Brad Johnson Interview | Former FSU QB, Super Bowl Champion Joins Wake Up Warchant #FSU

Brad Johnson Interview | Former FSU QB, Super Bowl Champion Joins Wake Up Warchant #FSU

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As advertised special guests on the program this week everybody we’re excited for this one six time Letterman if I’m not mistaken at Florida State University Super Bowl 37 Champion uh Brad Johnson but as the kids know him now Big Bad Brad 14 on the internet Brad

How’s life man uh I’m doing great doing great appreciate you having me on your show tell some Florida State stories and Super Bowl stories and all the above so but Life’s good though absolutely before we get to that though this big bad Brad 14 incarnation of your life this this

Third phase I guess chapter the trick shots everybody’s got to go check the stuff out on the Ticky talk but um the one that I saw that that blew me away was you be behind the backboard two basketballs one in each hand and you threw both of them over the backboard

Pretty much at the same time they both went in what what is your most impressive trick shot to date so far would you say Brett C there well you know when people get they ask about that stuff I tell them three things one time it’s it’s first time

First take that’s that’s happened sure absolutely it’s a lifetime of consistent practice and then it takes what it takes so some of those things have happened fast some of those things one one of them took me 15 and a half hours it took seven days of work and but the one the

The one you talking about basketball so I’ve gotten into the basketball thing of um so it it takes it’s just me a tripod camera and basketball is or football out there so so it’s just us I got to entertain the camera but you got also

Got to figure out how can you get all those shots involved in one little video and um and so U yeah that was a pretty cool one it was two basketballs into the hole that bounce it off the ground two go in then two over the backboard that

Go in so it’s pretty wild and right now I’m working on one that’s a sequ I try to do them in sequence multiple shots in a row and I got one right now it’s going five it’s a spin off the finger it’s it’s two basketballs at the same time go

Underneath it’s two basketballs it’s two free throws and I finish with a kick and a foul shot the same time it’s it’s wild so it’s they’re a lot of fun if people haven’t seen them I have it’s true Jubilation when they when they work man it sounds like you’re enjoy and

Retirement I me yeah yeah y I got I had fun doing them and hopefully people they get entertained by doing it too they get a few laughs Brad my name’s Corey by the way we’ve never met but I grew up a people that listen to this and

Watch this know I grew up a huge Florida State fan and and when you were at Florida State that was kind of my sweet SP as a a sports fan I was like 14 15 years old um which probably makes you feel pretty old looking at this guy

Talking about being 14 when you were in college but I don’t think people realize what a good basketball player you were I mean obviously you’re known for what you did on the football field you won a Super Bowl you you played in the league for 10 12 years 15 years whatever it was

Um but man you you started an NCA tournament basketball game at Florida State against Iowa um and I just looked it up before we started you hit all your three-pointers in that game you had 11 or 12 points and if McLoud doesn’t foul out with a horrible charge call you’ll

Probably win that game so I guess I I just wanted to go back to uh how you did both how you were able to do both and do such at a high level because it was just like again we talk about Charlie we talk about jamus we talk about these other

Two sport guys well man you started at football and basketball at Florida State and they were good at both when you were there yeah yeah I was I was very fortunate very blessed with my career and stuff and uh coming out of high school basketball is my favorite sport

Was a threea player coming out of the state of North Carolina couldn’t decide where I wanted to go on my recruiting visit to Georgia Tech with Bobby Kens as the head coach I went to all his camps as a kid and I’m sitting there and he

Said Brad you got a scholarship to come to Georgia Tech but uh what you know what do you want to do he said I said well Coach K I don’t know that’s why I’m here he says which one do you think you’re better at he says I think think

I’m better I said I think I’m better at football in the long run I’m better at basketball now he said Brad do what’s best for you in your career and at that time he had a guy named Dennis Scott he said Brad you can only play five and uh

He’s gonna be the all americ so Dennis Scott changed my life because I chose to go to play for Bobby Bal at Florida State and my first year at Florida State I was being red shirt on the football team I went to coach uh Coach Pat

Kennedy and so I actually just kind of walked on to the team played two years there started for I think 13 games or so went to the in twice but at some point uh I wasn’t dunking on anybody I wasn’t defending anybody and I was more just a

Shooter but we had some great teams there and just fortunate that I was able to play two years of basketball there I got Charlie Ward and I we actually played on a summer league basketball team at Dade Street uh with with a few other guys it was probably the most fun

I ever had playing basketball was actually with Charlie in D Street but it was pretty cool to say I played both Sports and then obviously there been you know a few other guys that have done that too how when we look at your career and I know it’s a different era it’s two

Eras ago really uh but like you didn’t get to start until your red shirt junior year I I don’t know that there’s a lot of quarterbacks in this day and age just because you didn’t you didn’t have the really the the portal at your disposal

And you’re living that life now as a dad as a dad of two really good college athletes but do you think if you grew up in this time your career would have would have turned out differently because it’s hard to wait man at least you had basketball to keep you uh I

Guess engaged in college athletics instead of just watching who would you Peter Tom and Chip Ferguson and those guys you at least you got to still be a college athlete times were different they just they were different I mean we used to watch film on BH films you know

What I’m saying so now it’s high everything is instantaneous it’s different and I’ll say guys are better players now coming out of you know coming out of high school because you’re used to doing seven on S and uh throwing the ball a bunch in high school and

Middle school and so you’re a little bit more prepared but you know when I came out of high school we we we were asking to be red shirted like please red shirt me because you wanted that time to develop and grow and just you did we really didn’t expect to play to maybe

Our third or fourth year at that time there was when I came in was Danny mcmanis and Chip Ferguson and uh Peter Tom Willis and Casey well we’re together and Charlie Ward came behind me and Winky and uh I it was just a list of of

Players and uh so um yeah and but actually my senior year going into my last year I actually wanted it I talked to Coach Rick about you know maybe going to the supplemental draft maybe transferring to a smaller school maybe going Canadian Football League or maybe just quitting football in general going

Back to basketball my my football and basketball career wasn’t that great at Florida State from a from a uh uh performance level I didn’t get to start all those you know two or three years in football you know but it worked out out and uh but grateful for Bobby B and mo

Coach Rick and and just the the growing up here and the just the competit that took place in practice I was it was incredible and it paid long dividends for me uh throughout my 17year career why didn’t you transfer well at that time I just said

I’m gonna stick it out and I don’t know I just had I you know not many people had done that especially dropping down to another level right I I you know I had to drop down to FCS at that time it was kind of to be eligible right to be

Eligible to play immediately you would have to yeah yeah if you played if you went to a division one school you you’d had to sit out a year to drop down a level you could have done that but then I’m like my dream’s to play here and I

Said if I’m good enough um someone’s G me a chance somehow I got into the combine um somehow you know I was drafted by the Minnesota banss in the ninth round the guy that actually drafted me was a guy that recruited me in high school Jack Burns uh who just

Knew about my story knew I was kind of a late bloomer and knew they just kind of had a rough go in college just things didn’t work out for me so uh I was for that time and things just kind of worked out but I you know the transort portal

It’s real and now what’s real is I don’t know if I believe in nil I believe in collectives I don’t know I don’t know if people are making money in nil to be honest right they’re making money in collectives where people are just here you go pay for play so things are a

Little bit different now and it does it does change things when when guy when colleges bring in players and they here some collective money it changes things because that’s your starter and that’s your starter and then you know I’m not your guy anymore coach so that’s it’s it’s totally different nowadays uh than

When we grew up I think you’re a pretty good example Brad of of the portal being a benefit to the athlete because look man you started half of 1990 then Casey took over and they didn’t lose again until the wide right so he was very good

But you were very good you know he finished second in the Heisman well I don’t know man you you were a very good quarterback that didn’t get a chance to Showcase your skills because you at the same school with another quarterback who was the same age as you or the same year

As you anyway so in that instance I I do like the portal like Brad Johnson go give your chance give yourself a chance to shine at Georgia Tech now you’re a different quarterback than Shawn Jones but you could you could have played quarterback at Georgia Tech I think

That’s the good part of the portal is giving guys like you that are very good players clearly you won the you won in the long run we see what’s behind you um you did all right for yourself but it would have been cool for you to get that

Senior year to play no doubt about it I don’t blame I don’t blame the portal I don’t it’s it’s another opportunity if a kid needs it or you don’t know what coaches are coming and going a lot more than they used to coordinators and who they who they’ve given in you know to

Selective jobs and and things that it’s it’s a different time now so I I I think you just got to know when you do leave that you know you gotta have a burden of hand you don’t want to go out there without just like where am I gonna go

Like be careful of that you better kind of know what’s you know the opportunities of a school that you can go to so I was I was you know it worked out for me to stay but you you go through you know Caleb Williams he just

Won the Heisman and all that kind of stuff and Joe burough and the list goes on so it’s worked out for a lot of kids to transfer portal I don’t I hate it for a lot of different reasons but it does give you a second or third chance two

More quick questions I had about Florida State then Aon I’ll allow you to talk um best player you played with on the football team best or against and best player you played with or against in basketball yeah in uh in football playing with uh our secondary going

Against you know you look over there and you see Martin Mayu who was a 14-year NFL guy won a Super Bowl and there was deer Dodge who had seven-year career and then then there was uh LeRoy Butler who just made the Hall of Fame and then oh

My gosh there’s number two over there there’s Deion Sanders so Deion Sanders blows him away for me and tbuck too you play I guess you play tbuck too yeah but Dion so you were a freshman with Dion or were you was that your fir okay he was a

Year he was a year ahead of me but okay Dion to me Dion was the best ever especially for me at Florida State um he took away the field he dominated the game um incredible NFL player all the above so uh you know I will always make

Way for Dion prime time and then the best basketball player I played against I mean we I think going against Louisville we beat those guys we won the Metro met won the Metro conference one year and uh never nervous p and Ellis per Ellison and then uh playing against

BJ Armstrong and those guys at Iowa and the in the championship then up in Virginia Tech bimo Kohl’s who was actually I think in Olympics he was no joke man he was no joke that guy yep so it’s it’s incredible I got to play against a lot of great players football

And basketball and uh just blessed to be able to do that who was the kid at Memphis that had the goggles that would always light y up yep Elliot Perry there it is that’s right that guy was incredible too yeah he’s up and down the Metro at that time South Carolina

Virginia Tech Southern Miss two lane Cincinnati Louisville Memphis I mean I mean there were a lot of great players underrated players they’re just great great players just to get just to get the national attention but it was a tough conference and I assume you’d locked them down right when you’re on

Defense you don’t let anybody get by you I had five fouls to give you know so it was a man it was a fast game you just would I you realize you just can’t get your shot off you don’t get to like you not out there like playing horse you

Don’t get the set shot and then you got to finish to the hole and rebounding the ball like it’s a it’s an explosive game but U yeah it’s a it’s a it’s a long long arms game I had short arms short legs [Laughter] so Brad you know as Corey mentioned at

Florida State you you get that opportunity to start uh during the season then and then Casey takes things over how did you go about trying to continue improve even though kind of the writing was on the wall I mean I’ve gone to the archives and read some stuff and

I don’t know if you’re one of maybe the first guys on campus to have a performance coach and Alex sran but what were the kind of things that you did the goals that you had to try to continue your career even though you knew things were maybe kind of slipping out of your

Hands in terms of trying to play for Florida State at that point yeah uh Casey and I we talked about list of quarterbacks that were there that were competing with and then obviously Casey and I we were best friends we came in the same year they told me Casey was

Gonna be a scrawny kid from North Florida Christian he’ll never play there and they told him I’d be a skinny kid that just play basketball you know we both all Americans coming out of high school and all that stuff and so it you know it didn’t work out well it I didn’t

Play Bad at Flor State I just didn’t just never happen it was kind of weird I I started you know six games I think and uh they made the move Casey played awesome was a runner up to the Heisman number one team in the country and you

Know I just felt like man it’s just a matter of time and so I had a trainer there named Alex serono he was actually from uh from Chile he ran the he’s a dorm manager he had got PhD and sports psychologist and we were very we were

Close and still to this day we did a lot of sand PL metrics and uh I don’t know if you remember out there the old volleyball court was spent a lot of days in that hot sand at one o’clock and uh messing balls sand plows um you know

Everyone said I was too slow and all those kind of things and then we read a lot of different books how to control your breathing and so we knew that there was gonna be a moment that was going to come in my time for my career but it

Just wasn’t happening at that time in Florida State for me could not give up I was going to give myself every chance to go to the combine to get in the NFL and then just was afforded to you know be ready at the right time when it happens

And uh so that’s what happened but um you know a lot of people have horror stories of their coaches and all they have excuses like I have all the even those things didn’t go well for me like had so much respect for Coach Bobby Bal so much respect for Coach Mart Rick

Who’s now my my brother-in-law he hooked me up with his sister Nicky so I mean it’s it’s just a strange weird story that just it was kind of a you know I love going back to Tallahassee being back you know being a seminal like just very grateful for my time there even

Though my career didn’t go the way I wanted to go on the field and but I made so many lasting relationships and and just bond with so many players on those teams you got that flag behind you Super Bowl 37 you obviously led the Bucks to that Championship the first in their

Franchise history but that wasn’t an easy path either I mean I kind of want to maybe zip through some of the parts of your career but can you can you walk us through 1995 and going and playing in the world league for the London monarchs was that something that you thought of

The coaching staff of Minnesota had to allocate you did your agent talk to you about it what was what was that point like and were you married and did you have to move you and the Theon the wife to London how didd that go yeah little

All the above I was ninth round pick coming out of out of Florida State 14th quarterback chosen I was there with that Minnesota Rich Ganon Jim McMahon and then waren Moon I felt like I was ready to play in my third or fourth year like

I was ready but then I I was backing up waren Moon he’s a Hall of Famer like how’s it going to happen and so uh the world league had taken place back in like 1989 1990 and then went away it came back there in 95 I asked the

Coaches like let me take this i w take the chance so was the boldest move in my career to go play in the world league 19 19 quarterbacks went over there only three came back and you you hear the success stories of whether it’s mine CT Warner uh John kidna um some other

Couple other quarterbacks that went over there and they came back and had success but you know went over to London got to be a starter make plays make mistakes uh for 10 games um the stadium I think we had nine or 10 thousand people in the stadium the end

Zones were only seven and a half yards deep and it’s the boldest move of my career to go over there and play and put it out there and then come back with Minnesota vikins then but my dad always told me he says it’s better to have it’s

Better to be prepared and not have an opportunity than to have an opportunity and not be prepared so I know I needed that time to go play because I didn’t play that much at for state hadn’t played that much in Minnesota my first few years and so I was thankful for that

Time to play for the lon monarchs so you did it just for game reps essentially just to get like with people coming at you and to feel the Blitz and to read a defense and instantaneously like that was why you were doing it uh all the

Above to go be a leader to go prove that I could be a starter and so the hardest part about it which I was it it worked out great for me being in Minnesota there for three or four years I knew the system then I had to go to London and

Learn a whole new system and then come back because you’re missing uh mini camps OTAs and then you start riding for training camp why already knew the system a lot of quarterbacks that go over there they didn’t know their systems coming back to an NFL team

Hoping to get back right so I knew it and that went as a back up eventually War Moon got hurt and then I ran off with it but that time and in London was U pivotal for my career yeah so you come back and you finally get a team to lead

Obviously the Vikings uh in 98 there’s this rookie ke from uh Marshall that ends up being pretty good you threw two touchdowns him in week one Randy Moss you end up also throwing the ball to kesan Johnson but back to London real quick did was Lavar ball a teammate of

Yours any Lavar ball stories for us man there’s a lot of stories here in London you know tell some save some don’t tell it all but I mean Lavar was on the team and he was a tight endend and our tight end the starting tight end

Was Michael tiley he was great came from Iowa played at Buffalo for a little bit but Lavar ball was man I was like golly who’s this big old dude these muscles and like God he was always he always said he’s gonna be famous he said I’m

Gonna be famous H and and every day off he he was in France or he was in Spain like I don’t know how he got to where he got like it was and then you know just but I just remember this big guy didn’t play that much for us and then you know

20 years later I’m like I’m hearing about his kids and you know the big baller brand and all the above so but a fun got to be around and uh kind of fun to hear the stories of him now uh what he’s done with his kids and all the

Above do you have any big baller brand shoes I do not not that’s too bad for I got the BBB Big Bad Brad stuff that’s about it for you br was it was it Bittersweet you know 98 that was what 15 and one with the Vikings and Gary Anderson

Missed the field goal and you know Randall Cunningham gets a big contract after that and it kind of seems like you know you’re G to have to move on again but the you know the commanders now with the Washington football team you know gives up a first round pick I think a

Second round pick a third round pick to get you I mean was it was it a Bittersweet thing were you excited to go work under North Turner and see a team invest that much into you and know that you know once again you’re gonna have a

Shot to keep a team as as a leader 98 was a crazy time for me a little bit uh because at the end of 97 I had a major major neck surgery I lost all the hand strength of my arm lost everything you woke up so can you I mean I don’t want

To Lost over all this stuff you just woke up one morning things just didn’t feel right yeah in 97 at the end of the season we playing Green Bay Packers on Monday Night Football woke up with the crick in my neck I couldn’t move I I

Couldn’t drive to the game my mom drove me to the game playing dur the middle of the game second quarter the ball was falling out of my hand it just it was ugly they pulled me got me out of the game um next morning I wake up did a

Hand hand test I had 6% hand strength compared to my left hand it’s unbelievable couldn’t pick up uh uh couldn’t pick up my it was done and uh and 36 hours later had a neck surgery had to come back recover from it going into that 98 season started the first

Two games of the year got hot thrw seven touchdowns I think the first two games broke my broke my ankle missed the next six weeks came back game nine broke my thumb and then I was out for the season so that team went 15 to1 but it was kind

Of a blessing in disguise that year because I don’t think I could have played with the injury that I had for my my neck in 98 and then that’s when the move was made uh you know got traded to Washington love playing in Washington for North Turner uh impacted my career

Big time I was able to make the Pro Bowl we led the won the division there in Washington my first year and so it was just a change that took place it was it was no animosity it was just it kind of worked out for for Minnesota and myself

At the same time you go to you go to Tampa and Tony dung is the coach and then you you feel comfortable in Tampa you made the choice to go there and then John guden shows up was that like oh gosh here we go a new coach I’m going

Have to prove myself again what what were the emotions when Tampa made the coaching change going into 2002 yeah and uh we we we’ won the we uh we made the playoffs with Tony dun as the head coach uh we get beat in the playoffs by Philadelphia next day the day before the

The playoff game they Tony told the team he’s like listen I’m good the owner said I’m gonna be back next year let’s just go play we lose the game he got fired like what just took place and so for about it took uh the owners of glazers

About six weeks to decide who the head coach was going to be so they brought in John Gruden when they did immediately I called Rich Ganon who was you know the starter at Minnesota with me uh and then he played for guden at Oakland at that

Time and and rich is like dude I’m I’m I’m ticked because you’re taking my you’re taking my head coach my play caller and he said I’m excited for you Brad because he’s to program you in ways that you’ve never been programmed before as a quarterback teach you offenses and

Defenses on both sides of the ball and just have you audible ready and all those kind of things he said you’re gonna love playing for him and uh so guden came in I had my first meeting with him walked into his office and it was a dark like little small cave it’s

Always dark he’s just watching film and he he turned on like a little light and he said Brad he says uh we’re going to win a Super Bowl this year and uh we’re going to declare war on our defense the number one defense in the world Warren Sapp and John Lynch and Ronde

Barber and how’s our defense going to stop Blast Off The Joker right X short 22x drive halfback burst and how’s our defense gonna stop triple right F right 358 Nebraska ex seam so what he did he brought in uh competitive juices on the offense and defensive size of the ball

Brought in about 15 free agents that year uh from Joe Jer vicious and Ken dilger and Ricky Dudley and roan over Michael Pitman list goes on and uh so really I’d love playing for guden it was just a weird uh weird exit you leave Tony dun who been Hall of Fame coach and

Won a Super Bowl with Colts and then I got a great coach in John guden so it’s fortunate playing for both of them we’re we’re in Super Bowl week obviously and a lot you know I was just thinking while you were talking like Brock pie is getting a lot of attention because he

Was Mr Irrelevant he was the last pick well he was the last pick of the seventh round you my man were picked two rounds later than Brock pie so you getting to a Super Bowl is really a testament uh to to self-belief and having in self-confidence and hard work uh and

Stick toiv this and all that but I but I wanted to ask what is it like you you by the time you had played in the Super Bowl I think you had probably played in 110 NFL games what is that 10 minutes like before the Super Bowl or when

You’re hearing the national anthem I don’t know who’s saying your national anthem but uh but but who what is what are the nerves like are they different are they crazy and how do you control them yeah it’s Cal it’s it’s it’s you make the hair tingle on my back right

Now so it’s uh it’s different it’s different and for the guys that playing it to lose they’ll tell you it’s the game’s you know it’s just a big party and it’s overrated the guys that want it they’ll tell you it’s the best day of their lives yeah and Selene Dion saying

God Bless America and the Dixie Chick saying the national anthem and wow Don schula and Bob greasy and Larry zoner out there doing the coin flip and and you know you’re sitting there your whole life you’ve you’ve eaten popcorn and had drinks sitting there watching the game

And then next thing you know you’re in that game and the world’s watching you and uh that at that time there was only one week in between the Super Bowl compared to two and uh it’s Mayhem when the game starts is it kind of turns into

Like another game but as it as it takes place and then at the end of the game it’s a little bit different because there’s confetti that falls and it’s it’s an incredible moment to be a part of during that game and actually at the

I brought a picture on if you see it but this is the picture after the game I got to take a picture with John Gruden and my wife Nikki’s seven months pregnant and I’m holding my son uh with she’s pregnant with Jake and then my other son

Max he’s two years old and we’re saying we’re going to Disney you oh nice so it’s pretty pretty cool to be a part of that game but uh you know Rich Ganon Jay Rice Tim Brown Bill Roman Ali Charles Woodson Rod Woodson like Hall of Famers

On both sides of that field and uh so pretty pretty cool to say you got to play that game and then to have won it and Derrick Brooks obviously was one of the biggest stars on that field yeah and maybe I honestly maybe the best player

On the field but I mean he was just incredible he was probably one of the best outside not probably he is one of the best outside linebackers that that ever lived well you were there when he was a freshman when he came in all B Hood USA Today Defensive Player of the

Year coming into Florida State along with markette Smith what did you think of Derek Brooks when you first saw him Dereck at that time was I think he came in as like a strong safety yeah he was a safety and and you know you can bring in

The list of all the guys that came in and you know say he signed 20 all-americans or what everybody’s all state all Amic whatever like you really don’t think anything about at that time all right here’s a new group of young freshman coming in and eventually dere

Earned his way and then was an allamerican at at Florida State like he was in high school then became a you know eventually Hall of Famer and the pros and but just I remember he was he was one with u great leadership great work e great work work ethic and just uh

The same guy he was then as he was now but he had to find his way as a freshman through sophomore and junior year then become the man that he he became and and uh but that you know the stories that could be told at Bert RS Hall you know

From I mean it’s pretty incredible to list you know just all the we got his comaraderie back at Florida State back in that day when you lived in a in a in an athletic dorm they had dorm checks and but I remember on Friday nights you know guys playing checkers or chess and

Then all of a sudden you know later’ be a race out there in the parking lot who’s the fastest you know you see Randy Moss and trell Buckley and you know sprinting out there between cars it was pretty cool time uh at that time Florida State right I know you know you know

You’re not thear of college football I don’t know if you have any solutions but you know what is your take on the sport being a spectator obviously having two sons that are still playing the sport I mean we talked about nil and collectives and you know I guess a lot of us are

Just kind of told that we need to embrace change and kind of deal with what’s happening to the sport I mean in your mind is this the best path forward right now what this sport is the track that it’s on or are you hoping that there’s going to be some kind of

Sensible change done to kind of preserve some of the Integrity or some of the the tradition of the sport of what we grew up watching and how you played the game yeah it’s different and good luck to all those parents and and high school kids that going through college you know you

Can have great experience and you want to get your education um the memories that you can take place and the you know hope to be a part of a team that can play for a championship and and compete and have a a coach that you can look back one day

Like Bobby B and say that’s a man of integrity uh that’s who I that was my coach you know that was my team and things are different now it’s you know everything’s instantaneous from social media uh you know how the the portal is interesting you say great things about

It you can say negative things about it um the nil thing I don’t believe in nil like I said I believe in the collective and so I I don’t know I wish there was a set guideline that they could take place on this thing but now you’re getting

Kids in in high school um you start transferring in middle school if you’re a quarterback to get yourself set up for high school and uh so it’s it’s real you have an agent coming out of high school sometimes a Handler I wish there would be some guidelines on this thing and you know

They never I think they they put the they put the cart before the horse on this one so good luck to all those making decisions and it’s a it’s a tough tough thing for kids to go through but at the end of the day you want those

Kids to have a great experience uh great relationship with their coaches get your education get your degree then hopefully you know you get your dreams come true as far as what you perform on the field and hopefully get a shot at the pros well what kind of sports dad were you are

You you know growing up I was fortunate with my my my dad actually got to coach me in all my leagues baseball football basketball and those kind of things and I was blessed to do the same thing with both my boys Max and Jake coached them

In all the sports all the way through you know youth football all the way through middle school and high school and so it’s pretty cool to do that now I’m just a dad sitting in the stands eating popcorn are you nervous and um I don’t know if I’m nervous I’m I

Can’t yell down there and say hey here’s the Blitz and here’s what’s coming you know I mean there’s there’s you know a&n there’s 180,000 people there both kids are in North Carolina but no you’re excited for your kids because you know they worked hard they’re prepared and

And you just wanted to be a you know be coached the right way and those kind of things and just let them Blaze their own path you know so I can’t really say I’m nervous I’m kind of excited for them and I know they’ve done the work and Trust

In that you know when they show these parents in the stands and I have a son that’s a 15-year-old uh baseball player not nearly at the level of your kids but I get nervous when he’s at bat just just for him I want him to succeed and you’ll

See some of these shots of parents in the stands and they look like they’re about to throw up they’re so nervous but you they’ve shown you in the stands a few times before too you don’t look you look you look excited when they do well

But you don’t ever look like oh my God he’s about to vomit on that person in front of well I I listen to I like to just sit right beside my wife okay she says we said right by shoulder to shoulder and I wear these big headphones

With my little radio on there and because I like to listen to the commentators and kind of what’s going on in the game old school that’s old school right there I wear the big headphones you know what I mean I don’t know how to download anything I got this little AM

FM radio that I listen to so but um you know that’s the way I listen to the game we kind of we’re nudging each other the whole time and and those kind of things but um you know sometimes you got to cover up your mouth because you might say something you know

I got caught one time but but U it it does happen but you you just want good for your all all the kids on the team yeah you know the work like the work level they put into it’s a lot I mean there is a lot of stake every time those

Kids go out there on that field and but the end of the day you want them to live out their dream Blaze their own path and do their own thing and and so for us it’s really strange as you know one’s a quarterback one’s a receiver I mean a

Tight end and so like you’re just um you almost come you know how was your day good day bad day you become a a psychologist at times you know I mean how do you deal with this this one just had a great day with this one had a

Tough day this one the coach Y and this one is praised and then you know then dealing with all the social media part of it that’s that’s a whole different deal too so uh but you just want to be there to support your kids and that’s

What we try to do we’ve kept you way too long I got I got one last question for for me Brad just back to the that Super Bowl game um you know obviously Michigan came under Fire into their uh path to a national championship because of their

Sort of system of figuring out signs and things of that nature you guys did it the the right way the legal way the ethical way your had coach John G obviously came from Oakland Bill Callahan took over that was his offensive line coach were you ever more

Prepared ever more confident going to a game oddly enough than the Super Bowl yeah it’s a great thing you bring up so a lot of people said Gruden knew we knew their plays because of Gruden you know what’s interesting for them they had guden for four years yeah they knew our

Plays better than we knew them because we were in the first year of learning him so but John grud he was unbelievable when you came in the meetings every day like it was it was it was his his hair was on fire you were always prepared for

What’s next the moment was never too big because the pressure he applied in pressure and in practice and uh so I love playing for guden and he had us you know he he spurred on the defense as much as he did the offense for us and uh

We had great coaches on there so I I love playing for Gruden he got you prepared like no other and so the Super Bowl was kind of for us is kind of antil climatic because us beating Philadelphia in the vet the last game of the season

Our Nemesis that was probably as big as anything to us beating Philadelphia on the road in the vet and then playing the Super Bowl after that that that was where you w it right yeah we could we Philadelphia beat we played Philadelphia five games at 19

Game stretch yeah and uh two of those were in the playoffs and how the games went and U man great team great coaches and all that kind of stuff but beating them they were our Nemesis and beating them was like that propelled us to do

What we did the Super Bowl Brad I have a quick trivia question before we we go do you know your longest career rush in the NFL how long it was I do I believe it’s 28 yards there it was a uh actually it was third and four and they had two wide three

Techniques the guards were kind of like wide and like holy smokes so I actually checked to a a QB sneak on third and four and it kind of surprised everybody and I end up running for 28 yards I’m running and I’m like like please somebody tackle me because I did not

Feel good in space so so that was my longest run and are you still the are were you the last player to throw a touchdown to yourself are you still the only player that’s done that you did do that right I did do it at 1997 I believe it was 97 uh touchdown

Pass touchdown catch myself and then later Marcus Mariota did it with the Tennessee Titans oh man so we kind of did so but it was it was pretty cool to say you’re the first yeah right we when it happened we did not have a clue what

It was we we didn’t know and then the next day we found out it was you know 12 points in fantasy football I was gonna say that’s a big fantasy that’s a big fantasy play where you throw it and catch it so the guy deflected it you use

Your athleticism to catch it and go house it in the endzone that was the remake of The Longest Yard so yeah sure and it actually ended up winning s for play of the year that year so it’s pretty cool and the noes play North Carolina this year correct yeah yeah

Actually played down in Play Down tah no I’m not going to be dumb I know you root for your sons family trumps everything I’m not going to ask you that but will you uh will you go to some of your old hauns when you’re down here I don’t know

How often you get back to go to Tallahassee but I assume you’re looking forward to that trip just to go down memory lane a little bit Yeah I actually came back I’ve been back a few times uh been back for a couple basketball reunions was just down there about two

Weeks ago and uh man got so many great friends and stuff all that there so yeah we’ll definitely be be be down there I’ll be dressed up blue this time the one the one time but uh man I you know listen I lived went to school there at

Florida State for 5 years lived in Tallahassee for 15 years after that right and then our kids were born in Tallahassee so I mean I just can’t tell you the impact of just that decision for me to come to Florida State as a as a high school kid out of black matter

North Carolina was the best decision I made my life because it was I was I wasn’t just choosing a school I I chose a place where um to play for Coach Bal and Coach Rick was like Men of Integrity and just U thankful for everything that Tallahasse and and those people and the

People of tasse and people of for State have have given me over the years Brad Johnson y’all two Sports Santa Florida State Super Bowl champion thanks so much for taking time out this gotta be one of the best weeks of of the year for you imagine right

Everyone yeah it just makes you pinch yourself like K that was us we got to go through that you’re excited for those quarterbacks because it’s a man it’s when you when somebody’s going to win it they’re not going to sleep for three days going through the parade and going

Through the what what it kind of brings to their career and it just so hard to get there there’s only 34 quarterbacks that have won it there’s only 30 that are living and so it’ll be interesting to see uh one of those two guys what’s going to happen for them that’s a great

Frat fraternity to be in man that’s like people that walked on the moon like that’s a very rare uh population to be a part of there’s only 30 of you guys still around that’s incredible yeah it’s pretty awesome also I mean think about all how there’s more Kentucky Derby

Winners there’s more guys that have won the Masters more presidents right more uh guys I mean it’s just it’s a small Club to be a part of so it’s a pretty pretty pretty awesome find him on social everybody Big Bad Brad 14 on we’re we’re gonna wait for that that five trick shot

Dania it’s crazy it’s gonna happen it’s gonna happen this week it is nuts so the social media the Instagram and Twitter that’s brador Johnson _ 14 and The Big Bad Brad 14s on Tik Tok but it’s it’s it’s wild so have fun with it thank I appreciate guys thank you thank you buddy