Bussin' With The Boys - Lavonte David

Episode Date: December 3, 2019

Thank you: www.regalrg.com  Anheuser Busch Ajax Turner  Former Nebraska Cornhusker and current Tampa Bay Buccaneer Linebacker, Lavonte David, joins Will on the bus this week. The boys discuss some NFL injury drama, David’s career in junior college, and the boys look beyond at life after football.  Check out our sponsors:Regal Realty Group - Hunter BrileyPersonal 615-630-9735615-483-0856www.regalrg.comAnheuser BuschAjax Turner  Rate us 5 stars because you're for the boys. Website: bussinwtb.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BussinWTB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bussinwtb/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BussinWTB/  Merch: https://hangtn.com/collections/bussin-with-the-boysFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Right before, this is the episode I did right before I came to Oakland. I did this episode with Levante, David. I'll out to Oakland the next day. This was back around that time. Yeah, I'm not going to talk too much about, I'm not going to talk too much about the game this week. We all know what week it is. Will, Will's team, Taylor's team, Raiders versus Titans.

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Nebraska Cornhusker Nebraska blackshirt Dude is a legend If he would have had a four-year career at Nebraska He would have been the greatest Linebacker of all time coming out of Nebraska Which says a lot because it's one of the greatest universities of all time Shout out the boys in Nebraska

Dude's a stud man Came into the league This is his eighth year And he is at 976 tackles Stud linebacker It baffles me That this dude hasn't made a pro ball yet. He's made a pro bowl, but as an alternate. He hasn't been voted on the pro bowl

unanimously, which is complete bullshit. And it sucks because he's in the category of outside linebacker with, and when you're in the category of outside linebacker, you're in the category with all the, you know, pass rushers, all the guys who get sacks and everything like that, who blitz off the edge, you put up, you know, who pad the stats in the sack section and tackles for loss and all that bullshit. But this man, Levanti David, and he, he's, he, he needs to be in a pro bowl, and he needs to be in the goddamn pro bowl this year. So if you get a minute, go and flood, what is it? Pro Bowl, just type in Pro Bowl ballot.

And vote for Levante David, because this man is legit a pro, as you can tell, I'm a little pissed off about it. Because it's crazy to me. This man's in his eighth year, and he's going to hit 1,000 tackles this year. I think Bobby Wagner just did that. They're like the same year. Dude's got 11 interceptions in his career, 22. and a half sacks.

Yeah, that's my fucking boy, dude. And I'm pubbing this because we need to get his ass to the Pro Bowl, along with a lot of other guys, but this episode's about Lavante David. We were boys. We played together in Nebraska. We were alongside each other as black shirts. Had some awesome moments together. The dude is an absolute study.

You're going to hear some great stories. But, yeah, I can't say it enough. We need to get this board of the Pro Bowl. and, man, love that kid, dude. Hey, Levanti, if you happen to listen to this,

shout out you, bro. I love, and I miss you, dude. I can't wait to see you in the offseason at the Team Jack events and everything else. But without further ado, listen to Levanté David episode, dude's my boy,

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Battle of the boys this week, Titans and Raiders. It's pretty legendary that I'm going to get, Taylor and I are going to get to share the field again. I think this will be our fourth time sharing the field. We played against each other twice when he was at Michigan and I was in Nebraska. He was actually in one of my old photos. I'll have to post that. and then we played against each other when I was on the Redskins,

and I think he was a rookie on the Titans, and we got the win there. But it's pretty cool knowing, you know, I'll get to share the field again with him this week under circumstances of, you know, having this podcast together, being in other businesses together. Just, I mean, he's like family. So it's going to be pretty special.

It's going to be cool as shit. But again, without further ado, Levanté David episode, Bustin with the boys, drop the fucking hook block yes my mic because hey I'm telling you even when you move away

like I don't want your low tone voice because your bottom lip really gets in the way of a lot of stuff I'm going to talk in the mic every time just for you your bottom lip gets in the way of a lot of stuff and I really don't want to be pissed off on this pod because I'm excited that you're here

I don't care your boy hey what do you think I love it bro I love it your boy's got a pod I don't know man it's blowing up too

adapt and provide overcome man you know what i mean not playing ball right now right sitting at home chilling yeah i mean you're good at this though you talk too much so yeah this is perfect okay all right this is my podcast not yours let's not take shots um but yeah dude i saw you guys were flying into town and i was like yo i got to get boogie on hey i'm gonna refer to lavante david is boogie because that's that's what we call him you know i named my dog my that first pit bull after you boogie yeah boogie how is boogie Boogie, he's alive, I believe. That was, you know, I had to give him up, you know, my last, yeah, yeah.

Don't bring that up, that last breakup. Yeah. I had to give up Boogie. Yeah, but that was a great nickname for me, though. I like that name. Yeah, because you're a dog. On the field, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, on the field.

Back in the college days is what we're kind of referring to. We won't get into all that. I came a lot more prepared than this. Hang on me, let me get my notes out there in my phone. I got you water. To talk about, I don't want that. I got it for you just in case. I found it in my truck.

I'm hydrated already. I found out my truck. You got notes? Yeah, I got notes. We got to stay on something. You know what I mean? We got to have some type of layout. Okay.

Dude, have you been seeing this Oscemole stuff going on? Is that how you say his name? Yes. Ocimile? Calici Oscemole. Calichi Osimile from the Jets. I believe. That's how you say it.

Okay. It sounds solid. Yeah. We'll go with that. Have you been seeing what? What's going on with that? I have seen it, but I didn't pay attention to it as much. But from what I've seen, it's a crazy deal.

It's what is it? He was a starter, right? He was one of their starters? Yes. And he's saying that he injured his shoulder. Yes. And they, the team, the Jets said, it's not terrible. Right.

You don't need surgery. Right. We can get you back out there and you can play on it. Right. And he was saying, no, I can't. My shoulder's bad. My shoulders messed up. I do need surgery.

Right. And they're like, we're not going to pay for your surgery. Exactly. And he, did you see what came out today? I did not see it. By the time this comes out,

I mean, it'll be, you know, it'll be past tense. Yeah, yeah. What came out today is he got surgery, right?

He got surgery and it was way more extensive. It was way worse in the operation than what was previously said. So to his point, he was saying it was bad. I need surgery. Yeah, he was saying no.

He's good. Yeah, it's not that bad. They went in and operated on it and it and it came out, like to be way worse. It came out to be worse than what it was. So now I think they're taking like legal action to like sue the Jets.

Yeah. Is that correct? Yeah. Oh, they cut him. How they cut. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they cut him. They cut Kalichi.

They cut Kalichi Osumale. Yes, they cut him. And I think now they're going to take like legal action on that. I mean, that's, that's terrible. I mean, do you see, you see stuff like this going on since you've been at Tampa with guys? It's the first time I ever seen something like that. So even on Tampa, you've never seen a situation where a guy's like, I think I'm hurt worse than I am, and the team's like, no, it's not as bad as what you think.

I haven't. I haven't because I've been around guys who's more professional, I mean, against professional, and they go get a second opinion to really make sure if that's the situation. But that's what they're saying, O'Simmolay, they're saying that he, the second opinion, when they got it, they were arguing saying it still wasn't that bad. They weren't going to pay for the surgery. Oh, no, I've never seen nothing like that. You always go with the second opinion.

And my mind, I've never seen. Well, yeah, because at the end of the day, the trainers had. have the trainers have the best in mind for the athlete, but at the same time with the logo behind them. Exactly, with the organization. They're loyal to the organization. And what you see a lot of the times is like sometimes I've had injuries and I don't want to disclose them to the team,

but I'll get my second opinion. I'll consult with my doctor away from the facility. Or I'll bet, hey, I'm feeling this. I'll get on the phone with him. And I'll try to talk to him my second opinion before I want to tell the team because you don't know what the team might do with you. Right, right, right, right.

I mean, I guess it depends on the organization, man. Honestly, it's like who are all you dealing with? You know, the people are good genuine people. They should be real with you, you know? Yeah. Have you ever went through any of that where you've got to lean on your second opinion more than the team? I have. I actually went through that this year.

And then it came out the same thing, what they said and what my second opinion said. So I went with that. Right, right. That was the same with me on the Saints. Yeah. They kind of diagnosed my low sprained ankle and then you get your second opinion. Right. They said the same thing.

Same thing. But you've had, I've seen situations where, so like, we're vets now. right? And you're in training camp and you see these young guys. Yeah. And 53 make the roster out of 90. You have 90 guys on a team going into camp. They cut it down to 53 at the end of camp, at the end of training camp at the end of preseason.

And so I like to say the guys from 53 to 90, that's just how we will refer to them as, guys that are in that 53 to 90 that are probably going to get cut. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And say they get injured in preseason. Yeah. And, you know, God bless them, dude.

Like everybody's brainwashed. they want to make the NFL, it's their dream. True. When I was a rookie and I hurt my hamstring, I didn't want to tell anybody anything. True. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Like, it was emotional. I wanted, I didn't want the team to know. I kind of told a side trainer that I felt like was my Mark Meyer. Yeah, like an intern or an assistant. Yeah. And I'm like, kind of telling him. And I'm like, hey, just basically duct tape it just in a nutshell. Obviously, there's a lot more into than duct taping it.

Do a little stuff to a tour. Yeah, do it to where I can play. Yeah. And that's how guys are. because their dream is to make the NFL. Right, right, right. And I tell those guys, if they get injured and they think it's bad enough to get surgery, don't get, don't put your ass on the field and put your ass at risk.

You can't. Put your ass at risk. You can't, yeah. Because say if you have, like, let's just say the Oscemi-and, I'm not saying this is what happened, but let's just say you have a situation like him. You tear your shoulder. You feel like you have something wrong mechanically. And the minute that the team might know on your end,

MRI that you have a tear in your labrum, but a tear is also, it can be a strain or a sprain. It's basically tearing of your ligament. If you look it up, that's what a definition of a sprain or a strain, whatever it is. If you have, if they know you have a tear, right, but they might just tell you how you just sprained your shoulder. Right? And in your mind, you're like, oh, you know, I'm not a bitch. I'm not a pussy.

I'm going to do what I can, you know, because that's the game we play. I'm going to go out there on the field. The minute you step on the field, if you're part of that 53 to 90 and you're not in those future plans. You don't play. And they know that they're probably going to cut you. Yeah, and you don't play. The minute you step out there and practice, they can cut you.

Yeah. That's how Adam Hayward got done. Yeah, I mean, he got his knee cleared, was trying to get ready to go for training camp. He was going into year 10. My boy, shout of your boy, too. Yeah. Once he got cleared, within 10 minutes, they sent him up to the front up. They're like, hey, go upstairs.

They want to talk to you. Turn in your iPad. They cut him right, right, right before training camp. right before it started dude and his knee wasn't even fully healthy and you know it probably should have been we taught when we were training in my mind it was like your knee probably should be farther along

than what it is right but if you tell them you're fine and they clear you and you sign something the minute you step out there they can cut you cut you so I would tell guys young guys hey listen man don't be a hero being honorable is fucking that's awesome you should be honest if you feel like going out the honorable way that's great but it's not going to get

It's not going to get you paid. It's not going to get any money. You're going to get cut. They don't care about that. They don't care about you, dude. And I tell guys, I'm like, if you feel like you need surgery, listen, don't be a fucking hero. Get a second opinion. And if that second opinion says you need surgery, lean on that opinion.

Yeah. You don't want to risk it to mess it up even worse. And obviously risk your chances to play a football game. Yeah. And like if you're like undrafted, that might be the only chance you have to make any kind of money from the NFL. True. So if you say you go out the honorable way, you get cut, you never get called again. You never see a dime.

Your injury is worse than what it is and nobody paid for your surgery. You're going to have to pay for it on your own because you don't have the insurance with the NFL until you make the team. Versus if you do need to take care of it. And, you know, guys might think you might be softer or pussy from it. But in your mind, you're like, I need to get this done. Because guys battle with that. I'm worried about, hey, what's Levante think of me if I go down this road and get surgery? And we know I might be able to play on it.

But if they pay for your surgery, you go on IR, you get a split in your contract. So if you're a rookie, you go from like $450,000 to like $270,000, $2.70,000, whatever. You make that. Right. You get accredited season. You get in accrued season toward your benefits. You get to come back healthy. Yeah, you get to put it into your 401K.

You get to come back healthy. You get to be in an OTAs the next year. And you're not sitting at a home cut. Exactly. It's a slippery situation, dude. Yeah, it's very slippery, man. It's risky. At the same time, you got to be smart about it.

I've had one of my boys, I won't say any names, but he was about to get surgery because he argued that he was injured and needed surgery. The team was trying to say, won't say which team either. The team was trying to say, we're not paying for the surgery, kind of like the assimilate deal.

Like this isn't our injury. You got it from somewhere else. But he got it to where he injured in practice, and he got a second opinion, knew he was going to get cut. Right. So he's like, yo, if I'm going to get cut, But I'm going to make sure I cross every T and dot every eye and get every second opinion I can.

He needed surgery. The GM or the owner, somebody calls him right before they were going to pay for the surgery. They still didn't want to. Called him when he was going into surgery. Yeah. And it was trying to talk him out of it. Still saying we're not going to pay for it. Obviously, they ended up taking care of putting him on IR.

Yeah. The team was still trying to not pay for it. Trying to scare him off. Yes. Yeah. It's wild. Yeah. Well, he knew the game already.

Yeah, yeah. He's a vet. He's a vet and then obviously all the guys kind of in the circle talk to. Like at the end of the day, man, you got it. You got to look out for yourself. Like, there's some politics that goes into it. Right. Right.

This is crazy game. And I get it too from the trainer's side, just the logo side because they're a functioning business. At the end of the day, it's all a business. True. In their mind, the trainer has got pressure that we have to get these guys out on the field. A certain time. And then, Levanti, let's say you're a guy that's not going to make a lot.

the team right you're going to go up and say hey how's levanti like can we can you know owner might say can we can we cut him yeah and the trainer's like no you know he's got this shoulder injury the trainer might know in his mind it's worse than what it is yeah and then it's like well how can we like it's your job to make sure he gets better they feel pressure to make sure you're better so they go yeah they got to report to those guys upstairs every day every day and they go down to you levante how's a feeling you're trying to play the game saying ah you know it's not fully there yet yeah they're kind of like come on man you know you just got to strain because they're stressed in their mind

I got a job on the line too right and then if you opt to not play he's got to somehow walk upstairs and say yeah you know Levanti's saying you know this is still wrong with him and like it's not that fucking bad like make sure like make sure he's saying it's not that bad or make sure you know rehab him like do your fucking job you know what I mean

because they don't know the owner doesn't know he doesn't he doesn't he don't know he don't know that stint of injury he don't know no type of injury yeah it is and then if you start doing like say say at your shoulder and push-ups like that's a stupid kind of thing to measure. But like, let's say you're doing rehab and you're like, oh, it's getting better.

Right. They know they have something to go up there. Hey, he says it's getting better. He's progressing, this, that, the other. We should be able to be cleared by the end of the week. Yeah. Then if you're cleared by the end of week, they can let you go. But it's a business, man.

I apologize for getting off topic. That's like a, that's a hot take these days, dude. People are getting more and more in the know of injuries. Especially older guys. Also. Older guys. And guys ourselves, I think, they're getting smarter and more aware of what their value is, what they're worth.

Yeah. And they, guys are starting to understand the game a little bit more. Yeah. Not that it's a game to beat them or them versus us, but at the end of the day, you've got to take care of your own. You got to take care of yourself, man. It's life after football. Yeah.

You want to be able to walk them on, use all your limbs and things like that. Yeah, I apologize for getting off topic, dude. Some of that stuff's interesting. I know I've had my own stories. It's very interesting. Once I'm fully retired, like I'll be able to get more and more juicy stuff. Right. But listen, welcome to the Bustin with the boys.

That's not the intro, but welcome to bussing with the boys. We're going to start back in the beginning, dude. You went to Miami Northwestern. Miami Northwestern Home of the Bulls. You were on a team that was, how many guys went D-1? Two. Nine on that squad? Because that was my year.

You were my year. Eight or nine. Eight or nine, one of them. And they all went to the universe of Miami. Yeah, except you. You were trash. Yeah. I wasn't trash.

In high school. I wasn't trash. I know you're the man now and more it's like, Will, you're trash. I wasn't trashed in high school. I wasn't trash. What was the deal then? My grades are trash. Well, then you're trash because how you fail fucking high school is beyond me.

It was a good time. Yeah, but you have to legit put in effort to fail high school, dude. Like, you have to not show up. And if you're at Miami Northwestern, so coaches are definitely trying to cheat for you guys. Not really. They're trying to cheat. We'll talk about that in a minute. No.

They're trying to cheat for you guys. Like, you have to give so much effort to fail high school. You pass college. That's harder in high school. Okay. If you're trash in high school, like, you're just not trying and you just absolutely don't give up. Okay, so my story is, first of all, when I got to high school, I hung around a lot of older people. So I was kind of easily influenced not to go to class.

So not good older people. Huh? I guess you could say. that. I mean, those guys are still my friends right now to this day. Yeah, another, you know. Yeah, so, but, you know, that's all on me, though. I mean, I don't regret it. You know what I? So I watched the documentary from Miami Northwestern, the raging bull. Year of the Bull.

Year of the Bull, my bad, not raging Bull. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Who is the D-N in that movie? Tori and Charles. Tori and Charles. He didn't really pan out or nothing. No, not really. He went to the University of Florida. Issue happened there. And I don't know where he's at now. Probably ain't over there. And then does. I have no idea what he's at. That was.

I have no idea what he's at. That was out of lying coming. That was just a joke. For everybody fucking listening, it's a joke. God, we had tell jokes on this pod. It's a joke. Yeah, I don't know where he's that right now, though. But you're the bull.

I would see at halftime those coaches. Were you coached by them? No. Well, the head coach was my coach one year. Those coaches had these kids in the shower at halftime. Yeah. Yeah. Fucking beating these dudes.

in the head. I'm talking slapping them, cussing them out for like losing or being behind in the game. Did that type of stuff go on when you were there? Kind of. Be honest. Let it fly, dude. You need some whiskey? You need a bone and V? It was kind of like that, but the coaches, those type of coaches was going by then. But honestly, bro, we were so good. It wasn't. Yeah, because y'all were national. Yeah, we were so good. It never got to that point. We was never down. Like, we was called the 40 boys. It was always 40-something-and-nothing every game we played. Damn. That's nice. Yeah.

And then so you get recruited, obviously. Yeah. You know, a little slip up, I guess, with your grades. You go to Fort Scott. Fort Scott Community College. What's the difference between going to a juco and playing, yeah, the skis. You had you, Yoshi Hardrick, Brandon Kenny. JPP.

JPP. JCP, Jason Pierre-Paul. All you guys were on a squad. Yeah. Y'all beat Cam Newton's team? No, we lost. In the Natty, right? Yeah.

Yeah. What was playing at Fort Scott like compared, like, What's the Juco Life like compared to Division I, Division II, like all these other higher, high-end athletics in college? Juco Life is basically still a high school kid. I don't know. Man, I don't know. I really don't know how to say it, but it was, it was rough. Grimy?

Grimy, bro. It's rough as a grimy business, man. And tell you a story when I first got there. Okay. So I got there late. I got there late. I got there late. Right?

Yeah. So. You got to Fort Scott late? I got Fort Scott Lake. So, and going into camp. There's a train pass your grades. No. I just didn't know where I was going yet.

So I got there late. So everybody already did their conditioning everything. So everybody's in perfect shape, perfect shape, great shape. I wasn't in shape because I didn't know what I was doing. And I got a call from Eddie Brown, Antonio Brown that called me, said he wanted me to come up. So I was like, yeah, forget it. I'll come up. I'll give it a try.

So I won't. What did Eddie Brown do? He was a running backs coach. And he was coaching up there. Okay, okay, okay. Up there, uh, Fort Scott. So he gave me a call, went there, we got there doing a conditioning test.

The fucking conditioning test was four two-twenties, 16-1-20s. And I hang on four-two-twenties. Four-two-twenty. Was it four or eight? It was eight-twent. One of a four or eight-twenty. What's a two-twenty?

Two-20 yards, basically. Yes, yes. You run like across the field and back? No, it was like a big curve. You're running around. It was, it was, ridiculous, bro. It was ridiculous. But yeah, it was four-two-twenties. 16-1-10s. 16-1-10s, dude?

16-1-10s. And like 20-something-40s. 20-something-40s, bro. 20-something 40s, though 60s. Are y'all resting? Like, I'm saying, I'm saying, is it like, you know, how we did quarters? Did you have rest in between? Yeah, yeah, it's rest. I mean, it's rest between each exercise. So, like, you get due to 1-220,000. You got to rest And then you do the six One tens Got a rest

And then you do the 60s So I get to like The third 220 I'm fucking crawling On the ground

In the first set In the first set I'm crawling on the ground I'm crawling on the ground I'm getting cursed out Bad Bad I'm getting called

All the type of bees Saw Bees go ahead Bitch You didn't call a bitch Yes Bitch Saw

You were from Miami Everybody from Miami Saw Yeah debatable it is debatable i'm just kidding everybody from miami soft y'all y'all y'all don't know y'all y'all don't know how to work then oh man being killed getting killed i'm crying bro i never got talked to like that of my life now would you say fort scott what's that what's that what's that a series on uh netflix yeah with the juco um fuck what is that called

Nick, look up Juco, Juco Netflix series. Gosh, what it was called, man, because I just, Last Chance You. Last Chance You. Is it like that? Is it like that at Fort Scott?

Yes. Really? I think it was worse. Okay, give me a story from your head coach degrading one of the guys. You know, because you know, in Last Chance You, the guy said, I'm your Hitler now.

Told it to like a Jewish kid, right? Didn't he? Blas? Yeah, I think he said, like y'all me a hill or not he never said anything like that but he did say i'm a bitch and his daughter his four-year-old daughter could beat me in this condition of test while you're crawling right i'm crawling yes bro it was bad it was bad bro i never got to like that in my life so i'm pissed off i'm pissed i get up i walk away like i'm done i'm not doing this shit no more i'm done

quitting is there is there is there organization in juco like there is it like when you played in Nebraska? Or is it kind of like high school where you don't get done with practice? You go into a shitty locker room. Yes. Shitty locker room is terrible. You're going to dorms. Dooms is terrible.

Yeah, the food was not good. It was bad, bro. It was bad. You all have, like, meetings and shit? Yeah, we have meetings, but meetings in classrooms and things like that. Like with desk. Yeah. Yeah.

It was a rough life. But it really prepared me mentally. I think I, when I feel like when we figured out, like, that's when I figured I was really mentally tough. Yeah. Going through that. And then you go to Nebraska. Go to Nebraska.

What made you choose Nebraska? But I chose Nebraska because I wanted to stay away from home. I didn't want to come back home. Why didn't you want to come back home? I kind of felt comfortable being away from home, making the name for myself, being away from home. Okay. So being in the Midwest. Why?

Why do you feel like if you were going to be at home, that would hurt you? I don't know. Just at that point of my life, I just didn't want no distractions. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like I had an opportunity to go to South Florida. Right, because that was who was close Yeah, I had an opportunity to go to South Florida

Talk to my parents, I told them I wanted to go to South Florida actually But there was like, nah, we don't think that's a good opportunity for you I mean obviously because of South Florida at the time They were good but they weren't on a big stage yet You know what I mean? And then they felt like Nebraska was a better opportunity Because I mean, definitely

Yeah, you know, better opportunity You guys just beat Lost of Texas I mean around that time Fuck, yeah, that one second game where we lost the Big 12 championship. And Sue was a big name. Almost on the high-sman. Yeah, he was all over the place.

Will Compton was a huge fucking household name. Not just yet, but yeah. Yeah, you got, they had a great defense. You know, Bo and Carl came to my parents' house. I wasn't there, but when I got there, they met with them or whatever, and they told me they were so excited. You know, they wanted me to go there. So that's why I decided to go to Nebraska.

And then, obviously, you know, I knew people there with BK and then Yoshi. So we just didn't get JPP. just didn't get JPP. Yeah, that was a little squad y'all brought over. The man, me and JPP was the opposite. I wanted to go away, but he wanted to come back home.

He wanted to go close to home? Yeah. Yeah, what did, what did fucking, what did coach J.P. and Coach Bo say, did they say, you'll probably play? They did. They did. They said.

That was motherfuckers, dude. They said you'll have an opportunity to play when you come here. Well, that's not, that shouldn't have been true because fucking I was the starter at the time, so that's why I asked that question. I'm like, yeah, what did they tell you,

behind closed doors. Yeah, you know, you'll come play ahead of this. When I got there, when I got there, so I met with Eck, he was in a meeting room. Love coach. We'd be going overplayed and stuff like that. And like some of the stuff that he was like that I was getting with some of the stuff that you guys was running.

So he was fucking ecstatic. Yeah. And I'm telling him like the terminology and everything. He's happy. You know, he'd say, oh, hell no, I got to take you to bowl. So we went in the bow and he threw up a defense. And I got it all right with fits and everything. and like that's what I got offered.

Oh, nice, dude. And it was like, you got a chance to play here and then we really want you here. So I said, okay, I consider it. I mean, I didn't know shit about Nebraska. Yeah. So, you know, I said I consider it. And then that's the time went on.

You was an All-American too. Yeah. Because when you were coming, I was nervous. Really? Full transparency. Because you're a juco guy. What was I was like a sophomore? We were talking before.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We did talk. Yeah. Sort of, I was sort of fake. Like, I was just. massaging. I was ready to find my sneak dude. I was going to out this dude.

That's good. That's great. That's crazy. I was, uh, Yoshi, because they came before you. Yeah. Yoshi and was BK. There too? Yeah, they would talk. They would hype you up big time. Yeah. And I was fired up there, fired up for you to come too. And now, oh, Kopp, you're going to love him. Right. Yada, yeah, like help him out. I'm like, y'all help this

motherfucker out, dude. But yeah, what was it like? What was it like coming to Nebraska and at first? Because we'll get into what happened. Yeah. At first, being behind me and fish. Yeah. Because you were. I was behind, I remember this picture.

We was in camp. And it's like, you know how Egg had the line. We had to be behind our position. Yeah. And I was like the fourth guy line. Yeah. Because it was, we had, we had the first two teams on the main field. On the main, yeah.

And Levanté was in the third group and third, the threes and fours. Yeah. They went on another field. I remember that. The first day, first day, it was some bullshit. I hated it. You ball, though. I ball, yeah.

I ball, I practiced. I was listening like, fucking, I was just going balls out. And then the next day I was on the first field. Yeah, he was on the first field. And so I was, what were you, a junior? I was a junior. So we were sophomores. Yeah.

And we were, it was, I was a starter. It was you? Or maybe fish. It was you, fish. It was me and fish. Fish was a starting dime, though. Fish was a starting dime. So it was me and Sean Fisher.

Yeah. And then behind that was you and Zoe? Me and Zoe. Levanti and Zoe. And then in dime, it went Sean, Fisher nerd academic all-American shout-out Sean Fisher yeah it was Sean Fisher

me and Levante yeah and I was salty that Fish was the starter and you were probably salty that we're ahead of you so in training camp Sean Fisher Niles Paul shout out Niles

I ended up starting getting the first team base yeah when there's three backers yeah when there's three backers yeah but Niles Paul cracks Dijon Gomes in practice into Sean Fisher. It was one of those days where offenses and defense

is battling its training camp. You're knocking each other out. You hate each other. One of the dog days. Yeah. Niles knocks Dijon Gomes into Sean Fisher's leg. Breaks his fucking leg.

I remember. Bad deal. Yeah. So then now it's the Levanti and I starting and I'm the starting dimebacker. And I'm like, okay, it's the boy's time to shine. Honestly, I was nervous as hell because it happened so fast.

Yeah. It happened fast as shit. It was just climbing. Two weeks out of the first. first game and uh it's me and boogie yeah and boogie and our studying together and stuff and you know i'm helping him out and uh he's fucking bawling he's a levante was an awesome player you knew it from day one and uh and then the next week the week the week going into the game opener game week game week dude yeah uh it was a thursday day practice thursday helmets only helmets 80% nothing physical

only helmets nothing physical dude i had a i had ran on a wheel war out with rex burkehead like A few days before. Yeah. And I, I remember everything. I kind of hurt my foot a little bit. And I was like, he kept saying, man, my foot is bothering me. My foot is bothering me. I'm like, don't start that shit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, don't that. And I was like, hey, Mark, like, Mark Meyer, a trainer. I was like, hey, can we get an x-ray for shits and gigs? Like, I was like, you know, you're thinking, you're like, I'm thinking in my head, like I'm not a pussy. Like, I'll be fine. Right. You know, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're not a bitch, dude.

Yeah. I'm like, Mark, let's get x-rays for shits and gigs. X-ray came back clear That Thursday with the helmet's practice I take off on a stick route And my foot blows out I break my fifth metatarsal It feels like somebody took a shotgun

Stood over it and just fucking Took a buck shot dude over and over Into my foot I start limping like I just have a sprained ankle Spadded I'm like JP's like hey comp you're gonna be good I was like this fucking hurts dude And then I try to like walk back out there I'm like, nah, this ain't happening.

Like, let's go get him X-rays. X, like, yo, are you fucking serious right now? Yeah. And, our linebacker coach, I'm like, I'm like, I'm sorry, man. Like, let's just go get it looked at. I should be fine for Saturday. This is Thursday. I'm like, yeah, obviously not. As I'm walking to get an X-rayed, I start to be like, yo, I can't even fucking walk anymore, dude.

Find out I break my foot. Levanti goes from third, Levante goes from being on the third and four-string field to being the starter game opener versus, I don't know. Who I know? Who knows? Western Kentucky. Yeah. One of the worst,

the best days of my life. Yeah. Labonte goes from like lease to fucking starter, dude. And I remember Egg, Bo,

everyone is nervous as shit because we lost... I was nervous. We lost fish as a starter. We lost our starters, me and fish. We lost the starting dime,

which was fish, and the backup dime, which was me at the time, I was going to be the starter. And now Levanti, fresh from fucking Juko bullshit. The communicator

who got everybody lined up. This guy, you lost him. Yeah. Tell Levantte. Hey, you got this on this play. Honestly, I wasn't saying shit. So I was just letting him doing all the talking.

And then you get hurt. And Levanti, I'm in a wheelchair fucking up in the press box, taking notes for the backers and, like, communicating still. Yeah. Well, you have 13 tackles. 13 tackles. And balls, dude. Didn't even fucking mean to, but he's just bawling.

I just went. We was talking about on the way here playing fast. I didn't know what the fuck I was doing, so I was just going. Dude. And then the legend of Levanti Dave. it grows i come back i think it was like come back from a broken foot like week eight yeah and my job hey at the k state game i believe yeah yeah case state or oklahoma state i think it was oklahoma state yeah and my job is not there anymore no one tells no one says hey will uh your job was

taken over nobody tells you that stuff dude in football man yeah lavanti's balling and the rest is history my man goes on becomes like top what your top what in tackles in nebraska history Four, top five. Okay, I was going to say top ten, but I guess you'd know for sure. Studd. Am I? I don't know. Levante Balls, the legend of Levante David, because, you know, I gave up, I faked an injury, my foot, and allowed him to be what he is today.

Yeah. So there's a part of me that feels like I'm responsible. A part of this greatness. Yeah, a part of this greatness, man. Right, right, right, right. Like I said, one of the worst best days in my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it was awesome.

Then we obviously became boys. You miss me? I do miss you, bro. I do. We had fun on the field. Yeah. We had a lot of fun off the field. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, we did. And we're all headed. Oh, we'll keep some of the stories out the podcast. Yeah, we can't keep that on here, man. My favorite play, Levanté. Got to be Ohio State. That's a big one. What's your favorite play in Nebraska?

Your favorite play that you ever had? My favorite play at Nebraska. Man. My favorite play at Nebraska? Yeah. I would say to Ohio's. State play. Really?

I was a legendary play. So we were down what? 27-0. Really? Yes. We were down 27-0-0. Everybody's leaving. Here it is right here.

27-0. 3rd and 5. Because I was injured this play. Remember? I was out. Yeah, yo, come get the fuck back on the field. I was cursing you're out. Yeah, yeah.

Damn. Oh, that was it. 27-0 third quarter, eight minutes left. Third and five. Who was at Braxton Miller? Yeah. Baller. We're getting our ass.

We're getting our ass fucking pounded, dude. Hey, Vrabel is on the sideline here. So shout out Vrabel, because we had the greatest comeback in school history that night. Levante Braxton breaks the shit out of Sean Fisher's ankle. Shout out fish. And Levante tackles this dude and fucking rips the ball out and takes it himself. Now, my favorite play, I was on the sideline his play getting checked for, like, concussions.

Probably had one, but I was, I came back, the boy came back, ready to go, CTE all, C-T and all. I think he was bitching up this game because we were down. No, I had over 10 tackles, so don't disrespect me like that. Respect. But my favorite play, because I remember seeing it, this one I was kind of out of it, so I didn't know what happened. I was just hype. We came back and beat Ohio State down 27. Greatest comeback school history, we win like 34 to 27.

34 to 27. Yeah. 34 straight points. But what did you say straight points? You didn't know how to. Say it though. Say it on the mic. 34 straight points.

Straight points. There you go, straight. There's one video out there, Blasell shoot it to you. I did a voice memo back. Like I've been posting throwback. I've been posting those throwback Thursday videos of Nebraska in the locker room. It's funny. But I would mess with Levante because he says like straight.

Like them Miami boys, man, they're like, scrate, stretch. And I'm like, yo, what are you saying? You saying stretch or scratch? That's what it started. Yeah, yeah. And I came into the locker room after practice because we were stretching buddies. Yeah. No homo.

And Levante came in and I was like, I brought my phone over and I started recording. I was like, all right, Levanti, say stretch. he's like scratch and we just start dying laughing maybe you had to be there because boss isn't laughing very hard but my favorite play Iowa

Iowa we played Iowa yeah we're playing Iowa yeah and they come out I believe they're in empty but this guy runs a

I think another stick route stick route yeah and bodies the tight end bodies in the Levante right and pushes off push me down yeah pushes off on Levanti

pushes his little bitch ass down, dude. Pushes his ass down. Levanti throws his hands up. Levanti has time to fall down, throw his hands up to the ref. Realize the ref doesn't call it. It's his slow, big, white, tight end. And Levanty gets up and chases this dude down. After falling, throwing his hands up, no flag, gets up, runs him down.

And I'm watching from the other side of the field. Levanti strips him, reaches around, and strips him, rakes it out, and takes the ball from him and just sprints to the sideline like, yeah, yeah, look at me. Look at me. Yo, that was pissed off that place. Well, I know, because it was a push-off. I was like, oh, hell no. Do they have it?

Could you find it, Nick? It's probably, yeah. You definitely couldn't do this job, dude. I'm just kidding. During the highlight. Another play, too, that stands out once we get to this after this. I don't know This is just

This is just a Levanté Podcast fucking tribute Dude, dude Yeah I know man You, I mean I can see you in a long time So you got to be all by me

It's like we are catching up It's like we're sitting on the back deck Having some seltzers Having some seltzers Some bon and vee Having a stogie And just telling old stories man Oh, stories, man

Yeah Fuck we had some good times Those were some great Nebraska days Yeah We would I'd take those videos After the bowl game of you packing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, Bucky, you, uh, this is it, man. You've got anything to say? Don't do these, man. Don't do these, come. Another play that stood out too, the Penn State game. Yeah, that's me and you. Yeah, I can't take too much credit.

Yeah, I mean, shoot, you, uh, you cleared it up. Yeah, yeah, it's a cross dog blitz. So you send your two inside backers. I think it was either at the center or the guard. Yeah. And I'm first, so I'm like the guy who gives it up, who lays his life on the line for the guy behind them to make the play. play. It's like, it's fourth down, right?

Fourth and one. Yeah, that's another memorable play. Yeah. It's like fourth and one. And I like shoot, I like, you know, hit the center of the guard, whatever. Right. Kind of frees Levante up. And it's just you and Silas Red?

Yeah, it was Silas Red. Was the Silas Red? Yeah. Stunned him, dude. And we beat them. We come back and beat them. Yeah, we beat them. They, yeah, they was.

Or we made a stand. I don't know, but that was a memorable play too. So fast forward. We got all these highlights up here. So now you're in the league. Second round pick. How many backers are in front of you? Like nine backers?

Yeah, I think my backer class was one of the best class. You went, what, early in the second round? Yeah, I went mid. It was Luke, Dante Hot Tower, Bobby, Zach Brown. I'm not being disrespectful either. I'm just trying to look stuff up, keep talking. Bobby Wagner, Zach Brown. Bobby Wagner's in that class, too?

Yeah. Oh, my. Man, Bobby was roommates at the senior bowl. Zach Brown. Yeah. Zach, man, Zach trained together coming out. He was right in front of you, wasn't he? Yeah.

Michael Kendrick's, Nigel Bradham. We had a bunch of guys. Yeah, that's a fucking class right there, dude. You're stuck, bro. You're stacked, man. Still balling to this day, too. Yo, honestly. We've been having a lot of fun.

But be serious. Yeah. How much does it piss you off that you haven't outright made a pro ball? It piss me off. Be honest, dude. It pisses me off. Before I go... I only got one, right?

No, alternate. No disrespect, he's an alternate. And whoever was ahead of him was playing in the Super Bowl, right? Yeah. So you got to go. It was TD. Thomas Davis. Thomas Davis. Stud, salute him.

Yeah. But outright making the Pro Bowl, dude. Yeah, man. You've had... This is year what? Eight. Year eight. So you've had...

I'm looking right now, you've had... You've had seven seasons. Yeah. Six of them, you've had over 100. tackles. Five of them you've had over 120 tackles. I should have made a pro bowl at least four.

A legit four. But you're not out there like that, dude. I'm not. That's your fucking problem. You don't have, you don't have like, you know, you don't have like a personality like this. You don't got a podcast. You know how I am, though.

You don't tell jokes and act stupid on social media like your boy. Everybody think I'm mean. You need to let me run your social account. And we will bring you, we'll take you, you'll be a pro baller every year from here I don't know, man. You might get out of hand. Not to to do my own horn.

But just like, I'm saying just to put you out there in front of more eyes, dude. You kind of get out of hand, though. I do. Yeah. You know, I try to see too much. I take, I try to see humor and way too much stuff. Yeah. But Jay Mitch, the one who told me about that, man.

Jay Mitch got on me about that. About, I need to post more. You do. Yeah. Because that, unfortunately, some of it is a popularity contest. Yeah. And you're just not out there like that. Right.

Here, bring up his stats, please. What are you, I know you know this, because obviously all of us have a little bit of like self-absorption to us. Of course. You're one of the, you're in a crew of players that have, like, a certain amount of interceptions and fumbles or tackles or something in like a time span. Like, what is that? Yeah, I think it's, in history out of linebackers, I think it's only three guys and I'm one of the three. One of three of what? What's a stat?

I think it's like having over a certain amount of tackles. certain amount of interceptions and a certain amount of sacks in a matter of games i guess yeah probably games or seasons one of them did you know you're in the top 25 all time in the NFL history for taggles for loss already really you're you're not you're 25th since the stat has been kept but i think i think guys have went back since then maybe i don't know yeah but it's on one of those like what is that i apologize shit going on outside the bus but you're tied actually with sue right now with 108 tackles for loss. Taxes for loss, really?

All time. Wow. And I'm talking guys that are retired, you're still currently playing. Yeah. You're at like 108. And I remember it was like the year, one of the years you should have went.

Yeah. It was you and JJ Watt were tied for most tackles for loss since the stat has been kept. Yeah. Now it was in like 2000, you know, one of those big years you had. You didn't make the Pro Bowl. Right.

Probably talk about 2013. Yeah, probably. 13. Because, I mean, from 13, all the way up to probably like you had one year where he had like 80 something total titles. Yeah I had that was a down year for me. But like

what's made you the most mad? Tell me the, tell me the one year you've actually been the most mad and you're like I should have been in over here. The one year I was the most mad was maybe last year probably. Last year or I mean it didn't really matter to me in 13 because I made

all pro with it. Yeah, all pro is a big deal, all pros type. probably last year. I don't know if I really was supposed to make it. Who do you think you should have got in over? But I know I should have got in over this person. I'm not for the blast nobody.

I'm not for the blast nobody names. But I had like 120 tackles. This person had like 40-something tackles, bro. 40-something total tackles? Yes. We can find that. We just show it on the YouTube, like just glance it on the YouTube real quick. It was crazy, bro.

Well, what sucks is too is... They respect that person, though, as a player, you know, I met him before. But at the same time, you know, it's kind of not fair. I know. Because sometimes it's like, you know, why is this more of a popularity contest compared to who's actually really fucking bawling right now?

Yeah, yeah. And honestly, what sucks for you is you're considered an outside backer. Yeah. And you're a 4-3 outside backer. And an undersized one. And that's not like saying anything negative. But you're a smaller undersized backer.

That's true. Outside backer. So you're in the class with, you know, like Vaughn Miller. Von Miller. Lil Mac. Little Mac. At the time, Devin'an Clowny.

Jay David, you're in with those guys who are considered outside backers, even though they're pass rushers. Yeah. I think they need to do something to where it's like pass rushers and just,

you know, Mike's, Mike and Wills in 4-3s should be just considered inside backers. Inside backers, yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah,

well, now I'm considered inside backer. So. Since you're in a 3-4? Yeah. Yeah. How do you like playing for Coach Ariens? I love it, man. He's a great dude, man.

He's one of those, when you want to coach, you want a coach that's straight for a straight shooter. And he's a straight shooter. Scrate. Straight shooter. He's a straight fucking shooter, dude. Straight fucking shooter. And I love it. I love it.

Is that different from the coaches you've had in the past? What head coaches is this for you on the bucks? Because you all have been trash. That's, you know, it just is what it is. I've been on some shitty teams too. Four head coaches will. How does coach Ariens compare to the ones in the past? Oh, man.

Because he's a straight shooter. He don't sugar coach. you don't try to hide things he lets you know what it is what is something different that he's brought to this organization this year since you've been in the league swag and confidence man

swag and confidence but give me an example what does that look like give me an example you're like oh fuck I didn't know he was like this yeah I mean whether it's a schedule change or there's something organizationally

whether it's something team meaning wise just say give me something that's like yo this fuck I didn't even know this existed yeah so I never we uh so we you ever heard of catapults catapults like they met like they measure like the speed that you go in practice or how much running you doing in practice yeah stuff like that i never had the GPS stuff the GPS stuff i never had that i never had that and now we got them this year so it monitoring to a lot of guys and it keeps guys healthy so we never had we haven't had like in the years past we had a lot of you know tough injuries with hamstrings

and guys going in and out or whatever but now this year because you have we have a whole staff to monitor that stuff and good nutrition staff and money that stuff. And like, it's good. Like, this is probably one of the most healthiest, healthier years that I've been around. They keep guys healthy. Really? Yeah, they take care of guys on the field.

So this whole staff, like this staff designated to the GPS, they basically monitor and collect data from practice and games and see how much, how much you guys run, how fast you run from like 10 miles an hour to 15 or above 15. How much you're jogging and walking? If you're getting too many reps, they're going to back you down to ease you up. Like, hey, you know, you got to chill out. You're getting the...

Like you had this much in a game. You had this much volume in the game. We're going to taper you down in practice. Yes, exactly. Damn, for real. Wonderful, bro. He said wonderful, bro. And your injury rate, you feel like it's probably went down because of it?

I feel like I'm probably the healthiest. I've been in a while. And you think a lot of it is due to the stuff he kind of brought in. Yeah, just the practice tempo, the way things are getting going, the way things are going, the way they take care of you off the field, the way they monitor stuff, everything, bro. It's all collective thing with the coaches, the staff, everything. Everybody communicates a lot better?

Everybody communicates. Everything is structured. You go home a little early than what I'm used to so you get rest. So it's pretty good, bro. That's awesome, man. And a lot of people, they don't have kind of that insight on what the differences in coaches are, head coaches, and what teams get, what teams do differently. I think it matters when you have a head coach that cares about health like that and staff

that's designated to that. Honestly, they cater to you. Cater to you. Nice, bro. I mean, it's still on you to take care of yourself. No doubt. It's always up to the pro.

They're going to monitor to you. Make sure you take care of yourself too as well. That's one thing I really liked at the Saints, too. They had a full, and I liked it at the Skins and the Titans as well. But the Saints, they seem to be on top of fucking everything. Right.

And they're in your division. So, you know, I know you guys got your little rivalry. But I saw, I understood why. they're successful like they are year and year out. Because they have nutritionists and not just one, they have two.

They have people and they allow them to have a budget and do what they think is best. Not I got to get it cleared. Not they, the people ahead of them and trust them, hey, do what you got to do. Here's your budget. Do whatever you got to do. Give them everything. Same with the training staff. Same with like, they have a cryo room.

Not just a cryot tank. They have a cryo room. They have sleep or float tank rooms. Soundproof rooms. That's the one with the Float tanks, yes. You go into the soundproof room, touch it, sign up on the list. They have all of it, bro. They have a lot of shit.

It's pretty dope. Wow. I know the Redskins kind of got some of that stuff. We have a cryo room in our fertility, and then we'll have a float tank and then things like that. Have you ever done float tank? I never done it, but I heard about it. You should try it. You should fucking try it.

It's dope. Yes. Flow tanks are the real deal. It's got like hundreds or 1,000 pounds of salt. Yeah. Which helps with, like, your tissue. You know, Ebs and salt, magnesium salt, magnesium sulfate. Helps with your tissue, your skin, all that stuff for recovery.

And you just, the water is so shallow that you just float and hover because there's so much salt beneath you. Right. It helps recover. You fall asleep. You're in there an hour. You eventually fall asleep in there. Why you feel? Yeah.

You've got to quiet your mind because you have nothing. You're not going to be on your phone. You're trying to calm your mind and kind of meditate, fall asleep and just recover. You're trying to black you out. I heard about it. Close out all your senses. It's dope, man. I believe somebody suggested it to me.

What time are we at right now? 6.640, okay, all right, because we, my dog here, he flew in, and I fucking love you for it. I knew I could count on you. But I was going to try this new attempt on like teams that fly in if I'm still not playing. Yeah. Try to identify a player that flies in on a way game. See if they'll come on the bus. Yeah. That's a good idea. Yeah. And so that's why I was like, yo, when do you land? I'll try to be there right when you land.

And then, you know, try to get your time. I told me I was watching this from afar. And I was proud of you for doing it too Yeah It's something that fits you bro You think so? Yeah you talk too fucking much Yeah

It's perfect for it Hey set him up set him up Bring his ass back down Dude bring it down Humble him dude Yeah yeah yeah But it's perfect No it's fun man

You know we don't Who knows it's gonna We have some talks in the works right now With some networks Yeah Who knows it's gonna happen But we have a blast with it man We're trying to get it mobile

As you see it doesn't run But once it gets mobile Invision like my idea is taking it coast to coast and like say next year if it's mobile yeah i'm not doing shit yeah uh just driving this thing to tampa to tampa and having you like if you guys have like a thursday night game yeah bringing the bus to tampa and then getting you on the bus before the game the day before the game or some shit that's dope bro and kind of be more up to date or so i don't know we're dabbling with a bunch of shit you always had a good mind for things man even back in college

you just always throw these suggestions that me or stuff like that you know oh you used to always talk to me about what I didn't play football. Always. It's a conversation that needs to be had. Right. Because you know it's going to end. Yeah, it is. You've been fortunate.

You're part of the true 1% of like you have a second contract. You'll probably get a third because you're, you know, God willing and you're healthy. But guys don't sit down with themselves and think about it enough. I don't think. You literally, here's to put it in their perspective. You spend, how old are you? You're my age. 29.

Yeah. You're 30 in February. January. January, my fault. I'm 30 years old. I didn't come into the league until 23. You have a career that on average last three and a half years. Four years.

Four years. We'll say four seasons. I'm an undrafted. At the time I was an undrafted cat. So to me, I was thinking this could be done in a year. But the average career is four seasons. And you spend, I started playing football in second grade. So how old is second grade?

Eight years old? We'll say eight years old. I started playing, I play football from. 8 to 23. A lot of fucking math, boys. A lot of football. Fifteen years, right? 15 years of my life, pretty much all of my life.

I have been convinced and dreamt of playing in the NFL and blueprinted on at a young age that I wanted to be the next Walter Payton. I wanted to be on TV and play in the NFL. You spend your whole life daydreaming and preparing to play a career. They called a career in the NFL in the NFL. for four years. Done at 27. Yeah. You spent your whole fucking life.

Playing football. Yeah. Only knowing football. Only knowing football. And then at 27, I'm 30 now. Yeah. But say the averages, all the yada yada yada. Say you're 27 and then you're on the real world.

Everything gets pulled out from underneath you. And you're not a NFL player anymore. Yeah. Your jokes aren't as funny. No. You're not as good looking. Not as good. You're not as cool.

Yeah. you're not of status anymore people don't it's and not that it matters to be cared about like that there's a part of you yes you're self absorbed absorbed a little bit absorbed absorbed a little bit and a little you have a little bit of a confidence and swagger about you since you playing the league but your shit doesn't stink anymore when you're out of the league right and you spend you spend your entire fucking life to play to try to play a career a dream for three four years yeah it's funny because I was talking about the same exact thing with one of my teammates.

It's talking about taking advantage of being in the league. Right. Using your resources, you know, like reaching out, network with other people with big businesses and stuff like that

because once you're not in the league anymore, they're not going to care about you. They're probably not even going to know who you are, honestly. Yeah. And to use this bus example, obviously I have Taylor, he's a pro baller.

People give shit all the time. But at the same time, from my stance, if this isn't started, if this has started a year or two, later, it doesn't matter near as much. If I'm, I say a year or two, like, I'll probably, I'm not going to play much longer. It's just the reality of my circumstance.

Not that I want to play until the wheels fall off. I want to walk away from the game on my own terms. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And so if I were to start this a year or two out of the league, it doesn't hit the same. Yeah. Whether or not, that's just the reality.

True. Because I'm not a, you know what I mean? I'm not in the, I'm not in the public eye as much. Right. The funny, humorous will, leader-captain will that people like or seem to enjoy, it wears off. And if you start something when you're already out of it,

that's when you see guys, it seems like they're not begging for stuff more, but they hit you up and you're kind of like you have a different flavor about them. You know what I mean? Or some of the heroes you've met that used to play ball and you're like, why are you still hanging around Nebraska or why you still hanging around the facilities?

Like you used to do it, let the new guys do it. It just doesn't matter as much anymore. So I do, I think it's extremely important the guys take time to think about what they do off the field and do it while you're playing. It's a great point, too, even though I'm in the league, but I go back to Nebraska. Nobody know who I, who I am. They were about the people who's at Nebraska right now. Yeah.

And they'll know who you are now because you are a all-pro. You're a stud football player, Levanté, David, who they can hang their cap on because you play good when you were there. You're still playing in the league, so you're still relevant. If you were to come 10 years later and you never went back to Nebraska, people would know who you were and say, yo, I remember Levanti? Yeah. But you don't have the same.

Same access. You don't got the same juice. Yeah, you don't. So it's important for guys that do think about shit while they're playing. Do it while you're playing. Do it while you got a little bit of juice right now. A little bit of juice. So that's kind of what this stuff is.

Where you at? What's up, Blossie? 55. I love it, dude. We got, we're solid right now. We're cruising. Yeah. What else do we have?

What else is on tap? Yeah. How many times? you made the top 100? Three times, I believe. Were you on this past year? No. Oh.

No. Sorry that I'm not completely up to date with the boy. I do watch you from a far fucking root heart of shit for you. That's all good, man. Yeah, past three years. I haven't been on there. The past three years you haven't? Yeah.

The last year I was on there was maybe 20s ago, dude. Yeah, 2016. But the boy, Levanti, he does, man. He needs more. You need more. You got respect, but you need more public respect. Yeah, so people do. I'm going to shoot out to the social media world.

You know, I'm trying to get on in the stuff like that. But as you know, I don't be on Twitter during the season. Yeah. And, yeah, you know, I understand it. Yeah. I do. I really do. Like, when you're playing and you have people chirping you.

I know Nick, my best friend is on the bus right now. Yeah. Nick, he would, when we were at, like, Nebraska, pretty much every walk, every year. Nick would always, like, you know, you type in the name, you see what people are saying. There's the years people love you. Yeah. And there's the years where people are shitting on you and trash you. I get it, man.

You know, it does matter. You got to protect your mind because you got to stay focused because you got a big – the goal in mind is to win a championship. I started – I'm going to tell you the reason why I did it. I started it. It's a crazy. It's a funny story. You already know about it.

I'm sure it happened to your rookie year. Okay. I started doing it because in 2013, we was playing the Jets. First game, I could talk about it not because I'm over it years later. And also I was all pro that year, so I don't care. Oh, who flanks on them! No, but yeah. 2013, we playing the Jets.

Gino Smith, like prior, he was running out of the ball. Oh, yeah! You shouldn't have hit his ass. Man, look, so during the game, early in the game, he was running up the sideline, but nobody wanted to touch him because he was close to the sideline thought he was running out. Then he kept running up and got extra yards.

The quarterbacks, man, there are some sneaky bastards, dude. They know. Sneaky, bro. So this time, it was, towards the end of the game. The end of the game, so I'm going to spy him. So once I'm chasing him to the sideline.

So soon as he's about to step out, one leg was in the air, I pushed him. And it was on their sideline. It was seconds left with. Listen, you ain't got to tell me I watched it. He was out of bounds. No, he wasn't. Yes, he was. Bring the play up.

Type in Levante David Gino Smith. It was going to pop up quick as hell, too. Yeah, it is. He was out of bounds. I remember watching that game live. I remember watching it live real. time. And I was like, my exact reaction, Levante, what in the fuck are you doing? Yeah.

Because they were down what? They were down what? Two points, one point? Two points. And... Kicked the field goal, lost ball won. Levante gets a penalty. Very end of the game. Levante gets a penalty, pushing, hitting the quarterback out of bounds. They gets, you know, the ball moves up there in field, they're in field goal range. They kick a field goal and win the game.

What happened on social media? I got fucking... Killed. Killed. What are a couple tweets that Sand out that made you like, y'all, I'm deleting this app? They need to get your dumb ass off the team. You fucking stupid.

You... Anything racial? Of course it was racial. Yo, one time... Of course it was shit racial. One time I got called like an inbred an inbred fucking cracker or some shit. Yeah.

I don't know. It was dark, dude. It was dark. It was brutal. But at the same time, And then why would win a good game? Look, Levanti, the first video, Levanti David's big mistake

letting the Jets win the game. Yeah. Now, y'all tell me if he had to bounce right here. And the crazy thing is, they sit back there. And the crazy thing is they changed the rule about that the next year. Look at your hands out.

Hey, what's he saying to you? Yo, hey, rewind that. I wanted to fight so bad. Here, okay, here's a, here's a situation. Fourth quarter. Okay, the ball is on, the ball is backed up, not backed up, but on their like 40-yard line. 12 seconds left in the fourth quarter. Tampa Bay is up 17-15.

Geno Smith scrambles to the right. Clearly, okay, go back. He wasn't clearly. Running, he's crossing the 50, going for the first down, third and five, clearly heading out of bounds. Levante is kind of trailing him. Okay, you're neck and neck with him. but running upfield and you hit him out of bounds

as he's already stepping out of bounds. I barely touched him. I think it was just, it was on their sideline and it was real dramatic. Yo, how is the, how you really still to this fucking day, don't think of it?

Of course, it wasn't out of bounds, bro. And so it's at the 50 yard line. It's a, what, 15-yard penalty? Yeah, they're on the 35. They kick the field goal

with seven seconds left to win the game. And you let your team down your rookie year. I didn't let my team down. And I, you know what? I'm watching this live I've had Nebraska after a workout on a Sunday workout after a game.

Really? We were all sitting in the, like, the training table watching the game. Oh, you're right. Yeah. And we were all like, oh, my God, what is Levante doing? Look at you, man. Pissed off, bro.

That puffy bottom lip, dude. I wanted to fight that whole sideline again. Who's, what's your favorite memory in the NFL? My favorite. My favorite memory, bro? Oh, my favorite memory, my rookie year. My first interception was on Peyton Manning.

Oh, let's go. Yeah. My very first interception was on Peyton Manning. That was awesome. I still have that ball. It's all deflated and shit. Would you say this team this year right now? And you're going to have to say yes, obviously,

because this will air. This will air in probably December. Honestly, I want to air this thing around Pro Bowl voting. Yeah. And you should probably sneak back on the old social. Yeah. Just during that time. Yeah.

Just so you can put all your stuff. or have somebody do it for you. Have somebody do it for you. But I want to push this around that time because people need to fucking be more proactive and voting this savage in the Pro Bowl. I mean, look at you right here. You got a skin in your neck now.

Y'all, I love the beard game. I love, I'm so proud seeing you grow up in front of my eyes. You got a beard now. I told you. You got to eat. It's not really a beard. What is this? Is that a roll?

It's a watch. How much was that? A watch. Yeah, look at that gold. Hey, zoom in on that Blasie. It's a watch. Look at that. Is that a roly, dude?

That's no folly, I know that much. No way. You want to see how here. You were stunting on them boys, man. Hey, thanks for coming on, dude. It was definitely good. I got to get you back. This is getting me excited, though.

This? Yeah. This right here? Or the podcast? Because I love football, though. Do you wish it was me out there in 51 right now, we're in 51? Unfortunately, it's not you. Make a clip.

And shout out. Kevin mentored, dude. We were, I got to meet him on our, we were visiting the Buffalo Bills. But I watch, I watch him now because we're like the same, in the same situation. He's wearing 51 playing next to you. And I'm like, fuck. Like, man, we would have the boys back. And you're playing with Sue?

What's, are you happy playing with Sue again? I love playing with Sue. You feel like a black shirt connection, like it's dope that we're back kind of on the same team? It's kind of cool because I, I never played with them. I missed them when I got there. I told him, I told him this the other day. I was like, Sue, about to play with him. with you, you would have been the number one overall

man. Oh, just chirping him. He got back on me, though. He was like, where you went second? Yeah, if you were to play with me, you would win first round. Dude, I appreciate you, brother. I'm going to get you back now, but I want you to get fined. This was fun, dude.

You have fun? You have fun? Hey, was this This is real. I appreciate that. That's how we want to make it. Want people to feel like their guards down. They can say some stuff. Whatever they want to say. Reminis. Yeah, talk shit. Tell stories. We ain't get deep, though, but good.

We didn't get deep, deep, deep. Yeah, yeah, good. But we raised some hell. Yeah. Yeah, we had enough out there. Is this your favorite? Do you like this one more in your barstool appearance? Barstool?

No, I like Barstool better. Oh, my God, dude. I'm bullshit, bro. I like it, bro. Do you like it more? No, if you say you're bullshit, look at the camera. Look at the camera and say.

It's kind of like the same thing, isn't it? No, no. Look at the camera and say, shout out Bustin with the boys, dude. Best podcast out. Shout out Bustle with the boys, man. One of the best podcasts out. Yeah, yeah, no doubt, dude.

Yeah, no, yeah. Shout to Bustin with the boys, man. My boy Will Compton. Thank you for having me, bro. Best podcast out, man. Keep it rolling. We'll cut that up, too. Hey, did you see what we did?

The Jalen Ramsey. Did you see him shout us out in his press conference? I did. I did see that part. You retitted it or something like. Yeah. We put him on the screen thing. It was like, shout out bustling with the boys.

Yeah. But we all went nuts, dude. I mean, everybody went nuts. It was a fucking, we made the content ourselves. What was that? What was that? Taylor and I went nuts. Like, he's a stud, dude.

He's awesome. Yeah, he's awesome. He just got traded to L.A. But he's awesome, man. He's a boy, man. He's for the boys. All right. But, all right, let's get you back.

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