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Make sure you click that subscribe button 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:43.000 to make sure that you are notified anytime Nightcap is available. 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:44.519 Unk and O Joe. 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:49.480 The Vikings hand Niners the second straight loss twenty two 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.799 seventeen brock Perty twenty one of thirty two seventy two 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:58.320 one touchdowns, two picks, Kirk Cousins thirty five or forty 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.919 five three seventy eight two touchdo one pick. Jordan Addison 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.359 had a night when Justin Jefferson was out nursing that 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.080 hamstring injury. He had seven catches above twenty three and 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.799 two touches. What was one of your big takeaway from 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:12.760 the nice game, Ojo? 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.640 My biggest takeaway from the night's game. I said it 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.080 before the game even started. I tweeted out, I said, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.520 Jordan Addison and Hockinson have to have a day. They 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.760 got to have a day as long as Brian flore 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.520 As and the defense did what they needed to do. 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:31.280 They did just that McCaffrey well into the third quarter, 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.440 didn't have over three yards of carry, didn't have a 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:39.280 They stifle, They stifle kittles until I think, what maybe 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.960 late in the third quarter he had an over route. 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.600 Now that was his longest, longest catch of the day. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.840 The defense did their job two interceptions, But offensively, I 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.800 think the most important thing on why the Vikings won 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.160 the game. Of course they scored, but on third down 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.480 they were above seventy percent well into the fourth quarter 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:01.040 on third down, being able to get those first downs 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.880 and keep those drive going and score points. It's one 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:05.800 of the reasons why they won the game, outside of 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.080 the defense planing some goddamn good football. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.040 Yeah, the forty nine ers could not get off the 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.600 field on third down, and that's that's when you lose 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.120 the game, because you give them three more cracks at you. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.000 You do a great job. 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:18.720 You can stop them on first down, you stop them 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.200 on second down, and you're like, Okay, we're one down 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.800 away from getting off the field, getting giving our offense 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.120 and opportunity to get back, and they could not get 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.360 up the field on third down. But it seems like 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:32.159 to me Brian Flores what he went into this game said, 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.560 you know what, Christian McAffrey is not running this football. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.719 We won't the elite rock party. We want the ball 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.040 in his hand and we want him to throw the ball. 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.960 And you know they got that swing past to McCaffrey. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.559 They call him in a blitz on the back side, 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.320 they swing it out the wide receiver. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.000 We do a great job of blocking. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:48.560 Blocking, Murphy. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.400 Got to make that tackle, man, Murphy Murphy playing around. 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:53.159 He got to make that tackle. 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:53.480 Man. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.160 But what do you take away I'm looking at I'm 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.360 looking at defenses and the way they're going to approach 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.320 the forty nine ers, especially with no Debo and Trent, 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:02.400 because I thought they did. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.760 A great job of protecting considering Trent wasn't in there. 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.160 But they shut down McCaffrey and the run game and 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.960 put the ball in brock Perty' sayd says, we don't 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:12.880 believe you can beat us, right. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.760 I think, well, you know what, not only did they 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.000 believe that he couldn't beat us, they did a great 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.480 job obviously stopping the game, but the secondary played really 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.000 well as what played really good as well, being able 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.839 to stop kittles with Debo being out. Obviously, Trent Williams 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.480 Trim William not being being in there. They did a 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.120 great job in the secondary. I'm not sure what defense 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:37.640 Brian Flores ran tonight. I'm not sure what it was. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.919 A yeah, that too, But but what is that telling us? 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.520 What is that telling us? Brandon Nyuka is out there? 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.279 Are we saying that they can't get open against Man? 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.920 Well he played, I mean Brandon Nyuk, he called from passes. 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:50.680 I mean they were going to him early. He did 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.840 a great job. Even Jennings got going late, but it 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.440 was in between, you know, the turnover. It seemed like 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.320 the forty nine ers of drive about to open the game. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.599 After they pickoff Cousins early in the ball, they're driving 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.200 down the field. McCaffrey costs it up and instead of 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.680 getting seven three out of that drive, here comes to 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.839 Minnesota back. They put a drive in the end zone 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.400 and so instead of being up seven nothing, three nothing, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.279 you find yourself down seven nothing. 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.480 Yeah, And one of the balls selled on One of 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.640 the balls selled on Brock I think it might have 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.000 been a dig route. I think it might have been 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:23.400 a dig right. He was trying to throw it. Sel 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.800 sailed a little bit and once I can't remember his 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:27.320 last name. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.040 It was his last name. I got the interception. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.480 Once he got that second one, I knew, I had 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.320 a feeling it was going. I had a feeling he 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:35.919 was gonna throw a pick, because whenever you put the 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.880 ball in the quarterback's hands and you have to score 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.160 at that point, defensively. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:40.920 You can cheat it a little bit. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:42.680 You con cheated it because you know they got an 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.520 in stair way down the football field and not just 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.040 take one huge chunk right. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:48.920 But when you look at it, you could tell early 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:50.880 on that the ball was sailing on him. He threw 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.400 one early to Kittle and got killed hitting the growing, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.080 So the ball was selling on him early, and so 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.560 it felt like, you know what, it might be a 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.120 problem tonight. Him being able to control the football. I'm 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.600 surprised considering that work. They are indoors and there is 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.320 no element that's in play. You have a seventy two 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.960 degree controlled environment. So I thought he would have better 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.160 control of the football than what he showed. But give 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.200 give the Minnesota Vikings credit their defense. And how about 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.360 Cousins thirty five or forty five, three seventy eight, two touchdowns, 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.360 one pick and playing well in a primetime game. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:31.160 We know Jesson Jefferson, No, JJ, we know. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.920 We we beat him up when he plays bad primetime 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.120 Thursday night, Sunday night, Monday night. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:41.680 But tonight he was the main, the main reason. Can 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:46.240 we call him elite for tonight? I'm just asking based 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.120 on listen, numbers don't lie. Numbers don't lie, oh Joe, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:50.960 But we got to start. If a guy had a 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.680 good game, he's elite. If he plays bad, he's a 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:54.280 bad can. 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:55.840 What is asking? 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:57.440 I'm just asking what is. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.520 Kirk cousins body of work shown you over a decade? 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.120 Has his body of work showed you that he's elite? 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.400 Now, it's been up and down. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.280 But but what Kirk has showed us is that he's capable. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.560 He's capable of playing consistent football and making sure and 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.960 giving his team a chance to win. He just hasn't 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.080 crossed over that hump yet. But he's consistently, consistently in 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.640 the regular season. He's good enough to get there. They 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:22.880 just haven't gotten over that hump. 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:28.000 Good old look good enough to get where where we're exactly. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.480 They're into the playoffs. 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.320 Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, they They always on the verge 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:33.720 for the for the past ten years. 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.840 Yeah, yeah, he just he's like, he's like, he's not elite, 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:38.760 but he's like. 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.320 He's like right there, right right on the verge, right 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.000 right right on the right on the verge. 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.520 What's what's wrong with being in here? Okay? 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.199 If elite's right here and the floor is right here, 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.120 why can't a guy be in between there? 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:53.559 Why does he have to be this or that? 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.000 Okay, okay, but listen, he's not He's not that far 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.800 below when you talk about the floor. He right right 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.720 underneath the Tier one quarterbacks. He's right there underneath. Based 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.920 on the body of work that he's put that he's 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:08.520 put up the past decade. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.400 Is he is all right? Forty nine ers had three 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.800 turnovers in the first six games. They had three turnovers 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.920 a night. And remember, when a team is down some 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.040 of their best players, if you're a better football team 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.400 and you turn the ball over, either you go down 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.440 to their level or you raise them up to your level, 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:28.559 one of the two, whichever one you choose to do. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.960 But that's what you do when you turn the ball over. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.080 But give them Minesota credit because they turned the ball 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.920 over also and they still found a way to win 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:37.440 this ball. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.720 Win one of the things that they were able to stop, 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.880 and there was no sign of brother Nick Bosa. 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.160 Yeah. No, they didn't really get pressure over. I thought 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.080 they would do a pressure. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.160 Yeah, I would I would have thought they would have. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.400 And the fact that Kirk Cousin was able to sit 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.960 in the pocket with bodies around him and facilitate the 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.520 ball at will was amazing to see. And the funny 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.400 thing about it, this entire week of football has been weird. 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:04.280 Would you consider this upset? 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.640 Yes? Absolutely. The Nineers were seven point favorite. 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.600 Not only was the ninety to seven point favorite. The 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:16.280 Patriots beat the Bills, the Steelers beat the Rams obviously, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.680 and the Viking just now beating the forty nine ers. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:19.400 Who whatever thought. 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.160 I know a lot of people, a lot of gambling 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.800 and bending people are set at the state of games 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:24.640 that happened this week. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:26.640 Well, this is this is one thing. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.960 After watching Kirk Cousins through the years, we know that 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.760 you got to pressure him if you and this look, 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.480 this is not earth shattering news. I'm not interrupting your 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:38.640 normally scheduled programming telling you something you didn't know. Most quarterbacks, 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.079 when you punch them in their mouth, it well, you 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:47.080 talk about the great Montana, Brady Manning, Elway, whomever. When 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.560 you pressure them, you greatly reduced their success rate. 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.720 But Kirk Cousins, we know it is even magnified. 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.960 Because those the league guys sometimes when you pressure them, 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.800 they still will look down the barrel and make a throw. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.880 But we've seen Cousins over the years. He kind of folds. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.480 He succumbs to a lot of that pressure. But tonight 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.480 they didn't get pressure on him, and his. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.480 Stat line shows that they didn't get pressure on him. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.240 That thirty five or forty five three seventy eight two 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:20.600 touchdowns on a pick. So in this division, do you 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:24.160 think the Vikings can give the Lions trouble? I think 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.880 the Lions. I think even though they lost handedly yesterday 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.040 to the Ravens, I still believe that this is the 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.320 Lion's division to lose. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:35.640 I think it is still the Lion's division. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.160 The Lions are playing really good football right now, and 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.520 I think even though they are coming off of a loss, 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.200 they're going to respond extremely well in their next game. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.560 The Vikings without Justin Jefferson aren't beating the Lions. And 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.760 I think even with Justin Jefferson coming back and them 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:50.880 having to work him back in slowly, even though he's 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.160 coming off injury. I think it's too much too much 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.560 ground to make up to actually unsee the Lions and 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:57.880 winning and winning that division. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:11:59.960 Too much, too much ground to make up. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.160 Okay, it was announced today that the Miami Dolphins will 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.880 be featured on HBO Hard Knocks. I guess it's for 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.160 the rest of the season, right, for the rest of 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:13.720 the season. Obviously, they have very compelling storyline. Mike McDaniel, Hey, 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.320 he loved to have fun. They do his interview and 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.400 he takes off running. He's very animated on the sideline. 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.280 He's very jovial. You got too in his story You 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.000 got Tyreek in that track team. So I think it's 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.840 a very compelling storyline. You and I were both on 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.240 the show. We started. I was in Baltimore in two 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.040 thousand and one and we kicked off Hard Knocks. Yeah, 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.800 you were on the fifth and the seventh season. Talk 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.600 about some of your experience with the cameras and having 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.719 to try to offer the fans a glimpse of a 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.920 day in the life of a player that's in training camp, 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:45.120 being a veteran player. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.920 Listen, that was one of the best experiences to me, obviously, 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.560 allowing people to see what it's like inside inside of 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.080 training camp, seeing the way the work ethic that not 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.240 just I put in, but my teammates, what goes into 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.280 day to day practices, our schedules, as far as meetings. 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.880 Obviously the cutthrow part of the business. Obviously you know 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.480 when it's when it's time to get cut. But it 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.920 was fun. It was very fun, just just being myself, 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:15.320 being authentic, being being my my going organic self. And 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.040 I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it. It was the birth. 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.319 It was the birthing of child. Please one of my sayings, 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.080 and kiss the baby and some other stuff like that. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:26.600 And it just a lot of people to see a 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.560 different side of a different side of us outside of 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.600 seeing the finished product on Sundays at one o'clock and 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.000 what I like to call the politically the politically correct 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.720 interviews that we do on Sundays after games. 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.080 I think that. 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.160 That that's hard Knocks is really good because it shows 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:43.680 a different side of all the players. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.480 Yeah, it gives you an opportunity the players getting ready, 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.720 the meeting time, how much meeting time, the prep work, 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.280 guys getting massages, and the guys getting in the cold 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.880 dub and the guys doing things to get ready, because 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.360 you break you down, you break your body down, and 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.800 then somehow you got to get it back together for 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:02.400 the next day at practice, and and and and the 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:07.280 and the difficult side, some of these players dreams will 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:11.079 go unrealized. You made it there, but this is as 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:15.640 far as it goes. And the realization that my dream 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.520 of being an NFL player is not going to materialize. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.080 And now I've got to branch back into the real 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:22.880 world and get it. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:23.720 You had a great run. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.400 You're probably a pretty good high school player, good the 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.800 great high school player, had a good had a very 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:34.480 good excuse me, college career, but that next level isn't 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.200 going to happen to you. And sometimes watching the guys 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.840 because you get you get close to some of the 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.760 guys and you see how hard and how much work 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.040 they put into it, and then to realize that you 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:45.440 know what it's over now. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.000 Yeah, listen, that's a that's a tough job. That's a 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.160 tough tough job to do it, especial for coaches. And 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:51.560 when you get there, when you hear that knock on 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.240 the door, you know and say, man, that's Man, that 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:56.760 has to be one of the worst feelings. And the 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.000 fact that, obviously hard nuts is cut it out. I 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:00.600 think I think they cut out that part where they 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:01.880 where they show people getting released. 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.320 Now right, they no longer show that. Listen, list it's. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.640 It's honest, it's it's just it's just the truth of 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.760 the business, and it's it's just the way it is. Obviously, 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.600 my childhood dream, it wasn't even to be a NFL player. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.440 I wanted to be a veterinarian. I wanted to be 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.640 a marine biologist because I love dogs and I love 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:19.360 killer whales. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.960 But the fact that Grandma, obviously with football being my 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.640 outlet and something for me to do based on the 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.800 area where I was in, because it's either your plan 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:33.600 sports and there's no other route, I definitely wanted to 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.960 be no academic scholar. I can be honest with you. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:43.520 I'm just gonna be honest with you. Hey listen, but listen, listen. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.640 Grandma is the reason I was able to make it, Man. 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.120 And that day when I saw that name, when I 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.560 saw that name go across that across that tickericker, yeah 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.160 she was. She was the first one I went to, 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.920 Man and I told her, I say, mommy, we made it. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:56.320 Man. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.480 She told me, listen, this is just the beginning of 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.560 your journey, right, it is again and then and then 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.600 it starts all back over again. It's a it's an 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.720 entire different set of goals that I had to set 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:06.720 and conquered. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:08.560 Yeah, you're actually absolutely right. 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.160 And that's what a lot of times I tell the guys, 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.120 I say, this is the end, this is the beginning. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.200 So now this is step one. You're here making the team. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.280 Now is it just good enough that you made the team? 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.160 What do you want to be? I didn't want to 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.400 be a guy, just the guy. I wanted to be 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.360 the guy I wanted to be depended on. I wanted 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.960 the guys. I wanted people to have my jersey. I 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.160 wanted people to like throw the ball to Sharp. I 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.440 wanted my team and say, hey, man, get up, Man, 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.200 get up thanking the Sharp, get up, thank the Shark. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.480 That's what I wanted to hear. It wasn't good enough, 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.960 like I'm on the team. Oh yeah, I played for 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.080 the Broncos. What position do you play? 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.640 You know? Do you start or what do you do? No? No, no, 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.280 no no no. I needed people to know. 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.320 I needed what when my grandmother turned the TV over, 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.320 my sister would turn the TV onto the channel that 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.680 we're going to be on that she knew her baby 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.000 was out there. Yeah, live, I saw my baby. He 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.360 was he had a good game. So that for me, 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.879 that was my goal. That's what it was, not just 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.360 getting to the NFL, because I'm always dreaming. But now 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.080 that I'm here, I can't go back. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:12.760 Right right listen. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.280 I had no choice could go back because, like my 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.640 grandma told me, I got in trouble at Lang's University 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.840 and I got thrown out of school. And I told you, 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.159 I came home on the plane and she said, I 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.800 washed my hands with you. I've done all I can do, 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.800 and ship me to my mama. There was no coming back. 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.080 So once I made it, once I got the opportunity 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.120 in the NFL, there were no more doors. There were 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.000 no more doors I could walk through us. I had 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.640 no choice but to make it work. And of course 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.280 I get drafted by the Bengals. At that time, we 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.919 were the laughing stock of the NFL, and I got 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.280 my homeboys in the hood. You know, we in Liberty City. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.240 We celebrated like Lee o Cho. Well, you went to 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:49.120 the Bengals. 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:50.080 They laughing. 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.320 Was like, listen, give me a year or two and 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.960 it won't be so funny. I said, give me a 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.320 year or two and I will do all I can 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.520 to make sure we're not the laughing stock of the league. 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.520 But I would make us fun to watch again. I 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.800 would give that city and those fans something to be 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:09.520 proud of. I would make people happy and feel okay 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:14.240 wearing jerseys Cincinnati jerseys outside of Cincinnati, and I think 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:14.919 I just did that. 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:15.320 Obviously. 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.399 The end goal is to have a Lombardi Trophy, but 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.440 that's a team, that's a that's a team achievement and accomplishment. 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:23.920 I wouldn't. I fell short of that, but everything else 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:25.159 I lived up to. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.800 But going back, what was I going back to? The 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.840 reason I thought so hard was I didn't have to 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.200 go back, go back to visit, but I wasn't going 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.480