WEBVTT - Ryan Clark talks top Week 7 performances, Week 8 games to watch, winning an Emmy 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:07.920 Here we are off the Edge with Cam Jordans Man. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.520 I'm grace with the presidence. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:11.840 Of a guy from Louisiana. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:14.920 I swear he was from New Orleans and found out 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:15.920 he's from the West Bank. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.120 I digress a. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.520 Man who went to LSU, you know, played thirteen seasons 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:25.759 in the NFL. A pro bowler, my rookiear in the league. 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:31.560 Twenty eleven podcaster term media mogul savant if you will, 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.440 Ryan Clark appreciates you, big dog, for coming on the podcast. 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:35.520 You're a West. 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.279 Banker, Yeah, man from the West Bank. Man. 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.519 I grew up in Murrero and my family moved to 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.760 Terrytown and you know too, Like being a West Banker 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.760 is a sensitive subject for people who are from the 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.680 greater city of New Orleans. And so anytime I would 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.400 say something negative about the Saints or I'd pissed people 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.880 down there off, the first thing they'd say is that 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.040 they don't claim me because I'm from the West Bank, 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:01.800 which I'm cool with. 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.360 I mean, my area code was still five O four, 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:05.520 so I ain't tripping. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.360 Right right if you're from the best bank, you know 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:13.440 over there at Harvey and everything else. Yeah, that's the 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.920 movie theater I go to, I prefer because not everybody's 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:18.840 willing to go to the West Bank, you know. 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.759 Yeah, I mean listen, you know, it's like it's one 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.280 of those crazy things that if you're not from there, 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.920 you actually don't understand it. And they're probably people listening 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.440 to this conversation and thinking, like, what's the West Bank, 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.520 what's the East Bank or whatever it is? And you 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.800 would yeah, and you would think it's only separated by 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:38.920 the Mississippi River. 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:40.679 It wouldn't be that big of a deal. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.240 But like if you ask people like Tying who you've 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.039 played with, who played for Sata, which is the rival 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.280 school to the high school that I went to, Archbishop Shaw, 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.120 Like you find out man, that people take that jug 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:55.880 extremely serious. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:56.360 No doubt. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.120 You know, I think we played with the same teammates. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.480 Keenan Lewis, Who's who's a west Baker? You know you 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:07.120 played with the I played at the Saints. Uh yeah, 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.560 west Bank is is a super serious thing. Again, It's 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.400 literally just a bridge. It's a five minute drive from 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.120 downtown New Orleans to the West. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.079 Con But wait, bro let me tell you. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:19.760 Let me tell you this is Keenan got mad at 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:24.760 me recently and DM me like, really hot, bro, really 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.480 mad A man, I haven't heard from Keenan. Shoot, maybe 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.400 since he became a saint or since this, you know, 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.120 football career was over. I was just telling this story 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:37.480 about Antonio Brown and how like pretty much the whole 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.239 entire defense tried to fight Antonio one day. It was 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.520 the day he signed this deal. Bro, he got that 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.000 new money. Him and Keenan doing one on ones, And 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:49.160 the way I explained the story, Keenan didn't remember it 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:49.640 like that. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:51.560 And what's crazy. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.320 About it is so many of my other old teammates 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.680 remembered it exactly the same way. Like on the post, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.120 they're saying, man, I remember that day, just how it happened. 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:02.160 Wo right. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:06.320 And then here was Keenan hot with me, being like, Bro, 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:07.320 you know how you talk to Bro. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.160 You ain't gonna me Bro, Hey, brother, you ain't gonna 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:10.680 play with me. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.360 And like so much so me and Keenan got on 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.040 the phone to have to try to like hash this 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.080 story out, and like that's the crazy thing about being 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.600 in the media or podcasting or whatever it is. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:23.880 It's like always say. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.520 All of these stories aren't just our stories, so you 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:31.040 do have to be like extremely careful how you tell them. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.680 Absolutely, but the fact you had the co signed by 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:44.000 a whole bunch of teammates. But uh, man, like I said, 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.120 I appreciate you hopping on the pod you know, pivot 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.640 too or what even got you in the media space? 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.560 You know you you went from like the old school 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.680 way of football of like there's no such thing as 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.480 like social media. There's definitely no such thing as it's 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.000 twitch and streaming, live streaming, pod casting during the season. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.600 Guys used to have a vlog in like twenty ten eleven, 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:05.520 and you get. 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:06.880 Chasted on the team. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:08.080 I'm just that old. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:10.760 I'm saying. My rookie year, there was a. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:14.400 Guy maybe twenty twelve had a vlog of a training 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.240 camp and the coaches like flipped their lid, you know, 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.120 like what are we doing? You know, this is how 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:23.200 we do football, and now it's who doesn't have a podcast? 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.880 Yeah, So I will say this, man, the Steelers were 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.760 really good about it. So my entire time in Pittsburgh, 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.080 I had a radio show and eventually had this TV 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.400 show that would come on every two weeks on KDKA 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.719 that was hosted with one of the local news guys. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.080 And so I always was into the media and then 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:43.920 you know how it is. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.640 Cam O'Hara was back then in the off season and 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:48.400 it's still a little bit of that now in the 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.960 off season, ESPN and bring you in an NFL. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.200 Network, what would bring you in? And I would do 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.720 pretty well, you know, during the car washes and all 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.240 those things. And so the Super Bowl in New Orleans, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:00.600 San Francisco, Baltimore. 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.680 I tweeted one day that I wanted to do like 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:04.920 a TV internship. 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.000 I wanted to learn the business, just be a regular 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.040 analyst for Space. And Trey Wingo introduces me. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.839 To Seth Market marketan who is my boss now at ESPN, 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.000 and I tell them what I wanted to do. I 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:17.560 was like, I want to work for an entire week. 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.520 I want to get my schedule like the analysts do. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.760 I want to be on every show, whatever it is. 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:23.680 So I do that and the agent calls me the 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.120 week after and says, I believe I can get you 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:29.280 paid to do TV while you play now like you're right, 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.359 Like if you had a vlog back in those days, 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.359 it was a big deal. So imagine me walking into 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.880 the Pittsburgh Steel With saying I'm going to sign this 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.120 TV contract and my first contract was for forty days 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:41.919 a year, so I worked in the off season, I 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.000 worked in the bye weeks. I did NFL Live every 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.840 Tuesday from the building, and they really helped me with that. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:49.919 But they also understood like how. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.800 Dedicated I was to football as well, but I was 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.880 building an opportunity for a second career. 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.080 So that's where it started. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:02.000 And then I retired on TV for ESPN while accepting 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:07.000 my job for my next career at the Combine after 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:07.640 my last year. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:08.840 So it was really cool. 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.200 How I got into it, and I like to say 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.839 that I was sort of like first of one of 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:18.000 those dudes who started planning for that post football career 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.360 while playing very publicly, you know, to that end. 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:23.560 Yeah, I'll say, guys like you. 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.400 Uh while while I was, you know, a pup in 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.480 the league, I was like, we're looking at guys like you, 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.840 I I. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.279 Taylor, you know, you know. And then of course Big 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:36.719 Swag hit the scene. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.320 And worked as well. You know, Marcus spears. It must 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.320 be a losing anything, but. 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:43.920 We like, we like to talk. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.440 You've been on there long enough, bro, you know, we 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.080 ain't never been shy about talking. 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:50.359 You know what I'm saying, and then the person and 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:51.520 the personalities. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.920 I do think too, just with the ways that we are, 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.000 I think the personalities translated well to TV. Like for you, 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.960 we've watched you do interview your entire career, and I'm 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.880 pretty sure most times you finished speaking, somebody tells you 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:06.840 you're going to be great on TV or people told 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.360 you that early on in your career. And so when 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.360 people start to plant that bug, I think it makes 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.760 you start to focus on how do I start building that? 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:17.600 And in your case, you know you've. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.480 Done a great job, not only with this. I've seen 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:20.600 you work the Super Bowl. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.880 I've seen you, you. 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.000 Know, be on different networks and show people you can 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.320 do it. And so now when you transition you can 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.920 have some of those options. So kudos to you as well, 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.320 you know, a Hall of Fame career, but still planning 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.000 to do things afterwards. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:35.520 Yeah, you know. 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:40.960 I tell people I'm like, I'm overly obsessive about things 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.840 that I care about and football I'm overly obsessive. And 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.000 I was like, you know, they're like, oh, for every person, 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:48.200 I was like, oh, you're really good on TV. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.160 You should do that. No, all I want to do 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.440 is hit people until I can't hit people anymore. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.520 And then you know, but in the eventuality of one day, 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.000 you know it's over. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:07:59.880 Yeah, I'm glad that you know that. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.360 I've been working Super Bowl since before I was it 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.840 was cool to even work Super Bowls. You know, before 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.679 the it was a car wash or to get paid 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.160 to even work super Bowl because as a defensive lineman 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.200 coming out of the Saints, it's not the most marketable team. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.840 I'll let your name was Drew Brees in twenty eleven. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.320 You know, we've got way better, way better. 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.000 And also too, you got to thank Cam and like, 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.440 this was my mindset, right. I knew I didn't want 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.120 to just be like one of the rotational pieces of 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.120 the media where you might see me on this show, 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:32.880 you might see me on that show, but you never 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.400 truly get a foothold in the game to where you 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.160 have your own space, you have your own brand. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:39.480 I wasn't a quarterback. 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.360 I wasn't going to be a Hall of Fame player, 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.200 and so I had to understand those things and get 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:46.480 into the business the. 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.959 Best way I knew. How while my name was still hot. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:51.280 You know, they're going to be some. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.040 Players whose careers are so great, whose names are so 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.600 big that they could take some time off and then 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.400 come back to TV and be received extremely well or 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.080 be welcomed into the sort of jobs that they feel 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.199 that they deserved. I didn't think that was going to 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.440 be something I had a chance or an opportunity to do, 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.480 and I think that was why I planned the way 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:10.880 I did. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:12.600 Mmm. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.480 I mean you worked your way up, man, you took 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.079 over and now you know, co host of the ESPN 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.720 as analyst, co host of The Pivot. You know you 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.400 wanted you want an Emmy. Like, in my mind, there's 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.680 a couple of guys that sort of like fit that 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:31.240 mode of transitioning beyond football as a player, and you're 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.120 definitely one of them, you know. Nate Burrowson is another one, 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.760 you know for sure, But you're in that category. Bro, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:39.520 you want you want an Emmy? What does that even 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.600 feel like? Can you compare it to something? Because I 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:45.880 mean Pro Bowl, pro bo, I've been to Emmy. I've 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:46.840 never even thought. 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.760 About Yeah, you know, like I didn't really think about 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.160 it either. You know, it was something it didn't really 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:58.400 feel like that was something that was available to me. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.560 Oh, I got smart sense going off in the background 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:08.160 because I want a celebration. I want to Emmy, you know, 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:08.959 and Cam. 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.880 Honestly, I think it all came about because of the 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:16.880 night DeMar Hamlin had his cardiac arrest. I was on 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.280 TV when nobody else was on TV to talk about it. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.520 I was on the same network that the injury happened, 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:28.240 and so everybody was fixated on that moment, and it 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.559 was just myself and Scott Van Pelt sitting there and 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.720 we had to take the world through this therapy session. 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.640 You know, I never started a season like I'm gonna 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:39.800 win an Emmy. I never thought that my name was 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.720 big enough or I did the sort of work that 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.840 was gonna put those eyeballs on me, because I was 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.320 just on ESPN and that necessarily wasn't the biggest name. 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.560 But I think God prepared me for that opportunity, you know, 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.319 like I was one of the very I'm one of 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.400 the very few players who had a football injury or 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:57.559 incident almost cost him his life. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:02.080 You know. I had a doctor walk into my room 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.439 and tell me we can't figure out what's wrong with you. 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.800 We should pray, and I'm looking at him like, nah, bro, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:09.360 like you're supposed to do the medicine. 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.679 I've been having folks praying for me for months. 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.600 You know, like I'm looking. I'm looking to you to 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.600 tell me what's wrong with me and figure out a 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.319 medical way to get me better. And so I've been 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.920 in that position, and I've also been in the position 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.240 of knowing, with all of those things going on, I 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.640 was willing to risk my life for this game. 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:27.760 Again, you know. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.920 So I understood that, understood what the game means to us, 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.240 how much we're willing to give for like you say, 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.040 be overly obsessive about it. But I also understood the 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.000 human side of it. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.080 You know. I understood my wife telling me after. 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.760 I had my surgery that every night she went into 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.720 the bathroom and closed the door and cried because she 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.880 didn't want me to know how scared she was. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:50.520 You see what I'm saying. 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.800 So I knew what Dumar Hamlin's family could be feeling 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.679 at that point in time. I had my teammates come 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.839 into my room after my surgery, who had been told I. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.080 Was going to be alright, who had been told I 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.800 was going to heal. I witnessed how. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.400 Angry they got up on seeing me and laying eyes 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.240 on me and realizing it was so much worse than 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.920 what they were being told, right, so much worse than 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:20.480 the communication the training staff was giving them leaving the room, 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.000 trying to fight the trainers when they go back to 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.000 the facility. And so I was able to wrap sort 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:29.720 of all those experiences up and communicate them in a 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.720 way that humanized DeMar Hamlin, that humanized football players, but 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.160 also brought people in on the superhuman things that you 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.880 guys do and can do each and every week. And 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.840 I think that was the reason I got the opportunity 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.040 to win it, and that they say, don't say win 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:49.480 it to receive the Emmy. And you know, like I 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.600 never really got like a lot of individual awards, you know, 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.520 like I'm not gonna be a Hall of Fame player. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:56.160 I look back on it. 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.200 I don't know if my number or like I'll ever 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.679 be in any ring of honor, whether that be college, 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:01.800 high school. 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:02.600 The NFL. 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.080 And so it was kind of like the first individual 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.360 thing I got. But I still just looked at like 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.240 what the team had did. I looked at the things 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.680 my wife had sacrifice while playing and post career, you know, 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.600 I thought about the people I work with every day 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.000 and the way that they push me, the opportunities certain 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:19.880 people gave me to be on TV, and I think 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.360 that's what it was more about. And you know, it's 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.800 one of those things I didn't think about winning it before. 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.840 I understand the process now and I think it'd be 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.920 cool to win one again, but like, I don't focus 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.160 on it because it's kind of like been there, done that. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.400 They can't take it away from me, like forever until 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:41.000 I passed. I'll be a Sports Emmy winner, you know. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.200 And I can live my life with that and think 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.320 that that's cool, But you know it, it's about cam. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.480 If I don't have the respect to y'all dudes, bro, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:48.559 it don't matter. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:50.920 Like when I get to the game, man, Like how 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:52.439 you know I saw you on the field in Kansas 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.120 City and you come dap me up and we can 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.560 have those conversations. That means the world to me because 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.319 I didn't I wasn't drafted. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.600 You know what I mean. I didn't have this career. 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.960 Where everybody has to respect me or will just respect 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:12.679 me based on numbers. So I really appreciate when the 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.800 best players in the game, like yourself, do respect what 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.320 I do, what I've done in my career or what 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.280 I've done on TV, and so I think that's like 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.120 the part that matters the most for sure. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.680 I mean that, and you're still you know, you still 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.640 were a Pro Bowl player. It's not like you were 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:31.280 a guy who just like you know, did something, did something. 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.880 You were part of a vaunted defense and what a 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.040 Pro Bowl color player and oh, by the way, one 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:40.000 you know, like one at the highest level. Yeah sure, 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.480 that's yeah, So you can't do I'm not going to 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.440 just let it, let you belittle yourself in terms of 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:45.040 like I didn't do it. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.120 You were a Pro Bowl player, you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah. 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.160 But Cam, but you know, you know how it is, 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.440 though Camp, It's like like that there are certain ways 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.800 we see ourselves that it's hard to forget what that 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.320 felt like, right, Like, like it's hard to it's hard 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.600 for me to forget Tom Kafflin telling me there were 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.480 other leagues, you know what I'm saying, telling me that 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.480 the Canadian that they played football in Canada, or that 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.920 they had arena ball, or that maybe you should focus 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:15.080 on special teams and you could get another shot, or 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.880 you know, like we just don't know if you can 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:22.040 hold up for sixteen games, and it's like it's so 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.480 cliche to have on a chip on your shoulder. 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.400 I actually didn't, you know, like I didn't have this chip. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.760 Like for me, it was like it was processing all 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.360 the things I had been told I couldn't do and 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.800 trying to figure out a way that you could do 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:42.200 them if those perceived limitations were real. And like I 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.960 love that, like about the journey and so yeah, I'm 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.600 so blessed to have accomplished what I've accomplished and played 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.800 with the people I played with. But I said what 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:51.840 I said about you as a player and the respect 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.600 and the appreciation you give me, the love that you 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.320 give me, How grateful I am for that. 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.480 Because when Troy Polamalu said, is that. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.280 Like you know, calls me when he gets into the 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.520 Hall of Fame and say we did it, we made it, 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.720 you know what I mean? Like that meant the world 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.320 to me, you know what I mean When when he 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.120 called me when he won the Defensive Player of the 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.720 Year in twenty ten and was like, bro, we won it. 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:20.000 You know, like those things are important. 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.320 When Sean Taylor before he passed, was asked who his 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:27.800 favorite professional athlete was and he said, Ryan Clark, you know, 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.360 like for an undrafted dude, man for a dude that 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.880 was told he couldn't do it. And I think for 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:37.960 someone who basically put like individual accolades out of mind 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.040 in one of those senses that I felt like I 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.280 would never get him. You know, it's like you almost 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.520 convince yourself like I'm not getting those things because those 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.480 things aren't meant for me, or I'm not making it 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.400 to Pro Bowls because people don't see me that way. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.200 You know, I remember walking bro one year, man, I 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:55.400 think it was the year we went to the Super 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.280 Bowl and won it. I didn't make the Pro Bowl 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.640 that year, and I wasn't even disappointed because I guess 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.920 I just never expected to. And Coach Tomlin's walking with 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.040 me away from meeting, you know when they tell you know, Cam, 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.239 you know you made the Pro Bowl. However, however, it 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.239 goes when you're celebrating the people that make it. And 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.760 he put his own around me, and he goes, what's 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.879 more important than making the Pro Bowl is working with 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.040 a group of men that know you gave him Pro 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:30.040 Bowl caliber play the entire season. So those small affirmations 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:34.040 and confirmations became like part of the reason I worked 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.840 so hard. Uh, And so I guess I don't really 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:40.199 necessarily always need people to talk about the career in 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.520 that way because I feel like I earned the respect 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:43.480 of the people that matter. 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:48.360 Stay tuned, we'll be right back. I'm gonna start leaning 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.280 on your analyst work. What did you see in week 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.439 seven that you liked? Like, let'sen, I'm gonna be a 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:53.359 big pivot right there. 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:57.080 From okay, from the from the from the week just overall. Yeah, 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.880 over I mean I think that I think the first. 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:01.119 Thing start with Lamar bro. 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.640 You know, Lamar is getting in the Ravens, and I'll 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.919 be honest that you can. When they signed Dereck Henry, 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:11.439 I was like, all right, like, what does that do? 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.720 We're talking about a team that could always run the football, right. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.040 It wasn't like the Baltimore Ravens were one of these 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.640 teams who lacked the running game. They could always run 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.919 the ball since drafting Lamar, So I was like, Okay, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.479 what does this do? How does this elevate them? And 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:30.240 now I see it's look at Derrick Henry being stopped 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:31.959 for most of the game and then he rips went 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:33.160