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Marshall McFadden: From NFL Linebacker To NASCAR Jackman | Stephanie Otey Reports · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Marshall, great to see you here. We're down in the pits.
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  This is where I feel most comfortable with the football
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  connection. And I usually like to guess
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  which position each pit crew guy played in football.
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  But we did kind of give it away. You know James Leronitas, I'm
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  just coach on Ohio State. Yeah, big time guy, Great guy.
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  By the way, shout out to James. Obviously when I played with the
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  Rams, he was one of the mentors, one of the Ogs there.
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  So, you know, small world, right?
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  And I understand why you like being in the pit this way, that
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  this way the athletes are. We so we were, yeah, we were
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  talking about that last time. Like save it.
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  I want to, I want to talk to you down to the pits on camera, but
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  what do you need to be successful here?
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  I mean, everyone is an athlete, but I've seen scouts there for
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  pit crew at pro days. So what are they looking for?
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  Well, you talking about doing the impossible tasks We're
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  trying to change 4 tires, full tank of field.
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  We try to do that in eight seconds.
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  And how you do that, you go get the top notch athletes, but not
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  only get out top notch athlete, but you got to have IQ as well.
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  Yeah, by me being a Jackman, I'm like the quarterback so that it
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  can't it starts with me and it ends with me.
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  So just having the IQ and understanding when the car
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  should come up and when it should come down, making sure
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  everybody doing their job fast, but make sure they do it
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  precisely. And if you're able to do that
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  with your five team, with your chemistry, you'll be successful
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  in the pits. So what's the key to good
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  communication? I mean it's like 9 seconds of
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  what you guys are doing down here in your training all year
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  round for those 9 seconds each each week.
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  So what's the key to communication?
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  Just it ain't the key to communication, but repetition,
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  doing it over and over and over so when like my changes, I don't
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  have to hear or I don't have to see, but I can hear by doing it
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  over and over, I know the sound of it and understanding,
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  understanding the. Sound and if it sound right that
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  mean we right and we moving. Out of.
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  What is that sound? It ain't a click A a bud a.
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  Bud or room? Room What?
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  What? What's the sound that makes
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  them? Feel right so it's kind of hard
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  to explain because it's the nature of a gun so whatever gun
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  they. Have it make a different type of
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  sound, whether if it's on, whether if it's off, whether if
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  it's tight, whether if it's not. So me understanding.
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  That because I got to understand it because if I drop the Jack
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  and if it's not on. That's how.
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  You can go flying on pit. Road then we go get suspended
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  for a couple weeks, so a lot. Of it lays in our hands.
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  Yeah, it's pretty technical. I was wondering if there's any
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  code words you guys are using Like you know, like you said,
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  you're the quarterback, are you like any play calls you're
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  calling? Now we just got to we just got
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  to execute whatever the crew chiefs tell us.
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  So the crew chiefs be on top of the box and whenever the car
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  come in he say he want XY and Z and we complete that to the team
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  all. Right.
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  Well, if we were to do it like right now on the fly, if we were
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  going to do a quarterback play call in the pits, what would it
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  be like A 642 zoom zoom set tire like what's?
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  The if you if we had an emergency stop, he was like we
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  coming in fellows, 4 tires and fuel and with these guys that we
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  all miked up. So you'll see everybody moving
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  at 100 mph, wait for that guy to come in and do a pit stop.
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  But we all miked up during the race.
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  So whenever he made that call, all of us ready and into.
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  I love when they're miked up out on the field, but here in the
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  pits, who's the most vocal? Who?
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  I mean, it's pretty serious out on the track, but I mean, you
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  guys, I, I mean, you guys are laughing back here behind the
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  scenes. So who?
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  What's your radio? Like our group is very, very,
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  very vocal. We probably one of the most
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  vocal teams on Pit Rd. either you'll see we probably one of
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  the only teams that throw the football around.
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  You have to because we're comfortable.
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  But when it comes to the most vocal person, it's definitely
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  Austin Holloman. We can't get that guy to shut up
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  down the radio. That's.
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  Great though. And I hear so let's say there's
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  feelings you guys do this year round.
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  I feel like there's so much people don't know about pit
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  crew. You guys are full time and then
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  you have alternates as well, right?
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  Absolutely. OK, so you you what did you do
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  to get into this position? Like are you part time and so
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  you can work your way into full time?
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  Like what makes you guys the elite?
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  Team well, a lot of guys come in, they have to be on the
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  developments card because it's not an easy task.
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  So it's something you have to grasp, something you have to
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  work out and if you put in the work, eventually you'll get an
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  opportunity. Just like any sports, you have
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  injuries, you have guys that age out, you have you know, specific
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  stuff that happens in it and a person to get the opportunity
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  and use the people that are ready for that opportunity.
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  They take advantage of it and they say, you know, nice them
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  and waiting for the next group to come in.
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  If you guys, we're going to to keep doing some football
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  connections here. But I was just thinking and I'm
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  going to, I wonder if you agree, if you guys were any position on
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  the field, I would lean online where you're doing a lot of The
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  Dirty work and you're you guys can't move without you, but not
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  getting all the praise. Why are there more reporters
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  talking to pit crew? But you guys are doing The Dirty
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  work. You're the athletes on the
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  field, the track. Well, I think for a long time
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  you didn't have this. You didn't have these type of
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  pit crews. A lot of the pit crew guys were,
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  yeah, there was mechanics. But now you start to see these
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  big time athletes come in and pit crew.
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  Now you're starting to more like you reported me.
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  So each week you're starting to see more and more people like
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  understanding about the pit crew.
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  I just got all Draymond Green podcast last week and we was
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  talking about the same thing. Yeah, actually a video just went
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  viral with ESPN and Bleacher Report with me on it being a pit
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  crew guy. So now that you're having all
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  these athletes, you're starting to see more and more and we're
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  starting to get a little praise. I don't think we'll ever have
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  much praise as the drivers, but people are starting to
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  understand who we are though. I'll be, I'll be on a mission.
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  We are going to be interviewing pit crew every single week as of
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  now, and you guys are the Facey ones on the track, like, OK, so
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  does is there a difference with each driver you work with?
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  Have you ever get nitty gritty with me?
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  Are there some that are a little bit of a headache, some that are
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  easier? Like, is there a certain guy
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  that the whole pit crew is like, yeah, we want, we want a pit for
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  him. I just think when you're
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  assigned to a team, you're going to go to war with that guy.
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  I don't think you look at it. I don't think you look at it any
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  other. I don't want to pit with that
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  guy. Hey, this this the guy who I'm a
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  pit for, and you know I'm going to go to war, which you win,
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  lose a draw. We had to fight.
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  We had to fight to the green flag at the end.
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  What if there was like a draft and then you can make trades?
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  I mean, you you guys are with track house, but you're here
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  with colleague this week. So is this a trade deal or you
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  guys like how does it work? Can you can you like switch in
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  and do a trade for a guy on another team that you want?
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  Or what's the relationship with other pit crews?
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  So once we assign for us being at track house, obviously track
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  house is unemployed, but we contracted out with colleague.
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  But once we sign to that deal, we with colleague for the rest
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  of the year. So for this year we strictly
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  with AJ. So AJ my guy, I'm going to war
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  for me this year and me wanting to pit with anybody else, I'm a
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  pleaded 5th on that. We almost got you there.
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  Almost got him. Well, Marshall, thank you so, so
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  much. This was very enlightening,
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  exciting and the fun. Time is in the pits.
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  I got a football and everything. I feel right at home with you
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  guys.