Todd Heap Discusses Innovative Football Cleats & Super Bowl

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00:00Hello everyone, it's Adam Kaplan here for Sports Grid with Todd Heap, who played of

00:05course for the Baltimore Ravens.

00:07Todd, good to see you, my friend.

00:08How are you doing?

00:09I'm doing great.

00:10Great to be on with you.

00:11All right, so I've got to ask you.

00:12Is this your first Super Bowl?

00:14Not as a player?

00:16This is my...

00:17No, I've been to the Super Bowl.

00:18When I played 12 years, there was probably eight of those 12 years where I came to the

00:23Super Bowl and did the festivities.

00:25Yeah, yeah.

00:26Oh, you did?

00:27Okay.

00:28I've done it a handful of times, yeah.

00:29But obviously, you're here for a reason.

00:31What are you promoting this week?

00:32So this week, we're here talking about Cadix Cleats, and Cadix is a company that I got

00:36involved with about six months ago, eight months ago, and it'll be the first innovation

00:43in cleated footwear in a long time, meaningful innovation.

00:46So the impetus is each cleat can swivel and rotate, kind of have its own labrum is the

00:51way I describe it.

00:53It's like putting suspension on cleats, and the idea is to alleviate all the strain and

00:58the rotational force on your feet and ankles, your ankles, your knees, and so we call it

01:04cleats for knees.

01:05Is this just for football or other sports?

01:07It's for football, soccer, lacrosse, any cleated sports.

01:13Not baseball yet.

01:14We're not there yet, but we'll eventually get to baseball.

01:17So is there a website?

01:19There's a website, cadix.com.

01:20Okay.

01:21Yeah, and you can go there and check it out.

01:22We have videos of people wearing them in action.

01:26Obviously, we've done a ton of testing.

01:28We're getting a lot of good traction.

01:29We had 20 guys in the NFL wearing them this year.

01:32Already?

01:33Already, in our first season of production, and so DBs, running backs, receivers, tight

01:39ends, a lot of guys wearing them, and we had great feedback.

01:42All right, let's turn our attention to the game.

01:44So you know this game very well, the Super Bowl.

01:47As a player, what is a week like when you're actually preparing for the first one?

01:53Is it like, wow, I'm finally here.

01:55As a kid, I dreamt about this.

01:56What was that like?

01:58Super Bowl week, you know, there's a lot of auxiliary things that go on for the players,

02:03you know, and you've got to ... Coach usually sets something where you've got to basically

02:12make sure you take care of all those things-

02:14Harbs?

02:15Was it Harbs?

02:16Early.

02:17Was it Harbs?

02:18Who was your head coach for the Super Bowl?

02:20Well, I didn't actually play in the Super Bowl.

02:22I was right in between the two Super Bowls.

02:23Oh, I'm sorry, you were.

02:25I got drafted the year after the Super Bowl in 2001 with Billick, and then Harbaugh, I

02:31was with the Cardinals that year that they were in the Super Bowl.

02:35I got you, okay.

02:36But you know for a guy who's been in the playoffs, he's had a big game.

02:39For sure.

02:40Wow.

02:41All right, let's talk to Billick.

02:42He's here, by the way.

02:43He's here.

02:44I just saw him earlier.

02:45He had everything planned out from the off-season all the way to the Super Bowl every year.

02:49So we knew exactly what the schedule was from the beginning of the year all the way through

02:53to the Super Bowl.

02:54All right, so let's talk about Philly and Kansas City.

02:57They're here again, two out of the last three years.

02:58What are your thoughts on this matchup?

03:01I'm a big Andy Reid fan, and it's hard to go against what he's been able to accomplish.

03:08That being said, there's a lot of storylines in this game.

03:11You know, you look at Saquon and what he's been able to do this year.

03:14Isn't he crazy?

03:15It's wild.

03:16But if he's able to do what he's done throughout the playoffs, they'll be hard to beat.

03:21I just don't know if he's going to get the opportunity to do that with the ball in Patrick

03:25Mahone's hands, throwing the ball.

03:26So if they can maintain their game plan of running the ball, that'll bode well for them.

03:33It's just going to be, see who gets the ball first and who drives down the field and scores

03:37first.

03:38Quick thing, though.

03:39So were you a run-the-ball guy?

03:40You wanted to throw a lot?

03:41What were you as a player?

03:42Because you got a block as a tight end, but did you feel like, all right, let's throw

03:46the football?

03:47I wanted to throw the football.

03:48At the same time, there's not many tight ends in the NFL that have blocked for a 2,000-yard

03:52rusher.

03:53Jamal Lewis.

03:54So Jamal Lewis was our 2,000-yard rusher.

03:57And so we blocked in Baltimore.

04:00We definitely had a way more balanced office than most.

04:04With that defense and that running game, I mean, come on, I get that.

04:07You're probably not going to throw.

04:08But you know what?

04:09In today's NFL, though, the Eagles are kind of a throwback.

04:11They were a passing team for decades, and now they're running the football.

04:14But this is going to be a good game.

04:15Don't you think it'll be pretty even?

04:16I think it's going to be a great game.

04:18Like I said, I think there's a lot of storylines.

04:22And whoever's going to be able to maintain their game plan is going to win the game.

04:26And I think, obviously, that goes without saying, but it's going to be between the Eagles

04:31running game and the Kansas City passing game.

04:35Who are you picking?

04:36It's hard for me to go against Andy Reid.

04:38All right.

04:39Andy Reid.

04:40Well, you heard it from Todd Heap, a former NFL great.

04:42I'm Adam Kaplan.

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