Nightcap - Nightcap - Nick Saban retiring, Pete Carroll's firing, Stephen A. vs Whitlock
Episode Date: January 11, 2024Shannon Sharpe and Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson react to the Nick Saban retiring as the head football coach at the University of Alabama, Pete Carroll getting fired by the Seattle Seahawks, the war of wor...ds between Stephen A. Smith and Jason Whitlock, Aaron Rodgers' latest comments on the Pat McAfee show, and much, much more. 00:00 - Introduction04:00 - Nick Saban retires27:00 - Pete Carroll fired38:00 - Mike Vrabel fired as Tennessee Titans head coach01:00:00 - Pressure on Dak Prescott and Dallas Cowboys01:07:00 - Stephen A Smith vs. Jason Whitlock01:25:00 - Aaron Rodgers off Pat McAfee Show01:32:00 - Erik Spolestra gets mega contract from Miami Heat01:45:00 - Much more Nightcap! #Club #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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me from the very beginning. Ocho, let's
start with the big news, the bombshell that
happened today. Alabama's
coach, the great Nick Saban,
who I believe is the greatest college football
coach and college football champion
in history, six national championships,
nine SEC championships,
and 17 seasons, a
206-29
record.
Let me repeat that again, ladies and gentlemen.
In 17 seasons, this man lost 29 games.
Since Nick Saban arrived at Alabama,
their enrollment has increased. It went from 25,000 to 40,000.
That's a 60% jump compared to the 10% national average.
This is what Coach Prime said.
Wow, college football just lost the goat to retirement.
Wow, I knew it would happen one day, but not this soon.
This game has changed so much that it chased the goat away.
College football, let's hold up our mirrors
and say honestly what you see.
I like it.
What do you like it?
I mean, he spoke nothing but truth.
I think he spoke nothing but truth. Nick Saban is probably, you know what? I'm not going What do you like it? I mean, he spoke nothing but truth. I think he spoke nothing but truth.
Nick Saban is probably, you know what?
I'm not going to do that.
Nick Saban is the greatest collegiate football coach of all time.
His record, his resume, it speaks for itself.
The players in which he's been able to coach throughout the years,
it's unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
Everybody.
Not to cut you off, Ocho. 44 first-round picks in his tenure, 29 losses. Unbelievable. Everybody. Now to cut you off, Ocho.
44 first round picks in his tenure.
29 losses.
Unbelievable.
That's unheard of.
I think we will never see anything like this
probably ever again,
especially with one of the reasons
I'm going to bring up in a minute
on why I think he probably did retire.
I think with the NIL deals,
how it's made it very difficult
for organizations, not organizations, for schools to compete, because now it becomes a money game.
It becomes a booster game.
It becomes I'm going to the highest bidder, you know, and it's become a difficult, difficult time, especially for recruiting.
And I think Nick Saban really doesn't want anything to do with that.
There was at one point everybody wanted to go to Alabama. Everybody wanted to go to the best school because
they were the school to be at. Now it's a money game and it's a different ball game. I don't think
Nick Saban doesn't really want to play. Okay. I'm going to pay you. I'm going to pay you. I'm
going to pay you just to get you. You want to actually want to come there to play football based on what Alabama stands on and what they stand for.
And that's just not the case anymore.
It's not, Ocho.
It used to be a situation.
Let me go.
I want to go to the coach that's going to get me best prepared.
Now I'm going to go to the program that's going to give me the most money.
We saw that with Jordan Addison at Pitt.
He wins the Bolitnikoff Award for Pitt,
gets more money he has off the USC.
And I think what we're starting to see, Ocho,
is that I got to fall in love with the coach.
I'm not getting the targets that I think I should get.
I don't have what I need.
Okay, let me get into this portal.
Okay, what y'all got?
Y'all saw me over here.
I had 1,500 yards.
I had 1,300 yards.
I had 1,200 yards over here.
That's worth, what, a million, two million dollars?
You heard Matt Rule, the head coach
of Nebraska, say
a good,
great starting quarterback in college
is going to cost you one to two million dollars.
One to two million.
Can you imagine?
Just think real quick for me.
Imagine you back in your day
at Savannah State.
Man, we ain't had no more bread like that.
Forget it being an HBCU
and forget it not having the money.
Just think about you being able
to get $1.2 million
to play back then
with your skill set.
Just imagine.
And look here. i tell you what well my brother would have beat me to the punch but i'd have been i'd have had a lot a lot nicer things before i got
him and then i tell you what we'd have definitely been we'd have been like the jeffs we'd have moved
on up a lot sooner uh granted would have retired a lot sooner than what she was able to retire oh absolutely Ocho I mean but that's that's that's where it is and if you look at it we saw coach K we saw Roy Williams
we've seen some of the other coaches get out of it because that's what it's turned into a lot of
these guys jumping to the portal I can offer you this we saw Alabama says hey we need our NIL
program we need to we need we need to get that up there.
We need $10, $15, $20, $30 million in there
because we want to go get some of the best players.
And that's what teams are doing because at least in college, Ocho,
those guys got tape on them already against college guys.
We already know what they are in the classroom
as opposed to getting a guy from high school who we think will be good,
but we don't
know what he's going to be like once he gets into the college environment and get on campus and
things of that nature. So yeah, it's becoming, and I think that had more to do with it.
Right. And I think I'm going to need you real quick because you know a little better than me.
I don't know much about NIL and how it works as far as the processing goes.
Excuse my lack of knowledge on the way it works
but is the money coming from the boosters that are part of the part of the schools
yeah but it's an image enlightenment okay what image what image they're using you see somebody
on the gatorade thing what you see what you see above okay okay that's the hide behind ojo
but see you know as
before you got the little briefcase and ain't nobody know about it now you know about it and
they said we're using your image and your likeness right okay i i see what you're going i mean when
you think when you think about an institution like alabama i mean the boosters should be
in in bulk in plentiful so it really shouldn't be a problem as far as a recruiting, excuse me, as far as a recruiting process concerned with attracting, you know, suitors.
I'm not sure why.
Yeah, but it's hard when you start comparing them jokers to that Texas oil money, that Texas, that Texas A&M.
Right.
You see, you see, they just gave Jimbo Fisher gave 84 million to get up out of town.
Right.
Get up out of town. I mean, don't go for $84 million to get up out of town. Right. Get up out of town.
I mean, don't go chofer.
Somebody give you $84 million not to coach?
Right.
Yeah, that's tough.
So now, hold on.
That's $84 million for him.
What about his staff?
You got to pay them.
And you got to bring a staff in.
And you got to pay them.
So you're looking at $100 million, $150 million, maybe even $200 million between the two staffs.
And they in the blink of an eye, ain't even think about it.
Ain't even bad enough.
So they got bread.
That's crazy.
You do got bread.
Man, you let Sarkeesian win a championship at Texas.
And see what man, they build a statue for that man.
They hungry for one because they hadn't won one since Vince Young.
You know, they were close in the college football playoff.
I think in 2008, was it 2008,
2009? 2009
when Colt McCoy lost to Alabama,
they lost to Alabama. They got close again.
But
man, they won it
so bad and it seems like
the further,
since it's been so long,
what would they do?
Like Michigan, you got to go back in the last one.
They tied in 97.
Before that, you got to go back to 48.
And as great as Coach Schimbechler was, he never won a national title.
Title, yeah.
Do you think this hurts the kids?
Being able to, I mean, the point of, I'm thinking, the point of going to college, obviously.
This is my stepping stool.
This is my stepping stone.
This is the pinnacle, the one step before I get to my childhood dream.
If you get the money too early, do you think that hurts them as far as the hunger and the
drive and the want to and putting in the necessary work to get to the next level if you're already
spoiled, getting the cash while you're still in college?
You remember I'm a firm believer.
Yes, sir.
Money doesn't change you.
It makes you more what you already are.
So if you're driven, I mean, look at how Peyton Manning grew up.
His daddy was the second pick in the draft.
He had it.
Right, right.
You think that changed him?
It drove him.
He worked harder.
Eli was the same way.
So all money does is exacerbate whatever bad habits you have.
If you have an eating issue, now you're going to become probably obese.
Right.
Because you have the money.
If you're an alcoholic, now you're going to become full of blown because you have money. You have resources to do what you couldn't do because when you were limited.
For me, like I said,
I had a brother.
My brother was in the league
for two years
while I was at Savannah State.
Right.
Man, I wanted to get there.
And you see, here's the thing, Ocho.
Once you, there's nothing like,
like they say, drug is,
I've heard a lot of people
that tried heroin
for the very first time.
They say what they do
is called tracing the dragon. We want that high we felt for the very first time. They say what they do is called tracing the dragon.
We want that high we felt for the very first time.
Right, right.
When my brother gave me $1,000 for, you know, two touchdowns and 100 yards, I wanted that again.
Yeah.
And so now I got to go out and try to get two touchdowns, 200 yards and four touchdowns.
Right.
And so now I'm thinking to myself, I want that for me.
I go to his house and
he got a three-car garage. He got
an upstairs and he got central
heating and cooling. He got indoor plumbing.
He got a pool in the backyard.
Yeah, Ocho. Wait, what you saying?
You say he got indoor plumbing? Man, he got
indoor plumbing? Man,
I want that. He got a pool
in the backyard. He got car in every every carport
right man i need that ocho right right i appreciate you bro oh don't thank you now i'm ungrateful
but i can be grateful and still desire to have more and have it on my own sometimes people
mistake say oh you're ungrateful no i'm I'm very grateful. I'm very appreciative, but I need this feeling on my
own. Yeah. I mean, but see, you're different. You're built different. You cut from a different
cloth. A lot of people, a lot of players, when you think about it, when you're at the college level,
if you get that kind of money, if you get that kind of money, are you still going to have that
same fire up under you? Are you still going to have that same drive,
the one to be the best
and reach the next level?
If you've already got the cushion
that you would get
once you made it to the NFL.
Listen, I'm all for the players
getting NIL money.
Obviously because of
there should be no reason
why they should be going hungry.
There should be no reason
why they should not have money
to feed themselves,
to clothe themselves, to be able to have transportation to and from school, just stuff
like that. There've been way too many stories where kids happen to be paid under the table
for them to not to be able to get what they deserve. And I just feel just slightly,
slightly, it might take away from the fire and the drive and what it takes to want to reach the
next level because you get such a huge cushion
while you're still in college?
Yeah, I just think the thing is, Ocho,
you are what you are with or without money.
Right.
If you got a good heart and you're broke,
when you get money, you'll become very magnanimous.
You'll become a benefactor.
That's what you are.
If you are miserly and you don't
got money, when you get money, you're going to be miserly still because that's who you are.
At the end of the day, we are what we repeatedly do. So money doesn't change you. It makes you
more of what you already are. I've had a good heart. I've been a good person when I didn't
have a dime. My thing was, Ocho, I would go make $30 a week and I'd give my
grandmother $10. It wasn't much,
but it was something.
It could help with something, Granny.
That's how I thought. Now when I
got money, I gave more
even though she didn't want it. Or my
sister or my brother. That's my
responsibility now, my kids.
And so what I do, what do I tell my kids?
Look, I ain't got no problem
show me show me just show me that you that you desire to have and i'll help you achieve it
now you know this sharp family kiari kayla kaylee this sharp family and me
i said we got room for one lazy mofo. I'm in.
I'm in, Ocho.
I'm the only lazy mofo here.
And I ain't lazy.
So I'm not going to let you drag your feet on me.
My girlfriend said, you're not going to sit around and drag your feet on me.
Right, right, right.
You got to do something.
You got to do something.
Right.
Hey, so that's the way I look at it, Ocho.
Yeah, it is.
But look at all the money these colleges –
how much you think these colleges got for the college football playoffs?
And guess what the players got?
A T-shirt that said college football playoffs 24.
Yeah.
Excuse me.
Maybe a what?
What they getting out like?
They ain't got no more –
I think –
You get gift bags.
You get gift bags.
Yeah.
I tell you what. You want to put some money in my gift bag. Put 10. You get gift bags. Yeah. I tell you what,
you want to put some money
in my gift bag.
Put 10 bags in my gift bag.
Yeah.
And listen,
when I saw the numbers,
when I saw the numbers
on what the colleges bring in
every year,
especially during football season,
and none of it went to the players.
Listen,
I was at the forefront.
I was at the forefront
of wanting players
to have the NIL deals.
I love it.
I love the idea of just the con, just to me, just the con of it.
And even seeing players that are already in the NFL and get their big deals.
They would get their big deals and they'd be content.
They'd be settled.
They're really not the same player no more.
So I'm just thinking to myself, well, damn, what would happen?
I think the con, as far as the NIL deal is concerned, is
players being content.
Okay, I got a nice little cushion.
I'm going to just tail off a little bit and just
do the bare minimum
instead of still having
that same hunger and drive and determination
to think about, listen, this ain't enough
to get mom out of the situation she's in.
This ain't enough to carry me
the rest of my life.
I mean, you know what I'm trying to say.
Yeah, of course.
I think the thing, Ocho,
for me, I remember when,
like I said, I first got to the NFL,
I made 63,000 my first year.
I made 73,000 my second year.
I went to the Pro Bowl,
making 220,000 my third year.
I was the first team All-Pro,
made 325,000 the next year.
First team All-Pro,
led all the tight ends in every statistical category, yards, catches, touchdowns. First team All-Pro, made 325 the next year. First team All-Pro, led all the tight ends in every statistical category,
yards, catches, touchdowns.
First team All-Pro, my brother and I went to the Pro Bowl, made 325.
Got a contract.
I said, man, I think I was making,
I think they made me like the third or the fourth highest.
I said, I ain't satisfied.
I said, I want to be the number one.
I'm going to be the highest paid tight end.
Yeah.
That's what, I said, I want to be the number one. I'm going to be the highest paid tight end. That's what I said. I want to be the
highest paid tight end.
I ain't worried about what they
got. I think Keith Jackson, I mean, there
are a couple of guys that made more money. I said, okay,
I'm going to be the highest paid.
I'm going to be the highest paid. I said, that's what I got.
So now, my thought process,
my thought process, Ocho, I'm going to say
I want the national media
in Denver to say, Shannon Sharpe's underpaid. That's what I want them to say. That's how I'm going to say, I want the national media in Denver to say,
Shannon Sharpe's underpaid.
That's what I want them to say.
That's how I'm going to go get it.
You're going to say, that man, he the fourth highest paid tight end,
and he underpaid.
Come back to, one time.
But it was like, when I redid,
I've never ever got a contract extension. One time.
One time.
Going into my, it was 93 but it was like like maybe like a month before the season was over i just needed some money but ultra like you'd be
joking like child support yeah man baby mama debate it's like them lawyer fees were going up
and that 325 wasn't gonna cut it so i went here i was a bad deal because i should have just i could
have just waited.
Y'all should have came to me before the season.
But they didn't know.
They thought that was an anomaly.
They thought that was an outlier that I went to the Pro Bowl my third year.
And now Coach Reeves is gone.
We got Wade Phillips in.
So they didn't think I was going to be what I became in 93.
But, you know, hey, them child support payments, man, 325,
you don't get $300,000 and you got
three kids bro hey
I say go and
give me that money so I can get that heat up
off me yeah okay I see
I got three kids I got a house
I gotta send money for I gotta send money for my
my grandmother my sister my mom
yeah I had to get I had to get
that I said but that's okay that's a
whole nother ball game there too that's a whole nother ball game there too
that's a whole nother story bro
yeah
a lot of fellas
going through that too
a lot of fellas going through that
and I don't mean to change the topic this fast
boy you know how many
of in today's game right now
yeah
it hit me
boy how did you do this
how were you able to juggle
and maneuver in this way
because I know you got so and so and you able to juggle and maneuver in this way because i know
you got so and so and you're able to do it i ain't never seen no you ain't had no really had
no problem like that man what did you do but like i'm trying to boy you need well you better go make
home straight boy yeah you better they will make your life a living hell why are you trying to play
ball go make that shit right oh go make that shit right yeah are you Go make that shit right. Yeah. Hey, let me tell you how I did it.
You ain't got to be with him, but you got to make that shit right.
Oh, Joe.
Let me tell you how your boy did it.
Yes, sir.
He had your boy eating ketchup with a knitting needle.
What?
Yeah, I sacrificed a lot of shit.
I'm eating egg whites.
I'm eating tuna out of the can.
You serious?
Yeah, I'm going to say, you damn right.
I got to pay child support.
I got three kids.
And I got a house
that I spent $200,000 more
than what my agent told me I should.
Right, right, right.
But that's okay.
But that's okay.
I got a $600,000 house.
I got a bed,
one TV,
and a couch.
That's all I got.
You good.
And I know a lot of people want to see me fail.
Yeah, he got all them kids. Yeah, he ain't gonna
make it. I said, I'm gonna show you.
I said, because what you don't
understand, my desire
to be great is greater than your
desire for me not to be.
Right.
So that's how I look at it.
And it was no thing. I said said i remember every time i tell my
grandma i said granny you know hey your baby messed up again she said hey take care of them
kids yeah take care of them kids take care that's all she said now i knew she was upset because she
didn't raise me like that right that's on me i eat that but hey i got to get it don't you so you
know what i'm gonna deny myself'm going to eat egg whites.
I'm going to eat oatmeal. Ain't no nice.
Ain't no chicken. I didn't even eat chicken.
I'm eating tuna out of the can.
I'm going to Sam's Club and I'm
buying three, four, six packs
of tuna.
Egg whites. I'm buying
egg whites. I'm talking about like 50.
50 in a big old, big old,
big old thing like this here. I said, but it's okay. Oatmeal. That's what I'm talking about like 50 50 in a in a big old big old big old uh thing like this here
I said but it's okay yeah oatmeal that's what I'm eating Ocho so I denied myself I ain't going on
no vacation that's probably what got me out of the vacation thing Ocho because I saw that I wasn't
going and I didn't feel like I was missing something or I felt like if I go this might be
someone's advantage of getting ahead of me.
Right.
So for me, oh, I had to get that thing.
Oh, Joe, because all I saw, because I know I heard it.
But my homeboy would call me, Buck would call me.
The homeboy, man, they talk.
I said, homeboy, I got this.
I said, I got this.
I said, Mary Porter raised.
I said, she raised me for this moment.
Yes, sir.
I said, do you know where I came from?
I said, I'm in the catbird seat. I said from? I said, I'm in the catbird seat.
I said, little do they know I'm in the catbird seat.
Right, right.
Because the first 20 years, I said, these next 20 going to be a breeze because I wasn't supposed to be in this chair.
In the first place.
No. No.
So once I got up on, once I got going, oh, Joe, man, that's what I'm saying.
You have to be careful of what you're motivated by because
it's addictive. Just like, you know, an addict, whether it's alcohol, whether it's drugs,
whether it's gambling, whether it's women, mine was success. That's what my drug was, success.
And the more I got it, the more I craved it, the more I desired, the more I needed it. And I denied some good people in my life,
but I'm not here to apologize for that.
Right.
Because without that, I'm not here,
and they're not where they are.
But Ocho, man, I'm telling you, Ocho,
but see, people don't understand.
See, people don't understand my mindset.
And when you hear me say stuff,
and they say, Shannon, why are you so like Jameis?
I say, you got to understand,
Jameis is the backup quarterback.
He doesn't have that kind of cachet. Tom
Brady makes that call, but see, Tom Brady would never done
that. Peyton Manning would have never done
that. Just think of you openly
defy your coach. Just imagine
I see all you guys that's talking
ESPN or Fox or one of these
networks tell you not to go on air
and say something that you said in
production meeting and you go on air and say it that you said in production meeting and you go on air
and say it anyway what do you think is going to happen
you already
know what's going to happen yeah he did
that because oh they
don't that's why you got to let
Dennis Allen go because he lost control of the locker room
any coach that the players respect
they would have never done that to
they've lost respect for him see now
see I'll do it if I don't that... See, I'll do it.
If I don't respect you, Ocho, I'll do anything I want to you.
Right.
Yeah, I feel you.
And what I like most about your story
and the people that listen, Chad,
make sure you listen to what Unc said, man.
He was striving for success.
But think about the sacrifice it took.
All the stuff in between
that didn't lead up to reaching his end goal,
he wasn't doing none of that.
He wasn't doing that.
And I think that's the difference today.
In today's world, today's society, everybody want a quick fix.
Yeah.
They want to find a loophole.
They want to take the shortcut in thinking the shortcut is going to lead to success.
Success is a long road.
Yeah.
It's a long road.
It takes time.
There's a process to it.
And in between that process
and the steps in which it takes to get to that point
of reaching the pinnacle of success,
it takes sacrifice.
You got to.
Sometimes your homeboys call you. Sometimes
your homegirls call you. Man, sometimes you
got to say no. Sometimes you got to
say no. When they get upset,
they make you friends.
They make you friends.
Do people realize that it's France no they make it to France okay do you
do people realize
that it's less crowded
on the road to success
oh man
than the road
to mediocrity
if you think of
the bumpiest ride
on a plane is what
when you take it off
once you get up to that
what did Apollo say
he's going to get up
to a comfortable
cruising altitude
32,000 feet
above all that turbulence.
Yeah.
And if it's turbulence there,
what they do?
They go a little higher.
Yeah.
You see what that...
Now, when people...
When they want to be average
and mediocre,
that's crowded.
Yeah.
So many people just want to be
average and mediocre.
It's crowded.
Go be great.
It ain't crowded up there.
Yeah. Because everybody wanted easy crowded up there. Yeah.
Because everybody wanted easy, Ocho.
Everybody wanted success.
Work.
Only in the dictionary does success come before work.
Yeah, most definitely.
And you know what the funny thing?
In today's world, what people do is they skip the work part, but they put on the clothes and drive the cars.
Right.
Oh, fake it till you make it.
And look like you already made it.
Oh, fake it till you make it.
Yeah, without putting the work in.
Man.
No, I'm going to make it.
Ain't no faking.
No, what you see is what you get.
This is it.
Hey, this is it.
Ain't nothing fake on me. Okay, I got is what you get. This is it. Hey, this is it. Ain't nothing fake on me.
Okay, I got some, you know.
You know, I got a little fake, but hey, this here real.
This here, this a Georgia boy.
Yeah.
Through and through.
I'm about it.
Yeah.
That's it, Ochoa.
I mean, I just wish to get back on track. Yeah, because we were talking about the college kids.
Yeah, my bad, my bad, my bad. No, no, no, no. We're good. We're good.
This is our show. We talk about what the hell we want to talk about.
This is our show. We got a script, but we're not we don't have to adhere to linear television.
OK, we got to rap. No, no, no. We talk as long as we want to on a subject as long as we want to. We can go
back. So that's the luxury that we have
and that's why we did what we did
on our way. This is our channel. This is
9cap. I got no joke.
This is our issue. So we go as long
as we want to as short as we want to
on a given topic. Let's go back.
Pete Carroll is out as head coach of Seattle.
Pete Carroll tenure 137, 89
and 1. 10 playoff appearances in 14 seasons. A Super Bowl championship. Pete Carroll was out as head coach of Seattle. Pete Carroll tenure, 137, 89 and one. 10 playoff appearances in 14 seasons,
a Super Bowl championship.
Pete Carroll was very grateful and appreciative
during his presser today,
but he made it pretty clear
that he tried to stay on as Seattle's head coach.
He declined to get into detail
as to what happened with ownership.
Asked about going elsewhere.
Well, we'll have to wait and see.
Today is today.
Moving to an advisory role
has been the
respectful way of moving off someone
that's helped the organization.
The Broncos did the same with John
Elway.
Ocho,
this is why.
Had
he run the ball with Marshawn
Lynch. Man, talk to me now.
We look at Pete Carroll.
We look at that Legion of Boom totally different.
Sherb and Earl and Bennett and Chance and Russ.
Beastmode.
They're supposed to be a two-time champ.
Yeah, easily.
They're supposed to be a two-time champ.
Easily a two-time champ.
And let me ask you a question.
To go back on what you just said about
disrespecting your head coach and not having respect for him making the call as Russell Wilson
and with great understanding in the situation you're in in the scenario in and you know you're
on the one and you have B Smoe who is having a good game. Right. You're on the one-yard line. Right. And Pete Carroll, whoever's calling the offensive plays,
calls a pass play with a switch route,
switch release on the goddamn goal line.
Why not take it amongst yourself to change the play
and run the ball with Marshawn?
Maybe.
Is that defiant or disrespectful to you?
As similar in the same case,
I know it's apples and oranges
in what I'm talking about.
I'm just saying because
that's the Super Bowl on the line.
Right.
And you changing that play,
I will bet my bottom dollar
and I bet my house
that you run that dive with Marshawn Lynch,
he getting that one yard to win that game.
Well, I'm going to run until he does.
I think the thing is, Ocho,
the question is, did
Russ feel like he had the power
to audible out of that play?
Peyton Manning has the power.
Drew Brees has the power.
Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady has the power.
Does Russ, did they
empower him?
Because I remember a situation, we were in kansas city
and it was like fourth and one it was fourth and one we were probably like the 30 yard line
right and i remember john uh mike called a time out and mike was going to go for it and john said
no mike don't go for it let's punt the ball let's make them beat us right knowing marty the way he's
playing he's playing it like this.
No, we're not going to give him anything cheap.
Let's put the ball.
Mike sent the punt team in.
We won the ball game 14-10.
Okay.
So in a situation like that, now let's just say for the sake of argument,
the game is 14-13.
Now instead of trying to throw the ball into the end zone,
they need a field goal to kick a field goal to beat us.
Right. So in that situation for zone, they need a field goal. They kick a field goal. They beat us. Right.
So in that situation, for me, I don't know why.
And I understand, if I'm not mistaken,
I think the Patriots brought a 53 defense in.
Five down, three linebackers.
I don't care.
That's the thing that you always talk about,
letting somebody dictate what you're going to do.
Yeah, I hate that.
I hate that.
So, in other words, and Steph's like, we're going to throw it.
They got them five.
They got them bigs on the field.
We're going to throw the ball.
But once you see Brandon Brown in the slot and you see him in the press,
it's going to be hard as hell because he's standing right there in front of you.
Yeah.
He's standing right there in front of you. If. He's standing right there in front of you.
If he gets his hands on you,
there's no way.
It's a wrap.
Because what's going to happen,
you're going to force the guy to come even flatter,
and now you give Malcolm Butler a beeline
to come get you.
I'm a little surprised by this move.
I don't think anybody saw this coming.
I don't think anybody saw this move coming.
But it was never the same.
I remember you go back and look at my podcast.
I did this.
I think that was a 2014.
That was 2014?
What year was that?
2014, Super Bowl?
Yeah, 2014.
Yeah.
Go back and look.
I said it.
I said it's never the same.
I said it's over.
You might as well break this up right now.
I said that team will never look's never the same. I said it's over. You might as well break this up right now. I said that team
will never look at Pete the same.
Yeah.
Because it's the one time
that the team is going to look
at the head coach
and say,
you cost us this.
And let the players
decide the game on the field.
Yeah.
And we always,
we talk about this, Ocho.
Hey, coaches,
sometimes coaches
get in their own way
because they want to think,
I'm a genius.
I'm so smart.
We're going to do this.
No, no, no. No, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
Overthinking.
Let your players decide the outcome of it.
Put them in the best situation.
Mm-hmm.
And they'll do what they need to do.
Yeah.
Listen, I always say the game of football, you don't have to complicate it.
It's X's and O's.
And I compare it to chess sometimes.
I compare it to the game of chess.
Your pieces against my pieces. I'm going to put my pieces in the best position to win. Even if
your pieces are a little better, more skillful, I'm going to scheme it to where my pieces have
an advantage. And I'm going to try to checkmate you each and every time all the way down the field. I think the checkmate for the 2014 Seattle Seahawks on the goal line,
don't complicate it.
Even if they have a 53 defense in there, give the ball to Marshawn Lynch.
Yes.
Man, oh man, I guarantee you they have two Super Bowl rings right now.
Ocho, but if you remember, right before the half,
what did they do?
They threw the ball,
they had no timeouts,
and they got a touchdown.
So you're feeling good
about yourself, Ocho.
You know what I'm saying, Ocho?
You start to feel good.
Like, I got away with one.
I get me another one.
Hey, get out your own way.
Yeah.
Get out your own way.
But Pete Carroll is out.
It's going to be interesting
the direction that they go to go in.
Jody Allen. I think that's the name. Jody. Jody Allen.
She's the sister of Paul Allen, Microsoft guy.
He passed away, left everything to her. And she's like, you know, I want to move in a different direction.
But this team was supposed to have two championships.
This team would have been thought of a lot different had they had multiple championships the great a lot of teams have
won one in a row if you want to be special and be remembered you got to repeat and it's hard
very hard i mean you go back to packers in the 60s. The Steelers did it back-to-back.
I think, what, 74, 75, or 76, 77?
No, 75, 76, 74, 75, and then they did it again in 78, 79,
if I'm not mistaken.
There's a six-year period, but they won four titles.
78, 79, and I think 74, 75.
I mean, I'm just spitballing that, but Ash said I was correct.
But it's hard, Ocho.
You go to the 49ers in the 80s, the Cowboys in the 90s. We did it in the 90s.
You got the Patriots did it.
They won
back-to-back.
It's hard because
what happens, Ocho?
You good. You're free agents.
Everybody come raid them.
If you got chickens that lay golden eggs,
guess what? I'm coming to rob. I'm coming to steal it.
Guys want bigger
payday. I tell guys, if you win a Super Bowl,
hey, man, look here, go get that payday.
You can't eat the rings now.
I mean,
they nice to have.
They nice to look good
in your safety deposit box
and look at like,
ooh,
look at that knife.
But,
I like to look my,
hey,
I have my sister,
pull up my breaker cap,
let me see that.
That look nice.
Yeah.
That's what makes it
so much difficult.
You think about the Rams
winning the Super Bowl
or,
let me think, Patriots winning the Super Bowl or, let me think,
Patriots winning the Super Bowl.
The pieces, the pieces always change.
The pieces of the puzzle always change.
So I think that's what makes it so much more difficult
to repeat because you want to keep your team together.
The more players you can keep,
as far as that have won the Super Bowl
with experience, veteran experience,
bringing some new people through the draft,
it's so goddamn hard
because once you win,
shoot, man,
I'm trying to get paid, man.
I'm trying to get paid.
Ocho,
this is what I've learned.
And I've been on two teams
that won championships.
I won 97-98,
skipped 99,
won 2,000 with the Ravens.
The thing that you have
to be careful of
when you win the Super Bowl, everybody starts to believe they're the reason why.
Oh.
Everybody starts to want more credit than they deserve.
See, the grounds crew said, you know what?
You won because the way we cut the grass.
The people in the cafeteria said you won because the way we prepared the food.
And the people that vacuumed and did the floors and did the laundry, it was was because of us and the videographer said it was because the way we cut the tape
and then so everybody starts to think you didn't think like that before we won right but now that
we won now see for me I was always look I understood John TD it was a pie let's just say the team was a pie TD and John
was going to get the biggest slice
even if it wasn't number crumbs
that's something that was more
than we were going to get had we not won
see people don't look at it like that Ocho
see I look at it like this what was
we going to get had we not won
was I going to get these opportunities no
because everybody likes a champion everybody likes a winner
so now I'm getting something that had we not won, I wouldn't have got.
Right.
People always complain about, well, I ain't get this.
I ain't get enough.
Enough?
Something.
10% of something is better than 100% of nothing.
Nothing.
Yeah.
You know, a lot of times, Ocho, people like to be, I'm the king of nothing.
I'm a false fraction of something.
Give me that.
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went 9-8
they could have been better
they were doing well
in the beginning of the season
and then in
as well as they
thought it should have
obviously so
they felt they need to go
in a different direction
right
Mike Rabel
Will Levis
first year as a starter
or starting
I mean you you would think you would give them a little bit more
time, you know, to
sink and gel with Will, but
they decide they're going in a different
direction too.
Yeah, Ocho.
Man, look here, man. Ocho, that's why
it's so hard.
When you got in the league,
Ocho, basically,
they would...
I remember Carson didn't start it.
Think about it.
Imagine a number one overall draft pick not starting.
Carson did not start.
John Kitna did.
John, John Kitna, yeah.
Oh, John.
That's unheard of.
Yeah.
To think a kid drafted in the first round that high is not going to start.
Whoa, first pick, man.
Thank you. So, what is that? So, now, O Whoa, first pick, man. Thank you.
So what is that?
So now, Ocho, I got to three you and win.
I got to make a decision because now I got to pay a guy $200 million,
a quarter of a billion.
Now, probably in another two years,
the going rate for a quarterback is going to be $300 million.
Well, you got to be that boy to get $300 million now.
Look here.
Daniel Jones got $160 million, and got to be that boy to get 300 mil now. Look here. Daniel Jones got 160.
He ain't that nothing.
The timing
was perfect.
You see what happened though, Joe?
They had nowhere else to go. Yeah, you're right.
I see where you're going. Now, we got free agency
because, okay,
this is the trade-off.
The NFL says, you know what, man? We got Sam Bradford to make it. Sam Bradford is the trade-off. Right. The NFL says, you know what, man?
We got Sam Bradford to make it.
Sam Bradford is the highest-paid quarterback of the league.
He ain't through NFL football yet.
So they went back, put the rookies on a scale.
Right.
But the trade-off was, okay, team,
you can't do anything for the first three years.
Then after that, boom.
Yeah.
Now, if you good,
if you good,
if you that boy,
or if you are a franchise
changing quarterback,
and you're going there doing
shit like C.J. Stroud,
man, shit, C.J.
C.J. might be the one
to get that $300 million.
There it is.
C.J. might be the one
to get that $300 million
because he's coming up
what, 2027 or 2026?
2026.
You're going to get 24, 25, 25.
Coming into 27, break bread.
Man, 300 plus.
See, they strive.
I said it here first, man. Let me get
2%. How much, boy?
23, 24, one
year. 4, 5, two years five six so in it yeah hey after
that third year oh joe yeah they're gonna have to see it yeah at the at the end of 26 27 so the
thing is so the thing is oh joe you sped up the process in which i have to evaluate it right
and and because of free agency you can't just see you can't just because before i'll just
think about it just to think about the steelers how you're going to keep if there's free agency
how do you keep joe green defensive player of the year male blunt defensive player of the year
jack lambert defensive player of the year how do you keep all them and you got jack ham and you got
donnie shell and you got Franco, Terry Bradshaw,
Lance Swan, Mike Webster,
John Starworth.
How you keep all them, Ocho?
You can't.
You can't.
The only way you can,
there's no free agency.
So you got 10 Hall of Famers
that basically played their entire career.
Now, Mike Webster did end up
going to Kansas City.
He was in Kansas City my rookie year.
Jack is all get out.
I mean, he was, whoo!
I remember like,
because it's funny, Ocho, you know, I got into the league
and I'm seeing all these guys that,
I mean, Mike Webster, Joe Ferguson
that used to hand the ball off to OJ.
I'm like, damn y'all!
I'm talking about they in the 70s
and here it is the 90s, Ocho.
And I'm looking at them.
I see Jay Wrights. I see Jay Wright. I see
Joe Montana. I'm like,
oh,
man, that's cool. That's how
I was when I first made it, too.
That's how I was.
That was a great feeling. That was a funny feeling,
man. Seeing the people you used to watch
growing up as a kid,
and all of a sudden, you're right there on the field
with them. And remember,
the Bucs did the same thing with Bruce Arians.
Oh, the advisory thing?
Send him upstairs?
Yes.
Go ahead, Ocho.
That's all I was saying?
How they send Bruce upstairs?
Are they doing Pete Carroll the same way?
Is Bruce Ariansans is he still
with the Bucks upstairs in their advisory role
yes
he hasn't been visible at all
no
what do you think what's the most attractive
coaching gig is it the Seahawks
the Falcons the Chargers
the Commanders Raiders
Titans Patriots or Panthers
that's easy That's easy.
That's easy for me.
Chad, I know you're going to agree with me.
If you know the game of football, I think when you look at it with the teams you name,
the teams have pieces.
The Falcons have pieces.
You know, Pitts, B. John Robinson, Jesse Bates, Drake London.
You look at the Raiders, they have nice pieces devante adams yeah
josh jacobs josh jacobs they got crosby on the defensive side you look at it you look at the
titans uh d hop wasn't on the one year right do you have one year okay well there's probably gonna
be going he's gonna leave so that's that's that's really not favorable. You look at the Patriots, I mean, what you working with?
Talk to me.
No.
Okay, exactly.
Panthers, you have Bryce Young.
You have a lot of work you need to do.
You got a lot of work you need to do.
Offensive line, you need some receivers.
You need a little bit of everything.
Commanders, ugh.
I mean, listen, unbelievable wide receiver trio.
Curtis Samuel, Terry McLaurin, Jahan Dotson, that's great.
What are you going to do with your quarterback situation?
Oh, they're going to the quarterback.
They're taking the quarterback at the first.
They're taking the quarterback with that.
I think they're the third or the fourth pick.
They're taking the quarterback.
Ain't going to be no quarterback at the third pick.
Oh, you know what?
Marvin Harrison Jr. going second, so you probably are right.
They probably get Drake May.
They probably get Drake May unless somebody overleaps or overlaps him.
So the best team that has the most pieces to work with, where it's like, I'm not calling the Warriors.
I'm not calling the Warriors.
But when Steve Kerr took over Mark Jackson with the Warriors back in the day because he had so much talent around him.
The goddamn Chargers got so much talent offensively, so much talent defensively.
I don't know who is going to come
in the Coastal Chargers defensively,
but you got to be looking at your chops.
You got to be looking at your chops, which you got
to work with over with the Chargers.
Man, they just got to be able to keep Mike
Williams healthy for whatever reason. Big, strong,
physical, can hop on the football.
He can stay
healthy. Oh, Joe. He's nice. He can stay healthy. Oh, Joe.
He's nice.
He's nice.
Keenan.
Keenan was having a great season.
I think he ended up getting nicked and missed a couple of games
at the end of the season.
You got Justin Herbert.
Justin Herbert's going to have to find a way to win these close games.
I'm tired of all this talent.
I mean, yeah, he's super immensely talented.
Talented in the attributes that you can see.
Big time arm.
Change arm angle.
Roll outside of the pocket.
Control from different arm angles. Control, yeah, left to right.
But, okay.
I need to see what's in here. I need to get, hey,
when the rubber needs to meet the road, I need you to
make it happen for me, bro. Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
So, I think they're going to probably, they need a bigger
back. I mean, I like...
You know, like, Austin Eckler was on a...
He's more of a
utility back.
Right, right, right. Like Darren Sproles
a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
But I agree with you.
But like I said,
if I'm Justin Fields, I say,
bro, Atlanta, come get your boy.
Atlanta? Atlanta,
come get Justin Fields. Yeah, that'd be nice.
On that track? That'd be nice.
On that track? The fans in Chicago
were chanting Fields,
Fields, Fields, Fields. Yeah, they
chanted that at the end of this year, but they was also chanting
what you heard when they were saying the year before
last, the year before that.
So they got, I mean,
the Chicago fans, I know it get cold up there
and maybe it's going to throw some of y'all mind.
But we know what you were saying before, too.
Right.
So you think it's time for Fields to move on?
I would.
You think the best destination for him would be?
Atlanta.
Would be Atlanta.
Mike Vick 2.0.
He's from the area.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. I mean,
they just, they got Desmond Ritter. They just
drafted Desmond Ritter. Desmond Ritter ain't nothing
because Ocho, he turned the ball over entirely too much.
Entirely too much, Ocho.
Damn. But he not even in year
three yet though, huh? Yeah, Ocho.
You giving up on him already?
For Justin Fields?
Okay. I see where you're going with it.
Yeah, man, please. I see where you're going with it. Yeah, man, please.
I see where you're going with it.
Okay.
Yeah, but I mean, that's a no-brainer as far as
which is the most attractive team for coaches.
I mean, hell, Bill Belichick, I think,
I'm thinking about Bill Belichick.
Bill Belichick should go to Alabama.
Nah.
Nah.
Nah.
I think his philosophy and way of coaching won't
resonate with these young kids in this
era. Hell it don't seem like it's a way of
coaching to resonate with this NFL team since
Tom Brady left home
because you heard what Amendola
said Amendola said
we work for Belichick we play
for Tommy
oh shit
I didn't hear that quote.
Julian Edelman said,
we worked for Coach Belichick.
We played for Brady.
That was nice. That's a good one.
I like that.
That's a good one. Hey, can I smoke while I'm on the show?
Yeah, that's your house.
Okay, I'm just asking.
I don't need to try not.
Nah.
Raiders, the Patriots. I mean, the Patri I don't need to try to... No. Raiders,
Patriots.
I mean, the Patriots
don't have enough
offensive pieces for me.
The defense,
but here's the thing.
Defense is great.
Defense is great,
but how far are you going to get
with a defense
and not having no offense?
Judon got hurt,
so he'll come.
Judon got hurt.
He'll be back.
Gonzalez,
that DB,
that he took the first round, he looked good. Hey, got hurt. He'll be back. Gonzalez, that DB, they took it the first round.
He looked good.
Hey, that's the one from UW, right?
He from UW, University of Washington?
Or I got the wrong story. Oregon.
Was he from Washington or Oregon?
Gonzalez.
It's one of them.
It's Pac-12.
I think it's Oregon.
Yeah, he was nice.
Boy, he the real deal.
He nice.
He showed injury.
Yeah.
Showed injury. I was watching him. I was watching him real close. He's from the D deal. He nice. He showed injury. Yeah. Showed injury.
I was watching him.
I was watching him real close.
He's from the Ducks.
He is Oregon?
Okay, okay, okay.
He nice.
Yeah.
Amendola said,
did I say,
I thought I said Edelman.
I said Edelman.
Amendola said it.
Excuse me.
Oh, Amendola?
Okay, okay.
Amendola said it.
Oh, man.
That's crazy.
I don't know if
what you call...
They got some defensive pieces.
I like Harold Landry.
I like Jeffrey Simons.
They got some nice pieces
defensively.
Jeffrey Simmons is still there,
right?
Yeah.
He's still there, yeah.
Harold Landry?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I think Landry got hurt.
Did Landry get hurt?
Simmons, Jeffrey Simmons
he nice
he pronounced it Simmons or Simons
Simmons Jeffrey Simmons yeah
he nice
he nice I like him a lot
uh
Titans do you
believe in Will Levis
yeah I like him now that's the mother that that that joke there Titans. Do you believe in Will Levis?
Yeah, I like him.
Now, that's some other... That joker there? Well, he got an arm.
He got an arm.
He spelled his name
like Levi's.
Will Levis, yeah. He got an arm.
I mean, he can make all the throws.
When I think about it,
I think of more mobile
than Roethlisberger.
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
More mobile,
he can make all the throws.
Left hash, right hash.
He can do all that.
Now, all you got to do
is get him something
to throw to.
You had DeHop.
DeHop had a decent season.
You got to get him
some animals over there.
You got to get him
some animals or some dogs
and he going to be all right.
Yeah.
So, we'll
see what happens. The NFLPA releases
their second player all-pro team.
Kelsey was a tight end. I disagree
with this. I think everybody knows
what I think of my nephew.
But Kittle had a better year.
Kittle was the only one
that had 1,000 yards this year at the tight end position. I mean, honestly, Kittle had a better year. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Kittle was the only one that had 1,000 yards this year
at the tight end position.
I mean, honestly, Kittle or Laporta.
Laporta was on fire.
He got hurt too, though, right?
Yes.
Yeah, he got hurt.
He got hurt.
Yeah.
And then you had, for the defensive side,
George Kittle had 65 receptions, 1,020,
averaged 15.7,
and six touchdowns on 90 targets.
Travis Kelsey had 121 targets,
93 receptions, 984 yards.
Kudos to Kelsey because he broke a streak.
I think he had like
eight consecutive thousand-yard seasons.
He only needed 16 yards.
They ain't even playing.
They ain't even playing.
He didn't play.
But Sam Laporta had 86 catches, 889
yards, and 10 touchdowns.
So for me, Evan Ingram had 114
catches, 963.
But for me, George Kittle
should have been for the
players. But
let me know what you think about this.
And for the outside, for the edge
rushers, Miles Garrett
and Crosby, Max Crosby, double X, Max, were the edge rushers over Micah and TJ.
Right, and TJ Watt.
What do you think the metrics were in deciding who to pick?
Because obviously it wasn't stat-based.
Yeah.
Obviously it wasn't stat-based.
So exactly what metric system did they use
to pick those two
over T.J. Watt
who led the league in sacks?
I'm sure there had to be
something else
that they used
to decide on who to pick.
And that's nothing
against Miles Garrett,
real deal.
Nothing against Max Crosby,
excuse me,
young bull got a motor.
Yeah, man.
Young bull got a motor
and never stopped.
Yeah, man.
This can't be statistically
based on how they chose
who to pick. So I'm just
sure what metrics they used to pick
those two. It was kind of like
the Pro Bowl. You can't vote
for yourself. You can't vote for your own
team. But
centers can vote for centers and
who you played against. So if I'm
a center, I can vote for if I'm Creed Humphrey, I can vote for sinners and who you played against. So if I'm a sinner, I can vote for...
If I'm Creed Humphrey, I can vote for Linderbaum at Baltimore.
And for the DTs or the nose tackles, say I got Simmons
or I'm voting for Aaron Donald or whomever, you know what I'm saying?
So that's how it went.
So it seems to me tight ends said that Cros and garrett and guys that play the edge says
we think those guys are better now i'm looking at um
t.j watt had 19 sacks 19 tackles for losses eight pass defense one interception four fourth
fumbles three fumble recovery recovery and a defensive touchdown
he's the only guy that made the list of josh allen i think he's at uh jacksonville allen hendrickson
khalil mac danelle hunter max crosby michael parsons miles garrett he's the only guy of that
group that recorded a defensive touchdown he had the most fumble recoveries he was one uh uh uh
forced fumble behind Khalil Mack.
But it just, look, and I don't think Michael made it last year.
I don't think, and he's probably scratching his head like,
well, hold on, wait a minute, fellas.
What's really going on?
Yeah.
Ain't no telling.
What you think going on?
You know, I have no idea.
I'm not sure.
That's why I said, what metrics do they use to decide on who to put there first as opposed to, you know, you always told me numbers matter.
Numbers matter.
So if numbers matter and stats matter, then T.J. Watt would definitely be first.
And then after that, hell, Trey Henderson was right behind him when it comes to sacks.
So why wasn't he mentioned?
Right.
Don't know him.
So I'm just curious.
I don't want to say it's a it's a it's a favoritism contest.
I don't want to say it's a popularity contest.
If you're going to do it, you have to have some consistency with it.
Right.
On why you pick these players.
I agree.
I agree. I agree. But I'm sure it means a little more to you.
Because these are players that you play against, because, you know, the Pro Bowl is players, it's coaches and it's the fans.
Right. So anytime your peers, those are the guys that you fight against.
And so you think I'm a hell raiser. I like that. I like that.
Right. But I mean, the like that. But, I mean,
the list up here, like I said,
I only got problems. I think George
Kittle deserved to be the tight end.
But, here's the thing, Ocho.
When you put somebody
on, you have to take somebody off.
So, if you put Micah on,
you're taking Miles Garrett off, or
you're taking Max Crosby off.
And that's the problem when they've all played well.
Yes.
So then you just put the person who is really at the top statistically.
So there's no problems.
You can't argue it.
Then T.J. Watt should be the guy.
Right.
And I think T.J. Watt missed a couple of games too, didn't he?
I know he got injured the last game, but like I said,
my biggest gripe
is with the tight end.
And that's not a knock on Kelsey
because I think he's phenomenal.
But this year,
Kittle should have been the all-pro
because he
catched the ball, he's tremendous run after catch,
and he amassed in the run game.
He's a second out the catch. And he a monster in the run game. He's a second offensive.
He's a second offensive lineman.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I mean, he pancake.
He pancaking folk.
Oh, yeah.
He handle his own D.
Ends linebackers save these corners.
Oh, he's an animal.
You're an animal in the run game.
Yeah.
Jerry golf.
Jerry golf said chip would never leave me from the rams
trade kelly stafford responds like to the lions fan page stafford jersey band on ig
well manager manager manager for what for what
kelly said um i've met her um what did i go I think I went to the
NFC Championship game and I was up there
and I got an opportunity to meet her
so she's lovely, great
she does
she watches Nightcap sometimes, I know she does
well this is sad because
it's the completely opposite of how I feel about this city
but Matthew has always
been a bigger person and will continue to be that
praying for an incredible game
with zero injuries.
So,
oh, man.
So, they posted, Ocho,
I don't know if you can... Yeah, I saw it.
I saw it. Come on, Ocho, really?
Yeah. Man, listen, it's
fans.
There ain't no fans?
Who did that?
Probably ain't even no real fans.
Oh, okay.
The fan club,
the biggest Lions fan club.
You know how they feel.
Yeah.
You know how they feel.
And that's fine.
That's fine.
That's okay.
That's great.
That's how you feel about me.
It don't matter.
Right.
I'm still going to do what I do.
Go out there and handle your business.
Because then you can't do
nothing about that.
And you know,
they only love you
when you're part of them.
When you go about your business,
it's a different ballgame.
That's just the nature of the business.
No, that ain't true, Ocho.
For me, I mean, I got...
Well, you know what I mean.
That's not true
because every fan base loves me.
But some it is now.
Some it is.
I mean, because when I came back
to Denver, they gave me love. When I went back
to Baltimore, they gave me love. Now,
I'm not a quarterback, and maybe
it's a quarterback, maybe it's different. But they
always gave, they showed me love.
Baltimore and Bronco country gave
me love. So I ain't got nothing but
respect for the fans in both of those cities.
But this is petty. This petty as hell here.
Very, very petty. Very petty. When I think about
it, listen. Steelers, Browns, Ravens.
When it comes to the fans, there was a true hatred and disdain for each other.
But for some reason, for some reason, regards to where I was, especially when we played away, there was always love.
Because, one, I had my fun.
I did my entertaining stuff.
I talked my trash to entertain the fans
to give them believable material
and give them something to look forward to
before the game.
There was always love
and there was nothing but respect.
Of course, you have your few
that want to talk trash from the stands
and I entertain it and engage back with it.
But after that, there was
nothing but respect. Now, quarterbacks
is a different ballgame. Well, they booed, I mean,
I think they booed Tom
a little bit when he went back to New England from Tampa.
I love it. You know, it's always
always. You are the enemy, though.
I mean, I know we love
you, but you are the enemy. You're the enemy
for three hours. Yes. You're the enemy
for three hours. You know, your resume, what you've done for us, it will never be forgotten. But once you're gone, you are the enemy. You're the enemy for three hours. Yes. You're the enemy for three hours. You know, your resume, what you've
done for us, it will never be forgotten.
But once you're gone, you're the enemy
in between them lines. But you know what, Ocho?
Look, if you want to applaud a guy,
when he come out there, introduce him, you applaud.
Yay! Hey,
when that Joe try to catch a pass,
I'm going to boot the brakes off you.
You drop one, I'm going to yell, yes, that's what I'm
talking about. Right. A quarterback, knock him out. Get him out I'm going to yell, yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Right.
A quarterback, knock him out.
Get him out.
Oh, hey, that's just, I'm a fan.
I appreciate what you did while you were here, but you're not here now.
So you the enemy.
Ocho, which quarterback do you think has the most at stake?
Out of?
Oh, playoff, playoff playoff playoff yes oh Dak of
course we know that we know that they haven't won anything since 1995 every year every year since
1996 every year is their year yeah every year is their year obviously Dak you're playing for
America's team you understand what that comes with Michael Parsons I don't think it's really
grasped the concept
in understanding who he's playing for.
You're playing for America's team.
That's why all the tension is on you.
The Dallas Cowboys moved the needle.
Jerry Jones moves the needle.
They are the team that is going to make the headlines
and move the needle for all broadcasts,
for all stations, for all journalists, for all analysts.
The highest stakes are on the Cowboys.
And I think they're going to get over the hurdle this year.
I think they're going to get over that hurdle this year.
At some point, at some point this year,
they're going to meet the goddamn San Francisco 49ers
in that NFC Championship.
And I'm hoping, I'm hoping they handle business.
I ain't. I'm for Kyle.
If Kyle made the, if they made the Super Bowl, I'm going. I'm hoping they handle business. I'm for Kyle. If Kyle made the
Super Bowl, I'm going to go.
Because I already know I'm good.
I'd call Mike Shanahan
if I didn't have no job.
I guarantee I'd call Mike Shanahan.
Hey, what's going on, 84?
Mike, I need a job. I mean, what you want to do?
I want to do something
for the 49ers.
You going to coach? You ain do something for the 49ers.
Okay. You going to coach?
You going to coach?
How you going to do something
for the 49ers?
You ain't playing for the 49ers?
I don't.
But I tell you what,
my former coach
is there in his son.
Okay.
I see what you're saying.
Bet you that.
Well, shit,
I'm coming with you then.
You come on.
Yeah, I agree with you you I think Dak has the most
at stake
followed closely by
Josh Allen
Josh Allen's right behind it
that's a good one
because remember they were 13
seconds away from advancing
to the NFC title
game I mean excuse me AFC
title game and having mean, excuse me, AFC title game.
And having the game in their building.
And last year, they got knocked out early.
Cincinnati went there and beat the Brakes off.
Yeah.
And so, it's time now.
It's time.
You know, Dak led the league in touchdown passes.
CD led the league in touchdown passes. CD led the league in catches.
Bro, offensively, you know, you got a solid offensive line.
You don't run the ball, but I don't think you put a heavy emphasis on running the football.
To run the football, you got to put an emphasis on it.
You got to make sure everybody understands their responsibility.
Wire receivers got to get in there and dig out safeties.
You got to knock people off them.
That's how you get long runs.
The offensive line got to be violent.
They're a little older now.
They've been involved in a lot of collisions.
Zach Martin, he's still a solid player.
He's not violent like he's not as violent as he once was.
You see Tyron Smith miss games, start to miss three, four games annually.
But they're still a solid ball club.
They're going to get a game at home.
Yeah.
Maybe two.
Who knows?
Maybe three.
Listen, the Cowboys at home.
The Cowboys at home?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
They putting up,
putting up 24 up 24 28 29
nah they averaging
they averaging
37
I think 37.4
37.5
points at home
I thought it dropped down
a little bit
nah hell nah
nah
they listen
they get two at home
mind you
mind you after
after this weekend
it's only two more
after that
yeah
you got the division
around in the NFC title game it's only two it's only two more after that. Yeah. You got the division around in the NFC title game.
There's only two more after that
before the big dance.
Boy, if Dak went to
goddamn Super Bowl this year, man,
they might as well put
the goddamn statue
outside of goddamn
AT&T Stadium
or whatever the name
of the goddamn stadium is.
Jerry's World,
no, it's going to be Dak's World.
Ain't going to be no
goddamn Jerry's World.
Let me ask you a question.
You know Dak win the playoff, the Super Bowl you know the contract up right
CD's already said I want to be the highest paid
what you think Michael want to be
now what's the likelihood of you having the three highest
paid players on one team
somebody got to sacrifice Ocho
that ain't gonna work
that ain't gonna work and I'm not sure
I wouldn't be the one to do it
I don't want to be the one
doing the number crunching
I wouldn't even want to be Jerry
at that point
I do
I want to be Jerry
I think it's a good
it's a good problem to have
it's a great problem to have
but it's only so much
you can do
the salary cap is still
the salary cap is going up
that ain't got nothing to do with me
but it's not going up enough
to where you're able to pay
back what he's owed
and what he's deserved
especially
especially excuse me if you go deep into the playoffs.
Yeah.
And, oh, hell yeah, you win a Super Bowl, you might as well just back up the brink truck.
You might as well back up.
Matter of fact, you know what you could do?
Back up two of them.
They do it in college before the NIL money.
Well, listen, Dak, we're going to give you this, and we're going to stack a little something under the table.
I don't know they would like that.
You don't want to be like, they might,
Roger Goodell might put the death penalty on Jerry.
Take my cellmate, grab him.
Ain't nobody got to know.
Ain't nobody got to know.
Ain't nobody got to know.
Ocho, what did I tell you?
More than one person knows something.
Somebody got to be dead.
Okay.
That's the only way they can keep that hush hush.
Ocho,
Jerry said,
and if I'm the old agent,
they say,
Jerry,
I heard you say
you have no idea
the size of the check
I'd be willing to write
for one more Super Bowl
when you got it.
Now,
how big a check
you gonna write for that?
How big a check
you gonna write for CD?
How big a check
you gonna write for Micah?
Well, shit,
listen,
the game of football
is 11 on 11
you can't play 3 on 11
that ain't got nothing to do with me
you told me my job
you told me my job is to play
so don't come to me
and help us out on the cap
give us a hometown discount
oh no ain't no discount man
I ain't even from Dallas
I give my hometown a discount
I give Glenville a discount I ain't giving you ish cause I ain't from Dallas and the Cowboys ain't even from Dallas. I give my hometown a discount. You're right. I give Glenville a discount.
I ain't giving you ish because I ain't from Dallas.
And the Cowboys ain't my team.
Yeah.
Hey, listen, I'm hoping for Dak's sake.
I'm not a Cowboy fan.
I'm a fan of players.
I'm a fan of individuals.
I'm a fan of individuals that I want to see get over the hump.
I'm a fan of individuals that I want to see get over the hump. I'm a fan of individuals that I want to see succeed.
If there's one player
that has constantly been
bombarded and harassed,
rightfully so.
Let me state that.
Rightfully so
for not being able
to get his team
to where they're deservingly
should be.
I really want to see Dak do it.
I really want to see him do it.
Right.
This is what I think
what everybody's been in the
chat. How many people got in the chat, Ash?
I think
this is what the people have been waiting for.
Yeah. Us, our commentary,
what we're going to say. Stephen A
unloads on Jason Whitlock.
Oh, Stephen A will come with
them hate makers, what?
Stephen A, Whitlock calls Stephen A's
book farcical, saying he had an issue
with the claim that he was recruited by
Winston-Salem State to play basketball
despite only playing one
year in high school. Whitlock said
Stephen A was lying about going to an open
try at Winston-Salem and hitting
17 three-pointers and getting a scholarship
offer after that's right on the spot.
Stephen A says he contacted
ESPN leaders
just to warn them about his segment
on Jason Whitlock.
I don't know if you watched the show,
but I told Stephen, I said, Stephen A,
will you please stop lending people
your audience?
Yeah.
Sometimes, listen,
sometimes you got to put people in your place.
Sometimes you got to put people in your place because Sometimes you got to put people in your place.
Because what happens is, if you don't say nothing, they're going to keep on coming at you and they're going to keep on coming for you.
Normally, when you're in school and there's a bully and he's bullying you, he's going to keep on bullying Stephen A has fed up because Mr. Whitlock has always been going at him and going at him and going at him and going at him and taking shots at him.
And now he's finally fed up.
You got to stand up for yourself.
But Ocho, this is what Stephen has said.
Stephen has said, I'm a very forgiving person.
Not with him.
I hate this, you know, B-A-S-T-A-R-D far more than a little bit.
He's the worst human being of any
you'll ever meet. You get with a
mile of his presence, wrap your arms around
him and protect your soul.
He's king. He's the devil.
The worst. That's all I have to say.
Ocho. I get it.
You gotta stand up for yourself
sometime, Uncle. You can't do that.
Sometime you gotta stand up for yourself.
That's like your mama seeing you to school. Boy, if somebody hit you, you can't do that. Sometime you got to stand up for yourself. That's like your mama
sending you to school.
Boy, if somebody hits you,
you better hit them back.
And if you don't hit them back
and you come home,
I'm going to march your ass
right back down to that school
so you get your lick back.
At some point in the Bible,
God said,
if somebody slap you,
turn the other cheek.
No, that's in the Bible.
See, I ain't in there.
Okay.
See, I'm right here. Right there, turn the other cheek. I, that's in the Bible. See, I ain't in there. Okay. I'm right here.
Right there, turn the other cheek. I ain't in there.
He was talking about people
that was in the Bible.
But think about it.
Stephen A. Smith, I'm
assuming, has been
turning the other cheek for a very long time
and now he's at the point where he's fed up.
Yeah. So therefore, to me,
listen, I like to see this side.
I like to see a different side of Stephen A. Smith.
I think all journalists that have a problem with somebody that is sick of people always picking on them or taking shots or saying something.
I think they all should.
You know what?
I think everybody, chat, all journalists that are going to see this, regardless of what platform you're on.
If you have a problem with somebody,
I think you should take the Stephen A.
Smith route. Let somebody know.
It's so refreshing.
It's so refreshing to see somebody
be their authentic, organic
self when they have a problem with somebody
instead of that same politically correct
bullshit that we always spew.
I like it. Ocho.
You don't like it?
You gotta like it. For me,
Ocho, look, guys
are starting to take shots
at me that never took shots at me
before. And you and I know it.
You did it on the last show. See, you just did the same thing.
But no, Ocho. No, I didn't
mention no name. I remember people knew who I
was talking about. I still don't know who you're talking about.
I was just going along. But here's the thing.
This is what I'm trying to tell.
Look.
Yes, sir.
If you look at career-wise, you look at where Stephen A is,
and you look at the guy that he was talking about.
Stephen A is up here.
He's here.
Or even lower.
So, in other words, see, Ocho, you remember, like,
when we were growing up and somebody be going,
hey, man, you going to town?
And let me catch a ride.
See, the only way he can get up if he's attached himself to Stephen A or somebody that's hired that's going up.
I leave him alone.
Right.
I don't, I don't, look, I don't mess with him.
I don't mess with him.
He knows I don't mess with him.
He likes to bring my name
you know Fox tried to feed him some information about this and that
and he threatened
I don't get into all that
I just look
I know who I am
I know what I am
okay y'all say all y'all little stuff
because see the problem
the problem that he has with me
see
and this is what a lot of people have
that are journalists
you see
I can sit at a desk on ESPN or I did it at Fox,
and I can do what they do.
They could never live in my world.
They could never play pro sports.
So now not only could I play sports and I was damn good,
I can sit across and I'm more entertaining.
I'm more informative.
I'm more educational than you and see those
that can do
those that can't talk you see
all they can do is talk
I can do that irks
them it irks them
that somebody from rural
South Georgia with a list
that overcame that
can do this it
bother them that
Complex voted me most
entertaining. Come on, guy.
It bothered them. It bothered them
that I
got the interview with
Cat Williams.
The second most viewed
interview in YouTube history.
42 million.
42 million, my dad.
Come on, now. They mad about that Ocho.
And they, oh, this and that.
Why y'all bothering me? I've never
said anything about anybody
because I don't care about you.
Stephen A and I have always
been cool. Obviously, we're a lot cooler now.
He was always cordial to me. I think
there was a fondness there because he went to
HBCU and so did I.
So I know the plights of people that go
now. I don't know
what it's like now. It's probably
a lot better than
when Stephen A and I was in school.
I'm almost certain of it.
But
I don't know why so many of these guys
got to put my name in the mouth.
It seems to be the only way they can get clicks.
You never hear me come on.
I've never,
unless somebody has said something about me,
you don't hear me mention anybody's name.
I've never gone on my podcast and talk about a former reporter.
When I talk about players,
I'm critiquing their play.
Right.
I said,
I don't just go out and just start. And I, and I'm paidiquing their play. What's that?
I don't just go out and I'm paid for that.
But they mad.
They see, I got 2.35
million subs on
Club Shay Shay. We're about to hit
in another two weeks, we're going to hit 800,000
subs in a podcast that's
three and a half months old. And so
now, the fact that somebody
might throw the bag up. Man, that show might get you know, somebody might throw the bag at, oh,
man,
that show might get picked up.
Somebody might throw the bag
at Nightcap.
Not even mad.
Everybody got so,
oh,
he was a loose cannon.
Oh,
he was this.
And if he keeps doing,
bro,
I ain't saying nothing.
I ain't never said nothing.
Right.
I don't bother nobody.
But I tell you what,
just leave me alone.
Right.
Just, just leave me alone. Whatever you you got going on why you mentioning my name i don't mention your name i don't care about
you and so look that's crazy look me and clay travis we don't have anything in common clay
travis don't f with the dude that Stephen A was talking about.
That should tell you everything you need
to know. Klay Travis, don't
rock with it.
And I had
my issue with Klay Travis.
Y'all can go look up, y'all
can go dig up the tweet.
All I said was, bro, I don't
know you and you don't know me.
But don't make me lose my job.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
I left it at that.
You hit it with that on?
That's all I did.
You can pull up the tweet.
That's all I said.
I mean, I don't, I don't, all that back and forth.
I ain't about that.
I had one issue with the guy that, uh, with Steven, they got into it with, I told my bosses, I said, hey, just keep me just trying to keep my, hey, I won't be here long because I don't play.
I don't do all that back and forth.
Leave me the F alone.
I don't bother nobody.
Right.
But boy, I'm telling you, he don't want any problem.
Just leave me.
I don't know why he feels such a need to keep my name.
Okay, whatever you got going on with Stephen A., that's it.
Okay, y'all both working at ESPN.
You're both journalists.
Maybe there's competition there.
I don't know.
Leave me the F alone.
I'm not what you want.
I'm not.
So that's why I say, Ocho, if you see me nine times out of team,
if I'm not in the airport, if I'm not like working,
Shannon by himself.
Right.
You see me in Whole Foods.
You see me in Target.
You see me.
I'm by myself.
I'm home 90% of the time with my dogs because I don't fool with people.
And what I've started to see, and I didn't see it at first, everybody saw what was going
on with Shannon before Shannon actually saw it himself.
Right. As you used to tell me, Shannon, you don't understand what you are.
I said, Ash, I'm just she said, no, Shannon, no, no, no, no.
You're not you're not. No, you're not. You're not the same, Shannon, that you walked in here in 2016.
You're a different Shannon now.
I said, but Ash, she said, no, Shannon.
Everybody saw what was happening before I did.
Ocho, think about it.
Not all of a sudden I'm funny.
Not all of a sudden I got takes.
I've always had them.
But now I'm free.
Yeah.
Stephen A is Stephen A.
There's nothing like,
I've never been jealous of a teammate.
When Ron Smith started to come on,
I gladly,
hey, I'm still trying to get my thing,
but I'm giving him information.
Ask Ron.
His locker was right across from mine.
Yeah.
I remember when he first walked in there,
he said, I want to be like you.
I said, what you mean?
He said, I want the love and respect the fans give you.
I want the way the team, the way they treat you. That's what I want to be. I said, well, this is what you need. He said, I want the love and respect the fans give you. I want the way the team, the way they treat you.
That's what I want to be. I said, well, this is what you need
to do.
Rod started coming on. Hey,
come on, Fuzz. Let's get this.
That's how I am.
I don't bother.
Ask anybody
at CBS.
Ask anybody at Fox.
I ain't talking about the high ups.
Because all the stuff, you never heard anything about Shannon Sharp for six and a half years
until all of a sudden the news broke that Shannon Sharp was parting ways with Fox.
And then all of a sudden, Shannon Sharp is the worst person ever.
Never heard a peep.
Go ask ESP.
I don't bother nobody.
They call me and say, can you do this?
Hey, I'm done.
I'm there.
What do you think about it? I'm good. Stephen A wants to know
if you... Okay, I'm cool. That's how
I am. I don't
bother people because I don't want nobody
to bother me.
But somehow, my
name, whatever you got going on
with Stephen A,
I just wish Stephen A would let it go.
I really do.
I like it. I enjoyed
it. I enjoyed it because sometimes
when you don't address stuff, like I told you before,
when you don't address stuff, man, they will continue
to try to bully you. They will continue to
keep your name in their mouth.
That's just life.
That's the nature of the business.
To see what Stephen A. Smith did,
which you don't see very often from journalists,
I mean, it's refreshing.
It's refreshing.
And he said he's not going to address it anymore.
And that's it.
That's it.
I mean...
Ocho, check this out.
I was in the airport.
And the guy tried to prop me up.
He's like, man, hey, man, you're great.
You're a great addition to the show.
But I'm trying to put Stephen A. Downs in my
mind. Don't do that. I said,
you can give me prop without trying
to stand on him.
Don't do that.
Right.
Hey, I appreciate you giving me kudos.
I appreciate you saying I'm this.
We can do that
without saying something negative about
him. I'm not going to stand for that.
Nah, we ain't going to do that.
Think about it now.
I got a ginormous personality.
I'm a big presence.
Ain't a whole lot of people in Stephen A. position would have brought me on.
Ain't no way in hell.
Ain't no way in hell.
Because had I been this
in 2016 you think
they'd have brought me on in Fox
me being what I am as I sit in this chair
Ojo you think they'd have brought me on in Fox
hell no
hell nah
and I'm okay with it I understand that
I pay I do my pay I come to work
I show up I punch the clock I go home
ain't cause nobody no problem.
Right.
Damn. Hey, listen.
And the great words of
I don't even know who said the quote
can't we all just get along?
Yeah, we could.
Can't we all just get along?
But, I mean...
They gonna take your shots.
It come with the territory.
You gotta be ready for it. It come with the territory you got to be ready for it
it come with the territory
I don't mind people that don't know me
taking shots at me because you don't know me
but how you going to be
pretend like we were cool
and now you try to take a subtle
shot but I saw it coming
but it's starting to come with greater frequency
and regularity
what
I gave you kudos when you was doing your thing coming, but it's starting to come with greater frequency and regularity. What?
I gave you kudos when you was doing your thing. Right.
I just don't get it.
I don't, but little do
they know, what's for me,
God going to give it to me. They can't
take it. You're going to get it regardless.
What's for you? Whatever it is.
If a bowling ball is supposed to drop on your head get it regardless what's for you whatever it is if a bowling ball supposed to
drop on your head that's what's gonna happen if you're supposed to win the lottery of 100 million
that's what's gonna happen you're gonna get what's intended for you oh yeah so what's intended for me
but they make it seem like what i what, Ocho, is that people seem like
if I start to get a little success
and they think money's going to come along
with it, that the money is their money.
All that money the
government printed
$3, $4, $5 trillion
during the pandemic.
They're not going to run out of money.
It's enough for everybody, too.
It's enough for everybody.. It's enough for everybody.
Enough for everybody.
But somebody might talk,
might say,
call Shannon name
a little more than they call theirs.
They might say,
I like Shannon take on said subject
more than they like theirs.
I don't think,
I've always thought like this.
And this is what my gran
and my grandfather instilled in us.
You're not better than someone else
you just can do a job better than they can
I believe
I can do this better than anyone
right
that's what I believe
and I ain't gotta
bang my chest I ain't gotta
do all this and no I ain't no columnist I ain't no investigative reporter and I ain't got to bang my chest. I ain't got to do all this.
And no, I ain't no columnist.
I ain't no investigative reporter.
And I ain't no new... No, no.
And see, that's what...
Ocho, I mean,
it's kind of like how actors feel
when somebody didn't go to Juilliard
or they're not trained
and all of a sudden
they come on to the house
and they have success.
They look at them...
They look at them sideways.
I mean, bro, you still got your role. You still getting your money. Yeah. Whatever. They look at them sideways.
I mean, bro, you still got your role.
You still get your money.
That's just the way I am.
But everybody, like you said, Ocho, everybody is like that.
And I'm starting to understand it. And that's one thing my sister said.
She said, Shannon, you're going to get that.
Yeah.
I got a that. Yeah. I got a question.
Yes.
Have you ever thought about
the individuals that are saying anything
or just having
a reason to point out
something you're doing
and keeping your name in their mouth?
Have you thought about reaching out
and asking them what the problem is?
No.
They got my number.
Oh, they already got your contact too.
So they could have came to you first.
Of course. Oh, okay, okay, okay too, so they could have came to you first. Of course.
Oh, okay, okay, okay. Of course they could have.
Alright. They come to me with other stuff.
Alright, I see where you're going.
I hear where you're going.
Damn. But it's all good.
I'm going to keep doing me.
I'm going to keep doing me. Oh, we got to.
We got to. I'm going to make sure you do.
Shit. But they're going to be mad here shortly. Trust me. They, we got to. We got to. I'm going to make sure you do. Shit.
But they're going to be mad here shortly.
Trust me. They're going to be mad.
They're going to be mad
at us, Ocho. They're going to be real
mad. And then what?
Y'all make sure you hit that subscribe button, guys.
Help us out. We're trying to get to 800,000.
Help us get to 800,000 in 10 days.
Nah. Where we at, Ash?
Let's get to a million before we go to Super Bowl.
Man, that would be lovely.
Ocho, we asking an awful lot, a million by the Super Bowl.
Listen, if we can get to a million.
That's a month.
If we can get to a million before Super Bowl.
Wait, wait, I have a question.
Yes.
We doing a live show in Super Bowl?
Yes, no?
What'd you think?
Thursday.
Thank you.
If we can get to a million before the last Super Bowl show in Super Bowl? Yes? No? What'd you think? Thank you. If we can get to a million
before the last Super Bowl
show in Vegas, in which
I will drink
La Portia in front of the whole bottle.
You ain't gonna drink the whole bottle?
Huh?
Nah, because I'll be doing the show about 10 minutes in.
I'll be doing the show by myself.
Yeah, I can't wait. I can't. Oh, I forgot. Hey, chat, chat, if y'all watching,
we got 32,000. I think we got about 32,000 in the chat. I told y'all, I tweeted before the show started. If you can guess the team jersey I'm wearing and the name, the play I'm wearing, the team jersey and the person jersey I'm wearing.
If you can guess in the chat, whoever get it right the first time, I'm reading the chat.
Whoever get it right the first time, I'm sending you $1,000 now.
You got to get it right?
Yeah, the team jersey and the name on the back.
Well, damn.
Well, you sure not trying to get away that money.
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Pat McAfee today announced that Aaron Rodgers is done as a guest for the NFL season.
After he made the announcement that the weekly segment Aaron Rodgers Tuesday was done for the season,
and he and his staff applauded.
McAfee then explained that Rodgers had become too much of a distraction.
McAfee said, so Rodgers Tuesday's season four is done.
There's going to be a lot of people that are happy,ee said, so Rogers Tuesday season four is done.
There's going to be a lot of people that are happy,
myself included,
to be honest.
He continued to say the way it ended,
it got really loud,
really,
really loud.
I'm happy that if I'm,
I'm,
I'm happy that it's going to be my mentions going forward, which news. McAfee made the call.
He has creative control of guest booking.
Obviously, I'm certain ASPN I'm sure ASPN
helped aid that decision also.
You can't take...
Man, come on, Ocho.
I already know.
And the stuff that he's talking about.
That's way above my pay grade.
It's okay to toe the line.
It's okay to push the envelope.
But there's certain things you just don't touch.
Especially with A-Rod mentioned
and even implicating that that individual was a part of that.
Boy, you can't play like that, boy.
And he keeps talking about stuff that happened in 2020.
Man, nobody care about Fauci.
Nobody care about that COVID vaccine.
Okay, you took an alternative.
That's fine.
But you try to keep it.
Well, first of all, it's just like,
oh, I'm going to have to fast recover.
A-Rod, he loved to hear his name mentioned.
That's why he kept talking about,
oh, I'm going to come back.
I'm going to come back.
And then he came back
and then they activated for what?
He took a roster spot. Well, I told him
I told him not to do that. Oh,
so they didn't listen to you this time. But
when you told him you wanted Alan Lazard,
they didn't listen. They listened to you. When you told him
you wanted Randall Cobb, they listened to you.
But when you told him, don't activate you,
don't put you on the active roster, they didn't listen
to a man that had Achilles surgery.
So they didn't listen to you then, but they listened to you all the other time.
See, the thing is – go ahead, okay.
Go ahead, go ahead.
No, I was going to say –
I was going to say, he know you weren't going to play.
You know you weren't going to play.
You're going to get the headlines anyway.
You're going to get the headlines anyway.
No, not when you're injured.
You know how it is.
You've never been injured.
But when you're injured, you see guys who talk about them when they're injured. You know how it is. You've never been injured. But when you're injured,
you see guys who talk about them
when they're injured.
The coaches ain't talking about them.
They not in the game playing.
The media not mention them.
When's the last time
you heard somebody mention Joe Burrow
since he got injured?
Okay, I see you going with it.
That's what he couldn't stand.
That's why he kept
that bull job going
every week trying to take a
shot at travis kelsey talk about the vaccine you didn't get the vaccine okay that's fine
bro that's three four years ago move it alone but see oh you hear what a rod said i'm surprised
they let it go on as long as they did because he keeps these conspiracy theories because he always
thinks he's the smartest guy in the room.
That's his thing. He thinks he's the smartest
guy in the room.
But I guarantee you, let me ask
you a question. So did they do alternative
medicine on that Achilles?
Did he take, what
are you saying? That drug, that hallucinogenic
ayahuasca?
Ayahuasca.
Did he take that to have him put him under?
Or did he take the regular medicine like everybody else took?
You see, he pick and choose the type of medicine that he believes in.
A-Rod full of what the elephant left on the showground.
That's what he full of.
Everybody knows it.
But a lot of people are afraid to say it.
So I'm glad because you can't keep coming on somebody's platform
and then talking about their ball and making
those kind of accusations.
Those conspiracy theories.
Oh Fauci. Oh the vaccine.
Oh I want to debate Travis Kelsey.
Nobody care about that damn vaccine.
People got it. They wanted to have it.
And they didn't. They didn't get it.
Move on. Why are you still talking
about some stuff from 2020?
I mean, 2020.
Ah.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
Listen, I just know some of the...
Boy, you understand the privilege you got to have
to be able to say some of the stuff he was saying?
Of course.
Oh, you're not understanding me.
Do you understand
the privilege you got to have
to be able to say
some of the stuff he was saying?
Shit.
Wow, I would have never
saw the light of day.
I wish I would have said
shit like that.
Never.
Never.
No, sir.
First of all, if you'd have been on a program and you said that, you'd have never been back on that program.
Absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
And it would only take one time.
Yeah.
They're not bringing me back so I could re-explain myself again.
Oh, no.
No, no.
To further advance your conspiracy theories.
But I like PMAC.
I'm glad he made this decision.
He's been great.
He's been great to me.
He's the model that we're trying to capture because we saw what he did.
So that tells us, I mean, he did it.
That means it's possible to be done.
So therefore, it can be done again.
Yeah, most definitely.
So that's how we look at it.
That's how you and I approach it, Ocho.
So kudos to PMAC for finally taking a stand.
Whether ESPN helped with that decision,
I think that's the right decision that you made, PMAC, and congratulations.
The Miami Heat waited.
Go ahead.
You want to answer?
Before you finish?
No.
The person, the first person to answer right on the name, the team and the name.
I. You see the name, yeah, yeah, Batista.
Yeah. Somebody get somebody got it right. Phil, man, you'll see.
Phil, man, you'll see. I'm sure you follow me on Instagram or Twitter.
Send me your Zelle.
Send me your Cash App.
Philmon Yosef.
You are the first person to answer right with the team and the player's name.
Send me your Zelle, your Instagram, your PayPal, your Venmo, whatever it is you use, your Cash App, and I'm going to send you $1,000.
I'm going to do this every night from now on.
I'm going to have you $1,000. I'm going to do this every night from now on. I'm going to have on a different jersey.
If you're able to guess the player's name on the back
and the team name, I got you
with $1,000.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Miami Heat waited until
Eric Spolstra's divorce was
finalized and they gave him a record
breaking contract. I think it's eight years
$120 million.
Spol and Nicky, a former heat dancer,
announced their divorce November 23rd
after seven years of marriage.
The thing got finalized.
Pat Riley and Mickey Harrison
broke bread.
Wait, seven years, huh?
Well, you know that saying, huh?
My grandma used to say all the time,
the seven-year itch, it gets you every time, huh?
Yeah, I don't know what happened to me. Listen, seven-year itch, it gets you every time, huh? Yeah.
I don't know what happened to me.
Listen, seven-year itch, it gets you every time.
Hold on.
If something's about hitting seven years in anything,
either you're going up here or you're going down here.
Ain't no in-between.
I thought it was no fraternization with the cheerleaders
and the dancers and the coaches and players. We couldn'tization with the cheerleaders and the dancers and the coaches and players.
We couldn't mess with the cheerleaders.
Wait, who listened to them rules?
Man.
Me.
Wait, who messed with the cheerleader?
She was a dancer.
She was?
That's what I said, Ocho.
Oh, my bad.
I didn't know that But listen Sometimes love
Sometimes love
Is
In places
Where you're not supposed
To be looking
And that's what happens
Sometimes you find love
In places you're not
Supposed to be looking
Normally
Your mama told you
These are the type of boys
You don't want to have
And you better not bring
Nothing like this home
And guess what you bring home
Exactly what she told you Not to motherfucking bring Don't we all want What we can't have But we're not supposed to have and you better not bring nothing like this home and guess what you bring home exactly what she told you not to motherfucking bring don't we all want what we can't have but
we're not supposed to have and why does it feel that much better than the things they want us to
have what did adam do what was what was he what was it what was he not supposed to do oh joe
there's an archer to treat an archer yeah yeah just can't eat up this one no and it was he not supposed to do Ocho there's an archer to treat an archer you just can't eat off this one
he was the only one
he didn't say nothing about Eve
Eve could have ate that whole damn tree
you couldn't eat it
yeah
what she did
no what he did
you right
you right
the things that are not What he did. Oh, what he did. You right. You right. You right.
Hey, listen. That started it.
The things that are not good for you feel so...
Wait, what's the word?
I forgot.
I forgot.
I forgot the saying.
The things that are bad for you feel so good.
The things that are bad for you.
The things that your mama or your daddy told you to stay away from
as a woman
don't mess with the bad boys
don't mess with the bad boys
what you want Ocho
you want something that's good
for you or good to you
that's the problem
that's what you're running into Ocho
cause see what's good for you
might not be good to you
and what's good to you
might not be good for you so which you want Ocho I'm what's good for you might not be good to you, and what's good to you might not be good for you.
So which do you want, Ocho? I'm going to break it down.
I'm going to make it real simplistic, because I get what
you was trying to say, so I'm going to give it to you in a very
simple term. You want what's good for
you or good to you? Because what's good to you
ain't good for you always. Now, what you want, Ocho?
Listen.
I want what's good for me.
I want what's good for me I want what's good Baby
Baby
Are you good for me?
Are you going to be good to me?
Yes, we still working
Are you good for me?
Are you going to be good to me?
Answer me
Ooh
She can't hear, she's drunk to me. Answer me. Ooh.
She can't hear. She's drunk.
Again. Really,
Draco? Yeah, I mean,
look, Ojo, we don't know why. I don't
try to profess when people
like, oh, they look so happy.
Man, that's for the cameras.
Oh, yeah, it's always the cameras.
What, they supposed to be arguing in front of the camera?
They supposed to be frowning at each other
in front of the camera?
I don't know what's going on in someone's home.
So I don't profess to know.
So I don't know.
Seven years of marriage,
the last two years,
the last year might have been hell
for Spoke and Nikki.
Right.
Right.
But something led them to
go away, to
be wanting to go their separate ways.
Forget them going their separate ways.
Why is the divorce rate so
motherfucking high? Why is everybody
breaking up? Why do things
never seem to work out?
The marriage ain't...
See, people don't look at marriage as a job.
Because I quit.
I quit it.
Quick.
Quick in a hurry, huh?
I quit it.
I quit.
Quick in a hurry.
Any day, any time.
Listen.
Hey, you ask a couple, right?
You ask a couple who's been married for years.
Always.
Nice to do this randomly.
Obviously, just to prove a point.
Do this randomly.
Ask a couple that's been married for a very long time.
Everybody say the same thing.
It's hard.
It's a lot of work.
Yeah, for sure.
It's hard.
It's a lot of work.
Same answer.
So are people getting to the point where, you know what, I don't feel like working on it no more?
Yeah.
Have we gotten to the point where we don't want to grow together?
We're not evolving as one? I don't feel like working on it no more? Yeah. Have we gotten to the point where we don't want to grow together? We're not evolving as one?
I don't know.
It's easier to grow apart
than it is to grow together
because it takes work to grow together.
It don't take nothing to grow apart.
No.
Just do what you normally do
and watch
because a lot of times, Ocho,
people will plant a seed
and think that it's just going to grow.
But no, you got to water it. You got to fertilize it.
Yeah.
Look, I've never been married.
But I do know
the reason why a lot of my relationships
didn't work because I didn't water it. I didn't fertilize it.
But I was watering
and fertilizing my career.
That's on me.
See, I'm not naive enough
to sit here and say
it was the woman's fault.
Sometimes it was,
but 90% of the time it was mine.
Come on, preacher.
I own that.
Yeah.
I own my mistakes.
I like that.
See, the thing,
Ocho, a lot of times
when I was growing up,
people used to say things, you know, I had a lisp and it was, you know, a lot of times when I was growing up, people used to say things,
you know, I had a lisp
and it was, you know,
hard for me to enunciate
certain words.
Uh-huh.
And my grandmother,
I tell my grandmother,
you know, people make fun of me
and say things.
And she said, boy,
it ain't what they call you,
it's what you answer to.
Mm.
So I learned early on,
if I take ownership Mm- inferior, my insecurities,
you couldn't make me feel bad about them. I know I talk with a lisp. I know I don't speak
grammatically correct. Okay, I'm cool with that. Once I took ownership of that,
people couldn't make me feel
bad about that.
Right.
And that's what you have to do.
Take ownership
of your insecurities
so when people say,
oh, you, okay,
big nose,
you black,
you know, I was dark.
Okay, yeah, okay.
Call me smut.
Call me chimney.
Call me dirt.
Call me all that crow.
God damn.
I'm cool with all that.
They call you all that
shit
you good now though
huh
I remember back in the day
you had to be light skinned you had to be like
El DeMar Chico DeMar
you know
I ain't no one want no dark skin, man, no.
Man, them boys bruise too easy, man.
You hit them
upside the head,
they bruise.
They turn red,
black and blue.
Nah, man.
You know,
Michael Jordan
came along
and Wesley Spank.
Yeah.
I've been popping since.
Ever since.
Mm-hmm.
I've been popping
ever since.
Everybody know
from the side,
you know exactly
what I'm talking about.
People in the chat,
they know what
I'm talking about. Everybody wanted the light, they know what I'm talking about.
Everybody wanted
the light-skinned guys
with the light eyes.
They had the wavy hair
like Chico DeBarge,
El DeBarge.
With a little
oil sheen in it.
Yeah,
they wanted them guys.
They didn't want
nobody all dark.
No,
they didn't want me there.
Oh,
Lord.
That's funny.
But now,
ever since Michael Jordan
and Wesley Snipes,
I've been popping since the 80s.
Mid-80s, I started popping.
Ain't dropped off since.
Ain't gonna never drop off.
Oh, no, no.
Black in.
Fine.
Listen, boy, we've been in.
We've been in for a minute.
Yeah.
We've been in for a minute.
They didn't want no dark skin gotten.
He too dark.
He's black.
Okay.
All right.
Listen, you know what they say now.
The black of the juice is sweeter than the berry.
No, I think it's the black of the berry that's sweeter than the juice,
but I get where you're going.
Wait, I said it wrong?
Yeah.
Baby!
The black of the juice is sweeter than the berry?
The black of the berry that's sweeter than the juice.
How you know?
You say she love her some blackberries, honey.
Yeah.
Yeah, talk your shit now.
But, oh, you know, you know, I played it.
Hold on, Ocho, you say the black of the berry, the sweet of the juice?
Yeah.
She's about to get diabetes messing with me.
Because I'm black in the both of them.
You know what I said, Ocho?
They get diabetes with O'Shea.
You better get on this old sugar train.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I'm real, I'm bad, please.
They already know.
I like that.
Damn, man.
Hey, well, we had some good-ass topics tonight, bro.
Well, we had some great topics tonight, Ocho.
Hey, I like that goddamn Stephen A goddamn Jason Whitlock.
That shit was good.
Why do you like that?
You like you see you like conflict.
No, I don't know.
I don't like conflict because I'm not I'm not conflicting.
I'm not.
I don't like problems.
I don't like problems.
I like to find a solution to them.
But it's interesting because I'm glad to see Stephen A outside of his form, outside of his norm.
I got a solution to the problem.
Someone always jabbing at you, jabbing at you, jabbing at you, jabbing at you, or taking shots at you.
It's okay to defend yourself.
It's okay to finally stand up.
Because if you don't stand up to the bully, he's going to continue to bully you over and over and over.
And that goes for anybody.
In your workplace, at home, might be a relationship, might be a friendship.
Sometimes you have friends,
you don't even know they bullying you.
Sometimes at some point
you got to stand up for yourself.
My thing is the way I look at it, Ocho,
I'm a rocket ship.
I'm taking off
and I ain't letting nobody hit the ride.
I like it.
That's the way I'm looking at it, Ocho.
I choose who to pick up and give a ride to the
destination that I'm going which is to the top
and I don't choose them
shit I'm going to
hey absolutely
Lady Ray said
I got a good one for you guys
what's the hardest thing for you to say
I need help I love you
or I'm sorry
it's easy say which is which is what is the hardest thing for you to say i need help i love
you or i'm sorry well shit boy ain't none ain't none of them three hard for me to say obviously
i say i love you every goddamn day.
I need help.
There may be one or two people I can go to when I do need help.
I'm not in situations where I really need help that often, but when I do, especially when it's something that I don't know about and I'm not knowledgeable about, I have no problem saying I need help.
And I'm sorry.
Well, I've been apologizing
since 1983.
I've been apologizing
since 1983
for many mistakes
because if life came
with an instruction booklet,
I wouldn't have made no mistakes.
And it just don't.
It just don't work like that.
So I've been apologizing
for a very long time.
No, I'm sorry.
It's definitely the easiest.
Right.
Yeah.
Because I've never been too big,
too proud to say no matter what,
whether I was, you know,
five, six years old,
whether I was this
or whether I was, you know,
early in my career
or where I am now,
I've just never,
I've always been if I'm wrong,
I'm wrong and I'm mad enough
to say I'm wrong.
But I'm also mad enough
to tell you when you wrong also.
And that's the problem
that people have. People
don't mind saying, oh, man,
you need to say you're wrong, but they don't want to
hear they're wrong. So that's
definitely the easiest. I need
help.
It depends on what it is. The extent
of help in what?
The extent of help in actually what?
Sometimes you might be running a little low on money.
You might need money.
I need help, relationship advice, marriage counseling, putting people in your business.
No, you got to do that.
No, you can't have people in your business.
Yeah, but when you say I need help, sometimes you have to figure it out.
You got to go to other people.
Sometimes everybody else is always able to guide you and help you when they're not in your situation.
Yeah, because you get to offer.
See, for me, like when I talk to guys about football stuff, a lot of the stuff I'm speaking from firsthand knowledge.
Right.
And I'm a very practical,
very common sense type of a guy.
And I just believe in right and wrong.
I believe there's a right way.
The way you do some things is the way you do all things.
And that's just the way I've always been.
And you know,
if we had to do this,
we're going to do this.
I'm not going to let you do that.
Once I became a leader.
And I think that's the thing that that's why it was very easy for me to leave because guys knew I wasn't asking them what I wasn't willing to give them.
Right. And so I just think, like I said, I'm sorry, I need help.
I don't have a problem asking for that.
I. It all depends because I found myself
because I think early on
in my life
I didn't tell my kids nearly enough
I love them
and now I won't get off the phone without telling
them
I love them
I think it's easier for girls
but I noticed my son,
since he became a dad,
he always,
I love you,
dad,
since he became a father.
Right.
So I was like,
I love,
you know,
I'm like,
I remember the first time he said that,
you know,
after,
you know,
getting up some age,
I'm like,
okay.
I said,
I love you too,
bro.
Yeah.
Um,
yeah,
but I love,
I don't have, I don't have a problem
the hardest
would probably be I need help
for you?
yeah
you better than me boy
I need help
I got two people
I got two people I can call
and I need help
God willing I'm never in a situation and I need help. Now, like God willing,
I'm never in a situation
where I need help.
But if any,
in any unfortunate circumstance,
I'm calling
and I don't even care.
Because all them phone calls I get
when others need help
throughout these years.
Well, see, that's the thing.
Most of the time people need help.
They need money. That's easy for me. I can help them out easy. Oh, yeah. Most of the time, people need help. They need money.
That's easy for me.
I can help them out easy.
Oh, yeah.
And I already know I ain't going to get it back,
so I'm good.
But I'm never going to give you more than I can stomach lose.
Right, right.
You know, you ask.
I'm not expecting it back.
Right.
So.
That's a good goddamn question, too.
That's a good one right there. Yeah. That's a good goddamn question too. I'm, that's a good one right there.
Yeah,
that's a good one.
Uh,
great show as always fellas.
Happy belated 56th birthday.
That's what Lanny Ray said.
Great show as always fellas and happy belated 56th birthday.
Appreciate that.
Appreciate that.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
You know,
you saw,
yeah,
you are sorry.
You sorry.
You know what
Adele baby
I said I was sorry
oh I remember them days
yeah now you gonna make me take it back
I ain't sorry no more I was sorry about five
minutes ago after you done talked
I ain't sorry no more
I should have stayed out later
I was never gonna stay out type of guy.
Oh, Joe.
Yeah.
A 71-year-old serial bank robber
who spent over 40 years in federal
prison has been arrested again
for allegedly robbing another bank
and got away with $64,000 in cash.
Bruce Edward Bell
has four prior bank robber convictions
and spent more than four decades
in the Federal Department of Corrections
for his crimes. He was released
from prison in July of 2021.
That's his home. That's what he knows.
Not only that,
listen, you're a felon.
You come out as a
felon. What option do you
have to do anything as far as work and
concern? Think
about it. Who's hiring you after
if you've already robbed three
banks previously? You've done
40 years in the
feds. You come home.
Who's hiring you?
Think about it.
I ain't hiring him. No, we got
anything that got to do with money.
If there's any money on the premises,
he ain't getting no job.
So he can do construction.
He can do sanitation.
He can do subway.
Ain't no money involved.
Because all of a sudden,
anytime he's around,
money following him out the store
or it follows him out the bank.
I ain't saying he stole it,
but somehow the money
followed him out the bank.
Listen, I'm not saying he stole it, but somehow the money followed him out the bank. Listen,
I'm not saying he's right.
Chad, stay with me. I'm not saying he's right.
But what option do you have
if you're a three-time bank robber
and you've already spent 40
years behind jail, you get out at
71,
what are you doing at 71
years old and you out of jail
but go back and resort to what you already know
how to do?
How about this?
Do what you did while you was in jail.
You work for that man behind jail.
They get your ass up in the wee hours of the morning,
put your ass out there in them fields,
and you work.
But you work with no freedom,
but you won't work when you got freedom.
So that's what you do.
Yes.
Do they make you work in jail if you're that old at 71 got freedom so that's what you do yes do you do they
do they make you work in jail if you're that old at 71. hell yeah they put you to work if they put
your ass in jail at 71 they'll put your ass to work at 71. you talk about hey buddy buddy crazy
man buddy crazy hey buddy is crazy mate three Three times and you get out after 40-something years
of going back and forth?
40 years?
Yeah.
I mean, everybody that he knows,
everything that he knows is tied to being incarcerated.
I mean, you get structured, you get scheduled.
But that's what I don't get.
My grandma used to always tell me,
they'd say, you listen to me on the outside
or you listen to somebody on the inside.
But you're going to listen.
So they don't want to listen.
Oh, you're not going to tell me what to do.
You ain't the boss of me. Go to that place.
Go to juvie.
Go to any place.
State prison, federal prison,
doesn't matter. They tell you what to do
and you gladly do it
you better
your ass end up in the hole
they put your ass in solitary at your will
it's a different world man
that's what I'm saying that's what I don't get
I love
I mean
I mean the pandemic didn't really bother me
because I ain't a person that go anywhere anyway
so I was cool
it had no
I mean honestly
it had no impact
on me whatsoever
none
and then guess what
I just got to roll up
out of bed
throw on some
some athleisure
and then it's like
you know
you need to look like
you're a professional
so I had to put on
a shirt and tie
not a shirt and tie but not a shirt and tie,
but a college shirt and a jacket,
which is cool,
but it had no impact on me.
But Ocho, when you've done something
for such a long time,
how do you break that?
You can't.
It's impossible.
It's impossible.
It only takes 30 days to create a habit.
Well, hell, he's been in jail for 40 years.
So he, yeah.
It takes 30 days.
It takes 30 days to create a habit and a lifetime to break it
yeah
40 years
he just like hey
I need to get out of that
but he got out he don't got no options
there's one thing I know
I got to go get some money and there's only one way I know how to do it I mean but there's one there's one thing I know I got to go get some money and
there's only one way I know how to do it. I mean, but oh, Joe, he said he was how fast
was he running? How fast did he get? I don't know. He had 40 years to come up with a plan
to make sure he don't go back like the last three times. And it obviously didn't work.
He should have watched Ocean's 11. Man, look here.
I had a homeboy used to work.
He used to work in the prison system.
And the prisoners would say, look.
He said, man, you work an eight hour shift to keep me in here.
I get 24 hours a day to think of a way to hurt you.
He said, I can do anything I want to anybody I want in here and to y'all guards.
So think about that.
Will y'all work those three eight hour shifts or y'all work those two 12 hour shifts to try to find a way to get me to comply?
I have 24 hours to think of ways I don't want to comply and what I want to do to hurt y'all.
I said, yeah, that ain't the place for me.
Not only to work in there.
But what
he did tell me is it's all about respect.
He said, if you think because
you're the correctional officer
and they're in there,
mm-mm.
Mm-mm.
Mm-mm. No, sir. No, sir. Respect is the no sir no sir respect is it's the currency in there right respect is everything
that's that's that jungle mentality that's that street mentality respect oh you'll give it to me
i'll take it one of the the other. One way or another.
So, all right, bro.
I'm still not here on my side.
Okay, no joke.
How y'all not mention Lamar Musk with the most to prove?
He just got big bread.
He's the league MVP with a one in three record.
You're right.
You're right. I agree with that, number one.
But Lamar, yeah, because he was unanimous MVP in
2019, lost in the first round to
the Titans, had a monster day
throwing the ball. I think he had over 500 yards
of total offense, but the turnovers
kind of doomed him.
And so you're absolutely right.
You know what? You're right.
Lamar and Dak might be 1A
and 1B while you're boo-jabbing.
Yeah, but Yonk, you know all the pressures on Dak.
Just because of the team he plays for.
Just because he's a star on his helmet.
Obviously, Lamar also has a pressure.
No, I think it's Lamar.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
I'm going to let you finish yours.
Being a previous MVP, I understand what comes with that.
He's judged on a much different level because he's already won the award and probably
going to win it again but even without that having that mvp under his belt the pressure
is is a little bit more it's a little bit more uh leaning leaning towards towards deck i mean
what you just said about about lamar it just it's different man it's different, man. It's different, man. If you're wearing that star
on your helmet, it's different.
Ocho, two MVPs.
The number one scoring defense
led the league in sacks, led the
league in takeaways, and you got the
MVP. So you got the best player
on the best team with the number one
defense.
How many teams can say they've ever had that?
You led the team in points allowed, takeaways, sacks with the MVP.
Not many.
He's up against it.
You got to win.
Because think about it.
There's only two guys in the playoff that have MVPs.
He and Pat Mahomes.
Well, Pat Mahomes has two and two Super Bowls. So he's peachy. There's only two guys in the playoff that have MVPs. He and Pat Mahomes.
Well, Pat Mahomes has two and two Super Bowls.
So he peachy.
He gravy.
Anything, anything Patrick Mahomes gets after this
is icing.
Icing on the cake.
You're right.
Lamar
with the expectations.
I think it's Lamar.
All right.
All right. The only ID said, Uncle Nocho. I think it's Lamar alright alright
the only ID said
Uncle Ocho
would you give up
five
would you give up a Super Bowl
for five more prime years
of football
and Ocho would you give up
five years of your prime
prime
Ocho would you give up
five years of your prime
for a Super Bowl
hell no
I ain't giving up my
goddamn prime years for that goddamn I can't eat Hell no, I ain't giving up my goddamn prime years.
I can't eat that trophy and I can't eat that ring.
No.
Absolutely not.
Five more?
No.
In today's game, not
back then. Oh, today's game.
Yeah, I want to be now.
I want to be hot
on IG.
I want to be hot.
That's what I want to do.
Hey, I want to get dressed up for the game.
Yeah.
I want to be want to be drip.
Yeah, I would listen.
I would go into games back then and Dickie outfits
and different colors.
Shoot, I'm trying to get me
a stylist.
Yeah.
Post on IG going to
everybody pull up.
They got their culling in.
They got their Mercedes
the my box and the Ferrari.
I'm not the Lambo trucks.
What you gonna pull up in?
Now?
Yeah.
I'm trying to think.
That's a good question, Ocho.
Listen, I'm going to get me a stylist stylist I'm going to get me one of them big
Man bags
Yeah
Go yard I'm going to get one of them
Get me a big go yard
Get me a stylist
What else I'm going to probably grow my hair out
Cut me a fade and have some waves
I changed my mind
Nope I don't want no more five years. I don't want
to be here. No?
Man, I'd be like Nick Cannon
in the future. I have 20 kids.
And today, you think
so? Ocho,
with the access that these guys have,
you got access to some... You in Dallas,
Texas, you got access in Florida. You ain't
step one foot in Florida. You remember that
when you and I played, you had to be in the
location to see the woman.
Okay, I see you.
If you was in Atlanta, to see
people in California, you had to literally be
in California. California, right.
Now,
it's different. You're right.
No, I'm good. No, no, no.
I don't want no more years. I don't want to play no more football.
I want to sit my old ass down.
That's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to sit down.
Right.
Take my trophies.
Take whatever accolades I have.
I'm good.
I'm going to leave it to the young boys.
It's a young man's game.
Young man.
That it is.
Ali Afashar says, Ocho, you're 90.
Laurentian, New Jersey.
Is it good? GD, you're 90, Laurentian, New Jersey. Is it good?
GD Immaculate, bro.
You should speak about footy more, man.
There's a huge global audience waiting for you.
Love it.
Love from Toronto.
I mean, I would love to do it.
I would love to speak footy.
I mean, at some point, maybe we can squeeze it in with Unk.
We could teach Unk a few things about the beautiful game.
But that would be dope.
That would be dope.
Maybe I should do something separate.
Maybe I should do something separate, strictly soccer-related.
Thank you for putting that little bug in me here. That's a good one.
Nikki Grant said,
damn it, Shanna. I hate that you
could easily talk me out of my panties. The passion,
the drive, the mindset. Stop
playing and come get my number.
Oh. Lord, have mercy.
Damn. I mean,
do I speak with that much passion? Do I
speak with that much ferocity and
love and authenticity?
Damn.
She say, are you going to get the number or not?
Come on, Ocho, man.
Ocho, I'm 55, man.
I'm just out here just trying to make an honest loss.
Ocho?
I understand you, but she told you she asked you to come get a number.
I want to know.
Are you going to get the number?
No, Ocho. I'm not going to get the number? No, Joe,
I'm not going to get the number.
No.
Is that okay?
Man,
slide in his DM
and send the number anyway.
He'll hit you.
Ain't fooling me.
He just saying that
because it's people watching.
Nah,
I mean,
my DM,
you can't DM me
because it's blocked.
It is?
I mean,
you can DM me,
but I don't,
it's like, if you're not
like blue checkmark
or something, for some reason, they don't come
through, and I don't go searching for them.
Well, you could
buy a checkmark and then send them a DM.
I need a solid.
I'm trying to shake the sheets. I told
the girl, we family.
Shout me out so I can
clip it. Send it to her. My name
is John. Her name is Mary.
Hey, hey, hey, John.
Man, hey, check this out. Hey, Mary,
go on and do John the solid, man. I mean, he good
people. Yeah. Good people. He
good people, man. I've been knowing John
for about, shee,
about three, four minutes.
Yeah. Yeah, John, make sure you got the whipped cream, boy.
Grab the whipped cream, John.
Nah, don't do that, John.
Don't do that.
Don't listen to Ocho.
Listen.
First time, you got to have a lasting impression.
Grab the whipped cream and don't forget the toes.
Hey.
Hey.
Going to get one of them old diamonds in your system.
All them diamonds on me.
She'll mess with you now. Going to get them diamonds on you. Hey them diamonds on me she'll mess with you now gonna get them diamonds
on you and hold the old blade
you gotta get that diamond on you gonna put that diamond
in your system
about 30-45 minutes
don't eat nothing
cause you want that thing you want all of it
you want the whole 100 milligrams
in your system
I don't know if you cooked the turkey before
put that diamond on you boy can't cook the turkey before.
Put that damn on you, boy.
You got to light the turkey.
Put it in the oven, 350.
Get it ready.
Y'all know what I'm talking about.
That thing be harder than prime wood.
You know you went to the prime and you about to get that wet.
Wow.
Yeah, man, Ocho.
I'm telling you, man.
I'm telling you, Ocho.
Put that prime wood on the...
Hey, John.
Hey.
Hey, man. I don't know... Hey,'m telling listen to me now don't be fun to Ocho
You put what that diamond in your system? Yeah
3045 minutes
I'll be a
Anytime don't you don't want to waste it so you get a good thing so I kind of had a nice going
Cuz you know, I mean, you know, hey, let me tell you,
let me tell you, you know, I had to think of a pocket
right here. Every right here, you know,
we talking, hey, you know, get a little
kiss. Oh, this thing might...
I don't want to think of that. It's over, Ocho.
Ocho, it's over. It's over, Ocho.
I don't know how to...
Hold on. Hold on. Hey, sneak it, sneak it, and put it in. I had to I don't know how to put that bag in there hold on
hey sneak it
sneak it and put it in
you know that little pocket
that little G pocket
you know you got that
little pocket
right right right
I had that thing
sitting up in there
yeah how you put it in
hey girl how you doing
you know
that sort of thing
I look at where
that bag on Joe
man man I look away that thing on choke.
Man.
She's about to get the arm.
She's about to get the,
Hey,
you know that baking soda,
the arm and hammer.
Yeah.
I had to get the hammer.
Oh,
no black hammer.
Man.
That don't buy no black hammer.
Hell no. Hell no.
Hell no.
That thing on the whole show?
That's a good one, boy.
That black,
that boy,
you ever heard of that, that, that, that,
that rhino pill
from the gas station?
Yeah, I heard about it.
I ain't try,
I ain't about you to try that on.
Well, listen now.
Because you know rhinoceros,
you know that's why
they cut the horn. Because it's been, they said know rhinoceros, you know that's why they cut the horn.
Because it's been,
they said the rhinoceros
can have sex
up to five hours.
Yeah.
So the Asian,
they take the horn,
they blend it,
and man,
I don't know who
want to have,
man, look here.
I know me.
I don't know if there,
I don't think there's a woman
out there that want to have sex
for no five hours.
Listen,
she might not want to,
but she done been through it.
Huh? Ain't nobody take that kind of pounding. Ain't nobody take that kind of pounding out there that want to have sex for no five hours. Listen, she might not want to, but she done been through it.
Huh?
Ain't nobody take that kind of pounding.
Ain't nobody take that kind of pounding no five hours, Ocho.
What?
Who?
Five hours?
Man, listen.
Listen, two-minute intervals.
No, no.
The rhinos,
I'm talking about,
here's the thing.
Oh, you're talking about the rhino.
Oh, I'm talking about me.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, yeah.
Five hours, two-minute intervals
at 99 miles an hour.
Pressure.
God dang, Jack Rabbit.
Yeah, I don't play.
I don't play.
I ain't got no time.
I don't got no time.
I ain't got no time to play.
About three hours
at 99 miles an hour.
Two-minute intervals.
Had the time of life.
Baby.
Ain't nothing but that spade.
Baby!
Ojo.
You remember that?
Yeah, yeah.
She know.
She remember.
I got that spade.
Hey, Ojo.
I got spade wood.
I got two in a possible.
In a 24-hour span,
that's all I got for you.
Two in a possible.
Two in a possible?
Two in a possible.
Don't hold me to that
because it might get cut.
After the first one, I might get cut,
Ocho, and I'm done.
That's all I'm saying, Ocho. That's all I'm saying.
I mean, and let me tell you about
Ocho, I mean, come on, huh?
Yeah. Let me tell you about
Ocho.
Let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a question. Ocho, I mean, come on, nah? Yeah. Let me talk about, oh, shit. Oh, that's, let me ask you a question.
Ladies, let me ask you a question.
Ocho, if you put a hot dog in the microwave for two minutes,
what's going to happen to it?
It's going to explode, ain't it?
Okay.
That's what I did.
I was in there for two minutes, the hot dog exploded.
Boom, there it is.
That's what I did, Ocho.
I mean, come on.
That's what you want from me.
You mad at me?
I'm faking you.
You got that.
I mean, come on now, Ocho.
I mean, they mad at me.
Hey.
What's about to happen?
Hey, come on.
Come on now. Work with me. Hey, come on. Hold on.
Work with me.
I'll never tell you wrong when you're right.
Listen, you got to redeem yourself.
You can't go out like that.
Listen, you can't go out like that because you're going to end up in the group chat.
You don't want to end up in the group chat.
You want everything said about you?
They ain't going to tell nobody.
They ain't going to tell nobody in the group chat going to tell nobody the group chat by Black Hammer.
God, they don't want to keep that on the ramp for themselves.
I bet that.
I bet that.
All right.
Okay, I'm just making a show.
Listen, I don't want you with no bad reviews like Yelp.
I don't want you with no bad reviews.
You ain't even talk about my goddamn co-hosts like that.
Hey, not only, hey, my stars, not only are they logos, they're ratings.
You know what I'm saying, Ocho?
You better stop playing with those shit.
Mm-hmm.
Shit.
But I mean, Ocho, you should be happy.
Yeah.
A man trampolining you for 45 minutes
Oh, something wrong with you
That ain't it
Something wrong with you
Man, come on now
Now I can understand that
As long as you go
If you go in multiple rounds
Obviously, you know
It's going to take a little longer
But I'm saying
Something wrong with you
Excited
I ain't going to lie
I'm excited
Something wrong 45 minutes? Manited. I ain't going to lie. I'm excited. I'm, hey. Mm-hmm.
Something wrong.
45 minutes?
Man, look here.
Who the hell?
Unless you clocking out at 5 o'clock and you work for Bane Brothers?
What you doing?
What you trying to prove?
You know, I turn to the side like this.
You already know where I'm going to go.
If you want to see, hey, I'm sitting on the couch.
Yeah. And I turn to the side like this.
Once I turned back around at that point in time.
Yeah.
Ain't no turning back now.
But I mean,
I mean,
but Ocho,
a woman should,
if a man,
if a man,
look,
I mean,
sometimes you get excited and you have premature,
you know what? Right. Right. Right. If you got that, if you got that, sometimes you get excited and you have premature, you know what.
Right, right, right.
If you got that, if you got that, if you got that Sega.
Yeah.
That's what's supposed to happen.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Most of the time I do.
That's why, that's why you got to double back.
You got to double back.
They give you five minutes.
Give you five minutes to recover.
Ocho, i promise you with
that with that diamond on me yeah nothing that's that real that bad look here oh joe what that
made it real that made it real i'm talking hey i'm talking about i'm talking about car proper hard
you're going to do an old car that old dad, that steel. Back in the day, I ain't talking about
that rubber bumper.
Yeah, I got,
you know,
baby,
I need to get
one of them blue diamonds.
Man, look here, man.
You ain't real.
Don't let him do you
like that real.
Nah, I'm going to try that.
I'm going to try that.
I mean,
I got to.
I got to know
so I could be able
to talk about it with you.
So I'm listening to you
and your experiences.
I want to know what that's like. I can't be left out. I got to. I got to know so I could be able to talk about it with you. So I'm listening to you and your experiences. I want to know what that's like.
I can't be left out.
I got to know.
I'm going to figure it out, though.
Where I get it from?
CVS or Walgreens?
You can have your doctor write you a script.
Oh, I need a prescription.
Yeah.
Okay, I got something I can get.
Hey, man, they hot now.
They about $800 for you.
Who? They about $800 for you. Who?
They're about $800 for you.
No, I'm good.
I'm good.
That's all you had to tell me.
I'm good.
Ocho.
Ocho.
Hey.
They pass ID when you put that diamond on them.
They pass ID right here, Ocho.
You get that and grab it.
I got to grab an Oscar out of Tony.
That's what they pass out when you put that diamond on them.
I ain't lying to you, Ocho. I don't want to go out there and get you that right now. They're giving out of Tony. That's what they pass out when you put that diamond on them. I ain't lying to you, Cho.
I don't want to go out there and get you that right now.
They're giving out trophies.
I'm going to get me one because I ain't never won shit.
I'm going to get me something.
Man.
I'm going to get me something.
In this corner.
Black diamond.
Let me ask you a question
in MMA
5 minutes
title fights
yeah
5 rounds
boxing
3 minutes
3 minutes
4 rounds
hey
Ocho I ain't gonna lie to you
I schedule it for 12
probably gonna make it out to 3rd
probably gonna make it out to 3rd
somebody getting KO'd O. Somebody getting KO'd, Ocho.
Somebody getting KO'd.
Somebody getting KO'd, Ocho.
I'm just telling like it is.
I'm coming in hot.
Everybody bad, Ocho.
Hey.
Hell nah.
Bad, please.
Hell nah.
Hey, you get one of those, Ocho. Bad please. Hell nah. Hey, you get what I know, though, Joe, you straight.
Hey, hold on.
We'll be back on Saturday after the playoffs, right?
Yeah.
We're out tomorrow, right?
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You and I are back on Saturday.
Yeah.
On Saturday.
You know what?
Saturday, I'm going to get that blue diamond. Saturday saturday i'm gonna tell you how it went once we finished
talking about the game okay yeah i got you hey oh you're gonna think i look bad i could i i
man i was like i was like a drug i couldn't you without it right i was right
i see i don't want to get addicted now i just i just want i just want to be able to no she's
gonna get us she's gonna get addicted yeah yeah all just want to be able to... No, she going to get addicted.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
We going to work on that.
I'll try to build.
Yeah, we're going to work on that.
You know, I'm a heavyweight.
I lay heavy.
I ain't going to lie to you, Ocho. I lay heavy.
Good luck, John.
Mary, you in trouble.
Now, if you would have donated $50,
Big Daddy is mine. Chocolate teddy bear. Ocho, I, you in trouble. Now you have to donate a $50. Big Daddy is mine.
Chocolate teddy bear.
Ocho, I DM you my number.
Hook me up with Shannon.
Two minutes is good.
See, that's what I'm talking about right there.
See?
Don't judge me.
Don't judge me.
Let me ask you a question, Ocho.
You go to Six Flags.
You go to Universal Studio.
How long do rides last?
Two minutes. Give you the thrill of your life. I long the ride last? Two minutes.
Give you the thrill of your life.
I'm with you when you're right.
Now you're making sense.
You hear me?
Now you're making sense.
Now you're making sense.
So I ain't got no reason
to be in there all goddamn day.
No.
You just gave me an analogy I could use.
Yes.
I like that. Yes. Matter of fact, you fact you know what i ain't got no pen but i'm gonna put that in my notes in my phone let me put
that in my notes because next time she talked trash about me oh that was three minutes what
you expect me to do well hello you ever seen a boxing match i've seen people get knocked out in
the first round and in one round only three minutes I got it baby I ain't gonna lie to you
I got it scheduled for 30
or you don't fight 36 minute 12
three minute round I got it scheduled for the whole
12 now it might go to the cards
we might go to
the judges card
right baby based on
my history somebody get
knocked out by the
third by eight on my history, somebody getting knocked out. By the third?
That's all I got for you.
I'm sorry, baby. I'm sorry.
Bro Antonio Roberts said, Uncle 84, the man above says, we need to find a woman
with a meek, quiet spirit. You gotta
leave these superficial, loud chicks alone.
She out there. I know.
I mean, I can get to the quiet,
but the ones be yelling so loud
I mean by the
I do I'm
but that's look
I just over here chewing the fat with y'all
I used to be like that I ain't
like that no more right
ain't like that no less either
man I'm just
looking at Ash over here laughing.
Nah, man, look here.
I know it's right out there.
It's out there for you, now.
It's out there for you.
Sometimes you got to find it.
Sometimes you got to let it find you.
Okay.
As long as you know it's out there.
As long as you know it's out there.
As long as you know I'm on them diamonds.
Just like, you know,
sometimes you go
into a relationship,
baby, I smoke a little weed.
Okay, you know,
I like to go with the boys.
I drink a little bit.
Right.
Okay, baby,
just so you know.
Okay.
We cool,
you cool with that?
Hey, wait, one round fight. we cool you cool with that hey week one ralph i i mean no i got a schedule i got a schedule to go to distance to 12 or to the or to the train i trained i did my cardio i got my lifting in. I've been eating healthy. I got it scheduled to go to full 12.
There's a 90% chance
it's not going to go past three.
And as you enjoy
all you want to.
And you know.
So.
I like it. I wish I could tell
him something different
uncle i've heard you say that you should date someone who likes you more than you like them
is there a story behind that yes um for me at the end of the day i want somebody that really
loves themselves gotta love themselves and because I can't be a
hype man. I can't tell
you every day, 50 times
a day, how fine you are,
how great you
look, how sexy you are, how fortunate
I am to have you. At some point
in time, you're going to have to have that within
yourself to know you're attractive,
to know you're smart, to know
you're funny, and to know all the things
that you want reassurances for.
But you need to know that
even if I don't tell you that
on a given day,
you know it.
God damn.
So,
I think the thing is,
if a woman,
because here's the thing,
normally the women that you like
don't like you as much as the women that like you.
Yeah.
Normally, that's 99% of the time.
That's it.
So that's my story behind that.
I'm sure somebody else have a different story, but that's mine.
Uncle Nocho, big fan of y'all.
Got a date coming up.
Every time I go out with a girl, we have fun, but I fail to take her home.
Any advice?
I mean, damn, that's what you're trying to do?
I mean, they used to be like, you date.
I mean, I guess today everybody hears this story about trying to get, you know, trying to, you know, hit the ball at the park on the first night.
Yeah.
I guess if it happens, it happens.
If it doesn't, I don't lose no sleep.
But I don't go in with the attention.
Me, honestly, I don't go with the intentions of that.
Who?
I don't.
Shit.
Nah.
Ain't got no time to waste. My antenna, my antenna too far. My antenna up. I just can't. Shit. Nah. Ain't got no time to waste.
My antenna,
my antenna too far.
My antenna up.
I just can't,
nah.
No means no.
Maybe means no.
Yes means no tomorrow.
Nah.
I got to get to know you.
Cause the last thing,
nah,
I can't even put myself
in that situation,
don't you?
So.
Boy, that went in and out
Man I ain't got time
Baby too
What's happening
Okay
Straight to dinner
Straight to the room
You ain't wear that
Bad
God dang
Real
You mother did
Yeah but see
See you doing all that
See you a full service
Glover
Toes
Elbows
And all in between Everything So i mean so she ain't
never been detailed like that yeah okay when you go when you go get you when you go your your bmw ev
when you take it to the car wash you want to detail don't you yeah okay but i mean that's
that's exactly what she got oh she got detail. But everybody, I mean,
the 1984 Pinto,
you know, it's not a Pinto,
but you know what I'm saying.
It don't get the same service.
So, I mean, you got to save some of that, Ocho.
Save it for who?
Save it for what?
Everybody shouldn't be able to get the Baby D.
You can't put that tone on everybody, Ocho.
We ain't talking about that already.
I ain't been with everybody but I'm just saying
I'm talking
I'm speaking on one specific
but I'm
but I'm saying
you can't do that from the dough
I mean you coming in from the jump
yeah you got to come in from the jump
what you waiting for
what you waiting
what you waiting for
you wasting time
you wasting time
boy life is short man life is short, man.
Life is short. Tomorrow ain't even guaranteed.
Tomorrow ain't
guaranteed. You might as well
if it's right there in front of you.
Look here.
Hi, Ocho. Hi, Shannon. Hola, Ocho.
This is Faith. My birthday wish
for you is that you get a shot
to appear on First Take.
We're proud of your growth and pray you keep growing. Remember
God doesn't call the qualified.
He qualifies the
call. Let him use you
Shanna. Hashtag
85 love.
No.
Ocho said he didn't want to be on first take no more.
So
listen, I'm going to be on. I'm going to be on there
anyway. Y'all ain't going to have no choice but to bring me on because what's going to happen is at some, I'm going to be on there anyway. Y'all ain't going to have
no choice but to bring me on because what's going to happen
is at some point I'm going to get
fed up. And I know
the people at ESPN. I know how to get in the
doors. They're going to let me in the doors.
I will have on a suit and
I will just come plop myself up in a seat
and sit down there and talk football with y'all
or whatever season we in.
And listen, I don't even want to come on there all the time.
I just want to come on there once.
You just told me the other day.
Y'all remember when Ocho said he didn't want to come on first take?
I said that?
Yep.
You said you didn't want to change.
How you all in our business?
Yeah, tell it real.
She said that real though.
She wasn't even here.
She was here.
She wasn't here? Yeah, she was here. Oh, she said that real, no? She wasn't even here. She was here. She wasn't here?
Yeah, she was here.
Oh, she said she was watching live.
So, you know, sometimes I say things I don't mean.
Just one time.
One time ain't going to hurt.
But let me tell you what the ratings are going to look like that day, though.
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Go watch it again.
I mean, I'm sure there's some things
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Because I really want that record.
I want to pass Joe Rogan.
I think I could get to 50.
I really do.
And that would be a huge honor.
Hell, I didn't think I'd get to 20.
I didn't think I'd get to 30.
Damn sure I didn't think I'd get to 40. But 50, you start'd get to 30. Damn sure I didn't think I'd get to 40.
But 50, you start getting 50 million,
you know, they're going to have to come see you, boy,
because your boy got some good interviewer skills.
Howard Stern was talking about it, boy.
They talked about you today.
They was talking about it on MSNBC.
They said Joe Biden should go sit down
with Shannon Sharpe on Club Shea Shea.
Why did I get that?
That's a good one.
Joe Biden is not as exciting and controversial.
But people are going to watch it.
Think about it.
That's the sitting president.
That's President Joe Biden sitting down.
Come on now.
Yeah.
Just make sure he don't trip over nothing.
No, I got it.
I got it.
I got it.
I got it.
That would be a good one.
Young Willie Will, what's up? Shout out to Ocho.
Can you give me a birthday shout out even though
my birthday was yesterday tonight?
God damn, Willie, you should have called in yesterday then.
Young Willie, happy birthday.
Happy belated birthday.
Happy belated birthday.
Yeah, Young Willie. Hey, keep up the great work, man.
Dr. Frankie L.
Bellamy. Hey, Uncle Ocho, love the
show. Ocho, do you and Rae work out together? If yes, what's her routine? She looks amazing.
Yeah, we work out together. Matter of fact, we work out together in the morning at eight o'clock.
She has a different routine than I do. She has a personal trainer that's working on some of the
things that she wants to perfect and work on. As far as me, I just, I free flow.
I free flow for myself based on what I want to look like and what I feel like
working on that day. Now, obviously two days I do legs, two days I do,
two days I do arms. No. Yeah. Two days I do arm. One day I do chest.
And weekends I take off.
Yeah. They working out. I'm working out too.
I work out, you know, she working out of the out. I'm working out too. You know,
I work out,
you know,
she working out in the back
and I'm working out behind her.
You know what I'm saying, Ocho?
Yeah, I feel you.
One day you'll look like this, huh?
But we the same size, man.
Ocho,
look at that right there, Ocho.
We the same size.
That 55,
had to walk 56,
Lord spare my life,
and the sun don't,
and the river don't rise. We the same size. If you think about it. That's what I hold him. I had to walk 56. Lord spare my life. And the sun don't, and the river don't rise.
We're the same size.
If you think about it.
That's what I hold them.
See, Ocho,
you see how that thing
peak like that?
That's what I'm holding
them on 180 and up.
That's what you get
when you hold them
180 and up.
All right.
You know what I'm saying, Ocho?
Yeah.
Wait till you see
what I look like in March.
Man, I don't want to get too fine, Ocho, I don't want to get too fine, though, Joe.
I don't want to get too fine.
You know what I'm saying?
Michael McClaren, San Broncos fan,
1990, 30 years old.
Please write a book.
Bless you.
Every quote your beautiful grandmother parents
gave you through it
gives us through you.
Man, I thought about it.
I mean, I've had a lot of opportunities.
A lot of people have reached out
and said I should write a book. My, my sister ain't gonna let that happen. So right now
she's the, uh, she handles everything. She's the matriarch. Um, and so whatever she say, go,
I listened to her. Um, she's been, she's been my angel, my guardian angel. She's always been there.
As a matter of fact, she just left the, uh, as a matter of fact she just left the uh as a matter
of fact she just left this morning what the hell she left this morning she was uh she was out here
so uh no to the book no to the book no to the book no to the book no to the book you don't say
it on your back you know it's all about timing it's all about timing that's it all these diamonds on me
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Ocho, on the low load, they upset about that.
Because they've been at this thing, some of these people have been at this thing three, four years, and we tracking them down.
Right. Oh, yeah, yeah, we coming four years and we're tracking them down. Right.
Oh yeah, yeah, we're coming. We're coming.
We're tracking them down, Ocho. Are we coming?
We're tracking them down, Ocho. Hey, this is like when you had to track me
and somebody, they're coming to get
you and the crowd be like,
woo, woo,
woo. Yeah, we're
coming now. But we told them we were coming.
Ain't nothing you can do about it.
See, the thing is,
a lot of times, Ocho,
people like to sneak up on you.
Nah, we told you we coming.
We came in banging on cans,
on anything to let you know
we're here.
Oh, yeah.
That's how confident we was
in our material.
That's how confident we are
in our content.
That's how confident we are
in our own ability.
It's not what
you do it's what we do we do yeah and no no disrespect to nobody else no we don't got to
disrespect anybody we just got to do what we do and we'll let we'll let the we'll let the viewing
and listening audience decide that's all we do yeah uh let's spin around the horn Coach Saban retires Pete Carroll is out as
Seattle head coach
Mike Vrabel is out as the Tennessee Titans head coach
NFL releases
their second all-pro team
we're going to have that up in the link
Jared Goff said there's a chip
that chip will never leave him for what the Rams did with the trade
hold on
what else we got Stephen A Stephen A for what the Rams did with the trade. Hold on.
What else we got?
Stephen A.
Stephen A.
You my dog.
Okay, you got that off your chest.
Let it go now.
Put it to bed.
Put it to bed.
Let it go.
Let it go.
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