Speaker 1: All right. In today's episode of Command Center Podcast, we
Speaker 1: talked about coach Prime and I didn't realize this, but
Speaker 1: Fred you know him. Come on, he's on the speed dot.
Speaker 2: He gave me the number twenty one.
Speaker 1: We do a little word association. We talk about Chase
Speaker 1: Young and guys share stories of how they got themselves
Speaker 1: out of slumps. And then what the hell is Fred's
Speaker 1: Smooth Slumber Company?
Speaker 2: Oh you see, and.
Speaker 1: We're gonna find it out, so make sure you check
Speaker 1: it out. Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Logan
Speaker 1: Paulson here with two very distinguished gentlemen Santanamos and I
Speaker 1: said distinguished too. But Fred Smooth, You're not distinguish.
Speaker 2: Blue Moon smooth.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that in a little bit. We're
Speaker 1: talking about that a little bit. What'd you guys, boys?
Speaker 1: What'd you boys do this? Wee can watch a little
Speaker 1: college football?
Speaker 3: Well college come on, it was Labor Day week end,
Speaker 3: so of course food and alcohol because I know you
Speaker 3: don't drink, So I drunk.
Speaker 2: College football.
Speaker 3: Man, I literally watched college football and we're watching history
Speaker 3: be made in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Got a chance to go down to Miami, so you
Speaker 4: know the game. No, I didn't go to the game.
Speaker 4: I wasn't going to that game anyway. That wasn't a
Speaker 4: game that you want to go to. Miami Ohio come on.
Speaker 1: Birthday, birthday talking about how the real Ohio going.
Speaker 4: On with those guys or something that I guess it's
Speaker 4: good for college football that, you know, Miami Ohio got
Speaker 4: a little they trying to act like us, you.
Speaker 1: Know Howio at all? I know what's going on.
Speaker 4: But I got a chance to get, you know, get
Speaker 4: back down to South Florida, seem my kids and just
Speaker 4: spend some time in college football. You know, That's one
Speaker 4: of the things I do. Brother, It's Saturday or Sunday.
Speaker 4: We know what we do Sunday, we all, you know,
Speaker 4: most work with Saturdays. I normally spend my time. I
Speaker 4: go get my work out in early, I go get
Speaker 4: my lunch, and then I'm watching I'm on.
Speaker 5: The couch watching watch college football.
Speaker 1: So what was the game you watched?
Speaker 2: What did you do?
Speaker 1: Thinking about like, what did I do this weekend?
Speaker 2: I go to a cookout?
Speaker 1: No, I went to a our family friend had their
Speaker 1: wedding tenure, wedding renewal. So did that at a farm?
Speaker 1: So we saw like some fireworks, so we had food there.
Speaker 1: They had wedding food, but it's basically like a like
Speaker 1: a wedding, soft wedding. And then hung out with some
Speaker 1: friends on Sunday and just I saw him my son
Speaker 1: almost died on a zipline. So I'm like, so he
Speaker 1: was going down on the zip line and he's holding
Speaker 1: the handles, you know, and he hit the end of
Speaker 1: it and did like a full like around. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he landed directly on his back, thank god. But like
Speaker 1: it was one of those ones where it was like
Speaker 1: if he would have cut like under rotated, he would
Speaker 1: have hit his head, and over rotated he would have
Speaker 1: hit his face. And then he got up like you know,
Speaker 1: like you're he's nine. He just pops up and like
Speaker 1: totally like no no cuts, no nothing, He couldn't. Just
Speaker 1: he quick.
Speaker 3: And I wanted to what a what a cookout at
Speaker 3: the Pulse and Logan's house would look like?
Speaker 2: Did you gotta like, let me guess this your potato salad.
Speaker 1: You always bring up? Do you think I eat potato salad?
Speaker 2: Does it got raisins?
Speaker 1: I don't even know like them? Yeah? He always saw
Speaker 1: Hi about raz is that a thing, that thing, that
Speaker 1: thing for us.
Speaker 3: No, I leave, I come, I get a bottle, w
Speaker 3: I walk right outs.
Speaker 1: As we're talking about college football, let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit a couple of seconds about Colorado. I mean that
Speaker 1: was I mean one of the craziest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 5: It wasn't crazy.
Speaker 2: What was it crazy?
Speaker 5: No, let me say this. It was one of.
Speaker 4: Those moments where what's on today, who's the team to watch?
Speaker 4: And oh, Colorado's playing, I'm watching Colorado. After that game
Speaker 4: was over, it was nothing else to really.
Speaker 2: Nothing to get you, nothing else.
Speaker 5: Adrenaline is watching that game. Now you want to talk
Speaker 5: about crazy.
Speaker 4: It was crazy when just to see where they come from,
Speaker 4: you know what, I mean, who they were last year?
Speaker 5: What's going on with one game they won?
Speaker 1: Last year?
Speaker 4: This team was the run up in the National Championship.
Speaker 4: They facing they was under twenty one underdogs. I mean
Speaker 4: they had my twenty one point underdogs. I mean that
Speaker 4: to me was amazing. Just to see them come out
Speaker 4: to fight, the physicality, all that stuff, and they just played.
Speaker 5: Hats off the prime, Hats off.
Speaker 4: To all those kids that they said they couldn't come
Speaker 4: from HBCUs playing a power fire level.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was an amazing thing.
Speaker 3: It was scary for the rest of college football. The
Speaker 3: future has started. Dion is something we have never.
Speaker 5: The right guy again.
Speaker 2: He was my team.
Speaker 1: Do you still talk to your mother?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So, like, do you like call him up after this game,
Speaker 1: be like, hey man, what's going now?
Speaker 2: I know he getting like a billion phone calls.
Speaker 3: Not trying to be in the cluster of him, but
Speaker 3: he good at answering the phone and he loved to
Speaker 3: talk so fine coach Prime does it walk, talk, dress,
Speaker 3: look like any other head coach.
Speaker 2: Ever, he has something that they will never be able
Speaker 2: to have.
Speaker 5: He's been a.
Speaker 3: World class and he's he's reached greatness. Some called him
Speaker 3: the greatest player. I'm saying the greatest he played baseball,
Speaker 3: and usually great people that's greatest stuff. People don't want
Speaker 3: to give you a chance to be greater other things
Speaker 3: like and they're scared of that. And the thing about
Speaker 3: it is he has the might just touch.
Speaker 2: I mean whenever he touched becomes go.
Speaker 3: And I think he is waking up college football and
Speaker 3: making them understand it's time for y'all to go hire
Speaker 3: X pro football players. Is college football players is you'll
Speaker 3: hear well, I mean it's I mean, it's not even that.
Speaker 3: I don't think I think you mentioned he's like a
Speaker 3: he's a unicorn a little bit. He's got that charisma,
Speaker 3: that leadership, like he's been a mentor, like you know,
Speaker 3: I remember watching that stuff with pac Man Jones, how
Speaker 3: he's kind of brings these guys.
Speaker 1: He does have a strong personality. But also fifty six
Speaker 1: new athletes on that football team that's not his football
Speaker 1: that's not even the same team. So I think that
Speaker 1: to me is really interesting and really compelling because it's
Speaker 1: like a totally different landscape, like you're terrible, Hey man,
Speaker 1: let's get all these athletes and smaller schools come here
Speaker 1: and make us better.
Speaker 4: That helped me understand that when you hear coaches say,
Speaker 4: well we are a new team, we're trying to bull crap,
Speaker 4: you don't want to hear that, because this guy just
Speaker 4: shows you he could come from HBCU bringing new coaching
Speaker 4: staff and basically lost his whole team. The one guy
Speaker 4: who made the first interceptions was was one play on
Speaker 4: that team and start, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 4: it's great to see that this guy who they said
Speaker 4: didn't have a chance to come to this level and
Speaker 4: do what he did in HBCU. Oh, you're not gonna
Speaker 4: You're not gonna touch these kids the way you touch
Speaker 4: Jackson State. Jackson State needed you.
Speaker 5: We only here, we don't need you. Yeah, and he
Speaker 5: told you, I'm bringing my Louis luggage.
Speaker 4: And obviously the Hisstan players had Louis luggage too, because
Speaker 4: his son went out.
Speaker 2: There and hundred yards. He was a fourth style when
Speaker 2: he came out.
Speaker 3: Travis Hunter with the number two player in the night show,
Speaker 3: number one when they came out.
Speaker 2: So they had talent.
Speaker 3: But you remember we talked and we were really talking
Speaker 3: about the commander when we talked about unpredictability.
Speaker 2: They had no filming TC. You had no film study,
Speaker 2: had to go back and study Jackson State.
Speaker 3: The study should do it. The office coordinator came from Memphis.
Speaker 3: I think, so they had nothing to study, and I
Speaker 3: think that's what's gonna help. The Commander's team started out quick.
Speaker 3: You do not have any film to study. We're unpredictable
Speaker 3: and you don't know who we are what we are, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So that's enough. I mean, we could talk about
Speaker 1: Colorado for the next hour, but we talk about the commanders.
Speaker 1: Because this is a Commander's podcast is Commander. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna play a game. It's called word association. I'm going
Speaker 1: to say somebody's name on the team, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: think about the first thing that comes to mind, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna kind of explain why that is. Okay, So
Speaker 1: the first guy we're gonna start off with, pretty obvious
Speaker 1: is our guy, the young airwolf, Sam House or we got.
Speaker 4: Tanna just talking about what he's gonna bring it.
Speaker 1: So what he's gonna bring, like your expectation, like just
Speaker 1: the first thing that comes to mind, Like what like, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see that. What's the expectation for him this year?
Speaker 4: Being true conductive conductor, I don't want to you know,
Speaker 4: Sam don't have to go out there and while you
Speaker 4: wit you know, four hundred y'all's not he don't have
Speaker 4: to do that. You have to just, you know, basically
Speaker 4: lead these men you have. And he has a good
Speaker 4: crew around him. I mean, you know, you rarely seldom
Speaker 4: see a guy that's coming in and he's young and
Speaker 4: he has the talent around him that all he.
Speaker 5: Has to do is go out there and distribute the
Speaker 5: ball around.
Speaker 4: So I just feel like being a great conductor, being
Speaker 4: a point guard and being the leader. He's a quarterback,
Speaker 4: so you know, the quarterback has a different role than
Speaker 4: everybody else on the team. Whether you want to be
Speaker 4: a captain or not, you are the captain. You're the
Speaker 4: captain of this ship, the offense, and just be a
Speaker 4: great captain, be a great conductor, and lead the guys
Speaker 4: to strip the ball.
Speaker 5: To the right guy at the right time, and he
Speaker 5: should have no problem.
Speaker 1: So conductor, all right, what you got, uh mine?
Speaker 2: It's two words? Can I add two words?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean this is our se how I only.
Speaker 3: Want one thing, emotional stability. I don't want him to
Speaker 3: play the emotional game.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 2: And that's what I like about him so far. He
Speaker 2: doesn't when he has.
Speaker 3: A good game, he doesn't get too high on hisself.
Speaker 3: When he have a bad throw or something, he doesn't
Speaker 3: get too low on hisself. I want him legitly to
Speaker 3: stay right in the middle no matter what's going on,
Speaker 3: because the team will go as his ups and downs go.
Speaker 2: Now, they can be physical ups.
Speaker 3: And down, but they cannot be emotionally ups and down,
Speaker 3: because I feel like, then you lose two, three, four games,
Speaker 3: and now you're trapped in a rut. I need his
Speaker 3: emotions to be stable and I need him and he's,
Speaker 3: like I said before, he's shown me that he's kind
Speaker 3: of emotionless.
Speaker 2: And I enjoyed that point of him.
Speaker 3: And I think dep poised and Deck will get him
Speaker 3: to say, you know, show people I can be not
Speaker 3: just a starter.
Speaker 2: I could beat the franchise quarterback for this team.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And that's a really good insight too, you know,
Speaker 1: like that kind of the emotional consistency from a quarterback
Speaker 1: spot is so important. I would say probably growth. I
Speaker 1: want to see him get better, you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of kind of kind of fit fits in with what
Speaker 1: you're talking about, But like, just each week, can I
Speaker 1: get better? Can I see the blitz a little bit better?
Speaker 1: Can I understand the game plan a little bit better?
Speaker 1: And then week five of my better than I was
Speaker 1: Week one, Week twelve of my better than I was
Speaker 1: Week five. By the end of the year, am I
Speaker 1: totally different football player? And I think he's shown that
Speaker 1: he can do that, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: that's that's what I'm thinking. So conductor emotional stability, I
Speaker 1: like that a lot. Yeah, I'm gonna say growth I
Speaker 1: think that's Those are all really good things, right, I
Speaker 1: mean they're all again, they're really relevant to the position.
Speaker 1: You know, this is an interesting one, and I'm really
Speaker 1: curious to you what you guys say, because I have my
Speaker 1: thoughts on This is Brian Robinson. So we'll start with
Speaker 1: smooth one. All right.
Speaker 2: My one word is receiver.
Speaker 3: I want, okay, all right, receive the ball because he
Speaker 3: got the talent to do it. In college, they didn't
Speaker 3: th the ball to him much. So when we when
Speaker 3: we got him here, we didn't know what type of
Speaker 3: receiver he was. But I think we have seen doing
Speaker 3: these practices he can go out there, he can catch
Speaker 3: the ball. Think about it. If I'm a defense Brian
Speaker 3: Robinson comes into the game, I just told my linebackers,
Speaker 3: just told look, get ready for the run, Like, well,
Speaker 3: if you can come out here and throw the ball
Speaker 3: when he's in the game, now that's a whole new
Speaker 3: element to it.
Speaker 2: And think about this.
Speaker 3: We've seen him running to tight spaces a gap, be gap,
Speaker 3: see gap. Imagine how he can punish DB's catching it
Speaker 3: in the open field, turning around seeing these guys out
Speaker 3: of eye after catching the ball. I think receiver was
Speaker 3: come to mind when you say, Brian Robinson, he.
Speaker 1: Saw you saw him do that again the Atlantic game,
Speaker 1: right like when he runs that dB over like head
Speaker 1: of Steve Good in the space catching football. I like
Speaker 1: that a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's say DB's we can't take that
Speaker 3: pounded to look, we can't.
Speaker 2: We can't do it.
Speaker 1: What you got to tell anything?
Speaker 5: Cut him loose, cut loose, cut him loose. You know,
Speaker 5: you gotta think about it.
Speaker 4: You know, Brian Robinson, what rush for almost eight hundred
Speaker 4: yards last year? Yeah, we knew what he went through
Speaker 4: prior to rushing, you know, for that number. And just
Speaker 4: to think, I feel like at times he didn't get
Speaker 4: a chance to be itself. Last year we knew he
Speaker 4: was in itself and then we every game we was
Speaker 4: just seeing a different guy. Like you say, okay, okay,
Speaker 4: you see him a little boy looking more like that
Speaker 4: Brian Robinson we saw in the preseason of last year
Speaker 4: clean bill of health right now, went through the whole
Speaker 4: entire preseason, we heard we heard one peep. We haven't
Speaker 4: heard a peep of him this whole entire preseason. Last year. Preseason,
Speaker 4: we was we was getting ready, like, oh you saw
Speaker 4: that boy so we haven't saw much of him this preseason.
Speaker 4: We've been talking about Sam those guys on the outside.
Speaker 5: Cut him loose. Show the world what you've been.
Speaker 4: You've been holding back, you've been saying, you know what,
Speaker 4: we don't. We saw enough of you last year. We
Speaker 4: don't want them to see this again right now, not
Speaker 4: too soon. So now game one, they don't know what
Speaker 4: to expect from Brian Robins. They don't know if he's
Speaker 4: gonna be catching the ball out the Backfiel, they don't
Speaker 4: know if he's gonna be the bell cow, he's gonna
Speaker 4: be all that in the above.
Speaker 5: So I said, cut him loose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say for me, it's it kind
Speaker 1: of goes along with what you're saying. I think he's
Speaker 1: kind of underrated right now. Like I think I think
Speaker 1: people like ask me oh Jahan and Terry and Gibson.
Speaker 1: I got a ton of questions about Gibson or even
Speaker 1: Chris Rodriguez. I'm like, don't forget about b rob you know,
Speaker 1: he's like he.
Speaker 6: Just hard nos you know, And maybe it's because we
Speaker 6: watched practice, but like like seeing him catch the football
Speaker 6: and watching how he runs the football, I'm like gosh,
Speaker 6: like he could be a huge, huge feature of this offense.
Speaker 1: And I think, to Tannis point, like, if you can
Speaker 1: stay healthy and be consistent, like he might be the
Speaker 1: best player on this offense. Like, and I'm not being
Speaker 1: hyperbolic when I say that, I'm not exaggerating, Like I
Speaker 1: know Johan's been very productive, Terry is very productive. But
Speaker 1: I think he could be the guy that ends up
Speaker 1: with the most touchdowns, so the most yards from scrimmage.
Speaker 1: And I'm just really excited to see that. And so
Speaker 1: I think he's a little underrated right now in terms
Speaker 1: of how the fans reviewing. All Right, this is an
Speaker 1: interesting one too. Man good list here, Jason, So, Kawan
Speaker 1: Martin is the guy, So yeah, what is the what's
Speaker 1: the first word that comes to mind with Kwan? You
Speaker 1: want to go first? Friend's always it's a tough one.
Speaker 4: So I would have wanted to hear what Fred to
Speaker 4: say by him because he got the defense. But I'm
Speaker 4: gonna jump out thereout that since it's tough and difficult,
Speaker 4: I want to be the one that is.
Speaker 5: Challenging Kwan Martin find his way. Okay, I think you know,
Speaker 5: to me, he's a guy that we really.
Speaker 4: Don't know where he's gonna play at, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean, That's how I see him. He can play everywhere.
Speaker 4: He's one of those Swiss Army knives on the defense.
Speaker 4: But I want to you know, from what I saw
Speaker 4: this preseason, saw him up front, I saw him in
Speaker 4: the I saw him in the box area. I saw him,
Speaker 4: you know, play a little bit corner. Where is he
Speaker 4: going to play for us? What package are we going
Speaker 4: to see him the most seeing? I want to see
Speaker 4: Week one is probably gonna be the tell all story
Speaker 4: of where we're going to play at Ready we see
Speaker 4: him more on special.
Speaker 5: Teams or if he even dress who knows, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean?
Speaker 4: A young guy that we're not even sure about what
Speaker 4: he's going to do this, you know, you know come
Speaker 4: week one, so find his way to see where we're
Speaker 4: going to see Kawalm Martin.
Speaker 5: Be the guy, be the special young rookie that he
Speaker 5: can be for us.
Speaker 1: I think that's really good. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you want to add something of that. Fred, Right
Speaker 1: here we go.
Speaker 3: I have two I got one word in a frame.
Speaker 3: Talents told it already. First of all, the word is versatility.
Speaker 3: That's who he is he's a he's a SUV. Whatever
Speaker 3: you need me to do, I'd be there if you
Speaker 3: need me to told the kids to church. I told
Speaker 3: the kids to church. If you need me to go
Speaker 3: to home depot and get what.
Speaker 1: I go home.
Speaker 3: The phrase I got for him Swiss army knife. He
Speaker 3: brought it up. Whatever you need me to do. We
Speaker 3: know if one dB go down, he'll be the first
Speaker 3: guy to come in.
Speaker 1: We know.
Speaker 3: Uh. And Tanner said something too, what packages are they
Speaker 3: gonna really put him out there and say, yeah, these
Speaker 3: are the ones you need to worry about. Play these fast,
Speaker 3: move fast on these and you'll get more and more playtime.
Speaker 3: But versatility, and because of his versatility, it allows coach coach.
Speaker 2: Del Rio, especially with him and Cam Curl to do
Speaker 2: some rocking and rolling.
Speaker 1: I mean Forrest and like all those guys like they
Speaker 1: just got a whole bunch of pieces back there that
Speaker 1: could do like kind of what you're saying, like a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything.
Speaker 3: And so that keeps the secret of the coverage, that
Speaker 3: hides that like nobody's undressing us.
Speaker 2: And that's the best thing I think they got going.
Speaker 2: What about you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So for me, I don't for me it's it's
Speaker 1: always gonna develop. Yeah, where it's like where's his home
Speaker 1: gonna be? Because like when I watch him, I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: he's explosive, he's fast, he's got good coverage in since,
Speaker 1: he's smart. But it just hasn't come together yet. And
Speaker 1: I think a big part of it is because like
Speaker 1: he's been, he's been so versatile. Yeah right, So maybe
Speaker 1: it's better that he's less versatile. Yeah, maybe that he's
Speaker 1: more specific, that he finds that rule, right yeah. And
Speaker 1: so I think, like that's what I want to see
Speaker 1: is like where is his home? I would say, Tanna,
Speaker 1: like I agree with you, like where is his home at?
Speaker 1: Because I want to see that athlete, that football player
Speaker 1: that's smart mind just be playing fast football.
Speaker 4: And then just to add to that, when you're young,
Speaker 4: you need to have something that you donna be consistent
Speaker 4: because if you just out there guess all over, it's
Speaker 4: gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard sledding for them,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean them. So I just want
Speaker 4: to I hope to see that they say, Okay, this
Speaker 4: is where you're gonna play.
Speaker 5: We don't need you to worry about nothing else.
Speaker 4: Play here now that's gonna get a guy who's he's
Speaker 4: more relaxed and now he's dialed into what he has.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we need him.
Speaker 3: To uh responded like like think about it is the
Speaker 3: old saying, you think long, you think wrong, and it's
Speaker 3: very it's very serious. When you're playing cornerback, we don't
Speaker 3: have we we react to these guys. So it has
Speaker 3: to be second nature. And if you got me doing
Speaker 3: six different things, what what's the second nation job?
Speaker 2: Nothing's comfortable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think the coaching staff kind of identified that.
Speaker 1: You know, the preseason he was playing exclusively Nickels, so
Speaker 1: maybe he gets more reps there. And if he's gonna
Speaker 1: find the field, I think it's going to be at
Speaker 1: the nickel spot. We're just so deep at safety right
Speaker 1: now with Percy and Jeremy good problems. I know it's great,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, I think, find your home. That's
Speaker 1: when he gets on the field. Can he be comfortable
Speaker 1: and productive? All right? This is gonna be interesting. I'm
Speaker 1: really curious hear what you guys gotta say about Chase Young.
Speaker 5: You gotta start this one on.
Speaker 2: The first word.
Speaker 3: When out here Chase Young, the thing that brought him
Speaker 3: out and got him taking number two. Potential all right,
Speaker 3: it's kind of about a word though, no no, no, no,
Speaker 3: no no, because when you reach your potential, it's a
Speaker 3: great word. But people only say greatness is in your
Speaker 3: future when they see potential. Now can he finally reach
Speaker 3: that greatness? Well, he got everything that it takes. He
Speaker 3: got the skill level, he got decide, the quickness to speed,
Speaker 3: and now he has the motivation. It's a contract year motivation.
Speaker 3: I love that motivation. I think motive motivation. Motibile players
Speaker 3: always give you their best football. You put us in
Speaker 3: the contract year best football. Oh Taylor had one hundred
Speaker 3: and ten catches. Contract you. At the end of the year,
Speaker 3: we focused in another level and I'm telling you what
Speaker 3: this dude. The one thing about it is once you
Speaker 3: once you draft it high and you looked at it
Speaker 3: as a you gotta realized they said this guy was
Speaker 3: lifetime type for talent. Well he hasn't been that for
Speaker 3: the last two years. And he feels it too. He
Speaker 3: feels it too. Everybody that forgot about Jase John they
Speaker 3: talk about the defense. Now they talking about sweat, they
Speaker 3: talking about pain. They talk about John at listen, we
Speaker 3: hit those things we all ex players. He hit those
Speaker 3: teams so potential, unleash his potential.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'm glad you asked me this about
Speaker 4: him because I feel like not to say that I've.
Speaker 5: Been in his shoes.
Speaker 4: Yea, in a similar role when it comes to dealing
Speaker 4: with injuries, especially young your career.
Speaker 5: Not.
Speaker 4: The one thing that he had different from mindset is
Speaker 4: that he jumped out there his first year and was,
Speaker 4: you know, defensive player of the Year or rookie defense
Speaker 4: player of the year, went.
Speaker 5: To a Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: I believe they did.
Speaker 5: So my where I would you snap back?
Speaker 1: Snap back?
Speaker 4: Snap back? Got to snap back? I mean he had
Speaker 4: a cloud over him right now. And I've been the
Speaker 4: reason why I say I feel like I've been there
Speaker 4: because I think from my rookie year all the way
Speaker 4: until my you know, deep into my second year, I
Speaker 4: had a cloud.
Speaker 5: Man. I couldn't shake it.
Speaker 4: It was like stuff was happening to me that I
Speaker 4: didn't I didn't have no control of it. And I
Speaker 4: knew what type of player I could be, and the
Speaker 4: team looking at me like, man, is he this or
Speaker 4: is he that you know me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So it was all of us about me just finding
Speaker 5: my lane finding What did you do for that my routine?
Speaker 4: Man, just listen to the veterans. I just kept and
Speaker 4: they didn't even know I was listening. They was talking.
Speaker 4: I was just like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: What do you do?
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: And I had to find a routine, yeah, because in
Speaker 4: college you didn't have a routine.
Speaker 5: And I went to practice, yeah, and.
Speaker 4: I played video games and I hung out and I
Speaker 4: did things untraditional, you know.
Speaker 5: So now I'm a professional trying to find.
Speaker 4: A routine that's going to keep me healthy, not even
Speaker 4: just to say play for football. Yeah, just they came
Speaker 4: off off out the gate. I got injured before I
Speaker 4: even played in the game. So now it seems like
Speaker 4: that's my story. I'm injured prone. I'm injury prone. I'm listening,
Speaker 4: I'm listening to the media I'm reading, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: that's not me, it's you know, it's it's just something,
Speaker 4: you know, an unlucky break for myself. So when I
Speaker 4: found my routine, when I found my you know, my staff,
Speaker 4: you know that I had to start spending money.
Speaker 5: With to keep me healthy, took off.
Speaker 1: You think that's something that would benefit Chase.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure. I'm not sure if he has.
Speaker 1: It's hard.
Speaker 5: You already work out hard.
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that he's injury prone because that's
Speaker 4: the same thing how I feel.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 5: I wasn't injury prone. I just hadn't found my way yet. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just feel like he have a cloud on him
Speaker 4: that he needs to shake, and he gonna have to
Speaker 4: shake it, and that's why he's not back.
Speaker 5: Have you ever had just having.
Speaker 4: His opportunity to go out there and have that clean
Speaker 4: slate of health that he can go out there and
Speaker 4: show the potentially the potential he talking about, but to
Speaker 4: not be just potential to be his truth.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been in cloud like that Fred as
Speaker 1: a player?
Speaker 2: I did, and it had nothing to do with health.
Speaker 2: It had to do with mental health.
Speaker 1: Is everyone ever gets like there's different things.
Speaker 2: Right, different things? And uh, I had just got paid
Speaker 2: by Minnesota. I'm happy. I thought I was unto.
Speaker 3: I had to do the off the field and live
Speaker 3: in Minnesota. I realized I had made a mistake. He
Speaker 3: probably should have stayed. Yeah, but you know we was
Speaker 3: missed up under the camp at the time, so I
Speaker 3: would have had to like sacrifice to stay. But I
Speaker 3: just and I and I love Minnesota as a place,
Speaker 3: like it's a beautiful place to live, A beautiful place.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: I was depressed and didn't know it. Yeah, Like I
Speaker 3: was depressed with a smile on my face. I was
Speaker 3: basically the joker where I was laughing around everywhere. But
Speaker 3: I was like and one that I was homesick. I
Speaker 3: was just like, you know what, all money ain't good money.
Speaker 3: I was happier there. And it took me one and
Speaker 3: a half years, and I called Coach Gibbs on the
Speaker 3: phone and like I told him, I want to come back,
Speaker 3: trade me back.
Speaker 2: I want to trade go back. And when I got
Speaker 2: back here, the cloud was gone. Yeah it was that simple.
Speaker 3: So, like I said, I was a prisoner in my
Speaker 3: own man. I think I was depressed and didn't know it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that's that's thanks for sharing, man, because
Speaker 1: I had a similar express you know, sharings when I
Speaker 1: was in San France, like I was with Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 1: I was near my family. I thought I should be
Speaker 1: so happy, but I had put so much pressure on
Speaker 1: myself to be playing well, like which I think maybe
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not speaking for Chase, but that's that'd
Speaker 1: be part of what's going on with him too. So
Speaker 1: much pressure to play well that I couldn't play well.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like there was so much
Speaker 1: pressure that paralyzed yourself.
Speaker 5: Correctly understand, we got an also think too, and it free.
Speaker 4: I said, said something about this before, and I've had
Speaker 4: a chance to experience that.
Speaker 5: It's tough to play at home. Yeah, so much like
Speaker 5: when I was in Miami.
Speaker 4: And that's why I say, I thank the Lord that
Speaker 4: I was able to.
Speaker 5: Being a young man in Miami. I handled that well.
Speaker 1: Then.
Speaker 4: I handled that better than I've handled anything in my career.
Speaker 4: I was able to just say, you know what, I
Speaker 4: got to make sacrifice. My sacrifice is I'm not going out.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to go back to my neighborhood. I'm
Speaker 4: not going to do X y Z. And if I
Speaker 4: do this, I was telling myself, I do this, I
Speaker 4: should play well. And when I got that game or
Speaker 4: two under my belt where I was playing well, consistently
Speaker 4: playing making plays, I said, I'm okay, I found it.
Speaker 4: I'm not doing none of that other stuff. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: do this, do this, and do this. I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: play football and so all that stuff that we're talking about,
Speaker 4: he's shown he can play here without a doubt.
Speaker 5: I just feel like it's.
Speaker 4: Time for him to snap back, and it's time to
Speaker 4: kind of get some of that unwanted you know fog,
Speaker 4: you know, let it, let it clear a little bit,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, because we know the player
Speaker 4: he could be, but it's all about him getting out.
Speaker 3: And I think it's also you brought up putting that
Speaker 3: that self imposed pressure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's time for him to relax and
Speaker 2: just go play football and whatever happen happy.
Speaker 1: I agree, and we all wish the best for him, obviously,
Speaker 1: and we hope that it's well. So potential snap back.
Speaker 1: For me, I'm gonna go easy way. I'm gonna say health.
Speaker 1: They just want to be healthy, you know, just be
Speaker 1: healthy so we can play.
Speaker 2: For might be enough.
Speaker 1: We need. That's enough, absolutely all right. So then let's
Speaker 1: go last one here and this is we'll keep this
Speaker 1: one tight because I think we all kind of know
Speaker 1: how we feel about this guy. Is Eric beenemy, So
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot to say about the man.
Speaker 2: First thing come to my mind is Colorada Buffer.
Speaker 1: Prime coach to me, you think he's having a party.
Speaker 1: Now he's having a party.
Speaker 2: Coach Ghitt.
Speaker 3: Some people up like, we back because you got redmaed
Speaker 3: when Coach be Henman there, they was the top five team.
Speaker 1: Yeah in Colorado for the husband, Thank.
Speaker 3: You for Shaun Salom, Michael Restbrook, all these got them
Speaker 3: figures they had something to do now. But when I
Speaker 3: think of coach, he's older than you, right though, yeah,
Speaker 3: much definitely than us. But the thing is, when I
Speaker 3: think coach me, I think of ingenuity. Okay, that what
Speaker 3: he brings to the table. And he went and I said,
Speaker 3: ingenuity over game playing because he adapts and that takes
Speaker 3: great coaching, because some coaches like, it's my way out
Speaker 3: of highway, you know how some offensive coaches could be
Speaker 3: running my way.
Speaker 5: Not him.
Speaker 3: He lets the game come to him. Okay, I thought
Speaker 3: they were gonna play us cover for. They ain't playing
Speaker 3: us cover for. They manning us up. No, we're finna
Speaker 3: go to the miss technique were finela, We're finna take
Speaker 3: up the field horizontally, not very. I think that's gonna
Speaker 3: be the golden goose of where he brings to the table.
Speaker 5: But I love that.
Speaker 4: I think when I'm finish, say it kind of goes
Speaker 4: with what you're saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure us the way okay like that like that
Speaker 1: a lot there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's played, he's been in the Big Game after
Speaker 4: Super bowls, won the Big Game.
Speaker 5: He's also lost one of them. Yeah, but he knows
Speaker 5: what it takes to get there. He's here now.
Speaker 4: He's showing these guys, Hey, how the pragna be up
Speaker 4: your you know what? Because this is what it's going
Speaker 4: to take to get you to realize what's at stake.
Speaker 4: And I've been on teams like that. I haven't went
Speaker 4: to the big dance college I have, you know pros.
Speaker 4: I never I never saw it, but I knew those
Speaker 4: years that was special for us. And I remember the
Speaker 4: staff we had to run us. I remember how dow
Speaker 4: then we were, you know, when it came to the
Speaker 4: stuff that we put on the board in the classroom,
Speaker 4: and then how we were on the you know, on
Speaker 4: the practice field. So what he brings is the way
Speaker 4: he showing these guys what's going to take for us
Speaker 4: to get there.
Speaker 5: And that's what I want to see from him.
Speaker 4: I want to see him show these guys throughout the
Speaker 4: week so we can see that displayed on the field
Speaker 4: on Sundays. You know what I mean, the way the
Speaker 4: formula we need to go out there and play in
Speaker 4: the postseason to get ourselves a chance to play in
Speaker 4: the Big Dance.
Speaker 1: Yeah. For me, it's it's kind of align with what
Speaker 1: you guys are both saying. I think he's a very
Speaker 1: smart offensive mind. I think he's very innovative. I think
Speaker 1: he's very adaptable. I think he's you know, he's been there,
Speaker 1: he's done it. For me, it's the standard you see
Speaker 1: that practice, Like the standard is his standard, and his
Speaker 1: standard is prediction, everything is. And I think it's it's
Speaker 1: it's affected the entire time. Like what do you watch practice?
Speaker 1: When you watch the preseason, you say, man, this is
Speaker 1: a team that knows who they are right and knows
Speaker 1: what the standard is and they're doing everything they can
Speaker 1: to get there. And I think that is extremely valuable,
Speaker 1: you know, having you know, coach at high school like whatever,
Speaker 1: like that standard is so so important. All right, So
Speaker 1: it's gonna do it for Word Association, all right, Look,
Speaker 1: say this is it games coming up this week? Last
Speaker 1: minute details that a team's putting in kind of like
Speaker 1: what is like from the end of cut from cuts
Speaker 1: to now, like what's going on with this?
Speaker 4: Well, see, well you knew the week of the last
Speaker 4: preseason game he was already getting that game plan ready
Speaker 4: for the next I was gonna say so due to
Speaker 4: the fact that it's different from how when we played
Speaker 4: you know you was you was playing that fourth preseason
Speaker 4: game and going straight into the regular season. They got
Speaker 4: a week off now, so they've had two weeks to
Speaker 4: put in a game plan. So this week is basically this,
Speaker 4: let's perfect what we're going to run? Sure, yeah, that's
Speaker 4: that's perfect.
Speaker 5: This thing.
Speaker 4: We're gonna start off with the first their practice. We're
Speaker 4: gonna we should be. We should be running right now.
Speaker 4: We shouldn't have to be saying that we installing right now.
Speaker 5: We don't. We don't it honest all in we don't
Speaker 5: had a weekend off.
Speaker 4: That's perfect this thing because come thirsty, everything is all there.
Speaker 4: We're gonna go through our short yards. And however we
Speaker 4: do things on Thursdays. We got so Thursday like third
Speaker 4: down back when I was playing, it's a little different now.
Speaker 4: So by Thursday when we're putting that third down packages
Speaker 4: and it's stuff that you didn't you've already seen. It's
Speaker 4: nothing new to you. But for these guys who are
Speaker 4: going to be playing different roles now because it's a
Speaker 4: regular season, so it's now it's gonna be like you're
Speaker 4: not getting a rest in practice.
Speaker 5: If you're not playing, you're gonna be on the scout team,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: That's what I look at this week as being it's
Speaker 4: one of those weeks that we're gonna you know, perfect
Speaker 4: the stuff that we already put in, and let's go
Speaker 4: see who who ready to go in.
Speaker 3: I think it's uh, after the fifty three is done,
Speaker 3: you find out who your brother's gonna be on this
Speaker 3: mission is voyage we're about to go on. I think
Speaker 3: it goes yeah, yeah, it goes from Jimmy and Joels
Speaker 3: because this is what the preseason figured out.
Speaker 2: Whos gonna be the Jimmy and the Joe's.
Speaker 3: To x'es and O's all right, So now it's all
Speaker 3: about how can the office coordinator defense gonna how can
Speaker 3: I put them in a big situation to win over
Speaker 3: and over again. So with the players and the coaches,
Speaker 3: this is the first time we are on the same
Speaker 3: level because everything that's just been installed. You force feeding
Speaker 3: me stuff, force feed me, but get what we know.
Speaker 3: And we got three hundred players in the play, but
Speaker 3: we're not taking three hundred players into the game. We
Speaker 3: attacking this team because this is the DNA of this team.
Speaker 3: This is what they do well, this is what we're
Speaker 3: gonna take away. So now you're about to challenge the
Speaker 3: mental aptitude of your whole entire team.
Speaker 2: How much can you consume? How much can you re dispute?
Speaker 2: Who are you? We're about to find out. And you know,
Speaker 2: like we know, if you want to have a good year,
Speaker 2: you got to start off fast.
Speaker 3: Sure, you got to start off fast as a player,
Speaker 3: stack wise, everything you want to start off fast. And
Speaker 3: I think that's where we're at. So I'm going exits
Speaker 3: in those right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, I think telling you who
Speaker 1: laid it out really nice because like the last week
Speaker 1: of training or last week of training camp, right before
Speaker 1: the cut, they're probably doing some stuff getting ready for Arizona.
Speaker 1: They're cool thing about this schedules. They had some time off, right,
Speaker 1: you know, like get that body right, because I remember
Speaker 1: when I was playing like hurt, My body wasn't right.
Speaker 2: It hurt. You hurt from training here.
Speaker 1: Until like week sick, like five or six. You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't feel right, so it's nice to get some
Speaker 1: time off. Also, the thing about this extended by I'm
Speaker 1: always curious about is like do you put too much in?
Speaker 1: Because you've had the whole off season to look at
Speaker 1: this and say and so that's the thing I always
Speaker 1: kind of keep an eye on. It's like, as a coach,
Speaker 1: can you say, like is there too much in? Do
Speaker 1: we have enough? Those are the questions that I think
Speaker 1: are really really.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Like that Rio is over there because you got
Speaker 3: to realize what he been handed. All right, they cut
Speaker 3: come recorded the miss quarterback and play They bringing in
Speaker 3: a quarterback.
Speaker 2: They've been there like a week. Uh, we gonna find him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, wag everything we was gonna do.
Speaker 2: Blitz blitz blitz blitz blitch simple is it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right? Well so yeah, So that's kind of
Speaker 1: the last finishing touches going in the week one. So
Speaker 1: make sure you turn into the preview pod to make
Speaker 1: sure you check out our preview of the Arizona game.
Speaker 1: All right, now, guys, someone has proposed that we do
Speaker 1: a fantasy football league.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm in.
Speaker 1: Are you in?
Speaker 5: I am waiting?
Speaker 2: Are you in? Because you got a lot on your mind.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of my player. I don't know
Speaker 1: that much about fantasy football, but.
Speaker 4: Neither I'm not a big fantasy it's simple, but but
Speaker 4: I played in a few of them.
Speaker 3: All the players in the pot, and you get to
Speaker 3: pick any player and whatever.
Speaker 1: Their stats is dead, that's what we get.
Speaker 3: It'll tell you what the number you get. So I
Speaker 3: get ten points from this player, ten points for this one.
Speaker 3: But you're smart enough to know you know what, so
Speaker 3: and so it's playing the Ravens, d I'm gonna him
Speaker 3: because this guy's playing against the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: So play everybody from Washington Commanders. First week, I.
Speaker 1: Didn't realize you guys were so fired up about it,
Speaker 1: So I guess I'm in on it. I'll have Jason Johnson,
Speaker 1: our producer, be my GM.
Speaker 3: And you got to come up with a good name
Speaker 3: saying that this smooth lumber company, Why yeah, because that's
Speaker 3: what my guys in the Lady Lumber.
Speaker 1: I don't believe this guy.
Speaker 2: Find any smooth lamber company.
Speaker 3: It's so funny because when I went over there, what
Speaker 3: it was doing the fantasy thing at Phinnis Field, somebody
Speaker 3: would like, I've been using the lumbering company ever since
Speaker 3: I heard you on the radio talk.
Speaker 2: About smooth lumbers. Hey, it's lumber comany.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, so I guess we'll reveal our teams
Speaker 1: and our names. I don't know when we're gonna do this,
Speaker 1: but we'll reveal at some point, all right, all right?
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, I think that's gonna do it for
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