Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Logan Paulson here
Speaker 1: with men that need no introduction, Fred Smoot and Santana Moss. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: doing how was the weekend vacation?
Speaker 2: My vacation was awesome.
Speaker 1: It was very nice. You know, nine hour driving the
Speaker 1: car with the kids. That's always a tough ask that
Speaker 1: with technology now that you just give them. You know,
Speaker 1: we said we said no iPads in the car, so
Speaker 1: on purpose, just to see.
Speaker 2: What would happened, to take it back to nineteen Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think the kids actually handled it better, honestly,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I was surprised, but I
Speaker 1: think they actually handled it better.
Speaker 2: Well you know what this sounds like. Uh, what was
Speaker 2: the act of Chase.
Speaker 1: Road trip for y Yeah, vacation, family vacation.
Speaker 3: It was my seven year oldld have had a fit.
Speaker 3: The whole was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a little bit of that, but we
Speaker 1: played games, you know, like, yeah, dude, it was tough, tough,
Speaker 1: but we made it.
Speaker 4: Guys, we're here, but now I give you respect five here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, all right. They had to entertain us.
Speaker 3: We had to sit.
Speaker 2: The hell.
Speaker 5: Was you're gonna set up too and you ain't gonna interrupt.
Speaker 3: Now, they won you when you got that car So
Speaker 3: I'm coming to you.
Speaker 1: You know better, dude, Oh my god. So, speaking of
Speaker 1: games that you play in the car our, producer Jason
Speaker 1: came up with a really fun game today. It's the
Speaker 1: match game. Okay, all right, We're gonna have some players
Speaker 1: from the Washington Commanders and we're to decide who is
Speaker 1: the best player com for them in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna start off with none other than the
Speaker 1: Young Airwolf himself, Sam Howe.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: So, just to give you an idea, Jason did a
Speaker 1: great job prepping this. We got Tony Ropo. Yeah, John Elway,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones's potential comp doesn't have to be one of
Speaker 1: those guys. But who do you think, Like, what's his ceiling,
Speaker 1: what's his floor? Let's give a camp for each one.
Speaker 4: I think Tony Romo is the perfect, perfect comp.
Speaker 2: Like it's only two. I compare him to. I prepare
Speaker 2: him to Tony.
Speaker 4: Athletically, Tony was a better athlete than you he thought
Speaker 4: he was.
Speaker 2: He could make every throw, He was a loosive.
Speaker 4: In the pocket, and when he had to run, he
Speaker 4: ran on her like anytime he seen two men he ran,
Speaker 4: he understood it.
Speaker 2: Like, but then I get a Kirk Warner. The story the.
Speaker 4: Story of Sam how is he fell and he had
Speaker 4: Now he had to grind back. Now he's getting a
Speaker 4: chance to start. Like they're built the same, the way
Speaker 4: they throw the ball. Like, just remember who Kirk Wanner is,
Speaker 4: Like Kirk Warner was never how much I say he's
Speaker 4: not the athlete Sam how he is, But when it
Speaker 4: comes to volume of passes getting the ball out of
Speaker 4: his hand, my total cump is Tony Romo Kirk Warner
Speaker 4: for Sam.
Speaker 5: How yeah, I mean you know when we look at
Speaker 5: this sheet, Tony Romo sticks out. I mean just for
Speaker 5: the super fact. I was a big fan of him
Speaker 5: when he was playing. Folks used to throw it. I
Speaker 5: was crazy when I say I would go play with
Speaker 5: Tony Romo. I watched the caliber quarterback, you know, play
Speaker 5: that he showed weekend and week out. I saw how
Speaker 5: guys wasn't open and he still got in the ball,
Speaker 5: all had a nice touch on the ball, and and
Speaker 5: fred heading on the head when things wasn't there, he
Speaker 5: took off, took off and it cost us every time.
Speaker 5: So just just watching the simple size that I've seen
Speaker 5: so far. As Sam, he might be a little more elusive.
Speaker 5: When it comes to run, he takes it.
Speaker 3: He don't.
Speaker 5: He ain't waiting on nothing not to be there. If
Speaker 5: he's see, he's gonna take it. But when it comes
Speaker 5: to just to play overall, throwing the ball and running,
Speaker 5: I compare it with Tony.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I got a kind of a weird one
Speaker 1: because to me, when I watch him, he reminds me
Speaker 1: a little bit of Russell Wilson, right, kind of that
Speaker 1: shorter demeanor, the way he moves in the rocket if
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and Drew Brees kind of like had a baby.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying to Russell Brees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Russell Breede, That's kind of what reminds me of it. Again,
Speaker 1: it's it's weird. It's weird comparing a guy to two
Speaker 1: future Hall of Famers. But in terms of the mobility,
Speaker 1: the release on some of that processing, I think that's
Speaker 1: it kind of gives me. That gives me the feels, right.
Speaker 1: But with regards to this year, what do you think
Speaker 1: he's going to be.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I think I'm leaning Tony Romo is.
Speaker 1: I mean that's so Tony Romo win as a rookie,
Speaker 1: as a ten years ago.
Speaker 2: Said Tony Romo.
Speaker 4: After like third year, when he got control of the
Speaker 4: outfits and when the office was him and Davis, you
Speaker 4: got to realize what he got. Terry mclawan, he had
Speaker 4: winding and unless we all know when we couldn't outrun
Speaker 4: a snail.
Speaker 2: But guess what, Tony put the ball right when to
Speaker 2: be at all time right.
Speaker 4: So at the end of the day, I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: lean Tony Romo. And I'm talking about prime, not hurt
Speaker 4: Tony Romo, not yet.
Speaker 2: You know what I talk about.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about Tony Romo when he took the job,
Speaker 5: when he showed them that he can play, and they like.
Speaker 1: You're talking about different times. I feel like Tanna is
Speaker 1: talking about right when he became the start.
Speaker 3: We're talking about right when.
Speaker 5: But I'm saying that was when that was, that was
Speaker 5: some of the best that was about that time Tony
Speaker 5: Romo was playing. I mean that those years that he
Speaker 5: first started was the years that everybody was sitting there
Speaker 5: taking them all in. And then things kind of got
Speaker 5: rocky when the defense didn't get better and they wasn't
Speaker 5: going to, you know, going to the postseason.
Speaker 1: So would you say Tony Romo was a top ten
Speaker 1: quarterback when he played. Yeah, So you're saying Sam how
Speaker 1: Is can I'm.
Speaker 4: Saying, Sam Howe, listen this office that I was talking
Speaker 4: to London Fletcher about London play with the Greatest Show
Speaker 4: on Turf, And so we started to go down through
Speaker 4: the players on the Greatest Show on Turf and we
Speaker 4: put them with this team. I said, Kirk Warner is quarterback,
Speaker 4: sam Hi, I said, Oza king that Samuels, I said
Speaker 4: to a Rehope.
Speaker 2: Then this Johann Dotson.
Speaker 4: Like they had we we are similar everything, and me
Speaker 4: and him had a discussion about who's Marshall fault and
Speaker 4: this when I bought at Gibbe into it.
Speaker 2: I just feel like this.
Speaker 4: Offense is the season go on, they gonna realize that
Speaker 4: Gibby brings something to the table.
Speaker 2: Then a lot of the backs don't.
Speaker 1: So since you mentioned Antonio Gibson, is that your Conferendtonio
Speaker 1: Gibson is Marshall.
Speaker 4: I ain't saying that he's a Marshall fault five style.
Speaker 4: I'm saying he's Marshall fault three toes on the left foot.
Speaker 4: This is what I'm saying. This, This is all I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I ain't saying he full of you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying he's completely fault. I'm just saying the
Speaker 4: guy can do a lot of the things that he
Speaker 4: can do.
Speaker 2: You don't think he can on his left I.
Speaker 1: Mean, the thing that gets me, man, is that's a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame player. He could have played receiver in
Speaker 1: the NFL. That's what I don't know if Gibson is.
Speaker 2: He came into the legal wide receiver.
Speaker 1: But the reason they moved him the running back is
Speaker 1: because he looks like a running back. Not a bone
Speaker 1: in that man's body.
Speaker 2: But he did not forget how to run round. He
Speaker 2: did not forget how to catch the ball.
Speaker 1: Let's ask the receiver about this. I think we've talked
Speaker 1: about this. He doesn't have that elite route running nuance,
Speaker 1: and in my opinion, I.
Speaker 3: Think he does.
Speaker 1: You think he does.
Speaker 3: I watched him run routes out wide.
Speaker 5: I watched him run out from the slot position just
Speaker 5: in the preseason last year with him, and he showed
Speaker 5: us he ran that post man put that touchdown for Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Feel like I feel like that fits him well. But
Speaker 1: like the short area, like the snags, the choices, he's not.
Speaker 1: He doesn't remind me of like a young Santana Moss,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't think he's a fault.
Speaker 5: If I had to take name from off this sheet,
Speaker 5: you know, I would say Matt Fote, you know, because
Speaker 5: I think just the smoothness of them, you know that
Speaker 5: that's something that I give him, you know, give the
Speaker 5: smooth and once he gets over in the open, he
Speaker 5: don't have to change gears. It just seemed like he
Speaker 5: just finds a way to leave everybody. Matt Fork, Mattforete
Speaker 5: was that. I mean, he was that guy. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's the guy. He was a guy also though when
Speaker 5: he saw he saw the lanes a little better than
Speaker 5: Gibbs in that right now. I think Matt Fote was
Speaker 5: great at picking his way through, you know, between the
Speaker 5: tackles and when he got outside, man, he just showed
Speaker 5: you why he's one of those running backs to be
Speaker 5: wrecking with. But fork Fork to me is reaching. Falk
Speaker 5: is reaching. Miller could be another guy. But Miller had
Speaker 5: that unblo mar Mille.
Speaker 3: You know, he's a Miami guy. He yeah, he wore
Speaker 3: Humber six also back with them Hurricanes. He had a
Speaker 3: different gear than them than all these guys.
Speaker 5: You know one thing about Lamar Miller when he was
Speaker 5: in his prime, he's running better faster than some of
Speaker 5: the receivers out there.
Speaker 3: And I mean he was like a fop gear man.
Speaker 1: He was.
Speaker 3: He was running, So I don't give him very fast.
Speaker 3: I don't add all those names.
Speaker 5: I would say Matt Forte would be closest in. And
Speaker 5: that's because I'm not even trying.
Speaker 4: To got okay, Mar was pushing it to I love
Speaker 4: I love.
Speaker 1: The three toes on the left foot. That's the funniest
Speaker 1: thing he said.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, I'm sorry. I could I go Tiki Barber.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like Tiki Barber. I think that's a really
Speaker 1: nice I think I think Tiki Barber being fit, maybe
Speaker 1: has better vision maybe, But again, like in terms of
Speaker 1: what he could be in this offense as a ceiling,
Speaker 1: I'll buy a Tiki Barber. So this next one's tough, boys,
Speaker 1: because it's tough to think of mid tier linebackers. But
Speaker 1: let's talk about our guy. Jamon Davis played really, really
Speaker 1: well the last four games of the season looked like
Speaker 1: he had kind of turned that corner becoming that first
Speaker 1: round player. If you had to say, ceiling for him
Speaker 1: this year. And I'm gonna give you some names. London, Fletcher,
Speaker 1: Keith Brooking, Levonte, David David.
Speaker 5: I think medic Ability have the same kind of play,
Speaker 5: you know. I think David is a man amongst boys.
Speaker 5: At times it's like Loki Hall of Famous, Like he
Speaker 5: came out to the blocks, He came up to starting
Speaker 5: blocks like hey, I'm first, Like, let me show you guys.
Speaker 3: You know who I am. And he's a Miami kid too.
Speaker 3: I know him from.
Speaker 1: From you know, everybody, everybody from Miam.
Speaker 3: You understand, Florida dominates the NFL.
Speaker 2: Really we got something to say about. Just look at
Speaker 2: her capital.
Speaker 3: We got looking at talking about talking about her capital.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Just look at.
Speaker 4: Look at a Hall of Famous we got the NFL.
Speaker 2: It's literally ten times bigger than mine.
Speaker 5: They say girls run the world, and girls have to
Speaker 5: be they had to be successful. Women know, just girls
Speaker 5: toldal right they had to be Hall of Fame. She said,
Speaker 5: she said who run the world?
Speaker 1: Girls?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: She didn't say she had to be a doctor, lawyer,
Speaker 3: you know, nurse.
Speaker 1: She just said.
Speaker 3: Girls.
Speaker 5: So at the end of the day, we're not talking
Speaker 5: about Hall of Famous and Pro Bowls. We're talking about
Speaker 5: is a half of the walls well by that, by
Speaker 5: that standard than California.
Speaker 3: But California, Florida's top the top two.
Speaker 2: So so y'all got a whole coast.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's what's what's the stat man? Is it
Speaker 1: just the most Texas in that? I mean, we have
Speaker 1: more than Texas. I don't to say, listen to.
Speaker 2: Cry me a river.
Speaker 1: I'm not you're crying.
Speaker 3: No, I ain't cry.
Speaker 2: Just when you run all this tension and lines something
Speaker 2: to my energy.
Speaker 3: Ain't nobody live better than a preacher?
Speaker 2: I know, I know this, and my dad is he
Speaker 2: a preacher? He teld me a pair of lips.
Speaker 1: I heard that one from me before. Actually it's true. No,
Speaker 1: getting back to the question, so, yeah, so Levante David,
Speaker 1: that's when that seems again.
Speaker 2: I I when I hope he yes.
Speaker 1: I think so too, because my conference coming out with
Speaker 1: Levonte Davi. Because Levante David to me is the modern
Speaker 1: NFL linebacker. Yeah, he's covering, you can running hit and
Speaker 1: you understand his past concepts and he's available, and I
Speaker 1: think Jamon can do that, but sometimes I think as
Speaker 1: a past defender, he's a little bit he's lacks those
Speaker 1: elite instincts.
Speaker 5: I think he can learn, he can get, he can
Speaker 5: become a better cover, you know, you know, but I
Speaker 5: just feel when he's and I feel like flying around
Speaker 5: the ball, David, I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: And so the reason I put Keith Brooking on here
Speaker 1: because Keith Broth was a very good player, but not
Speaker 1: a great.
Speaker 5: He wasn't He didn't have the athletic ability that I
Speaker 5: believe that we're not giving.
Speaker 1: You know, guy, yeah, James Freak.
Speaker 2: What about to Kyo Spikes?
Speaker 1: Keo Spikes? Man, Gosh, wasn't he a little stiff though?
Speaker 3: To Kyo all headed there, but the lumber on you.
Speaker 5: That's when I watched the I was a young guy.
Speaker 5: I wasn't even drafted yet. Lee Steinberg flew me and
Speaker 5: regiating out to n to Orlando. They was playing the
Speaker 5: super Bowl that you're in Tampa. So we was, we
Speaker 5: was flying around, I mean we was. We was going
Speaker 5: around with some of the guys and to Kyo up
Speaker 5: in the club and I looked at him and looked
Speaker 5: at it like boy, that's line back in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Like his shirt, his neck, his went from his ears.
Speaker 2: Just one big nick and then studying him right now.
Speaker 5: Changed man Like it's crazy because we actually got our
Speaker 5: NBA together and watching him in class looking at him like, bro,
Speaker 5: you can still go out there somebody.
Speaker 1: He's a big man. He's a big man. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about another guy that I think we all really like,
Speaker 1: and that's Cam Curl. Right. If you had to give
Speaker 1: a con form his ceiling, who would it be, dude?
Speaker 3: Not no land.
Speaker 1: We are like this because the thing about Eric weddle Man,
Speaker 1: he can do everything right in the box, can play
Speaker 1: the nickel, can play the post. You could do it all.
Speaker 5: And you didn't think he was gonna lay the lumb
Speaker 5: one yet he and people.
Speaker 2: Didn't forget that. Eric will played wide receiver, cornerback and safety.
Speaker 2: He did a little bit of everything.
Speaker 4: But Cam Curl, Now, yeall, I might not agree with
Speaker 4: me on this one, but I played against this guy.
Speaker 4: He was a damn nightmare for one hundred years. He
Speaker 4: had intensity to him, but his past and his run
Speaker 4: was the same to me. And when I watched Cameron Carroll,
Speaker 4: his past coverage is just as much as good as
Speaker 4: he played a run. I'm going Brian Dawkins, Ryan Dawkins,
Speaker 4: Brian Dawkins, Dude, I don't think do you think he
Speaker 4: hits like Brian Dawkins.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I ain't saying that he hits like Brian.
Speaker 2: I'm saying he'll.
Speaker 1: Fixed out all right. I don't know what he's about.
Speaker 2: To come out on the field, out of the smoke,
Speaker 2: crawling on the.
Speaker 1: Ground weapon x right he was Wolverine. Yeah yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: Well that that was interesting. Brian Dawkins. I wasn't expecting
Speaker 1: that one coming out of there, But I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it front you are you are great and
Speaker 1: the fact that Tanner agree with you makes it even greater.
Speaker 1: All Right, so let's talk about the next segment. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a movie. Okay, So we got two guys,
Speaker 1: Montesa Sweat Chase Young. Let's cast with an actor their
Speaker 1: upcoming season. So for example, you know Tom Brady, probably
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise maybe the most famous, like never really falls off,
Speaker 1: always at the top of.
Speaker 3: It because they both.
Speaker 2: And they're still doing great things.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah right, and maybe like Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: and like at an old age yeah, yeah, right, so
Speaker 1: ready to get that. So for our guy, Montes Sweat,
Speaker 1: Let's start with Montes. Who you casting?
Speaker 2: Who am I casting as Monte Sweat?
Speaker 4: Now that I think about it, and I think about
Speaker 4: all the actors, I hate to say it, but he
Speaker 4: would probably be a white guy in my move because
Speaker 4: I love John Cena.
Speaker 1: You think you think you would cast John Cena if
Speaker 1: he was black? John c But why? But why though?
Speaker 2: Because Johnsina. If you talk to Sweat, Sweat got a
Speaker 2: chill person.
Speaker 4: Yeah he could be funny, he's strong and John Cena
Speaker 4: is all dead and I was trying to find him,
Speaker 4: not like but dig Johnsina.
Speaker 2: It's something special.
Speaker 1: To who's the guy? Who's the guy from Borderwack Empire
Speaker 1: with the scar on his face. He's been in a
Speaker 1: couple of shows.
Speaker 2: I know who you're talking about, but he's passed away.
Speaker 1: Yeah he did, So I would say him because no, no, no, listen, listen,
Speaker 1: because I do think he's an underappreciated actor. And I
Speaker 1: think as a guy in this defense is underappreciated right
Speaker 1: for what he does, right, like what he does in
Speaker 1: terms of how he stops run, how he plays off
Speaker 1: of defensive tackles how he plays off of stunts. Well,
Speaker 1: I say more Nut did Morris chest.
Speaker 4: And everything and longevity there with Morris, but he's never
Speaker 4: been appreciated for what he really brings to the table.
Speaker 3: A good resume.
Speaker 2: He got a great resume. He even been on pretty much.
Speaker 4: Michael Kay Williams is my guy. But Michael Kay Williams,
Speaker 4: he is your guy. But no, I would go Morris Chestnut.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna get a little ahead of y'all. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not solely on.
Speaker 5: It was gonna be hard to see him think about
Speaker 5: individual actors. So I just say, I'm gonna use both
Speaker 5: of the guys together and think of a movie.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna say bad boys.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not bad.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say Legend Tom Hardy when he played his
Speaker 5: twin and Joe, both of them.
Speaker 3: And when I.
Speaker 5: Say to gather to both of these guys, would I
Speaker 5: want to see them in a movie form? I want
Speaker 5: to see them be violent? His head, yes, you know,
Speaker 5: and that's what Tom Hardy was in Legend. These two guys,
Speaker 5: these twins in London. They tore London.
Speaker 3: Part and it was just crazy.
Speaker 5: So I want to see my dns like that. I
Speaker 5: want to see these guys violent, disruptiff.
Speaker 3: And just be you know, misbits and that's what you know.
Speaker 3: That movie stood out to me, Like.
Speaker 2: You didn't see that movie, but that's great.
Speaker 4: I mean, like hard anything, Tom Hardy one of my
Speaker 4: favorite don't Jump, It's Gonna Jump playing in bat Man.
Speaker 3: That was one of the favorite, My favorite Batman.
Speaker 4: Listen to talking, listen to He's a fool Listen. I
Speaker 4: love after they actually get caught up in these characters,
Speaker 4: like they say something actors takes him like three months
Speaker 4: after playing a character to the white clean of his character,
Speaker 4: and that's why they say, don't nobody like to play
Speaker 4: the joker like this one of the hardest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they go numb and it's hard for them to
Speaker 2: get back to play another part.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean sure. I think Tanna's my favorite out
Speaker 1: of that though. The legend. I like that because that's
Speaker 1: what you want them doing to the league this year, right,
Speaker 1: just being totally disruptive. Right. So Media Day was yesterday,
Speaker 1: All right, do you guys have any funny memorable Media
Speaker 1: Day stories?
Speaker 5: The only thing I remember about Media Day I always
Speaker 5: hated because I didn't like the whole individual get in
Speaker 5: here and do some shit in front of the camera
Speaker 5: to make that we're gonna use doing doing the year
Speaker 5: Like I'm not in the year form right now mentally
Speaker 5: probably physically, you know, I don't look like I'm gonna
Speaker 5: look when I score a touchdown and right now I'm ready.
Speaker 5: I got my damn ug slippers on, ready to go
Speaker 5: back home and go to sleep after I lead his practice.
Speaker 5: So I hated media day because I just hated the
Speaker 5: simple fact that, don't get me wrong, the team picture
Speaker 5: was always great, but you do that during the.
Speaker 3: Year, Yeah, you don't do that in media day.
Speaker 5: Me to day you sit up there talking about the
Speaker 5: season and we're doing individual stuff, and I just hated
Speaker 5: get getting geared up or faking like I just scored
Speaker 5: a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm h I was gonna say, yeah, those are
Speaker 1: the funniest ones, like when like we'd walk out and
Speaker 1: you see somebody having to like hype up the crowd.
Speaker 1: There's crowd there and they got the camera there.
Speaker 3: Like, bro, I feel like this is you know, I'm
Speaker 3: big on reaching.
Speaker 5: I'm big on one being a guy that happened to
Speaker 5: do something that ain't.
Speaker 3: Called for, Like it's not called for why should I
Speaker 3: be doing it right now?
Speaker 5: You give me, give me the media day before the
Speaker 5: week one. Guess what I'm preseason, mate, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. I'm ready because now I know we made
Speaker 5: all us made the team. Yeah, and now we is
Speaker 5: a week away from going out there.
Speaker 3: Really you know, calling some dem So I got.
Speaker 1: A funny story about that. So when I was in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: they did like a big media day, and media day,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, has changed dramatically since I first got
Speaker 1: in league in two Like now it's like this huge thing.
Speaker 1: And I knew for a fact I was gonna get cut,
Speaker 1: and they had to walk me through all these different things, Oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do the promo with to say them like
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be here, Like what's going on?
Speaker 1: They're like, no, no, you're gonna be fine. So I
Speaker 1: had to do all of these like kind of dumb
Speaker 1: things and felt really awkward, and I got cut and
Speaker 1: I was like, I knew this was gonna happen. So
Speaker 1: I think the idea of like waiting till the team
Speaker 1: is a tea is a team. Yeah, it's a different
Speaker 1: type of deal.
Speaker 4: Now, you're right, I hated it now what I did
Speaker 4: love chilling with my teammates, like we're chilling together like
Speaker 4: all day.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The one thing I did hate know y'all Right, we
Speaker 4: knew just looking around the room some of these guys
Speaker 4: ain't gonna be here. But so in that saying that
Speaker 4: for them to get to go through that, maybe they'll
Speaker 4: never forget that.
Speaker 5: But you know, my question would be, what's the significant
Speaker 5: of doing it now?
Speaker 3: Like they just do that just to do it, but
Speaker 3: they got.
Speaker 1: To get all the stuff on file preseason?
Speaker 3: Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 5: Like it's just it's just it's almost like, like I said,
Speaker 5: a lot of these guys, like I saw Chase on
Speaker 5: me today.
Speaker 3: I saw him on the GRAMD.
Speaker 5: I'm like, Chase looked like he was just like, I'm
Speaker 5: just here because I gotta be here.
Speaker 3: He looked like my man with my man name is
Speaker 3: who eat the schools?
Speaker 2: Marcause I don't get fined.
Speaker 3: Y'all know where I'm here.
Speaker 5: Right when I saw that, I was like, see, that's
Speaker 5: why I don't like doing this stuff, because it's just
Speaker 5: like a bunch of bs and at an inappropriate time
Speaker 5: when we're just trying to get the Mini camp. Mini
Speaker 5: Camp is one of those those times when you just like, man,
Speaker 5: let me make it do this weekend. I want to
Speaker 5: have a break before training camp because we know a
Speaker 5: lot of guys don't make it through mini camp and
Speaker 5: then they sitting there getting rehabbed before they even start
Speaker 5: training camp.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but it's far of selling the sport.
Speaker 4: We understand the purpose of it, but I think the players,
Speaker 4: this ain't gonna be one of these things we check
Speaker 4: off our list and say, oh, couldn't wait to do that.
Speaker 2: It's just we do it because we have to.
Speaker 3: With that being said, and that's and that's you know,
Speaker 3: spot on.
Speaker 5: You know that at the end of the day, I
Speaker 5: gotta do it, you know, so you find a way
Speaker 5: to get some of that energy up.
Speaker 2: But because yeah, it is, you just feel.
Speaker 3: Uncomfortable to getting that.
Speaker 2: And it's a privilege though.
Speaker 4: It is a privilege because the year that you don't
Speaker 4: have to do it, it's out of a.
Speaker 2: Job, right, so it's a privilege.
Speaker 1: It's like this weird thing like with the media, like
Speaker 1: you're here to play football, right, You're here to play football,
Speaker 1: But those conversations and incorporating the media and the and
Speaker 1: the promotional stuff, like that's what makes this a you know,
Speaker 1: a multi billion dollars.
Speaker 5: Which which we wasn't all told as players that it was.
Speaker 3: It was obligation too.
Speaker 5: You know, you got to think about it because contraction.
Speaker 5: Even as a player, I remember finding out the hallway
Speaker 5: in New York that you had to be available for
Speaker 5: the media like you thought it was just something like, hey,
Speaker 5: they get you. They get you know, they they're they
Speaker 5: have in writing. It's in writing that morning they boss
Speaker 5: saying I need you, I need something. I need to
Speaker 5: hit from ten, I need to hit from smooth, I
Speaker 5: need to hit from logan. So you don't know they
Speaker 5: came to the facility looking for you. You might you know,
Speaker 5: hey man, I got to go do this X y
Speaker 5: Z and before you know it, you front page because
Speaker 5: they didn't get it from you.
Speaker 3: So they're going to write something about you just.
Speaker 5: Out of anger or you know, hey, you know this
Speaker 5: guy you know flicked me off or whatever that happened
Speaker 5: to me. So with that being said, just like the
Speaker 5: media day, you know, for the guys who have to
Speaker 5: go out there individually and go out there and struct
Speaker 5: their stuff in front of the camera and put all
Speaker 5: do all these dances and whatever it is, it come
Speaker 5: to the territory.
Speaker 1: And I will say like when we when we when
Speaker 1: I first got in leagu twenty ten, it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, hear your headshots here you're pumping up the crowd.
Speaker 1: And now they've got like these automated arms that do
Speaker 1: these crazy facts, digital walls, and it's definitely you see
Speaker 1: how the media has grown around the league, and like
Speaker 1: I think it's it's magnified in media day.
Speaker 4: Well, you gotta realize you got more media outlets Twitter,
Speaker 4: you're talking, you're talking, you got so many media out
Speaker 4: lists to feed that you need all this information so
Speaker 4: to share with the team, just like we doing now
Speaker 4: we're sharing with the world that we don't like media.
Speaker 1: I feel like you you would have been a big
Speaker 1: media that guy Fred very popular.
Speaker 2: Ah, most definitely. I don't care. I listen. I'm just here,
Speaker 2: Hey listen. I have fun. I can say this about me.
Speaker 4: I had fun on every level of the game. Every
Speaker 4: day practice, I had fun. Uh, just chilling with the boys.
Speaker 2: I had fun.
Speaker 4: We'll leave work, I call the boys, come on by
Speaker 4: my creed Like I had fun being in the NFL.
Speaker 4: It's nothing that compares to that brotherhood. Very similar to
Speaker 4: the military. Yeah, once you go to war with these brothers,
Speaker 4: they would come part of your life.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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