Digital Social Hour
The $20M Mistake NFL Teams Make: RB Alex Mattison Reveals All | Alex Mattison DSH #1014
25 Dec 2024
NFL running back Alex Mattison reveals the harsh $20M reality facing running backs in today's NFL. From contract negotiations to career-ending decisions, get an exclusive look into why running backs are facing unprecedented challenges in the modern game. 🏈 In this eye-opening conversation, Mattison shares shocking insights about the NFL's business side, including how the average running back career has dropped to just 2.5 years. Learn why teams are making costly mistakes by undervaluing their running backs, and hear firsthand stories about sudden team changes and career-altering moments. From acupuncture secrets to game-day strategies, Mattison opens up about his journey from Minnesota to Las Vegas, revealing the physical and mental preparation required to succeed in the NFL. Get the inside scoop on how players analyze opponent tendencies, protect themselves from career-threatening tackles, and balance family life with professional demands. Whether you're a football fan, aspiring athlete, or business enthusiast, this conversation pulls back the curtain on the NFL's evolving landscape and the real impact it has on players' lives. Mattison's candid insights and strategic mindset offer a rare glimpse into professional football's most pressing challenges. Watch now to understand why the devaluation of running backs might be the NFL's costliest mistake, and hear Mattison's powerful perspective on the future of the position. 🏈💪 #nfl #minnesotavikings #fantasyfootball #nflhighlights #alexmattisoninterview CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Season Performance 02:11 - Play Adjustments During Season 04:01 - Impact of Trash Talk 05:52 - Insights on Football 07:45 - Importance of Running Backs 08:44 - NFL Business Dynamics 09:25 - Unexpected Trades 09:58 - Being Cut from a Team 11:38 - Average NFL Career Length 18:05 - Game Adaptation Strategies 19:30 - Role of Safeties in Football 26:33 - Dalvin Cook's Body Care Routine 28:35 - Dalvin vs. Adrian Peterson Experience 37:20 - Future Plans 37:20 - Online Presence 38:00 - Upcoming Foundation Event 38:18 - Donate to Sunrise Children's Hospital 38:21 - Closing Remarks APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Alex Mattison https://www.instagram.com/alex_mattison22 LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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for a franchise, whatever the best move is for a coach, owner, a GM. They look at those things and they make a decision. It's like that. You could be having a loving conversation one day and then the next week they're shipping you away. Damn, it's like that? Yeah, it's crazy. No heads up? No, I mean, it's wild.
All right, guys, running back for the Raiders, Alex Madison. Thanks for coming on, man. Yeah, appreciate it. Thank you for having me. First Raiders I've had on the show. Yeah? Hey, I like that.
Gotta represent. Yeah, Las Vegas. I appreciate it. How's the season going so far? It's going. It's going. It's one of those seasons that's just, you know, a lot of adversity, but a lot of football left. So we're looking forward to the next opportunity. Just got to keep chipping away, keep grinding. Absolutely. Has it been a big change from the Vikings? No.
Yeah, I mean, the biggest change, of course, is the weather. It's like night and day. Super hot out here. Yeah, I love it. I'm from California, San Bernardino, California, so being back on the West Coast feels amazing, feels good. But yeah, it's just a little different, just different way that things are.
All the different teams around the league have different ways that they do things, different way that they have their lifts versus their scheduling where it's like, Here we practice earlier in the day than Minnesota was later in the day. So just little things like that that are different. You got to memorize all the plays too.
Yeah, that too, yeah. Luckily, the system that we're in now is a system that is like a combination of the systems that I've been a part of in Minnesota. So... pretty familiar with like the different schemes and everything like that. So that's a good part. Oh, nice. Yeah. There were some similar plays and stuff.
Yeah. Yeah. The only difference is like some of the verbiage. But I mean, there's some that's the same and you listen to it and you're like, I wonder if that's the same as what it was. Right. And it is. And then there's sometimes where there's like a word and you think of what it was in Minnesota. Right. And no, that word is a different play here.
So you just kind of got to learn how to disconnect them. Have you ever played against a team where they found out your plays and they kind of knew what you were about to do? I've never known for a fact, but I've lined up and they're like, okay, yeah, he's doing this. And I'm just like, how do they know that? But, you know, it comes down to like being...
a football player comes down to prepping all week they've probably seen when they line up in this formation and it's third and eight they're either doing this or they're doing that so like you get down to it and that's what they do a lot of like coin flips when it comes down to formations and things like that that awareness right yeah so do you have to change the plays throughout the season like the words what you call them stuff
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