WEBVTT - Lots to Say: Super Bowl Champion Ryan Succop 0:00:05.496 --> 0:00:07.696 Lots to Say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle is 0:00:07.736 --> 0:00:10.656 a production of the NFL and iHeart Podcasts. 0:00:12.096 --> 0:00:17.856 We got lots, just say, we got lots to save? 0:00:20.576 --> 0:00:21.616 What is better here? 0:00:21.896 --> 0:00:25.176 And we hope you say because we got lost? Just 0:00:25.216 --> 0:00:28.336 say yeah we got lost? 0:00:28.776 --> 0:00:33.976 Just say Now here's welcome, Welcome. 0:00:34.016 --> 0:00:35.495 We did two episodes this week, so if you're just 0:00:35.496 --> 0:00:37.415 hearing this one, go back and hear the prequel. That's 0:00:37.455 --> 0:00:39.615 what we call it. Yeah, the prequel, the prequel. It's 0:00:39.616 --> 0:00:41.455 the way before jar Jar Binks. This is the one 0:00:41.455 --> 0:00:44.815 with jar Jar Binks. The sequel. Uh, that's Matt Castle. 0:00:44.815 --> 0:00:45.536 I'm Bobby Bones. 0:00:45.576 --> 0:00:46.135 Glad you're here. 0:00:46.175 --> 0:00:48.535 We are gonna talk to well, you already set him up. 0:00:48.535 --> 0:00:49.815 I don't need to set him up, so we'll just 0:00:49.855 --> 0:00:52.736 go to the interview. Now, this was awesome and it was. 0:00:52.815 --> 0:00:54.696 It was a good one. Have we had bad ones? 0:00:55.176 --> 0:00:58.656 I don't think we've We've had weird ones. Weird, but 0:00:58.696 --> 0:01:03.376 if they're only only if they're on like a not 0:01:03.496 --> 0:01:07.256 FaceTime zoom and there's like a yeah, yeah, there's a 0:01:07.296 --> 0:01:10.536 pause here and there. Yeah, okay, here we go with 0:01:10.616 --> 0:01:17.496 Ryan Sucker. All right, so this is your friend. Oh yes, 0:01:17.576 --> 0:01:21.016 he is my friend. At least in most days you 0:01:21.016 --> 0:01:21.856 can introduce him. 0:01:21.856 --> 0:01:26.296 Then, all right, today we've got Ryan suck Up, fourteen 0:01:26.496 --> 0:01:31.015 year NFL that he also is a super Bowl winning 0:01:31.216 --> 0:01:33.616 place kicker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 0:01:34.256 --> 0:01:37.456 We are teammates for six years. An extraordinary human. 0:01:37.576 --> 0:01:40.856 A great golfer, a great kicker, and we're happy to 0:01:40.896 --> 0:01:41.576 have you here today. 0:01:41.656 --> 0:01:43.056 Ryan, thanks for coming, bud. 0:01:43.136 --> 0:01:45.696 Man, that's the best Joy's ever given anybody. 0:01:46.016 --> 0:01:49.096 But I didn't even mention, Wait until you hear this voice. 0:01:49.216 --> 0:01:51.776 I mean, he could do sounds like Josh. I mean, 0:01:51.816 --> 0:01:55.896 it's it's just this beautiful voice that you could read 0:01:55.976 --> 0:01:56.696 children's books to. 0:01:56.936 --> 0:01:58.496 Y'all. Make sure my wife listens to. 0:02:00.336 --> 0:02:00.816 Do you sing? 0:02:01.536 --> 0:02:02.816 I would I would love to be able to sing. 0:02:02.856 --> 0:02:05.176 That would so when I was in Tampa, I would 0:02:05.176 --> 0:02:07.976 fly home every we'd play on Sunday, obviously I'd go 0:02:07.976 --> 0:02:10.096 to the team meeting Monday morning. I would catch at 0:02:10.096 --> 0:02:12.936 twelve o'clock Southwest flight from Nashville to Tampa every week 0:02:13.016 --> 0:02:15.016 to come see my kids, come home for a day. 0:02:15.096 --> 0:02:17.696 I'd be home twenty four hours, fly back practice, and 0:02:17.776 --> 0:02:19.856 without fail, you sit on Southwest flight and they see 0:02:19.856 --> 0:02:22.175 you going to Nashville you sit down, you're talking to 0:02:22.216 --> 0:02:24.856 somebody random, and within five minutes they'd be like, oh, man, 0:02:24.976 --> 0:02:28.376 like you, are you a singer? Yeah, gosh, I wish 0:02:28.416 --> 0:02:30.536 I cannot carry it to in at all. I wish 0:02:30.576 --> 0:02:31.016 I could, but. 0:02:31.016 --> 0:02:33.816 You only get a bass voice, like you'd be like 0:02:33.856 --> 0:02:37.336 them that morning. 0:02:37.776 --> 0:02:39.136 Well, I would need a lot of I need a 0:02:39.136 --> 0:02:39.616 lot of work. 0:02:40.136 --> 0:02:43.176 Then you went to the Super Bowl Champion with the Bucks. Yeah, 0:02:43.216 --> 0:02:45.336 who's your coach? Bruce Arians? 0:02:45.496 --> 0:02:45.616 Uh? 0:02:45.736 --> 0:02:46.736 One with Bruce Arians? 0:02:46.976 --> 0:02:48.056 Wait did you want Brady? 0:02:48.256 --> 0:02:50.976 Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Oh yeah he was there. 0:02:51.416 --> 0:02:53.175 Yeah, we're a big Brady fans. We don't like Brady's 0:02:53.216 --> 0:02:54.896 back ups around here, but we're a big Brady fans. 0:02:54.936 --> 0:02:57.696 That's true. Stay backups are a different story. But Tommy's awesome. Man. 0:02:58.056 --> 0:03:00.456 So how many years were you with the Bucks before 0:03:00.496 --> 0:03:01.016 that season? 0:03:01.136 --> 0:03:03.096 Oh seeah, that's a great question. I timed it right. 0:03:03.176 --> 0:03:05.216 So I got cut. I played for the Titans. I 0:03:05.296 --> 0:03:08.296 was just finished my sixth year with Tennessee And actually 0:03:08.336 --> 0:03:10.376 is a pretty cool story, man. I had surgery on 0:03:10.416 --> 0:03:13.896 my kicking knee that season. Just didn't come back from 0:03:13.896 --> 0:03:16.176 the surgery the way I wanted to. NFL we always 0:03:16.176 --> 0:03:17.936 say doesn't stand for National Football League. We say it 0:03:17.936 --> 0:03:19.856 stands for not for long, right, Like they're always trying 0:03:19.856 --> 0:03:21.656 to find somebody younger, somebody that can do it better 0:03:21.656 --> 0:03:24.416 than you. I get cut at the end of that season, 0:03:24.416 --> 0:03:26.216 and my wife and I she was like, gosh, I 0:03:26.216 --> 0:03:27.176 can't believe they'd cut you. 0:03:27.216 --> 0:03:27.336 Man. 0:03:27.376 --> 0:03:29.176 You've been you know, you'd had a nice run here 0:03:29.216 --> 0:03:31.176 and you get hurt one time and they move on 0:03:31.256 --> 0:03:33.656 from you. And so anyway, I got cut in the 0:03:33.776 --> 0:03:37.576 twenty nineteen season in Tennessee. Sure enough, end up in 0:03:37.616 --> 0:03:39.776 Tampa two weeks before the season started, and that's year 0:03:39.816 --> 0:03:41.856 that we won the Super Bowl. Okay, so it worked 0:03:41.856 --> 0:03:44.096 out really well. It was pretty cool out how it happened. 0:03:44.096 --> 0:03:46.136 We'll talk about that year too, because that was a 0:03:46.216 --> 0:03:47.696 year you got picked up on a one year deal 0:03:48.096 --> 0:03:49.856 and it's a make or break year for you, and 0:03:49.896 --> 0:03:51.576 you go out and you ball out right. 0:03:51.616 --> 0:03:54.616 You don't miss a field goal or a field goal. 0:03:54.576 --> 0:03:57.176 Temp or a pat during the entire playoff run and 0:03:57.256 --> 0:04:00.536 it was an incredible run. But also just talk about 0:04:00.776 --> 0:04:02.816 the pressures going into that season knowing, hey, I got 0:04:02.816 --> 0:04:03.616 to go out and perform. 0:04:04.016 --> 0:04:06.656 Yeah, it was that that was certainly was pressure cast 0:04:06.736 --> 0:04:08.296 for sure, and you know how that is in the NFL, 0:04:08.296 --> 0:04:09.896 when you're on a one year deal, it's approve it 0:04:09.976 --> 0:04:12.936 year for you. You want to keep playing. But I tell 0:04:12.936 --> 0:04:14.776 you what was kind of unique about that year was 0:04:15.616 --> 0:04:17.016 when I before I signed there, I was even a 0:04:17.015 --> 0:04:18.815 little nervous about signing because I was like, man, like, 0:04:19.015 --> 0:04:20.695 I hope I'm healthy. You kind of have you kind 0:04:20.695 --> 0:04:22.215 of play that game where you have some doubts and 0:04:22.255 --> 0:04:24.176 you're like, man, I think I'm recovered, but I haven't 0:04:24.215 --> 0:04:27.295 done this in six months. Like and with Tom and 0:04:27.416 --> 0:04:30.216 that team, all the games were primetime games. You were 0:04:30.215 --> 0:04:33.376 always on the national spotlight, and so it kind of 0:04:33.455 --> 0:04:34.936 it kind of made you better because it was like 0:04:35.255 --> 0:04:37.616 you were the pressure of it. I think guys, some 0:04:37.655 --> 0:04:40.095 guys either you know, you can go one or do 0:04:40.135 --> 0:04:42.255 one or two things when pressure happens. And for me, 0:04:42.296 --> 0:04:45.695 I think it really helped just increase my focus. I 0:04:45.736 --> 0:04:46.936 did not want to be the guy. Like I saw 0:04:46.976 --> 0:04:48.455 the way that Tom was working. I saw the way 0:04:48.496 --> 0:04:50.376 that he was practicing every day, and it was kind 0:04:50.376 --> 0:04:51.496 of like your dad, You're like, you don't want to 0:04:51.496 --> 0:04:54.456 disappoint your dad's That was kind of how I took it, 0:04:54.496 --> 0:04:56.496 and I was like this guy's busting his tail, like 0:04:56.536 --> 0:04:58.655 I don't want to be the reason that we don't 0:04:58.695 --> 0:05:00.815 win a game. And so for me, man, it was 0:05:00.856 --> 0:05:03.376 a blessing. Had a great season. Obviously, the team had 0:05:03.376 --> 0:05:05.096 an amazing year, and that was really special to be 0:05:05.096 --> 0:05:05.775 a part that year. 0:05:06.176 --> 0:05:07.615 When did you two start to play together? 0:05:08.296 --> 0:05:10.135 Actually it was my first year in Kansas City and 0:05:10.176 --> 0:05:12.695 it was your first year in the league. You got 0:05:12.775 --> 0:05:16.416 drafted by Kansas City that year as mister irrelevant. Yeah, 0:05:16.455 --> 0:05:18.295 talk to us a little bit about being mis irrelevant, 0:05:18.335 --> 0:05:20.176 because it's a pretty big deal. Did you understand what 0:05:20.176 --> 0:05:21.695 that meant when you got drafted. 0:05:23.775 --> 0:05:26.015 I didn't know anything about it when I got drafted. 0:05:26.096 --> 0:05:28.295 Then within like ten minutes I learned a lot about it. 0:05:28.335 --> 0:05:30.335 So they obviously was I was the very last pick 0:05:30.335 --> 0:05:32.575 of the seventh round. Mister irrelevant had to you know, 0:05:33.096 --> 0:05:35.015 very last got picked. Well, they have a whole week 0:05:35.135 --> 0:05:37.975 for you to celebrate you out in Newport Beach, California, 0:05:37.976 --> 0:05:41.215 out by you know, your nods cast. And what I 0:05:41.296 --> 0:05:44.335 learned about it is that they actually, I say celebrate you, 0:05:44.376 --> 0:05:48.096 it's really the kind of roast you and toastia. And 0:05:47.335 --> 0:05:51.296 the problem is that I'm already a placekicker my last 0:05:51.335 --> 0:05:53.936 name suck up like they didn't need any more ammunition, 0:05:53.976 --> 0:05:57.376 and I'm just like giving them layups and so anyway, 0:05:57.416 --> 0:05:59.095 I mean, it was an awesome week. It was an 0:05:59.135 --> 0:06:02.056 embarrassing week. They have a parade for you out at 0:06:02.296 --> 0:06:04.856 the Newport Beach Yacht Club. You'll like this story. Cast. 0:06:04.895 --> 0:06:07.736 I don't know how much time we have, but I'm 0:06:07.775 --> 0:06:09.975 right out. So I literally they have the whole town 0:06:09.976 --> 0:06:12.256 a Newport Beach gets behind this thing, and so I'm 0:06:12.296 --> 0:06:14.096 sitting on a They're like, Hey, we're going to take 0:06:14.135 --> 0:06:16.815 you down to the Balboa Yacht Club and we're going 0:06:16.895 --> 0:06:18.735 to bring you in on a boat, and everybody's waiting 0:06:18.736 --> 0:06:20.336 for you at the beach. I'm like, this is awesome, 0:06:20.536 --> 0:06:23.015 Like I love this NFL thing. Well, what I don't 0:06:23.056 --> 0:06:26.135 know is that we're walking past all these like beautiful yachts, 0:06:26.176 --> 0:06:28.336 these beautiful sailboats, and we keep walking past them. I'm like, 0:06:28.416 --> 0:06:30.255 which one are we getting on? And we and we 0:06:30.575 --> 0:06:32.015 pass all of them and we go out to the 0:06:32.096 --> 0:06:34.416 end of the dock and I see this little dude 0:06:34.496 --> 0:06:38.176 in a little canoe with a like five horsepower Johnson 0:06:38.255 --> 0:06:40.456 handheld engine on the back of it, and I hear 0:06:40.536 --> 0:06:43.575 him coming around the yacht club and kind of like 0:06:43.616 --> 0:06:45.575 that right, And I'm like, wait, I'm getting on that, 0:06:45.616 --> 0:06:47.936 aren't I. And they're like, that's that's yours. And so 0:06:48.015 --> 0:06:50.975 because I was drafted by the Chiefs, they say, hey, canoe, 0:06:51.376 --> 0:06:53.136 I had to. You probably couldn't do this nowadays. I 0:06:53.176 --> 0:06:55.455 had the headdress on the whole thing, and that was 0:06:55.455 --> 0:06:58.536 my grand entrance into the end of the beach and 0:06:58.575 --> 0:07:00.456 there's like a thousand people there and here I am 0:07:00.455 --> 0:07:02.056 coming up into the beach in a canoe. It was 0:07:02.056 --> 0:07:02.775 really embarrassing. 0:07:02.936 --> 0:07:04.496 But do you have to go to that? 0:07:04.895 --> 0:07:06.896 You have to go. It's mandated by the league. So 0:07:06.895 --> 0:07:09.656 if you're mister yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, it's 0:07:09.655 --> 0:07:11.496 put on by the league. And I remember that. I 0:07:11.496 --> 0:07:14.456 remember like going into Todd Haley's office and I'm like hey, 0:07:14.536 --> 0:07:17.696 like because it's during OTA's and I'm like the low man. 0:07:17.736 --> 0:07:20.056 I mean, I'm literally I'm the last pick of the 0:07:20.056 --> 0:07:22.615 seventh round. There's already another kicker there, Like I'm scrapping 0:07:22.616 --> 0:07:24.216 in clawing. It's no guarantee that I'm going to make 0:07:24.256 --> 0:07:26.696 the team. And I'm like, hey, like, I know you're 0:07:26.736 --> 0:07:28.655 probably aware of this, Like I'm not going to be 0:07:28.696 --> 0:07:30.096 here next week because I got to go to a 0:07:30.176 --> 0:07:32.215 relevant week and that's like not the thing that you 0:07:32.256 --> 0:07:36.616 really want to go, imagine Todd. Yeah, I didn't really 0:07:36.616 --> 0:07:38.296 want to go. Tell my head coach that, but thankfully, 0:07:38.456 --> 0:07:40.616 like he's like, no, we know, it's it's mandated by 0:07:40.616 --> 0:07:42.296 the league. You got to do it, like have fun, 0:07:42.336 --> 0:07:44.936 and it was. It was interesting, it was a good week. 0:07:45.056 --> 0:07:47.656 I can't believe. That feels like there's that you get, 0:07:47.655 --> 0:07:49.736 like a golden raspberry or whatever that thing is in 0:07:49.776 --> 0:07:52.136 Hollywood if your movie sucks and sometimes they go and 0:07:52.176 --> 0:07:54.735 sometimes they don't. If you're I figure that was like that, 0:07:54.856 --> 0:07:57.056 like if you had the extra time and you were near, 0:07:57.376 --> 0:08:00.016 you just swung by. I can't believe the league makes 0:08:00.056 --> 0:08:00.336 you go. 0:08:00.536 --> 0:08:02.216 It's mandated by the league. You gotta go. 0:08:02.336 --> 0:08:04.696 So would you've just rather not been drafted? Not about 0:08:04.736 --> 0:08:07.855 mister Irelan and that and that whole the pageantry of 0:08:07.856 --> 0:08:10.496 that amazing event, but would you have rather not been 0:08:10.576 --> 0:08:13.136 drafted in general so you could have picked your spot? 0:08:13.296 --> 0:08:15.816 Okay, great question, So there's an argument to being made 0:08:15.816 --> 0:08:18.496 for that. And I actually remember kind of as the 0:08:18.576 --> 0:08:20.616 later round, like in the as the seventh round was 0:08:20.655 --> 0:08:22.416 going on. I had teams call and like, hey, we're 0:08:22.416 --> 0:08:24.016 probably not gonna draft you, but we want to sign 0:08:24.016 --> 0:08:26.415 you as an undrafted free agent. And I remember like 0:08:26.536 --> 0:08:28.176 being kind of nervous because'm like, man, I've got three 0:08:28.215 --> 0:08:29.855 or four teams that are all good options. I don't 0:08:29.896 --> 0:08:31.696 really know what I'm doing. I got to make a decision. 0:08:31.976 --> 0:08:33.416 So for me, it was kind of a relief when 0:08:33.416 --> 0:08:34.656 they called because it was like, all right, I don't 0:08:34.655 --> 0:08:37.336 have to make the decision, which was great, and it 0:08:37.496 --> 0:08:38.975 really did work out. I mean it was it was 0:08:39.016 --> 0:08:40.896 a great opportunity. I never would have met this guy 0:08:40.935 --> 0:08:43.175 over here if I didn't didn't end up in Kansas City. 0:08:44.216 --> 0:08:45.815 And more than that, I think it was it was 0:08:45.896 --> 0:08:48.696 kind of neat because whether you really are an underdog 0:08:48.776 --> 0:08:50.816 or not, Like I feel like America loves the underdog, 0:08:51.096 --> 0:08:53.016 and so anytime they hear the name like mister irrelevant, 0:08:53.016 --> 0:08:54.535 people are kind of like, oh this guy, you know, 0:08:54.655 --> 0:08:55.896 they kind of want to cheer, they kind of want 0:08:55.896 --> 0:08:57.496 to pull for the underdog. So it was it was 0:08:57.496 --> 0:09:01.295 a cool experience and uh, something that I'm really I'm 0:09:01.295 --> 0:09:01.896 grateful for it. 0:09:01.896 --> 0:09:04.175 It was cool of those teams that called because as 0:09:04.175 --> 0:09:06.896 a kicker. I'm sure that you're looking and evaluating everything, 0:09:06.935 --> 0:09:10.055 including environment because Kansas City gets cold. Yeah, right, it's 0:09:10.136 --> 0:09:13.216 windy all the time. It gets cold later in the year. 0:09:13.736 --> 0:09:16.016 Was that something that would have factored in your decision 0:09:16.415 --> 0:09:18.816 for going somewhere else as a free agent? 0:09:19.136 --> 0:09:21.175 Don't? Yeah, hell yeah, give me a don't. 0:09:21.216 --> 0:09:24.816 Yeah. Domes are nice. Yeah, I think it would have. 0:09:25.096 --> 0:09:27.055 At the same time, I was also looking at it, like, hey, 0:09:27.055 --> 0:09:28.736 where do I have the best chance to make the team. 0:09:28.736 --> 0:09:30.896 You're kind of looking, Hey, you're kind of sizing up, Hey, 0:09:31.055 --> 0:09:34.576 who what's their kicker kicking situation look like? And you 0:09:34.696 --> 0:09:36.896 don't really know because you're a college kid. You're twenty one, 0:09:36.976 --> 0:09:39.256 twenty two years old, and you're kind of trying to 0:09:39.496 --> 0:09:41.655 guess it the best you can. But yeah, I mean, 0:09:41.655 --> 0:09:43.336 I think if you sometimes there's an argument to be 0:09:43.336 --> 0:09:45.175 made if you're undrafted, you kind of have that decision 0:09:45.216 --> 0:09:47.416 and maybe you can go somewhere that's a better fit 0:09:47.496 --> 0:09:47.696 for you. 0:09:48.055 --> 0:09:51.656 We think of kickers unfairly as the least athletic person 0:09:51.776 --> 0:09:54.776 on the team, but most kickers that I know were 0:09:54.816 --> 0:09:57.655 like dominant athletes until they got to college and they 0:09:57.655 --> 0:10:00.295 had to just focus on kicking. Well, were your senior 0:10:00.336 --> 0:10:02.016 year of high school and you play football? What position 0:10:02.055 --> 0:10:02.576 did you play? 0:10:02.896 --> 0:10:04.055 Yeah? So I only kicked. 0:10:04.376 --> 0:10:07.415 No way tak talk about when the coach came back 0:10:07.736 --> 0:10:09.136 and got you and you cause you weren't going to 0:10:09.175 --> 0:10:10.136 play football, right yeah? 0:10:10.216 --> 0:10:12.856 OK, soccer so fair enough. So I uh. People they're 0:10:12.856 --> 0:10:14.896 always like, hey, how did you get into football? And honestly, 0:10:14.976 --> 0:10:17.736 I I played everything so football. So I played growing up. 0:10:17.776 --> 0:10:20.896 I loved h I played basketball, I played baseball, I 0:10:20.935 --> 0:10:22.976 played soccer, and I played golf and those are kind 0:10:23.016 --> 0:10:25.616 of sports I loved. And my freshman year of high school, 0:10:25.655 --> 0:10:27.896 I was in North Guy. I grew up in North 0:10:27.896 --> 0:10:30.336 Carolina and football and soccer were both in the fall, 0:10:30.736 --> 0:10:33.016 and so I'm trying out for the soccer team and I'm, 0:10:33.376 --> 0:10:35.216 you know whatever, I'm gonna make the soccer team, and 0:10:35.415 --> 0:10:37.376 soccer coaches like all summer, he's like, man, you got 0:10:37.376 --> 0:10:39.016 to go kick for the football team, and I kept 0:10:39.016 --> 0:10:40.655 telling him no. I was like, look I'm not. I said, look, 0:10:40.655 --> 0:10:42.656 I'm playing soccer now, I'm gonna play basketball in the winter, 0:10:42.935 --> 0:10:44.575 and then I've got baseball and golf in the spring. 0:10:44.616 --> 0:10:46.776 But you were a super athlete, oh, stud Well, I 0:10:47.096 --> 0:10:49.256 don't know about that, but I I loved playing sports. 0:10:49.256 --> 0:10:50.936 I don't know how good I was, but I loved 0:10:50.976 --> 0:10:54.336 playing and and finally, the week of the first game, 0:10:54.376 --> 0:10:56.256 he made me go to the first football practice. So 0:10:56.295 --> 0:10:57.856 one of my first fotball practice was the week of 0:10:57.935 --> 0:11:00.655 the first game. Yes, I went to my first practice 0:11:00.696 --> 0:11:04.096 on Tuesday, and they were like, hey, this looks great. 0:11:04.096 --> 0:11:06.815 And I had never played football before. I had kind 0:11:06.816 --> 0:11:08.376 of messed around doing it with my friends, like in 0:11:08.415 --> 0:11:10.056 the backyard, so I kind of knew what I was doing. 0:11:10.496 --> 0:11:12.456 And I'll never forget. We had a soccer game Wednesday, 0:11:12.496 --> 0:11:14.616 We had soccer game Thursday. I go to the football 0:11:14.616 --> 0:11:16.295 game Friday. We played at East Burke. It was an 0:11:16.295 --> 0:11:18.215 away game. I get to my locker like two hours 0:11:18.256 --> 0:11:20.216 before the game. I have no idea that this is 0:11:20.216 --> 0:11:21.935 when you had to wear the girdle with the hip pads, 0:11:21.976 --> 0:11:24.655 the butt pads, the thip. I literally am like asking 0:11:24.696 --> 0:11:26.616 one of my buddies, I'm dudeyeh, where's all this go? 0:11:26.816 --> 0:11:32.136 Like I've never done that? And uh we won that 0:11:32.175 --> 0:11:34.016 game seven nothing. I had one extra point and that's 0:11:34.055 --> 0:11:35.376 how we It's how we got into it. 0:11:35.456 --> 0:11:37.415 You never practiced until the first week of the first game. 0:11:37.456 --> 0:11:38.536 That was the first time went to football. 0:11:38.535 --> 0:11:39.776 Was it weird to kick that shape? 0:11:40.616 --> 0:11:41.216 Not really? 0:11:41.256 --> 0:11:41.336 Like? 0:11:41.456 --> 0:11:43.816 Uh, I think soccer definitely helped. Having a soccer background 0:11:44.616 --> 0:11:45.936 kind of. I would mess around and do it on 0:11:45.976 --> 0:11:47.576 the side with friends and that type of thing. But 0:11:47.616 --> 0:11:50.496 I had like absolutely not done it any uh at 0:11:50.496 --> 0:11:53.256 any like organized level. So that's how it fell into it. 0:11:53.295 --> 0:11:56.336 So you played soccer that entire season while football season's 0:11:56.336 --> 0:11:58.376 going on. You just basically went to a practice or 0:11:58.376 --> 0:12:00.336 so and then went out and played on the weekends. 0:12:00.856 --> 0:12:01.536 On Friday nights. 0:12:01.616 --> 0:12:03.336 Yeah, I would go to if I was lucky, I 0:12:03.336 --> 0:12:04.936 would get like one FOOTBA practice a week because we'd 0:12:04.976 --> 0:12:07.695 have soccer game Mondays and Wednesdays awesome, So usually I 0:12:08.096 --> 0:12:10.415 usually I'd go to the Tuesday football practice and that 0:12:10.535 --> 0:12:11.976 was and then I choke on Fridays. 0:12:12.175 --> 0:12:15.136 When did you become really good your senior year to 0:12:15.175 --> 0:12:16.975 where you thought and maybe you never knew because you 0:12:16.976 --> 0:12:18.976 didn't play enough to know actually what was really good? 0:12:19.136 --> 0:12:20.535 Because I like you'd been right a bunch of other 0:12:20.616 --> 0:12:22.976 football kickers. When did it start to happen where people 0:12:23.016 --> 0:12:25.136 were going, hey, you're good enough to actually play outside 0:12:25.175 --> 0:12:25.816 of high school? 0:12:26.655 --> 0:12:30.096 Honestly, probably after like my freshman year, I think I 0:12:30.256 --> 0:12:32.616 kind of I kind of realized, like, hey, God's kind 0:12:32.616 --> 0:12:34.335 of given me a little gift to do this, and 0:12:34.776 --> 0:12:37.616 maybe I should, you know, really try to refine this 0:12:37.696 --> 0:12:39.216 and perfect this a little bit. And I think I 0:12:39.216 --> 0:12:41.136 started going to maybe a camp or two that guy 0:12:41.136 --> 0:12:43.016 after my freshman year, went to a couple of camps 0:12:43.055 --> 0:12:44.455 and kind of thought, Okay, if I know, if I 0:12:44.496 --> 0:12:46.096 work at this, maybe I could be pretty good at it. 0:12:46.136 --> 0:12:47.456 So I would say that was. 0:12:47.415 --> 0:12:49.656 When I kind of realized was there ever a decision 0:12:49.696 --> 0:12:52.856 to be made to continue to play soccer? 0:12:52.976 --> 0:12:54.816 Because you were an All state soccer player for what 0:12:54.856 --> 0:12:55.376 three years? 0:12:55.655 --> 0:12:58.376 Yeah, you were a really good a really good soccer player, 0:12:58.496 --> 0:13:00.576 not just like a guy that went out and I'm 0:13:00.616 --> 0:13:02.256 good at soccer. I'm not great, but he was a 0:13:02.256 --> 0:13:04.576 great soccer player. Were you getting recruited for soccer as well? 0:13:05.415 --> 0:13:07.416 Yea, I had some I had some chances to play 0:13:07.415 --> 0:13:12.216 soccer in college, and I I was I could have 0:13:12.216 --> 0:13:14.575 played some more small for soccer, but probably not uh 0:13:14.856 --> 0:13:16.976 definitely not football. But the one that the one that 0:13:17.016 --> 0:13:19.416 haunts me is I love to play golf, and I 0:13:19.456 --> 0:13:22.536 had some chances to play college golf, and even like 0:13:22.535 --> 0:13:23.856 my first couple of years out of the league, I'd 0:13:23.856 --> 0:13:25.816 be would we would go back to Charleston, South Carolina 0:13:25.856 --> 0:13:27.496 the off season and we didn't have kids yet, and 0:13:27.496 --> 0:13:29.136 I'd be playing golf four or five days a week, 0:13:29.456 --> 0:13:31.696 and would I would start being like, man, I wonder 0:13:31.736 --> 0:13:33.056 if I should have done this? And my wife would 0:13:33.096 --> 0:13:35.215 sit me down and like, Ryan, don't you think about it. 0:13:35.376 --> 0:13:37.776 But there you were in the NFL. You are not 0:13:37.816 --> 0:13:40.055 going to go try to be a golfer. And uh, 0:13:40.295 --> 0:13:41.976 but that's the one that I always look back on 0:13:42.016 --> 0:13:44.096 because I just it's probably because I just love the 0:13:44.096 --> 0:13:46.896 game so much, but that's the one I always look back. 0:13:46.736 --> 0:13:48.655 On in wonder were you a soccer Were we a striker? 0:13:49.016 --> 0:13:51.136 I played center mid? Yeah, I played center miding forward. 0:13:50.896 --> 0:13:52.856 In soccer, So you were also kicking the ball ye 0:13:52.816 --> 0:13:56.576 oh yeah yeah, yeah, that's wild. Yeah, that football just 0:13:56.655 --> 0:13:59.976 kind of happened, yep, and then it became your thing. 0:14:00.016 --> 0:14:01.296 I think a j. R. Smith though, like you know, 0:14:01.336 --> 0:14:03.376 he played in the NBA, then went back and played 0:14:03.376 --> 0:14:06.336 college golf. Yeah, like at like thirty five years old. Yeah, 0:14:06.856 --> 0:14:09.736 when you walked in, most people don't notice that the 0:14:09.816 --> 0:14:11.816 set that we shoot this on is actually a big 0:14:11.816 --> 0:14:14.936 golf simulator and there's a huge screen behind us, and 0:14:14.976 --> 0:14:16.655 it just actually turned into a really cool place that 0:14:16.655 --> 0:14:19.296 we could shoot the show. And you said it almost immediately, 0:14:19.296 --> 0:14:20.976 and I was like, oh, you must play golf a 0:14:20.976 --> 0:14:23.376 lot and was asking him, then you start a good 0:14:23.456 --> 0:14:25.776 golfer like doesn't want to say he's good. That's like 0:14:25.816 --> 0:14:29.056 the joke, right if anybody's ever like, I'm good at golf, 0:14:29.096 --> 0:14:30.776 he's not. Yeah, I know they're not good at golf 0:14:30.776 --> 0:14:33.256 if they say they're good at golf. But you kind of, 0:14:33.536 --> 0:14:35.696 you know, hemmed and had about it. What's what is? 0:14:35.856 --> 0:14:36.656 What's your handicap? 0:14:36.976 --> 0:14:39.896 Oh Man? Probably about a plus two and a half 0:14:39.936 --> 0:14:40.176 right now? 0:14:40.216 --> 0:14:41.976 Yeah, plus plus two and a half. 0:14:42.296 --> 0:14:45.216 And he just got he just got a coach to 0:14:45.296 --> 0:14:47.696 help him refine his swing at a plus two and 0:14:47.736 --> 0:14:48.456 a half to find what. 0:14:48.816 --> 0:14:52.736 Yeah, exactly so interesting enough, you said, j R. Smith 0:14:52.776 --> 0:14:54.095 just a minute ago, and actually I think it's this 0:14:54.176 --> 0:14:56.856 hat I'm wearing. In the past year, there's a group 0:14:56.856 --> 0:15:00.136 that's gotten together and they have started a a golf 0:15:00.176 --> 0:15:03.256 tour for current and former professional athletes. So we've had 0:15:03.296 --> 0:15:07.696 three tournaments so far, roughly twenty five NBA Guys, twenty 0:15:07.736 --> 0:15:11.215 five NHL, twenty five MLB, and twenty five NFL and 0:15:11.336 --> 0:15:13.176 j R. Smith is one of the guys that plays, 0:15:13.216 --> 0:15:15.976 and it's been really cool. We're at this coming up 0:15:15.976 --> 0:15:19.176 in twenty six We're gonna have a full tour six events. Uh, 0:15:19.416 --> 0:15:22.216 if you play well enough on you know, in the events, 0:15:22.256 --> 0:15:24.136 you are high enough on the money list, you'll qualify 0:15:24.176 --> 0:15:26.136 for a seventh event and then an eighth final event. 0:15:26.176 --> 0:15:29.136 So it's gonna be like a true tour. And guys 0:15:29.136 --> 0:15:31.496 like JR. That are really good players, we're all kind 0:15:31.536 --> 0:15:33.056 of grinding and that's where I'm at. I've played in a. 0:15:33.016 --> 0:15:34.416 Couple of dream Come True's. 0:15:34.576 --> 0:15:36.416 Dream Come True. Man, I'm so fired up about it, 0:15:36.416 --> 0:15:38.776 and there's guys like I love to play, but there's 0:15:38.816 --> 0:15:40.416