Speaker 1: As we roll through breaking down all of the big
Speaker 1: NFL awesomeness. Three games on Saturday, three games on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Shawn Merriman lights out podcast with the I Heart Podcast Network.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and bring him in. Sean, I love
Speaker 1: the expanded playoffs. I love that we had three games
Speaker 1: on Saturday. I love that we had three on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I went and watched the Titans game against the Ravens
Speaker 1: here in my hometown of Nashville. Took one of my sons,
Speaker 1: had an incredible time. What do you think about the
Speaker 1: idea of expanding to seven a f C and seven NFC?
Speaker 1: Do you like the idea of the expanded playoffs? We absolutely, um,
Speaker 1: and that's just four and I'll take it back and
Speaker 1: I know we talked about a week or a week
Speaker 1: before that. UM back to the NFL doing a incredible
Speaker 1: job at figuring this thing out, Like yes, from the start,
Speaker 1: from the start of the year, I'm looking at like
Speaker 1: saying to myself, there's no there's no way in hell
Speaker 1: they're gonna get it. Not only Senash, the season, it
Speaker 1: thick of this thing out is just way too many.
Speaker 1: You look at what the NBA did they want to
Speaker 1: force themselves in the bubble and no one can leave.
Speaker 1: They can't go anywhere, and they still have some problems.
Speaker 1: The NFL didn't didn't even a forced a bubble and
Speaker 1: was able to finish the season and now, you know,
Speaker 1: getting into this newest expanded playoff picture. I think it's great.
Speaker 1: You know. I think it's another thing that you probably
Speaker 1: would need to look at some point in time too,
Speaker 1: is is uh what wouldn't the hell is going on
Speaker 1: with the NFC East didn't uh figuring that playoff system? Abe,
Speaker 1: But I just think they did an amazing job so
Speaker 1: far and continue this thing is still making it excitement
Speaker 1: because it's hard. You know, one of you don't have
Speaker 1: all your fans there, and that's one you know, the
Speaker 1: first thing you have your first your fan base at
Speaker 1: the stadium. We can actually fell the motion of the
Speaker 1: passion of the game. But to still making it fun
Speaker 1: and exciting for for us to sit back and watching TV.
Speaker 1: So I think they done a magnificent job man to
Speaker 1: keep this thing going. All Right, I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 1: to break down a lot of these different games. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna run through them with you. But I think we
Speaker 1: are underrated how good Tom Brady is looking at the
Speaker 1: end of this year, right. Uh. And and I know
Speaker 1: they get a rematch now against the Saints, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see what happens. Can the Saints
Speaker 1: beat him for a third time. But Brady as a
Speaker 1: guy who is who played against Brady and was in
Speaker 1: the league for several years against Brady for a while too,
Speaker 1: are you just blown away? I mean he I mean, Sean,
Speaker 1: he looks younger on the field, his arm looks more lively. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's really pretty remarkable to see what he is capable
Speaker 1: of any the guy through forty touchdowns at the age
Speaker 1: of forty three, and he was throwing the ball down
Speaker 1: the field and this I know part of the story.
Speaker 1: Is heinekey And well I'll ask you about him too.
Speaker 1: But to me, for Saturday night game, I was watching
Speaker 1: Brady and I'm like, this dude doesn't just have one
Speaker 1: year left. I mean he's got multiple years left based
Speaker 1: on the way he's playing right now. And you know,
Speaker 1: even playing him all those years, Uh, I always said
Speaker 1: intern of league like them for myself that he is
Speaker 1: gonna be that good because because of Bill Belichick, I
Speaker 1: really thought that, Um, you know, because Bill Belichick is
Speaker 1: such a hell of a coach. Um. They built such
Speaker 1: a dynasty and a team that I always said to myself,
Speaker 1: even playing them, I said, I'm not really worried about
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I worried about Bill Belichick. Well you know
Speaker 1: Tom Brady too, but I'm I'm worried about the coaching
Speaker 1: that's gonna come from this game. And I think that
Speaker 1: what Tom Brady did by going down to Tampa and
Speaker 1: proving everybody wrong that it wasn't Bill Belichick, it was him.
Speaker 1: He was. He was the reason and and and still
Speaker 1: the Patriots did this year. Tom Brady was the reason
Speaker 1: why that organization ran for two decades. I mean that
Speaker 1: he was a reason and uh, you know, being a
Speaker 1: you know, being a competitor of him. You can see
Speaker 1: it on film and just see some of these things
Speaker 1: he's doing. But you always always about back of my head,
Speaker 1: no matter when we played those guys, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: he called this toy played because Bill Belichick called that.
Speaker 1: But now you're saying we talked about it being younger,
Speaker 1: Brady's doing something. I think that Tony, Tony Dungi or
Speaker 1: somebody to said after the game, want so much of
Speaker 1: the game said, he's doing something that's probably done. You
Speaker 1: didn't even see when when he beat them in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. He's moving around in the pocket. You know
Speaker 1: he did around. Yeah, he's he's moving around, but he
Speaker 1: sees me other He's moving around more than he's ever
Speaker 1: had in the last five years. And I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about taking off the running. I mean just straight up
Speaker 1: pocket awareness, where he's making some things happen by being
Speaker 1: an athlete, like I haven't seen that in Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and fifteen years. It's pretty remarkable. And not to take
Speaker 1: anything away from Heinecki, right, because that was an incredible performance.
Speaker 1: He made a lot of plays for Washington, but Washington
Speaker 1: really was not in the same stratosphere in terms of
Speaker 1: what they could accomplish. I mean, he made a couple
Speaker 1: of crazy plays, but when you look at that matchup,
Speaker 1: and I'll even talk a little bit of the head
Speaker 1: because you know, I thought it was a fairly that
Speaker 1: the Saints defense is for real. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: any way to to criticize them. But how difficult do
Speaker 1: you think it will be for the Saints to beat
Speaker 1: the Bucks for a third time? As we look ahead
Speaker 1: for that game that's coming up. Or do you look
Speaker 1: at it and say, uh, the Saints are a good
Speaker 1: matchup and that's why they were able to handle twice
Speaker 1: the Bucks pretty easily. Uh for one day there is there.
Speaker 1: It was a really good matchup and they match up
Speaker 1: very well. But this, in my opinion, Tampa was getting
Speaker 1: hot at the right time. Like they they're the team
Speaker 1: with the momentum. And if you look at the course
Speaker 1: of the season, right there's no off season really you
Speaker 1: got you know, training camp, and you based no preseason games.
Speaker 1: You kind of started the season with a brand new team.
Speaker 1: What's you're seeing right now for the Buccaneers is they're
Speaker 1: finally getting on the same page. And I'm talking about
Speaker 1: across the board. I'm not surprised that an Tonio Brown
Speaker 1: is heating up right now. I'm not surprised that Mike
Speaker 1: Evans they're finding the find a ways to get him
Speaker 1: the ball and making things look to look easy. You know,
Speaker 1: they have a well all your machine over there was
Speaker 1: just like if they just needed a little bit of
Speaker 1: w D forty somewhere in the middle, just you know,
Speaker 1: keep that thing moving until they figure it out. That
Speaker 1: was the whole goals of them. Right, Uh, let's let's
Speaker 1: get let's get ourselves in the playoffs and let's get
Speaker 1: on the same page. And you took you talk about
Speaker 1: two teams And I'm not saying anything about the Saint today.
Speaker 1: I think they played well UH in a lot of areas.
Speaker 1: But if you look at the two teams, one is
Speaker 1: going at a at a skywalking rapid page and getting
Speaker 1: better and another ones just looking still pretty good. One
Speaker 1: of the the interesting stories I thought most so coming
Speaker 1: out of the of the playoffs in that early games
Speaker 1: was the Rams seemed like they were really driven by
Speaker 1: a feeling of disrespect for how the Seahawks performed UH
Speaker 1: in an earlier game against them. The Ravens seem like
Speaker 1: they felt disrespected by the Titans. And we hear a
Speaker 1: lot of talk about bulletin board material and everything else
Speaker 1: associated with it. And I'm gonna get to social media
Speaker 1: and how that impact can be. But in your experience
Speaker 1: as a guy who was in the league as long
Speaker 1: as you were, how much did the pregame talk matter
Speaker 1: in terms of a team's on the willingness and UH
Speaker 1: and playing style. Well, you know, sometimes it's not even
Speaker 1: just a pregame it's it's way before, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're sitting on this the whole entire week. And what
Speaker 1: I don't understand about certain guys and they come out
Speaker 1: and and say things, is that, especially for teams, you
Speaker 1: gotta see again, right. I mean, if you've never seen
Speaker 1: them again and you beat them, and maybe you gotta
Speaker 1: see them the falling year, but when you gotta see
Speaker 1: him again in the same year, you gotta be pretty
Speaker 1: damn dumb to come out and talk and cray because
Speaker 1: they're gonna hange that in the locker room. They're gonna
Speaker 1: practice that all all weeks. Great coaches will use that
Speaker 1: every single play. A guy that and practices is jogging around.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna full speed. That's what John Hobbagger. Somebody's
Speaker 1: gonna walk up to him and say, hey, gu's what
Speaker 1: they dance for your logo last time? Remember that? Or
Speaker 1: you're gonna jop. They just dance. So it becomes fuel
Speaker 1: to the fire every single day during the weeks. And
Speaker 1: now if people start game planning different the the you
Speaker 1: know their blood is boiling by the I may get
Speaker 1: to the game and I just never understand. I never
Speaker 1: understand why guys talk the way they talk, especially when
Speaker 1: you got to go out and see that person again.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, same thing with Juju said a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago about the brown Uh, the same thing
Speaker 1: with um you know. I think it was Adam the
Speaker 1: safety of for Seattle that came out of smoked Cigar
Speaker 1: last year. I'm like, man, you go, you gotta see
Speaker 1: these guys again? What are you thinking? I wonder how
Speaker 1: much of a lot And it is interesting because you
Speaker 1: social media was just kind of taken off when your
Speaker 1: career came to a close. But how much of that
Speaker 1: is guys putting on a show for their social media
Speaker 1: following and trying to grow their own brands, Because that's
Speaker 1: one thing. Like a decade ago, the only way you
Speaker 1: grew your brand was by winning, right, I mean like
Speaker 1: that was it like your team had to be able
Speaker 1: to win and if you won, you had a good brand.
Speaker 1: Now there are guys using Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, whatever else
Speaker 1: to to develop a name for themselves, and it's sometimes
Speaker 1: can create I think a distinction between what might be
Speaker 1: good for the team and what might be good for
Speaker 1: the player. I think it's kind of put that disconnect
Speaker 1: and that that sometimes dichotomy on steroids. Did you buy
Speaker 1: into that, uh, that that that social media has changed
Speaker 1: the way guys talk and maybe the way that guys
Speaker 1: are even playing at times. Absolutely, And you know it's
Speaker 1: gotten to the point where it got bad because for one,
Speaker 1: you know, you know we talked before, are your social media?
Speaker 1: I'm on social media and we do it because you know,
Speaker 1: we were trying to either get a message out or
Speaker 1: say certain things and get our point across. We have
Speaker 1: jobs and have things promote and put out, so those
Speaker 1: things that beneficial. The problem is with athletes, right, you're
Speaker 1: trying to fit in on social media with other people
Speaker 1: who are not professional athletes. So if there's a challenge
Speaker 1: going on, there's a uh something that you know kind
Speaker 1: of went viral, another guys trying to do it. So
Speaker 1: you're doing all these things to try to get to
Speaker 1: social media following up and you know, some things you
Speaker 1: can't do because you gotta go out and play, you know.
Speaker 1: And it kind of got out of my skin then
Speaker 1: here and see Juju doing all these things, and like, dude,
Speaker 1: that's fine for fans, right, that's fine for someone who
Speaker 1: loved the game, But when you go out and your dance,
Speaker 1: no guy's logo. You can't tell me you don't know.
Speaker 1: That's disrespectful. That is disrespectful. And guys find out about it,
Speaker 1: they're gonna do something about it. Because and Clay, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you one of the reasons why I started playing
Speaker 1: football a long time ago, and I told my mom.
Speaker 1: She said, why do you want to play football? I said,
Speaker 1: talking here, I can hit somebody and not get in
Speaker 1: trouble for this. This is my This was my reason
Speaker 1: for playing football. I said, I wanted to hit somebody
Speaker 1: and not get in trouble for because you can't do
Speaker 1: it anywhere else, right, you can't do it. I was
Speaker 1: to what, I'm going to jail. So that was my
Speaker 1: reason for playing football. To Now, if you take Juju
Speaker 1: and all these guys that are talking like this on
Speaker 1: social media and doing these disrespectful things, that's what you
Speaker 1: got sixty minutes to line up against the guys front
Speaker 1: of awesome you and and best believe he wants to
Speaker 1: do something to you about it. So I get it.
Speaker 1: Build I'm all for it, man. I love that Brandon aspect.
Speaker 1: I think that Juju and all these guys have a
Speaker 1: great brand that they're building for less not to get
Speaker 1: what you get paid to do for a living. When
Speaker 1: you look at at I said coming into the wild
Speaker 1: card round of the playoffs that the two quarterbacks I
Speaker 1: thought had the most at stake were Josh Allen and
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. If they both won, they would get the
Speaker 1: proverbial monkey off their back. They would win a playoff game.
Speaker 1: Not only for uh, you know, the Lamar Jackson didn't
Speaker 1: want to go to Owen three in the playoffs, but
Speaker 1: also Josh Allen's team hadn't won a playoff game in forever,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty five years basically, so the whole organization
Speaker 1: has that kind of hanging over them. What do you
Speaker 1: think the impact might be now for a guy like
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, now that they know not
Speaker 1: only can they get to the playoffs, they can win
Speaker 1: a game there. And as you look ahead and UH
Speaker 1: and know that they're headed to the divisional round and
Speaker 1: obviously they hope to go to the a f C
Speaker 1: Championship and beyond, what is getting that first win for
Speaker 1: a quarterback and for an organization like the Bills but
Speaker 1: also the Ravens behind Lamar Jackson. What does that do
Speaker 1: for an organization? It's just cracked the narrative as a player.
Speaker 1: To be honest, you hear it, but you don't really
Speaker 1: feel it. You don't feel that way. You hear it, um,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't change your approach to trying to win
Speaker 1: another football game, whether it's the playoff game or whether
Speaker 1: it's a regular season. But I can tell you sure
Speaker 1: if he'll get tired of here and it, because it's
Speaker 1: like man and take Lamar Jackson for example, Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: accomplished a lot in this in his first couple of years.
Speaker 1: I mean more than the average person. And m v
Speaker 1: P and the records. He's continuously breaking those things. He's
Speaker 1: it comes a lot to us for someone to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, he's not that during the player because
Speaker 1: you didn't win the playoffs. It's like, okay, guys, come on,
Speaker 1: you're talking about a revolutionary type of player that's already
Speaker 1: a change the way for all was played because what
Speaker 1: he's athletically capable of doing. And you go over to Josh,
Speaker 1: I decide it's like man, I and and and play.
Speaker 1: To be honest, I was caught in between because he
Speaker 1: was playing my you know, my former teammate Shiller Rivers,
Speaker 1: and I I wanted the game so bad for phill Up,
Speaker 1: but I also played for the Bills, and I'm just
Speaker 1: sitting back like I want I want the organization to win,
Speaker 1: you know, the Bills, because I played there and I
Speaker 1: know how much it means to that city. I remember
Speaker 1: was back playing that we beat the Patriots and you
Speaker 1: would have thought a parade. What was happening? It was
Speaker 1: the town is shut down, right. We forced Tom Brady
Speaker 1: to throw four interceptions and it was a great day
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. So that and that was just one game
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. We wasn't going to the playoffs or
Speaker 1: anything like that. That was just a game. So I
Speaker 1: know how important it was for the city to win it.
Speaker 1: But I was sure as hell sitting back like, man,
Speaker 1: you know what, phill Up is on the team, uh,
Speaker 1: for the first time in a couple of years that
Speaker 1: they have a real chance of winning the rings. So
Speaker 1: I felt for but I am happy for Josh Allen
Speaker 1: because you know he's gonna be a great quarterback for
Speaker 1: the five for the next five seame plus isn't NFL.
Speaker 1: What do you think Philip Rivers gonna do? Now? Do?
Speaker 1: I mean? He had a pretty good year with the
Speaker 1: with the Colts, They've got a good offensive line, they
Speaker 1: had a lot of injuries. It seems like Jonathan Taylor, Uh,
Speaker 1: they're young running back is going to have an awful
Speaker 1: lot of success in the NFL. How soon do you
Speaker 1: think Philip Rivers makes a decision and what do you
Speaker 1: think he might do. I can't see Philip Rivers walking
Speaker 1: away right now, I really can, especially if the team
Speaker 1: asked him to come back. Um, you know, I know
Speaker 1: he's accepted whenever he's retired to go coach in high
Speaker 1: school down in Florida, Alabama. I can't remember which one
Speaker 1: it was. I know he's gotta be a hell of
Speaker 1: a coach when he's done. He's got a lot of
Speaker 1: kids to go out and take take care of, for sure.
Speaker 1: But I can't meet no. Still up. The competitive side
Speaker 1: in him wanted to give it one more go. And
Speaker 1: I do believe if the coach acting asked him to
Speaker 1: come back that he is he will and he should
Speaker 1: he I mean, he had he had a great year.
Speaker 1: Um he finally and meant the lot need personally, you know,
Speaker 1: being the former teammate and people saying he's Washington can't
Speaker 1: play anymore and see how well he can. You know,
Speaker 1: he can still go at it. So I think that
Speaker 1: if the coach gives him another opportunity to come back,
Speaker 1: he will. We're talking to Sean Merriman as we roll
Speaker 1: into the divisional round of the playoffs. You mentioned this,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a big deal and I think
Speaker 1: it's a big statement. The NFL being able to get
Speaker 1: this all done is is it's truly a remarkable accomplishment, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, to get the entirety of the season end
Speaker 1: like they have managed to do is uh is really?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's one of the great accomplishments in NFL history.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the great Where's the composition
Speaker 1: in sports history? Yeah? Um, you know, if you look
Speaker 1: at all the colleges back in August or July, August
Speaker 1: whatever it was, that all, you know, the conferences that
Speaker 1: were shutting down before they got a chance to do
Speaker 1: anything right there already they're already canceling season and they
Speaker 1: didn't even have an opportunity to start it. And so
Speaker 1: you were talking about wool uh, the entire conference. We're
Speaker 1: not talking about one school, one or two school here
Speaker 1: that we're talking about an entire conference. So for the
Speaker 1: NFL to figure it out and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: we're going to forward this thing and we're gonna start it.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll we'll do it as safely as possible,
Speaker 1: We'll go all the protocols and things we gotta do,
Speaker 1: We'll do it the right right. Wait, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: start this year. But for me, I'm not surprised because
Speaker 1: that's why the NFL is the NFL and why they
Speaker 1: have perceived. Their perception here in the country is so
Speaker 1: damn big because they are bulldogs. Man. They'll go and
Speaker 1: get things done when necessarily Sean, as we kind of
Speaker 1: roll forward, Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers got to sit
Speaker 1: out and wait, what is it like for those guys
Speaker 1: you think to get an extra week of rest at
Speaker 1: this point in time, And are you nervous at all
Speaker 1: about whether that team is ready, whether it's the Packers
Speaker 1: or whether it is the Chiefs with the ability and remember,
Speaker 1: especially for the Chiefs, they basically got two weeks off
Speaker 1: because they took off for a lot of their stars beforehand.
Speaker 1: What do you anticipate seeing out of those two teams?
Speaker 1: Should they be the favorites and a substantial degree uh,
Speaker 1: to to go out and and go to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Do you think you know, Um, I guess some people
Speaker 1: can be uh. I don't know if you want to
Speaker 1: call it a ritual or uh. You know, you got
Speaker 1: some coaches that like to stay in the moment and
Speaker 1: go and do your regular routing and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But I believe in help, especially just late in the teason.
Speaker 1: I played in the first round by and I can
Speaker 1: tell you that if we didn't have that by, I
Speaker 1: don't think I would have played that first game the
Speaker 1: playoff because I was just saying up from you know,
Speaker 1: the seventeen weeks of playing, I would just beat up.
Speaker 1: How much difference does that make for your body? Then
Speaker 1: for somebody like you who's in the you know, basically
Speaker 1: thirty or forty car accidents minimum every week. I mean
Speaker 1: that extra week made a tremendous difference to how you
Speaker 1: felt it's night and day. So I'll put it to
Speaker 1: you like this. I mean, you know, you wake up,
Speaker 1: obviously you've got a light left thing, You stretch, you
Speaker 1: do all the things you gotta do. But you start
Speaker 1: to ice and cold tub the ice cold tub, and
Speaker 1: then jump in a hot tub and jumping the saw
Speaker 1: and you stretch a little bit more. If you've got
Speaker 1: a tight handstring or quad or your ankles rolls or
Speaker 1: something like that, the swelling drops over the last you know,
Speaker 1: four or five days you get you get complained. And
Speaker 1: it sounds a little bit freaky that someone rolled the ankle,
Speaker 1: got a sprained ankle. They just need five days. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, the normal huven have been these three weeks,
Speaker 1: but five or six days in the NFL is a
Speaker 1: lifetime because you just feel that much better. You go
Speaker 1: out there and now you're not hitting and practice as
Speaker 1: much as uh later order in the year, you're not
Speaker 1: having pads on, so practicing not that tough. So now
Speaker 1: you're just really going out there and getting fully healthy
Speaker 1: and it's it's incredible, man. I would tell anyone if
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to get that by the week,
Speaker 1: take that by week. It's important you didn't in the
Speaker 1: hole obviously the whole till a vantage. I know I
Speaker 1: said the last question, but this is a real last question.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot less practice, uh, and a lot
Speaker 1: less of O T A s and mini camps and
Speaker 1: everything else, and guys have actually come out and they
Speaker 1: look like at least offensively, like the games have looked
Speaker 1: pretty good as a player. Does that mean to you,
Speaker 1: hey man, we don't have to be there in this
Speaker 1: in the as much as we maybe had been in
Speaker 1: the past. Like some of this, uh, some of this
Speaker 1: stuff is is unnecessary. Well, I can tell you a
Speaker 1: smart vetterment should say that that would be big. You know,
Speaker 1: if we go out and perform, well, we're not practice
Speaker 1: as much with doing everything virtual. Um. Yeah, I'll be
Speaker 1: the first one to recommend that. But you know, I
Speaker 1: think that if you look at the cost the board,
Speaker 1: look at any big CEO, I'll hear the company. And
Speaker 1: I got employees on my own. We haven't met up
Speaker 1: again in months, Yes, and we're still able to get
Speaker 1: things done. And you know, now you've got the I
Speaker 1: got employees, I got employees Intend States, Shawn, And it's
Speaker 1: like a pretty smooth process even without us being in
Speaker 1: the same place. And so I do think that this
Speaker 1: has been you know, one of the benefits of this
Speaker 1: is people would have never taken the risk to stop
Speaker 1: the business travel and to not be going into the
Speaker 1: office and all those things. But now that they have
Speaker 1: done it and they've recognized that it hasn't necessarily destroyed
Speaker 1: the business. I think a lot of people have learned
Speaker 1: that their business is able to function in ways that
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have believed otherwise. And it's just saying it's
Speaker 1: no different in football, because I'll tell you what's happening. Um,
Speaker 1: you know now that it's attentive win and having a
Speaker 1: successful season one without beating each other up one or
Speaker 1: without uh, you know, being having having to do physical
Speaker 1: things you can do walk through or you can do
Speaker 1: stuff virtual and talk it out. Uh. And you've got
Speaker 1: a lot of these old school coaches. I played with
Speaker 1: the old fool coach who believed and hit it right.
Speaker 1: That's the only way you get good. If if you're
Speaker 1: being tough and toughing us up, you're going out hit
Speaker 1: every year. Gods go out and you're not hitting every day,
Speaker 1: you're not doing anything, and they're making great plays, they're
Speaker 1: not getting tired of condition is good. So now you're
Speaker 1: gonna have these old school coaches when the old school
Speaker 1: mindset may be changing their train and thought, Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: we don't have to do this, maybe we don't have
Speaker 1: to be each other up. Well, meet an extra four
Speaker 1: holes a day in person, in order for us to
Speaker 1: win football game. So I think that this time period
Speaker 1: and adjustment has has been uh, it's opened up a
Speaker 1: lot of doors from for the future. Good stuff is
Speaker 1: always Sean Merriman enjoyed the games this weekend. Appreciate you
Speaker 1: coming on with us. We'll talk to you again next week.
Speaker 1: You got it. Anytime that Shawn Merriman lights out, go
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