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Nate Burleson: How he found his CBS Mornings swag, cold weather playoff games, return of the season recap rap · NFL explained.

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  Speaker 1: Welcome on in today it's Off Edge the podcast and
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  Speaker 1: me your host Cam Jordan, and I say welcome on
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: it because I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: Not only it's like week one coming up.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Not only are we done with training camp, We're not
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: looking behind, we look in the head and talking about ahead.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: I've got a great guy to come talk football with me. ALLEI, football,
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: a little pop culture, a little bit of everything. I've
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: got nothing but an extreme respect for this this man,
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  Speaker 1: this myth, this legend who's taking football to a whole
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: another meaning beyond the grid iron, from his playing days
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: to being an analyst, to being colored commentary to hosting
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: a TV show to you know, hosting what.
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  Speaker 2: Extra for a little bit.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what you haven't touched, Nate
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Burrow said, you know, just just appreciate you spent some
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: time a former All American at the University of Nevada.
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: You know, I appreciate it. I love I love doing this.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: I love doing it.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for the love, thank you for the intel.
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  Speaker 4: I feel, the energy and the vibe. I appreciate you
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  Speaker 4: having me on. You know, I'm a big fan of
• 1:08
  Speaker 4: you on and off the field, so it's only right.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: I pull up, No doubt, look very familiar, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just feels extended family everywhere I see you, and I'm like,
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: how's how's my.
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  Speaker 2: Channel worth doing?
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, No doubt White, she went
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  Speaker 4: to Channel in high school. She's always representing Arizona everywhere
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  Speaker 4: she go to run.
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  Speaker 3: A joke in the house is I know Mom, I know, Mom,
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  Speaker 3: Arizona does it better. She truly does feel that way.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, It's true, nobody, absolutely, I see town's finest. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's a few of us that got out and we
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  Speaker 1: hold us down, you know, back home properly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, y'all do y'all represent y'all well.
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  Speaker 4: Before we get to anything, I have to say this,
• 1:50
  Speaker 4: and I gotta say it on camp because I appreciate
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  Speaker 4: you for it. I reached out to you because my
• 1:54
  Speaker 4: son switched positions from tight end to d N and
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  Speaker 4: I was like, Yo, I need some pointers and he's
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  Speaker 4: trying to learn the position. And just like you do,
• 2:03
  Speaker 4: always willing to help somebody, you reached out, reached back
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  Speaker 4: out right away. You gave some notes, some tips, some nuggets,
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  Speaker 4: and then you said some clips. You were like, have
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  Speaker 4: them look at these clips and anything else you need
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  Speaker 4: holler at me.
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  Speaker 3: I sent that right to them. So I just want
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  Speaker 3: to say I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, in this brotherhood there's people that live by it
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  Speaker 4: and ride by it, and they really truly do act
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  Speaker 4: like brothers. So I appreciate you showing up for my
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  Speaker 4: family like it's your family.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, look, if if I got access, if my son
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  Speaker 1: ever wants to be like a wide receiver, I know
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  Speaker 1: exactly you mar Jo's keithon Ally, if I need a quarterback, Jared.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm using it.
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  Speaker 4: Like if we work this hard not to have the connection,
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  Speaker 4: you ain't everybody else does. So I'm not gonna be
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  Speaker 4: shy about it. I'm gonna set my ego aside. I'm
• 2:49
  Speaker 4: gonna reach out.
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  Speaker 3: To my brethren.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, not that you need them with your with
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  Speaker 1: your resume, I mean you probably you probably played a
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  Speaker 1: little safety back in the little corner man.
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  Speaker 4: I'm all state cornerback and wide receiver, so on both
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  Speaker 4: sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean. That's now.
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  Speaker 4: I was the knucklehead when I caught the ball and
• 3:03
  Speaker 4: never wanted to go out of bounds because I kind
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  Speaker 4: of lightweight, wanted to smoke. I wanted to hit until
• 3:07
  Speaker 4: I got a little bit too old, and then hits
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  Speaker 4: started to slow me down.
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  Speaker 3: You remember when when you were young and we.
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  Speaker 4: Were invincible, You remember that, Like, listen, I still feel
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  Speaker 4: that way. I know you do, and I try. I'm
• 3:19
  Speaker 4: not trying to say you old. I'm saying you're older.
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  Speaker 4: But the mindset at least now you're hyper aware of
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  Speaker 4: your body and you know.
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  Speaker 3: Like what is going to keep you on the field
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: and what can take you out.
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  Speaker 4: When we first got in the game, bro, it didn't
• 3:32
  Speaker 4: matter what they threw my way. I'm like, I'm bouncing back.
• 3:34
  Speaker 4: They're like, now you're gonna be out four weeks. I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: I'll be back here for days. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Right? No?
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  Speaker 1: No, see see with science as it is now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the now.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I've still only missed two games in my entire year.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: You're you're an anomaly though, You're you're an outlier when
• 3:54
  Speaker 4: it comes to the rest of us.
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  Speaker 1: So what so if you played defense in high school,
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  Speaker 1: what made you toward turned towards just being a pure
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: bride receiver covering out eleven year eleven year NFL career.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, listen.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't mind playing cornerback, but there was something about
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  Speaker 4: the position of wide receiver where I felt like I
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  Speaker 4: had more opportunities to be the hero, and at cornerback
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  Speaker 4: you have more opportunities to be the villain because even
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  Speaker 4: if you make player after player at the play.
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  Speaker 3: You give up that big one. People are on your neck.
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  Speaker 4: And for me, as a young kid, I was fifteen,
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  Speaker 4: sixteen seventeen, I was thinking about staying out of the
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  Speaker 4: headlines for the wrong reasons and being the guy they
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  Speaker 4: praised for the right reasons.
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  Speaker 3: And I remember my senior year.
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  Speaker 4: We were a running school, so I had like sixteen catches,
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  Speaker 4: but seven of them with for touchdowns. So there were
• 4:44
  Speaker 4: schools that were looking at me and they're like, we
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  Speaker 4: feel like he's a good wide receiver, we just don't
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  Speaker 4: have enough on tape. Now we know he's a good corner,
• 4:51
  Speaker 4: solid height, almost six to two. He hasn't been scored
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  Speaker 4: on all senior year. He could jump through the gym,
• 4:58
  Speaker 4: so what are we going to recruit him as? So
• 5:00
  Speaker 4: some teams came in there like, look, we'll recruit you
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  Speaker 4: as both, but we want you to play corner. And
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  Speaker 4: then Nevada out of all the teams that were recruiting me.
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  Speaker 4: They sat in my living room and I remember the
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  Speaker 4: coach was like, so.
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  Speaker 3: So, how many catches you have this year? This is
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  Speaker 3: my senior year, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing my final round of meeting with the coaches,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm like sixteen something like that.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, We'll get you that in one game, son,
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, huh.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, man, we were top five and passing this year,
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  Speaker 4: number four and passing last year.
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  Speaker 3: We throw the ball.
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  Speaker 4: I promise you if you come to Nevada, we will
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  Speaker 4: get you sixteen catches in a game.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, damn.
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  Speaker 4: So showing up three years later against San Jose, say
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  Speaker 4: that at nineteen catches.
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  Speaker 3: They threw the ball to me twenty one times.
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  Speaker 4: So they held their word because you know, once they
• 5:46
  Speaker 4: told me that, I said, oh, it's a rap. Why
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  Speaker 4: am I going anywhere else? I don't even know what
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  Speaker 4: it feels like to get the ball thrown on me
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  Speaker 4: that much.
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  Speaker 3: I need to be at Nevada.
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: Look come going from going from Seattle to Noveda.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you was.
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  Speaker 1: You was sixty five degrees year round, man, cloudy, overcast,
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  Speaker 1: luscious green, everywhere to Nevada.
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  Speaker 2: You, yeah, University of Nevada.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and where you can't breathe can't where it gets
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  Speaker 4: super hot because it's desert, and then super cold because
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  Speaker 4: the mountains are nearby. It's not like Vegas, where it's
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  Speaker 4: hot all the time. It's a little bit different. So
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  Speaker 4: I was getting used to that. You know what's that
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  Speaker 4: cold weather came around. I was like, oh, boy, if
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  Speaker 4: I ever get the chance to make it in the league,
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  Speaker 4: I hope I don't go to a cold weather location.
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  Speaker 3: And then Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: You said, just like that, I'm going third round.
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  Speaker 3: Let me.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you.
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: Let me.
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  Speaker 3: Let me. Let me go over to the borough of
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  Speaker 3: the cold Factory and the grab a shoot jackets. I'm
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: on my way, many.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know nothing about that. I don't want no
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  Speaker 1: part of cold. I don't even like my air conditioning
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  Speaker 1: hidden under seventy. That's why i'd excuse you who touched
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  Speaker 1: a thermostat.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but but how do you Okay, so how do
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  Speaker 4: you get your mind right for those cold weather games?
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  Speaker 4: Because listen, personally, personally, you don't want to live in
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  Speaker 4: cold weather, and people act like, oh, because you're a
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  Speaker 4: football player, you guys are impervious to the weather.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, hold all the time. Hold.
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  Speaker 4: Weather games are terrible, don't I don't care if it
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  Speaker 4: looks like a classic NFL Films episode.
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  Speaker 3: It's cold. So my question to you is.
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  Speaker 4: How did you prepare your mind for those whole weather
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  Speaker 4: games when you have to play outside?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I was blessed by Jesus as a chosen child.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy right now, Cam.
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  Speaker 2: It took me to bro. It took me to year
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: well to play in a snow game.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I started playing at thirteen. I was thirty two or
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: thirty three by the time I played my first snow game.
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  Speaker 2: Chose because that's what I'm saying, Bro.
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: Because of that game alone, I picked up the family
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: and I moved to Spain as soon as season was over.
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: That game happened from New Year's that happened Christmas Eve whatever?
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  Speaker 2: What was that twenty three? Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: We played the trash Cleveland, the Cleveland Browns. And when
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  Speaker 1: I tell you that frozen negative like thirty eight with
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  Speaker 1: the windshield, I went from like like just a oh
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: I played in a forty degree game. I was like, no,
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  Speaker 1: ain't cold it it could it could snow today and
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: then it's like the sun comes out, the sky clears up,
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, like I've seen that.
• 8:22
  Speaker 2: I didn't get that in Cleveland. Cleveland, it was snowing
• 8:24
  Speaker 2: when we.
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: Landed, it was snowing through and they're like, no, it's
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: going to warm up game day. I was like, okay,
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: it's going to warm up. Should be hopefully thirty.
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  Speaker 2: I can do that.
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: I'm into the COLTEB before I get into COTEB once
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: a year before the playoffs. That's the only time you'll
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: see me in the cotub with the D line because
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: of the D line. Other than that, I walk into
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: Cleveland and when I tell you, nothing prepared me for
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: that day, Like the wind ripped through whatever I was wearing,
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: touched my soul. My soul looked at myself and said,
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: are we really doing this dumb stuff? And I got angry,
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: like and I'm normally a happy, jovial menace, like I
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: want to be a minister society.
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: This took me to a whole nother place.
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  Speaker 3: This was like dark.
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: I'm speaking like Morrow, so angry. We hit Nick Chubb,
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: and Nick Chubb is a great dude. I push off
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: of them off the ground. I'm like, this is stupid.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: I'm on at Deshaun Watson. You said this was legendary.
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  Speaker 3: This is trash.
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: You lie.
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: And he's over here looking at me, like what are
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: you talking about? We said a text message, probably the
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: season before we're thinking about recruiting. I'm like, I'm like, hey, bro,
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: you might want to.
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: Check it out here, you know what I'm saying before
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: you make your move.
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: And he was like, yo, I gotta do something legendary
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: and he got to pull the guaranteed job.
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: And I was like, this ain't legendary. You're a liar.
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: I'm good for you.
• 9:34
  Speaker 4: Like it doesn't make you mad for real, Like it
• 9:37
  Speaker 4: changes your whole personality, bro, Like especially like listen, you
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: can let certain stuff slide on a weather a regular
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: weather day, like an extra shove or somebody does something
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: on a pile or go your way.
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: It's almost like I'm playing football, getting paid a ton
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: of money.
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: Whatever.
• 9:56
  Speaker 3: I'll see your next play when it's whole.
• 9:58
  Speaker 4: If somebody that's something to annoy You're like, bro, I
• 10:01
  Speaker 4: like what we want to kill you right now, but I can't.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: All the way No, No, I'm going to get my get
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: back next play bro. Like I said, I'm mushing guys
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: off the ground like this stupid like getting up like
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: and I normally would.
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: Like that person.
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt so so so are you?
• 10:17
  Speaker 4: Are you like me or at least how I was
• 10:20
  Speaker 4: a lot of dudes when we would get the lock
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: the schedule like this is when like we would get
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: it by paper in the locker room.
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: I'm dating myself, but it's oh three and like the like.
• 10:30
  Speaker 4: Hardcore like lost in the season already football players. They
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: was thinking about like specific matchups and I'm gonna face
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: this dude that I hate and I can't wait to
• 10:41
  Speaker 4: score here and all me receiver, I was.
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: Like this, Oh, oh we got Miami in December. Oh
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: we got Green Band September.
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: Okay, oh we got we got La Like it was
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  Speaker 4: for me. All I was thinking about was weather. I
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: didn't care about the defenses, the skis, the coaches, the players.
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: I went through the schedule.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, that's that's crazy, kind of cold back
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  Speaker 3: to one. That's how I feel.
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  Speaker 2: That said, that's crazy.
• 11:12
  Speaker 4: You had Green Bay Facts in Chicago, you know Chicago
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: nasty and certain.
• 11:18
  Speaker 5: Well don't I don't know.
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: I catch them early I always.
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: Did you catch them early? That's true?
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: I mean is there field trash?
• 11:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, build his trash, feel this trash, But don't you
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: rather have that or field turf?
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: I love turf.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: I'm on I'm on the fence side of I love
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: turf because the most important thing for me is my
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: get off and on grass. Guess what flies first when
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: you're really trying to get out your first grass?
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: Of what that first step be? Got slipped?
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: Like? Yeah, I like turf. There's a lot of there's
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: a yeah, not practicing it.
• 11:53
  Speaker 4: But a lot of guys they don't feel that, especially
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: out of here in New York.
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: They feel got the worst of the worst. I don't
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: really know, you know what I'm saying. I can't. I
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: came in when I had a little bit.
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: Of turf and like straight up old school carpet turf
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: at Metro Dome in Minnesota.
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: We was running.
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: It was it was a thin layer of carpet on
• 12:11
  Speaker 4: top of hardcore concrete.
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna now it hurt when you need to grab,
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: but I'm not gonna lie to you.
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: Once you got up the full speed, you are burning
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: and turning, rolling, rolling.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: I want to see your best eleven versus my best
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: eleven and then turf gives you the best chance. Grass
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: fat people like grass, office Aligneman love grass.
• 12:30
  Speaker 4: Slot like oh man, a little bigger down in there,
• 12:34
  Speaker 4: grabbing on it outside of your shoulder.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: Past, no doubt.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: The bigger corners love love grass a fact, like a
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: big corner loves one because now they can use their
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: big body and you know, lean on you and everything else.
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, but that cold weather is different.
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: How much do you think, Like I don't think Michael
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: Parsons knows what he signed up for. Like, you know,
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: you go from Dallas where you play the Giant. Sure
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: you play the command, but you're not in a Lambo shape,
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Like now you're guaranteed eight to nine games in lambo.
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: Four of those games frozen Ton. Yeah.
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: People were hitting me up, like what do you think
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: about the parcels deal? What do you think about Jerry
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: Jones letting him go? What do you think about the
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: new contract?
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: What do you think about the taxes going from Texas
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: to his cousin.
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, that's all fine and dandy. That's none
• 13:22
  Speaker 3: of my business. I'm not pocket watching. I'm thinking about
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: the weapon.
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking about him being outside of that dome and
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: being outside in the elements in Green Bay.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Listen, the first couple of months you good, even like
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: even like.
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: Late October early November, you'll get away with some chili games.
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: But really it's just like, all right, this is chili
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: game football.
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: But when you get into December, Green Bay brouh like,
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: it's different. I remember I remember one of my first
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: playoff games. There, snow's coming down. We walk into the
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: locker room. Randy Moss is sitting there, and I'm young,
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: so I'm just watching everything he do. So he put
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: on Experiens socks. I'm putting on expair socks. He put
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: on long Sleep, I put on long Sleep.
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: If he got the thicker gloves, I'm warning thicker gloves.
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: So I just do what he does.
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: And then I'm listening to everybody what they're doing. And
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: most of the guys were getting up and getting they
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: We was drinking straight chicken bro like hot steaming. You
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: can see the steam. We're trying to warm our souls up,
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: not our body, but warm our souls up. And I
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: remember I remember going out there with my shirt off
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: because I'm like, it's up, man, you know what I mean?
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: Like let's go.
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: And then I went right in because I was like,
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: I'm not built for this. Who am I trying to full?
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: Let me go, put my clothes on. And then I
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: got in there, and this was funny. This is when
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: I realized how different we really are, and like the
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: backgrounds we came from.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Cause a lot of guys were like, all.
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: Right, hey, hey, just extra pair of socks, get the
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: spandex you straight. And then it'd be like another corner
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: of people will be like, nah, man, I'm telling you,
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: get the basket lean rub dad all over your body,
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: and that right there is going to keep in the porsch.
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, I'm listening to him and the other
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: And this one I knew some folks is this country country.
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: One dude was like, hey, my.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: My, my granddaddy said, if we use this cayenne pepper
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: that I got this this powder, that we could put
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: it in our shoes and and and that way, when
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: we start to sweat, it'll open up the pores and
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: the heat from the high am outer would heat up
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: your body. I said, man, this, first of all, that
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: is a remedy from voodoo lamb.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: I'm not noning with that. I don't know if that's
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: gonna I don't want no part of that.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: But everybody had they put the put the nurses gloves
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: under your real gloves. And I'm just sitting there like,
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: as a guy who really didn't play in too many
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: cold games coming up, I'm like, Yo, this is it
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: can't be.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: It can't be that cold. We went out there, I don't.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Know Seattle cold, No, no, no doubt, Hey that wh're
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: that when to come off the little lake or whatever.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: Plus that's the fact it gets chilli, it gets chill,
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: chilly chicken.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: But it don't get frozen.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: It don't get frozen.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. It don't get frozen. I
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: remember playing a shoot I was in. I was in
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: Detroit in Philly. This is when this was when Shady
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: was there and snow was coming down crazy. It's one
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: of the craziest snow games in recent history.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: And Calvin's doing this thing.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: I get a couple of catches, we slide and got
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: like snow all in our face.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Everybody moving slow. I'm talking about slow motion, bro.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: But it's like it's like it's all that good.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: What I'm saying it was slow motion just how does
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: this sloppy ball? But everybody's on the same page. Were
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: in the halftime, Lashaan mchoy comes out. He I think
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: he rushed for like a second half record against us.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: He was hooking us, bro like, and then I was
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: so confused because he was cutting. Everybody's still sliding. He's
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: doing the same moves he doing on turn All right,
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: he dis in us up. He had to go far
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: getting crazy, bro, Yeah, he hold the way out here.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: God dudes falling and he on his feet, not even sliding.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: So they end up winning.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: He breaks some type of record on us in the
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: second half, and years later I ran into him and
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: we all drinking this all I love about our brotherhood,
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: like asking him see somebody that either played with or
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: against and have a drunk conversation about like a football
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: moment that really is so inside that whoever's listening don't
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: even understand. So we like out it might've been like
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: a bar club and I'm like, yo, hey, I.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Gotta ask you, bro. When we played John Philly, He's like, hey,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: y'all remember that game.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like you when you went in at halftime,
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: did you change to some illegal claes? He tracked like,
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: you didn't hear me, Like, huh, I can't the music.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: I'm like, now you hear me, bro, talk to me.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Did you change it?
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: He said, Man, I went in and put some of
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: them long fights in. You know what I mean. And
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: that's what I thought when I was watching him, like yo, he.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Had to put in the mountain climber joints stuff, the
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: air yoda la he who's cause it ain't no ain't
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: no way he was moving like that in regular cleats.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: There's no way.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Oh see, that's what I'm saying.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I was inspired, but I couldn't feel the tips of
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: my fingers for three days after that game.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: And I moved it.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: The boy relocated. It was so cold.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be an America anymore. But Nick, baby,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: you and a homeschool, the kids. I don't want to
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: be here.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I'm leaving. Yeah are you coming? Yeah?
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: And I know we're talking about this off camera, but
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I have to say it off camp. I'm in Madrid,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: enjoying myself. I got a nice little couples trip, me
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: and my wife. We in Madrid, gonna bounce to Beza
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: or Beta and then we're gonna go to Majorca.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: So we are.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: We are I Madrid vibing. I'm going to the Louis store.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: You know, it's my birthday week, going by something nice,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: So this is gentleman. He comes up to me and
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: he's looking at me, sizing me up, and for some
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: reason he comes to the conclusion that I do something
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: in and around the NFL. I don't even know if
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: he thinks I played. And then all of a sudden
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: he starts telling me. He was like, look, I don't
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: talk about clients. It's not really your thing, and stopped.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: We don't do that around here. I just feel like
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: you might know somebody I know. And I'm like, He's like,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: before you can get out the last thing he said, Cam,
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I said, stop right there.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: You ain't got to finish the sentence. Listen.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: I am an acquaintance of Cam Lead, I don't know him,
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: so he's not Cam to me. You're you're Cam because
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: I've known you the long as You're like a brother.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: So when I hear Cam, let's think of you. Your
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: face pops up. Now depending on how I envision you
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: in the moment, it's a different configuration in hairstyles, but
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: still your face pops up and I'm like, didn't know
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: what you Cam Cam Jordan's and he's like and there's
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: a little bit of a language barrier, so now I'm
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: still trying to describe.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm like, yeah, yeah, man football, uh yeah yeah.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: He's like, I SEEZ and he showed me. No, I'll
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: pull up a picture, I think, and then that's what
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: I call you. You pick up a poe in the
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: locker room and I'm like, listen, only Cam camn in
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: San Diego?
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Can can be be a guy that is brought up
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: while I'm on vacation on the other side of the world.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Amazing.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I love to travel.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: You know, we lived We lived there for a month,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: which may be coinciding with the wife's birthday, her birthday.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: You know, we left Madrid and we were to uh
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Beaus well you know how to go check it out
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: for the birth you know, we hit the Nation area,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Seville absolutely okay, you know, hey, we had to.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Go see we had to go see the world.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: I had to go warm my soul.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back, all right. So what do you
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: what do you uh you know, what do you think
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: successful year? You looking at football being a part of
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: so many different franchises coming in too, you had to
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: deal with the quarterback situation where you come in and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: you don't really know what you got going, but you
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: have a who lot of hope and potential. What do
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: you think would be a successful season for the Saints?
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: You know, I mean, of course I'm gonna say win
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, right, but to be four years out
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: of playoffs, you have to earn a playoff spot.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: So, you know, Spencer Ratler, we saw a little bit
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: of last year with the unhealthy officer line.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Put on your analyst hat and think about what a
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: successful season with like first healthy Spencer around their healthy
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: officer line, shoot.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Chris olave Rashishihi.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: And Albu Kamar, Jawan Johnson, you know, Foster Moro, Taysom Hill.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: The offense is not short of stars.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: But health was also a big reason why Yeah you
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: did you called it? So I wanted to address that
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: first because it's not like I'm giving you all a pass,
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: But I do understand health plays a big role in
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: the level of consistency because once you start, you know,
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: moving guys in and out the lineup, then that that
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: that chemistry that you built up in the off season.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: It really just falls apart.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Now you said what you're supposed to say, Yo, I'll
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: say super Bowl. Now, I'm gonna keep it real, because
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: you know you would keep it real with me if
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: I was talking when I was with the Detroit Lions
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: and I first joined them, not the later Detroit Lions.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: But you'd be like, Nay, I know, you say you're
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: going to win a super Bowl, but like you said,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: you have to earn the right to even mention that
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: because you know what it's like to be on good
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: teams and great teams.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: And right now, the only.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Good thing about the Saints, not the only good thing
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: I would say, the good thing about the Saints that
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: people aren't checking for y'all. They're not giving y'all credit,
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: they're not even mentioning y'all, so understanding, like there's a
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: huge upside in just catching people off guard, not having
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: a target at all on our back, and getting a
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: leg up on maybe even the division so you can
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: put yourself in a position to make a playoffs. I
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: think success for the Saints is legitimately winning the division
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: and then making it, not necessarily making a playoff run,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: but just proving that you guys can be big dogs
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: again within your own division, because before you can be
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: a threat to the rest of the league and have
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: playoff hopes, you have to knock on the teams in
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: your division.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Same thing with the Lions. Think about it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: It seemed like every other year it's the year they're
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: pretty good, but everybody was like, what are you talking about?
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: This? This the year y'all can't even.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Handle Green Bay. Y'all can't even handle the Vikings, y'all
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: still struggling with the Bears. And I think the Lions
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: realize that, they're like, yeah, you're right, all right, let's
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: go be Kings of the North, and now here they
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: are Kings in the North with a huge parkment on
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: their back.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: So I think it's the same thing with the Saints
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: and Spencer.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: The one thing I know about him and I know
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: he is addressed this time and time again. Get a
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: lot of hype coming out of high school in the college,
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: so the magnifying glass was on him from jump. So
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: it's almost like you can't you can't fail forward when
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: you're hyped up that much, like you only can fail backwards.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Like people are gonna be like, see, I told you, ah,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: he's not as good as we thought. You know what,
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: let's compare him to everybody else. Now, let's Spencer develop
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: a lot of young quarterbacks. A lot of our greats
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: struggled early on in their career, whether it was helped
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: the team they were on or the off and it's
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: a game plan. I just feel like with him, because
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: he is nimble, he can't move in the pocket. If
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: they can get him comfortable with incorporating his agility in
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: the pocket, the ability to sustain plays and keep him
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: going with his legs and then also hit those shots downfield,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: that's where the big plays come in. I look at
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes and I bring him like every time because
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: he's a prime example. Once he starts extending plays as
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: a wide receiver, I am thrilled. Listen, it's hard for
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: you to stop me running one route, let alone me
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: looking in the backfield and seeing my dude take it off.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Now you got to stop me running two routes. And
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: if we're all in the same page, the near receiver
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: comes close to the quarterback, the opposite receiver comes screaming across,
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: and then if you're deep, you can hit the corner,
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: like the Chiefs have that figured out, Like the receivers
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: know exactly where to go in the configuration once they
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: get in the scramble drill, and then Travis Kelson just
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: sits in.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: The pocket like, hey, baby, you know where I'm at,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Throw it to me.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: So I just feel like once Spencer gets on the
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: same page with wide receivers, titles and running backs, he
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: escapes the pocket because it's inevitable, it's going to happen
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: every game.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Once you have a plan for that, then you can
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: really gash teams with the untimed place.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Mhm, enter the chat tyler Lockey Russell will.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: See.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not I'm not against that one. Look,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm I'm excited for the potential. And like
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I've always said, I was like, hey, we got a
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: lot of potential. It's gonna be up to us to
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: capture that potential because if we can do that, then.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: We can show the world a lot of things.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: But if we don't capture that, then we'll just we
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: talking about. Man, we could have should have.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Wo we couldn't We had a shot man. You know,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: the division wasn't as strong as your week could have.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Man, you've been in this long enough where it's like
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: that could have would have shots for the birds, especially
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: when you learn the talent.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Now, listen, we've we've we've woken.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Up on the start of training camp or the end
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: of training camp and week one is here, and we've
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: been on the team, and.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: We're like, you looked around.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: As much as I want to say, we're going to
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: be this, we not that you know what I mean.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: I think I had one or two of those out
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: of my eleven year career.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: But when you have a team that's talented and you're
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: like literally looking at the roster, you're like, bro, we
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: got some dogs on offense and defense. So yeah, along
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: with us showing up, staying healthy, and being consistent, if.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: The coaches put us in the best position to be successful.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: And let's not forget brouh it's also on the coaches. Listen.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Removing myself from the game, what I have learned is
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: I'm not the one to point the blame on players
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: or coaches, but I can honestly say when I don't
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: have a dog in the fight. You can look at
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: games each week and I can tell by the middle
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: of the game who's being out coached. So like, listen,
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of people that take blame, and people
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: want to blame the players because fantasy football and they
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: know players' names and they're following us like we're movie stars.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: But the reality is it's not just on the players.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: It's how you drop the exit and o's in how
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: you come out of halftime with your adjustments. So yeah, yeah, hopefully,
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: oh man, it would be good. But also I'm talking
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: to the same staff too. It's on y'all.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I'll say it is.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: It is definitely a thing you know when you when
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you go to a halftime and you sometimes don't get
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a proper adjustment, like oh, you see the offense adju
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: just like oh, they was running the inside zones and
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: now now they're running these little tugs, these little whams.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: They got little inside pulling guards just clearing up that spot,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: and we.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Did an adjust for that. And you listen, you've been
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: in the game long enough, you're smart enough to know,
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: like we should be talking about this, Like it's almost
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: like you're waiting for it. You you walking a half time,
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: you take your breath. Coaches got to do their thing
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: and all that, and you're just like.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: They go high like to one play, like, hey, yeah,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: they only ran this once, so we're not really gonna
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: worry about this one.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: And they and then their second half.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: They come back to this little this little wham block,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: little pulling guard that comes up to the second level.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: And they start hitting it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: In two plays later, it's the same play, just reverse,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: and you're like, god, facts we should have.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: But I will say this, and like I said, it's
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: not to continue to put the pressure on coaches, but
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: they also got a million dollar roster to these coaching staff.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like, I really want to
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: talk about how much these players, and this is across
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: the board. I'm not even talking about the Saints in general.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: These coaches are making out like fat rats and rightfully,
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: so I want everybody to get money. I want players, coaches,
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: I want to I want everybody to get money from
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: the NFL. It's a multi billion dollar machine. Squeeze every
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: last red set as you can out of it. With
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: that said, and these coaches are getting paid, so they
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: also got to step their game up across the board.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I I'll say, look, it's arts for position coaches.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Then that's your base foundation.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: In fact, you can you can.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: You can have a phenomenal head coach and have a
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: terrible position coach that has put these together. And you're like, man,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: why did he have success when he was here? But
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: he has success over there the cabinet? Who do you
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: have around facts? Since we've been kids, we've always been told, hey,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: you show me your friends, I'll tell you what you
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: could be.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: You are the company you.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Show you.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: The head coach showed me your coaching staff, and I
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: can tell you where you should have gone gone one
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: hundred percent. Anyway, I appreciate you turned on your anda
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: list hat to be going to you to being an adalyst, Like,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: how how long did it take you to get comfortable
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: in that space? Confident in how you handle CBS morning,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: how you handle the game days? You know you I
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: don't know what you haven't touched.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: It was a little bit easier catching my rhythm working
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: for the NFL network when I first retired, For.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: A couple of reasons.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: One, I quickly realized who I wasn't like at that time.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: We had Dion Sanders there, Michael Irvin, Marshall, Fall, Kurt Warner,
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: we had a whole host of individuals and great hosts
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: in general. And I remember trying to be like like
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: a herb probably wasn't got got.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: You know I'm doing. I'm like, it's not me.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Next week I come in, I'm trying to be like Prime,
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: I got some fresh suit on.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: I'm talking slick rhyming my words, you.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Know what I mean. I'm like, Damn, that's not really
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: me either. And then I'm like, all right, let me
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: see marshall fault. Let me let me try to atipicate
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: my point and articulate and talk about the cross section
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: between the inter collaborations of the No, that's not me either.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I am this like kid that was born
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: in eighty one, you know, a little self deprecating, but
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: also feel like I got all the swagger in the world.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I'm very confident, but at the same time a little goofy.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: I grew up on movies, music, pop culture, animation. I mean,
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: look at the shirt I'm wearing. Come on, I'm like,
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: I'm that guy, So like, be that guy. When it's
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: time for you to be serious, lock in when it's
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: time for you to take the stage, Sean, when it's
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: time for you to control the room.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: You control.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: When it's time for you to tell a story, be
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: the best at it. When it's time for you to
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: be funny or self deprecating, be all those things. You
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: don't have to be one thing that you see on
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: TV and guys that you look up to be one
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: of those things. I mean, be all those things that
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: you are. So I once I realize that's why I
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: was it, that's when it started to take shape and
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: I felt really comfortable just talking about the game. And
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: I feel like I can do that with the best
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: of them. Whether people want to be entertained or educated,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: I can do both, or I can do a blend. Now,
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: when it comes to CBS mornings like that was a
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: little bit more difficult, even though I felt like I
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: was prepared and I positioned myself to have everybody in
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: this CBS ecosystem recognize that I'm more than just the player.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: He can talk about the financial market, he can talk
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: about silal issues, he can talk politics. He can sit
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: down with your favorite athlete or your favorite president. He
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: can do everything. Even though I feel confident in all
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: of those aspects of who I am as a media talent,
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: it took a while for me to like to be
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: comfortable in that seat, and that's like what I'm wearing,
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: how I talk out with my hair, all the little accessories.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: When I first got on CBS Mornings, I was very
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: muted in so many ways, not just physical, I just
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: think notably. I just was like and I remember a
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: producer was like, look, we need you to talk more,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, yeah, but you know, Gil, you know
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Tony Like, look, I didn't get it. You're trying to
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: be p light and you don't want to jump in
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: sometimes you feel like it's a traffic jam. We hired
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: you to talk. Your perspective on things is unique. People
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: identify with how you talk about things. We need you
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: to speak more on the show. And I'm like, all right, cool.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: That was one like light bulb that went off. And
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: then I remember like wearing all these like dark patterns
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: because I didn't want to like shake things up too much,
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: and I was going I was trying to.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Wear arounds and blacks and navies.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: And then one day I was like, I just had
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: a suit from my Sunday show that I brought in
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: studio because I was gonna wear for something.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: I was like, yo, let me just wear this on
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: the set.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: And I wore and I walked in and like no joke, Gil,
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: and everybody was like about time.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: We didn't wait know you to.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Like where's this Ben?
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: I'm like, y'all, y'all was waiting on me. They're like, yeah,
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: we see you on Sundays, we see you on red carpas,
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: we see you.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Why you want to come here and give us the suits?
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: And I'm like all right, all right, bet So then
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: from there those two things. Man, that next week I
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: walked in and it was like I was, I was
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: my most comfortable version of myself. But yeah, news is
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: different because you have to be so prepared, Like I
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: have to be over prepared every day just to only
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: maybe get thirty seconds to talk time. And most of
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: the time I don't even have time to talk about
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: something I studied all night for. But I'd rather over
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: prepare and not have time to talk than not prepare
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: and go blank for thirty seconds.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Like that's my worst fear is like them coming and
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: be like Nate, what you.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: Think about the terriffs? What do you think about the
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Trump administration? What do you think about you know, the
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Barack administration? What do you think about what's going on
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: with the societal issues and the fractions in this Like
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: I'd rather I'd rather have something to say and not
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: say it or not use it then like just be
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: stuck here in the headlights.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Be stuck. And you know what, I think a lot
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: of things, many many different things.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: At the end of the day. If you ever hear
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: me start at the end of the.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Day, you know, like they got you, they got them.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Too.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Sha to Sam, I'm as suing in for that when
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I'm like he was ready, but he might he took
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: my surprise.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I say, we are. We are working together. Uh this
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: year Nickelodeon's Lime Time.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, when I tell you, I'm bringing the most,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: the most you know, rambunctious kids. Some of these kids
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: was wild. Hey, some of these kids was wild and
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: we got we got a lot out of them. Just
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: know we work and I'm gonna bring the best out
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: of these kids. Some of these kids, they would look
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: at me just like you said, like deers in the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: head like they're like I had draw energy, don't worry
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: about it. I brought up juice for everybody like I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: brought I brought the corniest version of me. I could,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: and I said, you know what, Oh you wanna slime?
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: How much slime do you need?
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm talking about, you know what I mean?
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: I bring Every Tuesday, I go up there and we
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: shoot a slantan and bro Like, I go from like
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: any topics and news, take my suit off, put on
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: something fool and casual, and when I walk in that studio,
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: I literally like open the door to like twelve year
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: old Nate Birlson, like yo, little Nate, go ahead, you
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: got it. And then like the grown man, the adult
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: me will take a break and I'm just sitting there
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: just living up this childhood dream of being on Nickelodeon.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Like that's how I approach it every day. So you
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: bring in the right type of energy.
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: Bro.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I look look Nickelodeon.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I said, all right, what would I look like as
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: a kid listen to anilest fact the biggest Hey, this
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: is your biggest home, I said, what I brought up?
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I brought out the cheesiest version of me. I'm so excited, everybody.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: I can't wait. You're going to ask so much to
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: the show man. It's gonna be dope.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Ah, super excited about that. When I mean, come on,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: it's sliding an time.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Come on, bro, Like eventually I know it's gonna be
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: my term to get slimed, but like right now, I'm
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: enjoying sliming.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, listen. First of all, I'm gonna make sure
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: that happens because you need to be slnes. So I'll
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: let you know. I'll get you heads up so you
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: can have your hair out, you know what I mean.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: But but I'll tell you what.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Though, Like having people recognize me for football was something
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: that like really spoke to like my ego when I played,
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: I loved it, you know, I mean I was a receiver,
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: like I love people being like yo, you man chelling
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: back when he was playing.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: With the Vikings.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Like just the other day I was I was at
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: the US Open and somebody walked past me like, hey,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: just gonna let you know you helped me with my
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Fantasy League year two. You put up a thousand yards
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: against Randy Like.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: That used to make me feel real good.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: It's still to us, like I show people love to
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: take pictures and all that, but like now there's this
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: like there's demographic of people that see me there, like yo,
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: of what you're doing on CBS Mornings, and I think
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: that's dope. It's usually grown people and there's also like
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: some cougars, you know, I got like I got a demographic,
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: like the cougars love me, you know what I.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Mean, like like fifty five to like seventy five.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: You just you look so young, like you're still play
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: it looks oh you're even more handsome in public.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: Oh, they'd give me the extra extended hug and then
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: they pull out the words and give it to me
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: on the way out, like the Cougars love me, so
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: look but look but now, like that's that warms my
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: heart because that means that successful, we made a transition
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: and people can identify me as something other than an athlete.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: But another element with what you're talking about as far
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: as Nickelodeon, which is super dope and I never anticipated,
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: is when like nine year old Boyle comeing to me
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: and he's just staring at me, and then his father's like, oh, sorry, man,
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: he shook right now, like he watches some time every
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: week and he's been staring at you since you walked in.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: And then I'm like and like kids, and it it
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: made me think, like what would I have done if
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: I saw like Mark Summers from Double Deer or something
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: in public, like I probably would have flipped out of.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: Him, like yo, that's the dude that does doubled there
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: like so.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so like I feel like, man, this is we
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: have an opportunity to like create this bridge between the
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: young generation and football fans and and Nickelodeon has created
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: the perfect vehicle for that.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely, I'm excited because this might be it might be.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: You know, my my youngest daughter, she was like, she's like, Dad,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: I gotta I'm gonna slim you one day.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: I say, you have a goal, baby, if if I'm
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: your goal, we'll make sure you get it.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: We'll make sure you get my little four year old
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: like that's mine. If that's what your goal is is
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: slime daddy.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: I'll make sure what happened.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Oh man, Like I.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Said, I appreciate you, I got one. I got one
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: last segment for you. I'm gonna ask you three questions.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: You tell me whether onside or off side. On side
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: means you're four, it's true. Offside means you're against it,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: like it's false. You know, the Chiefs will make it
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl Game because Travis Kelsey and Taylors
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Swift got engaged.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: M m M.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna say I want to say off side, just
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: because listen, this was a few years ago.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the AFC is a little man. I mean,
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: you got the Ravens, you got the Bills, you got
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: the bangles.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: I got just feel like there's too many squads. Even
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: with this very fairy tale storyline, there's other squads. It's like,
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: we don't give a bleep about your engagement. I'm trying
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: you see, got a ring. I'm trying to give my ring.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: So I feel like that's off side.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Hmm. There's real lions blood in your line's blood orange box.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Ash, Yeah, you know what, it's actually from the creators,
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: a sex panther. They say six percent of the time
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: it works every time. That's off sides. I wish though
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: that would be kind of wild. But you know what,
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: maybe I should create a cologne with a.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Little bit of lion blood in it. You know, the
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: fats might have him out there roaring, you know what
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: I mean?
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Sathetic lines because.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Indeed, after this NFL S this ends, you'll bring back
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: your season recap rap song.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Then it twice.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Let's do it one side. You know what, I'm gonna
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: bring it back.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: I have to.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: I've been thinking about it, you know what I mean.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: I'm getting that itch and the storylines are better than ever.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm bringing it back. Man. The NFL Wrap Recap
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: is back.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you. Appreciate you, Nate.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Thanks for the listening, for tuning in. Thanks to the
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: listeners and the viewers. I appreciate everybody. You can find
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: the podcast and iHeart app or wherever you get your
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: podcasts and watch it all NFL YouTube channel. Just remember
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Nate Brolson, all world analysts, all world commentary, all American
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: in college, you of then Man Man was a monster,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: a mon star.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: From Minnesota for Seattle, Detroit, you know, just a legend.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: Appreciate thank you, Man.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Indeed,