Bussin' With The Boys - Lavonte David: Most Underrated Linebacker In NFL History + Nebraska Stories w/ Will Compton | BWTB

Episode Date: January 13, 2026

​​On this episode of Bussin’ With The Boys, Will Compton and Taylor Lewan kick things off with a packed intro, recapping their weekend in Vegas before going to both College Football Playoff Semifinals with Josh Pate. The boys also hit on Jarod Beeman’s stand-up comedy set, a clean KNF take, RO Spicy Tier Talk, and wrap the intro with the True Classic Gooner of the month. Then the bus pulls up for a powerful sit-down with one of Will’s longtime teammates and brothers, Lavonte David. Lavonte hops on the bus for an honest, wide-ranging conversation covering his entire journey from high school uncertainty and the JUCO grind to dominating at Nebraska and becoming one of the most respected linebackers in NFL history. The boys talk about hidden recruiting offers, always wanting to play for Miami, taking recruiting into his own hands, and the work ethic that defined his rise. Lavonte and Will also share behind-the-scenes stories, reflecting on longevity in the league, the wear and tear on his body, and what it truly takes to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Big hugs. Tiny kisses. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro2:24 Vegas Recap13:26 CFP Recap47:00 Jarod’s Stand-Up49:16 KNF Clean Take54:23 RO Spicy Tier Talk57:11 True Classic GOONER Of The Month59:44 LAVONTE DAVID INTERVIEW STARTS1:05:10 When Did He Think He Was Going To The NFL?1:07:44 Journey From High School To The NFL1:24:36 Someone Was Hiding His Offers?1:31:36 Experience At Nebraska 1:37:22 Lavonte Took Will’s Job1:47:41 Will And Lavonte Reminisce1:54:17 Is Lavonte Coming Back?2:05:50 Bud Light QuestionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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you guys jumped over Fiesta Bowl and you also went over the Peach Bowl. Myself McPherson and Beeman, we went with you guys to Arizona, popped on a quick little southwest, Betty over to Las Vegas, Nevada, had ourselves a very difficult weekend. Yeah.

It was a very difficult weekend. We're not going to get two in the weeds about it. Is demon on a heater? Demon's up on. I mean, again, breaking down like Zanis last week. Demon is. He's on a heater. There is. It's a demon month right now.

Zaney's into the PJ into Vegas, into the biggest hit of his life, $2,000 bet hit. Dude who's living. Is it blinding? Yeah, he's a whiskey ginger. Yeah, he's a whiskey ginger savant when he's in Vegas, dude. He was living life, man. He is. He's got the waitress too.

He finishes his cup and before he puts it down, there's another one right in his hand. Like, he's got everyone kind of- He's like, oh, how this kid here. Yeah, operating on his life right now. He is crushing it. But, dude, Vegas. The vlog will be coming out very soon. I'm not getting too much of details.

Here's what I'll say. We won. It could have been a massive win if I wasn't being a greedy little cuck. That's the problem. That's the problem. Greedy. A greedy little boy over.

We get there and I'm just going to let you know right now. The minute we get there and the first bet we put down, it was like, bam. Like solo mission and had a massive win. It was like a moment to where I'm not losing. this weekend. It was a moment to that and it was it was that coupled with it's been two months. I'm excited. I get my first set at the table and it's like maybe it's just one of those we've had those weekends before it's like kind of can't do anything wrong here like everything we do

and then get murdered. Well it started out where we thought we couldn't yeah but then that that time and then it was like oh maybe set the trajectory of failure. Yes and it was no one's fault but mine it was my own greed. It was my own what number we're gonna hit, what X, Y, and Z, blah, blah, blah. Like, almost came crashing down and burning on me. It was brutal in a lot of ways. So much so,

so much adversity. It's where I'm like reevaluating the way I take on Vegas. I'm a reeval. Like, do I go back to only betting big with Dana and sitting with him tunnel of chaos? Because I put myself in about 15 tunnels of chaos this weekend. Oh, so. All right. And I'm just thinking,

Like what are we out here chasing? What are we doing? You'll mean to read the text you sent to me and Jared? Yeah, it's read the time as well. At 3.26 a.m. That's a Vegas time. Yeah. Technically Sunday morning,

but Saturday night, Taylor sends me and Jared a text while he's five feet from us, but he's at the table. He goes, if we get out of here back to sea level, I swear to God, I'll change the way I gamble. And he got above it,

and then he goes, I'm not changing. That's the first thing I said. But dude, I literally like even the Southwest flight home to Nashville. I'm sitting there. Jared's by the way. Me and Jared were sleepy boys.

Sleepy boys. I was too and I tried to catch myself a little bit of shut eye, but Jared came and said to the middle like, hey, this is completely full flight. The way Southwest is doing it now, I wasn't rocking that A1 because I checked in so late. I was like A-16. Oh.

End up getting there. End up getting that cozy boy Southwest exit roast. Now are you still in line and get to kind of first come first serve? Or is it predetermined seats? I was hearing rumors that they're, It's first come first serve. It's still first come for a serve. I think it's like at the end of this month or next month is when they officially change.

And also we talk about Jared and the come up he's on. Will asking that question shows to come up that Will's been on as of late, right? Doesn't even know what Southwest does anymore. That boy just kind of. That boy just kind of operated out there. We had the Southwest with New York. But once I heard that it's actually an official switch, it's kind of caught me. Right.

Call me by surprise. You're putting your name in the transfer portal. And there's a chance they can get you back. But as of right now, you just wanna see what else is out there. As of right now. Yeah, going to a couple of visits and see what happens. Might commit, sign, maybe even sign the dotted line and then I can pivot and go somewhere out the way these guys are operating these fucking

On the flight home, I have like an upset like a pit in my stomach towards like, yo, it could have ended in so many ways other than like the way it ended for me. And in such a bad scenario that's like, I need to learn how to enjoy gambling again. not just going in like like blitzkrieg mode and just going trying to go off 24-7 like let's have a little fun what we did do this time people will see in the vlog is we did a bunch of giveaways which was awesome so we found people on the street we went to fremont street and uh we put out a little tweet first people to come up to us has a chance to win a thousand dollars drunk dude 11 a m stumbles up on us and i'm like a you want us right on one dad's like yeah his whole family's like 20 of them they go to wild card, a legal wild card weekend every year in Vegas.

And they're like from like New Hampshire or some shit like that. We go in there. Buddy ends up losing and we give them 500 anyway. But it's, we had a few of those that were just absolutely awesome. We get way more done with that. But for me, it's like maybe I need to take a step back on like heavy gambling when I'm there by myself. Like wait for the big guy.

Wait for the tunnel of chaos. Let's get into that. Let's go back. Let's go back to what made this so fun. So when you say maybe I need to. to how strong is that maybe? Like where's your head actually at? Like we're sitting here Monday recording this intro,

not even probably 24 hours removed from being in Vegas at this point and it's real to me. To where it's like, but it's really about how do I keep this same mindset when I'm there? Because the opportunity, you know me, I'm an optimistic cat.

So when I go into situations, I think this is gonna be the best case scenario for me. This is how it's gonna work out for me. And luckily it has been in a lot of ways, but this time I just, I was Icarus, dude. I was way too close to that sun and luckily found a way to kind of land. And I just, I just don't want to.

It got so bad at one point that on Saturday night, we're at the Red Rock where we always stay. And we up and leave and we pack all of our stuff in the opportunity that our whole crew is going to be at another location until 6 a.m. before our flight. It was a premeditated pack. Luckily, you can watch the vlog see what happened. but we had taken all of our gear on Saturday night and left with the idea that we are not coming back

we're going to be going to the airport and our flight was at 8 a.m. And this is at midnight. So it was a lot of like DefCon 1, you know, let's walk in. Dude, that drive too, it's like Dana's crew. They're all like matching black BMWs. We're behind them in like a red rock black SUV and we're just caravaning our way to Caesar's Palace.

And I'm looking at the window, So truly going through my head like, it was all going so good for you. Like what made you think like a little bit more would be better? And so that's where it's like, hey, can I take an opportunity to learn a lesson while still like not having the worst case scenario happen to me? Can I do that?

Is that the next step? It's 2026 the year that I mature in my short little, you know, cards gambling career. Or your New Year's resi was gamble more. here we are a week later yeah a week later that's so true maybe we don't change anything jack we'll be back in two weeks so

check out the next vlog from Vegas that comes from UFC and we'll see if Taylor's change any of his ways yeah yeah but demon we got demon zip lining demons yeah so are we are you guys able to talk about the the $2,000 bet

yeah I think so It was like, uh, demon was on a role. That was really Taylor and I pressuring Jared. Yeah. To gamble most of his money. Um,

we were, we were watching the Baccarat board. And if you understand Baccarat, you basically are reading the trend off of it. And we are like, we feel very confident about the next bet being, whatever. The pattern was so clear.

Yeah. It was like, if I wasn't, because in this moment, I was down. Yeah. And I was like, I love to,

but it seems like everything I touched turns to shit right now. So I'm not going to touch it. Jack's not going to touch it, but Jared, I swear to God. It feels like you, if you put this down right now, it's going to work out for you. He put it down and just immediately walks out of the room. Yeah. Couldn't handle it. It happens.

He gets the best possible hand you can get in Baccarat, which is a natural nine. And so what do me and Taylor do? We start whispering. We're like, oh, no, man. And he walks in just like, it's all good. I didn't expect it to win. And I'm like, no, you hit. He's just like almost about to kiss Taylor on the lips.

Yeah, he gave me a nice little, nice little behind hug, dude. Got a little aggressive with the behind hug. That's it was funny. So you guys bullied him in the bet in the biggest hand of his life and then also said, we ain't touching this. Yeah. But also swear to God. Yeah.

When you're as deep in the weeds as we were, it was like, if we bet it, it for sure won't hit. Yeah. If Jared does, he's pure enough to where it happens. He's like Aladdin trying to get in the cave, bro. He can only get in. Was it Jafar? Like I can't get in I'm not pure enough at this point

A diamond in the rough Yes a diamond in the rough So he he made out like a bandit this weekend Yeah He nicely he handled business Dude I almost hit an eight leagger On Saturday Oh

It was all because of clay right The Puka passing Packer playoff Willie Parley And it was all I needed from it Like I got all the players I got everything right All I needed to finish is the Packers money line But I did enjoy

just kind of watching the Packers piss away their lead with Clay Matthews and I was on Grock. I was having some fun. Dude, the Grogh thing was so funny. I've been seeing the trend like put someone to put this photo in a bikini. Yeah. So I like put Clay in a bikini. Dude, it was just so funny. Dude, I almost brought it up with Greg when we were filming the intro when he was talking about Twitter and stuff like that.

And it's so funny. My algorithm is just like transfer portal news, football, football, then it's like, wait, wait what happened in venezuela it's like the craziest shit out of nowhere and then the grock thing is so funny by the way grok did clay yeah he did that boy right yeah so he ain't got no bulge down there no it's it's a front man it's anyone heard from clay that's that's he's been shooting this entire life that's steroids like it's shriveled up they're gone that's a kendal look right there have any of you heard from clay I don't think he respond to any of those texts in the group message he failed the boys I think we have to burn his jury

Jersey now, which sucks. I think we got to do it on the locker room. We got to do it in lock room. We should do it in responsibly. Yeah, definitely not inside. Maybe inside though. Just a blow torch, smoke us out real quick. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

How was, tell us about the games though. Dude, it was, it was a lot of fun. However, there's some question marks I have on Josh Pate. I had this point. Which I hate to say. I know. Here's the deal too. It's like Josh has been nut.

There's been green flags all the way. Like, we're far enough for. far enough along to where it's like, damn, I can't believe we found like a red flag at this point. And that red flag came at two in the morning when we were shuttling to our hotel after the Fiesta Bowl. So we land, we go to the Miami, the Miami Ole Miss game, which, by the way, that Miami Old Miss game was incredible.

If you guys listened to our football recap show that came out yesterday with Greg, we talk a little college ball on the back end. So check that out. But watching that game, getting a seat in person and like every few seconds, I'm just nudging dip. I'm like, look at those boys on the Miami's offensive line. JP gets me. We're trying to put in a food order,

try to have some food lined up for when we fly to Atlanta. But so going in and planning out this trip, it was we had to hit the game in Arizona and then fly out right after because Josh Pate was going to be doing ESPN. He was on first take. He was on get up. He was going to do it or he had to do it from the site of the Peach Bowl from Atlanta.

So the plan was always to, okay, we're going to fly out after the Arizona game. just take a late flight, land at like two, three in the morning in Atlanta. We're just going to have to eat that because the boy Josh, he needs to do his big hits on ESPN. He's been becoming a star right in front of our eyes. As he should, the dude is a beast.

He's a stud. He is the commissioner of college football. And so it was like, oh, man, that kind of sucks, that we can't just stay in Arizona, sleep in, get some good breakfast. Like, catch the vibes. Like, the weather out there in Arizona, you're walking around it, like, as you're going to Vegas. But we're walking around it, like, before we go into the game,

and we're just like, man, it just feels so right being out of here. It's cleaner. It's greener. You have all, it just felt so good and felt so right. Greener as in like healthier. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You felt healthy walking around. You're just like, man, it's a healthy state.

You're like, man, it's just nice being out here. But we can't eat. We can't after the game just go hit a hotel because the game the next day, the Peach Bowl in Atlanta is not until seven at night, Eastern time. Could have got zips too. We did have actually the trip planned. Originally, we booked the flight. We were staying in Arizona.

It had to get changed because Josh needed to go to Atlanta. Again, he had to be there on site at the Peach Bowl. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly.

He had to be there. They wanted them on site with the backdrop and everything else. When I saw what you're about to say, I wouldn't even with you guys and I was heated. Oh, buddy. Go ahead. We land and we get in the shuttle to rip over to the hotel in Atlanta. And again, you just, this is what we signed up for. Hey, we're road-dogging it right now.

Yeah. We're road though. We're ready to go. We're flying nice. But we're eating in as far as like sleep because we had ESP in the day before. It's like when we fly out on that flight, it's like 8, 3, 9 o'clock at night. We land. We only get four hours of sleep before we do get up in the morning.

But I've just been up. We've been up all day long. And so it's 2.30 in the morning like the next day. Now we're flying to another crossing a couple time zones. We land and we're in the shuttle. And all of a sudden, I don't know what happens. I'm kind of just like sitting there. JP and I might be, we might be slap happy over a couple things.

we're kind of sitting there i hear clump ask a question then i hear josh essentially say like oh no like they switched it like i'm just going to be zooming in from my hotel i say oh oh hold on hold on hold on and also when will says hold on hold on hold on he's still looking out the window he's just like this he's like hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on repeat that for me again you don't you don't you don't have to be at the stadium for your ESPN. He's like, no, I'm just going to be zooming in from my hotel room. And I was like, when did you learn this information? And, you know, because we're all like kind of like laughing now,

knowing this bomb that he's just dropping on us. And he's like, he knew the information like in the airplane flying to Arizona. And I'm thinking, buddy, we could have switched. we could have switched the operations to where we could have slept in Arizona. Yeah. Like all these fantasies that we had about sleeping in again,

we're not in a rush. We don't have to be at the Peach Bowl 14 hours ahead of time anymore. Why are you keeping this information in on us? And we're all laughing and it's, I can't even remember at that point. It's so late in the night and we're just trying to get to the hotel

and everything else, but I'm thinking, buddy, why in the hell would you not share that with the squad? We could have slept in. We could have had good, you know. And who had zips? That's all that that's good.

Could it have zips, dude. And who's the first face we see the next morning when we go down to the lobby? Josh Pate on first take arguing with a, you know, Stephen A, Kim, New, R.C. He and R.C. had some chemistry, though. Him and R.C. had some good chemistry. They had some good chemistry talking about the SEC. Yeah. And how it's fallen and everything that's inside of the SEC talk.

But I'm looking at him seeing him zoomed in from that fucking hotel room across the street. just thinking like, man, we could have, we could have, I don't know. The clip of Will watching the TV when he comes to the camera is over five minutes long. Hate watching him on ESPN. Bro, that breaks my heart for you. Because the whole week, I'm talking to clump, like, that's just crazy. They don't just stay there. And why does he have to be on the field?

I don't understand that at all. Again, after they, hey, if that's what they wanted and ESPN wanted it to be from the stadium, 100%. 100%. That was never a question. If we're all homies and you're, we're gonna help your career

and like this is an opportunity help your career and this is what they want for you free to go up, we will always lean on the, let's help our boy out for his career. Help our boy, man. Let's get in the foxhole with him.

But there's gotta be communication. And if you don't have it, what do you have? If you don't have communication and relationship, you've got nothing. Because how to go down? You're essentially a Titanic

golden and ice cream. What'd you ask him, Clump, when that, when that bomb dropped? Weird, it was like a quiet. ride so I just look at him like hey what time you got to be at the stadium tomorrow and he kind of started stumbling over his words oh I don't even think he wanted to fully say it

and then he's like I actually don't have to be there tomorrow and at the J.P.'s point I'm like I'm looking at the other side but I'm just sitting there and I was like oh hold on hold on hold on he says JP get the camera what breaks my heart is you guys I said three times you could have zips and that just That just to me is like, bro, could you imagine watching the Fiesta Bowl? Ole Miss Miami down to the wire. Trinidad Chamblis last second could have been a penalty, could not have been a penalty. And it's like, what a crazy game.

Let's go have the greatest bar meal of our entire lives and talk about it. Only to go to a hotel, relax in a bed, know you're going to get a full eight hours, wake up well-rested for the next game. Hey, and that was another issue is we had to leave the game early because the game, again, Four lead changes in the fourth quarter. Four lead change in the fourth quarter. But Clumps like, hey, if we're going to get out of here, there's 20 to 30 planes trying to get out after the game.

We could be sitting on the runway for a long time to where we could be laying in it. Let's just say four or five in the morning in Atlanta. So we're all communicating and decided, okay, we're going to have to step out of this amazing game that's taking place. Just to sit on the runway and we're taking off. And the last few plays, there's like maybe 20 seconds left.

For the sake of this story, the last play, what does the phone do, Will? freezes. Freezes on the last play. And we're sitting there as we're taking off like, man, we're not witnessing this. We're going to have to be surprised whenever we get connected to Wi-Fi and figure out who wins and who loses. But we would have gotten to stay if we're not taking off from Arizona.

And had Zips. And to your point about Zips. We probably wouldn't have. We probably wouldn't have zips that night. What do you mean? We could have. Could have. But hold on.

Hold on. Why is why we might not have been able to is because we didn't break bread with Josh one time over this weekend. Oh, don't. Oh, he's right. Not once, man. We just wanted a meal with them. The best we could get was some sushi on the plane. Loud, no internet.

No breakfast the next day. No lunch. Listen. No pregame meal. And Josh, when he was like, hey, the fall don't tour. The fall don't lie tour. Let's roll together. And, you know, I'm telling my, hey, if I'm just meeting you in Atlanta,

because I don't know if I'll be able to work, there's no point in me getting a plane and going to Arizona. Like, I won't be able to work. Me flying to Atlanta by myself to meet. you if you're going commercial to fly to Arizona I'm not just going to meet you in Atlanta to see one game like I'll just watch it at the house I'm like I'm thinking we're road dogging this together we fly together we eat together we sleep together we bathe together wash each other's back we get in the foxhole and he's like that was a test you pass so this trip comes alive to like

travel and do all this stuff bro he ain't eat with us not one time one time he sit with us not one Time. I hate that I'm asking this question. Is Josh Pate a selfish friend? No. No, no, I'm just asking. I'm just asking. No, he's not.

No, he's not. What I just heard is, what I just heard is way different than what a unselfish friend would do. So I'm just asking the question. Like, didn't break bread? Couldn't grab a coffee in the morning? Couldn't sit there and just, chop it up with the boys oh not my boy Josh in his defense I give him a defense on the

sitting with this part he had his wife Savannah Savannah rocks Tyler he had Tyler with them Tyler Rips they just had press box seats but he as we're walking into the fiesta bowl he's like I got to go down here to this gate we had his credential to see him on the field pregame and again we were it was getting tight it was getting tight the window that we had pregame so we weren't even going to be on the field that long but he's like I'm to go get them set up and then I'm gonna meet you guys. But then we didn't hear a word from him until it was like, hey, we're deciding to fly out early.

And then we just saw him on the plane. So if I'm in his shoes, maybe he wanted to sit with his wife and Tyler and everything else, that's totally fine. But it comes back to what, man? And the word starts with the scene. Communication. And but here's the deal. You bring up the wife and it's like, I get it.

Like you got buddies, she's got it like handle. Savannah can hang. She can chill. She's like, oh, she's one of the girls. can hang out with the boys. Oh, for sure. She's not like when they're up in the press box. Yeah, I'm talking about the best box.

And it's like, in my mind, it's like, that's on page, just not asking the question. Hey, so what do you guys want to do? And then kind of putting it on them like, hey, we came with these guys just so we all know, like let's just communicate. And it just falls on paint. I love them.

Listen, I love them. I love them. That's our boy. I know. That's why I'm asking this question. Is Josh for the boys? Is Josh for the boys? I hate that that's even.

question because he unquestionably is for the boys. Two Josh's. He's unquestionably for the boys. But hold on. Hey, hey, hey, I get it. And I love, I wish I could sit there and be like, you're, there's no doubt about that. There's no doubt that Josh paid us for the boys. But the story you just told me tells me there can be even if it is just a sliver of doubt.

If he is for the boys. And I'm, this is a guy that I know is undoubt. for the boys and we can just learn from what happened. Because also in his defense, when it came to the food, we did only eat one meal, that whole trip. So really, he just didn't come to breakfast. We didn't eat lunch. We had dinner at the stadium.

We ordered it to the hotel. Yeah. Yeah, like we weren't, like, hey, you're trying to grab a bite to eat nothing like that. And when we got breakfast, you guys were kind of giving out new pieces of information. We don't want to give out the information. You just had one meal? We went and got breakfast. while he was doing ESPN.

Right. 48-hour trip. We had a hate breakfast. Yeah. You guys had one meal and you want to come on the bus and be like, he didn't break bread with us. He didn't sit with us. And you got me in a corner being like, is he for the boys?

You're like, well, to be fair, we had breakfast. We didn't question them. If you're getting just the information I'm getting, I'm thinking to myself, God damn, hey. Yeah. There's probably like three or four times you could have sat down and broke bread with the boys. I'm thinking of a coffee break. I'm thinking of a brunch. I'm thinking of a late meal before we had.

He worked out with us. He didn't work out with us. Y'all worked out? We worked out, but we also didn't offer him. Yeah, but at that point, we were protesting. Are we, hey, at that point, we was protesting. Do we need a question if, and I'll put myself in it because I'm a part of the boy? Are we for the boys? Oh, we're for the boys. Did we not get our candy asses on that flight to fly in at 2.30 in the morning in Atlanta? We're for the boys. We just wish we would have understood that information.

Like, did Josh have to wake up early and grind it out on ESPN while we slept in? Yeah. You should have had to. One part of that story that we need to set in the record straight is we wouldn't have been able to get to Atlanta if we left the whole game. We had to leave because of the way the hours worked, we would have had to land in Dallas.

So that's why we had to leave the game early. So it was only because we had to go to a league. But you could have sat and had Zips. Could add Zips. And Zips, what does Zips do? Rips. It sets the tone. It causes all of you to break bread together. And you guys now get to be the friend

that I was to you guys driving to Zips being like, I'm just telling you, man, you're about to have a great meal. Yeah. You're going to love it. It's the perfect post-playoff game meal to have. It would have changed the trajectory of the whole trip. Yeah. And when I was saying we wouldn't have zips that night, I was thinking more of like a lunch the next day.

Not like don't have zips at all because we're stepping foot in Arizona. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're talking two times, not just one. Yeah, yeah. No, I'm with you. I'm with you. Yeah, but me now that all the information is out, maybe he's a little cleaner. Yeah, next time let's do our best to start with the information.

Yeah, but that doesn't make, that doesn't make for a good. story. Yeah. Maybe don't jump to conclusion so fast. Oh, it's off the office now. We had plenty more info to give you. Tune in on the locker room this Wednesday. Man.

That's Josh Pay. I almost wish you guys didn't tell me the last part about only one time breaking bread. So I would go in the locker with a completely different mindset. I know. But once you start saying that questioning, you know, like, oh, maybe got to go a little bit more information. But listen, if that is all the information you gave me and it wasn't just the one,

it wasn't the like, the. the first part of the story you gave me, it is pretty easy to sit there and be like, there's doubt that can creep in. Is he for the boys? Is he a selfish friend? When he hit the, don't have to be the,

I'm zooming in from my hotel room at 2.30, I was like, oh, God, he derailed everything. I'm looking at notes here. There was a Ray Lewis debacle. What happened? Oh, don't bring up the Ray Lewis debacle. Oh, no.

Because not only was it Ray Lewis. It was also. I mean, that's one of my goats, man. Right to the right of him, Michael Phelps. And somebody on this bus didn't know who Michael Phelps was. That's not true. Don't look at me. You know I know who Michael Phelps is.

I questioned this overall athletic ability. I know who Michael Phelps is, but... What, it was you? Yes, it was me. Michael Felt, do you want to set the stage first of what happened? I missed. I missed the part. We wanted to meet Ray Lewis.

He's on the field. We didn't get to him. So we go up to the suite. We're bummed that we have to. to leave early. We're not going to get to meet Ray Lewis. We walk out of the sweet door to leave. Ray Lewis is walking down the hallway right towards us. But we didn't know that at the at the time that this happened. At the time. Yeah. We're kind of standing out there waiting. I think JP might be like Yeah, doing some of my camera. Yeah, doing some of this camera. We're waiting on JP because we're getting

ready to go to the elevator. So I walk out in the hall. I see Ray Lewis and I now I know Michael Phelps standing next to Ray Lewis. I didn't know it was Michael Phelps. I saw a guy. He looked like he was Ray Lewis's agent is what I thought. There was no security around Ray Lewis either. So I'm figuring, oh, this guy's like walking with him. He's, he's, he's, he's walking. But I see Ray.

I'm like, hey, Ray. And hang on. And by the time, Clump spots Ray Lewis. I had already walked away from Clumke goes up. I was like, I'm going to go take a piss before we hit this long walk to the. Will had to pee. I had to pee. So I go back in.

I'm a pee roll. Will goes back in the suite to pee. I'd get Ray Lewis to try to get. get him to meet Will. JP sees it all kind of going down from the hallway. And he just keeps going. Will walks out of the bathroom. He's gone.

Ray Lewis just disappeared. You're missing some great pieces of that story. Clump. He just madly. We tried getting him to stop. He just kept walking. Right. So Ray Lewis is coming down the hallway.

Clump is like, J.P. Go get Will. I run into the suite and I bang on the bathroom door. I said, Ray, Ray, Ray. He goes, yeah, yeah. Ray Ray and I'm standing there and I'm like, I'm peeing. And then I'm like, is he fucking with me?

And I don't hear anything from him. I'm like, Ray Lewis is coming down the hallway. Then Will starts panicking inside the bathroom. Where you can say that part. So I'm caught. I'm in the middle of pissing. And then I'm like, okay, I need a push and get this out. But as I push and get this out, I start feeling like I got to go with two.

So I'm now, it's now starting to get to the surface. Doesn't break surface. Doesn't come out at all. Like I'm not in a sharding spot. But I'm feeling this. I'm kind of just caught right now. I'm like, I need. And you know how slow I can pee at times.

I'm like, I need to wrap this up. I can't stop being. You got to pitch it off. Yeah. And then I get done and I'm still panicking. I'm like, I can't just run out there with dry hands. He's going to know I came out of the bathroom without washing my hands. I'm trying to wash real quick.

I grab the paper towel and then I run out there. And he's gone, they're like, dude, you just missed. And Clump had him stop for a second because we got, he's like, we got Will. I don't know what you said. We got Will Compton back there. Yeah. He looks in there. It's just me sitting there outside of the bathroom trying to get Will out.

I look, make eye contact with Ray Lewis. I'm like, I'll just be one second. He said, right, let's go. Even we wait, that's crazy. Then I get out there and he's gone. And then because he's like, Clint might have said something about getting on bus with the boys and then apparently Phelps was like,

oh, you guys don't want me on bus with the boys? That's when I realized it was Michael Phelps, by the way. He turns and he's like, what? You guys don't want Michael Phelps on bus with the boys? I'm like, Michigan, man, we want you too. But yeah, in that moment. Hold on. Michael Phelps said,

hey, you guys don't want Michael Phelps on the bus? Yeah, that's what he said. He hit the third person on you? Yes. And then it clicked. Right when he said it, I saw his face and it was like that moment of, oh, fuck, that's Michael Phelps. But I was so locked on Ray Lewis. You said Michigan man, not 23-time gold chain.

I'm glad you led with that. But so I come out and they're like, bro, you just missed Ray Lewis. Just missed him. How was that? I did shake his hand. Did you take shit afterwards? No, no. I actually held it until I landed in Atlanta.

Because again, it wasn't one that was like coming and breaking or nothing like that. I just, I kind of had to. And then I didn't want to go too, like, on the plane because I don't know what it's going to be like. He was rattled, man. Yeah, I was rattled. He was rattled. We're all walking to the vans. He's talking about the Ray Lewis thing.

Then he starts kind of like trying to defend himself. Like, to be honest, like, I've already met Ray Lewis. Like, it's not really. And then we all go to get into the van. And Will, for whatever reason, goes. right around this other suburban drives to get in another van. I open the door too. Like I'm talking to the camera, like doing the blog or whatever, talking about situation.

I just go off script. I'm like breaking into another car. Almost get in. Like, where are you going? Is this the car? Like, nah, this one. We're all inside of it. I got the back door already opened.

I was like, oh shit. Dude. Holy shit, man. I'm sorry. I know. I know. Ray Lewis, Michael Phelps, open invite. Both of them, Buston with the Bulls.

Yeah, Ray Lewis and Michael Phelps have an open invite to bustle with the boys. Guys, get whatever you want. Was, okay, so in your guys' experience with Ray, sounds like you got him to stop and wait for Will Compton. Did he know who Will Compton was? I think he did. I think he realized that Will was in the bathroom and it was kind of like, I ain't waiting for this guy in the bathroom.

That's fair. He made a better decision than we did with Ben Stiller. Yes, okay. But the fact that you got Ray Lewis to stop and look through a door for Will, made it. Part of me was nervous too because we have met before and he's like spoken to me like when he's had one of his speeches. He's like he said, I forget what he said. There's something like they didn't know what to think, 5-1.

And I'm like, oh shit, he's talking to me. Hit the. A little sats to me. Dude. Bro, that is. What would be worse, the rock experience or the Ray Lewis experience? I would say, it sounds like the rock. I would say the rock.

Yeah. Watching that back and just knowing how my boy probably felt in that moment. The rock, the rock situation was like this, I can look back at this and be like, this is not Will's fault. His body failed him yet again. Like, that's what this is. For me, like, that's just, that's purely 100% on me. Not taking the op and, like, getting too uncomfortable too quick.

Yeah. I'd say I should have had a deck of cards with me and just turn one over, stall Ray Lewis. Yeah. He started hitting them. Damn, boys. It was fun though and getting to be on the field before the Oregon-Indiana game

was a lot of fun. Matt Coach Stein. Yeah, Coach Stein, before that Clump did get sketch into the room. Yeah, yeah. Clum got sketches. You should have saw Clump come up out of his chair

and sprint. Was that sketch? Yeah, he asked me, he said, was that a sketch? Is that sketch outside? I said, yeah, looked at the game, looked back, Clump was gone.

Ten-yard shuttle would have been record-setting. He's back in the Will Compton Wait or Sketch we got Will Compton in here Will Daff sketch up Will's like Are we live right now?

Yeah he's done one of those In real life streams IRL streams Yeah Are we live right now? Shout out bust some of the boys Oh yeah He was live

That is funny man So you guys hit the pose Club has the speed though That's the main moral Of that stuff Club still got it Definitely still got it They hit the workout

Yeah hit the workout What did you all do For the workout anything Did some zone two For a good 30 minutes and then we all each kind of did our own whatever, whatever lift we wanted to do. Nice. I was doing legs.

JP said he already hit legs, so he's still feeling he's like, I'm going to get some upper body in and get some arms to show them off when we hit that field before the Indiana Oregon game. Clump did a few different things. I saw him over there. He was sitting the dumbbell bench press. He gets up. He's fired up. He's got fog all over his glasses.

But he was getting it in. Good. Good. And then Coach Stein did roll up on you. He said, I got a bone to pick with you, Will Compton. Yeah, yeah. Smiling as he introduces himself because we have actually, we have a common friend, like our neighbors that I've spoken about before,

that are good friends of ours. They also are good friends with Coach Stein. So anytime we've went out to Oregon, they're always like, you've got to meet the OC, because we didn't get to last time. For whatever reason, we were there for, what, a couple days? I never got to run into Coach Stein. So we were kind of connecting over that and then talking about the Minchie, the Minci example.

Was Minci there? No, he wasn't. Okay. All right. So, hey, can you put down anything about the Menchy stuff? There was miscommunication. There was apparently a miscommunication through the agent.

Let's move on. The agent being Eugene Lee. Let's move on. Okay. We have to cut stuff. Okay. Don't want to cut anything. They want to get anything cut.

But Eugene Lee was the miscommunication. Eugene Lee is a common denominator. We also met Jonathan Stewart. We met Jonathan Stewart. We got to see Ted Johnson again. John Nsor was awesome. Jay Stu. Big question, was Eugene Lee there?

Yeah. Just be careful. Just be getting the athletes out there. Yeah. Just be careful. Just be getting the athletes out there. I get it. I feel like Nebraska's in the best spot it's been in at least the last three years.

Calandria? Anthony Calandria. Yeah, that kid. Come on, man. Come on. He's got the fucking juice, man. He's got the juice. Got to FaceTime with him.

Shout out JP. for having that little surprise set up, but got to sit there and talk with Anthony Calandria, and the dude was fired up. He's stoked, he's like, we got the, this is gonna be all season long next year. I'm like, your goddamn right it is. You goddamn right it is.

He did sign. That's the first thing I asked him. Have you signed? He's like, listen, I ain't, don't need any of the cup from the pod. Don't need anything cut from the pot. We got our guy. You got your guy.

We got our guy. You have multiple guys. You have multiple quarterbacks now. Yeah. Oh, Danny, Danny. Danny. Yeah, Danny Dimes Rule was out there hitting the emojis

He was like Willie Compton back in 2003 or whatever Yeah Rules kind of put something together Letting people know it's Danny Dimes If you can read through the lines Hmm I gotta just know

I didn't even mean to do that This is gonna be a good year A couple quarterbacks We hit the portal very well Got some hogs up front I think we're still trying to get Maybe Listen

Don't I think the last shout out From the weekend These go to Scott Van Pelt though Yes bro We got to meet Scott Van Pelt He just walks up. Kind of like the Tom Brady stories you hear about him introducing guys. He's like, he put his hand on my shoulder.

Will, how you doing? I'm Scott Van Pelt. It's super nice to meet you, big fan of what you guys. He introduced himself to him. He introduced because I was so tall. Yeah, he is so tall. I have met him. But he was all time.

All time exchange. So, dude, we love to have you on the bus. He's like, look, we're in the world now to where we cross paths. And I'm just like, I'm sure those stars will align. I would love to come on busing with the boys. But all time exchange with Scott Van Pelt. Nothing but nothing but good things to say about SBP. An absolute peers

He's like you're crushing it The one thing you're just going to have to deal with Like Nebraska's not very good He's like look You're going to take hits I love the way you take hits He's like and it's probably going to continue to happen Because Nebraska hasn't been very good

The basketball team is phenomenal You guys are undefeated Still undefeated He wasn't meaning it as like a punch Kind of maybe He was just doing it as more Don't worry about the haters You're going to keep having them

Because until Nebraska gets back to where they need to be Correct me if I'm wrong But he seems like he comes off as a rich Eisen type. Very well spoken, knows when to throw a little jab in, but it's always light. And you can tell you could just hang with him.

You just hang with them. You just kind of watch them operate because I was kind of just admiring him from afar thinking like, yo, that Scott Van Pelt. What a time, man. Yeah. Pete Dammell was awesome.

We had a video too that we were about to get out that it would have been a good one. But we had, as Oregon's walking through the tunnel to go out to the game, they're walking through. We kind of had to battle the security on trying to like hey nobody can be here like all right we just kind of kept pacing around

until the team was walking through the tunnel and we got him and I was like let's go landing and he kind of like looks at he has this possessed look in his eyes he looks over and then realizes he saw me and then like looks at me and he was like and then we were trying to get the video up and first play the game was a pick six

he's like hey the video it was probably hold that back a little bit let's get that let's get that one time will this caption good and then pick six and we're like you know what Why I pick six or something?

We were talking about those, we were, you know. Yeah, we, we talked about those rumors on the breakdown, the college football. The rumors of Indiana, we were talking, the, you know. It's one of the, you know a little something we don't? Thanks, allegedly, but. It's all alleged. There's nothing that is proven out there, but the conversations have been picking up a little bit on the internet. The internet is crazy.

What I say, well, you got to go back. And JP before the game was talking like, maybe I'm a little old school. Maybe this is a hot take. But he's like, we got to get the, we got to take away the headsets, the iPads. We get on the sideline. Like we got to do away with the iPads and headsets. Basically the technology of everything and get back to some old school football. I was like, well, that's where the Conner Stallion stuff was coming up with the

signs and everything else. Obviously teams are always trying to figure out who signs or what. But I'm bringing that up to JP. I'm like, that's actually a big reason of why the headsets came in. And now the rumors were hearing. Again, rumors. There's no like, there's, again, this is all a legend. This is all alleged.

It's all legend. It's all weird. It's all whispers. We don't want to take anything away from Indiana. Exactly. We don't take anything away from the university Indiana. And as I'm like looking into it, because I love all, like, diving in all that stuff. I hate, we're in the spot to where you can bring more attention to it.

It also could be just fodder, bullshit, and everything else. But again, I've heard those whispers before it started coming out more on the internet. And again, they're just whispers and rumors and allegedly. I have no fact, no basis, no nothing to back it up other than being a spectator like, everybody else is. Because devil's advocate, it could really be just the haters. Yeah. Being like, there's no way they should be that good at this point. But when those conversations, those whispers were happening after the game, uh, I looked at JP, I was like, yo, there's your hot take right there. Yeah. Uh, clump, what do you know? No, I don't know anything. I just, uh, I did

see they have a employee. I did not actually fully fact check this, but so allegedly, one of their employees is a cybersecurity guy. He majored in, um, he majored in, um, he, um, I just, uh, I did not actually fully fact-checked in cybersecurity. I want to say, is he a GA or an assistant coach? That, that's who they're alleging is the new. Slippery slope. Slippery slope.

Slippery slope. Again, allegedly not fact check internet rumor. We're spectators just like you guys are. It just so happens that the team we're talking about just beat the shit out of Clumps team. So, what are we doing? What are we doing?

I was holding, JP, like we're all sitting there and we're kind of holding court at the end of the game where we got to sit around some Oregon fans. and I was holding court like guys we cannot allow because it's going to come but people relating

comparing Dan Laning to James Franklin we cannot let the Danny Franklin speak something to happen we cannot happen we cannot happen like you guys have to fight your fan base might do but I'm just letting you guys know this is what's going to come we are going to support you got a battle because you have a hell of a head coach you have a hell of a head coach

and they did get their ass meet but if you look conversations a lot of preseason around this Oregon team and when they were having success before they took Penn State down and was at the year that they had. Oregon was being seen and talked about as a team that's probably one year away. So. What's up with the Oregon mascot?

The duck? What happened in the duck? Apparently he's just ignoring diehard lifelong fans. Oh, no. Oh, shit. We saw one situation going to speak into that a little bit, Jack, as far as the Oregon duck and having a good quality exchange with the fans of Oregon football. Jeremy Clump, who is a diehard Oregon Duck fan,

was telling me to hang on and back up and wanted JP to get the camera out because Clump saw the duck walking, and he was going to get dapped up in him by him in the tunnel pregame. As the duck was walking, engaging with some fans, saw Clump, look Clump in the eye. Clump is stretched out like a little kid

trying to get their favorite player's autograph, reached out over the fence. Fence almost falls over and breaks. Grown man, by the way. Grown man. Grown-man. How old are you clung? Grown-ass man.

It reaches over and Duck just looks at him kind of walks by him. Doesn't give clump a doubt. Is that true clump? That's true, yes. It was brutal. The duck do about the clump curse. Yeah, the duck. I wanted J.B. to do it for the vlog is like a joke that the duck accepted me as a duck's fan and it backfired more than anything.

It was brutal. At least you got landing though. He didn't even, he like gave me like a motion too. Like he acknowledged and I wanted the high five and. Oh yeah. He did you with the not right now, kid. He had no one around him. It wouldn't have stopped him.

It would have took him one second to give me a little. You were the only people on the fence. Is Jeremy clump the worst thing to happen to Oregon? I could be. I'm not going to say it. Say it. We're not cutting stuff. Yeah, we're not cutting stuff.

But I'm, hey, but I'm with you. You're with? I'm fucking with you, dude. No, I don't want that. I don't want that public. That's internal busing. I am. I'm in my own hell because Oregon loss, ha-ha, real funny.

Then the Eagles lose, too. And now I'm like literally waking up in the morning. Like, fuck me. Am I really a curse? I might be. You're not a curse with the Eagles. You know what kind of worries me? I needed that.

The Eagles just suck. Yeah, the Eagles just were who we've been saying that they are. Yeah. Panthers are better than Eagles. Panthers are better than the Eagles. But let's just say that the Clump curse is real and any team he kind of supports goes to shit.

Before this year, clump was all on Michigan. And look what's happened to that, happened to that university in just the one year. And he was on Tennessee for a sec. Look what happened there. He was with Tennessee until the Georgia game. Right.

He thought about Vaney. And he hinted at Vandy and they didn't make the playoffs. He in Florida. Oh my God, Florida. He hinted at Vandy too the week of the Texas game. No, he didn't.

Yeah. And Lokee, Clump been texting me about like these transfer portal guys at Michigan. He's, I'm telling you, like, this is an exciting year for Michigan. And I'm obviously I'm buying into all that.

But as we sit here, I'm like, do I even talk to Kump about Michigan anymore? Yeah. This is my hell right now. Well, hell, what do you mean? Yeah, I truly think I might be a curse. I might be a curse. I did go on the sports book this weekend outside of the Eagles, though.

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And he's moving. Beeman has, it's like, you look at him, you're like, do you humble him? Do you not? Like, it's too early to tell. In Vegas, the first night, we go and meet up with Dana. And within five minutes, somehow Jared is explaining his whole comedy set to Dana White. And then it happens where Dana's like, yeah, I've done stand-up, you know, at one place or time at the laugh

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Yeah, I had a, there was so much fun that night. Getting, uh, Tailing to come to, getting all the girls to come hang out. It was, it was a blast, dude. I feel like we should definitely do that again. Yeah, shout out demon too. Shout out demon, man. Shut out, baby. Shut out, David.

Um, what else, boys? Do we have anything else before we want to get to the Lavante David? Clean takes. Clean takes. Maybe some shout-outs, some pet. Peaves. I got a pet peeve. Yeah.

Is this a clean take? This is probably a clean take, but it's kind of like... Kevin's Natural Foods clean take? Kevin's Natural Food clean take. Here's my take. If you're in line for Southwest, go up to somebody and ask, hey, what number are you in file in?

Don't sit at the front and count people, one, two, three, four, and then get right in front of somebody else just to go in. I was A-16 on the flight home. and this chick with four bags on her. She's counting, boom, one, two, three, four. Fifteen people come.

I know I'm 16 and she goes, excuse me, and goes right in front of me. I don't say nothing. I'm thinking to myself, this lady, this nice young lady. Oh, you folded? Folded. Like a lawn chair. I'm like, she's got to be B30.

So much other than I'm trying to look over her shoulder when she's putting her phone down to get it scanned. Then I'm like, what number is it? I can't see you guys know my eyes. We get there and I know that she's got this pride about her the way she's walking they stop her right she's about to get on the plane and they're like ma'am you actually have three bags you have to actually put one of those luggage can you stand over here to the side so we can get these these people on the plane and i just gave her the biggest smile

walking by her because i know she tried to cheat the fucking system dude what number was she i don't know i don't know but she could have been out of use my clean take my my my kevin's clean take is if you're in a southwest flight just stand in the line you're supposed to be you have a little bit of communication, which is a big part of this podcast, and just say, hey, what number are you? Oh, you're 11? I'm 15. Let me go a couple back. What are you?

I'm 16. Perfect. I'm right in front of you. I'm A15 right here. I'm B-15. Always have the boarding pass up. Because I had the same situation, same flight. I was A-31, so very front.

And I run up there. Old man, you can tell. He means business. I immediately just flash him, A-31, gives me the thumbs up. We move on. Boom. Money. That's nice.

Yeah, clean take. Good clean take. Clean take. Clean take. Thank you. Anybody got some more clean takes out there? Clean take? I guess this would be a clean take.

When the hotel gym is stacked like it was in Atlanta, but also having the basketball court outside in the hotel. It's a nice amenity at a hotel. Good gym setup. Yeah, great gym set up. That's a clean take. What type of hotel chain were we rocking? Hilton.

Hilton. Yeah. It's a hotel. It's a good hotel. Good hotel, quality hotel. Except for my clean take is going to be, make sure you pack your dude wipes when you go to these hotels.

Because one of my first texts to the boys was that two I was talking about that was coming in the middle of Ray Lewis and me peeing. I finally got to have my two when I got to the hotel. And this toilet paper is just so cheap, bro. Another clean take for the hotels invest in a little bit more quality toilet paper. It's nice.

Because it was rough. And the amount I was scrubbing the hole, and you could feel the rash starting to come on to where I kind of had the hole. I kind of had to change my technique up to kind of just press it against and just scrub a little bit versus just, you know, wiping hard. It was like, hey, I text the boys immediately in the group chat with my pants down. Three a.m. Shout out the above the knee shorts guys when you sit down.

But I'm just telling them, hey, guys, take care of your hole. Take care of your hole. Fair enough. Clean take. Clean take. Clean take. Clean take. Invest in bringing some wipes as the customer, but also clean take for the hotel chains.

Invest in a little bit better quality toilet paper. I like that. Clean take, dirty butt. I have a clean fun take that I saw on the internet. I don't know if anyone else saw this, that Caitlin Clark is the reason that Miami is in the national championship. Have you all heard about this? No. I have not.

I've not. Caitlin Clark blows out LSU in March Madness that had Haley Van Litt in that game. Haley Van Lith, who's that? It's the person that covered Caitlin Clark that was the point guard for LSU. That then brought her stock down at LSU and they kind of asked her to transfer out. She transfers where? TCU.

Who's the starring point guard there? The Cavender twin that Carson Beck was dating. She all of a sudden goes, Haley Van Liff is going to start over me. I'm going to call up sis and let's go bring it back to Miami. Go transfer to Miami. Carson Beck follows his girlfriend to Miami.

and transvers there. Oh, so the ass open that Caitlin Clark gave the LSU point guard just set off a domino effect that led Carson back and his girlfriend to Miami. Yes. And now he's got him in the National Championship. He cheated on. Former ex-girlfriend, sorry. Oh, either way, got him to Miami.

One take. Yeah. Clean take. Clean take. Clean put-together take. That was nice. That was good. Do we feel good?

I think we feel good. We also need to do Roe spicy tear talk. Yes! Yes! And Gooner of the month. And Gooner of the month. Optimism.

Optimism. I, uh, for Roe spicy tier talk, what is it? It's best couple traditions. I need you to to take this one for what you told Will and I, what you and sit and do. And Lindsay and I started doing it. It is awesome.

So this is a great couple tradition. A, tier one, couple tradition, sex. Nice. That's up. That's out of doubt. Clean take. Clean take. Ro spicy tier talk.

Roe spicy tier talk. Spicy. What you got, J.P? Mine was last year, Sid and I started the tradition of every Sunday. We take a jar, designated gratitude jar, and we get little sheets paper. and you write down three things, three to five things that you're grateful for that happened that week. Could be something as small as I love the sushi roll that I had, or it could be trips with the boys. And you write it down and then at the end of the year or on January 1 of the following year,

you go back through, dump the pieces of paper out, and then you just take turns picking up, reading it. I could read mine sometimes. Maybe I'll read sitting sometimes, but you keep switching off and you just kind of recap the year through these little sheets of gratitude. it truly does make the week feel more full when you do it even we just take the because it takes three minutes to do if that and it's amazing how much it helps and kind of shifts your mindset and perspective on on everything that's going on that's nice sex and gratitude yeah um Jared actually told me one that him and his girlfriend do this weekend that I was a big fan of and it is the uh fake third roommate in their house yeah I've heard about this one yeah the fake

third roommate. It's like when you're, when you go into the kitchen and your sniffing other didn't do the dishes, you're like, hey, why did you do the dishes? Now it's like friction. There's always like a level of a scoreboard taking place between you and your significant other. But by having this imaginary third roommate, I can't remember the roommate's name that Jared and his girlfriend gave him. But it's the name of Derek. Okay. Like Jared will walk into the room and the dishes won't be done by, bro, I can't believe Derek didn't do the dishes. Now it's lighthearted. It's a little more fun. Now you guys both talk shit about. Derek and you guys just do the dishes together. Yeah. And that's like a nice little weave around of having some animosity, keeping a scoreboard. I think it's a nice little move. Something that I might think about implementing in my house. It's a good man.

Right? Let's get gooner of the month. Gooner of the month. Gooner of the month. Our true classic, our true classic gooner of the month. Oh my word. This is December, correct?

This is December. This is December. December. December. It's your true classic gooder of the month is Jared Demon. He's on a heater, folks. He's on a heater. He's on a heater.

What a wrong in the other. Heat check. No one's having a better start of 2026 than Beeman. Nobody, man. We're going to bring him down. Have to. Um, man, good for him, dude. Man, good for him, dude.

He really might. He might blow up this year. He might, dude. Ascension. Got to love it. Guys, everybody who's watching, thank you so much. Please remind, just subscribe, leave a comment, all the things. It's very helpful.

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How we doing? How are you doing? How are y'all doing? Date Thomas? Doing well. Not as big as you, bro. Listen, man. I see y'all on TV every week. I'm like, dang, how big and how much bigger these dudes going to get, man? Trust me. It's a surprising to us as well. Levante, Terrell LeWan here. I got to be honest. We haven't really talked.

I don't think ever. I don't know if we've actually met met met. You've never met Boogie? Have we met before? Yes, we met plenty of times. All right. Are we wrong? Yeah, we are.

I guess she's never been on. I guess she's never been on. I wasn't on with you guys. Wait, wait. Do we meet at the Proble? Where were you at the Proble? No, because I see the jersey in the back. Like, that's the dopest.

What's the dopest jersey and I never got it? We met, uh, we met where at the joint practice. Okay, that doesn't count. We met when Vita came. I was going to say, Levanti was sitting on the couch of Vita Bank. That's right. That's right. You're right.

That's not me. Have we ever said it? So, Boogie, whenever we're, um, whenever you see us on TV from the Pacific, Have we ever said anything out of line as it pertains to the Buccaneers? No, no, y'all was great. I don't think Buccaneers got brought up, but y'all, y'all have been doing a great job, man. It happened one time, and I picked the Patriots to go down there and beat you guys,

and lo and behold. Hey, hey, hey, watch it, watch it. But I don't remember that one. Look, I got a sheet here. Number one, my first bone to pick with you, Boog, is I'm upset that you're not in Nashville. And you know this is a cop out for how this got set up

through other people. Because I reached out, like, we were talking, we was messaging last week. And you know this is a cop out to be sitting at home right now on Zoom and not here on the bus in Nashville. You ain't doing nothing. Well, let me check something. I didn't know how soon you wanted me to be on there.

You know what, Will? If you had called me back. Hey, Will, Levanta. I just looked it up. The Buccaneers did not the playoff so their season's over yeah so boogie's been chilling Levanty's been chilling so Levanty's got nothing to do yeah and based on how you talked about how he was in Nebraska he ain't doing nothing either no he chills chills Levantay is a home body yeah which I love about it got to love that anytime we were at we were at school by the way do you have your driver's license now these days yes I have my driver's license so Levantay didn't have a driver's license when he was all throughout

college which hey Levanti that's a heady play by the way that's a he So I was basically his car service everywhere. But, you know, after workouts and everything else, we'd always go back to, we'd always go back to my townhouse. And the only time we'd leave the house is when Boogie wanted to go get a chili cheese dog at Sonic,

which was right down the road. So that's the only times we would ever leave the house. And I would always ask him, I'm like, hey, do you want to drive? Like, I'll sit in the passenger. We can go to a parking lot. We can drive around the parking lot. And it's just never, he's like, no, no, I'm good. So, Mr. David,

or can I, can I all? also call him Boogie? Is that fair game? So for everybody listening, I might have broke it down at a time he's been on the bus in the past. Do you want our guest to break it down? Sure, I would love to hear,

Boogie. He might not know the reason I gave the name Boogie, but he understands the lure behind it. You remember why me and Zohs are calling you Boogie? Yeah, for sure. I know, I remember that. Is it the story when we were in San Diego?

Were you all headed? So it came, Boogie, dude's a dog on the football field. Yeah. He's got some pit bull tendencies. Sure. You know, the Red Rocket, everything else. Okay. And so I told Boogie, you know, he would, I won't get in all that stuff.

But I told, I remember sitting in the meeting room and I was like, I always wanted a pit bull when I, you know, had my own house, had all the other stuff. I have an English bulldog now. But I always wanted a pit bull. And I had a pit bull for a little bit back with my ex-girlfriend. And I told Boogie, I said, whenever I get my pit bull, I'm naming him, Boogie. And I will then be naming you after I name my dog. So whenever I get a pit bull, whatever I name him, that's going to be your nickname. And I got him, it was Boogie.

So Boogie's name was Boogie because, you know, a few reasons out there. The fellas out there that are breaking that down, that are reading between the lines, but that is where his name, that is where his name was born. He's got a pit bull, name that dog Boogie. and I told Boogie that that was going to then be his nickname. We don't have to get too deep into the weeds here, and I know you're not a big movie guy, but when I hear Boogie,

you allude to a couple things, I think of Boogie Knights. Never saw Boogie Knight's. That's what I was thinking, so it has nothing to do. I know what Boogie Knight is. Solid movie, yeah? Yeah. That's a good movie, but it would say a lot about the nickname

if you were naming him after Boogie Knights. So I'm glad we got that out of the way. I'm glad we got that out of the way. So we started calling him Bogie, and I was like, whenever I get my dog, bro, that is what I'm going to name my dog. I love that this podcast is going to essentially turn into me sitting here while we'll tell stories and Levanté laughs. And that's kind of the vibe of what it's going to be. Let me just ask a quote podcast question for Levanti. Bogie, when did you think you were going to make it to the NFL?

And was it after you had 27 tackles against Michigan in 2011 or 12? No, man. I honestly didn't think I was going to make it in the NFL. until after our Big Tour championship junior year. Oh, against Wisconsin. Oh, Big 12 championship. Yeah, that junior year. I had like 18 tackled to that game, I think.

And I had started getting calls from agents. I didn't know what was going on. You know, people called. I'm like, who was any people contacting me? Asked me about, you know, representation and all that stuff. You know, I ain't have, I ain't have going to the NFL in my mind at the time. And then when all that started happening, that's when I realized, oh, it's a real possibility. Because all these agents hitting me up trying to get me to see if I'm going to come out early and into the drive.

But in my mind, I never was going to do it. But from that point on, I knew I had a chance to make it to the league. Bro, your lore is like in my life, like Levanti David's saga. Like I remember clearly playing against you when I was at Michigan and just watching that and like kind of getting after the game. because you know what it's like when you're playing. I'm sure you guys as linebackers. And like you guys are keeping track of stats in your head as you go. As an off,

it's a line. And I'm just sitting there playing and you kind of notice like the same number over and over again. So after the game, we kind of sit there and we're like, yeah, this, number four. Like that guy was kind of going off when he was all over the place. You turn the film on you're like, Jesus Christ, this cat's moving. And then Will tells a story about Bo Polini after the game in that. And it's like, oh, all those things add up. I meet Will.

And then I see you on the field and it's like, bro, this dude's moving lateral and lateral. Now fast or backtrack a little bit, but fast forward this story, I'm at the SEC Championship. We're sitting there in a nice hotel drinking coffees and some guy walks up. And you're, dude, you're mentioned once a month in my life. Like you're a cat that like, hey, Levanti day of Longdefei, usually at a Will Compton's mouth, but like it's everywhere at all times. I'm sitting at the, uh, before the SEC championship, it's the morning of we're all having coffees in some Georgia, like, a defensive assistant coach walks up and starts like breaking down stuff.

And he talks about this cat named Yoshi and this guy named Lavante David. Boom, Will Compton's eyes get like that. And they start going in and breaking it. And I'm like this motherfucker. He said he was at Fort Scott. And then that's when I started to scoot up from my chair. And I'm thinking to myself, dude,

this dude was in junior college as well. So I'm basically told my little around the world story about you to be like, I really want to hear about your process of like high school to the NFL. Because I mean, there's some stats here that Will's going to read off later. He found these stats. They're absolutely beautiful.

But like this cat that I'm looking at on this piece of paper and then hearing like junior college, I think Will was ahead of you and then Will got hurt and then all of a sudden you were never going. Like eight people were ahead. I would love the entire, the entire breakdown from you take as long as you want, dude. Because it's truly fascinating. Yeah. I mean, I started, you know, playing in high school. I played out of Miami-Nor-Western senior high school, you know,

prestigious high school down here in Miami. One, two state championships when I was here. I never lost, when I was started, I didn't start playing varsity until my junior year. So my freshman and sophomore year, I was really just, you know, everybody who I hung around, you know, was older than me. There was like, you know, seniors or juniors and stuff like that.

So my freshman and sophomore year, I was just out there having fun, you know, just doing whatever in high school, just, you know, skipping class. you know, just doing silly things the high school kids do. And then, you know, when I started, you know, getting serious in football, because I played junior boxing my sophomore year, and I started getting serious in football. And, you know, by the time, you know, it was time for me to graduate,

you know, I didn't have the proper GPA to be able to, you know, going to a four-year university. So I signed to the middle of Tennessee State out of a, out of high school. But I didn't qualify. Manny Diaz was the lineback coach. He would prove me big time. You know, he's the only one who really, you know,

stuck with me throughout that whole process. He was trying to get me to come up really bad. And unfortunately, it didn't work out. And then it was a thing that we was going on. I was going a gray shirt and then end up going to the Tennessee State in the spring. But something happened during the summer, back at home in Miami. that kind of like, you know, spooked my parents.

So they wanted me to get out, you know, hurry up and make a decision and get out and go to school. And then Eddie Brown. Antonio Brown's father was a coach at Fort Scott Community College. And he reached out to my parents and said, hey, we got a spot for him over here in junior colleges. He's just going to have to do a year and a half or two to get another opportunity to go to a big, a full year school.

And I ended up doing that. And my first day, and Fort Scott, I quit. I didn't want to be there, obviously. And then the reason that I quit is because we had a conditioning test. You know, I tell this story a thousand times, and I just can't believe that actually this was actually a condition test. We ran 4-220s, 16-110s, and 20-40s, and at all time.

And as freshness coming in, you can't have me, couldn't drink any water, and nothing like that. Only people could drink water is like guys who've been already. And on the second 220, I passed out. You know, I'm on the ground, flat on the ground. Coach Sims, coach Jeff Simpson, he was the head coach at the time. Cursing me out, calling me all the type of names, saying, my daughter can effing do this. My three-old daughter can effing do this.

You mind the guys are weak and soft. And, you know, me, I'm, you know, I'm getting pissed off what else. So, man, I just basically like, man, fuck this, I'm gone. And I quit. So in back of my mind, you know, I was going to go home and be a firefighter. It's like football is done. My football career is over. I'm going to go home and just make a career for myself right away.

And then Eddie Brown put him to the side. Like, man, trust me, man, just stick it out. It's going to work out. It's going to work out. So the whole time I'm there, I'm just angry. I'm pissed. I'm mad at everybody. And I don't know BK told you this story will, but the first day in pads,

I came in at the same. They had me playing safety. So the first damn pads, we're doing one-on-ones and, you know, well, you know, B-K is the guy at the time. So I'm like, I'll push that right to the side. Nah, I want him. So I'm trying to earn my strides now. So the first plan in one-on-ones, BK runs a slant and I hit him. Like I literally like hit him because I'm mad.

And me and BK getting into this and that. And everybody like, oh, what's going on? like, break it up, break it up. And then, like, everybody looking at me, like, oh, man, like, this is a little here. You know, he's crazy because, you know, BK. nobody does BK.K. like that. So I'm like, because BK was the recruit.

BK was the recruit that was going to lead, you know, he was like, he was like the bell of the ball. Coming out of Ford Scott. Yeah, BK was one of the guys who was putting Fort Scott on the mat, you know. So I'm like, okay, I'm going to go against him. And then it happened again. And it started fighting and stuff like that. And then it transpired to, uh, it transpired to, uh,

9-07. I'm 9-07. I'm the strong safety way of cover four, and they got this top back that Coach Sims love, and they do like a little stress zone, stress play, and then I run the alley in cover four.

I could cover four, I could cover four, a court of safety, and I hit them, like one of the biggest hits I probably, to this day, ever had them out of life. And the ball flew way

in the back of the end zone, the opposite way, and everybody's going crazy, going crazy. and the night meetings, Coach Sillan's putting me to his office, it's like, you're going to be my linebacker, you're starting, you're making this team, and the rest is history.

I ended up making a team, and the whole story about that is, like, going through all that, only 12 men out-of-state guys can make the rock that time, and I'm like at the bottom of the Rockwood, so I had to find my way up all the way there to get to the top of the roster, and I ended up making the roster.

And then from that point, and I'm going to the University of Nebraska, you know, BK was already that time, you know, Will, you know, reaching out and stuff like that. Those guys welcome you to open arms. To Boogie. Because Yoshi was there. That's when the Yoshi comes up because BK, they were recruiting a recruiting class right before. Who's BK?

Brandon Kinney. Got you. Thank you. All right. Mitch, you're back down. BK. They're talking like this. We just know everybody from Nebraska ever.

Yeah, Brandon Kinney, who was a receiver in Nebraska. He was like a highly recruited guy. Yeah, I remember you're talking about this cat. He was supposed to be like the one and then just got a little yippy. Yeah, he like dislocated his thumb. Right. Dude was super athletic, a great leader. He was a stud.

But him and Yoshi were already there. Was JPP your class or in that same class with BK and Yoshi? He was the same class as BK and BK. Yeah, so the only one that they lost out on was JPP. He went to South Florida. So when Lovante was coming out, it was basically down to Nebraska and South. Florida. Okay.

And everybody ultimately got Levanti recruited to Nebraska. So when Levanti was coming in, he was his Jukal All-American linebacker, like a four-star and the Jukal rankings coming out. He was a big dog that was coming. So he had great relationship with like BK and Yoshi. They're telling me Zo Whaley, the linebacker room, about Levanti. And so everybody was just kind of getting connected. Gotcha.

And your two biggest offers were Nebraska and USF? Yeah, Nebraska and USF at the time until I found I had a lot more offers that I didn't know about. but that's another story we're talking about. I didn't know that. Yeah, that's crazy. I just remember Ed and Coach Boe just talking about how Levanti,

like we need to, hey, reach out to them, like they want them to feel as comfortable as possible. Yeah, you're like hosting. I do, you, during your story, you talked about how you weren't eligible, you thought you were, didn't start to you junior,

hanging out the older kids, you're skipping class. As a guy who was also like on the fence, like when I was going into my senior year, a lot of schools came and recruited me and they're like, we would clearly love to have you, but your grades are there. We don't know if you're going to make it.

And so a couple schools didn't offer because of that, Wisconsin and a couple of other those. But like I ended up making it, that story has been well documented. I'm busting with the boys. For you, what was it like when you're staring down the barrel, looking at it like, okay, I need to be eligible, whether it's the sliding scale of the ACT and your GPA,

like what didn't take place for you to be able to take the next step? Because, I mean, clearly when guys get D1 offers, We like people think it, but it's very clear that you get a silver spoon shove so far up your ass immediately in high school. Like you become like the guy in school where the teachers, the principal, everyone kind of is like looking out for, okay, this kid, we know the direct line of what his future can be as opposed to all these other kids. And it's like, we hope it works out for them. They're going to go to college and figure out their lives. And so for me in school, it was this kid clearly can do something in the NFL or maybe make it to the NFL.

Let's at least get him to college. So there was a big push from like my student counselor, the head coach, the principal of the school, teachers. Like everyone was kind of in it to like, let's get Taylor to college and then he can, someone can take him out, taking care of him from there. But you being in Miami, it didn't work out that way. Like what did not happen? Like how bad was the GPA? I just kind of want to understand that a little bit more. Yeah, I was hard-headed, man.

My whole thing was just, you know, I was just wanting to have a GPA, 2.0 GPA to play football. I wasn't really thinking about nothing else. I just wanted to play football because we was really good at the time. I was having a lot of fun with my home boys. And I was having a lot of success. And then, you know, when you have that, those meeting with your counselors going to your senior year and trying to see where you had and things like that, you know, I had that meeting. It was like, hey, man, like, you're just laughing. Like, if you want to go to school, you got to, you know, pick it up.

And then that's when I saw all my scholarships again taking away and things like that. So my senior year, I was pretty behind, just trying to catch up and stuff like that. And then when it was time to take the ACTs and all that, my grade dot, my score didn't match up with my GPA. You know, I ended up with a 2.3 GPA I graduated with, but I had like an 18 on the ACT. So by the time it was time, you know, make those decisions, it wasn't adding up. So I wasn't going to be able to qualify and things like that. So, end up going to junior college route, you know, kind of that, I think that whole process just, you know, humbled me and just helped me understand that, you know, how important, you know,

school is and stuff like that. I always thought, like, as long as I'm going to football, I'd be okay, but that's not the case. And that's something that I kind of, you know, just, you know, that's something that just humble me, and I definitely, you know, kind of like just took that for what it was, And I took it from a sign of God and just went on ahead and I went to junior college and I was able to, you know, graduate my A right away and then going to a four year university, even though I didn't graduate, you know, on time in Nebraska. I did go back and get my degree. So I'm extremely proud of that.

So that whole process, man, just going through all that stuff, like just finding out things late. I advise anybody to, you know, get on it right away because, you know, even though I went to Juko route, man, I won't, I won't recommend going to Jucco. I mean, it's always a good story to have, but it's rough going that juke route. The stories that you, Yosch, BK, that you guys would tell about being a juke. I mean, that conditioning test is outlandish. Yeah, the condition test is crazy. It's like, I don't know, like 90s football, high school football.

I feel like Juko still lives in that world where we just got a weed out the week 24-7, nine on seven. I could tell you so many stories that we have. had, man, like we used to have to run to this, run to this late down five miles away. When somebody didn't mess up, you had to run to the McDonald's. That's like five miles away, bringing back a catch-up package to make sure that you went there. It was one time during practice. We wasn't having the good practice.

Coach thought the president you ran gashers until he got tired of us running gashers. This is another story. It's another story. It was one time when we, you know, we kind of got in trouble with this. We had to run around this path in front of the school when it was freezing cold, like 12 degrees outside and everybody. Yosha ended up getting frostbite on his head. It was so much stuff. No shit.

That is wild. It was a lot of stuff that we had to endure during junior college. But it made a lot of guys, man. It made a lot of guys. Did you guys that year, you played one year at junior college? Or did you two? I played two. So my first year, my first year, that's when I played with JP.

Gotcha. And we went to a bowl game and we beat Blinn College and a bowl game. And then the next year that we played, we ended up playing in the national championship against Blen again. And that's when we played against Camden. And he mopped. No, we lost. No, he said he mopped. He was a man amongst boys.

He had a spot of game, but we lost. on the last second punt return. We was going to win. The clock was running. We punted the ball with like 30-something seconds left, and we was up by, I want to say, two. And the punt ended up going in bounds, and the dude ended up casting it right up the middle.

And scored a touchdown, and we lost the game. What a way to lose a national championship. It's a clip out there about out of it. You know, if you can see, probably at the sideline, like everybody. So when he caught the ball, why everybody just dropped like, ah. And the crazy thing about that is,

I ain't, you know, trying to tube my own horn and nothing. But I was supposed to be on a punt team that week, but they wanted me to spot Cam Newell. And so they took me off and that ended up happening. I said I want to tip my own horn, but they did take me up the punt team. Man. Can you ask him, was Cam Newton on the Blintz? Ask him, use the mic.

Levante. Yeah, and yes. Oh, he was? Yeah. Cam New was on the Blint team. Yeah. How was it playing against Cam Newton and Jukov? That's got to be, I mean, that's crazy.

I mean, for me, you know, it was, it wasn't nothing. I do. But he definitely wasn't an intimidating figure. You know how he is right now until the day still. He wasn't an intimidating figure. You know, he had all that aura about him. But we should have won that game. I'll tell you that.

We should have won that game. And the crazy thing is. My boy, Jasmine Hopkins, the runner back, he won office MVP, and I won deepest MVP. So that goes to show that we should have won the game. He said it won nothing for me. He still truly takes it to heart. He's like, yeah, Cam Newton is an action figure on the football field.

No doubt. Not to take nothing away from you. You've always been like an undersized cat. Yeah, I have, but, you know, at the heart of a lion, man. You know how I go. No question, no question. And the Miami Northwestern team, he talks about how he ended up, you know, the middle Tennessee state and everything else,

but Levanti played with a dude named Sean Spence, a linebacker that was coming out that was like highly ranked. Like, dude was a stud. He played at the University of Miami. Then I want to say he got drafted to Pittsburgh, right? Yeah, he was a stud. I want to say like nine guys off that defense ended up going to playing college ball. Like Levanti was like him going to MTSU and everything else.

Like Levanti wasn't part of the crop that every coach and teacher and people are rallying around. We got to get this kid. Right. We got to get this kid to the next. level. I'm sure that, you know, I'm sure that they were having conversations with you. But Levanté wasn't like to pick the litter on that Miami Northwestern team. No doubt. No doubt. Yeah, we had a whole bunch of guys. We had like two, five stars, maybe like six, four stars. We had eight guys signed to the University of Miami out of my class. Yeah, that, yeah, that 08 class,

I remember a lot of guys from your school was signing with the University of Miami. That is just nuts. At my high school, there was, we had two guys go D1 and I was one of them. So, and the other kid was a 4.0 student. He had no problems at all. We just got to fix that kid right there. I know we're sticking a lot on the high school part, but were you wanted to go to Miami? Were you in your hearts? Like, if I could go to any school, be Miami? Yeah, I did. I did. You know, obviously, I got a lot of love for Miami. I grew up in Miami fan, watching those guys, you know, Jonathan Velma, DJ Williams, Sean Taylor, and those guys. I definitely wanted to go there. But it wasn't a chance. I could have went out of Juco, you know.

But they wanted me to go. They wanted me to attend in the spring. But I wasn't going to be able to graduate earlier. I had to go in the summer. So they ended up falling back from me. But, you know, it's all good. I ain't tripping. It worked out for me.

Now, you did mention some of the story for later about how Nebraska. I was like Nebraska and USF, those are your two schools you go to. There were actually more. But we can get into that. What so? Was somebody hiding offers from you? So you would go to Nebraska? Did Bo Pellini and Wilcompton take away your offers?

So you just go to Nebraska? No, no. No, I just found out later that I had a lot of other schools that was very interested in me. But, you know, obviously, you know, people wanted me to go to Nebraska. And, you know, I'm fine with that. But, you know, don't, don't just, you know, kind of like, don't hide my office away from me and stuff like that. Just I just, that's just like a motivating factor for me and stuff like that. And I did a lot of my own recruiting too when I was there at Fort Scott when I saw my mom.

myself being able to, you know, go to a four-year university. I started to do a lot of things on my own, reaching out to schools, emailing schools and stuff like that. I know when I was at a, when I was in high school, one of my FIU Florida International University was a team who was recruiting with Crystal Ball and, you know, another guy, Coach Cooley or whatever, and then they end up going to, Coolly end up going to Florida State. And I remember he was only big time, so I ended up emailing him. And getting recruited about Florida State, too, about it at the time.

So those is one of the schools. So I found out, you know, who was really interested in me coming out of Juco. And other schools, I heard of, I heard of LSU. I heard Tennessee. I heard Oklahoma, a bunch of schools. But at the time, I was already signed to Nebraska. You know what that was. Those are handshake deals happening with the Juco staff and the Polini staff, honestly.

It sounds like, yeah, because that Georgia, that Georgia, Georgia assistant, we talked to the SEC Championship, and you were talking about how, like, Yoshi and Levanti were kind of like a package deal, because they wanted Yoshi? Yeah, they wanted Yoshi. And then they were like, if you want Yoshi, you got to take this Levanti kid as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I understand that. Fort Scott was like a little, Fort Scott was like a little pipeline

from Nebraska. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It seems like it. When did you find out that you had potential offers from LSU and Oklahoma, possibly Michigan, and a couple of other schools? I didn't find out after my rookie year. I know a former coach who would coach that for Scott. He came to one of the games and then we were just sitting down talking and then he ended up telling me, you know, he said, you know, you had a lot of other schools that were interested in you, man. I'm sorry that it went down the way it did, but, you know, it was a bunch of other schools interested in you and stuff like that.

I was like, it's all good, man. It all worked out for me. I didn't go into Nebraska. Met Will. Had some good times. And there'd been a second round pick out of that, so I ain't tripping at all. Yeah, you're not tripping, but I have this image in my head of you grabbing coffee with this guy. This guy, and then I don't know if you've seen the S&L skid of, like, Chris Farley when he's sitting there.

And they're like, sir, are you where you're not drinking coffee, but actually decaffeinated coffee crystals? And then Chris Farley has a complete crash out. That was more for Sherman than anybody else. but that's how I imagine Levanti, like, were you, like, livid when that happened? Because you definitely, like, slowly in this podcast, I'm just realizing this cat, the reason why he's successful is the classic chip on the shoulder.

Nobody wants me. I'm going to prove everybody wrong. Like, how'd you play against Camden? He's like, oh, everybody did one. It was nothing to me. Like, Cam Newton ain't nothing. It's like, okay, all right. I got you.

I'm with you. Like, did you, was that like a Michael Jordan and I took that personal moment? Yeah, I mean, I didn't take it personal, but I was just like, I was kind of like in the scrap like, damn, like, why would he do that? Like, confused, like, why would he do that? You know, at time, you know, they want the best interest at hand, you know what I'm saying?

Like, let us decide where we want to go and things like that. And, you know, I was, I wasn't, I was kind of taken back by, but, you know, I was at the point where it's just like, you know, I'm kind of like, I have nothing I can do about it now. You know, so I just, you know, took it for what it was and just moved on. He ain't having a 14-year career without Nebraska. Do you believe that, Levanti? I don't know, man. I don't know, but I think my mindset back then, I think I may have, but, you know, everything just, you know,

God had predestined his journey for me. You know, so, you know, he wanted me to go to Nebraska, so I ended up going to Nebraska. And I learned a lot of football at Nebraska. I can tell you that, you know, Coach Bopalini, you know, he was a very sharp, you know, football guy, even though, you know, we play all these couches in the spring in the summer and then we get to the game.

You just run even double bracket. Even double bracket, man. We do everything under the sun defensively. And then you get to the games and it's even double bracket. You know, what is it? Back angle, back angle one. You just run a few things and everything would be check-based. So off of formations, tendencies.

which is I feel like that is where you kind of get the leg up of seeing the game seeing the game from a different lens, especially when you get to the NFL and you realize some of the vanilla teachings and things that go on and you're like, and you almost tell the coordinator, you tell your coach like, yeah, yeah, I can handle seeing a bunch set and you want to get to something else.

Or if we go to empty, you can trust me to check out of it and go to something else because everything was predicated off of formations and tendencies with Coach Polini. I love it. Yeah. How was us? Fabio.

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You know, you were operating. So when Levanté came in, they were going to make him, you do the whole thing. Like, I don't know where he was predetermined on the staffs list, but making him earn everything that he's going to get. So when we're starting off training camp, he's not even working on the fields with the ones and twos. And I want to say Levanti was a four at the time. And he's just on a, yeah, he's just on a separate field to where, you know, every other period they might have the fours go off and do something else. But Levanti's practicing with the fours. And then sure enough, you know, injury after injury starts happening.

And he's starting week one of his first year at Nebraska, where it's not like he has everything put together, you know, with the installs and everything else. It's almost like he had to go out there because Sean Fisher tore his ACL. There's a crack block that happened. You know, when tempers get high in training camp, guys kind of start getting more physical. It's just offense versus defense every day. A crackback happens. A tough block happens.

that dude falls in the Sean Fisher who was starting in the dime package at the time as the solo backer and he tears his ACL he gets carted off. I'm now the solo dimebacker like Sean Fisher and I would be... I think Fish I think Fish broke his fibula. Oh, broke his fibula

that's right. You're right. You're right. He broke his leg. And then when it was nickel and base like it'd be me and Fish and then when it was a single backer, it was Sean Fisher. Now I'm the single backer going into week one because I'm a sophomore at the time. Sean was a sophomore.

And then the week of the opening week, who was the team that we played? Western Kentucky. Western Kentucky, opening week. On Thursday, in our just walk-through, jog-through style practice, I break my foot on just a little stick route. Earlier in the week, I took this wheel route up and I thought I felt something in my foot, but they MRI didn't, or they x-rayed it and nothing was there. And it turns out there was just like a hairline. That's classic.

And it's like hard to see. It may be hard to see, but I had like a hairline. And then on Thursday, I plan on the foot and it just, my foot just breaks. So I just like drop to the ground. I try like taping. I just can't walk. Like minute by minute goes by and like I can't walk. I rails my foot's broken.

So now Levante is the single backer going out there in opening week. This first year at Nebraska. First year at Nebraska. Trying to keep his head above water, had a summer with us. You were playing in the kiddie pool starting to camp. Like you're over, you're over in the raft. like, yeah, take them over there. They'll figure it out when they do to being a starter in week one.

Yeah. And Will's that? The crazy thing is. When I first got there, it's a conditioning test called the beat test. And, you know, Dobby, you know, Coach Dobson. Dobson, man. Yeah, he's the best. Yeah.

And then I failed the beat test. So we have a meeting of all the new guys, you know, the incoming recruits. I mean, the freshman in the transfers or whatever. And I'm getting chewed out, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, Dhabi telling me, you know, you're supposed to be an example for these young guy. I knew I had a fellow your beat test and this and that and that chewed me out. So I'm already behind on that part.

I'm like, hey, I'm making, you know, a bad first impression. Yeah. So I failed that beep test too. What is, now explain the beep test for people that don't know the beep test, myself included. So beep test, number one, you should be able to pass the beep test. Okay. Let's just get that out of way. Just because you're hearing that me and Levante failed, it doesn't mean it's a hard thing.

Because it's not. Yeah. What's up? Like the pacer test? Yeah, it's like this pacing test where you run across however long it is. It's not like that far. Let's just say what, like 20 to 30 yards? Yeah, I think my own, it'd be like 32 yards or something like that.

Something like that. And then like when it beeps, you run and then you reset. And then when it beeps again, you run back when you reset and then it just paces like it gets a little faster. And it's truly like when I failed, I failed as a fresh. There were maybe two or three guys that failed out of our entire class of like, let's just say, 25, 30 guys. So it's a, it's a tough feeling when you fail the beep test. But yeah, I guess it's pretty embarrassing.

You know, just to keep it real. You know, it's a strategy that goes into it. I didn't pace myself, you know, I thought it was a bit bad. Well, if I'm sprinting out there, trying to, you know, look all good or whatever in it. And they poured up to me because I didn't know as it gets closer to the end, it goes faster and you have less rest time. So you'll be able to pick your stuff in it. So, you know, the second time I did,

I had to do it inside the weight room, and I ended up passing it because I had a better strategy. And then going on to training camp, I remember when I realized, like, oh, man, I got to work my way in. It's because, you know, we're an individual, we're in individuals, right? And, you know, Coach Echler was outline by our coach every time.

Coach Mike Echler, he's the 17-quartered at Nebraska right now. Oh, yeah, I'm very familiar with Eck. Yeah, it goes, you know, when you're in a, it goes, one's up first, and then two, everybody's behind. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, five behind everybody. Like, dang. So, like, it shows like, hey, I got to work my way up. And then, you know, train to cap you split fields. And, you know, all the ones and tools are on, like, the turf field or whether the indoor or the turf field.

It just depended on the day. But, yeah, you guys would be over there on the grass field. We was over on the grass. Like, I'm over there with, you know, with the walk-ons and the freshman. Yeah. I'm like, man, what is going on? I'm like, I'm over there. The GA is your coach?

Yeah, the GA coaching and stuff like that. I'm looking like, dang, boy, I got some work to do. And then, you know, as everything just kept on going, he kept on unfolding, I think it was a, it was you and Fish, Zoe Lee, Eric Martin, Yeah. Matthew May, Graham started, and then it was me. I was like way in the back. And then I ended up just, you know, trying to learn,

understanding and stuff like that. I mean, I was getting special team reps. I went against, I mean, one damn practice. I don't know if I ever told nobody this story. But it wasn't really like a crazy, you know, crazy prize or whatever. But Jim Epki, you know Jim Eadke. You know Jim Eadke. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. 13 ace. Yeah, I had to block him on the kick return. And he was going crazy. I'm like, yo, like, bro, like, it's not, like, it's a, it's a walkthrough. Like, what you doing? I don't care. This is what I do.

I'm like, okay. So I know what time it is now. So ever since then, I used to be like just trying to go hard just because I used to go against him all the time. We just go at it. And, you know, that's when I knew like, okay, this is like, this, this. real enough. So I got to step it up and then, you know, that's when, you know, Sean Fisher went down and, you know, I don't know what happened with Zoe and then.

Well, it was like, it was like we run two backersets. And then when we were in dime packages, like you want, you want an athletic cat. Like you want speed on the field. Like Zoe was like in the conversation, you and Zoe started in base. You guys started a nickel. And then when it was when it was dime, they're just like, hey, we're going to try. we're going to keep a vanilla and we're going to put Levanti out there. Like, let's see what the dude's got.

Because he would flash, like even though he was on the grass field, they would still, like, Eck would still show clips throughout the day of Levanti. Probably maybe just to keep his head and to keep his confidence high that he's still being looked at. And he would flash like on the grass field. But again, when I break my foot, it's Thursday. We play on Saturday.

And so Levanti is just getting thrown into the fire come game day. And then game day happens. You have, what, 13 tackles? 13 tackles. 13 tackles against Western Kentucky. Will's up in a suite with a scooter. Yeah. Just sitting there standing up like, fuck.

Me and Fish is up there. Me and Fish is up there in scooters. And it wasn't just the 13 tackles, but he had one play where a dude comes over the middle. And Levanti tattoos this motherfucker, bro. And throws up. It's a photo that still just lives, but it was from his first game.

And it's like he's in the middle of his leg kick. He's throwing the bones. Yeah. Everything. And I just remember just, I was personally bone because it was going to take me like at least eight weeks to get back. And I'm like, damn, this dude is flashing.

And then he continued to flash throughout the next seven, eight weeks. And see what I did not say there. Seven, eight weeks. And he balled, bro. And it was one of those situations for me to where coaches aren't kind of telling you what's going to happen. I'm curious. I'm like, man, he's been playing good.

Eck, we're like, you know how Eck and I are. This father, son, like best friend type of relationship. He's talking to me about how good Levanti is. And I'm wondering in the back of my mind, like, damn, am I going to have a job when I come back? Like I know I was going to be the guy that ran next to Levanti, but I wonder what's going to happen with the dime package because the way the Pellini system worked,

they lean more on dime packages than using more defensive backs because Dijon Gomes was really good. And so I just knew I'm like, as far as playing time goes, I wonder who's going to have that dime slot whenever I do come back. And then when it happened, nobody kind of tells you I'm kind of just learning in real time. Levante ain't losing his spot.

So first week, I'm assuming you're like, oh, I'm really happy for Levanti. Fired up for him. Him and Zoe too, because Zoe played well. At what week were you like having this thought process of like, I don't know if I'm going to have a job? I think it was Washington. Did we play Washington in week three or four? Yeah, we played like week three.

Yeah, like week three, we went out to Washington, awesome atmosphere. That was when T-Magic was born. He was going off. He was starting to get in the Heisman conversation. And Levanti had a really good game and kind of sneaky too because you could see how, and it's been his entire career. he's been like an undersized cat, not like the most physical as far as going to the point of attack will knock your dick in the dirt.

But as far as like taking on blocks and everything else, this deal was very good at getting skinny or finessing or slipping blocks, which you just, it's, you can't teach it, you can't coach it. It's you just watch Levante and it's like, he's just, he's got something. Whether in my brain at the time, I might be thinking it's lucky, but he's got something that he's able to just do, whether he's blitzing and running. right out of a guard and just turns his shoulder or hits a swipe at just the right time. He just had this ability.

I just remember the way Echler was talking about him on the flight home. I'm like, yeah, this dude is nice on the football field. But the college mindset of you, Will Confident is not. This dude is nice. You're like, man, this guy's, he's all right. It was like a song of dance because when Lavalte comes in, like he'll tell you, I've just always been the guy even when Rashon got drafted in the first round. Like I've always been like a, you know, I fight those demons on my shoulders as far as like

the selfishness that does go into it. But I wanted Levanti to be a good, I wanted him to be good for the linebacker room. It's not like I'm sitting there being like, I want him to be better to me and everything else. So when he was coming along, it was kind of like, you know, you had to have a little bit of an ego death, but you couldn't just sit there and, you know, I'm thinking in my mind, like, what's going to come out, I can't sit here and project that this dude's being lucky and everything else.

Like, he was playing good. And every time we're in the room, like I felt like a responsibility. Fish and I both felt like you have a responsibility to coach the dudes up and whatever the game plan is, like getting Levanté is well equipped as possible to go out there and play on Saturday. So it was like, it was tough. Like, of course I wanted to play. Right, but the mental warfare internally. Yeah, and Levanti and I were boys.

Like, he was, again, he didn't, he didn't have a license. Like, he rocked around with Yoshi. Like, we had, like, a crew of guys. But Levanti and I and Zoe, like, we were boys. Like, again, Zoe would always call him buggy. My wife called me. He's like, that's just boogie man. And I just back, whenever I have a dog, I'm in name a boogie because of our knucklehead tendencies in that back in that time.

But we were all close. So it was like, you know, you had to, it was just, it just was what it was. Damn. Yeah. I honestly didn't expect them guys to, like, treat me the way they did. Like, will help me learn a playbook like soon as I got there. You know, we used to meet extra times. He used to watch film and stuff together.

Um, him, Zoh, all those guys. Fish was okay. He wasn't really. Yeah. But Fish was going to be a doctor. He is currently, like, dude's like a. surgeon. Yeah.

So he was always studying, 4-0, double major, everything. Fish wasn't like, you know, when practice and everything was over, fish was going to study all. Fish was going to study. Fish wasn't interested in an NFL career. He was interested in a doctor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

He was one of those guys. But they definitely welcomed me over on, though. And I just remember when Will first got hurt to go back, you know, I remember, you know, he crying and stuff like that. You know, he kind of like just, you know, kind of like, I don't know what to say to him with things like. that and stuff like that. But, you know, he kind of like kept on the courage of me and kept on, you know, kind of, you know, just giving me, you know, his best foot for it, you know. And so, uh, and I just remember what he's saying. He kept all of and said, man, when I get back, you know, it's going to be us. You got it over. We got to take it over.

Like, I got you, you know what I'm saying? So I know in the back of his mind, he was kind of like, obviously he was upset. But, uh, when he's seeing me, you know, kind of like take off, he kind of like, just like, effing. Like, it's going to be me and you're not. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, bro. Because we had some moments, bro. We had some fun moments, man. With Penn State, Michigan State. Yeah.

Like, again, Levanti, he got Big 12 newcomer of the year. He was an All-American the next year. The Sandy going to bowl games. Because we was roommates, too. I would always try and get, I would always try to get boogie. I would record him all the time. Because, again, he was a hermit. He just didn't do a whole lot.

He was just always, like, funny to us. Because he was just like, he had, like, this Ed Reed mentality. But, dude, we had a lot of good times in Nebraska. We had a lot of good times in Nebraska. And just like, all far, I remember, the next year, remember, you know, push Bowles always like the dying stuff. And I was like, I mean, I'm talking about Coach Bolini.

I mean, Coach Spillini always like the down stuff, the one backer. And I remember I'm telling you, man, I can't do the one back in the moment. Like, we got to be on the field together. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And then that's when I ended up having to meet with Coach Polini. And then he ended up changing it was dying necessarily for hours to die. Will was in.

So, the next year, Mel Will was always on the field because I was like, I can't be the only background that I'm wanting the other people out there with me. Oh, so you gave Will a step up in his career. And you say that.

I mean, you know, I just want to like that. We had a freak. Dejan Gomes. He was a dog. He was a baller. And he was somebody who could play, like, you know,

if you look back at the Texas game, he like, he stripped a dude and took a ball. Like, the dude was very good. Very opportunistic when it come to, like, Right. So he ended up rethinking the way, hey, if all these teams in the Big 12 that do spread,

he was kind of a tweener to where he was physical enough, even though he was more of a DB, but you couldn't not have him on the field because we had cats everywhere in the secondary. That was very good. We've always had a very good pass defense. And so when Levante, whenever he has his year, and we're kind of, the packages are kind of mixing it up. You don't know who's going to be doing what. We had different stuff going on.

But that next year, I know they were trying to fast. track Levanté as the dime package because Levanté again, he was more of a backer, but he was somebody who could cover everybody. So he was just, he was the piece, he was the piece that the Nebraska defense loved because, again, you could have a smaller, a more athletic body who was physical enough. And then Levanti was able to fill that in whenever Dejean Gomes went to the NFL. Got you. Got you.

So I basically ended up playing DeJon Gons fought when he left. And there was a pride factor in the linebacker room of just always hating when we, we would have to go a solo backer. Always. We took it as like a slight to what we had to figure out. Like, why is only one of us on the field? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Off the field, were you ever casted to be a part of Will's Vines? That was, the year Vine came out was my senior year in college. So you were gone. Gotcha. So you were gone. So no. No, but Levantti was part of a lot of videos of mine. Because I always have my phone out.

I was always recording the locker room. Hey, he's so sneaky about the phone, dude. He's always, yeah. And he does a great job of not, like, changing his tone when he was, like, got his phone as opposed to just talking to you normal. So he'll catch your ass. Like, there's probably a dozen videos Will has him, just talking crazy about things. And he'll just, as soon as he's done, he'll just go, got him.

It's all up. I'm like, Levanti loves some R&B soul music. So we'd be, we'd be waking up, say we'd go do Brexit, and we might be chilling before. for maybe a night game or before we leave on the bus. So Levanta and I are kind of just laying in bed, whether we're watching college game day, TV, whatever it is. But Boogie would just, all of a sudden, he'd have his headphones in,

and then he'd just start singing. And so I would catch him all the time with the fun. He'd look over, and he'd like, jobs like, man, come on, man, why are you always going to be recorded? Because I just catch him in a full verse of some R&B. I'll have to leak those. Yeah, yeah, for this pause, for sure. I used to go over the warehouse and take his mat book.

He had a mat book at the time. I used to have my own playlist on his mapbook, put all my music and stuff on there. Just keep on my ad music. Yeah. Levante, do you have any untold? You just have a mapbook and just take music all the time. That's awesome. Levante, do you have any untold behind-the-scenes stories of Will,

whether it's in the locker room at the townhouse going out? At the rail? Yeah. I kind of do. Yeah. I got a long story than Will. You ain't gone. Will is a boogie guy himself.

So we call me Willie Echukomto. We won't get into the lore of that. I think it doesn't take a whole lot to think of what the war is. It's Willie B. Willie B. come out. Earl come out. Little Earl come out. A little Earl.

He got a lot of alter egos, man. But, yeah, those nights on the rail downtown. You know, he's a married man now. So, I mean, he's safe. I appreciate you. So I'm sure Charle won't be mad at these stories. But just, I tell you this, take, we'll go there together, hang out together. And I look up, he's going.

I don't know where he's at. Buddy, I had friends like that all the time. You're like, hey, we're hanging out, right? The boys are going out tonight? Yeah, yeah, we'll go out and then like 30 minutes into all of us being there. It just vanishes. Hey, what happened to you last night? Man, don't worry about that.

The vibes would be high. The little Earl was out last night. The Lil Wayne mixtape, the little Wayne mixtape was hot. BK. rocked it at every opportunity he got. Vives would be high. But yeah, we had good times. No doubt. Hey, hey, can I tell the San Diego story?

It's not like a bad story. Yeah, it's not a bad story. But it was one when we were sitting there laughing like, What was that, buggy? Yeah, yeah. We went out, you know, we was at a bowl game, so we were out, I believe, in Orlando. And we wanted to go get, like, seafood. We're like, hey, let's go get a spot, me, Levanté, me, Levanti and Zoe Ely.

So we go out, we're having dinner and everything else. And we feel like when we were leaving, like these, we felt like this group of girls was looking at us. Yeah. And, you know, we're kind of, you know, trying to play it cool. Once you notice it, you can't, hard to unnotice it. And Levanti at this point, this is late in the season. So he obviously cleans himself up, himself up now, but he had like the whole Ed Rie thing going on to where he basically just like grows his hair out.

There's no hairline. There's no nothing. Just nappy. And the girls got like close to us and they kind of like walk by. And Levanti just goes, hey, where are y'all headed? And they kind of just turned back and look and then just hurried up and scurried away and kept going on me. And so it was like, yeah, what the hell? That was the creepiest thing we've ever heard, bro.

he's like oh shit dude crazy-ass hair crazy-ass face shit we're all headed right now oh fuck man at that time we didn't San Diego man we don't got no much time

we gotta get straight to it no doubt hey I'm with you not Orlando there's something something about yeah will goes could I tell

the San Diego story he was in a bowl game probably Orlando and I'm thinking I'm like thinking all right coast to coast

this mother we took a plane to Orlando I'm feeling retarded because I asked Levante if we met before He was like, yeah, we met a lot. Then it will hit down.

Like, all right, we're, never mind. We're good, dude. Hey, but, yeah. Lovante, I'm with you. Then bowl games, man. You only have a finite amount of time. So there's no, there's a lot of courting taking place. Like, you don't have that.

Like, it's speed dating. Speed dating when you're a different location. That's exactly what it is. You know, we had a bowl game saying to go. We got a college year. You know, you're feeling yourself and stuff like that. So, like, man, you got to try to get it where you're feeling. And, man, try to get his quick spot.

Hey, we're all headed. The sun's going down. You just imagine with Boogie's voice. The oysters are hitting? Yeah, yeah. We're all headed. They just keep on him. What the hell was that?

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Hey, bro. We can sit here and talk NFL. Are you coming back next year? Am I coming back next year? You know what, Will? I'm going to be honest with you, man. I'm not even thinking about football right now, honestly. He went, hey, you know what he did?

He went, oh, I'm talking to ESPN now. Yeah. That's what he just doing. Yeah. Be honest, I love the game. It's done so much for me, but at this point, I'm just not thinking about I want to rest and recover with my family, talk to God.

Is that where you were getting? That's exactly what you were at. But we'll, you know, you'll be the first, you know, bro. You know how it is. man you'll be the first you know whenever I decide but right now bro I'm not I'm honestly like truly I'm not really thinking about football I'm not about I'm not thinking about I'm not thinking about retirement I'm not thinking about playing I took my daughter to the school this morning that's so amazing so I'm just locked in on that now I'm just I'm just right now just chilling you know getting my mind right daddy mode I'm going to I'm going to do a place called hot works I'm going to do cycling later you know kind of like get a good little sweating and good little workout in. And then, you know, when that time comes, bro, it'll pop up my mind. A sign that hit me and I decide.

But I would tell you this, my daughter, she doesn't want me to play anymore. So we'll see. I'll tell you this, whenever you do decide because I am, whenever the team told us that you were coming on Zoom, it was like last night around 9 p.m., a rage took place internally because I want you on the bus. So whenever you do figure it out, I would love for you to be back on the bus.

We can talk more things, Buckingeers, when that time comes. But what is going on through your head? Like, what questions are you asking yourself when deciding if you want to come back again for year 15, bro? Again, Taylor was asking, like, when you knew you were going to be able to play in the NFL, I remember your senior year when you were going to the NFL, and we're everybody, you know, me, like, all the boys, we're just all, we're all fired up, where I wonder where you're going to be drafted. And we're like, how long you think you want to play? and I just remember you saying, like, I'll get to 10 years and then I'll, yeah, I'll get to 10 years and I'll figure it out.

And it's one of those things where you just smile and shake your head because you know that that is a reality for him. And it's just cool to hear like this dude's talking about 10 years. He hasn't, he's not even a rookie yet. And now you're looking at, you could be looking at year 15. You just finished 14 years and just an unbelievable career. You already know your boy is going to be your biggest hype man, one of your biggest hype man, along with Gerald McCoy and all the boys out there that always put your name at the top of every list. But what is going on through your head when deciding this?

Are you asking yourself, what more do I have to prove? Can my body go through this again? Do I want to go through this again? Like, give us a look inside of your brain. Yeah, the main thing is, you know, these two years alone, you know what I'm saying? Is, am I going to be focused? Am I going to lock in? Are I going to be, am I going to have my best foot for the team, you know,

for 17, 18 weeks of the season. You know what I'm saying? And then next is my ability still the same. Am I still going to be able to, you know, cover tight ends? Am I still going to be able to punch in shed? If I'm going to be able to, you know, make physical downhill tapos the way I always do.

I just don't want to be a liability when I'm out there. I'm saying, I always say, man, when my ability starts to diminish, you know, I don't want to be one of those guys what people like, oh yeah, man, it's time to hang it up, bro. I never wanted to get to that point. So that stuff, you know, the situation, you know, what's going on in the temple, you know, you got a lot of coaching changes down there.

Are they going to put the right people in places and stuff like that? And, you know, just am I going to be able to endure it, you know, physical? You know, you know, this has been a tough year for me, you know, physically, you know, body-wise because I never really, you know, dealt with an injury. Like I did this year, I kind of dealt with something all year. What did you deal with? What did you deal with? A knee.

A knee, you know, you know how those knees get, you know, they call it wearing tear and stuff like that. And, you know, how that can be. It could be, you know, very irritating, you know, just got a, you got to drain it every week and things like that. So what's the most CCCs you've had to drain from your knee this season? The most I have is like 50 something, I believe. God, it's a good amount of fluid in your need. That's a thing. Yeah.

It's a thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Is there a part of you that fears not being the linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? That thinks about the other side. It's like, am I comfortable walking away from this game that I know is a big part?

of my identity? Oh, one of the questions, do I have anything left to prove? And the only thing I have to prove is just if I'm out there, me being the best on the field, because when I'm out there, obviously, my mind said, hey man, I'm going to be the best player on the field. And if I don't feel like I'm the best on the field, there's no point of me going out there, you know? So that's the only thing that's for me, like, just, you know, I played 14 years, bro.

Like you said, I had a, I had a, I had a. a crazy thought to be able to make it to 10, I didn't even get drafted yet. And then for me to be able to make it to 14, I tied Derr Brooks for the tackle record. I won a Super Bowl, you know, my own, where I respect to across the time of community, you know, I did a lot of the community. I did a, I did everything that I said I did when I got drafted to tackle. So, you know, the only thing for me is just that's left to prove, just like, prove to myself that I'm still able to play football. I don't know.

Dude, you, you clearly and Will and I have had this conversation. When we were playing, I would have this conversation with Will. But it's like you've won, dude. Like you've done everything you have to do in your career. You've checked every single box that you need to check in order to be completely fulfilled in your career. But last week we were doing this thing for Jim Beam. We were doing a segment. It was just kind of like, you know, giving flowers to a team whose seasons ended.

And it was Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And I did a little thing. And then Will brought up a bunch of your stats. and I think you might go down as the most underrated football player of all time. There's no question. When you talk about tying Derek Brooks

and then Will has a whole sheet, he can lay out all the stuff. But when you see your stats next to other players and how close you are and then seeing the accolades they had from an individual standpoint versus your individual standpoint,

like does that add any more of the chip to the layer of, if I'm weighing pros or cons coming back, like there's a pro right there is because for whatever reason I've done this much and people still haven't given me

the respect the rewards I deserve. Yeah, the only thing about it is man, just the all pros and the pro bowls. You know, one first TMR Pro,

two second team all pro, one pro bowl. You know, obviously I can't control that and things like that. You know, hopefully down the line when they really see

and they look at the stats and look at, you know, like you said, who I'm lined up against it was like, oh, this guy,

you know, maybe this dude did get, you know, cheated out of this stuff like that. You know what I'm saying? I don't want to, doesn't feel no sympathy for me and nothing like that. But I just want to understand, like, every time I played on Sunday,

I was a fact I want to feel. And that's the only thing that mattered, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, he wasn't really good, you know, Tampa wasn't really good at the beginning of my career. So that probably played a huge track during the two as well. But when you look at sight of that, you know, just look at the players himself, you know, look at what he did. You could go back and watch the film or whatever the case may be.

Like, people would be like. Oh, he made all these tackles. But in those tackles, I had 20 targets for losses. So they was very impactful tackle. There wasn't, like, down the field tackles and stuff like that. Like, every time I played, you know, I made an impact on the game. So, you know, when people go back and look and see those things, I hope they, you know, take a chance and just look at that.

And then, you know, I see, like, you know, the pro bowl voting and all the pro bowling and stuff like that. I remember because I was a four-three linebacker at the beginning of my career. So it's for the outside linebacker at that. So I had to compete with guys like Von Miller, you know, Ryan Carrigan, you know, Terrell Suggs. Play bad shoes. Yeah, true pass rush.

Obviously, they're not going to vote me as outside linebacker, you know, on an all-pro team or pro-bo team because they got those guys. They're looking at those guys who getting the sacks and stuff like that. And I've seen the all-pro team came out the other day. You know, you know, they only have. have like two two linebackers up for all pro and they can have like edges they got like five edge guys so I'm like come on man that's not really fair to the linebacker position so that's always say man like the linebacker position in itself is kind of like being you know you know tarnessed just things

like that because of those edge guys but you know it is what it is but you know I feel like you know when people do go back and look and just kind of like truly see and watch you can watch my family you can watch the staff that I just you know look at the staff that I have and you know look at the staff that I have and just shows that, you know, I was an impact when I played the game. One of two. One of two players, 1500 tackles, 40 sacks, 10 interceptions. Only other guy is Ray Lewis. And I look at that stat and hearing you break down some old stories and getting

to relive, some old, some old highlights of our career. But a guy who quit, tried quitting after the first day of showing up before Scott, guy who failed the beep test, guy who failed the beep test, guy who got thrown into the fire, a guy, all of these things, can you even imagine that that dude is one of two players with 1,500 tackles, 40 sacks and 10 interceptions, and shares that with Ray Lewis. Being an undersized cat and everything else, dude,

it's unbelievable what you have done. And you know, we're always going to root for you on this end. But when you do decide, again, because we wanted you, I personally, I know Taylor feels the same way, we want you here in person. Yep. because you'll sound much better, the audio will sound much better,

and we'll just be in person. We can break down more Buccaneer stuff, and then whenever you make your decision, you can let us know what factored into it, but we'd love to have you in Nashville and sit on the bus whenever that day does come. No problem, bro. You know how it is, man.

There's always love me, and I appreciate you guys. Every time I come to Nashville, we always have a good time. So, you know, I get chauffured by you, so I'm thankful for that. You know, but definitely, bro, We can set that up whenever that time come. You know, I'll reach out to you, reach out to you guys and let you know.

Yeah, sounds good. Because, hey, remember, whenever we did that favor for him in Kansas City, I was like, hey, book, you just letting you know I got you my pocket now. I executed what you needed me to, but I got you in my pocket now. And that pocket's going to be whenever you make a decision on your future. And there's so much to break down with the bucks, Tom Brady. There's so many things. He had a 14-year.

It's going to be an arguable Hall of Fame career for probably a long time. Well, just call this a part one. Yeah, this is a part one. Part one. Do you want to ask Lante, the Bud Light question? Yeah, yeah. Levante, we got a Bud Light question for you. You know how people would do anything for an ice cold Bud Light.

What would Levante David do anything for? Can't say family. What would I do anything for? I do anything to become a first battle at a half a flame man. Oh, I know that. I love that, bro. I do too. I know, dude.

Because it literally the only thing that will hold you back is, the Pro Bowls and all pros that we just broke down. But the stats, like if you took, hey, player A or player B, and you would win nine out of ten versus Hall of Famers. 100%. So yeah.

But if the boys get to vote, we know where it's going. That's love. I appreciate that. Absolutely. Bugie, we love you, bro. Appreciate you for coming on, man. And we will see you next time you come on this bus.

Let's give you. Let's give Boogie and Levantévante David a round of applause. Speaking of Hall of Fame. man, I hope my boy, Luke became a finalist. I hope Luke getting him, and that would be very incredible, man. Kikley? Oh, yeah. He's, he's, he's, he's lost stock.

He's, it's over. He's on the rush more, man. He's on the rush more, man. Only thing that would probably hurt him is, what, longevity? Yeah, time. Yeah, just time. But he, dude, he's the only guy I've ever seen, like, changed the way he played the game from, like, physical to be more elusive and lose

zero production. Like, he never, like, the product he put on the field was the, exact sandwiches look different. It is nuts. Yeah. Yeah. It was only real people who I stood up to watch when I played, you know, on the opposite side. And it was Luke Keakley and there was a patch of Willis and a Marlboro Bowman. I had to stand up and watch those guys. Mm-hmm. Kind of hurt, but. Oh, is Will out there? We'll get out there. Let me go watch my boy. Let me know how he does. You're the man, boo. We appreciate you. We appreciate you. Appreciate you, Levanti.

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