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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, I'm k Adams. We've got a smiley

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Speaker 1: Kyle Brent. What's up, k Let's go okay, I'm ready

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Speaker 1: to roll. Heynte b Smiley. I want to be opposite.

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Speaker 1: I'm just happy here, That's what I'm happy about. It.

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Speaker 1: Look like Simba when he's upset in the Lion King.

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Speaker 1: What is wrong with you? Scrunching your face like a puppy?

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Speaker 1: It's going okay? How are you doing so? Peter Schreger

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Speaker 1: not here. He left us in the middle of the show.

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Speaker 1: I will be the first to point out homeboy did

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Speaker 1: not say bye. No, he was out of there. What

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Speaker 1: what was that? He was with Garret follow is bestie

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Speaker 1: bet as Mike is sitting in his dressing room upstairs

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Speaker 1: right now. It might be yeah, I hope he's still

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Speaker 1: wearing it on the plane. Did think about it? He

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Speaker 1: always says by Sometimes he leaves in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the show. He has to catch a flight. Always says

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Speaker 1: by Hey Schweg, I said safe Travels. Do you think

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Speaker 1: he was disgruntled? Yeah, I just think safe Travels and

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Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, whatever. Piece out. So Schraeger is an

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Speaker 1: indie AFA combine, which is like his favorite time of

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Speaker 1: the year. It is his Disney World middle of Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: All of the gms, the agents, the who's who, the coaches,

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Speaker 1: it's sort of that Lucy Goosey like feeling after you've

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Speaker 1: had three beers. Because there's not a lot of media around.

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Speaker 1: It's a brotherhood, right, Yeah, it seems like it's pretty awesome.

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Speaker 1: It seems like, you know, Peter's going to Coachella, except

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Speaker 1: he's everyone has the bands, you know, like he's one

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Speaker 1: of the ones. A little print up on the dance

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Speaker 1: he has that pass. Yes, he's got the backstage pass.

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Speaker 1: Peter told us off the air, I won't give it up.

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Speaker 1: But he told the story of it's out about being

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Speaker 1: feeling miserable at myself, he says. He turns around and

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Speaker 1: there is a very famous NFL head coach doing the

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Speaker 1: exact same thing. I won't give up, but I do

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Speaker 1: feel like it's it's Drager's either Laufelooza or Coachell or Disneyland.

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Speaker 1: He is so happy to be there. He follows this

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Speaker 1: all year long. It's his life, and he has just

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Speaker 1: good connections and he'll bring us great guests. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: that from down there, all of NFL network is down there.

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Speaker 1: It's the only place you can see it is on

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Speaker 1: NFL network. It's the Combine. So we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: today about the Combine experience because Kyle and I it's strange.

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Speaker 1: I know, I'm sure nobody knows this. We've never been

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Speaker 1: to a combine. We've never done the combine. We actually

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Speaker 1: but I want to give you the Combine experience with

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Speaker 1: Nate Burlson. We did. However, yesterday decides since we have

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Speaker 1: Kyle break it down. So obviously go to the compay Inidneapolis.

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Speaker 1: They test you in your different skills, abilities, mental, physical, whatnot.

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Speaker 1: We wanted to treat New York City as our Lucas

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Speaker 1: since Nate and I are newcomers and we're not acclimated

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Speaker 1: Burlson kicking it. And you ever get people who try

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Speaker 1: an actress. She got the pink juicy suit and a

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Speaker 1: So anyone who thinks you're taking a secret picture of

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Speaker 1: to be funny or something. A few times he asked

419
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Speaker 1: you that because he really thought you were doing that's

420
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Speaker 1: the problem. If you're like a wise ass like me,

421
00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,160
Speaker 1: It's like calling wolf like, no, do you ever think

422
00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,440
Speaker 1: about though I do a little bit. Yeah, And I honestly,

423
00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,200
Speaker 1: like when I left the pizza thing, I was kind

424
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Speaker 1: of rattled, Like I started thinking, like you hear about

425
00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,960
Speaker 1: people choking to death and steakhouses all the time every

426
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Speaker 1: single year, and I'm like, oh my god, I got

427
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Speaker 1: kids and everything like that was really stupid what I

428
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Speaker 1: just did. So I felt kind of dumb afterwards, and

429
00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:27,480
Speaker 1: then more than anything, okay, I was just pissed at

430
00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,080
Speaker 1: it didn't win. I really wanted that one. I wanted

431
00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:33,159
Speaker 1: that four three, and I blew out my achilles and

432
00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:37,760
Speaker 1: follows the chili competition last week, I'm taking I honestly

433
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Speaker 1: think that's what the pizza competition. Like you guys didn't

434
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Speaker 1: vote for my chili, I'm about to show you guys

435
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Speaker 1: all up. And let me be clear, I honestly this

436
00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,240
Speaker 1: is no exaggeration, not because I work out. I think

437
00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,120
Speaker 1: Kyle is one of the funniest dudes I've ever met,

438
00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,159
Speaker 1: so anytime he gets going on anything, I love watching him. Now,

439
00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,000
Speaker 1: I didn't think he was choking when he got up

440
00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,000
Speaker 1: and got over the garbage, and I thought something was wrong,

441
00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,680
Speaker 1: but at that point my body had already committed to

442
00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,600
Speaker 1: the laughter. How funny This moment was because I looked

443
00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:10,919
Speaker 1: over it and I saw him like he started forcing

444
00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:13,480
Speaker 1: himself to eat, and I thought, damn, this dude is

445
00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:15,560
Speaker 1: about to joke. This is an adult, a thirty eight

446
00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:19,160
Speaker 1: year old. And I remember saying, is you're the old day?

447
00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,760
Speaker 1: I think when I came back to consciousness from almost

448
00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:23,199
Speaker 1: like seeing my life flash and night I wake up

449
00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,040
Speaker 1: in the case like you're the oldest one here, I'm like,

450
00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:27,479
Speaker 1: what does that do with anything? I'm trying to breathe,

451
00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,880
Speaker 1: and Peter was like, he was like, you weren't even

452
00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,280
Speaker 1: in a close second, you were. It was so funny,

453
00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,280
Speaker 1: just a banter between everybody. So for me, I enjoyed it.

454
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Speaker 1: That was so when you see me laughing, what are

455
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Speaker 1: You're right? I was almost in the chalk outline on

456
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Speaker 1: the ground with all so many other people. Um, this

457
00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,159
Speaker 1: is all one huge promo. I think it's gonna be

458
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Speaker 1: for Friday's Good Morning Football. You will get to see this.

459
00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,280
Speaker 1: Let's get into the real actual combine and experience. So

460
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Speaker 1: Nate what years sort of take us through it? We

461
00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:58,719
Speaker 1: got a great campfire story. You guys can check out

462
00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,960
Speaker 1: out GMFB on Twitter. I'm sure we're going to post that, So, yeah,

463
00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,840
Speaker 1: take us the stuff that we really wanted out. Yeah,

464
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,800
Speaker 1: I want to take as long as I did on TV.

465
00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:09,840
Speaker 1: But this it's two thousand and three. I just finished

466
00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:13,000
Speaker 1: my junior year college football. I put up these major

467
00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,920
Speaker 1: numbers one hundred and thirty eight catches or sixteen hundred yards.

468
00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:18,639
Speaker 1: I felt like I was the best receiver in all

469
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Speaker 1: the football. Now it's upper question because, yeah, Charles Rogers,

470
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Speaker 1: who is Michigan State guy who was always on ESPN

471
00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,280
Speaker 1: and always had these fancy plays. I mean Andre Johnson

472
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Speaker 1: and Kuombolden. I mean these guys that were monsters out

473
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Speaker 1: of Florida State and also out of Miami. So for me,

474
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Speaker 1: I just kind of wanted to get my respect in

475
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Speaker 1: their conversation. So I get to the combine, I see

476
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Speaker 1: all these I don't get who's inviting. You were getting

477
00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:43,359
Speaker 1: like a paper invitation. And for me, I mind was

478
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:48,280
Speaker 1: an awkward situation because I was a partial um qualifier,

479
00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,439
Speaker 1: if you will, because I transferred high schools and crediting

480
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:54,720
Speaker 1: transfer over so I wasn't actually a guy that was

481
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Speaker 1: a senior, so I could have came back for my

482
00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,760
Speaker 1: senior year, so I could have denied the combine and

483
00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:00,560
Speaker 1: came back. But I just had to come out. I

484
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,399
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I'm not gonna repeat this year.

485
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Speaker 1: You only have one opportunity. So I get this letter,

486
00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,359
Speaker 1: I said, I'm going. My coaching staff and Nevada they

487
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:08,840
Speaker 1: didn't want me to go. They wanted me to come back.

488
00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,000
Speaker 1: You know, it's better for the program. Yeah, but you

489
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 1: know I had to do what was better. They're saying,

490
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Speaker 1: you come back and win the Heisman. Tell one thirty eight,

491
00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 1: we'll give you, we'll get you two, we'll break the record.

492
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Speaker 1: And I was like, you know what, I'm gonna just

493
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Speaker 1: go ahead and play in the NFL. So I get

494
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Speaker 1: there for this combine. Just playing NFL makes it sound easy.

495
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Speaker 1: So I get there and I had a one to

496
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Speaker 1: three grade. I thought that the receivers that were ahead

497
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Speaker 1: of me were too good for me to go before them,

498
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Speaker 1: so that pushes me out of the first round. I

499
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Speaker 1: thought my talent level would put me into the second

500
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Speaker 1: round conversation, and that's where guys like Bethel Johnson, Tyron Calico,

501
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,440
Speaker 1: those guys went there. Tyron Calico run like a four

502
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Speaker 1: to two six of the combine. So once you run that,

503
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:54,479
Speaker 1: you're automatically in conversation, Yeah, cheetah statish. So I get

504
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,879
Speaker 1: there and I'm waiting around one ninety. My agent's like, man,

505
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Speaker 1: we need the game weight. So I spent the next

506
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Speaker 1: two days over hydrating in India, in any eating the

507
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 1: heaviest foods they had, um from room service, like they

508
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,920
Speaker 1: had food available, then I would order rooms were so happy.

509
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:11,480
Speaker 1: You love to eat, man, I love to eat. But

510
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 1: I just felt, do you gaining weight? Easy? No? No,

511
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,640
Speaker 1: you just you just feel heavy. I'm still like Nate

512
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 1: and I still could run fast, but you don't feel

513
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 1: light like me. I always want to play on a

514
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Speaker 1: empty stomach because I just felt really lighting quick and

515
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 1: I could, I could move easily, easily. So I get

516
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Speaker 1: to the combine, I'm eating and all my test goo

517
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,320
Speaker 1: will except for my shoulder. That people were blown away

518
00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:34,119
Speaker 1: that it was television things for not telling us you

519
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 1: were going to do that. What a surprise that. So

520
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,720
Speaker 1: I shoulder, Yeah, it's it's nasty. I'm gonna have the

521
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,639
Speaker 1: McCaine shoulders when I get older, so yeah, sor right.

522
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Speaker 1: So then I get there and they're looking at me like,

523
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Speaker 1: all right, you just kind of check out. You had

524
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: a few injuries, but your body's good. There isn't anything

525
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,479
Speaker 1: that would lower your draft. Stop and then we get

526
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Speaker 1: to the field tests, which for me, like that was

527
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 1: my thing. I knew that I could run routes with

528
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Speaker 1: the best of them. I knew I'd run a decent

529
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 1: forty time. My fastest I'd say I tapp dance rail

530
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,120
Speaker 1: four three eight. My slow us is like a four

531
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 1: to five five either way. Good speed on the field,

532
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 1: catching the ball, good hands. But where I would exhale

533
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 1: would be the vertical jump broad jump. And I remember

534
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Speaker 1: doing the vertical I jumped up there like thirty nine,

535
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Speaker 1: forty one, and I'm like, all, I got one more, AMI,

536
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Speaker 1: get up there forty two and a half. And I'm

537
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 1: just looking around like I dare somebody to beat this.

538
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 1: Dare somebody. Andre Johnson was in my group. He didn't jump,

539
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 1: he didn't run around, seemed to do anything. And I know,

540
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Speaker 1: Andre Johns, it's really quick and I'm a novice to

541
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: keep asking questions. You get you get to choose what

542
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Speaker 1: you want to do and how many times you do it.

543
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 1: Somebody like Andre Johnson, Huge College start Miami like psych

544
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Speaker 1: because all I can do is stop myself. Right, I'm

545
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 1: gonna get drafted high. I'm anna start, but if I

546
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Speaker 1: jump a bad VERTI running bat forty, I may fall.

547
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Speaker 1: So why would I even do it? When you said

548
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Speaker 1: you I'll do it again, They've just let you do

549
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,399
Speaker 1: it again or want to miss? Which is the vertical

550
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: that little thing that they hit, You keep going until

551
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: you can't hit it anymore. That's true. Yeah, yeah, so

552
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,639
Speaker 1: well they try to limit to three, but if you

553
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 1: get close to keep knocking, like, oh, we gotta keep

554
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 1: putting it up. Oh you might get another half inches, right. Yeah.

555
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 1: So Johnson didn't want to do it. He didn't want

556
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 1: to do it. He didn't want to do anything. He

557
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 1: didn't need to do anything, which was good because I

558
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: seen him on the field and I thought to myself,

559
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: if there's anybody that can compete with me in this drill,

560
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: it's going to be him. So then we get the

561
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 1: broad jump and at this point it's kind of a

562
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 1: buzz around the combine that nab Bilson jumped. Okay, who's

563
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: this young dude that could jump and he got right out,

564
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:27,959
Speaker 1: So he's from the bat. That's the dude. They put

565
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: it one thirty eight. So now I'm feeling myself and

566
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 1: Dre sitting back in his sweatsuit. We do the broad

567
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: jump again. I'm leaping. I mean, I got hops. Who's

568
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 1: there with you? Who came to in do with you?

569
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 1: My age family, just your agent, just my agent. Family

570
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: didn't come. I was young. I wasn't even engaged at

571
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: this one. I'm still just dating my wife. So man,

572
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: I didn't have kids. I was just a young book

573
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 1: twenty one years old, brand new, but didn't understand the

574
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 1: complexity of this whole process. You're feeling yourself, feeling myself,

575
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 1: and I'll do the broad jump and everybody, oh, okay,

576
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: yeah he got hops, And I look over and Dre's

577
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: like whispering. Andre Johnson is whispering to the guy coordinating

578
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: abroad of like, I'm like, what is he over there

579
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 1: talking about? Then he starts kicking off his sweats taking

580
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: up and I'm like, what is this doing. Andre gets

581
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: up there and he does a frog leap like he

582
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: is half told, and I'm just like, what is going on?

583
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:25,360
Speaker 1: And he did it? I think it wasn't He wasn't

584
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: jealous that I was getting shine. The competitive nature took over,

585
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 1: which was great. I look back when and I loved it.

586
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: Like I wasn't made three weeks ago. We're in Houston.

587
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: We're at a Nickelodeon fluorescent colored children's event. Andre Johnson

588
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 1: is part of this at his age not we're not

589
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 1: playing football. He is going crazy to try to keep

590
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 1: up with the likes of Ladanian, Tomlinson and DeMarcus. Where

591
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,119
Speaker 1: is the kids game? So and he's like, I'm like,

592
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: what do you care about? Like like taking a soaked

593
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,159
Speaker 1: football through a through some tires. He is so like

594
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: something switched the COMPETITI know exactly what you're talking about.

595
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 1: It never leaves you, guys. And that was him at

596
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: twenty one years old. Crazy and he leaped and he

597
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: had the longest broad jump that day. And you're let

598
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: me get this, You're guarantee top tips. That's exactly what

599
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 1: it was. I'm like, yo, Dre, I flee. So I

600
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: wapped him up. But more importantly than that little moment,

601
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: which is exciting, because I got to see him as

602
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,199
Speaker 1: a friend and as a competitor, for you know, over

603
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 1: ten years of our careers, was seeing all these guys

604
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 1: like I was able to size up every single dude

605
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 1: that was coming out the year, and for the receivers

606
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: like you know. I don't want to say everybody thinks

607
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: this way, but when you're out and about and you're dressed, well,

608
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: maybe it's a gala. Maybe when you're young and high

609
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: school in college, you size up your competition, whether you're

610
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: a guy or girl, you kind of take a peek like,

611
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 1: oh who she are? Oh? Who see? You look at

612
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,159
Speaker 1: him from the shoes up. That's how it was it

613
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 1: to combine. I'm looking all these dudes from the cleats up,

614
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, all right, he's long, he's fast. That

615
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: guy's quick, but can't run rouse That guy he actually

616
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 1: grew out, but he slows dirt. That guy looks like

617
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: you can get off the line of scrimmage, but he

618
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: hasn't had a long speed. So I'm trying to figure

619
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: out where I stack up. But I say this on

620
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: the show all the time. Even though I had a

621
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: mindset of who I was and where I should go

622
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: on the draft, it's still a gamble. So teams looked

623
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 1: at me and said, ah, he went in thevad Arena.

624
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 1: The competition wasn't that good. Maybe he's just one of

625
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 1: those special teamers and plays, you know, the three four

626
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: wide receiver position for the rest of his career, and

627
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: it kind of motivated me. But that wasn't the reason

628
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: why I played football. That wasn't a reason why I

629
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: wanted to torch teams, and that wasn't a cause for

630
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 1: me being upset like on draft day because I kind

631
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,679
Speaker 1: of expected it. If anything happened, that was better. It's

632
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 1: kind of like my career after two and a half

633
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,640
Speaker 1: years of beating the average and the odds, I'm like, ah,

634
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: this is bonus level. You broke this down date in

635
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: a way. I've never heard this from any athlete talking

636
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: about the combine. I asked you, really, I think it

637
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: was off the air this week. You know, when you're

638
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: lining up to run that forty, are you nervous? And

639
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 1: you're like, no, I wasn't nervous. And now I'm like,

640
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: does that just you nate because you're cool. You don't

641
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: getting nervous. He was water and you said no because

642
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 1: the guys were nervous are the top guys because they

643
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: could lose a lot of money, and the bottom guys

644
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: because they could lose their shot all together. Yeah, you

645
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,159
Speaker 1: were kind of one of the middle guy, respectfully, and

646
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,199
Speaker 1: so you're like, I'm good. I know I know I'm

647
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 1: not under any pressure the radar. Yeah yeah, And you know,

648
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: I don't want to make it seem like there's classes

649
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: to it, but you look at the middle class and

650
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: those are guys that can go anywhere from second round

651
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: to fourth round, and for some reason, to me and experience,

652
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: those grades are set in stone. When they call you

653
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: a second, third, fourth rounder, you usually fall in there.

654
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: Oftentimes you hear that a guy's a first rounder and

655
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: they like completely blow it, like a quarterback who's supposed

656
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: to go top twenty ends up going in the third round.

657
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: Or you know a guy that you had guaranteed to

658
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: land in the top ten, all of a sudden, he's

659
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: twenty nine wide receiver. He lines and runs, he runs

660
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: a four to six five, and it's like, oh, well,

661
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: now he's dropping later. You're not just dropping down drop

662
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: a million, multimillion dollars drops pressure. That's pressure because these

663
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: guys are thinking, off, I don't run the time I

664
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: need to run, I'm gonna lose a ton of money,

665
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: run out the gate. And then there's a luxury of

666
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: being top ten, top twenty, even in first round. Second

667
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: round because you're a leash is so much longer. You

668
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: can go, and you can make mistakes during the preseason,

669
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: you can drop balls. Coach is gonna say, all right,

670
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: let's give h another chance. If you're the middle class

671
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: guy like myself, the leash is shorter, but you still

672
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: got room to play special teams, like you can find

673
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: a way to last on special teams. They're not gonna

674
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: put first round money on special teams, don't. You don't

675
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: put those guys out there and give her a chance

676
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: to get hurt. And then there's the back end guys,

677
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: the guys that are slotted to go fifth round, sixth round,

678
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: even free agency. You can see like the worry on

679
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: their faces. Their life depends on it, and it's not

680
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: just their life and one being like, I met guys

681
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: that wanted the glitz and the glamour and wanted the

682
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,479
Speaker 1: fancy cars, to change jewels, all the girls. But then

683
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: there's guys that show up to that combine and they're

684
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: not running for themselves. And I don't want to be

685
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: over dramatic, but it really is what it is. Like

686
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: they're running for their mom that's struggling at home. They're

687
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: running for their newborn ba and this kid's twenty years

688
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: old with a child on the way, They got six siblings.

689
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: Their emotions like if somebody has a bad run that

690
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: we don't see, forget the run. There's emotions before, like

691
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: you can see it on guys' faces and it's almost

692
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,479
Speaker 1: and I try to tell guys, yes, the most important

693
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: week of your life thus far, but don't put too

694
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: much pressure on yourself because it would drive you crazy.

695
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: And you saw guys walking out of these one on

696
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,239
Speaker 1: one meetings with these teams, shaking their head as if

697
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: they lost money, are getting done with a forty pounding

698
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: on the ground, are catching a ball, dropping one and

699
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: yelling obscenities out like that's too much pressure, But it's

700
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: not because their entire lives have been about pressure, and

701
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: it's going to get worse being in the NFL and

702
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: the draft going to be the future is about pressure.

703
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: But this is what was different about me when my dad,

704
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: who played in the CFL but it's familiar with preessional sports,

705
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: never put me in this box and said football is

706
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: going to be your ticket. It's the only thing you got.

707
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I was involved in four sports since the

708
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: age of nine. I did things after school. I was

709
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: involved in the talent shows and plays and drama class

710
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: and you know music. So for me, there's all these

711
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: different things that I thought I can do. Maybe I

712
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: was better at certain things than others, but I knew

713
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: a football didn't work. There's something else I could do.

714
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 1: Some of these guys, they've been playing football their whole lives,

715
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: and not just playing football. There's been pressure from their parents,

716
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: their guardians, friends and uncles saying you have to make it.

717
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: You have to make it because we need you to

718
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: make it. Like I didn't know what that pressure felt like,

719
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: And to be honest, I wouldn't want to know what

720
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: that pressure feels like, because when you're playing a sport

721
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: not for you, like, there's no way that you can

722
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: have fun kyl Do you believe that these gms and

723
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: these scouts and these agents and everybody there gets a true,

724
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: like how true of a sense of that person? They

725
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: really get. It's interesting because I was watching I'm struggling

726
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: with this. I was watching last night at the coverage

727
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: on the network. They were running last year's combine over

728
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: and over, and they're watching the wide receivers running forties.

729
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: The coback's running forties, and you know they'll shoot up

730
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: in the box and like, there's Marvin Lewis, so there's

731
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: Andy Reid whatever, and they got their stopwatches up there

732
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: in the box. They're kind of like, I don't know,

733
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: half heartedly timing it and they got their drink in

734
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: front of them, their computer, and I'm like, how can

735
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: you get an accurate run on this guy from up

736
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: in the box by hand? That's the forty thing. But

737
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: the personality thing is the is the X factor? Can

738
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: you really get a sense of them? And I don't know.

739
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: I was really impressed by Mohammed Sanu, who came on

740
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: the show last week, and I think, Nate you asked

741
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: him what would be your advice for these young guys,

742
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: and I thought his answer was so prescient and wise.

743
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: He's like, go there and shake hands and meet people.

744
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: Because some of these young guys are twenty one and

745
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: they're like this is cool. Look at this, and they're

746
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: in the room playing video games. They're going on meeting

747
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: their friends. It's like, don't do that. Go down and

748
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: walk through the lobby and say hello, my name is

749
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: Mohammed Sanu, I'd love to play for you, and this

750
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 1: is what I'm all about. And I was really impressed

751
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: by that because twenty one sent me twenty Sometimes like

752
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: you gotta step outside your comfort zone exactly so well coached,

753
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: and if you are hiring a guy like Charlie castor,

754
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: they to tell you who's been in the room telling

755
00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: you questions. I just feel like you're putting like everybody

756
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: that they can do twelve minutes. It's fake. You're saying

757
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: that you're not getting the genuine I'm not saying it's fake.

758
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I don't think it's not one hundred percent.

759
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: So it's it's obviously necessary the combine. You can get

760
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: so much out of the combine. But to be it's

761
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: like a it's like a pageant. It's like a beauty

762
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: pageant where they know that. It's like you're going to

763
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: get what's the world, what's the how do you solve

764
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: this world's biggest problem? Or what do you think? Like whatever?

765
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: Like you have your pat answer, yeah I think or

766
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: you like you look you got a spray tan, so

767
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: like you look great. You know what I'm saying, Like

768
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: it's not the genuine article. That's not your real hair,

769
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: it's not your real answer. It's like I've always had

770
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: this like joke that when you get married, it shouldn't

771
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: be like I look perfect. I just went through ten

772
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: hours of makeup and like got got a haircut, and

773
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: I'm well groomed and like I shaved and whatever it

774
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: should be like good, Like I went out for all

775
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: night long and I am haggard, and I look like

776
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: a dragon, and I'm hungover. And now you stand in

777
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 1: front of me, and you tell me that you will

778
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: marry this. You got that hot morning breath with thefl

779
00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: to this, and you will take care of that. You

780
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, having to hold you know what

781
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: I mean. I had six VDKA crans last night. If

782
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: I don't get a breafast breed, I'm gonna kill somebody.

783
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: I do, I do. I will marry these players, I

784
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: guess I'm liking it, like getting into like a pageant,

785
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 1: like it or not true. I think what happens if

786
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: they get in that room. Okay, the guys in the

787
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: room know they've been coached up, They know those token

788
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: answers are going to come true, and they probably start

789
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 1: grilling and like you would have been coached up in

790
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,439
Speaker 1: a turn. It's like which Harlie said, It's a fact

791
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: check yeah, which I love, and he's like, I want

792
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: to make sure that all this stuff is right, that

793
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: you're going to be honest and how you handle some

794
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: stuff and like you said, going up to the board

795
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: and doing plays and stuff. They want to give you

796
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: more than you're ready for, which which is why nowadays

797
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: with these young players, they tell them, you know, try

798
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: not to have off the field issues, even dating back

799
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: to elementary. I mean, if you say you got in

800
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 1: the fight and you know you put out a pocket

801
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: knife on another student and didn't use it, they don't

802
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: know that, Like they'll know everything. They knew everything about

803
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: me and luckily, you know, I don't have any history

804
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: off They knew every single injury. So imagine a guy

805
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: who's had a trouble pass and he walks in and

806
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 1: he's doing all the right things. He's coached up will

807
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: he's been to the academy of how to talk to coaches.

808
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: At the combine, he's at his best, But then the

809
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: coaches say, all right, man, cut the crowd. We know

810
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: when you were in middle school you got in that

811
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: scuffle landing and juvenile. What about that that altercation you

812
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: got with your girlfriend? But about what happened with your

813
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: mom's uncle when you punched him and knocked his teeth out,

814
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: and like they will have all these questions on deck,

815
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: and then at that point it's kind of like the

816
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: real world, you know what I'm saying, Like what happens

817
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 1: when people start being real like who are you now?

818
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: Like unveil yourself? So for me, it's like I went

819
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: in I was humble and who I am now? At

820
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: thirty five year old night, I would have been in

821
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: to be honest, I would have win in there more cocky.

822
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,479
Speaker 1: I wouldn't win a way more cocky because I felt

823
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: like I was just casually answering the questions. I was

824
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: very complimentary of all these other players, and they're saying, well,

825
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: where do you stack up these other good guys? But

826
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: really I should have been like, yeah, I'm one of

827
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: the best receivers. I believe it. I would have got

828
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: drafted higher, it doesn't matter. But I feel like, in

829
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things, if I would have told them,

830
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: like you got to be a fool to draft some

831
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: of these guys before, for me, like I'm gonna last

832
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: a long time. Look at my resume, look at what

833
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: I did last year. Like I was facing double triple

834
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: coverage all college. They coaches love cockiness because you're walking

835
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: into the land of the lions. Like these are grown men,

836
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: Like yeah, you can be as good as you want

837
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: in college. But then you walk into the NFL locker room.

838
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: You see grown men with beards and real problems and

839
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,439
Speaker 1: families and food that they got to put on the table.

840
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: They're worrying about their mortgage and their mama and their daddy.

841
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,439
Speaker 1: This is different now football has a whole different meaning.

842
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 1: So can you handle that? And can't you walk in

843
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: with this confidence you're showing this one on one meeting

844
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: and walk in it with a with an NFL player

845
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 1: that wants it more than you. You know what's impossible,

846
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: thought Nate. I'm sorry. That's why the combine is so

847
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: hard because if you win in and that and sold

848
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: that way, you could also written off cocky, ego problems,

849
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: not a team player. They could spin it that way too.

850
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,439
Speaker 1: That's why it's so hard, because I get what you're saying.

851
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: I'm the man. I want to be the man for you.

852
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: Ego problem, not a not a team player at all.

853
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: They could easily, like Charlie said, everyone remember seven percent.

854
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: It could be Wow, really hockey instead of humble letting

855
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: his amazing forty two point five vertes speak for him. Yeah,

856
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: but it's also it's also understanding the situation, Like if

857
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: I would have if I would have done it better.

858
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: I was just answering questions as they threw them to me.

859
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: You know who wants to talk to you, so you

860
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 1: have a list of what teams want to talk to you.

861
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: I would have went in and did my research on

862
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: who was on the roster and told them why. I

863
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: would have been the best complimentary piece. Luckily I got

864
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: drafted to the Minnesota Vikings, but if I can go

865
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: back and meet with the Vikings, I would have said, listen,

866
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: I know you got Randy Moss and other guys on

867
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: that on that team that can compliment him, but I

868
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: can be the best number two you guys have ever seen.

869
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: Like That's something I wish I would have said. Instead,

870
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: I didn't say it. I just had to prove it,

871
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: which works out either way. I just feel like things

872
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: kind of sort of worked out for you name it did.

873
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: I just want these guys to know, like you can

874
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: beat yourself borderline on the on confidence and cocky, but

875
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: don't step over and be more and me before a

876
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: week Like teams don't like that, but they want a

877
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: guy that thinks he's the man. It's NFL man. You

878
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,879
Speaker 1: gotta be you step in between those lines. You better

879
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 1: be self confident. Did you get the dumb stuff nath

880
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: Did you get? Would you be a dog or a cat?

881
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: What kind of tree would you be with that stuff?

882
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 1: I didn't get any of that. The only question I

883
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: got was you would have killed that stuff too? Yeah,

884
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,240
Speaker 1: I was. I was all about it neither. I wouldn't

885
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: be a doc, I'd be a lion. I just met

886
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: with the Atlanta Falcons and I wanted to play for Atlanta.

887
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 1: I grew up loving them the Dirty Bird. I was

888
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: a big fan of that team, The Colors, Yeah, Dean Centrals,

889
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: all that. So I'm meeting with the Atlanta Falcons and

890
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: they said, well, you would you like to play for us?

891
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: Of course? Man. I got some Atlanta Falcons sweats that

892
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 1: I had packed, like one of my favorite pair of sweats.

893
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 1: I just had them for so long, and I just

894
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 1: brought him like good luck, Like I'm gonna meet with

895
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: the Falcons and they're gonna draft me because rumor was

896
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: they wanted to draft me. So then I go meet

897
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: with the San Francisco forty Niners next and they're like, look, man,

898
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: we love you. We got a first round grade on you.

899
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: You know, we'd love to pick you up first second round. Um,

900
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 1: you know, who's your favorite team? And it was like

901
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: in the natural Florida conversation, I was like, oh, Atlanta

902
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: Falcons and they're like really, I was like, oh no, no,

903
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: I got these sweats in my room. I'm now I'm

904
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: like backtracking, like like, oh, school, school, you don't want

905
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: to play for us, So now they're giving me crap

906
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: and I just kind of answered naturally, But thinking back,

907
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: I wish I would have been like, look, my favorite

908
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: team is Atlanta. But if you guys drafting, yeah, you know.

909
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: I was all, why what do you guys got? Ye?

910
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: They just went to the super Bowl? What did you guys?

911
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? Like? Then that's when

912
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: that line are you funny or are you cocky? Right?

913
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: Are you nervous? Did you? You're so young man? It's

914
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: not you now you're young and you were one of

915
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: the smartest ones. I mean, how hard is that? It's tough? Man?

916
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: But you know, with all that said, Okay, we're all right.

917
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: It's it's fun, it's nerve wracking. I mean it's for

918
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:34,240
Speaker 1: some guys, it's agony. Some guys is complete. You know, utopia,

919
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: three thirty guys, a lot of guys, a lot of

920
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: different stories, a lot of ty Calico, get a different friend, Calico,

921
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: are you? Are you a lot different now than you

922
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: were back then? Like a lot? Yea, Claire look at

923
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: you and I see the same thing. You're still very humble,

924
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: but you are confident. I'm confident, and you're very sure

925
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: of yourself. I am. I wasn't as sure of myself.

926
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: I think you were less humble back then too. I

927
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: think so that stories you've told me. Yeah, I was.

928
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: I was very no I was very cocky, but I

929
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't let anybody see that, but I was.

930
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 1: I was a little less sure of myself because I

931
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: heard all these other guys names like I was busting

932
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,800
Speaker 1: my button college, and I would see myself at the

933
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: top of the list, and all ESPN and NFL network

934
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: would show with these other guys, and for me, I

935
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 1: started to believe it, Like I guess being in the

936
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: whack conference. You know, I'm not as good as Andre Johnson.

937
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: So for the first few years of my career, like

938
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: I was playing catch up to these dudes. And I

939
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: always looked at Dre and ant Quan Bolding as guys

940
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:34,840
Speaker 1: I catched, and I tried to knock him off, like

941
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: that was my thing. I wanted to knock him off.

942
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: In longevity and stats, I could never catch ant Quan Bolden.

943
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: Now Dre Johnson put the ant kwon both. The first

944
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: gave you three yards. So but I wanted to, like

945
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: when guys, and this is it's sad to say now

946
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: and I don't think like this now, but when guys

947
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: weren't playing anymore, I was like, I lasted longer than

948
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: that guy. I lasted longer than that guy. And I

949
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: started to knock off guys on the list and at

950
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: some point it was just like me quon and and

951
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 1: I was like, no, y'all got it. I'm good. I

952
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: can't catch yall. Y'all playing fourteen years in and I'm good,

953
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: still playing, still playing inside of the combine experience, we

954
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: need to talk about Ian Rappaport and how you had

955
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this name, I know

956
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: this Okay, So Kyle went ahead at dinner at the

957
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 1: Rappaport's house. If you're listening to this, you know NFL Network,

958
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: you watched all the time. Ian Rappaport the face of

959
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: the news branch of NFL Network. He's the man, and

960
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 1: I didn't know him until Houston the super Bowl week.

961
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: I've never met him before. At also running joke that

962
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: he never comes Have you never met him because he

963
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: doesn't come into We'll come on the show, despite leaving

964
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: up in Westchester County like I do. And I just

965
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: always looked at him as like a straight newsman. No,

966
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: BS get to the chase like, I'm not here to

967
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: mess around, and that's fine. If that's his deal. Then

968
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,720
Speaker 1: you meet him in Houston unbelievably disarming nice. I watched

969
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: the show, you know, sweetheart, BS is with you bus chops.

970
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: He's very funny, So that's cool. I feel different about it,

971
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 1: And now it turns out we we know each other.

972
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks later, I'm at the Nordstrom Cafe,

973
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: which is just a place for screaming babies and spilled

974
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: lemonade and sandwiches and everything, And sure enough there's the

975
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,919
Speaker 1: rap Sheet family and they're sitting there with their kids

976
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: and my kids. People are pissed and picking their noses.

977
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: It's time to go home for naps. So we're running

978
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: at the Rodstrom cafe. I've only ever seen this guy

979
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: with like the suits and talking about you in a

980
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: box and a box and ties, and so he's so

981
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,760
Speaker 1: nice and everything. Sure Enough, I get the text later hey,

982
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: and don't even know if he didn't even know if

983
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: I had a sell. It's Ian Rappaport. And I was like,

984
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: oh my god, is there breaking news If someone get

985
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: fired with it? I get fired. Would you like to

986
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: come to my house for dinner with your family? Bring

987
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: the babies, bring everyone, whatever time you want to do

988
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: it so cool. So I'm like, yeah, I want to

989
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: go to the Rappaport house. Yes I do. So the

990
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: kids might have a seven month old and a three

991
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: year old. Ian has a two year old boy and

992
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:44,919
Speaker 1: a three ye old boy, so three boys between our kids.

993
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: We go, and that I'm telling you, if you know

994
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 1: Ian from TV from his business persona, this guy is

995
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,760
Speaker 1: so nice and such a good host and so warm.

996
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: We get into the house and all I want to

997
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: know is because I know that his little studio is

998
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: in house. They have set him up so that the

999
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: rap sheets studios, he doesn't have to leave the house.

1000
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, how long do I have to wait and

1001
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 1: again in the house before I can ask him to

1002
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: see the studio. I think it was halfway through the

1003
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: first beer. I'm like, let's cut the crap. Here, Can

1004
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,760
Speaker 1: I see the studio? Of course you can see the studio.

1005
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: Here's what's funny when you see him on the network.

1006
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: He's there and he's got the background with the shelves

1007
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 1: and you know, the footballs and the football helmets. But

1008
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:22,439
Speaker 1: I won't give away all the secrets. And I asked

1009
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: him if it's okay if I talk about it. If

1010
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: you go, like just a few steps outside of where

1011
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: the face of the NFL new network news branches reporting

1012
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: on very serious things, it is like Babes and toy

1013
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: Land in that basement, you would not believe the playground

1014
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 1: he has down there. So I'm telling you, if you

1015
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 1: took three steps away from that desk, Yes, collective bargaining,

1016
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: a salary capital thing, Thomas the tank engine tick. It's

1017
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: everyone like you would step on a squeak toy. There's

1018
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 1: a rollercoaster down there. There's play sets and then he's

1019
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 1: got his TVs. Again. I'm not gonna gave his whole deal,

1020
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: but it is heaven for kids down there, and there's

1021
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: just this big door three and two, three and two,

1022
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 1: and Calvin's three, so they're off just raising hell while

1023
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 1: Ian and I are having an ipa at the desk

1024
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: where he does his reports every day. It was a

1025
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: thrill I honestly did. As someone who loves the football

1026
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 1: and the network everything, I felt like. I was like, Grum,

1027
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're asking. Because Leah Rappaport a very very

1028
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: nice woman from the South. She whipped up a really

1029
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: really delightful pineapple chicken Asian style, and she made homemade

1030
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: egg rolls. She fried these suckers by herself as we

1031
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: were having beer and wine, ambitious and they had pork

1032
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: in them. And then okay, the closing act and I'll

1033
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: wrap with this. We had this incredible meal and she's like,

1034
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 1: do you guys have time for dessert? Yeah, we'll make time.

1035
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: It was like two hours past our kids bedroom bedtime,

1036
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: and we're like, oh, yeah, what are we gonna have?

1037
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: You know, like, d's a scoop of eats? You're smiling

1038
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: really big hit homemade and it has to do with

1039
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: ice cream, a homemade ice cream dessert that she made herself.

1040
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: She takes out homemade barefoot Contesta style ice cream cookie

1041
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: sandwiches with the cookies and the ice cream in between,

1042
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: that she made that day in anticipation of guests. That's

1043
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: how Leah Rappaport got down. We would have taken some

1044
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 1: otter pops. That's it. She And now it all makes

1045
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: sense why he never leaves that house and comes to

1046
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Speaker 1: New York. It doesn't happen. You don't even have snacks.

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Speaker 1: You have to talk about the What one movie he

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Speaker 1: made that I loved? When you went down to Power Move, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I loved it. Okay, this is the last thing, so

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, we walked down. As we're going

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Speaker 1: down there, he goes, let me rev up the studios

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Speaker 1: for you. I'm like, what the hell is at me?

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Speaker 1: I figured sw Yeah, this old fashioned switch you know

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Speaker 1: where you pull the thing down from the twenties behind

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Speaker 1: the bookshelf. What think you put back the statue's head

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Speaker 1: and it opens? Um? No, he calls. He goes hold

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Speaker 1: on a second, gets on his phone. He goes, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's me. No, no, no, nothing's going on. There's no news.

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Speaker 1: That's okay. Where la la Culver City, NFL. Yes, And

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Speaker 1: he says, can you rev up the studio for me?

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Speaker 1: And they say, no problem with the lights come on,

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Speaker 1: the things start humming. He could be right there ready

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Speaker 1: to break down. Anyway. There was gentleman Tony Stark exactly.

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Speaker 1: He was like the Tony Stark of the NFL media,

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Speaker 1: super nice and with ice cream cookie it was. And

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Speaker 1: Tony Stark has no wife until he meets Gwyneth and

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Speaker 1: she's not cooking anything. So the Rappaport family, thank you

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Speaker 1: your wife incredible, she's not, she's not. We need Gwyneth

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Speaker 1: pouchers and cooking. And maybe not Gwyneth. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: pepper pepper pepper cooking for character. No, I don't think

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Speaker 1: they got food. They got like chefs and food deliveries.

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Speaker 1: Tony Star, yeah, Jarvis is making that stuff. But Rappaport

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Speaker 1: family incredible, kids, incredible and if Ian is a great newsman.

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Speaker 1: But when he gets home, family man, and I went

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Speaker 1: hell of a host great wines they served us in everything.

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Speaker 1: I'll go back in a second. We have so now

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Speaker 1: we have to invite them to the Brant House the

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Speaker 1: whole weekend TV studio. No ice cream, cookies. We'll have

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Speaker 1: to think of something, but it's a rap name kids

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Speaker 1: table with him. Maybe we will, Maybe you will. Great stuff, guys,

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Speaker 1: good pod. Where can we find it? Nate, NFL dot com,

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Speaker 1: slash pot Cast. Also go to iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher.

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Speaker 1: That New York come by we talked about you can

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Speaker 1: of course find on NFL Network On Friday. Peter Schrager

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Speaker 1: is in Indeci. We'll see you guys the rest of

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Speaker 1: the week and the rest of the all season. By