WEBVTT - Mark Sanchez: Jets “Hard Knocks” life, the White House dinner fiasco, broadcast stardom 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:03.960 I'm tearing told and I'm Tory Hopes and you're listening 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:07.640 to the NFL Players Second Acts podcast. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:08.879 Pieces. 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.520 Thank y'all for tuning in. I'm Peanut tuning and this 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:21.720 is my guy, Roman Dalmatian. You got these spots, Harper, 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.760 this is the NFL player Second Acts Podcast. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.160 And uh yeah, you like that intro? Right, that was 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:28.040 a good one I did. 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.040 It's more of a blend. It's not really a dalmation. 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.400 My hair's not spotted, but it definitely blends well. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:34.199 But thank you. 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:35.880 First of all, give me give a shout out to 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.120 all of our our listeners and followers out there. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.120 Give us a rating five stars. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.800 Please, wherever you listen to your podcast, where it's Apple 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:48.920 Podcast or iHeartRadio, wherever you listen, please continue to tune in, watch, 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.560 click follow, do all those special things. Tell a friend, 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.800 to tell a friend, to tell a friend, now, Peanut, Yes, sir, 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.360 who is our guests this morning in this beautiful studio. 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.000 We got a good one today. We got a good 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.440 one today. Fred's he's local, you know, he's out of California. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.720 He was the number five overall draft pick in a 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.280 two thousand and nine draft taken by the j E 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.480 t X Jets, Jets, Jets. All right, yes, played ten season, 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.240 four different teams. He's one of only two quarterbacks in 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.880 their first two years to go to the AFC Championship Game. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.280 He worked for Fox Sports. He calls games now. He's 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:30.200 a USC m F and legend. Y'all please welcome in 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.880 Mark Sanchez, ladies showman, thank you, thank you. I promise 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:35.880 she will never get another intro like that ever again. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:37.760 I know you do TV, but that is like one 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.479 of the you know that is that is a big 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:41.679 time energy. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:43.839 I feel good now you feel that energy. I didn't 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:45.600 know when I walked in. I was a little worried 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.240 watching the whole setup. Yeah no, we just and then 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.320 the intro scared me before the you know, the Dalmatian 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:52.760 and then but we're good now I'm on. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.520 This is my uncle though, man, like he this is 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:56.040 my uncle. 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.840 This the deacon. You gotta think when you first saw 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:05.240 this guy, he didn't not look so I'm actually yeah, 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:10.160 like he looks like he's like one of those deep 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.840 southern families. Were like, yeah, I'm the uncle that's younger 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.680 than you know what I'm saying, like, this is where 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:19.040 we're at, right, now, so it's all good, it's all acceptable. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:23.120 But Mark, this is my my first question. It's very current. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.239 All right, you were on Hard Knocks at one point 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.280 in time. Have you watched the Hard Knocks this year 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:30.560 and have you been keeping up with it? Knowing that 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.160 it's the Jets. A lot of people didn't want the Jets. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.359 Aaron Rodgers didn't want to be on there, and we 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.000 all kind of have our ways about Hard Knocks until 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:38.960 all of a sudden you're on there. 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:40.560 So it's give me your opinion on it. 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.760 So it is interesting, and there is a shift I 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.880 think from the lead up to it and then once 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.000 you're on it. I think the lead up is a 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.919 little scarier and bigger, and you know these big, bad 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:52.840 cameras are going to be in there. But then when 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.359 you're actually on it, you're so laser focused. And you 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.400 guys know this as former players. You're just trying to 0:02:58.040 --> 0:02:59.520 you know, you guys are trying to get the ball back, 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.639 we're trying to score points like that. Yeah, you don't 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:03.640 even think about it, and you say the same silly 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.880 stuff that you normally would. I think, are you miked up? 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.160 So it's most of the time like everybody who's kind 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.880 of mic or do you know, but in the game, 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:18.280 certain players, right like specifically generally the quarterback, you know, 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.079 for this one, it's Scarett Wilson, it's Sauce Gardner, it's 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.280 Quinn Williams. They want, you know, the superstars, and then 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.280 they'll throw the mics on some of the guys competing 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.239 for jobs, and that'll be the you know, kind of 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.000 feel good story of the guy trying to make the 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.160 team and he could be a special teamer and injuries 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.360 could happen, you know, all the same drama that they 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.320 love to unfold. It inevitably unfolds in thirty two locker 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.360 rooms around the league. They just capture one of them. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.560 But yes, I have been watching only because we were 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:47.120 on it before. They do such a great job of, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.200 most importantly just making the players and the stories more 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.680 of who they are, right right. Like you know, people 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.520 think like, Okay, money changes you. No, I think it 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:58.960 just makes you more of who you are. If you're 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:00.960 charitable with one hundred doll you're gonna be charitable with 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:02.640 a million dollars, you know what I mean. So this 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:06.440 show should make you more of who you are. Well, 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.160 if you're the raw, raw guy. If you're the breakdown 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:10.720 the team guy, you know what I mean, If that's 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.840 your role on the team, it's going to be even 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.480 sexier on this show. Well if you're not that guy 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.160 and you try to be that guy, oh dude, it's 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.040 like the worst. You know, like when somebody just tries 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:23.680 to break it down and you're just like, ooh, that 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:25.960 guy couldn't even motivate me to eat a sandwich, you 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.720 know what I mean, Like this is a free sandwich 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.800 at that So it's I'm happy for Aaron because I've 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.960 known him for a while. It's been a polarizing character 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.720 in the NFL soap opera that is every season, right, 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.240 and now people are starting to get a chance to 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.039 see him the way he is as a teammate behind 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.200 closed doors without you know, when you check all of 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:51.160 your own personal political agenda, baggage, all the stuff at 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.120 the door and you can just focus on football and 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.600 being a good teammate and working hard and trying to 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.320 win games. I mean, what else do you want? The 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:03.880 dude's unbelievable to camp last week, they yes, Decker was there. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.640 I got a dude. The kid makes a cameo in 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:10.560 Hard Knocks and Braylan Edwards is just blocking my visual 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:16.440 the whole time. Dude, I'm you know this was this 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:21.320 was about me? It was it was funny. They were 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.960 doing the targets right yeah, yeah? Was this after or 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.560 doing this was during practice and they're walking over to 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.840 start scrimmaging with the Buccaneers and they're doing all these 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.880 targets and Zach Wilson might have hit one in like 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.800 all thirty of the throws from three quarterbacks, but in 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.000 the episode the night before, I'm like, dude, you guys 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.120 couldn't miss. So what's going on with the editing here? 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:41.600 What are we doing? 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.440 So I gave him a hard time and then Braylan 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:45.440 blocked my visual on that. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.560 Was there ever a moment that caught you off guard 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.240 when you did the hard Yes? So I did it 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.320 with Rex right one, yes, and he was already He's 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.840 like for the camera. Oh he was bill for it, 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.479 you know what I mean. I think that's so important 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.880 to talk about. It was like Phil wants to get 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.719 a team. That's they want to show. 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.000 Yes, they want Yes, you want to let's go get 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.160 some and ice cream exactly. And that was that was 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.080 very Rex just off the cuff and like, you know, 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.280 as defensive guys, you'll appreciate this. As offensive guys, it 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.160 kind of freaked me out. But Rex was like, I 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.040 don't care if we play the game. I don't care 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.120 if we just fight in the parking lot, like, we'll 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.720 just figure it out. And I'm like, well, offense doesn't 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.240 work like that. Okay, that worked for half the team. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.480 We'll go study a little bit. You guys go kick 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.160 everyone's ass. We'll be there to try and score. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:31.560 Yeah. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.760 But Rex was perfect for it, and I think the 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.680 guys on it are are shining the way they're supposed to, 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.520 and it just gives it really is for the fans, 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.440 and it gives them such insight on on what the 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.520 players are like. When you, you know, make fun of 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.480 other guys. The rookies have to do their rookie show. 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:51.200 Their rookie show was terrible this year. It was terrible. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.800 Yes twice. I mean one of the guys went up 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.320 and did the the eight mile b Rabbit thing and 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:01.240 that was fine, but I just I was, you know, unimpressed. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.880 You gotta do the coaches meeting. Yeah, that's like the 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.440 standard rookie show is right. You make fun of all 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.800 the coaches and maybe throw one or two players in there. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.440 So they didn't do what we did. I did a 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:13.679 whole physio ball. 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.200 Under my shirt for Rex because this was before he 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.120 had the surgery, right right, and he was real big. 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.560 He was always snacking, so I had all these snacks 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.120 in the top of the phisio ball under my thing. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:24.960 I put baby powder in my hair because he was 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.560 all great at you know, Oh dude, we had a 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:28.480 great team meeting. 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.680 People understand like that how much that brings teams together 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.360 when you have a good rookie show. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.720 If you're not in the ladder, you don't understand that. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:37.160 Yeah. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:42.280 I tried to tell that it does matter. Teams they 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:43.560 have great locker room. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.200 There is something. Okay, you have a great locker room, 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.560 you have a great rookie show, and you generally have 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.840 a good chaplain and a good chapel service. Yes, right, yeah, 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.400 am I right? The best teams? 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:53.720 I bet? 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:58.880 Yes, Yes, he does talk about your first those teams matter. 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:03.720 Those solid Our rookie show is legit. The rookies from 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.520 the year before would help the guys when they and 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.200 then here's kind of what we did. Check this out 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.080 might want to think about this. Here's some idea. You know, 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.840 you give them a little material just to make it good, 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.800 because you know you want everybody to enjoy it. The 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.600 tightest locker rooms are the best teams. When it becomes 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.720 different than just a job, when you're not clocking in 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.760 and clocking out, you transcend football and become a family. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.680 You guys know. That's when it's like, okay, we have 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.080 an opportunity at least to make a run at this thing. 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.000 I just love that at the rookie show, and I 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.040 hate to beat a dead horse, but like, you got 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.640 to give effort. Oh and the veterans are going to 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.439 sign off with your terrible singer. It's all about the 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:43.679 effort did you put in? 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.880 Did you try? It's the older brother, yeah, yeah, right, 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:49.520 a passage. 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:51.640 Yeah, you know we all had to do it, and 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.319 so what kind of effort did you There's always that 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:58.480 one rookie that was like, I went to school to cool. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.000 I'm not jumping up the I'm not gonna. 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.400 Sing like just like, come on, man, that's how you 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:03.080 gain the respect. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.560 Nobody pick on me. You're gonna get the worst. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.920 You're gonna get it. You're definitely gonna get it. We 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.320 had we had a couple of guys like that. But yeah, 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.760 that that locker room, that foundation is what I think 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.040 is what brings you together. Me and you, Carolina. Obviously 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.000 we had a great year, our good run. We're good teammates. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.040 I'm sure you had some good teammates. I want to 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:27.160 kind of switch it. So two thousand, what was that? 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.760 I think twenty twelve I was I was able to 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.920 go to the White House, did an internship with FEMA, 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.240 and uh my, I guess my boss for the day 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.520 or for the for the week, got me in, went 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.480 to the White House, mass saw some some really cool stuff. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:46.920 Situation room. Now I know you went back in twenty ten. Yeah, 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.560 so I got a T shirt on and you thought 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.319 it was just a dang you thought it was a steak. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:53.400 You gotta. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.880 So deep break like talk to me about what he's 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:58.480 your plus one? 0:09:58.559 --> 0:09:59.959 Right? How many buttons you got on that yeat? 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.560 Yeah, that's that's the Steve Hart. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.080 So there's a different time. We didn't have the euro 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.920 cut back then. Yeah, okay, so this is you guys 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.559 at this we get invited, This is at the State st. 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.199 A t Yes, Hillary Clinton State dinner, right, No, it 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.160 was Obamama, Okay, yeah. 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:19.760 And the Mexican president was going to be there. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.320 He's trying This is a totally different side story. Don't 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.960 even worry. Totally different side story. He's trying to reach. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.760 He's reached, don't worry about it. That's an inside joke over. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.360 Thomas is laughing back there because he knows this is 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:31.720 a reach. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:32.599 I'm gonna let that. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.160 Yeah, he owes us. He's gonna lose a bet too. 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.319 He's lose a bit off that. 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:38.560 I tried to see it in there. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:43.520 Invited to the state dinner. Barack Obama, the President of Mexico, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.720 is going to be there, and they're in the receiving line. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.439 The whole deal. Well, I remember getting this invitation and 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.560 the Jets telling me about it in the PR office 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.360 and like there's a big deal. It's in the off season. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.120 Worse you can make it. You know, they got a 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.200 private plane and all this stuff. I was like, whoa, 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.160 this is legit. So I called my brother and I 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.640 said my oldest brother Nick, who's an attorney, and I 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.920 was like, dude, we have a steak dinner at the 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.079 White House. And he goes what I said a steak dinner. 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.120 I get to go eat and like hang out at 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.160 the White House and he goes, did you just say 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.599 steak dinner? And I said yeah, they invited me to 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.920 a steak dinner and said, you idiot. I was like what. 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.280 He goes, state like United States like State of the 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.760 Union stat. I was like, oh, okay, well either way, 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:25.720 I'm sure they have food. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:26.640 Cool. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.439 He goes, steak dinner. What are you gonna bring a 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.520 knife in a one sauce? God, You're done? You know. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.120 He just give me a hard time. So he informs 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.800 me on exactly what it is we take. I invited 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.000 Brick because I knew he'd be all over that. He's 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.199 been on the podcast, right, Yes, yeah, he's awesome, so 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.679 and and so, you know, diplomatic. He was just so 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:45.480 well put together. And I was like, this is the 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.240 prolific like kind of hang out for me and my 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.760 man Brick. So we go. Dude, we're on the plane 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:56.760 and I left my shirt and I left my shirt 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:03.160 in the in the terminal to leave on this private 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.480 plane in the FBO right, how like an idiot? And 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.520 I have a T shirt on, I have everything else. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:09.679 And I was like, well, I don't want to wrinkle it. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.760 I'll put it up. Boom, I'll take the jacket. I 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:13.920 just left it in the stall. So we're in the 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.679 air and I tell the airplane pilot, hey, we have 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.520 a problem. The wrong thing to tell the guy because 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.760 it was just about clothing, not like there's a problem 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:24.720 with the plane. He like went into freak out mode 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.040 for a second. We had to calm him down. Boom, 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.000 I said, hey, I'm missing a shirt. Whatever he calls 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.479 like ground control. They start calling around to men's warehouses 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.760 or like other places I could go. So we go 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.280 find a place I can get a shirt. I walked 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.760 into the store. It's a men's warehouse in DC close 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.640 to the White House, packed with people because it's freaking 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.520 prom for high school. So I'm like, I got like 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.960 two hundred bucks in my pocket. Hauller at the manager. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.000 I'm like, yo, dude, my name's Mark Sanchez. I'm with 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.199 the Jazz. I gotta go to the White House right now. 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:54.280 It is like an emergency. I left a suit, blah 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:55.839 blah blah. He's like, you're gonna have to get the 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.160 whole getting kaboodle deal with. 0:12:58.240 --> 0:12:58.880 That's all we got. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.040 So I'm like, all right, I'm trying on this stuff. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:05.240 I ripped one of the jackets. It was horrible. It 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.720 was horrible. Just to get to those pictures was such 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.599 an adventure, and Brick was just like, dude, this is 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:15.599 my chance to meet Barack Obama. You're gonna blow it. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.040 So uh, it was an adventure to say the least. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.280 But we had a ball. And you know, he loves 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.520 the Bears. Man, Barrocco loves the Bears. He does get 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.640 him to I try to look. He is Aago guy. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:29.439 He didn't mess around. He said, no, I can't be 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.320 rooting for the jetson I'm a Bears guy. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.600 I was like, all right, so who I heard Beyonce performed? 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.319 He had to stay dinner this. I don't know she 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.839 was married to jay Z at the time, either, was she. 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.640 I don't know in ten eleven she was married. 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.360 I apologize so, but I don't know if they became 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.240 like the couple at the time. 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.960 No, not, they are now. Yeah, yeah, definitely. 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.559 The fact that that concert just happened in like this 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:58.040 outdoor ten I mean, dude, the whole night was surreal. 0:13:58.120 --> 0:13:59.880 You know, I'm like thinking, like, oh, can I take 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:01.559 the silver we're with me, I'm like, oh my god, 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.880 then I'm gonna be on like the FBI's wanted. You 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.439 don't know what to do there, You just try and 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.360 act natural. And I felt like such a square. 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.640 But was this like the top of the like the 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:12.640 food chain at this point time in your life, Like 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.600 had you done anything even close to this? And then 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.480 how do you ever like measure up to this again? 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.520 Yeah, I'm still trying, man, and it's been a failing effort. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:27.720 So thanks for reminding me that it was. It was 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.360 pretty I mean that whole time with the Jets, especially 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.880 the first couple of years, were this incredible blur of 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:41.120 some failures but mostly successes, and like that, like almost 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.160 top of the mountaintop, trying to get to a super Bowl, 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.760 meeting people like that, meeting people out in public after 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.800 games with my family that we've been fans of. Yea, 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.640 you know freaking Leonardo DiCaprio. You see anybody else or 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.840 people when they start to know your name, yes, or 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.520 you're you see somebody and they're like, yo, see Shack 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.640 at like a pool party in Vegas. He's like such 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.680 a on the mike. I'm like, dude, are you kidding me, 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.480 shock Doug, like we made it, you know, like it's 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.160 just uh, it was a it was a really cool feeling. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.040 And that was no different so being the overall you know, 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.200 the fifth overall pick in the in the draft was 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.920 a two thousand and nine, being the fifth overall pick, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.520 and then going to those two AFC championships your first 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.920 two years. Like, what do you think your greatest NFL 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:26.080 accomplishment pofs. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.720 It's a great question. God, I think I think those 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.600 couple of those playoff games on the road were some 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:38.160 of my favorite. I remember I remember Thomas Jones almost 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:38.760 beating me up. 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.800 T Jones, Yes, Thomas q C. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.400 He threatened to kick my ass because I tried to 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.400 throw like a little one step slam on the goal 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.720 line against the Bengals in the first round of the 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:50.720 playoffs in the wild card. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.160 I was like a lookie run call and you want 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:54.800 to do your own thing, and it was just. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.560 A walk in touchdown for we scored on the next play. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:00.960 But he grabbed me by the face mask and he said, 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.320 you know, with much stronger language, but if you ever 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:04.800 do that again, I'm gonna kick your ass in front 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:08.520 of everybody. Yeah, it's like, yes, sir. I was like, 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.080 let's just hand this off. The San Diego game we 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:16.760 played against the Chargers. Gosh, I think I'm pretty sure 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.600 I played for free that game because I bought like 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.080 two hundred plus tickets. Oh and then after the game, 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.680 Thomas Jones got mad at me again because I got 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.240 to say hi to all my family members. Thomas. You know, 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.400 I mean, he's he can act. He's like and he's 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.440 really funny, but he's just quiet and doesn't like he's 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.240 not as outgoing, you know, he's not as I don't know, 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.040 he's not as bubbly as love people. You always got 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.680 this tough exterior. Well, when he wants to joke with you, 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.720 he's funny and so I'm holding up the bus and 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.720 so he cause people are like honking the horn, like dude, 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.520 let's go. We got to fly back home. We got 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.440 a game next with like all right onto the next 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.440 you know, and I'm still like, wow, this is crazy. 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.880 Thank you Aunt Linda, you know, saying hello to everybody, 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.040 and he goes, man, get your rookie ass on the bus. 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.040 I don't care about all your skater friends for. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:09.520 The sick game, bro, just. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.920 The whole bus is just laughing at me. So it was, 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.200 it was those are great times with those playoffs. 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.320 It's got to be really cool being a rookie quarterback 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:25.160 on that type of team, big veteran presence, great defensively, 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.240 all these big personalities, including your coach, and you're kind 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.159 of the the cog that's kind of making it go. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.280 Uh what was it like being a rookie in that moment? 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.360 Also, I listened to a couple of your other podcasts, 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.600 things you were talking about, and you got vets like 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:41.439 Alfanka didn't even talk to. 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.720 You, right, dude until the playoffs. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:45.040 Yeah, you like, he didn't even talk to me. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.800 I don't even He just didn't talk to rookies. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.919 And he would talk to somebody else to talk to him. 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:54.920 Yeah, hey, let's switch up the stats down Al wants this. Okay, 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:55.600 we did. 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.880 He knows I'm here right ted Washington to this second. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.399 I do something. Yeah, that's I mean, it's a vet thing. 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.600 You gotta you gotta earn the respect whatever that means. 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.680 That's old school vet though it is very you won't 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.880 see that today, like you lose over time. 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.520 Rubin Ruben did that? He tell ay, go tell that rookie. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.840 I want so one exact Hey, rook So, yeah, like 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:19.840 you don't you don't see that. That's I'm not gonna 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:21.600 say that's when the NFL was fun. But that was 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.240