1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Dave Pash Podcast. 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,120 Speaker 1: I'm your host Arizona Cardinals, an ESPN play by play 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: announcer Dave Pash. Our guest this week is Cardinals left tackle, 4 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: three time captain and twenty twenty one Pro Bowl selection 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: d J Humphries. In fact, I'd love to call this 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 1: episode DJ unplucked, because Humphries goes off on everything over 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: the next thirty minutes. As you'll hear, DJ touches on 8 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: how he became one of the best left tackles in 9 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: the NFL after what looked like an ugly start to 10 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: his tenure as a pro football player following leaving Florida 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: a year early and becoming a first round draft pick. 12 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: Humphries will also talk about the struggles at home the 13 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,919 Speaker 1: last two years for the Arizona Cardinals. I don't know 14 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: what am I what do we do? What do you? 15 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: This is like, I don't know. It's hard. I couldn't 16 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: tell you. And that's I think that's the hardest part 17 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: about what's going on right now, is like not having 18 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: a true solution. Also, what it's like to play in Seattle, 19 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: the growth of Kyler Murray, the gifts that Humphries has 20 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: received from Murray and quarterbacks for the Cardinals over the years. 21 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 1: We'll also talk about DJ's foundation that he's heavily involved 22 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: in and what some of his interests are away from football. 23 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: We are presented by bet mgm, the official sports betting 24 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: partner of the Arizona Cardinals, and by Hilo River Resorts 25 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: and Casinos. 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Appreciate you doing this. 34 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: First time you and I've actually had a chance to 35 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: really sit down and chat like this, and you're one 36 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: of my favorite stories on the team. When I think 37 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: back to when you came into the NFL at your 38 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:15,799 Speaker 1: age and leaving Florida early to where you are now 39 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: is one of the pillars of the team coming off 40 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl three time captain getting the contract. How much, 41 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: and I know it's in the middle of a football season, 42 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: but how much do you reflect on how far you've come? 43 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: I think I think mainly when I talked to young 44 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,639 Speaker 1: players and young players come to me for like guidance 45 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: and asking me questions about things. Our three young age 46 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 1: rushers that we got, Liketta, Cam and my Ju We've 47 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: we've had a very interesting relation. We've we've developed an 48 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: interesting relationship between the three of us, between those three 49 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: guys in me over just these past five weeks and 50 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 1: just kind of you know, them kind of perceiving how 51 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: the NFL is going to be and trying to like 52 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: not step on toes and be careful with how they 53 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: rush and stuff like that. And I'm like, yo, bro, 54 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 1: I need you rush, bro, because I got to be 55 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: ready for channeling this week I got frankly, you know, 56 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: I mean, like I need you to go and like 57 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: getting them to understand that and watching it kind of 58 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: bear fruit for them on the other side of it, 59 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: and watching them, you know, progressively every week get closer 60 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: and closer to being legit players. And knowing all the 61 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: tunes that they got. I think that's like times like 62 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: that is when they really be like dang, like this 63 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 1: is cool, Like I couldn't have did that eight years ago. 64 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: I didn't have anything for you eight years going now 65 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: to be able to to kind of shine the light 66 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: of some guys and help them do some things, and 67 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: it helped them continue to grow and develop. It's like, 68 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: that's that's super dope. Sure, when did it click for you? 69 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: Do you remember a moment in time or an off 70 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: season where, for lack of a better term, the light 71 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: went on and you became the guy that you are 72 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: now or at least started down the road to becoming 73 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: the guy you are now. Yeah, I think that that 74 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: that first off season out of my rookie year. First 75 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: I have my son like in the beginning of that 76 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: off season, and that was like a that was like 77 00:03:58,040 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: a different wake up call for him. It was like 78 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: a not even so much football, that was just like 79 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: a life like I have to set an example, I 80 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: have to do things in a certain way, but I 81 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: think football it kind of I remember that first offseason 82 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: and coming here and like training and going upstairs and 83 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 1: asking good He's like yo, like like what can I like, 84 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: we're gonta get some drills and like just do some stuff, 85 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: and like not understanding like you can't do things like 86 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: during the off season with coaches and like they can't 87 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 1: do drills and stuff like that, and like that when 88 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, I have to figure this out 89 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: on my own or I would be out of the league. 90 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: And I think that was when it kind of clicked 91 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: for me. That was when I got got in touch 92 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: with the Charles and that was how mean on the Charles. 93 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: Our relationships started from there, kind of like just trying 94 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: to take that ownership. It's like, Yo, this this league 95 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: is not gonna wait for me. Nobody's gonna help me 96 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: figure this out. I have to like go do it myself. 97 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: And that offseason it's kind of what it happened. I 98 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: kind of been building those same routines I've been going, 99 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 1: been training there ever since, you know what I mean 100 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 1: that that same offseason mentally trying to get better every 101 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,239 Speaker 1: year because of that from that off season. So Harold Goodwin, 102 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: that's good. He who is now with Tampa and swear 103 00:04:58,200 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: is more than a human being I met other than 104 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: t J. Car Listen. I don't know if you've ever 105 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: done to the presents of PJ. If you know who 106 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 1: PJA is a longtime NBA head coach, So I don't 107 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: know how he doesn't swear in the air because he 108 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: swears all the time. And then Charles Bentley, former NFL 109 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 1: offensive lineman's training guys. And this new contract that you did, 110 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 1: you negotiated that yourself, right, how did that go? Like? 111 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: First of all, why did you do it yourself? And 112 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: then how did the process go? So? First, are you 113 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: available if I need you for my next contract with 114 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: ESPN or with the car So first of all, I 115 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: am available for all Asian inquiries. One percent one percent good. 116 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: It depends on what we're negotiating. Well, Broadcast agents normally 117 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: take ten percent. So see, I'm not gonna I'm not 118 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: gonna be that guy to you, you know what I mean. 119 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: I will never be that guy. But if we're negotiating 120 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: a hundred million a deal here, now, I won't need 121 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 1: a little you know, we may have to shave a 122 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: little bit more. I think I'm gonna get that. Then 123 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: a one or two percent, I'm going to shave a 124 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: little bit more off the top of you know, we're 125 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: going that fair, you get one hundred million dollars as 126 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: much as you want, you take eighty percent. But but uh, 127 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: my financial advisor, man by the name with Santana Johnson, 128 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 1: very unassuming man if you were to meet him in person, 129 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: because he's just so laid back and calm. But we 130 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: developed a relationship over the last eight years and it's 131 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: I pretty much talked to him every day of my 132 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,679 Speaker 1: life pretty much since I've signed with him. We developed 133 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: like a big brother relationship, and he's kind of just 134 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: kind of taught me so many things about business and 135 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: and the ways of life and how you handle things. 136 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: And he basically he kind of started my will spinning 137 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: as becoming a businessman. You know, he got me and 138 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 1: my first business deals doing real estate, my first business 139 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: deals doing trucking. Like he's kind of aided me through 140 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: all of those things, and it just kind of it's 141 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:39,679 Speaker 1: the only thing that's ever excited me aside from football, 142 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: is kind of taking control of of business and trying 143 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: to use what I've required over my last seven eight 144 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: years of football and watching it go in other places 145 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: and continue to produce fruit for me in that same way. 146 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: It's something that's like it excites me watching it happen. 147 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: It's something that's fun for me. So being able to 148 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: be able to do the same thing, basically do another deal, 149 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 1: the biggest one that I could do in the moment, 150 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: or you know what I mean, in this timeframe for myself, 151 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: and it kind of be an isolated environment, you know, 152 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: I mean, not an environment that's the New York Stock Exchange, 153 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: but I got worried about vulture, you know what I I mean. 154 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: It's a it's an isolated environment in this building where 155 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: I know that I'm not gonna get taken advantage of. Granted, 156 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: I know they're going to try to win, but I 157 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: know I'm not gonna get taken advantage of. So I 158 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: know that I can go into this fight and really 159 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: fight and learn and get some keys and get some 160 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: callous about myself and do things a certain way that 161 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: this is what I wanted to do. And it just 162 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: made so much sense for I mean, it was fun 163 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: the whole way. It was hard as hell, but it 164 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: was fun though it was the whole off season pretty 165 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: much literally the whole off season. Yeah, Like I had 166 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: an offer already, I think in OTAs Or I didn't 167 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: have an offer. That's what it was. I didn't have 168 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: an offering ot so like that whole through that whole time, 169 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: that time frame, so all leading up until the day 170 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: my stomach started hurting the account. That's pretty much the hold. 171 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: That was pretty much the timeline. Were you in significant pain? 172 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 1: I mean I was crushed. That's done. It was it 173 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: was Are you being serious? I am being serious? Man? 174 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: As wow, man, I don't know how I made it up. Okay, 175 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: all right, Um, not everybody can be Larry Fitzgerald. Not 176 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: everybody can be Kobe Bryant and be a great player 177 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: for their team forever. You're trending that way of being 178 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: a cardinal. I know you're still in your twenties, but 179 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: signing a third contract, you're trending that way. And who 180 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: knows what's going to happen down the road. But is 181 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: that something you think about or have thought about being 182 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 1: in one place for an entire career? Yeah, that was 183 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:44,719 Speaker 1: That's always been my goal ever in playing football. I 184 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: always wanted to go to a team and be a 185 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,839 Speaker 1: main state to that team and retire from that place, 186 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: and you know, be able to live in the town 187 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 1: and go to the grocery store and get the glory love, 188 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: like you know what I mean. That was always my dream, 189 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,040 Speaker 1: was being that guy that was the hometown guy, that 190 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: that that played in one team for a long time 191 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:03,959 Speaker 1: and he stayed there and they look you know. I 192 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: mean that was always when I thought about That was 193 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: what football always was to me. That's what you do. 194 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: You go somewhere. You'd be great there and they love 195 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: you there forever and you you live your life there. 196 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: Maybe run for mayor or something like that when you 197 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: like sixty, you know, like that that was that was like, 198 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: you know, that's it. I like that mayor d J. 199 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: Humphreys man only fun things? Um? Was it always football 200 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,559 Speaker 1: for you? What other sports did you play growing up? 201 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: And when did you like your recruiting process? Did you 202 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: get recruited by other schools for anything other than football? 203 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: I always wanted to be really good at basketball because 204 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: my dad was good at basketball. But I sucked, man, 205 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: I was so bad at basketball like it was. It 206 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 1: was it was. And when you say suck, look clarify, 207 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,679 Speaker 1: like you you couldn't dribble or you didn't know what 208 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: to do when you got the ball on the post, 209 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: because I'm assuming you played on the low block. That 210 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: was literally the only thing I knew what to do. 211 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: Anything passed a drop step and going straight up with it, 212 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: or rebound, setting a good pick or a foule. I 213 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: was a fish out of water from anywhere from in 214 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: between those spaces, like anything else. You give me the 215 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: ball on the elbow, I don't want to. I don't 216 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: know what to do. I'm getting it out of my hands. Now. 217 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: Do you watch the NBA or college basketball? Not that much. 218 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: Only when my dad's around, so I can like act 219 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: like I'm cool manly man. But I'm a Netflix guy. 220 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: You're at and I don't even watch football, But I 221 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: swear I watched so much film that, like when I 222 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: go home, it's like I watched Thursday night football because 223 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 1: that's when we do the online dinner. But I guess 224 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna see it at some point. I'm watched 225 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: the film at some point, like I don't need to 226 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: watch what about college football? Ever? Watch college football? Do 227 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: you still keep in touch with people in Florida? There's 228 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: been like nine coaching changes. Yeah, left, I don't really 229 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: keep I don't really keep in touch with Florida. The 230 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,199 Speaker 1: only time I watched the only time I really watched 231 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: the Gators. If it's I'm like, I got like a 232 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: friendly wager with somebody, like I'm like, you know, Tennessee 233 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: played and I had I had bet I was gonna 234 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: have to wear a T shirt. But luckily I got 235 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: out of that, you know, I didn't have to do it. 236 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: But like the little stuff like that, that's the only 237 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: time I already ever watched. But it's it's I don't know, 238 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: I don't know why. I just I rather just watch cool. 239 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,199 Speaker 1: I get it. I would much rather writse Ricky Morty 240 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 1: didn't watch. I haven't seen it. So oh you haven't 241 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: seen it? Now, Okay, what do you do at nighttime? 242 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 1: What you can't sleep? Do you? Just like, well, I'm 243 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: working a lot. I'm calling that's you know, That's why 244 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: I asked you about it. If you watch because I'm 245 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: doing like, for example, Wednesday, I'm doing preseason NBA for 246 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 1: ESPN Timberwolves, Lakers, and then I'll do a college game 247 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: on Saturday. They do the Cardinals on Sunday. So, like 248 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: you though, there's a lot of times, but the last 249 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:29,319 Speaker 1: thing I want to do is watch a sporting event 250 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: exactly because it's working for you. It's work this is 251 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: your job, So I understand, but there's some people that 252 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: love it so much that that's all they want to do. Yeah, 253 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: I love football, you know, it's crazy. I love football, 254 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: but like I don't. I don't like it's a lot 255 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 1: of times in football, I don't know what's going on. 256 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 1: I only watched the left tackle. Like if people ask 257 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,319 Speaker 1: me something, like you can ask me something and be like, Yo, 258 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 1: what's the situation here? What we I don't know about. 259 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 1: Just I'm about to block the end. That's that's all 260 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: I know. Like, I don't namer myself with things in 261 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: my mind like safety rotations and what coverage they're running 262 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. It doesn't matter. I'm gonna block 263 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: this dude right here. That's like the best pass rush. 264 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna block this dude, So I don't even care 265 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: about what the safety is doing over there. So along 266 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: those lines, who were the toughest guys you've gone up 267 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 1: against this year? Of all times since you got in 268 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: the league, who were the toughest players you faced? Because 269 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: you're a lot of times on the island, you're going 270 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: up against a guy that's the best player on the 271 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: defensive line, and sometimes the best player on the defense. Yeah, yeah, 272 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: I don't want to get some dogs. I'm gonna tell 273 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: you somebody who's the first time I ever went to 274 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: a game and like I was just getting worked and 275 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 1: it was like I just didn't know what Like I 276 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 1: was just overwhelmed. I didn't know what to do. Was 277 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: nobody that could save me. But the first time I 278 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: played Cliff for April at right tackle at home and 279 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: he was rushing off the edge and I was playing 280 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 1: right tackle, that was my second year in the league. 281 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 1: I think, oh my goodness, it was like a series 282 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: there where I didn't even touch him. He was just 283 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: running straight And I'll say, bro, I don't know what 284 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: you'll want me to do, but I'm trying so hard, 285 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: like like it's not like I'm giving bad effort, but 286 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: like I'm trying my hardest and I just can't get there. 287 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: And I think Cliff is one of the few people 288 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: that's like that. That game. I can remember that game 289 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: like snap for snap and that was like that was 290 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: six years ago. I think six seasons ago. He was 291 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: in Seattle or Detroit. He was in Seattle. This was 292 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: this was like his last season, that last year he 293 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: played the year before the year before the last year 294 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: he played because he got hurt that next year, the 295 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 1: year before the last year he played. Bro I was like, Yo, 296 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:28,079 Speaker 1: this is nuts. Like I was like looking forward to 297 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: like next season, like this is gonna be my measuring 298 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: stick to tell me how like how better, how much 299 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,679 Speaker 1: better I've got in the year and he got hurt 300 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: and so he got hurt. I didn't get a chance 301 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: to do it, but like that was the cliff. Um 302 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,599 Speaker 1: I always Me and the Neil Hunter in Minnesota is 303 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 1: always a battle. I mean literally, since he's been an 304 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:45,439 Speaker 1: lash has been a battle between me and him for 305 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: as long as we've been going against each other. Um 306 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: Burns and Charlotte is really good. He's gonna be like 307 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: he's good now, but he's he's got a lot of 308 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: upside and there that he's got to. That D line 309 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: we played this past weekend was a bunch of freaks 310 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: to is really good sign obviously. What about the Bosa 311 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: the Bosa brothers, Yeah, how did I did I even forget? Like, well, 312 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 1: sometimes they're hurt, I mean, but they get hurt a lot. 313 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: I've never played the other one. I've never played Joey. 314 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 1: Joey and I think he missed the game. When the 315 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: Cardinals played and I was hurt at the child. I 316 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 1: was hurt. We went to We went to hurt. Corey 317 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: kind of played left town for me. But yeah, yeah, Nick, 318 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: like that's that's probably like the every year. I know, 319 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: those two games don't get real. So because obviously you 320 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: become an excellent left tackle and you said you're focused 321 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: on blocking this guy or if there's a game or whatever, 322 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: you know what you're doing and who you're blocking. How 323 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: did you get so good? Meaning? Is it film study? 324 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: Is it anticipating based on a previous move that a 325 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: guy has made what he might be doing on this 326 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: next play, or is it just you're constantly worried about 327 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: your technique as opposed to what this guy might do 328 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: in front of you. I think that's what I had 329 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: to become because it kind of made me soft in 330 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: my approach. My thought process was soft. I was worried 331 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: about things. I'm worried that he's gonna do this, or 332 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: he's gonna instead of making my mind up, like yo, 333 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: it's third down, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna get 334 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: to spof and throw my hands and I'm like, you know, 335 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: what I mean, Like I had to I had to 336 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: put myself, make myself be that person who I thought 337 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: I was in my mind. I had to just pull 338 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 1: it out every play and put it on film. And 339 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: if you do it one time, now you know that 340 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: you can do it like you have to do it. 341 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: This is the standard. You gotta just do it every 342 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 1: time you're tired. Who cares? Like this is how you 343 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: have to do it? And I think that's just kind 344 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: of like how I condition myself to think like it 345 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It's like, you gotta go right now. Your 346 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 1: foot hurt everything, and I cares. You gotta take this 347 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: set right now. You know what you gotta do. You 348 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: know exactly how you gotta do what you have to 349 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: do it. Let's go on one hood that, you know 350 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: what I mean. I think that's just that focus on me. 351 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: It's really when I started making a turn, because it's 352 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: I'm thinking about what these guys gonna do. I'm gonna 353 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: be a mixer forever because it's endless, you know what 354 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: I mean. So I think that was the that was 355 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: the turn for sure. It's just me making it about 356 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: myself being so honing in on my technique. Honing in 357 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: on my process, honing in on everything that I need 358 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: to do to be prepared to be able to go 359 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: out there to play at the level of player that 360 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: I want to play it, and it's and it's continuous, 361 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: it's every year is something that I can get better. 362 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: And just having that mindset of searching for it. I'm 363 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: never feeling like, oh, yeah, I'm good, like I like 364 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: who I just signed another deal, Like I'm good like 365 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 1: I'm forever searching for it, Like I got something to 366 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: fix from this last week. I've been playing really good 367 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: ball this season, but I still got something to fix 368 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: from last week that I fixed from the week before that. 369 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: I think something from the week before this week, you 370 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: know what I mean. And just having that continuous Yeah, 371 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: that was a great game, but I messed up on 372 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: these three things. I got to make sure that's what 373 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: I'm focusing on. I got to continue to focus on 374 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: the stuff that I was thinking about, and I got 375 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: to add those three to the back because it's everything's 376 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: got to be. I gotta chase perfection, you know what 377 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: I mean, whatever we fall it in between, as long 378 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: as I'm chasing perfection, I like where it's gonna la me. 379 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: I love what you're saying. I want to get more 380 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: into that and what's going on with the team. Let's 381 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: start with talking about this week going to Seattle. As 382 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: I mentioned to you, doing college football, I've done games Florida, LSU, Alabama, 383 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: Penn State, Ohio State where the crowd is phenomenal and 384 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand people. I have never been in a 385 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: louder outdoor stadium than Seattle. Whatever it's called these days, 386 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: it changes often. I think it's is it looming field? 387 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: But anyway, what's it like as a player? Because I'm 388 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: there is a broadcaster and it's really a loud for me. 389 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: But what's it like when you're on the middle of 390 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:24,919 Speaker 1: the field in that and you guys have had a 391 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 1: lot of success despite that noise in Seattle. You know, 392 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,199 Speaker 1: it's interesting. The middle of the field is like the 393 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: best place to be. It's not as loud in the 394 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: middle of the field when you get close to those 395 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 1: opposite twenties. Though, oh man, you started speaking signing inguage. 396 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 1: It's a lot of this right here, A lot, Yeah, 397 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: it's but it's it's I think from playing in Florida 398 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: and just playing in the SEC, like I get a rush, 399 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: like like I feel like I thrive and played better 400 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: like two minute situations, those situas like when it's just 401 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: like we gotta have this crunch is chaia, we don't 402 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: know what's going on? Is I don't even It kind 403 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: of feel like white noise. Honestly, it feels like the 404 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 1: TV like when it's I'm I'm not that old, but 405 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: when I was a kid, the TV steal went off, 406 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,360 Speaker 1: like it would just go to static TV. And that's 407 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 1: what it sounds like to me sometimes. And that's like, 408 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 1: that's like I love it though, because it feels like 409 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: college football. It feels like you like we're having fun. 410 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: Like it's just the environment. It's so fun to be it, 411 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 1: even being an opposing team, it's a fun environment to 412 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 1: be it. Look, I know this is a question you 413 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:28,880 Speaker 1: guys have asked. I've been asked at nauseum probably and 414 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: I've been asked too, and I have no idea what 415 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:35,360 Speaker 1: the answer is. But no home wins in a year, 416 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 1: It is there anything you can point to as to 417 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: why maybe that is is there? Because the environment, Like 418 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: the other day against Philadelphia, there are a lot of 419 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,880 Speaker 1: Eagle fans, you know, the game Sunday in Seattle. It's 420 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:54,880 Speaker 1: going to be all Seattle fans. So, like you said, 421 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 1: you get to a place where you kind of thrive 422 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: in that environment. Do you think that is impacting things? 423 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: Or am I reaching here? Because honestly, I don't know 424 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: what the answer is, and I've given a thousand interviews 425 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: about it and I really don't know. Yeah, I mean, 426 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,640 Speaker 1: if you appending on which day you ask me, I'm 427 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 1: reaching also because I like, I'm My feeling is the 428 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: same way as like, I don't know, because it's like 429 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 1: and it's it's hard, it's even harder like going to 430 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: games and going to home games and feeling in tune 431 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: and going to playing well and like not winning and 432 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: it's hard, Like it's I think that's that's really hard 433 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: for me to rationalize. Like it's the weirdest thing. I 434 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:36,919 Speaker 1: don't know if it's a competitive thing. It's it's a 435 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: weird feeling going home playing well and losing, and it's 436 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: like I don't like what what am I like? What 437 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: do we do? Like? What do you? Because if I 438 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: if I go, if I play like, if I play 439 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: like trash, I'm giving up sex all over places. It's like, yo, 440 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,120 Speaker 1: I just gotta be better. We're gonna win this game. 441 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 1: It's as naive as that is. I just it gives 442 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: me like some sense of rational now to myself when 443 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,199 Speaker 1: I'm at home and I'm by myself, it's like, yo, 444 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:01,479 Speaker 1: I just gotta be better and we're gonna win. So 445 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 1: going home and then like watch a film like damn, 446 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 1: like this is like I don't know, it's Fred And 447 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: that's so frustrated because everybody is so competitive that we 448 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: all scratching claude to win, and it's like it's hard. 449 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,199 Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you. And that's I think that's the 450 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,199 Speaker 1: hardest part about what's going on right now. It's like 451 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: not having a true solution, not really even And yeah, 452 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: and I think the same probably can be said about 453 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: the starts. You know why NFL trends don't last long. 454 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 1: There's too many good players and too many good teams. 455 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 1: Usually teams don't go eight games without winning at home, 456 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 1: and they don't go five first quarters without scoring a point, 457 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: So at some point it's it's gonna change. Hopefully it's 458 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: this week, and then in two weeks you get DeAndre 459 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:49,160 Speaker 1: Hopkins back, and obviously that's something everybody points to because 460 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: of how good DeAndre Hopkins is and how things become 461 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,880 Speaker 1: easier for everybody else when you have a player liked 462 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 1: hop on the field. Would you agree with that one 463 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: thousand percent? I was talking to him about that day, 464 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: talking to about how the fact that we're in this 465 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 1: position and a season, and how we haven't scored in 466 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: five first quarters, and how many games we've we've started 467 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,919 Speaker 1: with over fourteen hole and how many games that we 468 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: ended the game in the battle and almost wanted in 469 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: the fight, like and we're doing all that without our 470 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: number one offensive target for real. So that's like that's 471 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: something for me. It's like, Yo, we have so much talent. 472 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: It's like it's all little things. It's all the attention 473 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: to detail, the carrying things over from from from drill 474 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: to to to practice, from practice the game, like all 475 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:42,439 Speaker 1: of those little meticulous things. That's like the grand scheme 476 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: of things. It's simple for us, the talent and all 477 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 1: that stuff, Like we have everything in that regard. It's 478 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,199 Speaker 1: that attention to detail the small things, and that that 479 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 1: was mend I was literally just talking about this before 480 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 1: I came down here. It's like I remember being on 481 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: that NFC championship team, well lost in the ENCYL rookie 482 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 1: year and this team has eclipses that team in talent, 483 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: but that team did all the little things right. That 484 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: team knew all the little things that that team had, 485 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: all the small details and nuances and all that stuff. 486 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,880 Speaker 1: And that's like that, Like I was basically spa comparing 487 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: those two to him and seeing that, you know, because 488 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 1: we were talking about being on playoff teams and all 489 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: that stuff like that, and it's just like, that's what 490 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: it is. I think, in my mind is the small thing. 491 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 1: It's just the little attention to detail stuff that you know, 492 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: we think that doesn't matter in reality when you look 493 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: back at it on the game field. It's all small stuff. 494 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: Another thing that I get asked about a lot is 495 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, and I I feel like Kyler is low 496 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: hanging fruit for a lot of people, meaning he's become 497 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,360 Speaker 1: an easy target for people to try to nitpick at. 498 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: It's clear and he's far from a finished product, but 499 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 1: it's clear based on where he was. I mean, I 500 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: think about where you were as a rookie to where 501 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: you are now and maybe where you were in year 502 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: four where he wasn't year one to where he is 503 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: in your four very different in a lot of ways. 504 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 1: And it's players to say that, it's coaches to say that, 505 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: it's personal people that say that. So where are some 506 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 1: of the areas you've seen Kyler grow from year one 507 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: to year four and maybe more specifically from last year 508 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: to this year. I think if you're talking about from 509 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 1: last year to this year, I think his level of 510 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,719 Speaker 1: ownership that he has this year, the way that he 511 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: wants he wants things done a certain way now, he 512 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,679 Speaker 1: wants routes run a certain way, he wants certain he 513 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: demands certain things from the people that's around him. And 514 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 1: it's so fun to see because that's what you want. 515 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: I want you to want me to do things a 516 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: certain way because it's gonna put us in the best 517 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: position to win. And you know that, and you need 518 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 1: to get that message across to me. But because it's 519 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 1: that important to you, and like seeing all those things 520 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:48,719 Speaker 1: come up from him, it's so impressive to see he's 521 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: like everything that you want for your young quarterback, all 522 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,679 Speaker 1: to progress, all the steps that you want, he's literally 523 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: doing it. My favorite thing about Kyler that not that 524 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: the media the reason why he's low hanging fruit is 525 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: because he'll call a spade a spade, and he doesn't 526 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: mind telling you that the dumb questions are dumb questions, 527 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I think it's easy 528 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: to I feel like that's how it works. You know. 529 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 1: If I if I say that your question that you 530 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 1: asked me was a dumb question, and then I do 531 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,120 Speaker 1: something the next day, you're gonna be the first person 532 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 1: to write an article about it, you know what I mean. 533 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 1: I think that's kind of like that's kind of a 534 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 1: bit of what he's dealing with. Also, it's like, I'm hey, listen, 535 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:25,719 Speaker 1: if you're gonna come and ask me something dumb, I'm 536 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: gonna tell you that it's dumb. And now the backlash 537 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 1: is gonna be that and and we're not gonna I'm 538 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 1: also gonna adds to the fact that you're a quarter 539 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: being out a quarterback. That's just what comes with it. 540 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: Like he's the low hanging that that's the fruit hangs 541 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: low because it's a big apple, like you know what 542 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: I mean, And that's and that's just what it is. 543 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 1: That's that's what comes with it. We gotta that's it's 544 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 1: always gonna be that if something happens on the old line, 545 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 1: They're gonna look at me first because I'm the highest 546 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,119 Speaker 1: pitying the old line. Hump, how did you allow this 547 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 1: to happen? Whether or not that she even says, you 548 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: don't even know where where anything came from? How to 549 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: hump play? Then if that's what the old line looks like, 550 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, that's just the It's just the 551 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 1: world of what we live in professional sports. And I 552 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 1: think him allowing it to not rattle him and handle 553 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 1: it the way that he sees fit handle it is 554 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 1: fun for me to watch because it doesn't bother him 555 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 1: the outside world's feelings about him and all that stuff. 556 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: It doesn't bother him. Is his response to it what 557 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,479 Speaker 1: kind of leads to his getting the back last day 558 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: he gets, but it genuinely does it. It doesn't bother 559 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 1: him at all. I like what you said because, whether 560 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 1: we want to admit it or not, we in the media, 561 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 1: and I obviously include myself, we all have our favorites, 562 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: and sometimes we pick our favorites for the wrong reasons, 563 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: and sometimes we don't like certain guys for the wrong reasons. 564 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 1: I'll give you an example, like Damian Lillard was on 565 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 1: this podcast a couple of weeks ago, and I love Dame, 566 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: and Dame and I have had a good working relationship 567 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: for fifteen years. He's been great to me. He's one 568 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: of the great guys in the NBA. I am a 569 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: big fan of Russell Westbrook as a person, and most 570 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: guys in the media don't like Russell Westbrook because of 571 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,239 Speaker 1: how he might come off. But I think when you 572 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: get to know somebody a little bit more and you 573 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: see you know, you kind of peel the layers back, 574 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 1: You see behind the curtain a little bit, the competitive fire, 575 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: you know, catching a guy after a game's rough, sometimes 576 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: you don't get what you would get on a normal Tuesday. Yes, exactly, 577 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: that's it is. I learned that from Larry. That's why 578 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 1: Larry has never miked up in his career. I learned 579 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: it from him. They said, you can't put him Michael 580 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: me at my most emotional state in my life ever 581 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 1: that I'm just not. I can't. I'm a different person. 582 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: It'd be interesting when hard Docs is here for you guys. Yeah, 583 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I keep forgetting that they're 584 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: here too. Oh my god, so much. I think you're 585 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 1: gonna be a star. I think you're headed for starting. 586 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,400 Speaker 1: Either I'm gonna be a star, I'm getting canceled. That's 587 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 1: those are the two options. You know, I'm going to 588 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:44,360 Speaker 1: the B stage. I'm getting canceled one or the two. 589 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: All Right, a few more and I'll get you out 590 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 1: here because you've been really gracious with your time. Um 591 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: making the Pro Bowl last year first offensive lineman's is 592 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen first tackle since Lomas Brown. I don't count it? 593 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:58,959 Speaker 1: Why not? Why to count it? Because I didn't go 594 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 1: like I didn't but you got named. Yeah, but you 595 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: know it's like, yeah, we could, like Billy didn't want 596 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: to take me to the problem, So can you take me? 597 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 1: I guess I'll take you of me? So what's that's? 598 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,479 Speaker 1: That's just granted my grandmother, everybody, it's amazing. I'm like, 599 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: you know, it's cool, but like it's gonna feel I'll 600 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: feel differently when I make it this year when I'm 601 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: when I'm named. It started like I feel differently about it. 602 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,199 Speaker 1: You mentioned your your grandma. You and your wife have 603 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 1: a foundation, the Peewee House Foundation, which is named after 604 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: your grandma. Correct, yeah, different grandmother, Yeah, different grandma, but yeah, yeah, 605 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 1: can you tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, So, um, 606 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: Peewee's my grandma. That's my mom's mom. Elizabeth Ann means 607 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: she's her name is Peewee. She was a premature baby, 608 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: and she was so small she her bid. Her bed 609 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 1: was the top drawer of her mother's like a nice stand, 610 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: so that her nickname was Pewee. She's a little she 611 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: was the baby. Um, but that's my grandmother. She was 612 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: tough as nails. Um. They're super stirn with me. My 613 00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: whole life, you know what I mean, kind of grew 614 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 1: me to be the gentleman and the man that I 615 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: am in a sense of how I carried myself and 616 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: do certain things. It's a cross between her and my 617 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: dad or the two basically guys that people that moted it. 618 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 1: But my wife, a wife. I always talked about starting 619 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,120 Speaker 1: a foundation in her honor and kind of going back 620 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 1: and giving back to my hometown in South Carolina. And 621 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 1: my wife knows that I'm very like if it's not perfect, 622 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: I'll never do it. And she kind of just took 623 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: it off for Christmas one year, she she gifted me 624 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: the LLC and EI E and all that stuff like that. 625 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: She kind of started it made it all the founders 626 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 1: and all that stuff and uh yeah man, we this 627 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: this this year, we had our second annual um A 628 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: Fresh Food initiative. We had our second annual Backpack Drive 629 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: this year. At the backpack Drive, we added a carnival. 630 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: We had like a nice little carnival out there are 631 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: kids who like baby get on like some fair rides 632 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Has some bouncy houses and slides 633 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: and stuff. UM gave out like I want to say, 634 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: close to fifteen hundred backpacks. It's awesome something like that, 635 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: Like something like something like that, like like U two 636 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: thousand boxes of food like it was, it was, it was, 637 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: it was, it was. It was super fun like it. 638 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: But it's I left Union County. I got it spelled 639 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: in the eighth grade. Did yeah, yeah, yeah, I was bad. 640 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: I was. It was a rough kid. But so it's 641 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: it's it's funny like leaving and coming back and people 642 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: haven't seen me since then and coming back and they're 643 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: seeing me doing all this stuff and it's like mind 644 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 1: blowing and it's seeing seeing people see me do something good. 645 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: It felt it feels real good because I know how 646 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 1: much how much HAVOC I read in my hometown for 647 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 1: a small stint there in my in my young in 648 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: my young childhood. But it's it's it's been fun, man, 649 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 1: It's it's it's something that's ever evolved. I would love 650 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: to eventually get to a point where I have a 651 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 1: trade school in my hometown, to where I can kind 652 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: of restart that that wave of these kids that are 653 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: graduating high school and they know they're not gonna college, 654 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 1: being able to at least get into a field or 655 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: something that they have a true interest in, and being 656 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 1: able to really go to work and earn a make 657 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: a career out of yourself. And I mean, I'm I'm 658 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: probably one of the most artists and self aware people 659 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 1: when it comes to certain things. And I know, if 660 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: I wasn't six five, three hundred pounds, I'm not going 661 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 1: to the University of Florida, probably going to the unc 662 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 1: USC Upstate, which is in Union, South Carolina, do you 663 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 1: know what I mean? So like that, I just know, 664 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 1: I know that. So I I want to be able 665 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: to create a lane for those kids that are that 666 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 1: would have been like me if I wasn't as big 667 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: as I am and then was going to go to 668 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: college to play football. Um to basically live that lifestyle 669 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 1: that you would want to live in a way that 670 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 1: you would want to live doing something that you actually 671 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 1: want to do. You talked about your son earlier, Dash correcting. 672 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 1: Your daughter's name is Nova. How did you come up 673 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: with the names? I don't know. I named them both, 674 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 1: though I'm two for two on the names I named them. 675 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: I like them. Yeah, umph Nova, Humphres. Yeah that's Dash Nova, 676 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: But you don't remember how you came up with, no clue, 677 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: straight freestyle them off the dome. First name, middle name, 678 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: and both of them stuck like it was like, that's Jeremiah, Yeah, 679 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: that's that's cool. Novah and Humphres cool and he just 680 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 1: stood out. They thought, yeah, yeah, they just thought it. 681 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: Because I have three children. One of our daughters is 682 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 1: named Zuzu. Her middle name is Pedals. Now. I don't 683 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 1: know if you've seen the movie It's a Wonderful Life. 684 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: Have you ever seen? It's a great Christmas movie. Watch 685 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 1: it anyway. One of the kids in it is first name, Zuzu, 686 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: middle and we don't know what the middle name was. 687 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 1: But the whole thing about the movie is Jimmy Stewart 688 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 1: is the main actor. He remembers how good things were 689 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: when he finds the petals that Zuzu gave him in 690 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,360 Speaker 1: his pocket, and so us. But I do remember we 691 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 1: were my wife and I were in New York City 692 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,480 Speaker 1: and we may have had too much wine. We came 693 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: up with name, but it's not a name. She's twenty 694 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: one years old. She hadn't changed her name. Yeah, um, yeah, yeah, 695 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: she's out of the window. She if she wanted to change, 696 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: it'd have been changed exactly, exactly. Um. Last thing can 697 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,120 Speaker 1: you name? Because Kyler Murray last year got you guys 698 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 1: golf clubs? First of all, how cool is that? And 699 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 1: then can you name all the gifts you've received over 700 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 1: the years from your quarterbacks? I can those golf clothes 701 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 1: well awesome, and I can name all my gifts. Um. 702 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 1: Carson Palmer got us the dart guns one year. That 703 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 1: was the year before that, though he got the guys 704 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: when I was a rook ye, I didn't get this. 705 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 1: He got the guys fly fish and sets. And then 706 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: the next year when I was playing, he got a 707 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: dark guns like the ones that you pump with it 708 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: like you put a bike pump on it and pump 709 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 1: it up like I could take down a buffalo a bison. 710 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 1: I swear it was a video of Ted new taking 711 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: a bison down with it instead of my did you 712 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: use it? I used it one time in my backyard 713 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: and I shot the target and it went through the 714 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 1: target and like hit my wall, like made a loud noise. 715 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 1: I just ran in the house. I never used it 716 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: again because I was scared out. Yeah, I was scared. 717 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: Another christ Like called the police. So I actually know 718 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 1: that one too. I actually Christmas story. And can't you 719 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: shoot your eye out with the lead with the lamp 720 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: in the leg? Yeah? I know? Okay, um what else said? 721 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: I got? David Johnson got me a green egg one year, 722 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: a green egg? Green Eggs. Still got it, Still use 723 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 1: it like a real egg. What's what is the smoker? 724 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 1: The green eggs? Oh my goodness, we gotta get you 725 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: in the backyard, dude. What is it? It's like a 726 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 1: big smoker, but it's like a It's like a A 727 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: is a ceramic or is it? It's like a big 728 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 1: I don't even know how to explain it. It's a 729 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: huge smoker, like a green egg, and it's amazing. But 730 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: I always burned stuff up on it. So I haven't 731 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 1: quite figured out how to use aqs of pro at 732 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: using it though. Okay, Um, Kyler got us pictures one year. 733 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 1: That was just no, we got scooters. I don't know 734 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: what Josh Rosen and Sam Bradford, I don't think they 735 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,640 Speaker 1: got us anything. Sam Sam didn't play very long, so 736 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 1: maybe maybe he has an excuse. Yes, fair touche touch 737 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 1: the wild Hog scooter club was that was That was 738 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,240 Speaker 1: the first was Kylage first year. Then we got to 739 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:33,959 Speaker 1: pick this next year, and then we got the golf clubs. 740 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,480 Speaker 1: You remember all my gifts? This very good memory? Do 741 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,479 Speaker 1: you guys still as as an offensive line, go out 742 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 1: to dinner all the time and just Kyler still Yeah, 743 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 1: everything Kyler goes as you pay? Uh No, we trade 744 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: off days that pay. Yeah. He always used to pay 745 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 1: on like he likes to pick the days that are 746 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: like cheap and try to pay. It. Took us the 747 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: hot cheek one day and pay. He felt so good 748 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,240 Speaker 1: about it. Was like a four hundredllar chick, like, bro, 749 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 1: just come on, we just ate chicken nuggets and you yeah, 750 00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 1: I got this one, y'all, boy, I got this one, 751 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: all right, I will hope. So what about the next four. 752 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 1: All right, what was the show again on Netflix that 753 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:08,879 Speaker 1: you watch? Because I need to find something new to start. 754 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 1: So this is not Netflix, this is all Hulu. It's 755 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: called Ricky Morty. There's nothing. There's nothing that's about it, Like, 756 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,879 Speaker 1: there's nothing that's you're not about to learn anything. You're 757 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 1: not about to like get any knowledge, no worldly advice 758 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 1: or nothing. It's just mindless, mindless TV. Straight detach your 759 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,440 Speaker 1: brain from Like that sounds good. The world get you 760 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 1: a good laugh, probably like some humor that's like not 761 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,880 Speaker 1: like if you if you got caught watching it, somebody 762 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 1: probably think he's a weirdo, because it's like you're got 763 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 1: to figure out how weird I am when you go 764 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: watch it the first day. I have to watch it's 765 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 1: not just so you have to tell them back to you. 766 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,359 Speaker 1: I don't even know how I liked this show and 767 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,359 Speaker 1: it's it's amazing. I watched on revernd, like I don't 768 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,920 Speaker 1: know what's going on. Well, listen, I really appreciate the time. DJ. 769 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,359 Speaker 1: You've been great and I'm not surprised you got such 770 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,040 Speaker 1: a big personality. I do think you're going to be 771 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: a breakout star on Hard Knocks. But I hope, most 772 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 1: importantly that people around the league know how great of 773 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: a player that you've become, and hopefully the Pro Bowls 774 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,920 Speaker 1: and the All Pros and hopefully playoff wins are in 775 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,160 Speaker 1: your future. In our feature, so I appreciate that I'm 776 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:07,839 Speaker 1: gonna keep playing ntil they are, so I'm not I'm 777 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: just gonna not stop playing until they are. So it's 778 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 1: all good. Don't even worry about I'm all right, where 779 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: do we start? That was as entertaining a guest as 780 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,959 Speaker 1: we've had on the Day Pash Podcast. Grateful for DJ's time, 781 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,120 Speaker 1: grateful for his honesty. Like me and seemingly everybody else 782 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:33,400 Speaker 1: in the organization, no one has an answer. The Cardinals 783 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,840 Speaker 1: aren't trying to play poorly at home. They're not trying 784 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,920 Speaker 1: to put up goose eggs in the first quarter. For 785 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 1: whatever reason, it just hasn't happened. But as I said 786 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,160 Speaker 1: in the conversation with DJ, trends usually don't last long 787 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 1: in the NFL. At some point, the Cardinals are going 788 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: to explode offensively in the first quarter, and at some 789 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,440 Speaker 1: point they're gonna start winning again at home. Great stuff 790 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 1: from DJ on the growth of Kyler Murray. Also on 791 00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 1: what it's like to play in Seattle as the Cardinals 792 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,040 Speaker 1: go to play the Seahawks on the road this weekend. 793 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 1: We are presented by bet MGM, the official sports betting 794 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,160 Speaker 1: partner of the Arizona Cardinals, and by Hila River Resorts 795 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,759 Speaker 1: and Casinos. You can follow us on Twitter at pashpod, 796 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 1: and we also encourage you to go to your podcast 797 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 1: platform and rate us, tell us what you think any 798 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,879 Speaker 1: guests that you'd like to hear from coming up our 799 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,799 Speaker 1: Thanks again to DJ Humphreys and also to you for 800 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 1: listening to another edition of the Dave Pash Podcast.