Ep 198 - Walk It, Don't Just Talk It with David Pollack

What's Next with Eric Wood

Eric Wood

Sports

5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Former NFL player and University of Georgia standout David Pollack joins the show today. As a defensive end at Georgia, David was just the second Bulldog to be named a three-time All-American. Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker was the first.

In the 2005 NFL Draft, he was taken 17th overall by the Cincinnati Bengals. His NFL career was cut short, however, after he broke a cervical vertebra in a game versus the Cleveland Browns in 2006. The Bengals announced Pollack’s retirement before the 2008 season.

Pollack joined ESPN in June 2009 as a college football analyst. He has served as an analyst on the Emmy-Award winning "College Gameday" since 2011.

Today on the show, Eric and David discuss the injuries that changed their careers, the lessons they learned from them and much more about David's life journey. Other topics include:

Be Great Where You Are

David's "What If" NFL career

You Make What You Model

Daily Habits

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The person you are on podcast, the person you are when you speak, the person you are to
0:11.9	everybody in the public, does that person wake up with Lindsay Pollock?
0:16.3	Does that person take Nicholas and Lee at a school every day?
0:20.2	Or are you somebody that just talks it?
0:22.6	And I want to be someone who walks it and not just talks it.
0:27.6	And I think God's given me another opportunity for this, I think because he wants to be like,
0:33.6	I think you can do. I believe you can do it.
0:36.6	And I think, you know, especially the last couple years,
0:39.8	doing a much better job of pointing to him and the reasons why I have what I have.
0:47.4	Welcome to What's Next with Eric Wood,
0:49.4	where we will prepare you to make your what's next in life your best yet.
0:53.1	Our next guest is David Pollock.
0:55.2	And David had an incredible college football career for the Georgia Bulldogs and is also a
1:00.0	former NFL linebacker. You can now see David all over ESPN covering college football and
1:05.9	is a part of the college game day crew. He also has a podcast called Family Goals. That is a great listen.
1:12.5	I'm looking forward to talking some ball with David, but more importantly, I'm looking
1:16.1	forward to hearing about life after ball and how he's striving to be a rock star Christian,
1:21.6	dad and husband. If you haven't already, please rate review and subscribe to the podcast,
1:25.8	wherever you tune in weekly. And also, if you haven't already, go to Amazon, get my new book, tackle what's next.
1:32.3	And the link to that is in the show notes.
1:34.0	Thanks and enjoy.
1:37.3	David, welcome to the podcast, brother.
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