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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up boys on this best of the Bus episode,
- 0:02Speaker 1: a series where we drop a best of every Saturday
- 0:06Speaker 1: and recap some of our favorite episodes, throwing it all
- 0:09Speaker 1: the way back to when Max Crosby came on the bus.
- 0:12Speaker 1: The boys were in Vegas before the twenty twenty three
- 0:15Speaker 1: season with the one and only Max Crosby, Mad Max
- 0:19Speaker 1: just elite specimen specimen of a pass rusher in the NFL.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Max opened up about his goals and how he's leveling
- 0:27Speaker 1: up for next season and what it was like playing
- 0:29Speaker 1: with Ab and DeVante Adams. He also gets real on
- 0:32Speaker 1: the Derek Carr situation. He will drop a monologue that'll
- 0:36Speaker 1: make you run three brick wall and get your piss hot.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Big hugs, tiny kisses. Enjoy this episode.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another episode of Bust with
- 0:47Speaker 2: the Boys. Obviously, we are not on the bus right now.
- 0:50Speaker 2: We are in a pristine locationknown unknown in Las Vegas, Nevada,
- 0:57Speaker 2: at the home of the legendary Max Cross. And if
- 1:00Speaker 2: you're at home right now, go ahead and give him
- 1:02Speaker 2: a round of applause.
- 1:03Speaker 3: We'll do it too.
- 1:06Speaker 4: Appreciate you, guys, buddy.
- 1:08Speaker 3: This is an outstanding place. I appreciate it.
- 1:10Speaker 2: Yeah, when did you move into this residence?
- 1:13Speaker 3: We moved into May.
- 1:14Speaker 4: Yeah, I lived about three minutes away before and me
- 1:19Speaker 4: and Rachel were looking at houses for a long time
- 1:22Speaker 4: and it was a very stressful Brooklyn, very stressful situation.
- 1:27Speaker 4: You know, We're going back and forth arguing I'm done.
- 1:30Speaker 4: You know. I was at the point where I'm like,
- 1:32Speaker 4: I'm done looking at houses, like until I get my contract,
- 1:34Speaker 4: Like I'm done. And then all of a sudden, my
- 1:37Speaker 4: boys come in town. We're going to the UFC event
- 1:39Speaker 4: that weekend, and Rachel's like, there's this one house we
- 1:42Speaker 4: got to see, you know whatever. I'm like, I'm done.
- 1:44Speaker 4: I'm seriously, I'm done. I'm done looking at houses. She
- 1:47Speaker 4: pulls me in the car. We're going. We drive around
- 1:49Speaker 4: the corner and that was it. We literally put an
- 1:52Speaker 4: offer on this house that that same day. So really
- 1:55Speaker 4: and this is this house.
- 1:56Speaker 5: Yeah, there is a weird was that I said. He
- 2:00Speaker 5: knew that bag was coming.
- 2:01Speaker 3: He knew the BA.
- 2:02Speaker 2: But when the bag is not secured yet, you do
- 2:04Speaker 2: start playing the game of like, man, I wonder where
- 2:06Speaker 2: I could get and you start, you get on the
- 2:08Speaker 2: Zillow app and you're looking.
- 2:09Speaker 3: At the things. All right, this is what I can
- 2:10Speaker 3: get right now.
- 2:11Speaker 2: But if I get this contract, I could go and
- 2:13Speaker 2: get that that it's a crazy game you play in
- 2:16Speaker 2: your head.
- 2:17Speaker 4: Yes, it's the best.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Was that like a stressful time for you? Like before
- 2:21Speaker 2: contract stuff was.
- 2:22Speaker 4: Like I wouldn't say stressful, Like it was honestly like
- 2:26Speaker 4: a good stress Like you know, the situation like it's hard,
- 2:30Speaker 4: you don't know, like you want to get to your number,
- 2:32Speaker 4: like you're really hell bent, okay on this boom, I'm
- 2:35Speaker 4: not going below this. But then in the situation, like
- 2:38Speaker 4: when it really came down to it, I you know,
- 2:41Speaker 4: you're never going to get exactly what you want. But
- 2:44Speaker 4: at the end of the day, like I got enough
- 2:47Speaker 4: where I don't have to you know what I mean,
- 2:48Speaker 4: I don't have to worry about money anymore. So like
- 2:50Speaker 4: that's the ultimate goal. But it's you know, for me,
- 2:54Speaker 4: it's not really about the money. Like my I've always
- 2:58Speaker 4: heard from coaches everything, like they're like the second contracts
- 3:01Speaker 4: what the NFL is all about. And for me, like
- 3:03Speaker 4: I've always thought about, I always try to do above
- 3:06Speaker 4: and beyond, Like my goal is to get a third contract,
- 3:08Speaker 4: like I want to be the highest paid in a
- 3:10Speaker 4: few years. Like that's that's my ultimate goal. So like
- 3:13Speaker 4: this contract was a big deal for me, Like I'm set,
- 3:15Speaker 4: but at the end of the day, like I want
- 3:16Speaker 4: to reset the market. So like that's like my goal
- 3:19Speaker 4: for sure, one of my goals. How long are you
- 3:21Speaker 4: want to play? Twelve to probably twelve to thirteen just depending.
- 3:25Speaker 4: I honestly don't know, but like I don't, like we
- 3:28Speaker 4: just talked about, I don't ever want to step on
- 3:30Speaker 4: the field and feel like like not like myself. Like
- 3:33Speaker 4: that's what I'll know, Like if I get to that point,
- 3:35Speaker 4: gonna be done.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Because there are players that, like young, when they're younger
- 3:39Speaker 2: in their career, they play super hard. Like we were
- 3:40Speaker 2: in the car driving here, and like the adjective I
- 3:44Speaker 2: think we use for you is like, did you play relentless?
- 3:46Speaker 3: You play hard?
- 3:48Speaker 2: And when sometimes when dudes play that hard, dead puts
- 3:51Speaker 2: some wear on the tires. And then dudes get older
- 3:53Speaker 2: and they have to change up their game a little bit,
- 3:55Speaker 2: and you're not you don't want to sacrifice that.
- 3:58Speaker 4: No, No, you know, honestly, I've I've always kind of
- 4:01Speaker 4: had that mindset, like ever since I, you know, started
- 4:04Speaker 4: playing football. Like I truly believe there's only one way
- 4:06Speaker 4: to play. And yeah, if I if I'm playing and
- 4:09Speaker 4: being cautious about jumping in piles and things like that,
- 4:13Speaker 4: like I probably shouldn't be playing. And yeah, like I
- 4:16Speaker 4: just want to look back in my career and be like, yeah,
- 4:19Speaker 4: he put a great body of work. I don't want
- 4:20Speaker 4: the last thing they remember it is like my old
- 4:22Speaker 4: ass trying to bend the edge and falling over and
- 4:24Speaker 4: stuff like that's the last thing I want, you know,
- 4:26Speaker 4: for me, I really want to go out on my terms,
- 4:30Speaker 4: because there's most guys don't. And that's kind of the
- 4:33Speaker 4: hard thing about this business. Like I you know, I'm
- 4:35Speaker 4: not in control. I don't know you know, what's going
- 4:38Speaker 4: to happen in the future, but like I know the
- 4:40Speaker 4: preparation I put into it. I do everything I can
- 4:42Speaker 4: to try to be at my best and be able
- 4:44Speaker 4: to play that way. So you know, that's kind of
- 4:47Speaker 4: my my long term goals. But I'm just literally just
- 4:50Speaker 4: trying to stay in the present. That's it.
- 4:52Speaker 5: Yeah, it's almost like how do you know? You know
- 4:54Speaker 5: what I mean? Like if you're if you end on
- 4:56Speaker 5: if you end on a high note, right, the competitive
- 4:59Speaker 5: nature in everybody is you continue to go. It's like,
- 5:03Speaker 5: I don't feel like you would actually find out if
- 5:04Speaker 5: you've lost a step unless you had a year where
- 5:07Speaker 5: it's like, oh yeah, maybe maybe I don't have it
- 5:09Speaker 5: like I did the year before, year prior. So it's
- 5:11Speaker 5: almost like how do you know? Because you're almost you're
- 5:15Speaker 5: also addicted to all the success as well. Yeah you
- 5:18Speaker 5: know what I mean, Like, how do you feel like
- 5:19Speaker 5: you would know?
- 5:20Speaker 3: I don't know. I feel like like that's a great question.
- 5:23Speaker 5: His oldest being around the edge. I feel like that
- 5:25Speaker 5: wouldn't happen unless it's like week fifteen, if maybe your
- 5:28Speaker 5: last season and you're like, fuck, maybe I am slowing down.
- 5:30Speaker 4: Yeah no, that's that's true. You never, like I feel
- 5:33Speaker 4: like you're never gonna know, like exactly. But it's just
- 5:36Speaker 4: like like JJ, like I feel like it's a mental
- 5:38Speaker 4: thing too, like you know when you're done. Like there's
- 5:41Speaker 4: guys like I feel like there's certain like even I
- 5:45Speaker 4: know Sean McVay, Like I don't know all the story,
- 5:47Speaker 4: but like I know how he works and people talk
- 5:50Speaker 4: about his work ethic like he's like when he's in it,
- 5:52Speaker 4: like Seas twenty four to seven, he doesn't stop, and
- 5:55Speaker 4: like people are saying he might take a break, and
- 5:57Speaker 4: there's rumors of that just because of how he is.
- 5:59Speaker 4: So like if I ever get to that point where
- 6:01Speaker 4: I'm like sick of it and like I'm really not
- 6:03Speaker 4: enjoying it, and I'm you know, I'm at that point
- 6:05Speaker 4: where it's like I'm you know, I've already I've given
- 6:08Speaker 4: everything I got to it, Like it's time to just
- 6:10Speaker 4: you know, call it a career. Like I know that.
- 6:13Speaker 4: I feel like I'll know when that day comes. Like
- 6:15Speaker 4: even jj Watt, like you've seen he's bawling like he
- 6:17Speaker 4: had just had twelve and a half sackses here and
- 6:19Speaker 4: he's just like I'm done, but he knows he kind
- 6:21Speaker 4: of hit that limit. He played what twelve years.
- 6:23Speaker 5: Yeah, that's Brady.
- 6:25Speaker 4: Yeah, Well it's different though, Like he's he's not taking
- 6:29Speaker 4: big yets running and putting his shoulders and shit, so
- 6:32Speaker 4: like that's different. Like I feel like, especially playing up front,
- 6:35Speaker 4: you know Taylor, like it's a lot and it's every
- 6:37Speaker 4: single day in practice, like a quarterback's not taking any
- 6:40Speaker 4: damage during the week. They're not doing it during the
- 6:43Speaker 4: offseason like we do it all the time all year round.
- 6:45Speaker 4: So yeah, like my goal, Like there's there's main goals
- 6:48Speaker 4: I want to hit, Like I want to be the
- 6:49Speaker 4: Raiders all time sack leader, Like that's something that's like
- 6:52Speaker 4: big on my checklist. Like there's a lot of things
- 6:54Speaker 4: that I want to hit before I'm done. So yeah,
- 6:57Speaker 4: you know, I'm just gonna stay in the present. That's
- 7:00Speaker 4: all i can do. But when that day comes, I
- 7:01Speaker 4: feel like I'll know what is the all time sack
- 7:03Speaker 4: leading I think it's one oh seven and a half
- 7:05Speaker 4: Greg Townsend.
- 7:06Speaker 5: So you're at one hundred sacks year ten eight? Yeah,
- 7:12Speaker 5: let's say okay, yeah, yeah, let's say you're at a
- 7:15Speaker 5: hundred sacks year eight, but you're losing a step, but
- 7:19Speaker 5: you need seven sacks to get that all time sack.
- 7:22Speaker 5: Do you come back the next year to get to
- 7:24Speaker 5: check your boxes where you feel like you're close?
- 7:26Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I like this is different.
- 7:27Speaker 4: Like if I'm in year eight and I feel like
- 7:29Speaker 4: I'm losing a step, then maybe I'm not doing something right,
- 7:32Speaker 4: you know what I mean?
- 7:32Speaker 3: Like maybe that's.
- 7:34Speaker 5: Weelie, you're so fucking relentless all the time, Like maybe you.
- 7:37Speaker 4: Know, nah, that's I'm still young, bro, like I'm twenty
- 7:40Speaker 4: five and I'm going into my fifth year, you know
- 7:42Speaker 4: what I mean, Like if I'm not if like just
- 7:44Speaker 4: looking at it from like there's you look at the
- 7:47Speaker 4: Kobe's the gods like that, like they work relentlessly. They
- 7:50Speaker 4: were able to play twenty years. I know it's a
- 7:51Speaker 4: different sport, but like even the NFL guys, like I know,
- 7:54Speaker 4: injuries are injuries happen, like that's a part of it.
- 7:56Speaker 4: But you know, I feel like if you do all
- 7:59Speaker 4: the right things, you carry your body, do sleep well,
- 8:02Speaker 4: recover well, do all the shit right, you practice right,
- 8:05Speaker 4: keep keep ahead of things, like you'll be fine. And
- 8:07Speaker 4: and that's how like I played almost eleven hundred snaps
- 8:10Speaker 4: this year, Like I played a ton of snaps, but like.
- 8:14Speaker 3: I feel good, like I could go.
- 8:15Speaker 4: I could start training tomorrow if I really wanted to,
- 8:18Speaker 4: but I have to force myself to slow down. So
- 8:20Speaker 4: like I'm not fucking stupid. I don't think like I'm
- 8:22Speaker 4: above other people, and I don't, you know what I mean,
- 8:24Speaker 4: That's not how I look at it, but like I
- 8:26Speaker 4: just I feel like if I just keep doing the
- 8:30Speaker 4: right things, but I'll be able to kind of control
- 8:32Speaker 4: my destiny.
- 8:32Speaker 5: And I was more trying to give it a hypothetical love
- 8:35Speaker 5: you're slowing down, but you're also right there on the
- 8:36Speaker 5: cusp of a couple of those check checks.
- 8:39Speaker 3: I'm going to yeah, I'm going to get I'm will play.
- 8:43Speaker 4: One year and if I go and out four sacks,
- 8:44Speaker 4: then yeah it's time. But like I'm a yeah, I'm
- 8:46Speaker 4: a definitely, you're right.
- 8:49Speaker 5: I guess it would be like, you know, it wouldn't
- 8:50Speaker 5: be like year twelve or thirteen, where.
- 8:52Speaker 4: Yeah, thirty seven and a half, Okay, that's pretty all right.
- 8:57Speaker 5: What are other goals on that?
- 8:58Speaker 4: What are other goals on that list?
- 9:02Speaker 3: There's that oh my bad, uh put it to your mouth.
- 9:09Speaker 4: There's a few like that, Like I want to be
- 9:12Speaker 4: in the Hall of Fame. That's something I want to
- 9:14Speaker 4: be in. I want to be the Raiders all time
- 9:17Speaker 4: sack leader. You know, there's there's a lot of things.
- 9:22Speaker 4: I can't say everything, but like there's like the main
- 9:25Speaker 4: goals like I want to be definitely do that, but
- 9:27Speaker 4: I want to I want to have a career where
- 9:31Speaker 4: like when people look back, like the biggest thing for me,
- 9:32Speaker 4: like the numbers and shit is cool, Like the jacket,
- 9:34Speaker 4: all that shit's cool, but like my main focus is
- 9:37Speaker 4: like trying to impact the way the game is played.
- 9:40Speaker 4: Like I feel like in the NFL now there's a
- 9:44Speaker 4: there's only a few guys that you really look at
- 9:47Speaker 4: and are like, damn, he's just fucking he's different. I
- 9:49Speaker 4: don't know what it is, like just the way he plays,
- 9:51Speaker 4: Like I watch like Chris Jones and like Michael Parsons
- 9:54Speaker 4: and those guys, like there's just something different when they're
- 9:56Speaker 4: out on the field, Like it's like a presence, and
- 9:58Speaker 4: like that's what I want to lead back. Like when
- 10:00Speaker 4: people look back and talk about me, they're not going
- 10:02Speaker 4: to talk about the stats at the end of the day.
- 10:03Speaker 4: They don't talk about Lawrence Taylor's sacks. They talk about
- 10:06Speaker 4: when that dude is on the field, he's a fucking
- 10:08Speaker 4: animal like and that's that's that's the way I look
- 10:10Speaker 4: at it, Like inspiring kids, Inspiring kids, Like I want
- 10:14Speaker 4: to be that guy that kids want to be like
- 10:16Speaker 4: like I want That's that's what matters most to me.
- 10:18Speaker 4: So if it's six years and I feel like I'm
- 10:21Speaker 4: losing a step, like then it is what it is
- 10:23Speaker 4: like and I and I'll know I'm done. But like
- 10:25Speaker 4: at the end of the day, like I feel like
- 10:26Speaker 4: the impact I leave on the game, I want to
- 10:28Speaker 4: be I want to bring that back, like the old
- 10:29Speaker 4: school way of playing football, flying to the ball, not
- 10:32Speaker 4: giving a ship, like throwing my body Like that's that's
- 10:34Speaker 4: what I feel like is missing nowadays.
- 10:36Speaker 2: For sure from an inspiration standpoint, when you were playing
- 10:41Speaker 2: at Eastern Michigan of all places in Ipsilany, which is wild,
- 10:44Speaker 2: like how you were there.
- 10:47Speaker 5: Shot at the boys and its way better than the bast.
- 10:52Speaker 2: Man until this year, until this like when you're when
- 10:57Speaker 2: you're playing, like obviously the first person that comes to
- 10:59Speaker 2: mind somebody you've already like two or three times as
- 11:01Speaker 2: JJ Watt, was that like your guy at Eastern?
- 11:04Speaker 3: No, not at Eastern. I liked.
- 11:06Speaker 4: I was a big JJ fan, like when I first
- 11:08Speaker 4: started playing DM, Like my first year playing DM was
- 11:11Speaker 4: I was a senior in high school, so I was
- 11:14Speaker 4: new to the position. I'm like, who's the best at
- 11:17Speaker 4: what I do? So like JJ at that time was
- 11:19Speaker 4: like Superman. So I definitely I like watching JJ. But
- 11:24Speaker 4: there's a ton of guys like I love Jared Allen
- 11:25Speaker 4: growing up. There's a ton and it's not just defensive
- 11:30Speaker 4: ends like I played growing up. I was a middle
- 11:32Speaker 4: linebacker the whole time until my senior year. So like,
- 11:35Speaker 4: you know, I could go on and on about different players,
- 11:37Speaker 4: but yeah, I watch everybody, and I just I want
- 11:40Speaker 4: to be like unique, like somebody not just another guy,
- 11:42Speaker 4: another hard working, Like I going to be somebody to
- 11:45Speaker 4: look back. It is like damn, like in that time,
- 11:46Speaker 4: like this dude was just different than most dudes.
- 11:48Speaker 2: Because JJ was one of those dudes who like fought
- 11:50Speaker 2: through the fringe. Like when I first got to Tennessee,
- 11:53Speaker 2: it was like that was when JJ was was JJ.
- 11:56Speaker 3: It was terrifying.
- 11:57Speaker 2: And then you know, he went through like a three
- 11:59Speaker 2: four years where he like played six games, played nine games,
- 12:02Speaker 2: like didn't really play a whole lot, and he could
- 12:04Speaker 2: have easily been where we've been. What we've been talking
- 12:07Speaker 2: about was like is he losing a step? Yeah, and
- 12:09Speaker 2: he goes back to the Cardinals and like, you say,
- 12:11Speaker 2: you had twelve sacks this year, but LOOKI was balling
- 12:13Speaker 2: this year.
- 12:13Speaker 5: It's a competitive I feel like it's like that competitive fire.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Like also the fight of being like this can't be
- 12:19Speaker 2: the end for me, Like I need to make this
- 12:20Speaker 2: comeback real.
- 12:22Speaker 5: But you're in it. Though, like you're in your own
- 12:25Speaker 5: Like some people could objectively say, like maybe you are
- 12:27Speaker 5: losing a step, but I guess only you know. But
- 12:29Speaker 5: then that's obsession of being so uber competitive. Maybe you
- 12:32Speaker 5: don't necessarily know it, but you keep going back right
- 12:34Speaker 5: for sure.
- 12:35Speaker 4: And that's the thing too. Guys like the game you
- 12:38Speaker 4: evolve like over time, like especially like even if some
- 12:42Speaker 4: guys are a little bit older, that's the thing too.
- 12:44Speaker 4: Like my game is from my rookie year to now,
- 12:46Speaker 4: it's like pull it, you know what I mean, I've gone.
- 12:49Speaker 4: It's not even like the same person I watched my film,
- 12:51Speaker 4: So even I feel like it's when you get older, too,
- 12:53Speaker 4: Like you see a guy like this I always refer
- 12:55Speaker 4: to the NBA, but like you see James Harden, like
- 12:57Speaker 4: he used to be dropping forty a game every night
- 12:59Speaker 4: and now he's like a pass first, he's leading the
- 13:02Speaker 4: league and assist because he's lost the step, but he's
- 13:05Speaker 4: also like the best passer in the league now and
- 13:07Speaker 4: he's just evolved as a player. So yeah, I feel
- 13:10Speaker 4: like that's the thing. Like I have this vision of
- 13:12Speaker 4: what I want by handing to look like and how
- 13:14Speaker 4: it's gonna be, but like I truly don't know, Like
- 13:16Speaker 4: I really don't know. I just I just try to
- 13:18Speaker 4: stay stay in the day, bro, And if I can
- 13:21Speaker 4: maximize every day and do what I do, like it's
- 13:23Speaker 4: just gonna work out the way it's supposed to. You know,
- 13:25Speaker 4: it's not that's not under my control.
- 13:28Speaker 3: Going now, you're right.
- 13:29Speaker 5: I was gonna switch a subject, but if you're staying
- 13:31Speaker 5: on there, No, I was just I was.
- 13:32Speaker 2: Playing till Like everyone everyone really has this, like everyone's
- 13:36Speaker 2: writing their own little story in their head and they're
- 13:37Speaker 2: like they're narrating their own story. Like if I do this,
- 13:39Speaker 2: like it's gonna look like this, and like you're literally
- 13:41Speaker 2: watching yourself daydream of how it's all going to end.
- 13:44Speaker 2: Everyone plays it out, and you're right, like a lot
- 13:45Speaker 2: of dudes can't go out in their own terms. Like
- 13:47Speaker 2: a lot of people like uh, Like for me, two
- 13:49Speaker 2: acls in three years, it's like I was on top
- 13:52Speaker 2: of the world before that, and I thought, oh man,
- 13:54Speaker 2: I'm getting this jacket, Like we're gonna keep going and
- 13:57Speaker 2: things just switch up on you and you have to
- 13:58Speaker 2: learn to pivot and be happy with what you done.
- 14:00Speaker 4: Yeah, what's it?
- 14:02Speaker 2: Uh?
- 14:02Speaker 5: What's it like being Brian Baldinger is one of his
- 14:05Speaker 5: favorite players. I feel like my man is always shouting
- 14:07Speaker 5: you out because of what you talk about the impact
- 14:09Speaker 5: on the game. I feel like he does a great
- 14:11Speaker 5: job of spotlighting that and showing that the commodore whether
- 14:16Speaker 5: or not you're getting this stat of a sack, the
- 14:17Speaker 5: way you affect the game. What's it like like having
- 14:21Speaker 5: a legend like that talk about you multiple times throughout
- 14:24Speaker 5: the year.
- 14:25Speaker 3: Yeah, it's awesome.
- 14:26Speaker 4: You know, ever since my rookie year, for some reason,
- 14:28Speaker 4: like my first game that I really got to play
- 14:30Speaker 4: in was an Indianapolis game. I think it was week
- 14:33Speaker 4: four of my rookie year, and he put a video
- 14:36Speaker 4: out and he made up the condor nickname and all
- 14:38Speaker 4: this stuff, and I was like throwing off.
- 14:40Speaker 3: I'm like, damn likely juicy.
- 14:42Speaker 4: He narrates that stuff like he's some fire. The comment,
- 14:47Speaker 4: the whole thing is classic. So it's like when he's
- 14:50Speaker 4: first started doing that, like I reached out back to
- 14:53Speaker 4: him and I was like, man, I was like, I appreciate.
- 14:55Speaker 3: It means the world.
- 14:56Speaker 4: And then you know, I just as my career's gone,
- 14:59Speaker 4: he's always doing videos and now like we'll talk like
- 15:02Speaker 4: before you know, after a game. I'll be like, go
- 15:05Speaker 4: go watch what I did on this third down, and
- 15:07Speaker 4: he'll check it out and be like and we'll just
- 15:09Speaker 4: have conversations back and forth.
- 15:10Speaker 3: He loves he.
- 15:13Speaker 4: Loves football, bro. And that's that's the type of people
- 15:16Speaker 4: I like to like to associate myself with. So, you know,
- 15:19Speaker 4: like Marinelli and those guys, Like I talked to Marionelli
- 15:22Speaker 4: to this day every day, Like I was just saw
- 15:25Speaker 4: him in Texas. I was just on the phone with
- 15:27Speaker 4: them like two hours ago. Like he's one of those
- 15:30Speaker 4: guys that like I need in my life to keep
- 15:32Speaker 4: Like everybody has those people, especially like in your sport,
- 15:34Speaker 4: that you like just have a different level of respect
- 15:37Speaker 4: for and like Baldy and like Marinelli, those guys like
- 15:40Speaker 4: I constantly even when I'm not training, like right now,
- 15:42Speaker 4: I have a couple of weeks to kind of get
- 15:44Speaker 4: off my feet, like just I need it, Like it's
- 15:47Speaker 4: my part of like my addiction, Like I love playing football.
- 15:50Speaker 4: So having those guys just talkball and just feed me
- 15:53Speaker 4: knowledge is really cool.
- 15:55Speaker 2: How do you get the commodore nickname the condor Condors comedy?
- 16:03Speaker 3: What is a commando that like down Dude's similar?
- 16:09Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, similar schools.
- 16:12Speaker 3: How did you get that nickname?
- 16:13Speaker 4: It was just from Baldinger. I think it was that. Yeah,
- 16:17Speaker 4: I guess the wingspan you.
- 16:19Speaker 2: Do have like a solid cave man like knuckles touch
- 16:22Speaker 2: and knees.
- 16:24Speaker 3: That's a big that's a big compent. You want them.
- 16:28Speaker 4: Them things are flying to when you're yeah, I've I've
- 16:31Speaker 4: heard a lot of different weird you watch your film.
- 16:34Speaker 4: You see them in the.
- 16:35Speaker 3: Right guard when you're playing.
- 16:38Speaker 4: See that's the funny thing. Bro, Like and this is weird,
- 16:41Speaker 4: and y'all can believe me or not. But when I
- 16:44Speaker 4: went to the combine, I'm like, you know, everyone's always
- 16:46Speaker 4: told me that, like, bro, you got long arm, like
- 16:48Speaker 4: your long athlete. I went to the combine, I was
- 16:51Speaker 4: like almost the bottom. When it came to wingspan, they
- 16:54Speaker 4: were like, I swear to god, they had articles uh
- 16:57Speaker 4: the Eastern Michigan Because like, I did good at the
- 16:59Speaker 4: combines with people start talking about me more. But they're like, yeah,
- 17:01Speaker 4: I don't know his wingspan short and blah blah blah.
- 17:03Speaker 4: And I'm like, what was your It was like it
- 17:06Speaker 4: was like six ten wingspan. I don't know my arm length.
- 17:09Speaker 4: It was like I tell you six five oh.
- 17:11Speaker 3: I think it's a dub.
- 17:12Speaker 4: Right.
- 17:13Speaker 5: If your wingspan is longer than your boy.
- 17:15Speaker 3: Know, that's what you got them, Stubby wings wrestler in
- 17:24Speaker 3: his podcast to relax, you got to pull his shoulders way.
- 17:27Speaker 5: I'm trying to hit that ball the other day in
- 17:28Speaker 5: the shop and all I can't. I can't get it started.
- 17:31Speaker 1: I'm like, I gotta kind of bounce the ball.
- 17:35Speaker 2: You do, got them little stuff, but they make your
- 17:37Speaker 2: arms are bigger though that way, like long arms, the
- 17:39Speaker 2: arms don't look as big.
- 17:41Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't know. It's weird. Brota small torsos, right,
- 17:47Speaker 3: there's got to be something wrong. I think I got
- 17:48Speaker 3: a small torso. I think I got wide shoulders that
- 17:51Speaker 3: make my arm seem longer.
- 17:53Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 17:54Speaker 5: You got no fucking yo. That's hilarious.
- 17:59Speaker 3: Okay, Eastern Michigan. How did you end up there? It's
- 18:03Speaker 3: funny you brought this up.
- 18:05Speaker 4: So yesterday my d line coach from Eastern called me
- 18:09Speaker 4: and he, uh, you know, we're just chopping it up
- 18:11Speaker 4: talking talking ball and whatever, and somehow he brings it up.
- 18:15Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, you know, you know, it's hilarious. You know,
- 18:18Speaker 4: we we've been interviewing a new D line guy because
- 18:21Speaker 4: he's going to move to linebackers there at Eastern and Out.
- 18:23Speaker 4: They're getting a new D line coach. And he was like,
- 18:25Speaker 4: Coach Creighton, my head coach. He started this thing. In
- 18:28Speaker 4: his interview process. He puts up five high school players
- 18:32Speaker 4: film and shows the D line coaches and has him
- 18:34Speaker 4: ranked the D lineman. He puts, like, whatever, one of
- 18:38Speaker 4: the guys that are trying to recruit. He puts my
- 18:40Speaker 4: film in there from my high school, like when I
- 18:42Speaker 4: was in high school, and he puts, like, you know,
- 18:45Speaker 4: four other random guys. He said, So my D line coach,
- 18:49Speaker 4: my old D line coach told me yesterday he said,
- 18:51Speaker 4: every single coach ranks me at like fourth or fifth
- 18:54Speaker 4: from my school day.
- 18:56Speaker 5: And I'm dying laughing and they don't know.
- 18:58Speaker 4: And then they're like, yeah, you know that's Max Crosby, right,
- 19:01Speaker 4: and they're like they all get awkward, awkward, But.
- 19:05Speaker 3: You just guys sit there at that meeting. I'm not
- 19:07Speaker 3: getting this job. It's over.
- 19:09Speaker 4: But that's that's kind of like bro I was a
- 19:11Speaker 4: late bloomer, Like I was a I was a linebacker
- 19:13Speaker 4: all the way up to my senior year. Then we
- 19:15Speaker 4: got these new coaches, and I had a big roastpurt,
- 19:18Speaker 4: but like my body, I wasn't caught up, like Bro,
- 19:20Speaker 4: my knees were hurt and I was slow twitch as fucked.
- 19:23Speaker 4: Like if you watched my high school film and be like, yeah,
- 19:26Speaker 4: I'm not surprised he went to Eastern, like I was surprised.
- 19:28Speaker 4: I got a D one offer. They were the only
- 19:29Speaker 4: d one to offer me. Bro, They're my only offer
- 19:32Speaker 4: in general. So like I got that offer, I jumped
- 19:34Speaker 4: on it, committed and boom and then yeah, are you
- 19:38Speaker 4: a basketball guy?
- 19:39Speaker 3: Yeah? I played basketball? Yeah I could. I could buckets
- 19:44Speaker 3: playing the paint. I was.
- 19:45Speaker 4: I was like a you know, like a stretch for
- 19:48Speaker 4: kind of guy. I could shoot, I could shoot the ball.
- 19:50Speaker 4: I sort of God, I would I rather shoot than
- 19:53Speaker 4: be on the block. Like, I'm not a back to
- 19:54Speaker 4: the basket gay. I'm catching the ball at the top.
- 19:57Speaker 4: You can't get to the lane hammer paint guy, Absolutely not,
- 20:00Speaker 4: you can't. I can rebound, but like, I'm not back
- 20:03Speaker 4: to the basket old school George, Mike and come on.
- 20:06Speaker 5: Can you dribble?
- 20:08Speaker 4: I'm not gonna hide. But I have the serbian my mom.
- 20:11Speaker 4: Serbian is it's translated to the court.
- 20:14Speaker 3: Can you do the dribble between your legs?
- 20:17Speaker 5: Can you dunk?
- 20:19Speaker 3: I could go right there? And women talking about the
- 20:23Speaker 3: other hoop? We have a court back then?
- 20:24Speaker 5: Is it even regulation?
- 20:25Speaker 2: That's probably a feet, Yeah, it's got to be a feet.
- 20:28Speaker 2: Can you do the thing where you bounce the ball
- 20:30Speaker 2: and you pick your shirt up and the ball goes
- 20:31Speaker 2: in and you slap it and it goes around.
- 20:32Speaker 4: And one mixed day. Yeah, I don't think I can
- 20:34Speaker 4: do that.
- 20:35Speaker 5: You think you're the best basketball player on the Raiders.
- 20:37Speaker 4: Yeah, I think guys would tell you that too. I'm
- 20:40Speaker 4: I'm not gonna hide myself up. But we've all played again.
- 20:43Speaker 5: I see you over there getting a little You keep
- 20:44Speaker 5: like twitching a little bit like I can get. Yeah,
- 20:47Speaker 5: make you a little triggered that we're kind of questioning
- 20:49Speaker 5: your back.
- 20:49Speaker 4: Yeah, it hurts, but it's it's normal for you know,
- 20:52Speaker 4: being a white guy. They will always question you at first,
- 20:54Speaker 4: But then you go on the court and you fucking.
- 20:57Speaker 3: Everywhere.
- 20:58Speaker 2: Yeah, you are, you are tatted? Is uh? What's it
- 21:03Speaker 2: like playing defense being white?
- 21:05Speaker 3: Is that tough?
- 21:07Speaker 5: I remember when Taylor calls you, Oh, he's just another
- 21:09Speaker 5: normal white guy out.
- 21:10Speaker 3: There on the Field.
- 21:11Speaker 2: Actually Will told me that story. I forgot that even happened,
- 21:14Speaker 2: explaining that what happened that day, because I don't remember
- 21:19Speaker 2: when saying that to you. Remember, No, I really don't.
- 21:21Speaker 2: You told me My whole focus in that game was you.
- 21:26Speaker 3: When we were playing.
- 21:27Speaker 5: You literally told me we were pulling up, You're like,
- 21:29Speaker 5: was Max a guy where I said, uh, there's just
- 21:31Speaker 5: another white guy?
- 21:32Speaker 2: No, but yeah, because you've told me that story. But
- 21:33Speaker 2: I remember in the moment saying that. I remember him
- 21:36Speaker 2: saying that to you.
- 21:37Speaker 5: Finally got you guys here together. Max, Will let me
- 21:39Speaker 5: down on like how much money I think I know
- 21:42Speaker 5: I was telling you, I'll give you two hundred dollars
- 21:44Speaker 5: per sack you got on.
- 21:44Speaker 4: Taylor or something like that. Yeah, at work. I got
- 21:50Speaker 4: the Titans back this year though, So I was proud
- 21:52Speaker 4: and I love veryble.
- 21:53Speaker 3: Know about it. Did you really?
- 21:55Speaker 4: I was talking on the whole game. You're just sitting
- 21:56Speaker 4: there on the sideline of his hands on his knees
- 21:58Speaker 4: after y'all try to run that weird reverse boot ship
- 22:01Speaker 4: and I just yeah, it was like on a third
- 22:04Speaker 4: down and I just jetted smoked Tannehill and I looked
- 22:09Speaker 4: to the silent Rabel just looking. He was right there.
- 22:12Speaker 4: I was like, stop running that ship at me, stop
- 22:14Speaker 4: running that ship. And he's like okay, shaking his head
- 22:16Speaker 4: and ship okay. But I fuck with verbel Bro. He's
- 22:21Speaker 4: one of those coaches. This is random, off topic, but
- 22:23Speaker 4: he like he text me all the time. He's cool
- 22:25Speaker 4: as ship. He was my coach of the Pro Bowl
- 22:26Speaker 4: last years.
- 22:29Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta respect that third contract.
- 22:32Speaker 4: You just gotta build relationships. Bring you to Nashville with
- 22:35Speaker 4: the boys. I don't know about that, but.
- 22:38Speaker 3: Fantastic and Blue never know, you never know. Yeah, I'm
- 22:44Speaker 3: happy where I'm not.
- 22:45Speaker 5: You're doing the boys in that show.
- 22:46Speaker 4: Wouldn't you if they didn't want me here anymore? Yeah?
- 22:49Speaker 4: Of course, but I think, uh, I think it's gonna
- 22:52Speaker 4: work out.
- 22:53Speaker 3: Just dude, Rab.
- 22:55Speaker 2: You don't know Rabel like we know veryble because he'll
- 22:57Speaker 2: go in meetings like on Wednesdays and Thursdays and pull
- 22:59Speaker 2: it tape and just dummy guys, like just verbally assault them.
- 23:04Speaker 2: And I remember playing I think it was that your
- 23:06Speaker 2: rookie hear we played in Oakland. That's when we played
- 23:08Speaker 2: each other. He would put you on the film and
- 23:11Speaker 2: there wasn't really a bad thing because you play hard. Yeah,
- 23:12Speaker 2: and there wasn't a bad thing. He's like this loud
- 23:14Speaker 2: mouth motherfucker, like just like a circle room was like
- 23:17Speaker 2: this guy he can't fucking touch the quarterback. Fuck this
- 23:20Speaker 2: guy like going off about you the whole time. And
- 23:22Speaker 2: that's got to be a great feeling because I've had
- 23:25Speaker 2: the same thing with like Bill O'Brien and Bill O'Brien
- 23:27Speaker 2: be like a seventy seven.
- 23:28Speaker 3: He is a fake tough guy and that that hurt
- 23:30Speaker 3: every time.
- 23:31Speaker 5: Remember I remember going through in the defensive meeting that week,
- 23:36Speaker 5: like the same kind of stuff.
- 23:38Speaker 4: Similarity, he's gonna try to get the whole time. Yeah,
- 23:42Speaker 4: it's funny, but that's like I have. You know how
- 23:45Speaker 4: the NFL is. You have friends on all the different teams.
- 23:47Speaker 4: You know, a bunch of guys, Like that's the funniest
- 23:49Speaker 4: ship when you sit there and talk after the season
- 23:51Speaker 4: and they're like, yeah, in our meeting, you know, we
- 23:53Speaker 4: circled you and just kind of hearing what other teams
- 23:55Speaker 4: have to say about you, Like that's interesting. You know,
- 23:58Speaker 4: everybody has their own kind of perspective on who you
- 24:00Speaker 4: are as a guy. There's some teams that think I'm
- 24:03Speaker 4: the biggest piece of shit on the planet.
- 24:04Speaker 2: Like really, of course, like he's so loud, I'm loud,
- 24:08Speaker 2: and he he makes a play, He's like what motherfucker.
- 24:11Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't help myself. I love it like I'm loud.
- 24:15Speaker 4: But that's like there's there's certain teams that you could
- 24:18Speaker 4: tell like they're trying to fuck me up, like the
- 24:20Speaker 4: Niners team, Like the Niners coach and all them, they
- 24:23Speaker 4: like buttered me up all week. They're like, man, besides Bosa,
- 24:25Speaker 4: he's you know, he's probably the best guy. Once we
- 24:27Speaker 4: got to the game, they tried to send the fucking
- 24:30Speaker 4: house at me.
- 24:30Speaker 3: Bro.
- 24:31Speaker 4: They were doing Bro just different, weird, like the Niners blocking,
- 24:36Speaker 4: like the schemes and shit they do. I've never experienced
- 24:38Speaker 4: anything like it. Like Bro, they were tackle tight end
- 24:41Speaker 4: both going down and the guard would fucking like they
- 24:44Speaker 4: were coming at angles.
- 24:45Speaker 3: You didn't even know where the fuck they were coming from. Bro.
- 24:47Speaker 3: It was just different.
- 24:48Speaker 4: But like that's the thing, Like that's the coolest thing
- 24:50Speaker 4: about the league is like being in a position, you
- 24:53Speaker 4: know how it is like you're on an island the
- 24:55Speaker 4: whole game. You don't even have to worry about it.
- 24:57Speaker 4: So like that's your responsibilities. For me, it's the opposite.
- 24:59Speaker 4: I know, Oh they're going to be sending shit at me,
- 25:02Speaker 4: and it's like it's a different type of challenge every week.
- 25:04Speaker 4: And all the offensive coordinators they all got a different
- 25:07Speaker 4: way of approaching and it's it's cool because after the
- 25:10Speaker 4: games they'll talk about, Yeah, we're trying to fuck you
- 25:12Speaker 4: up and we're trying to do this, and I'm like, oh,
- 25:14Speaker 4: you got me on this, but fucked you up on
- 25:16Speaker 4: that play. Yeah, it's cool, man, That's that's what.
- 25:18Speaker 2: That's what leag Kyle Shanahan's so good watching their first
- 25:24Speaker 2: playoff game and the blocking teams are wild, wild, Like
- 25:28Speaker 2: there was what was the play? Oh, they like the
- 25:31Speaker 2: tight end like went out on the end and then
- 25:36Speaker 2: like flashed the end as if he wasn't like he's
- 25:38Speaker 2: gonna block them, then went away and then Trent was there.
- 25:40Speaker 2: That was when McCaffrey had like that long like fifty
- 25:42Speaker 2: five yard runs. But the blocking scheme was just so
- 25:46Speaker 2: unique and it's simple because you look as from offens
- 25:48Speaker 2: line like, oh, they're just running this play with like
- 25:50Speaker 2: these two little different things. But they do such a
- 25:52Speaker 2: good job of opening up holes. Yes, they got studs
- 25:56Speaker 2: all around.
- 25:56Speaker 4: I was gonna say, yeah, that helps as well. When
- 25:58Speaker 4: you got fucking between Deebo and McCaffrey like those in
- 26:02Speaker 4: open field, there's probably there's you can't name anybody really
- 26:06Speaker 4: better than them, like you got tyreeks and shit like that.
- 26:08Speaker 4: But like McCaffrey and Deebo, like an open field, they're
- 26:11Speaker 4: fucking electric.
- 26:12Speaker 3: Bro dangerous.
- 26:14Speaker 5: Like playing against Trent Williams.
- 26:15Speaker 4: He's a stud. Bro, he's a stud. It was fun though,
- 26:18Speaker 4: had we had some good battles.
- 26:19Speaker 5: Did you get one on him?
- 26:20Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a couple of I didn't get a
- 26:21Speaker 4: sack on him, but I had a nice little QB
- 26:24Speaker 4: hit on a little inside move. It felt good. No,
- 26:28Speaker 4: we were talking. He's cool as ship. He's talking like
- 26:30Speaker 4: just having conversation. But I usually I'm a line up
- 26:33Speaker 4: on the left, so like I'm going to get the
- 26:35Speaker 4: right tackle most of the time. So once I went over,
- 26:38Speaker 4: like we knew, like Trent's going to be on an island.
- 26:42Speaker 4: So during the game we kind of schemed it up
- 26:44Speaker 4: where Okay, Max, you're gonna play a little bit more
- 26:45Speaker 4: on Trent because you'll have more one on one opportunities
- 26:48Speaker 4: because they're gonna probably chip with the right tackle and stuff.
- 26:50Speaker 4: So I got to rush against him a couple of times.
- 26:52Speaker 4: But I've heard, well, I had some good rushes. He
- 26:54Speaker 4: has some good He's just a big motherfucker and he's athletics,
- 26:57Speaker 4: so it was a it was a good matchup.
- 26:59Speaker 3: Bro.
- 26:59Speaker 4: We we got the best of each other a few times.
- 27:01Speaker 4: That's cool.
- 27:02Speaker 3: You were telling that story on the plane about him
- 27:04Speaker 3: and Shawn Jackson.
- 27:06Speaker 5: They were just his athletic ability. Yeah, Like there's one
- 27:08Speaker 5: offseason where we were in OTAs and they were basically
- 27:14Speaker 5: trying to narrow down who had like the fastest start.
- 27:16Speaker 5: So like every group, I mean, very subjective, but ten yards,
- 27:19Speaker 5: it's kind of hard to figure out who wins everyone,
- 27:22Speaker 5: but every position could go and then they would put
- 27:24Speaker 5: everybody together. But the final two were DeShawn Jackson and
- 27:27Speaker 5: Trent Williams because he could just get out like, he's
- 27:30Speaker 5: extremely athletic. They were talk about him playing. They would
- 27:34Speaker 5: talking about playing. They said he would when they would
- 27:41Speaker 5: play basketball. The why that he played like beyond the arc,
- 27:44Speaker 5: he'd win, They'll dunk like do all this stuff. He's
- 27:46Speaker 5: just like a super athlete. Bro.
- 27:48Speaker 4: He's a freak.
- 27:49Speaker 3: Bro. He really is a freak. What about McGlinchey for
- 27:52Speaker 3: the Niners.
- 27:53Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a big deal. He's a big guy.
- 27:55Speaker 2: He's he's a little more stiff, but I feel like
- 27:57Speaker 2: he's an underrated cat, like he doesn't get enough respect.
- 28:00Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't know. I thought he was solid. You know.
- 28:02Speaker 4: It's that's a weird thing, like especially now, like I'm
- 28:08Speaker 4: like this year, especially like I played on the left
- 28:10Speaker 4: side majority of the time, and like early on when
- 28:13Speaker 4: me and Chandler are both going, like the chips would
- 28:15Speaker 4: go back and forth, so I would have some more
- 28:17Speaker 4: one on ones and shit, but Chan got hurt against Pittsburgh,
- 28:20Speaker 4: and like the last few games, it was like if
- 28:23Speaker 4: I wasn't moving around, like I'm getting there sliding and
- 28:26Speaker 4: they're chipping.
- 28:27Speaker 3: So it was hard. It was really fucking difficult.
- 28:30Speaker 4: To kind of get those true one on ones, and
- 28:33Speaker 4: especially when you're not up in games, like you don't
- 28:35Speaker 4: you know, there's it's a lot less you know, it's
- 28:37Speaker 4: a lot more predictable what they're doing. So no, I
- 28:39Speaker 4: got Yeah, Mike mcglinch, he's he's a big motherfucker. He
- 28:42Speaker 4: was he was solid. We definitely, yeah, we had we
- 28:46Speaker 4: had a good little, a little back and forth. It
- 28:48Speaker 4: was it was fun.
- 28:49Speaker 3: Bro. That's the thing with the Niners.
- 28:50Speaker 4: There's certain teams BRO that like they just make it
- 28:53Speaker 4: really difficult for your D line and shit to get off.
- 28:55Speaker 4: And that's that's always the biggest challenge. Like the New
- 28:58Speaker 4: England's like, you know, when you're playing New when they're
- 29:00Speaker 4: gonna literally do everything they can to try to stop
- 29:02Speaker 4: this guy in this guy And like Tennessee's like that too.
- 29:05Speaker 4: I know Rabels come from the Patriot the Patriot way too,
- 29:08Speaker 4: So like I sit there and hear mcdaniels's like, okay,
- 29:11Speaker 4: Bosa right here. Every single time we're gonna slid, we're
- 29:13Speaker 4: gonna boom, we're gonna And I already know going into
- 29:15Speaker 4: the week, like I'm playing Bill Belichick, he's gonna try
- 29:18Speaker 4: to fuck me up every play. In Tennessee, I know
- 29:20Speaker 4: Vrabel's not gonna let me just go and try to
- 29:22Speaker 4: wreck the game. And that's I feel like that's as
- 29:24Speaker 4: years have gone on, like that's been a you know,
- 29:27Speaker 4: like in my game, like having to evolve, you have
- 29:29Speaker 4: to truly like you have to truly be on it
- 29:32Speaker 4: every single play because they're bringing more than one more
- 29:35Speaker 4: than more than less.
- 29:37Speaker 2: It's got to be a hell of a compliment though. Yeah, yeah,
- 29:39Speaker 2: they're slide to me and chipping me. It's yeah, it's
- 29:42Speaker 2: gotta feel good.
- 29:43Speaker 4: No, it's awesome, But at the same time, it's very frustrating.
- 29:46Speaker 4: Like that's that's like I feel like the biggest part,
- 29:48Speaker 4: Like in the past, like last year, like I was
- 29:51Speaker 4: getting in my head because I wasn't getting like I
- 29:53Speaker 4: was getting a shipload of pressures, but I wasn't getting home.
- 29:55Speaker 4: Like there was like a stretch right, like had six
- 29:57Speaker 4: games in a row where I didn't have a sack.
- 30:00Speaker 4: I was rushing my best, but I wasn't getting home
- 30:02Speaker 4: for some reason, And like that's the thing as a
- 30:04Speaker 4: rusher that's so difficult.
- 30:06Speaker 3: Like there's no play called for you.
- 30:08Speaker 4: You have to go earn every single stat every play,
- 30:10Speaker 4: every sack, every TfL.
- 30:12Speaker 3: So like that's the challenge.
- 30:13Speaker 4: And like people from the outside world, if you're not
- 30:16Speaker 4: getting sacks as a rusher, like they think you're you're
- 30:19Speaker 4: like not balling, you know what I mean.
- 30:20Speaker 3: Like Chandler was balling and people were.
- 30:22Speaker 4: On his head because his sack numbers were low, and
- 30:24Speaker 4: like you feel like Chandler was the same guy last
- 30:28Speaker 4: year that I was calling, like, bro, like I don't
- 30:30Speaker 4: know why I can't get a fucking sack and he's
- 30:31Speaker 4: helping me out. So like having Chan here this year,
- 30:33Speaker 4: like I was getting a lot of sacks and Chan was,
- 30:36Speaker 4: you know, going through it a little bit, and like
- 30:38Speaker 4: being able to be there for him is like it's
- 30:41Speaker 4: like crazy, bro, it goes full circle because like Chan
- 30:44Speaker 4: is a dude. I looked up two forever. He's one
- 30:45Speaker 4: hundred plus sacks and he's in year eleven and he's
- 30:48Speaker 4: like going through it, and it's like it's tough because
- 30:52Speaker 4: it just shows like as a rusher, like this shit
- 30:54Speaker 4: is really difficult and you have to appreciate every single
- 30:57Speaker 4: stat and everything you get because like you could rush
- 30:59Speaker 4: great for the whole game, but they could just be
- 31:02Speaker 4: getting rid of the ball. They could be you know
- 31:03Speaker 4: what I mean. It's just that's the tough part about it.
- 31:06Speaker 4: But that's also like the beauty in it when there's
- 31:08Speaker 4: a reason why sacks are like a big thing, because
- 31:10Speaker 4: it's not everything's got to go right. They got to
- 31:13Speaker 4: hold the ball, the cover's got to be on point,
- 31:14Speaker 4: everything's got to be you know, on point for you
- 31:16Speaker 4: to get home. So Chandler, Oh yeah, yeah, I forgot Yeah,
- 31:23Speaker 4: I forgot I forgot you. Chan is a fucking dog,
- 31:28Speaker 4: but I love as a human being. The dude is
- 31:30Speaker 4: one of the coolest dudes. Man.
- 31:32Speaker 2: When I was playing him in twenty twenty one, he
- 31:34Speaker 2: had like four sacks that day, I gave up two
- 31:36Speaker 2: of them, and there was like the end of the game.
- 31:39Speaker 2: At that point in the game, I was at such
- 31:41Speaker 2: a low point. I was like, I just need to
- 31:42Speaker 2: get the fuck out.
- 31:43Speaker 3: Of here in regroup somehow. And he like rushed me
- 31:46Speaker 3: and he went.
- 31:46Speaker 2: To pull away, and I had his chain and I
- 31:48Speaker 2: tore it off, and he's like, oh man, now I'm
- 31:51Speaker 2: really mad.
- 31:51Speaker 3: Now I'm really coming.
- 31:52Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, I like walking back to the huddle,
- 31:54Speaker 2: like you have four sacks, You're all right, Like just relax,
- 31:57Speaker 2: just relax for the That was the lowest football moment.
- 32:02Speaker 2: But look he even before I got hurt, I never
- 32:04Speaker 2: played him well. He always played really well against me.
- 32:07Speaker 2: Like my second year I played him, he was at
- 32:09Speaker 2: the Patriots and like the first third down, dude, he
- 32:12Speaker 2: takes me back to the quarterback strip sack fumble return
- 32:15Speaker 2: for a touchdown. That's how the game started. First series.
- 32:18Speaker 5: Well do you think he's always done so well? Like
- 32:19Speaker 5: what do you feel like makes him like he's.
- 32:22Speaker 2: I don't I think like if I were to play,
- 32:25Speaker 2: if I were to play him again, I would I
- 32:28Speaker 2: would vary up my sets more. He's so long and
- 32:30Speaker 2: he does a good job, like it looks like he's
- 32:32Speaker 2: always on a step cadence like one two bowl one
- 32:35Speaker 2: two three, like turn those shoulders. And he's really long too,
- 32:39Speaker 2: so short corners are not good against him, Like if
- 32:41Speaker 2: you get him too like nine and a half, he's
- 32:43Speaker 2: got that capability to reach with the far arms and
- 32:46Speaker 2: get that quarter of that ball out. So it's like
- 32:48Speaker 2: he's got enough speed to where like I gotta respect this,
- 32:51Speaker 2: but also he can turn in power also and then
- 32:54Speaker 2: dudes that and I can't remember if you play like
- 32:56Speaker 2: this or not, but like he doesn't necessarily like play
- 33:01Speaker 2: like sound run defense, like so you like when you're
- 33:04Speaker 2: trying to shoot off the ball like we do a Tennessee,
- 33:06Speaker 2: he goes inside like he can jump around, like if
- 33:09Speaker 2: he has that kind of freedom, like that's an easy
- 33:11Speaker 2: way to like second guess yourself. And he he's, uh,
- 33:14Speaker 2: he's always been He's always played me well I think
- 33:16Speaker 2: of all the players, like he's been a guy that's
- 33:18Speaker 2: always kind of have my number.
- 33:20Speaker 3: Yeah, even before getting hurt. He's stud.
- 33:22Speaker 4: Yeah, there's always Got. There's always those guys in the league.
- 33:24Speaker 4: Every year you're like, okay, I know this about it.
- 33:27Speaker 4: This one day he's about to be Yeah, like I
- 33:29Speaker 4: gotta be on my ship and that's yeah. Chandler's just bro.
- 33:32Speaker 4: He's just unique. Like how he explained, he's got. He's
- 33:35Speaker 4: not fast, but he's got. He's not fast, and he'll
- 33:38Speaker 4: tell you that he knows he's not, but he's just
- 33:40Speaker 4: he's so long and he's so like he's just a
- 33:44Speaker 4: different athlete's like his brother, Like they're so long but
- 33:47Speaker 4: they're not fast and they probably they can't jump high,
- 33:49Speaker 4: but they're like freak athletes.
- 33:50Speaker 3: I don't even know how to explain it.
- 33:53Speaker 2: There, but like he's the game film is way different
- 33:55Speaker 2: than what you see, like combine numbers.
- 33:57Speaker 3: Would be exactly. He just he's just a unique, unique player.
- 34:00Speaker 6: Bro.
- 34:00Speaker 4: He was born to play football, dud dudes, stud you.
- 34:03Speaker 3: Met his brother, no, I haven't. No, I heard he's
- 34:06Speaker 3: gonna fight again.
- 34:06Speaker 5: Right, He's got He's got to brothers Arthur Smith, he
- 34:10Speaker 5: played in the league too.
- 34:11Speaker 4: Yeah, the whole family. Whole family and the Yeah it's Arthur,
- 34:15Speaker 4: that's the coach of the Falcons.
- 34:16Speaker 3: But uh, I who last name is John? Arthur Jones?
- 34:20Speaker 5: Arthur Jones. I don't know why you said Smith, Yeah,
- 34:27Speaker 5: because he was my teammate, Arthur Smith and the brothers, right.
- 34:32Speaker 4: Like that's not even the same now, I don't think
- 34:34Speaker 4: that's the same.
- 34:36Speaker 3: Is he is he an athlete as well? He was,
- 34:38Speaker 3: he was he won a Super Bowl in Baltimore And
- 34:40Speaker 3: oh I didn't know that. Yeah, he's the oldest though.
- 34:43Speaker 5: Yeah, he's the oldest as long as a career. But
- 34:45Speaker 5: like that whole family is just a breeding.
- 34:47Speaker 3: Brothers in the NFL.
- 34:49Speaker 4: That's that's ridiculous. Yeah, No, he's a stud man.
- 34:52Speaker 3: And you're right, he's like an anomaly. Like you look
- 34:54Speaker 3: at him.
- 34:55Speaker 2: He's got like the size like you like you look
- 34:59Speaker 2: like he must have a or torso as well, how
- 35:00Speaker 2: long his arms are long toist. But like he legit
- 35:04Speaker 2: like does like incredibly wacky, very unorthodox, extremely unorthodox Russia.
- 35:10Speaker 3: But he just he does well.
- 35:12Speaker 5: You mentioned earlier about the Patriot Way. What was it
- 35:14Speaker 5: like playing for coach McDaniels, what's it been like playing
- 35:17Speaker 5: for coach McDaniels transitioning from coach Pisacia last year. Obviously
- 35:20Speaker 5: you guys are super close. Pisatchia is a legend things,
- 35:24Speaker 5: but then you coach McDaniels comes in. What's it been
- 35:26Speaker 5: like playing for coach McDaniels.
- 35:28Speaker 3: Honestly, my experience has been great.
- 35:30Speaker 4: You know. I feel like every time you get a
- 35:33Speaker 4: new coach in there's new expectations, and I feel like
- 35:36Speaker 4: it definitely takes time to adjust, you know, as a whole.
- 35:40Speaker 4: Like if you're halfway in, halfway out, you're not going
- 35:44Speaker 4: to last. And in the way he coaches, like he
- 35:46Speaker 4: has a very specific way that he wants things to
- 35:49Speaker 4: be done. He's all about work ethic, all about doing
- 35:52Speaker 4: the extra mile. Like that's how he approaches it. And
- 35:54Speaker 4: I like, like we talked about off camera, like me
- 35:57Speaker 4: and him, we've had a great relationship. Was here the dude,
- 36:00Speaker 4: That's how I think when it comes to training and stuff,
- 36:02Speaker 4: I'm always doing extra So it's nothing new to me
- 36:05Speaker 4: when it comes to that.
- 36:07Speaker 3: But like I said, if you're a guy that's you know.
- 36:10Speaker 4: The normal NFL guy, you're not They're not training all
- 36:13Speaker 4: off season you know what I mean, it's just that
- 36:14Speaker 4: they're doing it there. It's like it's hardest. It's not
- 36:18Speaker 4: like a normal NFL team, Like it's just it's a different.
- 36:21Speaker 5: Time about the way the way he runs the operation.
- 36:24Speaker 3: Yeah, just the operation.
- 36:25Speaker 4: Like we're really working, bro, Like even during the season,
- 36:27Speaker 4: like we're we're in pads like late in the season,
- 36:29Speaker 4: and yeah, there's some tough days, but like that's just
- 36:33Speaker 4: that's what it is, like, you know what I mean.
- 36:35Speaker 4: You can bitch and complain about it, or you can
- 36:36Speaker 4: show up and fucking improve and get better. And especially
- 36:40Speaker 4: in our situation, like, bro, we're six and eleven, but
- 36:42Speaker 4: like we lost. We were in every single game basically
- 36:45Speaker 4: besides New Orleans, Like we lost every game by like
- 36:48Speaker 4: less than a touchdown. So we're right there, and that's
- 36:51Speaker 4: the probably the hardest part about it is like, fuck,
- 36:53Speaker 4: we're right there. But we have great building blocks on
- 36:57Speaker 4: this team. You know, we have Davante, we have Josh Jacas,
- 36:59Speaker 4: we have a ton of guys. It's just we're not
- 37:02Speaker 4: there yet. But I feel like we're definitely like on
- 37:04Speaker 4: our way, like it if things go our way, you
- 37:07Speaker 4: know what I mean. This year, like we could have
- 37:08Speaker 4: easily been a double dy. We could have won ten
- 37:10Speaker 4: games easily, but that's not the reality. Should then you know,
- 37:13Speaker 4: last year we won every single close game, and that's
- 37:16Speaker 4: the toughest thing about it. It's like you can either
- 37:18Speaker 4: either overthink it and you know, dwell on it and
- 37:22Speaker 4: bitch about it. But we went six and eleven. That's
- 37:24Speaker 4: our record. It's fucking it's not acceptable. But I feel
- 37:27Speaker 4: like Josh is a as a coach. He's done a
- 37:29Speaker 4: really good job for sure, go.
- 37:32Speaker 2: Ahead, No, he just seems like a yeah, because this
- 37:35Speaker 2: is like this is not meant to be a shot.
- 37:37Speaker 2: This is just like an observation. Like the Raiders like
- 37:40Speaker 2: really underperformed for base on, Like you guys have an
- 37:42Speaker 2: incredible amount of talent on that team. Yeah, and so
- 37:44Speaker 2: how do you obviously without overthinking it, what are the
- 37:48Speaker 2: little things here and there that you guys lose by
- 37:50Speaker 2: losing by seven you can now win by three?
- 37:52Speaker 3: Like what are those little changes?
- 37:54Speaker 4: I think you know, I've talked about this already, but
- 37:59Speaker 4: it's like for me, it's the standard, like holding guys to.
- 38:04Speaker 3: There has to be a standard set. They can't just
- 38:07Speaker 3: be you show up.
- 38:08Speaker 4: The practice, you do the plays, we're not going over,
- 38:12Speaker 4: We're not sitting here and you know, you should watch
- 38:15Speaker 4: the film and everybody should be greated.
- 38:16Speaker 3: You know, are we really running to the ball?
- 38:19Speaker 4: Like little shit like that I feel And that's just
- 38:21Speaker 4: how I have an old school mindset when it comes
- 38:23Speaker 4: at like just the little details of running to the
- 38:25Speaker 4: ball loafs like the ship we talk about, Like that's
- 38:29Speaker 4: that's what I think is the difference, you know, at
- 38:31Speaker 4: the end of the day, like if the standard is
- 38:34Speaker 4: not set in the off season and OTAs and shit
- 38:37Speaker 4: like that is never You're never going to go on
- 38:39Speaker 4: the field and everybody's gonna be on the same page.
- 38:41Speaker 3: It's just not reality.
- 38:43Speaker 4: And that's where I feel like, you know, last year
- 38:46Speaker 4: or the year before, like when you were there, like
- 38:47Speaker 4: that's we got to that point at the end of
- 38:49Speaker 4: the year, like everybody was playing for each other and
- 38:51Speaker 4: that's a new thing, like and it's not like it's
- 38:53Speaker 4: McDaniel's fault or anything.
- 38:55Speaker 3: Like everything's new.
- 38:56Speaker 4: So it does take time, and that's you know something
- 38:58Speaker 4: as a leader, like that's what I feel like I
- 39:00Speaker 4: need to, you know, take another step, you know, as
- 39:02Speaker 4: a leader and being a captain, like that's something I'm
- 39:05Speaker 4: really focused on is building, you know, bringing up the
- 39:08Speaker 4: other guys, the guys that really want to be you know,
- 39:10Speaker 4: really want to be great and be a difference maker,
- 39:12Speaker 4: not just another guy on the roster to fill out
- 39:14Speaker 4: a spot.
- 39:14Speaker 3: Like that's that's what we need.
- 39:16Speaker 4: You know. I feel like, like you said, we have
- 39:18Speaker 4: the talent in big spots, but like we do have
- 39:21Speaker 4: a lot of things we got to improve on. Like,
- 39:23Speaker 4: you know, our d line wasn't good enough. Our our
- 39:25Speaker 4: defense in general wasn't good enough as a whole, Like
- 39:28Speaker 4: it wasn't We did not play the what I you know,
- 39:31Speaker 4: believe the standard should be. You know, we played, We
- 39:34Speaker 4: rushed a lot better the year before, we covered better.
- 39:37Speaker 4: You know, there's there's little things that we got to
- 39:39Speaker 4: improve on. So you know, that's and it's a it's
- 39:42Speaker 4: a group effort. You know, it's got to take everybody,
- 39:44Speaker 4: and you know, I feel like we're definitely going in
- 39:46Speaker 4: that direction. The second half of the season, we played
- 39:48Speaker 4: a lot better on defense. But that's just a tough
- 39:50Speaker 4: part about it. You can go back and forth, and
- 39:53Speaker 4: you know, we lost close games, but like either way,
- 39:55Speaker 4: we lost, like and that's at the end of the day.
- 39:58Speaker 4: Six and eleven six and eleven is fucking terrible. So yeah,
- 40:01Speaker 4: you know, I believe in them. I believe that. You know,
- 40:03Speaker 4: we're gonna keep building out the roster and a lot
- 40:05Speaker 4: of key spots and you know, just keep going in
- 40:08Speaker 4: the right direction. But the main thing for me is
- 40:10Speaker 4: a standard. Bro Like, we have to have a standard
- 40:12Speaker 4: and there can't be guys that are halfway in a
- 40:14Speaker 4: halfway out, because you know how it is, you have
- 40:17Speaker 4: fucking nine guys on the same page and two or
- 40:19Speaker 4: halfway out, the door is never gonna work.
- 40:21Speaker 5: Yeah, do you feel like do you feel like that's
- 40:23Speaker 5: what it was? The standard wasn't held the entire year
- 40:25Speaker 5: because a lot of the talks and the headlines and
- 40:28Speaker 5: the conversations was, you know, last year we ended up
- 40:32Speaker 5: winning like the last five games, and then you go
- 40:34Speaker 5: in you think you're gonna build off you have a
- 40:36Speaker 5: new regime coming. Of course it does take time, but
- 40:39Speaker 5: then put in the year that you guys did put together.
- 40:40Speaker 5: You keep alluding to the standard and everything else and
- 40:43Speaker 5: half in, half out. Do you feel like it was
- 40:45Speaker 5: upholding that standard?
- 40:46Speaker 4: If you when you do look at it, Yeah, I
- 40:49Speaker 4: feel and like you said, like we talked about it's
- 40:52Speaker 4: not easy. You know, the way, the way of you
- 40:55Speaker 4: know how coach McDaniels does it is not easy. We're
- 40:57Speaker 4: working hard, like, Bro, we're in training camp. It's fucking
- 41:00Speaker 4: one hundred degrees out on the field, Like we're not
- 41:03Speaker 4: practicing at seven in the morning, Like we're practicing like
- 41:05Speaker 4: ten like that. Shit, it's hot, bro, Like people are
- 41:09Speaker 4: dying and then we're running gassers at the end.
- 41:11Speaker 3: Like it's not a joke. That heat, Bro, real heat.
- 41:15Speaker 4: And so that's my point, like as a player, like
- 41:19Speaker 4: I pride myself on my routine about doing it every
- 41:22Speaker 4: day no matter if I'm in a bad mood, if
- 41:24Speaker 4: I'm feeling like shit, like showing up and trying to
- 41:27Speaker 4: improve regardless of how I feel. And I feel like
- 41:30Speaker 4: we didn't have enough of that this year, just we
- 41:32Speaker 4: didn't sustain it for a whole season. Like you can
- 41:35Speaker 4: do it in camp, you can do it in OTAs
- 41:37Speaker 4: for the first couple of months, but it's like we
- 41:39Speaker 4: need a bunch of guys who were down or are
- 41:41Speaker 4: willing to sacrifice the whole year and beyond beyond point.
- 41:44Speaker 4: And you know that's you know, that's just a part
- 41:46Speaker 4: of it where you know, I feel like we're going
- 41:49Speaker 4: to bring in more guys that are like minded, and
- 41:51Speaker 4: you know, I just I'm trusting it.
- 41:52Speaker 3: You know, I'm just not my control.
- 41:54Speaker 4: I'm just you know, I just want to be a leader,
- 41:57Speaker 4: you know, That's that's my mangal, lead the guys, bring
- 41:59Speaker 4: up younger guys and showing the way.
- 42:01Speaker 2: So when you're saying, like, I have a standard for
- 42:05Speaker 2: myself that I said every day whether I feel like
- 42:06Speaker 2: shit or I feel good, like when you feel like
- 42:09Speaker 2: shit and you don't want to do it, because I
- 42:11Speaker 2: feel like a lot of people are gonna hear that and.
- 42:12Speaker 3: Be like I do. Everyone goes through the same thing.
- 42:14Speaker 2: Everyone's got motivation week one, and now all of a sudden,
- 42:17Speaker 2: it's week ten.
- 42:18Speaker 3: You're like, oh man, I really don't want to get
- 42:19Speaker 3: up and go do it again.
- 42:20Speaker 2: Like what are the things that you tell yourself when
- 42:24Speaker 2: you're working through that process? Like you wake up in
- 42:26Speaker 2: the morning, you're sore, it's Wednesday, you know you're going
- 42:28Speaker 2: into pads. You know it's week twelve, Like how do
- 42:31Speaker 2: you make sure not only you sit that ctander for yourself,
- 42:34Speaker 2: but as a leader, Like you're saying said that.
- 42:35Speaker 4: For everybody else, yeah, you know, the main thing for
- 42:39Speaker 4: me is just it's that foundation. Like if you don't
- 42:41Speaker 4: have a solid foundation going into the season, like if
- 42:45Speaker 4: there's little cracks in it, that shit, the whole house
- 42:47Speaker 4: is going to come down by you know, halfway through
- 42:49Speaker 4: the year. And that's like my main thing. I'm a
- 42:52Speaker 4: very like I have an addictive personality, you know what
- 42:54Speaker 4: I mean, I've an addict at the end of the day,
- 42:57Speaker 4: So like I use it to my as a superpower nowadays.
- 42:59Speaker 4: Like there's certain shit, like every single day I'm doing
- 43:02Speaker 4: the same thing like normantaic stretch every every night before
- 43:07Speaker 4: I go to bed, like cold tub hots up every
- 43:09Speaker 4: single day. I'm you know, there's certain things I have
- 43:12Speaker 4: to do, my meal prep everything, so like even when
- 43:15Speaker 4: I'm feeling like shit, I have to like every morning,
- 43:18Speaker 4: I know I have to do it. Like it's an
- 43:20Speaker 4: agreement I have with myself once a season ends, Like
- 43:22Speaker 4: and that's something I'm doing right now, trying to figure out, Okay,
- 43:25Speaker 4: what can I do better?
- 43:26Speaker 3: How am I going to be better next year?
- 43:28Speaker 4: What am I Like There's certain things that I write down,
- 43:30Speaker 4: like I'm not breaking this, like there's no there's no
- 43:33Speaker 4: conversation with myself in my head no matter how fucking
- 43:35Speaker 4: bad I feel. So I feel like it's just, you know,
- 43:38Speaker 4: the main thing is just being mentally you know, obviously
- 43:40Speaker 4: you got to be mentally strong, but you have to
- 43:42Speaker 4: just make agreements with yourself, like I'm not fucking breaking
- 43:45Speaker 4: this and we'll see what happens. If it goes great,
- 43:47Speaker 4: if I play great whatever, like that's amazing that comes
- 43:49Speaker 4: with it. But like if I don't play up to
- 43:51Speaker 4: the level I expect, like I know I did everything
- 43:55Speaker 4: trying to do that, so I'm not gonna feel like
- 43:57Speaker 4: a piece of shit, like.
- 43:58Speaker 5: I write, statistically the members might not be there.
- 44:00Speaker 4: But knowing, yeah, if I put everything I have in it, bro,
- 44:03Speaker 4: i can't feel bad about it.
- 44:04Speaker 3: So but obviously that's not the case.
- 44:06Speaker 4: Yeah, Like and just trusting it. So like that's what
- 44:08Speaker 4: I always try to tell the young guys. It's like,
- 44:11Speaker 4: like my thing this pass off season, like what can
- 44:13Speaker 4: I do better as far as going into training, Like
- 44:16Speaker 4: the weird little difference I made, like I was going
- 44:18Speaker 4: in at eight am and going to train. My agreement
- 44:20Speaker 4: with myself this pass off season was I'm going to
- 44:22Speaker 4: be in the building by six, no later every morning
- 44:26Speaker 4: six am Monday through Friday, and that's fucked.
- 44:28Speaker 3: That's not easy in the office, especially Fridays when you
- 44:31Speaker 3: get to go in later.
- 44:32Speaker 4: Fuck yeah yeah. And this is I'm talking February March
- 44:35Speaker 4: when there's no I don't have to be there technically,
- 44:37Speaker 4: like this is all off season, and I did that.
- 44:40Speaker 4: So once the season got there, like that was like
- 44:42Speaker 4: a boom. I checked that off.
- 44:43Speaker 3: I did that. Like that's for me.
- 44:45Speaker 4: That's where I get my confidence from. It's a little
- 44:47Speaker 4: shit that like nobody, nobody's telling me I got to
- 44:49Speaker 4: do this. It's little shit that like it's challenging as
- 44:52Speaker 4: fucking the off season when I could sit here and
- 44:55Speaker 4: sleep and get relaxed till eight am, you know what
- 44:57Speaker 4: I mean. But I'm getting up at five point fifteen
- 45:00Speaker 4: and I'm going and going and working out when there's nobody.
- 45:02Speaker 3: In that bitch.
- 45:03Speaker 4: That's kind of what I you know, that's just one thing,
- 45:05Speaker 4: but that's how I pride myself. Is just like set
- 45:08Speaker 4: in the standard boom. This is what I'm doing, regardless
- 45:10Speaker 4: of the situation, no matter how I feel. I'm getting
- 45:13Speaker 4: the fuck out of bed and I'm doing this, And
- 45:15Speaker 4: that's that's where where all my confidence comes from and
- 45:17Speaker 4: that's how I try to push the guys around me,
- 45:19Speaker 4: because I'm not like a big hoorah guy. I'm not
- 45:21Speaker 4: gonna stand there this movie fucking gotta do blah blah blah.
- 45:24Speaker 4: Like I'll speak when I have to, but like as
- 45:26Speaker 4: a leader, like I feel like at the end of
- 45:27Speaker 4: the day, the true leaders, like they show they show
- 45:30Speaker 4: that shit every single day and that comes to practice
- 45:32Speaker 4: the weight room. Like that's how I try to carry
- 45:35Speaker 4: myself and pride myself on because if you go and
- 45:39Speaker 4: ask any guy in the locker room, or ask Dave
- 45:41Speaker 4: and as Dave when you get there, you get ask
- 45:42Speaker 4: fucking coach McDaniels.
- 45:44Speaker 3: Like they can say whatever.
- 45:46Speaker 4: You know, I might be a dick sometimes I might whatever,
- 45:48Speaker 4: but yeah, red breadbeard everything, you know what I mean,
- 45:52Speaker 4: super white. But at the end of the day, they
- 45:55Speaker 4: can never say I don't work harder than anybody in
- 45:57Speaker 4: that building.
- 45:59Speaker 3: That's what I myself on. That's no negotiables. Is like massive,
- 46:04Speaker 3: a massive thing that people need to have.
- 46:06Speaker 4: It's huge. Bro It my whole life changed.
- 46:08Speaker 3: It changes it.
- 46:09Speaker 4: Two years ago when I got that surgery, bro I
- 46:11Speaker 4: started doing that. It's changed my whole life it definitely.
- 46:15Speaker 4: It definitely shows and that's like me being there. You
- 46:18Speaker 4: are literally there doing your ship every day.
- 46:22Speaker 5: When you talk about the standard, not that you have
- 46:24Speaker 5: to get out of character and get out of personality
- 46:26Speaker 5: with it, but do you feel like approaching this next year,
- 46:28Speaker 5: maybe you do speak up a little bit more to
- 46:30Speaker 5: kind of uphold that standard because you are a guy
- 46:33Speaker 5: who's earned your stripes in the league now, like everybody
- 46:35Speaker 5: knows the stuff, and you're talking about your routine every
- 46:37Speaker 5: day now, right, so people know about that and understand
- 46:40Speaker 5: that you know how you come correct every day. Do
- 46:42Speaker 5: you feel like you need to speak up a little
- 46:45Speaker 5: more to feel more of that leadership role to uphold
- 46:48Speaker 5: that standard that you were alluding to earlier.
- 46:51Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, like I look, I evaluate everything from
- 46:55Speaker 4: my leadership to my play, to my just my attitude,
- 46:58Speaker 4: my presence, like everything. I really sit down and break
- 47:02Speaker 4: down what can I do better here? And I feel
- 47:04Speaker 4: like that's with anything, you know I could there's always
- 47:06Speaker 4: room for improvement as a leader. But I feel like,
- 47:08Speaker 4: you know, my third year when you were there, we
- 47:11Speaker 4: beat the Chargers the last game, like that was my
- 47:12Speaker 4: first year of being a captain, and I've never been
- 47:15Speaker 4: a captain my whole life, like, so that was my
- 47:17Speaker 4: first time really being voted a captain. So it was
- 47:20Speaker 4: like I was learning a lot, you know what I mean,
- 47:22Speaker 4: and that being in that leadership role. But it was
- 47:25Speaker 4: it was different. It was a lot easier when I
- 47:27Speaker 4: had a bunch of guys who thought like me, like
- 47:30Speaker 4: Quentin Jefferson, Solomon Thomas, Yannick. Like they're all like all
- 47:33Speaker 4: of them are fucking yeah like that. Yeah, they're like
- 47:38Speaker 4: they're all kind of crazy in their own way, but
- 47:41Speaker 4: like that's how I am. So like I really didn't
- 47:43Speaker 4: have to push, you know what I mean. We're all
- 47:45Speaker 4: like they've seen how I work. There. There wasn't negotiables
- 47:48Speaker 4: there with me. After the work, you know what I mean,
- 47:49Speaker 4: after practice running with me, I had a full squad. Yeah,
- 47:52Speaker 4: Like I wasn't having a pull, motherfuckers.
- 47:55Speaker 3: That's what I feel like. This year it was different.
- 47:57Speaker 4: You know, it's a lot different because I whole new
- 47:59Speaker 4: team basically, Yeah, a lot of younger guys, a lot
- 48:02Speaker 4: of guys coming from other teams, practice squads, and boom
- 48:05Speaker 4: they're playing on Sunday with me. So that's that was
- 48:08Speaker 4: the challenge This year is like this dude doesn't fucking
- 48:09Speaker 4: even I don't know this guy at all. I just
- 48:11Speaker 4: met him two days ago, and now I got to
- 48:13Speaker 4: try to.
- 48:13Speaker 3: Lead him, you know what I mean.
- 48:14Speaker 4: Like that was the biggest challenge this year is there
- 48:16Speaker 4: was a lot of change, a lot of different guys
- 48:18Speaker 4: in and out, a ton of injuries, so like it
- 48:20Speaker 4: was a big challenge and I feel like overall, it's
- 48:22Speaker 4: like the hardest year mentally for me because I feel
- 48:25Speaker 4: like I was playing my best ball and I really
- 48:28Speaker 4: had a lot of shit that was going on. We
- 48:30Speaker 4: were struggling, We're losing a lot of close games. Like
- 48:32Speaker 4: there was a lot of moments where I could have
- 48:34Speaker 4: just fucking lost, you know, lost my marbles and act out,
- 48:37Speaker 4: you know, just fucking lash out. But like I really
- 48:39Speaker 4: had to sit there and just internalize a lot of
- 48:42Speaker 4: shit and just be grateful for just being in this
- 48:45Speaker 4: situation because I could look at it and bitch about it,
- 48:47Speaker 4: Oh I don't have you know, I don't have a
- 48:49Speaker 4: bunch of pro bowlers playing with me. I don't have this.
- 48:51Speaker 4: He has this, and point to other teams, Well, this
- 48:54Speaker 4: guy's got that, you know what I mean, Like I
- 48:56Speaker 4: could do that, but it's just it does nothing, and
- 48:58Speaker 4: it's that's what a fucking do. And for me, it's like, Bro,
- 49:02Speaker 4: I trust what I'm doing. I know I'm working like
- 49:05Speaker 4: like no other, and I trust in the end it's
- 49:08Speaker 4: all going to work out the way it's supposed to
- 49:09Speaker 4: if I just continue doing the right shit.
- 49:11Speaker 3: And like I look at guys like Aaron Donald, Like, Bro,
- 49:14Speaker 3: he was in with the Rams.
- 49:15Speaker 4: They sucked for years and he was the best player
- 49:17Speaker 4: in the league, but nobody was really talking about him
- 49:20Speaker 4: like how they talk about him now. But over the
- 49:22Speaker 4: time he's stuck to the process. He continued to dominate
- 49:25Speaker 4: and then by years, what is a year ten? Last
- 49:27Speaker 4: year he's in the super Bowl. Biggest moment, everyone fucking
- 49:30Speaker 4: sees Aaron Donald. There's no question he's the best, and
- 49:33Speaker 4: he goes on the biggest play and fucking wins the
- 49:35Speaker 4: Super Bowl. Like that's the shit I think about, Like
- 49:37Speaker 4: when I get those moments, yeah, like it's touchdown, bro,
- 49:41Speaker 4: and he wins and gets home ballgame, Like that's.
- 49:44Speaker 3: The type of shit I think about.
- 49:45Speaker 4: Like I can lose my shit right now and be like, well,
- 49:46Speaker 4: the fucking Michael Parson is rushing with DeMarcus Lawrence and
- 49:50Speaker 4: fucking you know, he's got other whatever, but that's not
- 49:54Speaker 4: you know, that's not what it is. My story is
- 49:56Speaker 4: different than everybody. So I just trust that BRO and
- 49:58Speaker 4: I continue to just grind, Bro work NonStop, and I
- 50:02Speaker 4: trust it's all going to work out the way I supposed.
- 50:03Speaker 2: So when you first get to the NFL, like, there's
- 50:05Speaker 2: a lot of distractions and guys like you you have
- 50:09Speaker 2: no money. Then all of a sudden, you have a
- 50:10Speaker 2: bunch of money, regardless of where you're drafted, Like it's
- 50:12Speaker 2: more money than you've ever had, and that is difficult
- 50:15Speaker 2: anywhere you go. But it's I can't imagine what it's
- 50:18Speaker 2: like being a rookie or a younger guy and coming
- 50:22Speaker 2: to Las Vegas to play for the Raiders, Like, how
- 50:25Speaker 2: is that? How are you going to work through that process?
- 50:27Speaker 2: Because that stadium, you can see it, you can see
- 50:30Speaker 2: the strip and it is a cool place to be.
- 50:33Speaker 3: It is fun.
- 50:34Speaker 2: And if you're a young cat with note with all
- 50:36Speaker 2: this money, like, how do you keep guys straight during
- 50:38Speaker 2: the season when you're not winning all the games you
- 50:40Speaker 2: should be winning?
- 50:42Speaker 3: That's that's a tough question.
- 50:43Speaker 4: You know, everybody's different, and that's that's the biggest difference
- 50:46Speaker 4: When you get to the NFL. It's not like college.
- 50:49Speaker 4: You know everybody in college, It's like, yeah, it's a
- 50:53Speaker 4: more structure. Everybody's on an even playing ground, nobody's richer
- 50:56Speaker 4: than this guy. It's like, this is what it is,
- 50:59Speaker 4: you know what I mean? And now you get to
- 51:01Speaker 4: the NFL, and if this is any city, you play
- 51:03Speaker 4: for New York Giants. Here in New York City, it's
- 51:05Speaker 4: there's always gonna be that. Like I was, Bro, I
- 51:07Speaker 4: was in Ipsilony, Michigan, and I still found ways to
- 51:10Speaker 4: get fucking lit and have fun and do all that shit.
- 51:12Speaker 4: So like being in Vegas, obviously it's amplified, but I
- 51:17Speaker 4: feel like just having a solid foundation, bro, having good
- 51:19Speaker 4: people around you, being around the right people, because there
- 51:22Speaker 4: can be there's there's a million people that are gonna
- 51:24Speaker 4: pull at you, and hey, I got this for you, Bro,
- 51:26Speaker 4: Hey coming to this club, I got you hooked up.
- 51:28Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden, two months later, like
- 51:30Speaker 4: you owe me twenty thousand dollars from that one day, right,
- 51:32Speaker 4: what you know what I mean?
- 51:36Speaker 3: Fuck? Yeah?
- 51:36Speaker 4: So like Bro, I just for me, it's just I
- 51:39Speaker 4: don't even Bro, I don't even go to the club.
- 51:41Speaker 4: I'm chilling all the time. I go to cigar lines.
- 51:43Speaker 4: That's the only thing I do.
- 51:44Speaker 3: So for you, I stay.
- 51:46Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a different But yeah, for young guys, Bro,
- 51:49Speaker 4: it's hard. Like if I was here as a rookie, Bro,
- 51:51Speaker 4: I don't even know what the fuck I was.
- 51:53Speaker 2: I was gonna say, like you've been You've been really
- 51:54Speaker 2: vocal about your whole process when you first came in
- 51:57Speaker 2: the league.
- 51:57Speaker 3: Imagine if you were in Vegas. I broud be crazy.
- 52:00Speaker 4: And that's that's the thing, Like I say, like these rookies,
- 52:02Speaker 4: I can't sit here and be like stay in your
- 52:05Speaker 4: house and do it like, because at the end of
- 52:06Speaker 4: the day, bro, gods are gonna go out, especially if
- 52:08Speaker 4: you're gouds you're gonna especially if you're singer, You're gonna
- 52:10Speaker 4: be out doing whatever you're gonna do.
- 52:11Speaker 3: It's just about being being smart, bro, Be cautious.
- 52:15Speaker 4: Don't go out by yourself, don't go out with people
- 52:16Speaker 4: you don't know, like you really got to roll with
- 52:19Speaker 4: the people you trust, and stay out the bullshit because
- 52:22Speaker 4: there's a bunch of bullshit going on, especially at that
- 52:26Speaker 4: Or you go out to a nightclub you don't know
- 52:27Speaker 4: what the fuck's gonna happen, you know what I mean.
- 52:29Speaker 4: Somebody they see you, they know you're an NFL player,
- 52:32Speaker 4: You're immediately a target no matter what it is, like
- 52:35Speaker 4: they want whatever you got, so and people are willing
- 52:38Speaker 4: to lose whatever they have to fucking get what you have.
- 52:41Speaker 4: People will rob you and broad daylight, they don't care.
- 52:44Speaker 4: And that's just the thing, you know, for the young guys,
- 52:46Speaker 4: just knowing who you're around and trust and don't just
- 52:49Speaker 4: be out and about like it's normal, you know what
- 52:52Speaker 4: I mean, You're not. I think that's the thing I
- 52:54Speaker 4: really like. I still have to slap myself because I'll
- 52:57Speaker 4: drive and pull up to a gas station by myself
- 52:59Speaker 4: and the fucking big chain of I won't even think
- 53:01Speaker 4: about it, you know what I mean. And that's that's
- 53:03Speaker 4: now like as I gotten older, like I truly have
- 53:05Speaker 4: to like slap myself in the face, like I'm not.
- 53:07Speaker 4: I can't just roll around and do whatever like normal
- 53:10Speaker 4: sometimes because people are crazy. Bro. You see it all
- 53:12Speaker 4: the time, guys NFL players go to LA and get
- 53:15Speaker 4: fucking their whole shit robbed and taken and they're just
- 53:18Speaker 4: going out there to go hang out with family. It's
- 53:20Speaker 4: like it's dangerous, bro, especially nowadays, but you see more
- 53:23Speaker 4: and more of it all the time.
- 53:25Speaker 5: H Can you talk about when the switch with Derek
- 53:29Speaker 5: Carr was made, how how it impacted you and how
- 53:32Speaker 5: you felt like it probably impacted the team in that moment,
- 53:35Speaker 5: if at all, because obviously there was a lot of
- 53:37Speaker 5: noise outside of the building.
- 53:39Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of noise, A lot of noise. It's
- 53:43Speaker 4: definitely outside the building. It was tough, bro.
- 53:46Speaker 3: I remember that morning because.
- 53:49Speaker 5: DC's been the defranchise guy since you've you've came to
- 53:52Speaker 5: the Raiders.
- 53:52Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 53:53Speaker 4: Yeah, he was a all four years. Is my quarterback
- 53:56Speaker 4: is nine years as a starter, which is crazy. It
- 53:59Speaker 4: doesn't happen. So, yeah, I'm sitting there, You're hearing rumors like, Okay,
- 54:04Speaker 4: is Derek going to get bench this week?
- 54:06Speaker 3: You know what is going on?
- 54:07Speaker 4: Blah blah blah, and you're just kind of hearing rumors room.
- 54:09Speaker 4: But you know how it is, you don't believe all
- 54:11Speaker 4: the shit. You're just like, okay, we'll see and then
- 54:15Speaker 4: all of a sudden, like we went in that morning
- 54:18Speaker 4: and me and DC are always the first two guys
- 54:22Speaker 4: in there, and we sit there and eat breakfast.
- 54:25Speaker 3: It's like squad is at eight.
- 54:26Speaker 4: Like, we're in there at six o'clock and we sit
- 54:28Speaker 4: there and we eat breakfast together. We talk, We go
- 54:30Speaker 4: in the hot tub, I go take a dump, and
- 54:33Speaker 4: then he goes and does whatever he does, you know
- 54:35Speaker 4: what I mean. So I go in there and DC
- 54:39Speaker 4: wasn't there at the breakfast table, and so I asked Angie,
- 54:43Speaker 4: who's there?
- 54:43Speaker 3: She runs the kitchen.
- 54:44Speaker 4: She's the best. Shout out to Angie's camera. I love you, Angie.
- 54:47Speaker 4: She's the best. She always sists with us and watches
- 54:49Speaker 4: it and just chops it up with us. And I
- 54:51Speaker 4: was like, Angie, where's DC. Have you seen him? She's like, no,
- 54:53Speaker 4: he hasn't been in yet, and that's in my hat.
- 54:56Speaker 4: I'm like, fuck, you know what I mean? Something went down.
- 55:00Speaker 4: So yeah, like an hour later, I'm in my locker.
- 55:04Speaker 4: I just got out the hot tub and DC walks
- 55:09Speaker 4: in and he's looking at me, and I just knew,
- 55:13Speaker 4: like I already, I just knew immediately, and he just whatever.
- 55:16Speaker 3: He gave me a man hug.
- 55:17Speaker 4: He's like, bro, I don't want to make it look
- 55:20Speaker 4: like I'm, you know, quitting on y'all or anything, but
- 55:23Speaker 4: like me and Josh talk like I'm you know, I'm
- 55:25Speaker 4: gonna be I'm gonna go home and for these next
- 55:27Speaker 4: two weeks and you know, figure out my situation. But
- 55:30Speaker 4: it was like that, you know, obviously they had their
- 55:31Speaker 4: business behind the scenes and they've had you know, had
- 55:33Speaker 4: an agreement, so like it wasn't like he was just
- 55:36Speaker 4: like fuck it, I'm not showing up. It was just like,
- 55:38Speaker 4: you know, business. So yeah, it was tough. Like DC's
- 55:41Speaker 4: my boy, Bro, Like me and DC have been always,
- 55:43Speaker 4: you know as friends. Like, Bro, he's a great dude.
- 55:46Speaker 4: I love DC and he's gonna, you know, somebody's gonna
- 55:49Speaker 4: have him as their starter next year and hopefully I
- 55:51Speaker 4: get to play against him and be dope.
- 55:53Speaker 3: But I wish him the best.
- 55:54Speaker 4: Bro. It's just it's hard, Like in this league, there's
- 55:57Speaker 4: really you know, you can play for a team for
- 55:59Speaker 4: ten years, give everything you got, like but unless you're
- 56:04Speaker 4: like Michael Jordan or you're Tom Brady. Like even Tom Brady,
- 56:08Speaker 4: it's the same thing. Like Bro, he was in year
- 56:10Speaker 4: twenty one six Super Bowl and there he ended with
- 56:12Speaker 4: a bad relationship and they got rid of you know
- 56:14Speaker 4: what I mean, and there was kind of friction, Like
- 56:16Speaker 4: it's crazy, Bro, at the end of the day. So
- 56:19Speaker 4: it's a business and that's the thing you got to realize.
- 56:21Speaker 4: It's not personal. It's not like people don't like DC.
- 56:24Speaker 4: Everyone you know, everyone's cool with DC. We love them.
- 56:27Speaker 4: But it is what it is. You know, Josh and Dave,
- 56:29Speaker 4: they got their visual what they want and you know,
- 56:33Speaker 4: that's just part of this business, man, And I trust them.
- 56:35Speaker 4: You know, I'm on this team and they're my coaches
- 56:38Speaker 4: that at the end of the day, I gotta believe
- 56:40Speaker 4: in what they got, you know what I mean, and
- 56:41Speaker 4: what they're bringing and what they're doing. But at the
- 56:43Speaker 4: same time, it's hard when it's your boy and there's
- 56:45Speaker 4: a motion to it, so it's like, damn, what the
- 56:48Speaker 4: fuck and then you like you want to get mad,
- 56:50Speaker 4: but it's like at the same time, you have to
- 56:51Speaker 4: understand both sides of it. And that's kind of what
- 56:53Speaker 4: I've learned, you know, being in the league more it's
- 56:55Speaker 4: like you can't you can't take shit personally because it's
- 56:58Speaker 4: not personal. Bro, It's a billion dollar business and it
- 57:01Speaker 4: is what it is.
- 57:02Speaker 2: Dude, I've been around Derek just like a handful of times.
- 57:05Speaker 2: He's like the nicest he seems like the nicest guy. Yeah, focused,
- 57:09Speaker 2: kind like charismatic. Good dude, So he's gone, this is
- 57:14Speaker 2: the off season. Hypothetically, who do you want to be
- 57:18Speaker 2: the quarterback of the Las Vegas Raiders?
- 57:21Speaker 3: Who do I want? Like, if it was just your
- 57:23Speaker 3: world they called you say who you want? You got
- 57:24Speaker 3: who you want? You get to play GM, You get
- 57:26Speaker 3: to play GM.
- 57:27Speaker 2: Now this will be taking out of context people like, oh, maximants,
- 57:30Speaker 2: this guy wants that guy.
- 57:31Speaker 3: I'm just saying, perfect world boss. Yeah, fun, hypothetical, fun, hypotheticpathetic.
- 57:36Speaker 3: We're just saying we're having a little giggle time. Dude,
- 57:38Speaker 3: that is a nice little time. Tom Brady and two dogs,
- 57:43Speaker 3: three dogs down.
- 57:45Speaker 4: One over there, she's sucking.
- 57:46Speaker 3: Yeah, she's snucking behind the tom Brady. I would love
- 57:51Speaker 3: to have tom Brady.
- 57:53Speaker 4: How I don't know how that can be controversy, can
- 57:56Speaker 4: be tom Brady as a leader, as.
- 58:00Speaker 3: A fucking player, as the goat. Fuck.
- 58:03Speaker 4: Yeah, I would love to play with Dom Brady if
- 58:06Speaker 4: he can do. If you come to Vegas, Bro, I'll
- 58:08Speaker 4: fucking fly. I'll go to wherever he's at to introduce myself.
- 58:12Speaker 4: The level of respect I got for him, Bro is
- 58:14Speaker 4: out this world. So yeah, I would love to have
- 58:16Speaker 4: Tom Brady, but we'll see. I don't I don't know
- 58:18Speaker 4: what's gonna happen, but I've I've only met him when
- 58:20Speaker 4: I played him two years ago. It was the COVID
- 58:23Speaker 4: year and he was on the field. We played in Vegas,
- 58:27Speaker 4: empty ass stadium. We come in for pregame, and I always,
- 58:31Speaker 4: like early on in my career, would always like kind
- 58:33Speaker 4: of walk around the field and it was like a
- 58:35Speaker 4: part of my routine in like my full like pregame outfit,
- 58:39Speaker 4: like just.
- 58:39Speaker 3: My my fit.
- 58:40Speaker 4: And I'm walking by myself, going around and then fucking
- 58:44Speaker 4: Brady walks out of the locker room by himself, and
- 58:47Speaker 4: I'm like, oh my god, Like I felt it. I
- 58:50Speaker 4: felt the aura and uh, I seen him. We didn't
- 58:53Speaker 4: say anything to each other at the time. Whatever.
- 58:54Speaker 3: I was just walking do my thing.
- 58:56Speaker 4: He's walking, he's just kind of looking around, looking at
- 58:57Speaker 4: the stadium, which is in hindsight, it's kind of crazy,
- 59:01Speaker 4: you know, it's just plotting out. But yeah, but anyway,
- 59:07Speaker 4: so I talked to him after the game. He's you know,
- 59:08Speaker 4: obviously he's a great dude. He was super cool. But yeah, bro,
- 59:12Speaker 4: I would love obviously, I would love that Tom Brady,
- 59:15Speaker 4: he's a goat.
- 59:17Speaker 3: Yeah, very few people you ever meet in your life
- 59:19Speaker 3: had that kind of aura. Yeah, it's definitely. Everyone I've
- 59:22Speaker 3: met who has met Tom was like, dude, it's like
- 59:25Speaker 3: a glow behind him. It's different.
- 59:26Speaker 4: Bro.
- 59:27Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like too handsome.
- 59:29Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like he's had something done.
- 59:33Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's a classic.
- 59:34Speaker 2: Amount Like there, he doesn't look like he's like you know,
- 59:37Speaker 2: my mango botox, like it's it's you know, them teeth
- 59:39Speaker 2: a real no.
- 59:41Speaker 3: But I think he's done a classic amount of work.
- 59:47Speaker 4: High classic.
- 59:51Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Like, what's going down with
- 59:55Speaker 5: the cheeks?
- 59:57Speaker 2: Baby, I'm not gonna do some shit I can't say,
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: but yeah, dude, he does because you look at pictures
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: of him, and I hope on this YouTube right now
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: were flashing a picture of Tom from his year.
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: Because my god, he had that rounded out face, no cheek.
- 1:00:13Speaker 4: Bones, cheek.
- 1:00:14Speaker 5: That's different.
- 1:00:15Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, he different now, Jesus bro, he's like forty seven.
- 1:00:18Speaker 3: He's like forty seven, dude, he's not getting young on
- 1:00:23Speaker 3: the do you think he still got it? Sorry?
- 1:00:24Speaker 2: I hate to cut you off. I know you probably
- 1:00:26Speaker 2: bere pivoting, but do you think Tom still has it.
- 1:00:29Speaker 4: Absolutely.
- 1:00:29Speaker 3: I love that.
- 1:00:30Speaker 4: I agree with you one hundred absolutely. I hate when
- 1:00:32Speaker 4: people you think so many forties, like mid forty matter.
- 1:00:35Speaker 4: They said that when he was forty. You know, he's
- 1:00:37Speaker 4: forty six. Now look how they got into the playoffs.
- 1:00:40Speaker 4: Bro he was snapping and having comeback games. He threw
- 1:00:42Speaker 4: for four hundred yards just two weeks ago. They had
- 1:00:45Speaker 4: a lot of injuries, Brot.
- 1:00:47Speaker 3: They had bro.
- 1:00:48Speaker 4: I watched football and Tom could still play. He's their
- 1:00:51Speaker 4: whole line was playing murdered this year. And that's just
- 1:00:54Speaker 4: out of respect. They were.
- 1:00:56Speaker 3: I think they were ranked last in the league. Like
- 1:00:57Speaker 3: he was getting hit all the time.
- 1:00:59Speaker 4: They had a lot of injuries, their backs were hurt,
- 1:01:02Speaker 4: like they had a lot of ship going on. But
- 1:01:04Speaker 4: it's funny you look back. You see what he did
- 1:01:06Speaker 4: his last year in New England when you all beat him.
- 1:01:09Speaker 4: Everyone said the same thing. Oh he's done, He's he's done,
- 1:01:12Speaker 4: and this is I look at it like and I'm
- 1:01:14Speaker 4: you know, I like to write that little story. It's like, oh,
- 1:01:17Speaker 4: well his last who ras you know, two to three
- 1:01:20Speaker 4: year deal it you know in Las Vegas, it's just
- 1:01:27Speaker 4: come on, let's be real.
- 1:01:29Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:01:29Speaker 3: So we'll see. And he got studs on offense too.
- 1:01:33Speaker 3: He's get a line.
- 1:01:34Speaker 4: Our old line was played a lot better than people
- 1:01:37Speaker 4: expected this year.
- 1:01:38Speaker 3: That's the really.
- 1:01:41Speaker 5: Rush chip on his shoulder.
- 1:01:42Speaker 4: DeVante went for over fifteen hundred. We have Colt Miller,
- 1:01:45Speaker 4: one of the best left tackles in the league. We
- 1:01:47Speaker 4: got a lot of bro we got we got a
- 1:01:49Speaker 4: lot of a lot of sod guys for sure.
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: Do you think, uh, what do you think Josh Jacob's
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: future is with the Raiders right now because he's about
- 1:01:57Speaker 2: to be a free agent.
- 1:01:58Speaker 4: He's free agent. Yeah, so I know for a fact
- 1:02:01Speaker 4: that the coaches love him. Obviously. When they first came
- 1:02:05Speaker 4: they we had three first round picks from my class.
- 1:02:09Speaker 4: It was Cleve, Josh, and John Abram. And before the
- 1:02:12Speaker 4: year they declined all their fifth year options. So everyone's like,
- 1:02:16Speaker 4: oh fuck, they're you know how they are in New England.
- 1:02:18Speaker 4: They don't value the running back. Boom bom boom bom boom.
- 1:02:21Speaker 4: From my perspective, I know Josh like me and Josh
- 1:02:25Speaker 4: have been boys since I got there, and Josh is
- 1:02:27Speaker 4: one of those people that like he need like I
- 1:02:30Speaker 4: feel like he needs that little extra motivation, like oh
- 1:02:33Speaker 4: you don't, Okay, I remember exactly what you said. He's
- 1:02:36Speaker 4: gonna make you look dumb. And that's what I feel like.
- 1:02:38Speaker 4: This year was like everyone is saying, oh, it's new England.
- 1:02:42Speaker 4: They don't you know, they don't value running backs to
- 1:02:44Speaker 4: saying they'll just bring him in. Josh literally was the
- 1:02:48Speaker 4: best running back in the league and this year and
- 1:02:50Speaker 4: he can't even argue it. Every category, yards per carry,
- 1:02:54Speaker 4: broken tackles, for amount of first rounds run like he
- 1:02:57Speaker 4: did everything. And so I'm extreme proud of him, obviously
- 1:03:01Speaker 4: being being one of my boys. But I think he's
- 1:03:04Speaker 4: gonna stay here, bro and no matter. I don't know
- 1:03:06Speaker 4: how that's what that's going to look like if they
- 1:03:08Speaker 4: tag or try to sign an extension, but I think
- 1:03:10Speaker 4: he's one that's one thousand percent earned an extension. Like
- 1:03:14Speaker 4: the dude has been a pro bowler. I think this
- 1:03:15Speaker 4: is third time now in four years. So, like he's
- 1:03:19Speaker 4: the dude is a dog. He's an absolute dog, you know, Josh,
- 1:03:21Speaker 4: he's the ship. He plays too. He's always banged up and.
- 1:03:25Speaker 5: He's always about like you know, I remember when we
- 1:03:27Speaker 5: got our assle from the Chiefs. Yeah, and he was
- 1:03:31Speaker 5: so pissed about him fumbling like early in the game,
- 1:03:34Speaker 5: and just like, man on the outside looking in, what
- 1:03:37Speaker 5: do you feel like it is? I'm like, I just
- 1:03:39Speaker 5: fucking guy it like we just got our ass. But
- 1:03:41Speaker 5: he's very much like in it.
- 1:03:43Speaker 3: He loves football.
- 1:03:44Speaker 5: Yeah, he loves ball.
- 1:03:45Speaker 4: That's what I talk about. The guys like that, the Davante's.
- 1:03:47Speaker 4: We need guys that have that mindset, no matter what
- 1:03:50Speaker 4: the talent level. The Deron Harmon's the dude who really
- 1:03:53Speaker 4: loved football. That's what you need the building and Josh
- 1:03:55Speaker 4: is one that guy.
- 1:03:58Speaker 5: Uh, going back just for a second on the on
- 1:04:00Speaker 5: the DC situation, was there ever a time where you're like,
- 1:04:02Speaker 5: fuck Mancuz there there is a lot uh uh you
- 1:04:06Speaker 5: know that? Like I think it was a statistic that
- 1:04:09Speaker 5: was out there that the Raiders been ranked like bottom
- 1:04:11Speaker 5: tier defense since he's been a quarterback. Do you like
- 1:04:14Speaker 5: ever sit there you're like, fuck, man, like you put
- 1:04:17Speaker 5: a little bit on yourself. Obviously you ultimately don't or
- 1:04:20Speaker 5: you can't, but you're just like, fuck if we could.
- 1:04:22Speaker 3: Have just.
- 1:04:24Speaker 4: Honestly, bro, I don't know how to answer that, you
- 1:04:26Speaker 4: know what I mean? Early in his career, like their
- 1:04:28Speaker 4: defense is like bottom defense every year, Like we haven't
- 1:04:31Speaker 4: been the worst of the worst, but we haven't been great.
- 1:04:36Speaker 3: But also you just look at it.
- 1:04:37Speaker 4: We've had three different decoordinators in the last three years, So, like,
- 1:04:41Speaker 4: I think stability is a big thing as well, and
- 1:04:44Speaker 4: that's something you know, having Pat Graham back next year
- 1:04:47Speaker 4: for the second year, I feel like we're only going
- 1:04:49Speaker 4: to get better.
- 1:04:49Speaker 3: And you know, having Josh back, Like everybody, if it.
- 1:04:52Speaker 4: Immediately doesn't work, they're like, fucking fire everyone vote. That's
- 1:04:55Speaker 4: that's the outside world, and that's just you know, that's
- 1:04:58Speaker 4: natural because you see other coaches like Dave Ball comes in,
- 1:05:01Speaker 4: boom giants playoffs already, want to playoff.
- 1:05:03Speaker 3: Game, be like, oh fuck, why aren't we doing that.
- 1:05:05Speaker 5: Josh automatically gets compared to.
- 1:05:07Speaker 4: Yeah, immediately compared. But every situation is different, and so
- 1:05:11Speaker 4: you know, it is what it is. You know, as
- 1:05:13Speaker 4: from the fans perspective, it's like, what the fuck fucked him?
- 1:05:16Speaker 3: We're firing them.
- 1:05:17Speaker 4: That's how they think about every coach if you don't
- 1:05:19Speaker 4: succeed right away. But you know, I feel like Josh
- 1:05:23Speaker 4: is doing the right thing. It's just gonna take time,
- 1:05:25Speaker 4: for sure, And I feel like we're you know, we're
- 1:05:27Speaker 4: going in the right direction.
- 1:05:29Speaker 5: Are you the Were you the biggest Pro Bowl snub
- 1:05:32Speaker 5: in the league?
- 1:05:33Speaker 4: I made the Pro Bowl or a Pro a Pro?
- 1:05:42Speaker 5: Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on? Were you
- 1:05:44Speaker 5: the biggest All Pro snub in the league. That's not
- 1:05:48Speaker 5: me to decide, but you're a competitive motherfucker.
- 1:05:52Speaker 3: No, it's that ship.
- 1:05:55Speaker 5: I saw vocalize it a little bit or enough to
- 1:05:58Speaker 5: be like, hey, this is a receipt.
- 1:05:59Speaker 4: I'm yeah, for sure, but it's it's like anything else. Bro,
- 1:06:03Speaker 4: when I look at it, you know, you have this
- 1:06:05Speaker 4: own story in your head. Boom, this is how it's
- 1:06:07Speaker 4: gonna go. I want this, I want this. I'm gonna
- 1:06:09Speaker 4: get this like this year.
- 1:06:10Speaker 6: Bro.
- 1:06:11Speaker 4: If I look at like, I made All Pro last year,
- 1:06:13Speaker 4: I was second team All Pro, had eight sacks, but
- 1:06:15Speaker 4: I had one hundred plus pressure boom whatever. And that
- 1:06:18Speaker 4: was like, you know, from the outside world, ever was like, Oh,
- 1:06:22Speaker 4: it's a fucking flash in the pan. He's just doing
- 1:06:23Speaker 4: it because it was a contract. He needed to get
- 1:06:25Speaker 4: a contract. Like I heard that shit all off season,
- 1:06:27Speaker 4: Like okay, it was like this big storybook. Max told
- 1:06:30Speaker 4: everybody about his sobriety story, Like it was just like
- 1:06:33Speaker 4: people that's everyone had like, oh, it's just too good
- 1:06:35Speaker 4: to be true.
- 1:06:35Speaker 3: That was his year.
- 1:06:36Speaker 4: But like people, I feel like people in the outside
- 1:06:38Speaker 4: world didn't truly respect me like fully as like a
- 1:06:41Speaker 4: Miles Garrett or TJ. Watts, cause you know, they're all
- 1:06:44Speaker 4: first round picks, they're all top ten guys, they're all
- 1:06:47Speaker 4: consistently ballers. Like so for me going into this year,
- 1:06:50Speaker 4: like my attitude was like fuck that, Like I'm I'm
- 1:06:55Speaker 4: that guy, Like I'm gonna be that guy I'm gonna
- 1:06:57Speaker 4: be because I'm always compared ever sus Khalil mac left.
- 1:07:00Speaker 4: Like everyone talks about how the Raiders been missing a
- 1:07:02Speaker 4: pass rusher, missing Kalil mac We haven't recovered from Khalil
- 1:07:05Speaker 4: mac leven. And that's like something I take super serious,
- 1:07:09Speaker 4: bro like and I take offense, like I take offense
- 1:07:11Speaker 4: to that shit, like but in a good way. I
- 1:07:13Speaker 4: let he use his motivation and so like in my storybook,
- 1:07:16Speaker 4: like I have a lot of things that I want
- 1:07:18Speaker 4: to do and going into this year, like all right,
- 1:07:21Speaker 4: how am I gonna do better? How am I gonna
- 1:07:23Speaker 4: do better than second team All Pro? Okay, I want
- 1:07:25Speaker 4: to be first team All Pro.
- 1:07:25Speaker 3: I want to do.
- 1:07:26Speaker 4: There's a lot of things, but I'm not like a
- 1:07:27Speaker 4: big like number. I don't I don't put a number
- 1:07:29Speaker 4: on anything like I'm gonna get this amount of sacks,
- 1:07:31Speaker 4: this amount of blah blah blah. For me, it's like
- 1:07:34Speaker 4: I'm gonna fucking improve. Well whatever that looks like, I'm
- 1:07:37Speaker 4: gonna improve as a player and take it to another
- 1:07:40Speaker 4: take a whole another step. And I've just from a
- 1:07:44Speaker 4: film perspective, from a stat perspective, I did that and
- 1:07:48Speaker 4: literally every fast I have more Bro. I led the
- 1:07:50Speaker 4: team in tackles as a d N. I have fucking
- 1:07:52Speaker 4: eighty nine tackles. Like I had twenty two TFLs. I
- 1:07:55Speaker 4: led the league. I had twelve and a half sacks,
- 1:07:57Speaker 4: was like tied six. I've pressures. I was top three
- 1:08:01Speaker 4: in the league, like every category, Like I took big strides.
- 1:08:04Speaker 4: And for me, in my head, like my perfect story
- 1:08:08Speaker 4: is boom, I'm a start in the Pro Bowl again.
- 1:08:10Speaker 3: I got that.
- 1:08:11Speaker 4: The last thing was all pro and I'm waiting. I'm
- 1:08:14Speaker 4: like boom, I can't wait. But then all of a sudden,
- 1:08:16Speaker 4: I look at the list, I'm like what and like
- 1:08:19Speaker 4: I was shook, Bro, Like I was hurt, like you
- 1:08:22Speaker 4: know what I mean deep down like that that shit
- 1:08:24Speaker 4: hurt my pride.
- 1:08:25Speaker 3: I'm like, what the fuck? I got better? Bro? I
- 1:08:28Speaker 3: know I got better, and I didn't make it.
- 1:08:31Speaker 4: And that's like, that's the thing, and if my perspective
- 1:08:35Speaker 4: in my world, like I wanted, that was the final
- 1:08:37Speaker 4: thing that I fucking wanted on this season. You know,
- 1:08:39Speaker 4: we didn't make the playoffs. I knew weren't making the playoffs,
- 1:08:41Speaker 4: like just from my personal goals.
- 1:08:43Speaker 3: And then I didn't get that.
- 1:08:45Speaker 4: And I'm like, all right, motherfuckers, Like the season went great,
- 1:08:50Speaker 4: but I'm not doing enough. That's just the way I
- 1:08:53Speaker 4: took it. And I know I got back forgot yeah,
- 1:08:57Speaker 4: But at the same time I forgot it like bro, like.
- 1:08:59Speaker 3: Yeah, like I know I got better. My goal was
- 1:09:01Speaker 3: to get better.
- 1:09:02Speaker 4: I did, bro everything in my power all fucking off season,
- 1:09:06Speaker 4: every I did everything right, and then that was the
- 1:09:08Speaker 4: last thing that I wanted and boom, I didn't get it.
- 1:09:11Speaker 4: And so for me, I could sit there and bitch
- 1:09:14Speaker 4: and go on Twitter. Fuck that is bullshit. You know.
- 1:09:16Speaker 4: You see guys all the time bitching about the show.
- 1:09:18Speaker 4: You see just a couple of games ago, when fucking
- 1:09:22Speaker 4: dude had a meltdown and blaming the refs, and I
- 1:09:25Speaker 4: see dudes blaming all fucking old lineman hold all the time, refs,
- 1:09:28Speaker 4: don't call it like I'll.
- 1:09:29Speaker 3: Never be that guy.
- 1:09:29Speaker 4: Bro, I think that's you know, shit like that is
- 1:09:32Speaker 4: so weak to me, Like you're gonna get held, like
- 1:09:34Speaker 4: I'm I know I get held all the time. You
- 1:09:36Speaker 4: watch the Rams last drive against us, but I was
- 1:09:39Speaker 4: getting literally tackled. But I'm not gonna go and double
- 1:09:43Speaker 4: down and go look like a little fucking cry baby.
- 1:09:46Speaker 4: You know what I mean, That's not me. So at
- 1:09:47Speaker 4: the end of the day, like the last thing I
- 1:09:49Speaker 4: wanted was to get that all pro But I know,
- 1:09:52Speaker 4: at the end of the day, like I'm gonna look
- 1:09:54Speaker 4: back next year when I do everything I'd set out
- 1:09:56Speaker 4: to do and be like, yeah, this shit was for
- 1:09:58Speaker 4: a reason. God needed that little That little thing is
- 1:10:01Speaker 4: gonna fucking push me to do that extra little wrap,
- 1:10:03Speaker 4: the extra little ship.
- 1:10:05Speaker 3: And it is what it is, like that ship pisses me,
- 1:10:08Speaker 3: like it really hurt me.
- 1:10:09Speaker 4: But hey, don't you like that?
- 1:10:12Speaker 7: You know that's kind of not for me to like, hey,
- 1:10:14Speaker 7: come on now, he's like, man, I fucking bro, that
- 1:10:17Speaker 7: ship yeah, like that ship, dude, No, like I did,
- 1:10:23Speaker 7: I get it.
- 1:10:23Speaker 4: It is what it is, and I can't do anything
- 1:10:25Speaker 4: like in my young self, like I thought the same thing,
- 1:10:28Speaker 4: like my rookie when I was going my rookie year,
- 1:10:31Speaker 4: like I thought I was gonna win Rookie of the Year.
- 1:10:33Speaker 4: I thought I should have won it. I didn't, and
- 1:10:35Speaker 4: but that helped me the next year. Like it's always
- 1:10:37Speaker 4: something that every player needs, that little extra motivation and
- 1:10:41Speaker 4: like I can't control that. But at the end of
- 1:10:45Speaker 4: the day, bro, I know, like it's all gonna pay off,
- 1:10:47Speaker 4: Like it's all gonna I don't need to force it
- 1:10:49Speaker 4: and talk on Twitter and do all this extra ship
- 1:10:52Speaker 4: and complain.
- 1:10:53Speaker 3: And what is that gonna do for me?
- 1:10:55Speaker 4: Bro? It's gonna make me look like an ass if
- 1:10:56Speaker 4: I go next year and don't play as well, you
- 1:10:58Speaker 4: know what I mean. Like I'm to do everything I
- 1:11:00Speaker 4: can to be better than I was this year, and
- 1:11:02Speaker 4: that's that's what's gonna push me. So yeah, it does
- 1:11:05Speaker 4: what it is.
- 1:11:05Speaker 3: What is it?
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: So if you're looking at it now like I was snubbed,
- 1:11:08Speaker 2: that pissed you off, I think I gotta work hard
- 1:11:10Speaker 2: and do what were things little minor critiques you make
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: to your off season training regiment that might get you
- 1:11:17Speaker 2: that all pro.
- 1:11:20Speaker 4: I honestly, I think that that's something I'm looking at
- 1:11:23Speaker 4: right now before I start training again. Before I start
- 1:11:27Speaker 4: training again. I do it every year, especially these last
- 1:11:29Speaker 4: two years.
- 1:11:30Speaker 3: Is you train here? Yeah? I train in Vegas?
- 1:11:32Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 1:11:33Speaker 3: Do you train the facility? So yeah, that's something I'm
- 1:11:37Speaker 3: evaluating right now.
- 1:11:38Speaker 5: He's like, he hears my mouth in the microphone.
- 1:11:46Speaker 3: Dude, we'll bro anytime someone goes and starts talking. He
- 1:11:50Speaker 3: opens his mouth like that.
- 1:11:51Speaker 5: Well, the ship's going on up up up up top.
- 1:11:54Speaker 3: He's juicing me. You live together.
- 1:11:56Speaker 5: I like com you know what I mean. I'm just like,
- 1:11:59Speaker 5: it's just me taking in. I guess I can't fucking.
- 1:12:01Speaker 3: Hell you say you say.
- 1:12:06Speaker 5: Got me wrong?
- 1:12:07Speaker 3: I'm up? You got was like a hyper deal right there.
- 1:12:12Speaker 3: Somebody needs to cut that and.
- 1:12:12Speaker 2: Put a bunch of music behind it, Spartan music. Yeah,
- 1:12:17Speaker 2: it's like drake, Dude, did somebody tell me I fell off?
- 1:12:19Speaker 6: Oh?
- 1:12:19Speaker 3: I needed that? Yeah? I needed it.
- 1:12:21Speaker 4: But that's yeah for me, Like my routine, that's something
- 1:12:24Speaker 4: I'm gonna breakdown. Like I've already talked to the strength
- 1:12:26Speaker 4: staff the nutrition is we've already sat down and boom,
- 1:12:29Speaker 4: we're gonna this is what We're gonna do a little
- 1:12:31Speaker 4: adjustments where I.
- 1:12:32Speaker 3: Can, you know, improve on.
- 1:12:34Speaker 4: But it's it's not the work ethic part of it, bro,
- 1:12:37Speaker 4: I put in I know I worked fucking extremely hard.
- 1:12:42Speaker 3: It's just about how can I make it a little
- 1:12:44Speaker 3: bit better? What can I do a little bit smarter?
- 1:12:46Speaker 4: A little shit like that, And so that like this
- 1:12:48Speaker 4: second year, like going into my third year, there was
- 1:12:50Speaker 4: a lot of big adjustments I had to make and
- 1:12:53Speaker 4: I felt like I took another big step, like I
- 1:12:55Speaker 4: added boxing into my off days instead of just doing
- 1:12:57Speaker 4: strictly tubs and chilling at an hour boxing and in
- 1:13:01Speaker 4: that so there's something you know, there's always gonna be
- 1:13:04Speaker 4: little shit like I'm sorry, I'm gonna add yoga this offseason,
- 1:13:07Speaker 4: like just adding little shit, but I you know, I
- 1:13:10Speaker 4: don't know everything yet, but just try to take that
- 1:13:13Speaker 4: take that next big step because I know in this league, bro,
- 1:13:17Speaker 4: like if the biggest thing is the guys that continue
- 1:13:20Speaker 4: to do it, and you know this fucking well being
- 1:13:22Speaker 4: a pro Bowl doing it over and over, like do
- 1:13:24Speaker 4: you either get worse or you get better? And like
- 1:13:26Speaker 4: there's no in between. You don't just stay the same
- 1:13:28Speaker 4: you don't. Like for me, it's I can't, Like I
- 1:13:31Speaker 4: can't even I don't even know what life will look
- 1:13:34Speaker 4: like just in my brain if I didn't do all
- 1:13:37Speaker 4: the things I was doing now, Like if I could
- 1:13:38Speaker 4: just chill this offseason, like a lot of guys do it,
- 1:13:41Speaker 4: They're fucking chilling and and just take a step back,
- 1:13:44Speaker 4: Like I can't even sit, Like I have to take
- 1:13:47Speaker 4: this time off to just let my body rest. But
- 1:13:50Speaker 4: I'm still meal prepping, stretching, norma, taking every day like
- 1:13:52Speaker 4: I have to do it for my own sanity. So
- 1:13:55Speaker 4: like that's that's what it is for me, bro, just
- 1:13:57Speaker 4: taking that next step. I'm fucking like obsessed with the
- 1:14:00Speaker 4: process because I know where I want to go and
- 1:14:03Speaker 4: I can't do it any other way. So I'm just
- 1:14:05Speaker 4: fine tuning everything. Well, you know, we'll see what we'll
- 1:14:08Speaker 4: be got on the agenda this offseason.
- 1:14:11Speaker 3: The addiction becoming a superpower. Oh yeah, this is an
- 1:14:16Speaker 3: outstanding first impression for me with you.
- 1:14:18Speaker 6: I'm very impressed.
- 1:14:19Speaker 5: I'm glad you guys are finally You'm glad you guys
- 1:14:21Speaker 5: are finally meeting too. I'm like Damn, I thought, I
- 1:14:24Speaker 5: guess you guys haven't met it.
- 1:14:26Speaker 2: It's just crazy because when I literally when I saw you,
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: we were waiting for us outside, which is very kind
- 1:14:30Speaker 2: of you, by the way, to wait for us when
- 1:14:32Speaker 2: we were pulling up, like, oh, there's the boy. Like
- 1:14:34Speaker 2: I feel, I literally feel like we've met before hung out.
- 1:14:37Speaker 2: So this has been and it's cool to see your
- 1:14:40Speaker 2: mindset because you've got it, Bud.
- 1:14:43Speaker 3: I appreciate it about it everything but being white, like
- 1:14:45Speaker 3: everything's going for you, it means a lot.
- 1:14:48Speaker 5: Bro Taylor knows when I when I got to Oakland
- 1:14:50Speaker 5: and my boy checked in on me after my first
- 1:14:52Speaker 5: day in school with the Raiders, and I was like, hey,
- 1:14:55Speaker 5: somebody on the squad is like a fan of busting
- 1:14:58Speaker 5: with the boys. I was like, his max across me.
- 1:15:00Speaker 5: You weren't who you are now, but it was like,
- 1:15:02Speaker 5: I don't know, And now looking back, that's fucking cool.
- 1:15:05Speaker 3: Yeah, it was crazy. That's crazy.
- 1:15:07Speaker 5: When you hey, you're like he's like telling somebody, goes, no,
- 1:15:10Speaker 5: this man is famous. I'm just kind of sitting there
- 1:15:13Speaker 5: like nervous, you know, first day, in the first day,
- 1:15:15Speaker 5: Oh yeah, there's somebody he's like, he's like now I'll
- 1:15:18Speaker 5: rock with busting with the boys. I'm like, Yo, let's
- 1:15:20Speaker 5: fucking go.
- 1:15:21Speaker 2: That's a hilarious contrast to you going up the will
- 1:15:24Speaker 2: being like half fuck with you guys, and then Richie
- 1:15:26Speaker 2: Incognita being like, oh I do busting with the bully,
- 1:15:29Speaker 2: just bullying fucking bully me, Billiam, How what was I
- 1:15:32Speaker 2: like playing with that Richie?
- 1:15:34Speaker 4: Shit? I love Richie. He is one of my favorite
- 1:15:36Speaker 4: teammates I've ever had. The dude is he like it's
- 1:15:39Speaker 4: you talk about work ethic, That motherfucker works, bro, And
- 1:15:43Speaker 4: like takes the way he took care of his body,
- 1:15:45Speaker 4: how massive he is and playing fifteen years white body
- 1:15:48Speaker 4: bro fucking soundtrack.
- 1:15:50Speaker 3: Bro.
- 1:15:50Speaker 4: And he looks like he's sixteen years old in the face,
- 1:15:55Speaker 4: no stretch, Like he just the dude is different and
- 1:15:57Speaker 4: he's been through a lot of ship and like just
- 1:15:59Speaker 4: being around on him and getting to, you know, become
- 1:16:01Speaker 4: closer with him, Like he was truly one of the
- 1:16:03Speaker 4: best team teammates I had, like take me under the
- 1:16:06Speaker 4: wing like type of dude, Like.
- 1:16:08Speaker 3: He was exactly that guy.
- 1:16:09Speaker 4: Like for some reason when I first got there, like
- 1:16:12Speaker 4: we practiced, you know, we start practicing doing ota together
- 1:16:14Speaker 4: and like we started to like become boys because I'm
- 1:16:17Speaker 4: fucked up in the head like he is. Like I'm
- 1:16:19Speaker 4: practicing hard as fuck. Like we're not even in pads,
- 1:16:22Speaker 4: and you know, I'm a rookie. I'm just trying to
- 1:16:24Speaker 4: make an impression and like I'm flying around the field.
- 1:16:26Speaker 4: And for some reason, like Richie obviously is he pay
- 1:16:29Speaker 4: He's paying attention a little bit seeing how I do shit,
- 1:16:31Speaker 4: and like he just we immediately clicked because he respected it,
- 1:16:34Speaker 4: just how I did shit. And ever since then, Bro,
- 1:16:37Speaker 4: we became boys. And I still like when he retired,
- 1:16:39Speaker 4: I went up and seen him, like on his retirement
- 1:16:41Speaker 4: and like me and him always, you know, been really cool.
- 1:16:44Speaker 4: And he goes to all the freaking games. I'll be
- 1:16:46Speaker 4: on the sideline about to walk, the game's about to start.
- 1:16:48Speaker 4: He'll be in there in a polo, just fucking grab me,
- 1:16:51Speaker 4: give me a biggest hug in the planet, fucking throw
- 1:16:54Speaker 4: my rib out because he squeezes the life out of me.
- 1:16:57Speaker 4: But he's yeah, I fucking I can go on and
- 1:16:59Speaker 4: on about Richie bros. He's a loyal die hard, just
- 1:17:02Speaker 4: like real real bro.
- 1:17:04Speaker 2: A healthy healthy is one of the best friends to
- 1:17:07Speaker 2: have no, literally, he is an incredible human being.
- 1:17:10Speaker 3: Absolutely what a.
- 1:17:11Speaker 5: Massive fucking dog.
- 1:17:13Speaker 3: He's a big boy.
- 1:17:14Speaker 5: No, he stood up and everybody can see him to
- 1:17:15Speaker 5: everybody's like, holy shit. He literally he like, take my
- 1:17:19Speaker 5: life any second you wanted. Max. I like, I came
- 1:17:23Speaker 5: in the house before I came in the house, and
- 1:17:24Speaker 5: Max is like, hey, just walk straight, don't really don't
- 1:17:27Speaker 5: look down at don't make any facial expressions. And I'm
- 1:17:29Speaker 5: just kind of like walking the house and Max just starts.
- 1:17:31Speaker 5: He's like, you know, he's not gonna do nothing, but
- 1:17:34Speaker 5: he watched the wires.
- 1:17:35Speaker 4: Watch the wires, Dirk Direk, go buddy, He's just gonna
- 1:17:39Speaker 4: he'll be fine. He'll stay on there for like five minutes.
- 1:17:42Speaker 5: He was assessing the situation before.
- 1:17:44Speaker 3: He came over. He doesn't want to fun it up.
- 1:17:48Speaker 3: Tear talk, Yeah, do we have well, let's take a
- 1:17:51Speaker 3: quick pause talk.
- 1:17:54Speaker 5: Yeah all right.
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: So for Tier Talk this week, we are going to
- 1:17:57Speaker 2: do best dog breads, and I feel like best and favorite.
- 1:18:02Speaker 2: There's a great line there, because I'm sure you could
- 1:18:04Speaker 2: look up the best dogs and it's probably like an
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: equal out with us.
- 1:18:06Speaker 3: We'll say our favorite dog Brits for our tier talk. Yeah,
- 1:18:09Speaker 3: do you want to go first?
- 1:18:10Speaker 5: Let me go first. I can go first. My U
- 1:18:14Speaker 5: no honorable mentions. My Tier three is going to be Rottweiler.
- 1:18:22Speaker 5: We had a dog growing up, my parents' first dog
- 1:18:24Speaker 5: before they had me. You know how parents do the
- 1:18:26Speaker 5: trial run, Like, let's do a dog. We can take
- 1:18:28Speaker 5: care of a dog, we can take care of a
- 1:18:29Speaker 5: baby type thing. They had a Rottweiler named Conan after
- 1:18:33Speaker 5: Conne and the Barbarian. They had him trained all the
- 1:18:35Speaker 5: way up to like he could have been like some
- 1:18:37Speaker 5: kind of like the police style training dog, but he
- 1:18:40Speaker 5: would have had to leave for like three months. But
- 1:18:41Speaker 5: a very well trained Rotweiler and so ever since, Like
- 1:18:45Speaker 5: growing up with Conan, it was like I loved Rottweiler's
- 1:18:48Speaker 5: my tier two. What I currently have waffle English bulldogs.
- 1:18:54Speaker 5: They're just so like unique to me, dude, and like
- 1:19:00Speaker 5: you come home, they don't greet you, they stay on
- 1:19:02Speaker 5: the couch. You go in, like you have to go
- 1:19:05Speaker 5: give them love. They kind of just look sad and like,
- 1:19:07Speaker 5: but they love you. The all they want to do
- 1:19:08Speaker 5: is cuddle. Yeah, they got a couple issues, yeah, but
- 1:19:12Speaker 5: all in all, like I love English bulldogs. My buddies
- 1:19:15Speaker 5: would have would have them when I was growing up,
- 1:19:17Speaker 5: and I would go to their house and I love
- 1:19:18Speaker 5: playing with them. And then Rob Rob Deer Deck on
- 1:19:21Speaker 5: the Fantasy Factor and everything when they had that dog
- 1:19:23Speaker 5: and it was skateboard and everything else. I just always
- 1:19:25Speaker 5: thought it was the fucking coolest. Uh my Tier one
- 1:19:29Speaker 5: pit bulls, I know it's I know you love pits
- 1:19:32Speaker 5: as well. I think pit bulls are fucking awesome. Yeah,
- 1:19:39Speaker 5: I used to have. I used to have a pit
- 1:19:41Speaker 5: named Boogie. I named I made my dog Boogie after
- 1:19:44Speaker 5: Levonte David. Levonte David's nickname in college was Boogie little
- 1:19:48Speaker 5: Horny Boy. And so I told I told Boogie, I said,
- 1:19:51Speaker 5: when I get my first dog, it's gonna be a pit,
- 1:19:54Speaker 5: and I'm gonna name them after you. So that's my
- 1:19:56Speaker 5: story about having my pit. Then, you know my girlfriend
- 1:19:58Speaker 5: I broke up out of you know, guilt. You kind
- 1:20:00Speaker 5: of like you can have Yeah, we can, Yeah, we
- 1:20:05Speaker 5: can cut that part out. But piles dud, I think,
- 1:20:12Speaker 5: uh no, no. If you guys hear a baby, that's
- 1:20:14Speaker 5: Max's newborn.
- 1:20:16Speaker 3: She's a stud.
- 1:20:17Speaker 5: She's trying to get some time in.
- 1:20:18Speaker 3: On the pod.
- 1:20:19Speaker 5: You gotta respect respect that, but but that's my tear talk. Now,
- 1:20:25Speaker 5: what the rule is you go around the room and
- 1:20:28Speaker 5: everybody gives a one word answer on how they feel
- 1:20:30Speaker 5: like your tear talk wing kind of like a judgment thing.
- 1:20:33Speaker 4: Okay, I'll let's tell you start this diseased Jesus not
- 1:20:39Speaker 4: a fan of pits? Magnificent?
- 1:20:50Speaker 5: What would your word be? I'll go ahead and echo it,
- 1:20:53Speaker 5: swol Mitch almost you want to go, you want me
- 1:20:58Speaker 5: to go next, I'll.
- 1:20:59Speaker 3: Go all right. Tier three.
- 1:21:03Speaker 4: I'm gonna start off little curveball. You know, the only
- 1:21:08Speaker 4: dogs I've ever had are pits. My parents they own little,
- 1:21:13Speaker 4: yappy little fuckers. I love them, but I never claimed them.
- 1:21:19Speaker 4: I'm gonna start Tier three with Doberman's, and the reason
- 1:21:23Speaker 4: why is because they're excellent athletes. They're fucking terrifying, and
- 1:21:28Speaker 4: there's something about them. Every time I see a Doberman,
- 1:21:31Speaker 4: you get a little like you don't know what's gonna
- 1:21:33Speaker 4: kill me? Is he gonna kill me?
- 1:21:34Speaker 3: Or is he like?
- 1:21:35Speaker 4: I want this dude by my side. So every time
- 1:21:38Speaker 4: I see a Doberman, I just have a level of
- 1:21:39Speaker 4: respect for the dog that I felt like it needed
- 1:21:42Speaker 4: to make the list because you know they're not loved
- 1:21:44Speaker 4: one enough, I feel like, and they're feared in a way,
- 1:21:47Speaker 4: but I respect them. Tier two, I'm gonna have to
- 1:21:51Speaker 4: go with rod Wilers. My teammates in college, a ton
- 1:21:55Speaker 4: of them had Rod Wiler's Cleeve Ferrell. He's got a
- 1:21:57Speaker 4: Roth Wiler, a great dog, super loyal, big ass teddy bears.
- 1:22:03Speaker 4: But if they need to get the job done, they'll
- 1:22:05Speaker 4: get the job done. So I respect the shit out
- 1:22:07Speaker 4: of them as well. But Number one unanimous decision pit bulls.
- 1:22:13Speaker 4: I got three best dogs on the planet. They're loving,
- 1:22:18Speaker 4: they're loyal as fuck, but they will take you down
- 1:22:22Speaker 4: if you cross the line. And that's the thing with them.
- 1:22:26Speaker 4: My big guy, he's an actually he's two pit bulls
- 1:22:29Speaker 4: in one.
- 1:22:30Speaker 5: But is he knows like an XL.
- 1:22:32Speaker 3: He's an XL bully, So he's a.
- 1:22:34Speaker 4: Pit and an American bulldog kit mixes. Yeah.
- 1:22:38Speaker 3: So yeah.
- 1:22:41Speaker 4: The thing with pitts bro like they're super loyal, but
- 1:22:45Speaker 4: they're big babies at the end of the day, Like
- 1:22:47Speaker 4: if they love you, they're gonna just lay out like
- 1:22:49Speaker 4: they act like they're a human in the house. And uh,
- 1:22:53Speaker 4: every time I come home, there's the response is always
- 1:22:56Speaker 4: the same. So I respect their consistency. I expect that
- 1:22:59Speaker 4: they got the grit and they they're dangerous enough where people,
- 1:23:02Speaker 4: you know, have a little bit of fear when they
- 1:23:04Speaker 4: try to cross the line, but they'll always be there
- 1:23:07Speaker 4: for you. So big shout out to pipples all around
- 1:23:09Speaker 4: the world. Gritty Yes, I love that. JPO. Yeah dominant
- 1:23:22Speaker 4: from JP Mitch tough Alpha. Just speaking of dude, I
- 1:23:27Speaker 4: wish the camera can catch that.
- 1:23:29Speaker 5: Look at that man.
- 1:23:30Speaker 3: You sure rob this place and come here, dirt, dirt,
- 1:23:34Speaker 3: dirt here, all right.
- 1:23:36Speaker 4: Here he comes. That was the most Dan Campbell for
- 1:23:39Speaker 4: answers I've ever heard of my life. Yeah, grit, tough,
- 1:23:44Speaker 4: chevy t.
- 1:23:46Speaker 3: Should you said, Dan Campbell, we could have said, all right,
- 1:23:54Speaker 3: my tier talk.
- 1:23:58Speaker 4: Bro.
- 1:23:59Speaker 3: He just walks loud.
- 1:24:00Speaker 4: He's heavy.
- 1:24:02Speaker 2: Yeah, all three of my tiers are pitbulls. Okay, let's
- 1:24:07Speaker 2: see my tier three. I grew up on a ranch
- 1:24:10Speaker 2: in Arizona. Every cowboy had this dog, and it was
- 1:24:14Speaker 2: the Blue Healer.
- 1:24:15Speaker 3: Those dogs would work cows, they'd work with horses, they'd
- 1:24:18Speaker 3: work with sheep. They do the job that need to
- 1:24:20Speaker 3: get done.
- 1:24:21Speaker 2: The reason why they're not higher on my list is
- 1:24:23Speaker 2: because they are rambunctious, energetic, and if they're not trained properly,
- 1:24:28Speaker 2: they will absolutely ankle by any visitor at all times.
- 1:24:32Speaker 2: I love the way they look, I love the way
- 1:24:34Speaker 2: they get after it, and they're hard working, just like
- 1:24:36Speaker 2: the Chevy Silverado, and that's why they must be in
- 1:24:39Speaker 2: my list.
- 1:24:39Speaker 3: I love that. That is my tier three. Taylor.
- 1:24:42Speaker 4: I want to cut you off, but those blue heelers
- 1:24:44Speaker 4: look very similar to like German shepherds, but they're kind
- 1:24:46Speaker 4: of smaller right.
- 1:24:48Speaker 5: Completely getting the business like.
- 1:24:51Speaker 3: They're shorter haired.
- 1:24:54Speaker 2: It's hard to explain, like any movie you've seen with
- 1:24:57Speaker 2: a cowboy. Yeah, extremely smart and we'll go all day
- 1:25:02Speaker 2: like they will go and work all day for you.
- 1:25:04Speaker 2: But if you want to own one, you got to
- 1:25:05Speaker 2: like you gotta have some wide open spaces from the run.
- 1:25:08Speaker 3: My tier two. This dog would have never made my
- 1:25:12Speaker 3: list until I met my wife. She has this dog.
- 1:25:15Speaker 2: I think I didn't know what to think about. I
- 1:25:17Speaker 2: thought they were beautiful and majestic. I thought seeing her
- 1:25:18Speaker 2: like up in the mountains with the snow, I'm like, Wow,
- 1:25:20Speaker 2: what a beautiful dog. But I don't think I'll ever
- 1:25:22Speaker 2: own this one.
- 1:25:23Speaker 3: This dog is going to be the husky Siberian husky.
- 1:25:28Speaker 3: They shed like shit.
- 1:25:29Speaker 2: But my wife's dog, Akira does getting pets from hers
- 1:25:34Speaker 2: like pickles on a sandwich. She'll take them or leave them,
- 1:25:36Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter to her. She hangs out, she
- 1:25:39Speaker 2: does her things. She's the most low maintenance dog in
- 1:25:41Speaker 2: the world. And it's completely changed my views on huskies.
- 1:25:43Speaker 2: I think they're an incredible species of animal, extremely smart
- 1:25:47Speaker 2: and very vocal.
- 1:25:48Speaker 3: And my tier one goes out to.
- 1:25:56Speaker 2: The greatest dog you could possibly get. When you go
- 1:26:01Speaker 2: down to a humane society and you look around those
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: little crates and gates and you see dogs staring at you,
- 1:26:09Speaker 2: it's not just one type of dog, it's a whole
- 1:26:11Speaker 2: bunch of types of dogs. And when you take a
- 1:26:13Speaker 2: cocktail combination of animals and you put them together, most
- 1:26:17Speaker 2: of the time you're gonna get the best combo possible.
- 1:26:20Speaker 2: So my tier one is the mutt, the mix of all.
- 1:26:24Speaker 3: Those animals you put them together.
- 1:26:25Speaker 2: They look funny most of the time, they are funny
- 1:26:28Speaker 2: most of the time, and they usually have the best personalities.
- 1:26:31Speaker 3: So the mutt, those pound puppies are my tier one.
- 1:26:39Speaker 3: Sure unique.
- 1:26:47Speaker 6: Politically political, yeah, own the number one.
- 1:27:04Speaker 3: The gods here, why not him in there. I had
- 1:27:11Speaker 3: him in there, but he's right.
- 1:27:14Speaker 2: That's why I got a little up in arms as
- 1:27:16Speaker 2: I thought, damn, I'm gonna get.
- 1:27:17Speaker 3: I don't think I'm ready to take this right now.
- 1:27:19Speaker 3: I'm not ready to take these hands on the internet.
- 1:27:21Speaker 3: But I do love the Chihuahua. I think the chiuala
- 1:27:25Speaker 3: is fucking hilarious.
- 1:27:26Speaker 2: When I was a little kid and I would see
- 1:27:29Speaker 2: the Taiaro top of bell dogs ripping around the little
- 1:27:31Speaker 2: short haired brown colors, I would say to myself, someday,
- 1:27:34Speaker 2: I'm gonna have this dog and I would have little
- 1:27:37Speaker 2: matching outfits, gonna be cool little glasses, little chill boys
- 1:27:40Speaker 2: hanging out. Now, I have a stipulation for these dogs
- 1:27:43Speaker 2: that I'm going to get some day. I will own
- 1:27:44Speaker 2: a chiuaba someday. I have to make sure that I got.
- 1:27:47Speaker 3: This has got to be.
- 1:27:48Speaker 2: Anomaly of uava. It can't bark and it can't bite.
- 1:27:52Speaker 2: Other than that, dude, they're chill boys and they're outstanding.
- 1:27:55Speaker 2: Maybe you should boy's gonna have a muscle.
- 1:28:00Speaker 4: I'm not gonna stereotype, but every Chua I've met is
- 1:28:04Speaker 4: the meanest fucking dog I've ever met.
- 1:28:05Speaker 3: Number two and dog attacks.
- 1:28:08Speaker 2: Chua is the breaking number two amongst all dogs and attacks.
- 1:28:12Speaker 3: Wow, that's you want to do your one word?
- 1:28:17Speaker 5: No, no, If you were gonna have chiuaa, I was
- 1:28:20Speaker 5: gonna have a high maintenance.
- 1:28:25Speaker 3: This sus I know who I am. Anyways, Yeah, well,
- 1:28:34Speaker 3: boys and girls, that is when I went to in
- 1:28:36Speaker 3: the episode.
- 1:28:36Speaker 5: Yeah, shout out to what we got for Maxie. I
- 1:28:39Speaker 5: don't think so were you guys listened throughout the episode
- 1:28:41Speaker 5: and was intrigued to get a question out or go
- 1:28:43Speaker 5: any further into anything. He was saying, Mitch loves ball,
- 1:28:48Speaker 5: So I'm kind of looking at me and I feel
- 1:28:49Speaker 5: like he's like, was getting a boner over there listening
- 1:28:51Speaker 5: you talk about fucking work, ethic and ship. Our ESPN
- 1:29:07Speaker 5: reporter Mitch wants to know what Davante Adams brings to
- 1:29:11Speaker 5: a team.
- 1:29:12Speaker 4: Davante Adams the thing with him, like I've been you
- 1:29:18Speaker 4: know you were you were there with the whole ab saga.
- 1:29:21Speaker 4: Well you you came after it was that same year.
- 1:29:24Speaker 4: It was that same year.
- 1:29:26Speaker 3: So that was the first superstar receiver I ever dealt with.
- 1:29:29Speaker 4: So I'm like, okay, this is you know you hear
- 1:29:32Speaker 4: their divas there, So I got to experience that whole thing.
- 1:29:36Speaker 4: So my first, like initial thought was like, Okay, I've
- 1:29:40Speaker 4: heard nothing but good things about Davante, like just from
- 1:29:42Speaker 4: the outside world, Like you don't hear him talking like
- 1:29:45Speaker 4: I'm the best blah blah blah, like on the outside
- 1:29:47Speaker 4: he's not. He's never been that guy. So when he
- 1:29:50Speaker 4: was coming, I was kind of I didn't know what
- 1:29:52Speaker 4: to expect. I didn't know if he was you know
- 1:29:53Speaker 4: what he was like whatever, get another a yeah, like
- 1:29:56Speaker 4: it maybe another fucking diva, Like that's not the guy
- 1:29:58Speaker 4: you want in the locker room, regardless. And the day
- 1:30:02Speaker 4: he came in there, bro, Like when I talk about
- 1:30:05Speaker 4: everything I talked about like a teammate, you want to
- 1:30:07Speaker 4: dude who fucking practices the right way, fucking trains the
- 1:30:09Speaker 4: right way every single day. He's that guy, bro. And
- 1:30:13Speaker 4: he's one of the most humble dudes but extremely confident
- 1:30:17Speaker 4: at the same time. He's not arrogant, he's not that,
- 1:30:20Speaker 4: but he knows who he is, you know what I mean.
- 1:30:22Speaker 4: And that's the level of confidence that a lot of
- 1:30:24Speaker 4: guys can't get to. Because when you talk about Devontae
- 1:30:27Speaker 4: Adams Emilia, oh, he's best saleper in the league, Like
- 1:30:29Speaker 4: he's always in that conversation. So he's just a great teammate, BRO,
- 1:30:34Speaker 4: and he's awesome, like just being around him. I fucking
- 1:30:36Speaker 4: love Davante like he I don't know, I don't know
- 1:30:39Speaker 4: how to explain it. Bro, He's unique. He's super fucking smart.
- 1:30:42Speaker 4: Like he's just a different type of dude. And you
- 1:30:44Speaker 4: could tell, like there's a reason why he's different, you
- 1:30:48Speaker 4: know what I mean, just the way he plays. Bro,
- 1:30:49Speaker 4: he has no fear, he knows he's the guy, and
- 1:30:52Speaker 4: like he loves football. And that's that's really all you
- 1:30:55Speaker 4: can say about him.
- 1:30:56Speaker 6: Bro.
- 1:30:56Speaker 3: He's I can go on and on, but he's a
- 1:30:58Speaker 3: he's a great teammate.
- 1:30:59Speaker 4: BRO. Love him to death.
- 1:31:00Speaker 3: And I've only known him for a year. Bro, I
- 1:31:02Speaker 3: fucking I talked to him all the time.
- 1:31:04Speaker 4: Like it's not like you know in most locker rooms,
- 1:31:06Speaker 4: like sometimes you just talk to your D line guys
- 1:31:08Speaker 4: and stuff like that. Like Devanta is one of those guys.
- 1:31:10Speaker 4: Like he's one of my one of the best teammates
- 1:31:12Speaker 4: on the team. I talked to him all the time.
- 1:31:13Speaker 4: He's a captain. He's just h Yeah, he's a total package. Yeah,
- 1:31:18Speaker 4: he's a stuff. Bro.
- 1:31:19Speaker 5: I love that dude, he's a stud. Good question, good work.
- 1:31:26Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we're always looking to improve, yeah, improve, yeah yeah.
- 1:31:40Speaker 5: If you can hear that in the background right now,
- 1:31:42Speaker 5: Dirk is chugging.
- 1:31:43Speaker 3: Yes, he's getting after it. Dude. On that, I totally
- 1:31:48Speaker 3: forgot what the like has a rookie? What was that
- 1:31:51Speaker 3: experience like for you?
- 1:31:54Speaker 5: Was it as bad as it was wild?
- 1:31:57Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, Like I don't know how to explain it.
- 1:32:00Speaker 4: So when I when I first came in Boom, I
- 1:32:03Speaker 4: got jibted by the Raiders. We signed like we had
- 1:32:07Speaker 4: signed ab Ritchie Vontes, berfect, like we like every big
- 1:32:14Speaker 4: like you think about the craziest motherfucker. They were all
- 1:32:17Speaker 4: on our team. So I didn't know what to expect.
- 1:32:20Speaker 4: The AB shit like Ab is a person. Like if
- 1:32:22Speaker 4: you if AB sat here with us right now and
- 1:32:25Speaker 4: you genuinely like it's just us in the room, no cameras, nothing, you.
- 1:32:28Speaker 3: Would love a B. He would love a B. He'd
- 1:32:31Speaker 3: be like, he's down the earth. He's a great dude.
- 1:32:33Speaker 4: But the second he left the building, bro, you didn't
- 1:32:35Speaker 4: know what the fuck was about to happen. It was
- 1:32:36Speaker 4: every day bro, he would go, what's up?
- 1:32:38Speaker 7: Man?
- 1:32:39Speaker 3: Hey man?
- 1:32:39Speaker 4: What up man bo Eastern Michigan blah blah blah. I played,
- 1:32:42Speaker 4: you know, you played at Central, Like that was like
- 1:32:44Speaker 4: my end with him. That's a rookie. I'm like, oh,
- 1:32:46Speaker 4: it be cool with that motherfucker.
- 1:32:47Speaker 3: And so we're cool.
- 1:32:48Speaker 4: But like you would go home and all of a
- 1:32:50Speaker 4: sudden there's something on Instagram and then like as a
- 1:32:54Speaker 4: shit started getting crazy because he came in, he burned
- 1:32:57Speaker 4: his feet off, and then he had the helmet shit.
- 1:33:00Speaker 4: So he was never practicing. He never was around the
- 1:33:02Speaker 4: off season. We're like, what the fuck is going on?
- 1:33:04Speaker 4: He would show up here and there, but.
- 1:33:05Speaker 5: Like and when you be with like a camera crew
- 1:33:07Speaker 5: and ship, like, oh, he would bring a posse with
- 1:33:09Speaker 5: him everywhere in the facility. It was not a it
- 1:33:14Speaker 5: was kind of like a high schoolish like you had
- 1:33:15Speaker 5: some aisles, but not a lot of room in the in.
- 1:33:17Speaker 4: The locker room, bro, Like he had his own posse.
- 1:33:20Speaker 3: So it was like in the weight room he had
- 1:33:22Speaker 3: his own trainers come. So it was just a lot.
- 1:33:24Speaker 5: Bro.
- 1:33:25Speaker 4: But you would never like if you just sat there
- 1:33:29Speaker 4: like he can he really is, like he's not I
- 1:33:32Speaker 4: don't I don't know. He's got he's got his own
- 1:33:35Speaker 4: ship he's got to deal with, you know what I mean,
- 1:33:36Speaker 4: there's a lot of ship that's going on. But like
- 1:33:38Speaker 4: my experience one on one with him outside of the media,
- 1:33:41Speaker 4: outside of that ship, like he was cool as fuck,
- 1:33:44Speaker 4: but I don't know, he's got a lot of shit
- 1:33:45Speaker 4: going on. But like Vontes, like Vante, you would think
- 1:33:49Speaker 4: about Vonte's birth, You're like, oh my god, that's a
- 1:33:52Speaker 4: fucking murderer. Right, he is the fucking coolest dude, bro, Like,
- 1:33:56Speaker 4: coolest ship. He came right up to me. Was like
- 1:33:58Speaker 4: at first, I was terrify. I'm like, okay, this vontet perfect.
- 1:34:01Speaker 4: That's a bad motherfucker. Like yeah, I'm you know, I'm
- 1:34:04Speaker 4: gonna try to earn that respect. Like I didn't even
- 1:34:06Speaker 4: know how to talk to him.
- 1:34:07Speaker 3: At first.
- 1:34:08Speaker 4: He was cool as shit, great leader, like great dude
- 1:34:11Speaker 4: in the locker room, like everyone fucked with him, and
- 1:34:13Speaker 4: he was a real leader.
- 1:34:15Speaker 3: He was dope.
- 1:34:16Speaker 4: And then Richie's the same thing, Like obviously Richie's had
- 1:34:18Speaker 4: his shit too, Like he's gone through a lot of shit,
- 1:34:20Speaker 4: but Richie's a fucking great teammate. So yeah, my whole
- 1:34:23Speaker 4: experience with everybody, like he would think from the outside,
- 1:34:26Speaker 4: it was like oh my god. But like inside the building,
- 1:34:29Speaker 4: like Ab was gone before the season, like we were
- 1:34:31Speaker 4: just waiting, like we're like, okay, is Abe even gonna play?
- 1:34:34Speaker 4: Like there was something after There's just always something, And
- 1:34:37Speaker 4: then he leaked like Gruden's call on the fucking Instagram.
- 1:34:41Speaker 3: Bro.
- 1:34:41Speaker 4: Literally after he came up and talked to the whole team.
- 1:34:44Speaker 4: He came up, Bro, all the captains went up there.
- 1:34:47Speaker 4: Ab walked up on the stage. He apologized. We're like
- 1:34:49Speaker 4: all right, bet so we're like okay, he's about to play,
- 1:34:53Speaker 4: Like fuck yeah, AB's on board now, so everyone's excited.
- 1:34:56Speaker 5: Bro.
- 1:34:57Speaker 4: That night he posted the shit with Gruden and how
- 1:35:00Speaker 4: you know is fucking wild.
- 1:35:03Speaker 5: The same day, me and Clear take like what you.
- 1:35:08Speaker 3: Literally just talking about this ship. He's like I'm doing
- 1:35:11Speaker 3: with the games man.
- 1:35:12Speaker 4: I apologize and was like, oh fuck it, bro, Like
- 1:35:14Speaker 4: we get it, Like everybody goes through shiit, so like
- 1:35:16Speaker 4: I'm that's from my personal bro.
- 1:35:19Speaker 3: I always give people the benefit of the doubt.
- 1:35:20Speaker 4: So like I it's a b bro, Like fuck it,
- 1:35:22Speaker 4: he's going through his ship, but like he wants to
- 1:35:24Speaker 4: play everything seen one hundred percent genuine boom boom boom,
- 1:35:28Speaker 4: literally that night he puts on Instagram like the whole
- 1:35:31Speaker 4: Grooden ship every and just like I'm like what. And
- 1:35:35Speaker 4: then by the next morning he was cut being clear
- 1:35:37Speaker 4: in the building. Mayo's walking up through the hallway with
- 1:35:41Speaker 4: a smile because may I had to deal with all
- 1:35:43Speaker 4: the ship and may I really wanted him to be
- 1:35:45Speaker 4: a part of it. Gruden, They fucking they wanted to
- 1:35:47Speaker 4: love him, but like there was more to it, you
- 1:35:48Speaker 4: know what I mean, he was going I don't know
- 1:35:50Speaker 4: what he was going through, but like, and I pray
- 1:35:52Speaker 4: for dudes like that. I don't know what he's going,
- 1:35:54Speaker 4: what's got, what he's got going on upstairs, Like it's tough.
- 1:35:57Speaker 4: But yeah, like people were like it was like brought
- 1:36:00Speaker 4: the fresh air, bro. It was something every single day,
- 1:36:03Speaker 4: and he was supposed to be our franchise guy, like
- 1:36:05Speaker 4: we're bringing a b to fucking Lass Babs.
- 1:36:07Speaker 3: Like the best, bro, the best. He was so fu cold.
- 1:36:11Speaker 3: I'm like he's my team, bro, He's the coldest.
- 1:36:13Speaker 5: And they said, like when he's out on the Price
- 1:36:15Speaker 5: Beld like that motherfucker is running all day long, running
- 1:36:18Speaker 5: I'm trying to do extra after Like it's just it
- 1:36:21Speaker 5: seems just seems like a bizarre.
- 1:36:23Speaker 3: I've never seen anything like. Was there ever a weird
- 1:36:25Speaker 3: dynamic between Vonte'.
- 1:36:27Speaker 4: And a B not at all?
- 1:36:29Speaker 3: Really boys.
- 1:36:31Speaker 4: Because he executed go To it's like a hit. That's
- 1:36:37Speaker 4: what people say, Yeah, like, oh he got CT from that.
- 1:36:40Speaker 4: You know everyone, That's what they're saying, like, yeah, yeah, everybody.
- 1:36:42Speaker 4: They must sucking up, bro when they came in the
- 1:36:44Speaker 4: fucking locker room. But everybody was. Everybody was cool as
- 1:36:47Speaker 4: ship like. Vontez and him were boy like. It was no,
- 1:36:50Speaker 4: there was no friction at all. Richie and Ab were
- 1:36:52Speaker 4: boys like it was when we were all just together
- 1:36:55Speaker 4: as boy like as teammates.
- 1:36:57Speaker 3: There was no issues.
- 1:36:58Speaker 4: But it's just there was a bunch of ship going
- 1:37:00Speaker 4: on and the outside and it's just you look back,
- 1:37:03Speaker 4: you're like, damn, what if. But you never know.
- 1:37:07Speaker 3: It's crazy.
- 1:37:07Speaker 4: But like we've had a B, we're kind of had
- 1:37:09Speaker 4: a B and now we have Devanta, Like we've had
- 1:37:12Speaker 4: some guys come in. It's just some cats, crazy.
- 1:37:15Speaker 3: Some dudes.
- 1:37:16Speaker 5: Dude. We appreciate you, man, this has been fucking phenomenal.
- 1:37:19Speaker 3: It has been a phenomenal episode.
- 1:37:21Speaker 4: Yes, I've had a blast. I'm glad you guys got
- 1:37:22Speaker 4: to come to the crib, meet the dogs, the whole shabam.
- 1:37:27Speaker 3: It was amazing.
- 1:37:29Speaker 4: Some wing stops, some pizza, yeah, wings stop, water, the boys,
- 1:37:34Speaker 4: you know, intimidating pulling.
- 1:37:37Speaker 2: Up and seeing what you got sitting outside you like that. Yeah,
- 1:37:39Speaker 2: it was nice, it was all It seemed like it
- 1:37:42Speaker 2: was perfectly for that.
- 1:37:44Speaker 5: He's like, all the boys are coming. Hold on, that's
- 1:37:49Speaker 5: perfect an episode of MTV crib bro. It really was. Yeah,
- 1:37:53Speaker 5: you've earned it and you're wearing the chain.
- 1:37:56Speaker 3: Look at the wrists, both.
- 1:37:57Speaker 4: Of them something something.
- 1:38:00Speaker 3: How many are you going to you to do a
- 1:38:02Speaker 3: full bodysuit tattoo? What are we talking about here?
- 1:38:05Speaker 4: I want to get my chest, my upper back, and
- 1:38:08Speaker 4: my like, I want to get my whole like Torso done.
- 1:38:11Speaker 3: This off season. Oh yeah, my guy is moving to Vegas.
- 1:38:13Speaker 4: He's from Boston, so like I usually only get to
- 1:38:15Speaker 4: see him like once an off season and we just
- 1:38:18Speaker 4: knocked ship out. But he's moving here in March, so
- 1:38:21Speaker 4: we might get some uh some action.
- 1:38:22Speaker 5: Yeah, get it right.
- 1:38:23Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm trying to get like you you got all
- 1:38:25Speaker 4: types of ship. We're covered up a little bit.
- 1:38:26Speaker 3: I guess I got work to do still, yeah, just
- 1:38:28Speaker 3: work out there. Yeah, my legs, my legs. I haven't
- 1:38:31Speaker 3: even got back to him.
- 1:38:32Speaker 5: You have to see his chest. He's got a cool
- 1:38:34Speaker 5: little dog there.
- 1:38:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm starting to get I'm starting to have most
- 1:38:38Speaker 2: of my torso done. I needed there's a couple of
- 1:38:40Speaker 2: pieces right here by my whole back done. I need
- 1:38:43Speaker 2: to get like a couple of places. It's not important,
- 1:38:45Speaker 2: but I'm gonna get it.
- 1:38:46Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you. It's gonna be a big.
- 1:38:50Speaker 5: Hello.
- 1:38:52Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much.
- 1:38:52Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, please like subscribe, unsubscribed, resubscribe, hit that merch.
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- 1:39:00Speaker 3: It's overboughts.
- 1:39:01Speaker 5: So that's like, yeah, that's the only thing. As you're saying,
- 1:39:05Speaker 5: you're like, yeah, by the time this comes out, it's
- 1:39:07Speaker 5: gonna be overwheling.
- 1:39:08Speaker 4: No.
- 1:39:08Speaker 2: No, this last time I did a couple of days ago,
- 1:39:10Speaker 2: I didn't. Yeah, but big hugs, tiny kisses,