Bussin' With The Boys - Dave Portnoy Calls In To Rip The Boys + Eric Kendricks On Choosing The Dallas Cowboys

Episode Date: March 19, 2024

Recorded: February 9th 2024 | In this weeks episode, the boys start off the pod on a bad note. El Pres calls Will and has some choice words for the boys as they missed a mandatory meeting Monday morning. The boys talk about the fallout of that situation along with some of the latest NFL headlines. Following the intro, we are joined by new Dallas Cowboys linebacker, Eric Kendricks. When this interview was first recorded during Super Bowl week, Eric was still a member of the Chargers so we had to have him Zoom back in to talk about his new team. He gets into how he felt about being released and the switch up to end up on the Cowboys. In the actual interview, the guys get into how Pro Bowl voting works, UCLA moving to the Big 10, his transition from college to the NFL plus so much more. Eric is another one of the boys and the podcast ends with a little bit of a competition. Tap in and enjoy. TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 3:39 The Boys Get Reamed + Boss Man Calls 31:45 March Madness 38:23 Trev Albert’s leaving Nebraska 47:25 Is Will A Notable Alumni? 56:05 "Justin Fields Takes Over Halfway The The Season" 1:01:43 ERIC KENDRICKS ZOOM 1:02:28 Becoming A Cowboy After Almost Being A 49er 1:03:55 Leaving LA 1:04:50 Being On America's Team 1:05:54 Possibly Switching Posiitons + Mike vs. Will 1:09:03 Cowboys Expectations 1:10:23 Micah Parsons Playing Style, Stressful? 1:11:33 Show Off The Whip 1:15:23 Shoutout Playing In The Sink 1:21:07 Willy Tattoo? 1:24:02 Dishwashing Etiquette 1:32:12 Who Has The Best Game On The Bus? 1:43:10 Baseball Or Tennis? 1:46:49 Dad Time 1:50:35 ERIC KENDRICKS INTERVIEW STARTS 1:50:50 How The Pro Bowl Works 1:56:18 Having An NFL Brother 1:58:37 Butkus Award Winner 2:01:06 UCLA To The Big 10 2:02:26 College Does Stadiums Right 2:07:54 Transitioning From College To NFL 2:09:13 "Don't Speak Unless Spoken To" 2:11:23 9 Years In, Still Making Plays 2:13:46 Team Stats vs NFL Stats 2:18:48 We All Fall Victim To The Search Bar 2:19:43 Big Car Guy 2:25:23 Any Resentment Leaving Minnesota? 2:26:42 Chargers Struggle’s 2:28:16 Harbaugh Hiring 2:30:23 Chug Off 0:00 Intro 3:39 The Boys Get Reamed + Boss Man Calls 31:45 March Madness 38:23 Trev Albert’s leaving Nebraska  47:25 is will a notable alumni from Nebraska? 56:05 Justin Fields/NFL talk 1:01:43 ERIC KENDRICKS ZOOM 1:02:28 How did he become a Cowboy after almost being a 49er 1:03:55 what happened for him to get cut 1:04:50 the feeling of Being a Dallas Cowboy 1:05:54 would he have had to switch positions for the niners + Mike vs. Will 1:09:03 expectations for the cowboys 1:10:23 playing with Micah, can it be stressful? 1:11:33 Show Off The Whip 1:15:23 Shoutout playing in the sink 1:21:07 Willy Tattoo? 1:24:02 Dishwashing Etiquette 1:32:12 Who Has The Best Game On The Bus? 1:43:10 Baseball Or Tennis? 1:46:49 Dad Time 1:50:35 ERIC KENDRICKS INTERVIEW STARTS 1:50:50 being a pro bowl alternate and voting for it 1:56:18 growing up with brother Mychal 1:58:37 winning the Butkus award 2:01:06 UCLA going to the big 10 2:02:26 Stadiums in college and NFL 2:07:54 Transitions from to college to NFL 2:09:13 Being a talkative rookie 2:11:23 His longevity in the league 2:13:46 Team stats vs NFL stats 2:18:48 Searching your name on twitter 2:19:43 Big car guy 2:25:23 Resentment leaving Minnesota 2:26:42 Chargers Struggle’s 2:28:16 Harbaugh hiring 2:30:23 Chug OffFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The boys, hey, we just fucked up. If you're watching right now, it's Tuesday. At this moment in time, it is 10.44 a.m. Central time in the morning. And we just got our asses ream because we were not on the bracket busters call with Barcelona Sports. And we fucked up. Before we get into it, because something that doesn't mess up. Yeah, something that doesn't mess up, the Chevy Sovarado, a truck that has a truck that commanding an unstoppable grit, legendary capability, and dependability as well.

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so I kind of allowed myself to sleep and go to the gym a little bit later, let them stay up a little later. And then I was like, last night going to bed, I was like, time to get the routine back and check. We're up at the time we got to get in. Yeah, excited to start the week. I even saw you're going to bed tweet and thought to myself, this is exactly what I needed to get my week going.

Wake up in the morning, go to the gym. Who's there? Conf nasty. Getting his legs right, getting that back right. I go. I take my kids to school. We're listening to bangers the whole way. I feel fantastic.

I think this is going to be, as my kids were getting out of the car. Yeah. I yell at my kids every single time. I'mnoxious dad move, but I love doing it. I roll on the window and I scream at them

how much I love them. And I say, make this the best week of your entire lives. All your dreams need to come true this week. And I'm thinking of myself, I'm going to do the same. I get here. Sun's out.

Sun's out. It's cold, but it's still suns out. Dave's calling. Is he really? What's up, DP? Tell me you're on the bus. You're on your on bus and, right now.

How many fucking people work for you? Five. Seven. Five, five, five, four-time employees. Five people are those cossom

remind you shitheads when we're doing a major thing. I uh, what the fuck do they do? I don't know. There's not one person that can be like, hey,

heads up, we have a fucking multi-million dollar ad deal where everyone's on the call. Everyone got the message except you two. How is that fucking possible? Yeah, I don't I I I yeah trust me I I swear to God. I wish I had an excuse for you

But three of them are back there listening right now. It's it's it's a Reflection of our bad leadership What it's like over all over? It's the same shit over What's the same shit? Like we didn't read an email properly. We didn't know like that fucking moron We went to dinner with is like why I did I you go to do hashtag VK partner like it's simple shit and then we just the same conversation like we didn't look at it careful we're not aware like how does that change i know uh yeah like i get an email from fucking austin every single day here's what you have dave so i don't fucking there's anything how hard is that did you when you two morons play football

did you just miss team meetings practices games like i don't get it no no and when i was late my asshole would be tight just like it is right now so like i don't i don't I don't like everybody's there like people we don't talk like wallow gilly they got it riana she got it fucking business on us how does everyone get it because of future yeah i i i have no clue what to say we we uh we fucked that one up and i don't know how to do it because like we send the emails that you guys asked like well we just didn't read email like i and then i get desperated because like i don't we just keep doing it so it's going to happen fucking again i don't like you have five full-time people just put one of them

to be like we need to know what we have to do every fucking day. Yeah. Yeah. No, you're right. Christ. I know. Yeah, I, uh, he fucking hung up. And he bodybagged your ass.

Yeah. Sorry. I know. You got to stand. You got to take the bullets. I mean, that is, you did a great job of just saying sorry. Essentially just a ball of us because we did just fuck up the whole time. There's nothing you can do.

It's just like when you're getting reamed by your position coach or de-coordinator or headball coach. You just got to eat it. Especially if you know you like you fucked it up. And you shouldn't fuck something like that. I know. I know, dude. And I legitimately. He's not wrong either.

Yeah. That's the shitty part is sometimes Dave will lose his shit and it's like he's just not thinking clearly. Yeah. But he's right. So I drop my kids off at school. I come here. I get a coffee and I get my two espresso lusies and I put in my lower lip and I literally took a deep breath grabbing that coffee going this is going to be a phenomenal day. Hey, K. Adams.

Can't stop me now. Can't stop me now. Just like the song from Queen. Yeah, yeah. Kay Adams at 10 run busing at 1030. Bing, bang, boom. We got a couple of ads to do. One company, we won't say which company wanted to reshoot.

We won't get into it. But we were going to do that too. We just had a good solid day plan. Yeah. My heart's racing right now. Yeah, and the thing that sucks about like, it's one thing to know something and just be like, I'll do it tomorrow.

Because there's a piece of you that's like, I should have just done that thing. It's a whole other thing to think you're on the right trajectory and then be like, someone's like, hey, by the way, you completely just missed this thing you were committed to. And that's where we're at now.

Because, dude, we're idiots. We're just dumb. I know. Like, I know we are, but I fucking hate saying that about myself. I know. And you're not that dumb. You're not that dumb.

It doesn't change until the habits change. I got to get in a better habit of, and that's the thing is I read the Dave Portnoy emails. I usually do too. We were just talking before we shot about him yelling to someone he didn't name, I'm pretty sure it was Rico, about sleeping on a stream. I read the whole email all the way through. If it says Dave Portnoy, you read the email.

Now, let me check the email. And when he texted you two motherfuckers, not, and I just said, what's going on? I had no clue. I'm sitting there looking up different rules and different scoring systems for the March Madness. I'm looking at different apps

on how we could you do a community one, like a public one. Maybe we should just do our private one on one of the apps. We can do a couple entries. Like I'm juggling like, like, okay, how can we spice this up and have some fun in the shop, basically? And I see that text while Taylor's doing K. Adams.

I'm like, I just put what's going on thinking, like, what happened? Like, I truly had no clue. He goes, you two aren't on the fucking bracket busters. I think I figured out why we missed it. Ryan Bozer name, but Ryan... I'll tell you why we missed it. We didn't check the email.

I know why I didn't see it. I know why I didn't see it. Ryan Bornazian. That's the person who sent the email to us. And we just didn't fucking read it. And it says bracket buster 2024, Monday 3.18. Dave sent one on the 14th. Because I was hopeful, I'm thinking to myself,

I truly nobody has personally told me anything about bracketbusters. Like last year I want to say MB told us that hey, I think Big Cat's going to select for you guys. You guys are entered in this pool. Here's how it works. Your team is, I forget who we had last year. But they rode to where we got to get a portion of the money. I think we split with somebody else. And this year, like, it hadn't even crossed my mind.

And no one has said anything, which is like is not an excuse because then I saw I go to my emails thinking, like, hoping that there was nothing about bracket busters because i'm thinking i see dave's thing i'm thinking bro i haven't heard anything about this and um i check the email and i see dave why i type in bracket buster in the search bar and i see three emails one from dave on march 14th and then a couple from that ryan guy kind of like one setting up the call and then the second one here's the zoom link and i'm just thinking god damn it how did i not check the dave one because the ryan one if it was just ryan like there's times where i just see it and i'm just assuming like our team is on those emails.

So it's probably not even for me type of thing is what goes on through my mind. Yeah. But when I saw the Dave, when I'm like, okay, there's no way out of this. Now I have to hope for,

and he already said, I have to hope for some of these people, like, Wallo, Gilly, Brianna, spitting chicklets, like that they're not going to be on this call. They're going to miss.

Yeah. Which is a horrible thing to do when you're on a team to hope somebody else also failed, so it takes off the brunt of you. But I was also only thinking that because he's just reaming us. So I'm thinking to myself,

if somebody else's missed, they better be getting the same treatment because he's talking he's talking wild because everything he he just said on that call he said in text everything he repeated he basically just repeated himself yeah we just only thing y'all can do maybe hit the time change oh sorry we were hour it's our it's our back it said 10 ct on the email it said 10 ct two weeks ago spring forward at and i thought oh shit i'm an hour i don't know we just hit the clocks it's it's a bad look that's it's not a good look It's not a, yeah, it's not good. I think the question is, the question is,

and we need to have a quick thing, tank is how do we make this up to Dave Portnoy? I don't think there's making it up. I think what happens as I'm going to go in, I'm going into the fucking jungle on Thursday when I go to March Madness, as Dave will be there. Thank God we're going to Vegas, Jack.

I'm going to have to relive this just in now in front of my teammates. Which is so much worse. You're getting called in the office and getting reamed out one-on-one. Yeah. You like taking it. You're like, God, thank God, no one saw that.

And you go to the next team meeting. and he realized they got the playup on the fucking screen yes yes we just talked about this yesterday it's like bro you that played happened then we talked about it now this i was texting uh i was texting big cat just asking him a couple questions surrounding like the tournament stuff like what he like what he uses if he's with his boys and stuff like that i sent that text to dan at 1015 a am asking about an app and then he ended up texting me just like five minutes ago are you texting me from the doghouse and i was like well i wasn't in that moment, but little did I know. I was getting my nose shoved into a corner. Yeah. Man. So

Monday started out tough for the boys. Yeah. That's okay. Course correct. We have to mincee this. Like, we're getting fucked in the ass right now. We have to remain positive that, hey, it's going to come around. He's going to finish eventually and we're going to be all right. Every, every few months or every month or so, there's something that we fuck up. We get back on track. Now we have to, we have to reset the calendar to zero. Days of fucked up. and that we have to ride this thing out. Now, there was a call last week that Will and I were both supposed to be on that I missed. And I thought to myself, dude, thank God we went to dinner.

And there was another thing that made us think, oh, thank God we went to dinner with Dave. Yeah. Even though that was just like a good, bro, hangout time, it's like you're kind of close to the situation. You're like, all right, we went to dinner. It was great, blah, blah, blah. I miss a Lucy thing. I shoot Dave, but I try to call Dave. He was shooting.

He gives me the FU button. I text him and say, hey, just want to be very unprofessional with me. missed a call, I apologize. He said, thanks. I was shooting. I thought, all right, we're good. The thing that we were thankful about the dinner on was the spring tour,

so there were a couple things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But man, dude, we just keep messing up. What's the solution? We got to, we gotta get better. I got, yeah. Individually, I, like,

I personally have to tighten my ship up and it's got to, it starts, it's got to trickle down. I like that. That's good. We need to, we need to, consciously and intentionally read our emails sent, even if it's not by Dave.

That's the number one thing to do. So once we do that, we'll be fine. However, you and I need to have one person at this bus that is c-seed on every email we're c-seed on, and we have to be told about it. The problem is, I feel like the majority is, we're all c-seed on these emails. Were you guys c-seed in those emails?

Yeah. So I think there's a lack of communication of, who's telling you guys. Maybe some of us are sitting in our seats thinking, oh, yeah, I'm sure so-and-so told them about this. Right. But this is great. I'm glad this conversation's happening right now. Will and his brain is thinking, how do I get fully right?

Yeah. Right. That's how I feel like everybody. That's how I feel like everybody needs to be. Right. How do I get fully right? How could I have done this? How could I have done that?

Like, to me, that's the only way. That's the only way it goes. Take care of your ship. Yeah. Now, I feel like we've, all learned a lesson, though, is goes for any of us. I think overcommunication is where we could have won here.

Just communication. Now, it's 100% on Will and I. Not on you guys at all, because now we're going, now we're going to level this thing up. And now we just know, if there's an email out there, there was something that's happened. We all just got to tell each other, but also starts with us handling our business the way we should

handle our business. We'll be better for this, man. We will be better for this. It doesn't feel like it right now. Because like you said, we're getting fucked in the ass. Yeah. And we just got to wait for the thrusting to stop. Calm down. We want to smell the cigarette being lit.

And we're going to relax. Bring the team back to the sidelines. They came out and shoved it down our ass the first drive, the first series. That's how it was. Like Mitch and NCAA, we got to get the boys back to the sideline. We got to take a breath. Hey, calm down. They're not showing us anything we didn't know.

Should we have gotten those? Should we have made those place? Absolutely. But, hey, we got to be a, we have to have a goldfish memory. as Ted Lasson would say. Absolutely. And we got to bounce back. We have to bounce back.

But here's the problem. Not only do we have to bounce back, Dave has now decommitted to Beer Olympics, which is a huge L for us. Not only do we have to bounce back, we need to do something to get him back on Beer Olympics. It could go one of two ways. Dave's got to fuck up somehow, which I do not see happening. Or we have to go above and beyond. It is, right?

I don't see what can Dave do to fuck us. Exactly. But that would be a situation where if Dave fucked up bad, then we could go, hey, Dave, you fucked up, we fucked up, what's called even you're back on beer Olympics. So he's got to fuck us. Oh, essentially, on accident, though. If it's intentional, it's okay, then it just hurts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that will not happen, as I'm saying.

Yeah. We, you and I need to think of a way to make this up to Dave to where Dave goes, not only do I forgive you, I'm back in on Breaker. olympics i doubt he says anything like that yeah of course but he'll say it is dave way you're going to Vegas this weekend right yeah maybe the winnings i don't know about that Dave's got Dave got money not for Dave for the company because there's what you what we cost of them was a financial thing it sounds like it's just it's a bad look all around yeah yeah i don't think we costed them like uh like a financial penalty like the you know they had to give money back or anything like that but the way they sell it and with us part of it it's like one of those things where dave comes in like when

mincey got reamed for not going to the combine where uh he was into it with titus over him not showing up for a sponsored event the guy's not showing up for a very highly sponsored thing maybe we become brick watch representatives for a month that's a good idea should i get him back on and we try and negotiate yeah call him back well we before you call him back though We could do a percentage of winnings from Vegas, brick watch salesman, and what else? What's one more thing we can bring to the table? I think we ask him first. It's not like we just want to offer up.

You're right. That's a great tactic. For those of you listening to the show. We're offering the money. We're offering this. We're offering that. Yeah, you're right. He can literally play hard.

He could just be like, no. And then it makes us feel like we've got to do even more. You're right. That's good. Call him. I don't know. This is a good idea of that. Well.

Hey, Dave. We're really trying to work through this fuck up. We're wondering if there's anything we can do to get out of the doghouse. I mean, the thing already happened. You got 16 feet. You've seen us thinking. You'll be eliminated quickly. But I don't know why, in a serious note,

why don't you just have one of your people just tell you every single day what you have to do? No. Yeah, yeah. No, I know. No, you're right about that. It's like one of those things to where it's, since it's, it's already happened. It's kind of like, we're still just beating ourselves up over fucking this up, but you're totally right.

Yeah, because it's like, I mean, it keeps, I don't know if any of them knew about it. Like I said, I get the thing off and tells me he's on everything I need to be aware of, and I get every morning like, hey, you have this at this time and this is that time. And it's like one thing if there was miscommunication, but, I mean, we don't, like, everybody's managed to get this message except you guys. Yeah, because Taylor and I were talking too. Like, whenever you said that, I truly, like, at that moment time, I'm like, well, I literally have not heard one thing about it.

But I went back to my email and I see I had one from you. And I know I check all of yours. So I had no. I was like, well, I did not see your email on the 14th. But, uh, but yeah, we're just, we're trying to figure out how we, I mean, how we get going from here. Yeah. I mean, you guys are going to get smoked on this.

thing because it was like a live thing and Dan was running and calls it out he like he calls everyone's name and you guys are the only ones who are not there so you guys look like assholes but i mean there's no way to go forward it it i mean it is what is it's a continuous contest it sucks because you guys had a fairly early pick so you would have been like you know the way you're supposed to do it is great chatter as the thing fucking moved along and draws attention to it but you guys can be It just sucks. It's like, it is what is it? It's like a huge hell.

It's like a big busters or something. So, yeah. I don't know. Like, none of you, back to the other. None of your production of me. You're breaking, you're,

I don't know if you're, you're getting wind in your phone or something. Yeah. Is it what? Like, none of the people work for you knew about this? No, they, yeah, they did. Everybody did.

Yeah, so that's crazy. Like, you ream them out. Like, I, like, what do they do? Like, I don't, if they knew, how are they not, like, telling you guys that? Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Like, that, that's to me, like, I'm yelling at you guys, but I would be yelling at, like, I look, I got a million things fucking going on, a million emails, a million everything. That's, again, I keep going, Austin lets me know.

Here's every fucking morning. Here's what you have to do. Yeah, yeah, no. Yeah, I'm with you on that. But also, we saw your email, too. Or we didn't see your email. Like, you sent me one. I did not open it up.

I know this is not going well. But, like, I could have easily seen that email and been ready for it as well. But yes, I 100% get what you're saying. Better communication all around. Yeah. And, yeah. But as far as this, this ship kind of sale. I mean, it is what is.

We just did the fucking thing. And it's not as, it'll make a more interesting fucking video because I go ballistic when you guys aren't there, but I mean, that's about it. Yeah, rightfully it deserved. Since you said you've calmed down for a second, is this just an insane request? And just let me know if this sounds absolutely fucking ridiculous. Probably, probably.

Go ahead. Is there any way we can get you back on board for beer Olympics? Yeah, no. Are we still on busing? Yeah. we're live not live no oh

but we're shooting I'm out right now I mean I I I hope that's the first thing I did when you guys are out like I pop up is out is there anything

this is like what can we do to get this back I mean we got a lot we got a lot of work to do we got a lot because I'm not even why if you want to say

that door is totally shut maybe I'll say it's point zero zero zero one but I'm not going from getting fucked in the face by you guys on this to like oh i'll happily be a bus i mean the last fucking two calls i've had to do

now sales people being like what these fucking guys are doing yeah understood understood all right well did you ever miss a practice just miss it no i don't i missed a meeting i've missed a meeting and it's it's a very similar feeling right now yeah right now i say the door is like I mean, that's the last thing on my mind. Like going to the fucking, I didn't want to go to beer Olympics anyway. So it's like this is just perfect. All right. All right.

All right. I'll get in the lab. Hey. When your parents are mad at you, you don't wait until they've kind of calmed down to ask for something. What do you mean? The beer Olympics. You should have just not said anything about that.

And it's like, all right, well, make this up to you. Because now the parent thinks in their head That's good for the content Now they're thinking in their head The parent is thinking in their head They were just trying to make things right So they could still get what they wanted No, that's not what was happening

I think all things can be true He can think that way I mean we do feel bad The answer, if he said 100% done We'd be fucked The fact that he said 0.001% Gives me a small glimmer of hope But we just got to be on our shit

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Had it last night for dinner. What's that? I had that last night for dinner some of the seafood. Did you really? Yeah, it was nice. It was nice. That's awesome. Seafood.

Because they sent that to the shop. We had salmon and shrimp. Rate it. Obviously mixed in with some veggies. Give me a rating. A rating for Good Shop? Yeah. Not a whole lot of description needs to go into it,

but I know this will make you mad. But Good Shop is a 10 out of 10. 4.5-004.5. No. You don't say it. Describe to me the meal, JP. It's a 10 out of 10. That's what they deserve.

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There he goes again. There he goes. Give me a word in a second. So, man, hey, how do we, where do we go from here? Eric Kendricks is on the pod today. That's cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Matter of fact, I think he'll be ready to go here soon. That's awesome. So for those of you who don't know, we did an interview with Eric Kendricks at the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, Nevada, and this is while he was still on the Los Angeles Chargers. Guy was phrasing, excited about Harbaughal.

Now, fast forward to March, what is it, 18th? Fast forward to March 18th, he's been cut by the Chargers. So a lot has really changed. So it'll be a very interesting parallel for you guys to see. We're going to get Eric Kendricks on here to Zoom. Talk about how he feels now. And then you'll be able to see his mindset before as well,

which will be pretty cool today. It's pretty different. Yeah, yeah. Pretty different stuff. Pretty different. Pretty different. We want to talk March Madness, Justin Fields, or NFL? We didn't quickly go over March Madness because I don't know a whole lot about basketball.

I've heard that Michigan is not in it. That's Heartbreak Hotel. It was not very good. won the national championship of football so suck it just throws him but we want a natty in football we want a natty in football this is the first year i will be doing a bracket hashtag dk partners i cannot wait to dive into this after the podcast and make sure i can get all these things done i i the best part is that you know no one gets it no one no one no one perfectly gets a bracket has there ever been a perfect bracket it's one in 120 billion that is what i was told when we were

doing something for Dave and Busters. You don't have to know a whole lot to fill out of breakfast. I know, but I do want to kind of, I want to feel it out. I want to do a little bit of homework. Yeah, yeah. I do enjoy kind of seeing, like, what's the UAB up to, dude? Are they in it? There it is, yeah.

Maybe they'll be a little sleeper this year. No? No, Mitch, not, not at all. Ohio State, they're not good at any sports this year. You guys are bad at football? You're bad at basketball? Not bad. You guys get to hockey?

Not bad at football. Just because we lost to you guys doesn't make us bad. How'd you guys do in your bowl game? Are we gonna... We won both of ours. Are we gonna keep just focusing on the past? Are we gonna focus on the future, move forward? How's your hockey team?

I don't give a fuck about our hockey team. Whoa, come. Come on, man. And we can end the conversation right now. Golly. Like, I don't watch hockey, but if they happen to be in the championship or something, I'd be out, oh yeah, let's hope Nebraska win.

Yeah, but it's not like I'm keeping up with it. You're not a right fan. But you don't have to just say, fuck them. You don't have to just... I don't give a fuck about the hockey team. We got an insanely good, maybe the greatest bowling college of all time. I don't watch any of their bowling.

But when I see the clips and then they win, I'm trying to be like, yo, I'm fired up for the squad. Nebraska won. Not like I don't give a fuck about the bowling team. When's football season? South Carolina just won the club hockey national championship. Let's go. JP's a true fan. True fan.

The truest purest fan out here. You guys got a what, a six seed? Six seed. Got Oregon first. making a run. We'll see. How's Oregon? Oh, W is what they are.

And then we'll play Tennessee in the Sweet 16. Beat them, go to the Elite 8. Wait, wait, wait. You would have, you'd have to get to round three, though, to get to Tennessee, right? Yeah, and we'll see them in the Sweet 16. I don't know if you get past them, boys. You know, that blue squad out of Nebraska, Creighton. I don't know about Oregon.

All I know is I knew JP was at the game. JP went to the game last week. So I threw it on because I'm like, okay, it's tournament time. Like, this could be a time to watch some teams, watch some games. Like, let me see if I catch JP. From where he took his photo, I'm like, maybe I could see him on TV. I flippant on. These boys are kidding blistered by like 30 points.

Auburn's a good team. Not a great matchup for us, but as Jack knows, as basketball fans know, conference tournaments don't matter when you're already a lock for the NCAA tournament. Extra rest. Yeah, like I can gather that, but still getting beat. by like 30. It's fine. It really doesn't matter.

That's basketball. Is Auburn in the tournament? Yeah. What are they? They're what a four seed? And what seed are y'all? Six. Yeah.

Then the four seed playing Yale. Gale. I'm just trying to see. Is it Tomonaga or Tomonaga? He's on your team, man. You not know? No. This is what sucks.

You get like excited and you can just tell J.P. He's like a gatekeeper basketball fan. He likes to allude to it. You know, basketball fans, you know, like, this stuff doesn't matter. He's like, oh, he sees a little bit of excitement versus a casual fan that doesn't, I don't watch a whole lot of basketball. Your excitement is coming at the downfall of my team. No, all I said was I'm hoping Tomenaga, Tominaga, which one is it?

Right, right after you were coming at Carolina, so I got it. Yeah, having a little fun. Yeah, same. Relax. Let's get back on track, though, about how we got this conversation. Yeah, Tomonaga. I hope he goes nuts. When he came on the other night, bro, hey, I swear to God, it is.

is electric watching this cat this is a kid that we were with at jakes correct no he was wanting to get a photo i think they were trying to set up a photo at the uh before the bus and bowl got this cat is insane this is him yeah he is march like march is made of people like that yeah yeah they're they're they're calling him the the japanese step curry oh let's go and they're well yeah that's Awesome. Just dropping hockey bombs left and right, bro. All the place right now.

I would like to say something before we start completely going away from where we're at. Mitch, I hope you took notes on Will Cawton. You say you don't give a fuck about the hockey team. Will gets excited about Nebraska's bowling team. Not only does he do that, he doesn't care about South Carolina basketball, but he knows his boy is at a South Carolina basketball

game and chooses to watch the game to support his boy. Maybe take notes on that Instead of belittling the team You claim to be a fan of I'm not belittling the football team About the hockey team It's the hockey team that I don't pay attention to

What is this? Why is Michigan Nebraska on right now? We win this one? This is Tomenaga highlights Oh yeah Did you guys Did you guys watch Oh

Now when they played Illinois Who'd they beat? Who'd they beat by like 20? Oh In the quarterfinals why am I drawn a blink right I love that he wears a headband I'm not trying to be funny but it wasn't Michigan

was it? No I wasn't Michigan they played Michigan like last game of the season but when uh yeah yeah Indiana Indiana Indiana he came in and he was I don't did you guys watch any of that one I saw the highlights some of the sequences

they're like back to back like he just starts catching fire goes down hits this crazy spin move hits a step back beyond the arc drops one And I'm just, like, laughing at the TV. I'm like, yo, babe, this cat is what everybody says he is. This kid right here. Yeah.

I DMed him. Did you really? What did you say? We shot the follows on Instagram, so I hit him with the DM. I sent him a... It was legendary. Shut the fuck. Use Google Translator?

Yeah. That is so funny. Just sent him a message in Japanese and said... You're a legend and then send him another one. It says, what did I say? Because I clearly carry this. Go, oh, go fuck shit up. Go fuck shit up in the tournament.

And he literally writes back in English. Thanks, well. We will. Thank you. We will. And he's got to fire him up. That his boys is drop us in some Japanese for him. Yeah, that is kind of, that's awesome.

That is. This kid that looks like Joe Kim Noah, his sister's on the volleyball team. So just a family of athletes. Let's go, man. They're a good March team. Nebraska is a fun March Madness team. Yeah, and I just feel like, too, the energy and the fact that we drew A&M first game,

Treve Albert's Revenge game. So hold on, JVU, why do you say? Well, women, I think, are playing A&M too. Why'd you say Nebraska is a fun March team to watch? Because they've had big upsets throughout the year, but they've dropped games. They shouldn't have dropped. But it seems like every time they're on like a nationally televised game,

they show up. And then they have that key staple player that always comes out in March. They're like, I don't want to, we're saying he's Japanese Steph Curry. But like, Steph Curry at Davidson, everyone's following him the whole year. You're like, oh, this kid's a baller. Like, let's see what he'll really do. Like on the big stage. And then Steph Curry crushes March Madness, which I can see this kid being like the March Madness.

And literally everything JP's saying is like when I go to Barstle, Chicago, like Titus, everybody kind of says that same thing. Really? Like, they have the big upsets under their belt. dropped a few games, but they also have that fan favorite in Tomonaga, Tomonaga, that everybody just roots for because he's just a stud. So even non-N Nebraska fans are rooting for this kid? Yeah, if it's not the team that they're playing,

it feels like everybody's like, I feel like the energy around that dude is just nuts, elevated. Man, that fires me up. I hope they can get one. Then they would have to play Houston. You guys are. The women's are playing A&M too. Yeah.

Both games. Both Nebraska basketball squads are playing A&M. Yeah, after Trev bounced on the boys last week.

And I saw, I was following on on Twitter. So Trev, the AD, left and went to Texas A&M. Yes.

And then I saw what Casey. After he signed an extension through 30, 2031, just this past November. That's heartless.

Yeah, there's some, there's some, there's some bad blood. There's some scuttle butt going around. What do you have to, anything you like

to say to the people? I don't know. I feel like there's a couple things, right? Like, number one, this is beyond. This is above the AD. This is above the AD. We haven't hired, like, we had Ted Carter.

Remember when we were in that suite at Georgia Southern a couple years ago? Ted Carter was the president at the time, and everybody was fired up, raving about this cat. And he seemed to be a very good, stable piece that was going to help Nebraska, not only football-wise, but just on the macro scale. And then we got, not then we got, but we had Treve Alberts already there. So those two, that one two punch and then when Frost kind of played his way out, they hire on and they hire Matt Ruhle.

It felt like for one, at that one point that there was continuity throughout from top to all the way down the head coach. Usually there's somebody different there every second. I remember us talking about that and being like, that doesn't really happen in college football. Usually like there's an 80, then there's a head coach and the 80 leaves. And very rarely do you have like both people on the same page. Right, right. And so Ted Carter signs an extension, and within a year, he bounces to Ohio State, which was kind of like, you know. Which doesn't care about at all.

You probably don't know. And then that's, so that's within a year. We still don't have a president hired, like through the Board of Regents and through people above that position. They're still, it's still vacant, the president's spot. And that's been for over 250 days now, like coming up on a year. now Trev he signs his extension in November signs an extension and now he's dipping before even half a year and so it's like there's thoughts of like how dysfunctional because everybody's very aware that it's a little dysfunctional at the top because they're split at the political level they're split

there's there's just always kind of been that sense of that that cloud that goes on beyond like the AD and president and everything else but on this in the same breath it's like if you're Trev and you know kind of what you're signing up for having been an All-American and everything else and you're just on record when you sign the extension there's this is the dream job there's no place you want to be like that that was like his this was like his thing because all he did was make a lateral move he didn't make he didn't make like a promotional move he just went to another school to be the AD but you kind of know what you're getting into so people are pissed because it's like if you're the leader and you're this guy that you're claiming you've claimed to be then you would have stayed in

and all this chaos and really tried to continue to fix it. Now, my, like, my thought going to the other side is there's just some things that people can't get on the same page about that big vision wise, Trevor wasn't able to accomplish. And this is a smart cat. Like, this is a calculated individual. So him making this move, like, I think it'll all, some things will come out one day. I don't know how much he'll talk about. But it feels like something else was going on that people just don't know about because

it was a surprising move. like coach rule didn't know now the interim ad is dennis leblanc who is our academic guy that signed us up for all of our classes and kind of headed the academic the athletic academic side yeah he's now the sitting ad who's been there for over two decades which i'm fired up by i think he's a great interim ad for now as long as his relationship with the rule is good yeah yeah yeah so now it's almost like the power kind of shifts to coach rule because coach rule's buyout is like north of $60 million. So whoever the next AD is,

I feel like Rule is going to have a big saying that, which I think is a good thing. I mean, Rule, I think, is perfect for that. It's perfect for a head coach in Nebraska. But it's just kind of like mind blowing all the different pieces that have fallen and Trev kind of just dipping. It's like, it makes me believe, man,

it must be really dysfunctional if it's taking him to leave because obviously, like, we've had conversation with him. He's been great to us. He's done a lot of big things at Nebraska. And people seem to like him. But if he's not getting along somewhere to where he can't make some move that's forced him to kind of leave, I think sucks. And then also it's like, I understand why everybody's pissed off because it's like,

yeah, bro, you were in play. Everybody wanted you here to help fix up, it helped clean up this stuff at the top. So it seems like the only reason why he left is there was a big issue up top that no one really knows about, but he was like, this is going to be the downfall. There's probably, yeah, there's probably some, some, a few moving parts. But yeah, I'm just assuming because I haven't, I haven't talked to him. He tweeted like, hey, you're going to bring the bus down to A&NN.

what'd you say to that? I did that video on him leaving Mansell. Johnny quote tweets and says, this is everything I need to know about Treve. Like, I'm on board, gig him. And then Trev quote tweets him and says, bring the bus down to A&M. I'm just thinking, bro.

Sure, yeah. Are you, are we going to take the bus to A&M? Oh, I like, are we trying to travel the bus? Probably not. But go down and sit with, you know, sit down with Trev and try to get try to have the conversation about all this stuff I don't yeah absolutely we should yeah I just you know if he's down to talk about it like you know at that when you're at that high of a level like there's so many different political games that are involved that you

could some things you can't right yeah yeah it just but I do feel like we could ask the questions on behalf of you know the fans and everything else like say all these same things that we're kind of talking about and try to like pick his brain on like yo why it would be a great interview to do and then have fan questions like Nebraska questions. Yeah, yeah. Like 10 of them. Just seeing their way as if it's a press conference also. Yeah.

So the fans can understand why he did leave because that is a wild move. Wild move. The sign in November. And then four months later, leave after saying this is the dream job. This is what I want and make a lateral move. Yeah, he was a Husker legend.

I'm talking like he was drafted what? I think he was drafted in the top 10. Nice. As an inside backer. Like he was a stud, all-American. This was the job. Played at Nebraska. Yeah.

And then he left. How much more money did he get? I mean, we're competing with oil money, but his raise was, he had a, he got a massive raise when he signed his extension in Nebraska. There's a lot of money that flows through Nebraska. That's what the whole state's about is Nebraska football or Nebraska sports. Yeah. There must be just a lot of disagreement over some issues that makes him just be like, now this, I'm going to go ahead and jump ship. Not jump ship, but I'm going to go ahead and get out of here, which people have the reaction that they have.

rightfully so. Yeah, I mean, people, fans have the right to be mad. If you're in Nebraska, you should absolutely be mad about the situation. You want the best guys in the seats

to give the most success to your program. And the good, the best thing I heard in that whole thing you said was that Matt Rule seems like he has more leadership and who comes in next. Because you want to make sure

the head football coach and the AD are aligned in their views. Right. As long as that is the case, they're going to be all right. Because my worry is, not knowing the president and the politics that you just explained to me,

I would think if that was all, taken care of, they would find the next AD without really going to anybody else for like ego reasons or what they think they know best, that person doesn't align with rule and then it makes it a hard road for rule to be successful in Nebraska. Right, right, right, right. When, even though I'm not a cornhusker, I'm a fan of rule. I want him to be successful. Yeah.

I hope LeBlanc gets it. I mean, he's been there. You talk about you want a stable piece at Nebraska that's not going to do what just happened. Yeah, two decades. And somebody who's sat with every act. athlete that you're a fan of at Nebraska who sat with every athlete sign him up for classes talk to the parents said the recruiting stuff like he's the academic guy you go and sit with on the

recruiting visits he's there day one all the way until the end making sure you're getting all your all your shit right keeping guys eligible yeah Randy Gregory he had to handle that yeah yeah Randy Gregory he had to handle that yeah damn it'll be interesting it'll be definitely interesting to see but yeah the bracket dude I did tell LeBlanc I said your first one of these projects you have to get done you gotta get a court side for this A&M game on Friday. He laughed, he said, I don't know if I can get a course side, but I'll, I'll try my best. Brother, you are. I know I get you good tickets.

And then I was like, you got to work like you're trying to get me a business calculator 104. Because that was a time back in the day trying to sneak me in this class. But I'm pumped for him. Good recall on that. There was a, I think the basketball team, I was looking at Nebraska basketball on Twitter. And they had a tweet that said, if we die, we die. And it's just like, you really are. Well, that was Coach Rule.

Yeah, but he said it. He said it and then you may it. We die. Yeah, he said it. You took it and turned it into something. Yeah, I'm definitely, I would definitely help magnify that for sure. But you can't, you can't teach. You can't coach.

Are you the most famous guy in Nebraska? No. You got Warren Buffett. I don't know if he wanted to do a verse in Nebraska. Did he? You might be the most famous person in Nebraska history. No. There's many more.

Most influential right now in this moment for sports. Maybe most influential right now. I'll take that. But as far as the most famous? You ain't got nobody that's your school dog. Tom Osborne. Warren. I think you know the throning Tom Oz.

Warren Buffett has a bachelor's degree from Nebraska. Lincoln, baby. Turning them out. Yeah, Warren Buffett, Tom Osborne. Yeah, I mean, you got Eric, Eric, Eric Crouch. Larry the cable guy. Larry the cable guy. Domican Sue.

Scott Frost. Scott Frost. Jordan Burroughs, Olympian. I mean, you got, where do you think he fell on this list? He had to let go. He's top 25 to me. Do we think Will,

where does Will fall on? It's top 100, Nebraska, notable alumni. We're at 10 right now. And he is on this list. Hey, what year was this made? What year was this made? What?

That's a good, that's a good question. Let's see. Published 24. Yeah. This was published like a month ago. This is your best of me is. It's not here.

Number one. If Scott Cross is there, then yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, Johnny Carson? Yeah. We're rocking, bro. All right. They got, they already got you too. Humbly.

They got you too low, Will. Humbly, I'll say out, not on the list. Am I on the list? We're going to find out. Hold on. Go back up. Tom Osborne's what number? Tom Osborne's 18.

Yeah, it's hard. Let me get Will F. 45. There goes my top 25. Who's Zach Miller? Go back up. Are these people from Nebraska? Are that Winston? It's probably from Nebraska.

As I was going to say, Zach Miller, I didn't think was a cornhusker. Man, they got, you might have snuck out. Thank God he got that done, brother. He says Louisville alumni from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Is I tripping on the Zach Miller? I don't even know who Zach Miller is. James Valentine? All right.

He's 40, so it would have been four years time. They say Zach Miller went to University of Nebraska, Omaha. This says Nebraska Lincoln, but. Lauren Larson is a stud. You just saw her. Hold on. Slow down. Okay. Barry Alvarez.

Craig Bull. That's who we met. We met Craig Bull after the Wyoming game. Adrian Martinez is up there? Chris McLeakman ejected me from a football game one time. Yeah, Adrian Martinez. And Andy Janow over Rex Burkhead. Has Rex not been on there?

Not yet. Come on, man. You know who's making this list, Jack. Michael Spencer Long. Spencer Long getting up there. You're more notable than Spencer, though. No disrespect, Spencer. Trey Palmer?

More notable, we'll comp, then. Jared Crick? Hold on, timeout. Jared Crick, this is wrong. Jared Crick. The fact that Rex Burkhead has not been on here yet is insane. Amir Abdullah? Tell me Amir Abdullah isn't over at Tray Palmer.

No disrespect to Tray Palmer. Damn, Will. I think that list is massively flawed. I mean, Jared Crick Yeah, and that's no shot at the boy, Jared. Kind of. I played against him. He wasn't a notable person on the scouting report.

I'll say that. He was still a good, he was still a solid. Brother, when he was on Houston and you had Jared Crick, him versus Judevian Clowny, J.J.J. Watt. Jared Crick was a playoff. No disrespect.

Well, yeah, you're talking about Judevian Clowny and J.J. I'm just saying. You're willing to. Compton. Yeah, yeah. I'm not talking. In the football world, Jared

crushed it in Nebraska. He was a beast. I think he, yeah, but Jared went like second round. I see what you mean. Like when you're game planning, like Jared's not going to be,

I'm not saying he's a top guy over. Yeah, he was a two gapper that was relatively easy to move. He was inside, right? No, but they would run a lot of five down and a lot of bare fronts. He was a two gathers. We run even double bracket in Nebraska.

He's taking on. He's double teams. Two gappers. Two gappers are the easiest people to block, unless you're 360 pounds. Right, because they're not disruptive and trying to... Well, yeah, if you run inside zoning against two gappers, it's much more difficult because the outside zone concept that we have.

Yeah, because they get linebackers all the tackles. And they essentially help you with your reeds everywhere. But if you're running outside zone against two gappers, it makes it so much easier to reach them and catch leverage and get them on an angle as opposed to the inside zone. Yeah. Two gappers in the offense we were in at the Titans the last couple of years was like, praise the Lord.

Yeah. That's what you want. Because when you're two gap and two, you're a lot tighter. Like you're like, you're like a two. Yeah. Or like a tight three. Yeah, you're more tight and you're also stepping laterally with the direction that the opposite alignment steps. So if I'm trying to read and react.

If I'm going at a 45 degree angle vertical, like 45 degree angle running, you've got a step with me and I already got the edge with you because I'm into you before you're into me. Yeah. So I can turn your shoulders a whole lot faster. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Penetrators? Fuck. Penetrators just collision all day. And just to hope you win the point of contact the most.

the best leverage. That was our Nebraska, March Madden's talk. Yeah, I guess, yeah. Who do you have winning? The tournament? Yeah. I'll probably go the way. I was always a Hansborough guy since he came out of Missouri,

so I'll probably go UNC just because I see that they're a one seed, and I'll probably just ride them and just be like all in North Carolina. I got to look at a little more, but Yukons are one seed, right? Yukon's the highest percentage right now that's like winning all the bracket. They have the highest percentage of winning. I think it goes like Yukon, Houston, UNC. Who's the other one? Purdue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw them.

They're a three-seed, right? Oh, you're a two-seed. Who you got winning at all? South Carolina. The last time I won a bracket was 2017 because I had South Carolina winning it all. We made it to the Final Four. I have lost ever since then.

But not this year. Is South Carolina ever won an Eddie? No. I love that. You're just picking South Carolina. I like to see, pardon me, I like to see Arizona go a little farther.

If I'm trying to win, I got a... Because if South Carolina does make a run and I don't have them on my bracket, I can't live with myself. Yeah.

Like, I'll have Nebraska I'll have Nebraska beating Houston, but that's probably as far as I go with them. Unless in my brain I get Wisconsin getting there over Duke. Then I'll go Nebraska over Wisconsin. You never know.

I might play the mental gymnastics to where this is the best route for Nebraska. to win at all. I have no doubt that will happen. Zero doubt. Part of why I kind of want to go on the app so that way we can have a couple entries. I'm not going to have Nebraska win it at all in one of them.

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Justin Fields is getting granted to the Steelers. I think it's a big win for Justin Fields. because being trained for a six-round pick, right? Yeah, six-round. That could go up to a fourth. Conditional that could go up to a fourth is the biggest slap in the face you could take just a few years into your career after being a first-round draft pick. They essentially getting the stamp of being a bust.

Going into a place that is paying a guy who's won a Super Bowl, $1.9 million, there's no loyalty in who should be the starter. when it goes to camp. So the Steelers have already come out and they've said Russell Wilson's our guide, this is their quarterback, blah, blah, blah. They probably told Russell Wilson this

when they were going to, where they were trying to get him to come to the Steelers. But the reality is, unless it's in writing, that you're 100% the starter. Like, you know how handshake deals work in the NFL.

You're the starter until you're not. So I think this is going to be probably the number one news when we get to early August, late July, about who's going to be the starter. I bet you Russell Wilson will be the start in the beginning, and I think Justin Fields takes over the middle of the year.

That's how I think happens. That's a solid prediction. These two dudes are going to both have chips in their shoulder. Unless Russell's playing well. Yeah. And I think this is massive for Arthur Smith. Yeah. Arthur Smith loves his mobile quarterbacks,

and he's going to want Justin Fields. So. And what a move for the Steelers. Yeah. I mean, you get Russell and Justin Fields for basically a six-round pick and then you pay Russell Wilson the minimum because Denver's foot in the bill

for his 30-something million dollars. And if you're the Steelers, you're praying that Justin Fields comes in and balls the fuck out because now you've got your quarterback for the future. Russell Wilson, I don't know how much future is in that. Get a couple years of him and then it's kind of like, all right, brother,

sail off in the sunset, good career. Congratulations, you're out of here. But with Justin Fields is he has the ability to come in with great coaching that Tomlin has had. Tomlin is a guy that when you have, talented people in the room. He makes them, he shows their biggest strengths.

He has the ability to have them be as good as they possibly can be. Show the A.B., Bell, the running back, their offensive line. Rothesberger, like, he's done a great job of utilizing his weapons and controlling unique personalities. I don't know much about Fields' personality,

but Fields is the guy they want to succeed over Russell Wilson. If you want the future of the program, that's who you want, that's who you want, win this battle hopefully it's clear cut where fields comes in balls out and leaves now i did see like something about so like a bunch of interceptions like there's only two quarterbacks that had like a certain amount of interceptions in the last two years and both of them are now the

steelers so only ways up boys uh russell was the stats against the a fc nois are i think some of the best ones amongst quarterbacks amongst active quarterbacks yeah but i think i mean field dude running some rpeos running some movement out of the pocket some loosies yeah art can't wait to try and get in this cat's brain and figure out the best way to coach yeah i think this is the biggest winner here is arthur smith soon to be head coach of a team one year from now oh no no oh hey hey i saw the caleb williams you know about a little can you're throwing out some Caleb Williams love? Yeah, no, I think, I've literally been very clear.

Like, his combine was not, like, the way he operated during the combine, I am not a fan of. But that clip you see of him running down field and blocking for his guy, like a quarterback never does. That's cool as fuck. That's the Caleb Williams I want to see. But when I see this guy sitting on a podium and being like, you know, you got plenty of film on me, like, bro, you're at the combine. Throw the fucking ball and do the things you're supposed to be doing as the soon-to-be first

overall pick. That's the shit that pisses me off. But yeah, that clip against Arizona, or was it Arizona State? That shit was dope. Him like 30, 40 yards down field throwing some guy in the bleacher, giving himself like the, what's the movie? The blind side? Yeah.

That shit fired me up. So are you coming back around now for Caleb Williams? No, I still am out on him right now. You're out on him. I'm still out on him right now. But you know my takes on quarterbacks. Like this might be the, this is essentially a will-compan for Kansas City. Yeah, you especially might thrust into the MVP.

Yes. If Caleb Williams is a success in the NFL, it'll be solely because of me. When he becomes a success, say, as early as this year, there's no question that any motivational video, you will be somewhere in there. Yeah, I hope so. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like how they do the little bit. I would love that.

Cut each guy. He doesn't have what it takes, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. He's a me guy. He's got a me attitude. Yes. And then I beg him to come on the bus. And he says, no.

I'm like, God, damn it. We'll paint her nails. Yeah, yeah. It's so cool. Yeah, that's another thing. What we're paying nails for? What we're doing? It's ball.

Yeah, they'll be talking about. It just don't make them like they used to, comp. Yeah. Hey, um. You ready? Kendrick.

Yeah, you guys, you guys ready to, uh, hit. Okay, that's fine. We're going to,

uh, take a, a quick break. And when we come back, probably after this ad read, we will get into the Zoom interview with Eric Kendrix. Before we get into the interview we did with him out at Vegas in the Super Bowl, when he was a charger.

Now he's a cowboy. But more to come. Can you see us? Eric, can you see us? I can. What's up? What's up, bro? Hey, thank you for joining us.

I'm sorry we've been... You may turn it sideways? Yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, our producers going thumbs up. Does that help? Hmm. I've got to kind of hold it now. Try to get it set up.

I'm in the car with it. No, I love it. We appreciate you. Where are you at right now? I'm in L.A. Okay. Yeah, so, hey, last time we had you on, we were talking about obviously cars, your love for cars growing up with your brother and then your excitement for Harbaal potentially

being a charger, but now you are no longer a charger. Now you're a Dallas cowboy. How did you become a cowboy? Honestly, it was a crazy process. I feel like everything kind of happened kind of quickly, but, you know, just Zim being there And, you know, me, me knowing the defense, I had learned two defenses back to back, two years in a row. And I wanted to be in a system where I could play fast and be middle linebacker. So, you know, I feel like the Cowboys was a good fit for me.

Did Zim just get there? Zim just got there this year. Yeah, because DQ Quinn was the D.C. before that. What, were you close to going with the Niners? Wasn't there a little, wasn't there a little story behind you almost becoming a nineer? and then you kind of flip into the Cowboys, which, by the way, two iconic legendary teams. Yeah, you know, like that's what, you know,

that's what made the decision so hard. I feel like the Niners program is a good one. And the organization, the staff, the opportunity to play with Fred Warner and those guys. I feel like it was a hard choice. But ultimately, you know, I feel like me and Fred Warner played the same position. And, you know, in order for the, you know,

to be better for my career. And to be more comfortable playing in my style the way I wanted to play, I feel like I had to make the change. When you were going through this process and seeing Harbaugh as your head coach, you're getting excited about it, you talk to us about it. And then what transpired for them when they cut you? Did they bring you in? They talked to you. Did you end up meeting with Harbaugh at all? Yeah.

So I went in there. I wanted to meet the staff and some of the guys a while back. I went in there, met with them, talked with them. talk with them, met with Navarro a little bit. You know, the vibes were solid, but, you know, anytime you have a complete changeover, you know, a lot of things, you know, are up for grabs. And, you know, I guess I was one of those pieces, you know, not to mention a few other names. Yeah, did it come as a surprise to you?

You know, definitely. I feel like I finished the season really strong. You know, obviously we didn't really play well. But, yeah, it was a little bit of surprise for sure. when you think about being a Dallas Cowboy, every kid who grows up and they think about, I've seen other players go from one team to the Cowboys, and they've said, growing up, where you think the NFL is like, that's what it's like playing for the Cowboys. How hype are you to have a star on the side of your helmet and no state income tax?

Congratulations on more money. Yeah, you know, it's crazy. You know, I feel like it all kind of became real when I was there and I saw the kind of set up and how the facilities are set up. And obviously, you know that it's a huge market. but both the teams that I was kind of considering were both great markets. But, you know, we talk about Cowboys. You know, obviously, you know, you hear that it's America's team and things like that.

But ultimately, you know, the fact that, you know, Zim was there and the defense that I want to play in was there. I feel like the stars just align. Oh, stars, you know. Stars, Cowboys. I got these all day. What's you want? Bro, are the facilities just insane? Yeah, you know, especially coming from the Chargers.

The Chargers are going to get new facilities, but, you know, Cowboys facilities are definitely, you know, top-notch. When you were waiting the options between Dallas and the Niners, and you were talking earlier about you and Fred were in the same spot, were they trying to talk to you at all about playing next to him? Yeah, you know, that's what I would have played, I would have played, I would have played Will, so to speak. And while while Dre, Greenlaw was nursing his Achilles, but, you know, I didn't want to be in a position where, you know, I was, you know, playing a position the whole year and then potentially having to switch to another position and kind of rotating in and out. You know, I wanted to be on the field. I wanted to be making a difference.

I wanted to be making an impact. And that's why ultimately I had to make a change for myself. You want that green dot. You're a green dot shot caller, bro. Yeah, you know what I mean? And it's just like, you know, obviously it was hard, it was a hard decision to make because there's such a solid squad and such a good organization. but, you know, I went to another solid squad and great organization with a great D-line.

And, you know, I felt like it was a win-win. I had to really just, like, kind of like, write things out and pros and cons. And once I did that, you know, had great talks with my family and friends. It made it very apparent where I should be. This might be an elementary question, but I really don't know the answer. What is the difference between Mike and Will as far as, like, responsibilities, except for having a green dot? And you guys should both answer this. I really don't know.

I mean, Mike, you're more in the action. Go ahead, Eric. Yeah, Mike, you're in the center of everything. You know, generally, most of the time you're right in the center and you kind of have a balance of both worlds on both sides, whereas Will you kind of get segmented to partial side of the thing. And I'm used to having kind of everything crossing and mix matching. And I'm used to being off three a little bit where Will you're kind of more off two.

Not to say that you can't be off two at Mike, but it's just the world I've been growing up in. I've been playing Mike since I was probably sixth grade. I played one year at Will in college, my freshman year, and every other year has been Mike. So I think that that would have been, you know, not to say that I couldn't have learned it, not to say that I wouldn't have been challenging for me.

But I think that just at this point in my career, I want to play fast and I want to play physical, and I don't want to have to think and learn a new playbook, and it made sense. I love that. And you're a Mike. I mean, anytime that I would have to go and play the will like I honestly hated it like you would mentally it's not that hard of a switch because

again like he said you're playing more off two versus three but when you're the will too you can be you know you're a little bit more vulnerable you're a little more susceptible to be okay they want i got to fucking walk out of the box like me personally i'm always wanting to be just in the center and dropping off three and and again if if eric like you're saying like you play it your entire career there's no need to try and you know make some switch or make some jump especially when you got your uh zim who you've been familiar with you I don't know how long you're with Zim and Minnesota, but you know that playbook inside now. I mean, I think the cover, some of the cover three is a little bizarre, but you know that.

You know the Zimmer playbook. Exactly. No, exactly. I feel like, can you see me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like, just, just, just, like you said, you know, I just, I know the playbook. I played in his system for seven years. Had some of my best years there.

And, you know, just, it just felt right once I made the decision. I think it's time for a little clickbait city. Do you give me your expectations for the Dallas Cowboys this season. man, I need to get to know my teammates, get to learn, but, you know, I played against them last year and, you know, they're very clutch. Very clutch. Very clutch. See, there's arguments out there that the Cowboys, that's the issue they have is they're not very clutch. A lot of talent. I mean, a lot of talent, but, you know what I mean?

I think you just look at the, you know, it's the NFL, you know, people come to play for sure. But I think that they, you know, getting to the next level is, it's, it's. is what you want, obviously, as a program. And that's what, you know, we got to do in Dallas. But, you know, you just look at their overall record, you know, and these NFL games come down to the fourth quarter every time. So when you have a good record, generally that means you're doing well in those fourth quarter, those fourth quarter crunch time situations, situational football, you know,

when the money's on line, you know, you're winning those games. Dude, that third down package is about to be crazy with all the, with all the cats and talent that they have. Because you can do so many different things, like, because I was with God. Hunter in Oakland. And so he kind of hit, he was with Zim for a long time. So those, those third down packages are crazy. But I'm talking about with the horses that they got in Dallas,

like Zim's going to be so, yeah, you're going to have fun out there. Yeah, no doubt. When you think about playing with a guy like Micah Parsons, who is, it seems like he doesn't have any gap responsibility. He's allowed to do whatever the hell he wants based on where he lines up. As a linebacker, does that stress you out at all?

Knowing that you might have to cover him, gap, gap? No, I feel like, I feel like just knowing where, like, you know, knowing where he's at and you have to know your own responsibility first and foremost. But when you have a guy like that, you know, it puts less pressure on you and more pressure on the offense. So anytime you have them thinking fast and us, you know, covering covering on our end, that's always a good situation, you know, especially when it's like a little bit of an organized chaos. That's what you want.

Yeah, I love it, dude. Brother, hey, thanks for coming on, man. Whenever we saw you went to Dallas, we were kind of like, we were, kind of like, oh, shit, we should try and get E back on since we interviewed him and he was a full-blown charger talking about Harbaugh coming. So we appreciate you coming in. And since we talk so much about cars, what are you whipping around right now? I'm in the caddy. I'm in the CT5B Blackwing. This is a beast of a car. And it's a, it's classy. It's daily. You never really know that it has almost 700 horsepower under the hood.

But it can get it can get up with everything. Are you, are you in a safe place? Are you just off like the highway or something like that? Because low key, I want to tell you to step out and go ahead and give us a little circle it around, show it off a little bit. I'll do that. Hold on. Let me see what I can do. I can't. Oh, yeah, I'll do that right now. Let me, let me get it. Let me see what we can do here. Hold on. How do I flip this thing around? There we go. He's got an amazing tan. Oh, see, hey, let's see you got the number right here.

Yeah. Carbon fiber. It's a good-looking vehicle. That thing is nice. I like knowing he's kind of just bending down, giving it the shots it deserves. Doing a great job not showing the license plate. It's a vet move. Yeah, that is a bad move.

Brother, we appreciate your time, man. Thank you for pulling over on the side of the road to jump on with the boys. And good luck in Dallas. Oh, no problem, man. Take it easy. Good luck, brother. We'll talk to you soon. See you, bro.

Appreciate it. See you. he's a stud man solid just a guy that seems like he's about it too yeah excited doesn't seem like he was like wronged he doesn't feel wrong he's like we'll just do the next thing he understands the business just gonna keep moving forward because definitely

the situation you'd have been in with san fran if he's got to potentially like hey you gotta know both you're gonna start out at will and then when green law comes back because green law's a stud so I'm sure they'll probably but an Achilles for a lot of people is like oh yeah could be the that last thing over the Yeah

Those Achilles You are no fucking joke In time Like he's a cat That's so proven That he gets to go into a situation With Zim who he was with For seven years

Like right You know the defense inside and out And that late in your career At a spot like Dallas And your coach is there? Yeah Yeah that's easy endorsement deals

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That's what the problem is, man. All these football players, they want to get these other vehicles. They don't understand that durable and reliable is the most important. The most important. Should we hit our shout-out? No Free Shoutout? Yeah, let's do show. Have a little bit of fun.

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So my shout-on-no-free shout-out this week goes. It's something that happened like this weekend, as we know, St. Patty's Day, big drinking day, go out all day with the boys with the gang. You're typically like you're at a bar the entire time. And you're able to find a seat at that bar because normally they're way too packed. You can't really, like you're just standing room. You're standing on your feet all day. You're able to find a chair and you can just sit down for a couple minutes.

You're still with the crew and everything, but you're able to sit down and get off those feet. It is a game changer. And whenever I'm out, I'm always trying to peer, look for that seat that I can get off the feet with. So shout out finding a chair or a spot to sit at the bar. Hell yeah, Mitch. That's a solid one. Jackie Boy, lay it on us.

Mine's kind of a generalized one. But my shout-out, no shout-out goes to making new friends over the weekend. I was introduced to a group of people through some mutual friends of mine, and we all kind of went out yesterday, watched the Sunday tournament selection. And it's cool, especially like the later you get in life, you kind of, because I'm sure for you guys especially, too, like having families and kids, like life kind of goes by you. And so I don't ever not appreciate the opportunities when you get to meet cool people

and just kind of sitting down and like learning new. And we, someone made a point last night talking. We were all hanging out. I think it was like three or four hours. And like by the end of it, no one had even like talked about like, what do you do for work,

this and that. It was just like very organic like open flow conversation. So I appreciate new friendships in life and especially ones that are worth like, all right, yeah, we'll definitely hang out again. Yeah, shout out to making friends. Solid. I heard you were supposed to be at my house yesterday.

No. It was, I mean, it was potential, but I wasn't like locked in. Okay. That's not what I heard, but I'm glad you had phone with your friends. That's a great weekend. All right. JP, what's your shout, no free shout out? My shout out, no free shout out.

Really, it was something that pissed me off. Oh. So I'm just going to flip it and choose the opposite of it. But, uh, you know, like when people in their backyards, they have like stones, like a walkway, but they're never spaced properly. So, you know, you want to. step on each one when you're walking and there never are. So shout out, no free shout out to the to the stones that are spaced properly in people's backyards that I'm not trying to, I'm not

tiptoeing through their backyard. Yeah. Outside the box, I like that. My shout out, no free shout out goes to the game you play in the sink. Go ahead. Get your little sprayer. You're doing your dishes. You're cleaning all place and you see food. You see whatever it is on the, the, the or on the floor of the sink and you take that little sprayer and you just kind of spray the edges because you're trying to circle it up and you're trying to get everything and get it into the drain. I don't know if you guys do that. I have fun with it. Literally every day, I actually told Charles, like, one thing you'll never have to worry with me about is making sure the bottom of the sink is clean because I'm always trying to, whenever I get done doing the dishes and I just see the food, I'm like, oh, it's going to be healthy game. Or there might be some silverware or a plate in the way to where you got to kind of, you got to kind of go back and forth around it. Make sure you get that food out. Water, wave it out. a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's, that's my shout-out. No Free Shout-out goes to the, to the sink game. I think that's a uniquely thing in men is seeing debris of food in a sink and knowing that I'm going to take, I'm going to handle this. I'm going to do it for my family. I'm going to do it for the well-being of the whole entire house. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good one.

My shout-out, No-Free Shoutout goes to an individual, and that individual will be Ira, Joey Singleton, who spent the last week in Nashville, Tennessee, very busy schedule, getting home, kids, then all of a sudden we're doing other things. People calling all that. He's supposed to do all these tattoos, and I'm not getting a tattoo until my kids go to sleep. And it happens like four or five days in a row. Ends up doing my entire left arm, which has been kind of vacant for a long time. And I had that crummy tribal that I've been removing and then quit removing and just

decide to slap some tattoos on top of it. I love the way it turned out. I love the spacing. I'm obsessed with it. And there's something special about having a tattoo artist staying in your house. toward any point I just be like, hey, Joe, let's go do this thing right now. And he goes, slaps it on and does it. And I just, every time it comes in, I'm just a different human being every time.

You love your tats? I love them. They come out perfect? I mean, probably not perfect, but I love them. I think they're, I even have ones that I really didn't expect to get. And then I saw it and he put the placement on. I was like, all right, I kind of, he kind of draws them up. He kind of makes it shows it to you.

And you're like, yeah, those are sick. So, yeah, how Joey and I work now because he's done so many of my tattoos is I'll be like, hey, I want to get my, my leg done. And he'll just be like, okay, this is what you have in your leg now. This is what I think would go good with it. And then I'll pick out like two or three. Okay, I like those two, three. I don't like this.

Oh, I like this one, but change X, Y, and Z. And then obviously I'll get on my Pinterest game and find, like, different stuff that I like. So there was, on my biceps inside arm, I have, like, an eagle fighting a snake. And it's just American traditional type of tattoo. And I had never thought I'd want an eagle fighting a snake. And then he slapped it on there. And that's where I have, like, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, warrior guy and a little more tribal

kind of still exposed and it just covered it up great and I love I love the tattoo I love the way it looks from a distance I like how it's very it's very easy to tell what's what when you get up close it's just I'm a huge fan of the sleep huge fan of it no like no filler it's just like pictures just stickers

all across my arm and I love it yeah he did bring up he goes is Will is Will anti tattoo guy and I was like I don't think he's an anti-tattoo he just doesn't want a tattoo Yeah, difference. Well said. Yeah. So, but there's a free tattoo if you ever want one.

Looming in the distance. Yeah, it's like my mind's dabble with the thought of it a couple times, but none they got very far. I'm a guy that either has none or like too many. And I'm a vast, I think I've already passed the too many part. But I just can't have like that one classic white guy Celtic cross on the shoulder. I'd have like my whole entire body done or none. Right.

Like if I did anything, it would be a sleuth. I think you'd look hard with a sleeve, brother. But it would be such a weird change to see you with a sleeve. Yeah, no doubt. Truly, no doubt. If you had to do a sleeve, what do you think the idea would be? Like, what would be your... No clue.

There'd be wolves involved. Yeah. We all know that. Would you go more realism or traditional or what? What kind of style would you go for? I don't know what that means when you mean like realism versus traditional. So, yeah, Pulper Realism tattoo. So that's realism.

So something a little more exciting though. Yeah, there's a wolf realism tattoo right there. So very detailed. It looks like an actual picture. I might do something like realism. Those are very cool. Those are very cool. The issue with those tattoos is 10, 20 years from now.

They're going to look like a ball and mush. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. They go hard, though. Yeah. That's how I want to do my whole entire left leg. I want to do the Max Crosby. Anesthesia, have like five tattoo artists.

I do my leg. That's American traditional. Well, maybe a little neo-traditional. But there you go. They're exciting. I'm sure we'll have some reference points for you guys, not just to hear me say that's what that is. But yeah.

The tag game. Cody's got some tats, but, like, again, it's hard to just get a couple tattoos. Like, if you're going to be a tab person,

you've got to be a tat person. Yeah. I'm fully in there. I wouldn't be into just having like two or three at different parts of my body. I'm like, oh, here, this one,

this one. Yeah. Got that one for that one. That's for the ladies. Yeah. Ladies got the little tattoos everywhere. Yeah, yeah. Jackie's got his sleeve coming.

together a little bit. And there's rumors. Joey was mentioning that Jack was mentioning a back. Oh. Yeah, but I told Taylor and Joey, I say the same joke every time, but it's true. I have to be in a committed relationship to have a back tattoo or also I'm like asking my boys to, because there's the aftercare that goes into it. I can't have like my boy lathering my back up for two weeks straight.

So I need to find a girlfriend. So you got to get a chick. I'm going to get a girlfriend so I can get a back tattoo. There you go. Oh, we'll have to give her this clip one day when that girlfriend happens. So she knows, like, you're kind of just a play setter right now, eventually. Yeah, you'll know where you stand when this tattoo heals. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's how you'll be able to DTR. Hmm. I was thinking of something else, but I forgot what it was. What did it have to do with, buddy? Something with your sink, what I enjoy when I'm cleaning the dishes, is when you use the show for the first time, and you flip it back over and you give it that little pump and all the bubbles come out.

I lied every time. Do you guys have a wire brush in your sink? No. So there's like the sponge, right, that everyone has. And then there's the level up where it's like a handle with a bristle that you wash it just off.

Then there's like this sponge, but it's like wire sponge. And so it's like more, it's just rougher. Brother, that thing, like cooking eggs in the morning, you get some eggs on the pot and then all of a sudden you just,

you don't clean it right then and there. You come back to it a few hours later. It's like impossible to get it off there. Not for the wire brush, dude. This thing, is like the ultimate like because when I'm doing dishes I like to think of myself

I'm like kind of going to war a little bit I start off with my infiltrate guys I start up with the basic sponge and then all right these guys can't handle it let's bring in the other boy so I bring in the bristle and then finally

my napal my nuclear missile is that wire brushel wired sponge and it is it hasn't seen a task it hasn't been able to complete yet it's incredible

I have to use something with a handle I'm just not a big just touching the moot yeah i just i fucking for whatever reason i can't do it i see i'm a i'm a all in or all out guy like if i'm gonna do the dishes and i have a lot of dishes to get done i kind of just put my hands in it and get my hands kind of gross with it so i'm like all right now you're just in it i'm using my hands to clean and i'm using towel i'm using whatever it could be the move i like i like to uh i like to do the dishes like clean wall cooking so that way that way that way

that way whenever you're done eating you're not looking at a bunch of Yeah, in a perfect world, that's the move. I'm a big, if Tailing cooks, I clean and vice versa. Good news is I don't cook. So I'm not up there. The cleaning part, though, after you have a full belly, dude, is just kind of tough. Because you just want to go sit and just chill after that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Charles will be cooking, I bet, hey, you're done with this, you're done with that. Can I get this? Oh, you're like that in the kitchen. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, boy, I'll be spraying. I'll be wiping it down with the paper towel. Nice. Hit the little smell good stuff.

I think that fully just is whatever mood I'm in because I've been in that situation, but more times than not, I'm like, I'm going to have to handle all that later. I'm just kind of stare at it and be like, fuck, it's a lot of dishes. All right. I guess we'll deal with that war in a little bit. Yeah, I think, oh, man, this is a big meal. I better get going. You don't want to know a little tip, though.

What? Organizing your dishwasher before you clean it. That is a huge win. So, like, if you put all the spoons, put them all in one little area, all the knives in one little area. And then the same plates of the same size stack, beep, beep, beep, beep, big. And then go to the next size. Because a lot of times we've all been there, usually you just kind of put the plates in where they fit in.

But if you take just a little extra time to organize it, when you're emptying that dishwasher, oh, dude, it's so much faster. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the majority. I think everyone does that. I was going to say, I ain't even know. I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Because I don't. I'm kind of half and a half and a half. The bigger plates and the, yeah, the scale it maybe if you want to put it in there, you don't want to just clean it in the sink, but that's for like the vac. Oh,

you organize your dishwasher every single time? Oh, yeah. Oh, shit. I guess I'm just now getting it. Thank you guys for the tip. That was fucking awesome, man. Thank you. You said that organized,

I was like, oh, and then you started explaining it. And I'm just thinking, oh, yeah, I guess so. I do that already. That's great. Let Taylor have it for a second.

Man. Do you put cups on the bottom? No. Okay. That was just a question. I didn't know. You said something about organization. It looks like a big,

Getty cup or something like that. The one that won't fit on the top shelf. Right. If you push it in and get like mush down and you kind of get pissed and just a couple times. I'm a big no pots and pans in the dishwasher. Yeah, we don't. We take care of that.

Yeah, you handle that. You hand wash those boys. I probably would, but the message she's like, you know, let's get that sponge to it. There's been a huge. Handwash, good colory, pots and pans, never cutting boards in the dishwasher. Yeah. I got a big.

a big one that bothers me. And people are either one of the other way. When you put your silverware into the dishwasher, do you put it with the, say, your fork, do you put the spike side up or do you put it down? Spikes side up. No, bro.

No, that's disgusting. JP. Why disgusting? Because when you're going to pick out your silverware and put it back in, you're just grabbing where everybody eats from. That's a little much, man. That's not a little much.

There's a handle on it for a reason. You put it where you grab the handle. Right. It's going to get clean no matter if it's three inches. Hey, so I agree with that line of thinking. I agree with that line of thinking of like just putting it down or dropping them in there. The reason ours is a forks up and shit, there's like individual slots in there. So I couldn't go.

I couldn't go fork down in it. I don't like that. Oh, so it's like I see what you mean. Does it like a little space on top though where you can almost flip up like a small, lid where it has the placements in there. That's right, right, right, right. To where it's got that little lid to where it's like, it's clamped down and you kind of just,

we kind of just drop it in it. But I, I agree with that, hey, it's going to get cleaned, whether it's facing up or down. I almost feel like people got them facing up. They just have the thing in their head to where they feel like it's not going to get cleaned if it's not like exposed. Right, which is crazy.

You're dirty, though. I saw it say on Instagram that if you take, aluminum foil crumpled up in a ball and then put it with your silverware eat it chew it it makes uh it makes everything more like you know how you sometimes you get out and there's like water spots and stuff on your takes all the water spots away saw that yesterday so I tried it I want you guys know this afternoon oh it'd be a good little tip yeah might be a little tip have you guys ever chewed foil yes no but you told us about this hey pain yeah

that shit is real it's literally like getting electric Oh my God, yeah. Through the roots of your teeth, bro. I feel like you're about to explode. Have you, Jack? Never made the mistake? God, yeah. Oh, yeah, don't now.

That was back in high school. High school, I was like 10, but that shit was, you do it once, you'll never do it again. I was just like being goofy and just throwing different shit and then just threw some foil, not knowing. I got crushed. Hey, JP, I know you liked that little fart vine. So funny, bro.

shit was funny. Will and I were talking about the other day. Like, farting will never not be funny from the beginning of time until the end of time. And I'm so glad my boy Nick is in that video because Nick will text me after every like fart video I still do this day. And he'll just text like, bro, your farts will always just geek me out. No better thing.

Mike's like, you've been farting on camera through three presidency. Goddamn teeth, though. Jesus crazy. Every time I see him. My God. It is crazy, right? Yeah, I mean, yes. It's crazy.

The crazy thing to me, too, was when I met you. I didn't even notice your teeth. Even when I got the teeth, you're like, I mean, I don't really notice a whole lot. And then you showed me a picture of your old teeth. I was like, God damn. Because I was like taking a selfie. You're like, bro, they don't even look that bad. Like, why are you sure you want to do this?

I know. Best decision you ever made. Best decision of all time. Of all time. all time. Literally. I'll never, I'll never get over that one photo though when he had them all filed down. Oh, those little dude, those little hands on that one. I hate the only, I think it's Taylor. Maybe one other person if somebody was bringing up the top of, yeah, okay, I guess I showed them. But legit, I used to see Will. That's crazy. Like that right there is before me going in. That like,

I just got done working out of Vanderbilt and we took the selfie and everything else. I remember that day. You're like, hey, today's the day. I'm like, bro, you don't need to do this. Yeah. Yeah, man. That's how you know Will did have some game with the girls. Go to the backwards hat on. That one is the one that's the fun.

Not really, though. I think about my game sometimes. You got Charo? I know, but a lot of that, I did a lot of good finesse. A lot of good finesse on like, yeah, yeah, like on social. I'm talking in person. Will and I. Yeah, I'm not a lot.

I never had the best game in person. Where I got into a good conversation, what could have been a good conversation in Miami about like the single approach of how to maneuver with women, just like some guys, just go out. And it'll be like, hey, you want to go on a date

and you just go on a date? Other dudes move in silence a little bit. Camp was like, camp was just a savant. He'd be like, I gotta go talk to this girl. I'm thinking, we just got done lunch. You sure? I'm like nervous for him. Yeah.

Like, I respect. Yeah. The dudes operate like that. Like with Charles. Fortunately, our first time interacting was at, like, that charity camp. So I was just more, like, in my element being like, oh, I'm here as a football player. Like, you just had more of that. If I'm out solo in the streets, like, I'm quiet.

Yeah, quiet. Like, just look long enough. If the chick looks at you, just quickly look away like you weren't fucking looking. Literally could never, I mean, that game right there is never getting you any host. No. I posted a screen recording of my Snapchat yesterday from my brother sent me some wild video. Some dude comment. you have no bitches.

I was dying. Oh, God, dude. Now, I saw one guy tag me and said, send him snake. Yeah, we got you.

We got you. Don't. Don't send me that, dude. That shit scares me fuck out of me. Yeah, that is. I would like to

froth an alligator, though. We can get you one. I like, I don't want to have one. There's a, there's a pet store down the road on,

uh, Nolan'sville. No. What's one? What's this one right here? What's you? By the zoo. It's like all like wild.

Yeah, but what's that road? No one'sville Pike? Yeah. They have a Cayman. That's what he had. A crocodile in there. It's a little baby. Yeah, that video was crazy, bro.

Yeah. Say what? You got a pond in your yard. I know, I did think about that, but I thought Lake Placid. Remember Lake Placid? Yeah. That old lady just keeps going and feeds him all the time. Then all of a sudden he gets so big he just starts terrorizing the whole entire world.

No, thanks, man. I'm not going to be the start of that. Lake Placin is crazy. I'd know. It's that in the movie. Anaconda were like, holy fuck. Anaconda was, there's that one scene where the tough old guy is getting strangled and he kind of like winks and then it's like cheek pops. That still fucks me up to this day.

That dude's a great. I forget his name, but I love when he's in movies. He's a good villain. Yeah, he's a good villain. The coach for varsity blues. But that's what I like to do with those meat eater guys. I'd like to go on a gator hunt, like swamp people with the meat eater guys. Yeah, I would go, I would hunt crocodiles or alligators, but I would.

there's no way I'd be like your bro to me that shit is so crazy I told you about the time I met around animals like that Just sleep on a photo or that video that snake. I was like oh my god bro That's crazy I told you guys at the time I met Taylon's ex-boyfriend, like the boyfriend before me No Florida so when Taylor and I first met you guys know that whole story we go down to Florida for like a wedding and I wasn't invited but I just rolled down with her And after the wedding I go

and meet up with everybody, and it's at some guy's house, but her ex-boyfriend's his name was Ryan. And I was like, I was kind of stoked to meet the guy because he was a wakeboarder, like always out in the Everglades and stuff like that. The first time I meet this dude,

he's holding an alligator in his hand that he went out and caught outside. And then we went like, like mudding, like four-wheeling throughout the whole entire like swamps and stuff like that. Dude was like a fucking man. I was like, oh, God damn.

I think Dailen ever misses him? Probably. But, you know, she don't say it. That's nice. it's nice that you got your sponge what's that got your sponge i got that wire sponge yeah i bet you rind doesn't have that right yeah but yeah dude he had a crocodile on his hand he was like jumping in the water grabbing shit i was like oh this guy's crazy he's got that uh got that vibe yeah got that uh

what am i trying to think of right now that piece no not that this is this did he have the build like he had a piece uh oh no it didn't stand out to it didn't stand out to me but Very well could. Okay. Yeah, you know, I've done some digging. Zoomed in on some IG photos. I am wakeboarding. Yeah.

A little wind gust hitting him. Oh, he's pretty wet here. It's not that bad. It must have been cold that. Yeah, Instagram, man. But that, like, I don't know. I'm like thinking of Instagram now. I love these types of pause.

We're kind of just sitting, fuck around for a little bit. I'll show you guys a photo after this. Yeah. Wait. Only thing Mitch is thinking about how long this edit's going to be. Man, you got to learn to have fun, man. I am there. Not just that Barstall Bar and Nashville on the weekends.

Have fun at work, too. I enjoy doing like just, just fucking around doing like this. I enjoy this. By the way, Mitch, do you have game? When you're out,

I was just about to say, like, I feel like Jack has game. Mad game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it does have game. I don't.

My go-to is find a really attracted girl at the bar and then go scream in the ear of 10 guys in a corner, an avoider. Works every time. Works every time I post a photo with Jack. My DMs have like five girls and I'm like, who's your friend? Jack's got the juice, bro. Jack, you got juice.

Like, JP, I don't know how it is for you. I just knew like whenever I got Charles in the DMs, like once I'm on the keyboard, I feel extremely confident. Yeah, I'm more need, I need like a date. I can't go up to somebody at a bar. I can't do any of that stuff. It's like I have to get a one-on-one. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, I feel like. Undivided attention to where they feel like they're kind of interested in you. But if it's up in the air, I'm about to fold. Right. About the fold. How you doing? I'm solid.

I think I'm actually about to leave. Dude, I was never nervous about like going up and talking to girls, but figuring out that first kiss was always like the scariest thing for me. Trying to like, are they about it? If I go in, are they going to be insulted? That was always a tough time for me. You remember the first time you felt your first boob? Yeah. Hide and go seek sixth grade.

Aztec playground. I don't want to play hide and seek anymore. How to go get it? Aztec playground, seventh grade. Nice. In the public. Yeah, at night. My brother had a baseball game.

Grab that thing. So my girlfriend, there were rumors. You know how everybody kind of talks like, oh, are you prude? Are you this? Are you that? Like, have you guys gone to second base yet? Shit like that.

And then they're in hiding seek one night. A birthday party. Hell yeah. Grab them? Caught me a feel, yeah. Over the shirt, under the shirt. Under the shirt, bro. That's fucking.

Behind a bush. No shit. Yeah, behind like a big fucking bush. What you do? A hard real. He was rock. Rock. You already know I was fired up.

Just put that zipper to work. Right. Oh, man. It was back where you were legit dry hump, bro. Like just jeans on jeans. I remember. Zipper on zipper. Bust.

Bust. Busting your shit, not do anything. With the jacket off. Just let it dry. Just let it dry. Look at Jack's face. Or you catch the blue balls. Oh, God forbid you hit some blue balls.

Right, boys? Yeah, the blue balls never really like a painful thing to me. Oh, yeah. It was so painful. I would never be like, oh, blue balls. I'd just be like irritated by everything after that. Man. Yeah.

What about you, Jack? First hundred touch boobs? Yeah. Behind the Concord YMCA with my girlfriend. Hell yes Don't put her name in here Please Beep

Don't put her name in here But yeah It was It was awesome Mine was over the shirt Though And I was like You know

I was like Maybe in a few weeks Let me get up Out of here Let's go Yeah She was Yeah

She was built Yeah It changed my life Oh They all do At that age man any girl that even makes you think something's going to happen changes your life like you remember them forever yeah

but you miss I think mine was boobies yeah mine was oh oh all the best booby scenes uh I think it was 8th or 9th grade

in my basement with my girlfriend those over the shirt though oh you're going over the shirt in 19 You're going over the shirt in ninth grade? That's why I can't remember if it was eighth or ninth grade. I was nervous, though. Yeah.

Mine was on the bus in seventh grade. Oh, in and out. I was oh my God, I can't leave it just happened. Wait, wait, wait, on the way to or from school? Coming home from school. Oh, you're like, I got to go.

I got to go. Yeah, I got to get home quick. I was nervous, man. And then it probably took me years to touch some more. Simple times, man. Yeah. You've heard the story of Mitch talking about best booby scenes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're literally, I think we're just listening to motivational speeches before the Notre Dame game. We were talking about the movie, like movies where there were, like naked scenes and stuff, and I was like,

oh, that one. Best boobie scene. Yeah, boy said booby scenes. Boobie scenes. We all started dying laughing. That was like my second month on the job, too. Oh, poor Mitch, man. It's not bad to say boobies, brother.

It's just a funny word. You know, Titanic always comes up. You're talking about through all these different scenes. One happens, and Mitch is like, oh, yeah, that one's got all the best booby scenes. Hang on. You just got great booby scenes. We went to bed right after.

All the Friday of the 13th movies. So many booby scenes. But it's always right before a gruesome murder. Yeah, but you can get past that. Yeah, you pause. Oh, yeah, you can pause for sure. Should we hit our twisted question? Yeah, dude.

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give us a twisted question bro all right this one is from the same Ryan as last week oh wow but it's like it's a lot different say you have the ability to like you have your ribs taking out you can suck your own meat all right we're on to something yep and so you go down

and you start doing it does it feel more like you're getting your dick sucked or does it feel more like you're sucking dick more like you're sucking dick more like your sucking dick trust me maybe we might want to do another question because I don't know twisties don't want

this as the question I mean maybe it is a 21 and that's all you have Mitch you had no backups he's in his house you know you guys know that position you got to go try to you all know that position

yeah you don't you hear the rumors about Marilyn Manson. Yeah, you heard those back in a lot. And you'd spend a couple of, you'd spend one or two times trying, see how close you could get. Yeah, one or two is putting it lightly.

Yeah, I'm just trying, you know, make everybody else feel comfortable. Once I could, like the first time I just thought to myself, okay, this is going to be like training and muscle. I've just got to keep showing up. Do you want to do a different one? Yes, yes. This is nowhere near like that one.

This comes from my buddy Davey. If you, what would you rather try and hit 100 mile an hour fastball or 110 mile an hour? tennis serve. Tennis surf. What do you think you could hit? Oh, I've never,

like I couldn't put myself in the spot of 110-mile-hour tennis ball. So I'm just going to say baseball. I think I could take it. We could set that up in Nashville. There's a pro tennis player to list here.

It could be funny on social. 10? Can he hit it 110? Yeah, definitely. I feel like dudes consistently hit a name is tennis. What? Yeah,

Tennie Sangren. Yeah, that'd be sick. I think that would be, I think hitting a tennis ball would be hard. Well, I mean, you got more, you got more surface area with Iraq. I think it's a farther distance too, right? Got covered more ground. They could put that serve anywhere.

Yeah, but if we're just for the sake of hitting a tennis ball, no, they can only put it on one half of the tennis court. Yeah, but you're still, you're taking a seat. Yeah, you're taking a serve. So, yeah, you have more service, but then also you're wide open. Either way, if I'm connecting the one, it's going to be out of luck. Yeah, absolutely. I think I'd feel more comfortable.

with a in the batters box. For whatever reason, I feel like I'd feel more comfortable with the tennis because the racket's bigger and the thought of a, you know, I go back to Little League

when I was scared of the ball. The thought of that tennis ball being a little squishier don't feel so nervous but I get hit by it. I'm still going to hurt but not the same as a baseball going 100 miles an hour.

Yeah. And there's a longer distance for your brain to kind of be like, okay, here it comes. So I'll go tennis. That'd be fun. Yeah, that'd be cool.

That'd be a fun little vlog or just, whether it's just, social content too. We need to do pickleball too. As a group, going to do it when they're starting to come. And this back's going to be right, boys, I'm telling you.

How's it feeling now? It's better than last week. You're sitting much more comfortable than you have in the past. You look too. I've been moving around. Have you been seeing it, Mitch? Yeah, yeah, I know my fault. It does feel better than last week.

It's been going to ways to go, but, you know, I'll be back, man. Yeah? Yeah. Should we get in this interview? Yeah, let's get into the interview. Oh, do you have any dad stories before we go? The one that I'll throw out there is Rue.

Where's the hat? We had our first game. It's kind of nice. Yeah. So Rue played her first Smash Bros game. We fired up the switch yesterday. Neutral and Roo played and just dummied her all over. Good.

Just dummied her all over the map. She kind of just sat there holding it on my hearing. you gotta press this button and then it just start fucking going in on her we played a smash bros Mario party love that's a big fan of Monty the mole yeah the Mario party game is great with the kids yeah yeah I mean she has like no clue what the hell is we gave her just a little fake controller that just makes noises

so she felt like she was playing the game like oh you're doing it doong doom doom doom punishment for that drawing yeah yeah that's a good one miss the hat I guess my dad's story this weekend like my kids are a big and like monster chasing them and stuff like that and so

Talon got into it yesterday too and I was essentially like a Jason Borges walking around my house just like trying to catch them all at one point and it went on for like maybe an hour all of them like running and hiding for me then I would just slowly walk around and I would hear them because the dogs would follow Talon

and so I could always hear where they were at and so I would just kind of like try to connect areas slowly but surely I would catch him and like pretend that like you can't move unless somebody else touches you and then I would just stand by the stand by the body until the next one came and then grab that one but my daughter my oldest daughter she I ended up I catched I caught all of them and then Wynn wants to say okay magic force field magic this and break out

I'm like that's not the game we're playing you guys are done and I would like jokingly to my wife like stab her like pretend to stab her and she just lost her fucking shit for like an hour to the point where I had to talk to her for a little bit of little bit and then I was like all right if we if you're gonna handle it like this we're not gonna play games like that and I went to walk away she's like where you going us I'm going to have fun today tailing no no no win oh okay I got you're going to have fun today so if you're not gonna have fun like then you can be upset over here but me win and mommy or me and willow

and mommy we're gonna go have fun so going in about 20 minutes came out rubbing the nose and the rest of the day was smooth sailing but I love that little game and just kind of walking around and strategically he tried to catch them legit be like a murderer asserting your dominance. Yeah. Like, oh, a force field. Okay. Does this feel like a force field?

Yeah. And then she'll always go, pretend, pretend I broke out of it. Pretend you saw a dragon. Like a, oh, a dragon. But yeah, that's it, man. I love it. Thank you. I love it.

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Eric Kendricks, linebacker. Big dog. How many pro-bowls? One pro bowl. How many times have you been an alternate? Too many? Yeah, a lot. My linebackers, they don't back out.

No. How often when you're an alternate though, you're like, please God, somebody just dip so I can get one? Early on a lot. Now I'm just like, you know, what's whatever at this point? Man. I'm too scarred at this point. I would put guys like, like Dorel Casey. And when I first met him, he was an alternate a couple times and I was like, you're going to take it?

He's like, no, I had to make it for real. I feel that to it. Yeah, but I would think to myself, like, man, 10 years from now, if you are an alternate and you get in the Pro Bowl, you're a pro bowler now and in 10 years no one's gonna be like yeah but he was an alternate yeah it was like hey take what you can get yeah i feel like when i went as the alternate when i when i did go but i had got all pro that year so i felt like okay i'm like i can go but i feel that like being not being like the first i was like nah isn't that such a weird thing though like there's uh i know jack conklin his his rookie year he played right tackle for us for the titans and he was his rookie year he was all pro

but he was like a fourth alternate for the pro bowl at right tackle and then i think there's a couple other guys that would have like Lane Johnson or David Boktiari. They'd be all pro, but then it would be alternates for the Pro Bowl. Why do you think that happens? I don't know. I mean, I think it's a little bit of, you know, who, even when players vote on it, it's like, who, what names do you think of? You know what I mean? I feel like last year, I mean, T.J. Edwards was like the best linebacker to me on film. Like, you know, he may have not had a lot of picks or anything like that, like when he was with Philly and stuff like that. But I was like, man, this guy's all over the field. He's stopping the run. You know what I mean? Like, you know, like,

He's making plays on third down. Like, he's got to go, right? Then, no, nothing. Do you know how it is, though, in those position meetings? Like, when you just vote on, like, what would we vote on? Like, full back and full back and running back maybe? Like, you're, like, before practice, it's like, coach keeps you at the meeting. Like, hey, we got to be out there in 15 minutes.

It's like, oh, also. A certain amount of guys you can only vote for, too. Yeah, yeah. And also make sure to vote on the Pro Bowl. And it's like you're just picking kind of like guys you're familiar with versus, like, an up-and-comer like a T. Because he is a monster. He's a beast. Yeah.

Would you guys do it individually, or would you guys, as a collective group, put it on one sheet, be like, this is all of our votes? Sometimes you just vote for your friends, too. Like, oh, that's my boy over here. I'm not going to, yeah, I'm going to vote for him all day. Oh, you hear somebody like, if Eric feels strongly about one saying like that's a boy, when you're kind of up in there, you're just like, all right, I'll just put him down. See, in the old line room, we would, me and Ben would get one sheet. And as a group, we would just go over it, like, okay, this guy, this guy, this guy. We vote on tackles and defense events.

And then we would turn in our sheet. So all 12 guys in the offensive line room, that would count as 12 votes. So it was more weighted. See? So you just decided it through you. No, no, no, no. Ben and I would write it down, but also Ben and I were the oldest ones in the room. A lot of guys, we would, people would be like, hey, what about this?

And they would be, like, obviously, a diplomatic discussion about it, but this wasn't a dictatorship. But the boys... It doesn't sound like they could have their own vote. We would all vote collectively as a group. This counts as 8, 9, 10 bucks, right? That's kind of weighted now. That's a dictatorship.

There were times, like, with Jack, when we were trying to get him in the Pro Bowl, myself included. I don't know why I'm trying to take myself out of this. but like we would like all right we know that Joe Thomas is going to make it so we'll put Joe in there but then the other two thoughts we put like backups try to like all right cool we have a better shot yeah inside game yes Taylor trying to take control of the room just like hey guys we're all going to do one sheet it's all going to be collective let's go tackle where should we go here yeah Joe Thomas we'll just go with nobody else yeah nobody else no we would it got that way a couple times

when you're trying to especially you're trying to make the first one because it is like a main basis. The hardest pro bowl to make is your first provol. Right. And then for linebacker, it's a little bit different. But for tackles, it's like you have your name. And if, like, you become a household name, you're able to kind of, like, live on that for a little bit. I feel like to every spot.

Yeah, I feel like the year I actually made it was not even my, like, my, like, statistically or, like, how I felt was, like, my best year as an NFL player. Yeah, it was the same with Ryan Kerrigan. He, like, had an incredible year and got, like, snubbed. And then he was an alternate. But then the next year, he still had like a 10-sack year. But then he makes the Pro Bowl. So it is like a weird.

It's like you got to do that, though. You have to have like a breakout year and then you get the next year. Yeah. The only one I hate that I always try to stand on the Hill for is Levanti David. I feel like he's only had one Pro Bowl as an alternate as well. And it's like he has these insane years. He's been doing it. Yeah, he's been doing it.

But finally when Tom Brady got there and they win the Super Bowl, he gets through the Pro Bowl. But it's like, bro, he's been a monster forever. You're like the number one supporter of Luante David. Yeah. Boogie, yeah, that's my guy. Because he's soft-spoken. He's kind of like, well, I don't know him. But from what I watched, he was like a soft-spoken, like quiet, kind of like an Ed Reed,

just fucking a dog, just gross hair out, never get haircuts. Just like, he just wants to play football. He's not going to go out there and like, hey, I'm getting robbed right now. He's not going to be like, man, I'm the best. Like, yeah, he's just going to do his job day and day out. Yeah, he'd delete, like, Twitter and stuff. And I would just tell him, like, hey, I'm going to pioneer all your campaigns. Like, just vote Lavante Day.

I like, bro, you have to take some type of, make some type of push for yourself. I know it sucks. Like, I know it sucks. Like, as a player, you're sitting there the Pro Bow's round, you got to put up your pose. Like, hashtag this. Bro, you feel so bad, too, being like, every vote. Every retweet counts as a vote. Please, hashtag to the La Juan Pro Bowl vote.

Especially if we're, like, if you're battling for, like, a playoff spot or, like, you're, you're not doing too well. It's like, no, I don't care about that. Like, we're losing right now. Yeah. Yeah. It's a battle, man. It's a battle man. Talk about growing up with you and your bro, Michael, like he was a monster.

He was a beast. I got to watch him a lot because he was at Philly. And talk about that, you guys growing up. Like, what was that like? Are you two very different from each other? One more physical than the other? We're very similar. But like growing up, my brother, he's like one of the biggest freaks I know, period.

Like physically, athletically, like whoever's lifting weights next to him, he could, whatever weight they're lifting, he can lift. and like growing up with him getting you know getting in the fights with him every day it was like I didn't really realize how much of a callus he was building for me you know what I mean like you know I got to watch him you know and follow everything he did and you know make corrections along the way but I remember just like there was his neighborhood bully his name was Eddie and we had got gloves from a yard sale down the street and we were just kind of boxing around in the neighborhood with all the kids and then Eddie put on the gloves and my brother was fighting him and he was older than us and I remember just like watching my brother whoop Eddie's

ass and being like damn that's my like I get my ass whoop by Michael like I can do better than Eddie like like what I'm like and then they kind of built this confidence like where it was like even kids in my my grade didn't ever stand a chance like I was always playing my mom had always you know move me up in the teams because she wanted to go to one practice not two practices so it was like I was just getting that callus just built like over time and It's helped me a lot, for sure. Yeah, so you're always playing with kids older than you and bigger than you. Bigging to me.

At the time. You're a younger brother's like a W in that category. It's a W. You know, it's tough at first. You know, you're getting you're getting your arms held down and the spit, you know. Oh, that big daddy thing with the ketchup? I did. I trained with your brother at Exos and Carl's Bad, and he was really like you're saying. Like just an intense guy would just kind of stay down. little bit but like you break through the wall and he was like way fun to be around after that but literally in the wait room would get after it like all work the whole time yeah twitchy very he was very good technique wise too like played within his frame really well could cover could do all the stuff is it uh was it fun when you get to claim the uh butkus award winner that was crazy

i felt like i was always my goal when i entered college and then i never really kind of realized how close it was for me to be there, you know, obviously my senior year, I was having a good year, and then I like the way they presented it, you know what I mean? Like they don't, you know, you don't go to an award show. They kind of just show up at your school. And I was in the middle of a workout with all my teammates and had no idea. And after the workout, we huddle up. And they just roll, they kind of roll onto the field with like a small camera crew and like, and I'm just like in complete shock. But I got to experience it. I'll never forget that. I got to experience it with all my college teammates who, you know, college is different because you,

you get into school with those guys, you work in the weight room, you go to class, everyone's away from home for the first time and you work with those guys all the years. So it was really special for me to, like, have that moment with my team. And I felt like it was like, you know,

it was an individual war, but I got to experience. I still remember that with my guys, you know. Jayon Brown. Jayon Brown, you know, Cam, Cam, bar wasn't there. You know, we had Kenny, shoot, we had a, we had Kenny Young, Kenny Clark, shoot,

We had a bunch of dogs. Fabian, man, we had a, we had a bunch of goons on our team. Who, who was that running back? I just, I remember we got, no, we got beating UCL. I don't know if you were there yet. When, when, when, when you were, you, like, 36 to 30 or something? Two years in a row. Like, you beat us two years?

No, you didn't. No, you did. We did not beat us in Lincoln. We beat you in the Rose Bowl, and then we beat you in Lincoln, Nebraska. Hang on, hang on. No. Yes, we did. Look that up.

Look it up. Last year was 2012. Look it up. When was last year? My last year was 2015. My last year was 2012. Okay, so never mind. You didn't go to, you weren't there then.

But we did. Maybe Nebraska with and with that will come. The net is tough. They did. They put up, uh, it was. Are you talking about, uh, Jonathan Franklin? Yes, that's who it is. Yeah, that's who, yes, yeah.

He was, he was nice. And he was nice. They put up like, they put up like over 500 total yards or something. It was brutal. Like it was, the score was closer than, yeah. Who was like Taylor Martinez? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had like a little option read that he took to the crew.

Yes, bro. Nebraska still has a Taylor Martinez on their team. There's a Martinez. We all, yeah, we've always got a Martinez. You asked a question. I got to look. Dude, yeah, the Martinez thing in Nebraska is crazy. And Nebraska's thing, too, is they always give up big rushing yards.

I was like the Big Ten championship game against Wisconsin. It was like 400 total rushing yards. Three backs over 100. Yeah. But that's Big Ten ball. UCLA's going to Big Ten ball. UCLA's going to Big Ten. You get nervous about that?

Don't get nervous about that? You isn't be able to compete, I'm saying. I think so I mean it's a little bit of flash Pasadena California it's beautiful it's nice There's palm trees going around as you're going down It's suns out It's beautiful and then it's November

Second week and you're flying to You cold Penn State Yeah Columbus Minnesota It's pro ball now you know what I mean College is pro now It's really like that You're going to cross country You know what I mean

They don't care about class For all the UCLA Yeah for real For all the UCLA fans Do you think that they should be nervous about winter ball in the Bay 10? I mean, as a player. Yes, yes.

I think a little bit. Hey, and y'all beat us two years in a row. You got to think that. They beat us two years in a row. That's on me. I wasn't there. But you got to understand that people got to come to us too. So it's like, you know, I'm not saying that's not an advantage for, you know,

anybody in particular. But, you know, we got a little, it's going to be a little bit of comfort in those games as well. You know, not always going to be row. There's going to be some tough games for sure. And listen, I love your confidence, how you got to say, hey, they got to come see us, too. I think a really well-manicured response.

However, you went to UCLA. Like, how many, are we selling out every single game? Oh, when I played. When I played, not anymore. When I played, we had a really good crowds. But if you're talking about, like, you have to be good though in LA. The hardest place to play them,

the Pac-12 besides, like, Oregon and Washington, because it's loud, would be like Arizona and September. Utah. Don't sleep on Utah. Oh, Utah's really like that? I like Utah. It's a small, intimate stadium. It's always packed.

It's always sold out. And the weather, you know, you can get some cold. weather there for sure. But if you're thinking a lot hostile environments, you're not thinking man, L.A., the weather is going to get toasted out there. It's going to be fruged or whatever.

If it's an early game, you may get toasted. Nah. I started thinking about that. Everybody's camp is kind of brutal. Washington is a fun place to play. I like Washington. It gets loud. Washington, like the northwest,

does their stadiums right. Like Seattle, they do a great job of like doing aluminum or whatever. like the metal seats so it all vibrates off. Washington does the same thing and they build their stadium straight up. I think they've really honed in the sound. Yeah. You can see the tech really coming in.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Did you ever play Michigan? Never. So Michigan, obviously, it's the big house? The big house. It's like the biggest stadium in North America. It's kind of like the Rose Bowl, to be honest, like how it bowls out.

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We were going into the big house. We had some technical difficulties. Battery issues. Right, Armando? Battery issues. Good to go. Yeah, but yeah, it's obviously a big grand stadium. It's the biggest stadium in North America, like top five in the world. But the sound is not held in. So they need to revamp some things. Do some more sweets and all that because it's a spectacle.

No, they do something. Well, they had the, like, when I first got there, they didn't have sweets. And the sweets came in, like, you could tell a massive difference in, like, the sound. But I think they should do what Washington does in Seattle is, like, pick out the wood seating and just align it with aluminum. I don't like keep saying it might not be aluminum. You're just, you know, some sort of metal that vibrates the most. I feel like it takes away from the, like, the essence of the stadium, though, like, if you just change it up like that. Like, how do you feel about, how do you feel about Buffalo going to another outdoor stadium?

I love that. I think when the elements, when the elements are intense, you take that as, like, your culture builder. Like, you got to come into Buffalo. Like, I think if Buffalo went to an indoor stadium, it's like, to me, it would take away from, like, all this stuff. It would be much louder. Bill's Mafia would obviously. to go crazy, but something about like when you see this past year and you see Buffalo and all the snow in the ground and fans are coming into the stadium to shove everything out, you're like,

that's, that's Buffalo. No, I played outdoor one year in Minnesota, my rookie year, and, you know, we moved in, we moved indoor and I always felt like there was some games later on in the season where we had the ability to like open and shut some of the doors on the side. And I was like, imagine if, you know, imagine if Arizona is coming, you know, to Minnesota late in the season. Right. And it's,

you know, it's, it's 10 degrees outside, and we just open the doors in the indoor. Yeah. And we just, like, completely shock them,

like, a day before, you know, like, oh, yeah, by the way, the doors will be open today, you know. And there's something about NFL football,

dude, where it's like, growing up as a kid, you're watching late in the season, December, January ball, and you see these men out there, and they go close up on the face, and you see the, their breath in the air,

and they're all breathing super hard, like the intensity of it. Like, to me, that's like, that's NFL because college obviously you get that but it ends in November like no like the middle of November is the last game of the regular season then it goes all to the warm places for them to have their bowl games but like NFL is like frigid cold fighting the elements men like the true like the alpah

males green bay chicago ritty kansas city like it's just it's just cold and brutal and even when in December like obviously paying the aFC south you go to jacksonville in December and it's like the absolute flip side it's still 80 degrees And you're like, you're so used to being colder that's like a shock just for that. And so I love the outdoor element aspect of the NFL. No doubt. Do you have to get acclimated being a California boy and going to Minnesota? Oh, man.

I didn't even own a jacket, like a proper jacket, only hoodies, like legitimately. And I remember my, like, I remember I held off as long as I could. And then one day I just was, I was just way too cold. And I went straight to North Face because that was, you know, that was the, that was the only, only brand I really knew about, you know, to get a jacket from. And I went straight to North Face and just outfitted my whole, like, you know, got a little winterized. Yeah. But it's no joke. I mean, I feel like when it gets so cold, like, I'm talking about negative 20 and you're taking a deep breath and it just freezes your whole, like, chest and it's unbearable. How was your transition going

from college to the NFL? Did you feel like you had a leg up because of your older brother? I, absolutely. I had a leg up because of my older brother. And I, I had a leg up because of my older brother. And I I feel like our staff at UCLA was like everyone had like either coached in the league, played in the league, or had some type of NFL experience. So I feel like our schedule and the way we did things and the way we installed and the way we approached meetings and everything was kind of like how it was when I got to the pros. So like as soon as I got to install and students I got to like walkthroughs,

I was already used to that kind of format. And I feel like that was the biggest advantage I had over all the other rookies who maybe not have had like a, what came from a different program or something. something like that because it was just some I was just used to it even though it was the playbook was way bigger you know I was in Mike Zimmer's defense it was just like I had Anthony Barr who was my teammate the year before he had a little a year a year before so I had came in with a little bit of familiarity with through him and then it was just all kind of like better for me how fun was that getting reunited with Anthony it was sick our coach was

tell us in college you're never gonna you know this take advantage of this you're never going to play again yeah went right back you know right back to oh yeah Yeah, one-year buffer. And it had to be, like, one of those things where you're getting drafted to the NFL, and you're like, okay, I got to go with these men now. But knowing that one of your boys is there to kind of like, you feel safer. There is like a level of like, all right, that's my guy right. No, I honestly feel like I was talking maybe too much, like, because I was like so familiar

with him. So it was like, you know, joking around and playing with him. But like, you know, that opens you up as a target for like, you know, other vets to just. Especially if you're a rookie. Like, we had this one-o-line in there. You just be, hey, rookies aren't meant to be heard. You just keep your head down and go. You've got to just do it, you know.

Is that how the linebackers are? No, this is an old linemen. No, no, the linebackers, every linebacker room I've been has been fun, been cool. Yeah. Like everybody, you know. It's always the offensive lineman. Always. My rookie year was like, hey, you talk too much.

Like, you need to stop. Like, you play too much, you talk too much. Like, you need to understand, like, where you are in the banking order right now. Yeah. And I hated that. I hate it. I mean, you know. Yeah, yeah.

It was like a very difficult thing for me to wrap my mind. Like, hey, we all just can be boys? I came in. Michael Roo's 10-year. vet and I'm like essentially there to replace him. Hey man what's up good to see and he's like why are you talking? I'm like yeah you're right I'll just kind of I'll wait till you leave to talk then don't speak and let's spoken too yeah yeah that's what uh that's what's Sean LaValle would say to rookies really don't speak and less spoken to some dude's take that the heart too yeah I know I know

who were the vets when you got to your rookie year I had Chad Greenway that's right legend um I had Terrence Newman um I had Linball Joseph was was was was was was He was, like, the first vet to take me out to dinner, like, just on some casual stuff. And shoot, I don't know. I had a lot of good vets for sure, like, really good vets. Do you think about your rookie year and having 92 tackles and that being your only season, you haven't got 100? I actually did have 100, but they just, you know, there's NFL stats and there's team stats.

Right. I know. So if the NFL doesn't know that you're out there, you know, putting your life on the line, you know, putting that blood into it. it, you know, you know, because if they know about you a little bit, you know, you're going to get a tackle here and there, you know, a little bit more. But yeah, you know, thanks for bringing that up. Yeah, man. I mean, your entire career, you've had 100 tackles. And if you go by the NFL stats, it was 92 your rookie year. But, man, you have to look back and take a lot

of pride knowing that your longevity and, you know, knock on wood, not having any bad injury to, yeah, we got to make sure to knock that. You know what I mean? Like, that's like, That's tough to do. 100%. And I feel like, you know, there's like, like, we were talking about earlier with the Pro Bowl and, you know, in the notoriety and all that stuff. Like, all that stuff is cool. Don't get me wrong. But, like, I'm really, I take pride in just the ability to be there for my teammates when I need to be there.

You know, I hate missing games. I, you know, I really take really good care of my body. You know, I work out hard. I take this shit seriously, you know, and it's like things like that, you know, the consecutive years, you know, you may say, oh, yeah, you know, he's not, you know, this. may not be as good in this area or this, you know, but like my consistency, and I think that's what separates me. And you can't, you can't argue with that, you know, when it's all set and done. Yeah.

What was, what's been the worst injury you've had to play through? Man, in the league or in, in college, the worst injury I had to play through, I don't even know. I've broken my ribs and I played like a whole half and they were like clicking around. That was my rookie year. Yeah, I remember Sleeping, coughing, sneezing, all of it There was a one time we were We were playing Kirkgo when he was on the other team

And he threw a pick Or he threw me a pick Which I thought was going to be an interception And me and Anthony Barr ran into each other And we And like my whole side was like I don't even know It was like so swollen

And it was like draining down to my groin For the next couple weeks And it was just a lot of fluid in my body It was terrible And I was just key, and you know, you can miss practice, you know what I mean? But, you know, then you just get ready for the game. How do you feel fluid in your rib area? It was, it was fluid.

It was like I had a hit pointer. It was like I had all this fluid. It was from the bruise. I had like, the impact was so crazy that I got hit on my side, but I landed on my shoulder. So I had like some strains in my like, my shoulders. Like later in the week, I'm like, why is my shoulder hurting? Double homicide. It was, yeah, it was bad.

But I guess that's when you. figure out what you're made of, you know? Yeah, how much recycle you really could be. Yeah. I want to go back to that 92 tackles because immediately it will brings it up. You're like, it's actually 100, but the NFL. Like, why doesn't, how does it work with the team and the NFL not just taking the team stats and registering

it through NFL stats? Yeah, I actually, someone told me that, like, oh, yeah, you, like, someone was like, oh, yeah, you actually have 100 from the team stats, and I'm like, why is there a difference? You know, I was at the same page, I'm like, why is there a difference? Like, every year is, it's, like, different? So you have two different tackle totals then probably Yeah, probably

But you can also like Chris Lange from Greenlight Podcasts he talks about sacks And guys will go in and get a sack Yeah, and they'll like they'll go to the league to review it Because they think they got the half a sack Or they got a full sack when they weren't registered anything I wonder if you could have Maybe you should go back and do that

Get your 100 Some of it's petty though Like some of it I get you like Sometimes I was like after Especially after a game where I'm like man I have like 15 today And then you see the stat line and it's like seven I'm like, damn, that feels terrible because I was out there, you know, going hard for my team. But it's all.

Sometimes the coaches staff, like, too, you might get a few JOPs, jump on pile. You know, they'll credit you for. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, like, your position room and you're reviewing the film and they give you a grade sheet and everything else. Like, I usually feel like the position coach usually give you the definitely out. I feel like it depends, too, because like if you, like, let's say, let's say even the team stats, like, let's say you're watching film after the game. and, you know, like, say, let's say you guys had a good game, like, offense play well, defense play well,

and you make a tackle, and it's not registered, and you're like, hey, like, I didn't get a tackle right there. Like, it's cool, it's chill. Everything's chill. It's clearly you made a tackle. Like, but when you start kind of like, you know, like let's say you lose or let's say the game was close or let's say the tackle was kind of close, like,

or you're arguing for an assist, you don't want to be the guy to be like, hey, what about this tackle right there? Like, some people would do it all day, but like, I feel like it's more for the guys who get sacks In my opinion Yeah, sacks are like, you did not get a half side But the things with sacks with linebackers

Like let's say there was a half Like there was a sack opportunity with the linebacker and a D-Lyman The D-Lymin will always be the first one to argue it If the linebacker gets it I've had like stuff I've had a sack and then like all of a sudden It's like a half or like And I'm like wait what happened?

Oh they gave so-and-so a half Because they're the ones that were arguing for I'm like wait well Yeah bro or or your D-Lineman like comes up to you like hey, you know I got half that sack and you're just thinking your head like, oh, I mean, fuck I get some you think so, man. It's not even on your mind. You're just like, yeah, okay, go.

Did you get in the middle of the game? No, it'll be like, I'm happy to be in the middle of the game. For real? Oh, yeah. Like, say it at the, like, after the game's over, I remember when Dequan Jones, when I got that fumble recovery against Detroit. Yeah. And since it looked like I, like, torpedoed and got the ball out, he was mad that publicly everybody was saying that I forced the fumble. And I was like,

bro you got it in the stature you got it i say you got in the stat sheet man it's all good i checked it he's like yeah but everybody's saying you know what do you want me to do like issue a statement like i get a little burn i got won't play that game i'm trying to take all the credit take all the credit for it the uh yeah dude i i just how hard is it not to go and just after every single game go look at your statute i played like two years of defense tackle and i would be on scout dot com or whatever like all right how many tackles i like all right two and a half tackles this game i might really get 20 this year yeah see i see you I don't do that.

I've done that when I'm like, man, did I have like 18 today or what? Like, how much is, like, I'll ask my wife, like, hey, how many, how many taxes that I have today? Like, that was crazy. And she'll tell me, but, like, I'm not going to look usually afterwards. Sometimes if someone, they're walking around with the sheets afterwards, I'll just be like, hey, how much did I have? And they'll just be like eight or, you know, 12 or seven, five, four. I don't know. But like I said, it's more about how I feel, you know, how I feel like I played in the game.

you know if I was if I was if I was into the game if I was into it early you know if I was flying around you know sometimes it's like there's been games where you know you get up on offense they go down on they go down you know they're they're doing bad and it turns into a passing situation so like how's my coverage you know I may not be making as much tackles in the run game or the perimeter but like am I am I playing three well am I you know going you know do my job really how do you deal with like family members like if you talk to your wife and you're like hey how many I have today, like tempering those expectations. Like my wife, she would be very much like looking into everything, like, how is everything,

like going publicly and all that? I would have to tell her, like, bro, like, you've got to make sure, like, if I feel like I'm playing bad and I know you're looking at stuff, I feel like I have to like somehow like explain to you how I'm playing good or like justify whatever. Did you guys ever like you and your wife ever get to those kind of things? My wife, she knows that I'd rather know less and just go about based on how I feel. So she doesn't like, she may read things or she may like, look at stuff, but she won't, until I ask, like, how many tackles I have, she's not going to

just go up and say, you had this many tackles. But that's, like, the hard part for me is, like, knowing that they're looking and wondering what's out there. And then, obviously, like, the insecurity of being like, man, maybe am I playing as good as I think I am or playing as I think I am? But you're the one that's in the game, though. You know, you know what they can feel your teammates. But we all fall victim to that search bar on Twitter.

Oh, oh. Yeah, we all. So when anytime, like, especially early in my career, or anytime I would say some, someone would just say some outland of stuff that I'm like, you're like, you. have no idea what you're talking about. I used to write a response. I used to write a response. Oh, no, delete it and come back to it.

Oh, come back to it. Write a big old response and be like, I got them and just delete it. But I'll be like, man, if I sent this, this would destroy him. And his entire life. Yeah. Like, hey, that's smart to press delete.

Yeah. We all know that guy that tweeting delete. But you're just upset. You know, you're like, man. But it made me feel better, you know, early in my career. Now I just be like, oh, I'll be laughing now. Do you ever make it back to Minnesota?

Every once in a while, I mean, I got cars still out there, so yeah, for the cars. Yeah, big car guy. There's out there. There's out there in the street. What are they doing? They're out there. In a storage. He's got a big interest in cars. How many do you have?

I have five. Okay. You're an old school guy, new school guy? I would say I'm in like 90s and up. Yeah? What's your number one dream car? Do you have it? No, I mean, we can go on a 10.

engine I feel like, yeah, that's not, that's not possible. What do you mean? I like everything. Talking about Bugatti? No, I like a Honda CRX. Like, I want a Honda CRX at some point all the way to, oh, I did see a Bugatti the other day. Nuts.

It like, it like floated by me on the freeway and airport. So sick. I was like, I never wanted a Bugatti. No, I want a Bugatti. Dude, Bugatti's like two million dollar cars. Yeah, they did. And like to get one, you have to own one, which is like, how does that make sense? Yeah, how does that work?

Because there's a crazy process of, like, I think even getting a Ferrari, like, you have to, like, check boxes. Like, you have to have, like, a certain. A certified pre-owned one, you know, something. Yeah. It's a different game. Have you looked into that process at all? Like, just being a car guy, but, like, just for finally, what do you have to do to do that? Yeah, no, I mean, I've got, so I got an allocation on a Porsche of GG3RS.

That was the last one. So I bought one brand new, which is, like, very hard to do. But that's, like, my favorite car ever. I was, like, right when I got to the league, I saw that I was. was like kind of like starting to roll out and I'm like man this is an interesting car going on youtube doing my research I used to just go into car dealerships and and um just test drive everything I could until they wouldn't let me you know what I mean so I drove all types of stuff and then when I drove that I was like oh yeah I need one got the allocation and was able to actually build one from

Germany shipped it over and now it's like my baby were you the cat in high school that had like the magazines oh yeah the car magazines in auto trader yeah yeah yeah in elementary school I had like so I remember we had this program Accelerator Rear where we had to like read for a certain amount of time and take tests on books. And I would just go to the library and like rent these car books. And I remember it had like the Diablo in it, the F40 in it, like all these cars that are legendary today. But like I was looking at those in elementary like, man, need one. Just on that need for speed every day. Oh yeah.

Obviously the league is like a place that you see extravagant cars. To you, what is the most overrated car you're going to find an NFL locker room or NFL parking line? A Uris A Lamborghini? A Lamborghini truck? Oh, yeah The foredoor? Because to me

Because to me Like Oh damn I love it Like I love the car I love the car It's UR U S

Uris All right But I like I love the car But like But it's I It's an Audi RSQ8 though

It's the same car Yeah So I would rather just spend $100,000 less and get the same car without the name too. Yeah, it's like Mercedes has one like that too. And it's more subtle. I like the subtle I like the subtleness of it, but it still has all the performance like features. Because Mercedes has something

like that too, yeah? Yeah, it's kind of like camp yeah. Yeah, yeah. Something similar to that. But like a lot of players in the NFL have it because it's a Lambo right. It's big enough to fit their, you know, the big bodies. It's fast. Yeah. Luxurious. You know, they got the shoe on the Lambo. It's definitely dope. But the Bentley, the Rolls, the Lambo, like the top

three that a lot of guys will go in splurge on. Rolls Royce is definitely, you know, Rolls Royce is definitely like super, super dope, super luxurious. The doors, when the door's closed, you're like, that's expensive. Yeah. I'm rich. Yeah, you know, I got money, you know what I mean? But like, it's going to depreciate the fastest.

Trent Williams always had the best, just all the best vehicles. Yeah. Like pull in and be like, I want to what Trent drove today. Oh, you know, I love that though. Yeah. I love them guys, you know. I love cars. So like, I love them guys to have a little old school.

I had a friend who had like a little land cruiser that he had like restored. Cressetti's Cruisers is what it's called they like do like resto mods and it was like I walked in the parking lot like man like everyone's just walking by it like it's a whole Toyota I'm like bro this is clean Yeah that's awesome Those like three big luxurious brands that a lot

of NFL players get I've never been a fan of the SUVs really but I think like the Ford or like sedans or whatever they are The Rolls voice ghosts I think that shit goes so hard I got a I've recently got like as my daily I got a Cadillac CT5V blackwing Which is like super

sleeper car. That sounds like hieroglyphic type stuff. I don't even know. He just knows what's going on in the car culture. Yeah, I'm into it. But it's like that car, you, you know, you kind of, it'll just pass you on the thing, but like, you know, that car is amazing. What's the coolest old school car? My coolest old school car? No, just in general, like life.

Like, let's talk about like 70s, the classic muscle cars. See, I'm not, I tell you, I'm in like 90s and up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I feel like F40 is Ferrari F40 is the coolest car, in my opinion. Because, like, when every kid draws a car, in their notebook they draw f40 like a red red car like you know what i mean like they draw a Ferrari f40 yeah so like that's like people's vision of like what a sports car is in my mind but shoot i mean i think that american american car culture is like one of the best things that we have to offer

because we yeah we can we can adapt other people's cars and stuff like that but like now like you have like lowriders that are going to Japan, like, being sold for like $300,000. People's lowriders that they have in California, they're being sold to Japan. And now in Japan, they're having like these little lowrider clicks that are just rolling around, using their hydraulics in the middle of Japan. And it's like, that's a California thing like in Japan. And I'm like, that's only with like car people will only,

that's only something that would happen in car culture. It's like everybody gets along. Everybody loves cars, no matter what it looks like. Yeah. It's a vibe for sure. Yeah. Going back to football, did you feel like you? had any resentment um leaving minnesota to go to the chargers i felt like i was i was i was very like

you know it was a it was a huge transition for me you know i got drafted there i felt like i i gave them my all you know i played well you were the man in the middle yeah i played well like i didn't really do i i did right you know so right by them and like this and this and that but it was like i was like man like damn it's like you know we're gonna end this like why i wouldn't continue this so i was like a little taken back by it but then once how everything played out after I was released it was like I went to I went to L.A. My wife was pregnant of the time, you know, right back home. Like I was it was like everything was just seemed like okay, nah, this is actually how my life is supposed to go.

This is actually how exactly where I'm supposed to be. You know, I've loved it, you know, and it's been like so refreshing for my career and like. Yeah. Everything that I love about football and it's like, you know, we didn't have a good year this year. But like the locker room reminds me of like the best locker rooms in Minnesota those years. so it's like it was so refreshing being around those guys who just they love football

why do you feel like you guys struggle so much defensively like if you you talk about headlines it's like the charges spent the most on defensive talent and everything else and you describe so many names bro yeah you described the locker room like the culture that it is I remember one time shooting you a DM

just bad what is like what's going on out there why don't you think it worked out in LA I mean I feel like it was a lot of you know it's a lot of little things you know I can't really pinpoint it you know but like man like I'm over here just really trying to think about why what happened I feel like we have a we had a huge expectation and we know we like have a great work ethic everybody's you know headed to the same goal but it was like the complementary football aspect of it like us putting the pieces

together when we needed to put the pieces together like okay X's and O's are one thing you know mentality is another thing you know getting the job done is the third thing you know but like in the crucial situations of the game, you know, we lost seven, we lost seven games or so by like three points or less. Like maybe some, some play is the last play of the game. So it was like in the crucial points of the game, no matter what is called, no matter what is drawn up, no matter how you're feeling in the game. If you're playing bad, you're playing good, like you need to buck up and get a win. And I feel like that's what we struggle with. And, you know, it was all across the board. You know, I feel like no, everyone took turns like that being them as far as like offense, defense,

special teams and it was like it was frustrated to watch because I know how much everybody in the locker room cared and everyone how everyone just like and I hate you know it's cliche everybody works hard in the league but like no like like there's a this is a this is a great locker room like guys who

care about guys outside of football and not are non selfish and like the best the best qualities you know what I mean yeah yeah yeah so it's frustrating it's the most frustrating thing how do you feel about the news about Jim Harball man it was it was crazy because like I I disconnect myself from football always, but like, you know, we, you know, with what was happening

with our team and, you know, our coach being released in the middle of the season, you know, it was kind of like you had to, you have to pay attention to it. But I was just thinking it was rumors, but, you know, they made it happen. And it was cool. But I think, especially at this point of my career, you know, Super Bowl is the most important thing to me. And whatever it takes to get there, like, I'm with it. Like, let's do it.

Bro, you've got the right guy. And I know you got to go. We're going to get you out of here right now. But, like, I feel like you're going to love. I love Jesse Minter. That guy, the way he puts stuff together, it's very like Ravens-esque, but that strength coach, Herb.

Everybody keeps talking about them, I've only heard amazing things about him. I'm telling you, we went to their facility, and they will literally do a test on you, and they'll have charts of grades of everything, hip mobility, knee, ankle, everything. And these were your flaws, and you have, like, a pinpoint accurate, like,

protocol for you. You know how most teams do, like, 53 guys in roster. You feel like everybody's doing that same 53-man workout. Like, I've never worked. with him, but everything that they were taking us throughout Michigan, it seems like everybody has their own individual side because based on their, based on their assessments and weaknesses, hip mobility, all that stuff. Like, they focus and get you, I, when I was listening to him, I was like,

you know, you make me want to, like, train out here at the University of Michigan. He's a guy that you would go in the middle of wintertime to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and go train there because that's how good he is. Amir Abdullah type shit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's my guy. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, that's what, I'm excited about that. I keep hearing, keep hearing stories, keep hearing things. But then what's next? I got experience for myself and I'm so open for you know I just I want to win so can't how much long do you want to play I don't know I think that it like like I said winning is the most important thing to me right now and I'm just going to take a year by year I'm still having fun with it I feel great like you know I had a little injury to being in the season but as soon as I was over with I'm solid I feel great

it feels good to enter a seat like an off season like completely like healthy right and I'm just going to build on that. Wait, man, we're stoked for you. Yeah, we're excited for the control. I'm happy I got to, are we going to,

what's what we're going to? Yeah, we got a twisted tea. We're going to hit a chug. I appreciate that. Yeah. So for those of you looking at the twist T right now.

You know, you got to put a Z use over here. What is this half and half? Or, uh, the light, this is the light. This is the light. So 5% ABV non-carbonated to be ready for tailgate,

great for everything. Is it's a chug in it? No, you got to chug it. So, go. Oh, he's actually going. Those throats are going crazy right now, folks.

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