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Does the NBA have too much superstar treatment? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  New York sports loudmouth, we are talking to 2026 NFL draft
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  prospect and Navy safety and outside linebacker.
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  Now our friend Jackson Campbell. Jackson What's up, man?
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  How's it going? Thanks for having me.
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  Well, thank you. I mean, we went a little too
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  long on the last segment, so I know you've been waiting calmly
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  and carefully. It looks like you're in a
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  gymnasium. I mean, you're starting to look
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  like Nathan's back wall. I mean, there's nothing on his
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  back. He looks like he's like in a,
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  you know, a semi. What what we call that Speedy, a
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  jail cell. I almost said cemetery.
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  But who knows with Nathan, He might be a serial killer
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  anyways. And he's not wearing his his
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  blue blazer tonight, so that is a good sign.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, he's just hanging out, relaxing on the
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  couch and watching the show. But Jackson, we've heard a lot
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  of great things about you. You're young, you're talented.
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  You played for Navy. I, I love watching those Navy
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  and Army games. Tell us a little bit about
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  competing against Army year in and year out.
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  Yeah, first, thanks for having me.
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  I'm actually in one of the the, the biggest dormitory in the
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  country. Yeah, here at the name Cabbie.
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  All, all 4000 midshipmen stay in Bancroft Hall.
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  It's super old. I live on the top deck.
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  So that's why that's why it's looks like a prison, actually.
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  But yeah, playing against army every year is a privilege.
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  You know, over 10 million people watch that game.
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  It's a game that they're obviously an opponent that is
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  familiar with our offense. We're familiar with theirs.
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  So you can kind of throw out schemes and everything where
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  throughout the year our offense kind of rolled other teams just
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  because they weren't used to running that like Sling T type
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  of offense. But they obviously know that.
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  So you can throw that out the window and it's just a game of
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  grit. One of the most physical games
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  I've played in. It's electric.
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  It's definitely an American saying.
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  Like as an American, you you need to go to a game.
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  Now, we've seen a lot of great safeties come out of college and
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  go to the NFL. There's a couple of them to
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  mine. Kyle Hamilton playing for the
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  Baltimore Ravens, Big, long, talented speed guy that'll beat
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  you right inside. Derwin James, Sensational on the
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  LA Chargers, Xavier McKinney. When you look at these three
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  guys and one of the guys actually was drafted by the
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  Giants, I no no longer with the Giants, just with the Green Bay
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  Packers. He really developed with the
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  Green Bay Packers. That's a whole nother story.
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  I just like taking shots at all the Giant fans.
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  But nevertheless, you look at these three guys, is there one
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  of these guys that you can compare your skills to?
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  Yeah, I would like to say Kyle Hamilton obviously playing
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  against them. He he was a little before me,
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  but playing against Notre Dame every year is always special.
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  You can kind of roll down into the box.
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  I myself played outside linebackers, the nickel role
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  here at the Academy during the last two years and I think I can
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  be like a Swiss Army knife, whether that be special teams or
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  playing nickel. I'm definitely a physical player
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  and Kyle's the same and I think our games kind of kind of match
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  up well. So you'll be learning all these
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  different types of positions. You've seen these hybrid
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  defenders really become a main thing.
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  Even if you're not the, even if you're not like the best player
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  on the team, somebody that does like 3 or 4 things like that
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  could be very important. How is it for you when your
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  coaching staff over there or even in maybe in other levels in
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  high school like learning all those positions being different
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  like that? I think it's awesome.
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  Ever since growing up, I've just always loved ball.
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  I played quarterback in high school, was Allstate
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  quarterback, recruited at quarterback and so played,
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  played receiver actually my freshman year at the Academy.
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  And then coach Neymar, who recruited me, was let go.
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  I think he's somewhere in San Jose State right now.
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  And then that's when Coach Newberry came in and I switched.
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  Knowing all those different positions and the mindset of a
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  quarterback, what there's like, what they don't like, whether it
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  be getting jammed up or just throwing off that tiny, really
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  helps me translate that on the defensive side of the ball where
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  I knew I could be physical and I knew what offensive players
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  liked and what they didn't like and those sort of things.
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  Yeah, Josh, what's going on, man?
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  This Quinn Copus, man, I first of all, thank you for coming on
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  the show. As you just mentioned, you used
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  to play offense. She was a quarterback in the
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  receiver. Talk to me a little bit about
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  that transition from basically not being hit and now delivering
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  the hit. Yeah, honestly, in high school I
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  was a little bit of a Pansy. I just like to score a
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  touchdown, get the girls, that sort of thing.
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  And my mom actually always told me I would be a better defender.
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  Once I realized that hitting people actually didn't and I had
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  something that I enjoyed, I loved it because we all know the
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  the best athletes on the field actually play defense because
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  come on, I'm able to move backwards where you're, you know
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  exactly where you're going and I can use my athleticism to stop
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  you. There's no better feeling having
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  a stadium full of 40,000 people screaming their heads off and
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  you got to make the stop. And like, knowing that you can
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  actually have control over a game fires me up.
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  And it's something that I want to continue to do because, you
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  know, being a receiver, sometimes you're dependent.
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  You're dependent on your quarterback getting you the ball
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  and then you're also dependent on the line blocking for the
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  quarterback. Depending on the weather,
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  sometimes where defense you can line it, you we can line it up
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  anywhere. I don't care about a gravel Rd.
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  That's a fact. Well, and by the way, we are
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  talking to 2026 NFL draft prospect, Navy's safety and
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  outside linebacker Jackson Campbell.
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  It's not Jackson Dart for all the Giant fans, but it's Jackson
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  Campbell and he might be drafted by the New York Giants.
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  Anything's possible, but there are a couple linebackers in this
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  class that have stood out, especially at the combine.
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  Sunny Styles from Ohio State, Avril, Avril Reese from Ohio
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  State, CJ Allen from Georgia, Anthony Hill Junior.
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  When you look at these talented players that are going to be
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  drafted this year, what type of player can you tell the fans you
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  are compared to these players and why are you a better choice
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  from all three or four of these guys?
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  I don't know those guys on a personal level, and so I know
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  they're great players and the great athletes, but I can only
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  speak on myself and a player that you're getting within me is
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  the ultimate competitor. You can look at our our rap
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  sheet. The last two years we've won
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  over 22 games, only lost five. We've beaten SC teams like
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  Oklahoma. We'd beaten Cincinnati and
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  Memphis twice. I feel like a lot of times we
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  can get the stigma of being a service Academy that we're
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  smaller or less competitive. And I think those days are kind
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  of over. We did something special in the
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  past two years here with no NIL and that we're able to dominate
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  teams. And so I think I'm a player
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  who's super physical and athletic and where he might not
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  have the top end speed like the those other cats might have.
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  And I might not be playing in the Big 10, but you put me out
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  on the field. I'm going to compete and I'm
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  going to go win. I'm a, I'm a sure tackler and I
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  I just love to play football and I want to continue doing that.
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  You hear that Giant fans and jet fans, I like this kid.
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  He's confident. He's not going out there showing
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  you an ego. He's didn't take shots at any of
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  these guys saying that he he's better than any of them because
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  we've heard I've heard Reese go out there and say he's the best.
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  I've heard styles come out there and say that he's the best.
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  Pain, pain go out there and say he's the best.
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  This kids just saying I'm, I'm, I'm the ultimate competitor.
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  I I want to win and I'm going to go out there and give my best
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  every single day and that's what you want to hear.
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  That's why the New York Jets need those kind of players.
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  The giants need those kind of players, so there's a good
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  possibility you'll be here hanging out here in New York.
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  I'd stay away from The Jets. I'm a jet fan because it seems
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  like they get lost in the shuffle.
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  As you know, Quinton Couples was a first round talent by the New
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  York Jets and he got lost and you know, but we got him so he's
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  a he's a first round draft pick for us as well, but there you go
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  we. Found I wouldn't mind going back
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  to the Giants. My my pox tank Daniels, he, he
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  played there, he was a free agent.
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  Oh really? For the Eagles and then was at
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  the Giants when they won the Super Bowl.
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  So you just not mine being embarrassed?
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  You just made you made, made Coach Fish very, very happy over
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  there because he has like, he has this like love fest for the
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  New York Giants. I don't know what it is.
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  He thinks that everybody's getting the New York Giants.
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  You name it, they're getting it. It could be, it could be
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  anybody. Hey, you know what?
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  Ray Lewis is coming out of retirement.
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  He's going to the Giants. Terrell Rugs is coming out of
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  retirement. Reed, everybody, all the great
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  defenders, defensive players, Brian Urlacher, he's coming out
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  of a retirement, he's going to the New York Giants.
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  So if there's something about the New York Giants fans, we got
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  a couple of them on the show and a lot of fans that listen to the
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  show. But you know, it's interesting
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  about the game of football And I've I've seen, I've watched
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  this game, I've seen some really bad football in the past,
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  especially guys that try to transform their talents to
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  another position. What was it like now?
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  You went from one position to another position to another
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  position. So think about it.
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  You you went from the quarterback to a safety to an
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  outside linebacker. Tell us a little bit about all
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  those positions and how hard was it to transform your talent from
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  one position to the other? Yeah, each position is specific
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  and and unique in its own way, but I really don't think the
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  transition was really hard and I think it really stems back to
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  kind of how I was raised and kind of to the competitor that I
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  am at the end of the day, as a freshman being recruited as a
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  quarterback, I had a lot of success in high school and I
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  wanted to play well. To play as a freshman, you got
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  to be a different type of dude, especially at the quarterback
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  position. So having that mindset and
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  knowing like, man, what's the best way to make the bus and and
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  travel and play as oppression? Well, everyone knows the special
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  teams. And so I was out actually out
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  there fall camp freshman year in an orange jersey running down on
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  kickoff just to try to hot get get on the bus.
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  And that kind of caught my coach's eyes.
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  And so from that I started making the transition of being
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  like, hey, like I just want to compete.
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  I want to be out there. The transition in itself wasn't
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  that intense. Knowing that, I just wanted to
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  play. I'm thankful that I did that,
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  too. So I was able to play receiver
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  my freshman year, travel play against teams like Notre Dame,
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  and then my sophomore year on I was able to play defense and
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  it's been great throughout my entire college career.
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  So the military to football or vice versa, transition is
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  something we've seen kind of brought up more prominently.
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  Nate Boyer played for the Seattle Seahawks, was on our
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  show a couple years ago. He said when he was he was
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  actually in the military before he ever played football.
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  Then he played in college and then played a couple years in
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  the NFL after that. We've seen with Alejandro
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  Villanuevo spent a couple years in the military before joining
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  the Steelers and playing for a while.
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  What was your journey like both ways and how did you get
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  exposed? Was it a family thing with
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  joining the military and the blame in football?
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  Yes, I'm, I'm actually the first person in my my family to be in
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  the military. Upon graduation here in May, I'm
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  going to Commission into the Marine Corps.
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  I'm going to be a Marine Corps pilot.
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  I hope to fly 50 threes. They're like a big old
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  helicopter. And yeah, really this, this
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  place is super unique in the fact that it's giving me great
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  opportunity to play big time football.
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  And that's something that I'd love to do it.
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  And then later also give great sacrifice and serve my country
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  what which I love. So it's really unique in that
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  aspect where it gives me the best of both worlds.
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  And as much as I want to continue doing what I love and
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  that's playing football, when football does end, serving is
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  something that I'm very excited. Who's your agent?
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  I, I, I got to reach out to the New York Jets.
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  I I need. This guy, I don't, I don't have
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  one at the moment. Oh, really?
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  One bad. Really trying to reach out to
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  people. Yes.
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  I can help. You're getting, I can help.
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  You're getting a dog over here. Someone who started two years,
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  then all, all defense of the week in the American Conference
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  had 2 1/2 sacks against Air Force.
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  Like, yeah, I got some tape you can run me where I might be
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  short on some measurements and stuff.
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  Like my competition and my mindset is you're going to get a
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  competitor. So I'm trying to get that camp
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  invite by any means necessary because I know what I'm worth.
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  I got to, I can help you with that.
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  I know a couple of agents that always looking for some up and
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  coming talent and why not? What we can cross, we can cross
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  numbers, and I can hook you up with one.
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  So you mentioned the 53, Jesse. Tell me.
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  I don't know too much about it. Well, let me let me rephrase
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  that. I don't know too much about it
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  in regards to certain military details and whatnot.
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  But I am a fan of the Apache. So give me a little compare and
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  contrast in regards to which one is better, which one is not
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  good. But I don't know what I don't
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  know without you know, give me any classified.
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  Information they're similar as, as far as like they're both
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  helicopters and the, the Chapter 53 is a helicopter that the
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  Marine Corps flies. So they can do anything from
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  humanitarian work to dropping off a platoon of infantry
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  Marines into a combat zone. It's it's a unit of a
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  helicopter. So this helicopter can carry
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  supplies as well. So it can carry like a Humvee,
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  it can carry up to twice its weight.
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  After I finished up the basic school, that's the school in
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  Quantico, VA with the Marine Corps.
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  I'll be down in Pensacola doing my flight training, but All in
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  all to say, I hope to extend all that because I'm playing ball in
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  the summer trying to make a squad.
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  Oh, no doubt about it. So you are you entering as a
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  safety or outside linebacker? I am I'm entering as safety.
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  At the safety, OK, so I got a couple questions for you.
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  Are you in the box safety or over the top safety?
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  Primarily in the box, but I can I can do that.
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  You can do both. OK, OK.
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  Which one you prefer? I like to be in the box because
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  I like to come downhill. OK, so you are so that answers
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  my next question. You, are you a big hit guy?
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  Are you a pick six type of guy? Oh yeah, big hit.
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  Big hit, big hit type of guy. OK, OK, OK.
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  That's work. That's good work, man.
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  Yeah, definitely. Safeties are definitely needed
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  to be physical in the next level.
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  So, you know, you got to go throughout the right mindset,
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  man. And so I think you're going to
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  transition work pretty well if you get an invite.
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  Listen to that Jackson, you got an X first round draft pick
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  telling you that you could be a nice fit somewhere.
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  And I, I think the safeties in the NFL are one of those
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  positions that aren't appreciated.
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  I, I, I, you look at the running back position, you look at the
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  safety, we've gone back and forth positions that just are
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  not over appreciated in the league.
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  And, and, and we're seeing guys like we've, we've mentioned over
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  the last couple of, you know, questions that I've asked you
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  guys that Hamilton is one of them.
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  He's starting to develop. Fitzpatrick was just traded to
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  the New York Jets. He was a top five, top 6 when
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  he's healthy. So there are guys out there that
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  can really change a defense. And, and, and I'll tell you this
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  right now, there are not many elite safeties in the NFL right
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  now. We are talking to 2026 NFL Draft
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  prospect, Navy safety and outside linebacker Jackson
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  Campbell. Jackson, you look at the league,
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  is there a particular team? Now I know you can't choose your
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  team, but if you could, is there a particular team you think you
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  fit with in the NFL? And is there a coach out there
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  you would like to be coached by? There's 32 coaches I like to be
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  coached by, but honestly, growing up a Steeler fan, no one
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  the history that they had Pittsburgh legendary coaches,
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  legendary owner, legendary fans, definitely a football town that
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  would, if that's in God's plan, that would be a gift.
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  But really, like I said, there's 32 teams.
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  I I wouldn't mind any of them. Let me get your old agent Q Put
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  my name out. There especially.
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  Especially being at the Academy, you know you got something.
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  You got something in common with Q, You got something in common
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  with QQ is a Pittsburgh Steeler fan.
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  That's one. And and #2 guess where we're
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  going to be around the draft time?
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  We're going to be at Pittsburgh. So maybe you should fly over
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  there. And come and hang out with US
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  033. It's not a big deal, but it's a
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  big deal to me. I'll be.
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  My senior year I was at Hargrade Military Academy.
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  So I kind of, you know, me like it ain't nowhere near your
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  level, but you know, I do. I do.
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  I did have a little bit of military experience in in
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  hospital. Yeah, well, how did you meet
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  Niffen? I mean, seriously, I mean, did
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  did the blue blazer pop out of like a wall or did he pop out
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  somewhere out of a Bush and say, Oh my God, I can help you?
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  How did how did you meet Niffen? Who is that?
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  Niffen, the old niffster, the guy that got you hooked up with
• 19:33
  us, the old needy. Oh, Oh yeah, he he reached out
• 19:37
  on Instagram. OK, All right.
• 19:41
  You know, he had to throw somebody a bone and.
• 19:44
  He tied. He tied a string to it and he he
• 19:46
  drew you in. Nathan's a good guy.
• 19:49
  He's one of those nice guys. He's like a 5 foot 6, like, you
• 19:53
  know, guy that likes to go out with a blue blazer and, you
• 19:56
  know, a polo shirt and whatever you call those pants.
• 20:00
  I mean, he's definitely color. Slacks.
• 20:03
  Yes, slacks color coordinated in many different areas right
• 20:07
  there. Lovely sad.
• 20:10
  So I mean you and Kniffen would be Kniffen loves the women.
• 20:13
  I mean, is there a particular first of all, are you dating
• 20:17
  anybody? Are you with anybody right now?
• 20:18
  Yeah, I am. I'm about to get married in May.
• 20:23
  There we go. Congratulations.
• 20:24
  Let's go. There you go.
• 20:26
  Yes, definitely excited about that.
• 20:29
  So where does your girl want you to go?
• 20:31
  Is there a particular team she would like you to play for?
• 20:33
  Beyoncé said Me. Anywhere.
• 20:38
  Anywhere. She yes.
• 20:42
  She read it. It gives a little bit more
• 20:44
  stability than the military, right?
• 20:47
  Exactly. Well, I wish you nothing but the
• 20:50
  best man and if you need any help finding an agent, I'm sure
• 20:53
  we can help you. I know a couple of guys that
• 20:56
  would be interested in and taking a call from you and, and,
• 20:59
  and getting to know you as a player.
• 21:01
  And if you need that help, I have no problems helping you
• 21:04
  there. But congratulations on such a
• 21:06
  great year over there at Navy, a great career playing college
• 21:10
  ball and, and wherever you go, depending on playing football in
• 21:15
  the NFL or succeeding as a pilot in the service in the Marine
• 21:18
  Corps, I wish you nothing but the best.
• 21:20
  Let's talk after the draft. Wherever you go, if you're
• 21:23
  picked up in the draft or you're a walk on I, I'd love to know
• 21:27
  where you're going to go and who you're trying out for my
• 21:29
  friends. Appreciate it.
• 21:30
  Yeah, well, I'll definitely be keeping in touch with y'all.
• 21:32
  I'll reach out to you too. Thank you man.
• 21:34
  Appreciate you for coming on. There you go.
• 21:39
  But. How about how about you speak?
• 21:42
  Give me an urah. Like, not like, like a bark.
• 21:45
  Like a bark. Urah, Urah.
• 21:46
  Come on. Little heart, little heart.
• 21:48
  Little heart. Little heart, little heart.
• 21:51
  There you go. It sounds like he's getting
• 21:55
  raped in the ass. There.
• 21:56
  That's perfect. Thank you, Jackson.
• 22:01
  We really appreciate you, Jackson Campbell, ladies and
• 22:04
  gentlemen, fantastic, great person.
• 22:06
  I like the kid. I really, really do.
• 22:09
  And let's let's try to find him an agent.
• 22:11
  I I think it would be great. And you know what, those are the
• 22:15
  kind of guys you want on your team, guys that are going to
• 22:18
  work their asses off to make the team, guys that will go out
• 22:21
  there as a good teammate and, and stand behind you.
• 22:24
  And he's doing it in the Navy. So he understands discipline, he
• 22:28
  understands leadership. So I, I like that kid.
• 22:31
  I really do. I wish him nothing but the best.
• 22:33
  And like I said, Niffen, if he needs it, he needs to talk to
• 22:36
  some agencies. I, I know a couple of agents
• 22:39
  that would definitely be interested in talking to him
• 22:41
  moving forward into the NFL. So very, very nice kid.
• 22:45
  Wish him nothing but the best. NFL Whip around, those whip,
• 22:52
  whip, whip around. Smell my ass glory hole butt
• 22:56
  plug. I want her melons.
• 22:59
  There's the whip around graphic. Let's get it going there.
• 23:02
  We go, boy. Few things in football news we
• 23:05
  got to talk about before we get going with the rest of it.
• 23:07
  So we were joking about a little bit because it was such a weird
• 23:10
  story. Something was wrong.
• 23:12
  Well, apparently something's really wrong.
• 23:14
  Poop in the cooah. Arguably the second best wide
• 23:17
  receiver in the NFL last year after JSN.
• 23:20
  Some people would say he had an even better year than JSN.
• 23:23
  He is now apparently in rehab. He was sued the other day.
• 23:28
  We reported on it for biting a woman and making anti-Semitic
• 23:33
  remarks. Obviously, that's just the tip
• 23:36
  of the iceberg. Something's going real wrong
• 23:39
  with the one of the best players in the NFL.
• 23:42
  I would love to find out what is going on in his head.
• 23:45
  I mean, the things that we're hearing about him.
• 23:48
  I heard that when he was at the Super Bowl, he was roaming
• 23:50
  around. He looked like he was on speed
• 23:53
  or something. And then he was interviewing
• 23:56
  with people and he couldn't even answer the questions.
• 23:58
  He went to the the award show. He was dancing to the music.
• 24:02
  He couldn't sit still in his in his seat.
• 24:05
  I love him. I think he's a great player.
• 24:06
  He was a fourth round talent. McVeigh has turned him into a
• 24:10
  superstar. You can argue he's a top.
• 24:13
  He's the top wide receiver, the second best wide receiver and
• 24:15
  all of the NFL. It's it's crazy to hear the
• 24:18
  story that he's biting women and biting people and doing all
• 24:21
  these crazy things on and off off the field.
• 24:24
  But I'm sure there's an explanation behind it.
• 24:28
  I, I don't know if he's bipolar. I, there's, there could be a lot
• 24:31
  of things going on in this man's head.
• 24:33
  I still think he has an opportunity to be a star in this
• 24:36
  NFL, in the NFL And, and, and again, he's the fact that he's
• 24:41
  trying to find help and go for help is definitely finding a way
• 24:45
  to balance himself out. So I, I like the story.
• 24:47
  It's just very weird. All these stories that you're
• 24:49
  hearing about Puka Nakua. Yeah, what he becomes is going
• 24:52
  to be another question. But you're right, it's
• 24:54
  definitely a good thing that he actually, he took initiative and
• 24:57
  went to go get help right away and not let it get spiraling out
• 25:00
  of control like we've seen in other cases.
• 25:01
  Now, obviously he's young, so he's not going to maybe have the
• 25:04
  build up with the injuries that he's had because he's been
• 25:06
  relatively healthy in his career.
• 25:07
  But again, it's still something that is concerning.
• 25:10
  He hasn't had many maturity issues.
• 25:11
  I think there was a big reason that the Rams drafted him.
• 25:13
  They knew that he could be a guy that is a good leader, good
• 25:16
  mature guy. And I think this is a good
• 25:18
  example of him taking initiative.
• 25:19
  Hopefully he can get that help. Yeah, I mean, I think well, one,
• 25:23
  not to sound insensitive to the situation, but I do think it's
• 25:26
  APR move especially with him getting sued and having to
• 25:29
  report to court. But I do think it's good that he
• 25:32
  is taking, he is being proactive and going to seek help.
• 25:35
  Like you said earlier, I don't really understand well what the
• 25:38
  issue is technically. So I guess without all those
• 25:42
  details, I don't necessarily know if it means anything to go
• 25:46
  to rehab and whatnot, especially not having certain issues.
• 25:49
  But I think the I think the professional sports need to take
• 25:53
  a look into, you know, developing coaches that can
• 25:57
  actually communicate with players and help these players
• 25:59
  off the field. I think they do a good job of
• 26:01
  charity cases and marketing of mental health and stuff like
• 26:04
  that. But you see a lot of reoccurring
• 26:07
  situations with athletes and outside or off the field or off
• 26:11
  the court and whatnot and there is just nobody there.
• 26:14
  They can't have that trust or whatever.
• 26:16
  And I know we didn't talk about it, whatever, but there's some
• 26:18
  situations going on in the NBA and this with the NFL.
• 26:22
  So I think there needs to be an emphasis on having some coaches
• 26:25
  that you know players can actually trust to be able to
• 26:28
  speak to and before these type of situations happen.
• 26:31
  All right, let's get into the next story here.
• 26:34
  This one's a little surprising. I didn't expect him to clearly
• 26:38
  go for a backup job. But her cousin signed with the
• 26:42
  Las Vegas Raiders. I mean, let's face it, they're
• 26:47
  taken. Fernando Mendoza, Kirk has made.
• 26:50
  How much money do you think he's made in his NFL career?
• 26:52
  I have it written down. Over. 200.
• 26:54
  Yeah, over 200. Yeah.
• 26:56
  Easy. Keep going 300, 321 before this
• 27:02
  latest contract with the Raiders on paper.
• 27:05
  Now this is Hugh. You're going to love this.
• 27:08
  This is an NFL 172 million five years.
• 27:12
  But when I say that it's really a one year, twenty, $20 million
• 27:17
  guaranteed agreement for the 2026 season, which the Raiders
• 27:21
  will only have to pay $1.3 million, the veteran minimum of,
• 27:26
  because the Falcons are still responsible for the rest of that
• 27:30
  base salary for the 2026 season. Is it he get paid by another
• 27:34
  team too? Yeah, the Falcons.
• 27:36
  The Falcons. Are paying just it just the
• 27:37
  Falcons and the Raiders? According to this, yes.
• 27:40
  So I thought. I raised like 8-9 and then that
• 27:43
  one. There's two void years in this
• 27:46
  deal, so he's going to be getting paid through 2030 just
• 27:49
  for this one year. I don't know.
• 27:52
  Handful of bridge games I guess before Mendoza takes over.
• 27:56
  I love it that I absolutely love it.
• 27:59
  Here's the thing, they need a veteran quarterback to come in
• 28:02
  and help Fernando Mendoza figure out things.
• 28:04
  You know, the NFL is not easy to figure out like it is in
• 28:07
  college. It's much faster.
• 28:09
  You need that veteran leader. I think Kirk Cousins is a good
• 28:12
  guy. He's going to come in there.
• 28:14
  He's going to teach him the book and and teach him the ropes.
• 28:17
  And, and here's the thing, Kirk Cousins has been a successful
• 28:19
  quarterback in the NFL. Fernando Mendozo will probably
• 28:23
  be called in probably Week 6 or Week 7, but you still have a
• 28:26
  competent quarterback to be in there.
• 28:28
  He's going to be able to call signs when Fernando Mendoza
• 28:32
  comes in. He's going to be able to talk to
• 28:33
  him in an earpiece when he goes in.
• 28:36
  So I think this is a great move for the Raiders.
• 28:39
  And also, you still have an organization that has a rookie
• 28:43
  coach. Clint Kubiak is a rookie coach.
• 28:45
  He's never been a head coach in the NFL.
• 28:48
  Now you have a competent quarterback that can help him,
• 28:50
  you know, teach these guys his offense.
• 28:53
  And I think Kirk Cousins is a guy that understands that kind
• 28:57
  of offense. So and he's been on so many
• 28:59
  different teams and so many motion calls and and stuff like
• 29:02
  that over the years when he played for the the Washington
• 29:06
  Commanders, when he went over the Minnesota and then he's
• 29:09
  jumped ship to Atlanta. This guy has been a journeyman,
• 29:12
  but a successful journeyman. So I think this is a slam dunk
• 29:15
  from it for Fernando Mendoza and this is a Tom Brady move.
• 29:19
  Say whatever you want. Tom Brady was the one one that
• 29:22
  wanted this. It's an absolute Tom Brady move.
• 29:25
  Yeah, it's kind of the opposite of what you saw with the
• 29:27
  Falcons, too, where the Falcons blindsided him by drafting
• 29:29
  panics. And now you're seeing a
• 29:31
  situation where I think he knows that they're going to draft
• 29:33
  Mendoza, so they're going to be comfortable and he's still going
• 29:35
  to get the money from the Falcons and later on with the
• 29:37
  Raiders if they do get into those void years.
• 29:39
  But yeah, it's definitely a good move.
• 29:41
  I think that he'll be more comfortable and especially like
• 29:43
  you said, if Tom Brady makes him comfortable over there.
• 29:46
  Oh, no doubt about it. Tom Brady going to make him
• 29:47
  comfortable. That's what he do.
• 29:49
  He get people paid and make them comfortable.
• 29:50
  You know, especially with his, you know, what's the, what's the
• 29:53
  coach called Clint? Kubiak.
• 29:55
  Well, what's his position called?
• 29:58
  His title? Ass Liquor.
• 30:03
  Yeah, but yeah, I think Kirk Cousin, Yeah, I forgot the date,
• 30:06
  but I couldn't think of it. But yeah, I think Kirk Cousin is
• 30:10
  is a great mentor, you know, game manager, quarterback,
• 30:15
  especially this part of his career.
• 30:17
  So I know I think it's a good, it's a good deal to have him
• 30:20
  around there and coaching the young bug up on how to manage
• 30:24
  the game and be successful in the league.
• 30:26
  And also Brock Bowers. Brock Bowers is still there.
• 30:28
  You have a competent quarterback that can get him the ball.
• 30:31
  Expect Brock Bowers, if he could stay healthy this year to have
• 30:34
  an all pro year. The he's sensational.
• 30:36
  There's not many guys that can do it as well as Brock does it.
• 30:39
  And now you have a competent guy that can get him, get him free
• 30:42
  and get him in the open field. So I, I think I think this is a
• 30:44
  great move. This is absolutely a Tom Brady
• 30:47
  move. To me, it's just like, you want
• 30:50
  to show the rookie who you're going to make that your
• 30:52
  franchise. This is how you call a huddle.
• 30:55
  This is how an NFL quarterback who's legit does it.
• 30:59
  This is how he sets protections, right?
• 31:02
  This is this is what these guys need to see.
• 31:04
  They need to know what it's like at this level, how quick you
• 31:06
  have to do it. If they're going to show him
• 31:08
  that, if they're going to pay 20 million to Kirk Cousins, who
• 31:11
  just seems to just keep collecting them checks, man,
• 31:14
  this is going to put them up to about 350 million.
• 31:17
  You know what you you know what you learned about this, this is
• 31:20
  probably this is this is Kirk Cousins last hurrah because
• 31:24
  anybody that goes to the Raiders completely disappears.
• 31:27
  So nobody wanted. To take the Raiders, would you
• 31:29
  take 20? Million, yeah, I take 20 million
• 31:31
  disappear, no doubt about. It I take $100,000 if the
• 31:35
  Raiders wanted me to be their quarterback of of course. 20
• 31:38
  million. All I got to do is mentor.
• 31:39
  I got to tell him stuff. Yeah, you go get fat and just
• 31:43
  sit on the side. I met Fernando Mendoza.
• 31:45
  He is a special kid. I I think a lot of people are
• 31:48
  going to like him over there in Vegas and he's going to be a fan
• 31:51
  favorite very quick, Not just in Vegas, throughout the NFL.
• 31:54
  He's very likable. It's all right.
• 31:56
  The Jets didn't need the first big Gino's taking him to the
• 31:59
  promised land anyway. Thank you.
• 32:01
  So let's get into the the real thing that probably should be
• 32:06
  talked about more. There's going to be a referee
• 32:09
  strike this year. This what it looks like.
• 32:12
  And now the players association is sounding the bells, which
• 32:15
  they rightfully should. That's player safety is going to
• 32:18
  be an issue without real referee.
• 32:20
  So there we talked about it the other day in the sports minute
• 32:24
  that there's going to be, you know, training of scab officials
• 32:27
  from college. But we remember what happened in
• 32:31
  2012 with Aaron Rodgers and the fail Mary.
• 32:35
  We all remember how that ended and how gamblers when it wasn't
• 32:39
  legal. Now that gambling is legal, how
• 32:41
  that's going to add a wrinkle to all of this.
• 32:44
  So NFLPA Executive Director JC Treader stated that trained
• 32:49
  professional officials are non negotiable for player safety.
• 32:53
  He argues that only experienced reps can manage the game in real
• 32:56
  time. The risk of inexperience.
• 32:59
  Unions warn that less inexperienced crews will make
• 33:02
  more bad calls, obviously leading to more injuries.
• 33:05
  And this nonsense that the league is saying that they can
• 33:08
  remote officiate from New York makes no sense to the Players
• 33:14
  association. This is good for football,
• 33:16
  ladies and gentlemen. Why?
• 33:18
  Because it'll become football again.
• 33:20
  No more of this two hand touch and this this grasshopper game
• 33:24
  of crap. We're going to see real hits.
• 33:27
  No, no calls and this is going to open up the game.
• 33:29
  We're going to see real football, NFL football again.
• 33:33
  This is great. Keep them out.
• 33:35
  I want to see the old timers working out with the players
• 33:38
  pumping some iron. I want to see these, these
• 33:41
  people that don't know how to make make a call, doesn't
• 33:43
  understand the game of football to let the game play.
• 33:46
  That's what I want to see. I want to see quarterbacks get
• 33:49
  hit. Not because you put a pinky on
• 33:51
  him and he's heard like Patrick Mahomes, He hit me.
• 33:54
  He hit me. I love this.
• 33:57
  Q 2012 was your first player in the league?
• 33:59
  Was there a difference with the replacement refs on the refs at
• 34:02
  the time? Yeah, no, I don't think so.
• 34:04
  I don't think it's going to be a player safety issue.
• 34:06
  I think the issue is going to come in whether it was a fumble,
• 34:09
  whether it was a catch, like those little nuances in the
• 34:12
  game. It's like they not going to be
• 34:14
  able to make good judgment on whether or not a catch or fumble
• 34:17
  or things of that nature. The player safety part, I doubt
• 34:19
  it. You know, once they get hit one
• 34:21
  good time, like they they're going to throw the flag,
• 34:23
  somebody from across the field to throw the flag and say this
• 34:27
  hit was too violent. The league is going to be, you
• 34:29
  know, making an emphasis about, you know, the contact.
• 34:33
  I would say, yeah, now the safety part ain't going to be an
• 34:35
  issue. But those little nuances is
• 34:37
  going to be a serious issue because they're not going to be
• 34:39
  making the right calls when it comes to interceptions and all
• 34:43
  they have this. Stuff.
• 34:44
  All right, let's get to the next story here, which would be.
• 34:49
  Freaking daily wives. As I mean Qi.
• 34:52
  Don't know if you've gotten to hear about Errol's fandom of his
• 34:55
  second favorite team. The Eagles.
• 34:58
  Which is the Eagles? It's his second favorite team.
• 35:01
  It's true. So you know he has a second
• 35:03
  favorite team. It may be without their top
• 35:07
  receiver going forwards because you know that they're Wheeling
• 35:11
  and dealing in the draft. You know he's going to.
• 35:13
  But the bigger story is Mike Vrabel, who, if you remember
• 35:17
  when A.J. Brown was traded out from under
• 35:20
  him, gave one of the most memorable I hate my GM type of
• 35:23
  press conferences while biting his tongue ever.
• 35:26
  And now he doesn't have that GM. And now he's in New England and
• 35:29
  needs a receiver like A.J. Brown.
• 35:31
  And he seems to be very available, a lot of dot
• 35:34
  connecting. And then Vrabel didn't exactly
• 35:37
  shoot it down when they asked him about it.
• 35:40
  He just did one of these. We're going to do everything we
• 35:42
  can to strengthen our team instead of saying no, which
• 35:45
  means yes, but he can't say yes. Let me tell you guys something.
• 35:50
  Even if A.J. Brown goes to the Patriots, A.J.
• 35:53
  Brown is reaching the age of 3031.
• 35:56
  He's at the tail end of his career.
• 35:58
  He's not the elite player he once was when he was playing for
• 36:01
  Tennessee or even the first couple of years with the
• 36:04
  Philadelphia Eagles. And, and here's another thing,
• 36:07
  as much as the, the, the Patriots are looking for a
• 36:10
  number one, is he a number one or more likely a #2 now he's
• 36:15
  just another one of those Patriot wide receivers that they
• 36:18
  have #2 and #3 guys now I like A.J.
• 36:22
  Brown. I think he's still a competent
• 36:25
  wide receiver, but the Eagles have come out multiple times and
• 36:29
  said he is not being traded. He's an Eagle until otherwise.
• 36:33
  Now it could be they could move them.
• 36:35
  If the Patriots are willing to give the Eagles a third or
• 36:37
  fourth round draft pick, they could move them.
• 36:40
  I don't think it's going to happen.
• 36:41
  Why? While it's become a rumor, and a
• 36:44
  rumor that's reaching high heights, as a matter of fact,
• 36:48
  Vegas is predicting that he is a Patriot before the season
• 36:51
  starts. I don't believe it, and even if
• 36:54
  it is, he's not a number one. Who cares?
• 36:57
  Yeah, the Broncos and the Bills, I think were other two other
• 36:59
  teams that were interested at the time, but they may trade for
• 37:01
  wide receivers already. And then the Chargers and the
• 37:03
  Raiders were also in the mix too, apparently.
• 37:05
  And the Chargers have a lot of cap space.
• 37:07
  The Patriots. Chargers make sense.
• 37:10
  Yeah, like I was, I was thinking the Patriots, I think they've
• 37:14
  made other receivers, veteran receivers in that scheme not
• 37:17
  work very well. Now, Elliot Wolf is going to try
• 37:19
  to be stingy against Howie Roseman, and I think that's why
• 37:21
  you're going to see a cross if this does stall longer.
• 37:24
  I definitely think if it does happen, it'll stall into July or
• 37:26
  something like that. But again, it's going to allow
• 37:28
  the way for other. Teams.
• 37:29
  Is he a one or two speedy? Low end 1 I think.
• 37:33
  I don't think he's a 1. He hasn't been a one in two
• 37:35
  years. Yeah, no, I think that.
• 37:39
  I think the rumor is true. I think he's going to be a
• 37:41
  Patriot. You know, I think it's lining up
• 37:43
  for that. And I think, I mean, they just
• 37:45
  went to the Super Bowl, they got blown out.
• 37:46
  They had a #1 receiver. That might be a different game.
• 37:48
  You never know, you know, based off, you know, what we saw.
• 37:53
  But I don't think that I do like the Chargers book as well.
• 37:56
  But A.J. Brown still number one, I think
• 37:58
  last year gave him an extra year on his on his on his NFL tenure.
• 38:04
  Smith was the number one. Smith was the number one on that
• 38:08
  team last year. It wasn't even an argument.
• 38:11
  Yes, he was he. Was talent wise and where the
• 38:13
  ball was going because all the the back and forth between AJ,
• 38:17
  Jalen and. A.J.
• 38:18
  Brown can't stay healthy and I like AJ.
• 38:20
  He can't stay healthy and, and again, AJ Brown's lost the step.
• 38:24
  You watched it last year, especially in the second-half.
• 38:26
  He's not even a tail end number one.
• 38:29
  And if he goes to the Patriots, to me, he's a competent #2 and
• 38:32
  that's what what the Patriots do.
• 38:34
  They bring in these number twos and they don't have that guy
• 38:36
  that can open up the field or make open, open up spots where
• 38:40
  that Drake may can get him the ball.
• 38:42
  What do they create? Separation.
• 38:44
  I don't think A.J. Brown could do that anymore.
• 38:47
  Don't you rather have him than Stefan Diggs though?
• 38:50
  He's the same player. He's the same player, Stefan.
• 38:53
  Not even close. It's not even coast a John way
• 38:56
  better receiving that Stefan days.
• 38:58
  And the thing about AJ is you don't need the speed that blow
• 39:01
  you off the top to be a number one wide receiver.
• 39:05
  He's still got hands. He still can get open, he still
• 39:07
  can get off the press. So why is you?
• 39:10
  Why are you considering him not being no more?
• 39:11
  Because he can't fly by you? Well, I'm looking right now at
• 39:15
  both guys and I'm looking at their numbers.
• 39:17
  I disagree with you guys. I think they're very alike right
• 39:20
  now. Stefan Diggs All right, so A.J.
• 39:22
  Brown last year had a 1003 yards, 7 touchdowns, 12.9 and
• 39:27
  average Stefan Diggs 1013 four touchdowns and 11.9.
• 39:32
  They're the same player. They're practically the same.
• 39:34
  Player, but that's where. I but that's.
• 39:38
  Stefan Diggs versus controversy. What are you talking?
• 39:42
  About they're the same amount of catches, 85 to Stefan Diggs to
• 39:45
  78 A.J. Brown.
• 39:47
  They're the same type of player. Yeah, but Wandell Robinson had
• 39:50
  their two and yards than Justin Jefferson.
• 39:54
  There to see a better player than Justin Jefferson.
• 39:56
  There to Jalen Hurts is is to me.
• 40:00
  He's an all worldwide quarterback and so is Drake May.
• 40:03
  They're they're both competent quarterbacks.
• 40:05
  They have almost identical numbers to me.
• 40:08
  Stefan Dix was the number two and the same thing as A.J.
• 40:11
  Brown. They're the same player.
• 40:13
  Go look at the numbers. They're identical.
• 40:16
  I disagree with you guys a #2. I just like like you want that
• 40:20
  physical player that A.J. Brown is, you know what I mean?
• 40:23
  Like he he offers more in the run game than a Stefan digs.
• 40:27
  He's kind of a more versatile player around the field.
• 40:29
  We'll see. I just think you'd rather have
• 40:30
  him. But we got one more left and
• 40:32
  we're getting close to the draft.
• 40:34
  Errol, obviously we've talked about it.
• 40:36
  We're going to be on location for the draft.
• 40:38
  It's going to be a good one. We want to talk a little bit
• 40:40
  about some draft rumors heading into it.
• 40:42
  Obviously, everyone knows Mendoza's pretty locked in to be
• 40:45
  #1 but we've heard a couple of rumors about this quarterback,
• 40:50
  Ty Simpson, and a lot of people are tying into The Jets at this
• 40:55
  16th pick, Errol. It seems to be growing steam.
• 40:58
  We also hear, you know, Arizona and the Rams.
• 41:03
  If it's not first round, maybe the Rams end up with him, but
• 41:08
  the Cardinals are another team very.
• 41:10
  I'm hearing the Rams are going to try to trade up in the first
• 41:13
  round to get him. That's what I'm hearing.
• 41:15
  They really like him. He interviewed so very well with
• 41:19
  15 teams. I've heard 15 teams come out and
• 41:23
  say they like this kid. His footwork is great.
• 41:25
  He's got great arm talent. If he sits the bench and rides
• 41:28
  the bench for one year and comes in next year, he's going to be a
• 41:31
  great quarterback in this league.
• 41:33
  And, and yes, I, I, I think The Jets are absolutely interested
• 41:36
  in Ty Simpson because they're going to play Geno Smith this
• 41:40
  year. You're not going to see Ty
• 41:41
  Simpson this year. He'll sit, he'll ride the bench,
• 41:44
  he'll learn the offense under Frank Wright and he'll be ready
• 41:47
  next year if the if need be. I, I think if The Jets are
• 41:51
  sitting there, I don't think he's going to be there at 16.
• 41:53
  I think he goes before 16. I've heard Pittsburgh's very
• 41:56
  interested in him. I heard Pittsburgh might move up
• 41:58
  to get him and Mike McCarthy is going to transition and, and
• 42:02
  give him a chance to, to learn that offense.
• 42:04
  Mike McCarthy, he knows how to develop quarterbacks.
• 42:06
  I've heard the Rams, I've heard Miami, I've heard Arizona, my
• 42:10
  trade down and still get him. So I don't think he'll be there
• 42:13
  at 16 for The Jets. But if he is I, I definitely, if
• 42:17
  I'm The Jets, I'm taking a family.
• 42:19
  I'm I'm sitting and let him ride the bench next year and, and let
• 42:22
  him learn the offense. Yeah, you got to think the Rams
• 42:24
  are in a good spot at 13 for getting that kind of thing when
• 42:27
  they've really filled out with the Mcduffie trade.
• 42:29
  They filled out the biggest weakness on their team.
• 42:31
  They they are the first round pick trade in that deal, but you
• 42:33
  have a 13th pick and you got to think maybe Miami might be the
• 42:36
  other threat. But you never know what
• 42:37
  direction they're going in this offseason.
• 42:39
  He goes to the Rams, he's going to be an absolute stunt, I was
• 42:42
  going to say. I thought Dart was going to the
• 42:44
  Rams last year for that same reason.
• 42:47
  Sean McVay has to realize the clock could be ticking with
• 42:50
  Stafford with all his back injuries.
• 42:52
  Yeah, I think the Rams would be a good pick for him.
• 42:54
  I think The Jets are interested because they've been listening
• 42:56
  to the show and Arrow had been all over him.
• 42:58
  So they decided to put him in the algorithm as far as The Jets
• 43:02
  going, but not I. I went back because.
• 43:05
  Here's the question, though. Here's the question.
• 43:07
  Was Aaron Glenn a week during that part?
• 43:10
  I think somebody gave him the the memo, they sent them the
• 43:13
  clip and I think it went it went forth from there.
• 43:16
  But yeah, I've been watching the kid and you know, because Arrow
• 43:19
  been all over him and it looks like his his stock draft has has
• 43:22
  went up. So I think rounds will be a good
• 43:24
  pick for him. I don't see The Jets getting I
• 43:27
  just think The Jets is going to do what The Jets do and that's
• 43:29
  that up. But yeah, kudos to him.
• 43:31
  He he stock. It definitely went up over the
• 43:33
  last couple weeks or something. Another interesting name around
• 43:37
  the draft that we're going to be talking about for the first hour
• 43:39
  it looks like is Jeremiah Love, who's increasingly look like a
• 43:44
  top five lock is what I keep hearing, with the most likely
• 43:49
  spot that he does not get past is our old friends Brian Dabel
• 43:54
  and Robert Sala over in Tennessee at 4:00.
• 43:59
  What do you think about running back going in the top five?
• 44:02
  I met Jeremiah Love. He's such a nice guy, kind,
• 44:05
  collective guy. He could have attacked the media
• 44:08
  when when some people were thinking after what Notre Dame
• 44:12
  and and the Notre Dame not making the tournament when they
• 44:15
  deserve to be there. Now we saw obviously what Miami
• 44:18
  did and Miami took their spot. But it's an incredible he's an
• 44:23
  incredible person. He's an incredible talent.
• 44:25
  I think as crazy as it may sound, I think he's better than
• 44:29
  the number one wide race of running back that was drafted
• 44:31
  last year and he went to the. Race.
• 44:33
  I'm sorry. Ashanti.
• 44:35
  Ashanti about better than Genti. I think he's better than Genti.
• 44:40
  Yeah, I think he's, he's all around talent.
• 44:42
  He's better. Than Genti, he's.
• 44:43
  Sensational. He's big, he's strong, he can
• 44:46
  run, he can go North and South, he can catch east and West.
• 44:49
  I like him and I I'll tell you this, he'd be a great fit for
• 44:52
  the Giants too, because I don't know what Cam's catapoo is
• 44:55
  anymore after that injury. He could be an absolute stud
• 44:59
  with the New York Giants after losing Saquon Barkley.
• 45:01
  He's a power back that can do all the things you want on the
• 45:05
  in the backfield, catching the ball and and and making people
• 45:07
  miss. And by the way, John Harbaugh
• 45:09
  loves those running. Backs yeah, definitely seems
• 45:13
  like a Titans type of move though, because you've seen this
• 45:15
  how unk eventually they've operated this offseason already
• 45:17
  they've drafted Chris Johnson in the first round.
• 45:19
  They've always emphasized their game since they moved to
• 45:22
  Tennessee, really on the running backs.
• 45:23
  They haven't developed passing games very.
• 45:25
  Well, will you be surprised that the Giants get them?
• 45:27
  Yes, I would be. I think the Titans are more
• 45:28
  likely. I it feels like a very Tennessee
• 45:31
  Titans. The Titans need offensive line.
• 45:33
  I don't think they should do it. I I agree with you they need off
• 45:36
  at the line. They they could definitely use
• 45:38
  anything else on the defensive side of the ball.
• 45:40
  They should I I would trade back and get a receiver.
• 45:42
  There's a lot of options. For that, if Robert Solo was
• 45:44
  smart, which we know we we know he's not because he's a deer in
• 45:47
  the headlights. Bambi, OK, if he's smart, he
• 45:50
  gets the kid from Miami, the offensive lineman from Miami.
• 45:52
  That's that's what I would do and solidify that offensive line
• 45:56
  that you have so many weaknesses in.
• 45:59
  You have a a quarterback that is in right now going into a season
• 46:03
  with no offensive line help, Any protection you need that guy
• 46:07
  that's going to protect him. Yeah, and I'm just saying it's a
• 46:09
  move that I seem like the Titans would make.
• 46:11
  I agree to that. It's the wrong move.
• 46:12
  They do it. They gave Tony Pollard a big
• 46:14
  contract a couple years ago and he was pretty good last year,
• 46:16
  Top 12 running back probably last year.
• 46:18
  It's not the biggest problem with their team.
• 46:20
  Yeah, I can see Tennessee doing the same thing.
• 46:22
  Speedy, I'm with you on that. I think they'll make a dumbest
• 46:25
  decision like that and get a running back as well, just
• 46:27
  because it's the most valuable pick on the board.
• 46:30
  But yeah, for running back to go top five in the league, you're
• 46:35
  probably going to be the laughing stop no matter how good
• 46:38
  the running back is. He would have to be.
• 46:40
  He would have to be what, 2000? Reggie Bush or something?
• 46:43
  Pretty much. All right.
• 46:44
  And guys, that is the whip around.
• 46:48
  There you go. Ty Simpson Jet.
• 46:50
  Probably not I I wish he I like him.
• 46:54
  I watched his footwork. I watched every bit of footage
• 46:57
  because I I've been hearing about Ty Simpson.
• 46:59
  So I want to see what The Jets are looking at and what they see
• 47:01
  and what everybody else sees. I wasn't in the meeting when it
• 47:05
  came to the interview, but everything that I've heard about
• 47:08
  him is his footwork is some of the best footwork we've seen a
• 47:11
  quarterback have in about 5 years in the draft.
• 47:14
  So they say he's got great footwork, but I just think
• 47:17
  there's a going to be a team out out there that's going to trade
• 47:19
  up and get him over The Jets because they know The Jets are
• 47:22
  very interested in him. Unless The Jets want to give up
• 47:25
  one of those first to move up to get Ty Simpson, I don't think
• 47:27
  The Jets are going to get him. I think he's going to go
• 47:30
  somewhere else. This has been a big story,
• 47:31
  ladies and gentlemen. Jaden Ivy cut after
• 47:34
  controversial comments The Chicago Bulls place guard Jaden
• 47:38
  Ivy on waivers Monday after social media post featuring many
• 47:43
  controversial comments. The Bulls last week also
• 47:46
  mentioned that they were shutting Ivy down for the rest
• 47:50
  of the season. Regardless of these comments, he
• 47:53
  has been out since February 11th with a knee injury.
• 47:57
  Ivy took shots at the Bulls organization for cutting him for
• 48:02
  conduct detrimental to the team, saying he did nothing wrong to
• 48:07
  his teammates or coaches. Bill Don Billy Donovan mentioned
• 48:11
  how he was hoping Ivy would be a key part of the Bulls future
• 48:16
  when they traded for him last year, but believed his behavior
• 48:21
  was unprofessional. Reports say that Ivy was acting
• 48:25
  like a preacher in the locker room, trying to promote his
• 48:28
  value, and that didn't sit well with some of his teammates.
• 48:33
  Patriots running back Trayvon Henderson were among many NFL
• 48:38
  players that defended Ivy, saying he should be allowed to
• 48:41
  express what he believes in. Ivy also told TMZ that the NBA
• 48:46
  is inconsistent in their decision making, referencing
• 48:50
  referencing Anthony Edwards using similar language in 2022
• 48:56
  and the league doing nothing about it.
• 48:58
  Lamella Bowl, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving or other NBA
• 49:03
  players that have made controversial comments and
• 49:06
  didn't get any discipline from the league.
• 49:10
  There's a lot to talk about with this story, but I I wouldn't
• 49:15
  look at it for what he said. I would look at it in many other
• 49:19
  ways. Players say controversial things
• 49:22
  all the time. Some get fined, some get
• 49:25
  ignored, ignored, some get cut. So what is the standard in the
• 49:29
  NBA? Is there a rule book or is that
• 49:34
  just whatever becomes a headline?
• 49:37
  That is the problem right now with this story.
• 49:40
  You look at talent. I don't know what Jaden Ivy is.
• 49:44
  I remember him as a top five, top six draft pick in the NBA.
• 49:48
  He was a lottery pick. A lot of people wanted the
• 49:50
  Knicks to get him, move up to get him.
• 49:53
  But Detroit drafted him and he just didn't develop over there
• 49:58
  with Cunningham and and some of the talent that they have over
• 50:00
  there. But you mention and, and what I
• 50:04
  what I was just reading, Anthony Edwards has said a lot of
• 50:06
  interesting things over the last couple of years and he's a
• 50:09
  superstar in the league. He averages 28 points, 29
• 50:13
  points. The NBA is not going to find
• 50:15
  him. The NBA is not going to suspend
• 50:17
  them. The NBA or the Timberwolves are
• 50:19
  not going to drop him because he's a superstar.
• 50:22
  They tolerate what superstars are compared to 2nd tier players
• 50:28
  like a Jaden Ivey. Should players be punished for
• 50:33
  their personal beliefs? That's the question.
• 50:37
  That's the main question here. Now here's the thing.
• 50:42
  Colin Kaepernick, when he said some of the things that he said
• 50:47
  on the football field, a lot of people didn't like it.
• 50:51
  Him needing to the national anthem, a lot of people didn't
• 50:54
  like disrespecting it on a platform that wasn't his was not
• 51:00
  right. It was not proper.
• 51:03
  Does that mean that Colin and Colin Kaepernick came out and he
• 51:06
  spoke about it and he said his piece to it?
• 51:08
  He said he wasn't trying to disrespect the flag or
• 51:11
  disrespect anybody. It was his belief that that was
• 51:14
  his way of trying to express himself.
• 51:18
  Colin Kaepernick never played a football game again after that.
• 51:22
  Why? Because the NFL wanted to make a
• 51:25
  statement, wanted to make a point.
• 51:28
  Did Reed get a chance to play again?
• 51:30
  Eric Reed, I think his name was, who was doing it too?
• 51:34
  Absolutely. Think you got another job with
• 51:36
  the San Francisco 49ers. Your beliefs are your beliefs.
• 51:40
  You do not use it on a platform that shouldn't be used on that
• 51:44
  platform. LeBron James for years has used
• 51:47
  political views on the NBA platform to spread his beliefs.
• 51:52
  Was it right? No.
• 51:55
  But when you have a superstar doing it and a superstar getting
• 51:58
  away with it, that's the problem.
• 52:00
  Who's the blame for this? I'm going to blame the NBA.
• 52:03
  I'm going to blame the NBA because they have not come out.
• 52:06
  They have not shut down these guys like Kyrie Irving, who had
• 52:10
  the audacity to take his views. And everybody knows what
• 52:14
  happened a couple of years ago when he was playing for
• 52:16
  Brooklyn. I don't have to mention it.
• 52:18
  And then you had and Adam Silver sit down with him, have a
• 52:22
  conversation with this man and said and apologize to the
• 52:27
  Brooklyn fans and then get traded.
• 52:29
  And then go out there when he is being introduced as a Dalek
• 52:33
  Dallas Maverick, taking back what he said and saying that he
• 52:36
  has a belief and he has his own opinion and he should be allowed
• 52:39
  to use it on the NBA platform. And the problem with the NBA,
• 52:44
  I've gone on many, many times and why a lot of people can't
• 52:48
  stand the way the NBA is getting run is the players are running
• 52:51
  the league. It's not the owners, it's not
• 52:54
  the commissioner, it's not anybody but the players.
• 52:58
  And when you have superstar players like the LJA, LeBron
• 53:01
  James Association, Kevin Durant with his Twitter feeds, Kawhi
• 53:08
  Leonard on some of the things, the outlandish things he has
• 53:12
  said over the last couple of years, Paul George, these are
• 53:17
  superstar players that the NBA allow to speak up with their
• 53:23
  thoughts that are unlikely to be liked by many people.
• 53:29
  And it's a problem. It's a problem.
• 53:31
  And and here's the thing, Jaden Ivey might not be a nice guy.
• 53:36
  I don't know him personally. I have no idea who he is.
• 53:40
  And there are NFL players that are speaking up for him.
• 53:42
  And that's great. He's got people looking out for
• 53:45
  his best needs. But here's the thing, the
• 53:50
  Chicago Bulls, and I blame this on the Chicago Bulls, if they
• 53:55
  had a problem with what he said, why didn't they bring him to the
• 54:00
  side and have a conversation offset instead of just
• 54:03
  completely releasing him and dropping him.
• 54:06
  And, and that is the problem right now because as soon as he
• 54:08
  mentioned something, as soon as he said something, it was he's
• 54:12
  gone. Now.
• 54:14
  I don't know what he was in the locker room, if players liked
• 54:16
  him. I heard that the Detroit Pistons
• 54:18
  really liked him. A lot of the players over there.
• 54:21
  Cunningham is still a good friend of his.
• 54:23
  He's got friends over there. Duran's a good friend of his.
• 54:25
  He's got good friends over there in Detroit.
• 54:28
  So he obviously was a likable person.
• 54:32
  Is it going to be tolerated that because of a star, now we all
• 54:37
  know what what was Porter's brother's name?
• 54:39
  Jonte. Jonte Porter bet on basketball.
• 54:45
  We all know the story there. They suspended him for life.
• 54:51
  Now, if it was anybody else, any superstar like a Giannis or
• 54:55
  LeBron James or any of the superstars that are scoring 2528
• 55:00
  points a game, the face of the NBA, the basketball, basketball
• 55:04
  league, NBA Association, whatever you want to call it,
• 55:08
  they probably get a smack on the hand.
• 55:12
  They'd probably get a smack on their hands.
• 55:13
  Nobody cares. You know, it's LeBron James.
• 55:15
  You know, who knows what's going on with the Chauncey Phillips?
• 55:18
  There were there were some comments and and some
• 55:21
  information that maybe LeBron James know.
• 55:22
  There's no information to say that LeBron James was involved
• 55:26
  with the betting scheme. But LeBron James is best friends
• 55:31
  with Jones. He's cool with Chauncey Phillips
• 55:35
  and his name was brought up. All that stuff that was going on
• 55:37
  was with the Lakers. How do we know that LeBron James
• 55:41
  didn't know anything about it? We don't because the NBA, even
• 55:44
  if he did know something about it or he was involved with it,
• 55:47
  he is the LJA, he's the LeBron James Association.
• 55:51
  They're going to brush it under the rug.
• 55:52
  The Otani thing with baseball, do we remember that?
• 55:55
  Otani's been a part of two schemes, Not one, but two
• 55:59
  schemes. And what did baseball do?
• 56:02
  They brushed it under the rug because he's a superstar.
• 56:05
  He's an international phenom. Jaden Ivey is not an
• 56:08
  international phenom. He's not a superstar player.
• 56:11
  He's a going to be considered a journeyman.
• 56:13
  He's never going to play in the NBA again.
• 56:15
  I could. You could bet my bottom dollar
• 56:17
  on that. I don't see an NBA team taking
• 56:18
  responsibility because of what Chicago did.
• 56:21
  And I blame Chicago because Chicago could have done
• 56:24
  something about this. They could have somehow sat down
• 56:28
  with this kid and say, you know, you shouldn't have said that.
• 56:31
  Maybe you should speak to the media and apologize what you
• 56:34
  said and and we can handle this the right way instead of just
• 56:38
  throwing them to the wolves. People make mistakes.
• 56:41
  People say things that they shouldn't say.
• 56:44
  There are a lot of people out there that have said things.
• 56:46
  I have said things in the past that I regret saying.
• 56:50
  I have not on the show, but I've said some ridiculous things and
• 56:55
  maybe some ridiculous things that people don't like on the
• 56:57
  show because everybody thinks I'm an idiot.
• 57:00
  But people make mistakes. People say things that they
• 57:04
  don't fully mean. I again, I don't know Jaden Ivy
• 57:07
  personally. I don't know him, but the locker
• 57:12
  room culture, the ideology of the locker room, the talent that
• 57:22
  is self-proclaimed over there in the locker room.
• 57:25
  People that say, oh, he's our superstar player.
• 57:28
  Jordan I Jaden Ivy is not, he's not Michael Jordan.
• 57:31
  He's not Scottie Pippen. That is the reason.
• 57:35
  If there's no control in your locker room, if your coach
• 57:38
  cannot control the players on what they say and I go, I'm
• 57:42
  going to take shots at Billy Donovan, who's a Long Island
• 57:44
  neighbor. If personally Billy Donovan
• 57:49
  didn't like what he has done in the locker room, how he rolls as
• 57:53
  a teammate, you wonder if Billy Donovan really has his players
• 57:59
  ears. You follow your coach, right?
• 58:03
  We talked about Danny Hurley and how he's such a great leader and
• 58:07
  the players want to play for him.
• 58:09
  People, How many Bill Belichick fans have we had on the, you
• 58:12
  know, players that have are big Bill Belichick fans?
• 58:15
  Everybody thinks he's an ass. Nobody likes him.
• 58:18
  But all the players that have been on the show said, oh, he's
• 58:20
  funny. He's a lot funnier than you
• 58:22
  think. He's a great leader.
• 58:23
  You want to play hard for him, but nobody would know that
• 58:27
  because he doesn't speak to the media and he can't stand people.
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  But we won't know that. Maybe there's something that is
• 58:35
  not being controlled in that locker room and is This is why
• 58:40
  these players think that they can say and do whatever they
• 58:43
  want. I think this is a big problem.
• 58:46
  The NBA needs to take control of it.
• 58:48
  They're, I know the CBA is going to be up in a in a year or two.
• 58:52
  I think it's in 2028 when the CBA is up.
• 58:55
  Something needs to be done with the players union.
• 58:58
  They need to speak to these players.
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  The NBA, especially ownership, needs to take back control of
• 59:04
  this league. I think about it, these players
• 59:09
  could just get traded if they even if there's a no trade
• 59:12
  clause, they could get traded. If the players, if they don't
• 59:16
  have a no trade clause and they don't have to play for that
• 59:19
  team, they can tell they're going to tell the ownership or
• 59:22
  they can tell the organization. You, yeah, you traded for me,
• 59:26
  but I don't want to play for this team.
• 59:27
  So either you trade me to the team I want or I'm not playing
• 59:30
  this year. And that's the problem with the
• 59:34
  NBA. It's guaranteed contract.
• 59:35
  This isn't the NFL. You don't just get a signing
• 59:38
  bonus. If you're getting a $250 million
• 59:41
  contract, that's what you're getting.
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  You're not going to lose out on any of that money.
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  That's guaranteed. Baseball contracts are
• 59:48
  guaranteed, football contracts or not.
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  And now you put this kid on waivers, nobody's going to take
• 59:57
  him. Nobody wants him.
• 59:59
  He's not a superstar player. He's not even half decent
• 1:00:02
  player. I think the most he's ever
• 1:00:03
  averaged in the season I think is 12 or 11 points.
• 1:00:07
  He's a, a competent backup player.
• 1:00:10
  Maybe he's a a Third Point guard or third guard on your roster.
• 1:00:15
  You have a divided locker room that doesn't like him.
• 1:00:21
  I, I, I just this has something to do with the ownership.
• 1:00:24
  This has something to do with team the NBA controlling what is
• 1:00:28
  going on in these locker rooms. What is being spoken about now?
• 1:00:32
  You can't tell somebody what they want to believe.
• 1:00:34
  But in the locker room, this cannot be talked about on our
• 1:00:38
  platform. This cannot be spoken about when
• 1:00:42
  I am, when the media is talking to you, you cannot bring out
• 1:00:46
  your own opinion about what you think about anything.
• 1:00:49
  Sexuality, politically, religion, nothing should be
• 1:00:53
  brought up. I don't care what you're
• 1:00:55
  reading. I don't care what you're
• 1:00:56
  studying. I don't care what you think if
• 1:00:58
  you think the earth is flat. Kyrie Irving, I don't want to
• 1:01:02
  know what you think. Your geography.
• 1:01:06
  This isn't a school. This is an economic class.
• 1:01:11
  This is basketball. You're getting paid millions and
• 1:01:13
  millions of dollars. I don't want to know your
• 1:01:15
  opinion. It's an opinionated situation,
• 1:01:20
  What's going on in the world. I don't want to know.
• 1:01:22
  There's war going on. This is bad for basketball
• 1:01:26
  because what it is, it lays a blind eye of what's really the
• 1:01:31
  problem in the NBA. And that is Adam Silver doesn't
• 1:01:34
  know how to control the players and the NBA does not know how to
• 1:01:41
  push forward on dropping the hammer on organizations, on what
• 1:01:47
  is going on and what is being spoken about in the locker room.
• 1:01:55
  Yeah, it's a tough situation. I think when you look at the
• 1:01:58
  hypocrisy of the NBA and I think that's where it's defined as
• 1:02:01
  what you were talking about with Anthony Edwards, Kevin Durant,
• 1:02:05
  anti-Semitic comments. I believe Kyrie Irving was the
• 1:02:07
  biggest one with the anti-Semitic comments.
• 1:02:09
  And we saw with the NFL to Deshawn Jackson made those same
• 1:02:12
  kind of things. And granted, he was later in his
• 1:02:14
  career, but they brushed that under the rug as well.
• 1:02:16
  Like you can't pick and choose just all these cases.
• 1:02:19
  And I agree with you, I think it's mostly on the bull.
• 1:02:21
  I think somebody like Billy Donovan is a veteran coach you
• 1:02:23
  would think would be a little more of a mentor for this kind
• 1:02:25
  of thing. But I do think that the the
• 1:02:28
  teams now have to get these types of counseling.
• 1:02:31
  Like, you look at all this mental health stuff that is
• 1:02:33
  going to come out for good things.
• 1:02:35
  And something like this is something that, yeah, he could
• 1:02:39
  preach the values all he wants, but he doesn't.
• 1:02:41
  There's a way to do it without saying it out loud.
• 1:02:43
  And there's going to be divided locker rooms every, every sport
• 1:02:46
  has one of those that just get out of hand fast.
• 1:02:48
  And this is a veteran team. It's a team stuck in mediocrity
• 1:02:50
  for a while. And that's going to happen.
• 1:02:53
  But yeah, you're right, Adam Silver definitely is the more
• 1:02:55
  expressive of these commissioners that are just
• 1:02:58
  allowing this kind of thing to continue on having.
• 1:03:00
  I was so sickened when I heard of what Kyrie Irving said.
• 1:03:02
  I think that was the worst of the extreme examples.
• 1:03:04
  But you're, like you said, Anthony Edwards.
• 1:03:05
  And because he's a superstar, nobody cares.
• 1:03:07
  It's Kyrie Irving. Yeah, because he's popular.
• 1:03:09
  He's one of Lebron's guys. Yeah, he's going to get away
• 1:03:11
  with. It Kevin Durant says something
• 1:03:13
  vicious and illegal or disrespectful, nobody cares.
• 1:03:17
  It's Kevin Durant because it's the superstar.
• 1:03:19
  He's the offensive phenom. LeBron James has said so many
• 1:03:23
  things that you you just have you're shaking your head.
• 1:03:26
  He was at award shows and taking shots at politics.
• 1:03:30
  How many times have we watched the Golden Globes or how many
• 1:03:33
  times have we watched the Oscars?
• 1:03:35
  And the first thing these guys are going to do once they come
• 1:03:38
  out and they win an award is they take shots at democracy or
• 1:03:41
  take shots at a president or. I don't want to hear about your
• 1:03:44
  politics. I just want to hear about your
• 1:03:46
  award, why you won. Thank everybody and get the hell
• 1:03:50
  off the stage. I don't want to know your
• 1:03:52
  opinion. Your opinion doesn't mean
• 1:03:54
  anything to me. If you don't like something,
• 1:03:57
  keep it to yourself. Say it on your own platform.
• 1:04:00
  Don't use the NBA. Don't use the Golden Globes.
• 1:04:02
  Don't use the Oscars. I don't want to hear it anymore.
• 1:04:05
  Stop. This is garbage.
• 1:04:07
  This is bad in the media loves it because it's something they
• 1:04:10
  can sell to TMZ. It's something that they could
• 1:04:13
  sell to the magazine or the newspapers.
• 1:04:15
  It's pathetic. This story is a little tricky.
• 1:04:18
  I think that, you know, I for me personally, I can attack both
• 1:04:21
  sides, one, you know, not respectfully.
• 1:04:25
  I I don't think that the league being more involved with resolve
• 1:04:30
  any of these situations. I mean, obviously they just
• 1:04:33
  released a guy and said he's detrimental to the team without
• 1:04:35
  giving any time of any type of example or whatnot.
• 1:04:39
  So it's just, that's just great language to be able to say I'm
• 1:04:42
  justified for making a decision that I am.
• 1:04:44
  But as far as him and the guy, the kid man is and I'm a man of
• 1:04:49
  faith. So the kid is a new believer and
• 1:04:50
  and he's battling a knee injury. And so therefore he's got more
• 1:04:55
  time to himself than he than he need.
• 1:04:57
  And this is kind of what I was trying to talk to or hint to
• 1:05:00
  earlier about having a coach or having some form of mentor that
• 1:05:04
  can be there for the players that they could trust to be able
• 1:05:08
  to express these ideas and these issues and these thoughts that's
• 1:05:10
  going through their head. So therefore, when it comes down
• 1:05:13
  to they don't get online and they don't go public with these
• 1:05:17
  issues, I think what people are failing to realize in regards to
• 1:05:21
  this situation is it wasn't the fact of his belief or his
• 1:05:24
  stance, which is what got him fired.
• 1:05:25
  He literally came out and attacked the NBA.
• 1:05:28
  He attacked the NBA, he attacked the players.
• 1:05:31
  And so when you signed that contract, you're in agreement
• 1:05:34
  that you're going to perform. However, there is Gray area in
• 1:05:38
  that contract that says that you must represent the organization
• 1:05:42
  in the league outside of being in uniform.
• 1:05:46
  And so he signed that and therefore he gets the
• 1:05:49
  repercussions of the decision that he made.
• 1:05:51
  Now, I don't agree with the fact that he should have been
• 1:05:53
  released because I believe that I'm a big component of what we
• 1:05:57
  call double jeopardy, right? Like you shouldn't get charged
• 1:05:59
  twice. Like so he went public on a
• 1:06:02
  platform on his own IG by itself outside of a Chicago Bull
• 1:06:07
  uniform, outside of any NBA parent, umm, coding or any type
• 1:06:12
  of symbol that represents the NBA.
• 1:06:14
  He was outside of those lines. So the fact that he is being
• 1:06:19
  punished for his basically just his expression in regards to
• 1:06:22
  what he disagree with, with some of the rules and regulations.
• 1:06:25
  I don't think he should be fired for that.
• 1:06:27
  I think that there's needs to, like you said earlier, there
• 1:06:29
  needs to be a conversation for that.
• 1:06:31
  But All in all, man, I think that it's, it's it's a double
• 1:06:34
  edged sword when, when we as players, you know, do things
• 1:06:38
  good, you know, you guys, everybody promotes us and
• 1:06:41
  supports us as superheroes. But the minute that we have a
• 1:06:44
  human issue or a human mistake, now we're deemed as unfit.
• 1:06:48
  And I just don't think that's fair to the players when if you
• 1:06:51
  want us to be superheroes, you we take the Cape off as well.
• 1:06:54
  So who, you know, people want to be engaged and people want to
• 1:06:57
  know exactly how I feel or how athletes feel about this or
• 1:07:01
  what's their thoughts on this and things that nature.
• 1:07:03
  Now, I think he went overboard in regards to what he did.
• 1:07:06
  And even as a as a man of faith, there was nothing religion and
• 1:07:11
  faithful about what he said. It was all anger towards his
• 1:07:14
  situation. So he never even addressed his
• 1:07:17
  faith in that in that whole segment.
• 1:07:19
  So overall, man, I think that the kid just dealing with some
• 1:07:23
  mental health issues in regards to being, you know, pick that
• 1:07:26
  high, having a knee issue, not being able to get on the court
• 1:07:30
  and now just becoming a new believer.
• 1:07:31
  And then he's just expressed itself in a way that was
• 1:07:34
  detrimental to not only the the team, but the organization and
• 1:07:37
  to itself as well. Like he shouldn't have been
• 1:07:39
  angry online spewing the hate that he was doing.
• 1:07:42
  Even if you don't agree with something, that wasn't the time
• 1:07:45
  to do that. You should have had a private
• 1:07:46
  conversation with somebody to be able to air those thoughts out.
• 1:07:49
  And then that way, if you want to, and that's another thing far
• 1:07:52
  as the players, if you want to be expressive about what you
• 1:07:56
  believe in and, and you want to combat an organization that
• 1:08:00
  supports something that you don't agree with, have a
• 1:08:03
  meeting, have those conversations, go to your union,
• 1:08:07
  go to your union Rep, have those meetings and create something
• 1:08:11
  that can pull, that can be an outlet for other players to
• 1:08:15
  participate in to resolve the issue.
• 1:08:18
  And that's the thing that a lot of players miss.
• 1:08:20
  They think that they can go out and because they got a following
• 1:08:23
  of the fans that they can just go out and say what they're
• 1:08:25
  going to say and it's going to get across.
• 1:08:27
  The message is not dull because you went on a public platform
• 1:08:32
  and spew your anger towards the situation versus doing the
• 1:08:36
  correct measures and having a meeting with your union Rep and
• 1:08:39
  being able to have that conversation with the league and
• 1:08:41
  your team about the things that you disagree with to resolve the
• 1:08:44
  issue versus just saying that you hate the issue.
• 1:08:47
  This isn't just about one player.
• 1:08:50
  This is about where the line is. Can players speak freely?
• 1:08:54
  Do. Teams.
• 1:08:56
  Hold on, do teams have the right to protect culture?
• 1:09:01
  And who decides when a comic is crossing the line?
• 1:09:06
  Because today it's one guy, tomorrow it could be anyone.
• 1:09:10
  Think about that. It could be anyone.
• 1:09:13
  And whether you agree with him or not, this sets the present.
• 1:09:17
  So my hard earned platform here is to speak about what the NBA
• 1:09:26
  is as an organization. And, and, and the way I look at
• 1:09:30
  the NBA is, is that they don't know how to control a multi
• 1:09:35
  billion dollar industry. These players are running a
• 1:09:38
  billion dollar industry and all these owners care about is how
• 1:09:41
  much money you going to make for me?
• 1:09:43
  How big are you? How much your social media is
• 1:09:46
  going to draw people to want to come and check out some of the
• 1:09:49
  the jerseys that you're selling, some of the hats that you're
• 1:09:52
  selling, some of the name brands that you're selling.
• 1:09:55
  Like, there you go, Kyrie Irving.
• 1:09:57
  They only care about money. Adam Silver only cares about
• 1:10:00
  money. Mucho dinero.
• 1:10:03
  He doesn't care about what who you hurt or his culture or what
• 1:10:08
  somebody says about his culture or how many grandparents died
• 1:10:11
  in, you know, in the Holocaust. He don't care about any of that.
• 1:10:14
  All he cares about is money. That's all he cares about money.
• 1:10:18
  What are you going to bring in for me and how much you're going
• 1:10:21
  to bring for me lately? And that, I think is the problem
• 1:10:25
  right now in professional sports.
• 1:10:27
  I think that these guys use platforms.
• 1:10:28
  Social media has been the devil. Michael Jordan.
• 1:10:32
  Michael Jordan has come out and said many, many times that
• 1:10:36
  everybody buys my sneaker. It don't matter if you're a
• 1:10:39
  Republican, a Democrat. I'm not going to go out there
• 1:10:42
  and speak about something I don't know anything about or
• 1:10:45
  have no reason to speak about. Why?
• 1:10:49
  Because he's trying to sell a brand.
• 1:10:51
  No, it's money. That's his bottom line.
• 1:10:54
  He's trying to but. Everybody, everybody is with the
• 1:10:56
  money. The owners want the money, the
• 1:10:58
  players want the all right, everybody all right, so all.
• 1:11:01
  Right. So you say they're they're all
• 1:11:02
  about the money. So if they're all about the
• 1:11:04
  money, why are they letting the players run amok?
• 1:11:07
  Why they're letting run? Why are they letting the players
• 1:11:09
  run amok? What's running them up?
• 1:11:11
  What do you they're offered in more than they're?
• 1:11:13
  Going out there on their social medias and platforms to take
• 1:11:17
  shots at whatever they believe in.
• 1:11:19
  That has nothing to do with the league.
• 1:11:22
  Now, there has to be some kind of rule, something, something in
• 1:11:25
  your contracts that if you're going to go out there and state
• 1:11:27
  something you're going to, you're going to lose money,
• 1:11:30
  you're going to lose your contract if you're going to go
• 1:11:32
  out there and put yourself in harm's way.
• 1:11:33
  But the NBA won't do that. Why?
• 1:11:35
  Because you have guys like LeBron James, guys like Kevin
• 1:11:38
  Durant that speak freely and say whatever they want and agree
• 1:11:42
  with any of these guys like Kyrie Irving coming out and
• 1:11:45
  saying things that he has said in the past that has affected a
• 1:11:48
  group of people. Couldn't you think?
• 1:11:50
  Could you imagine how much Brooklyn lost because of Kyrie
• 1:11:54
  Irving? There were so many people that
• 1:11:56
  sold their tickets, sold their company seats because of Kyrie
• 1:12:00
  Irving, because of his big mouth.
• 1:12:03
  But Kyrie doesn't care because he's still making his money.
• 1:12:06
  He's still playing in Dallas. He still pay for a champ, play
• 1:12:09
  for a championship. And, and right now, Brooklyn's
• 1:12:11
  in the gutter because the one superstar they kept is the one
• 1:12:15
  guy that threw them to the wolves.
• 1:12:18
  And that, to me, is a problem the NFL.
• 1:12:22
  The NFL but but why is it a problem when these these same
• 1:12:26
  guys that these same individuals that you're talking about, when
• 1:12:29
  they get on the social media, they have hundreds and thousands
• 1:12:32
  of people calling them this and calling them that and calling
• 1:12:35
  like going at them and really calling them names and things
• 1:12:37
  that are we going to ignore that part or we're just going to just
• 1:12:41
  acknowledge the one side when the one side get offended?
• 1:12:43
  So because. If you think that Jaden Ivan
• 1:12:45
  didn't receive hate mail when he said what he said, or Kyrie
• 1:12:48
  Irving didn't get nails to the cross when he did what he did,
• 1:12:51
  like, regardless about how much money he made, you know how much
• 1:12:55
  money he lost in the midst of that as well.
• 1:12:57
  Let me ask you a question. If you're going to mention or
• 1:13:00
  speak about anything that's going on in the world that has
• 1:13:03
  nothing to do with the NBA and you're going to go out there on
• 1:13:06
  a platform and do it, you should get hate mail.
• 1:13:08
  You should. You're making millions and
• 1:13:10
  millions of dollars. I'm never going to see that.
• 1:13:12
  Kind of money, Does it matter? Yes, it does matter.
• 1:13:14
  Why does the money matter? You keep making a lot of money.
• 1:13:17
  Why do you have to play basketball?
• 1:13:20
  Wait till you wait till. You retire, then come out and
• 1:13:25
  say whatever you feel. I could care less when you're
• 1:13:27
  playing for an organization, you're playing for a name,
• 1:13:29
  you're playing for a city. Why are you going to go out
• 1:13:32
  there and throw the city onto the bus and open your big mouth
• 1:13:34
  and say and throw whatever your beliefs that you believe in?
• 1:13:37
  There are a lot of things I believe in.
• 1:13:39
  You're not going to see me go out on this platform and throw
• 1:13:41
  it out there and say, well, this is what I believe, so go F
• 1:13:45
  yourself. No, personal choice doesn't mean
• 1:13:47
  that you don't have the right to do that.
• 1:13:49
  What I'm saying is the league don't have a person that says,
• 1:13:52
  hey, don't, don't promote this. You send the league $100 million
• 1:13:56
  to promote something, that's what they're going to do.
• 1:13:58
  They're going to promote it. There's no boundaries when it
• 1:14:00
  comes to nobody. But besides with the athletes,
• 1:14:03
  and that's the problem that I have.
• 1:14:04
  We have the right to of freedom of speech.
• 1:14:07
  You get to say what you want to. There's also consequences that
• 1:14:09
  come with that. However, I didn't sign up to be
• 1:14:14
  a person, a person that speaks well in the media.
• 1:14:17
  I signed up to be a football player.
• 1:14:19
  Kyrie Irving signed up to be a basketball player.
• 1:14:21
  You are paying me based off the talent and gift I have in the
• 1:14:25
  sport. You're not paying me in regards
• 1:14:28
  to what I say in my beliefs. And that's the problem because
• 1:14:31
  the league can believe anything and they can promote anything.
• 1:14:34
  But the athletes have to shut up and just sit to the side and do
• 1:14:37
  whatever sport they do, all because they make a lot of
• 1:14:39
  money. But the owners can do it.
• 1:14:40
  They can say what they want to say.
• 1:14:42
  Everybody can do what they want to do besides the athlete.
• 1:14:44
  And that's the problem that I have with the whole situation,
• 1:14:46
  because nobody else is getting held accountable to the same
• 1:14:49
  standard that we are. Now, if you're signing a
• 1:14:54
  contract with an organization and the city is paying your
• 1:14:58
  contract, they are, they're going to the games, they're
• 1:15:00
  paying for the, the, the TV deals and all that other stuff.
• 1:15:04
  They're buying your jerseys and that's what you're getting paid
• 1:15:06
  for. You're signed, you sign your
• 1:15:09
  name, your, your, your livelihood for that, that
• 1:15:13
  contract. And when you go out there and
• 1:15:16
  you open your mouth and you say things that maybe is derogatory
• 1:15:21
  to the city or derogatory to the culture over there, that's a
• 1:15:26
  problem. That is a problem.
• 1:15:28
  Yes, you have a freedom of speech.
• 1:15:30
  Yes, there's there's no doubt about it.
• 1:15:32
  You definitely have freedom of speech.
• 1:15:34
  But there are things that you say or you don't say when it
• 1:15:37
  comes to a culture, what's going on in the world right now that
• 1:15:40
  is going to commit and cause problems not only for a league
• 1:15:45
  but for the world as a whole. And I'm going to tell you this
• 1:15:49
  right now, I'm not, I don't know Jaden Ivy at all.
• 1:15:54
  I do, I think he should have another job in the NBA.
• 1:15:56
  Yes, I think he should get another chance.
• 1:15:59
  But he needs to go out there and apologize for what he said.
• 1:16:03
  He should not be going out there because to me, you're not.
• 1:16:07
  When you're on a platform, you're when you're looked up,
• 1:16:10
  there are kids looking out, looking up to you and watching
• 1:16:13
  you and buying your sneaker and buying your hat and and buying
• 1:16:16
  your jersey. You don't go out there and you
• 1:16:19
  don't use that platform and rub it in the dirt.
• 1:16:23
  And that's what he did because he was mad at something or he
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  has something going on mentally in his brain.
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  He did something that not only hurt himself, but distracted an
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  organization. Distracted.
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  The Chicago Bulls aren't a good organization.
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  So right now, they're not winning.
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  They're not. They're not anything to watch.
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  So what is it? So a big story like this
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  completely blindsides what the Chicago Bulls are trying to do
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  with Billy Donovan because Jaden Ivey said something that he
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  shouldn't have said on that platform.
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  If he to me, when you have Derek Jeter, OK, I'm I'm going to say
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  something about Derek Jeter. Derek Jeter played sports and he
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  he played at such a high level. He was one of the greatest
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  shortstops of all time. Not a big fan of Derek Jeter
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  because even though I'm a Yankee fan, but.
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  And what did he used to do? There were stories coming out
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  that he hung out with different women and then after he was done
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  with them, he would autograph a bunch of stuff and send them on
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  their way. OK, that's what he did.
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  He never got married until he was he was done with the the
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  game of baseball. Did he do the right thing?
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  Absolutely. Even though it was a story,
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  there was no. Truth.
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  That was the right thing. There was no truth to it.
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  There was nothing that came out that even though it was a story,
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  it was no truth to it. And nothing came out.
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  Even to this day, Derek Jeter Whitney, he smiles every time
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  everybody brings that up to him. David Ortiz brought it up on the
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  national televised thing on Fox and he smiled at it.
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  He smirked at it. That doesn't mean that it was
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  true. What you see when you go out
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  there and you throw yourself onto the bus in the public eye,
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  you're always going to be looked at as a bad guy.
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  You don't do things on the public end.
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  When you're on a platform, a multi billion dollar platform
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  and you're doing things, that's going to hurt your product, hurt
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  your brand, hurt anything that you were trying to build.
• 1:18:16
  All the good things that you were building is gone now
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  because he opened his mouth and all he had to do 24 hours later
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  is apologize. I'm sorry.
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  I said that I was wrong. I misjudged the way I use this
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  platform. I, I, my heart goes out to
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  everybody that I heard. He didn't want to do that.
• 1:18:33
  He had no reason to do that. But why should he do that?
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  They said if he believed that what he said is true, why should
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  he believe that? Why should he?
• 1:18:42
  Why should he go back? Because it's not right Again, he
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  get paid to play basketball. That's what the contract is for
• 1:18:49
  basketball. All right.
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  So just as well as a brand may step away because of something
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  you said, there's also brands that will support you.
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  We never, we never look at the other side.
• 1:19:00
  There's going to be superheroes and there's going to be Dennis
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  in every part of life. You're not going to always be a
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  superhero. And what I'm saying is there's
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  also fans who support what he said.
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  There's people coming to his defense.
• 1:19:12
  So he he's grown an audience based off what he said.
• 1:19:17
  Now he's also lonesome people. Now we can grow.
• 1:19:21
  Now we can grow an audience outside of the NBA because he's.
• 1:19:24
  Not going to get another guy 10 million.
• 1:19:26
  He's still got paid. Oh good, he got $10 million and
• 1:19:29
  he'll never play an NBA game again because.
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  That's not a guarantee, but yes, because there's other you can
• 1:19:34
  guarantee. You can guarantee it their
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  Christian owner. Owner is Christian so that he
• 1:19:41
  may do it, but you don't guarantee.
• 1:19:45
  You never know. Colin Kaepernick still kept
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  getting invited to combines and teams workouts and stuff like
• 1:19:51
  that, so you never know. Interesting.
• 1:19:54
  It's an interesting argument. And again, if you're, if you're
• 1:19:58
  an NBA fan and you, you see things like this and, and this
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  has been going on. And I'm not saying it doesn't go
• 1:20:04
  in on other games and other sports.
• 1:20:06
  It does, but no more than the NBA.
• 1:20:09
  The NBA, and it's been a big problem here in the NBA, is that
• 1:20:14
  these guys think they can. Use the NBA in the platform to
• 1:20:17
  say and do whatever they want at the NFL.
• 1:20:22
  Rodger Good Ellis dropped hammers on players to keep their
• 1:20:25
  mouth shut. We've seen Gary Bettman after
• 1:20:28
  what we heard after the the whole kneeling, Gary Bettman
• 1:20:32
  made sure he sees anybody from doing anything on his platform.
• 1:20:37
  And, and I think that the NBA has no control over their
• 1:20:40
  players. None.
• 1:20:41
  And I, I think it's a big problem, a problem.
• 1:20:43
  And that's why Adam Silver should have became the CEO or
• 1:20:46
  CFO for Disney and get the hell out of here and bring somebody
• 1:20:49
  in that actually knows what they're doing.
• 1:20:50
  The guy is 1 ugly SOB is 1 ugly person.
• 1:20:54
  That's a person. Oh, he's so ugly, man.
• 1:20:57
  Is your platform to attack? He is so ugly, looking at him
• 1:21:02
  makes me sick to my stomach. This is what I'm talking.
• 1:21:04
  About. I'm just saying.
• 1:21:05
  Adam said. Come out and say something about
• 1:21:07
  Earl. He's rogue because he has.
• 1:21:09
  I could care less. Well.
• 1:21:11
  I could care less the same things about me.
• 1:21:14
  That's what I'm telling you. I could care.
• 1:21:15
  Less, he doesn't have to. Like person in the comments,
• 1:21:18
  that's called. He doesn't have to like me.
• 1:21:19
  And then I go online and I say something to you and you get
• 1:21:22
  mad, like, Oh well. Give it the rent.
• 1:21:24
  Oh, well, I I could care less what Adam Silver thinks about
• 1:21:27
  me. That that's exactly what he
• 1:21:28
  looks like right there. That little crap.
• 1:21:31
  That little. What are they?
• 1:21:32
  What was he from? Harry Potter?
• 1:21:33
  What did they call Dobby? Dobby.
• 1:21:35
  That's what he is. He looks like Dobby Dobby, an
• 1:21:39
  ugly mother. Thank you to all the fans on all
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• 1:21:46
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• 1:22:08
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• 1:22:12
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• 1:22:16
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• 1:22:20
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• 1:22:25
  OK. So we'll, we'll, we'll make an
• 1:22:27
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• 1:22:31
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• 1:22:35
  the back end, all our interns, all the guys, all everybody, I
• 1:22:39
  mean, including my own. I mean, I'm a little out there
• 1:22:43
  and tired. I've dealt with a lot of
• 1:22:45
  sickness over the last couple weeks.
• 1:22:47
  Just happy that I'm healing up and feeling better.
• 1:22:49
  And I'm definitely not playing cornhole with Mr. Weber.
• 1:22:53
  So I'll stay away from that, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:22:55
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