Games with Names - The Stevan Ridley Episode

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

Stevan Ridley is in studio! The Super Bowl Champion, former Patriots Running Back, and LSU great is with us to talk ball, the first time he met Gronk, SEC football, and a whole lot more. Rid also picked a Dude he wanted to talk about: Adrian Peterson. It all culminates in The Chillest Dude of the Week presented by Coors Light where we find out what kind of Dude Stevan Ridley is. Catch the Dudes Live at GRONK & JULES PRESENT WELCOME TO THE NUTHOUSE! August 28th at MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston. Tickets are moving fast!  Get Tickets Here!Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Good thing I didn't go here for school because I won't even be in the NFL. Welcome to Dudes on Dudes. I'm Julian Edelman. And I'm Rob Grankowski. And this is the show where your favorite dudes talk about their favorite dudes. And today we're joined by our favorite pal of all time, Stephen Ridley, to talk LSU football, our Patriot Days, and modeling his game after Adrian Peterson.

Plus, we find out what kind of dude kid, rid, is in this week's chillis, dude of the week, presented by Coors Light. Let's go. dudes on dudes is a production of i heart radio my dog got the got the bullet wound right there in the neck how you wait till we get going on this one buddy huh i said you wait till we get going on this one my dog's over here fresh off of iR man here surgery here oh dude i'm all over the place too here both feet that one's easy though man you're going to come right back and you're They wanted to look at you.

You have one of your best shows I've ever seen you do. You broke down the Patriots training camp. Last show, like no other. I just kept asking questions. It was great. It was the Jewel show. He was killing it. Oh, he was killing it.

I mean, I wasn't there, so I couldn't break down anything. Jules was there. And you pay attention, though, when you're there. I try to. You're kind of like more of a coach. I was. Well, I want to see, I'm comparing and contrasting to, like, you've, it's so crazy. I think back on our training camps when we were at our peak.

bro we were like a high old we were an oiled machine like there was rarely balls in the ground a bad day was if we didn't go 85% on in you know with with with in the past game like it was so clean like everything was clean we were fucking pros that's true you know and I go to these camps and I try to see you know the good teams like I went and saw Kansas City before the Super Bowl they look clean they looked sharp they were all everyone was using their time effectively organized, man. Then I've gone to some camps where you're like, you know, this is, all right.

It's like, it's like crapshoot. It's like high school, the first day of high school camp. Everyone's all over the place. And then I've been to camps, though, where like you go and you're like, man, they look shitty. And then they go out and they're hell of good. So I don't know. It's crazy. It's, I mean, I really think it's just the standard that was set where we were, when we were.

Yeah. You know, I just remember us starting periods over because Tom was pissed that it was too, many balls are around two or three early in the period you know and he was like man start this shit over we really started but that was our standard you know what I mean like we really had the athletes there the pieces were there you know we knew what we were capable of and like we weren't accepting mediocre shit and having a standard like that makes you a consistent ball ball team so you can say that jules like you said you saw a team not have such a great camp but they were all over the place but then they would go out and ball but then the following week

they would be all over to place again when you have a standard and you set the standard high and it's there every single day. Well, the consistency is there every single day as well. And if it does dip, it will always come back up as well the following days. And if it goes too high, it'll come back down, you know, because you can't always be at the high high high. It can't peak all the time. But it will always be there to, you know, at the base level of where it needs to be

when you have a true, true standard in the organization. 1,000% if you guys don't know by now, we have Stephen Ridley here in that house on dudes on dudes. And we were just talking about camp. It's camp season right now. And everyone's, you know, as athletes, I feel, do you feel, I feel it, does your body, like, tell you right now, even though you've been retired for whatever, how many years that, like, man, I should, I should be fucking running right now because it's camp season. Like, we've been doing this since we were eight years old. Yeah.

Do you have those feelings? I do. I mean, I can't lie. I was talking to my mom about this a couple days ago, flying back home, just being out in Cali for a while. I'm getting soft, but I go back to Louisiana, flying in New Orleans, and you step off that plane, man. And when you step off the plane, it's like the heater's blowing, the fan's blowing the heat, there's a fire behind the fan, and it's just like, it's thick, bro.

And then I think back to the dedication of how locked in we had to be for this time a year, I was going home and I'm running hills on the Mississippi River in 100 degree heat, 100 degree humidity, and it's thick, and you've got to be crazy. You've got to be committed. it. You got to be a dog. You got to want it. But that's what made us different because we really had to get out there and get it in these kind of conditions. But it is a time of year that you know. It's like, man, I got to be gearing up ready to go because everybody's grinding right now. And we want to get out the blocks and be ahead. So that was the Patriot way. That's how we were

cut back in the day. If you want me to talk about us a little bit. We are joined here by Stephen Ridley. Let me give him a little introduction. He's a national champion at the university of not the university, but at Louisiana State University, L.S.C. Tigers. He's a Super Bowl champ. Come on. He kills ducks and sinks, putts. He's our good friend, Stephen Ridley, great friend on the field since the very beginning when he became a rookie all the way till now. Our friendship will last for a lifetime, which we appreciate, Rid. You've been the real deal ever since the beginning of meeting you on the field, off the field, in the meeting rooms. You're always just a straight shooter and we appreciate that of you brother Bobby G and we were talking just now a little bit before

we started this episode about working out and how you have to go through that grind and when your body wasn't feeling it when you were in middle of training camp you still had to go out there and participate but we were talking about how we still love the grind like that but also at the same time when your body is telling you hey we need some rest it's nice to sit back and relax and let your body rest and chill out and then when you're ready to work out again you're ready to work out again. How do you view that and how are you viewing your, you know, life with your body now ever since you stopped playing the game of football? And especially because you have a wonderful wife, Alexis, who runs at gym in Woodland Hills and is an unbelievable fitness trainer

and keeps your ass in shape a little bit as well. But how's your body doing these days after the football that you play in your career? Man, I think first, first, you took the words out of my mouth with wife, man. I got to give it to her. I married a good lady. I don't always like to be around her, but she keeps me in shape, man. Keeps me in shape, dude. Is that why you don't like to be around her? I told you. He's a straight fucking shooter, and his wife knows it too. Man, because I go home and get back to Mississippi, see mom and dad eat the good southern cooking. It's fried catfish, you know, but then you come home to wife and I kiss her on the cheek and I hug her and then she's looking at me the next morning at 6.30 a.m. because she's out the door.

Baby's going to work early. And the next question that comes out, babe, I love you. Are you coming to the gym today to work out? So it's like, I have a permanent coach. You know what I mean? And so that's how I look at my body right now. But I'm not pushing and grinding as hard as we used to because people don't realize the work that we put in on the hell days when nobody in their right mind would even be out there. We had to push harder and go further. And so now it's like the luxury of being able to say, I ain't working out today. I ain't working out tomorrow either. Might drink a beer on Wednesday. You know what I mean? I can do that. But I'm not going to go, what we just say, too long without getting back in that

gym at some point in time because you get sloppy pretty quick. But how good does that feel like your mind's telling you after like three days, all right, it's time to work out? So then you don't really push yourself. It just feels good to go in the gym, work out hard, let all the endorphins release. And then you don't have to worry about it again for another two, three days. That's the difference from grinding every single day to now, you know, well-deserved being retired and just grinding when you need to and just staying in the shape that you just need to be for living life. And more for me, I think it's just like that sweat.

Like you said, it might not always be like moving the weights. Like I laugh because I go to the gym and the gym that my lady works at, just train over in Chatsworth, man, people are pushing weights in there. It's active. They have a great community. and here I am ex-NFL player. You know, I'm not, like, labeled on my chest that that's what it is,

but people who know know I used to play, bro, I'm not moving over 35 or 45-pound dumbbells. No shame in it either. You know what I mean? But by the time my lady gets done making me do single-led squats and I'm doing split jerks with these weights and moving it at functional movements,

it's like, hey, it'll get you. It doesn't take much. So I look at it today as like, we're just trying to do the opposite of what the people in front of us did. everybody retired back in the day and they blew up you see players now retired everybody's getting a little bit skinnier you know what i mean so it's just a generational thing it's a time thing and it's just being smarter but um i think we all had enough hits and banged it out long enough

that the the workout is is uh just when we need it maybe the older guys got beat up a little more now too because just like those guys are in the technology of getting back like has been different in these last 20 years i would say than, you know, like you look at guys that play in the 70s or those, those guys got beat up, man. And we got guys that are beat up too. We're beat up.

But the technology and the advancement in, I would say, medicine. And knowledge as well. It is so much higher now where, you know, instead of just fucking, you can't just give up on everything. We're kind of educated that if you want to feel good, you have to work for it,

and you still keep it in your routine at some point. You know, a lot of those guys, it's tough because I did it in my first couple years or you're just like, I'm done. I don't want to do anything with football. You're exhausted. But, like, you realize that you always have to work in order to feel good because that's, you know,

our body's been through a lot. But, you know, you have to work for that. It reminds me, like, that rehab process, you know how when we all had those injuries that we were going to be down for a couple of weeks. And when you first get that injury as a player, you go in there and you hit the rehab hard because you're trying to get on the field.

Yeah. And as soon as you get on that field, you're like, what, that dog kicks in. You're like, I'm back, like, look, I'm screw the rehab. I'm ready to go home and lay down and chill. But we would so quickly go right back to being hurt or filling that little tweak if you don't do what?

Keep doing that rehab and that stuff after. So like that's kind of where our body is now. It's like we're not lifting to go out there and be gladiators and banged out. We're just trying to stay where we don't hurt to swing a dog group. We're in a full-time rehab house for the rest of our lives. If we want to feel good and pain free. You got to stay moving, man.

So who are your guys in the locker room in New England? You're looking at two of them, man. Not just saying that because y'all are here, but I'd have to say, man, we had a great group, man. We really did for my four years that I was up there and got to do it. When I think of the Jamie Collins, the Brandon Bowdens, the Amandolas, the Edelman's, the Gruncowski's, the Shane Vereens, the Garrett Blunts, you know what I mean? The Chandler Jones is, bro. I mean, like, you just look at the guys that were. on our rosters that really were quality guys that we kicked it with a lot.

And that's why I think that was different on playing for eight teams and eight years. My first four were in New England, I think our nucleus and how close we were, win-lose or draw as a team, those four years in New England was bar none, bro. We had a really dope team. It's because we were also blessed that we had a lot of continuity. A lot of teams don't have continuity. You know what I mean? When you get to play four years in a row,

with a lot of the same guys, that's a blessing. Because you know each other. We all kind of know how to work. You know what I mean? And then you get to add to your game. We were cool. It was cool to be in an environment that had that template. You know what I mean?

Yes. Yes. And when I think of that, I say we go back to that bar being set, man. We all want it to be great. You know what I mean? I can't speak in locker rooms now because I'm not there. But like, I feel there's a lot more individual. playing ball now than team guys.

And so for us, it was always like a position thing. Like, we knew the tight ends, bro. Chico, grunk, who man. Look at the receivers. Who man? Jules. Brandon Lloyd, Dionne Branch was there when I first got there. West was there when first got there.

But you look at these guys that are there. It's like, man, all these guys were going and like full go on the field every day. Tell people all the time, if you didn't practice in New England, a lot of times, you didn't play. It wasn't like we didn't get, I'm not going to say what they. We didn't get any off days, but Bill had that set that if you weren't on that field, Monday through Friday, most times until y'all got to the back end, man, you're snap. You're going to be truly established as a player in order to be able to miss a day and then have them start you still.

Like at least four or five years in the league and proven as well. Like Tom Brady, oh, he's going to miss Thursday. Well, that's cool. He's been playing 12 years. He didn't do that until late, though, bro. Late in your career. Yeah, he never did that when you were at. And I even say my first four, I never saw Tom.

And the people are like, man, who's Tom? You said, I'm like, Tom is really who y'all see? Like, he is. Like, he didn't start getting vetting. He works. He didn't start taking vettees. I want to say, like, 39. And that's crazy.

And that's before, like, and that's, we've seen a couple 40-year-old quarterbacks now, and that's because of Tom, like, usually that people were done at, like, 37. Bro, but that was the bar that was set for our whole roster, though. You know what I'm saying? Like, every room was competitive. Like, I look at this, like, we were splitting. And I was splitting carries, even on, like, my money year, we were splitting carries, bro. We had a stable of backs.

Shano, Woodhead, blunt, bolding. Hey, one of us went down. It was just like, you're going to slide the next one in there, you know what I mean? But as a unit, when you're up there and we're playing championship football, and we have a standard that, hey, look, we're playing practice, how we do the game, how we do walkthroughs, and nobody was messing around. Billy O is going to fire your ass up if you're not on your P's and Q's. Josh McDaniels will throw a fit in a minute and tell you to get out of there, you know what I mean? Like, it was a tight ship, bro.

Like, we were just about business, you know? So it's different. The captain of the ship was always the standard holder. Tom Brady. TB. What was your favorite on-field moment? While you were with the New England Patriots, I know you played for about six other teams after the Patriots,

but like you had a lot of great moments there as well, a lot of great stories. But what was your favorite Patriot on-field moment? Favorite patron on-field moment. I know you got plenty. I know mine. I'm going to tell you. you mine after about you about you writ after you know you tell me about yours but oh mine will

always stick in my head for the rest of my life what you did to this defender i'm going to tell you mine first actually go ahead yeah i'm going to tell a little story first you can you can finish it off but we're in london we're in london we're playing the st louis rams in london yes they were the st louis rams at the time man whatever um sam bradford i remember the first drive threw like a 40-yard bomb we were down seven nothing i was worried like we're really going to lose to the rams we're making a comeback kid rid is having a good game but bill was emphasizing the whole entire your time through up the week hey guys you're not wearing your fucking normal cleats the field sucks in london the grass is high you're gonna slip everyone's wearing seven studs i don't care i don't care

how big of a stud you are you're wearing seven studs even if you're a 20 stud guy you're wearing seven studs and they're going to be three quarter quarter inch studs as well long grass in london they don't know you know everyone listens everyone listens and then all of a sudden it's like the third whatever quarter and rid's in a full blown fight about his cleats and they didn't recognize that he didn't have his stud cleats on so then boom they're just going at it you can tell that part but i just remember after that they somehow still put you in i think everyone else went down or something you can finish off the story you got i remember this moment after that fight really got a handoff i blocked my guy you ran right behind me to my right cut it off you're about five yards in front of me

now and i'm just watching you make some guys miss do your thing and then all of a sudden you went full speed put your shoulder pads down and absolutely fucking truck the st louis ram safety like i never seen anyone get trucked before and i'm sitting there blacking my guy and went this guy was knocked out that unconscious because of your run i will always remember that for rest of my life running angry man yeah running angry and thank you the coach bellegh for emphasizing those those stud cleats break the story down yeah break it down what really happened what happened you you pretty much own it 80% of the way and um we went to london okay and coach said Like Grung said, seven studs

Everybody has to have seven studs Well, Under Armour was a new company Okay, it was still early on Tom was with Under Armour Ray Lewis was at Under Armour Julio Jones I was one of the first backs out there That was with Under Armour wearing my

Boxing boots You know what I mean? But I couldn't even wear my boxing boots Because they were molded So Under Armour really didn't have Many Seven Stug cleats I'm not gonna say they didn't have any They didn't have many

You know, I'm about my swag, bro Gotta be straight You know, you feel good, play good, you look good. Brito always had like these Superman-looking, fucking cleats on and shit. Keep going. The visor. Got to have a swaggy, man. Got to have it swaggy.

But you get out there to London and coach said have the cleats. And so when I looked up, I asked the equipment guys, I'm like, okay, what am I going to do about seven studs? Because I know I personally didn't have any. I've never owned a pair. Underarmor never sent me a pair. So I didn't have any. When I got to my locker, the only things that were seven studs were, All my underarmors were molded, and they had a pair of Nike, seven-stead cleats.

So I'm like, I'm not wearing those. I'm sponsored by Under Armour. So I go out there and we play the first couple of series, and, bro, I'm having a decent game. Like, I get down there to the goal line, this is the part, because there's a reason why Bill does everything, and I look back now, I'm like, coach, okay, you got it. Get down there on the goal line. We're supposed to be running in for a touchdown, and I slipped on the goal line.

Oh. And when I slipped on the goal line, like, my knee went down, and I went to the size. comes coach fears red maybe run over to the sidelines i get up to the sidelines how you got caught you slipped i slipped you gave yourself up should have been able to run in and when i slipped coach uh looked at me and he says um i said am i going back in you know i'm trying to get the tutty i'm right there we handed it slip down and uh he was like nope coach said you down no seven studs i said what said i ain't got seven studs he was like red we told you this in new england i said okay I said, well, coach, what do you want me to do?

Under Armour doesn't even make seven studs. He says, put on some fucking seven studs, real. I'm like, I don't know what you under. I said, well, all right, coach. I say, look, it's all good. If you pay the fine from Under Armour, I'm going to wear these Nike seven studs. I was like, if not, I'm going to lose everything I got. Like I say, I'm third round.

I ain't got no money. But I haven't a door to do it. This is on the sidelines. This is on the sidelines. You're not even fierce. No, and it's an argument. Me and Coach Fier's a full-out argument. It ain't no soft talking here.

understand this because I'm over 100 yards bro like in the first couple of quarters like I end up going 160 something but you slipped you slipped at the goal line slipped to be exact you had 15 carries for 127 yards in a TD that game impressive impressive stats right there being non did did bill come over to the conversation bill bill kind of got up there when I was me and fears weren't seeing eye on this I wasn't really backing down too much because all I'm thinking in my head is I'm going to be the one to lose my deal on a seven stud cleat and there's not even any available for under armor. There wasn't many, but there wasn't any or there was there was there was there was there's a couple though. I'm guessing they had some because when I got back to Boston, we had some seven stud cleats.

We did in under armor, but they weren't in London where we had them. What did you do? I had to put on the Nikes and spat them up and you'll see when we go back the second half, I had to spat over the cleat because I asked coach Fills. I said, Coach Fierrez, well, look, if y'all are going to pay the fine, I said, I'll rock them. I said, but if not, I can't wear Nike when I'm an underarmor guy, what would y'all do? You know what I mean? So I got benched, Mr. Quarter, got cussed out by Bill and Ivan. What Bill say?

Bill was like, just put on the fucking cleats rid and shut up. I'm like, I love that. Great, bro. I love that. Thanks, coach. Yeah. Thanks. I love it.

It's so straightforward. What else to do? So he did it to me, and I spattered those jokers up, went out there to say. second half and I was just running so mad because I'm like this is gross oh so you know eyes was the teacher and it rid's the kid that never listened to the teacher but the principal will always come in or the dean will come in all right so so you ran that guy over with the nike cleats so nike that were all spatted nike's that were spatted up and if y'all don't know what spat is I mean you should know what you got to be like you know the old school ballers that had to tape

all the way down where you can't really see much but the toe but basically uh you know Ridd was just trying to be a smart businessman and protect my, protect my sponsorship. And it costs my ass, a couple yards, a couple bentons, some lashings, getting cussed out. But, hey, there it is right there. Man, I'm done. Looking smooth. Still swaggy. Still swaggy.

Still swaggy. Well, it was old school. I mean, guys still spat then. Do guys spat? No one's spats now. I don't see many people spot. Not really. No one spat.

There's got to be some, there's got to be some like OG kid now. It's coming out. Bring it back. Let me let me tell you something. If you were those seven. I had eight stud cleats, the whole entire game. You would have been like me. I had 146 yards, eight catches, and two TDs.

If you had those studs in the whole time. Yeah, in London. I had the booty shake as well. And I had the Lardin of the Guard celebration. Yeah. I give props to Chandler Jones. I went into the training room the night before. I was like, Chan, I got to do something for the London fans.

Like, what can I do? And Chan looks at me. He's like, you can do marching of the guards. And he marched back and forth. And I was like, oh, okay. I had special team tackles. I had a tackle inside. one catch eight yards but that's okay i think i had that's okay you were playing you were playing

some special teams that game you got a tackle i got a tackle inside the five that slate was off sides on we had to re-kick dog come on we did go crazy up there look at these numbers we're going to i was coming off the broken hand remember this is my first game back with the broken hand you with the club i had uh yeah i forgot about that i had a claw on my hand i broke it against the ravens mm-hmm well that was my favorite i'm feeling moment. And a quick summation, what was your favorite field moment for you, Red?

Most memorable moment. I just think of my boys and my teammates. Ryan Mallet. Now, dog. When I knew, rest in peace, Maldog. Rest in peace, Maldog. One five, man. My first game in Foxborough as a rookie,

I remember them throwing Mal out there with me, and it really went this simple. I mean, it was like we were played against each other, Arkansas, at LSU. I knew a little bit about them, but that was our first time going through practice and kind of getting on the field against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

And so it was pre-seasoning. I ended up, I think, running for two touchdowns and catching a touchdown. But Mallet really looked at me and was like, Ridd, just go up the sideline. Like, we were playing like some backyard football and McDaniels ripped our ass for it. Score it on it.

Mowdog threw it up. You know, Mal didn't care. No, yeah. But basically, Mal was like, man, look, just go with it, Red, I got you. Like, the backer can't guard you. I'm like, how do you know? I don't even catch balls out the back of the back of the

one. My first and second down bat. But we're playing backyard football. preseason. I go over there. Mout throws me a bomb in the end zone. I think it was probably like a 30 or 40-yard catch, maybe the longest of my career. But that was one of those times I was like, man, I might be able to ball in the league a little bit. And then it was in Foxborough. It was the first game. So I think I started out on the right foot, you know, in Foxboro for the fans. So I always look at that. And I just think a Mowdog, man, just not

really cared and thinking he was Tom Brady as a rookie that he could just check a play and call it however he wanted to. But it worked out and we still got cussed out. So I'll give Maldock. Here's what it is. RIP Maldop. RIP. We'll be right back after this quick break. Hello, I'm John Lithgow.

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Listen to Shock Incarceration on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I always remember you always talking about LSU and how crazy it was playing there. Who? What's it? I went to Kent State. Yeah. I went to the University of Arizona. I had 586 people at my senior day.

Mm-hmm. Game. 586? I think maybe 1,000. It was snow, a little snowy. can you explain to us the environment and the the the time you had in LSU like just and what it's like just to be a LSU tiger because I I look at an outsider looking in I'm like man those SEC it's just different how they treat the football what is tell us dip into sometimes when you see an SEC program on TV and just overall everything about it feels like and in it's for He's like, it's better than playing on an NFL team sometimes. Can you describe it to us like what it was like?

I feel like y'all putting a battery pack of my back right now. And I'm going to let y'all have it. You want to know, Mac, guy, middle of the pack and the pack 10. Like, we want to hear what it was like. What was it like to be on the best? SEC champion. Yes, okay. National champion.

Okay. Well, let's say this. As a kid, you come up in Nashville, Mississippi. an hour from the steps of Tiger Stadium. There's as many LSU fans, Louisiana State University fans living in Mississippi, as there probably is in Louisiana. You don't find many Mississippi State or Ole Miss Rebels living in Baton Rouge. But that shows you the influence that LSU really has on the whole South.

Because LSU, when it comes down to the purple and gold and the Tigers, football is life, bro. And when I say life, it's everything. And I grew up in the era that I came in when Nick Saban was leaving. So I was watching that program be developed by one of the best coaches. I say Nick Saban is the Bill Belichickett College football. And when he was at LSU, he was really building a dynasty there. And he left and went to Miami. But as a recruit, me coming in, I was watching the Jamarcus Russell, the Loran Landry.

the Glenn Dorsey's, the Tyson Jackson's, the Dwayne Bowes. Like, all of those names I just named y'all are all, regardless of what they did in the pros, they were all top ten picks. All these boys were on the same team when I was getting recruited and watching going down there. So we go back to the standard and setting the bar and what I saw, you know, in Baton Rouge. And so I'm getting recruited and I go down there.

And once you get there, not exaggerating at all, it was during this time, you would have two to three hundred thousand people outside of the stadium every Saturday this is not made up the stadium sits between 90 and 100,000 and everybody is wasted I'm telling you like it's like they are there

to watch their tigers play they shut the city down everybody's in purple and gold if you're on the visiting team they don't care if it's your kid your grandmama your daddy you're getting cussed out if you're not a tiger what are they drinking every

moonshine is it what's in what's in no telling beer is by the keg I mean we got a kick I mean we got kegstand's going it's going to be crown royal crawfish crawfish what's the tailgate core's light of course for sure the rockies are cold they are and i mean the beer's flowing it's just the it's a it's a shit show it's like a marty grail but every saturday because this is what everybody in the south is looking forward to now are they a classy fan like i always like like what is what's what's the like old miss they all come in like skirts and like they're kind of they're kind of are they like

little yuppie. Your Ole Miss guys are kind of nice and tight. What are the Baton Rouge people like? Baton Rouge people have the culture. You looked on our sidelines. We had a little boozy on the sidelines. We had Webby on the sidelines. I'm not making this up.

Wayne came through. Snoop came through. I mean, you name the stars that wanted to come through and be somewhere. It's lit in Tiger Stadium on Saturday night, bro. And we're playing all Louisiana music. We're going to have the vibes right. I mean, you go there now. I wish y'all boys would come, grunk.

Took me up on the offer back on the desk while I rock with my dog. he came down in salt when it was but now it's lit they have it like a nightclub bro it is it was wild I was literally like good thing I didn't go here for school I want I wouldn't be on the New England pages I wouldn't even be in the NFL dude what because what I would have got caught up what was it was it was the by week or the off week that I was super bowl it was super bowl because we yeah it was your second year in the league my third year in the league because that's when I was going crazy yes We were all going crazy. Going crazy.

And I was like, Grunk gave me his words. Like, I'll come. And I'm like, yeah. And I knew Grunk liked the party. Grunk got it in. But I always felt,

I'm like, grunk partied hard. He played hard. When was the first time you party with grunk? The first time I parted with grunk was, the first memorable party, we were always partying on the short bus. Before we had the short bus was freaking awesome.

We sure were. I wasn't on the short bus. The first memorable party was, man, both in trouble but i'm just saying when you had that party at the house i had a party at the house and it had legit yeah it was legit a great atmosphere it was great atmosphere yes it was a lot of players here talk about what the best part about it was like i didn't i only knew rid a little bit and i just remember like oh shit we need some help like we need some help here like this

we need backup i call rid and call the road because i go rith i go i never know we never hung out before but We've been great friends in the locker room, all that. I go, but I need you at my house right now, and I need you to bring all the rookies that you can possibly bring because I need backup. This is a 100% true story. And when you walk in this house, I'm going to easily say in one house, there was 75 to 100 people that I did not know, that were not my teammates. It's when we were a little bit of a young kids.

Young bachelors. Maniacs. Young bachelors. Maniacs. Young bachelors. What about this ultra trip? Well. Oh, that was one of the best trips of my life.

That was awesome. Mm-hmm. Because that was my first time. What year was this? Why, 2012? 2012? 2014. Was it the last year?

It was the same year after I blew out my ACL MCL. So I blew out my ACL MCL in like November, I think of 2013. So it was February, March of, it was March of 2014. Because I came back for the 2014 season, and we won the Super Bowl in February of 2015. And I got a comeback player of the year that year. So it was March of 2014. We all went down to Miami. We went to Ultra.

We had a great group. We had all your friends, all my friends. We had a penthouse in Miami, man. It was just one of the best times. It was the first time we truly got outside of the Boston area. We did. And we just took over, man. We were hitting pool parties.

Hidden pool parties. We were in DJ books. And I just remember us really being, they were giving us the VIP treatments and we were just bouncing from stage to stage and in the DJ booth. But you look out and it's like, you see these flags from people like all over the world.

You remember that? Because it was like when, who was it, Swedish House Mafia? It was like on their last tour and their last show. And you look out there and you see these flags and these people and it's like, bro, I guess this is how they look at us

on Sundays and we're out there playing and doing the thing. But the atmosphere that it was in Miami was like, That was one of the biggest parties I think I've ever been on. And we ended up migrating from stage to stage, ended up on a yacht somewhere out there in Miami. And it's like a typical Miami party that it's everything over the top, but it's so normal down there.

But in us being there, bro, it was one of those parties that I'd say it was noted in the books that it was one of the best. It was top because it was a three or four day banger that we were out on there just going crazy, you know? I mean, outside of all this partying, I just read whenever I'm hanging with you, man it's always a party we don't even have to hit the bar anymore we don't have to go to the club anymore friday night when we were 23 years old that's what i love about you man you bring the

juice every single day whatever you're doing you bring the mood up in the room every single time you just overall just bring that vibe where you just make everyone else feel that vibe as well and that's why we appreciate you man and back in the day yeah it was going out to miami and partying and and bringing the vibe but what's so cool man is that you haven't changed one bit yeah We're slowing down. We're calming down. But you bring that vibe just here on the podcast. You bring that vibe just playing pool.

You know, bring that vibe just going out to a restaurant. That's what I really appreciate about you throughout the whole time of knowing you, man. And just lifting up everyone's spirit, man. It's much appreciated. Man, I love you, bro. And you always had really good, cool toys. Like, Ridd was the guy, like, on the off day.

All the guys would go to Ridd's house. He lived up on this area, North Lattabro, that had, like, a fire lane where he had, like, all these side-by-sides, quads, dirt bikes. He had every fucking toy. Can I throw it out there? What? I throw it out there. I find it I'm going to let you keep on with this.

I got to give my people a shout-out now, y'all. Yeah, no doubt. It took me 13 Plaris's to finally sign a deal with players this past year, y'all. Let's go. And I tell people all the time, I'm like, if y'all could hear the stories of back in the day on our off days and here you are telling it, we were just trying to do anything on a Tuesday to get away from the football field for a second. Yeah.

But we spent many off days on Tuesdays randomly. Tuesdays riding the power lines you know what i mean just going so go ahead jules my man's field power lines in top of that rig got me to buy a polaris i think it was 550 cc you got the scram or uh um 550 cc four wheeler and then also a polaris side by side as well how much you get i paid it all in cash too oh yeah he did right at moms on route one who ninkovitch now owns mom so shout out to ninkovitch yeah he's a part owner yeah let's go nico so shout out to ninkovitch putting some money in his pockets back in the day. He appreciate that.

Dude, it was our life, though. I mean, we had to do something. You know, we couldn't get too far because it was a Tuesday. We had the back of work on Wednesday. But I just remember us riding. And it went from the side-by-size and the four-wheelers to Jules and Dole ended up on the pit bikes that just retired. Just retired.

About two months ago, we finally had to just say that was it. We threw them out. Had them. But they lasted, what, 12 years, 15 years? They lasted 15 years. they lasted seven drives we drove them seven times we bought them from china it was like they were like cheap but they were badass yeah yeah you know they're the little chinese dirt bikes they were great but like dude they were like 125s like they're they were fun we would go follow you guys on the

trails dude you were crazy bro it was where did this love of all these like you were basically like rob deirdex fantasy factor though they look that that that's a goal to meet that guy one day too because he definitely motivated me coming up but growing up in mississippi deep deep country you know it's um it's a different lifestyle down there so that's why i became a great athlete because it was ball it was hunting and fishing and it wasn't too much outside of that to do and now living in california and being blessed and fortunate we've worked we got on the side look where we're at you know this guy's got houses in three or four different states we can go get entertained whenever we want just like what city do we want to be in today and we go do mississippi you don't have that luxury

So it's like you have to have a simple life and be thankful for what you got and we grew up off the land, you know? So if I wasn't shooting and killing shit, you know, I was trying to ride and go fast and race and try to find an adrenaline rush somewhere. And if it wasn't there, then we're on the field working out trying to get better at the game. So it was like it wasn't that many options. But once I got out of the South and got up to New England, got to get around y'all boys, made the team. I laughed because as soon as I made some money, I took full. 14K and went and bought two snowmobiles, you know what I mean, and had those that might have been a bad investment.

But hey, look, you know, country boy out the south, what else am I supposed to do? So I got up there and got my snowmobile. If Under Armour find you for those Nike spattered cleats, you would have never been able to buy those snowmobiles. See the connection here? Oh, gosh. So this is, the outdoor world has always just been something that's been a part of me. But it's good because not a lot of people get to do it.

So it's always fun when you can bring people out. they get to see it and experience it and then it's like you kind of recruit people it's just it's it was crazy for me this is going to sound weird but you you were you were like the first black dude i ever met that had like lifted trucks road dirt bikes you were like bubba stewer i never met dudes like you know what i mean yeah and like i i it was just crazy to me you shoot guns like you hunt you were like super it was you were like the first country like cool black dude I met that like went to country concerts and stuff my god I never met any guys like you before I appreciate it because they don't have that in Cali it's a little different you know what I mean

yeah they don't have that in Buffalo New York either that's what I say you come out the south babe we were city slickers rock the boots you know we like four by fours and jacked up trucks but it's just man it's country living at the end of the day but I tell people all the time and I can humbly say this man I'm just I'm a unicorn you know and I couldn't leave the house as a kid any kind of way. I grew up in a house full of women. They were always on me about my fits. Like it had to match. You had to be, you know, presentable. They didn't let you do so. Even though I'm from the country, my parents raised me to have like some style and some swag to it. But I never got away from my roots, man. So like I always wanted to just make a grip of money

so I could go back and buy a piece of property where I could just shoot Mallors all day and invite my boys down to come and shoot because it's a competition deal. It's like, In my dream, I would have me like a driving range out there for 100 yards where I could hit golf balls and then you turn around on the back side. We might be shooting skeet, you know what I mean? But it's all good, fun competition. But that's just kind of, that's the country boy dream, man. So that's where it came from.

That's the Mississippi roots in your boy, man. It was sick. Well, all the way from Mississippi out here to L.A. In the Hollywood world, what about that race with Kevin Hart back in the day? About what it was a year and a half ago, two years ago? Grace Kevin Hart, didn't you? I forgot about that. How did that come about?

And didn't he, like, pull his abdominal muscle? Did he really think he was going to get you? Like, he thought he had a chance for his kid Ridd. If y'all was, you don't challenge kid Ridd. I can tell you that. I don't care who you are. Tell me, though. Is that what it was?

What happened? I was a little thicker. I was a little thicker. And we were at a party in the backyard. And Kev is, like, everybody says, you meet the stars. I met him in person a few times. Kev doesn't really change up too much, you know, like he's going to talk his shit and poke his fun. But he was just on one that day.

Like, he just wanted to race me in cup, like poking at me here and there, but all in good fun. And then he finally just came up to me and was like, man, we're going to do this or not. I said, bro, you're wearing fucking crocs, man. Get out of my face. Talking about race. He was like, no, I'm serious. I'm an Olympic swimmer. He's like, believe it or not, I race Michael Phelps in the pool.

Like, I can do that too. but I watched him, bro, like on the basketball court, he was betting money shooting around the horn, like going around the arch. Yeah. He was hitting shots. So he's athletic. He's small, but he's a big athlete. I'll give it to him.

And then he's got big confidence. And he's got a lot of money, so he probably hired a lot of coaches and shit, too, now. He got big confidence. And then he got me, he looked at me and he was like, if you think he can get me, he was like, would you bet the house on it? Going back to having big money. Way more money than I got. I'm like, what house are we talking about?

I'm not betting here, Kev. No, I'm not betting my house on racing you, who you are, how many hundreds of millions in your pocket, don't have a job, you work out every day. I don't know what you got going on. If you're saying you're this fast and you're pressing me for freaking 30 minutes straight, I'm sitting up here kind of wondering, like, what do you have? You know what I mean? I haven't run full speed since I left the Steelers. But I'm not going to let's talk me out of this right now. So I said, let's go. And I told him, I was like, we're going outside. He said, my shoes are in the truck. I said perfect. So we went outside, got down. You know, your boy had to stretch a little bit. Yeah, you do, dynamic? Laced up, oh, yeah, bro, laced up, laced up the shoes, tied them tight, stretched the hammies a little bit. And, you know, I got down in the four-point stance.

I'm in business. So you went three, what do you mean four-point? You went, track daddy? Track daddy, bro. Both hands down? Both hands down. Kev was sitting up there, standard, staggered stance. You do?

Did you know? You know, my get-out's lethal. I can't get past 50 yards, but. But more are you guys racing? 40. Oh, 40. So that's why I was like, all right, let's see what he's got. But we got out there, and Kev was, he was trying.

He wasn't moving. He wasn't moving. And when I tell you he was running, we ran the first one, and he accused me a jumping. Said I jumped off sides, gapped him, two or three links. He wanted to run it back again. And when he ran it back again, that's when the blowout happened. And it was like a freaking sniper was on the roof. You know what we were saying?

And when that hamshund grabs you. Dude, those are not, I'm not laughing. You just said, ah. Bro, hey. That's what it sounds like. When it grabbed him, dog, you just saw it in his face. I mean, and in his defense, tore the hammy, tweak the groin. Oh, he tore the hammy as well?

And tore a lower app. Oh, man. He was going. That means he was trying. I just thought it was a low. That means he was trying. I thought he only tore a lower app. No.

It was a groin hammy and. Lower Ave. And lower half. And that was on the second one. So that's why we said we were out there drinking tequila, having a good time. And next thing you know, we went to the street. You guys are over 36. You can't be sprinting on tequila. Bro, bad idea all the way around. All the way. All the way. So what was the bet? You get anything? I didn't, bro. I didn't have, I didn't have it in me to bet the house, as Kev said. I didn't. But, uh, scared money don't make money. It don't. It don't. And I probably, I probably should have taken that bet but when you haven't opened up your gate in years that's scary it is so you were a little worried

as well oh a lot of worry yeah a lot worried and i was drinking too so you're dehydrated we know how that goes we part when you're drinking sometimes though like everything's activated like you're good to go and you know you have like two sprints in you as well what party are you guys at yeah you're looped up before it all goes on you it worked man it worked in your favor yeah yeah what party is this Well, the party was actually Boss, who is Kevin's trainer, and Boss actually owns the gym Just Train over in Chatsworth, where my girl works.

Oh, wow. Boss and Kevin have had a relationship for like 20-something years, like forever. So Boss's birthday was at his house, and he was throwing a house party there. And so everybody just pulled up. That's pretty cool. Kevin came through.

What's the name of the gym? The name of the gym is Just Train. All right. And it's just trained over in Chatsworth. And if you're looking for a good gym, man, good people, good energy, great vibes. they get it in over there

money through Friday. We've done a few workouts there. They really do. It's a fun place to go and train because every time you go to the gym you don't feel like getting it in. Sometimes you've got to go in there and the people, the energy lifts you.

Get you going. Look at that form, man. Look at that form. Little lean, you got the high knees going. Drive phase, man. You still got it, my man. You'll always have it. I can't say that now.

The power. that that's your game the explosiveness right off the start no really he was kind of with you he's a couple steps behind the whole time right on him so he would never catch you but he was kind of with you at first the first 10 bro he was with you he was with you he's like you were rolling i'll take anybody for the first 10 you know that but after that you ain't get me if i'm in front of the first 10 i was smoke you in the first 10 tools you can't even move your neck i won't fucking you look like Frankenstein i was smoke you in the first 10 see i had a good 10 Joel, this is you're like a robot and you're telling

freaking K-Rid you're going to smoke. Give me six weeks. Give them six weeks. Six months. Look, uh-uh. Fresh off of IR, we hadn't played a snap. He hurt by man. And look what we're at, man. Well, you know it's going to be bad.

Anytime somebody starts off by saying, well, it's bad. Ladies and gentlemen, the age 40 years ago. To all my men, women out there that are 40 years old and above, it's not a game. respect that age respect that age or that age will make you respect it

I was just forced to respect it this is just public service announcement because I know people may see me out and I don't want you to be alarmed but I'm in a wheelchair I'm in a wheelchair why we're going to try to jump out there and do some young stuff

try to go out there and do some young some young man stuff and I was told to sit my ass down shouts out to Stephen Wiley I'm going to put this story out there Wait, wait, Stephen what? Me and Stephen, we got into a little debate. Having a shot, man.

The debate was based off who's faster. Those that know me know I'm pretty fast. Steven said, Kevin, ain't no way you're going to beat me. Stephen is an ex- NFL runnerback, playing for the New England Patriots. Very good guy. I said, Steve, you can bet it. He said bet. I said bet.

We get out there, we go run the 40-year-old dash. 40-yard dash. Guys, I blew all my shit. Tore my lower abdomen. My abductors are. I don't even know what that is, but I tore them. I tore those two. I can't walk.

He's funny. Sit my ass down. What are we competing for at this age? Why are we, like, what am I doing? Why did I even race? Got to be the stupidest man alive. This is what it is, man. While he's rolling.

Bro, bro. And I have to say with him, Kevin, you never know if he's joking or serious, right? So after the race, when he said that he tore his shit, I didn't know if he was, like, embarrassed and leaving because he didn't want to be there because we race twice and he got beat. But when he said these words to me, I knew he wasn't playing. He was like, no, I need to go to the doctor. He was like, everything is hot. I was like, oh, he ain't, he ain't playing around, you know, because you know how it is. If you tear a muscle, you get that.

Dude, it's, you feel it. It's bleeding. Bro. So when he said that everything's hot He hopped at the car His wife had to ride with him And they left the party But they left

And like the next day It was in the wheelchair And I'm just like I felt bad But it's like Bro You gotta respect to age As you said

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man that ever lived was Julius Caesar. And Jefferson writes in his diary, this proves that Hamilton is for a dictator based on corruption. My favorite line was what Neil Armstrong said. It would have been harder to fake it than to do it. Listen to American History Hotline on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's jump into the dude that Stephen Ridley wanted to. to break down set the clock let's get our AI anopsis so let's explain to rid kind of what we do here on our show dudes on dudes we we talk usually about a dude or two or three each episode rid and

we break him down we talk about his game for about 10 minutes what type of player he was but overall after the 10 minutes we try to put we put label him guy and label him into a category of what type of dude they are and there's five different categories that you can label them one is dog the other is a stud there's a stud there's a whiz a dude and a freak yes whiz being a guy that is innovative this guy's brilliant he's revolutionized something a freak being a randy moss dude that's just this doesn't look like a freaking mack calf doesn't look like a he doesn't look like a freak steeler's now looks like a freak of nature stud is someone who's had the pedigree his whole life He's supposed to be that guy.

Like a Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow of Pete Manning. You know, guys that were first overall draft pick, Heisman got, you know what I mean? They were always the guy. A dog is a motherfucker that has been self-motivated. It's motivated, had to maybe go the long road, but always like physically, mentally fucking tough. We'll bite your face off, not liked by many people, but fucking respected by everyone. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then you got the dudes dude who's like a glue guy in the locker room. The guy in the locker room that was, you know, a vibe guy. He knew how to be a great leader. He was the guy that would cool the room when it needed to be cool, but light it up if it needed to be lit up. So now let's get on to the AI synopsis of the guy, of the dude. We're supposed to be talking about that. Ridley picked here today, standing at 6'1 and weighing 220 pounds.

This dominant running back was selected 7th overall in the 2007. NFL draft the year I graduated from high school. He grew up in Palestine, Texas, and starred at Oklahoma, where he set an NCAA freshman Russian record and was a Heisman finalist. He holds the NFL single game rushing record with 296 yards and was named 2012 NFL MVP after nearly breaking the single season rushing record. He went on to play 15 seasons in the NFL for seven different teams. Let's get on

Adrian Peterson. Jesus. And Red. What's the first thing? Let's get his headshot. Oh, yeah. First, we need Ritz headshot up here, man. I forgot about you, man. About the headshot. I didn't forget about you. I forgot about the headshot.

So let's get your big ass up there. And let's get this smooth criminal Adrian Peterson up here as well. Put those side by side? One of the best running backs to play the game. But what's the first thing you think of a of Adrian Peterson, why did you pick him? I think of AP, I remember everybody I called him AD all day, AB.

And I just remember him in Oklahoma. Oh, my God. When I was coming up playing ball, I'm watching this guy running Oklahoma. And I just remember as a running back, like how aggressive, downhill, and violent he ran. Like, you just didn't want to be in his way. And so as a running back, me, that's what. jumped out to me on his film, and I always kind of liked to say I tried to pattern my game after that. Like, I just wanted to be somebody that you didn't want to tackle for four quarters.

And AP was really that guy. I think for the years that he was on in college and the pros, when he was healthy, he was electric, man. He was electric. Have you guys ever hung out? I've bumped shoulders with him a few times. I had a friend of mine who was a real close with AP. Yeah. And I think it was my second year after I ran for a lot of yards. He got AP. he to sign something and has a picture and it's still in my house to this day because that was my favorite running bat and he actually signed it and gave it to me

but no I hadn't had a chance to sit and kick it with AP for a period of time I'd love to do that though just to pick his brain because he was he set the bar back of the day I'd have to say he was like explain how dominant he was at Oklahoma

I think back to those days what was like Reggie Bush was kind of doing his thing Reggie was arguably the best football player in college football history but both of them same position to night and day different running backs, right?

1,000%. So when I think of AP, AP was that guy that really just wore a defense down. Like you knew, everybody knew in the ballpark he was getting the rock and you couldn't stop him.

So for a running back to really have that dominance as long as he did and then people know that he's the stud, he's the man that they have to stop for that game and they couldn't stop him for how many years, 15 in college and four in, I mean, 15 in the pros and four in college, that's two decades right there.

So for me, I tip my hat and I say, it's hard to say, who's, who's better? What are the few traits that makes him so good in your eyes? His explosiveness. His explosiveness, him being able to finish a run, and then the physicality he played with. And I could tell that, you know, he definitely was your favorite running back, because that's kind of the way that you molded your game as well, Rid. you were explosive off the lining of scrimmage. You were a physical guy.

It was hard to take you down. You plowed through defenders. Not one guy was tackling you just like Adrian Peterson. So that's cool, man. That's really cool that you get to look up to him and mold your game after him as well. And now we're here talking about him here on dudes on dudes. Well, what's your, you said two unbelievable running backs in college football. And, you know, you could argue both in pro, certainly AD.

He had a really good career as well. But college football Mount Rushmore of running backs. Reggie's up there top, for sure. But what's the college? What's the Mount Rushmore? You get four. Top four. Top four in college?

All time. Ooh. That I watch. So we're going, I'm going to go Reggie. Reggie's up there. I'm going to say AP. He said those two. I will go, I was younger, but I remember watching these boys down in Miami.

Willis McGahey. remember William Mr. McGahey and Clinton Ford is his junior year and you're going Clinton Ford is too that's your that's your four right there I don't know if that be the but like what about right what about uh Barry Sanders who won a Heisman that was before my you know Barry was a little bit before my time like he was there but it's like who did I watch so we're talking to your era like my era that I erie Williams I was that was the next guy I was about to say Ricky was nasty in Texas man I mean Ricky Williams was a fucking load yeah so when I think of backs like that, and even

Cedric Benson, you all remember him back in the day? These were the guys that I like watched. So when I see the game now, it's like to be a running back, you got to be like a fifth or six receiver, catching a rock off the back field. Well, back when I was coming up, we're banging it out with linebackers that are 250, 260. You know what I mean?

So you had to be a bull. And when I think of a bull and like dogs in between the tackles, Reggie did something that no back can do. AP. I would have, I would have Ricky up there as well. I would, and who are going for the fourth? I would say, go McGahey, man.

McGahey was nasty. Of course, ACO, though, remember? He did. They did. I tore mine twice. You know, I kind of going to look at guys that have to dig deep and come back. We know what it did.

College. So you have who? Reggie. Reggie. AP. AP. Ricky Williams. Ricky Williams.

I'd say that our, McGahey or Clinton Porter. Both of those boys were people I like love. Scumagahee, then. All right. So these are the Mount Rushmore's of Stephen Ridley, people that he watched at Running Back. Yes, yes. Pattern my game off of, watch film,

before I was even watching film. These are guys I was looking at, like I want to be like that when I get older. That's a solid four. AP, dude, he ran for 2,000 yards after an ACL. He was eight months out. Okay. it's not human no that's that's like not that was like the i remember that being the first time

someone came back that fast after the ACL and had success production he was he was legit probably like it's kind of like when the first person to break the uh what four minute mile and then after that like 17 people did it in that next very next year but no one in the feet of time could beat it until that one person, and right after that, a year later, like 15 or whatever number amount of people beat it because someone did it. It's like the first time someone went eight, eight months. Now that's like the standard. That's standard, yeah, yeah, because it is.

An ACL recovery blew it out is normally like a nine-month recovery. You know what I mean? I didn't feel good until 18. And it takes time. But, you know, some guys come back and do it a little quicker. But for him at the running back position and then how he was dominating before the ACL and then came back and did that the very next year, that don't never happen again, man. Because they literally put the load on them, right, fresh off surgery.

Most times they try to slow play you and let you come on back and get healthy. Back in the day, they were like, hey, P, feed them, you know what I mean? So he was... I mean, he rushed or he tears his ACL. He toured in December, toured in December. Wow, late to see. Comes back and gets 2,097 yards, 13 touchdowns, 6.3, a carry, nine months after ACL MCO. And he's the last running back to win MVP.

which is rifle still yeah still off of that season off of that season i mean if anyone was going to do it it would be it would be say quan this year there's last last year well one trade as well that we haven't talked about and it's his vision he can see down the field he can see defenders coming out on make him miss that's what makes him such a great running back as well as long strength with his physical traits and his strength obviously but he runs upright which is what you really don't see out of a running back and that's what you really don't see out of a running back and what you're not what's what you're not taught growing up as a kid it's always have you know your shoulders down over have your pads over your knees he runs straight up right but he's such a physical

freak of nature that when a guy's come at him and he's so fluid he can just put his pads down at the last second and the defender wasn't expecting that so that's what gets him that that little advantage of that unexpected of him putting his pads down and lowering his shirt shoulder and just trucking the guy in front of him. And that's why he was so hard to tackle as well because he can run upright, have the vision, be able to get in full speed stride, but then had the athleticism of being able to juke and just put his pads down faster than and then you've seen anyone else do it at the running back position. He was a freaking, to me, it was just like a horse out of a stable, bro. Like he just like his gate and how

aggressive he really used to run. And like you say, most running backs, that's what they want They want you, you know, tuck down and low. But AP was like, man, you let him out the gate. It's a home run. You know what I mean? If you come to him, you're getting punished. But it was, he was just a, he was a, he was a, he was the guy. Week 8, 2007 versus San Diego Chargers.

Minnesota wins 35 to 17. Adrian Peterson rushes 30 times for 296 yards. And the league. Three touchdowns broke off a 61-yarder and beat the previous record. holder by Jamal Lewis, who had a 295-yard game in 2003, which I remember that game when he was with the Ravens. Like, that's insane.

30 touches in the NFL, y'all? When do you see that? I wonder how many touches he, for a while, like, averaged during his career. 20 plus. I'm talking, like, throughout a whole season. Like, I would say by the game, I would say AP was probably touching when he was really rolling back a day. He was getting that ball 15 and 25 times a game.

You don't see that much often. Ever. Now. Ever. You got a lot of these two-back systems, which you've got to keep the guys healthy. Yeah. This is crazy. And for him to do it how I did, but that's like where we look at it.

It's like, man, if we had like going back to us playing back of the day, we would have to have like a serious injury to our offense. You know, like tight end down, two of our receivers down that we really have to lean on the run game where somebody's going to really get the ball 20 to 30 times a game. You'd always rotate it, try to keep a guy fresh, try to prolong your team and keep us healthy going to the back end. that's that old school ball that we grew up watching that that's how the running backs had to get it out you know back in the day it was 20 to 30 carries and you owe the team 100 to 150 yards look at how many carries you had throughout right there those are all the carries is yours 238 carries 363 carries 314 carries 28 carries 28 carries 248 carries 279 carries got banged up 21 carry season 32777

Cairies, and then it starts getting a little, you know, look at how that, that's a lot of carries. But look at those first one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, let's say the first 10, nine years, nine, ten years. Look at those numbers. And that's in how many games, that's a how many game season two? 16. He's toting.

Hello. Like you said, he's a stabled horse. Hello. Bro, like, and he was, and he was that guy. I mean, everybody wanted to be, if you wanted to be a power back, that's who you were watching. I mean, it was. He was, he was, he did things that nobody else could do in the game.

I was in Pittsburgh my senior year when he was drafted, you know, top 10 into the NFL. And I would go to the, you know, other high schools when we were playing basketball into their arenas. And everyone was wearing Adrian Peterson, Jersey. Even being in Pittsburgh with the Steelers there, I've seen an Adrian Peterson, Jersey, at least 10 different other places that I was playing at. There would be like one or two kids in the crowd with Adrian Peterson. AP Jersey. You know, AP Jersey on. It just shows, well, you know, what type of player he was.

Even in the Steel City, people were representing AP because that's how big of a beast he was as a player. He was the NFL at one point. You know, he really was. He was the face of the NFL. And it was like everyone wanted to be a running back to it as well when he was in his prime, prime coming out of college and in the NFL. Remember at the Fiesta Bowl against Boise State with the staff? Statue of Liberty game where Boisey beat him. Is that one Boise State beat Oklahoma?

Yeah, they beat the Statue of Liberty play. Yeah, I remember that. I remember that. I remember the running back. He proposed to his girlfriend right after. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I do remember that. But I didn't realize that was.

He had two tugs in that. I mean, he was a monster at Oklahoma. Time. We got to determine what kind of dude this guy is. All right. Ridd, your guest out of the types of dudes we have, What kind of dude is Adrian Peterson? Is he a stud?

Is he a freak? Is he a dog? Is he a whiz? Or is he a dude's dude? And why? I mean, yeah, he's a stud, freaking dog and all that. But, I mean, really,

you can only pick one category that he represents the most. Okay. I'm going to have to say, you got to give him, give him that purple, man. He's a freak. He's a freak.

He's a once in a generation player. I mean, he really is. Why? Because I don't think you're going to see as many people with the breakaway and the physicality and do it for the duration that he did it, college and pro, with that label on his back. And everybody knew it. Like, name somebody else who was that dominant college and pros. We just saw it for 10 years. We know he did it four years in college.

And had the ACL came back the next year and do like, come on, man. That's a freak. That's a freak. And on top, it looks like. a freak of nature too i mean his biceps are just popping out of his arms mannequin veins just all over to play six-pack he's a frizzle chest chisel legs as well you don't want those problems that's a freak of nature you don't want that so on three gronk one two three freak we'll be right back after this quick break a foot washed up a shoe with

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Stephen Ridley. Heck yeah. Let's go. And we're going to ask Ridley, Ridley. No, I'm down with that. Thank you, sir. Our patent system of questions to see what type of dude you are. Well, let's give a cheers to Rid real quick. Where's our notepads? Ridd, thanks for being here on dudes on dudes. Thank you for having me, boys. Not a problem. Wonderful stories.

Take it easy. Take it easy. All right, and we're going to be asking Ridd, our patented system of questions to see what kind of dude he is. We already know he's a dog, though. We know he's a died. Oh, we don't know yet. We don't know.

We're going to ask him the questions to really determine and stamp it just what exactly he is. All right. You don't know what? you are you ready for this reds let's go let me get my notes i got to take some notes are there any wrong answers or you's got a questions for you now okay i got some questions uh here we go jules are you starting it off or you want me to ask the first question i'll start it off you started off stephen did you wear flip flops in the shower no so you got some nasty feet i got to take care of my dogs do

i do have to do that get pedicures now yeah so you went bare knuckleberry in the shower it's at work always. I ran barefoot at home in the grass and the fields and the river. Barefoot, bro. What was barefoot? He's quick. Connects with nature. Yeah. He connects with nature.

All right. Who's the most famous person in your phone? You might be up there, bro. I ain't up there. I say you? Kev? Yeah. One person.

He's way more famous than me. Kevin Hart's pretty famous. So you can already erase me. I think Kev and Tom Brady. Kevin. Kevin. You probably don't have Brady's new phone number, though. so it's got to be keb then i hadn't talked i hadn't talked i had a new phone number it's kev it's kev

yeah yeah process of elimination all right what sports did you play in high school in position of each sports start with football everywhere football everywhere basketball was a power four be ball no jump shot great first step we're going to score oh so be ball football player on the court power four and then we say Powerful. There's a asshole in here. And there we go. Baseball, I played catcher.

Baseball. You're an athlete. What did you hit in the lineup? Three, bro. Okay, three. Oh, three hitter. Three hitter. It's alive until you want to me to clean it up.

They put me back in four. You get on base. Get on base and we're still in. He's putting things in. And then, um, track. Oh, track guy, too. Yeah. Four sport athlete.

Track, Hunter, 200, 4 by 1, 4 by 2 through the shot put. Okay. Dang. That's it, man It's a baseball, football, basketball track That was pretty much it All right, thank you Much it

Next question What was the song On your high school Highlight reel Oh, throw it up By Little John And the East Side Boys, man Can you sing a little bit?

Throw it up Mother Throw it up Throw it up Motherfucker Throw it up Throw it up Motherfuck

Throw it up Yeah, if you're scared to throw it up, get the out of the club. Oh, if you're scared to throw it up, get the, yeah, hey, that was that banger. Little John, back at his height, man. So many bangers. Low-key bangers. Screaming the whole time. What star recruit were you out of high school?

I was a four-star. Four-star. Linebacker, outside linebacker, Jules, I was coming for you, man. Line up in that slot. I don't know about Robbie G. I wouldn't want to see Robbie G. Well, you were a four-star linebacker? Not even running back?

You were recruited as a linebacker to go to LSU? The only school that offered me at running back boys was LSU and the University of Southern Mississippi. Everybody else wanted me as an outside linebacker. For real? Side line to sideline. Oh, man. I didn't know this about you. I'm knowing you for over 10 years and I didn't even know that.

Defense. Oh, man. So, yeah, I played outside. Killer instincts, I bet you had. I just see ball get ball. That's killer instincts. Make some tackles. Seaball, get ball.

Yeah. Seaball. How many college offers did you get? Man. I will say four that matter. I sent out three highlight films and never thought in a million years. I'll say this humbly. I never thought in a million years I go Division I.

Send out three highlight films to the three closest D-1 schools of Natchez, Mississippi, which is Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and LSU. All three coaches came to my single-A private school. and came to visit and said they wanted me to play I went to LSU to be a tiger there you go what was your college GPA low we were playing football bro low great answer

that's the tiger experience you better have a low GPA because if it's high that means you ain't playing you ain't a starter have your priorities right sir we were focused on ball okay that's what it was what was your first car or what do you drive now Oh, dope.

My first car was a 1987 Nissan hard-body pickup truck 5-speed. My grandpa's truck had some little chrome ds on it. Drove that from the first ever vehicle learned how to drive a stick shit.

I met what was your first car provided by LSU? It's just messing with you, Ray. A Ford F-250. Ford F-2-50 And what about driving today A Ford F-3-50 Platinum bow

Lifted Thing is lifted Through the roof With like 28s on it Master truck tires Big trucks man Big trucks 4 by 4 is only over here man

What was your first Endorsement deal? First endorsement deal Had to be under armor Under Armour I think it was under armor We go back to the freaking Cleet story now

Remember that With the boots, man. Y'all always just said I had boxing boots on when I was running. Yeah, you look like some Superman shoes. Cam Newton, Cam Newton. Like wrestling shoes. This guy was wearing wrestling shoes, like Holkogen, up to here, boots. Boots are two-tone brought in.

Don't make me live. I heard it. What's the square root of 144? 144 would be 14 or 12? 12. 12. You corrected yourself really quick, so we'll give it to. Describe your locker.

Clean. It was clean. the boom box have the tunes did have the boom box organized lots of cleats so for sure name a player you modeled your game after and it can't be AP because we already know that another player

Beast mode more Sean Moore okay love beast mode that would have been a he would have been if I watched him in college he would have easily been on the Mount Rushmore you want to know why you know where he's from NorCal he's from that dirty dirty dirty stupidy do do skittie scat bay that bay

Hey, that is That's my guy Now he is He's another goat over there Skittity scat One and only E-40 The bait Hey

Marsha Marsha I keep on thinking Look at over here I haven't looked at the camera Once I don't think I can't move my neck Oh dude

If you weren't a pro athlete What would you be Truck driver Truck driver Truck driver it's all this is being true to your roots bro keep it 1,000 man what position group outside your own did you hang out with the most oh that's a good one that is a good one I'd have said defense though

because I was kicking it with with Jamie a little bit high so-so but I said those are your guys because you were a linebacker in high school I would say you guys play against each other a lot in practice yeah like we kind of one-on-one you kind of go against them so I'd say the linebackers Pretty good bit. All right. If a fight breaks out at practice, what are you doing? Depends, man.

Fight breaks out in practice. We've got to figure out what it is. But how we're going. He's going to analyze the situation first. No, he's going in. Depends on who it is. Got to figure out how hard we're going here. All right, all right.

Say a fight breaks out at practice someone. Offensive defense? Offense first defense. Yeah, fuck. Excuse my language. Fuck them. I mean, we're riding with our side. Yeah, until we're all out.

He's running, running to the fire. I like that. Running to the fire. I like that. Running. Let's speed it up a little bit. These ones we can go through. We can go through these ones pretty quick.

How much can you bench? Bench was, I think the most ever bench was, was it 345? 3.45, not that strong. No. That's strong for a running back. No, I wouldn't. That's not. Low end.

I wasn't. Lower end. You could squat probably. Have you ever been fined and for what and how much? Come on, Jules. Is that a real question? Yeah, we ask all the contestants. Have I ever been fined multiple times?

I got fined for my jumpsuits. I got fine for my moon boots. I got fine for my viz. I got fine for my viz. Conduct detrimental with Bill. I got fired for shoot a pistol on camera. I got fined. A lot.

A lot. He's been fined. He was fine. Shit. Wait? Wait. Fat camp. Yes.

I definitely got fine. Ridley has been fine. I had to get down, well. This is definitely shaping up to what I think you are. Oh, it's already in my head what type of dude, Ray, this last book you read? Last book I read, probably be the Bible, man. Bible?

I'm trying to get in there. Biblical man. What was your fastest 40 time? I'd say the fastest 40 time I read would have to be probably a 4, 5, 7, man. never could get under that four, five, five, seven. I was like a four, five, seven, four, five, eight guy. I was a high four or five guy. All right.

And then last two, what was the first thing you bought when you got your money? A Camaro that I still have today. A suit it up, Camaro. The thing suited up. It looks like the Batmobile for anyone. It really does. If you see a fucking Batmobile looking Camaro, it's definitely Ridley. I pulled it.

Day one, Tom told me, Red, save your money, man. And I still have the car right now today. And as soon as he saw it. He said, like, Todd, if I go bankrupt, man, you can, you can back me up, though. You got me? You got plenty. You got plenty. You got me? He looked at his red.

Just save your butt. I said, okay, Tom. Another supercharger. And then the last question. Oh. How do you eat your steak? Ha, ha. And there is no shame in me with this one.

Well done. I like a light bit of peat. in my meat. That's what I'm talking about. Not bloody. I can't do like. I'm on the same page. You like a fork and knife?

My steak? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What if it's like a bone in ribeye? Are you taking the bone? I'm going to eat everything off the bone. The sweet meat's on the bone with your hands? Hell, yeah, clean it.

That's what's up. Clean it. Well, we've got to analyze your answers, Red. We'll be right back. We're going to be right here, but we'll be right back to tell you. Thank you. We have came up with in a conclusion of what type of, what type of dude you are um so he's he's been fined a lot he doesn't listen to the rules

doesn't listen to the one he doesn't care about it yeah it doesn't and you can tell him 50 times but the rules aren't he doesn't wear flip flops in the shower it's disgusting and he doesn't care about hygiene all sports he doesn't care as long as he's giving his energy out this is the cool is light cooler four star four star but he does he is take i always leave my souvenir absolutely dog no doubt about that's what i had the whole time all right all right we got it we got on three it it was it was pretty easy yeah it was easy one it was unanimous unanimous yes yeah one two three dog yeah oh oh oh oh you're relentless you are motivated you're physically and mentally tough you don't give a fuck what people really care about like you you walk into showers with

when everyone is wearing flip-flops because it's sanitary and you go barefooted not soft you can be told what the rules are but you're still going to do your own thing you're going to be fined a lot of money but it's okay because your swag will always be up yes we're gonna make it back and you love to play any sport out there you play four in high school you just love to get exactly you just love to get your energy out for for sport athlete those are dogs yeah you got to do it if you're doing all of it You're, that's dog shit, you know. Yeah, you got to, and we say, I think, uh, all your best athletes, never really focused on one, one sport anyway, right?

Yeah, and, and it doesn't even know his GPA. It was low. It was low. Ballin. That's, that's a dog. Ballin. He went to school for one reason, and that was to be a dog. Mm-hmm.

Um, but you know how to eat. You know how to eat. Knows how to eat. We'll eat, but the fact that you don't eat the steak with your full hands, like the whole time is why you transferred to running back now. get it. Linebackers and crazy dudes, they eat their steak with their fucking hands. I was just pick it up and go at it.

Yeah, like when we went to a restaurant in New York with Rob for like the first time, it was like a fancy-ass restaurant. Rob's got a T-bone and he's chewing it off. People, I'm watching these people at like the polo lounge or whatever this is. Look at him like this. Like, what is that caveman doing? Going in. Going in.

Getting it done. Well, that was the chills dude the week. Thanks to our favorite beer, Coors Light. Get Coors Light delivered straight. to your door, visit CoorsLight.com slash dudes. Dang. Well, what an episode. A great episode, that is.

Thank you again. Ridd, Kid Rid. Thank you for joining the show. It's always good to be with my boys. And thank you for having me back, man. We love having you in the Nuthouse. It's about a pleasure, man. I love what y'all are doing, man.

I'm not just saying this. Hey, y'all are killing it, bro. We've got to keep the synergy going. It's been fun. Yeah. It's been fun to get to have, and now that we're going to start bringing more guests on, no it's we're gonna create a new like we've only had you're like our third guest that we've had in studio we've usually kept it a lot shorter we went longer with you because we have so much shit to talk about with you but yeah you know we're trying to find a way to do this a lot more because when you have when we have all three in here it's just it's a fun environment little interesting dynamic you know what I mean get to bounce some ideas off shoot it around but uh whenever guys hey look I'd love to come in and chop it up with your boys and I'm always supporting and see y'all moving and shaking so yeah

Got to keep it going. What's this cannabis company you're with? The company is called, check it out. Company is called Foy, which stands for Fountain of Youth. And I've got to get my boys. Oh, this is CBD and THC? We have. And CBG.

We have the best. And adaptogens. All organic. And Camelwell. Edibles in the New York market. Only found in New York. My boy's been supporting me the whole way. Y'all give me your thoughts on what you think.

Decent. I got to take them. Yeah. Try them out. Well, you try them out, but I can tell you this. We stand behind what we are, which I say about red. I keep it real, right? So when we started our company, that was our whole motto and our mindset is no fake ingredients, no BS, no preservatives, nothing that can harm your body.

We like to get a little buzz and let our hair down every now and then, but we can only do it in a clean way. So that's why we started our company, which is Fountain of Youth, and we have daytime, nighttime gummies, 10-pack. These are the four-pack if you want to put your toes in the water. but if you're in the New York area want to get around the city with a little bit of juice and let your hair down and chill try a foie gummy

check it out but thank you all man thank you for hooking us up thank you I'm going to try these tonight for bedtime and thank you guys for tuning in remember to subscribe on Apple podcast

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