Nightcap - Best of NFL News Part 1: NO HEAT on Vrabel?! + Browns QB1 NOT Shedeur

Episode Date: May 9, 2026

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You just understood. That's how personal it got. Wow. Then after that game seven, Marquis' keep coming to him. He's like, you know I love you, dog. You know, it's all love. This was just playoffs. This was just basketball.

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Well, who? Brain, I'm sure hoping you wasn't asking that question. I said, damn, my whole, we should have brief you, Brad, talking about you can't ask that. Oh, Joe, we should have told Ray, we should have gave Brad to listen to Thay. Hey. And he can't ask. Listen, it's not, it's not the first, right?

Brent, it's not the first and it won't be the last. And it happens all the time. What happened is people are looking at it. And they say, well, Shannon, what about Sharon Moore in Michigan? What about Aime in Boston? I say, guys, those are subordinates. Ms. Rusini is not an employee of the Patriots.

Mike Vrable is not an employee of the athletic. Yeah. In that situation, it's different. So I get it, it's morally wrong. Both are married. They're going to have to deal with that with their spouses. But now, hey, maybe it gets so hot that Mr. Krabb doesn't have a choice. But if the reports are true, he tried to catch and kill the story.

So he knew about it before the world knew about it. Well, the thing about there were a picture. He said that I wasn't involved with this woman. But then they went back and found pictures about six or seven years. And he was kissing. And he was kissing this woman at the bar. So, I mean, that to me. And I'm not saying, I'm not saying, you know, I'm definitely not saying he should be fired or anything like that.

But our society right now is really kind of different. When we're talking about stepping on toes and all this stuff. And he told the story and said, well, you know, you guys are crazy if you think it was a story. Well, you can't say that kind of stuff if it was a story. But see, here's the thing, because of your coach and your wife is really not visible, if they were out in public, you would think, okay, he's married, she's married. That's the couple. You don't know Mike Brable.

You people probably have never seen his wife. Now, the likelihood, guess what? They're in different locations. They're not in New York. They're not in New England. So ain't nobody for the wiser. There's nobody know. Well, we know now.

See it? You know now. If you got a wife and nobody has ever seen her and you're out with somebody else, people are going to naturally assume that's his wife. Yeah. And so now, guess what? We get this out.

You know what? I saw them in the casino one time. I saw them in a bar. As a matter of fact, let me go through my phone log. Let me see a deep photo. See? I got a picture of them too. You know what?

And another part, I think maybe because I've been, well, Joe, I mean, Brad, you as well, Unk, we've been in a lifestyle so much where we've seen so many, so many situations, so many cases, even some that weren't made public or we know about it behind closed doors, but we've seen situations like this so much. Like so often over the years, it's like to others. the regular folks, like, oh my God, look what's going on. But it's normal. And I'm thinking back to myself, I'm like, it's normal.

It's normal. Like in that world, like, y'all going crazy and acting. Like, I'm like, and to me, I have to reset and I have to think. Like, okay, you know what? They're not used to this. They're not used to seeing this. And they use the words, what about, you know, morals and integrity? I'm like, oh, my goodness.

I just wish you were a part of this world for just a year. You know, and I mean, like, it's different. And I think it's hard for people on the outside that aren't in that lifestyle. I don't live in that world to where it's like it's, I'm almost numb to it because I see it all the time. All the time. That's like, I mean, I got in trouble for cursing there's somebody about like, why did y'all talk about this on on nightcap? Why didn't this is a huge story? And I'm like, like, what the fuck?

No, it's not. This shit happened all the time. And I had to remember like, Brad, go ahead, go ahead, don't you finish. No, I mean, I had to think, like, I had to reset and remember like, okay, everybody doesn't live in that world. They kind of understand it. So, like, I get it now in a sense.

And the thing is, Brad, you know when you was in the league and when I got into the league, reporters would see things. And it never got out. You and the, hey, like. Because. I just saw, I just saw you. I just saw your wife. Because the reporters were hanging with you,

and they were doing some of the things, same things you would do. They tried to get you. They did them a dragler. But Ocho can say, Ocho can say right now that, yeah, he's numb to it, but our world has changed

from when we were in the league at one time. It's not like it was when we were all in the league. Even Joe's been more recently than us, the fact that the world has changed so much to NBA, the standards, all the stuff around it, it's easier now to get women and all those things that happened. But at the same time, you would boast a lot more, aren't you Joe, in this situation?

Hey, it's easy for your ass to get caught, too, with all these phones. This right here? Yeah. This was the greatest invention, the worst invention. In the same time. And with more relationships.

Right, hold on. A phone and that email. And this is, this is, hey, this is, hey, this is the funny thing about it too, Unk. You think about technology, right? And how far advanced we've come with cameras everywhere and camera phones and everybody having a phone out is all the things that are happening today, they've been going on for years.

They were happening before we were here. They were happening when my grandma was here. It's just the fact that everything is magnified now because of technology, because of social media. So nothing is new in just being brought. to light at a much more higher rate. That's it. Yeah.

Everything changed. I remember Joe Johnson said something to me, and I love this. Yeah, Joe, I'm putting stepping on your toes a little bit. I remember when you got to Brooklyn, and I saw you at the game one time, you're like, man, I never see so many damn pretty women in my life a damn New York City. I said, you were in the land. Joe said, man, he said New York City is on a whole other level. And you're playing with damn Brooklyn.

You won't play with them to Nets. Hey, man, New York different, bro. I was telling Auger Ocho that. But, you know, I think it's just, it's just because we're, we have access to so much. And we've seen so much, you know, the good, the bad, the ugly, that nothing really surprises us, bro. Like, it's hard to throw a fastball at me.

And I, you know what I mean? I'm like, well, I've seen this movie before. You know what I mean? But it's like now, it's like now when you think your ass low, you ain't low. Somebody see your ass. There ain't no, there's no, there's no down low. Ain't no down low. Hell no.

Uh-huh. You better keep your nose clean, boy. I see guys, I mean, I see people all the time. I just pretend, hey, how you doing? Nice to meet you. Oh, no, me, hey, hey, how you doing? It's nice to see you. I ain't never seen you before in my life, but it's nice to see.

But here's the thing I think was really different about it was, and I was single at the time, but I didn't know that women invested in men the way we invested in them until I got traded to another team. Then I found out about her. Wait a man, I thought she was with, but no, she was with. No, but she was with and you find out when you go to another team. of a sudden, damn, but these women are working this thing. And now even more so,

when I think about the money and how big it is and all this stuff, I'm just, I'm just flabbergasted. I look at the, who is your guy that's, his wife is an actor and his wife is an actress and she got all that money. He formed a basketball player,

played with the Knicks. Yeah, he played with the Knicks. He played with Cleveland also. He had to give us, his wife, He's famous right now. What's her name? You're talking about Tristan. No, he's talking about Tristan Thompson.

I'm talking about his wife right now is doing all these movies. He's on ESPN. Got real dark lips. I don't know who I'm talking about. Imai Shuffer. The money he had to give up to his wife. Ex-wife, yes, ex.

Well, the money he had to give up. I don't give a damn what the ex is. That wasn't a damn. The money he had to give up, he gave up four houses. What one needs four damn houses? I'm sorry. I'm up here. I might not be on the show ever again, but I'm preaching this thing right now.

I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. Brad will get up. No, man. Come on. Come on. Hey, hey, hey, like Martin say on thin line between love age, she broke me down to my damn police station.

I'm on the damn police station. Hey, I don't understand it. I don't understand it. And I know we're in the era where we see players and we see and celebrities cross together. But when I see some of the finances now, it's like, it's like Ant Man gave his baby mama, gave her a million dollars. And she wanted to come back and say, no, no, no, no homes. You didn't give me enough.

He signed the new contract. I'm like, damn, what is going on in this world? It's a scary, it's a scary, we're in scary times, man, for real. We really in scary times, bro. You got to really be careful. I think you should just go. I'll just go down to Tussies and get my money way down there. I'm good.

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Uh-oh. Sean Watson has emerged from minicamp last week with the early lead over Shador in the quarterback competition and has the inside track to be named QB1, according to Mary Kay Cabot. Head coach Todd Monkin hopes to declare or at least identify his starting quarterback by the end of mandatory minicapes June 9th through the 11th.

Ocho, I know it's early. Yeah. We were talking about this. Yeah. We looked at the $46 million salary. Yes, sir. It's hard for a guy to be $46 million to be on the bench. Either he's going to start or you're going to trade him or release it.

But he wasn't going to be there. Take us away, Ocho. What gave you the conviction that you say, you know what? Look, I understand your door. And he closed out. They got a new head coach. But Deshawn Watson, going to be the starter. Yeah, I understood Deshaun Watson.

Just understanding the business in general, Uncle Joe, especially the money that they invested in them, money that they can't get back. There's really nothing they can do about it this year. What he's making is what he's making. So if he's making that and he's, actually healthy this time and there's nothing wrong with him. Uncle Joe, he's going to be in there as a starting quarterback. I mean, people should know that from the outside looking in. You know what?

Very well may be. God damn it. Slipping my goddamn mind. Oh, that's your door? Shador probably will be the quarterback of the future. But we won't know until Deshaun played this season and things aren't going well. That would be the only time Shador unseats him as a starting quarterback. they're going to give Deshaun Watson every ample opportunity to not only win this battle to justify the money that he's making, but to also put on film

and audition for other teams after this season is up. Because obviously he won't be with Cleveland next year, Joe. Unless he have a hell of a year. But that's what I would be afraid of, Joe. I would be afraid of that, Ocho. He has a hell of a year. His injury history, then what?

I give him another, I give him another three-year, four-year deal, $150, $200 million. They ain't going to want to do that. No, I don't think they're going to do that. Because that's the going, that's the going to rate. How old? Deshawn's not that old. Yeah, but he's not, what, is he 32? If he's that?

But they're still not going to do that, though. They still not going to do that. Yeah, this is the opportunity for him to be able to show what he can do for other teams that may still be able to quarterback. Deshaun is 30 years old, guys. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. You mean to tell me, if this man goes, goes out, gets the Browns to the playoffs.

Let's say they make it, let's say they make it to the second round. Yeah. You said, y'all, y'all don't think they're bringing back? No. Mm-hmm. That's not your quarterback for the next 10 years. Your quarterback for the next 10 years is probably sitting behind him. I get that.

Yeah, no, no. Mm-mm. And I think they'll move on. I just say he's started this year just based on the salary and the amount of money he's making. and they're not going to have him on the bench, especially when he's healthy. Has the schedule came out yet? The NFL schedule came out yet? No.

I don't think. I want to see who them first six, seven games against. We know who the opponents are. We know, like, the NFC is going to play the AFC West or something like that. But we don't know when they're going to actually play. Okay. That's going to be interesting, no. It's, in a way, it's a good.

It's a good thing, you know, for Dachan. You know, Joker just gives them an opportunity to show that he can still play at a very high level. And it probably won't be in Cleveland after this season, but there'll probably be somewhere else in showing that you can still get it done. You know, they've got the right reps around you. They had a very, very good draft. Yeah, I agree.

So I agree. I'm excited to see what they do. And Shadour will have his opportunity. He's going to get a chance. He'll get a chance where the team is actually his. He doesn't have to look over his shoulder, you know. If things don't go right for Deshaun this season, Shadoo will step up.

And once you step in, once you step in at that position, you've got to close that door behind you. Yeah. Part of me agree with you, Joe, because I think Deshaun can make it very, very interesting. Yeah. Very difficult for the Brown. He goes out there and plays like we know he can play,

like what we last saw him. Now, we haven't seen this in a long time. It's been many, many years removed since we lost last saw Deshaun, and many had him as a top three, top four quarterback in all the football. He haven't seen that guy in a while. I don't know if he can get back to that injuries,

shoulder injuries, Achilles, things like that, have kind of robbed him of some of his ability. But if he can get back to that, let's just say he's only 30. Yeah. He gets back to that, Ocho. He makes it very difficult. Now, the question is,

would the Browns be willing to invest another $150, $200 million? dollars in him. That's the question. No. They allow that to be on someone else's books. They're a bill around Shador for another two years until he's up. And that would make, that would make more sense to me than investing. I already paid a boatload of money guaranteed to him, you know, I'm allowed, I'm going to let that money go on somebody else's books that needs it. I'm going to go young with Shador. It'll be a good two, three years. That's what I'm saying.

Before I, before I, you know, you got to pay him. Yeah. Yeah. The New York Times drops its unranked list of the top third, of the 30 greatest living American songwriters. Now Rogers. Lucinda Williams, Stevie Wonder, J. Z., Paul Simon, Taylor Swift, Brian and Eddie Holland, Missy Elliott, Lionelette, Lionel Richie, Dolly Park.

Young thug. Diane Warren, Josh Arsburn, Brandy Clark, Shane McNally, Fiona Apple, baby face, Stefan Merritt, Romeo Santos, Carol King, Outcast, Mariah Carey, Willie Nelson, Kendrick Lamar, Valerie Simpson, Bob Dylan, Laine Del Rey, The Dream, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Bad Bunny, Bruce Springsteen, Smokey Robinson. You ain't say Drake?

No, Kanye? You ain't say Drake? Hell, it wasn't me. It ain't my list. I just read the list that they had up there. I ain't got no Kanye. There's a whole lot of people that do a whole lot of writing, depending on how in-depth you are with different genres of music.

There's some names on there I never would have known. Damn. That were actual writers outside of doing music themselves. Yeah. I've heard, you know, Nile Rogers and J. Z. Paul Simon, obviously, Stevie Wonder, Missy. I mean, I know some of these. Some of these, I agree with you.

I know Diane Warren. Yeah. I'm young thug? Yeah. I'm sure young thug writes for other artists. Where's future? Yeah. Okay, how about that?

You got young thug as a better ride over future? I mean, how you ain't got drinking that, though? Real talk. What about Kanye? What are we doing now? Hey, doing exactly what they want us to do, have a conversation and get upset. Well, we have. You know, they left Future and Kanye out there just because.

They had to, bro. I love Future. I love Future because it's his soulfulness. Like, you know, yeah, he a rapper, but at the same time, he has a, he has, like, a unique sound, unique, like his music, you can kind of, you know, you, you, you really can feel it. I don't know how they left him off of there. They say Drake don't write.

Does Kanye right? Oh, man. Just future right. Which one of them right? They got to do something. Ain't know what I mean. Is it right, cat? The future right?

They got to. Ain't no way in hell they just do one thing. I think they got baby face up here. A baby face is the real deal, boy. They tell me about it. They baby faces the real deal. Now you went about some music. Who did?

So you think All these people up here They're the only ones Kanye is the only one That works with a group They work with a group So everybody else Everybody else is by themselves

Just everything that they come out with They wrote They might have left Kanye off on purpose Because he's so controversial Oh so they use it against him Yeah But he's controversial I mean big time

I just feel like Talent is talent man You're right about that. That's the way we see it. That ain't the way they see it. Does the dream, does he write? Jazzy Fade, does he write? Hey, you remember Jazzy Fade, boy?

What would you? No, big Jazzy Faye. Oh, Jazzi Faye. I don't see him all the time as Houston's up on, on Lennox Road. Yeah? Yeah. That Houston used to be jumping, boy. Jumping, man.

I love that right there by the Creole, too, Joe. Man, you go there, get that. That cheese bread. Yeah, yeah. Boy, he's eating. Man. Joe, you remember they had that chicken sandwich that Billemore Chatt? And they had them chicken fingers.

Them chicken fingers was off the chain. I don't know why they took them off the menu. What, listen. Hey, when I played in Phoenix, we should, man, we should go to Houston's. Right there, exactly. I know right there is Scottsdale. I know exactly what you're talking about. Every time I go, every time we play the car.

We get into the car, we go into Houston. Every time. As a matter of fact, when the Super Bowl was there a couple of years ago, She only and I went. Hey, you ain't lying them chicken fingers off the chain. Some of these people I don't know. I ain't on them hold you. I don't either.

I don't know Josh Arsbore, Brandy Clark, Shane McNally. I know Fiona Apple. I know baby face. Carol King, Outcast, Mariah Kelly, Willie Nelson, Valerie Simpson. She's one half of Asherty and Simpson, Nick Ashford, and Valerie Simpson. Bob Dylan, I know who he is.

Oh, the dream is on here. He's down here. Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Bad Bunny, Bruce Springsteen. Yep. Niles Rogers has been at it a while. What was the name of his group? He was in a group early in the 80s.

I know he was also with, Pharrell Williams. What was the group he was with, Niles Rogers in the 80s? I think it was a woman, a female's group. Taste of Honey. Cheek.

Chick. Chick. C-H-I-C-C-ch Ah, freak out Yeah, that was him? That was him, yeah, you're making it tired of yes I'm looking him up now Yeah, and he wrote

Eddie wrote for, uh, what you call him? Uh, uh, he did some stuff He was a group with, uh, with Pharrell Williams too, I think I think he was with DAV Punk too Yeah, I'm trying to think I think he, see if he was in the group, Daff Punk with a, uh, Now, I don't think Rob Temperton, I don't think he's American. I think he's a British guy.

He might be American. Huh? But what you call him in that group? Farrell? And now Rogers? Oh, Dali. Dali, pardon. Jolene.

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The World Cup is coming. Ramos sending on to Ernie Stewart the chip. I'm Tad Ramos. I'm Tom Boe. On our podcast, inside American soccer, you'll get the real storylines. I'm not worried about Policic. I'm not worried about Balligan.

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or potentially a great run into the semifinals. The World Cup is almost here. Experience it all with us. USA! Listen, Inside American Soccer with Tom Bogart and Tab Ramos on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcast. Sean McVeigh opened tonight's press conference saying he got so many texts about last night post-draft news conference

and wanted to clarify that he and GM, Les Knee, couldn't be more locked step in every decision that we make. The Rams drafted Ty Simpson and number 13 and on McVeigh's brief response to the question, and overall body language led some to speculate that he was unhappy with the Rams

pick. Ocho, do you believe? Sean McVeigh. Absolutely not. You know he was unhappy. He didn't like it. That came from upstate. He didn't want that pick. That pick came from upstairs. Listen, I like Ty Simpson. I like what he did, you know, at Alabama. It was cool, but he's not the one. Excuse me, let me take this back. He's not one that's going to be the successor to goddamn Matt Stafford. He's just not. Most of the time, you see quarterback come in,

are they going to allow him to develop? Well, you just drafted a quarterback not long ago, and Stetson Bennett, who you thought was going to be the one to be the successor. Obviously, he's not the answer and you're going on. Now you draft another quarterback. That position, Joe, is one of the hardest to be able to find someone to evaluate because you don't know what you're getting until you put him in that situation

under the guy in fire. It's very, very, very, very difficult. Very difficult. That's why so many teams struggle to find one. So you have no choice but to pick someone that early. You have no choice. Because you don't want to wait, Joe. you don't want to be in quarterback purgatory

like the Steelers are. You know, everyone's not going to be lucky like the Green Bay Packers. You're not going to be able to go from Brett Farb to Aaron Rogers to join love. It doesn't happen like that. They just, they're lucky. Look like they're going to have 50 years of quarterback,

great quarterback play. Damn. You're right. You're right. I don't know. I think the thing, because Sean McVeigh got, look, they got to be long-step and Barrow. Because Sean McVeigh got a final say.

Got a lot of the sake. Sean McVay is just not a guy just, oh, he's the coach, and he ain't got no safe. He got a lot of sake. Yeah. So I just don't think that was, that was, his body language, his mannerisms, with that pick, you can tell that went over his head. The Rams became the first team to have a quarterback win the MVP,

then select the quarterback in the first round of the subsequent NFL draft since the Green Bay Packers did in 1967. The Bart Star won the award in 1966, and then Green Bay draft Don Horn, 25th overall, the following year. It don't make no sense to me. It's a pick that makes no sense to me. Because Matt Stafford, with the way he's playing at an EP level, at 30 years old, ain't no telling when he's going to give up.

Ain't no telling when he's going to stop. And people say, oh, his back was hurt in training cab last year. The devil is a lie. What, nothing wrong with him? He threw 45 touchdowns. He threw 45 touchdowns. Hey, now you know good and well. We got load management in the NBA, right?

Okay, you know what? My back hurt. I don't really need training camp. I know what to do. We talk about Matt Stafford. He played a lot of football. Ain't nothing wrong with his back. I mean, if you know, you know.

I know what you're doing. You don't want training camp. You don't want to. No, when you look at it, when you look at it, I understand. And I think the thing is the people said, this is the problem, Bair ran into because instead of drafting somebody that could help Aaron Rogers right now,

you drafted a quarterback that was going to be two, three years away from playing. They see this is a very similar situation. I mean, what player that you thought they were going to be able to draft that was going to come in and say is okay? I mean, you got Devante, you got Puka, you got Kairn, you got, I'm just trying to figure who they, I mean, defense, they loaded, they loaded up on two corners, the safety is a solid, the linebackers are really good, the D line is outstanding. You got verse, you got young. You took the, I forget where the limo was from,

from Florida State Fisk. I'm just trying, I'm trying to figure out, Ocho. I mean, who do you think they could have taken that's going to come in right now and be a key contributor to this team? You know what? You know what? I do want to take something back too.

I want to take something back. Because the supporting cast and the defense is so good with Pooka and Devante Smith, you could probably, you probably could plug Ty Simpson in. Probably could because the supporting cast around him is so goddamn good. McVeigh is such a genius when it comes to play calling and being able to play to his player's strength.

So whatever weaknesses Ty Simpson may have, maybe he can go in there and be efficient and be good. He won't be Matt Stafford. No, no. But I'm saying he will have time to develop. No, he will have time to develop and get better, playing behind an MVP caliber, Super Bowl winning the quarterback.

But I'm just basing everything off what I saw in college, Joe. That's all. You was okay at Alabama, but the bottom dropped out toward the end of the season. You know? That's all what I'm saying. I don't know.

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He would drive at 57? He was driving for high as 57. Yeah, yeah. Damn. That's dope. That's, that's me. I mean, how much you, how much ketchup you think you guys have eaten in the lifetime? Yeah.

Me? I don't, hey, I don't, I don't, I don't, you know. You eat ketchup on your hot dog. Oh, you eat your hot dogs plane. Yeah, I eat my glissies. He's plain, huh? Even my French fry. When I go to McDonald's, I tell, to make sure it lightly salted.

You don't catch up on your chips, like your lays chips or nothing like that. When I was younger. You don't do it now? You put hot sauce on them, Joe. Yeah, we put hot sauce. You put ketchup on your chip. Yeah, man. Hey, I like me some ketchup now.

Ketchup on your chips. Yeah. On some lays on some lays chips. Yep, we used to put... I like Lays. I don't... We used to put peanuts in the bottle, Joe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then you guess what? You drank all the Coca-Cola peanut stuck at the bottom. You never get them out. So... Hold on, wait. Where do they do that at? Peanuts in your cocoa...

You have a Coke, you know, Coke, those bottles. So you put peanuts in them. Yeah. Yeah. You ain't ever do that, don't you? Hey, hey. I know y'all did that. I know good and well.

You all put peanuts in y'all Coca-Cola. And y'all ain't never mixed popcorn with your chips. Yeah. Ocho, you ain't never mixed popcorn with your chips? Nah, I ain't never heard of that joke. We had, I ain't never heard of this. I forget, what is it called? Gorp.

But they put popcorn, peanut and plain M&Ms and raisins. We made, we did, that was what you call them? That was, you know, that wasn't us. That was them, their parents. Yeah, yeah. First of all, we wouldn't get no, you wouldn't get no M&Ms, you wouldn't get no, you want to get no popcorn and you damn sure won't get no raisin.

You might get one of the three, but you damn sure wasn't going to get all three. Right, right. Right. I think it's called Gorp or something, but I don't know, but I'm saying, I think I was like the second or the third grade and somebody parents brought that together. I was like, damn, y'all living it up over there, ain't.

Man, four of them would get done of that. We got the Y'all, and y'all remember the Y's potato chips? You weren't getting no laid. You weren't getting no ruffles. You weren't getting that good stuff. Yeah. You got the Y's with the owl on the back.

Huh? Yeah, that's what he called. Yeah. But they made it. It wasn't back then. I think they do it now, but it wasn't made. They made it. So.

Those old days. What? What? What you laughing at you? I'm saying, that what they did? Yeah, see? Y'all don't know. Y'all don't know about that.

See? They're going to talk about, see, what people started doing is things that we started concocting, they started making it home. There you go. That's what they started doing. There you go. We were doing that.

That wasn't even thinking about that. Stole our ideas. Ohio State. Wide receiver, Ocho and Joe just bought his dream car. He isn't even eligible for the NFL until the next draft. Just five months away from turning 21 years of age, Smith picked up at 2026, Labrugini Horace, starting at $250,

a quarter of a million, which is pocket change when you consider he's one of the highest paid NIL athletes in the country with a valuation of $4.2 million thanks to deals with Adidas, Red Bull, Lulu, and Nintendo. Ojo Joe, if

NIL were around when you was in college. Yes. What's your call? Hey. I ain't going to lie. Let me tell you something. I'm going to have me. I'm going to have me some fly.

See, when I was in college, y'all know what came out. What came out was some expeditions and the navigators. That's what came out when I was in college. They were the hardest thing. Hey, Joe, remember excursions? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They just came out around that time, like 2001, 2000, so everybody was getting them. But yeah, hey, hey, Ocho, you make a four-point-something million in college? Hey, get your little Uris, a little Lambo or something, boy. Hey, I probably would have caught me something like that now. Yeah, I ain't gonna act like that.

Hey, I'm just by the turn 21 and you mean a boy? No, I'm gonna get, yeah, I'm like, hey, hey, ball out, Jeremiah. Shit. Hey. Yeah. Ooh. What's you getting on? Uh, put the things on now.

Hey, hey, you know, I had a little sup. I had a little sub. Bro, hooked me up. I had a, uh, a 300, uh, a X, you know, I'm saying, T-Tops. You know, I had a thing. You know, I had a little thing. Then my saying you had a 300. under bins.

You know, I have a little, a little, some, some, yeah. Yeah. But imagine, imagine if you had four million, though, on your own, you making it. Oh, I have a sports car. Oh, yeah, yeah, hold on. You know, back then, those big 560 Mercedes was out.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, big body. 500 series, yeah. Yeah. Probably something like that, because I ain't really know, I ain't really know nothing about no little, like,

I ain't, I had never seen a Ferrari up close in person. Never had seen a Lamborghini, so I probably wouldn't even, probably, You know what was I too? The I Rock Z's. Remember the I Rock Z? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I remember I rock.

Yeah, I think nowadays you got so many of these young cats driving these Lambeaus and Rose Russ's here. You know, these kids see all that. They want that big, they want that big boy. Yeah, for sure. Antlers and all that, yeah. Yeah. What did you get, No, Cho?

Hey, you died in Miami. Oh, you know, you're in Oregon. So you at Oregon State. What do you get? I still got that Miami mentality. And knowing me having that kind of money, Unk, the first thing I would have did, being a little shorty, being a Jit,

I would have got me as Chevy. I was gonna say you get the dump or Bob Sheavin regardless. Hey, I'm getting, I'm gonna get a don't. 73 convertible top, you know, on some all gone bees. That's just the mindset, especially when I'm that young, where I wouldn't be choosing, you know, none foreign. But at my first car, I would want, I won a damn Chevy. Yeah.

Yeah, boy. Yeah, but I don't know, hey, I might have to get me something with a passport. Hey, I don't know what I'm saying? Hey, I'm going to get me something with a passport. Hey. Yeah. But, hey, that ain't going to be the first car. The first part we'll go, hey, man Porter definitely will get

them out of there. You hear me? You're getting out of the right four bucks three and five? Well, listen. Well, these kids bawling out of control. Oh, yeah. Hey, hey, they need some real helping guidance too, bro. Because, you know, you get what. The stories that I hear about guys coming out and had that NIL and they seven figures to the tax man. Think about it though.

Think about it if you come from, you know, a family whose parents never had this type of money. Hell, it ain't just you spending. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But just a thought, I'm just, I'm just thinking about that boy. You can't imagine.

In college. You can't even imagine. Man, me, hey, me pulling up to the game. man they got there a Chevy boy with that old trick daddy playing that 2000 trick. Hey, I know one, I know. You have that flip, you have that flip-plot playing on that thing on Joe? That who?

That flip-flop paint. That comedian. Oh, you remember that comedian paint? You remember that? That fil-pop. Hey, I'll have mine that bowling ball. That thing will be looking like the old bowling ball with that shine on it. Hey, I know one thing.

When you get your ass on that field, you better be cutting up. Oh, you know, hey, you know I'm a cut up, Joe. You know I'm a cut up, Joe. I ain't got no choice. Oh, yeah. Hey, that's the one thing you gotta understand as a young player, hey, it's good to have all these things, you know, these materialistic things.

But don't forget, don't forget why you're here now. How you got it. And how you got it. And how you go, don't forget. You lose that edge, you lose a little bit of that drive. Yeah. Hey, you know, back in the, hey, I pulled up to the game, had that little 300 C.

You know, out of the game, old lady, you know, when you get the thing, you know, I had to go shopping. Well, you know, I couldn't take no shower. I had to go back to the door and shower. Then we go out and get a little something to eat. You know what I'm saying, no, Cho? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, I was bawling a little bit, a little bit. Bro had to hook that bag up. 4Ms, bro. In college, 20 years old. Yeah, we're going to carry here. You were getting that, getting them gizzles, prize to carry here to go to rise. You know, a little something. Man.

That was, who. And I still, man, I'm thinking about it too, boy. What you think about? I mean, back then, and you know, you know, let me just say the D boys. You know, the boy had them Chevy's and them goddamn Dooley. Yeah. They were cutting up.

Man, boy. Man, man, them Ford and Ford, Super Duty F-450s and 350s. I thought about getting me. what you call him, that Shelby. Yeah, that Shelby, you know, that Shelby. Yeah, yeah. You was, I went 10th drove.

That's the only car I've ever test dro. I'm like, man, I might get this thing here. A Shelby? That Shelby, yeah, yeah. The one from the movie going to 60 seconds? Nah, no, it's a Shelby. Yeah, I know what he's talking about. Oh, okay, okay, okay.

Yeah. No, I ain't talking about that. I ain't talking about that, 47. I think you're talking about that Eleanor, though. Yeah, Illinois. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that Mustang. All right, it's time for our final segment.

It's time for Q and A. Before we get to the Super Chat, we got five video voice mail for my Discord. Let's take a listen. Unc, Joe, what's good with y'all, man? It's Fallout Media. I'm back here again, man. Unc Joe, I'm mad than the motherfucker. O'Chall, I'm mad.

Man, I'm mad. Y'all see Lakers locked in, goat jams? I'm locked in. I'm locked in. Me and you are here. Hey, man, this was terrible, man. This was terrible, man. terrible. Austin Reeves. One thing about Austin Reeves so far, the last couple

playoffs, he showed me something. He's showing me something. He's not ready. I don't know if he got that dog in the month. Do we got that dog in them, Unk? What's going on? Oh, Joe, Joe, how often can we rely on the thunder missing all these threes? How often can we rely on the thunder turning the ball over at this rate? How often can we rely on that? I'm mad, Nightcap family. I'm mad in the month. I'm mad, y'all. No, I'm mad because this is some straight-up BS. This is a game you got to win. This is a game when the best team in the NBA play this bad, you got to win it.

I'm sorry, y'all. I'm just mad. I'm mad. He mad. Joe, how are you mad? You knew what the outcome. No, but they had a chance, though, Ocho. That's what he's there.

It's kind of like they got teased a little bit. That's what it is. It's like, man, we played pretty decent first quarter. second quarter until the last, what, a couple of minutes, and then outside of that, you know, you get down eight to 12 points. Right. You can't come back. And like he said, hell, he sees the turnovers that, that She had.

Who, like, like, Ongsay, they ain't hell, Shay under 20 points, and I don't know how damn long. So you get this opportunity, damn, you just, Brun just needed a little help. He just needed some, he needed AR to, you know, be a little efficient. I understand. He just wanted to feel good the night then. That's him. Well, I mean, you got to know what it is.

I'm not ashamed. Man, why are you trying to run it? Man said he's mad, Ocho. I know, I'm just saying. But also, outside of being mad, you also have to be realistic, you know, going into the series, understanding. You know, there's a good chance. You know, we might not win a game. You're playing the best team.

You're playing the best team out the goddamn West. So. I think what Joe said, and we talked about it, we didn't expect them to play this bad. I mean, think of it. Think about it. How many shots? She only went to the line three times. Yeah.

And look at all the threes. Look at all the turnovers they had. Yeah. And they still beat you by 18. And they only had 108 points. You know they're going to have a couple of them games where they got 1.30, 140. Yes.

And you know if they get to that 130 week. The game need to be at 100. Yeah. Because that's your best chance of winning. You're not going to outscor it. And the funny thing about it. it too, Uncle Joe. You just said it too, right? Shea didn't have a huge game,

you know, offensively. One of the few games he didn't score 20. Hell, he didn't score 30. But hell, everybody else contributed too. Everybody else contributed too. So even if he does have an athlete, hey, you still got to deal with everybody else. That's the time that you're like, okay, Austin.

To think about it, LeBron took a back seat to Austin. He took a back seat. You know why? You know why? Because he knew it's going to take him a little while to find his rhythm in time. And after missing the first, what, 15, 17 games? Yeah, he knew it's going to take him a little wild.

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