Speaker 1: This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at
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Speaker 1: Steve Smith Senior, and and this is a cut to
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Speaker 1: you anyway. You can go to jail for that. That's murder.
Speaker 1: If you ask someone please video, please don't make me,
Speaker 1: don't make me synonymous with a murder. You said, we
Speaker 1: didn't even ask. Why did your mind even go to that?
Speaker 1: Because it's asked, that's why. So so let's get into
Speaker 1: some let's get into some ball. Man. So we've got
Speaker 1: we've got this new age that we're in, the COVID age,
Speaker 1: the pandemic age in the NFL. We're going into week seven.
Speaker 1: What's been your thoughts on where the league is with
Speaker 1: the pandemic. Well, I don't know where the league is
Speaker 1: with the pandemic because when you look up the word pandemic,
Speaker 1: it means all, so it infiltrates everybody. So it's not
Speaker 1: just oh, the sports world is messed up. Oh, the
Speaker 1: medical world is messed up. Every walk of life has
Speaker 1: been impacted on this young old um you know, short, tall, rich, poor.
Speaker 1: It does not it doesn't discriminate. It's impacting everybody. So, uh,
Speaker 1: football wise, I mean I think to some degree they've
Speaker 1: adjusted the best they can. Nothing ever is ever full
Speaker 1: proof because this is unprecedented times. This is a this
Speaker 1: is new, this is a pandemic, this is uh, this
Speaker 1: is life on you talking about audibles, man, you can't
Speaker 1: audible enough, but you can't have enough plays on the place.
Speaker 1: This is unprecedented. What rubs me is with anything you
Speaker 1: mentioned football, with anything right now, everyone wants to have
Speaker 1: a knee jerk reaction to you should do this, You
Speaker 1: shouldn't be doing this. This needs to be open. This
Speaker 1: needs to be closed for us here at this table,
Speaker 1: We're never gonna be able to figure out whether you
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen with this season. I would
Speaker 1: want to know, how do you think all this uncertainty
Speaker 1: ways on a team's routine. You've always schooled me on
Speaker 1: how how you as an NFL player, you're you're you're
Speaker 1: in a routine, you know what you're gonna do day
Speaker 1: by day. With something like this, and I know you're
Speaker 1: not in the locker room right now something like this,
Speaker 1: How how do you proceed? Let me let me tell
Speaker 1: you what I've heard has going around teams. So and
Speaker 1: it's cool because it's video, right, so utilize illustration. We
Speaker 1: need is a smart board. I like a smart boy,
Speaker 1: all right, So this is the player. Okay, driving up
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, right, so re record generally on Tuesdays.
Speaker 1: So I'm driving up on Tuesday, Joe, UM, use your phone.
Speaker 1: So driving up on a Tuesday, this is the check
Speaker 1: in station. So you drive up, you don't even get
Speaker 1: out of your car. They test the player inside the car,
Speaker 1: so they use a Q tip as as long as
Speaker 1: this microphone. So it's like this is this long vote.
Speaker 1: So now I'm exaggeration starting. So so they get the
Speaker 1: two pits the cotton swap, right, So they go in
Speaker 1: there and they go in there and see how many
Speaker 1: boogers you got you and they take it in there.
Speaker 1: Then once you pass it, once you they get your tests,
Speaker 1: open it up and you drive on it facility and
Speaker 1: have it to where you know that. Some guys may struggle,
Speaker 1: specially in the beginning, because it's alphabetical. So it's like
Speaker 1: a through d F through agee. The man's I play
Speaker 1: with some dudes that hey, bro, the ail is left, okay,
Speaker 1: co opposite of the ale. That's right, it is, okay,
Speaker 1: it is. It's that bad. Not everybody with the same school, Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you. And I'm not talking about college either.
Speaker 1: There's some there's some name rods, right, but here there's
Speaker 1: some guys that's watching this that's probably like, yeah, Steve
Speaker 1: was one of them name rods, probably depending on the day.
Speaker 1: So being they're going there, right, So you're going there
Speaker 1: and you just so you go about your day. You
Speaker 1: have the contact tracker or tracer, and they know how
Speaker 1: far you stood away from a guy if you test positive,
Speaker 1: who you interacted with, and that's how they find out.
Speaker 1: So you test positive or have a positive negative whatever
Speaker 1: in that scope, then they find out all the people
Speaker 1: you have interacted with or have been minus six feet
Speaker 1: distance to be able to go back and test those guys.
Speaker 1: There are some organis that most organizations have probably spent
Speaker 1: between two to four million dollars testing just testing because
Speaker 1: they have they have nurses and people there from all around,
Speaker 1: I mean everywhere. We may have the Panthers. I'm just speculated,
Speaker 1: may have some people from Charlotte, but also maybe some
Speaker 1: clinical specialists from Nashville or Atlanta, and Nashville may have
Speaker 1: some folks. They probably don't have no folks left in Nashville.
Speaker 1: They probably got some folks from Charlotte and Atlanta. Right, So,
Speaker 1: just doing all of that. So it is a process.
Speaker 1: And another part, which is it's different is um, I remember,
Speaker 1: I love traveling when I go play a team because
Speaker 1: here's why a lot of guys don't live in the
Speaker 1: cities they usually play in for all those years. Because
Speaker 1: they go say they go to the Carolina Panthers and
Speaker 1: they playing this team, you get the best of that
Speaker 1: city for twelve hours. And what I mean the best
Speaker 1: of that city means you get the best restaurant based
Speaker 1: on whatever advertisement or whatever someone five star and you
Speaker 1: get that um restaurant and experience and it makes you go, man,
Speaker 1: that place must be awesome. Because when I was there
Speaker 1: last time, when I played the Carolina Panthers, man, we
Speaker 1: at this place. We did that. They don't get to
Speaker 1: experience that. When they go to a city, they are
Speaker 1: on lockdown, lockdown, no visitors, no one comes in or out.
Speaker 1: You are the room service, you play the game ass
Speaker 1: on the whole on the plane, and you back to
Speaker 1: your cities. Bye weeks. Not allowed to travel, not allowed
Speaker 1: to visit, not allowed to do any of that stuff.
Speaker 1: So it has really changed into a sport that has
Speaker 1: allowed you to, you know, maybe go playing London. Now
Speaker 1: you are in that city that you're playing in, you
Speaker 1: only see those facilities and you don't do any extracurricular
Speaker 1: activities of meaning you can't Like when I played in
Speaker 1: San Francisco. One time I went and saw one of
Speaker 1: my cousins. I drew down to Oakland and watched my
Speaker 1: cousin on the Saturday because we had we we we
Speaker 1: had practice early in the morning and we were done
Speaker 1: to the rest of the day. So I drove down
Speaker 1: to Oakland watched my my cousin play his high school
Speaker 1: game after school, and it was I had a blast
Speaker 1: and it wasn't I had a blast because I want
Speaker 1: them from Cali and I got an opportunity to see
Speaker 1: some family and I got to see him in an
Speaker 1: element and then oh, my big cousin who played plays
Speaker 1: in league, He's come to see me play or go
Speaker 1: have this day and they just seem like that's that's
Speaker 1: all I do. Win, it's all out the wind, or
Speaker 1: go or get to watch my um go home and
Speaker 1: I get to watch my h have I get to
Speaker 1: have dinner with my with my grandmother. So some of
Speaker 1: that stuff just doesn't happen anymore. I mean, you got
Speaker 1: the Lakers just won the championship in the bubble. The
Speaker 1: World Series is about the Star, the Rays and the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm leaving the how about this? What's up?
Speaker 1: Whoever wins, We'll have two championships. If the Rays win, ye,
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Lightning have one the nil and then
Speaker 1: you had the Lakers and the Dodgers, and then if
Speaker 1: the Lake if the Dodgers win, you got the Lakers
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers. Who was that? That's Did you know
Speaker 1: that before I said that? Fun fact, didn't know that
Speaker 1: you did that. I didn't know that, I thought. I'm
Speaker 1: still I'm still very wide to say I know that.
Speaker 1: But uh, but what parts of that? I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it sounds like a lot of the things you talked
Speaker 1: about in terms of the protocols. We know that the
Speaker 1: NFL is there's there's no way you end up doing
Speaker 1: a bubble for every single team the way that the
Speaker 1: NBA has. But it seems like there's parts of of
Speaker 1: those bubbles that NFL is implementing to to better regulate
Speaker 1: a lot of the you know, COVID and the spread virus.
Speaker 1: It's more of just to spread and the impact that
Speaker 1: it has. Understanding the impact, understanding way things are going.
Speaker 1: How what when you have to to some degree, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say push aside what's going on, but
Speaker 1: we cannot continue to just kind of hovering this no
Speaker 1: man's land, right. It is dangerous. It's it's psychologically um
Speaker 1: impact and everyone, um, who are your surprised three week
Speaker 1: six and who are your disappointments? Disappointment is really uh?
Speaker 1: I mean the Dallas Cowboys stuck up defense, defense, everything.
Speaker 1: I mean they missed blocks, they missed, they miss they
Speaker 1: missed simple assignments. I mean Ezekiel Elliott was unlike the
Speaker 1: Zeke to feed me man that we've we've seen him
Speaker 1: to be. It's just a lot of things that team.
Speaker 1: That team is struggling, and defense is like a screen
Speaker 1: door with a hole in it. Let's everything in sha man,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Here's how I think that I have noticed,
Speaker 1: though I didn't really think and not because I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a good player. I didn't think the absence
Speaker 1: of Dak would impact that team from the top to
Speaker 1: the bottom. This team looks like they're in disarray. They
Speaker 1: and that tells me that speak to you more about that. Yes,
Speaker 1: they lost their general. They have lost the guy who
Speaker 1: commands everything, who is the leader of this team. And
Speaker 1: it's showing the offensive line like Andy Dalton is not
Speaker 1: a Dak Prescott quarterback, however he I mean the right
Speaker 1: guard just missing the slide is a ricky Ricky bro
Speaker 1: It's right. Oh, the trickle down fact, I mean the
Speaker 1: impact on that that the it's remarkable how that team
Speaker 1: is in disarray. And and you can't blame it on coaching.
Speaker 1: You can't blame it on players. They lost their faith
Speaker 1: general general, and it's impact with that. So that's your disappointment.
Speaker 1: Who's your surprise. There's a number of teams I got
Speaker 1: to eat my humble Pie and Jimmy Garoppolo. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I thought he was more of a system guy. He
Speaker 1: played the week before Week five, he played bad. You know,
Speaker 1: one touchdown I believe, but two interceptions. He come out
Speaker 1: there for thirty three two d sixty eight yards hundred
Speaker 1: twenty four point three NFL quarterback raiding and three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: zero interception. You can see he was comfortable. He failed
Speaker 1: general and I really have to say, I'm surprised that
Speaker 1: he came. How methodical, intelligent, um precise and cool he was,
Speaker 1: and that I see why they gave him the contract extension.
Speaker 1: I see why. Yes, he understands that system, but the
Speaker 1: way he orchestrates that system makes it so Beethoven. It's
Speaker 1: like it was really good comparing quarterback to composers. You
Speaker 1: got a job doing this, I might. All right, Well,
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