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"Fan of the Year" episode 190 · DMV Mess Hall

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Hi folks, this is Rick Doc. Walker the DOC this.
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Is John Kime and you're listening to the mess hall with
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rally captain and tailgate 10. What's going on rally I'm going
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to have to ask time and doc to change that for me, man.
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It's going to have to be a fan of the year.
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Rally captain and tailgate Ted. Hey man, I am just over excited
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and overjoyed to find that out Yesterday.
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I had no clue and it meant a lot.
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I almost started crying actually, Tuna said.
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I did start crying. So a couple tears were shed.
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I must say. It be Mitch, he said.
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I bet not see it, I bet not see it.
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It, it it was too late. They you know, they it was, it
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was windy last night. So that's what it was.
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Yeah, it was kind of windy. I mean, Northwest is on a hill,
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so. I'm good.
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Man, I mean they just bad for you that it was in a night game
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so you couldn't have sunglasses on trying, you know, cover up.
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But then it's those that don't know our rally captain is the
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Washington Commanders NFL fan of the year.
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And dude, it's just I know that you've been posted like Tunis,
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everyone's been posting stuff, you know, vote for rally.
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This is something that you deserve.
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Dude, it's you talk about some of the behind the scenes on the
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podcast. A lot of people don't know like
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what it took for you to pick up the ball when the team fumble
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doing those rallies, right? A lot of people have no idea.
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Let me tell you. So it's funny that you talk
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about that because I was talking to Hawk former Chris early today
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and I said he goes, you started the rallies like in 2020, right?
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And I said, no, the first rally that I ever did was when we
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played against Jacksonville in 2018 at Miller's Ale House.
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I even remember the name because that was the, the team said,
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hey, we don't feel we have a huge fan base in Jacksonville
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and because of it, we're not going to have a rally.
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And I said, well, I'm going to put something together because
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fans are coming in. So I honestly didn't really
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expect that many people to be honest with you, Ted.
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We had over like 400 people at this rally in at Miller's Ale
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House in Jacksonville and I just was amazed at all those people
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that came out for this impromptu rally that I just put out.
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I want to say it was the game was Sunday.
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Obviously this was Saturday. I put this out and I made a
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little video and and people just came out of nowhere.
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So that was actually the beginning of all this in 2018.
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So what was on the back of your jersey back in 2018?
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Did it say rally captain or what did it say?
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Rally captain, it's always there.
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Rally captain, I think, I mean, I do have, I think I have two
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RG3 jerseys, have a Sean Taylor jersey.
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I have a Colt McCoy jersey. Yeah.
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And. No wonder you don't buy them
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anymore. No.
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And A and a rally captain. And I said after that, every
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jersey from here on out will be rally captain and I'll pay
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homage, you know, to 21 or or 89 or whatever have you.
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But for the most part, all my jerseys now will say rally
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captain. And so that's what it is.
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Except for this one, except for this one.
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This one says end of the year. Then the number 25 for the year
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2025. That's so awesome.
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I am so happy for you and proud right, just knowing that it's
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something that you deserve and none of this is a slight or just
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knock on past fan of the years. We're friends with them.
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We know all of them. They are all great people, but
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out of people I know that were in the running, you, my friend,
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definitely deserved it right shoot you, you trademarked Rep
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it harder. Don't Rep it all and I'll I'll
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buy you a cerveza when we get to Spain, right?
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But it's just. I I'm definitely.
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Deaf with sangria the. Heck.
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Yeah, we all see you at every game, home and away, right?
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I know everything you do to help people get to these games home
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and away. I mean, how many people are you
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taking to Spain? Over 200 man I.
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Mean we've talked about the logistics and that behind the
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scenes when the, you know, record buttons off and we're not
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live and just man, I'm I'm happy.
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I know I've said it multiple Times Now.
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I cannot wait to see what happens next.
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And for those of our listeners, we're going to need your help,
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right because next week the NFL is going to start their NFL fan
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of the year. Not just a commander's fan of
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the year, the NFL fan of the year.
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And this is where each NFL teams fan of the year is put into a
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vote up against all the other ones.
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So we need you guys to, you know, lack of a better word,
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rally around rally to start voting for him so he can win
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that award. I would greatly appreciate it,
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you guys. I have to tell you that I'm
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still awestruck in getting this award because not only does it
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represent me, it represents all of you guys as well.
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Because without you, there will be no me.
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And I always say that and I thank everyone who voted for me.
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I will continue to say thank you for the everybody that voted for
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me and all I can tell you is I will do my best to represent you
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guys even more so than what I've done thus far.
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Oh, I got no doubt about that. But give us a little behind the
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scenes, right? Because I saw a picture on, I
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think it was on Instagram or maybe on exit you put up.
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How did they let you know? Like what were you doing?
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Because I know you get to the game and obviously you stopped
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the tailgate and I think I was deep frying some chicken wings
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at that point and they hadn't told you then.
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So when did you find out? Well, so I got a phone call or a
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text that said, Hey, we need you to be in the Legends area
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because we want to do an interview with you talking about
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the rallies that you put on. And I was like the rally, OK, I
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said, but I've done hundreds. I shouldn't say hundreds.
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I've done 10s of 10s of, of, of interviews, hundreds of
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interviews. How about that?
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Hundreds of interviews. And so I just was like, OK, it's
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just another interview that I'm going to be talking about the
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upcoming rally hypothetically in Minnes, in Minnesota.
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And so I, I get up to where the Legends Plaza is and that's
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where they do the command corner, command center.
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I'm sorry I. Think the command center.
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Yeah, command corner is the tailgate and the.
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Red tailgate command center correct?
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Command center is with B Mitch, Brian and Santana.
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And they were doing their show and they said, OK, we want you
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to wait over here. And I was like, all right, well,
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you know, Gee, this is going to be kind of like a, a stand up.
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I, I was expecting to be sitting down in there behind the desk
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where they always sit down at right for the pregame.
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And they said, Hey, by the way, rally captain, come on up here
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and so we can talk to you. And, and so I've got my mind
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thinking about, you know, the rallies and Minnesota and the
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time and, and all that type of stuff.
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And, and, and I couldn't really hear Brian, but he said, you
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know, when you have a a fan like you, who you know, you have, you
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have fans that are fans obviously here for the day.
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You have fans that are that are monthly.
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And then you have actually fans of the year.
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And you know, because of that, we want to give you this jersey.
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And so but the the Fan of the Year was turned the opposite
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way. So you just saw it said 5. 25
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and I and I said 25 I'm thinking I really don't naughty, you
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know, I'm not really. Trying to think of who was 25 on
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our rocker. Exactly.
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And so I'm like, oh, they're going to ask me a question about
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who 25 is all all this stuff is, is running through my mind.
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And then he he says, no, turn it around and look at it.
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And I turn around and look at it and I was just floored, bro.
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I was. That's awesome man.
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I just, I I'm bummed that I wasn't there to witness it in
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person. I'm guessing it was on the
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pregame telecast, so if people miss it, I think that's on
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YouTube you can catch it. I'll see if I can find a clip of
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it and share it. So 25 is Darnell Savage on our
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team. Free safety.
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So glad it doesn't say Savage on the back.
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So that'd be pretty. Got a bad ass to have Savage on
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the back of your jersey? Wouldn't that be something?
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But seeing that you got that man, so did did they put you on
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microphone at that point? Do you have to give a speech or
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how did it go? So the actual podcast or show
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that they were doing had a microphone to it wasn't
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throughout the stadium, if you will, It was just in their
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little area. And so I, I said a couple words
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and after I said my, my, my rapid harder, don't RIP it at
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all. Brian dropped the mic and the
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show was over. So.
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All right, so it was right at the end of the show.
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So for those of you wondering, you're going to watch the entire
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pregame show. Don't get me wrong.
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Beat Tana. Yeah, beat Tana and Brian do a
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good job. But we'll see if we can find it
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and put that out there. So that's that's great, man.
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And I just know from when we were out at the draft in
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Detroit, the fan of the years, they get to go to the draft.
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I know that's one thing that they've done in the past.
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And they also get to go to the Super Bowl, if I'm not mistaken.
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So you got you looking in a different misses rally, looking
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at different places out in wine country in San Fran.
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Take a little side trip to. I got to tell you, Ted, So I
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haven't done anything just yet. It's coming though.
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But right now I, I told you, went to work after the game.
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And for those, you know, I have to be at work at the crack of
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dawn and even before dawn. So I basically got it like 2
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hours of sleep, if you will. And I was just tired.
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I, I, I made it through work and I came home and went to bed.
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And I told you it's 530 now. And normally we do our, our pod,
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you know, 4330, whatever. I was like, dude, I've got to
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get some sleep and I'll get back up at 5:30.
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So we'll, we'll go from there. But so I haven't been able to do
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anything but it's coming. That's that's exciting man.
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And I just make sure to take more pictures so we can go
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through this journey with you because everyone loves the
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videos you do. But just to, you know, be a part
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of this from periphery with you is something that I know that
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our listeners and your followers and everyone on social media is
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going to want to be a part of. Just everyone feels like they
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know you because you are so out there and so welcoming you take
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pictures with everybody and obviously your rally captain
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page. So it'll be like they're going
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through this process with you, man.
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And I'm excited, I really AM. And this is just, you know,
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happy that it was you, brother. Really, really AM.
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Let me tell you, a lot of people have said nothing against our
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previous winners, nothing against them.
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They, they all have made fan of the year.
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But they said, you know what, echoing what you just said.
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I I've seen them kind of, but I really don't know them.
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Like I know you, I feel connected with you because of
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what you do and what you've been from the rallies to, to like you
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said, the different pictures that the different tailgates.
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They, they feel as though I'm a regular guy, which I am a
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regular guy, but they really didn't, don't know the other
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people, if you will. And so the connection is there
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what you said. So I'm just want to, I want to
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echo what you said and, and that means a lot because I am a just
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an everyday guy just like everybody else.
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Sure. I mean, you had to go right to
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work, you know, right after the game, right there.
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There's no, no sleep. No.
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I mean, Speaking of, you know, hanging out with all the other
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people in the fan base, I actually got to on Saturday
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night go to an event at MGM National Harbor for Art Monks
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Jersey retirement. So the official retirement was
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Sunday at the stadium, but Saturday an e-mail went out
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prior to season ticket holders for this event at National
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Harbor. So I had no idea what to expect.
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I get the e-mail and they send out that no, before you go.
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And in it, it said cocktail attire, something in awe.
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Damn. OK, I can't rock a jersey.
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There goes a tailgate tad jersey.
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There goes me wearing a polo, right.
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So I got to find something. So missus tailgate and I dressed
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up. She had a nice little outfit on.
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I ended up rocking a suit and I had a a commander's T-shirt
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under the suit. I'm not going full out like
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that. So I figured, you know, I had a
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suit and everything else on. I still have the breaking TT
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shirt. And I get there, I get in line,
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we're first in line at 5 O clock.
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But walking through, walking through The MGM, there's fans
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everywhere, craps tables, roulette tables hanging out here
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waiting for things to open up. So the place was just packed
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full of burgundy and gold. And this was Saturday before,
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you know, Saturday, right after Halloween.
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So the place was bumping anyway. On top of that, Fast forward,
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they open the doors and it's a mad dash.
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The seats weren't assigned. So you can sit anywhere you want
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even though the ticket had assigned seating on it.
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The seats weren't assigned. Nobody was checking for it.
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They said it's open, so I mean, our fans are very respectful.
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People weren't knocking people over.
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It wasn't crazy like that, but everybody wanted to get a good
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seat up in the front. So I went up in the front and
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this is Tina hour front row, center stage is kind of hanging
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out there talking with people, shaking hands, taking pictures.
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You know, it's a good time. And back to the whole Facebook
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thing. Everyone feels like they know
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you. So the wife, she's actually
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stopped asking me. Do you know that person anymore?
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It's like I think we're Facebook friends or someone will say
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something because I, you know, saw a post on there.
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But they showed a documentary of basically Art Monk.
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And I'm trying to remember, I want to say it's Tim Johnson and
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some of the nonprofit charity work that they do going to
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different prisons and trying to help troubled youth.
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And they turned the event basically into a fundraiser for
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Fathers No More, which is the nonprofit that they work with.
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And next thing you know, that's done.
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We watch the documentary for an hour and a half.
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Good documentary, definitely heartwarming.
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Definitely shed some tears for some of the people in the
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audience. And then the actual meat of the
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event starts at really all of us were there for, right?
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Mark Klaus brings out Art Monk. I put up a video.
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They gave him that burgundy jacket and inside the jacket was
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pictures of his entire family, which I thought was awesome,
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right? And next thing you know,
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outcomes, art outcomes Charles Mann and outcomes Pastor Tim
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Johnson. So they're the first panel up
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there. Ryan Clark is the MC and then
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and this is going to be horrible, but this white guy who
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I still don't know who he is, but I guess he's Serena Williams
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husband and he's popular. I have no idea.
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I just that's just not what I listen to or pay attention to.
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He's not all one O 6-7 the fan or team 980.
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So I just don't know what he does.
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But that was the panel. So they were telling stories
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about art, kind of go back and forth, joking.
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And the next thing you know, all of a sudden Pfizer walks out,
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right? Doug walks out, Mark Ripon walks
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out. So all of his quarterbacks that
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he won the Super Bowl with were out there on stage.
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And it was just, it was so awesome being a old school
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Burgundy and Gold fan to be able to be there and witness all
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those guys coming back together again, man.
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And I try to take as many videos as I could so I could, you know,
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share it with everybody else that didn't get a chance to be
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there because Saturday night, you know, during season, it's
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tough for people to get out there.
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And also National Harbor is not the easiest to get to.
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And the next thing, you know, after that, the posse came out.
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So it was Gary Clark and Ricky Sanders and Art and Gary's
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obviously the boisterous personality and everyone, you
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know, it's kind of jokes. And I think Gary was kind of the
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bad boy in that group. And he actually gave the history
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of how the posse term came to be.
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They had a big poster up there and it was a poster from, you
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know, maybe 1980 something. And it was the posse.
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And then in the corner of the poster, there's actually two
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people dressed up as Cowboys tied up with a rope, right?
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I don't think you can get away with that nowadays, but I I, it
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cracked me up that they put that up there.
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Wow, man, I hate that that I couldn't make that.
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Obviously once again, you don't know how the sausage is made,
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but I was at home working with SV events for Spain, so I
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couldn't make it. And I, you asked me and I was
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like, Nah man, because I got the same RSVP that you did, but I, I
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had to turn it down and just couldn't do it.
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But I wish I would have been there now because there's some
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things that you miss like this that are priceless, you'll never
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be able to get back. Yeah, it just Art doesn't travel
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a lot and don't come out and do a lot of stuff.
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And those that were at the game, I mean, his speech wasn't much
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of A speech, but it did come up multiple times because the knock
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on Art was he just didn't talk to the media.
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But he explained and his teammates explained multiple
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times he didn't talk to the media because he wanted to focus
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on being the best player and the best teammate that he could
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possibly be. And I'm going to say he was that
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right? Just throughout the night, the
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theme of it was how amazing a player art was.
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And I think one person said it wasn't WWJD, like, what would
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Jesus do? It was WWAD like, what would art
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do, right? And he was just the epitome of
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like the best teammate and redskin that there was.
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And did you go to Canton in a way when he and Darryl got in?
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I think I'm going to ask you this before.
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I did not not know wait, I didn't.
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I went to Canton and maybe 2013, possibly 2014.
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Was that when Grimm got in or I don't remember when?
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That one was OK regardless. I mean, it was just it was so
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awesome being there and it felt like that again.
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So Fast forward to the event at the game, right?
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And they're honoring art and they gave out these light up
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wristbands, similar to the wristbands that we all got for
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the Bears game, which I think did you get one or you missed
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that 'cause that's when you got there.
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Late. I missed it.
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Yeah, I got there late. So you got the wristband this
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time? And I sure did.
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So you what you think of the light show 'cause you missed a
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light show last time ahead of time?
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I thought it was awesome how it's like the when you order a
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food item to go or you waiting for your table to be ready and
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they have that electronic timer or, or or signal on there that
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allows them certain parts of the show to blink either red, gold
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or even white, if you will. And I, I looked at my wrist and
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it kind of, kind of shook me for a second because like you said,
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I, I hadn't witnessed that before.
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And when we were in Kansas City, they had, but obviously the
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Kansas City fans had them on their wrist.
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But, and I was just shocked that, well, OK.
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And then to see it blink amongst all the other people's, it was
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just a a great feeling man. It's just, it just goes back to
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the investment ownership has made into our fan experience,
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right? Yeah.
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Control what you can control. You have no control over how the
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players can perform on the field.
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So I'm not even talking about that, but the pregame
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experience, right? It was just it was awesome.
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They're leaning in hardcore, this whole Commanders thing,
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right? Josh Harris talked about how the
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rebrand of Commanders, they're rebranding it basically, sorry,
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the relaunch of Commanders. Started when Daryl was out there
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with that spear for the Bears game and they're just going to
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kind of keep going with it. So I haven't been in the stadium
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that early to watch that video of the guy walking out with the
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hood and the spear and this and that and the guys coming out the
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locker room. Our tailgate wrapped up.
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We finished up, I don't want to say earlier, but we had a lot of
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people there so we can clean up early.
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So I got in at 8 O clock, which is unheard of for me to get in
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with 20 minutes of spare. So to get to watch and
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experience that entire thing, man, it just, it felt games of
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thronie to me, which maybe that's what they're going for,
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but it just, it felt like we actually had a real team, right?
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Not just this high school podunk thing that the past guys were
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charging us an arm and a leg for.
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And the next thing you know, all we get is maybe they'll call
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people's names when they come out of the field.
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One thing that I definitely will continue to say is you can tell
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that they upgraded the sound system.
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I mean, they, they have really put in work and the video
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boards. That's crystal clear, man.
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And I, I just, I, I love that, that you can actually hear now
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what's going on. The retrographics that they did
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because it was a Super Bowl era night, you know, it reminded me
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of kind of watching the game of my Pops back in the day, kind of
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like the little grainy like video game type graphics that
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they were doing. Remember when we were in
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Atlanta, I want to say it was three years ago, they had that
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throwback night and all their graphics were kind of like that.
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The point of their mascot would dress up as different stuff from
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like back in the 80s. I mean, I just I appreciate them
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doing anything they possibly could to make the in game
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experience fun short of, you know, what was going on in the
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field. But for you, before we get to
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that, how was it walking around the tailgate lots?
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Because I know some people were kind of down about Kansas City,
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right? I didn't get the temperature of
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the fan base heading into the game.
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I mean, what was it like when you got to the red zone?
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Oh, man, it was very lively. You know, people were upbeat.
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You know, they said they understand that, hey, Kansas
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City is Kansas City. They are a powerhouse.
22:17
We we limped into Kansas City basically.
22:20
And it's kind of like, OK, yeah, we hate that we lost, but we've
22:25
moved on and it's a new day fighting fight for another day,
22:28
a new day. And so the vibe was great.
22:33
Every everyone. It was almost like as if Kansas
22:36
City never even happened. And what they were focused on
22:39
was the Seahawks. Yeah, it's honestly that's what
22:43
it felt at my tailgate, right? And I, I did make a little
22:45
speech just because I I do that at our tailgate A thanking
22:48
everybody we have we're changing the charity, we're pausing the
22:53
charity that we were sponsored before, right?
22:55
With everything going on right now, we're supporting the
22:58
Capital Area Food Bank until the government shutdown is done.
23:01
This isn't to get political, don't care which way you go,
23:03
left, right, blue-green, whatever.
23:05
But we got neighbors in the hill.
23:07
So our tailgate is now helping out with that.
23:10
We've raised, I want to say it's close to $2000 for the food
23:13
bank, right? So we're just the vibe out
23:15
there, just kind of talking to everybody about it.
23:18
We were running high, man. And I picked us to win this game
23:23
up against Seattle, knowing what we're going up against, knowing
23:26
that they had a damn good defense, because I just thought
23:29
that our guys would have played better than they actually did.
23:34
And all of a sudden, right just to go down what, 24 nothing or
23:42
however many. It was 21 nothing and then 2028
23:45
nothing. And I, and I said, man, if we
23:47
were playing Madden, and I don't know if you play Madden or not,
23:49
but if you play Madden and you're playing against an
23:52
opponent, once you get to 21 to nothing before halftime, you got
23:55
to give the game up. You got to get your paddles up
23:57
to it for another player to come on board.
24:00
If you're playing against somebody that's in front of you
24:02
and 21 nothing in Madden before halftime is a skunk.
24:06
You got to get those paddles up. And I said, oh, man, here we go,
24:09
guys. God Dang it.
24:11
Just the just the things that we were doing just didn't make
24:15
sense. And it it, it reminded me and I,
24:17
and I hate to say this, and this will be the only time I use this
24:19
reference. It reminded us that we were
24:22
under the previous regime. Man, it just seemed that way.
24:25
It felt that way outside of the light show and the pregame.
24:31
Once it started happening, it just made me just go back and I
24:35
don't ever want to go back, but that's what it felt like.
24:38
That's what I felt like watching.
24:40
It yeah. And then 28 to nothing, it was
24:43
hurtful, bro. It just wasn't.
24:45
And The thing is, we can say that because we're fans and and
24:49
it's true. We're not talking, we're not
24:51
bashing anybody. 28 to nothing was very hard to swallow.
24:54
And people started leaving. People, people, people started
24:57
leaving and they, I thought that they were going to the bathroom
25:00
because it's halftime. No, they never came back.
25:04
So that's, I'm, I'm sitting there, I'm always yelling,
25:07
screaming, losing my voice. I just, I can't not be there and
25:11
participate in the game, right? And I tend to not talk to fans
25:16
when we're there because I'm letting people do them, right?
25:19
There was a very, very loud Seahawks fan beside me to my
25:22
left. And in actuality, he was a
25:25
Vikings fan who was just there to troll people.
25:28
So he actually admitted that said, I don't even like the
25:31
Seahawks. I just wore the jersey because
25:32
of my buddies. And I want to give you guys a
25:33
hard time. All right?
25:35
So there's obviously, you know, people like that in the stands.
25:36
It was what it was. But he kept asking everybody,
25:39
oh, you're not leaving yet, are you?
25:40
Where you going? And it's like, I wanted to ask
25:44
them if you guys are going to go leave after art ceremony, right?
25:49
Don't leave now. Wait until after halftime so we
25:53
can all honor this man that gave his blood sweat and tears and
25:57
then go home. But I just I know everybody was
26:00
in their feelings and rightfully so.
26:01
We we're getting our butts whooped, right?
26:03
It was not a fun game to watch, right?
26:05
It's just every chance we could get something went wrong.
26:08
Sam Darnold did not incomplete a pass until the third quarter.
26:13
He was perfect in the first quarter, right And I just.
26:17
Bad for him, bad, bad for us. I could not believe it, man.
26:21
And finally, the moment we're all waiting for, right, the
26:25
whole art mock jersey retirement, everything else.
26:28
I thought that they did a great job of that check Hernandez
26:31
being the MC Josh Harris was out there and art and you can see
26:36
his entire family down there. The light show would like the
26:39
lasers on the field and everything else.
26:42
May I I hope that granted, I don't know if we have any more
26:45
night games. I know we've got the bears.
26:47
Actually, no. We got the the Broncos is a
26:50
night game unless they flex us out of that thing, I think.
26:53
They will. Yeah, I think they will.
26:56
I mean, at at that point in time, I I think they definitely
26:58
can. So, but to see well, what we'll
27:02
get to, I don't to see Bo Nixon, Jaden, maybe not, but now I
27:06
don't know if we're going to get to see Jaden for a while.
27:09
All right, It's just going down and seeing it.
27:13
What were you thinking when we're down by that many points
27:19
and five, we're still out there. Ed 1st I, I really didn't pay
27:29
attention to it. And then I think it was maybe 10
27:34
minutes left in the game or something like that.
27:37
And I, and I said, wow, he's, he's still out here.
27:42
But I said, OK, he's, he's, he's a competitor.
27:45
That, that's what went to my mind.
27:47
I, I, I was confused, but at the same time he's a competitor.
27:54
So I was kind of 5050, if you will.
27:58
And then I think it got down like to 7 minutes and I was
28:03
like, oh man. I, I was saying to myself, I
28:06
don't think he should be out here.
28:08
That's what because I don't think that Bill came back out.
28:11
They, they, they gave a heavy doses of mix of Rodriguez.
28:16
I'm not, I'm not sure. Yeah, yeah.
28:19
And I, and I said, well, Mcnichols and not Mcnichols, but
28:22
if Bill isn't out there, then I don't know why he's out here.
28:26
But once again, it's, it's something that I'm saying to
28:29
myself, if you will not, not really, not really saying what
28:32
are you doing? You know, I'm, I'm not that.
28:35
It's just one of those things. And so we're driving and still
28:41
I, I wasn't really thinking about it, but like I said, it's
28:44
in, it's in my mind. I'm not going to say you're
28:46
going to lie to you and say no, I mean, you should never.
28:49
I, I just was OK. We're, we're, we're moving, but
28:52
maybe I don't know, it just it felt weird.
28:55
And then all of a sudden the unthinkable happened and here we
29:00
are. And then I said, then I said he
29:04
shouldn't have been out there. So this was actually DQ talking
29:09
about his thought process on Jayden being out there.
29:13
Was there any consideration did not having Jayden go in for that
29:17
series in which he got injured and having Marcus finished out?
29:20
Yeah, not not the space. I mean, obviously like the
29:23
hindsight, you don't want to think that way where, you know,
29:25
an injury could take place. You know, obviously we're more
29:28
conservative in that spot to, you know, run and hand off and
29:31
not have reads to go. But just the end result, Nikki,
29:35
I'm I'm bummed. So that was postgame, right?
29:40
And you had a ton of people yelling at streaming?
29:43
Me personally, I was fine and I'm still fine with Jaden being
29:48
out there, right? So I am watching them drive down
29:51
the field towards your end zone. The game's out of reach at this
29:53
point, right? Nothing is going to happen.
29:55
We're not going to come back. But I was trying to remember the
29:58
last time we came back from a deficit, and I want to say it
30:01
was 24 points against the Bucks that you like that game with
30:04
Kirk Cousins. Kirk.
30:05
Cousins So I'm thinking, OK, in the beginning of the 3rd, I'm
30:09
thinking, OK, we stopped them because they got the ball at
30:11
kickoff. Like first we did what you
30:15
wanted to do before where we took the ball, right?
30:18
We started off of the ball. The freaking first play of the
30:22
game. Luke McCaffrey broken
30:25
collarbone, right? If that wasn't foreshadowing for
30:28
how the hell the night was going to go, I mean, there ain't much
30:30
else it is. But they got the ball at the
30:34
half. We stopped them.
30:35
Our defense actually held them on 3rd and one.
30:37
It's like, you have to be kidding me.
30:38
And I think that play might have been the play that Lattimore
30:42
broke up right there. And I think he got hurt after
30:45
that play. So next thing you know, like we
30:48
still got a chance at this Fast forward.
30:50
Obviously we don't have a chance, right?
30:52
There are way too many penalties, right?
30:54
I mean, I don't I don't know why Zach Ertz kept jumping off
30:58
sides, right? I just did he did he have to go
31:01
to the bathroom? And you know how you got to go
31:02
to the bathroom sometimes you're jumping up and down like what
31:05
was going on? It just it made no sense to me.
31:06
The guy is a freaking vet and a half and I just, I it bothers.
31:11
We just kept shooting ourselves in the foot and you can tell
31:14
after a while this ain't going to happen.
31:16
But the one thing that was apparent to me was at the first
31:20
quarter, Jaden had to be Superman.
31:22
Nobody was getting open. The offense looked horrible.
31:25
I mean from your vantage point, because you see that end zone
31:27
view and everything developed what it looked like to you.
31:31
Open, close, open, close. That's that's what it looked
31:34
like. It looked like hike.
31:36
Oh, I don't have anything to do. And obviously there are plays
31:39
when you can see him trying to throw the ball away and it gets
31:42
intercepted. And I said, Oh my God, is this
31:45
how this night's really going to go?
31:47
And that's how it went. Any time that you cannot throw
31:54
the ball down the field, you're going to be in trouble.
31:58
And as I said on my my Facebook live, you know, if Terry
32:05
Mclaurin is the only guy that we can throw the ball down the
32:09
field to and he's not there, we're going to be in trouble
32:12
every week. And I got to tell I'm kind of
32:14
upset they didn't put chosen in. Chosen to me was a was a was a
32:19
guy who showed me something in against Dallas.
32:22
I'll be we didn't win, obviously, but he showed me
32:24
something. We tried to throw the ball down
32:26
the field with him. You just I said, even if
32:30
nobody's open, you got to throw the ball down the field and it
32:33
didn't happen. And as soon as I'm they had
32:37
pressure on this dude, like it wasn't anything nice.
32:41
And then I said to myself, all right, well, why are they
32:44
getting this pressure on him? Are there defensive players that
32:47
good? Are are offensive players that
32:50
bad? You know, because everybody
32:52
wants to talk about what happened last year.
32:54
And we've come to the conclusion or the deduction, if you will,
32:57
that five masked a lot of stuff. He he masked a lot of
33:05
inefficiencies, if you will, that we had just like another
33:10
quarterback did. We're not going to talk about
33:14
that. But we're starting to see now
33:16
that maybe our guys need to be bigger, maybe our guys need to
33:21
be stronger, maybe our guys need to.
33:24
I don't know. And I've never played the
33:26
position. So I don't even want to try to
33:28
have one of those guys come back and to me and say, man, you
33:30
ain't played, so you don't know what you're talking about.
33:31
So I don't. But.
33:33
But you've watched enough football.
33:34
Right. And you've been?
33:36
To enough games. Yeah.
33:37
And, and and that's what it looks like.
33:39
It looks like our guys aren't strong enough to hold the blocks
33:44
to to keep the blocks. Maybe the agility, maybe not it
33:51
not there that that's what it looks like and maybe it's
33:54
technique. There's there's so much that
33:56
goes into it that yes, I've watched a lot of football, but
33:59
unless you've played it to no proper hand placement and all
34:02
that type of stuff. One thing that we do know is
34:03
this. If you're holding, that means
34:05
you didn't move your feet. My coach always did tell me that
34:08
if you're holding, that means you're not moving your feet and
34:11
you're out of position. So that's all I can say with
34:15
that man. And so and the penalties show
34:18
you. I mean, for me, it, it felt like
34:21
Jayden saw early on people weren't getting open.
34:24
The only person I could get open was ertz on a consistent basis,
34:27
nobody else could, right? And it just felt like he was
34:31
trying to do too much. And the only way we were going
34:34
to win this game or come even close was if Jayden scrambled
34:38
and did what he did. And this was actually DQ being
34:40
asked about it. Dan, you, you're down.
34:43
Terry, you get go down. Luke very early first play.
34:46
How much? Burden does Jayden then kind of
34:49
put on himself because he is such a playmaker, he's down
34:51
weapons to create stuff because he talked and ran quite a bit
34:55
tonight. Does he kind of have that
34:57
mentality that he talked to whom to Jayden that like does he
35:01
takes take it upon himself to do stuff because he's you know,
35:05
he's down weapons? Yeah, understood.
35:06
I think that's his nature. Like he wants to, you know, be
35:11
aggressive and make plays to go. But he's got confidence in the
35:13
other players. I do know that.
35:14
So it's not like, OK, I have to do more.
35:17
I have to, you know, do things that are outside of of playing
35:23
in that way. We also have to have everybody,
35:29
you know, like injuries and those things happen and you hate
35:31
it. You know, I'm talking about for
35:32
Luke, but I don't I didn't sense that for him, you know, to say,
35:37
OK, now I have to do more into that spot.
35:39
But yeah, it's it's honestly, I didn't feel that from him.
35:44
I. Was going to say, you can say
35:48
that all day, but we're seeing something different.
35:51
Yeah, we're, we're we're feeling something different.
35:54
I've never been a head coach, so.
35:56
But I can't say. It feels as though he's got a
36:00
nobody. If no one's open, he can't take
36:02
a knee. So what's the next best thing he
36:05
has to do? He's running for his life out
36:07
there. So if if I'm going to run for
36:09
my, I'm not going to just say hot potato, you take it.
36:14
Damn, I got to turn off field and get some, some yards or, or
36:17
make something happen. So he's running for his life.
36:20
And maybe you don't feel that, but if the play breaks down and
36:24
let's face it, ladies and gentlemen, like you said, Ted,
36:27
we've watched enough football. If the play breaks down, the
36:29
next thing you that the quarterback has to do is
36:32
scramble, drill or, and you realize, OK, wait a minute, I, I
36:37
can't scramble. I I got to get the three yards,
36:39
whatever have you and slide or whatever, get out of bounds or
36:42
whatever the next steps of action may be.
36:46
So Nikki Zavala put a tweet out. Sam Darnold was pressured on
36:50
only three of his 24 drop backs against Washington for a career
36:54
low. Jaden Daniels was pressured on
36:57
17 of his 34 drop backs for a career high pressure rate of
37:01
50%, right? He's getting pressured half the
37:05
time he's back there and he's going to have to throw the ball
37:07
because we're down by so much. So they get a chance to pin
37:09
their ears back. So of course the young man was
37:12
trying to do more because. And this is no knock on the
37:15
receivers, right? This is a knock on GM, right?
37:19
And this is me saying it, right? You've got Debo, you got Jalen
37:22
Len, you got trailing Burks, right?
37:24
These are the receivers that he is throwing to out there, right?
37:28
I'm sorry. I mean happy trailing Burks is
37:30
here, but at no point in time really were these guys double
37:35
covered or you had to worry about it.
37:36
So they can send an extra guy, at least one extra guy if not 2
37:41
to get to Jayden, pressure him. So I'm not surprised and it was
37:44
just frustrating to see. Personally, I was fine and I am
37:49
still fine with the fact that Coach had Jayden in there when
37:53
it happened and the reason being they took a bunch of their
37:58
starters out. The Seahawks were up by so much.
38:01
It was their second string defense to a degree that we were
38:03
going up against, right? And Jaden has been hurt so much
38:08
and has missed so much time. I felt that he needed the reps,
38:11
right. I felt like, OK, let's let this
38:14
guy go out there. This is kind of, I don't want to
38:17
say pre season, but he's getting out there and he's getting a
38:20
chance to run the offense. The Seahawks are obviously
38:23
playing a different defense than the one they're playing earlier.
38:26
What I didn't account for was Jayden being Jayden, Jayden
38:32
trying to run and do some things outside of the actual play
38:36
itself. I mean, coach talked about it.
38:38
This is actually him saying what was supposed to happen during
38:41
that play. I know many of you have been
38:43
asking about the thought process of Jayden being in the game in
38:48
that situation. I get that.
38:50
I've been thinking about honestly non-stop too.
38:52
And you know, for me the answer is, man, I missed it.
38:55
But I would, you know, I'll fill you in on my thought process.
38:59
At the start of the fourth quarter, I guess it was probably
39:01
like 12 1/2 minutes left in the game and that was going to be
39:04
the last drive for a couple of guys, Jaden and Zach and Debo
39:08
and Lt. And so we're going to have any
39:11
read run plays and meaning no carries, you know, for the
39:14
quarterback on a run. And honestly, man, that's where
39:17
I missed it. Of course he could scramble.
39:19
It's Jaden. It's what he's special at.
39:21
And that is 100%. That's on me.
39:25
So they could tell him all they want, don't run, don't do this,
39:29
don't do that. But it's just, that's naturally
39:33
what makes him great. That's naturally what he does.
39:35
And what happened to him was just, it was a fluke, right?
39:38
He's running towards you in that end zone.
39:41
Like what were you thinking at that point in time?
39:45
As I said, Ted, I was into the game and the thought that that
39:52
even though the clock was at 7 minutes, 8 minutes, whatever it
39:55
was there was just it's just, it was a small inkling of me saying
40:00
I wonder why he's still in there.
40:01
But I didn't. I didn't it it, it just was a
40:06
thought. It wasn't like I said, what the
40:10
hell is he still doing in that type of thing?
40:11
It was just. Just interesting that he was
40:13
there and and he was making plays and it goes back to his
40:19
first game that they tried to bubble wrap him against the the
40:23
I was in Miami. I think it was the first.
40:25
Preseason game. Yeah, they, yeah, they, they
40:28
bubble wrap, they tried to bubble wrap him, but what did he
40:30
do? And then he looked back and and
40:32
he, they smiled and and after they pulled him.
40:34
But I'll be that's he's a competitor.
40:38
And one thing that I know is if the coach doesn't take you out,
40:45
you trying to to tap it to tap out and nothing's wrong with
40:48
you, you're going to be ridicule.
40:50
You know, because we saw what happened with the the cat from
40:54
from the Colts. I don't even think he I don't
40:56
even think he's on on the team anymore.
40:58
Maybe he is he's but he's like third string backup or
41:00
something. So Jay didn't want to do that.
41:05
You know, he he wanted to stay in there and we understand that
41:10
he's a competitor. He really is.
41:12
And he wanted to make something happen.
41:14
And obviously as the coach said, it was a no run scheme for him.
41:20
But the play broke down and he's just doing what he's doing.
41:23
He's scooting. He's scooting and booting as
41:25
they call it and trying to go down and rolling it.
41:30
We know what happened and and so the rest is history.
41:33
So I went back and watched the play.
41:35
I didn't. I didn't want to look on social
41:37
media and people were sharing the clip and the injury and
41:40
everything else. I'm in the stands and I'm
41:42
actually hearing it on, you know, the radio feed.
41:46
And Logan Paulson made like this noise.
41:50
And I think he might have said, oh, my God, at that point.
41:52
And all I could see was Jaden going down and immediately guys
41:58
in our team taking a knee and other guys that were away from
42:02
the play taking a knee. Some thinking what just
42:05
happened, right? And I guess people started
42:09
pausing it on their DVRS and putting it on social media.
42:14
And at this point I still haven't even seen it.
42:16
I don't want to see it. All I heard was his elbow was
42:19
backwards. And next thing I know they're
42:24
bringing out a cart. So the carts coming from the
42:26
tunnel that's on my side of the field, it's like a cart for an
42:30
elbow. Seems kind of weird for a cart
42:32
for an elbow, but I'm just the entire crowd just gas and just
42:38
like, you've got to be kidding me.
42:40
The guy behind me is yelling and screaming, you never should have
42:43
had him in there. And it's I, I get it.
42:45
And those fans that disagree with me and say he should have
42:48
been in there, I get it. David Aldridge actually had a
42:51
tweet out. Let me see if I can find it real
42:53
quick. I mean, DA said something that
42:57
from his perspective, and I understand why people think
42:59
this, here you go. DA said there was no reason for
43:02
Jaden Daniels to still be on the field and playing Sunday night
43:04
after the Seahawks had dominated the Commanders for three plus
43:07
quarters and letting him go back out there led to catastrophe.
43:11
He should have been on the sidelines with a clipboard in
43:13
his hand and a headset on his head watching Marcus Mariota
43:16
finish up a bad night at the office for the home team like
43:19
teams that are getting mauled do all the time.
43:22
That he wasn't fails at the feet of the head coach.
43:25
Dan Quinn is a good man and a good coach, but he made the
43:27
wrong decision allowing Daniels to continue.
43:30
And the play that DQ called or that Kingsbury called, this is
43:34
actually DQ saying what was supposed to happen on that play.
43:37
Yeah, we have a replays on it and the one that he was on
43:40
injured is, you know, usually a runner or a throw to the flat.
43:42
It's not a scramble. So it wasn't a designed read or
43:46
play, you know, into that spot. If we run it, you know, 50
43:49
times, it's either hand off or a throw, you know, I'd say 50
43:53
times. So it's yeah.
43:56
It's, it's, it's a bummer, man, in the big way.
44:03
So that 51st time, it just, it didn't go like it was supposed
44:07
to. But it's also to me that's the
44:10
young man, the competitor in him, if he is out there, he is
44:14
giving it 110% no matter what. And that's just what led to
44:18
this. And it's just, it's such a
44:21
bummer because I, I feel so bad for that young man because this
44:26
is his third game that he's playing out there and he's been
44:29
injured 3 times in a row. Yeah, sad.
44:37
It it really is, and from an injury perspective this is DQ
44:40
talking about it. Man, I thought the injuries were
44:44
bad prior. I didn't think they could get
44:47
much worse. Boy was I wrong.
44:50
And get started. I'll also give you some other
44:52
injury news. Confirm Jayden dislocated his
44:56
left elbow. No timetable on that right now.
44:59
Still gathering the the information.
45:03
Marshawn had an MRI today and confirmed an ACL injury for him.
45:08
So that will knock him out for the season.
45:10
And Luke fractured his collarbone.
45:12
Still working through the timetable for that, but that'll
45:15
definitely knock him out for a while.
45:17
So tough night on the injury front.
45:20
All three of these guys are absolutely elite competitors and
45:23
they mean a ton to our team for their play style and what they
45:27
represent so. So a lot of more done.
45:32
And look, I know people have been busting his butt and
45:35
sometimes deservedly so, right? But he had a heck of a game
45:38
against the Chiefs. But he's done for the year and
45:40
he's he's done the burgundy and gold, right?
45:43
He's this is a contractor for him.
45:45
They're not bringing it back next year, right?
45:47
To see young Luke go down. I mean, that young man was
45:51
showing flashes of what he could be down the road and it's just,
45:56
it's a shame to see that happen to him.
45:58
Haven't gotten to know his dad and his mom and, you know, the
46:02
family. I just, I feel for him.
46:04
And, you know, now the Jane's gone, I don't know what's going
46:07
to happen. I don't know when he's coming
46:09
back. All I do know is when he does
46:13
get a chance to come back, people were debating should he
46:17
be done for the season, right? And I want to get your thoughts
46:21
on that first. It depends.
46:25
And what I mean by this is this. If by chance we miraculously
46:31
turn things around and wind up in some type of playoff hunt,
46:38
and that's the only time I'll use that word.
46:40
If by chance we end up in that type of hunt and he's good to
46:44
go, he is the best player in that position to get us to to
46:51
move forward, if you will, to advance.
46:54
So I would say yes. If we just continued wet the bed
47:01
and with there's nothing to play for, no I say no.
47:07
If we're in the hunt, obviously, and he is 100% healthy, then
47:11
yeah, we all want to matter. For me, if we're out of the hunt
47:16
and he is 100% healthy, I still want his ass in there.
47:20
Right. He needs experience.
47:22
The young man didn't have any. Are you saying a?
47:26
Are you saying a pitch count? No, I'm not saying a pitch
47:29
count. I just if he is healthy, if he
47:31
is 100% good to go, let's just say it's four weeks from now,
47:33
five weeks from now and he's healed and he gets a clean bill
47:37
of health from the doctors, right?
47:39
And I don't know what our record is, but let's just say it's
47:42
worst case scenario. Five weeks from now what?
47:44
We are three and six. So 5 weeks from now we're 3 and
47:49
11, right? Playoffs are out.
47:50
The question. I still want to see Jayden on
47:53
that field because I think that young man needs reps.
47:57
I think he needs to see other defenses game planning for him
48:03
and go up against it. Mental reps are completely
48:06
different from actually going up against another opponent.
48:09
We've talked about it countless of times.
48:11
When you're going up against your brother in practice, you
48:13
don't go 100%. Best believe when you're going
48:16
up against other professionals, other grown men wearing a
48:19
different colored jersey, they're going to go up against
48:21
you 100% and I think. You don't think you don't think
48:25
he's seen enough football now if the if the football season I I
48:30
want to agree to disagree. If the football season was was
48:34
at the end of the football season is in OK, January, like
48:38
you said, which it is, or December, January it is.
48:41
And we play and we played hypothetically, the new season
48:44
started in April. I would agree with you.
48:47
The new season starts nine months later.
48:51
There's no what you retained. He's played enough football to
48:56
have retained exactly what you're saying.
48:58
And one thing that you don't want to do is and and and we'll
49:03
put it out there. Something worse happens to him
49:07
when you know that you have a hypothetically inept line, you
49:12
know that you don't have your receivers there.
49:14
I, I hear what you're saying as far as getting the reps, I got
49:18
you. But I believe that young man has
49:20
played enough football to have the mental acuity to be able to
49:24
say, I know what to do in these situations.
49:28
And if you put him out there and he gets hurt something worse and
49:32
now you're prolonging what you would have started from the new
49:37
season. I hear you and trust them.
49:40
I I get that. But from my standpoint, he
49:44
played 17 games last year, right?
49:47
This is his sophomore season. He has played six, right?
49:50
He has gotten hurt. He has not performed well in
49:53
these games, right? He's played football since he
49:56
was a little kid, but he has not played NFL professional football
50:00
for that long, right? Put it on.
50:03
The VR headset and going up against that and putting it on
50:06
3X speed is not the same thing. He is struggling in this offense
50:11
with this offense. The offensive line has not had a
50:14
ton of injuries. The offensive line is still
50:17
going to be the offensive line he's going to have later on.
50:20
Now if Laramie Tunsils out and Be Honest is out and Connerly is
50:26
out, then OK, that's a different story.
50:28
But if our offensive line is healthy, I want Jayden out there
50:32
to play and actually get some game experience, right?
50:36
We talked about this on the last show.
50:37
You have fans wanting him to just go on season ending IR with
50:41
a hamstring, right? And I just, I completely
50:44
disagree with that because there's way too much football
50:45
left in the season at that point.
50:47
But being realistic, barring a miracle, I don't see Marcus
50:51
Mariota and this defense getting us into the postseason.
50:55
We don't know what's going to happen with any of the other
50:56
teams in the league. But just based on right now, I
50:59
think it's less than a 4% chance or 8% chance we make it end.
51:02
But for experience sake, we know that he doesn't play in
51:07
preseason, right? He just pass experience.
51:09
He didn't play in preseason. You only get so much work in
51:12
training camp going up against your own players.
51:15
I just want to see some more out the young man.
51:17
I want him to get some more reps and some more experience.
51:19
And I think he should be out there if he is 100% healthy and
51:23
if the offensive line protecting him is also healthy, right?
51:28
I want him to build a relationship with Jalen Wayne.
51:31
I want him to build a relationship with some of these
51:33
other guys that he's going to have to throw the ball to
51:35
because it's obvious there was a lack of chemistry going into the
51:40
season because they didn't have a ton of chemistry during the
51:43
offseason. And what I'm going to say to
51:46
that is I hear what you're saying as far as getting
51:50
chemistry with these guys, but realistically, Ted, we don't
51:54
know those guys are going to be here next year.
51:56
Well, and I don't want to be here and I don't, I don't I, I
52:00
would like to think so. He's under contract.
52:02
He's he's not going anywhere. Right.
52:04
But OK, he may be under contract but so is B Rob and B Rob got
52:10
shipped. So he got shipped because it was
52:12
a contract year and they weren't going to pay him next year.
52:14
There's. I hear you.
52:16
I hear, I hear what you're saying.
52:17
But my point is this, there's always going to be a new guy
52:22
coming in to prove himself. And we don't know who
52:26
realistically is going to be here.
52:27
We don't. There could be a camp body that
52:29
shows up that that just replaces Lane.
52:32
Lane showed, Lane showed that he had promised and so they they
52:36
brought him up and here he is. We don't know what these guys
52:41
are going to bring on board in the offseason.
52:44
And I say it's, it's one thing. I understand what you're saying.
52:48
He you need to get those reps, but if you're not getting the
52:51
same reps from we don't believe that ertz is going to be here
52:53
next year. Oh.
52:54
No Ertz is done after this year, right?
52:55
I just, I don't know that for a fact, but being realistic, he's
52:58
signing the. That's how we feel, right?
53:01
You know I. I see, I see, I see.
53:03
Based upon what's happening now, I see a total revamp of a lot of
53:08
our hometown names that we know because I'm and I and guys don't
53:16
kill me for this, but they're not getting it done.
53:18
And you know as well as I do that if you don't get it done,
53:22
you don't play. And that's just how it is, man.
53:26
I love all those guys. But if you're not getting it
53:28
done, they're going to. Everybody right now has that pen
53:31
and pad and saying, oh, not good, not good.
53:36
We who else to who else is out there that we can possibly draft
53:41
or or or do whatever have you bring them in to to maybe
53:44
replace. Nobody's job is secure right
53:46
now, Ted. That's the only thing I want to
53:47
say. Nobody, I don't believe
53:49
anybody's job is secure and based upon what has happened,
53:56
that just isn't. It's a performance league and if
53:59
and if you if you aren't performing to that standard or
54:02
that level, they're going to be looking for somebody else to
54:06
replace you who can do better. I agree with you.
54:08
They're definitely, let's, let's be realistic, let's take a step
54:12
back. This is year 1.5 in the rebuild,
54:17
right? We were all served the bill of
54:20
goods last year because we made the NFC Championship game.
54:23
We were 60 minutes away from the Super Bowl, right?
54:25
So we thought that we were ahead of schedule.
54:28
In actuality, I don't know if we were ahead of schedule, right?
54:32
The roster itself, there's just been so many injuries, right?
54:38
We were ahead of our, we were ahead of ourselves because we
54:40
were playing opponents that weren't that good.
54:43
But now, now you put us up against opponents who are
54:46
playoff caliber teams and now you start to see your
54:50
ineptitudes or your weaknesses, if you will.
54:52
So now here it is. They say we got to get better.
54:56
We got to bring in, as I said, bigger, stronger, faster.
54:59
And what we have right now, some of the guys they that they're
55:03
not cutting the mustard, I guess a, a, a, a smaller team or, or a
55:08
team that is not as good. Oh, we shine.
55:14
But the team that's really good we're having problems with.
55:17
And as I said, the bean counters or the analytical guys are
55:21
saying, what do we got to do to bring somebody in who can stop
55:26
this? Because what they, what
55:27
everybody say, we're going to bring in all these people
55:30
because we got torched by the run.
55:31
Those guys can't stop the run. And what do we do?
55:33
We brought in bigger, stronger guys, but ultimately we're still
55:37
having the issue of stopping the run.
55:38
We're doing better, but it's it's harder.
55:41
I don't know. We're not doing better
55:43
statistically against the run. But part of that is right.
55:46
Dietrich Wise missed seven games, right?
55:49
Doris Armstrong missed two games.
55:51
Javante Jean Baptiste missed five games, right?
55:54
It just injuries are part of football.
55:56
We have actually had 17 players have suffered injuries that have
56:00
or will cost them serious time. 13 of these guys were starters,
56:04
right? So people have missed a total of
56:06
59 games and counting, 59 games and counting, right?
56:11
And that's just, that's partly because the depth that we have
56:15
on this team isn't what the depth you would have on another
56:19
team. The Lions last year, they were
56:22
banged up, they still managed to kick ass.
56:24
The 49ers, they were banged up, they still managed to kick ass
56:28
because they had depth. The problem is we don't have
56:31
depth. Peters overhauled the roster.
56:34
2/3 of the roster was brand new last year.
56:37
So now we've got a bunch of guys that are new or old.
56:41
Your rentals, right? Bobby Wagner probably done after
56:44
this year, should be done after this year maybe, right?
56:47
And you've got draft picks that have not panned out yet, right?
56:52
You're seeing flashes from a Luke McCaffrey, but you're not
56:54
seeing anything from a Ben Senate, right?
56:57
And they're just other guys. Brandon Coleman, we talked about
56:59
it was a starter last year, this year sitting on the bench riding
57:03
a pond, right? So I think right now there's
57:07
some of that just shine on Adam Peters.
57:10
It's starting to wear off a little bit because of the way
57:13
he's constructed this roster. And what I'm saying, going back
57:16
to the whole Jaden thing, I, I personally, he is the future.
57:21
He is the franchise. And I get people wanting to put
57:23
him in bubble wrap and stick him in a corner and not risk him
57:27
getting hurt like Cosmi did at the end of last season.
57:30
So we miss him for the part of the season and we miss him for
57:32
the offseason program at training camp.
57:34
Heaven forbid that happens, but in my mind, you cannot play
57:38
football scared. You cannot be a scared fan
57:42
because you're worried that this guy is Mr. Glass and is going to
57:45
break, right? You just have to go out there.
57:48
If the doctors and the training staff give him 100% clean bill
57:52
of health, you have to just go out there and think that this
57:57
young man is going to do what he needs to do to protect himself
58:00
and take care of himself. And when he came back from that
58:02
first injury this year, what we saw him do was protect himself
58:06
and take care of himself. We saw him take knees.
58:08
We saw him slide and get down and not take those stupid hits.
58:12
That hamstring injury he suffered was just a fluke thing
58:15
that happened. And this elbow injury, agreed
58:18
was such a fluke thing that happened because he's
58:20
scrambling. So and I there's points and
58:24
arguments for both sides. Should he play?
58:26
Should he not play? If he gets a chance to come
58:28
back, I don't want to see him play because I want to root him
58:32
as a fan. I just think he needs experience
58:35
and I don't think he's going to get it from the bench.
58:38
I just hope that it's truly not that long.
58:42
Good news is it's not broken, right?
58:45
They did some X-rays, it's good. Other good news is it's his left
58:50
arm. He doesn't throw the.
58:52
Throwing arm, Yeah. So other than taking a snap or
58:56
catching a snap at that point, he's not really using that arm a
58:59
ton. So I mean, I'd want to say it's
59:02
maybe the best ligament injure, best limb injury we could have
59:07
had with the guy. So I'm just praying that it's a
59:11
speedy recovery. Don't know how bad or how long
59:14
it's going to be. DQ said it's going to be a
59:17
couple of weeks. I, I doubt he goes to Spain,
59:21
right? I, I doubt he makes that trip
59:23
out there. I'm not too sure.
59:25
Well, maybe because it's his arm it's OK and they'll let him fly
59:29
out with the team. What do you think?
59:32
I expect to see him in Spain. I mean, how often does a young
59:36
man get to go to Spain and be a part of the team?
59:39
This is once again, this is a still a, a, a dream for a lot of
59:44
the players. So I expect him to, I would not
59:47
expect, I would hope that he would.
59:50
But if he doesn't, I understand. I, I totally understand.
59:54
But I think that he'd want to be amongst his brothers in Spain, a
59:57
new country, a new place, the the the same things that the
1:00:00
fans are experiencing. I see that the players want to
1:00:03
take that in as well. Oh definitely.
1:00:05
I just, it kills me, man. I I wanted to go to Arrowhead to
1:00:09
watch Mahomes and Jaden on Monday night and want to go to
1:00:12
Spain to watch Jaden play over there.
1:00:15
And now odds are we know he didn't do Arrowhead.
1:00:19
Odds are he's not playing in this game.
1:00:21
And talking about the Lions, coach said he doesn't see Terry
1:00:26
playing this weekend either, right?
1:00:28
And we'll talk about the Lions later on this week.
1:00:30
It's just it's becoming unbelievably frustrating.
1:00:35
And there no one's even really talking about how bad the
1:00:39
defense was. All everyone cares right now is,
1:00:41
you know, Jayden obviously going down and rightfully so.
1:00:45
Good news is we'll be able to see Joe Witt outside of his
1:00:49
little coaching box upstairs and he's going to be downstairs on
1:00:52
the field because that should make everything better.
1:00:56
I would almost think that you see better higher with that
1:00:59
vantage point then on the field, maybe you can hear better
1:01:03
feedback from the players. I don't know.
1:01:06
I like to hey, if it works, bravo Joe, get come on down.
1:01:12
But if it doesn't, by chance, what's going to be the next
1:01:17
course of action? And I heard a lot of people
1:01:20
saying that somebody needs to be fired.
1:01:21
And I never want to see anybody fired.
1:01:25
But at the same time, I know on my job, if I'm not cutting the
1:01:28
mustard, they're going to find a way for me to slowly see the
1:01:32
exit, see the door. So I'm just hoping that we can
1:01:37
figure it out. And that's as a fan.
1:01:39
That's all we can do. They actually asked DQ if they
1:01:42
were going to make any coaching changes.
1:01:43
Defensive struggles have continued for a while.
1:01:46
You said you'll look at everything.
1:01:48
Are are you at the point now where you're considering any
1:01:51
changes with your defensive staff at all?
1:01:54
No, I was, yeah, yeah. The three TDs that that just
1:01:58
burned me up on. The second TD was like a third
1:02:01
and eight. We doubled Smith and Jigba.
1:02:05
We got beaten man to man by a different player.
1:02:08
The third TD was the first play after a fumble on a kickoff
1:02:12
return. I believe it was right around
1:02:13
2526 yard line. You know, it was man to man on a
1:02:17
seam route. So those weren't confusing
1:02:19
calls. And the toughest of all was a
1:02:21
cover 3, The 4th TD, the quarterback got, you know,
1:02:24
caught up on a run, fake ball over top.
1:02:27
We also missed a tackle on that play.
1:02:29
So the executed man, John, it's, it's players, it's coaches, it's
1:02:32
all of us, man. And we're capable of playing
1:02:34
these calls and playing them better.
1:02:36
And I'm certain of it. My belief in the players is high
1:02:39
and the staff is high. We got to get this job done,
1:02:41
man. It's, it was extremely
1:02:45
frustrating. And, you know, we're looking at
1:02:48
everything, man, to make sure like whatever we need to do to,
1:02:51
to play our best, you know, we're going to find a way to do
1:02:54
that. So I guess the change is just
1:03:00
bringing Joe down on the field. And I I agree with you.
1:03:02
You get a better view upstairs. I I used to have my original
1:03:05
seats were 50 yard line in the 400 section of the stadium,
1:03:09
right? And I could see the best up
1:03:11
there. But coach said it'll be easier
1:03:15
for Joe to institute changes from the field when he's down
1:03:19
there with the players, right? And it it feels to me like he's
1:03:23
rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, right?
1:03:26
That ship is sinking. It's like, like you said, what
1:03:28
else can they possibly do to fix his defense?
1:03:31
I don't know because the players aren't changing.
1:03:34
I think losing Will Harris at the beginning of this season
1:03:37
when he went down is something that people aren't talking about
1:03:40
enough because he was the captain back there directing the
1:03:44
secondary where to go. Now the guys just look lost.
1:03:47
They really do. And this was them simplifying
1:03:50
the defense this week. It don't get much more simple
1:03:53
than this. And Sam Darnold picked him off,
1:03:55
just picked him apart like a hot knife through butter.
1:03:57
Man, it was just sad. Well, we got Detroit coming into
1:04:03
town. They're pissed off that they
1:04:05
lost golf is pissed off that we took them out of the playoff
1:04:09
contentions last year. So they got something to play
1:04:12
for. They're going to be upset they
1:04:14
got a they got a chip on their shoulder from last year to this
1:04:16
year to their them losing last week.
1:04:20
So be be prepared people. That's all I'll say you, you, if
1:04:24
you are a true fan, you better buckle up because it doesn't get
1:04:28
any easier from here. And we've said that.
1:04:30
And so hence four games we each week, if we said we're going
1:04:35
through the gauntlet. So this is another game and that
1:04:38
gauntlet. So you better bring your band
1:04:43
aids because this is going to be a something that's going to be
1:04:46
cut up possibly unless they they, they do some changes and,
1:04:53
and change player personnel. Just be prepared that that is
1:04:56
it's, it's going to be a hard fight.
1:04:59
Oh, definitely is. I mean, it's, I hate to say it's
1:05:02
gotten to the point of the season where I'm looking forward
1:05:05
to the tailgate at this point more than the actual game
1:05:08
itself. And for the longest time that's
1:05:11
all we had right as fans. And that's been my argument with
1:05:14
ownership about the new stadium. Tailgating is all that we had
1:05:18
for 20 plus years to actually care about because the product
1:05:20
on the field and the product in the stadium was so pissed poor.
1:05:24
Well, now the product in the stadium is not pissed poor.
1:05:27
The product on the field, hate to say it, it is right now.
1:05:31
So tailgating is what we're all looking forward to and I I can't
1:05:33
wait to get out there this weekend to see you guys and
1:05:36
spend some time with the fans out there and have another fun
1:05:38
tailgate. We'll talk about that later on
1:05:40
this week. But right now, man, I think each
1:05:43
and every one of those players on that team needs to look in a
1:05:46
mirror and just think about the performance they put on that
1:05:51
field on a night where we are honoring one of the greatest
1:05:57
Washington players to ever wear burgundy and gold.
1:06:00
And it was just, it was a sad sight, man.
1:06:03
And I hope that they just take it to heart on how embarrassing
1:06:08
that was to watch and how embarrassing it is for the fan
1:06:11
base. And that's me saying that
1:06:12
because I'm never leaving before that clock goes 000.
1:06:17
But damn, I wanted to. So did I, so did I, but the
1:06:23
captain does what goes down with the ship and I will not leave
1:06:28
until it's, like you said, 000. So well, hey, man, on a brighter
1:06:35
note, I could just see you in a couple more days to do this all
1:06:41
over again and see the fans to do it all over again.
1:06:44
And who knows, the outcome could be different.
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We're hoping that it is. I hear the music playing in the
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background let you know we're bringing another episode to a
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close. We thank you guys for riding
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with us. We really do remember you RIP it
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hard, but you don't RIP it at all.
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Rally Captain Tailgate Ted, we will see you guys in a few.
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Keep your heads up, folks.