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Speaker 2: On this best of the Bus episode, the Sheriff himself,

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Speaker 2: Peyton Manning, invited us down to Saloon sixteen in Knoxville

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Speaker 2: for an all timer. We got to talk about what

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Speaker 2: it was like growing up a Manning while he chose

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Speaker 2: Tennessee over Ole miss and how Archie helped shape his

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Speaker 2: view of a leadership. Peyton also give us some insight

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Speaker 2: in his life after football, building Oma productions and turn

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Speaker 2: the Manning Cast into a much watch TV And yes,

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Speaker 2: if you are wondering, we get into the prank wars

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Speaker 2: between him and his brother Eli. Boys, this one special

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Speaker 2: tap in. Enjoyed the ride. Let's have a good day,

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Speaker 2: and while you're here, subscribe on Subscribery, subscribe.

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Speaker 1: One of our biggest guests we've ever had, no question

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Speaker 1: about it, maybe the biggest.

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Speaker 3: Although Dale earn Hard Junior, that was a big one. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's a big one. But Peyton Manning, welcome to Busting

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Speaker 3: with the Boys.

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Speaker 4: Thank you all for having me. Yeah, appreciate that. Honored,

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Speaker 4: very honored.

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Speaker 1: Just kick us off.

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Speaker 3: Brother walking in this room, Like, honestly, it's a rhetorical question,

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Speaker 3: but I'm gonna ask it anyway. Did you ever think

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Speaker 3: that you would leave a legacy like this because like

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Speaker 3: you come from a football family, like you're growing up.

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Speaker 3: You have all the footage where you're playing in the backyard.

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Speaker 3: Stuff they like when I'm young and I'm watching you

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Speaker 3: get you and your brother get talked about an archie

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Speaker 3: to where you see all the footage and you just

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Speaker 3: know that little kid in you that loves the game

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Speaker 3: so much and making such an impact that you've made

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Speaker 3: and try to take a moment to take it in.

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Speaker 4: I'm very grateful and honored for the teams and organizations

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Speaker 4: that I was a part of, but I cherished my

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Speaker 4: four years here at Tennessee. And no, I mean, you

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Speaker 4: have no idea that you're going to have this connection

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Speaker 4: and relationship with the university thirty years after I came

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Speaker 4: here back in nineteen ninety four. But I love coming back.

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Speaker 4: I stayed four years in college. Will I think people

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Speaker 4: here in Noxvill and Tennessee probably remember that more than

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Speaker 4: anything more than a throw or a touchdown, that I

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Speaker 4: more year in college, which spoke a lot about how

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Speaker 4: much I'll loved the university in the whole school, in

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Speaker 4: fun to come back. I love coming back to games,

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Speaker 4: and yeah, this place. After I got drafted by the Colts,

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Speaker 4: It's in this storage unit. Yeah, fucking dig in there.

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Speaker 4: So they went and that's that all this stuff. That's

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Speaker 4: what my mom thought of this stuff. It was all

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Speaker 1: That's awesome.

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Speaker 2: With choosing Tennessee, like your old man obviously went to

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Speaker 2: Old Miss, what was your recruiting process, like way back

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Speaker 4: Four, Yeah, that was hard. I mean, for years, Taylor,

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Speaker 4: I thought Ole Miss was the only school that ever existed, right,

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Speaker 4: I grew up in New Orleans. Of course, you know

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Speaker 4: LSU was the Bibby, the top school in the state.

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Speaker 4: But Ole Miss with the games we went to on

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Speaker 4: heard enough about recruiting. There was a lot of form letters,

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Speaker 4: I give him credit. If he would have said, son,

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Speaker 4: That would have been it. I would have said, yes,

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Speaker 4: it was a hard decision, but I appreciate my parents

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Speaker 1: I feel like if he was my boy he'd be

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Speaker 3: He did come back a senior year, and ultimately the

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Speaker 4: kind of wondering what was college even I don't remember

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Speaker 4: and so it was the right decision for me.

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Speaker 2: Now, did you come to come to that decision on

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny, it's a great question because my dad

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Speaker 4: That was important to him, and he was drew BLEDSOE

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Speaker 4: and he was like, I'm ready to go I'm a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he just said, look, I thought I was ready,

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Speaker 4: Interesting to see think how things would have turned out.

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Speaker 4: Parcels was the head coach, Belichick was the decordinator. Just

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Speaker 4: So I just it was the it was the right

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Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of fifty to fifty either way.

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Speaker 4: You make a decision, you pray about it, and then

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Speaker 1: Your first year. You alluded to with the is it

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Speaker 4: Yeah, which which is amazing with seventeen games. Now, yeah,

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Speaker 4: But record, I'm a piece. Eli would have broken it easily. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he only started six games that I put him in there.

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Speaker 4: This is my top. I got a good chance this year.

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Speaker 4: don't want Nicks to do it in Denver obviously, but

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so you know you'll be the first phone

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Speaker 3: I'm just I was obviously young then, but now thinking

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Speaker 4: It was like it was tough. And I think playing

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Speaker 4: and hey, part would have ventured me way before the

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Speaker 4: I can tell you where I was on the totem pole.

436
00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,159
Speaker 4: I never knew what a what a what a double

437
00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,600
Speaker 4: was for a commercial. Michael Jordan had this double guy

438
00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,600
Speaker 4: that looked kind of like him that just made a

439
00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,320
Speaker 4: ton of money, you know, filling in for Mike on

440
00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,880
Speaker 4: some of the commercials that he did. So I got

441
00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,520
Speaker 4: there and they said, hey, your double is going to

442
00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,719
Speaker 4: be standing in for you. I'm like, oh, I've got

443
00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:12,320
Speaker 4: a double. This is this is big.

444
00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:13,280
Speaker 1: You went to see him and.

445
00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,400
Speaker 4: They said, uh, they said, your hair is a little

446
00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,160
Speaker 4: longer than the double. Do you mind if we give

447
00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,239
Speaker 4: you a little haircut to match the double? I was like,

448
00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:23,720
Speaker 4: is that how it's supposed to work?

449
00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:23,840
Speaker 2: Like?

450
00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,720
Speaker 4: Would you tell Michael to shave his mustache to match

451
00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:28,919
Speaker 4: his double? Something? Tells me I was pretty low in

452
00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:31,520
Speaker 4: the totem poll. But yeah, look, it's still kind of

453
00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,000
Speaker 4: my advice to rookies is, man, just go earn it,

454
00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,399
Speaker 4: go do it. But the team's going to try to

455
00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,960
Speaker 4: promote you, and the marketing team's gonna want you to

456
00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,520
Speaker 4: go meet every sponsor. I get that, there's excitement. It

457
00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:44,200
Speaker 4: really wasn't me as much Taylor as much as the

458
00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,400
Speaker 4: Colt's organization. I had a great general manager and Bill

459
00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,600
Speaker 4: Pully and who just said, hey, let this guy play

460
00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,719
Speaker 4: football first before you kind of start trying to use

461
00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:53,960
Speaker 4: them to promote the team and whatnot. And that really

462
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,880
Speaker 4: helped me just kind of concentrate on football.

463
00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,440
Speaker 2: With your nephew, has he kind of taken that same

464
00:19:58,480 --> 00:19:59,240
Speaker 2: approach that was.

465
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Speaker 4: Kind of with My advice was, look, you know, he's

466
00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,480
Speaker 4: my nephew. He reaches out to me, you know, for questions,

467
00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:07,320
Speaker 4: but his dad's been around the block. You know, Cooper's

468
00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:09,639
Speaker 4: giving him great advice. And I think he wants to play.

469
00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:13,240
Speaker 4: He wants to establish himself, you know first, and you know,

470
00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,600
Speaker 4: obviously I think they got a good team this year.

471
00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,280
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of Quinn. I've gotten to know him.

472
00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:19,880
Speaker 4: He comes down to our camp. The two of them

473
00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,280
Speaker 4: get along great. So I'm proud of him for staying there.

474
00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,360
Speaker 4: Most kids probably transfer in that setting, but he stayed there.

475
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,080
Speaker 4: He likes playing for SARK, he likes the system, and

476
00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,560
Speaker 4: when he does get in there, he's going to benefit

477
00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:33,800
Speaker 4: from kind of having a little continuity in the system.

478
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know, it's my third one in

479
00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:36,080
Speaker 1: a row.

480
00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:36,760
Speaker 4: But you're good.

481
00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:39,119
Speaker 2: Your nephew obviously calls you a lot, and I know

482
00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,440
Speaker 2: you and Eli have a big rivalry. Who do you

483
00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:42,200
Speaker 2: think he calls more?

484
00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,040
Speaker 4: It's funny, you know, like he's I mean, these these

485
00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,200
Speaker 4: nineteen twenty year olds. I mean the text response rate

486
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 4: it's not super high, right, it's not a great completion percentage,

487
00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,280
Speaker 4: So I don't I kind of let him reach out

488
00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,720
Speaker 4: to me if he has a question. He came to

489
00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:00,679
Speaker 4: Denver a couple of years ago. We worked out. That

490
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,879
Speaker 4: was fun. And he will every now and then text

491
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,960
Speaker 4: me with a question about, Hey, a two minute drill.

492
00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,600
Speaker 4: This is what happened in practice today, And I'm sure

493
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,640
Speaker 4: as soon as he texts me the question he regrets

494
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,239
Speaker 4: it because you can't answer a question about a two

495
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:18,560
Speaker 4: minute drill with a text back what the phone is.

496
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,800
Speaker 4: You have to go to the voice memo. You have

497
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:25,680
Speaker 4: to and it can't be just one. So you bang

498
00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,119
Speaker 4: them back with a seven minute voice memo response about

499
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,439
Speaker 4: about the two minute about you know what the defense

500
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,080
Speaker 4: is doing, and the plays that you like. You got

501
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,320
Speaker 4: to go to your staples. Yeah, the plays that you like.

502
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,400
Speaker 4: And you finish it and you're like, I didn't even

503
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,280
Speaker 4: mention the fact that a defense after a time out

504
00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,960
Speaker 4: will probably come with an exotic blitz, so you better

505
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,120
Speaker 4: call a max protection coming out of the time out.

506
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 4: And then you finish that when that's about a six

507
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,919
Speaker 4: minute or and you're like, well, but totally even you know,

508
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,560
Speaker 4: forgot about the red zone. Yes, And so three voice

509
00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,400
Speaker 4: memos later, send me a video back.

510
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Speaker 1: Moore, Who do you think the favorite uncle is?

511
00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 4: So? I don't know if he has one, hope if

512
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:13,640
Speaker 4: you did, I don't know. I mean I haven't really

513
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 4: seen it. I mean, Eli's a good uncle to my kids.

514
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:19,040
Speaker 4: He is, he calls them, He's got nicknames for all

515
00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,240
Speaker 4: of them, you know, yeah, kids. So I've said we're

516
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 4: probably pretty equal.

517
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,919
Speaker 2: Okay, you talked about two minutes, and then there's so

518
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 2: much poetry when you watch a good two minute drill

519
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,160
Speaker 2: quarterback go down the field and just pick a part

520
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,320
Speaker 2: of defense all the way through. It's truly something beautiful.

521
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 2: Is there a one two minute drive that sticks out

522
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,400
Speaker 2: in your mind where you're like you essentially played chess

523
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:38,959
Speaker 2: while the defense is playing checkers.

524
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,719
Speaker 4: I mean I mentioned this this one against the Jets

525
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 4: my rookie year. Belichick's the decordinator, Parcells is the head coach.

526
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 4: They go to the AFC Championship. So I don't know.

527
00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 4: We had a fourth and eighteen, which is that you

528
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 4: have him right where you want him right.

529
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's an ideal situation.

530
00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 4: And so it was fourth and thirteen in Belichick went

531
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,679
Speaker 4: all out blitz and so we are not ready for

532
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 4: we're gonna get sacked whatever. We had a false start,

533
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 4: so that takes it to fourth and eighteen. So now

534
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 4: that's always the chess game. Does the defensive coordinator do

535
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,639
Speaker 4: the same blitz on the next play or since he

536
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 4: showed his hand, he's gonna do something different. So we,

537
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,880
Speaker 4: of course the two and twelve colts go, well, he's

538
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 4: definitely gonna show the same blitz again. So we keep

539
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 4: eight guys in the block, saying like one guy out

540
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 4: on the route, and what does Belichick do? Drop eight

541
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 4: guys in the coverage. There's nobody open, and me like,

542
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 4: by the book, quarterback, hey, if nobody's open, throw your

543
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,119
Speaker 4: check down. Probably not what you're supposed to do on

544
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,719
Speaker 4: fourth and eighteen, right, But coach I was listening, I

545
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,119
Speaker 4: was taking notes, and I throw this checkdown to Marshall

546
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:52,399
Speaker 4: Falch and he breaks seven tackles and gets the first

547
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 4: down and then we go down away and throw a

548
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 4: game winning touchdown. So I always remember that one. But yeah,

549
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 4: the two minute drill to quarterbacks, the pressures on the defense,

550
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 4: they have the lead, It really ought to be a

551
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 4: time for a quarterback to kind of free up a

552
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 4: little bit, right, and let make the defense get tight. Right, Hey,

553
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 4: we can't give up this lead. Hey, let's better not

554
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,919
Speaker 4: blitz them. We're gonna give a man a man. And

555
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 4: so you want to try to kind of lean into

556
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 4: that a little bit, But it means you've screwed up

557
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 4: in the first three and a half quarters to get

558
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 4: to that point as a quarterback. So it's your chance

559
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 4: to get out of a bad jam. But hopefully you

560
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 4: can play a little free in that situation, because nobody

561
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 4: really expects you to come back and maybe you can

562
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 4: surprise the crowd.

563
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: Yeah what what coordinator gave you the most problems?

564
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 4: Patriots spellcheck Rex Ryan was tough, you know, he just

565
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 4: did things that didn't make sense to me. I'm like,

566
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 4: there's no way he can bring that guy, and he would.

567
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 4: I was always looking when I watched the defense will Okay,

568
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:55,360
Speaker 4: you know they're never going to bring the will linebacker

569
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 4: and the strong safety, so we can eliminate that. And

570
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 4: then you watch the Jets or the Ravens game against

571
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 4: the Bills and they bring that exact wlitch and I'm like, dang,

572
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 4: you know, and so uh, I had a lot of

573
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,679
Speaker 4: sleepless nights getting ready to play against his teams.

574
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 2: The uh We've talked about you getting on other guys,

575
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:17,919
Speaker 2: and a lot of times when the quarterback, especially an

576
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 2: established quarterback, speaks up as an offensive lineman, you don't

577
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 2: say a fucking word. You just sit there, You take it,

578
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 2: and maybe the locker rooms say, maybe please don't yell

579
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 2: at me in front of everybody like that next time.

580
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 2: But there was one situation when you were at the

581
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 2: Colts Jeff Saturday yelling about running the ball, which is

582
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 2: every offensive lineman's dream. If you if you can just

583
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 2: run heavy the whole game, the pressure's off, you can

584
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 2: bruise it and you walk over there, and this is

585
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 2: just I'm from an offensive line perspective.

586
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 4: You come over there getting jet.

587
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 2: And then you got four or five?

588
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 5: Can you give them the whole listen, It's not that

589
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 5: big of a deal. It's not that big of a

590
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 5: deal that situation. Yeah, I mean, we were all frustrated.

591
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 5: We had this great drive to get down there, and

592
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 5: we called a run play. You remember those days, we

593
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 5: were a one back offense. We never had a fullback.

594
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 5: So the rules were if the defense just put too

595
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 5: many guys in there, you got out of the run

596
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 5: and you threw a quick slant or a fade to

597
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 5: Marvin or Reggie. And so the rams they went to

598
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 5: a you know, a crowded line of scrimmage, like on

599
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 5: first down and second down.

600
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 4: So we threw through incomplete and we had run the

601
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 4: ball all the way down to that point. And now

602
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 4: on third down it's third and goal from the seven.

603
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 4: You throw again, so we go three straight incompletes. I'm frustrated,

604
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 4: but the line definitely is frustrated. So we're coming off

605
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 4: the sideline. I could just hear them over there talking

606
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,880
Speaker 4: to the line. He's barely hearing.

607
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 2: It.

608
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't know exactly what he's saying, but

609
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 4: I know what he's talking about. And you're just sitting

610
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 4: there breathing. And finally I just go over there. And

611
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,919
Speaker 4: as soon as I get over there, I'm like, this

612
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 4: is a bad movie. Oh my god, and they all

613
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 4: stand up. I got no back up. You know, Stokeley's

614
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,639
Speaker 4: going the other way to the D B side of

615
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 4: the bench and uh so, yeah, I was miked up

616
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,360
Speaker 4: at the time, and so that that lives on forever.

617
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,479
Speaker 4: But Jeff was my roommate on the road. Our lockers

618
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 4: were next to each other. My locker in the Coast

619
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 4: locker room was right in between the offensive lineman. You

620
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 4: know a lot of times there's a quarterback section the

621
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 4: receiver section. I put it right in between the five

622
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 4: starting offensive lineman because those are the guys never protecting you.

623
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 4: Those are the guys who were talking all the time

624
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 4: about checks and audibles. I wanted them to kind of

625
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 4: know what I was going to audible too. I didn't

626
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,719
Speaker 4: want them to be surprised, And so we'd sit by

627
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 4: each other on the plane ridse but yeah, that one

628
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 4: certainly lives on.

629
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 2: Lives on forever.

630
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 4: You guys, tell I'm sorry.

631
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 3: I was going to talk about when it's all coming

632
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 3: to an end, like your mortality. Obviously, you go out

633
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 3: with the Super Bowl, but you had the neck injury,

634
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 3: you had the you know, you had the things going

635
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 3: you had the things going on physically to where you're

636
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 3: throwing for like north to fifty touchdowns, you run forty touchdowns,

637
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 3: and then that last year you kind of know that

638
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 3: it's your last year going out, Like what was it

639
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 3: like for you when that mortality started to set in? Like, damn,

640
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 3: this game is it forever? Even though I've played, Yeah,

641
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 3: felt like forever.

642
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think you just you just kind

643
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 4: of know, at least for me, when certain throws that

644
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 4: you used to always make that you just don't make

645
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 4: them anymore, and the ball's not going where you're where

646
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:23,439
Speaker 4: it's supposed to, you just sort of kind of go, hmm,

647
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 4: that's different, and and so you sort of accept it.

648
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 4: And so I think somewhere in my last season I

649
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 4: kind of knew it was going to be my last season.

650
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 4: But Derek Jeter, I'm just on a name drop and roll.

651
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 2: Here putting good names out there.

652
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,479
Speaker 4: Announced his decision to retire before his last season, and

653
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 4: he told me that he regretted that because the whole

654
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 4: season was a tribute to Derek Jeter and in a

655
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 4: team sport. He said, it got to the point where

656
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 4: he was almost embarrassed by it because he was going

657
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 4: to play in Milwaukee and they had a and they

658
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 4: were giving him gifts, and he's like, it was all

659
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 4: about me, and the Yankees didn't have a winning season,

660
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 4: and so he said, hey, if you ever know you're

661
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 4: going to retire, announced it the day before you decided,

662
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 4: and then announce it the next day and be done

663
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 4: with it. Don't do it before the season. And so

664
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 4: I always remembered that, and so I kind of knew

665
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 4: halfway through that last season, this is probably going to

666
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 4: be it, but you just don't want to say it

667
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 4: because then it becomes kind of all about you. And

668
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 4: we had a good thing going. And so we got

669
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 4: to the Super Bowl, and of course they asked you

670
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 4: right away that game you kind of want one moment

671
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 4: just to enjoy that game. It was my eighteenth season,

672
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 4: and you know, I had a chance to win the

673
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 4: super Bowl. You want to sort of enjoy that night

674
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 4: and not talk about you right away. So I tried

675
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 4: to pivot and say, I'm just thinking about drinking a

676
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 4: lot of Budweiser tonight. And everybody thought, oh, he's got this,

677
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 4: but I was really I had no relationship. You're not

678
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 4: allowed to have a at the time, a beer relationship

679
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 4: as a current player. I was just I was that's

680
00:29:58,240 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 4: what I was going to do that night. I was

681
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 4: gonna drink a lot of beer. I was just trying

682
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 4: to get him to stop asking me about retiring.

683
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: And then.

684
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 4: Tony Dungee had told me, he said, even if you know,

685
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 4: just take one more month, just to let it sink in.

686
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 4: Don't make some emotional decision. Remember Dick Vermil kind of

687
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 4: won the Super Bowl and he said I'm retiring, and

688
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 4: then he missed it and he came back and coached

689
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 4: the Chiefs, and so I took about a month and

690
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 4: then I decided in March that it was going to

691
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 4: be it. I was thankful for the time I got

692
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 4: to play. Most guys get injured, they oftentimes it's not

693
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 4: their decision they get retired. So to be able to

694
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 4: do it on my terms, I was at peace with it,

695
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 4: and I was thankful for the time that I got

696
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 4: to play and the relationships that I made. I mean,

697
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 4: you know, the equipment manager for Tennessee picked me up

698
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 4: today at the airport, right. I cherished my friendship with him.

699
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 4: The equipment manager for the Colts texted me a picture

700
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 4: of his grandchildren today. And so those are my greatest

701
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 4: takeaways from my time playing not game, not a throw.

702
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 4: The friendships, as you guys know, with your teammates and coaches,

703
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 4: of the behind the scenes. The video director here at

704
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 4: Tennessee for me, is now the video director with the Broncos.

705
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 4: And you talk about a guy that's broken more film

706
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 4: down for me, and you know he and I are friends.

707
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 4: So anyway, uh, you don't get to play anymore, but

708
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 4: you still have those relationships.

709
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 2: Is there not a better group in a franchise than

710
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 2: the equipment guys.

711
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 4: The equipment guys.

712
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 2: Are the number one cats everywhere we go. Guys, my

713
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 2: boy Joey over there, all of them, Yes, air.

714
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 4: Of those guys. I mean, you know they have they

715
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 4: have what I call thankless jobs. I mean nobody, I

716
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 4: mean people only come to them when they need something.

717
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 4: I need lockers exactly I said, so show show appreciation.

718
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 4: I don't know how y'all did your clubhouse dues or whatnot,

719
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 4: but I was real big on, hey, take care of

720
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 4: these guys because uh, they love football and they want

721
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 4: to win. So uh, I still send my my clubhouse dues.

722
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 4: Do you really to the cults and the Roncos? No ship, Yeah,

723
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 4: I'm retired, and so I just uh yeah, because it's like,

724
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 4: you know, they you know it, don't obviously they're not,

725
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 4: you know, not seeing them every day. But I'm just

726
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 4: thankful for for them for what they did for me.

727
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 2: Did you guys do flat rates or did you do

728
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 2: practice squad as this much veterans or this?

729
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the thing. We tried to kind of do

730
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 4: it different ways. I didn't necessarily like, you know, sort

731
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 4: of the public sign up list where.

732
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 2: It was always Brett Kern for us who would sit

733
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 2: in front of the team. But here's how it's gonna go,

734
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 2: and just kind of label it for everybody. This is

735
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 2: where you're at, this is what you're putting.

736
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, which is fair, yes, fair right, because you know,

737
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 4: I think young players don't realize what these guys are doing.

738
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 4: They are staying there at midnight washing socks and jockstraps

739
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 4: or whatnot. So uh but it's a good it's a

740
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 4: good tradition and and uh yeah, it's it's funny. I

741
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 4: mean today I've talked to both those guys today, so

742
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 4: uh great, great memories.

743
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 3: A good transition into tier talk or a tear talk.

744
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 3: Oh you gotta you got I did.

745
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 2: But literally as soon as you said tear talk, my brain,

746
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 2: Like Men in Black.

747
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: He was talking about.

748
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 3: He was talking about like gift giving our cheer talk

749
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,479
Speaker 3: we wanted to do with you is the best, Like

750
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 3: in your career, your top three gifts that you've either

751
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,479
Speaker 3: given Oligneman, the team. I don't know how you've gifted

752
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 3: everybody but your top three.

753
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 4: Top three Wow, I guess. I mean you have to

754
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 4: probably ask them, I guess. Uh. You know, Jeff and

755
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 4: Tartlan and those guys. I flew them all to the

756
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 4: Hawaii to the to the Pro Bowl, right, you know?

757
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 4: That was that was kind of one of the first

758
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 4: things that I did, custom made cowboy boots. Okay, I

759
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 4: mean you gotta understand now, this is this is two thousand,

760
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 4: two thousand and one.

761
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you flew the O line to the

762
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: to Hawaii and there.

763
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 4: And their spouses. You know, I'm just saying it's like,

764
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 4: I mean mahomes like that, they're like cooler things available

765
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 4: now at least I guess right. And so mom was

766
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 4: from the hard cowboy boots, custom made suits, overcoats, you know,

767
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 4: like always something fitted, you know, bring the guy in

768
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 4: electronics TVs. But it wasn't like it wasn't a it

769
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 4: wasn't a Christmas gift like it was you had to

770
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 4: have blocked well gift. Like one year two thousand and one,

771
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 4: we didn't make the playoffs and my left guards like

772
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 4: with no gift. This year, I'm like, there's no playoffs.

773
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 4: You know you ever seen Team Wolf, No Wolf, no

774
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 4: part you know, no blocking, no gifts. So but like

775
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 4: the rules change. I mean, you know, Tarat Glynn at

776
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 4: one point was making my left tackle was making I

777
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 4: don't know, like twelve million a year. Used to be quarterback,

778
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 4: take care of the poor old offensive line on the

779
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 4: offensive line and they're making banks. They're like, yeah, god bless,

780
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 4: Like what is this watch? I mean right, this is

781
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 4: not it's not even the best role x out there.

782
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 2: This is right, Yeah, offensive linemen Offenseimemon gotta get paid.

783
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 2: That's a good that's a good call.

784
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 3: Was there a how about this starting on line?

785
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 4: No, I took care of all of them. Okay, here,

786
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 4: I took care of the wingman. Uh, you know, the

787
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 4: practice squad guys, and yeah, then you start spreading out

788
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 4: you got the tight ends, uh, receivers and so yeah,

789
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 4: like I felt like, uh, I tried to show, you know,

790
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 4: my appreciation for all those guys because you know, you're

791
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,720
Speaker 4: you know, sometimes receiving some of the awards or whatnot,

792
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 4: but those are the guys that were making it, making

793
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 4: it happen. You know.

794
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 3: I'm walking over to Peyton's locker, like, hey, you got

795
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 3: anything for your boy?

796
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 2: For linebackers? Yeah, maybe for white middle linebackers.

797
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh that reminds me. No, never, never, never crossed over.

798
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,280
Speaker 1: We had not for pet Anger.

799
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,919
Speaker 2: We had we had josh Allen and we talked about

800
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,320
Speaker 2: going to an empty situation. There's one middle linebacker that

801
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 2: you know is a liability and coverage he goes out

802
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 2: with your running back. Josh An called it a milk check,

803
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 2: white guy.

804
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,280
Speaker 1: I see him. That's why I'm going with I'm staying

805
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: in the box there. Yeah, no, no, no, you it

806
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: was it.

807
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 2: Did you ever have like a hey, listen over, white

808
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 2: guy out here. We got to take advantage of this

809
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 2: poor soul.

810
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,760
Speaker 4: It's funny. I mean, I think Zach Thomas a bunch

811
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 4: and that was kind of thing we always sick because

812
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 4: he was always in the middle. We were always like,

813
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 4: you know, I'm not sure if he can if he

814
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:20,439
Speaker 4: can cover can we.

815
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,720
Speaker 1: Just can we get him outside the get him out there?

816
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 4: And he was just what you said. He was so smart.

817
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 4: He never put himself and that.

818
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you gotta know your weakness and checked out.

819
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 4: He's like, no, no, you sending the sam out there?

820
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 4: The wheel out there? Yeah, couldn't. We could never get

821
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 4: him in that spot. And maybe look he was a

822
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 4: stud player, so he probably could have covered him. But

823
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 4: so we'll never know.

824
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 2: I guess no milk checks you. You talk about the

825
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 2: gift giving is great. But one thing that I've always

826
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 2: appreciated you for with some of the clips I would

827
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 2: see about pranks you would do. You'd want to pull,

828
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 2: boil you empty the little thing. Do you have any

829
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 2: like top pranks you ever put on guys in the

830
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 2: locker room at you were like, man, I've done it.

831
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 4: Just you know, I mean training camp, everybody had golf carts.

832
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 4: Coaches had golf carts. We were always trying to get

833
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 4: those moved, you know into like there was a little

834
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 4: pond in the middle of the training can that had

835
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 4: a little platform out there. We got the golf carts

836
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 4: moved out on that one time, big trash can full

837
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 4: of water leaned against the door in the dorm rooms

838
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 4: on the last night or training camp when their bags

839
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 4: are packed and their luggage should be on the floor

840
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 4: right which you know, oh yeah, last night, last night.

841
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 4: I can't. You gotta be last night. They gotta be

842
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 4: packed because we'd say practice in the morning. I kind

843
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 4: of get up and say, guys, practice in the morning.

844
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 4: I'm telling you you don't want to get on the road.

845
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,720
Speaker 4: So you know, I just go ahead and pack up tonight.

846
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 4: It's a nice veterans And you lean that trash can

847
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 4: against that door, you know, about eleven thirty after bed checking,

848
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 4: you just you know, bang on that door hard. And

849
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 4: they opened that door and it's just a tidal wave,

850
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 4: the flood coming in. And like I said, you know,

851
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 4: if it only it's their dorm, it's not really good.

852
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,439
Speaker 4: But when he gets that luggage. Oh yeah, they're nice

853
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 4: luggage that they've had. They got their picture with their

854
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 4: girlfriend probably on top of the bag. It's ruined. It's

855
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,720
Speaker 4: trying to think. Uh. You another guy, guy in Denver

856
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 4: who had a uh had a picture of his girlfriend

857
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 4: in his room. I think it was like body paint

858
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 4: of her, you know, like I'm just it was an

859
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,959
Speaker 4: interesting picture to have in training camp. And we got

860
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 4: it somehow, and we had a security you know, you know,

861
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 4: you have security on the floor right and like these guys,

862
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:42,800
Speaker 4: you know, they take naps like you know, eleven o'clock,

863
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,240
Speaker 4: And we put that picture like on the security guard's lap,

864
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 4: like as he was sleeping, and that kind of caused

865
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 4: a little stir. But the player like, why does the

866
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 4: security guard have a my girlfriend and body paint? So uh,

867
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 4: anything to keep you know, keep things loose, you guys

868
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 4: know the grind of train any camp, so just to

869
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,720
Speaker 4: make things fun. But yeah, I miss that. I haven't

870
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 4: put a trash can full of water in a hotel room.

871
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 4: You want to mess with Eli Eli's Eli's got some

872
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 4: got some prank game. He's big with the cell phone.

873
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 4: His go to move for years was he could change

874
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 4: your settings you could change the language on your phone.

875
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 4: He'd like say, hey, well let's get a picture, you know,

876
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 4: and and uh, I'll take it of YouTube first. And

877
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 4: he's taken your picture, and he changes your phone to Chinese.

878
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 4: And now you can't get it out.

879
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: Now you can, you can't figure it out.

880
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, in general and settings are in Chinese. And now

881
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 4: his go to he is is a thing called text replacement.

882
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 4: The feature on your phone would be anything you text

883
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 4: often that's long worded, your address, your email, Hey, what's

884
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 4: your email? You know? Text replacement. If you put you know, p,

885
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 4: it auto corrects to your email. But see it autocorrects

886
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 4: to your Well, you can make whatever you want to

887
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 4: mean whatever you want. So he changes the word yes

888
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 4: on my phone to I just sharded okay. And so

889
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 4: when my wife says, hey, are you going to be

890
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:24,720
Speaker 4: home for dinner? You know, quickly yeah, so she says, actually,

891
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 4: she's like, oh, I'm so sorry, are you okay? I'm like,

892
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 4: what what just happened? So yeah, anyway, respect that's a

893
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 4: good one. Don't mess with him.

894
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 2: That is a solid one.

895
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: What about this episode to bring you let's lock in?

896
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: They taped it, They taped it smart move, smart Move.

897
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,760
Speaker 3: You guys have had so much success with the maning

898
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 3: cast on all productions and everything else. Is there anything

899
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 3: that is there something that you guys are doing different

900
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 3: this year that people can look forward to this year.

901
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 4: We were talking about him earlier. Bill Belichick is gonna

902
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 4: be a permanent first half guest, permanent in every game

903
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 4: that we're doing this year, to talk about the defense.

904
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 4: We got Niners Jets first game. He'll come on and

905
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,439
Speaker 4: talk about, you know, the three things that the Jets

906
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 4: are gonna have to do to stop Purty, you know

907
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 4: what the Niners gonna have to do to stop Aaron Rodgers.

908
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 4: He'll be able to talk about, you know, maybe some

909
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 4: coaching decisions that might happen. Look, I don't enough people

910
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:23,760
Speaker 4: have gotten to hear Belichick's brilliance, right. He never shared

911
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 4: with everybody. His players know. I played for him in

912
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 4: two Pro Bowls. I have a sense of it. But

913
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 4: we've had rehearsals. I come away as a smarter football

914
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 4: fan after listening to him, and he's witty and he's dry.

915
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,800
Speaker 4: He couldn't tell in the rehearsal when we were live

916
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 4: and when we weren't a couple of times so some

917
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 4: of the things he said when we were live and

918
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 4: he thought we weren't were great, and like, if we

919
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 4: could just get that a little bit, HELI I could

920
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 4: just trick him, like, Bill, we're not live, what do

921
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 4: you really think right now? So I don't know if

922
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 4: we'll do that to him as a rookie prank, but

923
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 4: I'm excited about that because he's Look, he's a brilliant

924
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 4: football mind, and I think viewers will have the benefit

925
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 4: of hearing from him and Eli and I looking forward.

926
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 4: Plus he doesn't like Eli because Super Bowls making fun

927
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 4: of Eli's encouraged here. So it should be a fun.

928
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: Year, dude. That's that's gonna be awesome.

929
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 3: Is there anything over these first few years that you

930
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 3: kind of look at and you're like, we need to

931
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 3: get better in these areas because obviously it's a new thing.

932
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 4: No, we do a study in the off season, just

933
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 4: like you do when you're playing. And look, we have

934
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 4: those these guests on We've learned that when we're interviewing

935
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 4: a guest about why they love football and a big

936
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 4: play happens, we've got to cut him off or her

937
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 4: off and say, hey, hold that thought. I got to

938
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 4: tell you what Aaron Rodgers just did here. He just

939
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,359
Speaker 4: checked to a wide receiver screen verse cover zero and

940
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 4: they just gashed the riders. Eli and I weren't doing

941
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 4: that enough because they want to be rude. We don't

942
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 4: want to interrupt y'all. But the fans have kind of

943
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 4: spoken in our little study that we did, and they said, hey,

944
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 4: we want to hear about the big plays that happened.

945
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 4: And Belichick's going to be a first half guest, and

946
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:05,320
Speaker 4: then maybe just have two guests in the second half.

947
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 4: Try to have one former player or a current player,

948
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 4: and then maybe one celebrity. Maybe just to have enough,

949
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 4: you know, a football discussion in the fourth quarter, and

950
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 4: then maybe one celebrity because look, the show it's supposed

951
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 4: to be different than the main broadcast, right. They don't

952
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 4: want just me and Eli talking, so we have to

953
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 4: be different. Those are our instructions. So we think, uh,

954
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 4: you know, being sure the guests are dialed into the game,

955
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 4: and being sure we're always talking about what's going on

956
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 4: in the game. So and then if Eli would just

957
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 4: stop making forehead jokes. It's been four years, it's it's

958
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 4: it's expired.

959
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 2: Got to find new materials.

960
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 4: The yeah, you keep going back to the same stuff.

961
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 4: So those are a couple of things we want to work.

962
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: On a couple of things.

963
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 2: I know you're out of time, and I just want

964
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 2: to say thank you. This has been so awesome. The

965
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 2: stories have been amazing. I want to let you know

966
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 2: that we are also available every Monday, anytime.

967
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 4: Maybe. Yes, we have repeat guests.

968
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, in a pinch.

969
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 2: Just know that the boys got you.

970
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 4: You were voted uh high in our off season study.

971
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 4: People appreciate it with the bust and bump, the stories.

972
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: The rating, a little painting at the end.

973
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, see here there was a big jump here in

974
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 2: week eleven. That's get the pain we got.

975
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: No, we never got the pain the hang on?

976
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 4: Did we get the instagrams on the Instagram?

977
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: I was gonna say we got instagram the class.

978
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,720
Speaker 2: But thank you, thank you for taking the time. Seriously,

979
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 2: this was awesome. We've wanted to get you on the

980
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 2: show for a long time. We appreciate you. You're a legend.

981
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 4: No, no, really are bro.

982
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 3: My dad's gonna be fired up at the cafeteria in

983
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 3: high school. I battled to the death for you. But

984
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 3: once Tom got a couple more, It's kind of like

985
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 3: but I'm talking every year. I'm like vein coming out

986
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 3: of my neck. I like it, but the boys got

987
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 3: your back. Bro, thank you so.

988
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 4: Much as thank you appreciate it. Thanks.

989
00:44:52,719 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: Thanks at