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Speaker 1: in all my life. Hello, welcome to another additional club,

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Speaker 1: Sha Shay. I am your whole. Shannon Sharp also the

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Speaker 1: He's a four time Pro Bowl Offensive Rookie of the

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Speaker 1: Year in nineteen ninety nine, led the league in rushing

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Speaker 1: two consecutive years nineteen ninety nine and two thousand, two thousand,

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Speaker 1: Mister doodd all the edge Edgwan j Man, I'm good.

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Speaker 1: You know I'm good. Always You're always good, always good.

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Speaker 1: I've never I've never not seen you with a smile

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Speaker 1: Life would be really good. I mean when you overcome,

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Speaker 1: be good. Yeah, thanks for stopping by the day. Let's

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Speaker 1: go back because I thought you had a very your

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame speech. Congratulations on making that. Yeah, I appreciate.

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Speaker 1: I think you three fifty four six three three six, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what really stands out when you see

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Speaker 1: when you started playing for did you always know you

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Speaker 1: and I can change my families. Oh, I can change

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Speaker 1: From my you from Miami? Right? No, I market it's

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Speaker 1: you get drafted by the Cold's fourth overall, you hold out,

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00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:45,960
Speaker 1: but you finally get that get the pay day. It

422
00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,120
Speaker 1: wasn't a direct depositive back then. They see you that check,

423
00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,040
Speaker 1: you get that chicken. You look at that check, You're like, oh,

424
00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,040
Speaker 1: what was going What was the first thing they went

425
00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,159
Speaker 1: through your mind when you saw that check. But me,

426
00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,760
Speaker 1: you know, like you let you let you first of all,

427
00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,159
Speaker 1: you go And I only look at the chack for

428
00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,199
Speaker 1: like three folks seconds because like, man, I was like

429
00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:04,880
Speaker 1: I had to secure the bag, you know what I'm saying,

430
00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:08,080
Speaker 1: Like it was secured. So when it's like, man, okay, yeah,

431
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,280
Speaker 1: I got this part right here. So I just glanced

432
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,159
Speaker 1: glanced that and I handed. But I wanted to go

433
00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,800
Speaker 1: to practice, you know. It was like I wanted to

434
00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,760
Speaker 1: get out there and show you, like, man, like what

435
00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:18,800
Speaker 1: you gave me this much? Like no, like I'm for real,

436
00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,640
Speaker 1: I'm for real, I'm really that deal. Like but it's

437
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,480
Speaker 1: like because you you know, you're going through the things

438
00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,800
Speaker 1: where you're getting questioned, like they're like why they got

439
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 1: this guy? And we don't really know this guy. And

440
00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:32,600
Speaker 1: so a lot of people questioning the draft, and so

441
00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,800
Speaker 1: for me, it was just like, man, I can't wait

442
00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:36,440
Speaker 1: to get out of hands. Just show them what I'm

443
00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,480
Speaker 1: capable of doing. So when I get to check, I

444
00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,320
Speaker 1: handed to our people and I said, man, I'm ready

445
00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:42,600
Speaker 1: to go. I just get right to practice. Then you

446
00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:44,560
Speaker 1: had to. You had a too, You said, okay, let's

447
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,320
Speaker 1: go to practice. Man, that is look at all this

448
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,440
Speaker 1: zero that's mine. I ain't gonna worry about that. Man,

449
00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,960
Speaker 1: I'm going to get the other stuff, you know, like

450
00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,800
Speaker 1: that's already mine. Trying to get another bag now, yeah,

451
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,280
Speaker 1: that was secured. That's a man. I don't look at nothing,

452
00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,200
Speaker 1: old man like that's there, you know. Like, but now

453
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:06,520
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get out here so I can go

454
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 1: out there and represent. Okay and show you like, man,

455
00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 1: y'all gonna see that the AD is the real deal,

456
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,720
Speaker 1: you know. And it didn't take loan for that to happen.

457
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,879
Speaker 1: What was the first thing that you bought? Man, I

458
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,919
Speaker 1: don't even know. Man, I still my first surge. Did

459
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:22,720
Speaker 1: you spurge you on anything? You ain't getting to roll it?

460
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,040
Speaker 1: You ain't getting No, you ain't getting no, dun, you

461
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,119
Speaker 1: ain't getting no. You ain't getting no beans. You you

462
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,439
Speaker 1: ain't buy nothing. I don't know, I really, man, I

463
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 1: take care of my family. Mentioned about mom on the straight,

464
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,639
Speaker 1: but I ain't. My first year, I still lived with me.

465
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,399
Speaker 1: I still live in my college. I'm still in my

466
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:41,080
Speaker 1: college apartment with my arm with the roommate because I ain't. Now,

467
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 1: I wasn't even tripping. My thing was just to get

468
00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,440
Speaker 1: some money. You know, That's that's the main thing. Hey. Yeah,

469
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 1: everybody el would talk to say you cheat. It ain't cheap.

470
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,520
Speaker 1: I'm smart, but they usually be the one to say

471
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:57,639
Speaker 1: you're cheap. Then the one hey be like It's like,

472
00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,760
Speaker 1: I ain't never asked nobody for nothing. Kids ain't never

473
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 1: ask nobody for nothing. All our stuff nice. I got

474
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,119
Speaker 1: all the nice things that everybody else got. I just

475
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,679
Speaker 1: do mind a different way, right. I got the roads, roys,

476
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,200
Speaker 1: got the ball league, got the boat, got a bunch

477
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,680
Speaker 1: of properties. But I just do it different. You know.

478
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,159
Speaker 1: It's like they think you. They think it's cool to

479
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,200
Speaker 1: go out and spend thirty thousand at the club strip.

480
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,880
Speaker 1: Come on, man, for real, Yeah, but I'm cheap because

481
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:27,640
Speaker 1: I won't go spend thirty thousand, Like yeah, like nah,

482
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 1: making hel though for him? You know, I got a

483
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 1: couple of cars. I ain't. I can't make it rain

484
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 1: like they do. Na, I'm not gonna tell him to

485
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 1: stop doing it because what I did I entered the

486
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 1: club business. So right, come over that thirty thousands. Come

487
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 1: on with that same thirty thousand, that same intensive show

488
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: me you ain't cheap that I want to see, show

489
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 1: me you ain't cheap. I don't want to hear that.

490
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,320
Speaker 1: A can you cut the price? No, I'm the cheap one. Remember, man,

491
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you. Your first sign of bonus you

492
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 1: bought to run down build in a drug area and

493
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 1: Amokey marcha Machaly and turn them into summer together for

494
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,680
Speaker 1: local kids. Then you had a fun house, big spreen,

495
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: video game, food, table cards, kitchen. Made you do that.

496
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's appropriate, you know, the things you're

497
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 1: supposed to do. You know, it's like that's your way

498
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,119
Speaker 1: of really giving back and helping and showing you know

499
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 1: you can, show you can. You can have a lot

500
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,640
Speaker 1: of people by making one move. One move can can

501
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 1: change the structure of so many other kids life. Like

502
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,360
Speaker 1: right now, from a Marcha le Mark leg We got

503
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: four guys that's in the NFL right now, and those

504
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,719
Speaker 1: same four guys used to come to that same building

505
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: right that we opened up and that we had around

506
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 1: and it was actually pretty cool to actually see that,

507
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 1: you know, there was a part of it. And then

508
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 1: you're showing them what they could do. You're showing them like, look, man,

509
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 1: when it's your turn, make sure you follow something back. Yeah,

510
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,679
Speaker 1: it's it's it's always can see when you can actually

511
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,680
Speaker 1: see somebody from your area do something. Possibly go to

512
00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 1: the NFL and go to the NBA or either I

513
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,359
Speaker 1: mean a law, your doctor, special athlete because you know,

514
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: young black kids, a lot of us were aspire to

515
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 1: be athlete. Hey, that's that's how we see our take

516
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,879
Speaker 1: it out. And to see Edger and James hold On

517
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: from there, well he got out, I can get out

518
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: because that's how I looked at my brother. My brother

519
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,880
Speaker 1: went to college. Well, I played with him, I beat

520
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 1: him sometimes one on one. I can go to college.

521
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: He went to the n hold On he went. He

522
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 1: ain't the same food I eight. He got rained on

523
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 1: in the same house I did. I can too exactly.

524
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 1: And that that's but that's what it's about, Like you

525
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 1: showing them that it's possible, and that's part of them,

526
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,880
Speaker 1: that's part of my whole m O. Man, Like, look,

527
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come across as normal and I'm gonna do

528
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 1: all the same things y'all do. So I'm showing you

529
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: that it's possible. Right now, you got to dig into

530
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,400
Speaker 1: it a little bit more to say, Okay, what separated

531
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 1: me from them? Right, And that's when that discipline, that

532
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: hard work, and that really knowing what it's gonna take

533
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: or doing what it's gonna take to get there. You

534
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 1: mentioned about the fun house that you established in your

535
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,959
Speaker 1: hometown and you said there there were four little kid

536
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 1: kids that later became NFL players. You know, they're that

537
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 1: you got digits and not You got McKenzie Alexander, you

538
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: got the Ernest Johnson that played for the keep Cleveland Browns, huh.

539
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: And then you got the Pro bowlers JC that played

540
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: for New England Patriots, you know. And all four of

541
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,239
Speaker 1: those kids, they they used to be around there, all

542
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,880
Speaker 1: out of mark Lea. And that's what that's what it's about.

543
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 1: You know, the burden have kids that's in the community

544
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 1: that actually see you do what you do, and they

545
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: following those footsteps, so they refer to you as oncome

546
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,639
Speaker 1: I got I got a million names. I got a

547
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: million names for them, like like they actually make you

548
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: feel old, like they really them the ones that make

549
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 1: you feel oh you like and then you go back,

550
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: you go through some of the pictures, right, and you

551
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: see the kids out there doing what they were doing,

552
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: and it's like, dang, Like I'm like, I've really been

553
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 1: around a long time and like like to see JC

554
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 1: go to the Pro Bowl or you know, like you're like, man,

555
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: I watched this kid from birth right, you know. But

556
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a good feeling to know that you

557
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: got people coming from your area that you inspired your

558
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: rookie season fifteen hundred and fifty three yards Rookie of

559
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: the Year. Next year, you followed it up with over

560
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: seventeen hundred yards another All Pro. You get off to

561
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,640
Speaker 1: the start that you got off, You're like, were you thinking,

562
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: damn this eat man? It might be either than you.

563
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: It was. Man, It's like like, I don't I think

564
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 1: me personally, I came. It came down the sport, But

565
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: I think for me a lot of time, I was

566
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,120
Speaker 1: like Man, the NFL is overrated, you know, I thought

567
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 1: it was. I felt like it was overrated because you're

568
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty two years old. And then I got

569
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: this dude in the locker room that's thirty thirty one

570
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: thirty two, right, I know he can't keep up with me,

571
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And it's like, so the balance,

572
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 1: I mean, the age difference. It made me like, man,

573
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: this this this game is like a joke, you know

574
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, now I'm playing with these older guys.

575
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: I can't do that. They got to be in the

576
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 1: cold tub, you know. Like for us, we just suit up,

577
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: gold play and then do whatever we do. And then

578
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: you started saying, man, it's not really that hard, you know,

579
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: especially if you know, if you know what you're doing

580
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 1: and you and you on top of your stuff, like

581
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: it's not hard because there's no secrets in the NFL.

582
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 1: Like when you line up, I know exactly what you're

583
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: gonna do. They got all the film, all the information.

584
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: You got to study. Now, yeah, but that's what I'm saying.

585
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: That's made me. That would made me say, cause we studied, right,

586
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 1: like you study, you put it in the work. And

587
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, this game really easy. Like you know,

588
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: you think about it in college. You don't study, you know,

589
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 1: high school, you don't study. You just you figure it

590
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: out my second third quarter and the pros. You know

591
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: from the first play to the last. But you know

592
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 1: exactly what's gonna happen. And whoever do it the best,

593
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: that's who's gonna win. Right, how you got me? Look

594
00:27:55,200 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: you with Marvin Reggie Peyton, Man, you guys turn it

595
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: around just like that. It was because everybody came with

596
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: the same approach mentality. Nobody was like a pre premadonna.

597
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 1: Everybody put in at work, you know. So if you

598
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 1: see all your big dogs putting in at work, everybody

599
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: around you gotta follow suit, right Like marb gonna go

600
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: out and do his thing, you know, pe gonna do

601
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: his thing, and then okay, I'm coming in. I'm coming

602
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: from the University of Minament where we came from a

603
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 1: NFL style coaching, you know, Coach Davis, he came from

604
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Our whole thing was structures. So when

605
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: I get to Indianapolis, the structure of the price was

606
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: exactly the same. So it wasn't no difference with that,

607
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: and if you start just focusing on okay, yeah, you

608
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: just focus on your job and you focus on what

609
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: you gotta do. You're like, man, all I gotta do

610
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: is just work, and everybody put in work. And by

611
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: us putting in work, the the gym had them put

612
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: together the right pieces and we had a nice balance.

613
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: What was it like playing with because we see the

614
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: old Maha and people talking about, man, he's a smart

615
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: what's it like playing with Peyton? You're playing with somebody

616
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: that's committed to the game, like, totally committed to the game,

617
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: not on him outside distraction, and you can tell that

618
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: the game means a lot to him, you know. And

619
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: then when you when you start digging into it a

620
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: little bit more, you can say, man, this man really

621
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: loved this game, you know. And you see all the

622
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: work that he put in. He continued to put in

623
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: the work, and that's the thing that you get a

624
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: great appreciation for. And you start seeing like that this

625
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: man really like, this man really loved football, you know.

626
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: And then you start saying, Okay, the things they're doing

627
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: to get better and get better and always looking at

628
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: the little detail, even they come to a fake you know,

629
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: some people they just do a fake like this, he

630
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: gonna do it, stick his head do all. Yeah, that

631
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: wide stretch, that right, that wide stretch that y'all Randy,

632
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: he going away out there, he dump and you double

633
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: it over like you really got the ball, the details

634
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: of it. And what I'm saying every day every day

635
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: you said, you know, called you. I mean, you play

636
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: a long time while you get boring out there, you know,

637
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: you practice, get boring. But when you say a person

638
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: doing it every day, now you gotta go appreciation for

639
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: you know, they really love the game. And and he

640
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: did exactly what you're supposed to do. Right. What was

641
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: it like reuniting with Reggie because Kane, Kane, you get

642
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 1: That's what I can honestly say this. You guys, if

643
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: you're from the youth, yeah, whether you can you graduated

644
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: from you in nineteen eighty three or you graduated you man, Man,

645
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: I ain't never see nobody ride like y'all do. Y'all

646
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: bad that thing that y'all down, Yeah, we downed with

647
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: so with Reggie. You know, like I kind of got

648
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: I kind of got an insight that we were gonna

649
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: be drafting Reggie. I thought we Reggie or saying towns.

650
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: And you know, I had to give him the heads up.

651
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: So you get us at school, you don't don't tell Hey,

652
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: don't tell me nothing about one of my boys and

653
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: tell me to keep a secret. I'm letting you know, like, hey,

654
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: he gonna no, but you know not that you know

655
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: that that like he don't know right. So but when

656
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: he got the phone call, you know, it was like, man, damn,

657
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: we're back together again, right, you know, we're back and

658
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: I know what I'm gonna get from Reggie. And with Reggie, Reggie, Reggie,

659
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: Reggie was a dog from the first time we met.

660
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: And I actually talk about that in my book, you know,

661
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: because Reggie the first time, being Reggie, our first encounter,

662
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: you know, kind of hit it off at the right

663
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: and from then on, I'm like, yeah, he one of

664
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: us right there, and that boy right there, he got it.

665
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: And to know he coming to to the coats because

666
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: I already know we got p we got eights. And

667
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: now once you get the other side secured, you don't

668
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: have no worries now because I know I know what

669
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna get right of Reggie Wayne, right, you know,

670
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: and then now I got Now I got a workout partner,

671
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: because when you get to the pros, you realize they

672
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: don't really work out like like you used to work out.

673
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: You know, everybody, they ain't working out the NFL. You

674
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: ain't working out like yeah, ain't working out like that,

675
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: and so they so you're like in you're in this

676
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: space where you're like, man, shit, I'm the only one

677
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: out here really working out like this. But it's the

678
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: way everybody. Everybody do things different when Reggie comes, like

679
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: we got we got the same summer workouts, in season workouts,

680
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: everything the same. So it's actually pretty good. It was

681
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: actually pretty cool. Marvin, he's the guy. Look, everybody knows Peyton,

682
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: they know you. We're talking to you and giving us

683
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: an insight. Marvin hadn't done a whole lot of interviews.

684
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: Marvin was really really quiet. You see him on the bench,

685
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: You would just be sitting there like staring off. What

686
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: was he like? What was Marvin really like in the

687
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: lock room? Nah? Mom, the real they're like, man, mob,

688
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: Marvin's about his business. You know when you see when

689
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: when you're talking about somebody that's about his business. I'm

690
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: here to take care of my business. That's mob, you know.

691
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: All the extra stuff. It's like it's really irrelevant. It

692
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: don't really it don't really matter to mob, you know.

693
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: So he just came out doing it's been up to

694
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: my work hard. You ain't gonna never see him miss practice.

695
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: They're gonna never see him not do the things supposed

696
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: to do. And great teammate and like me and Maum

697
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: we talk every day, still talk now, you know. And

698
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: when you when you got somebody like that, man, they

699
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: strictly about their business and they're gonna do what they take. Man,

700
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: that's that's what you want with you on your squad.

701
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: You have to leave the Coats. Were you disappointed that

702
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: you would force to after you have spent so many

703
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: great years there and you seem to be like, man,

704
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: we really man, we really close. I know we could

705
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: do this thing, and you end up going to Arizona. Yeah.

706
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: I mean for me when you when you go into

707
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: the NFL, you know it's a business, right, So I

708
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,479
Speaker 1: don't I don't take nothing personal. I never talk none personal.

709
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: And I just ride out as long as I can

710
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: ride out. And then it's like it's a decision, Okay,

711
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: if I want to stand the Coats, I mean I

712
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: need to take this or I go to Arizona and

713
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: get this. You know, and we know what I'm here for.

714
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: Y'all know what I'm here for. You know, I made

715
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: you try to try to get the third back. Yeah, bad,

716
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: you got the second back. But I was never shy

717
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: about why I'm here, what I'm here to do. Right,

718
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my job, but i'm here. I want

719
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: to make sure that I secure my future. I better

720
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 1: to do what I set out to do, because that's

721
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: what the game was for me. You know, if I

722
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl, I win a chip of the ship,

723
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: I win all that stuff, that would be great, you know,

724
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: But for me, what the game? What they did? My

725
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: call into this game with the bredest man. You know what,

726
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: you can take this lady and secure her future to

727
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: make sure you like like you're somebody's blessing. Sometimes I'm like, man,

728
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 1: maybe maybe my mom was blessing. Well, so I understood

729
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: why I was there, So when it came to happen

730
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 1: to go to another team, it wasn't that big a

731
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: deal for me. You know. For me, it's like, okay,

732
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: then find the best situation because I understand like this,

733
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: it's just the nature of the business, and nobody's gonna

734
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: be locked me in with one team for the rest

735
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 1: of their career and get it the way they wanted

736
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: for the most part. So for me, are like when

737
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: the time is up, it's time to go. And for me,

738
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: you didn't. You're not gonna hear me be better. You're

739
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: not gonna see me complain. Yeah, I'm just looking for

740
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: the next action, you know. It's like, and I'm glad

741
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: because I went to Arizona, made some friends, got a

742
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: chance to get into a new space, and then we

743
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: actually made it to the super Bowl. So I knew

744
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: I made the right decision because we went I went

745
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: to a team. I took the risk, you know, to

746
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: go to a team that wasn't even popular, that wasn't

747
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: doing much, and we still end up turning that franchise around.

748
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: So I got a chance to do it twice. Were

749
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,359
Speaker 1: you disappointed when the coach went to the Super Bowl

750
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: and they won? Nah? I was happy for I was

751
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: actually like when they when they got Joseph would die.

752
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: I made sure I reached out the Joseph die. Let

753
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: him know all the information you needn't know about the

754
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: stretch play, about all the offense, you know, and I

755
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: was down there hanging with them, you know, I just

756
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: didn't have to go to practice, and I got a ring.

757
00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: The coach like I got hey, I have to know work.

758
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: Mister say called you, says ed, you know, for the

759
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: great player, of the great person that you had been.

760
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: I know that you know you weren't here, but I

761
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: want you to have a Super Bowl ring? How did

762
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: that make you feel? And I don't know, I don't know.

763
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: I don't know that that didn't happened off an edge.

764
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it lets you know that man,

765
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: they appreciate what you're doing. And and and I call

766
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: him the big Man. The big Man always did things

767
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: the right way. You know, he always you know, he

768
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: understands the business. And but you understand the person too,

769
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: and like they know we built that thing that we

770
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 1: built it up. But the business is gonna do what

771
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: it does, you know. And for me, I wasn't tripping,

772
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: so he say, okay, yeah, man, they're gonna give me

773
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl ring. And that's that's like a it's

774
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: like you appreciate that, you know, you appreciate that, you know,

775
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: and for some guys, you got guys played forever and

776
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: they never got a chance to even be part of

777
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 1: a playoff win whatever. I'm part of an organization that

778
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: I'm tired too forever and everything worked out just like

779
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: it's supposed to. You. You mentioned you did get to

780
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: the super Bowl with the Cardinals, laugh, Fish Gerald, Kurt Warner, yourself,

781
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: three headed monster. And you got the lead late in

782
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 1: the ball game. What's going through your mind? As the

783
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: Steelers have the ball late and they're going down the field,

784
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: what are you thinking? Because the side of your hands

785
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: now you know going down the field, you got the lead,

786
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: got un done your part? You did your part, We

787
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: got the lead. It's two minutes left. What's going through

788
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: Drew James mind? We just need to stop once. You

789
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 1: just need one stop. And that's that's what it comes

790
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: down to. What you know, most NFL games are won

791
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: at the last, the last two minutes. And Pittsburgh they

792
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: went they did their thing. You know, they found a

793
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: way to win. You know, we just need but we

794
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: just needed one stop. So you just one stop away

795
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: from actually winning the game. But you play enough games, man,

796
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: you you understand how it goes. You win something like that,

797
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: you lose something exactly been on been on the winner

798
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: end of a lot of games, and so happened. It

799
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: was on the big stage and it didn't happen. But man,

800
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,720
Speaker 1: we did some great things that year. Looking at your stats,

801
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,399
Speaker 1: you know, your top fifteen hundred yards four times, you're

802
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: on the one or four players to ever do that,

803
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: Barrass Sanders, Eric Dixon, Walter Payton and yourself over twelve

804
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 1: thousand rush yards, eighty touchdowns and level of year career

805
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:23,280
Speaker 1: over fifteen thousand scrimmage yard eclipsed one thousand yards seven times.

806
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 1: Of the numbers that you have personal your personal accolades,

807
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: what's that you're most proud of? I like the fifteen

808
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: hundred the one going there because you with that group

809
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: and it's just hard to do. You don't realize, but

810
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: it's actually really hard to do it that many times.

811
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: But the fact that I did it after the injury,

812
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: because if I don't get hurt, I'm gonna lead the

813
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: league probably, I don't know how many times. On what

814
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: would a minute, the first two years you lead the

815
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: league in Russian you tell your ACL Yeah your third year, right, yeah,

816
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: I was leading. I was I was off to my

817
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: best start my third year, you know, and that I

818
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: had the ACL injury, right, but it's part of the game,

819
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: you know, so they don't really trip on that. Like

820
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: that's that's what really. How did the injury change it?

821
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 1: It chained my game, you know, it made me change.

822
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: It chained my game. It made me get a great

823
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,399
Speaker 1: appreciation for the game because before I ain't even really

824
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: I didn't really trip on football. I just go out

825
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: and play. It was too easy, it was. It was

826
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: way too easy. If you work out, you train, you study,

827
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: you gonna play, You're gonna have success. And that's the

828
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: way I always look at it. But then when you

829
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: get hurt, now you can't do the things that you

830
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 1: normally do. And so now you gotta get a little

831
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: more grime. You gotta get into your studies. Like I

832
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: need to know a little bit more about what the

833
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: defense about to do. I need a little bit more

834
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: of an edge, right because once you get hurt, you

835
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 1: got you need to know more. And so it turned

836
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: into a better student and to run to run for

837
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred after that twice, you know that right there

838
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: was that was a big deal. And I think that

839
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: was something that because it's hard, it's hard to do.

840
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: Edrian James, the general manager. You get to pick one

841
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:05,919
Speaker 1: back who you taking in today's game. In today's game,

842
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 1: it depends on what type of offense I'm running. It

843
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: depends because man, you got some you got you got

844
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: some good backs. Man. But I like Davin Cook Man.

845
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: You look Davin. I liked Davin. Yeah, you take it.

846
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: Davin Cook over a Jonathan Dayly No, because I watched

847
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: I like Jay his style more fit. No, you have

848
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: to remember I watched Davin Cook and Pop Wanna you know.

849
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: So it's and that's what I'm saying. So for me,

850
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 1: I'm I'm looking at a person from there. Jat he

851
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: running the ball. I love to watch Ja my favorite

852
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 1: back to watch this year. You know I watched him.

853
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: I watched him and watch what he did with the coats.

854
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: But when I say okay, like for me, I look

855
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 1: at it from from a youth perspective. I used to

856
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: go out and watch this kid playing on on on

857
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: a pot Wanna or a high school level. So I like,

858
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,760
Speaker 1: I like the way Cook. We're running Cook out of nowhere.

859
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: He's gonna explode, you know, like when we watch the explosive.

860
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: Do you believe if Derek Henry doesn't get hurt. He's

861
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: going over two thousand again because he has almost a

862
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: thousand week eight. Yeah, seventeen games. You're gonna gona do

863
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: more than I'm more a beast man. That boy. That

864
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: boy was killing it, man, So yeah, it was gonna

865
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna see a lot of guys going

866
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: over two thousand. I was hoping JT got the two

867
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: thousand this year. He got a little late start, but

868
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: he was. What state has the best athletes? Florida, California

869
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: for Georgia. You said the first one first, I gotta

870
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: I gotta throw the movie. I gotta throw the boot

871
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: up in Now it's Florida. It's Florida, man, it's Florida

872
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 1: because we get around and then were hard nosed, like

873
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,320
Speaker 1: Florida is hard enough, Florida rough rugged and so the

874
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: best football state of Florida. So we go, we go

875
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: just Texas, you do, Calia, You doe Georgia. Y'all got

876
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: no chance. It stops. It stops in Florida. Like it's

877
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: just Florida. Man, how about this mount rushmore of dred

878
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: athletes from traded athletes. I don't know, man, is aired

879
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: you up there? I don't William you Ricky Ricky, Ricky

880
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: balled out. Man got him pretty boy dress? Yeah you

881
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 1: got different dress? Man? What kind of dress it got like?

882
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: But no, I don't. Everybody got everybody everybody rock and dress,

883
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: everybody you the godfollowed the draft in the NFL. Man,

884
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 1: I need to get some kind of conversation. Hello, you

885
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 1: you try to get another back to the opportunity out there.

886
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: I just saw Justin Jefferson at the Pro Bowl with

887
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: a grilled Yeah. I mean he hit out it grill.

888
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: It's grill cast the grill. I think he has some

889
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: diame with him thing he must have with him, you know,

890
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: Johnny Dang, I know, man, I gotta see how we

891
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: can get on the other side of that. They want

892
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 1: these grills. I didn't be on that. You find out

893
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: people want grill, you want to find out how to

894
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: go and start making grill, and then you're supposed to

895
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 1: and it's how I go. I'm surprised you'd try to

896
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: be like Elon Muss because everybody everybody want to elect

897
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 1: your cards, come back, start making a listen and there's opportunity. Man.

898
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: We gotta we gotta look into that. What is age?

899
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 1: What is what is the typical day like now for

900
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: Edric James, it depends on what's going on, Like everything

901
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: based around my kids. Like my kids, they got six

902
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 1: three girls, boy, three boys, three girls, and so right

903
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 1: now it's basket from twenty four to fourteen fourteen. Yeah

904
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 1: at a ten year run. You got a lot of

905
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 1: comedy ten year year run, man. So but no, it

906
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: depends on what's going on. Like if if it's somebody

907
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: need to go to the college, I'll show up to

908
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: the college. If it's a basketball game, I show up

909
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,760
Speaker 1: to that, and so i'na make sure I do everything

910
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 1: I gotta do for them first and then outside that

911
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do me. I could do me one o'clock,

912
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: two o'clock, three o'clock five. You know, say, man, like

913
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: I'm good, but I got I got a pretty good lifestyle. Man.

914
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 1: It's like kind of do what you want to do, right,

915
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: And that's why I like, like I always say, created

916
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: life you want to live, And that's what I did.

917
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: I created this whole thing to where you know I'm

918
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:27,879
Speaker 1: here early in the morning. I usually don't. I don't

919
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: like to get up early in the morning because I

920
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: liked to be alert at night, so I could just

921
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,320
Speaker 1: kind of move the way I want to move and

922
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: now like moving like let my body wake me up,

923
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,360
Speaker 1: and I don't like to just jump up because I

924
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: had to go do something. How how did you do

925
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 1: well in football? Because you know, football you got to

926
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 1: get up early. Yeah, I know we had to be

927
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 1: the work at nine. We had to be working at nine. Yeah,

928
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 1: we had to be working at nine. But in college

929
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 1: it's earlier than that because you know, you got the

930
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: early morning to work out those lifting sessions, those running

931
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 1: sessions in the off season. That that was when I

932
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: was on somebody else's clock. And that's what I was saying.

933
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 1: I was always preparing. Yeah, so I was just I

934
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 1: was just making sure that I said, I'm gonna prepare.

935
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: But when it become my turn to be the boss, right,

936
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: and how I'm gonna do my lifestyle. And that's where

937
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 1: my lifestyle is not a way, it's just the way

938
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 1: I want it. Like I don't have to be up

939
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: early in the morning unless it's something I commit to, right,

940
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: you know, and and that way I can't. I wouldn't

941
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: change nothing that I got going on, cause it's all

942
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 1: it's laid out pretty cool. What do you want your

943
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: kids to be most proud of when they talk about

944
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: their dad that is committed to them, you know, That's

945
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: that's the thing. It's like, you know, you got a

946
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: lot of fathers. It's easy to let sit out there

947
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: and make them but to make them great, to get

948
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: behind them, you know, that's that seems like it's a

949
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 1: challenge when it shouldn't be a challenge, but it seemed

950
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: like it's a challenge. And if you deal with a

951
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: lot of these youth programs and a lot of these

952
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: underprivileged situation, the thing is always missing is the father,

953
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: right you know most of the time. And so for me,

954
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: you know, my kid's not gonna be to say they

955
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: daddy wasn't there. You know that they dad, and they

956
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 1: daddy didn't make a way, didn't sit up there and

957
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: put them in the best position possible. Like for me,

958
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: any opportunity or any situation where anything they're getting involved in,

959
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna go above and beyond to make

960
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,399
Speaker 1: sure I position them the best I can possibly position them.

961
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,320
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna always be there. You know, that's the

962
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,439
Speaker 1: main thing. That's a very tough balance because I told

963
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: people that in order to be great, and there's a

964
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 1: level of greatness, how great you want to be, you

965
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: gotta sacrifice a lot. Now you're gonna miss some recitals

966
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: or maybe football game or this or that because in

967
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: order because Edrin James wanted to be the best, Yeah,

968
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: you wanted to cure the bag. But in order to

969
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 1: schure the bag, you gotta be the best. Yeah, you definitely.

970
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: And that's and that's that's one I'm balanced that a

971
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: lot of people don't really understand how hard it is. Yes,

972
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: but you got you got this. If there's a gap

973
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 1: or there's an opportunity, I'm gonna make it happen. Right.

974
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: So it's like if I have to be somewhere and

975
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: it's and it's it's important they know, Okay, yeah, I'm

976
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss this situation right here. But if there

977
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: is a true opportunity to be there, I'm gonna be there.

978
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna make sure that I'm there. I'll

979
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: make sure I'm on point. I don't care if it's

980
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: you have to jump on the private plane or if

981
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: you have to jump on this plane that plane. You

982
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: get there and then you get where you gotta get.

983
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: You But it has to truly be something where it's like, yeah,

984
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 1: I had a chance to be there, because I don't

985
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: want to be where you can blow something off all

986
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: the time. You know, and I and I in our world,

987
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: we can always make an excuse. You can always say Okay,

988
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: oh yah, I had to go take care of some business,

989
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: right But it comes from within, you know, from within

990
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,880
Speaker 1: where you're saying okay, yeah, I'm personally, I'm gonna make

991
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: sure I'm there if I can really be there. So

992
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: if I'm not there, I couldn't be there. You and

993
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: I were talking off camera. Your oldest is twenty four,

994
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: and you say, one of the things that you're proud

995
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: of is that your kids got an opportunity to see

996
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 1: what you did for a living, and someone didn't have

997
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: to tell them when your daddy was this, your dadd

998
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: was that. How did that make you feel? Get an

999
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 1: opportunity to see you kids? Because my kids got an

1000
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: opportunity to see me play. You know, my son was

1001
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: coming to the locker room. My kids got an opportunity

1002
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: to go to the super Bowl. How did that make

1003
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: you feel? Knowing that you know what, this is why

1004
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: I'm doing it, guys, This is really why I'm doing it.

1005
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: I got mom back home, but I got eyes in

1006
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,760
Speaker 1: the stands just watching me. Yea, my eyes. Yeah it started,

1007
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 1: but it started at the university of mine. You know

1008
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: when you when you eighteen and you're like, okay, I'm

1009
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: about to have a child, Like okay, now things really

1010
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: turn up and so give you another level or another

1011
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,879
Speaker 1: reason to push or or even go harder, and then

1012
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 1: to watch for them to actually see, like my oldest

1013
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 1: got a chance to kind of witness the whole You

1014
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: got a chance to see the whole thing. So they

1015
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: understand exactly where you're coming from, and they can they

1016
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: can see that Okay, yeah, yeah, my daddy really did.

1017
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,320
Speaker 1: It's the youngest one they really don't know. You know,

1018
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 1: they really didn't understand it till probably later, till it

1019
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 1: probably went to the hall and all that, right, But

1020
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 1: the oldest got a chance to really see it, and

1021
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: they understand that, like, man, they ain't my daddy really

1022
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: did all this right. And then when they started looking

1023
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:06,399
Speaker 1: back at how you get there, you know, that's that's

1024
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 1: one thing that really stands out to them. Like now

1025
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: my kids are reading the book. They're reading the book

1026
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 1: and they're like ain't that. I ain't know you did

1027
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: all this or did all because that was before that time.

1028
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: And so now they got even greater appreciation for their dad.

1029
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: How do you get your kids because the way you

1030
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 1: came up, you came up in the area that was

1031
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: invested with drugs, there was not a whole lot of money,

1032
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: and you was like, Okay, this is my opportunity, this

1033
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 1: is what I could do to get out. They come

1034
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: up in a very different situation than you, and that

1035
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: was the hardest thing to try to teach my kids discipline,

1036
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: but knowing the sacrifices that I made was to make

1037
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: sure they didn't have to live the life that I

1038
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 1: had to live. So how do you balance that edge? Well, you,

1039
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 1: first of all, you don't keep nothing away from them, right,

1040
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: you know, you put it in front of them. You

1041
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: show them, Okay, that's what I had to do. But

1042
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:56,320
Speaker 1: this should you get a chance to do, and so

1043
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 1: they get a chance to see it, they get the comparisons.

1044
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: You know, that's where it really really kind of opens

1045
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: their eyes. You know, you just point those things out,

1046
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: like I don't hide nothing from my kids. I'm not

1047
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: gonna hide nothing to say, Okay, they made like everything

1048
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: was peaches and creams. You know, you're gonna sit back

1049
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 1: and sell because these are situations or these are things

1050
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: you have to go through, or these are things that

1051
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: it took and now you're here. Don't set up for

1052
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: where you're at. But but there's just one level. There's

1053
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: other levels that you can go to, right so I

1054
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: pushed them to even go to even higher levels, you know.

1055
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: And my daughter she chose to be a lawyer, you know,

1056
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: and like man, you want to get in positions of power.

1057
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: You want to go to a space that people don't

1058
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:37,280
Speaker 1: normally go. My kids, I got four in and HBCUs.

1059
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: You know, they understand the importance of being there for

1060
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: your culture, being somebody that people can look at it

1061
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: and say, man, Dane, they did it the right way.

1062
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: They didn't just take the easier out, you know. They

1063
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 1: made sure that they're aware of what they're doing. You you,

1064
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: we didn't get to this earlier. But there's a tragic

1065
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: incident that happen. You say, your uncle, So your uncle

1066
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: commits suicide. You had uncles and a dealing with the

1067
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 1: crack cocaine, the epidemic, which was very prevalent in the

1068
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: black community, especially in the South where it was all

1069
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: over in the cities, but in the South. Also when

1070
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 1: you're when you're watching that, when you're around that, what's

1071
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: going through your mind as a child, Well, you just

1072
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: a child. It's to know him, so you really don't know.

1073
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: It goes back to the beginning. You're like, you really,

1074
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 1: you really don't know those things all. You just know

1075
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: that you want to do better, right, You just want

1076
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 1: to always do better, and you just started learning now

1077
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: what it is better. You know sometimes some people just

1078
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: getting you know, back in the day, if you just

1079
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: went to college, you was doing great. You know, now

1080
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 1: the level has went up, you know, so you just

1081
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: always want to just continue to do better. And that's

1082
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: why I always do this. So you always want to

1083
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: improve on things and just try to always do more

1084
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 1: and position more people. What is your proudest accomplishment? My kids,

1085
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: you know, to have like right now, I'm fourth for four.

1086
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:00,040
Speaker 1: I got four kids in college right now. Okay, So

1087
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 1: it's like that's that's for me. It always gonna be

1088
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: around my kids because I understand like how important it is.

1089
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 1: But you're bury to do it the way that I'm

1090
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 1: doing it, and I don't have a cause degree. My kids, like,

1091
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 1: they're gonna be running your busins, they're gonna be running

1092
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,439
Speaker 1: your businesses. Yeah. Man, like you contradicting yourself. That's saying

1093
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: it's important to have a degree, but you don't have

1094
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 1: a degree. I'm like, oh, this is totally different over here.

1095
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: So you want obviously you want to go. You want

1096
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 1: to you want to go six for six, But I

1097
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: lost my train of throat right here. Do your kids

1098
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 1: follow you on social media? Yeah, they're gonna follow me.

1099
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: My kids don't follow me. My kids you know what

1100
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 1: do your kids? My kids, my daughters get up set

1101
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: it to mention my name because they think you're gonna

1102
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 1: give them something because of who their dad is, not

1103
00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 1: because of what they earned. So they're very reluctant to

1104
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: say when someone says do you know Sharon Shark, Instead

1105
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: of saying yeah, that's my dad, they said, yeah we

1106
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: know him. No, my kids, our kids want all my

1107
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: kids want all that action. Many my son my son's

1108
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: will say yeah that's my dad. Yeah. The girls, especially

1109
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: my oldest, my oldest girl like, yeah, we know him, Yeah,

1110
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: I know him. Why do you ask na mine? I

1111
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: didn't want you to know, Like, hey, this what's uping? Like,

1112
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,360
Speaker 1: but they got a cool Mine got a cool daddy.

1113
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 1: You know, Like I'm I'm into what they into, Like

1114
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: you know, so and that's what make it cool. That's

1115
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 1: what make it cool. Like you get a chance to

1116
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: grow with him. Like I don't advise nobody to run

1117
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 1: out and have kids at the early age. Yeah yeah, yeah,

1118
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: but if you do the benefits, man, it's great because

1119
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: like you get the chance to really kick it and

1120
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 1: grow with them. Right, that's one thing, like we can

1121
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 1: we on the same level, just chopping it up. Yeah,

1122
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 1: because you know, I'm sitting on the bed and my

1123
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 1: daughter come in and they start talking, why we we

1124
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 1: gotta have this conversation. You know, you gotta have this conversation.

1125
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: But we go out. They're like, uh, they bring the

1126
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 1: drink me and you. I like to get you drink.

1127
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like old on wait a minute. They're like, daddy,

1128
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: I'm thirty. I was like okay, because you know, they

1129
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:20,280
Speaker 1: are caged. I still look at them as as kids.

1130
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 1: I don't look at them as adults. Man. Over the

1131
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: past couple of years, I had to change myself. I

1132
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 1: go to Nah, we go to club. My daughter grass

1133
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: some Hennessy. I didn't what I didn't bust out laughing.

1134
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: I'm like you, Hennessy, I can't even drink. And then

1135
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 1: the other ones, you're gonna take thee you give her some.

1136
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 1: I don't know, they're gonna pop the champagne. They're gonna

1137
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: do it like you're gonna thank my kids rappers, like

1138
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: they bothered it up. Man. They living like that, Like

1139
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 1: it's like the things I want to do. They're like,

1140
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:02,959
Speaker 1: okay that you don't want to have fun with this money,

1141
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:06,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. They're gonna have fun with it,

1142
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: and so I enjoy, you know, So I would make

1143
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 1: sure they get everything set up they can go out

1144
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: and have them a good time, because like I'm I'm

1145
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: more chilled conservative, you know, I'm in I'm in this

1146
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:19,840
Speaker 1: space where I'm like, man, I'm always thinking about the

1147
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: next move. What i gotta do with them. They're like, man,

1148
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:24,359
Speaker 1: you don't want to they think about They thinking about

1149
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 1: today now, they're gonna spend it. They thinking you're thinking

1150
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:33,319
Speaker 1: about tomorrow. They thinking about today today right now, right now.

1151
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: You talked about a little bit your book, what's the

1152
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 1: name of it? From gold Check to Gold Jacket. You know,

1153
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of my my my timeline of my

1154
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: storyline going from you know, from youth all the way

1155
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 1: get into the Hall of Fame. And I think it's

1156
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:49,279
Speaker 1: something that a lot of people see themselves in this book.

1157
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: They'll see so many situations that they can relate to,

1158
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,399
Speaker 1: knowing that it's not an easy path, but it's it's

1159
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 1: a possible path. And I try to include anything that

1160
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: I think was relatable or things that I think people

1161
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: could actually use. And it's I think it's a pretty

1162
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: dope read. I think every athlete should read it, right,

1163
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: and I think anybody that all right, I think parents too,

1164
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 1: they can they can actually see see themselves in a

1165
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:17,760
Speaker 1: situation like that before. From Gold Teeth the Gold Jacket.

1166
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 1: You can find it on my website every day, Edgendjane

1167
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 1: dot com or Amazon or anywhere books are being sold. Right,

1168
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,759
Speaker 1: you heard it here, edgrind Jane from Gold Teeth the

1169
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: Gold Jacket, brouh. I appreciate you stopping by, really appreciated

1170
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:34,879
Speaker 1: regulations on everything. All the best, All right, man, thanks

1171
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 1: for having me on all my life, running all my

1172
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 1: life sacrifice Custle Bay Pricing, Want a slice got the

1173
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 1: broder dice? Swad all my life. I've been grinding all

1174
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,719
Speaker 1: my life, all my life, and running all my life

1175
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:53,320
Speaker 1: up sacrifice, hustle, back prices. Want a slice? Got the

1176
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:56,279
Speaker 1: bro dice swat all my life. I've been running all

1177
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 1: my life,