What is mike brown doing now

It was like 'Ahhhhh, man! After all this work? Ten years later — and seven years since he played his final NFL season with the Chiefs — Brown admits he has had to grapple for closure on his football career, to find the right mindset to enter the next phase of life.

Brown lives in San Clemente, Calif. Daughter Kyla is in sixth grade. Son Sam is in third. Brown's doing great, he wants it known. But he has battled anxiety he didn't fully expect, working to turn off — or at least control — the ultra-competitiveness and hyperfocus that fueled his football career. And with his 39th birthday approaching this month he's still working to figure out what's next. In , Brown was a standout on the league's best defense, a playmaking safety, a leader.

In what was arguably the most memorable win of that season — the miracle over the Cardinals on "Monday Night Football" — Brown jumpstarted the Bears' comeback with a 3-yard fumble return touchdown on the final snap of the third quarter. He played a record matches in his time at the Stoop, collecting 72 England caps on the way, and was convinced he would end his career a one-club man.

But as Brown says, life goes on, so he focused on uprooting his family from London, and embarked on the mile journey from Twickenham to Tyneside. Brown now has a clear idea of what he brings to this Newcastle squad including players such as the searingly quick wing Adam Radwan.

Before I joined Newcastle I always thought there was a lot of potential here. MB: I definitely think I have a little more pain than the average person. My head is fine — I get that checked out constantly. Football has taught me a lot and given me the opportunity to meet people I never would have otherwise.

How has the emergence of more athletic, tight ends that are integral to offensives affected safety play? Is the required skill set different now? MB: Yeah, actually there is no safety play.

Big corners basically. These safeties now have the figure out a different way to play defense. MJ: I scrolled through your tweets and you are particularly awesome during Bears games. How would you gauge the Bears for this year? They got a coach that is awesome. It starts at the top, so if they let him coach it will be sweet. MB: You never know. Aaron Rodgers , to me, is the best quarterback in the league and they have to go beat him.

Only time will tell. MB: It is what it is. I think it gets some unfair scrutiny just because of the money involved. Overall, the people in the league are good guys. All ex-players I know are good dudes and doing great. MJ: OK, let me conclude with a few quick-hit questions. Second, the 49ers game. Third, in against the Saints, Shane Matthews turned a deficit with two minutes remaining into a win, with two touchdowns to Curtis Conway.

On those two drives, Matthews went for 50 yards and a touchdown, and then for 67 yards and a touchdown. And two plays after that Dez White play was ruled a catch, Matthews hit Booker for a nine-yard score, capping off a drive where the passing game completed seven of eight passes for 75 yards and a touchdown.

I was pacing at this point, head bobbing like Rain Man, holding the teenciest bit of hope. Any fans still at the game were waking up just a bit. On the sideline, Mike was just like the rest of us.

Thus began perhaps the most miraculous comeback in Chicago Bears history. With 28 seconds left, Paul Edinger lined up for the onside kick. The ball took a soft bounce and then on its next bounce popped up about 20 feet into the air. For 55 seconds, the refs worked to get to the bottom of the pile and determine possession. Suddenly, the Bears players closest to the pile began to celebrate.

Michael Green was first, leaping up. Bryan Robinson and Than Merrill signaled for the first down. Marty Booker and Stanley Pritchett started pointing. Azumah madly started pumping his fist. Autry Denson did too. The crowd was rising, shouting, cheering. The refs, who seemed disoriented, figured out which way they were facing and called it: Bobbie Howard with the recovery.

The Bears offense took over in Browns territory, on the 47, with 24 seconds left, down 7. This was still a huge hill to climb, but the color had returned in our cheeks and the light to our eyes and hope had replenished. On 1st down, Matthews hit Allen for four. On 2nd down, they connected for nine.

The Bears used their third timeout at the Cleveland 34 with eight seconds remaining. The fans who had stayed held their breath. Matthews lined up in shotgun with Allen to his left. Cleveland rushed three. Allen snuck out of the backfield, ran up the middle and trailed Booker, Terrell and Bates to the right corner of the endzone. White raced that way. Jump ball between receivers and defenders. Allen sneaking in. A mass of desperate hands knocks the ball to the right.

Allen makes the catch! Pros, man. We had pros, man. They were just pros. Everyone was like, Do your job, man. Do your job. On the final play of regulation, Edinger knocked in the extra point.

Bears 21, Browns Overtime again. This time, we won the toss. Bears would receive. Yet even with the Bears getting the ball, Greg Blache had defense on his mind. He approached Brown with a question:. Despite his four turnovers, Shane Matthews had a sterling game: yards and two touchdowns. On our final two drives of the 4th, Matthews went for yards and both touchdowns. Overtime was not as kind. Allen had a short run on 1st down, Matthews was incomplete to Booker on 2nd down and complete to White for 5 yards on 3rd and 7.

Brad Maynard punted 52 yards and the Browns took over at the On 1st down, Couch found Kevin Johnson for The Bears defense stiffened. Rosy Colvin flashed through on the left side and sacked Couch for a loss of five. The Browns had 2nd and 15 from the And it started with our unheralded defensive ends.

First, Phillip Daniels laid a pancake rush on Browns left tackle Roman Oben, knocking him flat on his back and getting to Couch two seconds after the snap. Couch threw to his right, away from Daniels, and Bryan Robinson got his hands up to tip the ball. Mike Brown, interception, 16 yards, touchdown pic. That Robinson tipped ball was in the air for a lifetime.

There it is , he thought. I cannot believe this. It could have been anyone. This time, there was no lineman to dodge. With a clear path to the endzone, Brown smiled wide, carrying the football with one hand as he crossed the plane. Since he was so far out in front of the pack, he was able to run straight into the tunnel as the Bears fans went berserk.

His goal was to reach the locker room before any members of the press intercepted him so that he could celebrate with his teammates prior to doing interviews.

I think maybe I was involved in a couple of tackles, and then I dropped that pick. Once I hit the black top, I go sliding down and like scrape up my elbow, my whole side of my leg. Almost two years earlier, Nov.