Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? Sean Merriman A one a
Speaker 1: hand effect. Boom boom boom, out go the light. This
Speaker 1: is Lights Out with Sean Merriman. What's up, guys, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to another lights Out podcast with me Seawan Merriman. Uh.
Speaker 1: And we got a Raider on the day, all right,
Speaker 1: but it's one of the raiders I actually like, so
Speaker 1: uh grape Bunner actually fourth right now. I believe in like,
Speaker 1: uh punning average and if I'm not mistaken, he's like
Speaker 1: almost a yard away from being number one upon average
Speaker 1: maybe in history. Marquette King, former Raider and Denver Bronco. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I've always watched him and he's animated. I
Speaker 1: love guys with personalities. Obviously I had, you know, lights Out,
Speaker 1: and I had a personal personality myself. So I love
Speaker 1: to see guys who make the game fun, make the
Speaker 1: game interesting, because that's the way it's supposed to be. Um.
Speaker 1: So let's talk to him a little bit about the
Speaker 1: lights Out dance and why he did it. And I
Speaker 1: walked up to a Twitter trending on social media hymptom
Speaker 1: lights out there So anyway, can't wait to get into
Speaker 1: this interview. Marquette King. I see posting videos, I see
Speaker 1: you training, I see working working out. So why do
Speaker 1: you thinking in in your opinion that you're not you
Speaker 1: don't have a job right now. It's it's tough now. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I've been hitting a lot of different things, like, uh,
Speaker 1: everybody's not saying it's like I'm getting a bunch of
Speaker 1: different feedback. Um, I don't know exactly what it is though,
Speaker 1: Like it's it's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the fact that I don't fit the stereotypical
Speaker 1: mode of upon it. And uh, I'm okay with that. Um.
Speaker 1: One of my main things in life is to just
Speaker 1: live and be happy with who you are and be
Speaker 1: honest to who you are and and not that. And
Speaker 1: two years ago I was kind of struggling with the
Speaker 1: football thing because it was like, man, it's not fair
Speaker 1: that I'm in this situation. Why when I gotta go
Speaker 1: play the XFL, When I gotta keep going to these
Speaker 1: different counts, when I proved myself statistically to fit with
Speaker 1: the best of the best of the so called best
Speaker 1: of the best, and I'm still in this situation. So
Speaker 1: just not to attach myself in one thing, just just
Speaker 1: like what you're doing, like with your show, with your
Speaker 1: boxing and mm A stuff. Don't tie your stuff to
Speaker 1: one thing. So so do you think it's because and
Speaker 1: I always had a theory with this too, especially when
Speaker 1: you got a personality you're playing in NFL, you stand
Speaker 1: out and you almost in a sent sometimes do become
Speaker 1: the black sheep right because you you're you, You don't
Speaker 1: fit the mold at that position, or you don't fit
Speaker 1: the mold of what the organization may be looking for.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna call it being stereotypical, But do
Speaker 1: you think that because of your personality and like all
Speaker 1: the other stuff, that that has a role and you're
Speaker 1: not being on the team right now for sure? If
Speaker 1: for sure does man? And I don't gonna care with that, man, Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean it is what it is. I can only
Speaker 1: control what I can control, and all I can do
Speaker 1: is just keep busting my ass like every day like
Speaker 1: I've been doing. And I don't know, maybe if maybe
Speaker 1: if a coach or GM with somebody's uh open minded
Speaker 1: enough to go and do resurgency, what's what's really going
Speaker 1: on or the type of person I really am, then
Speaker 1: I mean opportunity comes, you know, because I'll tell you this, man,
Speaker 1: like you know the I mean, I've always watched you
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and so I wouldn't when you know,
Speaker 1: when you guys played the Broncoles, I saw you doing
Speaker 1: the you know, the donkey and know you know, like
Speaker 1: I watched that. But I tell you that the first
Speaker 1: time I was like, I was in a hotel and
Speaker 1: I was traveling somewhere and I was taking a nap
Speaker 1: or doing something. I woke up to like six miss
Speaker 1: calls and I said, I said, you know, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Like you know, whenever you wake up the calls people
Speaker 1: hitting you up, so you're thinking of something like seriously happened.
Speaker 1: So they said, hey, man, you know the put it
Speaker 1: from the from the Raiders just did your dads and
Speaker 1: said what you're talking about? So I woke up and
Speaker 1: I looked right and I saw on Twitter that it
Speaker 1: was trending. It was trending, and I said, man, this
Speaker 1: is crazy. So and it's you know, I think that
Speaker 1: people people made it a big deal for one because
Speaker 1: you played the Raider. We you know, but charges the
Speaker 1: Raiders always gonna have that. Like now, I still talk
Speaker 1: so many ship to the Raiders fans even online, because
Speaker 1: for me it's fun. I just love messing with the fans.
Speaker 1: I got you know, I got boys on the team
Speaker 1: to play, and you know I got boys to play
Speaker 1: the team now, but me mess with the fans. So
Speaker 1: what what happened going into that game? Man? Because I
Speaker 1: woke up to like text messages trending like like did
Speaker 1: you tell somebody you just like, yeah, I'm about I'm
Speaker 1: about to I'm about to do something. No, so like
Speaker 1: before the games, I just trying to find out like
Speaker 1: and so. But a lot of people don't realize that
Speaker 1: is when we played for the When I played for
Speaker 1: the Raiders, um uh, the team was kind of like
Speaker 1: started Mountain. It wasn't a lot of energy on the
Speaker 1: shot line. Sometimes the people from upstairs are come to
Speaker 1: me and they be like, man, just do something. Get
Speaker 1: everybody a little lit man, like everybody it's too quiet
Speaker 1: over here. And I'm like, all right, that so go
Speaker 1: out on the fit. Well before the game, I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: who could I like do impression up? Just be funny
Speaker 1: as well? And then uh, one of my best friends
Speaker 1: when he was like, uh, well they had this guy
Speaker 1: named Sean Merriman used to played for him. He didn't
Speaker 1: like something. So that's what that's what I thought about
Speaker 1: it that I was like, all right, well, and I
Speaker 1: actually looking up and stuff, and I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: this is cool, Like I don't like what you was doing.
Speaker 1: You did some big time stuff, so like, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, I wanted to be funny, like it's
Speaker 1: just fun to have fun because we playing a kids game.
Speaker 1: So after the plant that worked out, um, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah, I forgot I just dud. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you know, at some point in time, you're like, all right, cool.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't like really, I don't look at that
Speaker 1: as as shade, right. I mean, when people know who
Speaker 1: you are, they do something into anything you do, it's
Speaker 1: like you flatter, like, oh man, that's that's that's dope.
Speaker 1: That's super cool to me, Like, yeah, I watched college games,
Speaker 1: and I watched some of the bowl games and some
Speaker 1: of the you know, some of the guys they were
Speaker 1: doing lights out that. So to me, it's it's cool
Speaker 1: because then you realize your old and ship right, I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: I'm retired, done, but somebody's doing what you did and
Speaker 1: I'm sitting around looking like because it's social media, like
Speaker 1: your your kicks and some of the stuff you've been
Speaker 1: doing going viral, Like who who started that? The well
Speaker 1: you were you just like yeah, I'm about to start
Speaker 1: kicking the light poles and about to start doing all
Speaker 1: this stuff. But who who? Who really had the mindset
Speaker 1: to go out and do that? I just I just
Speaker 1: felt like doing it. Man. It's like, man, I'm not
Speaker 1: getting a bunch of traction, uh, showing that I can
Speaker 1: normally put on a regular football field. So maybe I
Speaker 1: gotta get a little more creative and show like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm not tired. I'm still trying to play in the NFL,
Speaker 1: Like look I hit this light pole on the first trial,
Speaker 1: or look I just put this ball through the basketball hoop.
Speaker 1: Look I can hate this ball up so high, hit
Speaker 1: the uh the crossbar at any time on any command.
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of punis can't do that.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's it's almost like me challenging now the league, like, well,
Speaker 1: this is a performance based business, so like, um, what's up?
Speaker 1: Like I got the stats and it's almost it's also
Speaker 1: entertainment as well, and uh that's what I'm trying to
Speaker 1: promote man, like I want my fair shot because I
Speaker 1: know I've known punished. It's been out the game for
Speaker 1: three years, two seasons, three seasons, and they still get
Speaker 1: put back and so like, I don't know, just a
Speaker 1: question of why. I mean, like, you know, have your agent,
Speaker 1: have you got a chance to talk to anybody over there?
Speaker 1: Like what what's he? What's he saying? He talking to
Speaker 1: teams and they're saying, hold on and we'll give him
Speaker 1: a shot in training camp, But like, what's or somebody
Speaker 1: get hurt we're bringing in? What what if? The Asian
Speaker 1: is saying it's it's At one point it was the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and uh they shaip that went down even though
Speaker 1: I had a really good workout there. Um hit the
Speaker 1: selling a couple of times. What else? Um it was
Speaker 1: a couple of other teams. But like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I can't get no straight answered. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know why. I mean, I don't know. I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: it clean, yeah, I mean, look, you don't. You you
Speaker 1: can because you know you. I get where you're coming from.
Speaker 1: But for me, it's just like um, and I always
Speaker 1: say this with a lot of guys, especially when you
Speaker 1: got a personality, you stand out. Um, and I do
Speaker 1: know that the NFL and and I had it to
Speaker 1: expect when I got injured and I wasn't playing well.
Speaker 1: Like when I was balling, everything was fine and I
Speaker 1: was doing a light South dance and I was talking
Speaker 1: ship and everybody loved it, you know, because I was
Speaker 1: balling out. But you know, when I got injured, it
Speaker 1: was that became a problem. And I never forget that,
Speaker 1: even for me, that the general manager at the time
Speaker 1: for the charge, they came out with a big article
Speaker 1: about how I wasn't focused on football right and this
Speaker 1: and this is because you know I did TV and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I took offense to that because
Speaker 1: I was always I never missed a meeting, never was late,
Speaker 1: last one in the gym, last one in the field.
Speaker 1: And so when that article came out, like I took
Speaker 1: that ship personally for me, and so I can I
Speaker 1: feel you don't understand like when you when somebody put
Speaker 1: that out there about you and you are doing what
Speaker 1: you need to do, Yeah, it sucks, man. And you
Speaker 1: also got to realize too, man, Like, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: understand how people actually sitting listen to people that just
Speaker 1: because it's like some people that talk so much trash
Speaker 1: about players, they've never been in that player situation before.
Speaker 1: They've never played sports. And even even with I don't know,
Speaker 1: similar to like some coaches maybe in college, maybe from
Speaker 1: or whatever that's never played the sport, but they tell
Speaker 1: you to do certain things that they've never done before.
Speaker 1: They've never even played a position, like you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So like its it comes to a point
Speaker 1: where you just gotta you just gotta know exactly who
Speaker 1: you are because people gonna make up body stories about
Speaker 1: you and stuff, and and same manage trying to do
Speaker 1: with me two years ago, I was struggling, like all
Speaker 1: these random stories that people believe, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I ain't even say none of these stories. But it's
Speaker 1: like they're trying to make a story so bad to
Speaker 1: what's the what's the craziest one? What's the crazy the
Speaker 1: one that was just so of like so off the
Speaker 1: charge wasn't even close completely made up, getting wasn't even
Speaker 1: like close to being I mean, I all love them
Speaker 1: a bullshit, of course, but what's which one like really
Speaker 1: got to you? Um man? What was it? I think? Uh?
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to pinpoint one story. It's
Speaker 1: just a bunch of different stories, like personality issues or
Speaker 1: u or um running my own fake playing where he
Speaker 1: played the Broncos a couple of years ago. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 1: why would I call my own faith play? And then
Speaker 1: I even saw the dude, Paul it was a play,
Speaker 1: But you have to stick with it. You can change
Speaker 1: them back to the pump play. But even with the
Speaker 1: personality issues, just like man, how they're saying that, uh,
Speaker 1: I'm an issue in the locker room when Kickers punted
Speaker 1: a long snippers and not with the team. Ninety five
Speaker 1: percent of the time, y'all are meetings, defense meetings, offensive meetings.
Speaker 1: The whole time, I'm hanging out with Jenna Kowski and
Speaker 1: Condo and Jenna Kelsey is looking at Zello trying to
Speaker 1: find some other properties and houses by I'm over there
Speaker 1: working on my computer making beats and come those and
Speaker 1: they're just stretching, lifting weights and doing all this what
Speaker 1: do you kind of stuff in the weight room and
Speaker 1: stuff like like, bro, so how do they come up
Speaker 1: with these stories? And then it's like, man, it makes
Speaker 1: you feel a little angry because it's like man, they're
Speaker 1: trying to tear up the person I am, like, they're
Speaker 1: trying to tear up like my while I'm representing stuff.
Speaker 1: And it's like, you just gotta come to the realization
Speaker 1: where fucking like you are who you are and as
Speaker 1: long as your authentic to who you are, and that's
Speaker 1: what really matters. In the people that you're meant to attract,
Speaker 1: you're gonnattract them. It's so funny story. John Condo played
Speaker 1: behind me in college at the University of Maryland. He
Speaker 1: played linebacker. He played behind me. So I used to
Speaker 1: get so piste off because you know, Condo is super intelligent,
Speaker 1: super smart, and he would always leave. He would only
Speaker 1: come to practice like one or two days a week,
Speaker 1: but he always had like he would take his business classes.
Speaker 1: And these business classes would allow him either to come
Speaker 1: late or miss practice sometimes and so I would have
Speaker 1: to take his reps. So I was piste off, right,
Speaker 1: And so Condo fast forward, he go up. He could
Speaker 1: make it to go to the league, and so he
Speaker 1: ended up playing how many years with fourteen? I mean
Speaker 1: he played up, He played for a minute, He played
Speaker 1: for a minute. But Condo, John T. Con was he
Speaker 1: was playing behind me. At the University of Maryland, and
Speaker 1: I was pissed when I had to go take his rep.
Speaker 1: So what I did was I went over and start
Speaker 1: grabbing my hamstring A couple of days when John was
Speaker 1: when Condo was gone, I said, a man, coach, my,
Speaker 1: you know, my hand strings a little tight. I can't
Speaker 1: go today because I knew I was gonna have to
Speaker 1: take all the John Condo's reps. Fox Sports Radio has
Speaker 1: the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all
Speaker 1: of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and
Speaker 1: within the I Heart Radio app search f s R
Speaker 1: to listen live. So that was my guy, man, That
Speaker 1: was That was my dude. No, he's a solid dude, man.
Speaker 1: And that's how you know, like you know, you met
Speaker 1: a solid person when they stay in contact with you
Speaker 1: outside of football. You know what I'm saying. You just
Speaker 1: you just moved out here in a z and uh. Shoot,
Speaker 1: I've been over there a couple of times to hang
Speaker 1: out with him and his family and his kids. We
Speaker 1: just hung out a couple of times. So he just slid, dude,
Speaker 1: So you know what's so one thing and I saw
Speaker 1: you a boxing and stuff too, and I this is
Speaker 1: my thing and I always try to Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: I saw it. I saw it over there. You won't
Speaker 1: post a video, but I saw the hand wrap, so
Speaker 1: I knew you just finished doing something. And look, I
Speaker 1: tell I tell that I see this all guys, right,
Speaker 1: especially when you just either retire or you got some
Speaker 1: space and your guy before you go and do something else.
Speaker 1: I always tell people, just pick up some kind of
Speaker 1: combat sport, whether it's boxing or whatever it is, because
Speaker 1: we're so used to peating at something and then like
Speaker 1: all of a sudden that something like gets taken away.
Speaker 1: And when that something gets taken away, now you're sitting
Speaker 1: around like man, like you know, it got to a
Speaker 1: point a couple of times to me where I was
Speaker 1: feeling depressed or I was like I just wasn't feeling
Speaker 1: myself because I couldn't compete in anything. So what what
Speaker 1: what got you to you know, doing more boxing stuff
Speaker 1: for like how long you've been doing it? You know
Speaker 1: what got it? Got you into it? Man? I've I've
Speaker 1: been hanging out with Mikaela Mary. She's uh one of
Speaker 1: the best women boxers out there in the country, and uh, man,
Speaker 1: I just just like I was in Michigan with it
Speaker 1: for the whole week and I was training with coach
Speaker 1: Al Mitchell. He's one of the most legendary boxer coaches
Speaker 1: in the country as far as training. Um, so I
Speaker 1: was just there. I've been doing it for a couple
Speaker 1: of months. She sent me gloves on Christmas, got the
Speaker 1: gloves and I started working. I started some YEO videos
Speaker 1: and like, man, okay, and I just started like getting
Speaker 1: into it more and it's fun. It makes you thinking
Speaker 1: you gotta work at the same time, so you get
Speaker 1: tired as hill of ships. Wow. But man, I've been
Speaker 1: sticking to it a pretty pretty hard and uh the
Speaker 1: m m A. That's a lot to think about because
Speaker 1: you gotta worry about a kick coming to the head,
Speaker 1: you gotta worry about punches and bows like boxing just
Speaker 1: you just it's everything from the waste up so you
Speaker 1: just it's fun. But I tell you, man, because you
Speaker 1: already can kick. You know what's sound like a lot
Speaker 1: of but believe it or not, Man, a lot of dudes,
Speaker 1: especially football players, just tighten the hips, so kicking is
Speaker 1: their last part. But you know, as you know, you're
Speaker 1: working on your hips and exploding stuff like that all
Speaker 1: the time. So if you learn how to turn on
Speaker 1: the kick or what I'm telling you. Man, you you
Speaker 1: can go in and do some damage. I mean, see
Speaker 1: if we get man, put some of these people from
Speaker 1: the league in the ring, I'll do a show. Look.
Speaker 1: But see that's what I'm working on. You know, I
Speaker 1: got so right now, I got um. You know, I
Speaker 1: told you about the show the we're shooting up on
Speaker 1: May sixteen. But you know, I got like six former athletes,
Speaker 1: uh just coming over. And some of them just only boxed, right,
Speaker 1: so some of them just learning to kick, or they're
Speaker 1: just learning to grapple and stuff like that. Man, But
Speaker 1: you're gonna start seeing especially you know, guys who like you,
Speaker 1: don't have the opportunity right now, should have an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Guys are looking to get that aggression out. Like you know,
Speaker 1: when I was piste off and I remember getting um,
Speaker 1: I remember getting let go by Buffalo with the Bills
Speaker 1: like two weeks before the first game. And so I
Speaker 1: went down Miami and I was training football stuff, but
Speaker 1: I was going to I was spawn. I was spawning
Speaker 1: like twice a week. I was. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: hit somebody. Hey, It's just it's weird though, because it's like, man,
Speaker 1: like I don't know you. You you're motivated to work
Speaker 1: hard and just do something physically to get better, but
Speaker 1: it's like sometimes like you're spending wheels, like especially with
Speaker 1: the football things, Like it's I gonna spending wheels. I
Speaker 1: need to do something else, Like I want to work hard,
Speaker 1: but like it's like I'm working hard with this football thing,
Speaker 1: but it's not working out. So like what if I
Speaker 1: start shipping something else like you just said? So yeah,
Speaker 1: so I know I knew you had that that quick
Speaker 1: stint with the with the XFL, and I think they're
Speaker 1: coming back in two I think they're coming back around.
Speaker 1: Uh would you if an opportunity to present itself, would
Speaker 1: you go back and do that again? Or that was
Speaker 1: a one of done situation. The only reason I did
Speaker 1: it was because I was told by several different coaches
Speaker 1: around the league they didn't think I still had it,
Speaker 1: Like what, okay, So, I mean as hard as it
Speaker 1: was for me to go to the XFL, I told
Speaker 1: my agent at the time, I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: well I'll just do it, man, because I mean I
Speaker 1: ain't got no other choice. I mean, ain't got no
Speaker 1: recent film with what I could do or what I
Speaker 1: could show. So I go to XFL leading to XFL
Speaker 1: and I'm still back at the situation. I maan now,
Speaker 1: So it's like I don't know what the fucking do?
Speaker 1: Like it all I do now? I was just making music,
Speaker 1: work on box and stuff and just a live party,
Speaker 1: have fun like I always do. But like it was fun.
Speaker 1: XFL is fun as hell. Like they embraced personality. Never
Speaker 1: been the stadium with the whole stadium like uh yo
Speaker 1: boom every time I hunt the ball. Never heard that before.
Speaker 1: They created a whole corner like a King's corner. That
Speaker 1: was tight. Man. They showed a lot of love. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm as good people in that whole organization. So if
Speaker 1: it's if they come back up and that opportunity presented itself,
Speaker 1: would you would you think about doing it again? Because
Speaker 1: some some people that like once once they have don't
Speaker 1: have that that initial chance, like that another chance. They're like, okay,
Speaker 1: you know what I did it, It was cool. I
Speaker 1: don't see myself doing with It's something some guys. One
Speaker 1: of my boys play running back. He said, if they
Speaker 1: when they come back and I got the opportunity, I'm
Speaker 1: going back the only way I'll do it is Uh.
Speaker 1: I talked to my homeboy. You know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know if destroying he's like a little YouTuber. Uh.
Speaker 1: I told him the only way I'll come back to
Speaker 1: the xfls and me and him both played on the
Speaker 1: same team. That's the only way I'll do it again.
Speaker 1: And uh, because I feel like, like I said, man,
Speaker 1: you got you got plenties out here. This still getting
Speaker 1: picked up and still getting cycled around the league, like
Speaker 1: they gotta go through what I'm going through. But I
Speaker 1: understand everybody has their own journey in life. They gotta walk.
Speaker 1: So it is what it is, and it's gonna make
Speaker 1: me even a better person later on the life, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, even the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: So I mean, it is what it is. That's the
Speaker 1: only about plantings to fellows of these strong players. But
Speaker 1: but until then, you're just waiting on the right call,
Speaker 1: right call from the NFL. You know you you're ready
Speaker 1: to go. Body feel good. No no injury because I
Speaker 1: remember you got um you had an injury when you're
Speaker 1: playing for the Broncos, right something you had a special
Speaker 1: teams coach wanted me to change my whole kicking style.
Speaker 1: So if you do something that's foreign to what you
Speaker 1: normally do that you've been doing for years, then you're
Speaker 1: gonna tell your lego. So I told my act ductor
Speaker 1: and uh, shoot, man, it's I don't know. That's that's
Speaker 1: how I ended up getting hurt. Man, I shouldn't have
Speaker 1: got hurt, because I mean, I was told when I
Speaker 1: first got there that we're gonna they wanted to do
Speaker 1: the same thing I did when I was in Oakland.
Speaker 1: And I feel like I had a manage when I
Speaker 1: was there because I had an altitude and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: it's like eight yards every plan. Yeah, So it didn't
Speaker 1: work out like that. Man, It's it's crazy. I talked
Speaker 1: to a lot of guys and sometime, and I was
Speaker 1: fortunate when I came in to leave because I got
Speaker 1: a chance play for way phillips Um. I had Marty Shottenheimer,
Speaker 1: I had uh Pagant job Pagano, I had Greg MANUSCA
Speaker 1: had great coaches. So I got spoiled, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying that, And I know so many guys to
Speaker 1: get into the league, and imagine if and I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to shoot nothing at the Broncos and the cult
Speaker 1: or whatever happened there. But you get some coaches you
Speaker 1: come into the league and they forced you to do
Speaker 1: something that you're not that's not your thing. And I
Speaker 1: had that my first year out in Buffalo, where they
Speaker 1: put me at defensive end. I'm like, they put me
Speaker 1: in a four three D and I'm taking on double teams.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there looking like y'all listen, listen here. I can't.
Speaker 1: I just came off three straight Pro Bowls and all pros.
Speaker 1: Let me do when I when I do best. And
Speaker 1: then you guys formed this defense or formed this position
Speaker 1: so I can go out and make plays. And that
Speaker 1: happens all the time. Man. So I've been through it,
Speaker 1: so I get it. I understand. It's bro, it's so
Speaker 1: actively man. I remember when I was in dinner at
Speaker 1: one point, I started crying when I got home from practice,
Speaker 1: like I was just I was on the phone my cousin.
Speaker 1: I just started to crying. I was like, bro, like
Speaker 1: why am I in this situation right now? Like I
Speaker 1: feel so very I was so barriers because I had
Speaker 1: teammates at the time, like, uh, but what the fund
Speaker 1: is you doing? What kind of kicking is that man
Speaker 1: blew the ball like you do. I'm like, I'm following directions,
Speaker 1: don't like I don't even know what I got let
Speaker 1: go from the Raiders, So I'm just now I'm just
Speaker 1: doing whatever I think I need to do to stay
Speaker 1: on the team or whatever, when that wasn't really the case.
Speaker 1: It's just some people like you, some people don't, and
Speaker 1: you gotta do it works for you. And I mean
Speaker 1: I was just in a very vulnerable stage where I
Speaker 1: was just doing what I thought I had to do.
Speaker 1: So I was just follow everything I was told to
Speaker 1: do and it just affected my, uh my performance in
Speaker 1: a negative way and just from following directions. So because
Speaker 1: it is what it is, I mean, it's the situation sucks,
Speaker 1: but I don't regret nothing that happened, Like it is
Speaker 1: what it is. My music has gotten way better. I
Speaker 1: got half of me strings on one of my songs
Speaker 1: is popping right now. Like I've been doing a little
Speaker 1: acting stuff, being trained with the box and stuff meant
Speaker 1: a bunch of cool people outside of football and ship
Speaker 1: getting a chance to do this an interview with you, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's all working out the way we're supposed to.
Speaker 1: Good man. But I still hope that somebody smartened up
Speaker 1: and they get they get the act together over there,
Speaker 1: and you get another shot because you need it. Man.
Speaker 1: So hey, my dude, I appreciate you. Man. Um taking
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, and we're gonna wrap two. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about the May sixteenth, and you know what what
Speaker 1: you open to do that that should be fun. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a big production. Thank Yeah, I appreciate you too. Man.
Speaker 1: All right, my dude, I talked to you a minute.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks guys for listening to another Lightstot podcast
Speaker 1: from me Seawan Merriman, and that was awesome. Man. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm always gonna give Raiders hell. I love giving Raiders
Speaker 1: fans hell. It's the thing that I love the most.
Speaker 1: It's fun for me. You see me on social media
Speaker 1: poking that Raiders fans all the time. But uh, Marcatte
Speaker 1: King was a great player, and I really hope he
Speaker 1: gets another shot, another opportunity to go and uh play
Speaker 1: again in the NFL. You see his uh Instagram videos
Speaker 1: going viral of him kicking light poles from fifty yard
Speaker 1: our sixty yards away, dropping it on a dime on
Speaker 1: the Pylons. I mean, this guy's just and awesome and
Speaker 1: he has a great personality. He's good for the league,
Speaker 1: hopefully gets another opportunity. So thanks guys listening in for
Speaker 1: another lights Out podcast with me Sean Marraman. Next week
Speaker 1: we're coming back again, and I want to say this.
Speaker 1: We're growing extremely fast over here and it's because of you, guys,
Speaker 1: so I want to say thank you again. I can't
Speaker 1: thank you guys enough for leaving, leaving those reviews. I
Speaker 1: wish I can respond to many of you guys, but um, anyway,
Speaker 1: keep subscribing, keep telling people about the lights of podcasts,
Speaker 1: and let's keep growing. Next week we'll come back with
Speaker 1: another one.