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Speaker 1: That's the man Fred Smoot. I'm Michael Jenkins.
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Speaker 1: Podcast Fred Smooth Michael Jenkins, presented by seat Gig.
Speaker 2: You're ready to get loud? Yes?
Speaker 3: W's now?
Speaker 1: I care about? Use this all I care about? And
Speaker 1: we got them in spades. Over the weekends, The Victory
Speaker 1: Monday smood them.
Speaker 3: It's always good on the victory Monday. It's very relaxing
Speaker 3: and it feels like you accomplished something. Even though I'm
Speaker 3: not on the field playing, I feel like I wanted to.
Speaker 2: Well, you did win a little bit. I did, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I did. You were talking about what was.
Speaker 1: Going to happen in this game, and look, it wasn't
Speaker 1: the easiest game to watch at times. But as you know,
Speaker 1: as every NFL head coach will tell.
Speaker 2: You, you take a dub. However, like the NFL is hard
Speaker 2: to win.
Speaker 3: Like I always tell people, it's thirty two teams out there,
Speaker 3: full of pros, right, and I thought, I think the
Speaker 3: fan base thought we were just gonna show up and
Speaker 3: throw this team out because I here go the front
Speaker 3: office of Arison, the Cardinals tanking. Yes, the players didn't
Speaker 3: get that memo because at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: we are independent contractors. I can't afford to go out
Speaker 3: here and put some bad film out here because you
Speaker 3: want Kayler Williams. So the rest of the team did
Speaker 3: not get that memo, and that's why they play so shops.
Speaker 1: And I have to say I fell into that trap.
Speaker 1: I said, the Cardinals stink yeah.
Speaker 3: I was better on the Commander's Yeah, you should have
Speaker 3: said the giant.
Speaker 2: I mean that was ugly. It was. It was really ugly.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that bridge a second before get back
Speaker 1: in this game, because it's always nice when you win,
Speaker 1: and then you watch the other teams. Even though I
Speaker 1: know nobody likes the Cowboys, but at least someone gotta.
Speaker 3: Be down in misery. You're right, falling misery. Plus Philadelphia
Speaker 3: didn't look at shake well. But that's that's what you do.
Speaker 3: In the first couple of weeks. You try to find
Speaker 3: your identity and find yourself. So I never get too
Speaker 3: high with the first week and never get too low.
Speaker 1: It's never easy. And also defense travels. Defense usually is
Speaker 1: ahead of the offense. This way, there always always so
Speaker 1: we'll get in to Sam Hall in a second. But
Speaker 1: when you talk about this Washington d particularly late in
Speaker 1: this game, I mean, you got Montest sweat.
Speaker 3: My god, listen, FedEx Field that house need to put
Speaker 3: a beware dogs high out there. Beware dogs because we
Speaker 3: got a couple of them.
Speaker 2: Forbes sweat change the game.
Speaker 3: It wasn't funder you you Niversity of Mississippi State.
Speaker 2: We lose that game.
Speaker 3: Yesterday because Sweat was a one man rick in the
Speaker 3: machine yesterday.
Speaker 2: And to end it for knock the ball down sends
Speaker 2: and sends us home on a good note.
Speaker 3: But listen, Montes, Sweat is on a one man pay
Speaker 3: me tour. Yep, all right. At the end of the day,
Speaker 3: I think this is just the beginning for him because
Speaker 3: last year he was he was three inches away from
Speaker 3: seventeen sacks. Last year, Yeah, that posted one of the
Speaker 3: highest PFF grades. He is there. The game has slowed
Speaker 3: down for him, and now he becomes who he really
Speaker 3: going because he can only get better from here.
Speaker 1: You know what I love is if you knew nothing
Speaker 1: about these two teams and I said, watch this game,
Speaker 1: tell me which guy you think is in a contract here,
Speaker 1: you'd have been like that.
Speaker 2: Guy like that number ninety most definitely in the contract here.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing about it, like it get a
Speaker 3: list strassful in contract years because you're like, all right,
Speaker 3: the first thing I can't do is get hurt, all right.
Speaker 3: The second thing I have to do is put good
Speaker 3: film out here every game, So you become studious of yourself.
Speaker 3: You become your biggest enemy almost, So it has to
Speaker 3: be this level where you can get some zin and
Speaker 3: also play your game, but understand what's what's behind you know.
Speaker 1: And I love too that at the end of this game,
Speaker 1: when the crowd is getting really back into it, that
Speaker 1: he was playing so well that d just kind of smothered.
Speaker 2: They just smothered him. And the Cardinals were just worn out.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, they had they had made it to
Speaker 3: the point, and the fans took a toll over. Sit listen,
Speaker 3: it's hard with seventy thousand fans bearing down on you.
Speaker 2: And I saw Josh Dobbs couldn't hear on some third down.
Speaker 2: He just could not hear.
Speaker 3: That's that's how you weaponize a crowd like, that's how
Speaker 3: a crowd is supposed to be. It felt like a
Speaker 3: college atmosphere and FedEx it was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: And then not just the people there, not just being
Speaker 3: being loud, it was just good energy. It was just
Speaker 3: good energy all over it. And it's been a while
Speaker 3: since we felt there.
Speaker 2: And at the end of the show, we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about all the celebs that were there before the game.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I know you talked to most of those guys you
Speaker 1: experienced with most of those guys. So we're gonna get
Speaker 1: into that because the atmosphere was pretty incredible.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the offense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and samhow I think is a guy that and
Speaker 1: we all know this, it should said he has a
Speaker 1: ton of potential.
Speaker 2: Oh, he's going to be very good.
Speaker 1: We also forget this was his second start in their history.
Speaker 1: He has one more start than Cj'stroud, one more start
Speaker 1: than Bryce Shun, one more start than Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2: So let's keep that in perspective.
Speaker 3: All right, you brought those names up, all new boys,
Speaker 3: that's what we call Rioky's new boys. And you know,
Speaker 3: new boys, they'll eat as much as they want to,
Speaker 3: but they'll have to throw up every once in a while,
Speaker 3: like when they had to give me back to you
Speaker 3: what you're given to them. Look at the guy that
Speaker 3: you talked about, Bryce Young lost, Anthony richards lost, CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud lost. Yep, I got one. At the end of
Speaker 3: the day. I understand with him being eight quarters old,
Speaker 3: it's gonna take him some time. It's gonna be a
Speaker 3: year up and downs, but at one game, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be a game. I don't know if it's gonna be
Speaker 3: the tenth game, the twelfth game, the fourteen game. It's
Speaker 3: all going to slow down, yes, and then we get
Speaker 3: to see the real him start to how should I say,
Speaker 3: start to match rate and get shattered. But he showed
Speaker 3: us yesterday I can take a look in the face
Speaker 3: because list he took some licks cas you're white, tried
Speaker 3: to kill him the referee.
Speaker 2: Listen. Early on, by the way, the cars were just
Speaker 2: taking hast shots and tests.
Speaker 3: They had came out to said, you know what, everybody
Speaker 3: gonna cut us out. We're gonna bring pain, right and
Speaker 3: we're gonna pre pain. So he showed me he could
Speaker 3: take a lick and keep and get back and keep
Speaker 3: it on the ticket.
Speaker 2: He finished the game.
Speaker 3: He also showed me adversity doesn't bother me. He has
Speaker 3: this middles in. He ain't too high when he bothered.
Speaker 3: He ain't too low when he ain't doing well. But
Speaker 3: he showed me I'm a gamer. You pass. He threw
Speaker 3: for a touchdown this very Patrick Mahomes right there and
Speaker 3: him running and taking it into his own hands and
Speaker 3: scoring a touchdown. Think about it. If you give me
Speaker 3: the statue gave me yesterday, that means you're gonna score
Speaker 3: two touchdowns. One might be running, one might be passing.
Speaker 3: You're gonna turn it over at the end of the season.
Speaker 3: What you're gonna have thirty four touchdowns and seventeen picks.
Speaker 3: I will take that, Yes, I would, cause Jalen Hurts
Speaker 3: almost one MVP last year he scored thirty five touchdown.
Speaker 3: Understand where he's at and where he's going to be
Speaker 3: after this.
Speaker 2: That's a good point.
Speaker 1: And Jalen Hurd is a good example different quarterbacks but
Speaker 1: most definitely different. But also the narrative was is this
Speaker 1: guy gonna be the guy?
Speaker 2: You just don't and now look one of the best
Speaker 2: of the game.
Speaker 3: Listen got a big contract, took him to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: That's what you gotta say. What are we building towards
Speaker 3: when with Sam how we've been towards something great? Like
Speaker 3: I think he has the ability and I think he
Speaker 3: has the mental capacity to be a great quarterback.
Speaker 2: In this league.
Speaker 1: Again, we will get to the celebs, all the pregame
Speaker 1: festivities to sell out crowd, But I didn't want to
Speaker 1: ask what does it mean when you have all of
Speaker 1: this build up, when you have standing room only?
Speaker 2: And even though it was dicey, is still get to win.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what, I think the fans came in
Speaker 3: there with their mental like it's just gonna be our day, right,
Speaker 3: But you know, the rain came so so we had
Speaker 3: to all reset and train of thought.
Speaker 2: And I think they were so high and they started
Speaker 2: booing for a.
Speaker 3: While cause they're like, this can't be ten to sixteen,
Speaker 3: not with the Cardinals at the end of the day.
Speaker 3: I think the expectation was so high. Yes, him down
Speaker 3: in the beginning, but that's what sports is about. It's
Speaker 3: the longest running reality show of all time. And with reality,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be some ups and down and that's what
Speaker 3: we love about it, being emotionally attached to this game.
Speaker 3: Sometime we're gonna last, Sometime we're gonna cry for the
Speaker 3: end of it. We're gonna do it together at seventy
Speaker 3: thousand strong. And that's the difference. And we know this.
Speaker 3: The Arizona Cardner's fans don't travel. I don't even know
Speaker 3: if Arizona got fans, but I know this for Washington.
Speaker 3: Washington showed up yesterday.
Speaker 2: They certainly did you know who shut up over the weekend.
Speaker 1: I tell me, Jay Texas longer I knew we were
Speaker 1: gonna have to go ahead. Texas long, shut up, tell me,
Speaker 1: tell them I'm wrong. They were the better team on
Speaker 1: the field, and tuscaloosave it was a better fit.
Speaker 2: You are right, You are.
Speaker 3: Right from the on set Now I said this oors
Speaker 3: at your quarterback, I said, he's better than the quarterback
Speaker 3: for Alabama. Uh. I didn't know y'all defense yet. I
Speaker 3: did not know y'all defense was dead. And y'all proved that.
Speaker 3: Ready for the SEC cause y'all coming next year. We're
Speaker 3: ready for the SEC. But get ready for eight and
Speaker 3: four a lot, like get ready for eighty four a lot.
Speaker 3: And y'all just won't let Texas A and them make
Speaker 3: it with it. We wearing them one up, y'all by
Speaker 3: coming to the SCC and y'all like, you know what
Speaker 3: we're gonna come to, Like that's what y'all do to
Speaker 3: texts ay and them at all time.
Speaker 2: We said.
Speaker 1: No, so we don't give love to everyone. We'll get
Speaker 1: to Colorado on the second for Hannah. Yeah, well, Mississippi
Speaker 1: State to it up.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, we had to go
Speaker 3: stop all this Pac ten bleeding because we couldn't beat
Speaker 3: the Pac ten sc like every day had beat all us,
Speaker 3: beat all of us until the Missispi State bull Dogs
Speaker 3: go out there to Arizona and teach them a lesson.
Speaker 3: So at the end of.
Speaker 2: The day, Missippi State, we're gonna be right there.
Speaker 3: And every year we seen them, we had lose that
Speaker 3: one game to Arkansas and then uh maybe to Alabama.
Speaker 3: I don't see them doing that this year. I see
Speaker 3: them being a steady team because we don't have that
Speaker 3: one side of the ball that sticks out like they
Speaker 3: usually do. Now we just got even kid. We got
Speaker 3: a quarterback. Usually that's where we lacking it. We got
Speaker 3: a quarterback. We got everything it takes right now to
Speaker 3: be great. Now they're gonna take that next step. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: What's gonna happen this weekend. Don't you guys play LSU
Speaker 2: Oh yes we do.
Speaker 3: I'm going to the game French FW to be on
Speaker 3: the sideline. I'm taking my son down there to that game.
Speaker 3: Let him get this SEC in his blood. A good
Speaker 3: saturday moren ain't nothing like waking up a good Saturday
Speaker 3: in the sec downside. Like listen, when I wake up,
Speaker 3: I'm and take a deep break. We're like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: can maybe get out and give me a couple of plays,
Speaker 3: But I can't wait to go to Stark, Vegas and
Speaker 3: see the dog Pound rocking in there, and just watch
Speaker 3: my son's face as he because he's getting ready to
Speaker 3: take it on. He's a twelfth grader, so next year
Speaker 3: he'll be in college, so I really want to give
Speaker 3: him that experience of what it feels like to be
Speaker 3: a Mississippi State bulldofs. I'm gonna take him down there Friday,
Speaker 3: let him go around camp, let him do all this stuff,
Speaker 3: let him see the big old stuff in his daddy
Speaker 3: and now you know what I'm saying, the shoes, he
Speaker 3: got a fit. And then we're gonna go watch them
Speaker 3: take on LSU, which.
Speaker 2: They're just not the same LSU. I am sorry, you
Speaker 2: got the wrong coach.
Speaker 3: It happens.
Speaker 2: If you got to.
Speaker 3: Come down here and fake a Southern accent, you probably shouldn't.
Speaker 2: Be here like that. That's just what it is.
Speaker 1: Did you see the press conference where after that lost
Speaker 1: to Florida State. They asked him some of the press said,
Speaker 1: do you think you should have been more creative on offense?
Speaker 1: And he goes, I'm not gonna talk about being more
Speaker 1: creative on offense, more creative on defense, and then five
Speaker 1: minutes later random he goes, I think we should have
Speaker 1: been more.
Speaker 3: That's who he is. That's who he is, and now
Speaker 3: he's found himself in a high pressure situation like LSU
Speaker 3: don't take losing well. They do not take losing well,
Speaker 3: and they are only gonna, like I have to ask
Speaker 3: you themself, like think about it. You got him coaching,
Speaker 3: then you got a guy like Deon Sanders at Colorado
Speaker 3: who walks in your living room and leaves with your child. Now,
Speaker 3: Brian Kelly, I'm sorry. So that's that's what Kelly's gonna
Speaker 3: run a problem to in the South. Is not gonna
Speaker 3: be a recruit.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: He got LSU backing him, and you got the Tiger,
Speaker 3: and you got to you got all the aura of it.
Speaker 3: But I'm sorry, that ain't enough. And I think Alabama
Speaker 3: is seeing that right now.
Speaker 2: It ain't enough.
Speaker 3: Nick Saban, Nick Saban, don't like the nil Nick Saban
Speaker 3: don't like the transfer portal. Nick Saban will be left behind.
Speaker 3: That's what happens to old Relicks and right now him
Speaker 3: and Dabbo.
Speaker 2: Sweeney on their way out.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I moved.
Speaker 2: For your dogs this weekend.
Speaker 1: I walked in this morning and everyone's got a smile
Speaker 1: on their face because the Commander's won, and as Buffalo's won,
Speaker 1: your dog's won.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my Horns won.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But we got to talk about coach Bryan because
Speaker 1: I have to admit I've been late to the party here.
Speaker 1: I kept saying, like, all right, it's one game. It's
Speaker 1: one game, kind of like the Huskers this weekend because
Speaker 1: I like Matt Ruhle, But yeah, Colorado incredible atmosphere and
Speaker 1: the star power. Michael Irvin was losing it on the
Speaker 1: side of First of all, Shennon Shoppers are there, Shennon Sharp,
Speaker 1: you got stephen Ah Smith, you got Wu Tang, which
Speaker 1: I think it was like thirty three of them.
Speaker 3: It was like, I'm wrapped. It's like that's what he does.
Speaker 3: He brings entertainment to a campus. And what you loseing
Speaker 3: sight of Shador was a four star quarterback Travis Hunter
Speaker 3: with the number one player in the nation when he
Speaker 3: came out. Five star player. He got players all right.
Speaker 3: So at the end of the day, he might not
Speaker 3: have as much depth if he wanted and he needed,
Speaker 3: but he can compete with anybody right now, should do
Speaker 3: it might be leading for all Heisman and Travis Hunt
Speaker 3: is up for the high So that's telling you, yes,
Speaker 3: we got players and we got swaged. I don't think
Speaker 3: people understand how much that is a part of who
Speaker 3: you are as an athlete, that swag. And right now,
Speaker 3: Colorado got a nation behind him, not just a state,
Speaker 3: not a city. They got a nation behind them. And
Speaker 3: Prime is laying that brutelan out on how to get
Speaker 3: stuff done. And I love it because he's gonna propel
Speaker 3: a lot of X football players into coaching where they
Speaker 3: should have been. Anyway, You've been doing it your whole life,
Speaker 3: why not teach it. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: he's changing the landscape of college football. Right now as
Speaker 3: we speak, we're watching history.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about someone else who had a
Speaker 1: great weekend. Yeah, and we're talking about these young players.
Speaker 1: Ho Co Goff, Yes, fourth teenager to win the US
Speaker 1: Open from America, first since Serenenes.
Speaker 2: In like nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: And I have to say I was in the bar
Speaker 1: getting ready for the Texas game, but before it came on,
Speaker 1: we were.
Speaker 2: Watching in the US So I see the energy in it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, everybody the bar's going us say it
Speaker 1: was crazy.
Speaker 3: It's gabonizing. And did you see the video clip, the
Speaker 3: viral clip of young Coco at twelve years old. It's
Speaker 3: Serenas match watching her wing watch. She cheered, that's what
Speaker 3: you want and then.
Speaker 2: What tennis give you?
Speaker 3: Tennis is one of the rare sports that you can
Speaker 3: go pro at fourteen fifteen years old, so she's one
Speaker 3: of them. She has damn dealt with a lot of
Speaker 3: ups and downs. And I see now why she went
Speaker 3: through that mental battle she went through. Imagine being sixteen
Speaker 3: jinks oh man, and have to represent a whole nation,
Speaker 3: and we know winning and losing takes this toll on you,
Speaker 3: but we don't think about it because I was a
Speaker 3: sort of losing in high school. She's a baby, she's
Speaker 3: amazing baby going through this stuff and coming out on top.
Speaker 3: I praise her for that.
Speaker 2: And it didn't he go the scary thing. She just
Speaker 2: getting started.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's the scary thing that pushed the world
Speaker 3: on nose. She's just getting started and she's galvanized. She's
Speaker 3: bringing people together. Like you said, Usa, that's all I heard. Like, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was like I was flabbergashing of the energy and
Speaker 3: the people there. I don't even know how KD got
Speaker 3: to the open and then made it the fact field
Speaker 3: the next day.
Speaker 2: Well that's what happened when you got a PJ. That's
Speaker 2: what happened right there, thinks.
Speaker 1: My favorite part of the whole thing was A was incredible,
Speaker 1: But I had to admit I got a pretty emotional
Speaker 1: watching her go chase down her parents and then hugging them,
Speaker 1: and I was like, man, that is that's.
Speaker 3: Really not That's what sports does, and that's what it is.
Speaker 3: It's the longest running reality the show. I said all
Speaker 3: the time, like people don't understand who got your ConA
Speaker 3: when you don't have that game like our friends who
Speaker 3: go get burnt. For two, My mama still love me.
Speaker 3: She can care less about all the stuff going on.
Speaker 3: And then what Coco says, she like when you lose
Speaker 3: a draw. My parents still love me, and I think
Speaker 3: that's very important.
Speaker 1: So guys in the NFL you experienced this too, when
Speaker 1: you have so much success and you come into money
Speaker 1: and you come into fame no matter what sport you play,
Speaker 1: and you're young. Because I always thought for me, I
Speaker 1: was like I'm mature for my age. But even now
Speaker 1: I look back, I'm like, you're an idiot. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm an idiot. So how difficult is that to manage
Speaker 1: all of those different things at once?
Speaker 2: No matter the sports.
Speaker 3: It's hard, But I think sports get you ready for
Speaker 3: it because it's hard. Like, right when you think you
Speaker 3: didn't perfected it, it shows you you haven't. It's one
Speaker 3: of the things that'll be taking away very quickly. But
Speaker 3: I think what most athletes do a good job of
Speaker 3: is making sure they separate the sport from the person.
Speaker 3: All right, and the person still has family that they
Speaker 3: want to take care of. The person still got people
Speaker 3: they love, and they still have to date and do
Speaker 3: other regular stuff. Like It's one of them things where
Speaker 3: you consume it all, but you make sure that it's
Speaker 3: never too big for you. That's why I have to
Speaker 3: praise her with age nineteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So if you could go back, yeah, Fred Smooth, Now,
Speaker 1: if you could tell young Fred Smooth something one piece
Speaker 1: of advice.
Speaker 2: This is me playing therapist here. Yes, what would you
Speaker 2: tell yourself?
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a great question, Jens. Give yourself five years
Speaker 3: after you retire to just go see the world, figure
Speaker 3: it out. Just go see the world, have no true attachment,
Speaker 3: play your sport, retire, leave three or four years for you,
Speaker 3: and then start the normancy. Yeah yeah, And I think
Speaker 3: that's what we don't do. We don't give ourselves a
Speaker 3: chance to air out. Sure, like we usually go from
Speaker 3: one career to another career and just keep going. But
Speaker 3: I would have said, take a little time for yourself,
Speaker 3: go live in China, Indie, wherever you want to go,
Speaker 3: South America, and just air out for a little bit,
Speaker 3: let your body and your soul wrist and then chase
Speaker 3: the talking career and then go chase the other you
Speaker 3: want to do. But yeah, that would I say, take
Speaker 3: some Fred's smooth time for you, Fred, because I liked.
Speaker 2: You, said Fred to Fred, Yeah, yeah, take some time
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: So you know, that's kind of like it is in
Speaker 1: life for evere where you're you assume.
Speaker 2: That you're supposed to be in a path. Right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna graduate, and when I graduate, I'm.
Speaker 3: Gonna get a job.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get a job. I'm gonna get a job.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have a kid.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get I'm gonna have kids. I'm gonna do this,
Speaker 2: and then you realize that's all well and fine, but.
Speaker 3: I don't have to do that, and I don't like
Speaker 3: that's the American way to do things. But everybody got
Speaker 3: a different path. Everybody got a different path, so you
Speaker 3: got to embrace your path.
Speaker 2: So you know, if I could jump in.
Speaker 3: The time machine and go slap Fred, I would be like,
Speaker 3: look at me. I mean, listen to me right now.
Speaker 3: Listen to me, chill out, enjoy yourself, take.
Speaker 2: Some new time. Well, no matter where you are in
Speaker 2: the world. Yeah, I know that you're like karaoke. I
Speaker 2: love it, and you love bowling.
Speaker 3: I'm going pro again, Jinks your pro once in football?
Speaker 2: Oh professional, forget it. I'm going per second. It's early
Speaker 2: on the Monday. I was like, oh, yeah, he was
Speaker 2: a problem. Yeah, I used to play football, by the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going pro in PBA. I think it's time.
Speaker 3: I think it's time. I'm a two sport guy. I'm
Speaker 3: very good at bowling.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me stop you right there, because Doc Walker
Speaker 1: says I've heard this before, but Doc Walker says he's
Speaker 1: never seen you ball.
Speaker 3: And then because Doc don't hang at bowling, Ally's like this,
Speaker 3: Doc fault all right. But the DMV knows. The DMV
Speaker 3: I've taken on Southern Maryland, Northern Virginia, DC beat them all.
Speaker 3: It's nobody in the DMV that can beat me bowling,
Speaker 3: Like since I've been here, Okay, I bowled eleven nine
Speaker 3: to eleven, perfect game, three hundred, yes, sir, and my
Speaker 3: weapons are mass destructured.
Speaker 2: My balls all right, Listen to me.
Speaker 3: If you a skilled bowling, it's a couple.
Speaker 2: Of things, you know.
Speaker 3: I got to have the right balls for the right
Speaker 3: all patterns for the wood that I'm attempting. Like when
Speaker 3: I go bowling, I'm not going against you.
Speaker 2: You have your own bowet balls.
Speaker 3: I I got seven of them, seven seven of them,
Speaker 3: all right, and I love to use hercules. He's one
Speaker 3: of my one of my.
Speaker 2: Best ball You name them all? Why not?
Speaker 3: What you mean? I got the Cobra command, then I
Speaker 3: got all kas of people in thereright, listen, listen, listen.
Speaker 2: And that's why I go by my nickname Bigger Aeron mccrackett.
Speaker 3: You know this ten per one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 2: And then why.
Speaker 3: Anytime you see me bowling, and never say Fred Smooth,
Speaker 3: It's just say Bigger Aeron mcracket.
Speaker 2: I'm saying that's me. Guess who I am.
Speaker 3: But it's you against the all patterns. And this is
Speaker 3: what people do understand, because we roll with the speed. Okay,
Speaker 3: it pushes the ore. Okay, right when it started to
Speaker 3: pushes the air, You'll see me change balls and now
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go to one of my dryer, more aggressive balls,
Speaker 3: and now I'm gonna go find the ore. All right.
Speaker 3: So that's the thing about it, that's why they re
Speaker 3: all it after.
Speaker 1: Any time you bowl, So if you go bowling, will
Speaker 1: you take multiple balls? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I got, I got.
Speaker 3: I got a hold of that. It carries four balls,
Speaker 3: and then I bring my other ones it carries two.
Speaker 3: It depends on where I'm going in the competition. When
Speaker 3: I walk in like I'm bringing in some kids with me.
Speaker 3: I'm just I'm walking with balls in my hand. Yes,
Speaker 3: So you gotta have your balls, you gotta have your shoes.
Speaker 3: You got to have the small things, even down to
Speaker 3: your tile, like I only use dry fit certain tiles
Speaker 3: to get all the dust off of my balls and stuff.
Speaker 3: And you got to take care of them balls. I
Speaker 3: take them to get them, get them shined up, get
Speaker 3: them to moisturize everything.
Speaker 2: Man, So how did you get good at that? Because
Speaker 2: I I'll bowl. You know, I'm like most bowlers.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I suck. Sometimes I'm like added pretty well. But
Speaker 1: I'm a recreational board. You had a bout a lot
Speaker 1: to be good.
Speaker 3: Well, high school is started. Everybody bowled in high school.
Speaker 3: But I'm also a competitor, right, So once you get
Speaker 3: to doing the sport, you're doing it. In any sport
Speaker 3: that I can drink beer and get better at. You know,
Speaker 3: golf is like that, Bowling is like that. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: take it very serious. And then I just got hooked
Speaker 3: on it. And by the time I made it to college,
Speaker 3: I'm full fledged. Every week the bowling that I know,
Speaker 3: I'm coming in three days a week, like I bought.
Speaker 3: When I go bowling, it's usually like three o'clock in
Speaker 3: the evening, so it be me and three people. Grand
Speaker 3: and Granddaddy is in there, and I'm talking trashed them too.
Speaker 3: Oh listen, I don kick Granny's and grandmama's but all
Speaker 3: up and down the bowling at it. At the end
Speaker 3: of the day, I love bowling and it's something that
Speaker 3: I can do with my family.
Speaker 2: I love it me and my kids love. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So do you bowl like most people do or do
Speaker 1: you do that thing where you create lett and spin it?
Speaker 3: No, you don't cradle you know needs to be straight. Okay,
Speaker 3: Yet I spin, Like, think about it. The earth is
Speaker 3: a ball.
Speaker 2: It spins.
Speaker 3: The only way that you could tell that sphere of
Speaker 3: where to go is to spin it with a certain
Speaker 3: velocity like people that just toss it. It ain't called tossing,
Speaker 3: It's called bowlds.
Speaker 7: True.
Speaker 3: So you can only control the ball with the spin.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the spin is very important for you to
Speaker 3: tell it where to go, how to go, and how fast.
Speaker 1: To go if you want it to be a pro
Speaker 1: when you become a pro, yes, I am. How much
Speaker 1: work would it take for you to actually do that?
Speaker 2: All I need to do is consistently keep doing it.
Speaker 3: Like the one thing about bowling, When you stop doing it,
Speaker 3: you lose sight of that, You lose your edge. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Like right now, if the PBA called me right now
Speaker 3: and say hey, we want you to play in a
Speaker 3: tournament in three weeks, I would literally bowl every day
Speaker 3: into that day, would you every day and to that day?
Speaker 2: Like every day and to that day, And.
Speaker 3: I take it the part of myself to not just
Speaker 3: bowl let the bowling that is around my house. I
Speaker 3: would go to other bowling that because I need to
Speaker 3: go to other woods a gest to them, so then
Speaker 3: I would do that. So yeah, I could be ready
Speaker 3: to know Tame.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you my favorite Doc Walker story? Talk
Speaker 1: about doctor please? Okay, So you've known Doc for a long.
Speaker 3: Time, because he's like ninety.
Speaker 1: When I was working the NBC, I put my makeup
Speaker 1: on right and whatever, and Doc Walking walks in.
Speaker 2: He goes, my man Jenkins, gives me a hug. He goes,
Speaker 2: well we're doing now.
Speaker 1: Me and you people are gonna be talking about five
Speaker 1: or six years from now. Yeah, all right, He's like,
Speaker 1: I got you, Doc. He goes, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: He goes, you got the cigar?
Speaker 2: Yes, he goes. People been ask me lately, Doc, you
Speaker 2: lost weight? Doc, you lost weight? Yeah? And I said, yay,
Speaker 2: I lost some weight. Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: That's so Doc.
Speaker 2: He goes, keep him guessing. He is such. He just smiles,
Speaker 2: takes a puff of a cigar and choose on it
Speaker 2: walks off.
Speaker 3: I was like, thanks, Doc, and he will talk about
Speaker 3: itself and the third person out of Tame what's going on?
Speaker 1: Doc?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Doc, don't let them bother him.
Speaker 3: That's what Doc don't do.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what's wrong with you? Like this who he is?
Speaker 3: That's why I love him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Doctor left my mind in the pretzel.
Speaker 3: I was like, keep him guessing And that was so
Speaker 3: deep and hey, you feel thought like why did I
Speaker 3: go to Texas?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: I just been with doctor.
Speaker 1: Just let him teach me life lessons of the entirety.
Speaker 1: I love Doc man, that's my favorite. Okay, so let's
Speaker 1: move ahead to this weekend coming up. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: we got Denver on the road, mile high city. How
Speaker 1: difficult is it to prepare for that sort of environment?
Speaker 1: I have not I've been to Denver. It's a lot
Speaker 1: different when you're competing at a high level. How much
Speaker 1: it affect you.
Speaker 3: It affects you a lot. Like people don't understand what
Speaker 3: a mile high is. They mean mile high end, this stadium,
Speaker 3: mile high end, the stadium, this high altitude. That's so
Speaker 3: high altitude. And were mostly from the south. We're by
Speaker 3: the water. We're like zero attitude. It dehydrates you so quick.
Speaker 3: I don't care how much water you did. Your body
Speaker 3: needs twenty four hours to forty eight hours to acclimate
Speaker 3: to it. Think about this, If I'm a mile high
Speaker 3: in the era, the area is thinner, the air is thinner.
Speaker 3: Is making my heart work hard, is making my blood thinner?
Speaker 3: I need time to adjust to it. Like I played
Speaker 3: the game there, and the weather was so the shun
Speaker 3: was shining in the first quarter, it rained in the second,
Speaker 3: it snowed in the third, and the sun came back
Speaker 3: out in the fourth quarter. Like it's very unpredictable weatherwise.
Speaker 3: And you also, like I said, and that's why a
Speaker 3: lot of pro athletes train in Denver. They train in Colorado,
Speaker 3: so we can take our body through that stress and
Speaker 3: when we do come back down to the elevation, we're fine.
Speaker 3: We're fine. So it's one of the things that they
Speaker 3: really have an advantage when it comes to location. Hey,
Speaker 3: even watch the you watch the basketball when the Denver
Speaker 3: Nuggets one, the team was going there getting tired, no
Speaker 3: matter if you inside.
Speaker 2: It's a real factor.
Speaker 3: It's a real factor, and it's a real advantage too.
Speaker 1: So how much of that is mental because certainly it
Speaker 1: takes a physical toll on your body, but it's almost
Speaker 1: like if you're short of breath and you're an anxious
Speaker 1: person in a way, you can start to have an
Speaker 1: anxiety attack. Oh easy, and then that just makes everything worse.
Speaker 1: You need to be like, hey, take a few deep
Speaker 1: breasts here.
Speaker 3: You gotta take a couple of deep breath in my homeboard.
Speaker 3: Ryan Clark he could never play there so anytime because
Speaker 3: I think I don't know if it was because it's
Speaker 3: appendice had been removed or something, but it was it
Speaker 3: was dangerous for him to play in Denver. So he
Speaker 3: never dressed in Denver. He just sat on the sideline
Speaker 3: Like that's how lethal it is, Like it's you against
Speaker 3: mother nature. That's that's what it is. That's why I'm
Speaker 3: hoping the team goes out there four to eight hours
Speaker 3: before to get a player some time to just walk
Speaker 3: around like you get that clamating.
Speaker 1: And sometimes you'll see teams do that out they're there
Speaker 1: too early. Just to say, let yourself adjust.
Speaker 3: Let yourself a jest, let you let you let your
Speaker 3: hard and let your oxygen level of jest. That's what
Speaker 3: has the jests.
Speaker 1: One thing we always seen in the NFL is it's
Speaker 1: easy to completely freak out over one week.
Speaker 2: It is everybody does.
Speaker 3: It's week one everybody that want think they're going to
Speaker 3: the super Bowl, right, everybody that lost ready to draft
Speaker 3: kle to wigs. That's where's that's that's the panic of it.
Speaker 3: But that's what make football so unique. Every quarter, every
Speaker 3: game counts, and that's what makes it. That's why I
Speaker 3: got people hooked to the TV. I want to see
Speaker 3: every play. But I'm never gonna get too high too
Speaker 3: low on week one.
Speaker 1: I say that because what do you want to see
Speaker 1: improvement wise in week two? Because there's lots of things
Speaker 1: to improve upon for everybody.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not gonna do what everybody else gonna do.
Speaker 3: I'm not going paralysis by over analysis. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: do that to myself. What I do want is progression
Speaker 3: with Sam Howe. I just want to see him get
Speaker 3: better at weekend and week out. Like I said, he's
Speaker 3: a new boy. I want to see him get better
Speaker 3: week in a week out. I want to see that
Speaker 3: offensive line hold up a little bit better. I know
Speaker 3: it's gonna take them time to jail, they need to
Speaker 3: work together, but eventually they're gonna have to come together
Speaker 3: and they're gonna have to stick through this thing together. Defense,
Speaker 3: I want them to go out there and really what
Speaker 3: they did in the second half Dictator game be the
Speaker 3: reason we won. Now, it ain't gonna be the Baltimore
Speaker 3: Ravens of two thousand and one, But I want you
Speaker 3: to be similar because I think you got the players
Speaker 3: to get that done. So I want to see them
Speaker 3: go out here to Denver and treat them with like
Speaker 3: they are. I think Denver is They don't want to
Speaker 3: say they rebuilding, but it's some unsetities there. They don't
Speaker 3: seem the like Sean Payton and the politician Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3: Don't see them be on the same But you know
Speaker 3: how you see a relationship and you're like they day's
Speaker 3: a number, you know, like some are.
Speaker 2: Just not It's like they're together but not for but
Speaker 2: not together right, But he cheating.
Speaker 3: Like somebody cheating.
Speaker 1: So Russ, how can I put this kindly? Are his
Speaker 1: best days behind him?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: I always got I got these things that I do.
Speaker 3: I study players, and I studied some things, and I
Speaker 3: have watched this happen with running quarterbacks. They run their
Speaker 3: way to big contracts and then they want to become
Speaker 3: pocket passes.
Speaker 2: That's not his game.
Speaker 3: I watched Donovan McNab do it. I watched Skinny Dak
Speaker 3: Prescott leaving Misissippi State, run to a big contract and
Speaker 3: he runs no more. I watched Russell go run the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl running, he runs no more? What made you special?
Speaker 3: You don't like to do it anymore? And they've seen
Speaker 3: the game odd fifteen to twenty pounds that don't allow
Speaker 3: him to run anymore. So I think it's identity crisis.
Speaker 3: I think Russell thinks he's old Russ and he's not
Speaker 3: the new politician. Russ ain't as good as the other Russ.
Speaker 3: And then what I say, sometimes you gotta lean on
Speaker 3: what got you there? And I think sometime with quarterbacks
Speaker 3: they want to change the narrative. Now any time they
Speaker 3: say I'm a running coquter, I want to be no
Speaker 3: running what quarterback? I want to be? Joe Mantanna, You're not.
Speaker 3: I do what got you there? And what makes you special?
Speaker 3: We know the Washington fans, yeah, our jack. We saw
Speaker 3: a season open. They're gonna be jacked for week two.
Speaker 3: But I did want to ask you about the atmosphere.
Speaker 1: Yes before week well, I mean the stadium was packed,
Speaker 1: it was standing room only.
Speaker 2: It was unbelievable.
Speaker 3: It was crazy.
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Speaker 1: I'm jinx so I mean it was a Who's Who's
Speaker 1: star stud it?
Speaker 2: Oh my godss it was Riggo was there.
Speaker 3: I think I seen the Queen of England and that
Speaker 3: it was. It was crazy, like first of all the
Speaker 3: whole fan base, everybody happen to welcome back John Riggins.
Speaker 3: I con of disfranchise. Great to see him, Great to
Speaker 3: see son of Jackson with the Ciga in my ours,
Speaker 3: Great to see Pierre going. So I was like so
Speaker 3: many do my boy Champ Bailey, my first running made
Speaker 3: in the league. Love to see him. We still spend
Speaker 3: a lot of time together. So uh, I think Joe
Speaker 3: L and B was in there, but k D was
Speaker 3: in there. I like, how did he make it from
Speaker 3: the USO did it?
Speaker 2: Pj's Alex she was there.
Speaker 3: Hey, I want to start speaking Russian because I'm trying
Speaker 3: to communicate with It was like and not just that
Speaker 3: support that shows everything, that shows we're we're we was
Speaker 3: asleeping giant people wanted to they just didn't. But now
Speaker 3: it changes and it felt like such a high school
Speaker 3: I mean a high school college atmosphere where it was
Speaker 3: just good energy good. She in there and it's nothing
Speaker 3: like that. But like we's been times where we had
Speaker 3: a packed house, but we didn't have a pack house
Speaker 3: like that. And that's what I think the players deserved.
Speaker 3: I thought Terry mclaughan deserved that. John Allen deserved it
Speaker 3: to know how it really feels to be a Washington
Speaker 3: football player.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad you mentioned those guys because they were
Speaker 1: the ones who were very outspoken after the game, saying, man.
Speaker 2: It was crazy, this was awesome, and do forget your
Speaker 2: boy that was there by three sticks. Yeah, my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, like everybody came out, you know, say something,
Speaker 3: I'm with it, man, I'm with it.
Speaker 1: Well doesn't that just speak to the fact that everyone here.
Speaker 1: When I say everyone, I mean former players, yeah, and
Speaker 1: people who are celebs who love this team. They've been
Speaker 1: waiting for this new era for a long time.
Speaker 3: But you know what you get what you wait for,
Speaker 3: and we waited for it, and now that it's here,
Speaker 3: we're in the presence and we're gonna have to pack
Speaker 3: that house again. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: it's repeat, rintz repeat, do it again. Like this has
Speaker 3: to be the norm, because when I was here it
Speaker 3: was the norm. Like I never played in front of
Speaker 3: empty FedEx Field. It's right, I never had the privilege
Speaker 3: of doing it. Every time I played in FedEx Field
Speaker 3: it was to capacity and we used to hold ninety
Speaker 3: thousand at that time. So, like I said, we have
Speaker 3: awakened a sleeping giant.
Speaker 1: So I know you're playing, but when you say you're
Speaker 1: standing there, it feels like you can still get out
Speaker 1: there and you hear that roar for the first time
Speaker 1: while what did you think?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I did get that, my Honor
Speaker 3: Reary smooth. You I got that again because I took
Speaker 3: out a venturing out there haying him the game ball,
Speaker 3: and of course the fans see it was me that
Speaker 3: went smooth, and I could feel that ground rat in
Speaker 3: a live bit. And that's when I was like, damn,
Speaker 3: where my cliq's at? Jeez, I I was looking for
Speaker 3: my cleaques. Then I went to my car and realized
Speaker 3: I had like the Walter Payton kangaroos and they like
Speaker 3: seventy three years old. Let me know, I can't never.
Speaker 2: Play again when I walk out on the field.
Speaker 1: You right here, Yeah, I listened real close, and there's
Speaker 1: one guy going Jakes Jacks. Ain't that Michael jay Man
Speaker 1: and he goes say, smooth, ye do, I'll do it.
Speaker 2: I understand you. On the man that's gonna do it.
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