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Speaker 1: Lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle is

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Speaker 1: a production of the NFL and iHeart Podcasts. We got lots,

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Speaker 1: just said, we got lots.

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Speaker 2: Just say.

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Speaker 3: What Becker here and we hold you stay because.

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Speaker 2: We got lots. Just say yeah, we got lots, Just

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Speaker 2: say here's Bobby.

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Speaker 4: That like negative thirty as we do this podcast. The

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Speaker 4: games this past weekend were like negative thirty the games

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Speaker 4: coming up because we got one of billion one in

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Speaker 4: Kansas City.

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Speaker 5: It should be just talk about that for a second.

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Speaker 4: Meaning all I can relate it to is either hunting

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Speaker 4: and it's still hunting, miserable, just sitting there up against

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Speaker 4: a tree awful, or like high school football but we

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Speaker 4: didn't play in December, or it's the same similar weather

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Speaker 4: but it would be cold, but like that looked miser.

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Speaker 2: It is miserable. I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 6: And I've been in games where we had one in

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Speaker 6: Green Bay that was negative five at the start of

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Speaker 6: the game. We had one in Kansas City that was

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Speaker 6: negative five even any anything under fifteen degrees, And when

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Speaker 6: you have wind as a factor too, it is just

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Speaker 6: it cuts through.

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Speaker 2: And you're warming up.

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Speaker 6: And I still to this day, I give so much

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Speaker 6: credit to those guys that can go out there and

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Speaker 6: play without sleeves, because I was one of those guys.

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Speaker 2: I was like, there's no chance I'm wearing sleeves. I've

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Speaker 2: got to bundle up. I've got to have the warmers

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Speaker 6: They put the heat packs inside the warmers, so there's

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Speaker 6: little subtle things you can do, but there's just no

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Speaker 6: getting out of those elements. And then in addition to that,

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Speaker 6: it's anybody that handles the ball. The ball just changes dramatically.

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Speaker 6: It's slick, it's hardens up, so you just from a

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Speaker 2: And also those runners.

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Speaker 6: You saw multiple turnovers this weekend and it was just

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Speaker 6: a basic play one with lamar One with the running

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Speaker 2: But because it's so slick, it just comes out.

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Speaker 6: So ball security is paramount, paramount in all those type

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Speaker 4: Adrenaline doesn't make up for the cold. That's a question

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Speaker 4: at the end of the night, like at what point it.

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Speaker 2: Does to a certain degree.

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Speaker 6: And look, I've had teammates they used to take a

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Speaker 6: to get that blood.

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Speaker 2: Boiling a little bit when you run around.

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Speaker 6: One of the tricks of the trade that I learned

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Speaker 6: early on was from Tom Brady. And we might have

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Speaker 6: talked about this before, but we're in the locker room.

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Speaker 6: It's going to be a cold game. It's like seventeen

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Speaker 6: of sleep, and I see him putting on like a

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Speaker 6: half wet suit, and I'm like, what are you doing

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Speaker 6: I wear a wet suit when the conditions are like

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Speaker 6: this because it insulates my body. And then he just

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Speaker 6: But he was warm as can be. So I went

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Speaker 6: he's like, well, you're gonna have to pay for your own.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I figured that.

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Speaker 6: I figured I would, so I ordered one, and it

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Speaker 6: is an absolute game changer because you put that on

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Speaker 6: that they have even for these cold weather games, and

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Speaker 6: I did that for the rest of my career in

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Speaker 2: That's interesting.

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Speaker 4: I did a couple Olympic trath lines, and there's part

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Speaker 4: you're in a wet suit because it's freaking cold, right.

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Speaker 5: And you don't feel cold.

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Speaker 4: Your face feels cold because that's hit in the water, right,

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Speaker 4: but the rest is warm. But then I think, how

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Speaker 4: much can you actually move your arms, because mine, obviously

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Speaker 4: do you cut slits in certain parts of the armors

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Speaker 4: that just ad a different type of wetsuit.

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Speaker 2: So you could cut a slit underneath it.

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Speaker 6: But also it's all based on I guess it's by

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Speaker 6: even know what it was ten as possible because then

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Speaker 2: When I tried it on, I.

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Speaker 6: Was like, dude, I can't even move like you said,

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Speaker 6: you can't reach over your head. You're like, throwing motions

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Speaker 6: gonna be messed up and be throwing like Philip Rivers

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Speaker 6: out here side arm. But once you find the right one,

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Speaker 6: it worked out great. That's the move, that's the move.

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Speaker 4: Thinking back, I wish I wore a wet suit when

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Speaker 4: I was an avid hunter because that.

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Speaker 2: Sucked ball an avid hunter?

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Speaker 6: Did?

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Speaker 5: I grew up in the woods in Arkansas, like my

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Speaker 5: whole life now I'm good.

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Speaker 2: Deer hunting, turkey hunting, everything.

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Speaker 5: Yes, duck hunting, deer, honey, turkey hunting.

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Speaker 2: I love this about you.

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Speaker 5: I got a four ten at eleven years old.

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Speaker 2: Wow, And did they wipe the blood on your face

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Speaker 2: and do that whole ceremony?

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Speaker 5: No, no ceremony. It was mostly like my stepdad because

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Speaker 5: I never knew my real dad. But my stepdad took me.

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Speaker 4: Out at like eleven and we shot, and that was

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Speaker 4: just him going, I'm teaching a gun safety without saying

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Speaker 5: And I remember going back.

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Speaker 4: I went to school the next day and I had

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Speaker 5: It kicked so hard, and they thought that I was like.

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Speaker 4: Getting hit at home, right, And I was like, no,

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Speaker 4: I'm learning how to shoot a gun. But from that moment,

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Speaker 4: I never even had that people go with me, I

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Speaker 2: Much savage, I guess.

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Speaker 5: I mean, how savage am I really no, but.

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Speaker 6: That's pretty savage to go out on your own as

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Speaker 5: Like squirrel hunting, rabbit hunting.

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Speaker 4: Sure like that was the environment though, And you know,

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Speaker 4: I got to be a bit older, so and I

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Speaker 4: knew how to use a rifle, right, Oh yeah, Like

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Speaker 4: that's a whole version of me.

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Speaker 6: This is pretty like epic right now because this is

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Speaker 6: a whole layer of the onion that we're just unpeeling.

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Speaker 5: That just gave me many you're unpeeling, I feel like,

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Speaker 5: I mean straight from Arkansas, people are like, you married

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Speaker 2: I feel like that's what everybody thinks to a certain degree.

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Speaker 6: But again, like with the way that you present yourself

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah no, And but I don't anymore.

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Speaker 6: I'm good, right, But I mean I'm definitely going hunting

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Speaker 2: I don't work all we're going.

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Speaker 4: My point was I don't want to be the best

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Speaker 4: think I could write a book. I just did a

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Speaker 4: podcast called God's Country Podcast. It's all about hunting. And

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Speaker 4: we call my stepdad in middle of the podcasts because

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Speaker 5: And they know me.

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Speaker 4: And even then they were like, that's we talked bow hunting,

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Speaker 5: So weird to hear this version. Right, They don't really

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Speaker 4: But if I would have had a wet suit, it

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Speaker 4: would have helped so much.

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Speaker 6: Dude, were you one of those guys for like duck

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Speaker 6: hunting that has the rings and the bands that they collect.

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Speaker 5: No, So I'm gonna tell you why I wasn't cool enough.

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Speaker 4: This is my quick story of duck hunting before we

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Speaker 4: get back to football, because.

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Speaker 5: People don't want to hear my lame hunting stories I do.

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Speaker 4: The first three times that I went out, I was

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Speaker 4: wearing adult waiters I think two or maybe all three.

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Speaker 2: First I fell.

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Speaker 5: Then every time and the water gets in your way

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Speaker 5: take all my clothes off, and be butt naked in

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Speaker 2: It was terrible. You're gonna h hypotheremia.

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Speaker 2: Gets so heavy you're so weighted down to walk.

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Speaker 5: It's really heavy.

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Speaker 4: Yes, oh it's worse misery, But having a wet suit

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Speaker 4: to hunt in would have made it so much easier because,

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Speaker 4: like you say, having a wet suit to play football,

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Speaker 4: and also, like watching these guys, it looks when it

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Speaker 5: But when it's really cold and it's not snowing.

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Speaker 6: Right, that looks worse because the field is just it

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Speaker 6: hardens over as well. But when it's snowing and it's

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Speaker 6: heavy snow, I actually loved playing that because why the

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Speaker 2: Staying on your feet.

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Speaker 6: DB's couldn't react as quickly, so like your little slip screens,

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Speaker 6: but when it's just bitterly cold and there's no snow

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Speaker 6: on the ground, they still get off the ball. They're

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Speaker 6: little bit different when you're playing in that type of weather.

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Speaker 4: Not to look to the past, but just last week

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Speaker 4: whenever it started to snow, because that was two games

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Speaker 4: otherwise cold and no snow. I're talking about the Rams

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Speaker 4: and the Eagles, and then it started snowing pretty heavily.

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Speaker 4: This second came down, and as the Rams were kind

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Speaker 4: of making their move back, it was one point of

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Speaker 4: the game when Stafford just like, we're just going no huddle,

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Speaker 4: right for the OC and that's when they really started

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Speaker 4: to move the ball. When they were going no huddle,

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Speaker 6: You couldn't see, couldn't see, and they move the ball

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Speaker 6: every drive right, And they had a great game plan.

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Speaker 6: And if it wasn't for the turnovers, they had the

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Speaker 6: They got two really good quarterbacks and they're probably really

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Speaker 2: They put me a quarterback.

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Speaker 5: Okay, well, then it all evens out because if Brady

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Speaker 2: Win, right, That's what I said.

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Speaker 5: So when you went in, you got the win for that,

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Speaker 6: The second week, I get a call, like, get into

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Speaker 2: After a Monday practice.

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Speaker 6: We got blown out by the Patriots and I get

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Speaker 2: Of my Buffalo two weeks with the Bills two weeks.

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Speaker 5: Do you keep a jersey with every team you play for,

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Speaker 2: But I would have loved to keep a jersey.

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Speaker 6: I have jerseys, I think from every organization I played

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Speaker 5: Can you request balls during cold weather games at any

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Speaker 5: point a change of ball, can they keep the balls warm?

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Speaker 2: Like, what's the rule there? They tried to. They tried to.

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Speaker 6: On the sideline, you'll see the ball boy and they'll

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Speaker 2: The worst to play in.

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Speaker 6: Every quarterback has nightmares about playing in rain just because

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Speaker 4: There really are no advantages weather wise, because Buffalo is

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Speaker 6: We play outdoor all year. We've dealt with elements before.

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Speaker 4: I guess the only advantage would be if that Philadelphia

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Speaker 6: I think that's the biggest advantage for Philly in last

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Speaker 2: That's what they're built to do.

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Speaker 6: That offense runs through Saquon Barkley, and you're going to

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Speaker 2: They do both.

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Speaker 6: And the interesting part about Washington's offense is so much

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Speaker 2: We're going to run the ball. We have a lighter box.

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Speaker 4: America loves a winner until the winner wins too much.

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Speaker 4: I love the Patriots when they're winning. I love the

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Speaker 5: Because it's rare in our lifetime that we get to

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Speaker 4: Like I'm into it because there's seven or eight times

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Speaker 5: A salary cap a you could.

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Speaker 6: Go through all the different runs when you win the

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Speaker 4: Two another perfect example of a lever that isn't helping

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Speaker 5: The same with the Patriots. Right, people people hated the Patriots,

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Speaker 4: For no other reason that they continued to win. And

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Speaker 5: You know, there was probably between Craft and the NFL

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Speaker 5: there were things that shifted America's perception of the Patriots,

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Speaker 5: fair or unfair. I think the flake Gate was stupid.

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Speaker 4: Suspension was domb All of it was dumb to flight Gate,

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Speaker 6: There you got, you got something there, you get kind

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Speaker 2: There's video level. I was there and that.

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Speaker 6: The crazy part about that was two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 2: Well, it would be a lot, really easy if.

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Speaker 6: the line of scrimmage. But from that point on, we

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Speaker 6: then to go on that run the way that they did,

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Speaker 6: and for Brady to play the way that he did

441
00:18:40,856 --> 00:18:43,736
Speaker 6: that season and sept the NFL record at the time

442
00:18:43,735 --> 00:18:49,576
Speaker 6: for TD passes, it just went to prove like, there's

443
00:18:49,696 --> 00:18:53,296
Speaker 6: more than what it looks like here. We weren't cheating,

444
00:18:53,336 --> 00:18:55,816
Speaker 6: they weren't cheating to a point where oh, well they

445
00:18:55,816 --> 00:18:56,535
Speaker 6: had all the answers.

446
00:18:56,576 --> 00:18:58,936
Speaker 2: No, they just had really an incredible.

447
00:18:58,495 --> 00:19:01,416
Speaker 6: Quarterback, the best of all time, They had the best

448
00:19:01,416 --> 00:19:03,736
Speaker 6: coach of all time, and they had a veteran leadership

449
00:19:03,816 --> 00:19:04,656
Speaker 6: across the board.

450
00:19:04,896 --> 00:19:08,776
Speaker 4: Why do you think deflate gate then mattered so much?

451
00:19:08,856 --> 00:19:13,096
Speaker 4: Because it was so sensational, Like it involves such another dynasty,

452
00:19:13,816 --> 00:19:16,936
Speaker 4: good looking Tom Brady. Deflated balls are fun toy like

453
00:19:16,936 --> 00:19:19,536
Speaker 4: play it. That was such a crock even I felt

454
00:19:19,536 --> 00:19:20,495
Speaker 4: like it was a crock even then.

455
00:19:20,616 --> 00:19:23,096
Speaker 6: Well, the funny part about it was they switched the

456
00:19:23,096 --> 00:19:25,696
Speaker 6: balls out at halftime. He threw for more yards after

457
00:19:25,696 --> 00:19:27,016
Speaker 6: they switched the balls out.

458
00:19:27,136 --> 00:19:28,176
Speaker 2: So whatever it might be.

459
00:19:28,856 --> 00:19:33,856
Speaker 6: But coming off of knowing what you know now about Spygate,

460
00:19:34,416 --> 00:19:37,416
Speaker 6: and then you go and you have this other huge

461
00:19:37,495 --> 00:19:41,015
Speaker 6: scandal about oh, either're deflating all the balls, you're not

462
00:19:41,256 --> 00:19:44,856
Speaker 6: playing by the rules again, it was just another reason

463
00:19:44,896 --> 00:19:46,975
Speaker 6: for people to say, oh, look see, I told you

464
00:19:47,016 --> 00:19:47,736
Speaker 6: they're cheating again.

465
00:19:47,776 --> 00:19:48,576
Speaker 2: They're cheating again.

466
00:19:48,975 --> 00:19:52,176
Speaker 6: So they already were a hated franchise because of the

467
00:19:52,215 --> 00:19:55,616
Speaker 6: winning aspect, and then you add on these different major

468
00:19:55,735 --> 00:19:58,376
Speaker 6: stories and elements. You could take it any which way

469
00:19:58,376 --> 00:19:59,416
Speaker 6: you wanted. To in the media.

470
00:20:00,056 --> 00:20:02,696
Speaker 4: And my point with the Chiefs is again in a vacuum,

471
00:20:02,816 --> 00:20:06,096
Speaker 4: they're not hated, but because they have one a lot.

472
00:20:06,336 --> 00:20:09,495
Speaker 4: And then you throw in the factors of Taylor Swept

473
00:20:09,495 --> 00:20:10,255
Speaker 4: with Travis Kelcey.

474
00:20:10,776 --> 00:20:14,056
Speaker 5: Yeah, people like I'm so tired of Travis Kelsey, who

475
00:20:14,136 --> 00:20:16,656
Speaker 5: surely wrote the games, and then it's I'm so tired

476
00:20:16,696 --> 00:20:16,856
Speaker 5: of them.

477
00:20:16,896 --> 00:20:21,656
Speaker 4: On every commercial, Patrick Mahomes probably strategically falling a little

478
00:20:21,696 --> 00:20:25,296
Speaker 4: more than he needs to fall man even flopping at

479
00:20:25,296 --> 00:20:27,416
Speaker 4: times like the one was real bad last week on

480
00:20:27,455 --> 00:20:31,376
Speaker 4: the sideline right. The other ones he just slides like strategically,

481
00:20:31,455 --> 00:20:33,136
Speaker 4: like right, he's playing within the rules.

482
00:20:33,215 --> 00:20:34,696
Speaker 5: The flop though, was a little over.

483
00:20:34,495 --> 00:20:36,376
Speaker 6: The time flop, and they didn't call that one to

484
00:20:36,416 --> 00:20:39,055
Speaker 6: their credit, that's true, but still we saw it. But

485
00:20:39,136 --> 00:20:42,056
Speaker 6: the one that in the first quarter of that game,

486
00:20:42,215 --> 00:20:44,856
Speaker 6: it's third and eight, he overthrows the ball, he gets

487
00:20:44,936 --> 00:20:47,736
Speaker 6: hit and when you look at it, I could understand

488
00:20:47,735 --> 00:20:50,015
Speaker 6: in real time it looks like it's a helmet to helmet,

489
00:20:50,016 --> 00:20:52,656
Speaker 6: But at the same time, when you go back, it

490
00:20:52,696 --> 00:20:55,015
Speaker 6: was just a normal hit that you have to be

491
00:20:55,016 --> 00:20:56,975
Speaker 6: able to take and understand that's what you're going to

492
00:20:57,016 --> 00:20:59,055
Speaker 6: do as a quarterback and they called it in fifteen

493
00:20:59,096 --> 00:21:03,015
Speaker 6: yards penalty. It then equates the play points for the

494
00:21:03,096 --> 00:21:06,136
Speaker 6: Kansas City Chiefs, and those are major call in these

495
00:21:06,176 --> 00:21:09,656
Speaker 6: type of games because every series matters. When you go

496
00:21:09,735 --> 00:21:11,735
Speaker 6: down and if you get fifteen yards and you're able

497
00:21:11,735 --> 00:21:15,815
Speaker 6: to extend the drive and get off the field or

498
00:21:15,816 --> 00:21:18,015
Speaker 6: get off the field as a defense, it changes the

499
00:21:18,096 --> 00:21:19,455
Speaker 6: dynamics of the game completely.

500
00:21:19,616 --> 00:21:23,816
Speaker 4: I saw a statistic based on people saying the Chiefs

501
00:21:23,816 --> 00:21:28,055
Speaker 4: get all the calls that the Chiefs had more penalties called.

502
00:21:27,816 --> 00:21:29,775
Speaker 5: On them than the other way around.

503
00:21:29,936 --> 00:21:34,136
Speaker 4: Interesting, but the difference is when the Chiefs get even

504
00:21:34,176 --> 00:21:39,376
Speaker 4: the smallest break, just to justifiably so or not, they

505
00:21:39,416 --> 00:21:41,576
Speaker 4: take advantage of it better than other teams. So when

506
00:21:41,576 --> 00:21:44,815
Speaker 4: they get that flag and they do it turn that

507
00:21:44,896 --> 00:21:48,735
Speaker 4: into a touchdown. That's what people remember because you let's

508
00:21:48,735 --> 00:21:51,936
Speaker 4: say you get a fifteen yard penalty one of these

509
00:21:52,056 --> 00:21:55,656
Speaker 4: you know, helmet to helmets, and then you end up

510
00:21:55,656 --> 00:21:56,536
Speaker 4: punting three plays later.

511
00:21:56,576 --> 00:21:57,376
Speaker 5: Nobody really remembers.

512
00:21:57,495 --> 00:21:59,735
Speaker 2: Nobody remembers that. They're like, oh, that sucked. But at

513
00:21:59,735 --> 00:22:00,776
Speaker 2: the same.

514
00:22:00,376 --> 00:22:02,016
Speaker 5: Score, and it's a big part of the game.

515
00:22:02,136 --> 00:22:03,896
Speaker 6: It's a big part of the game. Puts points on

516
00:22:03,936 --> 00:22:06,336
Speaker 6: the board. And everybody's like, oh, they get all the calls,

517
00:22:06,616 --> 00:22:08,975
Speaker 6: but again that's part of the game. They they're trying

518
00:22:09,016 --> 00:22:10,416
Speaker 6: to protect every quarterback in that.

519
00:22:10,616 --> 00:22:14,255
Speaker 2: In that way, it just is Patrick Mahomes has a

520
00:22:14,256 --> 00:22:15,096
Speaker 2: microscope on him.

521
00:22:15,136 --> 00:22:17,336
Speaker 6: He's really good at the play like you said, where

522
00:22:17,336 --> 00:22:20,975
Speaker 6: he flops and he does it slows down and even

523
00:22:20,975 --> 00:22:22,816
Speaker 6: the one where the two defenders come over the top

524
00:22:22,896 --> 00:22:25,775
Speaker 6: and collide basically with each other. Well, he's doing all

525
00:22:25,776 --> 00:22:27,936
Speaker 6: that stuff and he became a runner. And so when

526
00:22:27,975 --> 00:22:30,575
Speaker 6: you become a runner and then late drop, you have

527
00:22:30,616 --> 00:22:32,576
Speaker 6: to take that into account in my opinion, But it's

528
00:22:32,616 --> 00:22:35,536
Speaker 6: hard for those referees who are saying protect the quarterback.

529
00:22:35,776 --> 00:22:39,136
Speaker 6: We saw it early on in the season when Jacksonville

530
00:22:39,256 --> 00:22:41,215
Speaker 6: quarterback Taylor Uh.

531
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Speaker 5: Taylor Trevor Lawrence down.

532
00:22:43,056 --> 00:22:46,495
Speaker 6: Trevor Lawrence went down and got absolutely Oh dude, I

533
00:22:46,536 --> 00:22:47,336
Speaker 6: was sitting there going.

534
00:22:48,856 --> 00:22:50,136
Speaker 2: That was a tough one to swallow.

535
00:22:50,176 --> 00:22:52,335
Speaker 6: So, I mean, and there was so much notoriety that

536
00:22:52,376 --> 00:22:55,336
Speaker 6: came along with that in the protecting the quarterback. So

537
00:22:55,576 --> 00:22:58,775
Speaker 6: I understand where the refs are coming from, especially with

538
00:22:58,816 --> 00:22:59,816
Speaker 6: a superstar like that.

539
00:23:00,696 --> 00:23:06,335
Speaker 4: Also, those two flags, they both looked like what the

540
00:23:06,376 --> 00:23:10,376
Speaker 4: penalties were right, like it wasn't. Some agree just called

541
00:23:10,455 --> 00:23:14,815
Speaker 4: that was that the solo helmet to helmet. It looked

542
00:23:14,856 --> 00:23:16,215
Speaker 4: like he got hit in the helmet. Now did he

543
00:23:16,215 --> 00:23:18,376
Speaker 4: ge hit in the chest and also got his face mask? Yeah, yeap,

544
00:23:18,495 --> 00:23:20,136
Speaker 4: whenever you slow it down and look at it slow.

545
00:23:20,495 --> 00:23:24,856
Speaker 4: So the call was probably wrong ish, but it was

546
00:23:24,936 --> 00:23:26,975
Speaker 4: so close that it's hard to go that rest of

547
00:23:27,096 --> 00:23:27,815
Speaker 4: cheat for Kansas City.

548
00:23:27,856 --> 00:23:28,335
Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing.

549
00:23:28,376 --> 00:23:32,056
Speaker 6: We get the benefit of watching the replay fifteen times

550
00:23:32,455 --> 00:23:33,455
Speaker 6: and being to analyze it.

551
00:23:33,495 --> 00:23:35,416
Speaker 5: Did he hit his chest from the angle.

552
00:23:35,376 --> 00:23:37,696
Speaker 6: In all the angles they're sitting there out there in

553
00:23:37,735 --> 00:23:39,376
Speaker 6: real time, and if you were to replay it for

554
00:23:39,416 --> 00:23:41,616
Speaker 6: me and I'm standing behind Patrick Mahomes and watching it

555
00:23:41,656 --> 00:23:43,656
Speaker 6: in real time, it looks like a helmet to helmet.

556
00:23:43,696 --> 00:23:44,176
Speaker 2: I get it.

557
00:23:44,336 --> 00:23:46,456
Speaker 6: When he slides and he goes down, you see two

558
00:23:46,576 --> 00:23:49,616
Speaker 6: guys converging on him and just go wham. You see

559
00:23:49,616 --> 00:23:52,616
Speaker 6: the contact, you hear the contact, but you don't really

560
00:23:52,656 --> 00:23:54,736
Speaker 6: understand that those guys hit each other and he got

561
00:23:54,735 --> 00:23:57,295
Speaker 6: out of the way with just maybe a slight glancing blow.

562
00:23:57,656 --> 00:24:01,416
Speaker 6: But everybody that's watching on television and saying that's ridiculous,

563
00:24:01,576 --> 00:24:04,215
Speaker 6: you know, and I understand the point of view from

564
00:24:04,256 --> 00:24:08,455
Speaker 6: the ref and that's always the hardest thing for the

565
00:24:08,495 --> 00:24:10,535
Speaker 6: fans to understand. They're watching a real time and have

566
00:24:10,576 --> 00:24:11,896
Speaker 6: to make a split decision, and.

567
00:24:11,856 --> 00:24:13,336
Speaker 5: Some of those calls you can't go look in your

568
00:24:13,336 --> 00:24:13,816
Speaker 5: little screen.

569
00:24:14,896 --> 00:24:16,736
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're unreviewable.

570
00:24:17,776 --> 00:24:23,775
Speaker 5: Does Mahomes beat Allen and like was like the eleventh

571
00:24:23,856 --> 00:24:24,975
Speaker 5: version of this, Does he do it again?

572
00:24:25,296 --> 00:24:27,696
Speaker 6: I think that they've said that they've played eight times,

573
00:24:27,816 --> 00:24:31,856
Speaker 6: four times in the playoffs, and you know, everything goes

574
00:24:31,856 --> 00:24:35,416
Speaker 6: through Kansas City. Patrick Mahomes has established himself as one

575
00:24:35,416 --> 00:24:37,616
Speaker 6: of the greats of our game just because of his

576
00:24:37,696 --> 00:24:40,016
Speaker 6: winning record when he gets the playoffs. I think since

577
00:24:40,056 --> 00:24:42,376
Speaker 6: he's taken over his starting quarterback, they've been to the

578
00:24:42,376 --> 00:24:45,936
Speaker 6: AFC Championship Game every single year. Every time, every single

579
00:24:46,056 --> 00:24:49,975
Speaker 6: year they've won three Super Bowls. And so for Josh

580
00:24:49,975 --> 00:24:54,176
Speaker 6: Allen or guys like Lamar Jackson, this is the type

581
00:24:54,296 --> 00:24:57,936
Speaker 6: of game where you have to go and knock the

582
00:24:58,016 --> 00:25:00,455
Speaker 6: king off of this throne, I mean, and that's the

583
00:25:00,495 --> 00:25:02,536
Speaker 6: only way that you prove yourself in this league because

584
00:25:02,576 --> 00:25:05,016
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, for any quarterback, you're

585
00:25:05,096 --> 00:25:07,896
Speaker 6: judge on your wins and losses, and particularly in the playoffs,

586
00:25:07,896 --> 00:25:10,936
Speaker 6: because Josh Allen could be a remarkable player, Lamar Jackson

587
00:25:10,936 --> 00:25:12,976
Speaker 6: could be a remarkable player. But until you go get

588
00:25:12,975 --> 00:25:15,735
Speaker 6: that Super Bowl, people aren't going to remember you in

589
00:25:15,856 --> 00:25:18,096
Speaker 6: history other than being a great player. But you go

590
00:25:18,215 --> 00:25:21,015
Speaker 6: out into Kansas City, which you've proven you can win

591
00:25:21,056 --> 00:25:22,696
Speaker 6: there in the regular season, but now you have to

592
00:25:22,735 --> 00:25:25,215
Speaker 6: do it in the biggest game of the year to

593
00:25:26,455 --> 00:25:28,656
Speaker 6: kind of set up your legacy, so to speak. So

594
00:25:28,696 --> 00:25:30,336
Speaker 6: if you can go do that, you're playing the best

595
00:25:30,336 --> 00:25:33,015
Speaker 6: football you've ever played in your career. If you're Josh Allen,

596
00:25:33,336 --> 00:25:35,216
Speaker 6: You've got a team that can go in there and compete,

597
00:25:35,376 --> 00:25:36,975
Speaker 6: and now you just have to go do it and

598
00:25:37,016 --> 00:25:39,015
Speaker 6: put yourself in a position to go compete for a

599
00:25:39,056 --> 00:25:39,576
Speaker 6: Super Bowl.

600
00:25:39,735 --> 00:25:42,455
Speaker 4: I feel like the boogeyman for Lamar was last week

601
00:25:42,975 --> 00:25:45,215
Speaker 4: at least three and five in the playoffs.

602
00:25:45,256 --> 00:25:47,015
Speaker 5: It's just winning the playoffs.

603
00:25:47,176 --> 00:25:49,776
Speaker 4: But the real boogeyman for Josh Allen is this week

604
00:25:50,016 --> 00:25:55,495
Speaker 4: because it's Patrick Mahomes. Right, Lamar has trouble winning playoff games,

605
00:25:55,696 --> 00:25:57,936
Speaker 4: Josh Allen has trouble beating Patrick Mahomes in the postseeed,

606
00:25:58,096 --> 00:26:00,656
Speaker 4: that's the post season, So he's now facing his boogeyman

607
00:26:00,735 --> 00:26:01,336
Speaker 4: this week.

608
00:26:01,176 --> 00:26:04,016
Speaker 6: Right, because you've got this incredible matchup, just like last

609
00:26:04,016 --> 00:26:08,015
Speaker 6: week was between Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen, and now

610
00:26:08,056 --> 00:26:10,056
Speaker 6: you go and you get two of the best quarterbacks

611
00:26:10,096 --> 00:26:10,975
Speaker 6: in the game once again.

612
00:26:11,656 --> 00:26:14,816
Speaker 2: And again it goes back to slaying the dragon.

613
00:26:14,896 --> 00:26:17,215
Speaker 6: For Josh Allen, he's got to go in and he's

614
00:26:17,256 --> 00:26:19,176
Speaker 6: had trouble, and this team has had trouble.

615
00:26:19,176 --> 00:26:20,496
Speaker 2: It's got to be in the back of their mind. Now,

616
00:26:20,495 --> 00:26:21,416
Speaker 2: these teams are all different.

617
00:26:21,455 --> 00:26:24,176
Speaker 6: I think they've only got thirteen players that return from

618
00:26:24,176 --> 00:26:26,536
Speaker 6: when they first played in the playoffs against Patrick Mahomes.

619
00:26:26,576 --> 00:26:30,055
Speaker 6: But at the same time, they know that this is

620
00:26:30,056 --> 00:26:31,776
Speaker 6: the biggest game. It's going to be in Kansas City,

621
00:26:32,056 --> 00:26:34,735
Speaker 6: those Kansasity Chiefs fans are it's going to be hostile environment,

622
00:26:34,776 --> 00:26:36,336
Speaker 6: They're going to be loud, it's going to be hype,

623
00:26:36,696 --> 00:26:40,495
Speaker 6: and so the pressure's on Buffalo. Kansas City knows that

624
00:26:40,536 --> 00:26:43,056
Speaker 6: they've been there, they've done that. They have confidence. They've

625
00:26:43,056 --> 00:26:45,736
Speaker 6: played in so many close games this year that they

626
00:26:45,856 --> 00:26:48,295
Speaker 6: just have figured out ways to win. And that's I

627
00:26:48,296 --> 00:26:50,136
Speaker 6: don't think that they're at the caliber of team that

628
00:26:50,136 --> 00:26:53,015
Speaker 6: they've been in the past coming into these situations. Just

629
00:26:53,096 --> 00:26:55,455
Speaker 6: if you look at them from an offensive standpoint, the

630
00:26:55,536 --> 00:26:59,976
Speaker 6: explosiveness that they've shown in the past versus this year. However,

631
00:27:00,536 --> 00:27:02,255
Speaker 6: they still figure out ways to win. And that's the

632
00:27:02,296 --> 00:27:03,936
Speaker 6: mark of a good team. And you've got a guy

633
00:27:04,376 --> 00:27:06,736
Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes with a you read that has proven that,

634
00:27:06,856 --> 00:27:09,376
Speaker 6: and their track records proven that time in and timeout.

635
00:27:09,936 --> 00:27:12,216
Speaker 5: NFC commanders are playing with house money at this point.

636
00:27:12,296 --> 00:27:14,975
Speaker 2: Right. I love it, man, I love it. Did you

637
00:27:15,016 --> 00:27:16,456
Speaker 2: ever envision them? No?

638
00:27:16,455 --> 00:27:20,856
Speaker 5: No, No, For two reasons. One, it's a rookie quarterback.

639
00:27:21,495 --> 00:27:23,936
Speaker 4: So until last year, we really hadn't seen a rookie

640
00:27:23,975 --> 00:27:26,936
Speaker 4: do what Stroud did last year. But Jada Daniels has

641
00:27:27,336 --> 00:27:29,775
Speaker 4: now supplanted him as the best rookie quarterback season of

642
00:27:29,816 --> 00:27:30,296
Speaker 4: all time.

643
00:27:30,455 --> 00:27:31,735
Speaker 5: Right, And so no.

644
00:27:32,056 --> 00:27:37,576
Speaker 4: And also their colors are slow, and their logo sucks

645
00:27:37,816 --> 00:27:40,696
Speaker 4: and so no, I can't see and a lot of

646
00:27:40,735 --> 00:27:42,656
Speaker 4: their logo sucks. Good never won with it, and so

647
00:27:42,696 --> 00:27:44,455
Speaker 4: I just think of that is just a losing logo.

648
00:27:44,856 --> 00:27:46,856
Speaker 6: They haven't been to the championship game, in the NFC

649
00:27:46,975 --> 00:27:48,776
Speaker 6: championship game since nineteen ninety one.

650
00:27:49,455 --> 00:27:51,455
Speaker 5: Was that like Mark Grippen years, it h it had

651
00:27:51,455 --> 00:27:51,896
Speaker 5: to be, it had.

652
00:27:51,816 --> 00:27:52,535
Speaker 7: To be the Hogs.

653
00:27:52,576 --> 00:27:56,376
Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean, so the pressures on the Eagles then,

654
00:27:56,416 --> 00:27:58,455
Speaker 4: because the Commanders are playing with house money.

655
00:27:58,296 --> 00:28:02,096
Speaker 6: Right, think about this new ownership, new coach and Dan Quinn,

656
00:28:03,096 --> 00:28:07,376
Speaker 6: rookie quarterback Jade Daniels phenomenal. They won four games last year,

657
00:28:07,735 --> 00:28:10,295
Speaker 6: they come in, they go twelve and five, they get

658
00:28:10,376 --> 00:28:12,136
Speaker 6: in the playoffs. Everybody's like, well, they got to go

659
00:28:12,136 --> 00:28:15,656
Speaker 6: to Tampa. You know they're the seventh seed. All these

660
00:28:15,696 --> 00:28:18,896
Speaker 6: things go down. Beat Tampa. Now you're going up against

661
00:28:18,896 --> 00:28:23,775
Speaker 6: a juggernaut fifteen and two Detroit Lions at home stadium state.

662
00:28:23,896 --> 00:28:26,215
Speaker 6: Everybody's hype. I mean, nobody can stop this machine that

663
00:28:26,256 --> 00:28:29,616
Speaker 6: they have in Detroit. And they go out and somehow

664
00:28:30,536 --> 00:28:34,896
Speaker 6: some way create what four turnovers, four or five turnovers

665
00:28:34,896 --> 00:28:38,376
Speaker 6: in that game. They capitalize on everyone. They had three

666
00:28:38,576 --> 00:28:42,056
Speaker 6: fourth down conversions in the red zone to extend drives

667
00:28:42,056 --> 00:28:45,096
Speaker 6: and get touchdowns. Jayden Daniels plays out of his mind,

668
00:28:45,696 --> 00:28:48,496
Speaker 6: and I'd say the defense had a bin but don't

669
00:28:48,496 --> 00:28:51,376
Speaker 6: break mentality. They gave up over five hundred yards of offense,

670
00:28:51,536 --> 00:28:54,176
Speaker 6: but they capitalized when they needed to and create turnovers.

671
00:28:54,536 --> 00:28:58,256
Speaker 6: That really the first turnover, the strip sack was huge.

672
00:28:58,256 --> 00:29:01,016
Speaker 6: They're on the twenty yard line. First and ten. At

673
00:29:01,016 --> 00:29:04,016
Speaker 6: the end of the half, Jared Goff steps back another

674
00:29:04,056 --> 00:29:05,776
Speaker 6: first and ten on the thirty yard line. Go Get

675
00:29:05,776 --> 00:29:08,096
Speaker 6: points to kind of build that momentum before you go

676
00:29:08,096 --> 00:29:10,856
Speaker 6: in a halftime, throws an interception there, throws the pick

677
00:29:10,936 --> 00:29:13,176
Speaker 6: six in the second court. I mean, so there was

678
00:29:13,256 --> 00:29:15,376
Speaker 6: all these different elements and it was a complete team win.

679
00:29:15,456 --> 00:29:18,016
Speaker 6: But Jaden Daniels the way that he played, I mean,

680
00:29:18,056 --> 00:29:22,496
Speaker 6: the dude is unfazed, the poise, the confidence. He doesn't

681
00:29:22,496 --> 00:29:26,575
Speaker 6: look like a rookie, and that is unbelievable for a

682
00:29:26,616 --> 00:29:29,656
Speaker 6: guy to step into on those different stages and just

683
00:29:29,696 --> 00:29:30,816
Speaker 6: look unphased by the moment.

684
00:29:31,136 --> 00:29:35,856
Speaker 4: Yeah, my question about how composed he is, because he

685
00:29:35,896 --> 00:29:39,496
Speaker 4: looks wildly composed, even for not a rookie in those situations, right,

686
00:29:39,576 --> 00:29:43,776
Speaker 4: because it looks like he's dialed and he's focused and

687
00:29:43,816 --> 00:29:45,976
Speaker 4: it's not affecting him in a way of like, I

688
00:29:46,016 --> 00:29:46,776
Speaker 4: just imagine his.

689
00:29:46,656 --> 00:29:47,656
Speaker 5: Heart is just chilling.

690
00:29:48,016 --> 00:29:51,736
Speaker 4: Heart rate gets up. You're you're reacting more than you're

691
00:29:51,776 --> 00:29:53,176
Speaker 4: thinking and responding.

692
00:29:52,736 --> 00:29:55,096
Speaker 2: And you're you're rushing through your reeds and your throats.

693
00:29:55,096 --> 00:29:55,256
Speaker 6: Oh.

694
00:29:55,416 --> 00:29:57,056
Speaker 5: I can feel his heartbeat by watching him, and he

695
00:29:57,096 --> 00:30:00,736
Speaker 5: goes like this, it was nothing to him, and.

696
00:30:00,696 --> 00:30:02,816
Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying, like they had to convert. I

697
00:30:03,136 --> 00:30:06,576
Speaker 6: think he threw two touchdown passes on four down. Those

698
00:30:06,616 --> 00:30:09,536
Speaker 6: are big time moments for any quarterback. You're in there,

699
00:30:09,736 --> 00:30:11,296
Speaker 6: you're like you could be in the moment and when

700
00:30:11,296 --> 00:30:13,256
Speaker 6: you're locked in the zone that's one thing, but for

701
00:30:13,296 --> 00:30:16,096
Speaker 6: any quarterback, you feel those moments. And plus in that

702
00:30:16,176 --> 00:30:19,416
Speaker 6: type of environment when the stadium everybody's screaming, they know

703
00:30:19,496 --> 00:30:22,936
Speaker 6: the significance of what's going on, and that you're just like,

704
00:30:23,736 --> 00:30:26,576
Speaker 6: no big deal, another walking a part, boom, Hey, suck

705
00:30:26,616 --> 00:30:29,416
Speaker 6: on that. I mean, it's pretty pretty remarkable.

706
00:30:29,456 --> 00:30:30,815
Speaker 4: And for him to have the ability because there were

707
00:30:30,816 --> 00:30:33,976
Speaker 4: a couple of short fourth down plays where he just

708
00:30:35,416 --> 00:30:37,256
Speaker 4: ran it around the edge, right because it was nothing

709
00:30:37,256 --> 00:30:40,256
Speaker 4: that they couldn't stop it. You know, when that was

710
00:30:41,056 --> 00:30:44,136
Speaker 4: it looked to be an option, meaning he had like

711
00:30:44,136 --> 00:30:48,136
Speaker 4: three options and it was so easy a rounded because

712
00:30:48,176 --> 00:30:51,456
Speaker 4: he's quick, he's fast, but he's quick, he's quick, and

713
00:30:51,496 --> 00:30:54,136
Speaker 4: there's a difference, right. Yeah, it was pretty amazing to

714
00:30:54,136 --> 00:30:56,576
Speaker 4: see who's the player you think of that you played with,

715
00:30:57,016 --> 00:30:59,816
Speaker 4: that had poise to where you're going.

716
00:30:59,856 --> 00:31:01,096
Speaker 5: Is that person even a human?

717
00:31:02,376 --> 00:31:06,056
Speaker 6: I mean, the easy answer Obviously, the first guy I

718
00:31:06,056 --> 00:31:07,736
Speaker 6: ever played with and was in the room with for

719
00:31:07,736 --> 00:31:11,856
Speaker 6: four years was Tom Brady. I mean, when the situation

720
00:31:12,016 --> 00:31:13,816
Speaker 6: called for it, and he was at his best in

721
00:31:13,856 --> 00:31:16,536
Speaker 6: those two minute drills, and we repped those two minute

722
00:31:16,616 --> 00:31:21,136
Speaker 6: situations all the time. But it was just methodical for him.

723
00:31:21,376 --> 00:31:23,216
Speaker 6: He knew how he wanted to call it, where he

724
00:31:23,256 --> 00:31:26,216
Speaker 6: wanted to go with the ball. And the thing that's hard,

725
00:31:26,376 --> 00:31:30,056
Speaker 6: I think for a lot of quarterbacks is that risk reward.

726
00:31:30,136 --> 00:31:31,496
Speaker 6: A lot of times we want to push the ball

727
00:31:31,536 --> 00:31:33,656
Speaker 6: down the field, get as much as we can right now.

728
00:31:34,016 --> 00:31:37,376
Speaker 6: But he was so steady and consistent. And I remember

729
00:31:37,456 --> 00:31:41,096
Speaker 6: one time my rookie year, we're in Pittsburgh on the road,

730
00:31:41,936 --> 00:31:44,016
Speaker 6: two minute drill to go set up a game winning

731
00:31:44,056 --> 00:31:45,976
Speaker 6: field goal. All we needed was a field goal, I think,

732
00:31:46,536 --> 00:31:50,496
Speaker 6: and he just took checkdown after checkdown after checkdown because

733
00:31:50,496 --> 00:31:52,696
Speaker 6: they're playing zone coverage or trying to get that guard

734
00:31:52,696 --> 00:31:57,056
Speaker 6: against the big ball, and just his diligence in that

735
00:31:57,096 --> 00:32:00,536
Speaker 6: situation and his composure to see the field and not

736
00:32:00,576 --> 00:32:03,056
Speaker 6: get greedy and just continue to take the profit.

737
00:32:03,096 --> 00:32:05,056
Speaker 2: And he understanding like, hey, we've got to get up

738
00:32:05,056 --> 00:32:05,376
Speaker 2: on the ball.

739
00:32:05,376 --> 00:32:08,096
Speaker 6: I'll clock it, get everybody set up, go take the

740
00:32:08,176 --> 00:32:10,536
Speaker 6: check down, Take the checkdown. But these are five ten

741
00:32:10,616 --> 00:32:12,976
Speaker 6: yard chunks and all he was doing was moving us

742
00:32:12,976 --> 00:32:15,216
Speaker 6: down the field. Now, there were plenty of times where

743
00:32:15,616 --> 00:32:18,216
Speaker 6: he saw, all of a sudden, they're bringing pressure, he's

744
00:32:18,256 --> 00:32:20,976
Speaker 6: going to take the shot down the field and do that.

745
00:32:21,016 --> 00:32:24,456
Speaker 6: But he was so good and so composed in those

746
00:32:24,456 --> 00:32:27,096
Speaker 6: situations that he was unfazed by the moment, and it

747
00:32:27,136 --> 00:32:29,656
Speaker 6: was almost like he thrived in those moments. And those

748
00:32:29,696 --> 00:32:32,416
Speaker 6: are the exciting players to be around. Even Stafford was

749
00:32:32,416 --> 00:32:34,656
Speaker 6: another guy that I played with in Detroit. It was

750
00:32:34,896 --> 00:32:37,216
Speaker 6: amazing because we're behind a lot late in the game,

751
00:32:37,776 --> 00:32:41,136
Speaker 6: and that's the toughest thing is when you don't when

752
00:32:41,176 --> 00:32:44,536
Speaker 6: you just need a field goal, that's easy, like for us,

753
00:32:44,536 --> 00:32:46,456
Speaker 6: we gotta get you to the thirty yard line or

754
00:32:46,496 --> 00:32:48,736
Speaker 6: whatever the guy's ranges, and the coach will come in

755
00:32:48,736 --> 00:32:50,456
Speaker 6: here and be like, hey, we gotta get to the

756
00:32:50,496 --> 00:32:52,456
Speaker 6: thirty five yard line to kick a field goal. When

757
00:32:52,496 --> 00:32:55,456
Speaker 6: you're down by a touchdown, all of a sudden, it

758
00:32:55,616 --> 00:32:58,856
Speaker 6: ratchets up a lot because you just don't have the time.

759
00:32:59,096 --> 00:33:01,176
Speaker 6: But when you're down two scores and the defense knows

760
00:33:01,216 --> 00:33:03,256
Speaker 6: you've got to throw and they're coming off the edge.

761
00:33:03,776 --> 00:33:06,216
Speaker 6: How do you respond in those moments because your sense

762
00:33:06,216 --> 00:33:08,376
Speaker 6: of urgency goes up, and then if you can go

763
00:33:08,416 --> 00:33:10,616
Speaker 6: down and put that one score on the game, I

764
00:33:10,656 --> 00:33:13,456
Speaker 6: mean one score, make it a one score game, and

765
00:33:13,456 --> 00:33:15,056
Speaker 6: then your defense got to do its job and get

766
00:33:15,096 --> 00:33:17,335
Speaker 6: the ball back. Those are when you're really tested as

767
00:33:17,336 --> 00:33:19,656
Speaker 6: a quarterback, when you're down and you've got to come

768
00:33:19,696 --> 00:33:21,496
Speaker 6: back from multiple scores late in the game.

769
00:33:21,896 --> 00:33:39,976
Speaker 4: And London Fletcher coming up back in a second. About

770
00:33:39,976 --> 00:33:42,056
Speaker 4: to talk with London Fletcher. He is now an analyst

771
00:33:42,056 --> 00:33:44,816
Speaker 4: for the Washington Commander's Radio team. Joined the broadcast team

772
00:33:44,816 --> 00:33:46,576
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty two. I wanted to play a few

773
00:33:46,576 --> 00:33:50,376
Speaker 4: clips from the game last Saturday night Commander's Radio Network

774
00:33:50,456 --> 00:33:54,136
Speaker 4: with Bram Weinstein London Fletcher. They're on the call. This

775
00:33:54,216 --> 00:33:56,536
Speaker 4: is second quarter. The Commander's at a pick six from

776
00:33:56,576 --> 00:33:57,096
Speaker 4: Kwan Martin.

777
00:33:57,096 --> 00:33:58,296
Speaker 2: Here you go, crush it up.

778
00:33:58,336 --> 00:34:03,376
Speaker 8: The little golf has ten and feelers.

779
00:34:05,696 --> 00:34:14,256
Speaker 5: Jaredy Fine pick six, touchdown, touchdown, Loucking god quad and.

780
00:34:14,576 --> 00:34:18,256
Speaker 3: In Actuick broke least to the clam Martin tip down

781
00:34:18,336 --> 00:34:22,216
Speaker 3: eight pound. Benny Tortois has swarmed into the end zone

782
00:34:22,256 --> 00:34:23,536
Speaker 3: of the deck Troy Lon.

783
00:34:23,776 --> 00:34:28,416
Speaker 5: WHOA, that's fun.

784
00:34:28,896 --> 00:34:29,496
Speaker 2: That's awesome.

785
00:34:29,536 --> 00:34:32,256
Speaker 4: I love home team broadcast now because they just get

786
00:34:32,336 --> 00:34:34,256
Speaker 4: to do what they want to do as the home team.

787
00:34:34,696 --> 00:34:37,176
Speaker 5: That's super cool. Here's the game ceiling, picked by Jeremy

788
00:34:37,216 --> 00:34:38,136
Speaker 5: chen for the Commanders.

789
00:34:38,416 --> 00:34:41,896
Speaker 8: Snap the golf steps off, good pocket to a middle

790
00:34:41,936 --> 00:34:42,576
Speaker 8: bit pick off.

791
00:34:42,896 --> 00:34:44,056
Speaker 2: Jeremy Chitz counting.

792
00:34:44,456 --> 00:34:44,856
Speaker 5: That's it.

793
00:34:46,016 --> 00:34:48,376
Speaker 2: Celebrate like it's nineteen ninety one.

794
00:34:49,016 --> 00:34:51,616
Speaker 5: We're going to the NFIT Championship game.

795
00:34:52,536 --> 00:34:55,776
Speaker 3: This is the Motown, the home of Motown to tonight

796
00:34:55,896 --> 00:34:57,296
Speaker 3: they'll be playing at Boom.

797
00:35:00,536 --> 00:35:00,896
Speaker 2: All right.

798
00:35:00,936 --> 00:35:02,656
Speaker 5: Here he is, London Fletcher.

799
00:35:05,736 --> 00:35:09,376
Speaker 4: I'm sitting here listening to a biography of a quarterback

800
00:35:09,416 --> 00:35:12,696
Speaker 4: who played you for like ten minutes Castles, Like dude

801
00:35:12,816 --> 00:35:16,416
Speaker 4: was everywhere, like every he was talking about everywhere you played,

802
00:35:16,856 --> 00:35:18,856
Speaker 4: Like so I just kind of want to pass it

803
00:35:18,896 --> 00:35:20,776
Speaker 4: over to Matt to start, but just know if your

804
00:35:20,816 --> 00:35:22,536
Speaker 4: ears were burning or your nose was itching, like my

805
00:35:22,576 --> 00:35:24,815
Speaker 4: grandma used to say, Like I was here in ten

806
00:35:24,856 --> 00:35:27,456
Speaker 4: minutes of how dynamic of a defensive player you were

807
00:35:27,456 --> 00:35:28,536
Speaker 4: against this guy over.

808
00:35:28,376 --> 00:35:31,416
Speaker 2: Here, Aylen, I'm your biggest fan, London.

809
00:35:31,456 --> 00:35:33,296
Speaker 6: I mean I was sitting there, I was like he

810
00:35:33,456 --> 00:35:35,576
Speaker 6: was one of the toughest middle linebackers to go up

811
00:35:35,616 --> 00:35:39,256
Speaker 6: to against because he was sidelined the sideline. He was instinctive,

812
00:35:39,336 --> 00:35:42,856
Speaker 6: he knew route combinations and would jump stuff. But he's

813
00:35:42,896 --> 00:35:45,176
Speaker 6: also had the speed to get down the middle in

814
00:35:45,216 --> 00:35:47,456
Speaker 6: that Tampa two defense that you guys would always play.

815
00:35:47,496 --> 00:35:50,016
Speaker 2: So I am an absolute huge.

816
00:35:49,816 --> 00:35:51,856
Speaker 6: Fan and I was actually looking at some of your

817
00:35:51,896 --> 00:35:55,576
Speaker 6: stuff and did you really run a four to three

818
00:35:55,816 --> 00:35:57,576
Speaker 6: eight when you're coming out of college?

819
00:35:57,856 --> 00:36:00,416
Speaker 8: I did, And I've been investing with with frids move.

820
00:36:00,976 --> 00:36:03,256
Speaker 8: He's he does some shows with me here in Washington,

821
00:36:03,576 --> 00:36:06,016
Speaker 8: and I tease him that I was fastiday him in

822
00:36:06,016 --> 00:36:07,296
Speaker 8: the forty and it kills him.

823
00:36:09,816 --> 00:36:11,616
Speaker 7: He told me it was that John Carroll. It was

824
00:36:11,656 --> 00:36:12,736
Speaker 7: only thirty eight yards.

825
00:36:12,736 --> 00:36:19,576
Speaker 9: But why do you think you weren't drafted at four

826
00:36:19,816 --> 00:36:23,576
Speaker 9: three eight with your size because it was It wasn't

827
00:36:23,616 --> 00:36:25,616
Speaker 9: like you were one hundred and twenty pounds like you

828
00:36:25,656 --> 00:36:26,376
Speaker 9: had size on.

829
00:36:26,856 --> 00:36:27,976
Speaker 5: Why were you drafted?

830
00:36:28,056 --> 00:36:28,376
Speaker 2: You think?

831
00:36:28,616 --> 00:36:30,696
Speaker 8: Well, because of the Division II school, you know, being

832
00:36:30,776 --> 00:36:34,416
Speaker 8: playing at the Division three, being undersized at the linebacker position.

833
00:36:34,496 --> 00:36:37,216
Speaker 7: So I'm five ten coming out of college. I was.

834
00:36:37,856 --> 00:36:40,896
Speaker 8: I played my senior year maybe two thirty two thirty

835
00:36:40,936 --> 00:36:44,936
Speaker 8: five and the competition, so you know, people are looking

836
00:36:45,056 --> 00:36:48,896
Speaker 8: for reasons to kind of knock you if you're undersized

837
00:36:48,896 --> 00:36:51,616
Speaker 8: and you played the Division three regardless of of the speed.

838
00:36:51,656 --> 00:36:55,616
Speaker 8: Because I thought, based on my productivity and how fast

839
00:36:55,656 --> 00:36:58,216
Speaker 8: I ran, man, I thought I was getting drafted in.

840
00:36:58,136 --> 00:36:58,856
Speaker 7: The third round.

841
00:36:59,016 --> 00:37:01,056
Speaker 8: I was like, Okay, they're gonna draft me in the

842
00:37:01,056 --> 00:37:04,136
Speaker 8: first round, but third route seems logical.

843
00:37:04,816 --> 00:37:07,296
Speaker 2: Was that something? Use it as motivation when you went

844
00:37:07,336 --> 00:37:07,896
Speaker 2: into your career.

845
00:37:07,936 --> 00:37:10,056
Speaker 6: Obviously you're trying to make the team early on, but

846
00:37:10,096 --> 00:37:12,056
Speaker 6: once you do that and establish that was that year

847
00:37:12,096 --> 00:37:13,856
Speaker 6: and year out something that you always had a chip

848
00:37:13,856 --> 00:37:15,936
Speaker 6: on your shoulder, motivation that you use in the back

849
00:37:15,976 --> 00:37:18,856
Speaker 6: of your mind to just excel and continue to push

850
00:37:19,096 --> 00:37:21,096
Speaker 6: week I mean week in, week out, year and year out.

851
00:37:21,456 --> 00:37:24,256
Speaker 8: It was for I would say, probably, let's call it

852
00:37:24,256 --> 00:37:28,576
Speaker 8: maybe my first five, four, five or six years in

853
00:37:28,616 --> 00:37:31,216
Speaker 8: the league, I would always try to look for something

854
00:37:32,016 --> 00:37:34,456
Speaker 8: to give give me an aed, some some reason, and

855
00:37:34,456 --> 00:37:36,616
Speaker 8: then I held on to that for a long time

856
00:37:36,656 --> 00:37:39,216
Speaker 8: to doubt. I can remember my first year starting in

857
00:37:39,216 --> 00:37:41,136
Speaker 8: Saint Louis. It was my second year in the league,

858
00:37:41,936 --> 00:37:46,496
Speaker 8: and ESPN the magazine had a preseason kind of roster

859
00:37:46,616 --> 00:37:49,776
Speaker 8: preview where they would rate all the starters offense, defense,

860
00:37:49,816 --> 00:37:52,856
Speaker 8: and then special teams guys one through five, five being

861
00:37:52,856 --> 00:37:55,296
Speaker 8: the highest, one being the lowest. And I'm looking at

862
00:37:55,336 --> 00:37:58,136
Speaker 8: this this magazine. I was all excited, Hey, I'm a

863
00:37:58,176 --> 00:38:00,416
Speaker 8: starter and I want to see what they say about me.

864
00:38:00,456 --> 00:38:02,216
Speaker 7: And they had they rated me a one.

865
00:38:02,856 --> 00:38:05,536
Speaker 8: It's like, if if loved the Fletcher's starting on this

866
00:38:05,576 --> 00:38:07,496
Speaker 8: team by Halloween, we'll buy you a car.

867
00:38:08,176 --> 00:38:10,776
Speaker 7: And so I'm pissed. I mean, and I put.

868
00:38:10,576 --> 00:38:14,496
Speaker 8: This this magazine on my coffee table the entire season.

869
00:38:14,816 --> 00:38:16,776
Speaker 8: So I ended up starting all the games for Washington.

870
00:38:16,776 --> 00:38:20,576
Speaker 8: Our defense plays extremely well. So they did a postseason

871
00:38:20,736 --> 00:38:23,656
Speaker 8: edition of the same magazine. Now they're previewing all the

872
00:38:23,696 --> 00:38:27,336
Speaker 8: postseason teams, and we make the playoffs, and then they

873
00:38:27,416 --> 00:38:29,776
Speaker 8: rated me like a four, and it's like, hey, if

874
00:38:29,816 --> 00:38:33,216
Speaker 8: London Fletcher is not the leading tackler in the postseason

875
00:38:33,216 --> 00:38:35,296
Speaker 8: for this team, will buy you a car. And I

876
00:38:35,336 --> 00:38:38,416
Speaker 8: told later on that we end up winning Super Bowl.

877
00:38:38,536 --> 00:38:42,256
Speaker 8: So I had my media date. I was like, man, ESPN,

878
00:38:42,296 --> 00:38:43,936
Speaker 8: y'all owe me a car, and I wanted to be

879
00:38:43,976 --> 00:38:48,256
Speaker 8: a rams blue Mercedes Benz. So I definitely use those

880
00:38:48,296 --> 00:38:49,576
Speaker 8: things as motivation.

881
00:38:50,256 --> 00:38:53,696
Speaker 4: One of my good friends is DeMarcus Ware, and you

882
00:38:53,696 --> 00:38:55,616
Speaker 4: know he did not play the Power five now Power

883
00:38:55,616 --> 00:38:56,096
Speaker 4: four school.

884
00:38:56,096 --> 00:38:57,816
Speaker 2: He played at Troy, but he grew.

885
00:38:57,656 --> 00:39:02,056
Speaker 5: A lot in college, like substantial growth Scottie Pippen esque

886
00:39:02,256 --> 00:39:04,416
Speaker 5: where he grew like six inches when he was at

887
00:39:04,496 --> 00:39:08,936
Speaker 5: Central Arkansas playing basketball, and demarcts. Yeah, DeMarcus was like, I.

888
00:39:08,856 --> 00:39:12,696
Speaker 4: Grew so much and I was already working really hard

889
00:39:12,736 --> 00:39:15,496
Speaker 4: that things just kind of fell in. Where for you

890
00:39:15,576 --> 00:39:18,176
Speaker 4: did it click physically coming out of high school? Were

891
00:39:18,216 --> 00:39:21,136
Speaker 4: you undersized or where in college did physically it start

892
00:39:21,176 --> 00:39:21,856
Speaker 4: to make sense for you?

893
00:39:22,216 --> 00:39:25,016
Speaker 8: I would say I was from I probably stopped growing

894
00:39:25,496 --> 00:39:28,376
Speaker 8: my senior year, so I went to college at five

895
00:39:28,456 --> 00:39:31,056
Speaker 8: ten and never grew. I will say just the I

896
00:39:31,136 --> 00:39:35,056
Speaker 8: was raw from a football standpoint. Once I got to college.

897
00:39:35,056 --> 00:39:37,616
Speaker 8: I only played one year high school football. I was

898
00:39:37,896 --> 00:39:40,936
Speaker 8: a basketball guy up until my senior year, only played

899
00:39:40,936 --> 00:39:45,456
Speaker 8: the one year high school football. Didn't play football initially

900
00:39:45,936 --> 00:39:48,736
Speaker 8: again until what was my third year in college, and

901
00:39:48,776 --> 00:39:51,016
Speaker 8: so as I got more reps and got more experience,

902
00:39:51,536 --> 00:39:54,336
Speaker 8: that's when it kind of took off for me. Initially,

903
00:39:54,376 --> 00:39:57,296
Speaker 8: I'm just surviving off my raw athleticism and talent.

904
00:39:57,576 --> 00:39:59,376
Speaker 7: But once I was able to learn.

905
00:39:59,696 --> 00:40:04,096
Speaker 8: Defensive scheme, offensive schemes, and understand kind of the game

906
00:40:04,136 --> 00:40:06,816
Speaker 8: a lot better that that's when it really took off

907
00:40:06,856 --> 00:40:07,056
Speaker 8: of me.

908
00:40:08,536 --> 00:40:11,136
Speaker 7: As I got to the pros, got great coaching.

909
00:40:11,336 --> 00:40:13,896
Speaker 8: And my knowledge of the game, it elevated even more.

910
00:40:14,136 --> 00:40:16,896
Speaker 8: And it was a I would say, probably my fifth

911
00:40:16,936 --> 00:40:20,296
Speaker 8: sixth year in the league where where your athleticism and

912
00:40:20,336 --> 00:40:23,536
Speaker 8: your knowledge of the game intertwined. And that's where where

913
00:40:23,536 --> 00:40:25,056
Speaker 8: it just really took off of me and I was

914
00:40:25,096 --> 00:40:29,176
Speaker 8: playing playing my best football during the middle of my year,

915
00:40:29,296 --> 00:40:30,456
Speaker 8: my years in the NFL.

916
00:40:31,296 --> 00:40:33,656
Speaker 6: We in you are the epitome of an iron man.

917
00:40:33,816 --> 00:40:38,656
Speaker 6: I mean, sixteen seasons, two hundred and fifteen consecutive starts.

918
00:40:38,456 --> 00:40:40,016
Speaker 5: Fifty six fifty six.

919
00:40:40,136 --> 00:40:43,256
Speaker 6: Yet that extra forty you got to give you the

920
00:40:43,296 --> 00:40:44,576
Speaker 6: extra forty one hundred percent?

921
00:40:45,096 --> 00:40:47,376
Speaker 2: What do you credit that too?

922
00:40:47,496 --> 00:40:50,856
Speaker 6: Because in today's game, with guys like Derrick Henry Lebron James,

923
00:40:50,856 --> 00:40:52,656
Speaker 6: you know they spend a million dollars a year on

924
00:40:52,696 --> 00:40:57,096
Speaker 6: their body. How did you stay healthy, stay on the field.

925
00:40:57,176 --> 00:40:58,576
Speaker 6: Did you always play through injuries? Like?

926
00:40:58,616 --> 00:41:00,456
Speaker 2: What were some of the things that you did to

927
00:41:00,496 --> 00:41:01,256
Speaker 2: stay on the field.

928
00:41:01,496 --> 00:41:03,536
Speaker 8: I'll tell you that onen't they I wasn't spending anywhere

929
00:41:03,576 --> 00:41:09,016
Speaker 8: near close to a million dollars. Old man, I say

930
00:41:09,056 --> 00:41:12,176
Speaker 8: this the way I was made. You know, God kind

931
00:41:12,176 --> 00:41:16,216
Speaker 8: of built me in a in a compact, you know,

932
00:41:16,416 --> 00:41:19,696
Speaker 8: with help with the game of football I did. I

933
00:41:19,736 --> 00:41:23,176
Speaker 8: never really had those catastrophic injuries where guys can do

934
00:41:23,216 --> 00:41:26,136
Speaker 8: everything the right way and you'll have a guy blowing

935
00:41:26,176 --> 00:41:26,536
Speaker 8: knee out.

936
00:41:26,576 --> 00:41:27,856
Speaker 7: We just had Sam cosed me.

937
00:41:28,296 --> 00:41:30,976
Speaker 8: You know, a great player here and he's doing everything

938
00:41:31,096 --> 00:41:33,736
Speaker 8: the right way and gets his knee rolled up, blew

939
00:41:33,736 --> 00:41:36,336
Speaker 8: out his a c L. I never had those type

940
00:41:36,336 --> 00:41:38,976
Speaker 8: of situations, but I did do a lot of the

941
00:41:39,056 --> 00:41:42,616
Speaker 8: maintenance stuff, whether it was the massages, the cold tub,

942
00:41:42,656 --> 00:41:47,336
Speaker 8: hot tub, the dry needling, the art rest. Rest was

943
00:41:47,336 --> 00:41:50,296
Speaker 8: big in my in my repertoire, getting my rest and

944
00:41:50,456 --> 00:41:53,576
Speaker 8: just really listening to to my body. If I felt

945
00:41:53,576 --> 00:41:56,336
Speaker 8: a little something a little blew out of whack, maybe

946
00:41:56,496 --> 00:41:58,936
Speaker 8: dial in the back end practice, going to give him

947
00:41:58,936 --> 00:42:01,616
Speaker 8: my chiropractice or my my person who worked on my

948
00:42:01,656 --> 00:42:04,096
Speaker 8: soft tissue, or the trainers. So it was a lot

949
00:42:04,136 --> 00:42:05,856
Speaker 8: of a lot of those types of things idea. But

950
00:42:06,536 --> 00:42:08,936
Speaker 8: I was getting as many pre things as possible through

951
00:42:08,976 --> 00:42:09,296
Speaker 8: the team.

952
00:42:09,296 --> 00:42:20,896
Speaker 10: I wasn't spend of that million dollars.

953
00:42:27,896 --> 00:42:31,616
Speaker 5: This is a wide open question. Jade daniels Go makes

954
00:42:31,616 --> 00:42:32,096
Speaker 5: it special.

955
00:42:32,696 --> 00:42:38,616
Speaker 8: I think, first and foremost his work ethic, and we all,

956
00:42:38,656 --> 00:42:41,656
Speaker 8: you know, know people who work hard, especially at the quarterback.

957
00:42:41,696 --> 00:42:44,696
Speaker 8: I think you know most quarterbacks they have you in

958
00:42:44,776 --> 00:42:47,256
Speaker 8: order to say you have to work extremely hard.

959
00:42:47,296 --> 00:42:50,376
Speaker 7: But it seems like he's for a young guy. He

960
00:42:50,496 --> 00:42:51,376
Speaker 7: came in here.

961
00:42:51,256 --> 00:42:54,736
Speaker 8: Already with a tremendous work ethic, and he knew he

962
00:42:54,816 --> 00:42:57,456
Speaker 8: had a routine already mapped out where he's getting in

963
00:42:57,496 --> 00:43:00,776
Speaker 8: here at six am, getting on the virtual of the

964
00:43:00,856 --> 00:43:05,335
Speaker 8: VR stuff and getting all those extra reps. The work

965
00:43:05,496 --> 00:43:09,296
Speaker 8: ethic and the humility that he carries himself with. He

966
00:43:09,336 --> 00:43:11,496
Speaker 8: doesn't get too high, doesn't read his press clippers. He

967
00:43:11,536 --> 00:43:15,216
Speaker 8: didn't come in here feeling entitled, thinking that Hey, I'm

968
00:43:15,256 --> 00:43:17,416
Speaker 8: the number two overall draft pick for m a Heisman

969
00:43:17,496 --> 00:43:21,856
Speaker 8: Trophy winner. This franchise has been wanting a franchise quarterback

970
00:43:21,896 --> 00:43:22,616
Speaker 8: for forever.

971
00:43:23,216 --> 00:43:24,416
Speaker 7: I'm going to be that guy.

972
00:43:24,536 --> 00:43:26,536
Speaker 8: No, I'm gonna come in here, earn it, earn it

973
00:43:26,616 --> 00:43:30,336
Speaker 8: respect to my teammates, with my work ethic, and continue

974
00:43:30,536 --> 00:43:33,976
Speaker 8: to operate in great humility. And you know, just let

975
00:43:34,056 --> 00:43:37,336
Speaker 8: my natural guy bi ability take over, and you know,

976
00:43:37,376 --> 00:43:40,096
Speaker 8: you couple all those things with the gifts that he has,

977
00:43:40,136 --> 00:43:41,976
Speaker 8: and that's what makes him so special.

978
00:43:42,696 --> 00:43:46,136
Speaker 6: When you think about the Washington Commanders just even a

979
00:43:46,136 --> 00:43:48,176
Speaker 6: few years ago and the bad rap that they got

980
00:43:48,656 --> 00:43:50,936
Speaker 6: with ownership and just the team itself not having a

981
00:43:50,976 --> 00:43:54,096
Speaker 6: tremendous amount of success, and then this year it's new ownership,

982
00:43:54,296 --> 00:43:56,736
Speaker 6: new head coach with dan Quinn Jaden Daniels. Did you

983
00:43:56,776 --> 00:43:59,856
Speaker 6: ever envision them being at this position that they are

984
00:43:59,936 --> 00:44:03,496
Speaker 6: right now competing for an NFC championship when you started

985
00:44:03,496 --> 00:44:03,816
Speaker 6: this year.

986
00:44:04,216 --> 00:44:07,936
Speaker 8: I be lying if I tell you I thought that

987
00:44:08,216 --> 00:44:11,176
Speaker 8: I would say this when when the new ownership group

988
00:44:11,256 --> 00:44:13,256
Speaker 8: came in and they've they've done a lot of They've

989
00:44:13,256 --> 00:44:16,936
Speaker 8: provided a lot of resources for the not just the

990
00:44:16,936 --> 00:44:19,976
Speaker 8: football team, but the organization to have success on and

991
00:44:20,016 --> 00:44:23,416
Speaker 8: off the field, hiring Ada Peters as a general manager.

992
00:44:23,616 --> 00:44:25,256
Speaker 8: Then you go out and you hire dan Quinn and

993
00:44:25,496 --> 00:44:28,856
Speaker 8: this the staff that they brought together. Being intentional with

994
00:44:28,896 --> 00:44:31,016
Speaker 8: the players that they put together, I felt like this

995
00:44:31,056 --> 00:44:35,496
Speaker 8: team would be extremely competitive. There's something that our fans

996
00:44:35,536 --> 00:44:38,216
Speaker 8: will be proud of to where whether win or lose,

997
00:44:38,536 --> 00:44:40,256
Speaker 8: they will be proud of the product.

998
00:44:39,896 --> 00:44:40,696
Speaker 7: That was on the field.

999
00:44:41,136 --> 00:44:43,216
Speaker 8: But for us to have this season that we've had

1000
00:44:43,256 --> 00:44:47,536
Speaker 8: and win twelve regular season games, going to into Tama Bay,

1001
00:44:47,576 --> 00:44:50,936
Speaker 8: win a playoff game, then going to Detroit knock off

1002
00:44:50,936 --> 00:44:53,536
Speaker 8: the number one seed, and and got this game coming

1003
00:44:53,616 --> 00:44:58,256
Speaker 8: up against the Philadelphia Egles for the NFC championship. Man,

1004
00:44:58,296 --> 00:45:01,976
Speaker 8: that's that's beyond my wildest dream and probably a lot

1005
00:45:01,976 --> 00:45:04,696
Speaker 8: of a lot of people around here wildest dreams as well.

1006
00:45:04,856 --> 00:45:06,696
Speaker 4: I think about it Austin Eckler a lot now because

1007
00:45:06,696 --> 00:45:08,736
Speaker 4: he gets the most carries, but because when you have

1008
00:45:08,776 --> 00:45:12,976
Speaker 4: a rookie quarterback, leadership, veteran leadership is really important, coming

1009
00:45:12,976 --> 00:45:16,256
Speaker 4: from a lot of different places. Getting guys like an Eckler,

1010
00:45:16,416 --> 00:45:19,816
Speaker 4: how important are they whenever your quarterback is so young.

1011
00:45:19,856 --> 00:45:20,856
Speaker 7: It's extremely important.

1012
00:45:20,896 --> 00:45:23,616
Speaker 8: And you mentioned Austin Eckler, I think getting the veteran

1013
00:45:23,656 --> 00:45:27,456
Speaker 8: center and Tyler biattish is was key to match. You

1014
00:45:27,496 --> 00:45:29,856
Speaker 8: play a quarterback and it's a lot so much on

1015
00:45:29,896 --> 00:45:32,536
Speaker 8: your play, but if you can have a veteran, especially

1016
00:45:32,536 --> 00:45:35,936
Speaker 8: at that center position, who can help calm things down,

1017
00:45:36,016 --> 00:45:39,336
Speaker 8: get the protections right, be a calming presence for you.

1018
00:45:39,936 --> 00:45:43,856
Speaker 8: Tyler Bennett has been a really underrated signing. Having you

1019
00:45:44,256 --> 00:45:47,336
Speaker 8: mentioned Austin Eckler, bringing in a zach Ertz guy who

1020
00:45:47,376 --> 00:45:50,456
Speaker 8: played in Cliff Kingsbury offense, who's who's kind of an

1021
00:45:50,496 --> 00:45:53,656
Speaker 8: extension of Cliff on the field where he can help

1022
00:45:53,976 --> 00:45:57,256
Speaker 8: Jayden and different things. And having even even not just

1023
00:45:57,256 --> 00:45:59,736
Speaker 8: bringing in the veteran guys, but having a guy like

1024
00:45:59,856 --> 00:46:04,096
Speaker 8: Terry McLaurin, who's so such a great leader and one

1025
00:46:04,096 --> 00:46:06,896
Speaker 8: of the guys that a lot of people that his

1026
00:46:06,976 --> 00:46:10,216
Speaker 8: teammates respect so much. So having those the right veteran

1027
00:46:10,256 --> 00:46:13,376
Speaker 8: guys on the team. They were intentional about adding the

1028
00:46:13,456 --> 00:46:15,696
Speaker 8: guys that they did to this football team, especially the

1029
00:46:15,696 --> 00:46:16,896
Speaker 8: free agents that they brought in.

1030
00:46:17,696 --> 00:46:19,736
Speaker 6: Now, this is this game coming up. We got the

1031
00:46:19,736 --> 00:46:22,896
Speaker 6: Philadelphia Eagles. Do you hate the Philadelphia Eagles as much

1032
00:46:22,896 --> 00:46:26,456
Speaker 6: as any Washington You know you've got the rivalry, right,

1033
00:46:26,496 --> 00:46:30,136
Speaker 6: the history is there. But oh yeah, do you hate

1034
00:46:30,176 --> 00:46:32,976
Speaker 6: them or is it just like the media, the fans

1035
00:46:33,016 --> 00:46:33,656
Speaker 6: everything else.

1036
00:46:34,976 --> 00:46:36,376
Speaker 7: Hate is a strong word, but.

1037
00:46:38,536 --> 00:46:41,616
Speaker 8: Professional hatred, I would say, I mean it's a it's

1038
00:46:41,776 --> 00:46:46,496
Speaker 8: extremely strong. Dislike the in this NFC East, the rival

1039
00:46:46,576 --> 00:46:49,216
Speaker 8: with the with the Cowboys and and us that's probably

1040
00:46:49,256 --> 00:46:53,496
Speaker 8: the most storied because you know that it's a lot

1041
00:46:53,536 --> 00:46:56,176
Speaker 8: of the you know, great teams. They've won Super Bowls,

1042
00:46:56,176 --> 00:46:58,856
Speaker 8: We won super Bowl especially in the in the eighties

1043
00:46:58,856 --> 00:47:01,776
Speaker 8: and nineties when we were both ride high. The Giants

1044
00:47:01,816 --> 00:47:06,256
Speaker 8: as a rivalry, but the Philadelphia they're that rivalry hits

1045
00:47:06,296 --> 00:47:08,696
Speaker 8: a little different because you going there, you feel like

1046
00:47:08,736 --> 00:47:11,376
Speaker 8: you're in the in the in the in the in

1047
00:47:11,416 --> 00:47:14,256
Speaker 8: the enemy's territory. You can feel as soon as you

1048
00:47:14,296 --> 00:47:16,376
Speaker 8: come out of that stadium, come out of that tunnel.

1049
00:47:16,696 --> 00:47:19,335
Speaker 8: Their fans, let you know how they feel. The ride

1050
00:47:19,336 --> 00:47:21,576
Speaker 8: into the stadium on the bus, they're gonna throw some

1051
00:47:21,576 --> 00:47:24,176
Speaker 8: some things at your bus, some eggs and some other things,

1052
00:47:24,216 --> 00:47:27,136
Speaker 8: and they're gonna one finger salute you. And uh, it's

1053
00:47:27,176 --> 00:47:30,016
Speaker 8: gonna be it's gonna be an electric environment. And I

1054
00:47:30,056 --> 00:47:32,456
Speaker 8: can't wait to be a part of it. Just you know,

1055
00:47:32,496 --> 00:47:34,576
Speaker 8: I get to call a game. But man, I can't

1056
00:47:34,616 --> 00:47:37,976
Speaker 8: imagine what those players are gonna be feeling because this

1057
00:47:38,016 --> 00:47:42,856
Speaker 8: is a heated, heated rivalry, especially this season where you know,

1058
00:47:42,896 --> 00:47:44,616
Speaker 8: we beat them once, they beat us once, and this

1059
00:47:44,696 --> 00:47:46,896
Speaker 8: is the rubber match, and this is to represent the

1060
00:47:46,936 --> 00:47:47,976
Speaker 8: conference in the super Bowl.

1061
00:47:48,136 --> 00:47:49,416
Speaker 7: It doesn't get any bigger than this.

1062
00:47:49,856 --> 00:47:51,736
Speaker 5: What's the buzz like in the DMV right now.

1063
00:47:52,376 --> 00:47:54,976
Speaker 7: It's palpable, like you can feel it.

1064
00:47:55,376 --> 00:47:58,416
Speaker 8: We're out in Ashburn, which is don't know, thirty miles

1065
00:47:59,536 --> 00:48:02,496
Speaker 8: west I guess of the city, and you can feel

1066
00:48:02,536 --> 00:48:04,896
Speaker 8: it all the way out here, just the energy all

1067
00:48:05,136 --> 00:48:06,256
Speaker 8: you're all over the place.

1068
00:48:06,256 --> 00:48:08,376
Speaker 7: I mean, I like the fans.

1069
00:48:08,736 --> 00:48:11,736
Speaker 8: You see so many people wearing their Commander's gear, talking

1070
00:48:11,776 --> 00:48:15,976
Speaker 8: about the game, anticipating the game. Our fans have been

1071
00:48:16,096 --> 00:48:19,296
Speaker 8: great in traveling a I would say twenty five percent

1072
00:48:19,336 --> 00:48:22,816
Speaker 8: of the stadium in Tampa where our fans probably fifteen

1073
00:48:22,856 --> 00:48:25,936
Speaker 8: to twenty percent. Was the same in Detroit, and it's

1074
00:48:25,936 --> 00:48:27,616
Speaker 8: a lot of people going to be going up to

1075
00:48:27,616 --> 00:48:31,016
Speaker 8: Philadelphia to support us. But it is I mean, it's

1076
00:48:31,096 --> 00:48:33,096
Speaker 8: unlike any that I've experienced since I've been here in

1077
00:48:33,176 --> 00:48:34,296
Speaker 8: Washington for.

1078
00:48:34,336 --> 00:48:35,416
Speaker 2: A team like the Commanders.

1079
00:48:35,416 --> 00:48:37,216
Speaker 6: Bobby and I were talking about this a little bit too,

1080
00:48:37,256 --> 00:48:39,856
Speaker 6: that it's kind of like they're playing with house money.

1081
00:48:40,096 --> 00:48:43,136
Speaker 6: Do you think, as from a player's perspective, that kind

1082
00:48:43,136 --> 00:48:44,856
Speaker 6: of takes a little bit of the pressure off. You know,

1083
00:48:44,896 --> 00:48:47,736
Speaker 6: you're the underdog, nobody expects you, but we just have

1084
00:48:47,816 --> 00:48:49,176
Speaker 6: to go out and have something to prove.

1085
00:48:50,336 --> 00:48:53,576
Speaker 8: Well, here's the thing they don't view themselves as underdogs,

1086
00:48:54,216 --> 00:48:56,536
Speaker 8: and nack Quinn touched on it. I felt like that

1087
00:48:56,696 --> 00:49:00,256
Speaker 8: even going into the Detroit game, where they don't go

1088
00:49:00,296 --> 00:49:03,376
Speaker 8: into a game feeling like, hey, we're the underdog's house money,

1089
00:49:03,376 --> 00:49:05,936
Speaker 8: we got nothing to lose. They going to these games

1090
00:49:06,096 --> 00:49:09,256
Speaker 8: expecting to win. And that's a different type of approach.

1091
00:49:09,336 --> 00:49:12,496
Speaker 8: That's a different type of preparation where like, no, we

1092
00:49:12,496 --> 00:49:16,656
Speaker 8: we belong here. We're a damn good football team. You

1093
00:49:16,696 --> 00:49:18,736
Speaker 8: know this whole, you know, Vegas and whatever. They have

1094
00:49:18,816 --> 00:49:21,016
Speaker 8: to put out their points spreads and all that, but

1095
00:49:21,056 --> 00:49:23,816
Speaker 8: those points prayers, they won't they won't help you between

1096
00:49:23,856 --> 00:49:24,496
Speaker 8: those white lines.

1097
00:49:24,496 --> 00:49:25,576
Speaker 7: They won't take one snap.

1098
00:49:25,816 --> 00:49:28,256
Speaker 8: And these guys going there with a great deal of

1099
00:49:28,256 --> 00:49:31,616
Speaker 8: confidence and their confident because of their preparation, their confidence

1100
00:49:31,656 --> 00:49:34,536
Speaker 8: and confident because of how they prepare, their battle tested.

1101
00:49:34,936 --> 00:49:37,216
Speaker 8: They've had five or six games that have all come

1102
00:49:37,296 --> 00:49:41,016
Speaker 8: down to the final play. They're confident because of the

1103
00:49:41,056 --> 00:49:44,656
Speaker 8: way dan Quinn prepares these guys week in and week out,

1104
00:49:44,696 --> 00:49:46,496
Speaker 8: So they don't they don't feel like they're playing with

1105
00:49:46,536 --> 00:49:50,056
Speaker 8: house money. They feel like they're they're excellent football team

1106
00:49:50,256 --> 00:49:52,736
Speaker 8: and they deserve to be here playing for this moment, I.

1107
00:49:52,736 --> 00:49:55,016
Speaker 4: Was deep dive in London, Fletcher, because I know mid dive,

1108
00:49:55,096 --> 00:49:56,896
Speaker 4: I know shallow dive, but I was deep dive in

1109
00:49:56,936 --> 00:49:57,576
Speaker 4: London Fletcher.

1110
00:49:57,936 --> 00:50:00,136
Speaker 5: And you have three touchdowns? You keep any of those balls?

1111
00:50:00,536 --> 00:50:00,936
Speaker 7: I did?

1112
00:50:01,976 --> 00:50:05,936
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're they're at the house you get You definitely

1113
00:50:05,936 --> 00:50:07,216
Speaker 8: got to keep your touchdown ball.

1114
00:50:09,776 --> 00:50:12,136
Speaker 4: Can you remember it again or did somebody go get

1115
00:50:12,176 --> 00:50:13,176
Speaker 4: them for you afterwards?

1116
00:50:13,216 --> 00:50:13,256
Speaker 6: Like?

1117
00:50:13,296 --> 00:50:13,856
Speaker 2: Do you lock it?

1118
00:50:13,896 --> 00:50:15,936
Speaker 5: As soon as you score a touchdown, you hold on

1119
00:50:15,976 --> 00:50:16,416
Speaker 5: to that thing.

1120
00:50:16,696 --> 00:50:19,096
Speaker 8: Oh, defensive players, we're gonna always hold on to them.

1121
00:50:19,336 --> 00:50:22,056
Speaker 8: No offensive guys they can, they can forget to hold

1122
00:50:22,096 --> 00:50:25,256
Speaker 8: on to the football. I've seen guys score their first

1123
00:50:25,336 --> 00:50:27,855
Speaker 8: ever touchdown and throw the football and they wonder if

1124
00:50:28,096 --> 00:50:30,096
Speaker 8: their teammates has to go retreat that football.

1125
00:50:30,376 --> 00:50:32,216
Speaker 7: You don't have to worry about that. With a defensive

1126
00:50:32,256 --> 00:50:33,336
Speaker 7: players scored a touchdown.

1127
00:50:33,576 --> 00:50:35,576
Speaker 8: We will take that thing to the sideline with us,

1128
00:50:35,576 --> 00:50:37,496
Speaker 8: and we might even take it to the locker room

1129
00:50:37,536 --> 00:50:37,736
Speaker 8: with it.

1130
00:50:38,416 --> 00:50:39,936
Speaker 7: We will hold on to that football.

1131
00:50:40,776 --> 00:50:44,016
Speaker 6: Let it what's your keys to success against Philly? Philly

1132
00:50:44,056 --> 00:50:46,456
Speaker 6: obviously they can run the football. It all runs through

1133
00:50:46,496 --> 00:50:48,816
Speaker 6: Saquon Barkley. They've got a dominant defense. But what's the

1134
00:50:48,896 --> 00:50:52,176
Speaker 6: keys both offensively and defensively for Washington in this game

1135
00:50:52,216 --> 00:50:53,896
Speaker 6: if they're going to go out there and pick up

1136
00:50:53,936 --> 00:50:54,176
Speaker 6: a win.

1137
00:50:54,496 --> 00:50:56,696
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you know, going into this ball game,

1138
00:50:56,856 --> 00:51:01,056
Speaker 8: from offenses standpoint, you gonna have to block jen Jalen Carter,

1139
00:51:01,456 --> 00:51:04,136
Speaker 8: figure out a way to get him, you know, blocked

1140
00:51:04,176 --> 00:51:06,776
Speaker 8: up and not let him disrupt the game because he's

1141
00:51:06,816 --> 00:51:10,336
Speaker 8: a He's a major difference maker for them being effective

1142
00:51:10,776 --> 00:51:13,696
Speaker 8: against the coverage that that Vic van Giel is gonna

1143
00:51:13,736 --> 00:51:16,856
Speaker 8: throw at you. He's gonna make it tough against the quarterbacks,

1144
00:51:17,136 --> 00:51:20,336
Speaker 8: and they don't have to, you know, bring eight men

1145
00:51:20,376 --> 00:51:22,576
Speaker 8: in the box to stop your run. Then they gonna

1146
00:51:22,576 --> 00:51:24,936
Speaker 8: sit back in that that quarters covered that two shell

1147
00:51:25,056 --> 00:51:27,536
Speaker 8: look and and be able to play coverage. But gotta

1148
00:51:27,576 --> 00:51:29,456
Speaker 8: be able to black Jalen Carter both in the run

1149
00:51:29,496 --> 00:51:31,576
Speaker 8: and against the run. In the pass game. Get that

1150
00:51:31,696 --> 00:51:34,176
Speaker 8: run game going and then let Jaalen be special. From

1151
00:51:34,176 --> 00:51:37,456
Speaker 8: a defense standpoint, stopping Sa Kwan and you're not gonna

1152
00:51:37,456 --> 00:51:41,496
Speaker 8: stop him, but slowing him down really limited the explosive plays.

1153
00:51:41,216 --> 00:51:41,936
Speaker 7: That he's gonna have.

1154
00:51:42,536 --> 00:51:44,896
Speaker 8: Being a gap sound, getting out of your getting off

1155
00:51:44,896 --> 00:51:47,096
Speaker 8: the blocks, playing on the other side of the lot

1156
00:51:47,136 --> 00:51:50,696
Speaker 8: of scrimmage and and when they decide to throw the football.

1157
00:51:50,736 --> 00:51:53,816
Speaker 8: I don't know what type of condition to shape Jalen

1158
00:51:53,976 --> 00:51:54,496
Speaker 8: Hurts is.

1159
00:51:54,496 --> 00:51:54,976
Speaker 7: Gonna be in.

1160
00:51:55,056 --> 00:51:56,896
Speaker 8: I know he has got a little banged up injury.

1161
00:51:57,056 --> 00:51:59,416
Speaker 8: But you're gonna have to be sticky in coverage. And

1162
00:51:59,696 --> 00:52:02,896
Speaker 8: they got two great wide receivers and you know we're gonna.

1163
00:52:02,616 --> 00:52:04,376
Speaker 7: Have to have to limit those guys as well.

1164
00:52:04,496 --> 00:52:06,656
Speaker 8: We can come out of here with the two or

1165
00:52:06,696 --> 00:52:09,696
Speaker 8: three turnovers and you know, do those things. I think

1166
00:52:09,696 --> 00:52:11,576
Speaker 8: we we come out of there victorious.

1167
00:52:11,856 --> 00:52:13,016
Speaker 5: One final question for you.

1168
00:52:13,136 --> 00:52:15,976
Speaker 4: Are some stadiums a little nicer when it comes to

1169
00:52:16,016 --> 00:52:19,256
Speaker 4: warmth when you're calling the game and and what's Philly like?

1170
00:52:19,376 --> 00:52:21,416
Speaker 5: Is this gonna be cold? Are you going to be cold?

1171
00:52:22,616 --> 00:52:25,456
Speaker 8: Some stadiums are definitely nicer when it comes to the Uh,

1172
00:52:26,136 --> 00:52:29,576
Speaker 8: the setup they have for you depends on, like I guess,

1173
00:52:29,616 --> 00:52:32,536
Speaker 8: the how it's set up, so to speak. I called

1174
00:52:32,576 --> 00:52:34,776
Speaker 8: we called a game in Philly obviously this year, but

1175
00:52:34,816 --> 00:52:38,576
Speaker 8: that was mid October November. I can't remember. It's been

1176
00:52:38,856 --> 00:52:42,056
Speaker 8: so long, and the weather wasn't terrible. I remember doing

1177
00:52:42,096 --> 00:52:45,856
Speaker 8: a night game there, uh two years ago. It was

1178
00:52:45,896 --> 00:52:48,056
Speaker 8: a little cooler, so I might I may instead of

1179
00:52:48,056 --> 00:52:50,496
Speaker 8: taking my jacket off, I'll have my jacket on and

1180
00:52:50,536 --> 00:52:55,296
Speaker 8: maybe a beanie. But some some stadiums, definitely, the friendly

1181
00:52:55,336 --> 00:52:58,376
Speaker 8: confines are a lot a lot nicer and and uh

1182
00:52:58,456 --> 00:53:00,776
Speaker 8: the setup is a lot better. But Philly Philly is.

1183
00:53:00,896 --> 00:53:03,336
Speaker 8: It's a decent view. But I can imagine it being

1184
00:53:03,336 --> 00:53:05,016
Speaker 8: a little bit cool cooler that day.

1185
00:53:05,136 --> 00:53:07,696
Speaker 5: It's hard to talk to you teeth chattering, and I've

1186
00:53:07,736 --> 00:53:09,416
Speaker 5: been there. That is tough.

1187
00:53:09,536 --> 00:53:12,296
Speaker 4: Definitely, Hey, we appreciate you coming on with us. We

1188
00:53:12,296 --> 00:53:14,896
Speaker 4: were listening to some of the calls from last week. Man,

1189
00:53:15,056 --> 00:53:17,456
Speaker 4: I love home team broadcast because you get to be

1190
00:53:17,536 --> 00:53:19,936
Speaker 4: the home team. And I'm sure they don't put any

1191
00:53:19,936 --> 00:53:22,416
Speaker 4: restrictions on you on not being like like you got

1192
00:53:22,416 --> 00:53:23,976
Speaker 4: to keep it, keep it down the middle, like you

1193
00:53:24,016 --> 00:53:24,896
Speaker 4: get to go you right.

1194
00:53:25,136 --> 00:53:29,456
Speaker 8: Oh no, they they they love to just be you.

1195
00:53:28,936 --> 00:53:30,416
Speaker 8: That's that's what they tell me.

1196
00:53:30,536 --> 00:53:30,936
Speaker 2: Just be me.

1197
00:53:31,016 --> 00:53:34,016
Speaker 8: And I love that that I can showcase my personality.

1198
00:53:34,056 --> 00:53:36,456
Speaker 8: And you mentioned with it being a home broadcast, you

1199
00:53:36,496 --> 00:53:37,856
Speaker 8: can show your your bias.

1200
00:53:37,856 --> 00:53:39,456
Speaker 7: I'm gonna be fair, I'm gonna call it, call it

1201
00:53:39,536 --> 00:53:40,096
Speaker 7: like I see it.

1202
00:53:40,096 --> 00:53:42,496
Speaker 8: But when great plays happened, which there have been a

1203
00:53:42,496 --> 00:53:44,976
Speaker 8: lot of great plays in this season. We're gonna be

1204
00:53:45,016 --> 00:53:47,696
Speaker 8: excited and I'm gonna, you know, express that and let

1205
00:53:47,776 --> 00:53:50,176
Speaker 8: the fans know exactly what I'm seeing and how I

1206
00:53:50,216 --> 00:53:52,256
Speaker 8: feel about those those plays that take place.

1207
00:53:52,536 --> 00:53:55,376
Speaker 4: We really appreciate you. Thank you so much for for

1208
00:53:55,416 --> 00:53:58,256
Speaker 4: the time. And what are the commands they say? What

1209
00:53:58,296 --> 00:54:00,616
Speaker 4: do the commanders say? What's like their thing? Go com

1210
00:54:00,936 --> 00:54:01,296
Speaker 4: people say?

1211
00:54:03,296 --> 00:54:04,376
Speaker 2: I like that? What is it?

1212
00:54:04,496 --> 00:54:06,056
Speaker 7: Anybody anytime anywhere?

1213
00:54:06,776 --> 00:54:08,896
Speaker 4: I'm not like cool enough to say that or strong

1214
00:54:09,016 --> 00:54:11,936
Speaker 4: enough or like, yeah, but you guys both could pull

1215
00:54:11,976 --> 00:54:12,296
Speaker 4: that off.

1216
00:54:12,576 --> 00:54:14,256
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know if I could. I mean,

1217
00:54:14,256 --> 00:54:15,656
Speaker 2: you used to hunting the woods by yourself?

1218
00:54:16,256 --> 00:54:19,176
Speaker 7: Wear any time? Yeah, yeah, I can't remember. Right now,

1219
00:54:19,216 --> 00:54:19,856
Speaker 7: I'm coming.

1220
00:54:19,696 --> 00:54:24,616
Speaker 8: Half sleep, yeah, defervation, all right, get his body anywhere anytime.

1221
00:54:24,896 --> 00:54:26,976
Speaker 2: I guess I'm sleep line body anywhere anytime.

1222
00:54:27,096 --> 00:54:27,456
Speaker 5: Thank you.

1223
00:54:28,016 --> 00:54:31,056
Speaker 4: We're rooting for you, guys, and hopefully you'll be in

1224
00:54:31,056 --> 00:54:32,136
Speaker 4: New Orleans in a couple of weeks.

1225
00:54:32,456 --> 00:54:33,976
Speaker 7: All right, begs, all right, let me see it.

1226
00:54:50,016 --> 00:54:52,496
Speaker 4: To think that he runs a sub four forty ran

1227
00:54:52,496 --> 00:54:54,696
Speaker 4: a sub four forty four, it's wild.

1228
00:54:55,096 --> 00:54:58,696
Speaker 6: I mean, because if you're a legit wide receiver, Yeah,

1229
00:54:58,736 --> 00:54:59,816
Speaker 6: a four four is legit.

1230
00:54:59,936 --> 00:55:00,176
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1231
00:55:00,216 --> 00:55:02,256
Speaker 6: Even guys that run a four or five, they're like,

1232
00:55:02,336 --> 00:55:06,456
Speaker 6: oh he's got size, that's fast. Yeah, but a four

1233
00:55:06,456 --> 00:55:09,256
Speaker 6: to three eight. And then listen to him say, I

1234
00:55:09,296 --> 00:55:10,816
Speaker 6: started playing football.

1235
00:55:10,816 --> 00:55:12,216
Speaker 5: His senior senior year.

1236
00:55:13,216 --> 00:55:17,456
Speaker 6: Wild wild, because there's so much that goes into As

1237
00:55:17,496 --> 00:55:21,256
Speaker 6: he was explaining, learning the game, understanding your role on

1238
00:55:21,296 --> 00:55:24,176
Speaker 6: the defensive side of the ball. What what a four

1239
00:55:24,216 --> 00:55:25,776
Speaker 6: to three defense is a three to four. You can

1240
00:55:25,816 --> 00:55:27,616
Speaker 6: get a general understanding in high school, but then all

1241
00:55:27,656 --> 00:55:29,936
Speaker 6: of a sudden you step up a level and go

1242
00:55:30,016 --> 00:55:33,136
Speaker 6: to Division three, and then you're right into the pros.

1243
00:55:33,296 --> 00:55:35,456
Speaker 2: It's a crazy story.

1244
00:55:36,416 --> 00:55:41,296
Speaker 4: And they say the best ability is availability and durability.

1245
00:55:41,456 --> 00:55:43,496
Speaker 4: And to play that many games in a row at

1246
00:55:43,536 --> 00:55:46,616
Speaker 4: such a high impact position, any position that many games

1247
00:55:46,656 --> 00:55:50,256
Speaker 4: in a row, but to play linebacker right that many.

1248
00:55:50,296 --> 00:55:52,936
Speaker 4: I don't think he ever missed a game. I know

1249
00:55:52,976 --> 00:55:54,616
Speaker 4: he had that streak of starts, I don't think he

1250
00:55:54,616 --> 00:55:57,856
Speaker 4: ever missed a game in his career. Pretty wild. I

1251
00:55:57,896 --> 00:56:01,376
Speaker 4: think about running the forty and I pulled the tape

1252
00:56:01,416 --> 00:56:03,616
Speaker 4: of mind. Yes, but I did mind a couple of

1253
00:56:03,696 --> 00:56:06,856
Speaker 4: years ago when you ran the forty, did you combine?

1254
00:56:07,376 --> 00:56:07,456
Speaker 2: No?

1255
00:56:07,536 --> 00:56:10,416
Speaker 6: I just went to I never I never started. So

1256
00:56:10,496 --> 00:56:12,176
Speaker 6: I went to the I went to our pro day

1257
00:56:12,176 --> 00:56:14,576
Speaker 6: and I'll go in the first day it's the bunny.

1258
00:56:14,896 --> 00:56:15,896
Speaker 2: I walk in the guys.

1259
00:56:16,056 --> 00:56:17,776
Speaker 6: I was like, yeah, I'm Matt Castlem, a senior, and

1260
00:56:17,816 --> 00:56:20,376
Speaker 6: he goes, yeah, I don't have you on my list.

1261
00:56:20,736 --> 00:56:23,456
Speaker 6: I was like, well, I'm trying out, all right, I'm

1262
00:56:23,456 --> 00:56:25,016
Speaker 6: trying out. They said it was an open tryout for

1263
00:56:25,016 --> 00:56:27,456
Speaker 6: the players. So he's like, well, they already started the

1264
00:56:27,456 --> 00:56:29,216
Speaker 6: Wonderlick test, so you can get in there. There's about

1265
00:56:29,256 --> 00:56:31,056
Speaker 6: fifteen minutes left. I don't know how long they've been

1266
00:56:31,096 --> 00:56:32,896
Speaker 6: taking it for. So I scrambled in there, did this,

1267
00:56:33,376 --> 00:56:36,536
Speaker 6: and so I go through and uh. And we got

1268
00:56:36,536 --> 00:56:39,296
Speaker 6: to the forty and so I was I trained my

1269
00:56:39,496 --> 00:56:41,016
Speaker 6: butt off for this, right and.

1270
00:56:40,976 --> 00:56:43,256
Speaker 2: I was like, oh man, I'm gonna run fast. Get

1271
00:56:43,256 --> 00:56:43,576
Speaker 2: out there.

1272
00:56:43,616 --> 00:56:45,976
Speaker 6: And I mean there are a ton of scouts there

1273
00:56:46,016 --> 00:56:48,776
Speaker 6: because we were loaded at the time with different prospects

1274
00:56:48,816 --> 00:56:51,336
Speaker 6: and everything. So get out there in the line with

1275
00:56:51,376 --> 00:56:54,696
Speaker 6: adrenaline's going. I put on my buddy's track shoes, thinking,

1276
00:56:54,736 --> 00:56:57,016
Speaker 6: oh yeah, cut off a few seconds. I think I

1277
00:56:57,136 --> 00:57:00,016
Speaker 6: ran like a four eight eight. I was so disappointed.

1278
00:57:00,056 --> 00:57:03,296
Speaker 6: I was just like, ah, maybe a four night. I

1279
00:57:03,296 --> 00:57:05,376
Speaker 6: have no idea, but it was not my best perform

1280
00:57:05,496 --> 00:57:07,216
Speaker 6: and so I must have got up, you know, popped

1281
00:57:07,256 --> 00:57:09,536
Speaker 6: up too early. They talked about the mechanics. I worked

1282
00:57:09,536 --> 00:57:12,776
Speaker 6: with like a track a track coach that was like, okay,

1283
00:57:12,776 --> 00:57:15,216
Speaker 6: you gonna stay out. Did for the first five yards

1284
00:57:15,216 --> 00:57:17,536
Speaker 6: and slowly I was like, maybe I'm just not that fast.

1285
00:57:17,656 --> 00:57:20,736
Speaker 5: Were you human timed or were you some mechanically timed.

1286
00:57:20,856 --> 00:57:22,976
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna go with human because if I was

1287
00:57:22,976 --> 00:57:25,176
Speaker 6: mechanically it definitely would have dropped from there.

1288
00:57:25,616 --> 00:57:28,936
Speaker 2: But I crushed my agility drill three. Come, I did

1289
00:57:28,976 --> 00:57:29,256
Speaker 2: do that.

1290
00:57:29,296 --> 00:57:31,496
Speaker 5: I've heard the legend of your agility drill.

1291
00:57:31,976 --> 00:57:34,296
Speaker 6: That's really what what got me. Got me some play

1292
00:57:34,776 --> 00:57:35,816
Speaker 6: read what was my time?

1293
00:57:37,256 --> 00:57:38,696
Speaker 5: What You're at?

1294
00:57:38,776 --> 00:57:41,456
Speaker 4: University of South Carolina. In the practice facility, we ran

1295
00:57:41,576 --> 00:57:44,896
Speaker 4: with the running back and ran. I ran pretty good.

1296
00:57:44,936 --> 00:57:45,576
Speaker 4: It's pretty good.

1297
00:57:45,816 --> 00:57:48,376
Speaker 2: A four to eighty three? Did you train for this?

1298
00:57:49,096 --> 00:57:53,016
Speaker 2: I train every day, bro. That's really impressive.

1299
00:57:53,096 --> 00:57:55,656
Speaker 4: So I would think probably closer to four nine. No,

1300
00:57:55,816 --> 00:58:00,136
Speaker 4: I'm giving myself. He was probably a little fast, but

1301
00:58:00,256 --> 00:58:01,176
Speaker 4: we have it all on tape.

1302
00:58:01,176 --> 00:58:02,696
Speaker 2: We have we fully taped it.

1303
00:58:03,816 --> 00:58:05,016
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel pretty good, but it was not like

1304
00:58:05,016 --> 00:58:06,816
Speaker 5: my third. Like I didn't nail it the first time.

1305
00:58:06,896 --> 00:58:10,096
Speaker 6: That's okay, you still ran a four eight, I will

1306
00:58:10,096 --> 00:58:12,176
Speaker 6: say four to nine. No, you're rounding down, don't you

1307
00:58:12,216 --> 00:58:15,096
Speaker 6: know decimals like with my kids all the time.

1308
00:58:15,136 --> 00:58:17,856
Speaker 2: You ran a four eight. That's really impressive. I felt

1309
00:58:17,856 --> 00:58:18,376
Speaker 2: pretty good.

1310
00:58:18,496 --> 00:58:20,936
Speaker 5: Also, I felt like my hamstrings were going to rip

1311
00:58:20,976 --> 00:58:24,096
Speaker 5: out of my legs because I was going.

1312
00:58:23,936 --> 00:58:25,176
Speaker 2: To it's worth it, it's worth it.

1313
00:58:25,256 --> 00:58:27,136
Speaker 5: We do have it on tape, and I actually want

1314
00:58:27,176 --> 00:58:30,216
Speaker 5: to see this. You don't. I don't look very good

1315
00:58:30,336 --> 00:58:30,656
Speaker 5: doing it.

1316
00:58:30,696 --> 00:58:31,856
Speaker 2: Nobody looks good running.

1317
00:58:32,056 --> 00:58:34,576
Speaker 6: I love the slow motion video sometimes when they show

1318
00:58:34,616 --> 00:58:36,816
Speaker 6: these guys at the combine, their faces are just contorted.

1319
00:58:36,816 --> 00:58:37,376
Speaker 2: And there's.

1320
00:58:38,816 --> 00:58:41,176
Speaker 5: Tom Cruise looks pretty good running like he's kind of

1321
00:58:41,536 --> 00:58:44,096
Speaker 5: nailed the movie running he.

1322
00:58:44,136 --> 00:58:46,816
Speaker 6: Has and he's just he's pretty good at everything. I mean,

1323
00:58:47,096 --> 00:58:50,416
Speaker 6: flies his own plane, does his own stunts. It's pretty

1324
00:58:50,456 --> 00:58:52,656
Speaker 6: remarkable what he's able to do. I would love to play.

1325
00:58:53,096 --> 00:58:56,736
Speaker 6: I mean, if I was any action figure, he'd be

1326
00:58:56,736 --> 00:59:00,256
Speaker 6: a pretty good one to be. The Mission Impossible movies too,

1327
00:59:00,576 --> 00:59:01,016
Speaker 6: love those.

1328
00:59:01,216 --> 00:59:02,816
Speaker 5: Was there ever a moment in your career because here

1329
00:59:02,816 --> 00:59:06,176
Speaker 5: you are star athlete, good looking dude, guy that. They

1330
00:59:06,176 --> 00:59:07,696
Speaker 5: were like, hey, want you do some acting when you

1331
00:59:07,696 --> 00:59:08,216
Speaker 5: finish here?

1332
00:59:08,976 --> 00:59:11,496
Speaker 6: No, not really. I just never got into it. Even

1333
00:59:11,536 --> 00:59:13,296
Speaker 6: though my mom's kind of in that business. She's a

1334
00:59:13,336 --> 00:59:15,696
Speaker 6: set decorator's been in that business for twenty five years.

1335
00:59:15,816 --> 00:59:19,416
Speaker 6: She probably is my biggest promoter of me going into Maddie. Maddie,

1336
00:59:19,416 --> 00:59:22,096
Speaker 6: you should go try You've got the phase for it,

1337
00:59:22,136 --> 00:59:25,456
Speaker 6: this that, And I was like, Eh, well no I haven't.

1338
00:59:25,496 --> 00:59:25,976
Speaker 2: I've done it.

1339
00:59:26,016 --> 00:59:31,016
Speaker 6: I did it one commercial with Danny McBride for case Swiss.

1340
00:59:31,136 --> 00:59:32,856
Speaker 6: That's about the extent of my acting.

1341
00:59:32,976 --> 00:59:34,856
Speaker 5: What was that commercial? Now that's a video. I got

1342
00:59:34,896 --> 00:59:36,736
Speaker 5: to say, I got videos we need to see.

1343
00:59:36,816 --> 00:59:41,376
Speaker 6: Now that is a video. It's not necessarily kid appropriate.

1344
00:59:41,616 --> 00:59:44,656
Speaker 6: And they called me and case Swiss said, we're going

1345
00:59:44,736 --> 00:59:45,936
Speaker 6: to do the Casewiss tubes.

1346
00:59:45,936 --> 00:59:47,416
Speaker 2: It's we're going to try to market this thing.

1347
00:59:48,176 --> 00:59:50,136
Speaker 6: Danny McBride, he's gonna come up and he played his

1348
00:59:50,256 --> 00:59:53,976
Speaker 6: character from East Bound and Down, so he was in

1349
00:59:54,216 --> 00:59:57,336
Speaker 6: full character. We did this this shoot and if you

1350
00:59:57,456 --> 00:59:59,376
Speaker 6: see it, you're going to understand what I'm saying when

1351
00:59:59,376 --> 01:00:03,136
Speaker 6: I say it's not kid appropriate because the stuff that

1352
01:00:03,176 --> 01:00:05,336
Speaker 6: comes out of his mouth and all the different visuals

1353
01:00:05,456 --> 01:00:09,656
Speaker 6: that he has from his office is absurd and really

1354
01:00:10,696 --> 01:00:12,136
Speaker 6: really out there in terms of humor.

1355
01:00:12,256 --> 01:00:16,416
Speaker 4: So we will put up as a video clip of both.

1356
01:00:18,096 --> 01:00:20,176
Speaker 5: I'll watch it after it, but we'll put it as part,

1357
01:00:20,416 --> 01:00:21,256
Speaker 5: you know, part of it is.

1358
01:00:21,296 --> 01:00:23,856
Speaker 4: And then we'll put me running my forty at South Carolina,

1359
01:00:23,856 --> 01:00:25,896
Speaker 4: but only the last one read I don't want to

1360
01:00:25,896 --> 01:00:29,016
Speaker 4: slow the slower ones, like, we have to.

1361
01:00:29,016 --> 01:00:30,176
Speaker 5: Definitely put our best foot.

1362
01:00:30,296 --> 01:00:33,056
Speaker 6: Absolutely, we only take the best time anyway at the combine,

1363
01:00:33,096 --> 01:00:34,816
Speaker 6: so you should do only the best one.

1364
01:00:36,216 --> 01:00:38,096
Speaker 2: I mean, how much slower were you just kind of

1365
01:00:38,096 --> 01:00:39,176
Speaker 2: building up? What?

1366
01:00:40,136 --> 01:00:42,216
Speaker 5: Yes, and that I was afraid I was going to

1367
01:00:42,256 --> 01:00:43,296
Speaker 5: tear my hamstrings.

1368
01:00:43,576 --> 01:00:45,136
Speaker 4: So I think the first one I ran like a

1369
01:00:45,336 --> 01:00:46,816
Speaker 4: five to two, and I was like, oh, I got

1370
01:00:46,896 --> 01:00:48,936
Speaker 4: I have more in the tank, right, Like I knew

1371
01:00:48,936 --> 01:00:51,336
Speaker 4: I had way more in the tank, but I'm not

1372
01:00:51,496 --> 01:00:55,416
Speaker 4: twenty five. And so the second one probably closer to five,

1373
01:00:55,976 --> 01:00:58,096
Speaker 4: and then I just thought, I screw it. I'm going

1374
01:00:58,136 --> 01:00:59,776
Speaker 4: as hard as I can and if I pull a

1375
01:00:59,816 --> 01:01:01,376
Speaker 4: hams then I just pull up.

1376
01:01:01,896 --> 01:01:04,496
Speaker 5: And I didn't pull up, and it's a pretty good time.

1377
01:01:04,656 --> 01:01:07,296
Speaker 6: I can't even imagine running a forty at this point,

1378
01:01:07,376 --> 01:01:09,856
Speaker 6: but I was in an adult softball league two years

1379
01:01:09,896 --> 01:01:12,976
Speaker 6: ago and I hit a weak grounder to third and

1380
01:01:13,016 --> 01:01:15,216
Speaker 6: I was like, I'm going to leg this out. Pulled

1381
01:01:15,216 --> 01:01:17,016
Speaker 6: my quad muscle. Never pulled a muscle in my life,

1382
01:01:17,016 --> 01:01:19,376
Speaker 6: pulled my quad muscle. That's when I started to feel old.

1383
01:01:19,656 --> 01:01:22,296
Speaker 6: I was like, what a loser. I was hobbling down

1384
01:01:22,336 --> 01:01:23,016
Speaker 6: the base path.

1385
01:01:23,496 --> 01:01:23,816
Speaker 2: Just go it?

1386
01:01:24,656 --> 01:01:26,096
Speaker 5: What did you leg it out?

1387
01:01:26,256 --> 01:01:29,256
Speaker 2: Or you say I got there? I got that. That's

1388
01:01:29,296 --> 01:01:30,096
Speaker 2: all that matters. That you know.

1389
01:01:30,136 --> 01:01:32,656
Speaker 6: I'm a maximum effort, tight guy. I'm gonna give it

1390
01:01:32,656 --> 01:01:34,096
Speaker 6: all laid all on the line for the team.

1391
01:01:34,176 --> 01:01:36,456
Speaker 5: The two things people know about you just from hearing

1392
01:01:36,816 --> 01:01:39,016
Speaker 5: from around town, just walking around town and the guy

1393
01:01:39,056 --> 01:01:41,376
Speaker 5: does a heck of an agility trow and he legged out.

1394
01:01:42,496 --> 01:01:46,176
Speaker 2: Those are my too promising things that I have going

1395
01:01:46,216 --> 01:01:47,496
Speaker 2: for me as an athlete.

1396
01:01:47,376 --> 01:01:49,976
Speaker 5: Going into this weekend. Pick a winner both sides.

1397
01:01:50,136 --> 01:01:52,416
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, this is this is fun.

1398
01:01:54,296 --> 01:01:56,256
Speaker 6: I do believe that Buffalo is going to go into

1399
01:01:56,296 --> 01:02:00,456
Speaker 6: Kansas City and win. I just I think that they've

1400
01:02:00,456 --> 01:02:03,696
Speaker 6: got the balance with the run game and James Cook defense.

1401
01:02:03,816 --> 01:02:07,056
Speaker 6: I really like their defense, and I just haven't seen

1402
01:02:07,656 --> 01:02:10,456
Speaker 6: the production. As I said before, that scares me. With

1403
01:02:10,536 --> 01:02:13,936
Speaker 6: this Kansas City offense. So I'm gonna go with Buffalo.

1404
01:02:14,056 --> 01:02:16,656
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, but it's hard. It's always hard for you

1405
01:02:16,696 --> 01:02:19,656
Speaker 6: to pick somebody other than Kansas City in these situations

1406
01:02:19,696 --> 01:02:22,536
Speaker 6: because they've proven it so many times that this is

1407
01:02:22,576 --> 01:02:24,576
Speaker 6: when they thrive and they're when they're at their best.

1408
01:02:24,976 --> 01:02:26,896
Speaker 6: But I think if there's every year for somebody to

1409
01:02:26,976 --> 01:02:29,096
Speaker 6: knock them off, I think Buffalo can do it, and

1410
01:02:29,136 --> 01:02:32,336
Speaker 6: I think they will. And then when you talk about

1411
01:02:32,896 --> 01:02:36,456
Speaker 6: Washington at Philly, I think Philly is going to win.

1412
01:02:36,696 --> 01:02:40,256
Speaker 6: I just think the physicality of that offensive line, offensive

1413
01:02:40,256 --> 01:02:44,656
Speaker 6: line Saquon Barkley, and I don't think the defense has

1414
01:02:44,696 --> 01:02:47,456
Speaker 6: talked about as much. That defense are a bunch of

1415
01:02:47,496 --> 01:02:50,296
Speaker 6: dogs out there. I mean, they're really really good defense,

1416
01:02:50,336 --> 01:02:53,776
Speaker 6: and it's going to take a maximum effort by Washington

1417
01:02:54,296 --> 01:02:56,296
Speaker 6: to beat them, particularly on the defensive side of the

1418
01:02:56,296 --> 01:02:58,176
Speaker 6: ball because the way in which they run the ball.

1419
01:02:58,816 --> 01:03:00,416
Speaker 6: The reason why they won last week was because of

1420
01:03:00,456 --> 01:03:03,616
Speaker 6: the five turnovers that Detroit had. When they run the

1421
01:03:03,616 --> 01:03:06,576
Speaker 6: ball and they're effective as they are in Philadelphia. One

1422
01:03:06,296 --> 01:03:09,216
Speaker 6: they keep the ball out of Jaden Daniels hands, but

1423
01:03:09,296 --> 01:03:11,936
Speaker 6: two they don't give you the same opportunities that Detroit

1424
01:03:12,016 --> 01:03:14,576
Speaker 6: gave Washington last week because they just don't throw the

1425
01:03:14,576 --> 01:03:15,776
Speaker 6: ball at such high volume.

1426
01:03:16,496 --> 01:03:18,776
Speaker 5: Wise Man once said to be the man, you got

1427
01:03:18,776 --> 01:03:20,016
Speaker 5: to beat the man. Woo.

1428
01:03:20,656 --> 01:03:24,896
Speaker 4: That wise man is Ric Flair, and until you beat him,

1429
01:03:25,336 --> 01:03:29,696
Speaker 4: he's the man. It's Patrick Mahomes, It's Kansas City. I

1430
01:03:29,696 --> 01:03:33,496
Speaker 4: don't see how they lose. I think they go out

1431
01:03:33,696 --> 01:03:37,856
Speaker 4: play eight man and win somehow magically Kansas City doesn't

1432
01:03:37,896 --> 01:03:40,976
Speaker 4: lose in Kansas City. So and then I think that

1433
01:03:41,176 --> 01:03:43,096
Speaker 4: as a shout out London, thanks for coming on. But

1434
01:03:43,176 --> 01:03:44,896
Speaker 4: I think the Eagles are I think we got a

1435
01:03:44,936 --> 01:03:47,296
Speaker 4: rematch yep. I think a couple of years ago. It's

1436
01:03:47,296 --> 01:03:49,696
Speaker 4: going to be awesome to conclude this. Have you seen

1437
01:03:49,736 --> 01:03:54,056
Speaker 4: the Chiefs of hollic documentary, No Wow good as a

1438
01:03:54,176 --> 01:04:00,456
Speaker 4: former Chiefs player who understands Chiefs kingdom. And also, I

1439
01:04:00,496 --> 01:04:02,736
Speaker 4: grew up in small towns and the Chiefs are a

1440
01:04:02,776 --> 01:04:06,296
Speaker 4: small market team, right, so Buffalo's small market team and

1441
01:04:06,296 --> 01:04:10,056
Speaker 4: the passion in these small market areas it's massive because

1442
01:04:10,056 --> 01:04:12,776
Speaker 4: it's really all they have as far as like.

1443
01:04:12,736 --> 01:04:16,136
Speaker 5: Athletic teams like Kansas City. They don't have a basketball team.

1444
01:04:16,176 --> 01:04:18,896
Speaker 4: They have a baseball team, but they're one of these, again,

1445
01:04:20,336 --> 01:04:23,576
Speaker 4: least funded baseball teams in the majors. They're spending no money,

1446
01:04:23,576 --> 01:04:27,936
Speaker 4: they're small, zero money. So Chiefs Kingdom there's a guy

1447
01:04:27,976 --> 01:04:31,056
Speaker 4: named chiefs Aholik who dressed in full wolf costume. And

1448
01:04:31,616 --> 01:04:33,536
Speaker 4: I don't know if he was there when you were there.

1449
01:04:33,656 --> 01:04:35,656
Speaker 4: I'm not sure how long he's been, this guy, but

1450
01:04:35,696 --> 01:04:38,216
Speaker 4: it's the story about him. Robin Banks, Oh, I remember

1451
01:04:38,216 --> 01:04:40,376
Speaker 4: reading this, yes, and that's all I remember too. Was

1452
01:04:40,376 --> 01:04:42,456
Speaker 4: the guy that would go to away games and rob

1453
01:04:42,496 --> 01:04:44,176
Speaker 4: Banks on the way to away games so he'd get

1454
01:04:44,616 --> 01:04:45,576
Speaker 4: pay for his trips.

1455
01:04:46,496 --> 01:04:47,536
Speaker 2: He's got beer, buddy.

1456
01:04:48,216 --> 01:04:50,256
Speaker 5: It's way more than that, is It so good?

1457
01:04:50,416 --> 01:04:52,696
Speaker 2: It's so good. And it took a long time for

1458
01:04:52,736 --> 01:04:53,736
Speaker 2: them to catch him too, right.

1459
01:04:54,056 --> 01:04:55,216
Speaker 5: I don't even want to spoil it.

1460
01:04:55,376 --> 01:04:57,016
Speaker 2: Oh boy, I mean I can't wait.

1461
01:04:56,936 --> 01:04:57,816
Speaker 5: To get my wife.

1462
01:04:57,856 --> 01:04:59,696
Speaker 4: If my wife was like what I like it, I

1463
01:04:59,696 --> 01:05:02,136
Speaker 4: would say for you, For my wife, I would say

1464
01:05:02,136 --> 01:05:03,656
Speaker 4: I would give it three and a half out of five.

1465
01:05:04,016 --> 01:05:06,536
Speaker 4: For my friends, I would say four and a half. Really,

1466
01:05:06,616 --> 01:05:09,896
Speaker 4: it's a little long, because it's almost two hours.

1467
01:05:09,976 --> 01:05:11,736
Speaker 5: I had no idea some of the stuff that was happening.

1468
01:05:11,976 --> 01:05:13,736
Speaker 5: It's it is crazy.

1469
01:05:13,856 --> 01:05:14,536
Speaker 2: Yes, I cannot.

1470
01:05:14,576 --> 01:05:16,496
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's on Amazon. It's called Chiefs Ofholly.

1471
01:05:17,376 --> 01:05:19,776
Speaker 4: What team if they said, okay, you got to put

1472
01:05:19,776 --> 01:05:21,816
Speaker 4: a team on your headstone, what team would it be?

1473
01:05:22,416 --> 01:05:22,896
Speaker 2: Oh? Boy?

1474
01:05:25,296 --> 01:05:28,416
Speaker 6: I've always had a lot of loyalty to the Patriots

1475
01:05:28,816 --> 01:05:31,176
Speaker 6: because they gave me that opportunity when I don't think

1476
01:05:31,216 --> 01:05:34,296
Speaker 6: anybody else would have. Everybody's like, hey, we'd love to

1477
01:05:34,296 --> 01:05:36,056
Speaker 6: bring in as a free agent, this, that and the other.

1478
01:05:36,576 --> 01:05:39,496
Speaker 2: And then to get that phone call and.

1479
01:05:39,416 --> 01:05:42,896
Speaker 6: Say, we're going to take you because we're going to

1480
01:05:42,936 --> 01:05:44,736
Speaker 6: give you this opportunity, but we're going to use our

1481
01:05:44,776 --> 01:05:47,376
Speaker 6: last draft pick on somebody that never started a game

1482
01:05:47,936 --> 01:05:50,376
Speaker 6: and saw something in me that maybe didn't see in myself.

1483
01:05:50,896 --> 01:05:53,376
Speaker 2: And then to develop me the way in.

1484
01:05:53,296 --> 01:05:55,296
Speaker 6: Which they did and allow me to learn from a

1485
01:05:55,336 --> 01:05:58,056
Speaker 6: guy like Tom Brady. And then when all the stuff

1486
01:05:58,096 --> 01:06:00,656
Speaker 6: went down in two thousand and eight and Tom goes

1487
01:06:00,696 --> 01:06:03,216
Speaker 6: down the first game, we went kind of up and

1488
01:06:03,256 --> 01:06:05,976
Speaker 6: down early in the season when lost when law and

1489
01:06:06,056 --> 01:06:09,216
Speaker 6: to stick with me and just allow me to write

1490
01:06:09,256 --> 01:06:10,896
Speaker 6: it out and grow throughout the season not only as

1491
01:06:10,936 --> 01:06:13,696
Speaker 6: a leader but as a player, and we end up

1492
01:06:14,096 --> 01:06:17,536
Speaker 6: having success, And that really catapulted me and extended my

1493
01:06:17,576 --> 01:06:19,776
Speaker 6: career because look, I was that was the last year

1494
01:06:19,776 --> 01:06:22,616
Speaker 6: of my rookie contract. If I don't play that year,

1495
01:06:22,616 --> 01:06:24,056
Speaker 6: I don't know if I'm still on a team or

1496
01:06:24,096 --> 01:06:27,136
Speaker 6: we're even sitting here talking, right. And So the loyalty

1497
01:06:27,136 --> 01:06:31,416
Speaker 6: to Bill Belichick, the Craft family, to just them being

1498
01:06:32,136 --> 01:06:36,016
Speaker 6: the organization that they were and have been and allowing

1499
01:06:36,056 --> 01:06:38,136
Speaker 6: me to come in there and give me my opportunity.

1500
01:06:38,176 --> 01:06:41,976
Speaker 2: I've always had great loyalty to that. So Patriots Patriots?

1501
01:06:42,536 --> 01:06:46,016
Speaker 2: Should I have just said Patriots and I'm ready. So

1502
01:06:46,656 --> 01:06:47,696
Speaker 2: you're going with Patriots?

1503
01:06:49,016 --> 01:06:51,736
Speaker 4: No, I just I'm curious as to where your loyalty

1504
01:06:52,096 --> 01:06:55,576
Speaker 4: and you can have multi loyals if that's even a term.

1505
01:06:55,936 --> 01:06:58,376
Speaker 5: But that answer makes a lot of sense.

1506
01:06:58,736 --> 01:07:01,696
Speaker 6: Okay, So if you were to give same thing for

1507
01:07:01,776 --> 01:07:07,216
Speaker 6: you the biggest influence in your career to like get

1508
01:07:07,256 --> 01:07:10,896
Speaker 6: to where you are early on or throughout that, you'd

1509
01:07:10,896 --> 01:07:14,776
Speaker 6: say you would You'd say I'd die for this person,

1510
01:07:14,896 --> 01:07:17,976
Speaker 6: or I would give whatever I need to give to

1511
01:07:18,056 --> 01:07:21,536
Speaker 6: pay back what they offered me or advice, whatever it

1512
01:07:21,616 --> 01:07:24,536
Speaker 6: might be. It's probably a really difficult question to answer

1513
01:07:24,656 --> 01:07:26,736
Speaker 6: considering all the people you've met throughout your career. But

1514
01:07:26,816 --> 01:07:29,656
Speaker 6: somebody that's had such an impact on you. It's somebody

1515
01:07:29,656 --> 01:07:30,336
Speaker 6: I've never met.

1516
01:07:30,376 --> 01:07:33,376
Speaker 5: I never had a mentor, and I never really had

1517
01:07:33,376 --> 01:07:35,336
Speaker 5: anybody go I believe in you.

1518
01:07:35,696 --> 01:07:38,256
Speaker 4: I'm going to pay you a bunch of money. It

1519
01:07:38,336 --> 01:07:40,456
Speaker 4: was more like, okay, prove it, wise guy.

1520
01:07:41,056 --> 01:07:41,736
Speaker 2: He little guber.

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01:07:42,736 --> 01:07:46,456
Speaker 5: But I would say David Letterman, never met.

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Speaker 4: Him, is my hero because he was an odd I

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01:07:50,456 --> 01:07:53,976
Speaker 4: could see something that resembled me, and that he was

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01:07:53,976 --> 01:08:01,256
Speaker 4: an oddly looking guy for television, irreverent and was from

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01:08:02,816 --> 01:08:05,336
Speaker 4: Middle America that was from the South, but he wasn't

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01:08:05,456 --> 01:08:07,696
Speaker 4: from like New York or LA, and he wasn't slick.

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Speaker 4: And I just thought because I would have watched David Letterman,

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01:08:11,056 --> 01:08:13,256
Speaker 4: I was like eight guy. I never had a bedroom

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01:08:13,296 --> 01:08:15,216
Speaker 4: growing up, so I slept on couch in my whole life,

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01:08:15,336 --> 01:08:17,456
Speaker 4: and so I would watch TV all night, and so

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01:08:17,576 --> 01:08:19,095
Speaker 4: I would watch that show and not even get the

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01:08:19,176 --> 01:08:22,736
Speaker 4: jokes and go like, that's the guy that is telling

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01:08:22,776 --> 01:08:23,816
Speaker 4: me that I can do this.

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Speaker 5: So I never got drafted by Letterman.

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Speaker 2: Which was really cool. It'd be cool.

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Speaker 5: We've been like we're taking the fifth round.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, of what, But uh, Letterman is that guy

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01:08:33,416 --> 01:08:36,576
Speaker 4: who if it's put someone's face.

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01:08:36,936 --> 01:08:38,776
Speaker 5: I'd just I'd have him sketch out a letterman on

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Speaker 5: my on my headstone, little yeah.

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01:08:40,576 --> 01:08:41,416
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I love that.

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Speaker 5: One day. Although he's getting old, but you're.

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Speaker 2: Gonna have to do this quick, yeah, because he is

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01:08:46,016 --> 01:08:48,336
Speaker 2: getting a little bit older. But it's all we all are.

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01:08:48,656 --> 01:08:49,936
Speaker 2: We all are day by day.

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Speaker 4: Blink of and I that's it. Thank you guys. Uh

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01:08:52,616 --> 01:08:55,295
Speaker 4: next week another episode. These episodes come out on Wednesday.

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01:08:55,416 --> 01:08:57,216
Speaker 4: We actually are a little late on this one because

1549
01:08:57,336 --> 01:08:59,536
Speaker 4: Matt went to the National Championship game, which.

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Speaker 5: Ended up being kind of exciting at the end.

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Speaker 6: It did it did? I mean, I'm not gonna lie

1552
01:09:05,416 --> 01:09:08,296
Speaker 6: thirty one seven. Midway through the third I was like, boys,

1553
01:09:08,776 --> 01:09:11,536
Speaker 6: get your coach ready because if they score again, we

1554
01:09:11,656 --> 01:09:14,776
Speaker 6: might be Yeah, we're gonna be driving. Look, I'm a

1555
01:09:14,816 --> 01:09:17,776
Speaker 6: big fan, but my loyalty Look, I was a Trojan,

1556
01:09:18,336 --> 01:09:20,336
Speaker 6: right and so my loyalties weren't to either one of

1557
01:09:20,376 --> 01:09:22,296
Speaker 6: these schools. But at the same time, when it gets

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01:09:22,456 --> 01:09:24,616
Speaker 6: out of hand like that, it's kind of like it's

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01:09:24,896 --> 01:09:25,776
Speaker 6: difficult to watch.

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Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what the old faithful for Notre Dame.

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01:09:29,736 --> 01:09:31,016
Speaker 2: You know, they came back.

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01:09:31,056 --> 01:09:33,256
Speaker 6: They put a score on the board, and then they

1563
01:09:33,296 --> 01:09:35,776
Speaker 6: got to stop. They go down drive and then that

1564
01:09:35,856 --> 01:09:37,736
Speaker 6: they missed that field goal, and I was just like, ah,

1565
01:09:38,136 --> 01:09:40,576
Speaker 6: could you hear it hit in the same Oh, you

1566
01:09:40,576 --> 01:09:43,376
Speaker 6: can hear one percent and then it ricochets backwards, you

1567
01:09:43,376 --> 01:09:44,336
Speaker 6: know sometimes they like rick.

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01:09:44,936 --> 01:09:47,216
Speaker 2: I was just like, oh, my gosh, that is not good.

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Speaker 6: I just at that point I didn't understand why don't

1570
01:09:49,656 --> 01:09:51,856
Speaker 6: we just take another shot at the enz like you're

1571
01:09:51,896 --> 01:09:55,256
Speaker 6: still to score game. And then they had another great

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01:09:55,296 --> 01:09:57,216
Speaker 6: drive to hit the big play down the field.

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Speaker 5: I mean the turnover though, You're like, hey, that feel

1574
01:09:58,696 --> 01:10:00,216
Speaker 5: go that it went in and it.

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01:10:00,216 --> 01:10:03,376
Speaker 4: Would have actually worked, right. Uh, yeah, that's fine, that's exciting.

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Speaker 6: I saw it with your boys, Yes, the boys, And

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Speaker 6: I mean, I know, growing up, I went to like

1578
01:10:08,136 --> 01:10:12,176
Speaker 6: one professional football game. I went to one Notre Dame

1579
01:10:12,496 --> 01:10:15,256
Speaker 6: SC game with my grandfather, but we didn't really go

1580
01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:18,936
Speaker 6: to a lot of sporting events, but I vividly remember those.

1581
01:10:19,416 --> 01:10:21,456
Speaker 6: It was like one of those special moments that you

1582
01:10:21,536 --> 01:10:23,736
Speaker 6: go and you're like, gosh, it's so cool be in

1583
01:10:23,776 --> 01:10:26,136
Speaker 6: a stadium, be in the environment, feel the energy. And

1584
01:10:26,176 --> 01:10:28,016
Speaker 6: so I was like, it's in Atlanta, it's not far

1585
01:10:28,056 --> 01:10:31,496
Speaker 6: from us. Drove up on Monday, went and got set

1586
01:10:31,576 --> 01:10:33,616
Speaker 6: up at the hotel and took the boys there and

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01:10:33,736 --> 01:10:35,336
Speaker 6: they enjoyed every minute of it.

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01:10:35,416 --> 01:10:40,055
Speaker 4: Man Yeah, producer Kevin O'Connell, red Yarberry over there running

1589
01:10:40,056 --> 01:10:40,496
Speaker 4: the video.

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01:10:40,736 --> 01:10:41,616
Speaker 2: He's Matt Castle.

1591
01:10:41,656 --> 01:10:42,416
Speaker 5: I'm Bobby Bones.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you next week. We have had lots to.

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Speaker 1: Say by everybody, lots to say with Bobby Bones and

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Speaker 1: Matt Castle is a production of the NFL and iHeart Podcasts.

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01:11:02,176 --> 01:11:03,536
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