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00:00Live from Radio Row Sports Grid's coverage of Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans
00:05Joe Lisi joined by NFL legend former Alabama and Seattle Seahawks running
00:10back Sean Alexander. Great atmosphere here Sean in New Orleans. Thoughts about
00:16about just the big game in general in the city of New Orleans? You know New
00:20Orleans is already a fabulous city and then to have the Super Bowl be here it
00:23has like all this great feel to it you know you know you already mentioned
00:27Alabama like you get that Sugar Bowl feel and then you take it to a whole
00:31nother level with the Super Bowl this it's gonna be great. When you look at the
00:34matchup right Kansas City looking for a 3p and I've said the hottest team
00:38potentially in the NFL in terms of the Philadelphia Eagles they've won 15 in
00:42the last 16 games but we talked about it the cherry on top has been the
00:46performance regular season and postseason of Saquon Barkley. Yeah. How
00:51do you see this game playing out? You know it's it's foolish to ever vote
00:55against Patrick Mahomes but if you're gonna do it you got to take the guy that
00:59could be the best running back in the league that could be the MVP he won't
01:04win it but he easily could be and if he did it win it and then you got three
01:08Bama guys you know so you know you got Jalen Hurst and Devontae
01:16Adams man like they're gonna play lights out like they're I expect big team big
01:21things out of the Bama boys and and Saquon's just special man like I think
01:25he's in a groove so the Chiefs are the perfect team for what for this day and
01:30age you know I mean they run just enough Patrick's gonna move the ball around
01:34he's got a great golden arm you know but uh but the Eagles do have a great chance
01:38to win this thing. When you look at Saquon do you feel like the performance
01:42and even Derrick Henry for Baltimore the evolution and maybe more in terms of how
01:47they utilize the running back you think we're gonna see that shift because a lot
01:50of teams would say you know in regards to the past few years we don't need a
01:55top-flight running back we could get a maybe a free agent to duplicate that
02:00type of productivity but when you see what Saquon and Derrick Henry have
02:03brought both Baltimore and Philly do you think we're gonna go back to maybe the
02:07running back being the main focus of an offense? I do think that's gonna happen
02:11you take them and they take Josh Jacobs of Green Bay you know like there's a
02:15couple of teams that are like wait we figured out but that's just evolution
02:18you know you go back to football the quarterback was the best guy on the
02:22play on the field best athlete ran through did it all and then they said
02:26wait a minute we can have angles if we give the ball to the tailback so then
02:29the tailback became the best athlete and then they backed the quarterback up to
02:32do odds and be like oh let's do shotgun and now they're throwing around so now
02:36you got actually these actually great receivers and wide receivers and they
02:38said well wait a minute what if the quarterback could run and throw wait a
02:41minute did we just start all over again we did and now they're gonna be like
02:44well wait a minute now we're trying to stop this quarterback that can run and
02:46throw now we can hand the ball to the running back because the numbers say if
02:50you're trying to cover these receivers and the running back running right you
02:53handing the ball to him left he's got numbers and so we're just seeing the
02:57football be football you know. Absolutely I think he's gonna have a dynamic
03:00performance not just on the ground but maybe through the air we'll talk about
03:04Alabama in a little bit but I know that you're a part of a great organization
03:09standtogether.org talk to me a little bit about that. You know stand
03:14together is about 850 or more of some of the greatest businessmen women and
03:20social entrepreneurs in the country they put together their time talents and
03:24treasures to help tackle some of the country's biggest issues from the
03:28juvenile justice system to community affairs to how to do business for good
03:33in communities and I jumped in with them and we helped do a cafe momentum which
03:39was a basically a restaurant for incarcerated juveniles and they
03:47used to call those kids throwaways and and we realized that the formula was
03:51putting the right ecosystem around and put the aunties and uncles around and
03:54what are they they could be social workers or it could be psychologists it
03:57could be a homeschool director a principal and we we put them around them
04:03and also gave them jobs at Cafe Momentum and next you know there was
04:06recidivism for these kids it's like 11% now the country's recidivism is 45 to 50
04:12and so we're seeing great work but stand together was the fuel behind them and
04:17they've got several different other projects from care portal which is
04:20helping kids and families that need before they go into the you know child
04:24care or foster care programs you know just countless and countless of other
04:28programs that are about helping the communities and showing everybody that
04:32if we actually start from the bottom and the people that are doing the great work
04:35and help them all get healthy and strong that we could raise a generation
04:40of great human beings that would be really awesome for our country and so
04:43stand together it's been a lot of fun about seven years now and what I've been
04:47enjoying is pulling more of my NFL brother right the play current players
04:51now and legends of the past and in this great community effort and it's a
04:56fraternity right yeah I mean whether you played 30 years ago whether you just
05:00retired maybe you know two or three I mean it's a close-knit community where
05:04former players love to help out and yeah and I think that goes unnoticed
05:07sometimes right we can't create on a lot of the negativity sometimes yeah as
05:11opposed to the great work that NFL players are doing yeah you know what
05:15what's really cool is we've been grabbing the guys are playing even today
05:18you know we did this great work with you know Joe Burrow a few years ago you got
05:24mouse kill broods all pro all pro special teams with the Steelers Rashad
05:28White running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers we're grabbing the players
05:32now DeMar Hamlin and I we've been we've been working on so many projects for
05:35community with the chase of millions in Pittsburgh and you know he's with the
05:39Bills of course but but all these guys are like how can we leave a legacy when
05:44we're done but it starts but putting the right foundation together now and so
05:48that's what stand together and my working with all the guys with with the
05:52NFL and and inspire change we're all putting this together like how can we
05:56have the great impact on communities now that can last even when the guys are
06:00done playing and they could find out more about the community and the site at
06:05standtogether.org standtogether.org it gets you to the place and then you'll be
06:10able to find me and my team and and we're gonna help players that get there
06:13and then if you're a fan of work fan of community man get on there and and what
06:19we always say is let's figure out how you can be your best you for the
06:22community and we find ways to get everybody involved that's great we have
06:26about a minute I do want to just pick your brain about Kaitlyn DeBoer in
06:29Alabama huge expectations down in three overall Jalen Milrow now enters the NFL
06:35draft just give me your thoughts about Kaitlyn DeBoer in terms of year number
06:39one do you feel he's on the hot seat and has to make the college football playoff
06:43I think people have to put in reality like what as he's got more wins than any
06:47other first-year coach in Alabama history more than Bear Bryant yes more
06:52than Nick Saban more than Gene Stallings you know we're gonna list all the great
06:56quarter great head coaches Alabama and he would be like who had the best record
06:59at the year one Kaitlyn DeBoer so when everybody takes a deep breath and be
07:03like what do we got even the great Nick Saban had to put his team together to do
07:08it his way we know where coach Ryan's coming in to come run the offense who
07:12was his right-hand man a good friend of his at UW and you know now he's coming
07:17in everything is going the way we want this thing to be coach was a great
07:21recruiter he's a great father of players he's a great leader of men it's he's
07:26gonna do great but we'll see what happens I mean unbelievable when you
07:30think about the talent that has come through Alabama and we talked about
07:33running backs right yeah Gibbs is lighting it up yeah Detroit Lions
07:37unbelievable yeah you got Jameer Derek Josh Jacobs you know we've got we got
07:43three superstars and they're unbelievable amazing unbelievable I'm
07:47very proud of those guys one quick thought what can you just if there's one
07:52word of advice that you can give younger players that you've learned from high
07:56school to the NFL what would it be you know what there's always this thought
08:01that you can hype yourself into it but the same is still the same get coached
08:08up and do the work that's how you become great and so everybody everybody's
08:13chemical program to be this great massive weapon is a little bit different
08:18you know this person needs this much more sleep this person needs this much
08:21right so do the self work to go get yourself to be the best version of
08:25yourself and then let that thing fly when it's game night awesome pleasure
08:29the great Shawn Alexander we'll be right back