Club Shay Shay - Nightcap - Hour 2: NFL Colluded in Lamar Jackson Negotiations? + Tyreek vs. IShowSpeed

Episode Date: June 25, 2025

TJ Houshmandzadeh & Darren Waller react to the biggest news in sports including the leaked messages from NFL's collusion hearings, Saints DE Cam Jordan going off on NFL's taunting rules, the reason Diontae Johnson was released by the Ravens, and much more!02:20 - Relationships in the league or out08:30 - NFL collusion12:18 - Cam Jordan on taunting17:11 - George Kittle's biggest purchase21:31 - Tyreek vs. IShowSpeed38:00 - Dionte Johnson on Ravens release(Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.)#Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. The volume. He's talented. Man, that's crazy, bro. Like I literally coached that boy. I keep saying boy because he was a young kid. He was so cold in high school as a receiver. I felt like he should have played receiver when he went.

Oh, but when I tell you he put his foot in the ground and stop on Ferrari brakes, he had Ferrari brakes. His feet are Ferrari. Like, oh, unbelievable talent. Always been a hothead, because he was small. And so, yeah, man, he should be in the league. I hope he gets back in the league. But you know what I want to talk about? I was thinking about, I should have brought Jack in on this,

but he probably too young for this. I'm looking at how we started the show, and it was like, we're going to touch on football, relationships, this and that. I wanted to talk about this. Because I'm married. I've been married now. Uh, damn, that's fucked up. 20 years, about to be 21 years, right? Actually, 21 years in two days.

It's gonna be my anniversary and I'm gonna be doing this shit. Pray for you, bro. I pray for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, but I got married young when I was in my, going into my fourth year in the league. Let me ask you this because you got married, were you in the league or you were on your way out? I was in my eighth season. Okay, so let's talk about getting in a relationship while in the league or at the tail end or out of the league. Your preference, why you just didn't meet her

while you were in the league or you wanted to kind of get it out your system. I think you know where I'm going. Yeah, no, I feel like early on in the league, you got to definitely be locked in and tapped in as to like, you know, who am I around like and protecting yourself if you're going to go that route because there's women that's going, you know,

that might line you up, that might see you as a bag, that might see you as an opportunity. I got to touch the wall. Bro, isn't that like that, isn't that hard? Like you meet somebody and you be like shit like as a like shit. I Look good. I Got this paper, but Damn is she really fucking what's your boy? Cuz of what I have or is it like it's that elements

Well, I feel like you that's why you got to go out your way like for me I was like we're not really doing the flashy shit up front. Like, we go on a date, we go on a walk. We get in a coffee. Like I'm trying to see like you and your natural element and I'm trying to see if you rock with me because I ain't gonna be on no flashy shit for real. I'm gonna come.

I wish we had some women on this shit to see where they were. They would all say, oh yeah, I would like that shit. And then as soon as you leave, call they home girl, hey girl, can you believe this motherfucker took me on a walk? We just went on a walk. Like, do you like. How is that? Like, how would that play?

Trying to go to the steakhouse from day one, that's already kind of putting the red flag in play for me. Like, but if they know, if they know you got money, man, they're going to go with two or three walks with you. They ain't tripping. They know you got money. They're going to take two or three walks with you. She's you want to go on a four or let's go on a four.

We'll see if they got the patience. We'll see if they got the patience to really see this process out the right way. You know what I mean? And so did that play a part in you saying, yeah, when I, when I really get serious and locked in on a relationship, I want it to be towards the end of my career. Yeah, for sure. And definitely making sure like, you know, at the time when I did get married, it was like, I ain't got to worry about, you know, she had her like, so at the time that shit was the right match for me and what I was looking for at the time. Yeah.

Yeah. I've all, cause I tell a lot of players now, like it's tough. Your rookie year was 16 or 15. Okay. Like we didn't have social media in my rookie year. So it's so different now. Everything is so accessible. I actually just got off, well, I've been on social media now, but I think I got on chat

actually started my page. I wonder is his ass listening to this shit tonight? Where is his sister now? I think it was like 2018, 2019. He was like, take me, get on with it. Literally grabbed my phone and started my Instagram page for me. But we didn't have that.

Everything wasn't as accessible. You know, dudes being a locker room, them dudes, not this dude, Smooth Magazine. You know, they flipping through the pages. Now you just get on your phone and you send them a DM. But I'm telling the younger guys, like, you gotta make sure, cause she know who you are. She with you for you.

Do you date early or do you wait till the end? Either way, it's always gonna be that question of I don't care how you think you look, damn do she really want me for me or do she want me for what I got? Because we don't know how many dudes on your team ugly and a bitch but they got a bad little Hey, hey, dude be ugly or they be fat as hell. Bruh, it's always about three or four of them dudes on every team, got a bad one with them, but they look like the bottom of the chute. You already know what they are. Yes, I've always, I tell guys that man,

like there's no right answer. Like if you meet somebody early on and you don't know what her intentions are and you got that paper like that, you got to sign prenup. And if you wait, you got to sign prenup. But if you meet, to me, if you meet her early before you, like I met my wife when I had nothing I

Wouldn't know lot to plan the league. So I was you was with me when I was broke I mean I had a child before I got to the league and So my situation was different, but now you got to protect yourself Because you just never know so that was our football and relationship talk. Because I just want to talk about that because it's, that's a topic that comes up a lot, at least with the guys that I'm around on the field when we training like, hey, what you think about the, hey, it's hard. You don't know.

I don't know their intention, but I know these intentions. Did you see that the arbitrator who stared at the NFL colluded? Now let's bring the people in on what I'm talking about. So y'all recall Deshaun Watson, Deshaun Watson signed guaranteed contract, 230 million fully guaranteed. So Lamar Jackson says, shit, I'm ballin'.

I'm trying to get a fully guaranteed contract. The Ravens didn't want to give it to him. They basically let Lamar Jackson put himself on the market. Nobody offered him a deal. And at the time, the Falcons had nothing. Everybody was like, damn, the Falcons ain't going to go after Lamar. Come to find out the NFL colluded. Basically we ain't going to get no, we're going to try to keep the cost down.

It's going to benefit everybody. What are you? I'm not, I know you're not surprised, but man, what's your thoughts on the arbitrator basically saying, yeah, they, they colluded. Like, why is it like, how did they get away for three years with this shit under the table? It's crazy. Like you said, it ain't shocking me for real.

Cause it's like, there's never a moment where the owners are getting together. Like, how can we give the players more money? That ain't never been the case. You look at all them CBAs, all them, like, the owners ain't never even trying to go 50-50. They want 54. They want 55 Like they are not interested in the players pockets for real at all

They trying to get the bang for their buck as cheap as they can get you so it don't really surprise me But it's like damn like they can just get away with this shit. Like what's the quality of? These investigations like who was who was a motherfucker that came out and gave the report that they didn't collude I'm trying to figure out, it's been done for three years. Why are we just now hearing about this? Like, nobody in the NFL said a word. Nobody in the NFLPA said a word.

J.C. Trotter, you were the president of the players union. You're privy to all this information. I was a player rep for many, many, many years. I'm just curious as to why nobody said a word. And there's a answer to the why. I don't know it. Only the people want to know, know why. And that it's crazy because we, oh the people want to know, know why. And that that

it's crazy because we, we, oh, everybody wants to win. You're the owner. You want to win. I'm the owner. I want to win. But I want to win and make sure we can keep the cost down. That is surprising that it didn't come out sooner. If any sport needs and deserves a guaranteed contract, this football is us. Cause when you retire, you don't feel shit for about, at least me, I didn't feel none for probably five, six years after I retired. I'm like, shit, I can still play.

And then, and then, that shit hit me. You get up up you'd be like fuck my back hurt like Like I don't think people understand like I'm like you I didn't have any major surgeries But How many concussed you they had at least a hundred I don't have probably a Like them smaller ones. Yeah I don't have probably a hundred. Yeah, you talking about them smaller ones. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're back.

And so, yeah, it's unfortunate. They're going to have to figure that out, bro. I can't fathom for three years that they kept something like that. Man, they open that in today's world that just like any other news line or narrative

that in three days, people just forget about that shit and keep on going. Yes, yes, yes. Keep on going. Now they had the fanatics fest, I believe. Was it this past weekend? I believe it was. So Cam Jordan was, uh, he did a little interview when they asked him like,

what do you wish you could change? And I actually agree with him, bro. I really do. And I, and I, I do you wish you could change? And I actually agree with him, bro. I really do. And I wouldn't have got to celebrate it. I talk shit, but like guys getting fined for excessive celebration, we play a child's game. Let us have fun.

Now, if it gets to the violent celebrations, I don't agree with that. Cause you don't want the kids doing that, but bro, let us have fun. Even, like you, I should be able to make a big play and get in your face. Shut your pump, you can't fuck with me. I should be able to say that.

If I do that in your face, 15 yard unsportsman like penalty. If I say that to you and you can't control yourself without hitting me, that's on you. Yeah. And so I agree with him. Let us have fun.

Let us celebrate. Let us talk shit to each other because we're not gonna cross the line. One, it's a 15-yard penalty number two bro they done got real ridiculous with this too but you get a sports malite they fine you 25 grand now when I was playing you get a sports boy it was just a pilly now you you getting filed like 25 K. So guys ain't going to do it. Would you like to see that brought back into the game?

Hell yeah. Just toss that bitch through. Bro. I know. Well, what you think about that? Cause I think at the core of it, for people to think that celebrations are excessive, they don't appreciate how hard it is to play the game, how hard it is to score, to make a big play and like how on edge you got to be just to play football. Like you got to be wired.

You got to have a screw loose to go out there and just be getting in car collisions every single week. And you want this adrenaline. You want us to go to war and be out there and, and then we want us to entertain you. But it's like, you don't appreciate what you're even being entertained by if you think the celebration is excessive. No, it's an expression of passion.

Like, like these plays we making, they feeding families, they feeding generations, they putting our team, our city on a map. Like it's so much that is going into us making them plays for you to see us celebrating what we doing and what we put so much time into as excessive, I think that's crazy. I'm with you like no violence, take the violence out of it,

but yeah. Yeah. As long as you can get the violent celebrations out and or the confrontation, like if I get in your face and you know that's not gonna be a penalty, you not gonna retaliate. Cause you know, okay, they not, there's no ton penalties. I just feel like let us play the game. Let us have fun. I mean, Chad, and you know, I don't call Chad Ocho because you know he was Chad. They old Chad. Give him all his

fine money back. He was fine so much. Just for regular celebrations. Now it's okay. So I'm with Cam Jordan on that. ["Sweet Home Alone"] George Kittle, he says, you know, he just re-upped. You probably was like, damn, I should have played like two more years, see? Got the baggie. But the money they paying these boys now.

And so somebody asked and they said, hey, you just got paid. What was your favorite thing when you got, when you just signed this deal, Jordan? Oh, he just like did some stuff for his house. Basically splurged on his house. When you got paid, what, what'd you splurge on? What was your big purchase? Hey, first off, I've been to George Cribb in Nashville

when I went to the last time, and you, his crib is cold, bro. It's out there tucked away. Hey, it's colder now, because he said he expanded it with this bread. No, his crib cold. They got the whole weight room in this big ass barn. They got, he got the field out there.

I think they said it more got a flag pole. Like he really, he got a, he got a full football field, a full weight room. Like Dan Mear got a lake and he can go hunting fish in his own property. You really tricked that out. And it's like, he a solid dude. Him and his wife are real solid people.

Like they what they real welcoming and like, they really like are about just getting a little bit home straight and making sure that they welcoming people in taking care of people. But for me, bro, you gotta think like when I signed for a bag, like my second contract, 16 months before that, I was working at Sprouse farmers market. So like, I'm like, my life had been humble to the point where I'm like, I'm not even really, I don't really spend money on nothing. Like I ain't buy shit for real. Like I think I'm like, that's how I am.

Like I'm like, I grew up with nothing. My first paycheck in my life was from the NFL. That's the first paycheck I ever got in my life when I got drafted. And so, yeah, I'm not, I'm cheap. I'm cheap, I ain't spending no money. I don't wanna spend no money. Like I signed my deal, and people like,

what you doing when you sign your deal? Nothing, shit, I'm going to sleep. That's what I'm gonna do. And get up and go work out tomorrow. Yeah, I didn't, it was no big purchase. At the time I had two kids, now I got four, but no, no, no, no, uh-uh. I mean, I bought a house.

That's the same with me. I'm at a house, that's it. I put my weight down on the land, no, no. Uh-uh. I mean, I bought a house. That's the same with me. I bought a house. That's it. I put my weight down on the land, bought the crib. I knew, like, the way Vegas is growing. Like, my equity already doubled on the crib. So that's the only reason I went and did that. But if I was just going ham on the crib, like, I wasn't just going to do it just for the fuck of it.

Yeah, yeah, you ain't got no, I wouldn't bought this car. I wouldn't got this jury. I ain't do none of that. You've been keeping up with the, uh, Tyree kill Noah Lyle stuff. I'd have seen that. I done seen them, uh, going back and forth. No allows it seems pretty petty. They not racing.

No allows come out and say some stuff has come up. Me and Tyree kill not going to race. I got an opinion. Like, I actually think if anything under 50, I got Ty opinion like I actually think if anything under 50 I Got Tarik Hill 50 and under Tarik Hill winning. That's me. That's what I believe he out them more fucking dates Anything above 50 he losing because Tarik Hill just ran 10-1 About two weeks ago and the dude that he beat be on the track when I be taking my son to the track and Buddy is fast as fuck and Terry Kill beating.

But running the 10-1 and you race to somebody that's running in the nines consistently, it's a no go. And also, Terry Kill probably about 195 pounds. He was gonna run, he'd probably need to be about 175. You can't lose that weight right before training camp. But I'm taking Tariq kill if it's 50 and under. 50 yards and under, I got Tariq. Anything above 50, I got Noah Laws.

Because Tariq kills zero to 100, he outta there. Yeah, that's dry. That's dry takeover once you get longer into the race. But yeah. And that top end speed is old lane. No allows going to come get him. But them corners be 10 yards off of Tyreek Hill. They be running for the hills.

He running the hitch, bro. Hey, you know who is Ashos Speed? You know who that is? I don't know too much about him, but I do know he's like a streamer and all that. Yeah. So he just raised, he run, he raised some big buff dude. I've seen it on social media And so I guess now Tyree kill want to race him and I'm like That'd be interesting cuz buddy look like he looked like he got burnt

You know the ice cream don't look like he got burners look like he get I'm taking Tyree kill was the book fast, though I Don't know if the book fast though. I don't know if the book do fast. I don't know. That's a linebacker. Hey, we don't even know. Buck do. I don't know his name.

I just know he's small. He brings in the linebacker out there. But buddy was running though. What do you lose a little bit of that muscle? He'd be a little more fluid, but Tyree Kale said he want to race a speed that that'd be interesting. Both smaller dudes, compact, real explosive. That'd be interesting. But Tyree Kale, you can't chance it now.

You bought a month out of training camp. You can't chance yourself blowing the gasket, trying to prove a point to these dudes. That's gonna be interesting. Now, let's, before we wrap this up here in the next half hour, did you ever have a quarterback controversy on any team you were on? No, oh, I guess maybe. When I was on the giants, my last year, uh, well, no, it was just injuries for real.

But when I was on the practice squad with the Ravens, my last year there, 2018 was Lamar Jackson's rookie year. Oh, with Flacco. Okay. And, um, I think Flacco, I heard his back one game and Lamar Jackson hopped in that mug and it was curtains. If you, cause Jerry, Judy played for the Cleveland Brown saying, man, it's real difficult with this four weight battle for court, but there ain't enough reps.

I don't think people understand, man. Like a practice you go team and that's going to be run plays and pass plays. You're going to do 12 of them. You're going to do 12 plays in team. The majority of the time, the ones are getting seven or eight of them 12. The two's going to get the rest and they're going to throw the threes in there, here and there. Where the fours come in at? Like, they don't get reps for the fours.

You go seven on seven. You're gonna go 12 to 15 reps. The ones gonna get, if it's 12 reps, seven or eight. If it's 15, nine or 10. Then the twos, maybe the threes, so forth and so on. So you got a four-way battle for quarterback. Jerry Judy says it is pretty difficult as a skilled guy and you know you're a part of the offense. You know you're gonna be in the game. How difficult would

that be on you if you are in that position? Your spot ain't, your spot is solidified. How are you handling that? Yeah, I mean, I'm looking at, I know you can relate because I look at like say a relationship I had with Derek Carr and we had a long productive relationship and it's like the time it takes to get like each and every route to the where like he's thinking what you're thinking and he's placing the ball where you are and you're getting your head around

at a certain timing. Like to do that with one person and get that down is enough work. To think you go and get that down with four different dudes over the course of a camp sounds insane and just sounds like stressful. Like, I don't even know. You might end up in a game with somebody like, man, I ain't even caught a ball from this dude. Like that's why I think Deandre Hopkins what he was doing in Houston when he had like Tom Savage and sage roosevelt's no offense to them blues

But it's like it's the rotation of so many different guys and he still wanted to do what he's doing. That's Insane to me, but I don't know. Maybe if you're a browns coach, you got to look at certain days where it's like, all right Chidora, we'll get the bulk of ones today The next day flaco might get more of the ones and Gabriel might get more to ones the next day, they got to have some sort of structure to where at least for one day, Judy and those guys can get acquainted with one core. But if it's a four band competition, like how can you, like, how can you do it? Like you can't Kenny Pickett, you like Pickett, Sohako, Dylan Gabriel, Shador. It's virtual.

It's not enough reps. Crazy. There's not enough reps in a practice. Crazy. Like they were to me. I wish two guys would get the majority of the reps one day. Then two guys get the majority of the, like, I don't know how this is a fair comment,

because I was told from somebody that's in the building that ain't a player, is really coming down to Kenny Pickett or Dylan Gable. That's what I was told. But now when you get the reports that Shadurah's complete the seven out of nine passes, like is it against the starters? Or is it threes and the fours, the guys that's going to get released? So it seems impressive when you see the graphic, but is it really impressive if it's not against the starters

or guys that's going to be on the team, you don't know how they divide the reps and it's virtually impossible. What the amount of snaps cause when I do my Ricky year, man, I'll never forget this, we had training camp in Georgetown, Kentucky first day. Where's that? It's about an hour outside of Cincinnati. It's a college campus. Okay. Hot as fuck.

First day, we had two practices. Second day, we had two practices. Like I'm not talking practiced in a special team. I'm talking practice, right? Take a shower, go eat lunch, go to meetings, practice again, like real practices. So first day, two practices. Second day, two practices. Third day, two practices.

I swear to God, I got up the fourth day, the morning of the fourth day. I couldn't even walk. I couldn't even walk. How could you? And I'm like, damn, when they blow that motherfucking whistle, I'm a run though. Like you couldn't even walk.

And the way it was my rookie year to what it is now is I say that to say, Oh, you got a lot of reps then. Can we practice it twice a day? You going to get hella, you good. Practice now is so different because the teams, the players in the league, they're aware of, I go to training camp with a full tank. Y'all take me to about a quarter of a tank. I never get back to a full tank, never.

And they not avoiding those mistakes. Back then it was all, we gotta make sure you got some mental toughness. We gotta build, bro, if you a pussy when you come into training camp, you gonna be a pussy when you leave training camp you a pussy, when you come into training camp, you're going to be a pussy when you leave training camp. If your ass is soft, entering training camp, your ass going to be soft.

We'll wait four weeks. Ain't gonna fix it. That ain't gonna fix it because the dudes that they're going to find a way to get around it, they've been doing, they got this far being soft. You don't think they're going to figure out a way to get around it. And so I, I feel for the receivers and all the skilled guys in Joke, who all them dudes in Cleveland. Yeah. You don't know who's going to be the quarterback.

You ain't got enough reps in a day. It's not enough reps in a day for them to sit here and say, oh, okay Yeah, yeah. Yeah this guy I Don't get it. I don't know what Cleveland is doing. I know the coaching staff don't agree with it, but Got it. I'm going with the Ricky. I'm going one of the Rickies where it's Dylan Gabriel or Shador Flacco, I fucks with flacco. I play with the Ravens Flacco a hell of a quarterback. He a real good dude. But he ain't your quarterback of the future. Can he pick it?

I seen you playing Pittsburgh. You ain't the quarterback. I'm going with one of the young guys to see what they can do. And if they can't do it, we're going to be a terrible ass team. We're going to draft one of these franchise quarterbacks coming out in a draft next year. That's what I would do. but I'm not in charge. What would you do? I'm doing the exact same thing, man.

Yeah, I don't know what the fallout is, if people moved on from the Shadoor situation with the speeding or whatnot, but yeah, obviously. Let's talk about that. Please, please, please, please, please. Don't fuck with me. Man, if, please, please, please. Don't fuck up. Really? Man, if they don't get the fuck out of here with a speeding ticket. Speeding ticket.

Come on, bro. The crazy thing is like, this might sound crazy. Like, so they say he's in like 160. That means he's on an interstate. Like, bro, if the interstate is wide open, I'm doing a hundred. Hey, you in Cleveland, it's probably not, ain't cold right now, but it was empty, I guess. Because if it wasn't empty, you can't even go that fast. That's what I'm saying. That's yes.

Like, I get it. Be safe because you need to protect yourself. And you also need to be cautious of others. When you on that road, I get it. Don't I, I don't want y'all to think that, Oh, I'm just out here driving like a bat out of hell. No, but getting a speeding ticket is not, Oh my God, he's a terrible decision maker. No, he's a young kid. They got a fast car.

When you get a fast car, sometimes you gonna punch it. You just wanna see what it feel like. That's what you do. You not gonna do it all the time. Yeah, if he's going 100, weaving through busy traffic, that's a whole different story. If we on a straightaway and I'm just, I don't see the problem with it.

I don't see the problem with it. We live in a day and age where everything is instant, you know, we get the news right away. And they made that. Cancel him. Yeah. But again, Suez Pops is he's been in a spot. He just has to know that any and everything he will do that's negative. It's going to be magnified. He has to be aware that like this, the life that shows you he didn't choose this life, we don't choose our parents.

His pops is one of the greatest athletes in the history of being an athlete of any sport. is Pops is one of the greatest athletes in the history of being an athlete of any sport. And so this is the life you were born into. And he's been living this life alone. He just has to be aware of it. I'm sure he is like, damn, they really put on TV that I got a speed ticket. Yeah. And then you got another one.

They put that one on there too, but oh y'all like the, I can't believe people really, uh, got their panties in a bunch over there. I couldn't believe it, but you do gotta be smart because you, you, you got to protect yourself and it's other people out there that, that you must protect. But speeding. Wow. Yeah. That blew my mind.

Yeah. I saw that and I'm like, bro, what are we doing? But yeah, it is a lesson for like, every choice I got to be conscious of as the quarterback as leader as Prime son already being in this spotlight I need to be extra conscious of the choices that I'm making and I feel like you learn from this and I feel like he Shouldn't have to offer if he's really the dude that's leading the pack as a quarterback I don't feel like you should rip this opportunity away from him just for punching it in the, ah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

Just make better decisions. Like that, that's it. But the officer, like when you pull him over, you look at his license. Come on, buddy, slow down. All right. I'm gonna let you go. Like just, just do that. Slow down. I said, you know, we got one Yeah

Bro, they make me own I got I just got a ticket bro and in one speedin About a month ago, right? I'm in LA. I'm going from one freeway to another freeway and It ain't traffic, but I'm going by like 40 miles an hour. I'm in LA. I'm going from one freeway to another freeway. And it ain't traffic, but I'm going by like 40 miles an hour. I ain't, cause it was enough cars, you can't really go. So I'm coming down and I see buddy. He just sitting there waiting on somebody. But it was a bunch of, bro, he pulls me, gets right, as soon as I pass him, he gets right behind me.

I'm like, I got my seatbelt on, I wasn't speeding. Boop, I hit the window, I'm like, what was I doing? Oh, your windows are tinted. Yes, I said, huh? And so then I rolled the passenger side window down. I said, I just seen 50 cars pass by right now, all those windows tinted. It's cars in front of me that pass by you.

They windows is tinted. Why you ain't pulled them over? Why you, why you messing with me? And he still gave me the ticket and I think that pissed him off. So he gave me the window tint ticket. He gave me no front license plate, bro, all kind of stuff. me no front license plate, bro, all kind of stuff. And I'm like, bro, like, you just, you just gonna pull me, everybody has tenant windows.

Oh, and even fucked my whole day up. I was thinking about this dude, like I'm driving home, like I can't believe buddy just really gave me a ticket for nothing. Literally, you can give everybody a ticket because everybody out here got tenant windows. and my windows ain't even dark like that They ten it but is they not dark like that bro. I mean his corner. Take the ten off Take it to the police station. What the tip back all right, bro

Yes, it's a fix-it ticket and then he didn't even do the ticket right he checked no on the box So that means it's not correctable. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm giving y'all this that pissed me off So some of these officers bro, John me that's bolder man Trying to get that quota bro. Yes, I was mad about I know is I've looked at his name on a ticket I was gonna go see I was gonna DM him on social media So my couldn't be ain't even our show was gonna sit in I was gonna DM him on social media or something. I couldn't even, he ain't even know. I was sure I was gonna send him a DM, I promise. I promise, like, bro, but I'm gonna leave it alone.

I paid, got everything handled. But before we go, we gonna finish with this topic. And this, I would never do something like this. It's crazy. And this, I would never do something like this. It's crazy. Deontay Thompson, Deontay Thompson, wow. Deontay Johnson gets drafted to the Steelers. Starts his career off pretty damn good.

You like, wow. Buddy Balling. Got a goal, yeah. And off, well, he Buddy balling. Got a goal, yeah. Well, he's balling. Kind of started talking too much, fell out a favor. They sent him to Carolina. Go to Carolina. Perfect situation, ain't got nobody.

You going to be the lead, dog? Start talking too much, get your ass up out of here. Sending to Baltimore. I played in Baltimore with hardball. If you can't play for hardball, it's a problem. Because hardball, he just wants you to work hard. He just wants you to work hard. Which every coach does, but he ain't giving you no problems. This dude said, what happened in Baltimore? Bro, I could not believe it. I hadn't been playing.

They hadn't put me in the game. Okay. They told me to go in. I was standing on the sideline the whole game. I was cold, so I didn't want to hurt myself. So I didn't go in. That's real. That's real.

And so Baltimore, if you recall, they released him and then the Houston Texas picked him up, but I was sitting here like, you said it was cold, right? We done played in some cold ass games. And then when you look at the temperature, it wasn't hot. Bro was 41 degrees. He act like it was negative 20. And so, one, has that ever crossed your line if you've been in that situation? Two, if you are on that team, I wouldn't ask you how you would handle it because we all are grown men, but how would you take that?

Yeah, I feel like I understand the thinking behind like, all right, if I'm not, if I'm staying here and I'm an ice block and I get into the game with no warmup, I could pull something. But that's even more reason, like, if I'm on the side, I've been on a sideline in them games where it's like, I'm getting like, I'm like special teams. So like, I'm not playing every play.

You gotta, bro, you gotta every few plays, you gotta hit them A skips, bro. You gotta get a sprint up and down, do some half screen Frankenstein's like body, like body skips, bro. You gotta get a sprint up and down Do some hamstring Frankenstein's like body like bodies air squats something and if it's that cold When indeed when you're on that bitch to my body heaters He's in this I'm body heaters are all sitting on the bed on the bench. That bitch is hot as a motherfucker If the bitch be it'd be 20 degrees the bitch be so hot. You got to get up from that shit She's burning skin cells off. Yes. Yes

So I when I saw that I said Damn he he literally Is on his last leg this gonna be his last chance But he ain't nobody gonna want him on a team when you doing that and he's so talented He's talented, but he go team when you're doing that. And he's so talented. He's talented, but he gone mess around and get put out the league and be sitting up watching TV saying, fuck man, I'm better than him regretting.

He's going to have so many regrets. I played with a guy in Cincinnati. I ain't going to say his name. He was a special. He played, I want to say five maybe six years in the league. But when I got there he was a special team guy. And then he became a starter on defense the defensive player.

He became a starter on defense. And then Marvin Lewis comes in as a head coach my My third year, that was probably his fourth or fifth year. He wasn't a starter no more. He put him back, just on teams, special teams. So he started tripping, half-assing it in practice on special teams. They released him. They released him. He didn't get picked up, I swear. Midway through the season, he was just,

he called me, because we was cool. He was like, bruh, I'd do anything to cover a kick right now. Anything! Because we take for granted what we have, and then when it's gone, it's like, bruh, never played again. I think he might've gone to play in Canada, but he never got to the league again. And I say that to say Deontay Johnson, you got to be careful because it can be

taken away from you just like that. Tom Brady retired, man, the league keep on pushing. Peyton Manning with the league keep on pushing. Michael Vick, the league keep on, it don't matter who in the league, the show gonna go on. It don't need you. The show gonna go on with you or without you. And so that hope is a warning to him

and everybody else that's listening. When you have something good and being in NFL is a hell of a, a lot of, you know, they all it's a privilege. Yeah. We've earned it. We we've earned it, but I'd rather be in the league than not being in league. Let me just put it that way. Yeah.

It takes, but it takes a level of maturity and emotional intelligence to stay in a I'd rather be in the league than not be in the league. Let me just put it that way. Yeah. It takes, but it takes a level of maturity and emotional intelligence to stay in a game knowing like, all right, I'm not getting the opportunities that I would have wanted or that I think that I should get as a player of my talent to stay locked in all four quarters. Like that takes discipline. And I feel like there's a lot of these young dudes

that come in the league that may get some opportunities early on and that ego get hit when you don't really play as much or some teams get you up out of there. Like having that level of maturity, like hopefully he can learn from this and like we'll get another opportunity. But shouldn't you have the awareness when you go from Pittsburgh, Carolina, Baltimore, and the span of a year, shouldn, you have an awareness to where I'm in Baltimore right now. They got Zay Flowers. They got Rashad Bateman, Nelson Aguilar. I don't know how much I'm a put. I wasn't here at the outset. You can't.

But when you are back up, you have zero, you have no equity. You don't have any, you can't do that. Maybe you want to be at home, do what you want to do. Yeah. That ego can have you blind to reality though. If you don't check it, realize like I'm contributing, I'm the common denominator in all these situations. If you can't see that you'll be in a situation like that and not be able to be like, all right, cool. Like the opportunities might be cut a little shorter here, but I'm the common denominator in all these situations. If you can't see that, you'll be in a situation like that and not be able to be like, all right, cool.

Like the opportunities might be cut a little shorter here, but I'm gonna stay locked in because there's potential for me to make a play at any moment in time. I don't know what could happen in this league, but when you don't able to put that ego to the side and be humble enough to be like, all right, I have a part in this, it's tough. Yeah, so man, that's it for Nightcap.

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