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That was a great team, but even 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:15.720 greater characters Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Lenny Deistra. And it 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.800 helps it. This team played in New York, where everything 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.680 is bigger. They belong in an elite group because when 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.800 you say the eighties six Mets or the eighty five Bears, 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.600 you have an image that comes to mind, but they 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.480 were one and donners. You know, the twenty seven Yankees 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.399 come to mind, the seventy two Dolphins, but like Michael Jordan, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.200 you can say Michael Jordan's Bulls and you've got six championships. 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.200 They kind of cancel each other out. Same with Joe 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.080 Montana and the forty nine Ers they won four Super Bowls, 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.400 the nineties Cowboys, the seventies Steelers, the late nineties Yankees. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.440 You could also, you know, look at maybe the twenty 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.960 sixteen Cubs are going to join that list one day, 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.720 or the twenty sixteen Cavaliers. All of these teams deserve 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.120 their own thirty for thirty and most of them will 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.320 probably get one. But the Mets they get their turn 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.800 this week, and it's a lot of fun. I was 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.400 very fortunate. My first job, my first full time job 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.800 in sports, was at CNN, where I was in Atlanta 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:16.600 and then went to New York to become the New 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.280 York bureau reporter, and I got to cover the eighty 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:24.960 six Mets. I was there eighty four, eighty five, eighty six, 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.119 and then they sent me back down to Atlanta, where 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.480 I got to anchor some of the weekend sports. But 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.079 to be around the eighty six Mets, to be around 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:38.640 them socially was always entertaining. And you know, when you 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.919 start to think of that team, you had Gooden and 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.160 Strawberry who were young, and we thought their future Hall 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.679 of famers. We thought Daryl Strawberry was the next Ted Williams. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.040 We thought Dwight Gooden was going to be, well, just 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.240 Dwight Gooden the best pitcher we had ever seen, at 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.440 least in the modern era. But it didn't happen that way. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.640 You had a lot of players that team, with a 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.760 lot of big personalities, and it's a shame they only 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:08.360 won one World Series, but I think winning one makes 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.760 you more interesting. Of course, you'd love to have two 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.240 or three, but there's always what could have been The 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.160 eighty five Bears, what could have been you won one. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.440 But being around the personalities and I remember they tried 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.919 to do their best to shelter. Dwight Gooden and you know, 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.360 I mean Doc was just a phenomenon. He was one 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.400 of those where you go, wow, so young, so talented 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:34.120 and dominating. And Darryl Strawberry. He didn't just hit home runs, 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:38.320 he hit bombs. You had Keith Hernandez who it feels 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.600 like he was the leader of the team. Gary Carter, 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.840 the catcher thought it was his team, but it wasn't. 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.880 Lenny Deistra had more bravado than I think any athlete 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.400 I've been around, and you were wondering why he had 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.840 so much bravado. But he was not afraid and the 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.920 fact that he called himself by his nickname Nails, I 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.119 always loved. He was not afraid of a big moment. There. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:06.920 Ray Knight, former Gold Glove boxer, third baseman, nicest guy 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.040 in the world until you have pushed his buttons. Kevin 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.640 Mitchell and left field didn't want to cross him. Like 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:18.200 there was so much going on. Pitchers, you know, Ron Darling, 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:23.800 Bobby Ohida, you had, you know, you had h Let's 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:28.839 see who was the left handed relief pitch Roger was 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.520 the crazy. Yeah who was Aguilera in there? No? No, yeah, 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:37.400 Rick Aguilera wasn't a personality. Uh, Jesse Roscoe was your closer. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.240 Like they just had so many guys. You went into 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.239 that locker room and there was a sound bite waiting 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.880 to happen with somebody in there. But it could be 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.400 something religious from Gary Carter, it could be something controversial 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:53.720 from Lenny Deistra, something mysterious from Darryl Strawberry. Like there 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.240 was a lot going on. But I'll go back to 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.240 that eighty six Mets team Game six of the World 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.560 Series when the all went through Bill Buckner's legs and 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.280 having been there and gone into that locker room, and 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.440 I remember being told that Keith Hernandez, when you walked 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.880 in the locker room, his locker was right on the left, 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.320 and they always put a six pack of Michelobe or 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.599 Michelobe light. I don't even know if they had miclobe 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.720 light back then, but I think it was micalobe, and 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.160 so you know they had his beer was there, and 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.080 I was told he came in prior to the rally, 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.919 that he started to get undressed, that he thought that 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.400 they were going to lose, came in and sat down, 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.080 and then of course they win. I went into the 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.800 Red Sox locker room first because I wanted to talk 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.080 to Bill Buckner, and then we went over to the 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.520 Mets locker room and it was still chaos. And it 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.000 was only game six, so there was still the game seven, 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.320 and the Red Sox took the lead in Game seven 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.840 and gave that away as well. But one of those 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.400 moments where you're like, this team has so much talent, 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.719 but it didn't feel like they had a collective leader 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.080 who could keep it all together. It was too powerful, 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.880 too explosive, too crazy. We didn't even know what was 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.080 going on with Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden. We didn't 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.800 know what was going well, we knew, but we didn't 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.520 really know because back then, when somebody talked about cocaine, 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.520 you're like, how did they able to play baseball? And 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.120 you know, you had other you know, cocaine was a 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.359 big issue with baseball in the early eighties, maybe in 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:27.960 the seventies, but you're just trying to follow this. It 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:29.840 was a meteor and you knew it was going to 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:31.960 burn out. You just didn't know when it was going 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.760 to burn out. And yet Davy Johnson, who was a 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.520 hands off manager, very nice man, but hands off manager. 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.760 Former player. I mean, just crazy stuff. I remember walking 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.400 in the locker room and there was a big fish 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.039 bowl and it was full of greenies like you get 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.760 in phetamines. It was like, man, maybe dip my hand 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.320 in there. Happy Halloween. But it was just there was 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.400 always always something going on. Yeah, McLevin. So could a 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.240 team like this exists today? You know, even ten years ago? 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:07.320 What was different back then? No social media. I remember 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.280 being at a club one night and Lenny Deister had 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:15.640 a cigarette, a dip and a drink all at the 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:21.080 same time. That was this team. He was just there 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:26.200 was always something going on, fascinating, always a story and 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.000 then you would just hear things. But back then it 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.200 was really you didn't You didn't really know if that 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:37.920 was happening, like Doc Gooden with drugs, Darryl Strawberry with drugs, 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.360 and I don't think straw did anything until he got 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.560 to the Mets, and he talked about being on the 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.840 back of the team plane doing coke. So his first 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.960 line of coke. He's with the Mets in the back 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:57.400 of the plane and they're doing blow and what could 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.480 have been for Darryl Strawberry and what could have been 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.679 for Dwyke and what could have been for the eighty 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.880 six months. But these are the first two episodes. They 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.800 got two more episodes after this. But I mean there's 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.360 stories of what went on in between innings with some players, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.400 with some fans, some some women, Like there's a lot 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:20.600 of wild stuff that happened, a lot of wild stuff 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.920 in between innings. Like they're still in the game. Those 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.200 are long innings, at least you hope they are. But yeah, 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.720 they're getting a third base on and off the field. Okay, 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:40.000 all right, I don't know that's a loud right, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.640 it takes it takes me back to those moments where 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.719 and a lot of times when you're a reporter you 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.480 think you have your eyes open. I didn't even know 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.280 what I was looking for. But even then, back then, 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.480 I was I was not breaking stories like that. I'm 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.320 just covering the Mets kind of on the priphery. I 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.800 wasn't there every day, but you know, using somebody of 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:05.160 drug use, like you couldn't do that, Yeah, you just 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.280 there were certain people like Kevin Mitchell. I don't think 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.560 I ever talked to Kevin Mitchell. He scared me, He 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.720 truly scared me. Wally Backman he was he was a 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.360 wild guy too, Like they're just there was so much 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:23.120 stuff that went on and these personalities. It was. It 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.600 was quite a show. But they only won one. And 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.240 the reason why the only one one is because they 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.600 were the eighty six Mets. They weren't destined to be 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.520 the eighty six, eighty seven or eighty eight Mets. They 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.839 were the eighty six Mets. Yeah, Paul, it's so much 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.880 different now. Ryan Fitzpatrick of the Washington team is is 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:41.760 the quirky guy because he's got a beard and went 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.440 to Harvard. That's his wildness. Like, it's so different now. Yes, Tone, 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.600 do you think if Davy Johnson was more strict less 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.160 lenient they could have won more or they needed to 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:51.839 have that person out to even win that one in 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.400 eighty six, I don't know. I don't know. I don't 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.000 know if they would have listened. But Davey was a 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:02.520 former player. Man, I'm but look at the eighty five Bears. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:07.000 They had Mike Ditka, mister disciplinarian. They only won one 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.160 should have won two, but you know they won one. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:17.840 That's it. But those one and Dunn's are more fascinating. Now. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:19.440 I know the Jordan Bulls, you know, there was so 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.120 much going on there that they're kind of an anomaly. 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.600 But what happened with that one year, that magical year, 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.760 and how it happened and the Bears just dominated? Where 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.800 is the Mets? Mets should have lost? You know, it's 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.160 like when you have a band that stays together for 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.000 just a little while, like Nirvana, Like where you go, God, 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.120 what could have been? That's the Mets of eighty six. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.080 You just have this moment where you go, let's capture it. Oh, 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.920 this is gonna last forever. Gooden's going to continue to dominate. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.120 He's going to continue to be twenty four and four 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.440 and have the wicked curveball. I sat behind home plate 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.600 on an off day and I remember ever Is good 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:04.000 and against Dennis Martinez in the Expos, and I went 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.800 out to watch that game just because Gooden was on 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.920 the mound and I sat behind home plate. And it's 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.440 still one of those moments as many sporting events as 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.640 I've seen, when you see somebody and you go, this 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:21.839 team has no chance, his fastball and then that breaking ball, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.560 and you're just watching grown men and you're going and 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:30.600 he's a kid like God's twenty and you're watching something. 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.320 You think this is gonna last for a long time. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.800 And he had pockets, you know, but he had demons. 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.480 And we've had doc on before and we've talked about 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:44.240 this and you can't help it like him, but they 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.959 tried to protect him the best they could. It was 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.640 really difficult to get an interview with him back then. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.200 I enjoyed Strawberry. I thought Strawberry was wonderful when he 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.480 was there, But they came up with excuses all the time, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:01.439 like he's got a toothache, he's got he's got the 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.920 sinus infection. And then you didn't realize, but you know, 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:06.800 it was a day game after a night game, and 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:12.320 straw wasn't going to be there. Just it was there. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.000 I just didn't know how to I didn't know how 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.679 to get to it. No, And even then I probably 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:25.240 wouldn't have been equipped to do something like that. You know. 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.560 It's like, you know, Mark Maguire right in front of me, 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.240 but I didn't know it was right in front of me. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.319 Jason Jelby like sometimes it's right in front of you 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.400 and you still and it's not like I went. I 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.199 don't want to believe it, but I think you want 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:45.640 to enjoy. You're covering the enjoyment of sports sometimes not 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.160 what is going on behind the scene. Like the Mets, 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.480 I truly enjoyed going to game. First date I ever 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:56.160 happened with my wife Strawberry broke his hand in a game, 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.160 like think it was May twelve, and I just remember 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:03.440 we went because I loved watching the Mets play. Yeah, mcglove. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.360 It was the same about Jordan, like they didn't dig 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:10.760 too deep into Michael Jordan's personal life yep, yep. And 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.200 back then no social media and if you did, then 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:18.800 Michael off the court with women or gambling, then that 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.400 would have been brought to light. But it wasn't, you 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.000 know you. I mean, go back through history with a 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:28.960 lot of these teams, controversial teams, controversial characters. Nowadays, we 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.880 hear it, we see it, it's written, somebody uh leaks something. 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:37.079 There's a picture, there's always a picture. Yeah. I was 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.040 going to think of back of young athletes that just 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.839 blossomed really fast. I don't think there's another athlete in 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.680 another sport that I would bet more money on was 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.280 going to the Hall of Fame than Dwight Good at 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.760 age twenty, Like I said, twenty four and four Leather 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.199 League and strikeouts, complete games, innings pitched. He won the 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.760 Cy Young fourth in the MVP. His era in the 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.719 Nation League was one point five three. I would have 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.240 bet my life savings when he was twenty he'd be 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.440 in the Hall of Fame, like like or a Campbell 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:04.240 or Lawrence Taylor type. But you I think people back 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.520 then thought Darryl Strawberry was going to hit five hundred 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.920 home runs because he just had that ability. He just 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.480 had this natural ability. I mean we marvel at Ken 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.320 Griffey Junior's swing. Straw had a swing that it was 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.800 just a home run swing, but it was. It's a 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.600 lot of fun. Take a trip down memory Lane and 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:27.520 man wild wild stuff. Yeah, club, I noticed a trend. 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.440 I listened to your wife on the twelve fifteen podcast. Yeah, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.440 all your early dates were sporting events, said you, either 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.960 you or her were credittialed for I didn't have any money. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.760 I would bring her to a Virginia Slim's tennis event 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.800 when Martina was playing and she sat in the front row. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.280 We sat in the front row, and my wife knows 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:50.280 nothing about sports, and she's just talking like this, you know, 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.240 and and you know, Martine's got the ball ready to serve, 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.640 and my wife's going so and then Martina looks over 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.960 and it's like to me, like really, And I said, 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.240 you gotta be quiet. Why why, I said, because Martina 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.520 is looking over here. And then she looks over and 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.040 sees Martina staring at us at this Virginia Slims event 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.160 at the Garden. Yeah. See, talk about a throwback to 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.800 an era of you know, sporting events, major sporting events 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:22.360 with huge superstar names sponsored by cigarette companies. Oh yeah, Virginia, 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:27.200 Virginia Slims Tennis Nationals. I took her to the Flyers 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.640 against the Edmonton Oilers as I was covering the Stanley 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.800 Cup finals. And I remember you could still you could 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.280 smoke back then in the spectrum good all day. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:42.280 guys smoking cigars. And I remember first period, there's a 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:46.200 rush and and Gretzky has the puck and I said, oh, 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.520 there goes Gretzky, And my wife stands up because she's 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.360 there because hey, you gotta go see Wayne Gretzky, I guess, 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:57.080 and this guy behind me yells to her, Hey, broad, 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.640 sit the bleep down. Now, I'm I'm sort of on 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.680 a date, but I'm working. I'm thinking, do I do 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.280 I say something to this guy because he's a big guy. 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:09.720 And then she said, what did he say? I go, 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.480 I don't know. I didn't hear it. I didn't I 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.400 didn't hear anything. Man, Yes, time, is there a small 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.280 part of your defense that you know what you should 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.400 sit down? 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I 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.800 heard from a source who said that there is mutual 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:09.240 interest with USC and a current college coach had that 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.280 for you. Coming up here in a moment, we'll settle 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.160 on a poll question. We got to play the day 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.680 stat of the Day. All of that forthcoming eight seven 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.919 seven three d p. Shell. He's Travis Kelsey, joins us 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:22.960 via zoom. Always great to see him and usually WHOA 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.440 got the short hair? I like that? I like that. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:31.720 Who gave you your haircut? Had he cuts baby Philly's finest? 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:37.560 How much you pay for that? Man? Um? You know what? 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:41.320 I always look out, man, I appreciate the type fade 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.119 so and he travel so I think just north of 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.600 a hundred. I mean, he got good moss. Why'd you 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:53.200 cut it off? What all this? No? Well everything you 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.560 kind of like yeah, I mean, just you're maintaining it. Man, 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.960 It's just you gotta wake up a whole ten minutes earlier. 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:05.000 You know. Have you ever were put like palm aid 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.399 in your hair? Have you ever done something before you 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.280 played a football game? Before the game, Oh, man, I 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.560 made that mistake and done it like before a practice 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.240 or something like that. And I mean you just sweat 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.400 just right and now you can't see right. Yes, it's bad, 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.680 it can't real bad. No, so I had to stop 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.280 doing that. Okay, did you not know you were playing 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.920 the Ravens this Sunday night? You know what? I knew 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.000 we had him early. I didn't know it was going 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:30.800 to be the second game. I just didn't put two 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.399 and two together. You know, the Ravens were playing right here? 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.800 Why is Peyton asked me this question? Because we're playing 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:39.000 the Rangers. I'm sitting there like, I think we got 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:40.760 the Chargers and now we got the Chargers week three. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.399 I believe. So I was a little off, but I 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.639 always because Red always gives us twenty four hours to 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.199 enjoy the enjoy the win. So once we got back 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.040 in the building today, I was I was right on 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.720 queue with with who we're playing, and I was locked in. Okay, 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.440 but does it matter who you're playing? Do you do 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.880 you prepare differently if you were playing the Chargers as 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:02.680 a post for the Ravens one thousand percent? I mean 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.920 not necessarily. The routine, the mentality that you have going 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:08.679 into the week that kind of stays the same. You 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:12.200 have to find that professionalism in making sure that you're 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.199 always ready for each each individual team, but they have 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.560 different defenses, right, So it's just you understand what teams 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.360 are doing differently and you're trying to attack them knowing 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.879 their weaknesses or trying to find a weakness in what 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.120 they're doing. Would you watch that, Like, did you pick 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:29.160 up anything from the Ravens watching that game? They play 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.359 a lot of man coverage and they love the blitz. 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.280 It doesn't matter how many times you hurt them. When 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.640 they do blitz, They're going to keep it coming. And 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:37.840 with a team like that, you got to bring it. 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.560 I know they're going to be in at home Sunday night, 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:43.520 first game. They've had a lot of people. I don't 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:45.240 think they had any fans last year being on the 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:47.960 East Coast, everything being lockdown, So I know that city 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:49.959 and that fan base are gonna go nuts. A lot 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:53.399 of quarterbacks want the opposition to blitz because that means 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.040 somebody you're going to be open and man coverage. Yeah, 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.439 I mean typically when you blitz, there's less guys in 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.399 the back end, which means there's more whole more voids. Um. 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.040 Anytime you get a guy like Tyreek Hill manned up 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:08.080 or you know, Nicole Hartman manned up with with less 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:09.960 guys in the back end. I mean, you got to 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:11.720 be licking your chops. But I mean they do They're 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.280 very good at what they do. I mean, obviously watching 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:16.960 last night's game, they created a lot of problems for 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:19.119 the Raiders, and I mean it's it's gonna be a challenge, 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:20.640 just for sure. How many times have you go into 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:22.800 the line of scrimmage and said this is going to 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:29.639 be a touchdown? Too many too many times where it 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:31.399 doesn't it doesn't end up being a touchdown, And I 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.840 kicked myself, Um, there was enough there wasn't play. There 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.199 are a few plays this past weekend where do you 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:37.440 know you just wanted to get them back so you 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:40.639 can run the route differently or you know, attack it 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:42.920 a different way, and uh, and end up in the 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:44.919 end zone. But it just I mean, you learned from it. 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:46.680 That's why you're nonstopped learning. I mean in my ninth 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:48.520