Ep 181 - Get Back to Work with Alex Mack

What's Next with Eric Wood

Eric Wood

Sports

5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Alex Mack is a former American football center. He played college football for the University of California, Berkeley and was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the first round with the 21st overall of the 2009 NFL Draft. During his 13 year career, Alex also played for the Atlanta Falcons and the San Francisco 49ers and earned Pro Bowl honors 7 times.

Today on the show, Alex and Eric talk about some of the challenges of the Center position, some of their favorite playing day memories and much more. Topics include:

(2:20-7:30) - First year of retirement. Alex's style of play

(7:30-16:30) - Alex's last year with the 49ers. What makes Kyle Shanahan a great coach.

(16:30-24:00) - Alex's credit for success? Humility and work ethic.

(24:00-32:15) - Toughest players/types of players Alex played against

(32:15-39:00) - Favorite travel spot. Future in broadcasting?

And much more. Rate, review and subscribe to the show today!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I remember going home and be like,
0:07.0	I'm going to get benched.
0:09.0	I'm going to benched.
0:10.0	I'm going to get, like, they're going to cut me.
0:13.0	I'm going to be, you know, done.
0:15.0	It's like football dream is over.
0:17.0	Like, life is going to be terrible.
0:19.0	And then you just, you know, show they just you know show up you know the next
0:21.8	Tuesday and Wednesday and get back to work welcome to what's next with Eric Wood where we
0:30.6	will prepare you to make your what's next in life your best yet our next guest is Alex Mac
0:35.8	and Alex was drafted 21st overall in 2009 and then became a seven-time
0:40.5	pro bowler and was named to the 2010's all-decade team. Throughout his 13-year career, he played for
0:46.8	the Browns, Falcons, and 49ers. We're going to have some fun center-to-center talk on this podcast,
0:52.7	and with as well- rounded of a person as
0:54.9	Alex is we're going to learn a lot as well if you haven't already please rate review and
0:59.7	subscribe to the podcast wherever you tune in weekly and also if you haven't already go to
1:04.2	amazon and order my book tackle what's next and the link to that is in the show notes
1:09.0	thanks and enjoy Alex welcome to the podcast.
1:14.8	Thanks for having me on. Good to be here. Yeah, absolutely. So this is your first year in retirement.
1:21.1	How's that treating you? I'm enjoying it. It's a little weird to like not have to be, you know,
1:27.2	smashing into things every other day or whatever it is. It's a little weird to, like, not have to be, you know, smashing into things every
1:28.6	other day or whatever it is. It's nice. It was time to retire for me. Like, my body started to be
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