Ep 184 - Waiting For Your Opportunity with A.Q. Shipley

What's Next with Eric Wood

Eric Wood

Sports

5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A.Q. Shipley played 12 seasons in the NFL as a center before a neck injury cut his career short. Drafted in the seventh round of the 2009 NFL Draft, A.Q. played for five different franchises including a Super Bowl win in 2020 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Today on the show, A.Q. and Eric talks some ball, the importance of waiting for the right moment and some of the similarities throughout their careers. Other topics include:

(2:15-5:00) - Two sport athlete in high school

(5:00-9:15) - Being drafted by his hometown of Pittsburg and how it was the worst thing possible

(9:15-12:45) - Overcoming adversity. Waiting for your opportunity

(12:45-20:15) - What makes Bruce Arians and Tom Brady so special

(20:15-27:00) - Neck injury that ended A.Q.'s playing days

(27:00-35:00) - Transition into media. Working with Pat McAfee

(35:00-39:45) - The state of offensive line play in the NFL today

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0:00.0	It was kind of a cool deal. It was kind of a cool moment for me. I'll never forget that day, that moment. But yeah, that was it, man. I just kept telling myself, once I get an opportunity, you can't let them take that away from you. And that's kind of where I went.
0:24.3	Welcome to W's Next with Eric Wood, where we will prepare you to make your what's next
0:28.1	in life your best yet. Our next guest is AQ Shipley. An AQ is a 12-year NFL veteran that played
0:35.4	for the Steelers, Eagles, Colts, Ravens, Cardinals, and Buccaneers.
0:39.7	He won the Remington Award for the Best Center in College Football in 2008 and was a member of the Buccaneers Super Bowl team in 2021.
0:47.0	AQ has an incredible story of resilience in the NFL before suffering a career-ending neck injury just like myself.
0:53.7	We were going to have some fun center-to-sender talk on this podcast,
0:56.5	and you will love hearing his story.
0:58.9	If you haven't already, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast wherever you
1:02.2	tune in weekly.
1:03.3	And also, if you haven't already, go to Amazon and order my new book, tackle what's
1:07.5	next, and the link to that is in the show notes.
1:10.3	Thanks and enjoy a cue welcome the
1:14.6	podcast brother honor to be here brother yeah i'm fired up for this and let's start here um i'm an
1:21.3	ohio guy originally you're pennsylvania who has better high school football between the two
1:26.1	states it's a great question.
1:28.0	I think, you know, some of that's been diminished a little bit with kind of all the early
1:32.5	enrollment and all that stuff.
1:34.0	But the big 33 used to kind of really bring that thing together.
1:37.8	I used to kind of love that.
1:39.4	I played in that game.
1:40.5	And, you know, I think they even did away with it when Pennsylvania, Maryland for a couple
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