WEBVTT - Let's Talk Ball with Jerome Bettis, Spice Adams and Mike Golic 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.680 Steve Smith Senior and I'm GERG Little John, and this 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.920 is cut to It. Good do It, Good do It. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.520 They's getting down to do it. Good do it. We 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.880 asked the questions you always want to know, but no 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:29.040 one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.800 them about it, then we're about to let you know. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:43.839 It's all coming up. On the cut to It podcast, 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.720 We've got Jerome the Bus. Vettis induct into the Hall 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.239 of Fame and he won a Super Bowl with the Steelers. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.640 Drafted by the Rams, one of the all time best 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.640 running backs in the NFL history. Jerome bettis on the 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:03.440 Cut to It podcast. How do you think the game 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:11.240 of football in the NFL has changed good and bad? Well, 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.560 it's it's good and bad in one way, and that 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.720 obviously they're conscious of of, you know, contact to the head, 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.839 which has in turn, uh forced a lot of rules 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.160 and regulations on the game that has softened the game 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:32.440 and made it more um of a passing game because 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.520 if you don't have if if the wide receiver don't 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.559 have to really have a fear of getting getting knocked 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.680 out going across the middle of the field. Uh, then 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:47.400 it creates a huge advantage for an offensive player. So 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.360 from that standpoint, the game has evolved two more of 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.280 a passing game, which makes total sense. I get it 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.480 that that that's the positive, and that these guys are 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.920 are not getting that that beating that they were taking 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:07.680 physically anymore. But the negative is that it's not your 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:12.680 grandmother's nfl UM. It's a much watered down version of 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.520 a game that we grew up playing loving. Um. So 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.120 you know that's the plus enough minus if you will 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.760 let me ask you, though, do you think going across 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:27.440 the middle? The only thing I dislike about that them 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.320 changing that is the head Why is the dislike that 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:37.200 I dislike? I dislike them changing you know, the head 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:41.160 hits because it gives the excuse for the defenders to 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.400 hit guys load now, like you see guys hitting low 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.520 like I mean, I obviously I'm not a good example, 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.440 but some of these wide receivers are six four. You're 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.600 telling me, out of six four you only can manage 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.480 to hit the dude in his knee. Yeah, no, no, no, 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.799 I see it. Especially tight ends tight ends are taking 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.160 a run of it because they're just not even trying 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.839 to even go anywhere close. They're saying, we're going low, 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.760 and we're telling you that, and and that is that's 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:14.320 the unfortant, unfortunate byproduct of what's all happening now is 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.560 that you're you're gonna see more injuries, more leg injuries, 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.079 more knees getting tore up, getting ripped up, um, more 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.360 injuries to the abdomen, more injuries to the lower leg. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:30.240 It's just part of the the evolution of now. Instead 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.440 of the head shots, you know, you're gonna get knee shots. 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:37.360 And that's the problem that is that in your career 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:43.640 um pretty quickly, so most offenders don't even want to engage. 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.360 That's the part that that's the part I'm struggling with 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.000 is yes, you don't have to hit the player in 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:53.960 the head, but that there's times I haven't got a 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:58.120 rib separated, like most of the time when you know, 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:03.000 obviously I'm not um in the range with Bettus, but 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.640 I remember playing and Troy and all these guys will 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.040 hit you. Man, you go across the middle for the 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.320 most time, guys wouldn't aim't for your head, but they're not. 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.720 They're not the win out of you. They hit you 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.640 in between the numbers. For sure. The guys don't want 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.920 to take the risk anymore. It's not worth it, you know, 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.559 because that's what that's the way I see these guys 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.159 look at it. Now, they're saying, Hey, you know what, 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:27.960 I'm just gonna I'm just gonna take the shot low. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.400 I'm not gonna worry about you know that mid area 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.279 under you know, underneath your chin and and you know 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.680 kind of in that No, they're not even they're not 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.480 even trying to anymore, because what's happening now is if 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:46.159 the receiver even kind of pitches down now, they still 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.600 get defined. So now they're like, Okay, screw it, We're 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.479 not even gonna try. We're gonna take the shot low. 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:57.279 And I just think it's so bad because every hit 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:02.360 is a potential injury for for a receiver or tight 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:08.560 end is really really dangerous. Um. Uh. Now as opposed 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.359 to the fear of you taking uh, you know, getting 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.000 your clock clean going across the middle. Um. You know 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.200 you you you say yourself, you know what, I'll take 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:22.599 that one time, um because you most most you know, 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.440 in the game, there may be one or two plays 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.119 where you're running the risk of taking that kind of shot. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.279 But there's gonna be ten plays where you take the 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.520 risk of a guy going low, because that's every time 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.520 you catch it, take going low. So you got ten 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.479 times versus that one or two times in a game. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.760 So that's a scary pirst. I also think they don't 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:48.360 know how to tackle anymore the same way. No, it's 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.719 not taught. Man. I'm watching some of these new tackle 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.120 Like I saw a guy tackle the other day and 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.200 I'm like, if I was playing the next play I'm 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.680 talking about the next play, I would go hit that 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:03.240 dude on his knee. Wow. And here's why, yes, because 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.599 he doesn't even attempt like you're gonna try to. Because 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.159 if you hit me on my knees and you in 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.880 my career, so I take it as you have no 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.839 regard for my career. And so if you have no 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.120 regard for my career, that means you don't respect me. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.719 So I would tell a guy, hey, the next time 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:25.560 I see you, meaning in play, expect the bouquet. We're 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.640 trying to cut down. It's not is it really making 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:30.560 the game? Say? I literally asked, got one time I 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.200 say what color roses you want? He was like, what's 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:34.679 that to me? Because I'm gonna hit you on your knee, 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.920 and when they do your surgery, I'll send you some roses. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.320 I'm not gonna say sorry, because that's because when you 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:46.240 start to hit people low and you oh, I don't 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.000 want to I don't want you to get I don't 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.799 want to get fine. I don't know about you, Jerome, 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.400 but I know for myself and my wife used to 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.839 getting mad at me. I would have a certain amount 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.359 of money set aside. And I know because it would 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.960 it would be fine like socks, you know how you 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:06.520 looked or had no control over, or it would be 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.080 something that happened again, that would happen in the game, 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.000 and you go at some point in the game, you're 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:13.840 gonna lose your cool and you're gonna take a ten 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.240 thousand dollar fun. That's just that's just the way that 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:22.720 he gives. So just be prepared for it. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:29.080 I say that. Um what I remember for myself, just 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:33.000 like you're going to Hawaii getting voted to the Pro 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.280 Bowl with such an honor, why do you need players 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:40.400 today now see it almost as a nuisance, as like 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.600 I gotta get on this flight. I gotta go across 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.280 the world. Like I remember, it was like a family vent, 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.320 like when you got to the Pro Bowl. I remember 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.960 going to the Pro Bowl and seeing other players, and 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.000 you'll be at the pool and you're like, you know, 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.400 like Shannon Sharp, you know, seeing him do push ups 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.640 at the pool, right, or guys you're you know, you're 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.120 the rookie, or you the first year even though you 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.160 may be in your fourth year, year first time and 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.600 this first time program, are you still a rookie? Yeah? 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:14.560 I was always told do not give your room number 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:21.120 to any veterans because they ordered everything running up, running 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.080 running up, and they asked you, Hey, what room you're at? 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:30.920 You you don't know? Okay, you get the bill, You're 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:35.240 like what they or at the bar, at the bar, 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.240 at the bar, the pool, who got you? If you 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.160 were a rookie, if you stay out by the pool, 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.960 you're gonna get hamburged. So you better keep away from 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.079 the pool. Uh. When you're a rookie, it was like, 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.600 but but guess what you know what that is? I'll 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.880 tell you the problem. Tell me the problem. It came 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:58.560 from the quarterbacks. Okay, So the quarterbacks started this, I'm 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.760 not gonna go. Let this other guy go. And then 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:07.079 it then it went from the quarterbacks to the diva's 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:14.439 you guys, and the diva's y'all receivers um. Then y'all 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:19.520 started to y'all started to to to say I'm good, 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:23.200 I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. And so it ended 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.559 up the cool thing to do was to was to 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.680 to get the nod and not go. It has to 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:35.080 be a sense of urgency from the vetteran guys, right, 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.800 So because you know Tom Brady, he you know, his 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.679 first couple of years, he was going to all of them, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.080 and a lot of parties stopped going. It's like, when 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:48.520 the veteran guys are there, then the younger guys get inlivee. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:55.280 When the veteran guys don't go, then then now the 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.079 other the younger, the young guy who's who's the superstar? 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.319 The young stars, like, man, why am I on when 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.679 these guys not there? I don't want to be there. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.560 I don't want to be the only one they're right, 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.760 And so it just kind of watered it down, and 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.120 I just think it has to be it has to 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.240 start from the top. When the veteran guys are there, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.800 then the younger guys getting love like anything else that's crazy? 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.440 Was that are my last Pro Bowl I went to 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.800 I think, I mean seven we had two people with us. 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.000 We had I literally brought like thirty two people like 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.920 I brought up. It was it was important to everybody. 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.520 Josh McCown his family. I brought friends. I brought my uncle, 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:40.000 my mom, yeah, I mean my my wife's family. Like 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:45.480 it was a huge events. And just lost his luster. 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.199 I just you know, but then you also, I also 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.360 think like you shouldn't celebrate the dude, he's the four 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.440 team alternative, like you know, and and that's what and 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.120 that's what happened. When when those guys when you started, 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.240 when you started to to hey, don't worry about it. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:03.920 We'll get to get the next guy, and we'll get 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.360 the next guy, the next guy and then the fourth 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:12.079 team alternate. He can now stay he's a problem. Yes, 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:20.760 when when you really didn't get voted in. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.000 I didn't like that. I thought it was the same 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:25.800 to him. I wanted to ask an old head of 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.440 old gidn't like it? Man, I hate that. I hate 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.839 that when guys don't when guys don't go because it 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:39.560 waters down the product um and it hurts ultimately the 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.760 game itself because now the stars, you're not gonna see 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.920 the stars there, right, So what what good is it 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.320 if if the star is not going? And and it 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.560 started with the quarterbacks starting to starting to pass on 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:55.320 it obviously me playing and being a Baltimore Raven and 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.880 you being a Pittsburgh Steeler. Man, take us through that 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.439 rival that rivalry. You can watch it on you can 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.600 watch it. And when I first got to Baltimore, they 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.160 asked me to talk to you know, talk to I 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.600 think the Pittsburgh is at and talked, talked to the 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.000 to the newspaper and tell me what it is. And 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:18.120 then once I experienced it, man, it's nothing like it, 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.400 you know, just I mean you you go look back 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:25.480 how Hines knocked out Ed Reid, right, just all of 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:32.480 that stuff. What what you described the Baltimore Raven and 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:37.640 Pittsburg blood bath rivalry as they call it, the a 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:44.480 f C, the NFC North Black and Blue Division. Yeah. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:50.360 So so that that one was. That was the game. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.920 Because in years I'll started because early on I had 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.200 a unique perspective in that you know, we we were 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.840 beating up on them before when Ray got there. So 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.400 Ray was a rookie, uh you know, all the way through. 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.079 I got a chance to see his progression, right, and 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.440 early on we were we We beat him, no problem. 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:14.240 And then they they they made a big jump, right, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.440 and then they became good. And so what happened was 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.400 we were all we were beating them and it wasn't 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:26.480 a robbery. And then they got really good, really quick. Defensively, 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.719 they they found that Marvin Lewis I think was the 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.720 defensive coordinator. He kind of got them going and boomed 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.439 all of a sudden they ready to go. And so 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.200 year in and year out, they they built the team 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.240 to beat us because at the time we were we 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:46.160 were the big dog in the division. It was US, 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:54.040 it was US, Tennessee Jacksonville, Okay, And so Baltimore was 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.960 was the low man on the totlem poe And so 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.280 it was between US and Tennessee really who were the 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:05.360 the the top dogs. And so they were coming and 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:10.800 once they arrived, they put everybody on notice. Right, It's 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.280 like no, no, no, we were for real. And so 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.520 when we started to play them, it became like it 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:23.720 was already tough because they were the Cleveland you know, Browns, 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.760 and then they came over, so there was always still 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.040 that disdain because they were the Cleveland Browns and we 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.720 that was our biggest ride. We hated the Browns. So 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.200 when they moved, it's still we you know, the hatred 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:39.000 moved with them, right. So so that's kind of how it. 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:43.200 It was already there the dislike, and then when they 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:47.720 got good, then it was like, oh okay. So so 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:53.040 then then they had the swag. They came with the swag, right, 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.520 and that was that was Ray and bringing that that 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:01.480 Florida uh u m swag right, And then they started 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:06.320 talking ship and we were like, okay, little the little 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.040 little stuff, I want to talk shit, okay. And then 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.840 all of a sudden, then they started pounding us. We 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:17.200 were like whoa. And then then that's when it hit 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:21.360 another level in terms of when they could beat us 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.240 consistently and then we could beat them, uh consistently uh 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.520 and and each game you didn't know who was gonna win, 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:32.680 right uh. And so for instance, the year the year 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:34.800 they won their first Super Bowl, we were the last 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:36.720 team to beat them, you know what I'm saying, And 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.160 it was like nobody else could beat them. We know 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:42.440 how to beat them because you know we they they 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.280 were built to beat us, and we were built to 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:49.120 beat them. And so every year going forward it was 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:54.040 always a I mean a drag out, a blood bath. 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:58.040 It was a war. We knew you you playing Baltimore. 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.680 All right, just put the big paths on. Let's get ready. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.840 It's gonna be physical. It's gonna be sixty minutes. And 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.440 it don't matter who if somebody is tending tending old 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.320 or four and eight, it don't matter, right, you don't 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.760 get their best shot and and and they don't get 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.040 your best shot. And and that's just kind of how 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.520 it was, how it developed. And it has not changed 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:25.240 a bit since that day, um when when they stood 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:29.280 up and said no more, no more guys, uh, and 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:33.680 they start punching back. And it's been it's been Haymakers 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.640 ever since. So it's the it's the hell of a rivalry. 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.120 And I think I tell people all the time, it's 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:45.600 the most heated rivalry, but it's the most um from 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:50.880 a from a football perspective, it's the best of all 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.520 of them, because you're gonna see great football. Uh. It's 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:58.680 gonna be a defensive battle it's gonna be offenses scrapping 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.920 to big plays. I mean and and and it's it's 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.960 just gonna be those individual moments where God make a 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.040 just a collective break play. It's gonna take those kind 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:16.800 of plays to win the game. Whoever were? I love 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.720 cut to It and I love it even more when 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:24.040 you download us and subscribe and you can follow us 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.080 on social media too, Smithie, Where where at? 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We've got Spice Adams, a 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.679 social media star, are comedian, actor, and TV host, But 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.280 not many people even though he was an eight year 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.879 veteran in the NFL for the forty Honors and the 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:13.040 Bears dead Man Walking? Did you it was the context 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:17.200 and dead Man Walking? We all got sprints. We all 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:22.400 got these runs. We gotta do. Everybody damn man walking, 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:29.240 it's like this. He literally looks like a dead man walking. 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:34.159 So the coach like Yoda walking. You might want to 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.399 move out the way we run the sprints. Oh, you 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.560 always gotta do this out of shape. I'm not always 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:45.080 lying no or d lin I ain't really experienced. Listen, 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:49.840 don't don't do that. He took offense to see. I 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.919 felt like how you felt when Mike then it was alignment. 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.920 I didn't say which. I said, either you can put 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.920 defense or I've been filling the plank. I felt the tact. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:06.760 I'm I apologize because some of y'alls, it would be 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.879 some running backs who just can't do it, especially like 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:18.360 when it come to long distance. Yeah, yeah, y'all WI receievers, 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:24.399 y'all spreads man, Yeah, some of us. I ain't even 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:26.199 gonna ask you following a question on that because I 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.040 don't want you. It's not not every not every fast 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.840 guy can sprint like consistently, So you know, you have 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.240 to have gassers. Like there's some guys that they can run. 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.080 They're like a they're like a cheap piece of gum. 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:44.040 Like we're gone ten seconds. Yeah, you know it just 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:50.560 don't have yes bigly to you. But one of those 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:54.879 garbage pale kids with the chalk, the chalk, the chocolatey gum. 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.639 You're chalking, and I'm like, what did you just around 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:03.560 high school? Dude? I ran um, I ran uh hunter 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.920 meter hurdles, three thirty hurdles And he was gonna say 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:09.560 hurdles dog. Just from the way he played, I knew 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:13.600 he was gonna say her. Really tell me what like 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:15.840 the way you got him and get the rock. It 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:17.879 is either I had to be like long jump or 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.679 I mean I jump, or like some type of hurdles 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.760 or something, some type of bounding. Yes, look at you 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:29.760 and Bunny. I don't really into like skilled positions, bro, 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:34.119 especially running back, because running backs are the most disrespected 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.720 athlete as far as when it comes to like money 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.439 and contracts and stuff like that, and how it's like 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.520 a revolving door with them, Like there's no reason why 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.920 Adrian Peterson should have played for five six teams. He 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.720 should not be a journeyman. Like you gotta get that 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.960 man in respect he deserved, like for real, like that 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:56.720 man could still go what does the mort like I 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.879 think the market gets like that because you have a 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:08.160 guy like DeMarco Murray who was fantastic and then went 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:12.399 to a different system and it wasn't as effective in 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:17.280 that system and then later pretty much didn't play after that. 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:20.320 That only made you garbage. Though I didn't say it 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:26.080 was Garden, I'm not saying you, but yeah, no, no, 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:32.240 he was a beast. But circumstances and play calling and 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:38.960 offensive coordinators and schemes can enhance what a player already has, 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:44.639 and then a bad system can expose a player and 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.920 what he may not do well. Like you noticed some 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:51.200 some running backs, like the whole plethora running backs in 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:56.400 San Francisco for nineers, how that running scheme has made 0:21:56.480 --> 0:22:00.040 all of those running backs really good. But yet in 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:03.040 those running backs have moved on to other teams who 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:08.359 don't have that same um um, that same of running style. 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:11.280 And that's in that offense that you know that edge 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:16.120 get out on the edge throw, well they don't they're 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.440 not as they're not as effective, they don't have the 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:23.560 same kind of impact. To see it, I hate to 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:26.360 see it. Yeah, I mean it happens all the time. 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.600 That's just like I'm a four three guy, Like I'm 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:34.000 skinning and grinning. I'm shooting the gap. No responsibility, just penetrate, 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:38.080 go go, don't think, just go. I love not to 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:40.240 think like I got a gap boom, let's do it. 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:42.960 But I know what I'm supposed to do. Yeah, came 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:46.560 over the Sacisco with that three four. I'm like, I 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:48.560 gotta I gotta get it all the way to three thirty. 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:51.960 I don't want to be I can't move three thirty. 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:54.159 Oh man, they want me to be too gaping and 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:56.480 go let the linebacker gonna make the play. I could 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:59.240 go make it. Let me go do it like oh man, 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:02.119 that's it is different, bro, It's different. And then a 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:04.080 lot of times and they've got nothing to do with 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.880 your ability, to do with your knowledge of the game, 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:09.399 nothing to do with your effort, none of that. It's 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:11.800 just like sometimes coaches come in, they like what they like. 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:16.520 And what that also happens to is they you have 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:21.560 coaches who believe their system it's more valuable than the players. Yes, 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:25.800 that that's funny. You brought up Mike Nolan, because Mike Nolan, 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:29.040 when he has the right when he has all the 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:34.520 right players, Mike Nolan's defense is rocking and rolling. But 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:37.560 when he doesn't have the right players allied Dallas Cowboys. 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:41.400 That's why he gotta let go because his his system, 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:47.440 there's not enhanced all eleven men in the defense. It 0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:50.879 only really enhances a few guys, the linebackers. If you 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:54.320 have the right type of front front three or front 0:23:54.400 --> 0:23:59.240 four that can neutralize and allow the back um to 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:03.280 allow the linebacker to be hitting the the running back. 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:07.560 But when you don't have that, you got the guard 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:11.280 chipping hitting that that a gap player going up to 0:24:11.359 --> 0:24:14.399 the second level. Now that that linebacker has to fend 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:18.240 off the guard and also make the tackle. And so 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:21.280 that's why that defense didn't work for for him. And 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:23.240 then you have some of the older players in Dallas 0:24:23.359 --> 0:24:27.960 that just older players, and some of the bargain guys 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:31.840 in free agency. Well, if you're if you have a 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:36.080 bargain player and free agency, there's a reason why, especially defensively, 0:24:36.680 --> 0:24:39.440 if you if you're getting a third and fourth tier 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:44.240 guys at minimum or a little bit above minimum, there 0:24:44.280 --> 0:24:48.040 aren't impact players. They just aren't there. The tears are 0:24:48.160 --> 0:24:51.040 now you see why, Like if you got a guy 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:53.280 this third tier that should be playing special teams and 0:24:53.400 --> 0:25:00.320 contributing on on defense, and he's starting on defense. Hmm. 0:25:01.920 --> 0:25:04.440 There's a big misconception then, because I think most fans 0:25:04.520 --> 0:25:06.480 probably think it's plug and play, like, oh, this guy 0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:08.760 was writing down this why I need graded with Philadelphia. 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:11.560