Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Former Hawkeye WR Quinn Early joins to talk about his NFL career, getting into stunting, and his latest project he is working on

Episode Date: October 13, 2020

We are joined for a second day by former Iowa Hawkeye wide receiver and 13-year NFL veteran Quinn Early on today's show. Quinn dives into his time in the NFL including which stop was his favorite and why he experienced so much statistical success in New Orleans before talking about how he got into stunting. We wrap up by discussing a funny story where he was asked to assist Will Smith on his 50th birthday and an awesome project he is working on that will hit close to home for Hawkeye Nation.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON,” and you’ll get 20% off your next order.BuiltGoVisit BuiltGO.com and use promo code “LOCKED,” and you’ll get 20% off your next order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You are Locked On Hawkeyes, your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome to another episode of the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast, your daily podcast covering your Iowa Hawkeyes on the Locked On Sports Network. As always, I am your host, Andrew Wade, and excited to be bringing you part two of our conversation with Quinn Early, former Iowa Hawkeye wide receiver and 13-year NFL veteran and now Hollywood stuntman. Quinn Early is back on the show to talk about his time in the NFL, his time in Hollywood,

and the big project he is working on that kind of shed some light on an Iowa Hawkeye that not a lot of us are aware of. It's a pretty cool project. He's going to talk about that at the end of his show. Before we get into that, though, there is a couple news and notes that we want to make sure we are covering. The schedule was released for Week 1. Iowa gets Purdue at 2.30 on that Saturday. They also get Friday games versus Minnesota and Nebraska.

That's right, that Black Friday tradition is continuing with Iowa versus Nebraska. We're going to cover all three of those games, and if there's any additional schedule releases, we're going to cover that on tomorrow's episode. Also, on Iowa Hawkeye target, James Carney did announce his commitment. He has committed to the University of

Nebraska. He is not going to be playing for the Iowa Hawkeyes. It was Iowa's kind of last attempt at getting a tight end in that class of 2021. I say kind of because they theoretically could extend another offer, but I personally don't think Iowa necessarily needs a tight end in the class of 2021. And I'll break that down on tomorrow's show as well, but wanted to make sure I got that information out to you right now. But that being said, let's hop into that conversation with Quinn early talking about

the NFL, his time as a stuntman, and obviously his huge project that he's working on that Iowa Hawkeye Nation will be very excited about. You go to NFL, the draft is definitely different now than it was back in that day. I mean, there's a lot of buildup to it. There's, you know, hundreds and thousands of draft analysts covering everything. But what was your understanding of the NFL draft going into it? Where did you expect to be picked at when you were getting in the process? Well, I'll tell you, you know, my year was a year where there were so many draft picks at the wide receiver

position. I mean, there was, you know, Tim Brown and Anthony Miller who went from Tennessee, who actually we ended up both getting drafted by the Chargers I mean, it was Sterling sharp. They were you know, I mean, they're yeah Michael Irvin, I mean it's on and on and on right? So I was told that I would get picked anywhere from the first round of the third round So I was at home watching the draft and the first round went by and I started getting a little queasy you know and then the second round went by and now I got a full-on stomach ache and I just

kind of put the you know covers over my head but then that phone rang um I think I was the um the Chargers didn't have a second round pick that year but I was the first pick in the third round I think something like that 60th 60th overall and then when that phone rang and they said I got drafted by the San Diego Chargers, man, it was one of the happiest days of my life. That was always my goal. When I was a kid, I used to cut out the magazine

pictures from the college football magazines and put them on one wall in my room. Then I would cut out the NFL pictures and put them on the other wall. My dream was, and I used to always say to myself, I'm going there to the college, and then I'm going there to the college and then I'm going there to the NFL so for that phone to ring it was just you know just in reaching that goal you know so it was it was just a really exciting time for sure yeah I mean I can I can

only imagine so what did you do to celebrate that I mean so like for example I talked to I just talked to Kevin Casper that's why I'm just it's in my. But he went out and shot baskets and got their roster and said, who do I have to beat out to get on this team? But you were drafted earlier in the draft, so it's a little bit probably – you had a better – you had a more little job stability going into that, being drafted early on in the third round. But what did you do to celebrate? I don't know.

I think I just got with a couple of my friends and just hung out, and they were just super happy for me. I was fortunate enough to play with a group of guys in high school that we started in Pop Warner together and went all the way up from high school we had a really good high school team so I just got with those guys and they were just really excited for me that's pretty much about it I just kept it low-key. I like it and so you talked a lot about Iowa being a very good transitionary program to the NFL because they made new Bill Snyder made you ready for the NFL. But when you got to the NFL,

was there anything that shocked you or surprised you that you weren't really expecting? Just it's actually easier in the NFL than it is in college. So what I mean is I'm very curious. So, so, and I'm not talking about the players because the game is a lot faster. Like in college, I could catch the ball, turn, make some moves. And then in the NFL, man, you're running for your life.

Everybody in the NFL is the best player to ever play from their state or their tag, you know, and you got defensive linemen who are running four fours and four fives. I mean, it's just, it's unbelievable. Right. But when I say easier, I mean, as far as the preparation. So I'll use this analogy in college football, it's like those coaches and staff they're building like you're like they're building a race car right engine parts you're getting the tires you're getting everything

together to get this race car ready right when you get to the nfl you're just a race car you see what i mean yeah preparation so there's not as much teaching you know there's the install they install the plays this is the formation and you huddle up and you go there is no teaching how to block there is no teaching how to run routes you either can or you can't right so once you make the team and then the workouts and then the transition right and then there's only you know 53 guys on a roster whereas in college there's 100 120 guys right so um you basically you have to manage your time you have your tough workouts but you know practice is pretty much in shorts and t-shirts and you're doing your stuff so all that stuff is pretty easy now where it's harder again is on sunday you have to play well

every play every game week after week all season season after season so getting to the NFL it's really hard to get to the NFL but it's really really hard to stay right for all kinds of reasons including you know the economics of it right so yeah I'm making a million dollars and you're playing the same position and you make two hundred thousand dollars but you can do what I can do why keep me around yeah so you know to be able to play it as long as i did i'm just i'm very appreciative of the fact that i've been able to i was able to last yeah i mean your consistency and longevity is impressive and the thing that impressed me the most is your last eight seasons you didn't miss a game a single game your last eight seasons

to me that is that speaks for i, because you look at today's NFL and, hell, if you watched last two weekends ago, everyone tore their ACL. So I wanted to get your thoughts on what it was like for you back in, you know, the late 80s, early 90s from an injury perspective versus what it is today. Is it just training's different? Is it that players are getting bigger or stronger? I want to get your thoughts on why we're seeing more injuries now and what may be led to you being so um i'm going to use quotations healthy because i'm sure you were banged up quite a bit but

healthy back in your day well i'll tell you first of all let me talk about my techniques my techniques were i knew how to get out of bounds and i knew i knew how to not take that hit you know and don't get me wrong there were a couple of times you know when I just got cut in half and just didn't know where I was you know and um you know the game is a lot different now uh but I was pretty fortunate and you know I just listen I just I worked out super hard I really took care of my body um I wasn't out running around. I was really, really focused on my career. And, you know, there's obviously some luck involved, right? So things worked out that way. Now, the game now, I think where it differs is I don't know if the bodies

are as prepared for the stresses of a full season just because the game is different now. You know what I mean? Even when they're in training camp, there's not a lot of full pads. During practices, there's not a lot of full pads. You really don't go full speed until Sunday. Whereas when I play, you know, there was times when you're going full speed and you're getting your body prepared for that full speed action um and i also think now the fact that you can't hit up high as much you know and defensive players are scared to hit up high because of the helmet helmet stuff you know

i think there are a lot more knee injuries and lower body injuries because everybody's going down to tackle yeah now everybody's going down to tackle yeah now everybody's going down to tackle even though the head injuries might have lowered i think that's the reason why the knees and you know the the waist the low waist injuries are more prominent now so yeah the game is just it's changed definitely yeah i didn't even think about the the head injury and like trying to reduce that might actually result in more lower body injury just because of where they are trying to hit you at. All right, I need to quickly pause the show because I have an announcement from one of our sponsors of the show today, rockauto.com. Rockauto.com is a family-owned business serving auto parts customers online for 20 years.

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um so in their 13-year career you played at four different four different organizations the chargers the saints the bills and the jets. Which was your favorite stop out of those four? I would have to say the Saints, only because that was the team where I had my most success. I was going to say, you had a good couple years there. Yeah, so when I went to the Saints, and at first, you know, they had some good receivers there. They had Eric Martin, who went to LSU, and he's in the Saints Hall of Fame.

He's a really good receiver. And I was pretty much the stretch the field guy right I would go deep and and I would get two balls thrown to me a game and I knew that I had to catch both of those passes because that was all I was going to get so you know two times 16 was I'd have 32 catches at the end of the season you know but then when Jim Everett joined the team and they actually were game planning mostly to get the ball to Michael Haynes, who used to play receiver for the Falcons, you know, he came to the Saints. And Jim looked at me and he was like, don't worry about it. I got you. You know, I guess he recognized that I can play. And, you know, I ended up with a couple of 80-plus seasons and just had some real success.

Plus, it was just a really good family time. You know, my children were super small, you know, four and one-year-olds. And, you know, we just had a really, really good experience there. I did enjoy Buffalo. Once I went to Buffalo, because it was an older team, you know, it was Jim Kelly, Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, Andre Reid you know they were all at this point we're all in our 30s we're older guys right we just spend a lot of family time and it's just a really good family atmosphere so just you know

but I appreciate all the teams that I had an opportunity to play for. Yeah I mean I was gonna ask you what came together in your 94 and 95 seasons because you had your two best statistical you know years of your career and they were later on in your career and 95 seasons because you had your two best statistical, you know, years of your career and they were later on in your career, but it sounds like the family atmosphere, Jim Everett was a big thing. Was anything else to add to that or was it just, you know, the kind of the right pieces fell in place? Yeah, I would just say that the right pieces fell in place and, you know, I had an opportunity, you know, I became the system guy so Chris Carter once said he said you know it all depends on the system that you play for in the NFL so in other words you could be the

best receiver that ever played but if they're not game planning to get you the ball they're throwing it over here then you're not going to have an opportunity right so at first they weren't really game planning to get me the ball but Jim ever threw the ball at me anyway and I took advantage of that and I had success and then the coaches were like oh let's get the ball to Quinn and then all of a sudden I continued to have success and then I became the guy you know so um the coaches have to believe in you uh your quarterback has to believe in you there's just a lot of factors at my position because I can't throw it and catch it myself, right? So, but I'll tell you, man, Jim Everett, he was a godsend when he came to that team.

And, you know, he would ask me sometimes, whether we were winning or losing at the end of the game, he'd say, Quinn, how many catches do you have? And I'd be like, three. And he'd be like, all right, I got you. And then he'd feed me three or four more balls before the game was over. How many catches you got now?

Eight. And then we'd like high five, you know? That's awesome. He used to hook me up. To this day, we're really good friends. Yeah. I mean, it seemed like he really cared about you as a player and a friend. That's pretty cool.

I mean, what kind of quarterback goes out there and says, let's make sure we get you the ball right now and let's do it consistently. That's pretty awesome. Awesome. So then, obviously, your NFL career, 13 years. What was your favorite NFL memory? Oh, wow. I know there's a lot of probably memories to pick from.

Yeah, there are a few of them. One of them is probably winning the AFC West Championship, you know, and that's winning it with, like, the 49ersers who at the time, you know, there was Jerry Rice and like all these guys. Right. And we ended up winning that conference. I believe that was in 90, I want to say 93, 92. Anyway, it's one of those years, but that was, that was an awesome memory. And then when I first got to Buffalo, my second game, we were playing the New England Patriots,

and I caught a quick slant for about 60, 65 yards, and it was pretty much the game winner. You know, it was a welcome to Buffalo kind of moment. That was pretty awesome. I mean, there's too many to – those are just two of them. Yeah, no, I love you. I mean, that question is incredibly vague, so I appreciate you being able

to to pick out a couple and uh a pretty ambiguous question i appreciate being able to pick out a couple there um so after your career you kind of had a second career in a sense uh you've been really involved in the the movie industry um you have some acting credits to your name you have some stunt credits to your name you also are very involved it sounds like coaching high school football and in martial arts so a lot I want to touch on. I don't want to take up too much. I've taken up a lot of your time. I know you're busy, especially today. It sounds like you got to fly out later today. So I'll just ask a couple more questions. But you got into martial arts. It sounds like you were a big Bruce Lee fan. Is that correct?

Yeah. So growing up, big Bruce Lee fan, you know, used to go down, used to cut up the dowel rods and then, you know, take like a little chain and hammer and mix some newtons and stuff like that. And, you know, then I took karate growing up. So I'm a lifetime martial artist. I took karate. And, you know, my mom used to drop me off at the movie theater in the morning. I'd watch a Bruce Lee film festival.

She'd pick me up at five o'clock at night and I saw like four Bruce Lee movies. So when I got drafted by the Chargers, had time after during the off season I had time to get back into the martial arts so I went down and joined uh White Dragon Martial Arts School here in San Diego and uh started doing that and 30 years later um I've raised a bunch of black belts on my own and you know in Kung Fu and tai chi and i just really really enjoyed it so that's been an awesome experience as well that's super cool so do you feel like getting back into you know martial arts and kung fu was that helpful to your nfl career as well i tell people that all the time kung fu got me ready for football um the flexibility the you know in Fu, there's a philosophy of being able to stay calm within the eye of a

storm. That's football, right? So I was able to learn how to get off the bump and run, press coverage better. I was able to stay relaxed and conserve my energy as I was doing my thing. And I think if someone told me this once once I'm not sure if it's true and if you go back and look I think I scored a majority of my touchdowns in the third fourth quarter just because my conditioning was so good and a lot of it has to do with kung fu kung fu is the hardest thing I've ever done physically in my life that's crazy yeah yeah and so I was always in really good condition and I was always still fresh in the fourth quarter. So when other people were tired, I was able to make plays just because I was I was in such good shape.

I love it. And this is a completely random question, but I've been into Cobra Kai and I remember watching Karate Kid growing up. But were you ever a fan of Karate Kid? I was, of course. OK. And have you watched the new Cobra Kai? I have I don't know. you know what I mean? but yeah that's definitely a throwback right? paint the fence side to side all that. yeah right so yeah the cover I mean it's just interesting seeing like Johnny I mean I like the fact they actually have the original actors playing. It's very cool, but there's definitely some corny parts to it. I just thought it was a, I had to ask. And then the acting and the stunts, it sounds like I did, I know, did a little research. Obviously,

I found an article where you said that you were really good friends with a guy at Iowa named Bill Perkins. And that's how you got into acting and stunting and whatnot. At this point, though, you have 43 credits to your name on IMDb for stunting, 12 credits for acting. When you first did it, do you realize this is something you wanted to do long term? No. So I just basically, he asked me to come be in his movie. And next thing I know, I was shooting a machine, hanging out in the back of a truck shooting a machine gun.

And then they paid me. And I was like, are you serious? You know, so I became friends with the stunt coordinator. coordinator he basically I asked him how I could do it he gave me the blueprint I just started hustling and and it's evolved you know it's evolved into this thing and I just I really have enjoyed it you know and I'll tell you the best part about it is my oldest son Cameron is also a stunt man and uh we get to work together sometimes that's cool yeah actually he did that guy works all the time you know now when i go on the set people will say oh you're cameron's dad and i'm like yeah that's it yeah that's me it's pretty cool it's pretty cool and i've just i'm blessed um

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you're the one that's actually jumping out of the building. Have you ever experienced any injuries or actually been in kind of a tough situation from stunting? Knocking on wood. I've had some light stuff, but nothing too bad. And I've done some pretty crazy stunts um what's the one of the craziest

ones you've done oh will smith for his 50th birthday uh there's this group called uh yes theory or something like that and they just go around they do all this craziness and they dared him to bungee jump out of a helicopter into the grand Canyon for his 50th birthday. He agreed to do it. So the stunt, the coordinator who was, you know, just doing the safety aspect of it, he knew that I had doubled for Will before. So he asked me if I would be interested in testing the jump. So I was pretty much the test dummy for him. But personally, I did it twice. We did it in Simi Valley. It was a helicopter was 400 feet up in the air. The bungee was 200 feet and I had to go backwards out of the helicopter

attached to a bungee cord. Scariest thing I've ever done in my life. And then we went to the Grand Canyon and I had to do it in the Grand Canyon before Will did it. And once all the safety stuff was good and we knew enough safe, right? Yeah. We had Will do it, but that was definitely the craziest thing I've ever done how did you psych yourself up to do that I honestly don't want to ever go bungee jumping in my life in general so I don't like heights either

so the stunt the stuntman would call me and said are you actually doing it and I said okay I'll do it and I hung up the phone and I just stared straight ahead for like five minutes. I was like, what am I doing? You know? And so what I did was I just got super focused. And as I was standing on the skid of the helicopter, I just focused on the spot on the floor of the helicopter. There's a guy to the right of me. He was holding a bungee. He dropped the bungee out. There's a guy to the left of me who unhooked. They yelled five, four, three, two, one. And I just did like the nasty plunge backwards out of the helicopter and man the first time i did it it felt like i was falling to my death i was like you know i think once i did it it was pretty cool and then the second time i did it

it was still scary but it wasn't as bad so and something that um i would never really want to do again yeah experience because i because I overcame my fears. Yeah. I mean, the half the battle is once you do that, you're like, wow, I just did that.

But man, that, that would be very tough to be the person kind of testing the safety for Will Smith. So what has been, what was the, you're the coolest movie you've worked on to the coolest experience on set you've had.

So I worked on, I, and again, doubling will, I worked on the movie bright and which is on Netflix. And it's really cool stunts on there. But even more so. What was great was the group of people that I worked with. And to this day, a lot of them, we still talk, we just became really good friends. And it was just a

great, you know I was on the run of the movie so I was there for about five months and man what a what an awesome awesome experience that was yeah one of the things I'm sensing from you is the family atmosphere that the friend atmosphere and the the people that you're surrounded by is what makes your experiences as good as they are which I think is really cool yeah no absolutely no, absolutely. And I'll tell you, people always ask me, and one of the biggest things that I miss about football is the camaraderie. Obviously, you miss the money too.

Yeah. But camaraderie of just being with the fellows and the jokes and the laughter. And stunts is a lot the same way. It's more of a blue-collar community. And we all help each other out. Everybody carries the pads. And everybody does. And we all help each other out. You know, everybody carries the pads and everybody's, you know, does, you know, it's just like a worker bee, you know, kind of kind of mentality. And there's a lot of jokes, right? Everybody drinking beers and cracking jokes. But when they yell action, you have to perform. Just like football.

Yeah. Once they yell cut and the action's over it's back to the jokes and you know that kind of thing so it's a lot like football in that way so that's why i really enjoy it that's really cool so um you are getting on a plane today it sounds like to go to a set in new mexico i'm curious what film or what are you up to now with that and what's going to be bringing you back to iowa so uh i'm working on a movie called the Heart of a Fall. It's going to be a Netflix movie. It's with Idris Elba. It's a Western and a lot of fun, you know,

get to wear like all the stuff, cowboy hats and all that, and get to ride horses and stuff like that. So, you know, I was there for a couple of weeks, then I came home and I'm getting ready to fly back out probably tonight and go back out there for a few more weeks. So that's a really fun experience and what I'm coming back to Iowa for is so as I get older right stunts really isn't a long-term plan for me right because getting those windows isn't quite feeling as good anymore right so

I put my body through a lot uh you know through the years and so i started to write i'm writing and i'm producing some projects and currently what i'm working on right now is frank kenny holbrook was the first ever black football player at the university of iowa in 1895 1896 he played there they won their first conference championship not that many people know about him i only know about duke slater that's who i think about 1895 he was from tipton iowa and um so actually about a year and a half ago i talked to this gentleman named neil rosendahl who wrote an extensive article on kenny frank kenny holbrook and uh after i spoke with him i actually wrote a screenplay based on his life. But what I'm working on right now is I'm putting together a documentary

based on his life, kind of in the form of like a ESPN E60 or 30 for 30. You know, it'll be like that. And I'm going to narrate it. So I'm putting that together. We just finished a trailer for it, and I'm going to be coming back to interview some people, historians. Hopefully I'll get to interview. I've already talked to them, but hopefully I'll get to interview Coach Frenz, you know, once the season's over. Just a couple of, you know, a couple of people

and really try to bring this story to life and just to let people know where it all started for, you know, for black players at Iowa that's super cool and I think a really important time to have something like that coming out as well I mean I'm a huge Iowa fan I cover the Hawks on a daily podcast right and I had no clue about him so what is it going to be called and when are you kind of projecting that that's that'll be ready to be distributed so it it's going to be called the documentary. Actually, the screenplay that I wrote, it's called The Hawkeye, right?

Frank and the Holbrook story. But the documentary, I'm calling it, it's The Shoulders of Giants. Isaac Newton had a quote and it said, if I have seen farther than others, it's because I've stood on the shoulders of giants. So that's what the name of this documentary is called. And you know, his father was escaped from as a slave and he escaped as his captors as a 12 year old boy, and he ran to safety of the Union Army. And this Captain Lloyd Dillon, who was a captain, and he saved him. He was his valet throughout the Civil War.

Then after the war, Captain Dillon brought him back to Iowa City, where he was from. Young man moved to Tipton. He married and had Frank Kenny Holbrook, his son, and Frank Kenny Holbrook was a football and track star at Tipton, went to Iowa and again ran track and played football at Iowa. He was a two-sport athlete at Iowa. That's super cool. I'm looking forward to seeing that, man. So, Quinn, thank you so much.

I've taken up almost an hour of your time. You've got a busy day. I really appreciate you hopping on and talking to me about your Iowa Hawkeye career career NFL career and uh the really cool stuff you're up to right now I'm really excited for that documentary um any last words you want to say to Hawkeye Nation just man again my experience there was amazing and like you said you know these are kind of uh tough times um you know for our country and stuff and And, you know, I just, I just want to say how much I love the school and my experience there. And really the last thing I have to say is just go Hawks. I love it. Well, thank you very much, Quinn. And we'll talk to you later, man.

All right. And that will do it for our show today. I hope you all enjoyed the time listening to Quinn early, definitely go follow him on Instagram and Twitter and a big shout out to Quinn for joining the show. I really appreciate him taking the time out of his day to talk to me about Iowa, the NFL, his career right now. All those things. He was so open and so energetic. It was such a fun conversation to have. So a big shout out to Quinn for joining me on the show today. And I hope you all enjoyed the content we put out those last two days with Quinn jumping on the show.

Just a reminder that tomorrow we're going to talk about why James Carney isn't as necessary to the Iowa tight end group as we originally thought, why Iowa doesn't need a tight end in the class of 2021, and we're also going to be breaking down the news and notes around the NFL for our Iowa Hawkeye alums, and then also breaking down that schedule and what it means for the Iowa Hawkeyes. The best way to make sure you get tomorrow's episode, though,

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