1 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Official Jets podcast. 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: Here in the play MGM studio. You can find us 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: on New York Jets dot com, YouTube, Apple podcast, Google Play, 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: and SoundCloud. Brian Baldinger in the house. Thank you very much, Baldi. Nice, 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: nice to be here. Nice to be here on guys 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 1: breakdowns right here. It's a movement, It's a worldwide movement. 7 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: How can other people where the merch that? Baldi? Well, 8 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: I mean you can. You can get yourself. You can 9 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: get yourself, you know, T shirts and headbands and coffee 10 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: mugs right from Carsting Creation. Yeah. I mean there's some 11 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 1: people like they just they just want to decorate their desk. 12 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: I love the headband. Yeah, I'm with you. I like 13 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,639 Speaker 1: the headbands too. All right, Baldi, So you go inside 14 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: the film, inside the game. I want to go inside 15 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: the breakdown. So can you take us through your routine 16 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: of how you watch the games and what plays you 17 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: choose to put out there? If I can get the 18 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: NFL films on Sunday night, I'll start Sunday night. But 19 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: if I if I'm traveling back from San Francisco or 20 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: l A or wherever, might not beat till money morning. 21 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,119 Speaker 1: But I start Monday morning at abound six in the morning, 22 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: I just start going through games. Ethan, I just start 23 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: watching games. What jumps out in really to look at statistics. 24 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: I might know the final score, but I don't even 25 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: look at the stats. I just wanna see who played well, 26 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: white players work, why they didn't work, what impresses me 27 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: about a team or doesn't impress me about a team. 28 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna get a feel by watching eleven guys 29 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: unite on one side of the ball, how they compete, 30 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: who's playing hard, who keeps showing up, and then kind 31 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: of going from there and that that's kind of how 32 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: I do it. And I'll start making some notes about 33 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: a particular team, what I like, what I don't like, 34 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: and uh And I'd literally try to go through as 35 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: many games I can all day Money and all day Tuesday. 36 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: I think what fans really appreciate air Greens is this 37 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: guy has so much enthusiasm and past game, you truly 38 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,559 Speaker 1: enjoy getting into the film room. Because I don't even 39 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: know if everybody knows this that on Sundays you're typically 40 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: doing Nash doing national games every Sunday. I do college 41 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: games on Saturday, right so so Monday morning you start off, 42 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: how do you determine the order you're gonna go through? Like, 43 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 1: for instance, Kansas City played Baltimore last week, a lot 44 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: of people would say that was the marquee matchup. Maybe 45 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: you go there for well, I mean, so I fell 46 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: in love last year with Quentin Nelson, the left guard 47 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: from Minnapolis Colts. I thought he was the best player 48 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: in the NFL last year, so at any position, like 49 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: he was just that dominant and as a twenty two 50 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: year old rookie. But you know, and I got to 51 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: know him, you know, at the Pro Bowl this year, 52 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: and so like it started almost like that, like I 53 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: gotta wat I gotta watch the Colts. I gotta watch 54 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 1: I gotta watch the left guard because the game was 55 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 1: like pancaking players. So then you know, I was having 56 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: fun and it's entertainment, right, So I'm talking about man 57 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: all he wanted some flapjacks for breakfast on Monday morning. 58 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: I gotta watch Q to get my pancakes, you know. 59 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,359 Speaker 1: And then people, the fans started kind of buying it. 60 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: So then like it became like this thing, I gotta 61 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 1: watch Q, you know. And then I live in Philadelphia, 62 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: what are the Eagles doing when you're losing? How they're 63 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 1: doing it? And so there is a little bit of 64 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: a pecking order, but it could be like there's certain 65 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: teams right now that I just am so like watching 66 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: Let's say, Patrick Mahomes, Like you have to watch it, 67 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 1: because are we watching like Willie Mays as a twenty 68 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: three year old kid. Are we watching the best player 69 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: in the league this early? You know, are we watching 70 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: who are we watching here? Like there's nobody else that 71 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: you there's no comps of what he's doing, and it's 72 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 1: every week, it doesn't matter what the teams do. So 73 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: then you go and you know, I did three years 74 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: of Patrick Mahomes at Texas Tech. I did a lot 75 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: of his games down there, so I kind of knew him, 76 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: and now to see him just flourish like this, it's 77 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: just so darn entertaining. When did you decide to take 78 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: this social media with hashtag all these breakdowns? Because five 79 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: years ago, I don't I don't know this phenomena was around. So, like, 80 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: you know, I've been announcing games at Fox for twelve 81 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: years on television. I started doing radio ten years ago, 82 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: so almost twenty five years as an analyst every Sunday, 83 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: and you know, I'm I'm up there in the booth. 84 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: If you're doing TV, you have maybe twelve seconds to 85 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: describe a play, right, and typically it's either the quarterback 86 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: or the receiver or the defensive back. It's not a 87 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: whole lot. Maybe you can watch the offensive line on 88 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: a replay or something, but like, there's just so many 89 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: things going on, and so then you listen to the 90 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 1: analysis and or the reporters or read the papers the 91 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: next day, and I just felt like there was a 92 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 1: big missing chunk of what fans weren't getting. So I 93 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: just thought, so I'd be watching these games, you know, 94 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: five o'clock in the morning, getting ready for different shows 95 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: the NFL network, and I'm like, I'm not gonna be 96 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: able to show I don't know, Jamal Adams blowing up 97 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: this play. I'm not I'm not gonna be able to show, uh, 98 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: you know how Colletchio assembly pulled and led Levy in 99 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 1: bell through all, I'm not gonna be able to. So 100 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: I thought, people need to see a lot of players 101 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: that they never hear about on Sunday. Do you enjoy 102 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: the player's reaction to this? Because once it started getting 103 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: popular and taken off the guys. This new generation Greens, 104 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: the generation who live and die by social media. They 105 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: follow this stuff, they see all the retweets, and then 106 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: you have picked up so much respect from the younger 107 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: dudes in the NFL. I remember last year vividly, where 108 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: in Chicago you're calling the game, You're like, where's Jamala. 109 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: I gotta find Jamal because he would take a look 110 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,479 Speaker 1: at the way you put it's unbelievable. So so I 111 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 1: I was told by a pretty prominent Fox director a 112 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: long time ago when I first started. He told me, look, 113 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 1: get to know the top ten players in every team, 114 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,119 Speaker 1: because that's who you're gonna spend most of Sunday talking about. 115 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: And he was right. So I, you know, I always 116 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: went to trainee camps and you know, got to meet 117 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: players when you could. That was still limited by how 118 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,359 Speaker 1: many players you could meet. But through social media and 119 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: through Twitter and some of the outlets that Baldy Breakdowns 120 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: are on, you can meet a lot of these players 121 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 1: that you've never met, Like I've never met Jamal Adams 122 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: until that day in Chicago. Now I feel like we're 123 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: best friends. He did film sessions with this issue. We 124 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: couldn't kick him out of the room. You don't want 125 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: to leave, but you do when you show players, especially 126 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 1: once that maybe like a Quentin Nelson, who aren't left 127 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: guards aren't on everybody's rollo dex as to who to watch. 128 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: But if you can start making people watch the left 129 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 1: guard and why he's so good like you, you sort 130 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,160 Speaker 1: of grow somebody's intelligence about the game and how they 131 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 1: watch a game and so. And the players appreciate it, 132 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: they really do. And if you look, if I say 133 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: something about Luke Kickley good or bad, within I'm telling 134 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 1: I'm telling you ten minutes, he's already watched it and 135 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: retweeted and common. I think a lot of people respect 136 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 1: somebody saying I know what I know, and I also 137 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: know what I don't know. I think there are a 138 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: lot of people who watched the game on Sundays and 139 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 1: say this guy should have done this, this guy should 140 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: have done that. You go into the lab and you 141 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: are a former player. You understand the schemes, you understand 142 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: the concepts, You understand how coordinators are trying to attack 143 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: and what is happening out there on the field in 144 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: great detail. So I think that resonates with every player 145 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: in the National Yeah, no, I mean, um, the game 146 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: is is moves really fast, and there's a lot of 147 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: movie parts. And if you're just watching a game on television, 148 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: the cart camera, the camera that typically shows a play, 149 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: usually just follows the quarterback. So if you're a safety 150 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: in the NFL, you only get talked about if you 151 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: get beat or you have a great hit. But the 152 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: majority of the time you're not even watched. Now that's 153 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: just the way the game is shot. But if you 154 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: you have to go back in the lab, I like 155 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: the lab and and really show angles. Why a free 156 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: safety like Earl Thomas, Why that guy covers so much ground? 157 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: Why like Earl Thomas doesn't save lives but he saves touchdowns. 158 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, like all the so like then 159 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: you just you know, we're in the entertainment business, right Eric, 160 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: So like you just you have to kind of define 161 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: fun ways to describe stuff over over So that just 162 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: comes naturally to me. That's fun. And when you put 163 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: stuff on Twitter, let's say, is it a one take 164 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: for you? Because some of the things you say you 165 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: have me rolling on the floor in tears, Like I 166 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: remember last year you're talking about Jamal Abram Adams. I 167 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: almost said, Abrams Jamal Adams striking like a cobra. Like 168 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: some people need a cup of coffee in the morning, 169 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: not this guy. Boom all this time, you haven't crack 170 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: it up. And just before you're talking about Quentin Nelson, 171 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: how you need your flapjacks and you pop on film. Yeah, 172 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: I mean the stuff just comes. I mean, you know, 173 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: some weeks, Quentin Nelson was a plumber, right, like he 174 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: had the plumber look, he was just fixing leaks wherever 175 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: the offensive line was leaky. He was just there a 176 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 1: plugg you know. And then some weeks he was the 177 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: trash man. He was just throwing defensive lineman into the 178 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: trash compactor. I mean, you know, like it's a different 179 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: way of describing kind of the same type stuff. But 180 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: I think players are entertained by it, like they like, 181 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: I've these players come up to me now they know, 182 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,079 Speaker 1: like I I met Jenevan Clowney for the first time, um, 183 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: two weeks ago in Pittsburgh. He was he's with Seattle now, 184 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: and you know, and there was a time last year 185 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: where like legitimately for the first twelve or thirteen weeks 186 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: this season, he was an m v P candidate of 187 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: the League. Defensively, he was playing at that level and 188 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: I was just going like like this guy was just 189 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: ruining the party, like he was just a wedding crasher, 190 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: like like every play and so like I'm standing there 191 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: and you know, he's coaches working with him, he's new 192 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:41,839 Speaker 1: to the team and all that. So he sees me 193 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: though I'm in a student. He goes, I know who 194 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: you are, Like he's Reknews. I'm waiting for him. I 195 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: go so I started laughing, and he goes, dude, he goes, 196 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: I know who you are. He goes, I know you 197 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: want to talk to me, and I will, But he goes, 198 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: he goes your stuff like I watch all of I 199 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: watch all your videos. Man, I watch it. I'm like cool. 200 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: Je like that's cool. You're also close buddies with the 201 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: Jets GM Joe Doug. When did that a relationship originate? 202 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,439 Speaker 1: And you both share a healthy respect for each other. 203 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: What can you tell the folks about Joe? Maybe they 204 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: don't know. Well, I mean, Joe you know, started off, 205 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: as you know, he played football Richmond. He got into 206 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: the you know, the business pretty quick after he graduated school, 207 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: and you know, Ozzy Knewsom was running the Ravens, they 208 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: moved their nine. I remember I was so fascinated by 209 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: their first draft in nineteen ninety six. They drafted Jonathan 210 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: Ogden and ray Lewis in the first round. Okay, May two. 211 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: Now nobody knew that they were gonna both be Hall 212 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: of Fame players, right, But I remember, like I was 213 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: just getting started nine, so remember so, but I mean, 214 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: but what happened was I went down to Baltimore just 215 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: to watch their mini camp, just to watch ray Lewis 216 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: and Jonathan Ogden, like who are so I just wanted 217 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 1: to get to know and then I did. I did 218 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: the Tony Sea goose A show in n and then 219 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: the Ravens hired me in like ninety eight, like to 220 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: do the pregame show out of the pregame preseason games 221 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,719 Speaker 1: on TV. So I was like I always was kind 222 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,199 Speaker 1: of a part of the organization. So I knew Brian 223 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: Billick and Ozzie and then you know, then you start 224 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: to meet some of the scouts. So Joe's down there, 225 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: and then my buddy Andy Wide went to work there, 226 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: and so like you're in Baltimore preseason, regular season game, 227 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: like they're your buddies, like you've known him since the beginning, 228 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: you know, And so I just had this relationship with him, 229 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: and you know, he's two thousand and twelve. They win 230 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and that's the it's the crowning jewel. 231 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: You know, this entire industry to be a part of that, 232 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: and you know, and see Joe how he worked up 233 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 1: from the lowest level scout all right into scouting director 234 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: to assist going to Chicago, assistant GM, coming to the Eagles, 235 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: becoming the general manager, like all those just to see 236 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: him climbed the steps and earn all of it, and 237 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,839 Speaker 1: then he gets the chance here, you know, and so 238 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: you kind of know what he's about through all the 239 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 1: how he's been trained, all the different stops, and all 240 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: of the conversations that I've had with Joe over the 241 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: years about personnel, both pro and kids coming out of 242 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: college and just cross check. I mean, there was a time, 243 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 1: you know, when he was with the Eagles. I mean 244 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 1: I sat we sat in the backyard cooking steaks and 245 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: smoke the cigars and literally doing nothing but just talking ball. 246 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: Like not like he's got three kids and they're all 247 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: growing up and all that stuff. But we sat in 248 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: the backyard until late at night, turn the phones off 249 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: and just talking football, you know, like we have that 250 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:36,559 Speaker 1: sort of you know, bond in respect both. When did 251 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:40,439 Speaker 1: you get involved in the communication industry. We talked about 252 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: your career a little bit, but played collegionally a doo. 253 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: You were not a fel for a little bit. And 254 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: then when did you make the transition? So I was 255 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: in my twelfth year. I was in Philly, and I 256 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: had a former teammate of mine, this quarterback Tom Ramsey 257 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 1: said that Craig James, who was at ESPN at the time, 258 00:12:57,960 --> 00:12:59,719 Speaker 1: pretty big guy in the college game day for him. 259 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 1: He was starting a broadcast school for active players. So 260 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,079 Speaker 1: I always go with the media. When I was good 261 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 1: with the media, like I loved like I never I 262 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: never win or lose, played well, played bad. I'll tell 263 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: you what I know. You know, I gotn't I wasn't 264 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: shy about it. I enjoyed talking to the media. Um, 265 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 1: and I had a Monday night show for a while, 266 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: you know, from different couples, different cities, whatever. But so 267 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: I went to this broadcast school and it was for 268 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: current players. So I was still active, trying to play 269 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: another year, and Mike Goldick was there and Merril Hodge 270 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: was there, and think it was you know, it was 271 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 1: all these guys that kind of we all started together 272 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: and we went to school and like the light just 273 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: went on. I didn't know how to really do it, 274 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: but I mean I started my radio show, I started 275 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: doing pregame shows in Philly, and then I but I 276 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: wanted to do games, and I got a chance in 277 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 1: with Fox to do games over in Europe NFL Europe. 278 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: Me and Kurt Menifee started over there, and uh, and 279 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: then they ended up. I did college football the first 280 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,160 Speaker 1: year and second year of me and Kurt menife You 281 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: were the six crew at Fox. You know, we started 282 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: doing games and worked up to Joe Buck and Dick 283 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: Stockton and you know, Kenny Albert and all the guys 284 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: there for a dozen years. It was great. You know what, 285 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: I like a lot Baldy. I like, I don't know 286 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:14,719 Speaker 1: why you decided to do this, but when it's a 287 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: Baldy breakdown off of football, because sometimes you're in somewhere 288 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: extravagant and warm weather and you still do the Baldy 289 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: breaks and I think it's hilarious. Yeah, well I do 290 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: it's it's all tongue in cheek, right, and so it's like, 291 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: you know, I mean I go to Costa Rica every year, 292 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: to go to Hawaii every year, so um, you know, 293 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 1: I'm a traveler. So I've been to sixty six countries, 294 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: you know, on sixty six sixty six countries. I was 295 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: in Poland the summer. So if you're you know, if 296 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: you're looking, you know, if you're in Costa Rica and 297 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: it's just a great surf day. People need to know 298 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: the surf day, that the surf conditions and just how 299 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: somebody's inside that barrel and coming out of it right here, 300 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: Like I mean, people to see that there's a pointed 301 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: stories to like yeah, you can't like you went to 302 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: Poland and you're taking it to social media and telling 303 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: people how impactful that is on you to see a 304 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: concentration Yeah, oh yeah. I mean when you go when 305 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: you see you know, all these what what happened and 306 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: you see the level of evil like it, you know, 307 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: people need to know just how evil it was and 308 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 1: why there is still a reaction to that whole era 309 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: of what happened there in you know, Germany and some 310 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: of the other countries that were involved. I mean, like 311 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: you go to Normandy and you see that those beachheads 312 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: there at Point do Hawk and stuff. I mean, people 313 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: need to know what what people sacrificed, you know, so 314 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: you know it's I don't get political about things, but 315 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: there's a history to certain things, and so, um, I 316 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: think all that stuff is interesting because quite frankly, anybody 317 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: could talk about cover too. Yeah, but like you know, 318 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: can you talk about the Normandy invasion? Can you talk 319 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: about what happened in some of these concentration games? Can 320 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: you talk about the surf report in Costa Rica? At sunrise? 321 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: Do you have time to read? Yeah? All the time. Yeah, 322 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: I'm addicted. Yeah, I'm addicted to I have certain books 323 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: and certain authors that um, well, like you know, like um, 324 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: Vince Flynn. Vince Flynn has got this character named Mitch Rap. 325 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: So Mitch Rap, he's wrote in sixteen books and you 326 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: know he's a counter terror terrorist worker for the c 327 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: i A. And there's nothing that Mitch Rap can't do. 328 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: Like he's the greatest character in every book right now. 329 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: And then Daniel Silvan's got a he he's a crime 330 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: novelist and he has a character named Gabriel Alan Okay 331 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: who works for UH Israeli's secret service, but he's also 332 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: a art restorer by trade. And this guy is the 333 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: most coveted yet most hunted person in the world, and 334 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 1: he escapes danger everywhere in the world, and he takes 335 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: you all of this. So I'm jumping on a plane 336 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: and Greens and I are walking up past is Baldy 337 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: watching film with the headphones? Or are you read a book? 338 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm doing one or the other. Like I 339 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: I did a game in San Francisco, San Francisco, Pittsburgh 340 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 1: last week, and so I took the Red Eye back 341 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: to Philly. So I was in the San Francisco airport 342 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,159 Speaker 1: and I got the NFL films to download or upload 343 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: all the one o'clock games for me. So I literally 344 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 1: watched five hours of film coming back to Philly. So 345 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: you land at five thirty in the morning, and I'm like, man, 346 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 1: I want to take a nap, But if I take 347 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,120 Speaker 1: a nap, it's just gonna ruin what I got going 348 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: on here. So I just went I just took a 349 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 1: big pot of coffee and just went straight through the day. 350 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 1: That's amazing. Well, I mean, it depends on the day. 351 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:40,640 Speaker 1: But like you know, if I get if I get 352 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: six or seven hours of sleep, I'm you know, two cups, 353 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: I'm fine. But if you if you go with no set, 354 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: like I can't sleep on a plane. So if you 355 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: watch five hours, I gotta think weekends, you're going back 356 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 1: and forth from l A to Philly all the time, 357 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: going back out there to do the Rams game this weekend, 358 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 1: and I'll go over to the NFL network after the game. 359 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: I'll start watching the one o'clock game teams, and then 360 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,120 Speaker 1: I got a bunch of shows NFL Now and Total 361 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: Access to do the money at the NFL Network. But 362 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: those shows, I'm only good in those shows if I've 363 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 1: really prepped and know what I'm talking about. Like I 364 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:14,400 Speaker 1: remember the first week of the season, green Bay beat 365 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 1: Chicago on Thursday night, So Friday, I'm doing Total Access 366 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 1: in l A. And I gotta get the Lubbock for 367 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 1: Texas Tech home opener the next day. But um, but 368 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: on that in that game, that the thing that stood 369 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 1: out about Green Bays. They played a dime defense the 370 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: whole day, so they had one linebacker, Blake Martinez, and 371 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: they basically challenged Chicago to run them out of that 372 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 1: dime defense, put another linebacker on the field, put another 373 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,719 Speaker 1: defensive linement on the field, and Chicago didn't do it. 374 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: And I said, you know, Chicago, shame on them, Like 375 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: they should have pounded Green Bay that night and they didn't. 376 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: They try to play all this perimeter offense and all 377 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: these fancy plays and I'm like they played in a 378 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 1: Green Bay's hands. That's why they couldn't score a touchdown. 379 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 1: But like, if you could bring that and show that 380 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 1: the NFL networth the next day that hey, look, I 381 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: mean nobody really knows what he got. Time Defense says. 382 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,120 Speaker 1: If you could teach the time defense and then why 383 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 1: they played it and why it benefited them, that's a 384 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: good part of what the story was. But you only 385 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: get that if you watch it. So I want to 386 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 1: go back to the books from me here, because you 387 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: like it seems to me like crime novels anything. I 388 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: got hooked on that. But I mean, I'm I'm a reader, 389 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: so so are you? Are you a movie person? If 390 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 1: I have time, I know, I know people that can 391 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 1: receive lines to every single dummer, Like I mean, I 392 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:30,919 Speaker 1: just like I can't do that. But like, do you 393 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,719 Speaker 1: enjoy movies similar to the books. But the books are 394 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: always better, like if you take a John Grisham like tales. Right. 395 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: So I've read almost all of John Grisham's books. But 396 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:46,439 Speaker 1: if you take say, um, a Pelican Brief and you 397 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,400 Speaker 1: you know, plug in and out like you can't. Those 398 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: books never transcribe to a movie because they move so 399 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:57,959 Speaker 1: fast that the movie really can't show the speed. They can't. 400 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: You know The Firm, right, The Firm was the great, 401 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 1: first great book John, and they made it into a 402 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:06,120 Speaker 1: movie and it was a bad movie. I enjoyed the fir, 403 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: but I didn't read the Funk. Yeah, see the book. 404 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 1: There's very few there's very few movies that are better 405 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,199 Speaker 1: than the books, like Jaws. The movie is better than 406 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: Peter Benchley's Jaws the book, but that's one of them. 407 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: Somebody recently told me that American Psycho of the movie 408 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: better than the book. But I've never read the book. 409 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,400 Speaker 1: Is the first time I've seen it. Yeah, I think 410 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 1: if you've never seen the movie before and it's fresh 411 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: in your mind, it's fresh in your mind. All right, So, 412 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 1: folks to see you on TV, and you know, for 413 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 1: those of watching at home. Everybody asked, but the Finger 414 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 1: what's the story behind? Is there something wrong? We all 415 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 1: got the same Yeah, I mean like some I still 416 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: have ten fingers, you know. I mean this thing, the 417 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 1: baldy is pinky. I mean, look it is, it is. 418 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: It is world famous. People do want to see the pink. 419 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:58,919 Speaker 1: They want pictures with it, they want to see it. 420 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: They want to try to exit. Um. It happened, uh 421 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: in training camp when I was with the Cowboys, my 422 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,360 Speaker 1: second year with the Cowboys, so I've been on the team. Um, 423 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 1: we were a team that was dominated by our defensive line, 424 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: Randy White, two tall Jones, Harvey Martin. We were dominant 425 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,920 Speaker 1: by a defensive line. So in the locker room, they 426 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: dominated the team. So I ran through them. So when 427 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: you so when it got jerked, like I got this 428 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: hand caught in Randy White's jersey and it got ripped 429 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 1: out so that the finger was dangling and I was 430 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,640 Speaker 1: and I screamed like I mean, so the defensive line 431 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,199 Speaker 1: thought I I screamed like a little schoolgirl. You know, 432 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: that got kicked. But I mean, you know that's that's fair. 433 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 1: So um, anyways, but they they they went and they 434 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,400 Speaker 1: taped it together, you know, and I went back out 435 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: to practice, and I taped it like that for the 436 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: rest of my career. Now, when I walked into the 437 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: cafeteria after practice, there was a defensive line the front 438 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 1: row as you come down the steps to the cafeteria 439 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: to get your food. And as they saw me, they 440 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 1: stood up in unison and they all went wow wow, 441 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,159 Speaker 1: like they imitated beyond the field. And so I felt like, 442 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: oh God, here I go. I'm getting abused. And then 443 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: like in unison, they all held up their hands and 444 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:19,199 Speaker 1: they all had crooked fingers and they're like, Baldi was 445 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: just gonna let you know, join the club, you know, 446 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 1: And so I'm like, all right, I joined the club 447 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: that day. I joined the fraternity. Just like that. You 448 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: decided right there in Dallas that you were never gonna 449 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 1: be saying this was part of who you were. I mean, 450 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 1: you know, look, you're a young guy. You're in your 451 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: second year, you haven't really done anything, and uh and 452 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: and the defensive line is sort of taking into their fraternity. 453 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 1: That's a big deal for you. By now, it's a 454 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: little bit different. Now, there's a lot of hazing. Back then, 455 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 1: it was like there was a rights to becoming a veteran, 456 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:52,199 Speaker 1: but no aspirations to try to fix it or it's 457 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 1: just too too loss of a cause at this point. 458 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: So eatan, here's the deal. It's like, there are a 459 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,160 Speaker 1: lot of people like, for example, I used to play 460 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 1: in this Uh, I was playing a winner basketball league 461 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: with with Roger Stallballs. So I remember Roger had a finger. 462 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,360 Speaker 1: He has a finger just like mine, and so it's 463 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,880 Speaker 1: on his other hand, it wasn't on his throwing him. 464 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: So Roger was a he was a great athlete. Um, 465 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 1: but he loved basketball like he was. He was a ballhog, 466 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: you know, quite frankly. So uh, you know, he loved 467 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 1: to shoot. And so when one year we're you know, 468 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: we were friends and we were teammates this basketball. It's 469 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: a quarterback and I mean they're all the same. So, um, 470 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: I remember one year we're like looking at each other's 471 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: fingers and he goes, I'm getting mine fixed ball and 472 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: I'm like, get out of here. You can't fix that. 473 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: He goes, now, I'm going in there. I'm getting it fixed. 474 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: My wife has like been on me about it, and 475 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,199 Speaker 1: you gotta get a fixed. You're a public figure, you 476 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 1: wear these suits, you look stupid, like, So he goes 477 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 1: to get this thing operated on and they put it 478 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: in a splint, and they said, okay, nothing for six weeks. 479 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,719 Speaker 1: Well tell Roger to do nothing for six weeks. Impossible. 480 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 1: So the next week, the week after, he's out there 481 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,400 Speaker 1: with the splint on his finger and the ball hits 482 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 1: the split, The splint flies off, the finger goes back 483 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: to where it was, and it was like, I knew 484 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 1: it was a worthless cause. So I'm gonna saw a starbuck. 485 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 1: He couldn't get his fix. I'm like, I ain't gonna 486 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: get my So we started off talking about wardrobes. Here 487 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 1: the Baldy Breakdown T shirt. But we've added uh Ethan 488 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: Greenberg to the sex group. He's on Team Sex. Is 489 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: that right? Yeah? Wow, no kidding. I'm going there for 490 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: a fitting on Friday that. Like I'm telling you this, 491 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 1: I I woarn a lot of tailored suits for a 492 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: long time, even since I played, and all the way 493 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: through my Intelligion career. And then I met Bill Winn 494 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,679 Speaker 1: at Sacks and Big Daddy in the whole group, and 495 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 1: I wear these suits now. I swear it's the most 496 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: unbelievable thing. Everywhere I go, I get stopped like I 497 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 1: In fact, I went I ran into, um, well, it 498 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: doesn't really matter. At the NFL network, there's there's nobody 499 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 1: that can come close to trusting like me. Nobody no good. 500 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: And it's it's now the players on the field Sundays 501 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: or Saturday's they come up and they're like, dude, like 502 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: do you have any suits? That don't or they just 503 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 1: aren't like you look great in every suit? Again when players? 504 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: When players, because the players, every players a fashion police, right, 505 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: I mean they get on a plane, you get on 506 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,479 Speaker 1: a plane with him, you're taking a trip, like if 507 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: the fashion police are out. I mean you know there's guys, 508 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: there's chicken wings, and there's fashion police on every flight 509 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: I've ever been on it, right, So like everybody is 510 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 1: looking at everybody and judge them. And you know, some 511 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 1: guys can dress, and then some guys think they can dress, 512 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,199 Speaker 1: and you know they can't. So I don't have that 513 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 1: worry at all anymore. I know that I look good. 514 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: You're going out, no doubt about it. And you're right 515 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 1: about that feeling that jumping on the plane because some 516 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: guys you look at and say, is he just trying 517 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 1: to make a statement and trying to be out or 518 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: is that like a fashion forward because it's almost like 519 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 1: a runway model sometimes where no pun intended. Literally, yeah, 520 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: you you see these, you know, you see people on 521 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 1: the runway sometimes in the way. The biggest clothes horse 522 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: I've ever met in this whole industry was Irving Friar 523 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: Early Friar. You know. It was the number one pick 524 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 1: in the in the in the league, gout in Nebraska, 525 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:23,880 Speaker 1: you know. And he came to the Eagles in free 526 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 1: agency and and I we were doing a show together, 527 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 1: so that's how. And he never wore the same suit twice, 528 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: which is almost impossible, but he did Larry Fitzgerald that 529 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 1: he'd have one suit for travel, one sup per game day, 530 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 1: and so two suits in every trip. Wow. Okay, yeah, 531 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 1: that's a lot of suits. That's a lot of suits. Yeah, 532 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 1: I hope so too. Yeah, that's a lot. All right. Well, 533 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:50,879 Speaker 1: before we let you go here, I want to know 534 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: you said you've been the sixty six countries top and 535 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: bottom of that list. Well, I mean I used to 536 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: go to Brazil. I had of mine. He's still one 537 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 1: of my best friends. But he was an exchange student 538 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: in Brazil and he was in high school as a 539 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: soccer player, so he lived with six families in Brazil. 540 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,679 Speaker 1: So I used to go down to Brazil with him 541 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: all the time, and my brother was going down with me. 542 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,439 Speaker 1: I went down for Carnival. So I've been in Brazil 543 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: nine times now. They like Brazil is sort of It's 544 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: not a third world country by any stretch. But when 545 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 1: I first started going there, it was it had a 546 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 1: little of that element to it, and it was fun. 547 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. Like the stuff that 548 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: we did and the trouble we got into, Like, he 549 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 1: really can't do that anymore, but I was young and stupids. 550 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: I always loved Brazil. I go to Coasta ric every year. 551 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 1: I love Coasta Rica. I go to a certain section 552 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: of Coasta Rica I really like. UM. I lived in Italy. Uh, 553 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: you know, you can drop me into There's twenty three states, 554 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 1: and it really put me in any of the states. 555 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:52,120 Speaker 1: Lazio doesn't matter. I Basilicata, Um, it doesn't really matter. 556 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 1: He put me anywhere in Italy. I'm fine, I can 557 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 1: speak the language. I'm good. UM. I lived in London 558 00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: doing NFL Europe Games. I lived in Amsterdam, I lived 559 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 1: in Barcelona. Um, all those places are fantastic. Go to 560 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: any of those. Um, there's some hidden jewels out there. 561 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,400 Speaker 1: Like Scotland's just an awesome place. I'm just you can't 562 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: have a bad time in Scotland. Everybody plays golf. Um, 563 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: their courses are impeccable, and they like golf when the 564 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: weather is at the worst because that's when they think 565 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 1: that you really learn how to play. So you know, 566 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: you could go east, you could go south, you could 567 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 1: go west. I mean, I don't know. I've had a 568 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 1: good time climbing Mount Killamgaro in Tanzania. You know, it's 569 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: just great members all over. Well, there's so much we 570 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 1: can talk to you. But if we should have you 571 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 1: out later this year and we could just do a 572 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: little travel podcast. Oh yeah, I'd love to do that. 573 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 1: I love to do that. All right, that's next episode 574 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 1: when you come back on promise you gotta I gotta 575 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: request though we're all gonna wear sex, but I want 576 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: a ball these you know, I had been and a sweatsher. 577 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: Do you guys do a hood at sweatsher yet or not? 578 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: We we we we we haven't done it yet, but 579 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: we just got started last week. This is like a 580 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: week old. Let's let's like girls want to v neck, 581 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: you know, T shirt. I've got the hoodie coming. Like 582 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 1: you know, we're just we're just taking this kind of 583 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 1: slow here. He ate, but I would say that by 584 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 1: the next time you have me on this podcast, that 585 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: will all be in hoodie. Yeah yeah, I was gonna 586 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: say hoodie is your headbands and travel a headband guy beginning, 587 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: so it's just fissical. All right. Well that's all we 588 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: got here on the Official Jet Podcast. Here in the 589 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: play MGM Studios again, New York Jets dot com, YouTube, 590 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: Apple podcast, Google Play, and SoundCloud. Baldi, thanks a lot, 591 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: and we'll see silver. Yeah. Well, I'm glad we talked 592 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: so much about football. That was great.