The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: The Fit Check with Cam Newton

Episode Date: January 18, 2024

Is Duncan Robinson untouchable? What is Adam Schefter's responsibility on news regarding Jason Kelce's retirement? And what about Jim Irsay? Then, Cam Newton is here! He chats with Dan, who magically got to Miami via Meadowlark Media flume, Stu, and the Shipping Container about his unreal outfits, smoking cigars, game managers, getting into media, and a number of other topics across the NFL and his career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Welcome to the big, sweet, presented by Giraffe King. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries, that if they're just there.

That hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it. And now, here's the marching band to nowhere, that face and the habitual liar. It came at considerable expense, but Metal Arc media has built a giant Elon Musk fast flume that will take me back from here in New York to Miami to interview Cam Newton here in the big Sui. I will be back in Miami and I'll just fly there very quickly

because of all of the work skipper has done to build tunnels between New York and Miami. So Cam Newton will join us here in a little bit. And we're doing obviously big things at Metal Arc Media. We're going out to the Super Bowl, a whole bunch of people, and we're excited about what we're going to do with Mass Vegas. I saw a digital billboards to God, so I would imagine you were very excited about that's on the side of the circa hotel. We've got new t-shirts that are going to come out later today, lebottardaf.com to celebrate some of the things that we're going to be doing in Las Vegas. And we've had a ton of RSVPs and they're still room, right? We've had to change a lot of things. We were going to do it in a smaller venue, but we've had to do it now

in a larger venue in the circus. It's been an excellent partner where they're advertising it. We're going to make a big splash. We're going to look cool and different. And it's going to be a lot of fun to be doing this away from radio row when we go to the Super Bowl. And I'm getting more and more excited about its do gots. But at about noon today, we will drop some mosherts if you want them. They're very cool. Levittard AF dot com is where you go. I didn't get to this in the local hour, Stugat. So I want to get to it now because as media changes and fractures and as people make their own newspapers, I have seen that a Jake Isher is reporting that Duncan Robinson has been made untouchable by the Miami Heat.

That's funny. I just don't believe that. I don't, I don't believe the touch of all. I think he's touchable. Yes, I believe I too have enjoyed his improvement and I too would want on my team, no matter my team to have someone who could do that from inside and outside. I do believe he's lining up to be, if not the most improved player in the league, one of them. But I can't do. They have a fine bucket in New York because you made Jake Fisher, Jake Isher. Okay. I'm sorry. I couldn't read my own, my, my own handwriting here. So you put $5 down here. Well, it's $10. It's actually 10. That penship said the name wrong and you can't read your own handwriting.

That's five, five and five, 10 bucks, Dan O. Can we get to the original point, though? And you shouldn't talk about. It's untouchable. I mean, that's laughable. That is ludicrous. Let me tell you that. Like if the right guy is available to the heat, Pat Riley is going to draw the line at Duncan Robinson. I don't buy it. I love your exclusive, I love your exclusive reports. Two guts of metal arc media, Duncan Robinson, Colin, touchable. Yes. Let's report that.

But I guess the larger point, a larger conversation that I want to have with you guys, because media is changing and where the credibility goes when people have to do their own discernment. You see that a whole lot of people are mad at Adam Schefter for reporting Jason Kelsey's retirement before Jason Kelsey was ready to report his retirement. Jason Kelsey and the emotion of the moment, they lose the Tampa Bay. The single best time to ask a football player if he wants to quit is as soon as his season has ended. That's the time that you're going to get the most people saying, yes, I would like to no longer play this sport. If you ask them in the emotion of losing and their bodies hurting after 17 games or 18 games if you're playing

playoff games. And I wanted to ask you because a lot of people make the jokes to God that Tom Brady came back just to make Adam Schefter's report wrong. But Adam Schefter tends to get it right when he's reporting that people are retiring. And my question to you is, what is the media's responsibility in that situation? Because it seems to me that a lot of fans are getting mad because Jason Kelsey doesn't get to do this. This intimate personal thing doesn't get to have control over what he's doing because the information people are fighting over who gets to report it first and something that should be personal, emotional and something that is shared privately with your family

is something that we feel entitled to a sports fans because we love and we pay the information guys to give us the information first. Adam Schaefter is a reporter. He's a very good reporter. Perhaps the best NFL reporter that we have. His job is to report the news that he gets from his sources. And I'm okay with Schaefter making that report. Jason Kelsey needs to learn, Dan.

If he wants to do this stuff on his own platforms, it takes a minute to get used to it because I believe that's what's at play. That Jason Kelsey wanted to announce this on his terms, on his platform, on his very popular podcast and did not have the opportunity to do it. I don't blame Adam Shepter for it. I blame Jason, Jason Kelsey for letting it out. I'm saying it. If it's that important to him to keep it under wraps, here's a thought. Don't tell anyone. Yep. Okay. And I get that, but it doesn't explain how people are reacting to it when they already

hate the media. And I don't know, Stugat, I really don't know, given the general entitlements that we have to people's privacy if they're famous. Jim Urse and his family are now requesting that we respect the family's privacy. When it would appear that he is overdose, he was reportedly found cold, the cold-zoner was found cold. And what is being reported by him is respiratory issues, but other people are pointing out and understanding that he's admitted in the past that he's been to rehab at least 15 times. Are we supposed to respect the privacy

of an NFL owner who has apparently overdosed and has a drug problem by his own admission if he's been to rehab 15 times and has had the public controversy of finding a bunch of pills and cash in his car. Like what are we entitled to and what is privacy? Because you say, keep it to yourself, but that's kind of becoming increasingly hard to do in the modern age and going to be even harder to do when we're paying the information people in rewards of $10 million a year to get that information. Jason Calcy retiring. It's a totally different story, Dan.

This is, it's, Ursa is more personal, but with that being said, it's really tricky because he's a public figure. He's the owner of an NFL team and he has a history with stuff like this. And so I think the initial report is fair. If you want to keep it private after that, that's fine. But I'm just not certain what the reporter's obligation is there. Did we not respect Jim Mercer's privacy? Did we not?

Like a couple of weeks ago when I think most people privately met the, uh, the respiratory illness with a fair amount of skepticism because of what Dan has articulated, because it's known about Jim Mercy and his past and his struggles with the penance. Didn't we? And aren't we? Aren't we? Well, it's been very long. We haven't. This is the first time we've talked about it. Right. But I think we are. Still, even in mentioning it, we're respecting the man's privacy.

No, it just feels like a bit of a straw man to me. So go back to the retirement thing. This happens a lot when in college football, when you find out that a coach is leaving to go to another school, like it happened this year right before Tulane's ballgame, people found out Willie Fritz was leaving and people always get mad at the reporter. But I guess to play like reporter's advocate, if you find out a scoop for something and I don't know how Adam Schaeffer knew he was retiring who Jason Kelsey told or whatever. It's not really your

job to time it right for that person, especially if someone else might break the news too and I assume that's kind of the rule that Adam Schaeffer goes by. His job is to break NFL news. Yeah. Like I can see why it sucks for the player, but I, I, I guess I see both sides of it, but the reporter's job isn't to like do the best by the person whose information they're breaking necessarily. Jason Kelsey evidently said it in the locker room to his teammates. And that is how it spread. And many people in a locker room believe that what state, you know, what's said, get set in a locker room, stays in a locker room.

The your rights to God, they are different situations. But I'm the part that I'm interested in on Ursa when it comes to the definitions of privacy is when Lamar Odom had a drug problem, we did not respect his privacy. And to my way of thinking, if you're an NFL owner, When Lamar Odom had a drug problem, we did not respect his privacy.

And to my way of thinking, if you're an NFL owner, these people often live in the shadows somehow, even though they have the most power to control all of the things, they have the most money and power. To me, they are less deserving of the privacy than most people grading on this scale. Now, I would agree with you in general. Yes, I would like human beings

to be able to have privacy, but that's not the world we're living in. And if you have people who are rewarded for reporting this stuff, for the invasions of that privacy, should it be not invaded the most when it comes to the most powerful of people when they have public incidents that suggest, hey, the person with this enormous power clearly has a drug problem.

He's running a team. It's a team that has, I'm assuming, as all of these do, you know, publicly financed stadiums and money that is, that they're making because of people around them who have less money and fund these economies. To me, are those people not deserving, even understanding? Yes, human beings deserve a certain amount of privacy, but we've, the ship is sailed on that one. There are too many media entities, and this is one of the reasons that people hate the media, too many media entities that are profiting off of violating that one. There are too many media entities. And this is one of the reasons that people hate the media. Too many media entities private that are profiting off of violating that privacy. But would you not agree, Stagat, that the people least entitled to that

privacy are public figures with the most power? I would agree. I would also tell you it's not a reporter's job to pick and choose. It's a reporter's job to report regardless of how high it goes up. If it goes to Roger Gidell to an owner to a player, a reporter's job is to report on the sport they are reporting on. And so I agree with you, Dan, but you can't pick and choose these things. Like you just got to, when you get a report, you got it, you got to get it out there. Out of the two of you, someone else will out of the two of you. Two guys are, is the one arguing for the merits of journalism here.

That is what a reporter's job is. But some reporters do pick and choose, which does muddy the waters. No, and it's only going to get more muddied with the NFL having a stake in ESPN. It's all changing is my point. My point is that Stu got to advocating for journalism and mean marveling at how much is changing here puts us in opposite positions I'm gonna leave now. I'm gonna leave the rest of this journalism to Stu got you. Who are you here? Well, Sue and Dan will we'll take it from here Dan is gonna leave But Dan is gonna be right back with Cam Newton

We actually had Cam Newton for an extended period of time and I'll close out the big Su Sui here, somebody that we wanted to have on the show. And you will be, you will be very happy to know that his hat is ridiculous and his get up. But I mean, we want to talk about normalizing behavior and platforming. Someone needs to do something about this get up because it's absurd. It's a, it's a, it's a, hold on, I like it. The hats are from Boswell. I'm, I'm digging the hats. I gotta get in the flume I gotta get in the metal-lark flume. He is down here then. All right, Cam Newton next Hey, it's Micron. I love football and I love Miller light Why do I love Miller light? Well the penable flavor the fact that it's a beer that tastes like beer the fact that when I'm having a Miller light

I don't have to think for one second about the beer that I'm drinking and I know that it's a beer, that tastes like beer, the fact that when I'm having a Miller Lite, I don't have to think for one second about the beer that I'm drinking. And I know that it's only 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. It's my favorite beer. I believe in the product. You might be sick of hearing me talk about it, but I'll be talking about it till I'm old and gray. Because Miller Lite is with me wherever I go,

no matter the season. And especially the wintertime, I love drinking Miller Lite during the winter, because when it's cold outside, I don, no matter the season. And especially the winter time. I love drinking Miller Lite during the winters because when it's cold outside, I don't need Kusie Ford. It says a perfect temp. It is the best beer. And it pairs well with Playoff football. Miller Lite, great taste, 96 calories.

Go to MillerLite.com slash Dan to find delivery options near you or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere that they sell beer. Taste like Miller Time, celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 96 calories, and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. Don Lebertard! Well, Charlie sent this, Charlie as far as I know, so just Charlie's title in my whole day. You guys are getting this?

You guys are getting this? Uh, how familiar were you at the time with Chubaka? Like how you're upbringing, how much Chubaka in it? VCC Don Lebertar Show with this through Gods. This guy is his own boss and in general is a boss. This guy is his own boss and in general is a boss allowed to smoke cigars indoors. I am not allowed to do that. It's his studio. It is.

It's his world. Cam Newton with us. He was the 2015 NFL MVP, the 2010 Heisman Trophy winner, a three time pro-bola and he's the host of the shows fourth and one and funky Friday on his YouTube channel. He's going for media empire now. What are you smoking? How many cigars will cam go through in a day? Because it seems like every time I see you these days, you are on camera smoking a cigar. Life is good and I can tell you that they always ask me what's my favorite cigar and I simply say my next cigar. And it's a different day. I'll probably

go through probably two to potentially three and that's a good day for me and I don't I don't do anything more than that. So yeah, life's good. Can you take me through? I'm going to talk football with you in a second, but your style choices are unlike anyone I would say in the history of your sport. I think you pride yourself on that. So take me through the ensemble You presently have put together and coming up next. I've got follow up questions on just generally your wardrobe What it is we'd find if we went through the uptack. We'll have to check. Lucy.

Yeah. Fed check with Cam Newton. Well, listen, I mean, it's simple. I'm all about details. So everything about me is intentional from the way I speak to the way I carry myself from walking and dressing in this manner. Both Thai, as essential as key, collar pointed upward is key. The trench coat, is this a trench?

It's a trench. I don't think that's a trench coat. I don't know how long does it go down? It is. Does it go all the way down to the ankles? No, it's not a trench, not a trench. It's longer than a blazer though. Is that a duster? It is longer than the way down to the angles. No, no, no, it's ranch, no, it's longer than a blazer though. Is that a duster?

It is longer than a blazer. A duster. Not a duster. It's not a duster. Hey, I mean, I consider my fashion layer fashion. So during these colder days, I'm bundled up rather hefty. So, Boatah sweater, as well as the pants all the way down. Today was a light day.

I knew I had to dress to impress for a man, Dan and students. How about the hat? Tell me about the hat and the hat collection. The hat is Meshika, and we have to get you guys some hat sizes because it is my hat collection. The hat is Michika, and we have to get you guys some hat sizes because it is my hat company based in Bozeman, Montana, as well as Venice Beach, Los Angeles. And I had a lot of hats just to say the least. So, you know, when it comes down to having things to pull from,

there's no shortages there. You know, when it comes down to having things to pull from, there's no shortages there. And it's just all about making sure that the aesthetic is always the step. How about the yard markers? How do I get one of those? Why would you want the yard marker? It looks so cool. You want yard marker?

Listen, if Kim has it, I want one. I mean, it's the set design, man. We have to make sure that we embody fourth and one. I mean, it's the set design, man. We have to make sure that we embody fourth and one. That's where I got my name from with before there was every push, no slides by no means. I pretty much made my name off of that situation. Got to have it situation. Had on the hat and to have it situation, had on the hat and more times than not, you know, we converted. So are you, are you presently holding a gold cigar? Is that cigar gold? It is.

And it was just in my humor door. And I was just in Vegas getting prepared for obviously our show and a funky for the IMI kind of life to where as well as being able to host a fourth and one and potentially funky Friday while I'm in Vegas for the Super Bowl. And the gentlemen gave me a all goals to guard and I was thought, Hey, how fitting, you know, so this is a special occasion to where I'm a big fan of you guys to show and decided this one was the one that's next to smoke. All right, we're celebrating with the golden cigar. If we were, and again, I will get to football questions,

but I've been fascinated by you in general, your personality, how you've carried yourself for a long time. If we were going through your home right now, when you were showing off the things that had to impress us, we're playing a game show where you're trying to impress someone else, not that that's your thing. What are some of the things in your home that you would show us that you would say, this

is a maximum me. Well, you have to step over a lot of toys being that I have a lot of children that I love in a door. But these days, it's either media, transportation was my logistics company or just me being a hands-on debt and that's what brings me a lot of joy these days. I imagine your closet is pretty good though too right? I'm blessed. I'm blessed.

Where's the husband, Kim? Honestly? Oh it is that. It's at my house, but that's not something that I genuinely care about. It's like as soon as awards is kind of obtained, it's on to the next. That's just how always kind of, you know, when about things contrary to popular belief,

it is what it is. It's just say another trophy for me and just being able to say I was a husband trofe for it is suitable for itself. What do you regard as your happiest professional day and your toughest professional day? Oh, professional? Yes, just professional. Okay.

Happiest professional day was getting drafted worst professional day was losing a super bowl What can you tell us about that because you guys had one loss that season you were the MVP of the league that stayed with you How I just felt there was so much riding on that game that take this super bowl I was more excited that we were going to be able to do something. No, not too many NFL teams could have done. To complete a season was just one loss. I think we were fighting the perfect season in Miami that year, losing right, I think it was on Christmas Eve. But all in all, if that was just something that I just looked back and say, damn, I really wish we was able to kind of find a way to

win that game because so much outside of a Super Bowl was just winning. We wasn't the most talented team, but I do think that we were the best team. When I say team, I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about.

I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. skill on paper. But what it did was show the importance of guys really getting along with each other and understanding their roles and responsibilities and making sure that they were held accountable to perform at a high level. Some would say more than what the expectations was, but not a lot of teams could say that they won how we won that year 2015. You played such a physical style, Cam.

Can you tell us if there was any one game more than any other where you woke up the next day or two days afterward and the body felt the worst because quarterbacks weren't often used the way that you were used? Well, quarterbacks weren't awfully used how we were seeing quarterbacks be used these days. I seen Josh Allen and that just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was

just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was

just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was the minorities of the league when our first came in, you know, that position wasn't being played how I was playing it. Now when you look around the league, there's so many athletic quarterbacks playing, whether they kind of lean towards running more so than passing or vice versa, it still doesn't matter. Everybody has a capability of getting outside the pocket and still attacking the defense in many different ways. Yeah, and what of your businesses are you most excited about?

Iconic saga, my production company. And I see a lot of different, I always say this, we're living in the golden age of media because it's athlete-generated content. And we have that platform. Going on the days where somebody just speaks on how we played or certain situations that may have happened throughout a game.

Now athletes are able to control their own narrative. And everybody can start one. You have the means to do so. But I don't think a lot of people execute hiring the right personnel behind the scenes to the magnitude that sustains longevity. And that's what I'm just trying to do here at iconic saga. And I have an unbelievable team here. And we just try to get out great content for people to not only feel or be entertained, but also informed about certain things as well.

What are your greatest objections to how NFL media covered you? Where's the credentials? That's a big kind of concern for me, because we all can talk about the sport, but I think often times when something is said, similar to what I said, let's use the most recent example about Game manager versus game changer. I mean that that kind of went viral for what it for what it was But I never was degrading or trying to suppress a specific talent

my thinking was backed by merit And I think a lot of people kind of get into a space where they just Speak something and not be held accountable. The main reason why I started Funky Friday, the main reason why I started, you know, Fourth of the one as the sports show, was to hold reporters, coaches, GMs, as well as players accountable to certain things. I mean, over the past weekend, really over the past week, there's been some examples of

people that have said some rather interesting takes and nobody's held them accountable. Paul Fombon is taken on, you know, Michigan. Nobody's talking about that. They're not holding them to the fire like they held me to the fire in regards to speaking about rock parity to the tongue of a low, Jeric off as well as Deck Prescott. Stephen A Smith went on to say, the Texas have zero chance of winning. And obviously, what do we have for that? He's just going on, still making a certain take. So I'm not saying that to say that they're bad people. I'm just saying we just have to hold people to a standard and hold them accountable.

In every aspect of sports, not just the players in this case. Cam stay there. We're going to come back with Cam Newton right after this. Don Lebertard. Let's go to 80. Boom. Wow.

I think Billing typed an eight instead of a beat. Five. It's a clear state. I still got Number eight. He got it. It's Chris Carter on the line. He's seen. VCC Don't LeBotar Show with his two gods. You mentioned Cam, the game manager thing.

The most important skill for a modern quarterback is what? According to Cam Newton. The ability to manage a game is essential. But hear me out. What makes it completely different is when you have a game changer, they've resorted to all options to say, it's now time for me to take over the game because that receiver is covered, that player is covered. Now I have to resort to some type of skill that I had in my repertoire to showcase. We've seen the Peyton Manning's do that with elite accuracy,

the Tom Brady's of the world, the Drew Breezes of the world, the ones that our game changers also have that ability to manage the game. But the game changers have the ability to take over the game once all options are still kind of covered. So the distinction you're making between game manager and game changer is that yeah, the people took it

as an insult, but those guys that you view as game managers are just game managers, where the very best of the quarterbacks can also do the game managing, but then are also game changers. They could do both of the things. It's levels. It's like tears. When I see a guy like Patrick Mah home, everybody can still be covered and he still has a unique ability to steal by Tom to throw an accurate ball outside of the

pocket on the run or just his beyond normal ability to, you know, have an arm angle to complete a pass or whatever. That's game changing. And I think some quarterbacks have it, some players have it, some players don't. Give me the teams, the number of teams. I don't want you to take out anybody by name, but give me the number of teams you think right now would be better off with you at quarterback. Oh, there's no need.

I am what I am, and I'm fine where I'm at. But at the same time, I look at if I had certain skillset while I was playing, personnel alongside of me while I was playing, and that would have been nice, but to refrain from being viewed as a bitter player that can't play anymore, I'll let you be the judge of that.

And if you were, well, Jets, I said it. It's a list of. It's a little. All right. Yeah. As I look at from personnel, a skill set standpoint, had I had that, then who knows? Not to say that the teammates that I played with in my career

wasn't good enough because they were. I've had the ability to play with the Ryan Khalil, the Luke Keekleys, the Greg Olsons, the Thomas Davis, the Steve Smiths of the world, and we've made as much that we could do with what we had. Is Steve Smith the teammate that you have that you would regard as the most feared by others in the locker room, or is there another name that you would regard as the most feared by others in the locker room, or is there another name that you would point to as a guy that was more feared than that teammate? I think you just pulled a damn patch, right?

Just insinuate. Thank you. Answer the question without me even having to answer the question. There's no denying Steve Smith was a force on the field off the field in the locker room, in the cafeteria, in traffic. That's who he was. And my only regret with Steve Smith is that I wish I was older as a player rather than him wanting to win yesterday. You know, by the time I came into the league, I was a young player and that team in essence was labeled a rebuilding team. And he was a very competitive person as we all know him to be.

And he wanted to win. And I don't think he had as much time as I had, but going back, you know, and if I could change anything, I wish I would have had Steve Smith during my fifth and sixth year where now I understood how to be a professional because it's a 365 sport, you know, working on your body, working on certain things in the off season, getting guys together and those things, you don't necessarily know as a rookie. You're just going with the flow and trying to find your own way

that you can create your own routine. But yeah, I've learned so much from the Steve Smiths and the Jordan Bros. of the world that they had a big impact of the type of player that I grew to be. You mentioned going back and doing stuff over. What else would you choose do you think when you go back and think about the things not doing regret necessarily? But just things that would have liked to have known earlier in your life coach Mike Fula always would tell me this and

First off, I wouldn't take back anything But he would always say things are not as good as you make it seem and things are not as bad as you make it seem either So that's pretty much where I'm at in life as a whole. The work has pretty much been done and it speaks for itself. And I'm a guy that is very easily critiqued or analyzed because I'm able to speak my mind and speak my truth and how I feel it to be not how stew season or dance season. We all have our own opinions about certain things. I just speak it and let it fall high, fall. In some way, shape forms, some people get distracted by

the high dress or how I played or whatever it is. But needless to say, this space that I'm in right now in life is just all about creating the best content I possibly can. Fill in the blank for me here with some names, just fill in the blank the name. And if you want to elaborate, you can, but you don't have to. The quarterback who reminds me most of me playing now is blank. Josh Allen. The wide receiver one I was playing, who I thought was the best of all the wide

receivers was blank. Steve Smith, the toughest teammate I ever had was blank. Thomas Davis. The greatest leader I ever shared a huddle or locker room with was blank. Brian Colleal. The person that I learned the most from was blank. Brian Colleal.

The defender that I was thinking about the most the night before was blank. And then on the team, you got nothing for me there. Well, I really, it depended on a team, man. It wasn't one specific player that I never really feared a player. It was just being very mindful of who you have to be prepared for. The one guy that I saw who had a bigger arm than me was blank. A lot of. There were not a lot of them. A lot came. There were not a lot of them. Yeah, it was. I think listen, the way the way we played, the game may have been different. And the showcasing may not have necessarily been in place for me to show my arm strength or for them to have shown their arm strength, but a lot of what's done is highlighting certain strengths.

I've seen a stat where my career was being compared to deck press cuts. You played the game completely different. That's not a good comparison. They went off of how he plays the game, and that's pretty much in the pocket. Well, I played the game anyway, the defense gave me an opportunity to attack them. So I resorted a lot to running the football. So if they were to put up a stat for rushing yards,

which they did it, and his rushing yards, it would be a complete different kind of lopsided kind of view. But it just depends. And arm strength is just one of those things that certain systems of philosophical offenses are kind of geared to take shots down a field. There was times where we had coordinators from, you know, the Mike Schuylers of the world, the North turners of the world. They wanted to take shots and then there was just times where he just had to, you know,

up tempo. So neat, let's just say that's why I say that. I didn't have the strongest arm and never proclaim to that. The best athlete I ever saw in a football field was blank. Percy Harvin. That's a good one. Percy Harvin, another, another feared one, by the way. Percy Harvin. That's, that's a good one. Percy Harvin, another, another, another feared one. By the way, Percy Harvin, another feared teammate. I don't

know who's second to Steve Smith. The second most feared teammate I had to Steve Smith was blank. Luke Keke. That's pretty good too. Actually, Cam, can you win a Super Bowl with Tuha as your quarterback? Not you, the dolphins, of course. Yes, You can, huh? Yes, you can. Well, when I looked at this past weekends, game results, with Tuha, you got waddle, you got that whole team embody speed. So the need for speed aspect, and there are times where they personify that in different

elements and situations, whether that is. But if that team gets on a roll and they're moving the ball at a high level, they have every right to when a super ball just did it happen this year. Cam, I believe I'm one of those media members that lacks the credentials. But for my money, you're the greatest goal line weapon in the history of the game. You've come up in a lot of debates, and I know you're 34 years old, you're younger than Russell Wilson, and there's a politics angle to why it is that you're not playing there. But if you look at production, there was a drop off, and we've always

wondered what was the cause of that drop off. I'll ask you directly, I've made the excuse before that it might have been the car accident that you got into, but you don't make excuses. Can you explain it to me? Well, people who are not familiar with my career, meaning being in a small market like Charlotte, it's not like New York or Dallas or whatever have you. My drop off of my career happened by way of a shoulder injury that I was sustained on a penalty that got caught back. My rotator cuff, I tried to push a guy to bounds in a way where, you know, I landed it awkwardly on my shoulder

and that was really the demise of my career from the pushing the ball down feel aspect. It wasn't the back injury that I sustained in the car accident. It was just, it was the shoulder. There was time when I could not throw even in practice. But that was just something that, you know, my team and team personnel knew. But it was an injury that I sustained. It was 2016 versus the San Diego chargers. If they were San Diego at that time, and it was an interception that ended up getting call back.

So yeah. I got to imagine, Cam, that a dozen times on a Sunday, you see a roughing the passer call, and you just look at your friends, and you're like, oh, come on. Come on. It's not as that egregious these days. they just send it to me via text message, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter.

And I don't think my come on is that verbal or I've spoken, but it's saying, yeah. I mean, your friends are taunting you with it. It sounds like they're all there. They are texting you saying you should have played in this NFL. Correct. Well, I don't think Justin feels could say that right now because he's still going through the same situations that I had to. And Justin is a person who who I know very well, seeing him in high school at the age of 16, playing on my seven or seven all start teams. So seeing his struggles and his issues from being protected at the quarterback position is something that I can kind of empathize with him a little bit. Well, what's happening there? Because I, you know, you got to be careful with some of this stuff because you know how it gets aggregated and what goes viral, just a feels, per se, more than Josh Allen. And that's not to say this person deserves more than that person.

It's just, it's the referees and responsibilities to protect the player. And there's times where there's a grigious hits. And that's why I say, I'm not a man. I'm not a man. I'm a man. I'm a man. I'm a man. I'm a man.

I'm a man. I'm a man. I'm a man. I'm a man. I'm a man. say this person deserves more than that person is just, it's the referees and responsibilities to protect the player. And there's times where there's a grigious hits that Justin hasn't been protected. Who's the quarterback you like watching the most now? The same ones, y'all like to watch. I mean, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, and honestly, too, even with the statement to be what the statement is, I love how Jared Gals control of the offense. And really, I'm a fan of Dan Campbell. I mean, that guy there is, he's a coach that you want to play for. You know, just that whole team is

just fun to watch, very scrappy, opportunistic, and just fearless when it comes to fourth down situations. He's the host of the shows, fourth and one and funky Friday on his YouTube channel. Cam, good catching up with you. Good seeing you. Happy to see you. Happy with new endeavors. May the challenges be fulfilling, sir. Oh, man. Thank you so much for having me. And as I always say with love. Hey, it's Mike Ryan. I love football and I love Miller light. Why do I love Miller light? Well, the penable flavor, the fact that it's a beer that tastes like beer, the fact that when I'm having a Miller light, I don't have to think for one second about the beer that I'm drinking. And I know that it's only 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.

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