Podbit · New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Rolling left, legs pointing toward the sideline, Caleb spotted Cole Kmet at 6'5" and 260 lbs matched up against a smaller corner and put the ball in the back of the end zone. The play worked because Caleb trusted his legs to generate power even while his body was completely sideways.
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Travis brings up the viral playoff throw — rolling left while hips and legs point toward the sideline, somehow generating enough power to drop the ball in the back of the end zone. Caleb breaks it down: he created enough space to flip around, spotted Cole Kmet at 6'5" against a smaller corner, and trusted his legs to generate power even with his body sideways. The conversation then pivots to where those mechanics came from. Everyone assumed baseball; the answer is swimming. Caleb swam backstroke, freestyle, individual medley, and relay events — and attributes the shoulder flexibility and rotational strength from the water to his ability to throw from impossible angles. He also played soccer and basketball growing up, but never baseball. Travis and Jason are genuinely surprised, and Caleb sums it up simply: 'I don't know how I got all the funky throws. I think it's from swimming, just being able to have the strength in the shoulder' [1] — Caleb Williams "Everyone assumed Caleb Williams threw like that because of baseball or gymnastics. Wrong. It's swimming. The backstroke, freestyle, IM, and…" 44:25 .
Everyone assumed Caleb Williams threw like that because of baseball or gymnastics. Wrong. It's swimming. The backstroke, freestyle, IM, and relay events built the shoulder flexibility and rotational power that produce his impossible release angles. Nobody else in the NFL has that combination.
Caleb Williams credits swimming — not baseball — as the secret behind his unorthodox throws, citing the shoulder flexibility and rotational strength it develops.
Caleb Williams revealed the Bears now have three elite tight ends after adding a new rookie, giving them a major personnel advantage on offense.
Cole Kmet is just the start. The Bears now have three elite tight ends after a new rookie addition — all of them tall, smooth pass catchers who can also run and pass block. In Ben Johnson's motion-heavy system, Caleb says this personnel group is the ultimate matchup nightmare.
Thomas's wife deferred her CrossFit career — she's in the global top 1% of athletes — to put him through law school debt-free. He wants her to chase the dream now; she wants the emergency fund and house down payment first. On a $200K lawyer income with no debt, the opportunity cost is just a few months of slower saving.
Underground calisthenics battles are exactly like UFC meets a rap battle — 150 people crowded around a circle, fighters walking out with masks and chains, nicknames like 'Extra Money' vs 'Calisthenics the Prince,' and people throwing money and betting. The battle set: 100 burpees, 50 muscle-ups, 75 dips, 75 squats with a 65-pound dumbbell. This is the next big spectator sport.
Rico Verhoeven controlled the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion for approximately 10 rounds — and had his appeal upheld when officials admitted the fight was stopped after the bell. The result was never overturned. Rogan calls it either incompetence or corruption, and argues the money behind Usyk made an upset politically inconvenient.
Rogan lays out a blunt case: boxing's 3-judge system is structurally broken, and the judges know who the promoter wants to win. Glory's 5-judge format is the right model. Corruption doesn't have to be conscious — just knowing Usyk is the cash cow is enough to tilt the scales.
With the Usyk-Wilder fight stalling and Fury-Joshua coming too late, the real fight the world wants is the rematch. Rico is a free agent. Usyk vacated his belts. The story is unfinished and both Rogan and Rico know it. His Excellency Turki Alasheikh already called for it ringside — the question is money.
Rico texted Jason Statham during the Canelo-Crawford fight. Statham showed Rico's highlight videos to promoters. Two days later, Rico was on a call about fighting Anthony Joshua. When Joshua pulled out, Rico pitched Usyk himself — Undisputed vs. Undisputed. Usyk said yes in two weeks. The whole thing started with one text.
Every heavyweight who faced Usyk tried to move to the right — straight into his power hand. Rico and Peter Fury identified the obvious solution: move left, away from the left hand, and smother him with size. It sounds simple. Nobody had done it. That one adjustment was the foundation of 10 dominant rounds.
MMA fans boo when fights go to the ground. They love stand-up. Kickboxing is pure stand-up. Yet it barely exists in America while boxing and MMA are enormous. Rogan's diagnosis: no promotion machine. If the UFC got behind kickboxing the way they've built MMA, it would explode. The talent is there — the storytelling machine is not.
A nation of 17 million people gave the world Ramon Deckers, Peter Aerts, Badr Hari, Melvin Manhoef, Rob Kamen, Ernesto Hoost, and Rico Verhoeven. Rico's theory: the country is so small that every gym shares knowledge freely. In the US, you need a flight. In Holland, you drive 40 minutes and spar the national champion.
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