Speaker 1: Here we are off the Edge with Cam Jordans Man.
Speaker 2: I'm grace with the presidence.
Speaker 1: Of a guy from Louisiana.
Speaker 2: I swear he was from New Orleans and found out
Speaker 2: he's from the West Bank.
Speaker 1: I digress a.
Speaker 2: Man who went to LSU, you know, played thirteen seasons
Speaker 2: in the NFL. A pro bowler, my rookiear in the league.
Speaker 2: Twenty eleven podcaster term media mogul savant if you will,
Speaker 2: Ryan Clark appreciates you, big dog, for coming on the podcast.
Speaker 1: You're a West.
Speaker 3: Banker, Yeah, man from the West Bank. Man.
Speaker 4: I grew up in Murrero and my family moved to
Speaker 4: Terrytown and you know too, Like being a West Banker
Speaker 4: is a sensitive subject for people who are from the
Speaker 4: greater city of New Orleans. And so anytime I would
Speaker 4: say something negative about the Saints or I'd pissed people
Speaker 4: down there off, the first thing they'd say is that
Speaker 4: they don't claim me because I'm from the West Bank,
Speaker 4: which I'm cool with.
Speaker 3: I mean, my area code was still five O four,
Speaker 3: so I ain't tripping.
Speaker 2: Right right if you're from the best bank, you know
Speaker 2: over there at Harvey and everything else. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 2: movie theater I go to, I prefer because not everybody's
Speaker 2: willing to go to the West Bank, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean listen, you know, it's like it's one
Speaker 4: of those crazy things that if you're not from there,
Speaker 4: you actually don't understand it. And they're probably people listening
Speaker 4: to this conversation and thinking, like, what's the West Bank,
Speaker 4: what's the East Bank or whatever it is? And you
Speaker 4: would yeah, and you would think it's only separated by
Speaker 4: the Mississippi River.
Speaker 3: It wouldn't be that big of a deal.
Speaker 4: But like if you ask people like Tying who you've
Speaker 4: played with, who played for Sata, which is the rival
Speaker 4: school to the high school that I went to, Archbishop Shaw,
Speaker 4: Like you find out man, that people take that jug
Speaker 4: extremely serious.
Speaker 1: No doubt.
Speaker 2: You know, I think we played with the same teammates.
Speaker 2: Keenan Lewis, Who's who's a west Baker? You know you
Speaker 2: played with the I played at the Saints. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: west Bank is is a super serious thing. Again, It's
Speaker 2: literally just a bridge. It's a five minute drive from
Speaker 2: downtown New Orleans to the West.
Speaker 3: Con But wait, bro let me tell you.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you this is Keenan got mad at
Speaker 4: me recently and DM me like, really hot, bro, really
Speaker 4: mad A man, I haven't heard from Keenan. Shoot, maybe
Speaker 4: since he became a saint or since this, you know,
Speaker 4: football career was over. I was just telling this story
Speaker 4: about Antonio Brown and how like pretty much the whole
Speaker 4: entire defense tried to fight Antonio one day. It was
Speaker 4: the day he signed this deal. Bro, he got that
Speaker 4: new money. Him and Keenan doing one on ones, And
Speaker 4: the way I explained the story, Keenan didn't remember it
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 3: And what's crazy.
Speaker 4: About it is so many of my other old teammates
Speaker 4: remembered it exactly the same way. Like on the post,
Speaker 4: they're saying, man, I remember that day, just how it happened.
Speaker 3: Wo right.
Speaker 4: And then here was Keenan hot with me, being like, Bro,
Speaker 4: you know how you talk to Bro.
Speaker 3: You ain't gonna me Bro, Hey, brother, you ain't gonna
Speaker 3: play with me.
Speaker 4: And like so much so me and Keenan got on
Speaker 4: the phone to have to try to like hash this
Speaker 4: story out, and like that's the crazy thing about being
Speaker 4: in the media or podcasting or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: It's like always say.
Speaker 4: All of these stories aren't just our stories, so you
Speaker 4: do have to be like extremely careful how you tell them.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, but the fact you had the co signed by
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of teammates. But uh, man, like I said,
Speaker 2: I appreciate you hopping on the pod you know, pivot
Speaker 2: too or what even got you in the media space?
Speaker 2: You know you you went from like the old school
Speaker 2: way of football of like there's no such thing as
Speaker 2: like social media. There's definitely no such thing as it's
Speaker 2: twitch and streaming, live streaming, pod casting during the season.
Speaker 2: Guys used to have a vlog in like twenty ten eleven,
Speaker 2: and you get.
Speaker 1: Chasted on the team.
Speaker 3: I'm just that old.
Speaker 1: I'm saying. My rookie year, there was a.
Speaker 2: Guy maybe twenty twelve had a vlog of a training
Speaker 2: camp and the coaches like flipped their lid, you know,
Speaker 2: like what are we doing? You know, this is how
Speaker 2: we do football, and now it's who doesn't have a podcast?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I will say this, man, the Steelers were
Speaker 4: really good about it. So my entire time in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 4: I had a radio show and eventually had this TV
Speaker 4: show that would come on every two weeks on KDKA
Speaker 4: that was hosted with one of the local news guys.
Speaker 3: And so I always was into the media and then
Speaker 3: you know how it is.
Speaker 4: Cam O'Hara was back then in the off season and
Speaker 4: it's still a little bit of that now in the
Speaker 4: off season, ESPN and bring you in an NFL.
Speaker 3: Network, what would bring you in? And I would do
Speaker 3: pretty well, you know, during the car washes and all
Speaker 3: those things. And so the Super Bowl in New Orleans,
Speaker 3: San Francisco, Baltimore.
Speaker 4: I tweeted one day that I wanted to do like
Speaker 4: a TV internship.
Speaker 3: I wanted to learn the business, just be a regular
Speaker 3: analyst for Space. And Trey Wingo introduces me.
Speaker 4: To Seth Market marketan who is my boss now at ESPN,
Speaker 4: and I tell them what I wanted to do. I
Speaker 4: was like, I want to work for an entire week.
Speaker 4: I want to get my schedule like the analysts do.
Speaker 4: I want to be on every show, whatever it is.
Speaker 4: So I do that and the agent calls me the
Speaker 4: week after and says, I believe I can get you
Speaker 4: paid to do TV while you play now like you're right,
Speaker 4: Like if you had a vlog back in those days,
Speaker 4: it was a big deal. So imagine me walking into
Speaker 4: the Pittsburgh Steel With saying I'm going to sign this
Speaker 4: TV contract and my first contract was for forty days
Speaker 4: a year, so I worked in the off season, I
Speaker 4: worked in the bye weeks. I did NFL Live every
Speaker 4: Tuesday from the building, and they really helped me with that.
Speaker 3: But they also understood like how.
Speaker 4: Dedicated I was to football as well, but I was
Speaker 4: building an opportunity for a second career.
Speaker 3: So that's where it started.
Speaker 4: And then I retired on TV for ESPN while accepting
Speaker 4: my job for my next career at the Combine after
Speaker 4: my last year.
Speaker 3: So it was really cool.
Speaker 4: How I got into it, and I like to say
Speaker 4: that I was sort of like first of one of
Speaker 4: those dudes who started planning for that post football career
Speaker 4: while playing very publicly, you know, to that end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll say, guys like you.
Speaker 2: Uh while while I was, you know, a pup in
Speaker 2: the league, I was like, we're looking at guys like you,
Speaker 2: I I.
Speaker 1: Taylor, you know, you know. And then of course Big
Speaker 1: Swag hit the scene.
Speaker 2: And worked as well. You know, Marcus spears. It must
Speaker 2: be a losing anything, but.
Speaker 3: We like, we like to talk.
Speaker 4: You've been on there long enough, bro, you know, we
Speaker 4: ain't never been shy about talking.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, and then the person and
Speaker 3: the personalities.
Speaker 4: I do think too, just with the ways that we are,
Speaker 4: I think the personalities translated well to TV. Like for you,
Speaker 4: we've watched you do interview your entire career, and I'm
Speaker 4: pretty sure most times you finished speaking, somebody tells you
Speaker 4: you're going to be great on TV or people told
Speaker 4: you that early on in your career. And so when
Speaker 4: people start to plant that bug, I think it makes
Speaker 4: you start to focus on how do I start building that?
Speaker 3: And in your case, you know you've.
Speaker 4: Done a great job, not only with this. I've seen
Speaker 4: you work the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: I've seen you, you.
Speaker 4: Know, be on different networks and show people you can
Speaker 4: do it. And so now when you transition you can
Speaker 4: have some of those options. So kudos to you as well,
Speaker 4: you know, a Hall of Fame career, but still planning
Speaker 4: to do things afterwards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: I tell people I'm like, I'm overly obsessive about things
Speaker 2: that I care about and football I'm overly obsessive. And
Speaker 2: I was like, you know, they're like, oh, for every person,
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, you're really good on TV.
Speaker 1: You should do that. No, all I want to do
Speaker 1: is hit people until I can't hit people anymore.
Speaker 2: And then you know, but in the eventuality of one day,
Speaker 2: you know it's over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad that you know that.
Speaker 2: I've been working Super Bowl since before I was it
Speaker 2: was cool to even work Super Bowls. You know, before
Speaker 2: the it was a car wash or to get paid
Speaker 2: to even work super Bowl because as a defensive lineman
Speaker 2: coming out of the Saints, it's not the most marketable team.
Speaker 2: I'll let your name was Drew Brees in twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: You know, we've got way better, way better.
Speaker 4: And also too, you got to thank Cam and like,
Speaker 4: this was my mindset, right. I knew I didn't want
Speaker 4: to just be like one of the rotational pieces of
Speaker 4: the media where you might see me on this show,
Speaker 4: you might see me on that show, but you never
Speaker 4: truly get a foothold in the game to where you
Speaker 4: have your own space, you have your own brand.
Speaker 3: I wasn't a quarterback.
Speaker 4: I wasn't going to be a Hall of Fame player,
Speaker 4: and so I had to understand those things and get
Speaker 4: into the business the.
Speaker 3: Best way I knew. How while my name was still hot.
Speaker 3: You know, they're going to be some.
Speaker 4: Players whose careers are so great, whose names are so
Speaker 4: big that they could take some time off and then
Speaker 4: come back to TV and be received extremely well or
Speaker 4: be welcomed into the sort of jobs that they feel
Speaker 4: that they deserved. I didn't think that was going to
Speaker 4: be something I had a chance or an opportunity to do,
Speaker 4: and I think that was why I planned the way
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 1: Mmm.
Speaker 2: I mean you worked your way up, man, you took
Speaker 2: over and now you know, co host of the ESPN
Speaker 2: as analyst, co host of The Pivot. You know you
Speaker 2: wanted you want an Emmy. Like, in my mind, there's
Speaker 2: a couple of guys that sort of like fit that
Speaker 2: mode of transitioning beyond football as a player, and you're
Speaker 2: definitely one of them, you know. Nate Burrowson is another one,
Speaker 2: you know for sure, But you're in that category. Bro,
Speaker 2: you want you want an Emmy? What does that even
Speaker 2: feel like? Can you compare it to something? Because I
Speaker 2: mean Pro Bowl, pro bo, I've been to Emmy. I've
Speaker 2: never even thought.
Speaker 4: About Yeah, you know, like I didn't really think about
Speaker 4: it either. You know, it was something it didn't really
Speaker 4: feel like that was something that was available to me.
Speaker 3: Oh, I got smart sense going off in the background
Speaker 3: because I want a celebration. I want to Emmy, you know,
Speaker 3: and Cam.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I think it all came about because of the
Speaker 4: night DeMar Hamlin had his cardiac arrest. I was on
Speaker 4: TV when nobody else was on TV to talk about it.
Speaker 4: I was on the same network that the injury happened,
Speaker 4: and so everybody was fixated on that moment, and it
Speaker 4: was just myself and Scott Van Pelt sitting there and
Speaker 4: we had to take the world through this therapy session.
Speaker 4: You know, I never started a season like I'm gonna
Speaker 4: win an Emmy. I never thought that my name was
Speaker 4: big enough or I did the sort of work that
Speaker 4: was gonna put those eyeballs on me, because I was
Speaker 4: just on ESPN and that necessarily wasn't the biggest name.
Speaker 4: But I think God prepared me for that opportunity, you know,
Speaker 4: like I was one of the very I'm one of
Speaker 4: the very few players who had a football injury or
Speaker 4: incident almost cost him his life.
Speaker 3: You know. I had a doctor walk into my room
Speaker 3: and tell me we can't figure out what's wrong with you.
Speaker 4: We should pray, and I'm looking at him like, nah, bro,
Speaker 4: like you're supposed to do the medicine.
Speaker 3: I've been having folks praying for me for months.
Speaker 4: You know, like I'm looking. I'm looking to you to
Speaker 4: tell me what's wrong with me and figure out a
Speaker 4: medical way to get me better. And so I've been
Speaker 4: in that position, and I've also been in the position
Speaker 4: of knowing, with all of those things going on, I
Speaker 4: was willing to risk my life for this game.
Speaker 3: Again, you know.
Speaker 4: So I understood that, understood what the game means to us,
Speaker 4: how much we're willing to give for like you say,
Speaker 4: be overly obsessive about it. But I also understood the
Speaker 4: human side of it.
Speaker 3: You know. I understood my wife telling me after.
Speaker 4: I had my surgery that every night she went into
Speaker 4: the bathroom and closed the door and cried because she
Speaker 4: didn't want me to know how scared she was.
Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So I knew what Dumar Hamlin's family could be feeling
Speaker 4: at that point in time. I had my teammates come
Speaker 4: into my room after my surgery, who had been told I.
Speaker 3: Was going to be alright, who had been told I
Speaker 3: was going to heal. I witnessed how.
Speaker 4: Angry they got up on seeing me and laying eyes
Speaker 4: on me and realizing it was so much worse than
Speaker 4: what they were being told, right, so much worse than
Speaker 4: the communication the training staff was giving them leaving the room,
Speaker 4: trying to fight the trainers when they go back to
Speaker 4: the facility. And so I was able to wrap sort
Speaker 4: of all those experiences up and communicate them in a
Speaker 4: way that humanized DeMar Hamlin, that humanized football players, but
Speaker 4: also brought people in on the superhuman things that you
Speaker 4: guys do and can do each and every week. And
Speaker 4: I think that was the reason I got the opportunity
Speaker 4: to win it, and that they say, don't say win
Speaker 4: it to receive the Emmy. And you know, like I
Speaker 4: never really got like a lot of individual awards, you know,
Speaker 4: like I'm not gonna be a Hall of Fame player.
Speaker 3: I look back on it.
Speaker 4: I don't know if my number or like I'll ever
Speaker 4: be in any ring of honor, whether that be college,
Speaker 4: high school.
Speaker 3: The NFL.
Speaker 4: And so it was kind of like the first individual
Speaker 4: thing I got. But I still just looked at like
Speaker 4: what the team had did. I looked at the things
Speaker 4: my wife had sacrifice while playing and post career, you know,
Speaker 4: I thought about the people I work with every day
Speaker 4: and the way that they push me, the opportunities certain
Speaker 4: people gave me to be on TV, and I think
Speaker 4: that's what it was more about. And you know, it's
Speaker 4: one of those things I didn't think about winning it before.
Speaker 4: I understand the process now and I think it'd be
Speaker 4: cool to win one again, but like, I don't focus
Speaker 4: on it because it's kind of like been there, done that.
Speaker 4: They can't take it away from me, like forever until
Speaker 4: I passed. I'll be a Sports Emmy winner, you know.
Speaker 4: And I can live my life with that and think
Speaker 4: that that's cool, But you know it, it's about cam.
Speaker 3: If I don't have the respect to y'all dudes, bro,
Speaker 3: it don't matter.
Speaker 4: Like when I get to the game, man, Like how
Speaker 4: you know I saw you on the field in Kansas
Speaker 4: City and you come dap me up and we can
Speaker 4: have those conversations. That means the world to me because
Speaker 4: I didn't I wasn't drafted.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. I didn't have this career.
Speaker 4: Where everybody has to respect me or will just respect
Speaker 4: me based on numbers. So I really appreciate when the
Speaker 4: best players in the game, like yourself, do respect what
Speaker 4: I do, what I've done in my career or what
Speaker 4: I've done on TV, and so I think that's like
Speaker 4: the part that matters the most for sure.
Speaker 2: I mean that, and you're still you know, you still
Speaker 2: were a Pro Bowl player. It's not like you were
Speaker 2: a guy who just like you know, did something, did something.
Speaker 2: You were part of a vaunted defense and what a
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl color player and oh, by the way, one
Speaker 2: you know, like one at the highest level. Yeah sure,
Speaker 2: that's yeah, So you can't do I'm not going to
Speaker 2: just let it, let you belittle yourself in terms of
Speaker 2: like I didn't do it.
Speaker 1: You were a Pro Bowl player, you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah.
Speaker 4: But Cam, but you know, you know how it is,
Speaker 4: though Camp, It's like like that there are certain ways
Speaker 4: we see ourselves that it's hard to forget what that
Speaker 4: felt like, right, Like, like it's hard to it's hard
Speaker 4: for me to forget Tom Kafflin telling me there were
Speaker 4: other leagues, you know what I'm saying, telling me that
Speaker 4: the Canadian that they played football in Canada, or that
Speaker 4: they had arena ball, or that maybe you should focus
Speaker 4: on special teams and you could get another shot, or
Speaker 4: you know, like we just don't know if you can
Speaker 4: hold up for sixteen games, and it's like it's so
Speaker 4: cliche to have on a chip on your shoulder.
Speaker 3: I actually didn't, you know, like I didn't have this chip.
Speaker 4: Like for me, it was like it was processing all
Speaker 4: the things I had been told I couldn't do and
Speaker 4: trying to figure out a way that you could do
Speaker 4: them if those perceived limitations were real. And like I
Speaker 4: love that, like about the journey and so yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: so blessed to have accomplished what I've accomplished and played
Speaker 4: with the people I played with. But I said what
Speaker 4: I said about you as a player and the respect
Speaker 4: and the appreciation you give me, the love that you
Speaker 4: give me, How grateful I am for that.
Speaker 3: Because when Troy Polamalu said, is that.
Speaker 4: Like you know, calls me when he gets into the
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame and say we did it, we made it,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean? Like that meant the world
Speaker 4: to me, you know what I mean When when he
Speaker 4: called me when he won the Defensive Player of the
Speaker 4: Year in twenty ten and was like, bro, we won it.
Speaker 3: You know, like those things are important.
Speaker 4: When Sean Taylor before he passed, was asked who his
Speaker 4: favorite professional athlete was and he said, Ryan Clark, you know,
Speaker 4: like for an undrafted dude, man for a dude that
Speaker 4: was told he couldn't do it. And I think for
Speaker 4: someone who basically put like individual accolades out of mind
Speaker 4: in one of those senses that I felt like I
Speaker 4: would never get him. You know, it's like you almost
Speaker 4: convince yourself like I'm not getting those things because those
Speaker 4: things aren't meant for me, or I'm not making it
Speaker 4: to Pro Bowls because people don't see me that way.
Speaker 4: You know, I remember walking bro one year, man, I
Speaker 4: think it was the year we went to the Super
Speaker 4: Bowl and won it. I didn't make the Pro Bowl
Speaker 4: that year, and I wasn't even disappointed because I guess
Speaker 4: I just never expected to. And Coach Tomlin's walking with
Speaker 4: me away from meeting, you know when they tell you know, Cam,
Speaker 4: you know you made the Pro Bowl. However, however, it
Speaker 4: goes when you're celebrating the people that make it. And
Speaker 4: he put his own around me, and he goes, what's
Speaker 4: more important than making the Pro Bowl is working with
Speaker 4: a group of men that know you gave him Pro
Speaker 4: Bowl caliber play the entire season. So those small affirmations
Speaker 4: and confirmations became like part of the reason I worked
Speaker 4: so hard. Uh, And so I guess I don't really
Speaker 4: necessarily always need people to talk about the career in
Speaker 4: that way because I feel like I earned the respect
Speaker 4: of the people that matter.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned, we'll be right back. I'm gonna start leaning
Speaker 2: on your analyst work. What did you see in week
Speaker 2: seven that you liked? Like, let'sen, I'm gonna be a
Speaker 2: big pivot right there.
Speaker 4: From okay, from the from the from the week just overall. Yeah,
Speaker 4: over I mean I think that I think the first.
Speaker 3: Thing start with Lamar bro.
Speaker 4: You know, Lamar is getting in the Ravens, and I'll
Speaker 4: be honest that you can. When they signed Dereck Henry,
Speaker 4: I was like, all right, like, what does that do?
Speaker 4: We're talking about a team that could always run the football, right.
Speaker 4: It wasn't like the Baltimore Ravens were one of these
Speaker 4: teams who lacked the running game. They could always run
Speaker 4: the ball since drafting Lamar, So I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: what does this do? How does this elevate them? And
Speaker 4: now I see it's look at Derrick Henry being stopped
Speaker 4: for most of the game and then he rips went
Speaker 4: off for eighty one.
Speaker 3: And you know that's a point. That's a point in
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 4: If I'm defense right, I'm saying, we got him backed up,
Speaker 4: let's get a stop, let's get a short field, give
Speaker 4: our offense the ball. We score, you know, we try
Speaker 4: to get the football back. We could get back in
Speaker 4: this game. And then he goes for eighty one at
Speaker 4: two point fifty at twenty one miles per hour, And
Speaker 4: now you stack in the box. You're putting eight people
Speaker 4: in the box every snap, and Zay Flowers and Rashad
Speaker 4: Bateman out here cooking folks one on one, and our
Speaker 4: passing game is elevated by the way when he wants
Speaker 4: to run, he's the best athlete on the field. And
Speaker 4: so I think just watching them play Tampa Bay, Bro
Speaker 4: and score at ease after having a slow start was
Speaker 4: just one of those things that really made you sit
Speaker 4: back and marvel at his at his greatness, and at
Speaker 4: what Derrick Henry's added to that team. And also too, Bro,
Speaker 4: I realize now I probably will never say another negative
Speaker 4: thing about Patrick Mahons, like even if, like, like, if
Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes throws five picks, I'm gonna blame it on
Speaker 4: somebody else.
Speaker 3: Cam it's going to be the weather, somebody ran the
Speaker 3: wrong route. He don't feel well.
Speaker 4: The kids kept him up because it's like, no matter
Speaker 4: what happens, when it gets to situational football moments, the
Speaker 4: dude just shows up.
Speaker 1: You can't teach that, you know.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, bro, because he throws the two picks
Speaker 4: and he's like, man, Patrick is like sort of playing
Speaker 4: well right now.
Speaker 3: And I went to tweet it. I was like, you
Speaker 3: better stop that, fingers.
Speaker 4: We're not finna go out here and say nothing bad
Speaker 4: about Patrick Mahomes because I knew it was gonna get
Speaker 4: late in the game. And you know, he already went
Speaker 4: like his feet hurt, like he runs like he was
Speaker 4: born with playing fasci itis, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So then he and so and so.
Speaker 4: Then he gets the thirty three yard run. He runs
Speaker 4: over Mustafa for the touchdown. It's a thirty to eight play.
Speaker 4: Scrambles gets out of the pocket, throws the ball to Noah. Great,
Speaker 4: and then you're like, they go Patrick doing that Patrick
Speaker 4: stuff again.
Speaker 3: And I thought that Pat.
Speaker 1: Lowered his shoulder.
Speaker 2: Let's Pat lowered his shoulder and reminded the world he's
Speaker 2: like that he two forty.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now now it kind of pissed me off as a
Speaker 4: safety though, right because you got to break some pads
Speaker 4: to Pat now because he running over safeties.
Speaker 3: You know, once they do it one time, they gonna
Speaker 3: keep doing it. Take us for salt. Yeah, they take
Speaker 3: us for salt.
Speaker 2: I'm one of those pause right there and only like,
Speaker 2: I also disliked the way that the game has has
Speaker 2: has sort of inhibited defensive players to hit quarterbacks in general,
Speaker 2: because he's like, all right, let me just get him
Speaker 2: down and Pat was like, no, I'm getting this touchdown
Speaker 2: and let's call it ten years ago.
Speaker 1: We're taking his knees out. Now it's hey, it's a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Hit him, don't don't hip drop.
Speaker 2: Tackle him, don't hit him too high, because they're targeting
Speaker 2: You're you're dealing in a complete different era.
Speaker 3: Cam think about the think about the long run though.
Speaker 4: People are tiptoeing to the sideline expecting him to run out,
Speaker 4: and because he doesn't run out, you know, and I
Speaker 4: think we've seen it. You've seen that all around the game, man,
Speaker 4: and you know, for you guys to have to make
Speaker 4: the adjustments that you have, I know that's already ready difficult,
Speaker 4: But it's the frustration of them taking advantage of those rules,
Speaker 4: Like if you slide and I can't hit you, cool, right,
Speaker 4: that's where you were going to be regardless, But when
Speaker 4: you take advantage of it and get the extra yards,
Speaker 4: or if you're a Mustafa and you get ran over
Speaker 4: in the end zone because even as you're approaching, you're not.
Speaker 4: You don't your mind doesn't click into now he's a runner,
Speaker 4: you see what I'm saying, And so now I can
Speaker 4: tackle him differently. And I think the last thing, too, Cam,
Speaker 4: is that like Detroit's offense, Bro, what Ben Johnson is doing, Like,
Speaker 4: I don't know why he never wants to take a
Speaker 4: head coaching job, And if I'm Dan Campbell, I do
Speaker 4: everything I possibly can to continue to convince him to
Speaker 4: turn down those jobs. Because Minnesota has been giving people
Speaker 4: so much trouble with their pressure packages and the fire
Speaker 4: zone split safety defenses, they could play behind it, switching
Speaker 4: that to a drop zero and Jared Goff cooked them
Speaker 4: bro fourteen for fourteen to start the game. The big
Speaker 4: play to Amara Saint Brown finishes with the drive to
Speaker 4: set them up for a field goal. So I just
Speaker 4: thought all those teams were extremely impressive.
Speaker 2: Man, these are these are facts. I'll say, So what
Speaker 2: about what about this upcoming week? Who are you excited
Speaker 2: to say? Week eight?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So so week eight?
Speaker 4: You know, I was probably more excited to see this
Speaker 4: matchup before Jaden Daniels got injured. We were supposed to
Speaker 4: see the Commanders versus the Bears where you can see
Speaker 4: number one and number two pick right, and and Caleb
Speaker 4: was trending and playing better right, He's trending upwards.
Speaker 3: And Jayden Daniels has taken the league by storm, and
Speaker 3: so I kind of playing lightshouse.
Speaker 4: I wanted to see that matchup and what was to
Speaker 4: come up because you were a competitor, right, And if
Speaker 4: I'm Caleb Williams, I'm like, wait, y'all keep talking about this, dude,
Speaker 4: Like I ain't the one, right, And if you're Jaden,
Speaker 4: if you're Jada Daniels's like, yeah, like Chicago, You're gonna
Speaker 4: wish you would.
Speaker 3: Have picked me, you know. So, and so like that
Speaker 3: was that was something you know, I was looking forward to.
Speaker 4: I think the other thing is like how does or
Speaker 4: how do the Bengals who can't stop the run at
Speaker 4: all figure out how to limit Sakwon Barkley with what
Speaker 4: we saw from him last week against the New York Giants.
Speaker 3: Right. Remindre Stevenson had a big day.
Speaker 4: Uh, Derrick Henry had a big day against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 4: Chuba Hubbard in Carolina, even in the loss, was able
Speaker 4: to rack up yards. And I feel like the Philadelphia
Speaker 4: Eagles are starting to realize like who sa Quan truly
Speaker 4: is to them, and they have to put the football
Speaker 4: in his hands. And I want to see if Luana
Speaker 4: Rumo could come up with a way to stop them,
Speaker 4: because the Bengals have to win or they could be
Speaker 4: pushing themselves out of playoff contention. And one of the
Speaker 4: best quarterbacks in the NFL. And so those are two
Speaker 4: things I'm really looking forward to seeing.
Speaker 2: M hmm, I'm I'm just gonna add on the third.
Speaker 2: I think the Saints going to l A and beat
Speaker 2: the Chargers is what it is. That's that's my prediction.
Speaker 3: I mean the Chargers. The Chargers aren't very good. Let's
Speaker 3: hope they aren't the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just let's just hope we're getting healthier. We're
Speaker 2: getting healthier as the weeks go on. We just had
Speaker 2: a mini buy cam not getting healthier.
Speaker 1: You're getting healthier, cam.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll be going to canal.
Speaker 1: Like no the o.
Speaker 2: You know, back in the they used to hit Bourbon
Speaker 2: and like I feel like the liquor would keep you
Speaker 2: loose enough so you don't feel those pains. Now everybody's
Speaker 2: you know, so locked in and focused in on prehab, rehab,
Speaker 2: you know, and eating the right way. There's like a
Speaker 2: rigid movement to the body.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't you know that's so.
Speaker 3: You guys are too healthy to.
Speaker 2: Too strict in our in our dietary meals, Like this
Speaker 2: is not a lot of limbo. So you know, the
Speaker 2: guys guys got hurt. Uh you know uh Jovic Jovid,
Speaker 2: our linebacker coach years ago. But like you know, what
Speaker 2: everybody wants to eat and what to eat these clean
Speaker 2: chicken and qing wall. You guys need to go out
Speaker 2: and have a steak in a burger, you know, get
Speaker 2: some get some greas and and fat new system.
Speaker 1: And like.
Speaker 2: I'm sort of leaning on maybe we need some you know,
Speaker 2: some some some fat and grease in the system just
Speaker 2: just is what it is.
Speaker 1: Maybe Dan.
Speaker 2: Skinny Skinny Cam is fully boughty on keen wall keen
Speaker 2: wall and uh and cabbage uh you know steamed not
Speaker 2: sawted and and and juiced.
Speaker 1: Uff, no good water, no sodas you know, except for.
Speaker 3: You're not You're not eating cabbage. You're not eating cabbage.
Speaker 3: The New Orleans Blackaway is what you're trying.
Speaker 2: To know, exactly exactly nothing stuff, No chicken stock, no bacon,
Speaker 2: no nothing, no no, no steamed sauteed avocado oil. You
Speaker 2: know there's skinny. You just stay skinny. You gotta you know,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be right and fast.
Speaker 3: You're echo like that. Ain't even cabbage.
Speaker 1: That's one of my moms right there.
Speaker 2: But I know, look, I know you got to go.
Speaker 2: So I appreciate you spending your time bro shooting shooting
Speaker 2: with me. You you you're nothing, but you were nothing
Speaker 2: but a consumme of pro on the field. Off the field,
Speaker 2: you're nothing but somebody who I still look up to
Speaker 2: for everything that you're doing. Great family man, you know,
Speaker 2: great anilests. I don't know if I'd ever want to
Speaker 2: be an analyst, but like you know it even even
Speaker 2: the podcast, the way you hold it down and major
Speaker 2: major moves to now be in the pivot.
Speaker 5: That's that's huge in the way that Yeah, man, the
Speaker 5: way that you're able to empathize as well as just
Speaker 5: you know, give a viewer the same feels that they
Speaker 5: that you have is nothing short but incredible.
Speaker 2: So appreciate you from tapping in with off the edgric
Speaker 2: Candra absolutely a shout out to Ryan Clark for the
Speaker 2: knowledge dropped. I mean the man, the man is become
Speaker 2: a legendary, Uh, to transition football, to transcend from just
Speaker 2: being a football player undrafted his story, become a Pro bowler,
Speaker 2: become a Super Bowl champion, to become a guy that
Speaker 2: you know, teammates love and respect and can lean on.
Speaker 1: Man, that's what this game is all about. Uh.
Speaker 2: For him to be now all you know the analysts,
Speaker 2: A man who holds his own podcast, a man who
Speaker 2: anchors shows. That's that's awesome to see. Uh. You know,
Speaker 2: when you have a physical representation, you have something, you
Speaker 2: can create a goal ass Uh. But we're talking about,
Speaker 2: you know, back to what the.
Speaker 1: Saints need to do. We're gonna just say we gotta
Speaker 1: get a win and charge in LA.
Speaker 2: We play the Chargers. You gotta go ahead and create
Speaker 2: some opportunities. You utilize Alba Kamara as much as possible.
Speaker 2: You have to be able to, you know, get the
Speaker 2: ball early and often to a guy like Juwan Johnson
Speaker 2: tight end. I'm gonna say, dark horse of the game.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be amazing. I'm speaking fruition. Just you know,
Speaker 2: our run attack ak of course leading the way. But
Speaker 2: you got Jamal Williams and Kendre Miller, who you know
Speaker 2: is back healthy and active again.
Speaker 1: Healthy is the key. As the week's go.
Speaker 2: On, we're starting to get some guys back, hopefully. You know,
Speaker 2: we've gone from eight hour nine hours starters being injured
Speaker 2: to now we're started to finally see them come back.
Speaker 2: Let's get them back so we can get these winds
Speaker 2: stacked up. You know, last week hurt. Thursday night you
Speaker 2: lose a Denver Broncos and you lose to Sean Payton,
Speaker 2: and yet you know there's there's light at the end
Speaker 2: of the tunnel when you look at it and say, hey,
Speaker 2: these are things that we need to clean up.
Speaker 1: That's that's a that's.
Speaker 2: An alarm that we have to be able to make
Speaker 2: sure we we cover. And then so Thursday we lose
Speaker 2: uh families in town, Sister flies in from Germany. She
Speaker 2: lives in Germany now, Uh with a with her husband
Speaker 2: Cassim At, a baldy former teammate.
Speaker 1: Weird awkward another time for another story.
Speaker 2: But you know, come in town and uh, it's it's
Speaker 2: a beautiful situation.
Speaker 1: Guys from from cal showed up. Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, guys like you know Mike Kendricks who played
Speaker 2: for the Philadelphia Eagles, Super Bowl champion, Marv Jones, who
Speaker 2: played eleven years in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You know, Uh, my room for college shows up.
Speaker 2: And then you know, before we have the foundation event,
Speaker 2: Cam Jordan Foundation, a dinner with Cam Jordan's. Where where
Speaker 2: I have I can't we now it's I I have
Speaker 2: the utmost hopes and dreams to create a scholarship for
Speaker 2: kids in New Orleans getting to college, pay for four
Speaker 2: years of college. I don't know how many we can
Speaker 2: get done this year, but we know we're gonna start
Speaker 2: up for next school school year. And of course you
Speaker 2: know we're doing all types of activations in the city,
Speaker 2: whether that's Turkey drives, backpack giveaways, giving bikes during Christmas,
Speaker 2: partner up with any and everybody to address any in
Speaker 2: all community needs. It's been nothing short of a blessing
Speaker 2: to be able to even have my own foundation. So
Speaker 2: from there, you know, Friday night, Cam Jordan's first annual
Speaker 2: celebrity dinner.
Speaker 1: It was a success in my book.
Speaker 2: You know, not only do a teammate show up, the
Speaker 2: people of New Orleans showed up. He showed out and
Speaker 2: just left with the invigorating responsibility of We've already done
Speaker 2: some good in the city, and how much more can
Speaker 2: we do. I'm just reinvigorated of getting back into the
Speaker 2: community that is New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was all positive vibes.
Speaker 2: It went from you know, like we have to focus
Speaker 2: on winning, to God has blessed me so much.
Speaker 1: You know, it's hard not to want to give back.
Speaker 2: It's so awesome to have a charity event like that
Speaker 2: where you see so many people from New Orleans, you know,
Speaker 2: even even a couple of fly ins. I really want
Speaker 2: to see a foundation do well, to succeed, and so
Speaker 2: it's just motivating, which brings us to the weekend of refocusing.
Speaker 2: You know, how much more can I give? How much
Speaker 2: more can we be better? What can we do to
Speaker 2: be a better team, a better teammate, a better community, remember,
Speaker 2: a better brother, a better better father, my brother, husband.
Speaker 2: This four days is just an idea of being thankful,
Speaker 2: thankful to be employed by the Saints. I'm excited, uh
Speaker 2: to to you know, go to the New Orleans Pelicans
Speaker 2: season opener Wednesday versus Chicago Bulls, a home season opener.
Speaker 2: I'm excited for the Saints to take the field once
Speaker 2: again on Sunday to go have a chance to beat
Speaker 2: the Chargers. And that's pretty much all I have. I've
Speaker 2: I've got nothing but the highest of hopes and that's
Speaker 2: the final push with Cam Jordan. Appreciate y'all tapping in,
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Speaker 1: Thank you for everything that will happen, that has happened,
Speaker 1: and it's going to happen. Thank God, bless peace. It
Speaker 1: soft edge with me.
Speaker 2: Cam Joy was treated and shame the