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NFL Awards Given Out: Did the NFL get it right? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  Ladies and gentlemen, we are now talking to free agent NFL
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  defensive tackle Adam Goat. Yes, Adam.
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  What's up my friend? Yeah, I got you.
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  All right, Adam, so we had Chris Collier on the show and he knows
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  a little bit about you. He's a great kid.
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  He's from Long Island, New York, from Hempstead.
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  He has an unbelievable story, kind of like your story coming
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  from Australia and getting your opportunity to play in the NFL.
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  When you look at the NFL and some of the guys that have
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  slowly but surely have made it into the NFL and only one out of
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  every 250 people get a chance to play in the NFL, how hard is it
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  to get into the NFL? Yeah, I mean, it's tough, you
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  know, a lot of luck on your side, but you got to, you got to
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  fit the measurables that they're looking for.
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  You got to have the numbers, you got to have a bit of that
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  pedigree that you develop in college.
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  But outside of that, you know, Aussies have been pretty blessed
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  with kind of going through that pathways program.
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  A lot of them are those special type athletes that are punters
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  specific, you know, position specific guys.
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  But if you're just a regular lineman or you know, D lineman
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  or wide receiver, defensive back, I mean, there's only so
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  many spots. And you know, especially with
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  the NFL, you got tenured guys like I'm a 10 year guy.
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  You've got guys on the team that are playing 8 plus years.
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  So it's like, you know, you got to you got to bring something
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  that an organization is willing to say, well, we're going to let
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  go of this veteran guy, take a shot on this young guy and we
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  see something in the talent there that we can develop.
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  Or, you know, he's going to come in and, and add something
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  straight away to the to the team and make the team a better team.
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  If not, it's really hard. And then outside of those guys
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  that are coming out of college, you've got now guys in the UFO,
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  you've probably got a few guys in the CFL that are coming over
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  5-10 guys that are trying to get over.
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  And then you've got I'd say 100, a hundred to 150, probably free
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  agent, you know, guys that are sitting there waiting for a call
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  this year to get onto a roster. So it is really tough.
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  And then, you know, a few things the NFL has done is, you know,
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  made the practice squads bigger. They've, you know, added a
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  couple more spots there that you can, you know, hold guys on the
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  team for. But to be on that active 53,
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  it's really hard. Yeah, I was going to say, you've
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  spent most of the time this year with the practice squad with the
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  Buccaneers, learning from a lot of those defensive tackles, Vita
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  vet Elijah Khansi, who got hurt, unfortunately.
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  But all very good, all very good guys.
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  And like you bumping around many different teams going from the
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  Broncos to the Jags. Like, what advice would you give
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  to some of these younger players getting drafted this year, too?
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  And like how the practice squad works being a journeyman like
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  you've. Been, yeah, yeah.
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  This year was probably my first year really being a practice
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  squad type guy. You know, every year of being a
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  guy that's been able to come in play, you know, my first four
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  years I was drafted. So you kind of have a bit of a
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  buffer in terms of getting to the level they need you to and
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  being able to produce and have actual numbers.
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  You know, being a drafted guy, you're probably going to get
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  some opportunities that an undrafted guy doesn't have.
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  And then when I came to Jacksonville, you know, I was
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  basically on one year contracts, but I played four years there.
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  So, you know, I felt like every year I could continue to
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  increase my value and help the team build and get get to a
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  better spot. So really coming into this year
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  was kind of the year that it was.
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  It was tough, but being a practice squad guy, you got to
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  come out there and your game time is during the week, you
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  know, and the way I looked at it, being a veteran guy, being
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  on the practice squad is I can kind of take a bit of ownership
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  of that unit. You know, being a young guy
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  that's probably going to be on practice squad, you're just
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  trying to find your feet still, You know, you're still taking in
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  all the information that they're giving you from a game plan
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  perspective. But it's also realizing that,
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  hey, I'm not dressing on Saturday or on Sundays, but I've
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  got to get the guys that are dressing the best look possible.
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  So, you know, I kind of took it on myself to really try and be a
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  leader on that that unit and say, well, you know what, even
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  though I'm not playing this Sunday, my time is going to come
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  at some point. So let me get Tristan Worths
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  ready. Let me get Luke ready.
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  Let me let me get the starting online ready for what they're
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  going to see. So most of the time the
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  highlighted D tackle or if it's ADN guy that's going to be an
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  impact player, I'll just be like, put me in that jersey.
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  I'll watch the cut UPS of him that they show us and then, you
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  know, trying to emulate him the best I can to get these guys
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  ready for what they're going to see on Sunday.
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  And you know, I take my hats off to the guys that were on
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  practice board with me. I felt like we did a pretty good
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  job. You know, I felt like during the
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  season the airline didn't give up too many sacks.
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  And a lot of that was, you know, Baker creating things and doing
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  things. But from a straight just getting
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  beat standpoint, I felt like we had a pretty good plan for that.
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  And in terms of giving the looks up front of what they're going
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  to get, I feel like we did a pretty good job of that.
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  But yeah, that's what I took my pride in.
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  I said I'm I'm going up against the Pro Bowl left tackle, you
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  know, every day at practice. So I'm going to give him the
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  best look he can because when he wins and the team wins, I still
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  win. You know, when we go, if we go
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  to the playoffs and we make a run in the playoffs, who who
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  knows what's going to happen at that point?
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  But I'm getting this guy ready to be, you know, the best that
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  he can and and try and give him the best looks that he can have
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  before the game Sunday. So you know, it's about being
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  the guy when you need to be the guy, okay, he needs to get a
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  couple good pass rush reps against him, being stout in the
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  run game, not just being a blocking dummy out there, but
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  actually emulating what guys are going to do, splitting double
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  teams, things like that. You know, that's all part of it.
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  Because come Sunday, you're not going against the guy who's your
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  teammate, you're going against the guy who's, you know, trying
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  to embarrass you on TV and and go make plays.
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  So the more I can give those guys that feeling without, you
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  know, really breaking them down too much or, you know, going and
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  doing my own thing and and getting away from the scouted
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  look of what they want. You know, it's, it's just
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  getting them ready to play. First of all, Adam, I want to
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  say you have an amazing birthday.
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  Yeah, an amazing. Birthday.
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  I appreciate that, yeah. Great birthday.
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  I mean, great people have great birthdays.
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  I, I just, you know, that's just the way it happens.
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  I love that. Shut up, Errol.
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  No, I I wanted to touch on something because obviously
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  you're a tenured guy and the way that you sound like you approach
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  going to the practice squad, it's kind of like us going to
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  the minor leagues. Like what kept you in the mind
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  frame of like, I still have to be the best I can, even though
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  that I'm not on that 53 because that's tough when you play, you
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  know, you played as long as you had.
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  And then to be full time on the practice squad and still have
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  the mentality of like, I feel have to get better because this
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  dude has to get better. That's that's a tough deal to
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  swallow for some people that have played that long and have
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  to realize like, hey, I still have to get better because if I
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  still want to play this game, I can't just be a blocking dummy.
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  Yeah, 100%. You know, and it's it's putting
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  the ego to the side. And that's something that, you
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  know, can really hurt you in this game is your own ego, you
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  know, thinking you're better than what you are.
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  And pretty much every player is going to think that at some
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  point. But we're all human, we're all
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  made mistakes out there. But it's, you know, it's
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  understanding where I'm at in this moment, this at this
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  moment. They want me being this practice
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  squad guy. They want me helping develop
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  the, the young guys and making sure they're on their stuff,
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  making sure the airline's ready to play.
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  And it was, you know, the first few weeks that, you know, I was
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  on the practice squad, it was kind of just like, I didn't know
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  how to practice because I've always been on like an active
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  roster. So it's like, do I just like do
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  what the cards telling me to do? Like okay, on the D tack will go
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  straight or you know, I'm slanting inside and.
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  Tell us break it down what's the difference like because you've
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  seen both sides of it. So everybody that's listening
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  and want understand what the different perspectives from
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  active and. Yeah.
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  So basically if you're on that active roster, you're on the 53
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  or you know, you're you're one of the starters on the team will
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  say, because even if you're on the 53, you still might be given
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  the scout team looks. So you know, if you're one of
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  the starters, you're not really going out there and you know,
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  doing the scout team for the offence.
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  And if you're an offensive starter, you know, you're not
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  going to have Tristan out there playing left tackle for our
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  starting defence throughout the week.
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  So you know, you've got basically it's probably about 35
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  guys that are like they're either on offence, defence or
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  special teams. And that's what they do at
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  practice that you know, that the actual like starting reps, the
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  rest of the guys, it's like we're going to have a bunch of
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  guys filling in, you know, on the scout team for the offence.
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  And that that that's the guys that give the look for our
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  starting defence. And then you've got a bunch of
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  guys that are doing the scout team defence who give the look
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  for the offence. And in that you're going to
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  have, you know, the offensive, one of the offensive quality
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  control guys or maybe an assistant or line coach.
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  They have the drawn up cards. They've got like basically what
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  the formations going to look like on offense and then they've
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  drawn in where they want the defense to line up.
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  So you know, it's it's scouting the looks that they're going to
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  get in the game, whether it's, you know, first, second down,
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  third down, blitz periods, things like that, you know, goal
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  lines. They're putting us in all the
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  situations and they're putting you where they want you to line
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  up. So you know, some teams are 4
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  down front. So we're going to have, you
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  know, 4 bigs in the game or some of them are 334.
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  So it's more 3 bigs, 2 outside backers and you know, so it's
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  basically just like getting those looks, you know, for the
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  offense and, and the offense for the defence.
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  But yeah, it's, it's really, you just got to swallow your pride.
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  You got to realise like, shoot, even though I'm out here, I'm
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  not running our defence per SE. Like when we play the Saints,
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  you know, we're running the Saints defence.
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  When we play the Panthers, I'm, I'm one of the interior D
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  lineman from the Panthers. That week, you know, some places
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  they'll put a bib on you. So it's like, you know, I've got
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  #90 on this week or something or things like that.
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  But you know, you just got to take pride in where you're at.
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  And you never know when your number is going to be called.
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  You never know when a guy can get injured.
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  So if you're sitting there just going through the motions, you
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  know, it's probably going to, you know, bite you in the ass
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  when it comes time to, you know, your number being called and
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  you're like, well, shoot, I've been BS in for the last, you
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  know, month or so, haven't been working on my craft, things like
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  that. It's going to come back and get
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  you. So, you know, for me it was just
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  like, let's go out here, let's work, let's put this, you know,
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  put these reps out there and then, you know, it can also be a
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  way of getting promoted too. So, you know, if I'm out there
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  and you know, I'm bullshitting, they're going to cut me and say
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  we can get anyone to come out here and bullshit.
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  But if I'm out there and I'm working the starting online,
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  eventually the coach is probably going to say, hey, we need to
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  take a look at this guy. You know, if he's doing this to
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  our online, you know, what's it going to be like when you know
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  he's he gets in the game. So, you know, it's a bunch of
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  bunch of different things like that where you know, you want to
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  show up, but you also got to follow what the looks that they
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  want. So, you know, if we've got guys
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  that are, you know, let's just say we're playing the Saints,
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  they're a bit more of a A3 four at times, might be a four three
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  at times. So you know how what are their
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  techniques? Are they like grinding, you
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  know, the old lineman not let him get to the second level?
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  Or are they going to be guys that are just trying to get
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  vertical swim, you know, anything to get in the
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  backfield. And it's like you, you kind of
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  got to play with that a bit, but it's also being, you know, a pro
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  and knowing how to practice. You know, you're not going to
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  make the team by doing the wrong shit out there.
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  And then, you know, a coach being like, bro, you can't even
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  follow the card. And you know, yeah, you might be
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  making plays, but it's like you're not, you're not helping
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  anyone. You know, you're not even
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  helping yourself. So for me, it was, yeah, putting
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  the pride aside, just coming to work every day trying to get
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  better, trying to work on what I need to get better AT.
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  And then, you know, outside of that, it was still being a
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  mentor in the D line room. You know, I'm a guy that's
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  played a lot of ball. So when we're watching the film
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  of the actual team we're playing and we're watching their own
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  line, I'm talking to the young guys.
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  I'm saying hey, if you see this formation, think this.
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  Run if you see this. And they're motioning to here
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  with the active roster, too. Are we still in What?
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  Sorry. You still in the meetings with
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  the active roster? Yeah, yeah.
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  So we're still in, we're still in position meetings.
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  We still do everything the active roster's doing.
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  The only thing different is we'll probably have like a scout
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  team meeting like Wednesday mornings, Thursday mornings
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  where they'll pull up, you know, 10 to 15 clips of just like
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  what, what it looks like. So Wednesdays is more first,
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  second down, you know, runs and things like that.
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  So they'll show us some clips of that.
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  Thursdays is typically like a third down day.
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  So you know, then we get into like, OK, these are some of the
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  Brit blitzes they bring, you know, some of the pass rush
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  moves that their guys on the interior throwing.
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  So, you know, if you get a chance to rush, like think like
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  more of like, hey, they're more like arm over guys or they're
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  more like club RIP, you know, so it's just emulating the guys.
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  And then and then you put your own spin on it.
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  Obviously, you know, you just don't want to be out there.
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  Like I said earlier, just, you know, going through the motions,
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  but like, I'm also not going to just lose every rush song.
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  You know, I'm out there showing what I can do too.
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  So yeah, it's a bit of that. And then, you know, really after
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  a Friday practice, your, your week's pretty much done.
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  So, you know, we're, we're we're working three days a week.
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  You know, you're basically got practice on Wednesday, Thursday,
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  Friday and then we're kind of off till Monday, Tuesday when
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  we're back in the building where, you know, the guys are
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  going out and playing Sunday. And you know, the last thing you
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  want to do is be like, shit, you're watching the game Sunday
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  and you realize, damn, I didn't give that guy a good look all
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  week. And now he's out there getting,
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  you know, the shit beat out of him.
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  And you're like, you know, because it's going to come back
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  to you guys like, but if we go out there, we put it on him
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  during the week and you know, the scout team had a really good
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  week and gave the offence problems.
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  Maybe the coach says we might get away from a few of those
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  plays that we were thinking of putting in because it didn't
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  execute the way we wanted to in practice.
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  So let's go in a different direction and that might help us
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  in the game. Well, Adam, Adam, and that's
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  what I want to get it to him. By the way, we're talking a free
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  Asian NFL defensive tackle, Adam Goatis.
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  He's been on our show before. We met him at the Super Bowl a
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  year ago. He's a free agent right now and
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  I'm very interested who's going to sign you?
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  I think there's a lot of players that are are going to have
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  opportunities in the offseason to go somewhere and and have a
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  chance to make a roster. And I think you're a big
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  explosive guy. And I think you can add to a lot
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  of different teams that are looking for defensive tackles.
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  My question for you is, when you look at the league and obviously
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  your team, you're in the NFC South, it's it's it's one of the
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  easiest divisions of football. I don't care what anybody says.
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  What happened to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
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  You started off very, very strong and then the team kind of
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  just like fell off. And I understand injuries
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  happen. You have explosive wide
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  receivers like Mike Evans and Godwin, but and you have a young
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  one. It that is it was up for
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  offensive play of the year. What happened to you guys?
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  I don't I, you guys fell off the map.
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  I it didn't make any. Sense it was tough because yeah,
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  we started pretty hot, you know, and and when you're winning
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  games early, sometimes you're not really looking at some of
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  the mistakes that you you you know, you're letting some things
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  slide because you're winning games and, you know, I think
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  that comes back to bite you later in the year.
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  Some of the things that were getting us early in the year
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  because we're winning those games.
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  We didn't pay it as much mind, I think.
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  And then, you know, obviously the injuries happen.
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  I don't think we had our starting online that we started
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  camp with. I think, you know, throughout
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  the whole season that was like kind of a rolling door of just
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  guys being plugged in and plugged out.
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  So you know, that obviously hurts you.
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  The offensive injuries hurt you, You know, Bucky, we lost Bucky
• 18:15
  for a few weeks there. You know, big obviously being
• 18:18
  that. He killed me in fantasy Adam.
• 18:21
  He killed me in fantasy I Adam. He was one of my high draft
• 18:24
  picks and I lost him and it it absolutely screwed me in one of
• 18:27
  my leagues, so I didn't have Bucky.
• 18:30
  Adam, how many times do you hear that as an NFL player?
• 18:35
  No, you definitely hear it a lot, but.
• 18:37
  You think he whipped his shit about fantasy?
• 18:40
  I'm just saying. It.
• 18:41
  Screwed me. It screwed me.
• 18:43
  I had a chance to win almost $2000 in this league.
• 18:46
  And because Bucky went down, I was bucked out of a chance to
• 18:50
  win. All right.
• 18:51
  And by the way, I love how you say I love how you say bullshit,
• 18:55
  bullshit say that was. A He says it the nicest way.
• 18:58
  It doesn't even sound mean. Bullshit.
• 19:01
  That's that's the Australian you know, we we can kind of put
• 19:04
  those like cuss words in pretty easy and and they just.
• 19:08
  You're like, he didn't even say anything different.
• 19:10
  Yeah. Bullshit, bullshit.
• 19:13
  But but yeah, I mean, it was, it was, I think a lot of those, you
• 19:17
  know, like I said, a lot of those mistakes early in the
• 19:20
  season, you know, like even our first 3-4 games, you know,
• 19:24
  winning by a field goal. So, you know, a lot of it was
• 19:28
  Baker making something happen in that last two minutes, us
• 19:31
  kicking game-winning field goal, winning the game.
• 19:33
  But it didn't mean that we're playing at the level we wanted
• 19:36
  to on defense. And that's all I can really
• 19:38
  speak for, you know, because that's what I'm involved in.
• 19:41
  But you know, like I said, a lot of those things that, you know,
• 19:45
  are covered up by getting a win come back and get you later in
• 19:48
  the year. And that's what I felt like kind
• 19:49
  of happened. Adam, A lot of backlash came to
• 19:52
  Todd Bowles going into the second-half of the season.
• 19:55
  A lot of the media attacked him because they didn't think that
• 19:58
  he coached this team up the way they that he should have.
• 20:01
  And some people believe he should have lost his job in the
• 20:04
  offseason. Could you tell us a little bit
• 20:06
  about the insurance and the outs of who Todd Bowles is and why
• 20:09
  you think he should keep his job?
• 20:11
  Yeah, I mean, I love Coach Bowles.
• 20:13
  I thought he was probably one of the best head coaches I've had.
• 20:15
  And I've had a lot of head coaches.
• 20:18
  You know, I went through about 3 or 4 in Denver, 3 or 4 in
• 20:22
  Jacksonville and then got to the box.
• 20:25
  And I think, you know, the way he coaches the the team, the way
• 20:28
  he motivates the team, he, it's all football with him.
• 20:32
  He's a true pro. He's none of that bullshit where
• 20:34
  you just had to slip it in there one more time.
• 20:37
  None of that. None of that.
• 20:38
  Stuff where you know, you're you go on a team meeting and the
• 20:41
  coach is talking about like, oh, how was fishing this weekend to
• 20:45
  one of the guys or how was this or how was that?
• 20:47
  It's just straight to the ball and we know what we got to do.
• 20:50
  They're going to come in here, we're going to go in there,
• 20:53
  whatever it is, what's going to handle our business, you know,
• 20:56
  short and sweet, you know, team meetings.
• 20:59
  And then even after practice, like he's one to shoot it
• 21:01
  straight. Like he's not going to butter
• 21:03
  you up if you had a good practice and he's not going to,
• 21:05
  you know, butter you up if you had a bad practice.
• 21:07
  He's going to tell you how it is.
• 21:08
  It's going to be like, we practice like shit.
• 21:10
  So, you know, whatever you whatever you got to do to, you
• 21:13
  know, get your shit right for the game, better get it right.
• 21:16
  So, you know, very motivating. I think he's a true pro in terms
• 21:21
  of that. And yeah, I understand a lot of
• 21:23
  the hate that comes when you, you know, you're in a prime
• 21:26
  position and then, you know, the season kind of gets away from
• 21:30
  you. But I mean, at the end of the
• 21:32
  day, I think, you know, that the the coaches did what they had to
• 21:36
  do for us to be in positions to win.
• 21:38
  And I don't think we just went out there and executed as
• 21:41
  players. I think, you know, the things
• 21:43
  that I was saying earlier, like the same mistakes that showed up
• 21:46
  early in the year showed up later in the year.
• 21:48
  And, you know, some of that can fall on coaching.
• 21:50
  But I think guys had to take a look in the mirror and own some
• 21:54
  of the shit that they didn't do right.
• 21:56
  And you know, unfortunately in this business, everyone wants to
• 21:59
  point the finger somewhere else. But he's one that will take it
• 22:02
  on the chin and he'll say he needs to do a bit better job.
• 22:06
  The coaches need to be do a better job.
• 22:08
  And, you know, you don't really see a lot of players coming out
• 22:11
  saying we need to do a better job as players.
• 22:13
  But I felt like that that that's what it was.
• 22:16
  I think us as players needed to do more, needed to put in more
• 22:20
  sacrifice a bit more and that that's what led to the downfall,
• 22:24
  I think. And yeah, it's disappointing for
• 22:27
  sure. But you know, I always say like,
• 22:31
  you know, the teams where shit's not going right or, you know, I
• 22:35
  got blown off the ball in a double team.
• 22:38
  What what can I do next week to make that better?
• 22:40
  I can't just rely on the coach to say, hey, next play for you.
• 22:44
  You know, I got to go out there, get an extra 1015 minutes on the
• 22:47
  sled or work in my hands or work in my pad level, whatever it
• 22:50
  was. And I've got to want to do that.
• 22:53
  You know, a coach isn't the coaches and stuff.
• 22:55
  We don't have time, you know, in practice or during the week for
• 23:00
  to wait on someone to do that for you.
• 23:02
  You got to go out there and say I'm going, I'm going out to
• 23:05
  practice 15 minutes early. I'm going to get these extra
• 23:08
  reps in. I'm going to grind that little
• 23:09
  bit more and make sure I'm ready.
• 23:11
  So the next time I'm in that situation, that shit doesn't
• 23:13
  happen. And yeah, I think, like, I don't
• 23:17
  think we had enough guys doing that.
• 23:18
  And I think, you know, some of that can come down to leadership
• 23:22
  and some of that can come down to players holding guys
• 23:24
  accountable. And, you know, I think we should
• 23:28
  have done a better job with that.
• 23:29
  So I wanna shift gears a little bit.
• 23:30
  Obviously with the Olympics going on, they've crossed
• 23:32
  promoting with the Super Bowl being it's on the same network
• 23:34
  and they're hyping about the flag football that's gonna be
• 23:37
  coming in in 2028. Do you think you being somebody
• 23:40
  from Australia, one of the a lot of NFL players from Australia
• 23:44
  now, including in the Seahawks punter that might be the best in
• 23:45
  the league right now. Do you think that kind of thing
• 23:47
  will work to help grow the the game of football internationally
• 23:51
  in Australia and other places? And what are what are your
• 23:54
  thoughts on like how many Australian players have the
• 23:56
  ripple effect that's coming? Not just it's not just kickers
• 23:58
  and punters anymore. A lot of offensive lineman and
• 24:00
  defensive lineman too. Like yourself.
• 24:02
  Yeah, yeah, that's what I think is going to happen.
• 24:04
  I think initially we're going to see a flood of more punters
• 24:07
  coming over because a lot of our like pro sports, like Aussie
• 24:10
  Rules football, even rugby, a lot of that, like there's
• 24:14
  punting and stuff in that. So I think that's probably going
• 24:17
  to be the first little wave of guys coming over.
• 24:20
  But I think having these games in Australia coming up, having
• 24:25
  the flag football opportunities coming up, I think we're going
• 24:27
  to see, you know, some 1516 year olds start to, you know, train
• 24:32
  and realize like, hey, if I can get over to a college and then
• 24:36
  get me 3-4 years in a college and go through that process, I
• 24:40
  think we're going to see a few more guys come through because
• 24:42
  it's pretty tough. Like you really have to be like
• 24:46
  a diamond in the rough to go straight from, you know, doing
• 24:50
  nothing as a 24 year old in Australia to playing offensive
• 24:54
  line or defensive line or receiver or DB.
• 24:57
  You just haven't been around the playbook enough.
• 24:59
  You just don't know the insurance and outs of the game.
• 25:01
  But if you're a young 16 year old that's built pretty well
• 25:05
  from playing these sports have has a lot of like, you know,
• 25:09
  athleticism from playing a sport like rugby or Aussie rules
• 25:12
  football, you can bring that over.
• 25:14
  And in college you can get dialled into the XS and OS.
• 25:18
  They can develop you, they can develop your body, teach you the
• 25:21
  skills. And that's what coaching is.
• 25:23
  You know, coaching isn't, you know, teaching these guys how
• 25:26
  to, you know, get stronger and things like that.
• 25:30
  But it's like we're going to teach you how to play receiver,
• 25:32
  We're going to teach you how to play defensive end.
• 25:34
  We're going to and the, and the good thing about a lot of that
• 25:37
  is I think you don't have bad coaching.
• 25:39
  You know, you haven't been through high school where my
• 25:41
  high school coach told me this, this, this, and that's what I
• 25:44
  do. And now you get to college and
• 25:46
  your college coach is like, forget what your high school
• 25:48
  coach told you. I want to teach you what I want
• 25:50
  to teach you. They're kind of coming in with
• 25:52
  this clean slate where you know what their college coach is
• 25:56
  teaching them what they're learning.
• 25:57
  There is going to be their first real stage of learning and, and
• 26:00
  they're, you know, developed already.
• 26:01
  So I think in the next 5-10 years we'll see a few more like
• 26:07
  positional players, but I think in the next couple years,
• 26:10
  definitely more punters, more guys that are kind of in that
• 26:14
  reserve, you know, positions in the pro league saying, well
• 26:17
  shit, I'm not getting a game playing Aussie Rules football,
• 26:20
  let me try and just get over as a punter and see what I can do
• 26:23
  there. Yeah, we have.
• 26:26
  We actually have one in Nebraska.
• 26:27
  Archie Wilson. Yeah.
• 26:29
  So yeah, it's it's amazing you say that because it's kind of
• 26:32
  like, how would you like, because culture is a big change.
• 26:38
  One of my really good buddies that played college basketball,
• 26:43
  like I didn't know shit about where y'all are from.
• 26:45
  Like how like, so how hard was it to adapt to the culture?
• 26:49
  Because a lot of people don't understand.
• 26:51
  Like you're born and raised in one thing and then coming over
• 26:55
  to the States is completely different.
• 26:56
  Like, I don't think enough people understand it's hard
• 26:59
  enough to do what you do and play football.
• 27:03
  But like, we're human beings, so adapting to a different culture,
• 27:06
  like, try to try to help us better understand because we're
• 27:09
  born and raised here, how how hard to adapt to a different
• 27:12
  culture. And like, yeah.
• 27:13
  I think, I think, I think like, I think nowadays with like
• 27:16
  social media and things like that, you get, you get a bit
• 27:20
  more of a taste. You know, when I first came
• 27:22
  over, it was like, you know, FaceTime wasn't even around.
• 27:26
  So for me to like call my parents, it was like we have to
• 27:29
  set up like a Skype, you know, so it's a bit different.
• 27:34
  But you know, if you're coming in over and you're you're
• 27:37
  playing football and you're in a locker room like that, I mean,
• 27:41
  you automatically get, you know, 50 to 100 guys that you're now
• 27:45
  acquaintances with, that you're friends with, that you're going
• 27:47
  to class with, that you're developing relationships.
• 27:50
  So you don't really have time to like, get caught up in a lot of
• 27:55
  other stuff because you're so just drilled into, OK, we're in
• 27:58
  football, we're training, we're doing this, we're doing that.
• 28:00
  But culturally, like, obviously things are different, you know,
• 28:03
  and the thing about the States is like, culturally they're
• 28:06
  different from the South to the North to the Midwest to the West
• 28:09
  Coast, You know, it's all different vibes, different, you
• 28:12
  know, people grew up going doing different things.
• 28:15
  So, you know, it's definitely just being like a sponge getting
• 28:20
  to know your teammates, you know, getting to know where they
• 28:23
  grew up, how they grew up, what they what they're into, you
• 28:26
  know, things like that. And you know, Australia being an
• 28:29
  English speaking like country, it's pretty easy because you
• 28:32
  know, it's not like you're learning a foreign language or
• 28:34
  anything. Pizza's pizza, you know,
• 28:37
  Gatorade's, Gatorade, just some different flavours, you know, so
• 28:41
  it's close enough where you can kind of make some of those
• 28:43
  things. But yeah, it it definitely is a
• 28:46
  bit different in terms of. Yeah, but some of your things
• 28:49
  can mean different things, and you probably know the one I'm
• 28:52
  probably thinking about. Yeah, yeah, I know.
• 28:54
  Yeah, I heard that also. We'll.
• 29:01
  Get cheeseburgers and cheeseburgers too, you know.
• 29:06
  But yeah, I mean, you know, when I came over, I grew up in the
• 29:10
  city back home. So to come over and, you know, I
• 29:13
  went to Georgia Tech, which is in the heart of Atlanta.
• 29:15
  So for me, when I came over, it was like even just visiting the
• 29:18
  campus, like it felt like I was in in, in Australia, you know, a
• 29:23
  city with a bunch of culture, a bunch of different cultures
• 29:26
  because it's such a melting pot. Every people from all over the
• 29:29
  world. It's big working, you know,
• 29:33
  city. So you've got a lot of big
• 29:35
  businesses there, you've got international people there,
• 29:37
  you've got, you know, you have a lot of young like professionals
• 29:41
  there. So, you know, to me, just like
• 29:43
  being around that and being like in the city, it felt
• 29:46
  comfortable. I always want to go but damn why
• 29:49
  is the flight so damn long? Yeah, yeah.
• 29:51
  It's crazy. Yeah.
• 29:52
  My brother and my mom just flew back and yeah, it's it's a
• 29:55
  flight. So if you're gonna go, you
• 29:57
  definitely got to get a few weeks there.
• 30:00
  But yeah, I mean. Is it you gain a day going or
• 30:03
  you lose a day? You gain a day going there, you
• 30:06
  lose a day coming back. So, yeah.
• 30:09
  But yeah, culturally, I mean, it's it's America's it's it's, I
• 30:15
  love it because it's just like so different.
• 30:18
  Like what I was saying, you know, if you're in these
• 30:20
  different cities, if you did in these different towns, it's just
• 30:24
  so different and it's and you just got to be open.
• 30:26
  You know, I think the whole thing with like cultures and
• 30:29
  accepting those things is just being open to it.
• 30:32
  And you know, I think that's that's what the beautiful part
• 30:35
  is. It's just like they do things a
• 30:37
  little differently here. And it's understanding that it's
• 30:40
  like, you know, back in Australia, we didn't say like
• 30:43
  Sir and ma'am and stuff really growing up, you know, even to
• 30:46
  our teachers and stuff. But you get here, you get well,
• 30:49
  in the South, it's super common. You know, you're holding holding
• 30:53
  a door for a lady. It's like, Oh yes, ma'am, here
• 30:55
  you go. Yeah, Sir, thank to waiters to
• 30:57
  all that stuff. And, you know, even like tipping
• 31:00
  culture in Australia, we don't tip like all that's included
• 31:03
  like in what? Yeah, but but minimum wage is
• 31:10
  like, you know, if you're a barista at like a coffee shop,
• 31:13
  you're making 2530 bucks an hour.
• 31:16
  You know, working at McDonald's, you're making 2025 bucks an
• 31:18
  hour. So, you know, there's no tipping
• 31:21
  in that. That's.
• 31:22
  Pretty funny I'm. Going.
• 31:24
  To hourly wage is like high. So you know, as as a young
• 31:28
  adult, you're making good money and then you know, we're here.
• 31:32
  But here it's like, you know, when me and my family or you
• 31:36
  know, me and the kids and stuff go out and eat, it's like you
• 31:40
  can tell like, OK, the service is a bit better because these
• 31:43
  people are working for tips. So, you know, in Australia, you
• 31:47
  run out of water at your table. Most of the time you're like
• 31:49
  putting your hand up, being like, then get some more water.
• 31:51
  That's where it's here. It's like.
• 31:53
  That's where Tiger Woods should go, because he doesn't tip here.
• 31:56
  Yeah, there you go. Exactly.
• 31:59
  But like here, I mean, you go out to eat most of the time.
• 32:02
  You got to tell him like, hey, this is like my 4th Coke.
• 32:05
  I'm good on the Coke, you know what I'm saying?
• 32:07
  Like. Like before you even finish the
• 32:11
  case, there's like another one, you know?
• 32:13
  Where are you settled at? I'm in Jacksonville.
• 32:16
  OK, that's. Nice.
• 32:17
  Yeah. So that's on base.
• 32:18
  So no stick next Good job so. We're we are talking a free
• 32:22
  agent NFL tackle Adam Goatess. Adam, before we let you go, All
• 32:27
  right, let's say we're a ring of GM's right now sitting in a
• 32:31
  round table and you walk in. How do you pitch yourself to all
• 32:37
  these GM's? What could sell Adam Goatess to
• 32:41
  the NFL and ownership and GM's around the league?
• 32:44
  Give me your pitch if I was, if I was going to hire you.
• 32:48
  Yeah, I think just selling myself as a consistent run
• 32:51
  stopper in the league. I think as you get deep in the
• 32:54
  playoffs and late in the season, teams want to run the ball.
• 32:57
  And as we saw last night, you know, if you can't stop the run,
• 33:01
  it's pretty tough to win games, especially the the big games,
• 33:03
  because you know teams are going to come in, establish that to
• 33:06
  open up the pass game. And you know, most of my career,
• 33:09
  if you look at each year when I've played consistent snaps and
• 33:13
  had opportunities to be on the field, I've done a great job.
• 33:15
  I've had negative plays. I've been able to affect the
• 33:17
  pass rush, big part of the pass rush affecting the passer, But
• 33:22
  as a run stuffing D lineman, you know, I think I'm I'm probably
• 33:26
  one of the top guys in the league.
• 33:27
  I like to think of myself as that, you know, and when I
• 33:31
  compare my stats when I've been playing, you know, similar play
• 33:34
  snaps to other guys, my numbers are right there with the guys
• 33:38
  that are making, you know, good money and on 3/4 year deals.
• 33:42
  Like, you know, you look at the guys I played next to in Denver
• 33:45
  and Jacksonville on all these teams, I feel like when I've had
• 33:49
  consistent snaps and it measures up against what these guys are
• 33:52
  doing production wise, I'm right there with them.
• 33:55
  And yeah, I think being even as a practice squad guy, I'm happy
• 33:58
  to come on as a practice squad guy, be a leader in the locker
• 34:01
  room, a leader on the field, do all I need to do to help this
• 34:04
  team win. You know, I'm here to win Super
• 34:06
  Bowls and try and get teams to championships.
• 34:09
  You know, I'm not just here like this.
• 34:10
  Be a dummy. Practice.
• 34:12
  I'll do I'll do Allen Iverson. Practice.
• 34:14
  You mean practice? Come on.
• 34:16
  You don't need to be on a practice squad.
• 34:18
  You need to make a roster. You deserve.
• 34:20
  You're a great personality. You're you're a big guy.
• 34:22
  When I met Adam, I I looked up. I like Jabba.
• 34:26
  You're 63. This guy's like 6-6.
• 34:29
  He's a big man and huge, but he's like a teddy bear.
• 34:34
  He's like one of the nicest people you'll ever meet.
• 34:36
  So just a outgoing, down to earth type of person.
• 34:41
  You wouldn't even know he was from Australia until he started
• 34:43
  to speak to you. So he's like one of the boys
• 34:46
  hanging out. And I remember when Nathan
• 34:48
  brought him to the table, he's like, this is this is Adam
• 34:50
  Goat's. And I said I've heard of you.
• 34:52
  And then he sat down and he was like, dude, even when he sits on
• 34:55
  the table, he's bigger than everybody, so.
• 34:57
  Yeah, because you're sure I'm. 510 1/2, Man, at 5-10 and 1/4,
• 35:02
  I'm not that short. This guy says I'm short and it
• 35:06
  makes me laugh. I mean, he's 63.
• 35:07
  He's 4 inches bigger than me and he's like, he's like, well,
• 35:10
  you're still short. You know?
• 35:11
  I hate you, Jabba. I hate.
• 35:14
  You look, my rule of thumb is if you're under 6 foot, you're
• 35:17
  pretty short. So think.
• 35:20
  That's my good, that's my tutor, not.
• 35:22
  Spoken from a tall, you know. Now you're upsetting me, Adam.
• 35:27
  Jabba, he has a great birthday and he's.
• 35:29
  Agreed with you on this A. 100%. Anyways, Adam, good luck on the
• 35:35
  offseason. Keep training.
• 35:37
  Let's get you on when we find out where you're going.
• 35:39
  Talk about. The season yeah fingers crossed
• 35:42
  man I'm gonna keep working and you know hopefully an
• 35:45
  opportunity comes cuz you know I still got a lot of ball left in
• 35:49
  me I'm feeling healthy after the year.
• 35:51
  I didn't, you know, play too much.
• 35:52
  So, you know, I definitely feel like I'm in great, great
• 35:56
  conditioning and everything, man.
• 35:58
  I'm just excited for what the future holds.
• 36:01
  You know, I think enough teams, you know, went out there and
• 36:04
  probably didn't stop the run. I think across the league it
• 36:07
  looked like it was bad teams averaging 4-5 yards of carry.
• 36:11
  And you know, I remember when I first came in the league, it was
• 36:13
  like if we're giving up over 3 yards of carry, it's not good
• 36:17
  run defense. And I think, you know, it has
• 36:20
  become a bit of a passing league, but in the big games
• 36:22
  we're seeing. Too, I'll pitch you, I'll pitch
• 36:25
  you to The Jets cause The Jets need some run stoppers man we.
• 36:28
  Can don't do it. Don't do it.
• 36:29
  Don't do it. No, don't do it.
• 36:30
  Nah, you just get out of here. Quite you, Mr. Nebraska, over
• 36:34
  there. Maybe we'll maybe we'll get our
• 36:35
  our friend for you, Luka, and I'll lure you back to Jackson.
• 36:38
  That's that's true too, for. You hey, definitely, absolutely
• 36:41
  drop a line to him, man. I'm I'm around the corner.
• 36:43
  Drop a line to him for me. Well, keep up the good work.
• 36:47
  We'll be in touch with you, man. And keep that smile on your
• 36:51
  face, man, because smile and. You're 1 of.
• 36:54
  The nicest dudes, so we really appreciate the time and I'll
• 36:57
  never. Forget my birthday.
• 36:59
  That's it. I'll never forget yours too,
• 37:00
  Joe. Thank you, man.
• 37:02
  Thanks guys. I appreciate you having me on.
• 37:03
  Absolutely, Adam. Goat sis, ladies and gentlemen,
• 37:07
  defensive tackle, free agent, Jets, Giants, anybody Buffalo
• 37:12
  Bills that can use some run stoppers.
• 37:15
  There's a lot of teams right now, especially the Buffalo
• 37:19
  Bills that were one of the worst run stopping teams in the NFL
• 37:22
  this year. They can use Adam, he's right.
• 37:25
  It's been really, really bad all season long when it comes to run
• 37:28
  defenses and Jacksonville was good, the Patriots were good,
• 37:31
  but usually when you see a good run stopping team, they're not
• 37:34
  very good pass rushing team. So there are teams that
• 37:38
  obviously you can argue that, but he's a good guy.
• 37:42
  I'm telling you, he's a he's big, he's massive, and he's like
• 37:45
  a teddy bear. I've never met a nicer person.
• 37:47
  I really never have. As you know, being around
• 37:50
  athletes, you get a chance to discover what type of
• 37:53
  personalities they are. He's one of those guys that you,
• 37:57
  you can't judge them because he's not one of those guys.
• 38:00
  He's like one of the boys. If he was sitting here, you
• 38:02
  wouldn't even know that he was a professional football player.
• 38:05
  He's just a big giant guy who's pretty outgoing and down to
• 38:10
  earth. So very, very.
• 38:11
  Nice. Hey, when he was younger, how
• 38:12
  much pussy do you think he got with that accent?
• 38:17
  He has he has your new favorite area to a swear word too.
• 38:20
  That's true too. Like he said it and it was like
• 38:23
  he said it like it. Like it was a term of
• 38:25
  endearment, like it was. And he said it just came out so
• 38:29
  nice. I was like, he could he could
• 38:32
  just be cussing you out and be like shake his hand and give him
• 38:35
  a hug. Like it's impressive.
• 38:37
  Like people with accents blow my mind Like and it's, you know,
• 38:41
  he's been over here for how long?
• 38:43
  And you don't lose it, man. That's let me borrow that after
• 38:46
  like a couple days. What about Nathan's accent?
• 38:49
  No, don't work out. I'm putting you on a leash now.
• 39:00
  Breaking news I had a hot lady. Breaking news I.
• 39:04
  Told Nathan that we had some graphics for him.
• 39:07
  You know this is what Speedy described Nathan was doing at
• 39:10
  the Super. Bowl I love Lisa Ann you.
• 39:13
  Know the gin and tonics. I love that Beefeater the the
• 39:17
  gin and tonic blow bump, the and the.
• 39:21
  Chicken Curry, you know, loving Lisa Ann and then of course,
• 39:25
  Nathan. If you missed it, we knew you
• 39:27
  were at the Pro Bowl with Shador.
• 39:30
  It was so great of you to share it.
• 39:32
  Looks like he's back in his jail cell.
• 39:34
  What he's it's he's still in San Francisco.
• 39:37
  He's, no, he's in Alcatraz. Is it blue wazer accessible?
• 39:44
  I am a legend by the way. We I know he got a new blazer,
• 39:48
  but like, could he? It wasn't much different.
• 39:53
  It it was just like with the Super Bowl colors.
• 39:56
  Yeah, I was like, I was like, oh, he's like, I got a new one.
• 40:01
  Like he was so excited to show us.
• 40:02
  And I'm like Nathan, it's not that much different there, bud.
• 40:05
  It's like Alt Nathan, you know, like he go, he shows up in his
• 40:09
  secondary. It's his alter ego.
• 40:12
  What he did is he went to, he went to Burlington and picked up
• 40:15
  another place. It's his color rush jersey.
• 40:19
  That's what everything coat. Factory.
• 40:23
  Is color rust blazer? I could see Nathan doing
• 40:25
  commercials for Burlington for. 100.
• 40:28
  Percent. If he can actually.
• 40:31
  Speak A. Sentence by at Burlington Hey.
• 40:39
  That teleprompter had to be going real slow.
• 40:42
  I need Brittany also. There he is.
• 40:48
  Oh Nathan. The NFL announced the winners of
• 40:52
  the end of the season awards on Thursday at the NFL Honors
• 40:55
  ceremony, featuring many first time winners.
• 40:58
  Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford won his first MVP in
• 41:02
  his 17th season in the league. Stafford finished the year with
• 41:07
  4707 yards passing, 47 touchdowns, and 109.7 passer
• 41:14
  rating in his first year in New England.
• 41:18
  England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel won Coach of the Year,
• 41:21
  winning it for the second time in his career.
• 41:23
  The Patriots had the biggest turnaround in the league in the
• 41:27
  league under Vrabel, going from four wins in 2024 before he got
• 41:33
  there to 14 wins this year, making it to the Super Bowl.
• 41:38
  Super Bowl champion Seahawks receiver Jackson Smith Najiba,
• 41:42
  one Offensive Player of the year for the first time.
• 41:45
  GSN finished with 119 catches for 1793 yards and 10
• 41:53
  touchdowns. The NFL new sack king Miles
• 41:56
  Garrett, one Defensive player of the year for the second time in
• 41:59
  his career. This is this time with a new
• 42:03
  record of 23 sacks. Panthers rookie wide receiver
• 42:05
  Ted McMillan, one offensive rookie of the year, finishing
• 42:09
  with 70 catches for 1014 yards, 7 touchdowns.
• 42:13
  Browns linebacker Carson Swessinger was defensive rookie
• 42:18
  of the I remember when he was drafted, finishing with 100 and
• 42:21
  56156 tackles and two interceptions. 49ers running
• 42:26
  back Christian McCaffrey won Comeback Player of the Year with
• 42:29
  1202 rushing yards and 10 rushing touchdowns and 102
• 42:35
  catches for 99124 receiving yards and seven touchdowns after
• 42:41
  he injured himself and he had the injured plague in 2024.
• 42:46
  I will say this, I, I, I agree with every one of these guys
• 42:50
  getting the awards that they got, the only one that I would
• 42:53
  say shouldn't have gotten the award.
• 42:54
  And also assistant coach of the year, which which was, was Josh
• 42:59
  McDaniels. It's the Patriots and I'm not
• 43:02
  taking shots at the New England Patriots in the success that
• 43:04
  they had this year. But Mike McDonald should have
• 43:08
  won coach of the year. He should have.
• 43:11
  There's no and, and I'll say this, his coaching staff was as
• 43:15
  good as anybody in the league. His offensive coordinator just
• 43:18
  got the head coaching job at the with the Raiders.
• 43:21
  I he has been one of the best young offensive coordinators in
• 43:24
  all of the NFL. Mike Vrabel deserves again, a
• 43:28
  lot of credit for the success that they had.
• 43:29
  Fourteen wins, Super Bowl appearance, They had the easiest
• 43:33
  schedule in the NFL. And you look at a guy like Mike
• 43:35
  McDonald. Mike McDonald had one of the
• 43:38
  hardest schedules in the NFL. And to be 14 and 3 and go all
• 43:41
  the way to the Super Bowl and dominate the way he did to get
• 43:44
  to the Super Bowl the way they did with all the pressure going
• 43:47
  into the playoffs, him, them dancing and prancing after they
• 43:50
  won the conference and everybody was out to knock them out and
• 43:54
  the way they just completely dominated.
• 43:56
  Think about it. Look what they did.
• 43:57
  They did to San Francisco. They completely tortured the San
• 44:02
  Francisco 49ers. I understand this isn't the same
• 44:05
  49ers defense. They lost Bosa, they lost
• 44:08
  Warner. I don't want to hear it.
• 44:10
  This was one of the best offensive teams in the NFL the
• 44:14
  last four weeks of the season when and Brock Purdy was one of
• 44:17
  the hottest quarterbacks in the league when he came back and
• 44:20
  they completely smothered that defense, smothered San
• 44:23
  Francisco. And then what they did to Sean
• 44:25
  McVeigh and the Rams in the NFL UFC title game, it was
• 44:29
  unbelievable. The fact, and I understand it's
• 44:31
  not about playoffs. It's not about the playoffs.
• 44:33
  It's a regular season. You're going to tell me right
• 44:35
  now that the Patriots that were the second best team in the AFC,
• 44:38
  which is one of the, to me, one of the worst years when it came
• 44:42
  to AFC conference play, was better than the NFC conference
• 44:46
  winning Seattle Seahawks. It makes no sense.
• 44:50
  No sense. And you give the GMGM of the
• 44:53
  year and Schneider, if Schneider's the GM of the year
• 44:55
  with all the success they have, how is it their coach and their
• 44:58
  assistant coach and Clint Kubiak not the assistant coach of the
• 45:02
  year? It makes no sense.
• 45:03
  Everybody else, it makes a lot of sense.
• 45:05
  Christian McCaffrey was come back at a player, no come back
• 45:08
  player. I like that Jackson Smith and
• 45:10
  Ajigba one offensive player of the year and Jackson Dart didn't
• 45:14
  win offensive rookie of the year because to me, McMillan was the
• 45:18
  best rookie as far as offensively all season long.
• 45:22
  So I'm not going to. I'm not saying Jackson Dart
• 45:24
  doesn't deserve any of the accolades.
• 45:26
  I just don't think I I would have given it to him.
• 45:28
  He missed the first four games of the season.
• 45:30
  He played well. I just think McMillan was the
• 45:33
  guy he was, he helped Carolina make the playoffs this year.
• 45:36
  He was everything to Caroline and Bryce Young's development
• 45:39
  this year. So very well deserved.
• 45:41
  And and by the way, Miles Garrett was by far the best
• 45:44
  defensive player at the league. I don't think anybody was
• 45:47
  questioning that. It was.
• 45:49
  And again, Puka Nakua, you can argue that Puka Nakua was the
• 45:53
  best offensive player of the year, but Jackson Smith, new
• 45:56
  Jigba was on that trajectory of breaking records this year.
• 45:59
  So I'm not going to I'm not going to take that away from
• 46:02
  him. And they also won the Super Bowl
• 46:04
  even though they don't look at that.
• 46:05
  So, and, and to me, there's no doubt that Matthew Stafford was
• 46:10
  the best player, best quarterback in all the football
• 46:14
  all season long, at least when he got into the playoffs.
• 46:17
  And even when he played Seattle, he put a pretty good numbers.
• 46:20
  He didn't lay up a lousy goose egg throughout the playoffs.
• 46:22
  And his schedule was not easy. The Rams schedule was one of the
• 46:25
  hardest in the league. So everything was right but the
• 46:28
  Mike Frabol, the Mike Frabol decision of making him coach of
• 46:31
  the year and assistant Coach of the year.
• 46:33
  Yeah, Matthews ever definitely was MVP.
• 46:34
  You look at the like the level of competition that he faced in
• 46:37
  that division alone. And then so even in also even in
• 46:41
  the AFC too, when you're dealing with NFC South that has a lot of
• 46:44
  good defenses. Houston's defense was great and
• 46:46
  the Jacksonville's defense was pretty good this year and he
• 46:49
  played them. And then he's doing it with
• 46:52
  Devante Adams. Devante Adams led the league in
• 46:54
  touchdowns. Devante Adams, I realized that's
• 46:56
  what I was looking up for, the Hall of Fame stuff.
• 46:57
  He's now seventh all time in receiving touchdowns.
• 46:59
  I don't care about history. And Matthew Stafford, obviously
• 47:02
  a huge reason why making a lot of those tight ends, those those
• 47:04
  running backs really valuable in that offense.
• 47:07
  He definitely the MVP, not me over Drake.
• 47:09
  May I agree with you on Miles Garrett.
• 47:11
  Miles Garrett was the best overall football player period
• 47:13
  this year. Like he had the best year like
• 47:15
  we were talking about with FOIA like MVP wasn't a quarterback
• 47:18
  award. We I.
• 47:19
  Don't know, I think Puka Nakua and Jackson Smith Najigbo were
• 47:22
  pretty damn. Good they were.
• 47:23
  They were. Puka was the PFF grade #1
• 47:25
  receiver JSN at the best overall stats, but Puka did a lot, so
• 47:28
  much more. They definitely were neck and
• 47:30
  neck right there with offensive. Player, but I like Puka the fact
• 47:32
  that he didn't win. He he took he took a lot of side
• 47:36
  of his season this year. He didn't take it away from
• 47:38
  Jackson Smith the jig. But if they're the game after
• 47:41
  the award show and they interviewed him and said are you
• 47:43
  upset that you didn't win? He says it's an award that I I
• 47:46
  really don't care about. I care about winning
• 47:47
  championship. So I like that about puka that
• 47:50
  it wasn't it's not about winning award.
• 47:52
  It's about winning the biggest award, and that's the Lombardi.
• 47:54
  Troll. Yeah.
• 47:54
  And that that's where we always get the dilemma of like, because
• 47:56
  it's a regular season award, like how much do you have the
• 47:58
  playoffs in? But it's also the playoffs.
• 47:59
  Factor in how far your team goes to and Puka.
• 48:02
  I think JSN had the one big game in the NFC championship game of
• 48:04
  Puka was great, all three games of the Rams playing in the
• 48:06
  playoffs. So maybe if they added that in,
• 48:08
  well, maybe it's. So you think Puka should have
• 48:10
  won? No.
• 48:10
  No, no, I'm saying no. I'm saying that if like if they
• 48:13
  added playoffs collectively, just regular season, just you
• 48:16
  can't do that all the time. So it's it's a weird dynamic.
• 48:19
  This year the running games were not as good and as explosive as
• 48:22
  it was the year before. And I, I don't know if anybody
• 48:24
  noticed that. And you just heard a guy like
• 48:27
  Adam. Adam came out and said the
• 48:29
  obviously the run defenses weren't good this year, but the
• 48:31
  run offenses weren't really as good as.
• 48:33
  Yeah, there were a lot of star running backs were very
• 48:35
  consistent this year outside probably James Cook and
• 48:38
  Christian McCaffrey and even Jonathan Taylor kind of fell off
• 48:41
  at the end of the year after he had that really hot start.
• 48:44
  Derek Henry, too. Derek Henry, Denmark Henry had
• 48:46
  some bulk games, but was very inconsistent too.
• 48:48
  So I Yeah, that's why you didn't.
• 48:49
  You're not. Going to see him.
• 48:50
  No Shaquan Barkley this year. Yeah, So that's why you're not
• 48:53
  going to see them in comparison to the receivers.
• 48:55
  For a lot of the offensive Player of the year awards, I
• 48:57
  agree with you. I'm on the rookies.
• 48:58
  They I didn't think McMillan was going to win it because usually
• 49:01
  they give it to the quarterbacks.
• 49:02
  So. But I wouldn't give it to Dart
• 49:03
  because Dart didn't play the first five games.
• 49:05
  So I wouldn't reward somebody that only played 10 games versus
• 49:09
  only playing the whole season like McMillan did.
• 49:11
  And same thing with Swessinger. Everyone's saying, oh,
• 49:12
  Swessinger, stop padded. It's not his fault the Browns
• 49:15
  offense is so terrible that he's on the field all the time.
• 49:17
  James Pierce had a good case. He had 10 1/2 sacks in his
• 49:19
  rookie year for Atlanta. But I think Swessinger.
• 49:21
  Definitely just stay. They traded, They traded the
• 49:24
  rights to Travis Hunter for Swessinger, and Swessinger was a
• 49:29
  better pick. Yes, yeah.
• 49:32
  They're not giving James Pierce any awards if you were reading
• 49:35
  the news about James Pierce recently.
• 49:37
  Yeah, I saw that. I don't think there was there
• 49:40
  was any anywhere You were kind of like shaking your head at
• 49:45
  Obviously numbers speak to themselves and that's kind of
• 49:49
  where they at. I don't I don't know if they'll
• 49:51
  ever put post season stats into this.
• 49:54
  No, you. Can't because there's two
• 49:57
  there's. Two varied of a sample like of.
• 49:59
  How Yeah, it's not always their fault.
• 50:02
  Yeah, and I I think that's just part of what it is.
• 50:04
  But like, Puka was great in the way he did.
• 50:06
  It's like, yeah, it's awesome. But also he can't talk shit
• 50:09
  because JS NS numbers were crazy.
• 50:11
  Like I had a great year. But and and that's the thing
• 50:14
  too, that I think now with with so much access to all this
• 50:19
  information and I don't give a damn what they say.
• 50:22
  We look at this stuff as athletes like we do.
• 50:25
  You're like, hey, how far away from this guy am I?
• 50:28
  Like how many yards and and whatever, like we look at it.
• 50:31
  And so, and I, I think when it comes down to you, you should
• 50:35
  say that I'm better than him. But at the end of the day, when
• 50:38
  it comes to it, you see more humility or you see more praise
• 50:43
  to the guys that get it because you know that their numbers and
• 50:46
  and you have so much access to watch their film and what they
• 50:49
  do, because you might try and use something that they use like
• 50:52
  off a hitch or maybe that stutter step or, or off the line
• 50:56
  and what they're doing. So I think there's just more
• 50:58
  respect throughout the game and more access to the knowledge of
• 51:03
  of how good these guys are that are better than me.
• 51:06
  But I'm right there. It's not like I'm too far off
• 51:08
  because they both had unbelievable season.
• 51:10
  I thought Mike McDonald's the only one that I think was robbed
• 51:14
  because he had, he won the NFC, he won the whole conference and
• 51:19
  his schedule, he's in the hardest division in football.
• 51:21
  You got to play the Rams twice, you got to play, you got to play
• 51:24
  San Francisco twice. Even Arizona, they're not a shoo
• 51:27
  in. They're great defense and I
• 51:29
  thought the way they dominated the NFC all season long, look at
• 51:33
  how they dominated the NFC. They didn't just beat down on
• 51:36
  teams, they killed teams. So and Mike McDonald had a
• 51:39
  rookie and well, he's not a rookie.
• 51:40
  He's a first year quarterback with the team and he got a
• 51:44
  three-year hunter and he wins the Super Bowl with that guy.
• 51:47
  So I mean he coached that team up and he's a young quarter.
• 51:50
  He's a young coach. I think that he was robbed.
• 51:53
  They gave it to Mike wraple. I understand why they did it,
• 51:56
  but MM Wraple, if you look at his schedule, was one of the
• 51:59
  easiest schedules in the in the NFL.
• 52:01
  Everybody knows that. How did the committee take that
• 52:04
  away from Mike McDonald? He was by far the best coach in
• 52:07
  all of the NFL. I'll give you one that was a guy
• 52:10
  who didn't deserve. Josh McDaniel is getting
• 52:12
  assistant Coach of the Year. Clint Kubiak.
• 52:14
  Over over Kubiak, over Vance Joseph in Denver as the
• 52:19
  defensive coach. I think they're I could
• 52:22
  probably, if I really went deep, I might find 5 to 7 guys I'd
• 52:26
  take before McDaniel. I might look at their defensive
• 52:29
  coordinator before I'd look at McDaniels, to be quite honest
• 52:32
  with you. Obviously Drake May had a great
• 52:34
  season. But again, we've we saw it.
• 52:36
  We talked about the first hour when we talked about the Super
• 52:38
  Bowl. Who did they really play this
• 52:40
  year and how how hard was it really for them?
• 52:43
  You know, their division was down.
• 52:45
  The Bills were really inconsistent this year.
• 52:47
  You know, they got them good the first time.
• 52:50
  They didn't beat them the second time.
• 52:52
  What were their real signature wins this season?
• 52:55
  You know, but you know, power to them.
• 52:57
  They did what they did and give them the give them the trophy.
• 53:00
  But I'll remind you, you know, Brian Dabel won coach of the
• 53:03
  year, too. The Giants.
• 53:05
  Yeah, so did Matt Nagy, who's on their offensive court.
• 53:07
  Nagy Well, you know, let's just get those.
• 53:10
  At least we're not just drafting team captains.
• 53:12
  Still speedy? Or Senior Bowl MVPS.
• 53:15
  And well deserved for Christian McCaffrey, he is.
• 53:18
  He's been great. What do you think about Trevor
• 53:20
  Lawrence, though? Trevor Lawrence should have
• 53:22
  given given a little bit more love.
• 53:24
  More consistency with McCaffrey though.
• 53:27
  I, I, I will say this, Cohen should have been up for coach of
• 53:29
  the year too. I mean, what he did in the
• 53:31
  second-half was first of all, with all the injuries, they lost
• 53:34
  Travis the gremlin hunter early, early in the season.
• 53:38
  And the way they picked up and, and it wasn't their stars that
• 53:40
  really picked up. It was these guys that that were
• 53:43
  brought up in the scrap heat, some of these drafted picks that
• 53:46
  they brought in later in the draft and they all, they all
• 53:49
  started to develop right with right on to Cohen.
• 53:51
  So I think he deserves a little bit more credit.
• 53:54
  And he's the one that finally, I mean, he had Peterson coaching
• 53:57
  him, who obviously won a Super Bowl as the head coach for the
• 54:00
  Eagles, knocking off the New England Patriots.
• 54:02
  He couldn't develop a guy like Trevor Lawrence, but a guy like
• 54:06
  Cohen who helped on Baker Mayfield.
• 54:09
  I think Canalis deserves a little bit more credit than
• 54:11
  Cohen does, but and getting the chance that he had this year to
• 54:15
  take over. And by the way, Cohen wasn't
• 54:17
  going to take that job until at the tail end before the OTA
• 54:20
  started. He wasn't.
• 54:21
  He didn't want that job until they fired the GM so.
• 54:25
  Getting rid of Trev Balky finally after all these years.
• 54:27
  Best thing for the organization. I'll give you one more name too.
• 54:29
  The team that had the most injuries in the NFL and they
• 54:32
  made the playoffs. They want to playoff Ben Johnson
• 54:34
  with the Bears, yes. Should be up there.
• 54:36
  Ben Johnson definitely should get a lot of accolades for what
• 54:40
  he did, especially with Caleb Williams and and we'll see how
• 54:44
  Caleb Williams. Assistant coach and Glenn.
• 54:48
  You know what really bothered me though?
• 54:50
  Tyler Shuck got five first place votes for Offensive Rookie of
• 54:54
  the Year and Dart only got one first place vote.
• 54:58
  I'm going to take Jackson Dart over Tyler Shuck every time.
• 55:01
  I'm sorry he got those three games that he had good stats
• 55:05
  were at the end of the season against third stringers.
• 55:07
  I don't I don't buy against bad competition and they were
• 55:11
  backups. I don't I'm.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, that is again.
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  If you really. New York Giant.
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  Tyler Shuck is better than Jackson guard.
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  I will take any bet right now. Right now.
• 55:22
  Don't, don't very. If there's anybody that needs
• 55:24
  APR person for the New York Giants, there's one guy right
• 55:27
  there that would be your biggest fan.
• 55:31
  You're just so upset because there are no PR people for The
• 55:33
  Jets nobody wants to support. Are you kidding me?
• 55:36
  The Jets have like 5 PR people, I can't stand them.
• 55:39
  What do you mean who? I I I just like we're the best.
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  No, I haven't heard a single Jets guy ever a.
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  Lot of them. There's a lot of PR Jet.
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  Guys that they're the best. No, no, I'm telling.
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  You there's no confidence left in the whole family.
• 55:51
  Please don't don't bring up The Jets and and try to raise the
• 55:54
  Giants up like they're special, all right?
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  Because the Giants have been just as bad.
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  We got one first place vote for Offensive Rookie of the.
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  Year Garrett Wilson won Offensive Rookie of the Year,
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  and so did, and so did. They won the offense.
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  Not this year. It doesn't matter.
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  It doesn't matter. And when was the last time a
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  giant won? Dell won trophy Once Upon a
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  time. Once.
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  Upon a time. How long ago was that?
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  Please stop what your stop what your giants takes.
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  I want to throw up anyways. We call this call your shot.
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  I'm not an X's and O's guy, right?
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  I'm not a tactician. I'm a motivator in the classic
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  sense of the word. You know, Lombardi, Charles
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  Lindbergh, that nun over in India, like those people call
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  your shot you got. To have the.
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  Booting. Listen, I want some of that
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  popcorn. Throw me some of that popcorn,
• 56:41
  Jabba. I catch it, see if I can do a
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  virtual There we go. If I could catch it through a
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  screen, I mean, I would be like, that would be magical, you know,
• 56:51
  catching. That that might happen soon with
• 56:54
  all the stuff that's going on. That's true too.
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  I mean, we could jump through a screen.
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  Could you imagine that? No doubt, right?
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  No question. That would be cool.
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  I got to go to Nebraska. Screwdriver screwdriving or
• 57:04
  flying? I'll just jump through a
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  computer screen. Save a lot of gas.
• 57:09
  Save a lot of everything free. No, you, they they'd somehow
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  find a way to tax it. Oh.
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  No doubt about it. You're.
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  Absolutely. Right about that.
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  All right, So ladies and gentlemen, this is pretty
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  simple. How we do this.
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  We're going to give you a take of something that could happen
• 57:29
  in the future and we're going to call it.
• 57:31
  That's how we're going to do it. So, and we're going to call and
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  we're going to tell you why we're calling it.
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  All right, we're going to go with Speedy.
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  We're going to go with Fish. Jabba me.
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  Here we go, all. Right, I'll start off with the
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  Olympics that have just started the host nation in in Italy and
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  Milan is hosting it and they're actually off to a very hot start
• 57:48
  right now. I've been watching some of the
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  with figure skating, with the the different snowboarding
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  events. A lot of them have meddled so
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  far. Right now, they are currently
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  the leader in total medals with 9 right now, Italy has never
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  finished in the top five in total medals ever.
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  They were 19th, 9th and 11th in the previous Olympics and no
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  host country outside of Russia when they hosted in 24/20/14 was
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  ever top three in their host in when they hosted in the last
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  century. I think Italy, I think Norway
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  and US will be 1 and 2 because they usually always are.
• 58:19
  I'm going to say Italy finishes in the top three over Germany,
• 58:23
  over Sweden, Finland and other winter powerhouses that usually
• 58:26
  get there in total medals. All right, that's a good one,
• 58:30
  Speedy. I'm going to continue Errol next
• 58:34
  season. The New York Football Giants are
• 58:38
  going to go not one, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 678910, No
• 58:45
  eleven wins next season. And now we play women next
• 58:51
  season under the diligence of John Harbaugh, the combined
• 58:57
  efforts of Charles Nagy. And Greg?
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  Norman. Norman.
• 59:03
  We. Don't need Craig Norman's Aubrey
• 59:06
  Shark in here too. Greg Roman, we're going to be
• 59:10
  awesome on offense. And then Abdul Carter, already
• 59:12
  the number one quick pressure guy in the NFL.
• 59:15
  My goodness. It's going to be a playoff for
• 59:19
  the Giants, and then the Sky's the limit for their. 1st we
• 59:22
  don't need Greg Norman's clutch instincts or Lac alls never.
• 59:25
  That would not be what we want. No, we don't want Greg Norman's
• 59:28
  clutch. We won't take his net worth
• 59:29
  though. This is coming from an organ
• 59:32
  organization that hired not one, but two offensive coordinators.
• 59:35
  Good luck. No, he's the run game
• 59:36
  coordinator and assistant head coach hired.
• 59:39
  Two offensive coordinators to run that offense.
• 59:42
  There's a pass game guy and a run.
• 59:44
  Game Oh yeah very jet like that's going to fail very good I
• 59:47
  can't wait to watch this debacle all right Jabba, what do you.
• 59:52
  Got pitchers and catchers start tomorrow and this is the year of
• 59:55
  the WBC and we have seen Japan and the US be kind of one of
• 1:00:00
  those teams that are everybody looks at to win.
• 1:00:03
  We know Otani said he's not pitching.
• 1:00:06
  We know Judge is the US captain, but I'm predicting neither of
• 1:00:10
  them are winning. Neither of them are winning.
• 1:00:13
  I'm going to go with. Team.
• 1:00:17
  Puerto Rico, and I say that because of who is leading that
• 1:00:25
  roster. And if you've seen the roster,
• 1:00:29
  it's fantastic. And when you look at Puerto Rico
• 1:00:34
  and everything that they do and they stand for, and then
• 1:00:37
  obviously they love their baseball.
• 1:00:40
  I think it's literally they're going to surprise people just
• 1:00:43
  because of everybody expects Japan or US to win.
• 1:00:51
  And when you got Yachty managing you, that's just an advantage
• 1:00:54
  because the dude is just an absolute stud and he's going to
• 1:00:57
  get the best out of his guys. And you've seen it before.
• 1:01:00
  So Puerto Rico's winning the WBC, baby.
• 1:01:04
  All right, my Collier shot goes to the Washington Wizards, they
• 1:01:10
  added. Anthony Davis, they added Trey
• 1:01:14
  Young, they made their team that much better after the All Star
• 1:01:17
  break. Anthony Davis will be back.
• 1:01:19
  They right now are they have fourteen wins and 38 losses.
• 1:01:24
  I expect this team, this team to win at least 15 more games.
• 1:01:29
  If they do, they fall out of the top 8 and that means the New
• 1:01:34
  York Knicks will be landing their pick in the offseason.
• 1:01:39
  Anything outside of the top 8. So my prediction going in to the
• 1:01:44
  second-half of the season is the Wizards win at least 15 more
• 1:01:48
  games, which then they fall out of the top 8, which they lose
• 1:01:51
  their pick and it goes to the New York Knicks.
• 1:01:53
  So that is my prediction. The Knicks will land at either 9
• 1:01:57
  or 11 and get the Wizards pick after losing poor Zingis and not
• 1:02:03
  getting any first round draft picks for him.
• 1:02:05
  They're going to land a first round pick where everybody
• 1:02:08
  thinks they're not going to have one.
• 1:02:09
  And the Knicks not only will have one, but two first round
• 1:02:12
  draft picks this offseason. So that means if they want
• 1:02:16
  Giannis, they can get Giannis. So.
• 1:02:19
  Let's go there. You go.
• 1:02:20
  That's my prediction. And I do believe this.
• 1:02:23
  If the Knicks do not get into the Finals with this roster,
• 1:02:26
  Giannis will be a New York Knick.
• 1:02:27
  I I do believe that there were a lot of teams interested in
• 1:02:30
  Giannis at the trade deadline. Why?
• 1:02:32
  Why do you think nothing happened?
• 1:02:33
  Because Giannis didn't want to go to any of those teams.
• 1:02:36
  And the Knicks didn't want to trade Ogiannonobi.
• 1:02:37
  Yeah, Giannis did not want to go to Minnesota.
• 1:02:41
  He did not want to go to Miami and those were the two lead
• 1:02:44
  teams that were likely to get him.
• 1:02:46
  He had no interest because he wants to win.
• 1:02:48
  He always wanted to be a Nick. I think that he's going to wait
• 1:02:51
  until the offseason if it even if Milwaukee misses out, but
• 1:02:54
  Milwaukee made a couple of trades.
• 1:02:55
  They could sneak into the playoffs and maybe make a run.
• 1:02:58
  They could they could be a play in team.
• 1:02:59
  But I think even if they fall out, Giannis will be a Nick next
• 1:03:03
  year, especially if the Knicks don't win a championship because
• 1:03:06
  you have Hal Burton coming back. Jason Tatum could be back in the
• 1:03:09
  playoffs. And they're saying that Jason
• 1:03:11
  Tatum is is almost a definite, we'll be back in the playoffs if
• 1:03:15
  the Celtics make a run. So not the first round, the
• 1:03:18
  second round. So the Knicks would have to
• 1:03:19
  contend with a somewhat healthy Jason Tatum if the Celtics get
• 1:03:25
  out of the first round. And the Knicks right now would
• 1:03:27
  match up against the Celtics in the second round 23.
• 1:03:29
  Yeah, so very interesting the crap out of them the other
• 1:03:32
  night. Yeah, Did you see Jaylen Brown
• 1:03:35
  and and some of his remarks to his team after they lost that
• 1:03:37
  game? For some reason, Jaylen Brown
• 1:03:39
  can't stand the Knicks, and like his turning point is always when
• 1:03:42
  they lose against the Knicks. Dude, Alvarado, Alvarado's
• 1:03:45
  making a difference. They could they switch Alvarado
• 1:03:48
  off and Brunson on defensively now when they're both out there
• 1:03:53
  and now he's like not a it's not a problem.
• 1:03:56
  They are hiding him defensively on the perimeter, which they
• 1:03:59
  weren't able to do before. It's pretty damn good.
• 1:04:01
  He's so happy answer. He's so happy.
• 1:04:02
  To be there too, man, you could see it.
• 1:04:04
  His father, his mother, his family was there.
• 1:04:06
  And Alvarado I think is going to do, it's going to help for the
• 1:04:10
  regular regular season, but mainly for the playoffs against
• 1:04:13
  Cunningham. He did not play against Detroit.
• 1:04:16
  When they play Cunningham, I expect him to be a big part of
• 1:04:20
  their run this year. And even if they miss out on
• 1:04:23
  winning a championship this year, they have a player's
• 1:04:25
  option for him next year. He'll be back next year.
• 1:04:28
  And that means the Knicks will have money to maybe bring in
• 1:04:30
  Dante Divincenzo to add a shooter and maybe Giannis.
• 1:04:33
  So and Dante is a free agent next year.
• 1:04:35
  And I, I, I could see Dante coming back.
• 1:04:38
  They need another shooter and I think that could happen.
• 1:04:40
  So very interesting. Well, let's not talk about the
• 1:04:42
  offseason. The Knicks could still make a
• 1:04:44
  run for a championship. So we'll see.
• 1:04:46
  Anyways, that's it for our show. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you
• 1:04:49
  to all the fans out there on Spotify and Apple audio and
• 1:04:53
  video. We really appreciate you guys.
• 1:04:54
  Keep downloading us, checking us out.
• 1:04:57
  We're going to have a new YouTube channel.
• 1:04:59
  The boys, the interns are working on it.
• 1:05:01
  So I thank you to all our interns that are doing all the
• 1:05:03
  back end stuff to help us and help our product grow.
• 1:05:06
  Thank you to all the ex Instagram and TikTok fans
• 1:05:10
  downloading, looking at our views and posting up our Reddit
• 1:05:14
  fans reading all my stories and all the stories that are getting
• 1:05:16
  posted. We really appreciate you guys.
• 1:05:20
  So far in eight days, how many views do we have?
• 1:05:22
  Speedy so far? 67,000 something. 67,000 people
• 1:05:27
  so far in eight days that have been in and out of our website.
• 1:05:30
  Last month we had 89,000 for the month.
• 1:05:32
  We're going to break that. I think we're going to have over
• 1:05:35
  100 and semi thousand people in our website.
• 1:05:38
  It's amazing and it's catching on to the fan.
• 1:05:41
  So it's it's really been great. So thank you to all the fans
• 1:05:44
  tuning in on on YouTube as well. We're we're still trying to
• 1:05:48
  figure out the algorithms, but all the people that are tuned in
• 1:05:51
  alive. We we put it live on YouTube,
• 1:05:53
  but you could also watch it on Spotify and apple video.
• 1:05:57
  If if you don't like YouTube and you just want to follow us that
• 1:06:00
  way, you can do that as well. So speedy cuts it up and and you
• 1:06:03
  get a chance to see all the videos and and the full show.
• 1:06:06
  So thank you to all the fans, Jabba.
• 1:06:08
  I mean, obviously you're my partner.
• 1:06:11
  Do you have anything to say before we go?
• 1:06:14
  No, it's just been it's been a fun run.
• 1:06:16
  This is going to be a great year.
• 1:06:18
  Obviously, hang with me. It's going to be touch and go
• 1:06:21
  with Carter and all the stuff, but love being a part of it.
• 1:06:25
  Love having you guys on. You guys haven't met me yet, but
• 1:06:28
  my dumb ass is right here. So glad to have you.
• 1:06:32
  But no, it's it's been fun. I've learned a lot.
• 1:06:35
  I pay attention to different things more and what I pay
• 1:06:37
  attention to is thanking all the people that watch and spend
• 1:06:42
  their time and when they're in the car, just listen to us and
• 1:06:45
  downloading us and, and just listening to the craziness or
• 1:06:48
  whatever the hell is going to come out of our mouths because
• 1:06:50
  we don't really know. This is not scripted.
• 1:06:52
  We just kind of go, we kind of have a, an, an outline of what's
• 1:06:56
  going to happen. We don't know if it's going to
• 1:06:58
  really happen. But no, just appreciate
• 1:07:01
  everybody. Appreciate all you guys and your
• 1:07:02
  time and the hard work that everybody puts in and it's going
• 1:07:06
  to be a fun year. That's all I can say.
• 1:07:07
  It is. And then congratulations to your
• 1:07:09
  son. He's he's got a chance to do
• 1:07:11
  some big things at Hutch and then D1 baseball possibly.
• 1:07:15
  So I'm hoping for the best for your kid.
• 1:07:17
  And Carter has been a fan of our show and we're a fan of his and
• 1:07:21
  we only wish him the best. And we have a lot of great
• 1:07:23
  things coming up and we're going to.
• 1:07:25
  Announce Oklahoma. There you go.
• 1:07:28
  So yeah, well, that's true too. But we have a lot of great
• 1:07:32
  things coming up and and like I said, it's going to be a big
• 1:07:35
  year for us. I really do believe that by by
• 1:07:37
  September, we're going to have a huge announcements and, and, and
• 1:07:41
  all that other stuff. So for all the fans that TuneIn
• 1:07:43
  and support us and and love what we do.
• 1:07:46
  Like, like Jabba says this, this show is not scripted.
• 1:07:50
  Everything we do is off the head.
• 1:07:51
  We don't know what's going to happen.
• 1:07:53
  And that's what makes us unique. We don't have people talking to
• 1:07:57
  us in our, you know, our ears giving us information before we
• 1:08:00
  speak. You know, it's, it's really just
• 1:08:02
  off the cuff. And that's what makes the the
• 1:08:04
  show very unique. And that's what makes us
• 1:08:07
  interesting to listen to. So thank you to all the fans.
• 1:08:10
  And we'll be back on Thursday. Speedy, who do we have?
• 1:08:12
  All right, ex Giants Super Bowl champion linebacker Gary Reasons
• 1:08:15
  will be joining us on 840. 5 Gary reasons SO is very well
• 1:08:19
  known with the with with, I'm sorry, with the Giants
• 1:08:22
  organization and some of the things that they that he's done
• 1:08:25
  in the past. One of the better what what do
• 1:08:28
  they what do they say? Goal line people, right?
• 1:08:31
  Goal line stand people. One of the best plays of all
• 1:08:34
  time on the goal line. Yeah.
• 1:08:36
  So, well, I'm, I'm interested to interview him.
• 1:08:39
  I've never interviewed interviewed him before.
• 1:08:40
  And I want to thank Nathan for getting him.
• 1:08:43
  It's been a long, long day and it's time to eat good night.
• 1:08:48
  You're listening to the Worldwide Sports Radio Network.