don't know I I wasn't like a huge I wasn't like in love with the recruiting process and it's so different back then than it is now anyway so I just was like let me get into where I fit in and and keep it moving and and uh I love my time there it was great got to play with no Sean a bunch of you know talented players AJ Green some of those guys so
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I was never in love with University of Texas football, so I know all my buddies wanted me to go there because they're all Texas kids.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Well, you know what didn't help? Because I went to Texas. I sat down with Greg Davis, who was the offensive coordinator.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah. He pulls up tape of the game the year before. It's Vince Young versus Oklahoma State. That's what I'm saying. You're in the heart of prime Texas football. But it was like, hey, this is four-verse concept here. They had some crazy comeback at the end of the game. And the second half, Vince went crazy. And he was like, we were running four-verse. And he's like, this is beater box.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And then we check it down. We say, beater box back. That's like seam, outside, go to the back.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
He goes, well, when Vince is quarterback, we just say beater box and run. And I'm like, well, I ain't fucking
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
show me some major apple white tape that's what i need you know like find me here and he just showed me vince stuff and i'm like i i'm not gonna hurdle the middle line back here so can you just like find me here and it just it didn't it didn't fit um but uh yeah that's amazing that was my story texas i was like i don't know i don't know what to tell you that's that's not my skill set so good man
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
It was fun, though.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
It was like a couple nights before, maybe. Maybe a night or two before. Yeah. Back when they kind of did that, you know, and, like, figure out contracts and all that kind of stuff. So, yeah, I was in New York already, so it was, you know, doing the whole draft thing. You were doing the whole rigmarole, yeah. Yeah, and they kind of called my agent and told him, you know, we're going to do it.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And I was like, all right, sweet. This is kind of nice. Nice walking into the green room, not –
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, having any stress at all, knowing this will be a short sit. And it was, you know, just kind of sat down, popped back up and kept it moving. It was a whirlwind. It was crazy. I think back on that. I'm like, man, what I didn't know, right? Like so much. But it was a blast.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
So I like went out. That's not immediate. Did you have a little fun in the city? Yeah, I had some good times. I had a bunch of college buddies there and some of my family was there too. So we went and had a good time. Kicked it. I had to pick my number. The next morning, the team president calls me early in the morning. Oh, that's nice. And he's like, what number do you want? And I'm like, seven.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
You know, that's what it was in college. He's like, well, Dutch Clark, 1932, Detroit Lion. Yeah. Got his number retired. And I was like, oh, shit. And they were like, we can call his family and see if he would un-retire it for you. I'm like, no, no, no. All good. Yeah. Rifling through the numbers. Like, my dad's in the room. A buddy of mine's in the room. And I'm like...
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Hey guys, what number should I be? And I'm like rifling through these like, ah, you don't want that one or you don't want that one. I was like, all right, I'll just go with nine. Is nine available? They're like, yeah, nine works. I'm like, cool. And in my head, I'm like, great. I don't have to change my signature much. And like the seven just goes to a nine.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
This is easy. So yeah, after that proceeded to, you know, hop on a jet and fly to Detroit. Love it.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I took a couple of those 30 visits you were talking about. I took one to Detroit. I took one to the Jets. And then I took one to San Fran. And so the Jets, when I left there, they were like, we're moving up to five to pick somebody if you're not there. And they ended up taking Sanchez at five. They moved up to five to take him. And then the 49ers was a different deal. They had the 10th pick.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
They ended up taking Crabtree. But at the Combine, there had been some stuff going on in the interview, right? I sat down with Peter King afterwards, and he was like, hey, what's the craziest thing that happened at the Combine in the meetings, right? Sure. And that was kind of back when they would ask you stuff you can't say now or ask now. Sure, okay. And so I'm like...
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Well, Sam Fran's deal, it was Singletary was the head coach, and it was like a shrink, like a psychologist, psychiatrist lady. She's talking to me about all these different things, and it's like, tell me about your parents. I'm like, my parents got divorced when I was in high school, and okay, do you want to talk about it? I'm like, not really. They're cool. It's okay. Yeah.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
So Peter King's like, what's the strangest thing? I'm like, well, my 12 minutes with the Niners at that point was, you know, it was like, I wanted to know how much of the prorated hour I owed him after my 12 minutes.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And I was like, and so Mike got all pissed off and was like, he's not ready to be a quarterback. And he got mad. So I had to fly out there and like, just kind of like shake hands and be like, listen, man, I didn't mean anything by it. Yeah. Supposed to be a joke. But yeah, that was my complete waste of my time. Yeah. I'm on the east cuz I'm in Atlanta at the time. I fly out to San Fran.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I go there I meet with Mike. This is awesome. He's getting a Bowflex put in his office Before That shit. And I'm like, this is awesome. But like, it was honestly a great meeting with him, the whole deal. And so, you know, I'm meeting with him. They're like, hey. That's so good. They're not going to, we're like, you're not going to be there at 10. We're not going to get a chance to take you.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Had a slim flask milkshake next to him.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Oh, man.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Okay, yeah. So it was like all Tampa 2. Chicago Bears. Chicago Bears, Tampa 2. They're bringing the Mike and the Nickel, playing three-week way, or they're bringing the free safety and Erlacher's cutting and picking four-week and taking them to the house, right?
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And then it went to like, okay, Seattle, we're playing three deep, four under. We got the weak hook player carrying three vertical, all that stuff. And then it's a lot of what you guys are doing I think is great and whatever. So I think scheme-wise, You know, it's really been like cyclical. I think the way they can hit players now has changed so much.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I mean, I used to get just absolutely dumped by dudes. You've got some iconic just like face masks going in all sorts of different directions.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
So good. Just some good memes nowadays. It's not the same. No, yeah, it's not the same. I remember at one off season, I was in the NFC North for forever and Julius Peppers, who was with Chicago at the time.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
But Pep and Jared Allen were both free agents in Minnesota and Chicago. I'm like, good, get the fuck out of here.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And they just fucking switched seats. Damn it. Julius is in Green Bay and Jared's in Chicago. And I'm like, God, I can't get rid of these guys. But no, it was different times back then. Yeah. I mean, really all aspects of the game, I feel like. But I mean, none of the guys were doing this. So this is a different part of it as well, which is kind of cool.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I'm not like ultra dialed into the podcast thing. My wife does the morning after. Yeah, KB. She does a couple podcasts and she rocks it. I'm not super dialed in. Cooper and I did a little nine and dime for the team kind of thing, which was a lot of fun. But yeah, I mean, just having the ability and the platform to kind of get out there and talk a little bit is cool.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I know it's fun for everybody to get to know you guys too. So it's cool.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Especially when we get guys like this, man.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Well, yeah, and I think maybe kind of what he was thinking about, too, when he was talking about that is just, you know, the ability to move and do all that. You don't get time in a system, right? Like, think about if you just changed offensive coordinators every single year. You'd be like, man, I don't know. I know a lot, but I don't know if I, like, mastered anything. Got everything out of that.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And I think all those guys that are coming out, the rookies actually impress me, just the way that they can go out there and operate and play at a high level at a young age. But I do know what he means by that. You're just kind of bouncing around, bouncing through college. It's a different feel. I went to a school, you guys went to a school, and you're like...
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Feel good about that school, try to learn everything there is to learn about that system and then go from there. You know, I think it's an individual case, like each player. But I am impressed by a lot of the guys that come out. And I'm like, I'm a fan of, I want those guys to have success. Like, I don't want the guys to come into the league.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And I'm not the old guy that's like, no, you can't take, you know, don't have my job. You know, like, I want you to fail. I'm like, man, I want the game to continue to be great. And I want those young guys to play well. So I was impressed by them.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, you got to be able to move.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, no doubt. Right.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, there's not a million dudes doing what I do, like sitting in the pocket and throwing anymore. A lot of guys are moving around and making plays, and I'm jealous. I'm watching tape, and they're like, I know they just see man coverage, and they're like, I'm just going to run. I'm just going to run. And I'm like, that's an awful idea if I try to do that. Everybody's back.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
It's going to be second to 11. It's not good for us if I do that. Yeah.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I mean, I'll flip the Combine on a little bit here and there. I watch some of the college games. I'm not, like, a huge college football guy. When it gets, like, to the playoffs and the really good games, sure, I'll flick it on. But I'm not, like, following a guy throughout the year. Now, I do watch those guys when they get into the league. Like, C.J.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Stroud, I thought he had an unbelievable rookie year. And I still think, you know, he had a tough year this year, but they had a ton of injuries around him and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, and so they have – but I like watching the young guys play because it's –
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
kind of like revitalizes me and invigorates me a little bit like golly these guys are out there just playing carefree ripping it you know sometimes when you have you know a bunch of years of experience you got some scars too right I mean these guys are just letting it rip into this coverage and I'm like I remember CJ threw a touchdown I think it was a preseason game he threw like a bang eight into like into three buzz right over the safety's head and I was like I saw him that year we played him or something or practice against him I was like
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
what are you doing ripping the rotation for a touchdown he's like hey man they didn't play it right and i'm like shit just to be carefree enough to be like you know what shoot it in there and score i'm like man i'd have been going that way yeah you know probably been second six we've been happy with the four yard completion but my man's a little dropping off the field with a touchdown i mean i noticed that even just for me like you get resistant to something sometimes just because you've been burned on a hundred percent you're like i don't really try and then you'll watch somebody else do it all of a sudden it like works out you're like
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
But like the further you go, no, I'm with you. The further you get in your career, you got to fight that sometimes, right? For sure. Man, like I know how they should be playing that defense and they're not playing it right. But like I went over here and this was open even though I know it shouldn't be. You know what I mean?
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
You're like the teams that are really ultra like undisciplined on defense or don't want to give away any secrets. But those are tough ones to play sometimes, right?
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Because you're like, You may get a freebie in score or whatever, but a lot of times, man, you're passing something because you know the coverage and it's wide open because they blew it. It's tough.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah. I mean, I think poise is a huge one, right? Like, because I think that helps, you know, withstand time. I think quarterbacks, like so much of it is like longevity. How often can you do it? How many years in a row can you just go out there and be that player? And there's going to be times where
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
where things around you or you are battling something or wherever and it may not be as good but like what kind of what are you when times are good when times are bad also in game like hey it's fourth quarter we need you like what does that look like I think that's something to me that um you know helps you know predict and project what guys are going to be like down the road because that's what they're all looking for right they don't want like
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
a guy to be really good for one year than one to be good for a long time. And that's something to me that, like, you look at what Jaden Daniels was able to do. I mean, those guys, they proved it both, I think, through, like, longevity of a season, but also in-game, in big moments, being able to come up for the team is pretty cool.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I mean, there's – Something crazy. All sorts of them, right? I mean, you had the massive Hail Mary that everybody remembers, but there were a bunch of other ones too that were great plays. Yeah.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
You know, spent more... I probably played more... I don't know. It might be kind of close. I was going to say I played more games against Aaron Donald than I did Sue, but I played quite a few against Sue there kind of at the end. I would say having experience with both ADs, it was a different deal.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Because there was like... The get-off was crazy. I mean... He just wrecked practices. Sue was that way too in a lot of instances and was a great player for us in Detroit. And then, you know, bounced around and had some unbelievable seasons at other places too. But AD was something different. Just watching him go about his job every single day.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I remember like the third practice I was there in training camp. We have no pads on. We're in a quick game. I'm throwing a hitch to the field. And I smash my thumb on his helmet. And I'm like, yo, I just caught the ball. It's like catch, throw, bang. And I'm like... And next thing you know, everybody had the Guardian caps on. But he was crazy in his ability.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And I would say the respect that he got from offensive lines and other offenses was something I've never seen before.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And he's a smart player, too. And then he just never stopped. Yeah, and he's a smart player. I mean, he knew. You talk to him. I get in the cafeteria, and you sit down, and you talk to him, and he's like, yeah, I knew if I wasn't doubled. If the center didn't come to me, it's run away. Yeah. Because the center comes to me every pass play. Yeah.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And if the center comes to me, it's pass or it's run two. Yeah. Center goes away. You're not blocking me with two. So he knew it was run away, and then he's shooting a backside gap. I mean, he... It was just like, could make decisions and go like that that quickly. For sure. It was impressive to be around him and watch him work. I mean, the way he worked out.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
We had a, I'll never forget, and he was crazy in the weight room. Oh, I know, what? Like The Rock came in and worked out with him one time. Just do a knife fighting. Yeah, I mean, he's a maniac in the weight room, right? And I'll never forget, this was 21 or 22 maybe. Yeah.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
We had like a Make-A-Wish kid who had like a year before had been like, hey, I want to, my dream is to go like be with Aaron Donnell for a day kind of thing. And thankfully this kid at that point had kind of beaten the odds and had beaten the cancer that he had, I believe, and like was really on the mend. And it was really cool. Like he came in and you're like, oh man, this guy's like doing good.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Right. high school kid, like bigger kid, like loved to play football. And AD was like, cool, come work out with me, right? And I'm like, I'm walking by, I'm like, yo, what is about to happen? And I look over and like, I'm over there doing like banded something and like 30 minutes in and AD's just ripping curls out. And this next thing you know, this kid is puking in the trash can.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I remember I was in Detroit. We were playing a game against the Rams and they were in St. Louis still at that point. Jim Bob was our coordinator. And, you know, I dropped back to pass late in the game. We need to play. And Aaron, I have two hands on the ball, right, like this. And Aaron just comes up from behind me and just rips both my biceps apart. The ball falls down the ground.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
And I'm like, I'm looking at him and I'm like, I come over to the sideline. I'm like, I mean, I'm pissed. And I'm like.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
All-time name. All-time name. All-time name.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
You know, he's got like, the name matches. I think his childhood home backed up to the Jack Daniels distillery, like as it should. With a name like Jim Bob Cooter, it better back up to Jack Daniels. So yeah, he's one of a kind.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
My first grade daughter, Hunter, is doing those words right now. She was reading this morning.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I'm waiting for him to just wither away at some point, but he just... keeps going.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
It's funny you say this. We played the Jets this year. I was unaware that Thomas was an 0-9 draft pick. Did he fucking challenge you? Post-game, he fucking came up to me and was like, yo, can I get a picture? We're like the only two guys still doing it. So, yeah, it was nice to get a picture with my guy. It'll be the last one. Don't ever ask me for a picture again. I love it.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
But no, I mean, he's got a gig that promotes longevity. For sure. So we'll see. I don't know if I can keep going, but he probably can.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I don't like my odds. Do you have a favorite throw? One is tough to come up with. I mean, like throwing a fade to Cooper to win the Super Bowl was pretty awesome. Yeah. The play earlier in that drive to throw the in-breaker I had where I kind of looked him off was another good one. Those are the two that come to mind. And then, weirdly enough, the three that hit me first were all to him.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
But the one in Tampa in the divisional round when they brought the zero pressure on the two-minute drive. He's running like a vertical push to clear out for a dagger. And I caught it backside safety whenever I was like, oh, my God, this is zero. And just launched that one fadeaway. Those three are pretty good ones because they were like –
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
It was a good one. Yeah, it came out of the hand good, and I was like, oh, this is going to be sweet. I'll never forget J.J.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Watt was on the sideline wasn't playing that game he was hurt and I like threw it and kind of like spun around and like for some reason you know I'm kind of cruising down their sideline and I like lock eyes like see him and I'm like oh god I was like also thank god you're not playing would not have been able to get that one off would have been way harder with you in front of me but it yeah that was a good one Van when he got that one that was kind of like a cool like play action half boot that we had put in maybe that week or week before and hit it it was sweet
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
That's awesome. Yeah, that was a cool one. Who put in the fake spike? In Dallas? Yeah. Oh my, that was not put in, Coach.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Well, I was like, so we throw a seam ball to Calvin in the play before, and I thought he got in. Everybody thought he got in. Riley Reif was our left tackle at the moment, and he's celebrating like WWE style on the 50. His back is to me. I'm screaming high pitch like a girl, like, get him!
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, and so everybody's kind of waiting for Riley to get back and from his celebration and So I'm standing at the line of scrimmage and I've got time to kind of like look Yeah, it's like 12 seconds left on the clock and the D lines just like chillin in a stance Yeah, Sean Lee was kind of just chillin at Mike linebacker, which is very unlike him because he was very much. What?
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Oh my god, he's good He was tough but uh, so I had time to kind of see it happening and I'm like, oh Fuck it, I'm just going to go. I'm not going to let them call another play. We had just a spike or a kill it, whatever you want to call it. We had that called, and then I just decided to go for it myself and thank God it worked out. That would have been a tough one. All-time fail had it not worked.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
um yeah i i would say so i think yeah both times really like uh the playoff game was crazy that was that was wild because we ran out for pre-game warm-ups and the place was just packed and just booing the shit out of me and which is whatever but um but yeah it was uh that was a loud loud game um and then we came back you know for the opener the next year and it was crazy loud again they uh
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
They support, when they're rolling, they support, man. Come on now. It's wild. They're not fucking around. No.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yes, they're rocking and rolling. That shit gets rowdy. Yeah, both of those were night games, so they had ample time to get ready to rock and roll.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
All right, I'm going to stop talking. I knew where you were going. All right.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
No, it's a blast, man. We saw each other not too long ago and was talking about it. It's a blast, man. My seven-year-olds will soon be eight, six, and a four. So we're like rocking and rolling. We're in leotards all the time, doing gymnastics around the house. It's crazy. I don't know, man. At this point, I'm like, I don't even know what I would do with a boy. I can't even wrap my head around it.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
So I'm just like, I'm all in on the girls.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I don't really know, though.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Just going to shine those things, man.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Baby Nutsacks, I think, is where we left off. Yeah, I think that's where we stopped. We're on Baby Nutsacks.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Oh, no. I guess. That's why I was obviously not there for it, but allegedly he had a monster spill down those, you know, those like turf.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah. I guess he took a spill. I don't know. I wasn't there for it, but that's not a fun way to start your day at Lambeau. It's going to be tough enough already. Yeah.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, he is. He's great. Do you feel you've gotten you haven't gotten enough credit for the no-look passes coming common in the NFL You know, I don't I don't care too much Keep a credit meter if whether I'm getting enough or not but know that for me those started when I played with Calvin because Everybody in the building knew I was trying to throw him the ball.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, it sounds like alright How do I get all these guys off my scent a little bit? Yeah, I mean like And so I'm trying to move backers when they're like just sending all the zone coverage right there and I'm trying to like maneuver it. So it kind of started then. Sure. Like, all right, how do I still get this guy the ball? And so, you know, it obviously evolved into more tactical use of –
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Spreading it around a little bit. But I don't ever think about it. It just kind of happens organically. I mean, I know Pat does them, and it's not, at least for me, I'm not talking about it. You just kind of feel it, and you're playing the game. And sometimes you feel like you need to move somebody, and you move them.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, man, they know how to go. It wasn't the first thing. You let those guys out and look out.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
They'd be like, we've been just doing PT for the last six months.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
We got to back up. But these dudes were, they were rocking and rolling, man. They were fun. But it was, those were great times, simpler times. They were so fun.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, man. The whole family. We got to do another trip. They were trying to run it back at some point. I'm like, golly, man. It would be hard now. It's going to take a lot out of me.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Different days. But it was 10 years straight they did that. Ten years. I think I was there for nine of them or ten of them. Started on like a Mastercraft wakeboard boat and then graduated into a giant houseboat. Triple-decker houseboat.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I'm not that old. I have good eyes. So sorry. It was fun as hell until he started trying me the last two drives. Like, goddamn, staff. Like, damn. Calm the fuck down. Like, shit, this is so slay. This is so on brand. I know you've been slinging this motherfucker. Sling that motherfucker somewhere else.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
well Darius I'm sorry I just had to do something I was trying to fight back man you guys were kicking our ass so it was I love playing against him I played against him you know quite a few times since you know we've both been gone from Detroit and he is what a great teammate what a stud you know wish him nothing but the best I love I love getting to you know compete against him he's a man
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
No, thank you, brother. No, you guys are fucking great. I appreciate it. 92% of Matthew Stafford.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
100%.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. That's a hell of an intro. I need you in-game.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I'm good, man.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yes, that was a little nerve-wracking there for a little bit, just trying to figure out what was going to go down, but happy to be back wearing, you know, Rams colors, playing the SoFi, doing the thing.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I'm going over to his house in the mornings and I'm like, he's teaching me the offense on his whiteboard in his house going crazy. I'm like trying to write all this shit down. I'm like, oh my God, I'm never going to remember any of this. You know, I just got off a bender in Mexico. Fuck this. I remember he's got like my film up on his phone. He's like, do you remember this play? I'm like, yeah.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, for sure. I've been, uh, I've been lucky to be playing here with coach, you know, McVay and all my teammates and all those guys for, you know, a few years now. And, uh, We love it here. My family loves it here. I love playing here. The brand of football fits my style. Oh, yeah. I love going to work and playing in front of the fans. It's a blast. It has been a really cool thing.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Obviously, coming from Detroit, very different place than Los Angeles. Love both of them. But this has been a cool change up and my family's settled in great and we love it here. Love it, man.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, I definitely, I've experienced a lot. You know, this past season was 16. This will be 17 coming up. So I've had a few offensive coordinators. I've done like the Peyton Manning, you know, no huddle at the line of scrimmage thing. We did that with Jim Bob when he was in Detroit for a while. Scott Linehan was my first coordinator when I first came to the league in 09 for like five years.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I mean, that seems so far back. Like defense, offense, all of it was so different at that point. But yeah, I've had a few. I feel like any player, any competitive player should be like, yeah, put me in any system and I'll thrive. I don't care. You call the plays and I'll haul them.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
But it has been fun with Sean, you know, the way he challenges all of us, not only like physically on the field, but mentally in the approach to the game and all the things that he asked me to do with the line of scrimmage or pre-snap, whatever it is. It's a lot, but I think it makes us successful. And it's fun, you know, getting that challenge from your coach. Sure.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
You know, being like, hey, I think you can handle all this. And he gives me all that and it ends up being successful. That's a lot of fun.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, I appreciate it.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, 100%. That's a very good way of kind of describing what transpired and what happened. For sure, I got there, and I remember Sean and I were maybe a couple weeks into me being out in L.A., and he's like, hey, you, me, Kelly, and Veronica, let's go drink some wine up in Santa Barbara area. I'm like, all right, cool. We're going on a little wine trip, go for a day.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
100% badass beer with Kid Rock or something like that at one point.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
So we're cruising up there. We're like 30 minutes into our ride up there, and my guy pulls out a piece of paper, and he's like, all right, so here's the drop-back stuff.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I haven't even had any red wine yet and we're just we're already into this here's this package I'm thinking about we'll go no huddle jump the ball and we'll do it and sure enough that's what we did a bunch especially in 2021 and and launched it all over the field and had a bunch of success but when I got you know here he was like man you know drop back pass has been something that you know we've always wanted to try and elevate you know just as that core system and I was like well
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Like I'm trying to have a margarita and some chips, bro.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
that's kind of all I did in Detroit. You know, like we didn't really run the ball or play action very often. It was just like, I'm in the gun and here we go. So it was like, oh, that's, that's the easy part for me. You know, like I've done this my whole career. So it was kind of a, it was a good marriage and it's, it's worked out well.
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Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah, I mean, I think it was kind of a joint process, right? Like, it wasn't just, I wasn't a free agent. You know, I still had two years left on my deal. And, you know, we kind of worked something out last year, kind of, you know, at the 11th hour to kind of figure it out right before training camp.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
with the understanding that, okay, we're going to come back and readdress this if I want to play again the next year. Had a nice season and felt healthy, wanted to keep going. So it was like, all right, let's figure out how to get this done.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Obviously, there were some trade rumors and some things like that that transpired that was a little bit tough on your family just because you don't really know what's going to be next. I remember when I was getting traded from Detroit to
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
LA really a couple weeks before that you know I had made it known that I wanted to be traded from Detroit and I can't tell you how much time I spent on Zillow at that point looking at houses in Indy and there and all these places back then right so you're just like and I'm sitting there going man where am I going to be where are my kids going to school all this kind of stuff and you know a little bit of a similar situation just because
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
you know, what was out there and what was going on. But I think in the end, I know that they wanted me back. I wanted to be back. We just had to kind of figure that out and get to that point. We did. And I'm sure as hell happy that, you know, I'm going to be here for at least another year and hopefully some after that.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Top 30 visit or whatever. Top 30 visit.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yes. All day, every day. The guy loves it. Um, I mean, shoot, like I said, we're going on a wine trip and the guy's ripping off plays. He just can't stop. And And loves it, but it is cool to watch him do his thing. He's so, like you said, he's great one-on-one, right? He's great teaching me the offense.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I remember when I first, you know, got traded here, I was actually, long story, but I was in Mexico, randomly ran into him, whatever, it happened. You know, I fly back and I'm going over to his house in the mornings and I'm like... He's teaching me the offense on his whiteboard in his house going crazy. I'm like trying to write all this shit down.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
I'm like, oh my God, I'm never going to remember any of this. I just got off a bender in Mexico.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
But yeah, he's like that one-on-one. He's all day, every day, loves football. But then he gets up in front of the room. And he can relate to everybody. He commands the room. He's got great energy. Sets the tone for the week every single week. And guys thrive on it. So it's a lot of fun going to work in that building, especially when we're winning. And he's in a good mood and rocking and rolling.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
It's a lot of fun. Yeah, fuck him.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Matthew Stafford on Staying in LA, Aaron Donald’s Insane Workouts and Girl Dad Advice | Ep 128
Yeah.