Speaker 1: Here's Cam Jordan's here on my podcast, Off the Edge,
Speaker 1: but yours truly as I got my Steve Jordan's six
Speaker 1: time Pro Bowler jersey behind me, sitting next to my
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl jersey from a couple years back on let's
Speaker 1: call it the eighth Pro Bowl specifically. But I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here and I'm just so blessed to be here because
Speaker 1: we're finally back in the win column as Saints. It
Speaker 1: feels good. A lot of things to talk about. There
Speaker 1: was a head coach change, there was a d line
Speaker 1: coach switch. Shup. You know, there's been a lot happening
Speaker 1: in building, but we're not here to talk about in
Speaker 1: building right now. Save that for the end because I
Speaker 1: got a spell I need to put out there, you know,
Speaker 1: a vibe, a feel of good energy and greatness to
Speaker 1: continue after our win against Atlanta. But being on this pod,
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna bring in Jake Ferguson. As I
Speaker 1: was talking about Pro Bowls with Steve Jordan, Cam Jordan here,
Speaker 1: Jake Ferguson made his first Pro Bowls year. We're going
Speaker 1: to have him to come in and talk to about
Speaker 1: the us A A since we just passed up on
Speaker 1: Veterans Day, Jake Ferson here, I mean touching the pod.
Speaker 1: We only got him for a quick spell. I mean obviously,
Speaker 1: with things transpiring the way they have this last week,
Speaker 1: let's just talk about it. On the open Dak officially
Speaker 1: goes goes undergo season enduring surgery. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about it? Have you talked into Dek?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, seeing him every day, you know,
Speaker 3: it's hard. That's the guy you go to war with
Speaker 3: every single day. That's the guy you prepare weekend with
Speaker 3: week out. You know how it is, and you know,
Speaker 3: when one of those guys go down, it's never easy,
Speaker 3: especially when it's season ending, and to have your leader,
Speaker 3: one of those guys who's up there like that giving
Speaker 3: you messages every day, not being there. It hurts you,
Speaker 3: you know, hurts not only you, hurts the team. And
Speaker 3: I think in the NFL, you know, you talk about
Speaker 3: qbs all the time, and you know, when your starter
Speaker 3: goes down, it there might be a little hiccup here
Speaker 3: and there, there might be some wrinkles that need to
Speaker 3: be figured out a little bit better. And that's true,
Speaker 3: you know that that's just the way it is. But
Speaker 3: all the faith in Cooper Rush tray to hold it down.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, you know, just praying for Dak,
Speaker 3: praying for his recovery, praying for his mental and just
Speaker 3: quick road to recovery.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Pro Bowl last year, you know with
Speaker 1: Deck at Helm and now now you got Cooper Rush.
Speaker 1: I mean for those that don't know, tell me about
Speaker 1: the disruption of the timing, like, do you do you
Speaker 1: have to work do you have to rework on that
Speaker 1: now with Cooper.
Speaker 2: A little bit? It's a little bit of timing.
Speaker 3: Luckily I've had some time with Coop uh to be
Speaker 3: able to work some of that. But yeah, if you
Speaker 3: if you're not you know, if you're only working with
Speaker 3: the one QB when you're with the ones versus the two's,
Speaker 3: you know, you start to work with some timing. There
Speaker 3: might be some guys who might have a little bit
Speaker 3: of a timing issue, but we try to set our
Speaker 3: scheme up to where you know, we're pretty same on
Speaker 3: the timing through and through whatever QB is in. And
Speaker 3: you know, like I said, all the all the faith
Speaker 3: a Coop. My first NFL touchdown was from Cooper Rush,
Speaker 3: so I got all the faith in the guy.
Speaker 2: I love him.
Speaker 1: They got it, got it, you know, obviously a glaring
Speaker 1: you know, since we don't have much time glaring. What
Speaker 1: did you say glaring? Uh? The glaring issue that happened
Speaker 1: this past weekend between uh CD and and Coop. Is
Speaker 1: there a dome problem? Is it? Is it too bright
Speaker 1: in the dome? Like, you know, as as the deepest man,
Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about Yeah, yeah, as as
Speaker 1: a receiver maybe, Like is there a is there a
Speaker 1: situation with the sunlight on and off the field?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Uh, I mean the sun shines through the stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the sun is there every day. I get both points
Speaker 3: of views. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean there's a use, Yeah, you know, there's excuses.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, go, I caught the ball.
Speaker 3: If I would have caught that ball, ceed didn't have
Speaker 3: to look at the sun and see I should.
Speaker 1: Right go go Politically Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. Hey, bro,
Speaker 1: like this is your third year in the league. Is
Speaker 1: what have you learned? How have you grown in the
Speaker 1: last couple of seasons since he's entered the draft or
Speaker 1: entered from University of Wisconsin twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, I think, Uh, you know, the league, everybody's
Speaker 3: a dog, you know what I mean. I remember we
Speaker 3: played my rookie year. We played the Titans and we're
Speaker 3: going through scout and they had some some guys banged
Speaker 3: up on the D line and they were like, yeah,
Speaker 3: this guy you're blocking, I don't know who he is.
Speaker 3: We've never heat dog and me the whole game just
Speaker 3: threw me down. I was getting tossed and didn't make
Speaker 3: a good block the whole game.
Speaker 2: I was like, I thought, y'all didn't know who this
Speaker 2: guy was. And they're like, oh, well sorry, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's it's everybody's a dog. It's a
Speaker 3: doggy dog world. And you know it's it's the NFL.
Speaker 3: It's thirty two teams are the best dudes playing bond.
Speaker 3: You really got to bring it every week.
Speaker 1: I love. I love with scouting departments, Like personnel come
Speaker 1: up and be like, hey, this guy's a great out
Speaker 1: with me. She's like fighting for a life every week.
Speaker 1: Or this guy is like, you know, a yellow dot,
Speaker 1: which means he's just rotational, and those like and you
Speaker 1: go play against and be like, yo, this is high caliber.
Speaker 1: I was like, there's there's starters that aren't playing as
Speaker 1: well as he's he's playing right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that yellow dot just hit me in the square
Speaker 3: in the face's.
Speaker 1: Uh appreciated, but like it's just it's crazy to think about.
Speaker 1: It's like, hell, every every Sunday they say eating and
Speaker 1: give a Sunday because we're comprised of the best of
Speaker 1: the best. You could be like, oh, he's not playing
Speaker 1: well and any like I said, any sunday, anytime that
Speaker 1: game starts, you that snapped to snap to whistle can
Speaker 1: get creal hectic out there, like you know, certified dogs,
Speaker 1: but there's there's Doberman's or watt Wyler's that you don't
Speaker 1: know about, just just out there roaming the gates bro
Speaker 1: until they get their chance. But all right, so tell me,
Speaker 1: tell me about you, what you're here for. You can
Speaker 1: give me, give me, give me the spiel Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, UH today teamed up with us AA, the City
Speaker 3: of Arlington, and the uh uh City of Arlington Fire
Speaker 3: Department and came together today to you know, promote safe
Speaker 3: cooking for Thanksgiving and you know, trying to prevent those
Speaker 3: house fires and the uh the fires that.
Speaker 2: Come with cooking, you know.
Speaker 3: And yeah, so we raised awareness and then we had
Speaker 3: this event huddle up for Home fire Prevention and Safety.
Speaker 3: We had this number come out. It was almost four
Speaker 3: hundred percent increase in insurance claims of house fires over
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving in one day, and so.
Speaker 2: It gets pretty crazy.
Speaker 3: I think it was something close to, you know, sixteen
Speaker 3: hundred calls or claims came in on Thanksgiving, just on
Speaker 3: fires and just came today. Demonstrated a safe way to
Speaker 3: cook the turkey and then demonstrated an unsafe way to
Speaker 3: cook the turkey. Fire went up, put it out with
Speaker 3: some of the fire. Firefighters out here in Arlington, and
Speaker 3: USA actually has a on their website USA dot com
Speaker 3: slash fires uh tips and information to just you know,
Speaker 3: help you get a go after cooking a better and
Speaker 3: safe way.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm yeah. Clearly clear that we're not going for
Speaker 1: Mom's big turkey. It's a new age, new way, bro.
Speaker 1: We're deep frying turkeys because they taste better. I just
Speaker 1: mean know, like, what can go wrong deep fried in turkey?
Speaker 1: A lot?
Speaker 3: Apparently apparently fires happened, So.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, who's cooking their turkey the right way?
Speaker 3: At this point we're out there, they dropped the turkey
Speaker 3: in and lit on fire.
Speaker 2: So I had to had to put it out with
Speaker 2: a little fire extinguisher.
Speaker 1: Hmm. Okay, what's one important fire safety measure that we
Speaker 1: can take to help? You know? Just remember while we're
Speaker 1: cooking during the holiday season, right right right.
Speaker 3: I think one of one of the biggest ones is,
Speaker 3: you know, never leave what you're cooking unattended. Mmm, especially
Speaker 3: when you're dropping dropping turkeys into a big thing of oil.
Speaker 3: Do not go away from that for a little bit.
Speaker 3: Keep your eyes on it. And I think even just
Speaker 3: the traditional you know, stove in the oven, keep an
Speaker 3: eye on it.
Speaker 2: Man, you never.
Speaker 1: Out, you never know. Four kids running around my house, bro,
Speaker 1: it gets a little hectic. I can I can see,
Speaker 1: I can see, I can see how you like. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'll be right back now. Don't don't leave. Take your time,
Speaker 1: take your time with your de fraud. All right, thanks
Speaker 1: you going coming up? In fact, veterans, they just passed right,
Speaker 1: Salutes all the truth, appreciation, free surface. Thanksgiving coming up?
Speaker 1: What are your top three Thanksgiving side dishes?
Speaker 2: Stuffing?
Speaker 3: Stuffing, uh, the little uh super tato cast roll with
Speaker 3: the mini marshmallows on top, and then.
Speaker 2: Turkey. But it's gotta be juicy. It can't be dry turkey.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody asks. Ain't nobody asks for dry turkey? You're stuffings?
Speaker 1: Are you like one of those stofers stuffing guys?
Speaker 3: Like mate, Fox, I hate So I got this thing
Speaker 3: with celery. I don't like celery. It's the only thing
Speaker 3: I don't eat. And then one time my grandma she's like,
Speaker 3: I'm making homemade stuffing, put celery in there.
Speaker 2: Ruined it.
Speaker 1: First of all, is that a thing? I'm not a
Speaker 1: stuffing guy. So it wasn't until I got to New
Speaker 1: Orleans and like they make seafood stuffing out here, seafood
Speaker 1: stuff bell peppers, crazy work. Then I was like, oh okay.
Speaker 1: I was like I like this and they're like, no,
Speaker 1: that's stuff in there. So I've never been to stuff
Speaker 1: with goin. First of all, what do you mean they
Speaker 1: put celery in it? That's like putting raisins in the
Speaker 1: potato salad. You don't do these type of things.
Speaker 2: She's yeah, she's always trying.
Speaker 3: She's mcguyver in the in the kitchen. She's always trying
Speaker 3: new stuff. Okay, what was happening in that Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: What do you what are you judging the Thanksgiving on?
Speaker 1: Like I judge everybody's Thanksgiving meal by their mac and cheese,
Speaker 1: and then I'll go for there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mac and cheese is big for me.
Speaker 3: I'm always just what kind of sides do you have?
Speaker 3: And then the uh, the mass potatoes and gravy. How
Speaker 3: do you what does the gravy look like? The gravy's running?
Speaker 3: If it's thick, right, and I make a bowl out
Speaker 3: of my mash potatoes and put the gravy in there.
Speaker 2: There's there's layers. It's layers to it.
Speaker 1: There's there's levels to everything.
Speaker 3: When you're when you're a certified big body, like, yes,
Speaker 3: when we really eat, there's layers to it.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I'm not sure if I'm giving you
Speaker 1: you the certified big body bo. You know, when you
Speaker 1: when you're under two seventy.
Speaker 3: When I was two seventy one time at Wisconsin, I
Speaker 3: had the belly button ring in my jersey.
Speaker 1: Oh man, well that's that's crazy. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So the U were what seven games left? Eight games
Speaker 1: left in the season. What do you guys have to do?
Speaker 1: Uh to make this a successful situation?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Man, to me, it's all about execution. You know, there's
Speaker 3: some good to pull out of there. There's obviously a
Speaker 3: lot of bad, but there is some good. You know,
Speaker 3: run game got a little bit better last game, but
Speaker 3: we you know, turnovers killed us, and it just feels like,
Speaker 3: you know, we're shooting ourselves on the foot way more
Speaker 3: often than not, and it almost feels like sometimes we're
Speaker 3: not getting beat we're just beating ourselves.
Speaker 2: So we just got to execute our.
Speaker 3: Game plan, be really clean on our prep every single
Speaker 3: day throughout the week, and you know, just coming to
Speaker 3: the game with with supreme confidence that we're gonna just
Speaker 3: completely play lights out on our game plan, be sound,
Speaker 3: and just execute everything at the highest tempo.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. This weekend is also battle Battle of Texas. You
Speaker 1: got the Texas versus them boys. What's it going to
Speaker 1: take for you guys to win?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think their defense, you know their defenses, Uh,
Speaker 3: guys on there a bunch of stout jokers on that defense.
Speaker 1: Daniil Hunter, Dude, he tried to tried.
Speaker 3: To hurdle Sam Laporta on a cut block. I was
Speaker 3: watching the tape and I go like, dude, just tried
Speaker 3: to hurdle them. But yeah, they were playing like their
Speaker 3: hair was on fire. Yes, I think we just got
Speaker 3: to execute on offense, score a lot, score early, and
Speaker 3: then off obviously on the defensive side, just you know,
Speaker 3: try to hold that QB and.
Speaker 2: Making make as at least place as possible.
Speaker 1: Man, last question I have for you, I feel like
Speaker 1: when you have a Battle of Texas, like if you
Speaker 1: have two teams in the same state, it should always
Speaker 1: be at a neutral site. I know you guys, I
Speaker 1: know it's at home, but I feel like, I just
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, if if it's a Houston, Verus Dallas,
Speaker 1: maybe you guys meet in like Arlington, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, just like meet me halfway Aington is
Speaker 1: where the stateum is in this home anyways, meet me
Speaker 1: and McKinney. I don't love.
Speaker 2: I could see that. I could see that, or even
Speaker 2: like Austin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're on the same page. Meet me in Austin
Speaker 1: for the Battle of Texas.
Speaker 2: I get.
Speaker 3: I could totally see that, especially because it's you know,
Speaker 3: it's not a division game.
Speaker 2: Uh playing once? Playing one time? That would be cool
Speaker 2: in Austin college atmosphere, college.
Speaker 1: College atmosphere athlete. That could be a fun time. Anyways,
Speaker 1: appreciate you for tapping with off the edge of the podcast.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Jake, stay blessed, be healthy the rest
Speaker 1: of the season.
Speaker 4: Bron being here, brother, Indeed, Hey, there we go. Hey,
Speaker 4: you know we had it too.
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all been around the potfole a
Speaker 1: minute or a long time, but you know it's time
Speaker 1: for the final push. Let's just get right into it.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, let's talk about Atlanta. Hate. We We just
Speaker 1: finished mission accomplished. Hate We felt good. I came in
Speaker 1: rocking and hate ring I had, you know, I had
Speaker 1: the yellow yellow presidential on me. I had the gold hate.
Speaker 1: It was from you know, many years back. I had
Speaker 1: a bedside dye radio Rahim shirt, which you know, iconic.
Speaker 1: I had the love or hate, but the rings created
Speaker 1: and they sort of just stays. I like to rock
Speaker 1: the love. It's not you know a lot of things
Speaker 1: in this world that I hate unless it's black and red,
Speaker 1: dirty birds and so had. I had to push it
Speaker 1: out there. You know, it's gonna be good vibes when
Speaker 1: you hate the right team. That's why I don't understand
Speaker 1: some conferences where like we hate everybody. No, I don't
Speaker 1: hate everybody. I'm okay with with the other two teams
Speaker 1: in my conference. They can do well great, I could
Speaker 1: care less. I'm like, oh, we'll get them next time,
Speaker 1: but can't. Lanta ain't Lanta. The foul cants, the fail
Speaker 1: cons a dirty dirty bird for them is a good
Speaker 1: term dirty bird. Anywhere else you'd be like, oh, it's ugly,
Speaker 1: that's a dirty bird. I got respect for the players.
Speaker 1: I ain't I like the team at all, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, David A, You're not a dog. Why
Speaker 1: you leave us? Why you trader? You know you said
Speaker 1: there like kay Nell is dog. Why you leave us?
Speaker 1: Why are you a trader? You traded for that? That's what
Speaker 1: you left us for that. Anyways, like I said, you're
Speaker 1: supposed to hate a team. Some people. You either hate
Speaker 1: the Cowboys or you love them. Me on the team,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to hate well by birthright Green Bay at
Speaker 1: all as well as you know, being part of the
Speaker 1: Saints for the last fourteen years New Orleans, and it's
Speaker 1: okay to hate a team. There's nothing Atlanta's gonna do
Speaker 1: for me to be like Man, I like those guys,
Speaker 1: and as you know, maybe when I was growing up
Speaker 1: Michael Vick, Algie Crumpler my guys, Warren Dunn, Mike for sure,
Speaker 1: by dude, them being attached to the falcons. Gross. Anyways,
Speaker 1: that being said, that's how you know the victory was
Speaker 1: that much sweeter coming against you know, back in the
Speaker 1: win column, but against them, the fail cons. They came
Speaker 1: to our dome. We locked the gates, We beat the
Speaker 1: breaks off of them. They missed a couple of field goals,
Speaker 1: a few win by a point or lose by a point,
Speaker 1: like that's what your spoils go to the victor bro
Speaker 1: I get to say we beat the breaks off y'all.
Speaker 1: I know we won by three. I could care less.
Speaker 1: I know what they didn't do. They didn't win. So
Speaker 1: it is what it is. I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: playing back a defensive end while playing in this game,
Speaker 1: while getting another win, was good. It felt good be
Speaker 1: back at the defensive end, not being rotated out every
Speaker 1: other snap. You know, as a player, you have to
Speaker 1: catch ebbs and flows in the game, but you have
Speaker 1: to be you know, you're dealt with what you delt.
Speaker 1: You have to work with what you work with. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's just gonna there's gonna be things that happened that
Speaker 1: you can't control, whether that be coaches trying to move
Speaker 1: towards younger players, whether that be a D line coach
Speaker 1: who you know relies more on scheme than than players' abilities.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. You've got to Last week
Speaker 1: we had a whole head coaching change, and you hate
Speaker 1: to see, hate to see that we couldn't win with
Speaker 1: Dennis Allen because Dennis how has been my guy for
Speaker 1: many years. Great great guy, great DC, and we wanted
Speaker 1: them to be a great coach, and I wish we
Speaker 1: would have won more. It's like two years in a row,
Speaker 1: you've got, you know, your starting quarterback who's been injured
Speaker 1: for multiple weeks two times. That's tough to win with that.
Speaker 1: This year definitely hit by the the injury bug. I mean,
Speaker 1: both of our starting receivers not here right now. You know,
Speaker 1: hopefully one back. We talk about, you know, office of
Speaker 1: lineman being office of line being gutted early on this season,
Speaker 1: dbs in and out linebackers. You know, you need a
Speaker 1: guy like Pete Werner. The injuries, injuries take us toll,
Speaker 1: but you have to be able to find a way
Speaker 1: to win, and when you don't, the message is lader clear.
Speaker 1: Jobs are not safe in the league. It's at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, the NFL is a business. I
Speaker 1: always try to get younger, cheaper, and try to win more.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that correlates, because you need good vets,
Speaker 1: you need but players that you know can play, and
Speaker 1: at the same time, you need that healthy list of
Speaker 1: young and upcoming guys that you're nursery. You know, It's
Speaker 1: just it's a part of the business. Darren Rizzy takes
Speaker 1: over this past week and automatically he starts changing everything
Speaker 1: from the locker configuration to how we sit in meetings,
Speaker 1: how shoot, how active we're in the meetings. We spend
Speaker 1: more time going through walkthroughs than focusing on, you know,
Speaker 1: the length of film. My guy, Brian Young takes over
Speaker 1: for the d D line was a D lineman in
Speaker 1: the league. That's another thing, you know, when you have
Speaker 1: a guy who's in a position, a position coach, and
Speaker 1: he's younger, he's got vitality, he's got energy, he's played
Speaker 1: that position, versus a guy who has coached a position
Speaker 1: before or whatever else and has success but has never
Speaker 1: truly played at a high level at that position. It's
Speaker 1: just a different mindset, mentality, perception as well. As you know,
Speaker 1: you you out of actually know like man, he said,
Speaker 1: this is works and it's going to work because he
Speaker 1: knows that feel. There's a different from you know, being
Speaker 1: able to create assimilation versus living that simulated play. And
Speaker 1: I think you know he's able to relate to defensive
Speaker 1: line and he's always been a good coach. And now
Speaker 1: you see him. You see brother b Why as a
Speaker 1: d line calls a big big brother b why uh
Speaker 1: to take over And I think you have to say
Speaker 1: with that baritone, by the way, big brother b why
Speaker 1: Brian Young as our defensive line coach has been a
Speaker 1: great situation. Uh give me two claps of the woo
Speaker 1: up in this thing? Who every flair hype just for
Speaker 1: everything from practice to meetings to whatever. Rizzy came in
Speaker 1: was like, look, whatever we thought was gonna work has
Speaker 1: been working. We got to shake things up to see
Speaker 1: if this is gonna be our way and came in
Speaker 1: and nah, ain't no status quo. He came in was
Speaker 1: like status on go uh And that's what you sort
Speaker 1: of know from Rizzy. Rizzy has been a part of
Speaker 1: our organization for like six years and especial teams coordinator.
Speaker 1: But I mean the last couple of years, people been
Speaker 1: trying to poach Rizzy to be a head coach. He was,
Speaker 1: you know, before we hired Da. I'm pretty sure he
Speaker 1: was in the process of trying to be a head
Speaker 1: coach for us there. So he's getting a shot now
Speaker 1: his interim head coach. Wish, you know, wish he had
Speaker 1: a healthy rosters to see if we can see it,
Speaker 1: but you can see his potential. You felt the energy
Speaker 1: on the on the sidelines, the way everybody's fired up.
Speaker 1: We wanted this win. We want all these wins. Seven
Speaker 1: games left. We have to find a way to win.
Speaker 1: We have to be able to get after the quarterback.
Speaker 1: We have to be able to straight man rush. We
Speaker 1: have to be able to cover guys number ones, even
Speaker 1: though we lose our number one corner Marshaw Latt to
Speaker 1: a trade last week, which is, you know, crazy. You
Speaker 1: can't replace a guy like Marshawn. He's over at the
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders, who will see later this year, so he's
Speaker 1: gonna be healthy and raring to show out. It's not
Speaker 1: what you want to see, but we'll talk about that
Speaker 1: when we get there. I just feel like as as
Speaker 1: a as an interim head coach tould come in and
Speaker 1: get a win. It does nothing, but you know it's
Speaker 1: a it's a buy in for sure, from the guys
Speaker 1: from the city, from the organization. Uh, and just from
Speaker 1: the commitment from Darren Rizzy. I mean he comes in
Speaker 1: and this is what we're gonna do and does it.
Speaker 1: So it's easy to buy in when you win.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just the mind meant the mind and attitude
Speaker 1: of of of Riz, I mean, guys rocking, you know,
Speaker 1: especially guys are Rock and the Mirror, Mary Rizzler, Marry Rismus,
Speaker 1: just in support from from day one or two.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, I think crazy things happen this week.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, we knew what the blessings
Speaker 1: of the Lord was here. We felt it in the atmosphere.
Speaker 1: You know, you have Pope Francis come up and talk
Speaker 1: about the Saints. I don't think intentionally, but there was
Speaker 1: there was some tweets. I think I retweeted one. You know,
Speaker 1: there was some some tweets from from from from the Pope.
Speaker 1: I may not be a Catholic, but I understand that,
Speaker 1: you know, the Lord is always on our side. So
Speaker 1: we knew we were gonna win. You know, we we
Speaker 1: knew we we couldn't lose, and all we could do
Speaker 1: was win. You know what Pope Francis said, let me
Speaker 1: he said to say, He said, we cannot become Saints
Speaker 1: with a frown. We must have joyful hearts that remain
Speaker 1: open to hope. Guess what, there's seven games left. There's
Speaker 1: a whole lot of hope. Head coach changed again, Deli
Speaker 1: position coach changed. There's a whole lot of hope. So
Speaker 1: you know, we went to that game, Rocket and that
Speaker 1: and the fans, God dang them fans. Like when I
Speaker 1: tell you, you wouldn't know we were two and seventeen
Speaker 1: at the time. The fans came with energy. No city,
Speaker 1: new one is deserve a better team, you know, a
Speaker 1: team that like, he's seven and two, not two and
Speaker 1: seven at the time. Now with three and seven. You
Speaker 1: can feel it in the air, you can feel it
Speaker 1: in the atmosphere. Saints Nation gonna rock. Oh. Speaking of
Speaker 1: the game, you know what a guy that I know,
Speaker 1: a guy who's been a pro bowler, all pro one
Speaker 1: of the best to do it, we will say, is
Speaker 1: officially the best at the best running back who ever
Speaker 1: do it. Alvin Kamura of course, six thousand, five hundred
Speaker 1: and forty four career rushing yards to break. I think
Speaker 1: going into the game he needed twelve yards to break
Speaker 1: another running back who you know my guy would for
Speaker 1: mark Ingram at sixty five hundred, you know, to become
Speaker 1: the all time the Saints all time leading rusher. It's
Speaker 1: just you know, Aka is special. From jump. I remember
Speaker 1: there was there was time and when we first drafted
Speaker 1: this kid out of Tennessee, which I just thought it
Speaker 1: was a simple Tennessee kid running back, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, he got a welcome to the league.
Speaker 1: I'm about to smack him. This practice we went live
Speaker 1: and I went to I went to like obliterate Ak
Speaker 1: as he was headed towards the sideline, Bro. And when
Speaker 1: I tell you, like I gave him everything. I came
Speaker 1: down hit him with that ooh wee same foot saint
Speaker 1: shoulder blasted him, you know at the time, two hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety pounds solid rock. Ak Bro like it sort
Speaker 1: of sort of like bounced back in the air, and
Speaker 1: I like I gave like everything. I was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: give him that ooh and he lands on his back
Speaker 1: foot and like had he not let it out of bounce,
Speaker 1: he would have took off again. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: his balance is special. His strides are dece evingly fast,
Speaker 1: ak all day special. Now, It's just it's crazy how
Speaker 1: things work. So by the way, the Saints win, and
Speaker 1: we got to go ahead and win again and try
Speaker 1: and win again, and win again and win again and win, win,
Speaker 1: win the seven games left. I think that was for
Speaker 1: seven wins. I mean, that would be great to go
Speaker 1: seven to oh this last stretch of the season. That'll
Speaker 1: give us our best chance to be where we want
Speaker 1: to be because let's just let's just not lose sight
Speaker 1: of the goal. The goals to win it all. But
Speaker 1: to win it all. You can't win it at three
Speaker 1: and seven, you can't win it at four. Hey, nah,
Speaker 1: we have to be able to finish the season out
Speaker 1: strong and hopefully the same way. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: this is fine to push you'll supposed to look out
Speaker 1: in the league, but there's a lot going on in
Speaker 1: the building knowing the Saints, let's win. Come on. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for tuning in. It's been a hell
Speaker 1: of a pod for me. Can get a little breath
Speaker 1: off my chest. I appreciate y'all, so just follow Share,
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Speaker 1: I'm blessed. I'm blessed to have a job in the NFL.
Speaker 1: For the last fourteen years, I got to hit people
Speaker 1: and to finally let me hit people again. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take it. I'm gonna take advantage of every opportunity,
Speaker 1: just like y'all taking advantage of listening to the pod.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Off the Edge, Shout out to my producer,
Speaker 1: Shout out to you know, my family for let me
Speaker 1: come on in do this thing on my off day.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the to the school's visits that I've
Speaker 1: been doing for the last fourteen years. You know, this
Speaker 1: year I'm making special. I'm gonna drop bread at every
Speaker 1: school that I visit this year. For the ones past,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop bread. I don't know how much. Let's
Speaker 1: call it five No, probably like, let's call it ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars every school. I'm gonna visit at least seventeen school.
Speaker 1: Let's call it one hundred and seventy grand. We're going
Speaker 1: out to these schools who don't just give it to him.
Speaker 1: I would love for it to go to a good place.
Speaker 1: I would love for it to go towards books, towards
Speaker 1: the new science lab. And i'ma leave it at the
Speaker 1: school's aggression discretion. I'm gonna leave it at the schools discretion,
Speaker 1: which means, you know, let it go to let the
Speaker 1: positive vibes go to a positive place. These kids, you know,
Speaker 1: with the elementaries, the high schools, the middle schools, the
Speaker 1: other next generation, then the next wave, they deserve to
Speaker 1: know that people care about them. And all we want
Speaker 1: is for our next generation to be better than what
Speaker 1: we have currently or what we're going to be, because
Speaker 1: if we're all going to be better than we were yesterday,
Speaker 1: how much better will tomorrow? B Appreciation for sticking around
Speaker 1: off the edge of the pot. I got some money
Speaker 1: to go scramble up. Peace.