Speaker 1: Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to
Speaker 1: the e A Podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away,
Speaker 1: all right, back in the studio, Eric Allen here with
Speaker 1: my buddy, I Defense, the Coordinator, the mad Backer, Bart Scott.
Speaker 1: I'm working on a couple of hours of sleep. Just
Speaker 1: got back from the desert. Huh, we'll, we'll, we'll footprint
Speaker 1: this thing, all right. I mean when it's only one
Speaker 1: set of footprints and I'm saying it's then that I
Speaker 1: carry e A, I'm saying I'll carry you baby. You
Speaker 1: look at this guy says he's gonna have the juice. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I went to Dunkin Donuts this morning, got myself
Speaker 1: for coffee. They got pumpkin spice seasonal. I love pumpkin spice.
Speaker 1: You're not a coffee drinker, right, No, But you know,
Speaker 1: since I got into this world, when I do my
Speaker 1: radio shows, a lot of times that night when I'm spent,
Speaker 1: I get jacked up on mom due do you yeah?
Speaker 1: You do? The dude? It was was, well, no, no,
Speaker 1: not not to do. But the mona doing this case.
Speaker 1: It's the coffee and I get a VENTI. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know I went in there I don't even know what.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how to speak the language.
Speaker 1: You know what I would like? Yeah, can I get
Speaker 1: a large coffee? Like um um grande? Or I'm like,
Speaker 1: I just want a large oh VENTI like, oh my god? Like, listen,
Speaker 1: can you just say large and large and actually large?
Speaker 1: What's with the venti grande? Like trying to be don't
Speaker 1: but I can't believe you're drinking coffee now listen, But
Speaker 1: salted mocha, so sugar and caffeine. I'm hot hell on air.
Speaker 1: Salted mocha, saltic coma, salted caramel in white mocha, chocolate mocha. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm hot hell on air all the time. Look at
Speaker 1: this guy, the guy from Detroit who grew up drinking
Speaker 1: after Joe Man, My, my, my, my, my father and
Speaker 1: my stepdad is freaking coffee heads. That's all they drink. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, I figured, hey, man, you know what happened.
Speaker 1: You know what happened. I started drinking coffee um to train.
Speaker 1: It's an appetite suppressor and also it's like an appetites Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't even know that. Maybe that's why I don't
Speaker 1: eat much. So when I when I go when I
Speaker 1: go in to hold keytone diet and some of them.
Speaker 1: When I'm trying to stread down. I drink coffee whenever
Speaker 1: I'm hungry, and it stops your appetite. I kernel fast
Speaker 1: in the Morning's still a little run with my big
Speaker 1: old dude, two miles things like that. But then I
Speaker 1: get my Yeah, just for my bigal just getting gone
Speaker 1: man two miles and me is like a world record.
Speaker 1: No way, I don't do that running. You get on
Speaker 1: the trunk a little distance due I spread. I have
Speaker 1: to go, So I do interval training, so I like
Speaker 1: do the liptical and that. It's like this called the
Speaker 1: fat man thing. So you go, uh a minute, you
Speaker 1: go twenty two minutes and every minute what you do
Speaker 1: is you go forty five sex. The last fifty eight
Speaker 1: seconds of that minute, you goes hard and fast. You
Speaker 1: can go do you stop and go back to your
Speaker 1: stride and goes fast. You go and get your heart
Speaker 1: rate up and down, up and down, and that's how
Speaker 1: you lose fat faster. So twenty two minutes. Any incline
Speaker 1: on that or no. No, It's like it's like the
Speaker 1: resistance like ten to twelve then when you you're about
Speaker 1: to do your fifteen seconds, I bumped up five and
Speaker 1: he goes fashion go that you bump it down. So
Speaker 1: it's usually the inclines, you know, the lipicals. You know
Speaker 1: it's pretty high. Yeah. Yeah, But the guy who made
Speaker 1: his living knocking people's heads around sitting there on a liptical.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get now now, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know. I got my sweat jacket on. I don't
Speaker 1: need I don't need it no more so. And I
Speaker 1: do my jumping pump class or do spin class. But
Speaker 1: when I don't do spin class for a while, man,
Speaker 1: it takes me about three, three or four days to
Speaker 1: get used to hard saddle sore man, that's what I'm
Speaker 1: telling that how hard it's a quad but everything in
Speaker 1: there I understand now why lands he has one test scoo,
Speaker 1: man worried. That's hard man. You don't wear the pike shorts.
Speaker 1: That's no, that's hard on your scroll man, listen, but
Speaker 1: the pike shorts, that's a no no for me. But
Speaker 1: with the but already built in it, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't. I give people credit for rolling around and
Speaker 1: as you as usually some sixty seven year old white
Speaker 1: man that wants to walk around, it's gotta be a
Speaker 1: white man. Yeah, with a jump, but black. Further of all,
Speaker 1: black people don't really get old bikes fur of a
Speaker 1: black people. A lot of black people don't even go
Speaker 1: to the gym, let alone get on a bike. They
Speaker 1: might they come and play basketball. That's the car they're
Speaker 1: gonn play. Black people go play raquetball. Older black man,
Speaker 1: go play racquetball and basketball. You catch me on elyptical,
Speaker 1: but you won't catch No, I'm not. I'm not touching that.
Speaker 1: So I let the dunkin doughnuts. Today I got my
Speaker 1: coffee and I tweeted this out. If you aren't going
Speaker 1: to put the shopping cart back, then don't use it.
Speaker 1: I always love the parking lot with fifty of the
Speaker 1: spaces occupied by carts. Now people started getting on me
Speaker 1: saying this is a cryptic tweet like I was talking
Speaker 1: about the Jets roster or something. I was piste off.
Speaker 1: I went to the parking lot to get to get
Speaker 1: my coffee this warning, and they're shopping carts everywhere. You
Speaker 1: ever get that way, you come on, you got a
Speaker 1: ding on your door? Like what happened? Like people just
Speaker 1: put the car and walk away, or they let it
Speaker 1: go right here on and they put it here and
Speaker 1: it roll slowly. When they leave, it starts rolling and
Speaker 1: hit your door, and they don't care. They just take off.
Speaker 1: I'm one of those people. Americans are lazy, man like this.
Speaker 1: It's called spade to space. How hard is it to
Speaker 1: put your stuff in there? At least a lot of
Speaker 1: people have like they have, like the little section where
Speaker 1: you put all the carts and there you just push
Speaker 1: them in there. Lazy lazy. Americans are lazy, lazy, the
Speaker 1: fattest country in the world. I'm one of those people
Speaker 1: who if I even thought about it, I have a
Speaker 1: guilty conscious even thinking about it, like I should I
Speaker 1: leave it here? People trying to put it in between
Speaker 1: both lanes and so then when you come in, you
Speaker 1: you gotta stop and move it out the way, put
Speaker 1: up on the grass so that you can pull it
Speaker 1: into your spot. And it's it's so lazy man, because
Speaker 1: they could at least did that, at least put the
Speaker 1: front wheels up on the top so it's not touching
Speaker 1: nobody's car, so we're not in a So I's ticked
Speaker 1: off this morning. Yeah, they're talking about I'm speaking about
Speaker 1: the chutchs roster. I'm like, no, I'm actually getting a coffee.
Speaker 1: And I just wanted to put this out there because
Speaker 1: I just wanted to tell people that is a pet peeve.
Speaker 1: What are some of the mad backers pet peeves? Huh?
Speaker 1: Is there anything that gets you gone? Because we know
Speaker 1: from time to time you showed some emotion. Let'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I hate. I hate thieves, man, I hate
Speaker 1: I hate. I hate thieves like these people that take
Speaker 1: stuff and people like that really irritates me because even
Speaker 1: even with the drug deal of the hustler, at least
Speaker 1: they working for it. You know what I mean. It
Speaker 1: takes nothing to it takes no energy, no talent, know
Speaker 1: anything to have somebody work for something. It's still the
Speaker 1: man as I ever got. Somebody stole my clothes out
Speaker 1: the washing machine in college, you know that's that's like
Speaker 1: the thing like somebody walking around whether you have at
Speaker 1: a laundrom in a laundromat and then your dorm in
Speaker 1: the dorm, in the dorm on the dorm on the floor,
Speaker 1: we had washing machines, went in there, went back, came
Speaker 1: back clothes gone, Like who steals wet clothes. Why do
Speaker 1: I want another man's clothes? If you do have enough
Speaker 1: money to for your own clothes, you know, and there's
Speaker 1: people unbelievably suffering in this world, and that's a different
Speaker 1: deal altogether. But why would you want another man's clothes?
Speaker 1: It's white clothes. I mean, you're in college. But still,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you in college, so you think that okay,
Speaker 1: you're wearing the jeans and it should be okay every
Speaker 1: day you should be all right, you know, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: have to do that. And I can see we're at
Speaker 1: a group home and somebody were going to watch close by.
Speaker 1: Still because ain't nobody got nothing? But you think most
Speaker 1: people in college has at least enough. You know, you
Speaker 1: may not be rich, I said, everybody go to college
Speaker 1: is rich. But it's still another man's clothes. Like, come on, man,
Speaker 1: I'd just be wrong because now you can you can
Speaker 1: never wear them? No, can you put it on and
Speaker 1: kill you? I'm saying, then you so, I man, and
Speaker 1: you never I never saw my polo shirts. He must
Speaker 1: have did it transfer for something for clothes, the dumbest
Speaker 1: thing ever. But yeah, man, I can't stand. I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't stand when you ask somebody, particularly women like
Speaker 1: you know, like my wife doesn't do that because you
Speaker 1: know it's the pet people of mind. But when I
Speaker 1: was growing up and you take somebody out, you ask
Speaker 1: me they want something, they say no, and they soon
Speaker 1: ad you get your stuff, you get nice and ready,
Speaker 1: they start reaching over eating out nachos or something like that.
Speaker 1: I just asked you, did you want something? I just
Speaker 1: want a couple. Well, I've got you a whole thing.
Speaker 1: But these are mines. I hate that pet people. I
Speaker 1: love my mom and she's the same man, but she's
Speaker 1: the same way. She ordered the salad and you get
Speaker 1: the burger and the French fries and getting together just
Speaker 1: having a family dinner and should always be reaching in
Speaker 1: for those French tries. Want to fry? I just want
Speaker 1: to take a few. So so we just got back
Speaker 1: from the desert. I wanted to ask you favorite places
Speaker 1: in this country to travel because Arizona to me, what
Speaker 1: best cities to play in? No, No, just to travel
Speaker 1: too if you're gonna have some time off, because Arizona
Speaker 1: to me, between October in March, that's one of the
Speaker 1: finer places in the country because it's still on the
Speaker 1: nineties and you got those great resorts there. And there's
Speaker 1: no water in Arizona, but everybody's got pools spot country no,
Speaker 1: but no grass, just grabl grabl front yards. You have
Speaker 1: to get used to that and getting cactis and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Oh you know a lot of them have
Speaker 1: artificial turf as grass and the Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Uh you know what for me? Well, not right now?
Speaker 1: What best cities to kind of visit? Yeah? I love Chicago.
Speaker 1: Chicago is one of my favorite cities. Western guy Chicago
Speaker 1: and d C. I love d C. Um. I love Houston. Um,
Speaker 1: Now Houston, that's interesting. Houston is nice. Biggest city in
Speaker 1: the world. I think, Well that's why because Houston is
Speaker 1: more spread out. But yeah, it's more spread out, so
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't feel it on top of
Speaker 1: each other. But it has all the amenities that you
Speaker 1: will want, you know. I mean, it could be a
Speaker 1: fast city, could be a slow city. You can do
Speaker 1: like the trial and country stuff where you can speed
Speaker 1: it up, you know what I mean? Um where else?
Speaker 1: San Diego is cool? But I love San Francisco. Okay,
Speaker 1: San Francisco is nice, man, No, it's beautiful. I love
Speaker 1: San Franco never gets really warm there. Yeah, Like Mark
Speaker 1: Twain always says that the coldest winter he ever spent
Speaker 1: was a summer in San Francisco and San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: we went out there and shot for the Super Bowl. Man,
Speaker 1: it was so cold, like fifty degree. And it's weird
Speaker 1: because inland, the closer inland you go, it's smoldering. It's weird.
Speaker 1: Something about the water and the atmosphere from the from
Speaker 1: the ocean comes out and sucks the heat out. But
Speaker 1: then in inland, the farther the inland go, it was
Speaker 1: like So it was like sixty degrees in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: We went more inland, it was like a hundred. Right,
Speaker 1: It's crazy Golden gate Bridge. Okay, So let's get the
Speaker 1: serious topic over the weekend. The buses actually are playing
Speaker 1: touchdown in Phoenix. We get on the buses and we
Speaker 1: are informed that Dennis Bird, at fifty years old, died
Speaker 1: in an automobile accident where a young driver, seventeen year
Speaker 1: old kid, crossed into incoming traffic and hit Dennis. Um.
Speaker 1: When you heard the news, what want through your mind? Well,
Speaker 1: for me, I couldn't believe it. And the only thing
Speaker 1: I can compare it to is a soldier going away
Speaker 1: and doing like ten tours and duty and coming over
Speaker 1: and being a victim of drive by shooting. Because you
Speaker 1: think about everything that Dennis Berg has overcome, you know,
Speaker 1: you think about, you know, getting paralyzed and then told
Speaker 1: you would never walk again, only to defy the odds
Speaker 1: to to to walk again. I don't need to walk again,
Speaker 1: but to live and to live his life in such
Speaker 1: a way that inspires other people to be the best
Speaker 1: versions of themselves. And that's what Dennis Burg meant. He
Speaker 1: was an inspiration. He's a light to everybody about not
Speaker 1: giving up. You know. He played with such a passion
Speaker 1: and a joy, and it's just one of those things
Speaker 1: it's hard to really swallow, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because like he's like, come on, not him, He's he's
Speaker 1: he can't he can't explain it through so much like
Speaker 1: you're saying, is that you're looking for answers and you're saying, Wow,
Speaker 1: here's a guy who was paralyzed, paralyzed and then determined
Speaker 1: to walk again, and he got up and walked again.
Speaker 1: And the guy said Bart who played with them, said
Speaker 1: he kind of stayed away from the organization after coming
Speaker 1: back a little bit, because football meant so much to him,
Speaker 1: he had to remove himself from it. And then though
Speaker 1: we had him back a few times recently, Tirer's number
Speaker 1: and I was in a liven January Jets Patriots Division
Speaker 1: round of the playoffs. You guys had Dennis come and
Speaker 1: speak to the team. Do you remember that night? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Team team captain as well. He was the team captain.
Speaker 1: Carritge Jersey out there to the to the middle of
Speaker 1: James I had to boat dig and Lathenien Thomlinson with
Speaker 1: the number ninety exactly man, And he really was the
Speaker 1: the inspiration and the feel of the fire that we
Speaker 1: played with. We played with such a passion, we played together,
Speaker 1: we played with emotion, we played under control, you know,
Speaker 1: and um we we owed a lot to him. And
Speaker 1: after the game, you know, um, I get this this shirt.
Speaker 1: I'm like, and what's this? And he gave me his
Speaker 1: the shirt that they cut off of him when he
Speaker 1: got injured, and he said, I reminded him of itself.
Speaker 1: And you know, for some player like that, you talk
Speaker 1: about a guy that was a budding star, you know,
Speaker 1: talking about seven sacks and right exactly, Actually I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, And for him to see a
Speaker 1: little bit of himself and me, you know, made me
Speaker 1: feel like I was doing the right thing. I played
Speaker 1: the right way. I know a lot of people can't
Speaker 1: handle the emotions sometimes and the passion and the words,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it can be misunderstood. But he understood it
Speaker 1: because he played with the same to nasty, the same
Speaker 1: joy and passion. You know, it's a child's game, and
Speaker 1: he played with that for so for him to see
Speaker 1: a bit of himself and me, you know me, it
Speaker 1: was truly remarkable, inspirational, you know. And I played with
Speaker 1: that with that shirt, and you know me, I've never
Speaker 1: wore sleeves ever. I wore sleeves because I had his
Speaker 1: shirt and it was a big shirt because it's much
Speaker 1: larger man than me. And you know, it inspired me.
Speaker 1: And you know, I was hurting, but I failed to
Speaker 1: to I refused to succumb to my circumstances. And you know, afterwards,
Speaker 1: you know, I put it in the frame and it
Speaker 1: sits in my trophy case. And and it's imperfect because
Speaker 1: they sold it back together, but they couldn't sow it
Speaker 1: back to together perfect. So the letters don't match up
Speaker 1: one side to the to the next. But it's um,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful, just like he was. Do you they have
Speaker 1: trouble because I do. This is something that I was
Speaker 1: thinking about over the weekend and set so that happens
Speaker 1: Saturday night, and I feel like it just became just
Speaker 1: another storyline with the scroll, you know, like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: Donna's bird, who's that? Yeah, you know, it didn't really resonate,
Speaker 1: it didn't start. It didn't start because a lot of
Speaker 1: people didn't know his story. But I think you know,
Speaker 1: you talk about Joe Nama really talking about it yesterday.
Speaker 1: You know, they gave you know, we gave him time
Speaker 1: on our show as well. Um, and I think everybody
Speaker 1: played to pay tribute to him, because I think he
Speaker 1: was an inspiration to everybody, you know, for what he
Speaker 1: was able to overcome. You know, you look at the
Speaker 1: other guys that weren't able to stand up, are able
Speaker 1: to walk. You think about Mike Utley, and we all
Speaker 1: understand and and all have that fear that it could
Speaker 1: be us. We all know that that's what we signed
Speaker 1: up for. It. It's a possibility on the back of
Speaker 1: the helm and it says could cause death warning, you know,
Speaker 1: we we know what we play, and so whenever we
Speaker 1: see one of our brothers go down, you know, it's
Speaker 1: always you know, it puts us in touch with our
Speaker 1: with our mortality. How about the way he hand on
Speaker 1: himself though, Like when he talked to you guys, things
Speaker 1: like he never came across as a person who woe
Speaker 1: is me? That why did this happen to me? And
Speaker 1: it would be natural to have those thoughts, and he
Speaker 1: never never expressed that. And he also was so grounded
Speaker 1: in his faith that you could see the light in them,
Speaker 1: you know, like you could see this is a man
Speaker 1: at peace with where he's at. To to to most
Speaker 1: inspirational people I have ever met in my life, Dennis
Speaker 1: Burg and O. J. Bragatz and and the thing that
Speaker 1: goes for those guys have in common is not whoe me?
Speaker 1: Why not me? You guy gave me this because he
Speaker 1: knew I can handle it, so I can champion it
Speaker 1: to inspire other people that they can fight. And those
Speaker 1: are the best type of leaders. So our prayers and
Speaker 1: thoughts go out to the Bird family who actually might
Speaker 1: be here this weekend. It's homecoming weekend for the New
Speaker 1: York Jets. They wore number ninety details on their helmets
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football. But it's just it's a painful loss
Speaker 1: for people like yourself. And I talked to Marty Lyons
Speaker 1: and Marty was so close with him. He said, they
Speaker 1: drafted this guy in the second round out of also
Speaker 1: to replace him, and he said he was a good kid,
Speaker 1: and people don't realize how good of a football player
Speaker 1: he was. But then talking about his faith and how
Speaker 1: he was at peace, and also the courage he showed,
Speaker 1: and you know the love that he brought to the table.
Speaker 1: I just I go back to thousand on eleven that
Speaker 1: the Patriots game. A lot of people didn't realize that
Speaker 1: they just caused the can't wait game because what we did,
Speaker 1: and you know the rent that I had, But they
Speaker 1: don't realize what few that, what what what happened the
Speaker 1: days before leading up to that, and you know how
Speaker 1: he inspired us? And they forget. Now they go back
Speaker 1: and they find that footage of us carrying his jersey out,
Speaker 1: But a lot of people didn't know what that man.
Speaker 1: Did you think about bird before lighting up that day?
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to man, you know he he
Speaker 1: what did he say to you about Saturday night? Do
Speaker 1: you remember what he was just talking about. You know,
Speaker 1: the crime is not getting knocked down, it's not getting
Speaker 1: it's getting back up and playing together and being a team,
Speaker 1: being a unit, playing together, which was what he was
Speaker 1: all about, you know what I mean, during your role
Speaker 1: playing your part, you know what I mean, playing without fear.
Speaker 1: You know, it was it was a beautiful thing, man,
Speaker 1: And you know that was perfect for us to go
Speaker 1: out there and carry that jersey case. I think it
Speaker 1: really put us all in the right mind set right
Speaker 1: there what we were playing for that you know, we
Speaker 1: we we it puts life and perspective what life's all
Speaker 1: about when you get a Mexas like that twenty four
Speaker 1: hours before something that you think is it's the biggest
Speaker 1: day of your life for the biggest opportunity. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 1: Like I said, this weekend, be emotional and hopefully the
Speaker 1: bird family is able to come and prayers and well
Speaker 1: wishes are with them, and you know, but I gotta
Speaker 1: think that it is in a better place right now.
Speaker 1: I mean it's good to be able to you know,
Speaker 1: for us to be able to celebrate him in the
Speaker 1: proper way and let his family appreciate, you know, them
Speaker 1: allowing us to to to share in his life and
Speaker 1: for us to be a part of his life, you know.
Speaker 1: And so I think it's important to help them with
Speaker 1: the healing process, you know, just as much as it
Speaker 1: is for us to heal as a fan base, as
Speaker 1: a as Jett nation, to heal together. We keep on
Speaker 1: losing people. We continue to talk about that. Uh. People
Speaker 1: great to the Jets family, tremendous people. And we we
Speaker 1: talked about a couple of weeks ago, Arnold Palmer and
Speaker 1: a young picture from the Marlins and then a guy
Speaker 1: who you would a chance to meet on a number
Speaker 1: of occasions. And you're a boxing monster, boxing fan, Aaron
Speaker 1: the Hawk Prior. I did not know that. You did
Speaker 1: not know that that's my favorite boxer all time. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, you didn't know all that. No, that's my
Speaker 1: favorite boxer of all time, Aaron Prior Hawk Man? What
Speaker 1: time is it? Hawk time? Aaron Prior Man, that's my
Speaker 1: favorite box of all time? Man Sugary Leonard ducked him.
Speaker 1: He didn't want to fight him. He was crazy. The
Speaker 1: only man I've seen get knocked backwards, fault, roll over
Speaker 1: and get up and go sprint before the ref can
Speaker 1: even do. The official count. He's back throwing punches. The
Speaker 1: fight between him and the lectures. Yeah, the black bottle,
Speaker 1: Patama Lewis or forgot Panama, forget his last name, got
Speaker 1: barred because he had the black bottle. What do you make?
Speaker 1: And and then you know they fall in the Remax
Speaker 1: rematch and he beat him and Lexie Oguyal said, I've
Speaker 1: never been hit with two hands before, and he was like,
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like getting hurt. Uh light welt their
Speaker 1: weight five ft six. He's in my top five thirty
Speaker 1: nine wins, thirty five by the way of knockout one defeat.
Speaker 1: Ums died October ninth, two thousand sixteen. Now now that's
Speaker 1: what they Nobody made it big enough noise about that.
Speaker 1: That's one of our great fighters of our time, undoubtably.
Speaker 1: And now that's another guy who you've had a chance
Speaker 1: to meet over the years. And he came and spoke
Speaker 1: to the team a couple of times. Yeah, actually that
Speaker 1: might have been before you because man, MAINI had couple times.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, I wasn't here. So so so Eric,
Speaker 1: Eric was a big boxing fair Eric May Jeanie just
Speaker 1: went got a couple of points in my book. He
Speaker 1: just got a couple of cool points in the bar
Speaker 1: Scott Uh in the bar Scott Hall of Fame. Alright,
Speaker 1: So Aaron Hawk prior Uh suffers from heart disease October nine,
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen. Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame in nineteen. He was a two time lightweuterweight world champion.
Speaker 1: If you ever want to watch and watch him all,
Speaker 1: look him up. Legendary Knights, Legendary Nights. Remember HBO used
Speaker 1: to do the legendary Knights. I love legendary knights. Look
Speaker 1: Legendary Nights up by Jim Lampley since the Ohio native
Speaker 1: Hawk time. So we lost time one girls as well.
Speaker 1: Two years old heart attack, but he had a heart
Speaker 1: problem coming into the league. Yeah, we had the same agent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was three moments of silence before the Jets took
Speaker 1: the field, not three moments, but they remember three people
Speaker 1: you mentioned. Quent Grows thirty two years old, unbelievable, donn
Speaker 1: Is Bird fifty years old, and also I believe the
Speaker 1: long time Cardinal's equipment manager. So they honored all three
Speaker 1: of those folks before the Jets. In the Cardinal comes in.
Speaker 1: It comes in in threes, Man comes it comes like that,
Speaker 1: you know, because a lot of our stars that we
Speaker 1: grew up with are getting old. Yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. You think about Prints, you know which he
Speaker 1: really he wasn't old enough to die. Think about Print.
Speaker 1: You know all these all these great losing our greats
Speaker 1: man Mom and Ali and that was one of your favorites.
Speaker 1: And what a transcended figure he was. Okay, so we
Speaker 1: got to talk a little bit about football. UH Jets
Speaker 1: fall to one in five a raw, um fans don't
Speaker 1: want to hear it, but there are ten games left
Speaker 1: in the season that you've been in the locker rooms with.
Speaker 1: When any teams before you've been on, UH teams who
Speaker 1: have struggled before at one and five? What are you
Speaker 1: do inside there to keep everybody upbeat and say, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: we gotta catch a spark. Well, you just put your
Speaker 1: head down, you start taking one other time, just start
Speaker 1: chopping wood, you know what I mean. Listen, at the
Speaker 1: middle in of November December, you look up and see
Speaker 1: where you're at because you don't know what teams ahead
Speaker 1: of you can have that collapse. So if you start
Speaker 1: feeling sorry about yourself, wholl me, then what happens is
Speaker 1: you can chinue to lose, but then the other teams
Speaker 1: lose to and you're like, man, we would just pull
Speaker 1: something together, had a better attitude, we would have had
Speaker 1: a chance at this thing. Yeah, because the other teams
Speaker 1: are gonna hit at versity to where there the Jets
Speaker 1: are going through their tough patch and playing some really
Speaker 1: tough opponents on the road. You know, tough opponents, you know,
Speaker 1: playoff caliber teams. You know, franchise quarterbacks. They're playing guys
Speaker 1: like that Russell Wilson, Ben Roethlisberger at their house. You know,
Speaker 1: tough sledding. We knew this part of the schedule is
Speaker 1: gonna be tough sledding. I'm sure everybody would have, you know,
Speaker 1: bought in for for three and three, knowing what happens
Speaker 1: in the second half of the season. It didn't happen
Speaker 1: that way. All you gotta do is take this one,
Speaker 1: get to get a win against an FC opponent, the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens coming in this week, and then you know,
Speaker 1: you know, forget about that that Tuesday and line the
Speaker 1: next one up and see where you end up at
Speaker 1: the end of the season. Is it natural for self
Speaker 1: doubt to creep in at this point. Well, when when
Speaker 1: this happened, you have you have you have one or
Speaker 1: two things right. You veterans understand that, you know, if
Speaker 1: you don't play well, then it's gonna be changes made
Speaker 1: to the roster. So if you want to be around,
Speaker 1: you better play well, you better pop, and you better
Speaker 1: flash on film. Young guys look at it okay, like,
Speaker 1: well people are we're not winning, so this is an
Speaker 1: opportunity for me to play. You know, if I get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to play, then I'm showing that I'm I'm
Speaker 1: worth playing. I can be a spark and maybe I
Speaker 1: can help proprel my career for next year. You know.
Speaker 1: So everybody's thinking, you know, unfortunately selfishly about themselves. What
Speaker 1: can they do to put themselves in the best situation?
Speaker 1: Because you know, if you, if you if for everybody,
Speaker 1: if the top bowls loses the team and people don't
Speaker 1: play hard, or people start feeling sorry for themselves and
Speaker 1: not performing, there's gonna be massive changes made. So if
Speaker 1: you want to keep your job, you better do your job.
Speaker 1: You better do it at a high level. So when
Speaker 1: they rank you, when they break down the film, they said,
Speaker 1: this guy didn't quit, he's a. He's a real professional.
Speaker 1: He played his butt off. He played with a hundred
Speaker 1: and ten percent. He wasn't loafing, he wasn't feeling sorry
Speaker 1: for himself. So we can build with this guy. Um,
Speaker 1: your thoughts on your buddy's street coming to it and
Speaker 1: David the hetman Harris a hundred one consecutive starts, and
Speaker 1: he was trying. He was trying. I was watching. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I was watching him from the press box.
Speaker 1: He was trying. He was trying to convince those guys
Speaker 1: really hard, you know, Dave, he wanted to be out
Speaker 1: there in that field. Yeah, I finally see did he
Speaker 1: catch me? Did you start more than I went? I
Speaker 1: went ten years out missing a game, so that's maybe
Speaker 1: one consecutive starts? Yeah? Really it maybe one s Then
Speaker 1: he didn't catch Remember I had one. The only person
Speaker 1: that had me was London Fletcher. Yeah, he played, he played.
Speaker 1: He probably still he probably still playing. He was like
Speaker 1: he was like cal Ripken man, like you know, he
Speaker 1: go out, he's stretching, take the first play and didn't play. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just playing. You know, he's a coworker about that.
Speaker 1: He works on the top show. I'm just playing with London.
Speaker 1: But you know what, that's tru minutes because you think
Speaker 1: early in David's career broke his leg and he missed
Speaker 1: early on and for him to you talk about that,
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the strict that he was on as
Speaker 1: far as not missing plays in his whole last contract,
Speaker 1: you know, before this one, he missed like two players.
Speaker 1: He took almost every snap, you know, so he deserved
Speaker 1: it that he deserved the night off. What does he
Speaker 1: mean to this defense? Not just he's the glue. He's
Speaker 1: a glue. He's a communicator. He's a guy that makes
Speaker 1: all the checks. He's the guy that keeps everybody calm.
Speaker 1: He's responsible for making sure that the front end and
Speaker 1: the back end are on the same page with his communication.
Speaker 1: He's a he's responsible for lining up the old line,
Speaker 1: the I mean the D line. I mean, that's what
Speaker 1: happens is you got this used to be you when
Speaker 1: you played together. No no, no, no, no, I don't
Speaker 1: let him do it. You did because I talked a lot.
Speaker 1: So it's hard for me to get the signals because
Speaker 1: I'm over there fighting somebody. So I was always held
Speaker 1: be called to play and I come last minute always
Speaker 1: Oh it's from the get it because you al right,
Speaker 1: now I'm over there fighting over there like Bart Bart,
Speaker 1: like man, except to play. Three times he had called
Speaker 1: the huddle. Ain't even in the huddle. I'm over there
Speaker 1: trying to choke somebody up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So he allowed me to be emotional and stay passionate
Speaker 1: because he handled all the all the we call the
Speaker 1: the administrative stuff. Yeah, he had all the administrative stuff.
Speaker 1: Because it's always It's funny, man, whenever you call the place,
Speaker 1: is always somebody asking you, like, hey, what's the play? Like, man,
Speaker 1: what's the play? You're like, I'm trying to focus. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get down and go through my plays
Speaker 1: and stuff. And he's screaming out to play. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. You want to piss guys off so
Speaker 1: bad because you have such I had for the game
Speaker 1: that it was no it's so easy for you to say, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's the player and have a second and you knew
Speaker 1: exactly what was happening in the route combinations, the tendency.
Speaker 1: I was fort to play the same system of my
Speaker 1: whole career. It was like you know, and a lot
Speaker 1: of the defenses were made for me, like a lot
Speaker 1: of defense has had my name in it. It was
Speaker 1: like Bart games. It was Bart this or Bart that.
Speaker 1: It was funny because you know, um Derrick Johnson came
Speaker 1: to our show a couple of days ago. Last week
Speaker 1: when they're on Nearby, he was talking to tell me
Speaker 1: about that's all they about put in with the games
Speaker 1: with me, and a lot of the cars still have
Speaker 1: my name in I mean, so it's kind of funny
Speaker 1: because I had a difference. You're still getting playing Kansas
Speaker 1: City right now. I need I need a royalty check.
Speaker 1: Have you talked to side at all? I haven't talked
Speaker 1: to Study since the beginning of the season, but you
Speaker 1: know I talked to you. I talked to Mark Teeples
Speaker 1: every once in a while. Man, a lot of those
Speaker 1: guys are still out there. I see b Smitty. B
Speaker 1: Smitty is actually coaching with hardball. He's out of skin.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, why don't you leave Philadelphia? Like, oh
Speaker 1: yeah for former Jets defensive assistant. Yeah yeah, no doubt
Speaker 1: be Smitty with Michigan. All right, so we go ran
Speaker 1: the gamut today. Well, next week, I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about Baltimore, but when We should get
Speaker 1: into that next week. That is the mad Packer in
Speaker 1: rare form once again, Bart's got great