Speaker 1: On today's Command Center podcast, we talk about blue moons
Speaker 1: and we reveal that Fred doesn't know what a blue
Speaker 1: moon is. All right, we're gonna break down the Cardinals
Speaker 1: new head coach, new defensive coordinator, all those position moves.
Speaker 1: Are gonna talk about that. Who are the dogs on
Speaker 1: our team? Fred?
Speaker 2: Oh, we got a couple of dolls, a couple of dogs.
Speaker 1: Right, And who's gonna fight for every end try any
Speaker 1: given Sunday style. Let's check that out. And then you
Speaker 1: guys were talking about something I didn't really get it,
Speaker 1: but pigeonfoot or slew foot.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, pigeon toad.
Speaker 1: And then who's the better athlete? And guys, make sure
Speaker 1: you stick around to the end of this podcast, we
Speaker 1: have an extremely special interview a very special guest, Magic
Speaker 1: Johnson joins the podcast. Make sure you check it out.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Logan Paulson here
Speaker 1: with Santanamos and Fred Smoot and Fred, you just continue
Speaker 1: to be a liar.
Speaker 3: I guess no, No, I am a person. I'm a
Speaker 3: truth deliverer, nor turn it.
Speaker 2: Into a lot, but you always twist what I said.
Speaker 3: Everybody in the world, everybody in the world last week,
Speaker 3: went outside at night to see the blue moon.
Speaker 2: Logan told me it didn't exist. You found out it
Speaker 2: did exist.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, that's what I said. What I did. So
Speaker 1: what is your definition of blue mood? Please?
Speaker 2: A blue moon is?
Speaker 3: First of all, it only happens every blue moon. That's
Speaker 3: where the sand comes from. That means it only happens
Speaker 3: like every hundred or so years. Where is a blue moon?
Speaker 2: Yes, it is?
Speaker 3: Guess what you had your last chance to see a
Speaker 3: blue moon last week?
Speaker 2: Like that was your last chance in your life?
Speaker 1: Tied?
Speaker 2: Like we know that for a what's going on? Okay?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: So I did a little research on this front. Okay,
Speaker 1: just a little bit. I just I just I went
Speaker 1: to the NASA website and I said, what is a
Speaker 1: blue mood on Google? So that's that's the extent of
Speaker 1: my reason.
Speaker 2: Tell lies to Google.
Speaker 1: NASA usually does not. There are science, there's science based, right,
Speaker 1: they do research. So that's saying once in a blue
Speaker 1: moon actually first to three lunar cycles, so three every
Speaker 1: third blue moon, every third moon full moon is a
Speaker 1: blue moon? All right? Okay, there is a an annual
Speaker 1: blue moon because of some type of weird lunor cycle.
Speaker 1: It doesn't match up with today's. But your definition, what
Speaker 1: did I say, Kylesy, I have you didn't even say
Speaker 1: you just said it's blue. You said the moon is
Speaker 1: gonna has nothing to do it has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with color.
Speaker 2: And now, thank you, thank you? What I said? What
Speaker 2: did I say that, Colsy? He said, you said nothing,
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: I didn't say, I'm so confused that's going on.
Speaker 3: I just told Tanna that it was happening, and Tanna
Speaker 3: went out there and saw them blue moo.
Speaker 1: What tantna was it? It was a big moon, but
Speaker 1: was it a blue moon?
Speaker 4: So personally, like with your own lands, like you couldn't
Speaker 4: see the blue of the moon.
Speaker 1: Correct, correct, But.
Speaker 5: When folks send pictures on Instagram. Because I was looking
Speaker 5: at that and.
Speaker 2: I was like, I looked at me like that was
Speaker 2: the bluest moon.
Speaker 5: This thing blue. I'm looking to see something blue.
Speaker 2: It was baby blue.
Speaker 5: I was looking for it.
Speaker 4: God for a tar hill move it was man, it
Speaker 4: was not. It was so whoever, whoever that source is
Speaker 4: that showed me that that was that I follow on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I wonder used to filter?
Speaker 4: They had to use some type of microscope or I
Speaker 4: don't know what telescope I mean, they saw I damn
Speaker 4: this saw men walking on Okay, okay, I'm like the
Speaker 4: moon didn't look like to the fact that Logan's windows
Speaker 4: are dirty, so the moon was probably blue.
Speaker 2: And he got like a rich sitting right there the
Speaker 2: damn window. So it's him.
Speaker 1: First off, can you at least sicknowledge that your definition
Speaker 1: of a blue monk?
Speaker 3: I had no definition. I asked you, what was my definition?
Speaker 3: You said you didn't have one.
Speaker 2: So how is it that you can't do both of them?
Speaker 1: I said, once every hundred years, and we find out
Speaker 1: that it's once every three months. Okay, all right, all right, and.
Speaker 2: Blue a great move once every hundred all right.
Speaker 1: So on this show, where now that we've established that
Speaker 1: Fred is not tell the truth all the time, that
Speaker 1: is a preacher. All right, let's preview the Cardinals. Okay,
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of stuff going on with the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: and their motivations seem all over the place. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the simplest thing. They've got a new head coach.
Speaker 1: His name's Rich Gannett Jonathan Gannon excuse me, he's from
Speaker 1: Philadelphia against Rich Yeah, that was the quarterback. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: having a hard time with that.
Speaker 6: So what I mean.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's been on Instagram, people have been making fun
Speaker 1: of him. But what what is the expectation for Jonathan
Speaker 1: Gannon coming to this team. He's a defensive coordinator from
Speaker 1: Philadelphia last year, so kind of like EB, he's been
Speaker 1: to the show. He knows how it'll win a big game.
Speaker 3: What's the expectation for Similar to a ship captain. Okay,
Speaker 3: he's finna go down. You know, the ship captain got
Speaker 3: to make sure the women and the key on the boat. Ye,
Speaker 3: the women, keys and logan, we're going down with your help.
Speaker 3: Sometime to rise to heights, you need to burn the
Speaker 3: ship down.
Speaker 2: And that's what they're doing right now. But they know
Speaker 2: they got the brain trust they trusted, they got a
Speaker 2: brain trust.
Speaker 3: But I think he wants his own If you want
Speaker 3: him to cook the meal, I think he wants to
Speaker 3: go get his own groceries. And I think that's what
Speaker 3: simple The situation ain't in right now. They're in the
Speaker 3: Kaylor Williams sweepstake. Most definitely, he looked good this weekend too,
Speaker 3: very Patrick mahomis why he was doing his work so yes,
Speaker 3: I understand, Yeah, I understand what what situation.
Speaker 2: He is a football player, and as somebody that had coaches.
Speaker 4: I think he might be in that situation from an organization,
Speaker 4: you know, their organization standpoint, But.
Speaker 5: Coaches want to win.
Speaker 4: Man hundred going to come in this game and say,
Speaker 4: we don't have nobody.
Speaker 5: It's fifty three minutes.
Speaker 4: Mccut come on now, you know, and I love coach,
Speaker 4: come on now, you know what I mean. So I
Speaker 4: look at it like this defensive mind minded the coach
Speaker 4: know us. Well, yeah, he does also twice last year.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure how many other times before that, but
Speaker 4: he's going to have their defense ready because he gonna
Speaker 4: feel like, hey, this is how we should play against them.
Speaker 5: But we have a new oc yep.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so we it's two teams coming into a
Speaker 4: game not knowing what to expect.
Speaker 1: Well, shoot, he played this game. He played this exact
Speaker 1: game from a schematic standpoint. Yeah, I mean in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, right, So did he be right? It's the
Speaker 1: same defense. Yeah, it's a it's a similar offensive coordinator, right,
Speaker 1: it's it's the system. Right. So they've played each other
Speaker 1: very very recently in terms of defensive philosophy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely right.
Speaker 1: In terms of watching the preseason, I feel like they're
Speaker 1: a little bit more aggressive. They're trying to be a
Speaker 1: little bit more aggressive, maybe because they don't have the
Speaker 1: Darius Slaves, they don't have that, you know, the Bradbury
Speaker 1: stuff in the back end. I think a little bit
Speaker 1: more aggressive coverag structure. But again, it's it's not like
Speaker 1: our defense where we're getting all this man match. It's
Speaker 1: it's like it's a softer zone with a match principles,
Speaker 1: but really straightforward. But I do think they did. They're
Speaker 1: familiar with each other. Something else I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: up is Drew Petsing is the offensive coordinator. Now that
Speaker 1: name probably doesn't mean anything to you, but he was
Speaker 1: the quarterback coach in Cleveland, right, and Cleveland's offense always
Speaker 1: seems to give this defense a very hard.
Speaker 2: Time because they run the ball.
Speaker 1: They run in the ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dobs, I mean they know that, Hey, we can
Speaker 4: put put him in his offense and he should be
Speaker 4: able to run his offense well.
Speaker 1: Run the offense. So that's a that's a great point.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right because one of the things, one of
Speaker 1: the big features of that offense is that they have.
Speaker 1: They run a lot of pinpoll, but you need to
Speaker 1: run pin poll looks into the correct look. Right. They
Speaker 1: can't run it into every front, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they can't running into a run front.
Speaker 3: Yea, if we run blitzing, well, if they want to
Speaker 3: call it runson, but to run front, if we get
Speaker 3: in the linebackers down heel, yeah, the.
Speaker 2: Peanut pool ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1: And so we're talking more about the spacing, like if
Speaker 1: we got a three technique line up over the guard,
Speaker 1: or line up over the center, or line up over
Speaker 1: the tackle right, that's good spacing for a pinpole. But
Speaker 1: let's say we got into an odd structure where you
Speaker 1: got a four shade and a four right. That doesn't
Speaker 1: work so well. So the quarterback Tanna, to your point,
Speaker 1: is responsible for all these run can run to a
Speaker 1: run saying oh we like, you know forty nine bounce
Speaker 1: here where we're bouncing the ball outside. But we get
Speaker 1: different front quarterback identifies that can can makes it really
Speaker 1: really hard I think to kind of get the right
Speaker 1: defensive look called. I don't know, maybe you feel differently
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 3: No, No, I feel like it is going to be
Speaker 3: a chess match of the brain trust of the coaching staffs.
Speaker 2: But I think talent.
Speaker 3: Wise, it's a gap, right, It's a gap on purpose,
Speaker 3: you know, the saying it's a gap that the front
Speaker 3: office of the Cardinals are aware of. They've had a
Speaker 3: wholesale of players that they're moving out because they understand
Speaker 3: where they're at right now. And I think that puts
Speaker 3: us in a different mind frame. I think we come
Speaker 3: in here and say, let's get on them quick. Let's
Speaker 3: not let them give them a chance to breathe, Let's
Speaker 3: let them know that they're not in this game from
Speaker 3: the door.
Speaker 2: So this chess match is over with.
Speaker 5: It favors us.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, being that we are a
Speaker 4: young team, you know, unproven, you know, the winning stand
Speaker 4: from the offensive standpoint quarterback and some of the skills skill,
Speaker 4: we can't come in with that kind of mindset. Our
Speaker 4: mindset could be like, yeah, let's jump on them, but
Speaker 4: you have to give every team respect until you get
Speaker 4: out there on the field and when you start letting
Speaker 4: loose your package and see that oh we can do
Speaker 4: you know at will, and now you say okay, Now
Speaker 4: I could come with that swagger and that confidence.
Speaker 2: I can't do it.
Speaker 5: No, I'm just being real.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying we are going to go in with
Speaker 4: the mindset to play to win the game. But I
Speaker 4: can't go up there and look look at them and
Speaker 4: say they hostal everybody so they know.
Speaker 1: Let me just say this show quick before you go,
Speaker 1: because I know what you're gonna say to Tannis Point.
Speaker 1: They have Marquis Brown, former's first round pick. They have
Speaker 1: Zach ertzt there right, good football player. Michael Wilson is
Speaker 1: a third round pick. He's looked like a guy. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. They have a you know what
Speaker 1: I said, rondl Mood, I say, already yep. So they
Speaker 1: have talented and this offense is very similar to Kyle Shanahan's.
Speaker 1: Like what do you watch Cleveland's offense. It's a run
Speaker 1: first team, right that finds play action shots with fast
Speaker 1: exposed to playman. Yes. So it's one of those teams
Speaker 1: where it's like they have a very complicated run scheme
Speaker 1: that's hard to fit and we we seed in the preseason,
Speaker 1: Like just go back to when they played Cleveland run
Speaker 1: and there's explosive runs, right, Rondel Moore or without his name,
Speaker 1: what's the guy Elijah Morton? Right, big play in the
Speaker 1: in the Cleveland game, right off of a pinpole run.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see that run and then we're gonna see
Speaker 1: play action shots off of it. Can we be disciplined
Speaker 1: with our eyes? Can we be disciplined with our unfits?
Speaker 1: Because I do think that this scheme, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: gives us problem, gives us problem.
Speaker 3: A coach del Rio knows, but I'm sorry, fellers, I
Speaker 3: refuse to let y'all do this.
Speaker 2: One at the day. Joshua Dobbs been there two weeks,
Speaker 2: but he knows the system.
Speaker 1: Though he been there two weeks, he came, didn't He
Speaker 1: played like Tennessee last year and almost won a playoff
Speaker 1: game for him.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, we're not doing it.
Speaker 2: It's y'all know, we know it's players. How hard it
Speaker 2: is just to win one game?
Speaker 1: NFA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this with your front office is giving you all
Speaker 3: the things you need. This front office said you can't
Speaker 3: have this. This by the way, give me that cop cord.
Speaker 3: You can't have nothing. But he won nothing. I'm think, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a game.
Speaker 5: I say, you got a point, but I'm not finished.
Speaker 4: Set myself up what you I know what you're saying.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying if it was me my defense.
Speaker 3: That when grand will you touch yourself up and there
Speaker 3: and no, no, no, We're looking at this like, let's
Speaker 3: go and get these dudes, let's get some stats because
Speaker 3: they team, they own front office don't believe in them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I agree. I'm just gonna go back schematically.
Speaker 1: This is a this is a game that you put
Speaker 1: it in four wheel drive, the ball time and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden.
Speaker 2: By they say computers don't got personally.
Speaker 1: Think about Tennessee, think about human computers. Think about Tennessee,
Speaker 1: think about Cleveland last you're thinking about Atlanta last year.
Speaker 1: These teams that are running, they make it hard, they
Speaker 1: make it hard.
Speaker 3: But on the outside, is it a receiver out there
Speaker 3: that says, you know what, we can't play these guys
Speaker 3: man the man, they don't have their threat.
Speaker 4: But then you also think about too that you know
Speaker 4: Joshua Dobbs there too. For another reason, we saw how
Speaker 4: our defense looked against Cleveland in the preseason game. The
Speaker 4: same stuff that we was dealing with last year is
Speaker 4: something that has kind of showed us in the preseason
Speaker 4: that hey, we have a problem with running quarterbacks. So
Speaker 4: when things break down, whether it's perfect or not over there,
Speaker 4: or whether he's been over there long enough to get there,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 5: To know what who the trust or not. He said,
Speaker 5: I'm gone get out of them, I'm out of here.
Speaker 4: So that's why I say, you can't set yourself up
Speaker 4: for the banana tailpipe or the Hawaiian punch. Man say hey,
Speaker 4: you want to Hey, you want some Hawaiian punch. You're
Speaker 4: gonna say, sure, yeah, I ain't going for you.
Speaker 2: Set me up the damn But it's just like no,
Speaker 2: It's just like no, no. Imagine this, we in.
Speaker 3: Week one and we're playing now, I'm just gonna throw
Speaker 3: a team out that Cleveland. Cleveland then had these guys
Speaker 3: all up. They got a Greedy Wings They say he
Speaker 3: the best v they got. They cut Greedy two weeks
Speaker 3: a week before the game, and they bring in less
Speaker 3: than just off the street.
Speaker 2: And you ain't got Santana one on one, Santanna go
Speaker 2: over for two fifty. LISTA got no reason to be
Speaker 2: out here with sant Tana.
Speaker 3: Malls, Joshua Dops it's bigger than Lester eleven.
Speaker 2: If if you got two guys, give him my office
Speaker 2: alignment a problem. Lester might have a fit.
Speaker 4: He might be He might say, I ain't getting nothing
Speaker 4: owre here because we can't know.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying from a big stove baby.
Speaker 1: But I agree with you. I agree with both of you.
Speaker 2: He's on the point.
Speaker 1: I feel you.
Speaker 2: I think we're both were both to be the picture.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying it's it's one of those games. Offensively,
Speaker 1: we got we're starting a second year quarterback, right, it's
Speaker 1: the game because of the structure. I don't care if
Speaker 1: it's a full fire show over there. Their offensive line
Speaker 1: is not bad, right, they got DJ Hump Freezer is
Speaker 1: an okay player to.
Speaker 2: You don't go to restaurant.
Speaker 1: There's not a restaurants said okay, all that restaurant's okay.
Speaker 5: We can you know, you know, missed a couple of times.
Speaker 4: Yeah you heard a good name, and then the restaurant
Speaker 4: food up well.
Speaker 2: You know, well kitchen is one of them.
Speaker 1: Will Hernanda's former first round pick, right obviously playing better
Speaker 1: in Carolina than he was in Chicago. And then Paris Johnson,
Speaker 1: the rookie out of Ohio State. So they do have
Speaker 1: some talented pieces on the offensive line again, schematically doesn't
Speaker 1: elevate that. Yeah, but but for fans at home, all
Speaker 1: we're saying is like, yes, national media fire sale, everything's terrible,
Speaker 1: But this is an NFL roster with NFL football players
Speaker 1: NFL coaches, and the coaches don't always get the memo. Man,
Speaker 1: it's not always like, oh, yeah, we're taking for Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1: Everything's cope aesetic right, No, they don't get that memo,
Speaker 1: like how many times, Like I remember twenty eleven, we
Speaker 1: were a bad football team that the year everyone was hurt,
Speaker 1: and we go out and beat like two playoff teams
Speaker 1: just because everyone was sleeping on us, and we won
Speaker 1: those games. So we're saying here.
Speaker 5: They got a young quarterbacky.
Speaker 3: First of all, get out them a watch with no
Speaker 3: battery any right, two times a day?
Speaker 1: But those two times are still right.
Speaker 3: No them two times because I have to run over
Speaker 3: bad stuff to get the graces.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you gotta call a spade a space.
Speaker 3: All right, Listen, if we go out there defensively and
Speaker 3: don't dominate this team, and I gonna be like, someth
Speaker 3: ain't right, like this win, y'all gonna be like you
Speaker 3: know what we were supposed because out of anybody on
Speaker 3: our schedule this year, anybody we're gonna if I can
Speaker 3: say you can only pick one domination for five thousand dollars,
Speaker 3: what team would it be?
Speaker 2: Cottoners? Cottoners.
Speaker 1: Listen right there, that'll be the time that's you ain't lying,
Speaker 1: You ain't lying, all right, So let's we talked a
Speaker 1: little bit about the offense. Let's talk about their defense,
Speaker 1: which I actually think is like a little bit worse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen what I'm saying. Who is the kid?
Speaker 1: Listen to me?
Speaker 2: It's down he.
Speaker 3: Boden Baker tried to get training. He told him, if
Speaker 3: y'all gonna do this, I want to be training. They
Speaker 3: were like, nah, Bud, we don't keep you.
Speaker 5: They don't even know who they.
Speaker 1: Have that, So let's talk about let's talk about the
Speaker 1: back end. Buddha Baker obviously was port bow player. Last year,
Speaker 1: they got Katrell Clark, who is a rookie but has
Speaker 1: shown good things. And anytime you're starting to rookie quarterback,
Speaker 1: it's always like right, especially when you got Terry McLaurin,
Speaker 1: de Han Dotson, Curtis Samuel Right and then Marco Wilson.
Speaker 1: He's a good football player. Now, Marco Wilson, Marco, he's
Speaker 1: a good music, good player. Let's I mean, obviously, two
Speaker 1: guys in the back end does not a good secondary make,
Speaker 1: but there's that the front is a little hit or
Speaker 1: miss in my opinion as well. They do. They did
Speaker 1: move zaveon Call is their former first round off ball linebacker,
Speaker 1: two edge rusher, and he's flashed a little bit there.
Speaker 1: He's got a little bit just like kind of I
Speaker 1: don't say Michael Parsons because everyone's gonna go crazy with
Speaker 1: that comparison, but.
Speaker 2: I see what you're saying. He's better rushing in space.
Speaker 1: And then outside of that, just in terms of names.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's a used car lot and it's usually
Speaker 3: two good guys and a used collode.
Speaker 2: And they got a Buddha Baker two thousand and three,
Speaker 2: and they got.
Speaker 3: They got they got a Xaving College Camino in this situation, man, guys,
Speaker 3: and we're go ever because y'all saying something earlier standard, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're gonna set the standard.
Speaker 2: This is a game bit the standard gotta be set.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 4: And then you can't say the standard because of the
Speaker 4: weak and say this is what we need to do.
Speaker 5: You need to set the standing up no matter who
Speaker 5: you who are you playing.
Speaker 1: But okay, I'll say this. I think I think offensively,
Speaker 1: I think defensively, this should be a game we could win.
Speaker 1: A potential hurdle is the is the scheme right? Offensively? Though,
Speaker 1: this is the first game against a real, live NFL defense,
Speaker 1: Sam's gonna play. It's the first game that Ebe's gonna
Speaker 1: call games. I think he's gonna be fine. But those
Speaker 1: are big hurdles. And it's the first time that our
Speaker 1: offensive line is gonna be going against another team's starting
Speaker 1: defensive line.
Speaker 2: I think they'll be okay.
Speaker 1: I think they'll be okay. But I'm just saying those
Speaker 1: are some things that I kind of go like, let's
Speaker 1: say Zavid Collins comes out and is Michael Parsons and
Speaker 1: we can't pass protect and our offense struggles, and you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, there are things here that
Speaker 1: could happen. Do we think they're going to happen?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: No, but no they don't.
Speaker 1: There are things that could happen.
Speaker 2: All right, your hair could grow bag, it could, it could.
Speaker 1: But got my fingers crossed.
Speaker 2: But it's not the Chick fil a cat has licked
Speaker 2: your head. No, hair's coming back on your head.
Speaker 3: Like we know these things like the world is full
Speaker 3: of possibility every.
Speaker 2: Time we wake up any given moment, possibilities. Look us
Speaker 2: in the face.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm telling you now with ninety thousand feel
Speaker 3: in this new this new wave, this new feeling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do nothing list in greatness.
Speaker 1: That's something we did to talk about is yeah, be
Speaker 1: at home. That's a tough road trip for Arizona.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's gonna play in a fake I just I
Speaker 5: don't like to look over.
Speaker 6: People you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: And this is a team that is the the dB Mona,
Speaker 1: lock you up.
Speaker 2: I don't hurry for you talk right then, and then
Speaker 2: I'll be like the brands that.
Speaker 1: Back, get back.
Speaker 2: You wanna be all right for he gave me a
Speaker 2: double go. Yeah, you don't know until you're in the game.
Speaker 1: That's true, man. Okay. So we have a new show
Speaker 1: with coach Ron Rivera called The Game Plan, right, okay,
Speaker 1: So and it's on what whatday is that showing that
Speaker 1: Sunday mornings? Right, So guys, make sure you check that out,
Speaker 1: all right, But in honor of that show, the Game
Speaker 1: plan show. Right, we are going to kind of do
Speaker 1: our own game plan segment, and we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about kind of like we do, we're gonna give people opportunities.
Speaker 1: So let's start with our first one time to shine.
Speaker 1: One player on the team. It's their time to shine.
Speaker 5: My Test.
Speaker 1: Right out the.
Speaker 2: Contract. Love.
Speaker 4: We said the same thing about Pain last year is
Speaker 4: it's time to shine. My Test has been a guy
Speaker 4: that he's been consistent.
Speaker 5: Every year.
Speaker 4: You watch this guy, he put up around the same
Speaker 4: amount of sacks. I think the one thing that that
Speaker 4: that plays a little role in him having more is
Speaker 4: missing a few games here and there.
Speaker 5: He did that last year.
Speaker 4: I think he had had a way better seasons than
Speaker 4: what he had and he still played phenomenal. Or last
Speaker 4: year I saw him a lot getting close to the
Speaker 4: quarterback and the ball was just getting out and you
Speaker 4: know that hurt him a lot. But man, it's time
Speaker 4: to shine. It's time to show everybody else that man.
Speaker 4: You talk about Pain, you talk about Allen, you talk
Speaker 4: about you know, you know, the chase, and he hasn't
Speaker 4: even been here that much. Come on, put put some
Speaker 4: respect on my name.
Speaker 5: Time to shine.
Speaker 1: I totally I love that pick. He's going against Parashawanns
Speaker 1: and the rookie Paras Shawns doesn't at least a college
Speaker 1: didn't handle power rushers that well. Monteza is one of
Speaker 1: the best. Also, you're going against the backup quarterback. Right
Speaker 1: is gonna hold the ball for you a little bit, Josh,
Speaker 1: I think I love that one.
Speaker 6: What we got?
Speaker 2: You know what, cam driver follow that camp? You know
Speaker 2: what that said?
Speaker 1: Dogs?
Speaker 2: He went sweat. I'm going to It's your time to shine.
Speaker 3: It's your time to show them that everything I said
Speaker 3: before we even drafted you was true. It's your time
Speaker 3: to shine because everybody say you one hundred and three
Speaker 3: pounds it can't play in the NFL. It's your time
Speaker 3: to prove them wrong. It's your time to show them
Speaker 3: while you out in the n C double a all
Speaker 3: time interception touchdown leader. It's your time to shine because
Speaker 3: they say we overdrafted you. At the end of the day,
Speaker 3: he got a chip on his shoulder the size of
Speaker 3: a boat.
Speaker 2: He should be working at Freedoli.
Speaker 1: Oh the chips. God, damn, I missed it. I missed it.
Speaker 2: You always do.
Speaker 1: I missed it right over my head. For a minute,
Speaker 1: I was like boulders and chips. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 2: Thank go to UCLA.
Speaker 1: So for me, I think I'm gonna go Brian Robinson
Speaker 1: here and I And the reason I say that is
Speaker 1: because we talked about this a little bit earlier in
Speaker 1: the week. Like, I think he is poised toys for
Speaker 1: something special. I think he's a good runner catching the
Speaker 1: football as a past protector. And I think again, I
Speaker 1: just feel like people aren't talking about.
Speaker 3: Him heys the like I think they don't think of
Speaker 3: him like that because he hadn't shown the ability to
Speaker 3: be a home run hitter.
Speaker 1: In the run game.
Speaker 3: Can he run away from people like we know he
Speaker 3: can break people down.
Speaker 2: In ten yards twelve yards of pop.
Speaker 3: Can he break the forty yard of the fifty yarder
Speaker 3: and not get ran down?
Speaker 1: It's a question. Yeah, that's a really good question. But
Speaker 1: I just think he's the way he caught the football,
Speaker 1: his vision, his contact balance, Like, I think he could
Speaker 1: be really special this year.
Speaker 5: It's off the home run ability.
Speaker 4: I just feel like last year we didn't get a
Speaker 4: chance to see it because of some of the things
Speaker 4: he went went throw it. Ye, so you saw him
Speaker 4: getting healthier, and as he got healthy, you saw him
Speaker 4: breaking more runs. And right now, the way I saw
Speaker 4: him in preseason, he looks lean, leaner than he did
Speaker 4: last year, looks more explosive, and man, he's a man child.
Speaker 5: So I'm proud. I'm sure we're going to see a
Speaker 5: lot of that this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited for it. Man, And especially if in
Speaker 1: the Sam's first game, let's run the ball a little
Speaker 1: bit like you know, run the ball, check the ball
Speaker 1: down to the back. He seems like he's gonna be
Speaker 1: the beneficiary of a lot of that. All right, So
Speaker 1: now I need a doe.
Speaker 5: I need I need a dow.
Speaker 1: So who is that? I know he did dogs last
Speaker 1: segment with all the bulldogs. So when you need a
Speaker 1: dog something that's just gritty tough, got to find a
Speaker 1: way to get it done.
Speaker 6: Who is it?
Speaker 5: Jonathanllen?
Speaker 1: John Dog?
Speaker 5: You are you?
Speaker 2: Beer?
Speaker 5: Am one of those guys.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: You walk by him and at times he might you know,
Speaker 4: you see him in the building and you know we're
Speaker 4: doing what we're doing, those guys getting ready for practice
Speaker 4: and getting ready for the games. And if he if
Speaker 4: you just take a glimpse at him and he don't
Speaker 4: really recognize who is here looking at you like you're
Speaker 4: looking through you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then he realized that give you that like
Speaker 5: he acknowledges that.
Speaker 4: But it's mine is always you can tell he's thinking
Speaker 4: about something about military. So that's just how he man. Brother,
Speaker 4: he's on the field, playing on the sideline root. When
Speaker 4: you're on you just get it from him. You get
Speaker 4: that effect from this guy. And he's been like that
Speaker 4: from day one. And when something need to be said,
Speaker 4: who's gonna say it? He's like that London flush at
Speaker 4: the team.
Speaker 6: He's that dog.
Speaker 5: He's the guy that's gonna hit his helmet.
Speaker 4: And hit you in the helmet if you If you don't,
Speaker 4: you don't mind your business.
Speaker 5: So yeah, he's the guy.
Speaker 3: When you need a dog, you go to two places
Speaker 3: where you eat a dog pound and get one for free,
Speaker 3: like you do.
Speaker 1: That's what I do.
Speaker 2: I can go to a breathing breathe dogs. Guess what
Speaker 2: I breathed dogs dogs and Ridgeways dogs.
Speaker 1: Listen to me.
Speaker 3: If you were going into a wrestling match and they
Speaker 3: say draft one person off the team who you drafted,
Speaker 3: I'm taking Ridgeway with me. I'm taking listen for Darren
Speaker 3: mathis out. I want to talk about that it's just
Speaker 3: more plays for Ridgeway. He don't get the love, none
Speaker 3: of the love out of the Jackson Fire because he
Speaker 3: t THO. But at the end of the day, Ridgeway
Speaker 3: is that boy. Bridgeway is that dog when you need him,
Speaker 3: because you don't call him until you need him, until
Speaker 3: you need to. Y'all just say it something. They going
Speaker 3: to run the ball will when they run the ball.
Speaker 3: I got a Ridgeway, I like they said on Marvel,
Speaker 3: like we got Army, I got I got a Ridgeway.
Speaker 2: So at the end of the day, I'm going with Ridgeway.
Speaker 1: I love that. For me. It's I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Johanna. I think with Terry Questionable, Like we don't
Speaker 1: know we're recording this podcast on Tuesday, so we don't
Speaker 1: know exactly what's going on. But I think Johan is
Speaker 1: going to be that guy in this offense the whole year.
Speaker 1: Like just the way he's able to separate, get open,
Speaker 1: making tested catches. I think he's going to be a
Speaker 1: huge feature of this offense. And like he has just
Speaker 1: stepped up and been that guy, you know, And so
Speaker 1: I think it's, uh, that's something that I'm I'm excited for.
Speaker 1: And then another one I got to give a shout
Speaker 1: out to is our guy Nick Gates.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh, he's a listen, he's a dog.
Speaker 3: I love any offense of linement that shows the nabel
Speaker 3: shows their navel. If Office Last shows his navel, that
Speaker 3: mean he don't give a damn. He out there to
Speaker 3: play football and look good.
Speaker 1: We should do it. We should do a study about
Speaker 1: naval showing and then how tough they are. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's a pretty good correlation.
Speaker 3: Restless, you got to be a real show everywhere your nigh.
Speaker 2: Then where you steve food at when you was in
Speaker 2: the bottom.
Speaker 1: I mean, Fred, you are giving great insight. Hand has
Speaker 1: quarterbacks buried quarterbacks navels for offensive.
Speaker 2: A small things.
Speaker 3: When I'm doing my when I'm doing my I'm looking
Speaker 3: for these key points.
Speaker 2: And when I seen Nick.
Speaker 3: Gates with their throwing like hair hanging out his helmet
Speaker 3: and a belly button, Lord have mercy, that's intimidating you.
Speaker 1: All right, So all right, we got our dogs taking
Speaker 1: care of all right. Now, who's gotta stay hot in
Speaker 1: this season? Stay hot?
Speaker 5: You talked about him just not being a dog. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna say, Johan Johan.
Speaker 1: You could fit any one of these cagories.
Speaker 4: I think right now, just coming off of where he
Speaker 4: left off last year, what we saw at the beginning
Speaker 4: of last year.
Speaker 5: The only reason why he cool out because he went
Speaker 5: out there and then he picked back up, and then
Speaker 5: he came into the.
Speaker 1: Preseason like, oh yeah, y'all, never forget about that, you know.
Speaker 4: And then so now going to this season, we don't
Speaker 4: know how things gonna, you know, transpire, but guess what
Speaker 4: he knows. The guy been open since we've been watching
Speaker 4: tape on him coming out of high school, going to
Speaker 4: Penn State and then at Penn State coming in here.
Speaker 4: The man been opening every film I watched.
Speaker 2: You feel me?
Speaker 5: So I just want to stay hot.
Speaker 4: I think regardless of if we giving him the ball
Speaker 4: or not, if he's on the field, they're gonna have
Speaker 4: to check fum and that's gonna kill everybody else. The opportunity.
Speaker 4: The guy who we haven't been talking about, Samuews, He's
Speaker 4: gonna get the opportunity themmy, you know, Brown, gonna get opportunity.
Speaker 4: Who's ever out there on the field with him gonna
Speaker 4: get the luxury of getting the ball because they gonna
Speaker 4: have to check this guy with multiple guys not gonna
Speaker 4: just be one. And if you want to check him
Speaker 4: in one, sorry for that, dude, Grandmama and granddaddy, because
Speaker 4: they're gonna be.
Speaker 2: Now stay hot.
Speaker 3: When I think about state hot, I think about walking
Speaker 3: into a seventy level. You know how the hot dolls
Speaker 3: are just constans that some time they stay on there
Speaker 3: too long, they.
Speaker 2: Can dry out a little bit.
Speaker 3: But my guy, I thought, had a year where he said,
Speaker 3: got everybody on notice, I could play this game. The
Speaker 3: Pope Benjamin Saint Juice, Oh my Benjamin Saint Juwice.
Speaker 2: Now he's been good. He's been damn good.
Speaker 3: During training camp, I think did a man afford just
Speaker 3: from flashing so much that people weren't talking about what
Speaker 3: Saint Juice? And we know what it is when we
Speaker 3: got somebody new in our room and they taking all
Speaker 3: that shine, we want some.
Speaker 2: Of that shine back.
Speaker 3: I think that's where the Pope at Saint Juice sitting
Speaker 3: in there like, okay, what did y'all get a load
Speaker 3: of me?
Speaker 2: Y'all forgot about what I did last year.
Speaker 3: So I think Saint Juice is that man that just
Speaker 3: prone to stay hot and stay on a level and
Speaker 3: his contract coming up too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, So for me, if I was gonna say
Speaker 1: someone that need to say out, I'm gonna say Cam
Speaker 1: craw because of how he practiced during training camp, got
Speaker 1: a couple of interceptions. That's something he hasn't been very prolific.
Speaker 1: I think if he could do that, yeah, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be huge for this defense. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously Joshua Dobbs is going to be a guy who
Speaker 1: might throw them Joshua.
Speaker 2: I never thought was speak of Joshua Doves.
Speaker 3: Never never thought in my life we'll be talking about
Speaker 3: Joshua all.
Speaker 1: Right, And the last one for our thing here before
Speaker 1: we have to talk about Joshua Dobson. One is any
Speaker 1: given Sunday? Who is gonna fight scratching cloth for that inch?
Speaker 1: Every inch? What is that movie? Any given Sunday?
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm gonna go with up.
Speaker 1: Listen, that's a great speech.
Speaker 2: I used to listen to that speech before many a game.
Speaker 1: That's a great speech.
Speaker 4: It is Terry McCluin. Just feel like he's one of
Speaker 4: those guys man. I mean we saw it.
Speaker 5: You got the year.
Speaker 4: Different quarterbacks in the game throw it up, went in doubt,
Speaker 4: who's coming down with it. I mean it's easy to say,
Speaker 4: throw it up to this guy, he's gonna make a play.
Speaker 4: But when all the players have most of the players
Speaker 4: been fifty fifty balls and you don't fit the prototype
Speaker 4: of a guy that can, you know, out muscle a
Speaker 4: guy all the time, and you come down with it.
Speaker 4: I mean, hats off to this guy. He's doing something different.
Speaker 4: He knows something that we don't know. Now we know
Speaker 4: because we've been watching him play for the four five years.
Speaker 4: Uh so he just wont of those guys.
Speaker 2: Hey my guy, Sam, you will cost Yeah, listen to
Speaker 2: me any time. Alignment.
Speaker 3: Like, first of all, I watched it the Ravens practice
Speaker 3: for him some of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he came into.
Speaker 3: His own like you know when you see it the
Speaker 3: light switch with somebody.
Speaker 2: Oh, he came into his own. And then I really knew.
Speaker 2: I like, now we really got a something when I
Speaker 2: watched him do the gritty, when I watched him get one.
Speaker 1: Nothing you know alive is in his bag when he
Speaker 1: when he's dancing, dancing.
Speaker 3: Now he ain't thinking, no more reacting right now, Sam
Speaker 3: Cosm and I said this last year, move him to
Speaker 3: Gord and watch him go to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. I think that's a great one for me.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Reeves is my guy. He is the guy that
Speaker 1: when I watched on teams. When I watch him, he
Speaker 1: plays on defense. He's physical, he's tough, he's taking on blockers,
Speaker 1: he's competitive, he's playing with that his hair on fire.
Speaker 1: So for me, he's a guy that's gonna call on
Speaker 1: scratch for those quess and I love that. All right,
Speaker 1: So final predictions for the game. Just so you know,
Speaker 1: Washington right now is of Tuesday is plus seven of
Speaker 1: this game.
Speaker 2: That's a lot in the league.
Speaker 1: It is a lot in the league. It's a big spread.
Speaker 1: So Freddie want to go first because Tanda started all
Speaker 1: those off.
Speaker 3: All right, no problem. This is because of the Joshua
Speaker 3: Dobbs effect.
Speaker 1: Okay, I am.
Speaker 2: Gonna go.
Speaker 3: Thirty three to nine. One thirty three to nine. I
Speaker 3: think we smothered them with our defense. I think George
Speaker 3: sly kick him in the eye at least for nine points.
Speaker 2: I think Trustway gonna change the playing field.
Speaker 3: And I think Sam Howe is gonna be the shock
Speaker 3: of the NFL year, just like Colorado came out and
Speaker 3: shock the college world. Sam Howe because when they don't
Speaker 3: put expectations on you, when you do something, they blew
Speaker 3: it up. And I think that he gonna have a
Speaker 3: chance to come out here and start very fast and
Speaker 3: get the confidence he needs to carry him into the year.
Speaker 3: They don't know what we're gonna do because unpredictability. Yes,
Speaker 3: they did play against each other in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: but this this defense.
Speaker 2: This office has a little different field.
Speaker 3: So all I'm saying is thirty three to nine, and
Speaker 3: I use units of three to get to that.
Speaker 5: All right, twenty eight six.
Speaker 1: You guys do only think they're gonna score any points.
Speaker 5: I feel like, you know, I feel like they're gonna sco.
Speaker 4: I just don't feel like I don't know how you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, it's gonna be a field goal
Speaker 4: game for them, or it's gonna be a touchdown and
Speaker 4: they miss the field goal. I'm a mister ex you
Speaker 4: point something to give them a little credit. I just
Speaker 4: feel like, offensively, we have a chance to do some
Speaker 4: things with the ball in the in the blackfield and
Speaker 4: through the air. And when you have a young team
Speaker 4: like that, especially what we're gonna be going through with
Speaker 4: the fans alone, that's gonna brain that's going to ignite
Speaker 4: that that that that energy in that stadium. We're gonna
Speaker 4: get into a point to where we can control the
Speaker 4: ball game and not have to worry about putting up
Speaker 4: too many points. And that's gonna you know, save save
Speaker 4: our defense have to worry about be on the field
Speaker 4: as much, you know what I mean. So I'm not
Speaker 4: saying that they got it. They're not gonna go out
Speaker 4: there and play on the offensive side. I just like, offensively,
Speaker 4: we're gonna control the clock a lot with what we
Speaker 4: have going on, and it don't we don't need to
Speaker 4: shoot out.
Speaker 5: Save a little bit of that.
Speaker 4: Beat them, beat them, beat them to it, you know,
Speaker 4: you know, twenty eight points, beat them by six seven,
Speaker 4: I mean, beat them by twenty six to seven. And
Speaker 4: the next week we can build on that and say, hey,
Speaker 4: we can show a little bit more of our offense.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm gonna say thirteen to twenty four some i'th
Speaker 1: gonna say. I think touchdown, maybe two field goals. It's
Speaker 1: the first time Sam's gonna be in the in the game.
Speaker 1: Is he gonna have a like kind of a rookie
Speaker 1: air quotes mistake there? You'd be gonna have some is
Speaker 1: he gonna have any issues called plays? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying? Like that, Again, as much as it is
Speaker 1: new for us, it's also new for Jack and what
Speaker 1: they're gonna be doing offensively. So that's what I think.
Speaker 1: I think again, I think it's a win. I think
Speaker 1: I feel pretty comfortable about that. So just not staleer.
Speaker 2: Yours kind of bored four to what thirteen thirteen?
Speaker 1: I mean yours was what thirty three to night.
Speaker 5: It's the national football it's our college football, bro, and.
Speaker 2: What we see, he's get blue out before in the
Speaker 2: nesson football league I've been a part of.
Speaker 1: One was the score. Uh.
Speaker 3: We went to New England one year and I told
Speaker 3: him your wife and kids, they is kicking button.
Speaker 1: Here right now. Listen.
Speaker 2: They shot the cannon so many times.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you getting.
Speaker 2: Like I didn't know what to do. Oh it was
Speaker 2: like forty five every time.
Speaker 4: Every time we come off the field, the defense was
Speaker 4: we was down the side.
Speaker 3: The rest carry defensive players out the field. They hurting
Speaker 3: us one by one.
Speaker 6: We was in World War three or two.
Speaker 5: Three man.
Speaker 2: The guys slipping off the field.
Speaker 5: Guys, guys was getting getting damn cardal.
Speaker 2: They took our song.
Speaker 3: We had toe a c als after the game to
Speaker 3: his A c L. We had a defensive alignment separate
Speaker 3: his too of him.
Speaker 4: They had most Then then there was that year where
Speaker 4: they took it easy on no one.
Speaker 2: They were just saying, that's how I gotta we gotta
Speaker 2: be the.
Speaker 1: Best Seming football show. Is that the worst loss you've had?
Speaker 6: Probably?
Speaker 5: Probably, I don't think i've seen we were.
Speaker 1: That you were Monday Night Masacar Philadelphia. Oh yeah, that
Speaker 1: one was tough.
Speaker 3: About that when so many I tried to forget about that,
Speaker 3: But I don't.
Speaker 1: Think the score. The score wasn't that bat It was
Speaker 1: like fifty four to twenty one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when they first played the DJ dude, I.
Speaker 1: Remember being on the sideline of that game because I
Speaker 1: wasn't playing that much. I was on teams or whatever,
Speaker 1: nice and so like the but I remember like it
Speaker 1: was like score and then we went three and out
Speaker 1: and it was like score. It was like interceptional urn
Speaker 1: for a touchdown and I was like, wait, we're like
Speaker 1: not even like five minutes out of the first score. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember me and me and Men mcnaw was playing.
Speaker 4: He was he was with us that then, No he
Speaker 4: was there or he was with us.
Speaker 2: He was with us.
Speaker 4: That was his first year here, and I remember, man,
Speaker 4: he was on fire in the first half. But it
Speaker 4: just seemed like we ain't have enough. We didn't have
Speaker 4: what we did in the matter, what we did offensively.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: First of all, labarn Landry, I'm ana blame that on him.
Speaker 2: He was the one that started that whole.
Speaker 5: Bs with d Jack.
Speaker 2: The first player of the game.
Speaker 1: He takes the takes the tail part.
Speaker 5: Like I always say, they.
Speaker 2: Showed him the ball.
Speaker 5: He came running from thirty something.
Speaker 4: Ya.
Speaker 2: He wasn't supposed to be close to there for once.
Speaker 5: Man, Like I'm I'm sitting on the side, like why
Speaker 5: are you stepping up?
Speaker 2: Why? Why?
Speaker 5: Oh my god?
Speaker 4: That's how I was sitting there. I knew it was
Speaker 4: coming because he talked all that smack. And you know
Speaker 4: those guys know they know Landry. You you slew for you,
Speaker 4: slew for you. Ain't you ain't You're aggressive too, very aggressive.
Speaker 4: But when you a guy that can run and you
Speaker 4: slew foot not time my ten, you get beat like that?
Speaker 1: What you call.
Speaker 2: What if you pigeontoken stop on the die read snoop
Speaker 2: me know what he doop.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 3: It's a difference, man, between slew foot and pigeontod when
Speaker 3: it comes to athlete.
Speaker 2: What about you, what's your worst whooping?
Speaker 1: Was it that one? I think? I think in the NFL,
Speaker 1: it's gotta be that.
Speaker 5: Got to be. It's gotta be those two for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was there, and I was and I.
Speaker 5: Was here, And so that's the mad part about it.
Speaker 2: I can't I can't stop.
Speaker 1: Nobody help, all right, Well, so those hopefully the commanders
Speaker 1: have better experiences than those this weekend. That's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for today's show. Thanks guys, Always a pleasure. Thirty
Speaker 1: three to nine.
Speaker 6: Mister, So what do we call?
Speaker 2: It's called me mad?
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So one of the things you talked about your press
Speaker 1: conferences winning. You're a guy that's one one champions as
Speaker 1: a player, one champions as an owner. What do you
Speaker 1: think is like the catalyst for that for you?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 7: I think you first of all, you know, starts with
Speaker 7: the players, right and the player you have to have
Speaker 7: great players, great with a willingness to to first play
Speaker 7: as a team, play their role sacrifice because you know
Speaker 7: you you have to also be pulling in the same direction.
Speaker 7: And then last but not least, you know, uh, you
Speaker 7: have to be competitive as hell. You know, you got
Speaker 7: to be able to compete. And we have to have
Speaker 7: great leaders. And when you have great leaders, they hold
Speaker 7: the team together. And so mindset addedude, preparation, discipline, and
Speaker 7: all that goes into that. So I think that my
Speaker 7: mindset has always been to get around guys who understand those.
Speaker 6: Type of things.
Speaker 7: And thank God, Man above have blessed me with the
Speaker 7: teams that I played on, but also with the players
Speaker 7: that I played with. And so that's what it takes,
Speaker 7: all of us saying, hey, we got one goal and
Speaker 7: that's to win, and we'll do whatever.
Speaker 6: It takes to win a championship. Introduce me to a
Speaker 6: young magic.
Speaker 2: The mind is out of magic, touch whatever it turns
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 3: Any other sports in high school? Did you try to
Speaker 3: play football? Did you try to play baseball?
Speaker 2: The Socking.
Speaker 7: I did play football up in the Pop Warner up
Speaker 7: until and then junior high. I played both ends, tight end,
Speaker 7: defe And so when we got to high school, I
Speaker 7: had made the team. I'm here, I am starting at
Speaker 7: both ends, and all of a sudden, I'm in the
Speaker 7: huddle and somebody is knocking on my helmet. So I'm
Speaker 7: thinking it's the coach, you know, and it's my father
Speaker 7: and the basketball coach because h football runs three weeks into.
Speaker 6: The basketball season, and they said, no way, you can
Speaker 6: miss three weeks.
Speaker 7: And so I cried man and turned in my equipment,
Speaker 7: but I still went to every game. And uh, my father,
Speaker 7: I told him. I turned around and said, during basketball season,
Speaker 7: you made the.
Speaker 1: Right right, that's right? So did you know, like you
Speaker 1: were a freshman, right, did you know I was going
Speaker 1: to be a great basketball player?
Speaker 6: Like? Was it? Like?
Speaker 1: How did that all play out?
Speaker 7: You know, you're good, but you still have to now
Speaker 7: prove it because now it is my first year in
Speaker 7: high school. So sure enough, you know, I led that
Speaker 7: school to a state championship and everything went great.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: You again, it's all about not just me. It's the
Speaker 7: guys that you play with, and people forget that. You know,
Speaker 7: so you could be the greatest player you want to be,
Speaker 7: but if the guys are not believing that they can
Speaker 7: win or they they're reaching their potential as well, then
Speaker 7: you can't win. So every guy we came together and
Speaker 7: we turned that school around in the basketball program, and
Speaker 7: so I'm an ad a sports fan. Yeah, I love sports, boxing, tennis.
Speaker 7: I watched you know, the US Open, on and on
Speaker 7: and on. I just love sports man and and then
Speaker 7: my love is really football. Every Sunday and Saturday I
Speaker 7: watch I used to watch the game. I'm still watching
Speaker 7: the games now. But now to own the Commanders, be
Speaker 7: one of the owners, you know. Uh, it's amazing speaking
Speaker 7: of that.
Speaker 4: This was a question that was just something that I
Speaker 4: wanted to ask you a long time ago, being a ballplayer,
Speaker 4: and now you in a different world, right, in the
Speaker 4: business world. What are some of the things that you
Speaker 4: learned as a ballplayer, whether it was early or later,
Speaker 4: that you carried over into the world that you're in now.
Speaker 7: That's a great question because the same discipline I had
Speaker 7: as a athlete and as a basketball player, it's the
Speaker 7: same discipline I must have as a businessman. And then
Speaker 7: I'm all always prepared, you know, And I tell people
Speaker 7: all the time, preparation is everything, everything, And so no.
Speaker 6: Matter what meeting, I'm going into over prepared like I
Speaker 6: was as a player, right.
Speaker 7: And then I think the dedication, you know, the hard work.
Speaker 7: My work ethic has always been amazing. So that same
Speaker 7: work ethic I take as a businessman as well. And
Speaker 7: then last but not least, it's the same winning attitude.
Speaker 6: Man, I hate to lose, to lose. That's what has changed.
Speaker 4: But tell me this also too, because I remember, you know,
Speaker 4: being kind of like out the league my first year,
Speaker 4: and the first thing I kind of dove into, I
Speaker 4: was like, well, I got to get back on my routine.
Speaker 2: I don't have no routine.
Speaker 5: I got started, but I knew what.
Speaker 4: I did for fourteen years of being a professional athlete,
Speaker 4: so I need to get back into doing something. You know,
Speaker 4: what what was that like for you when you said, Okay,
Speaker 4: now I'm in a new world.
Speaker 6: Did you have the same routine?
Speaker 5: Did you get up in the morning?
Speaker 4: I say, okay, I to go to this meeting, that meeting,
Speaker 4: this meeting, but I need to do this first to
Speaker 4: get me started.
Speaker 7: Well, we've been coached our whole life, and we've had.
Speaker 6: A schedule our whole life. So what I did was
Speaker 6: I turned to working out first.
Speaker 7: So so so yeah, yeah, yeah, so you So I
Speaker 7: get up, I get up early, So I'm at four o'clock.
Speaker 6: I will I wake up?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I wake up at four o'clock.
Speaker 7: I go to be at thirty every morning, I mean
Speaker 7: every night, wake up at four, four thirty. I'm in
Speaker 7: the gym for two hours, and then I go.
Speaker 6: To my office all day.
Speaker 7: So what happens a lot of times with athletes we
Speaker 7: lose our discipline. Yeah, so if you keep your discipline,
Speaker 7: then you can apply that to whatever field, right, But
Speaker 7: once you lose that, then it's hard.
Speaker 6: That's right. That's right. So I kept that discipline.
Speaker 7: Then I looked up and said, you know, this is
Speaker 7: what I want to do after I'm done. So I
Speaker 7: got into first little you know, first little business, and
Speaker 7: then the little one turned into the second one.
Speaker 6: And then you start growing. You can't be impatient. You
Speaker 6: just gotta grow. And and then I'm a perfectionist, so
Speaker 6: I like to do everything the right way. You know.
Speaker 7: That came from being an athlete, you know, And so
Speaker 7: nothing has changed.
Speaker 6: I'm still driven, man, I still love to uh.
Speaker 7: Win, but now I'm winning in a different arena. And
Speaker 7: then I started in urban America in the black and
Speaker 7: brown community because I knew that community. So I built
Speaker 7: my business there first because I knew what the community wanted.
Speaker 7: So I brought the movie theaters and Starbucks and those
Speaker 7: things to the community, and it created jobs.
Speaker 6: Too at the same time.
Speaker 3: Being a forced multiplier is a point guard being a
Speaker 3: point guard you was, You played point guard different anybody.
Speaker 2: You made everybody else around you better.
Speaker 6: I appreciate.
Speaker 2: Is this something you can teach?
Speaker 3: You're just born with that because we all athletes, but
Speaker 3: we all different athletes and we made it to different stages.
Speaker 3: You think you being a force multiplier have help you
Speaker 3: truly and embrace all the business you've taken.
Speaker 6: Oh, no question about it.
Speaker 7: I mean you know I'm still doing that today. I
Speaker 7: mean I'm still the point guard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm doing it.
Speaker 6: You know, it's just in a different arena.
Speaker 7: And so I believe you can do well and do
Speaker 7: good at the same time. Right, So I'm still trying
Speaker 7: to bless others, whether that's athletes who want to become
Speaker 7: businessmen or whether that's non athletes who want to be
Speaker 7: businessmen businesswomen. Try to give them the information and then
Speaker 7: I love giving back. So I'm still touching the community
Speaker 7: in that way. So God has put me on this
Speaker 7: earth to really just be that point guard on the court,
Speaker 7: but also in life too, and so it hasn't stopped.
Speaker 7: And I think that's my purpose, right, and we all
Speaker 7: must know our purpose. Like you was talking about, we
Speaker 7: knew what we were as athletes. We knew that and
Speaker 7: all of all four of us exceled. So now is
Speaker 7: how do we excel now? But in a different arena,
Speaker 7: that's all.
Speaker 6: And you know you.
Speaker 1: Can't talk about you being the port guard. But for
Speaker 1: this this deal here with the team, it seemed like
Speaker 1: Josh Harris was a poor card. How was that new
Speaker 1: role for you? And kind of fit a new spot
Speaker 1: and then join the kind of elite club of one
Speaker 1: of three or three? Like, how's that better?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 7: Well, I think first joining the club and being African
Speaker 7: American to represent.
Speaker 6: The black community has been awesome.
Speaker 7: And you know we lost to Denver bid Josh and
Speaker 7: I yeah, And.
Speaker 2: I was about to say that actually it worked out better.
Speaker 7: And so his story about growing up here waiting twenty
Speaker 7: five years for season tickets to the whole thing, and
Speaker 7: myself already I've done business here, I mean a lot
Speaker 7: of business here, and so I think that this was
Speaker 7: the great opportunity for Josh and I and the whole
Speaker 7: group to have a story franchise like before the Redskins.
Speaker 7: Of course, now the commanders, and so I carry the
Speaker 7: banner for all athletes but also all African Americans and
Speaker 7: so that we can do this and we can be
Speaker 7: great on the field or on the court, but also
Speaker 7: we can translate that and also be great as business owners.
Speaker 6: And so I'm excited.
Speaker 7: Whatever Josh needs me to do, wants me to do,
Speaker 7: needs me to do, I'm gonna do it, you know.
Speaker 7: And so but again, you're gonna see me in the
Speaker 7: community and giving back.
Speaker 2: I love love.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go to a boys and girls club soon here,
Speaker 7: I'm I'm gonna be all over the place going.
Speaker 6: To school speaking because I love See. We'refore that, Scott blessed.
Speaker 7: So also we gotta tell our story and make sure
Speaker 7: the kids know that, Hey, you can do this too, right,
Speaker 7: but you gotta work hard, you gotta get your grades,
Speaker 7: you gotta do what you need to do. So my
Speaker 7: role in this will get out into the community and
Speaker 7: make a difference, give back, and then whatever else they
Speaker 7: need me to do.
Speaker 6: That's big.
Speaker 4: I remember you saying that day one, and I want
Speaker 4: to tell you when you start doing that in this
Speaker 4: community us, I'm willing to if you need another guy
Speaker 4: from the team that come out there with you, and
Speaker 4: then we can all share our stories and let them
Speaker 4: know that they can see us.
Speaker 7: And you and I talked about doing that, and we're
Speaker 7: going to do that, and we're going to do that
Speaker 7: because it takes all of us. It can't just take me,
Speaker 7: you know. We all four of us need to be
Speaker 7: out there doing it in a in a great way
Speaker 7: because we can change somebody's life, you know, and so
Speaker 7: somebody helped us.
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