Speaker 1: Welcome to the to the pod.
Speaker 2: You know what time it is. It's off the edge
Speaker 2: of me, your host Cam jordan' oh man.
Speaker 1: We're getting blessed. We're getting blessed with two for. Here
Speaker 1: we go, We're getting blessed with a two for.
Speaker 2: You know about Adam Thielen is a pro bowler, you know,
Speaker 2: just just a guy who was a stable for the
Speaker 2: Minnesota Bike is now with Carolina Panthers Wide receiver one
Speaker 2: for real. I mean when you talking about possession receiver,
Speaker 2: my guy is fris Is Stack.
Speaker 1: Put it loon one. Bryce, We're gonna talk to you too.
Speaker 1: It fell the come on.
Speaker 2: We were sitting next to Bryce Young showing a miss
Speaker 2: talent and mist growth this year. I mean, what you
Speaker 2: overcame this year was nothing short of amazing, just because
Speaker 2: you know, there was a stint where uh you know,
Speaker 2: the red rocket came in.
Speaker 1: And was out there throw a red rocket rifle. I've
Speaker 1: always messed that.
Speaker 3: Up, but anywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Andy Dalton, you know, and then you took
Speaker 2: over and you came back with a vengeance.
Speaker 4: My boy appreciation.
Speaker 1: What's your mindset like?
Speaker 4: Uh, just just.
Speaker 5: Want to keep stacking, you know, just want to be consistent.
Speaker 5: While I was doing I was gravy for the opportunity.
Speaker 5: And then I just want to be be consistent, lean
Speaker 5: on guys like this, uh, which which helped, you know,
Speaker 5: just lean on the team, and yeah, I just want
Speaker 5: to be.
Speaker 1: A picture of consistency.
Speaker 2: Adam feeling, come on, man, wherever they put you, you
Speaker 2: show out and you don't get the process that you deserve.
Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna give your flowers now. Boy, it's
Speaker 2: always it's always pleasure to see you. You take the
Speaker 2: field and like, no, Adam feeling like he's getting older.
Speaker 2: You can guard them, and yet you snag everything. I'm like, bo,
Speaker 2: stop disrespecting people that don't need to be disrespected.
Speaker 3: Man, Well, we and I talk about a lot. You know.
Speaker 6: I'm just really good at finding zones, you know, find
Speaker 6: holes in the defense.
Speaker 3: Not fast enough to beat man the man cover just.
Speaker 2: You know, wow, tell them I'm white without saying craft,
Speaker 2: you understand the defensive spot. I don't like it for you, bro, No,
Speaker 2: I've seen I've seen the burners on. You know we're
Speaker 2: not doing that. But I mean, just you guys, chemistry,
Speaker 2: how did that? How did that go along? This last
Speaker 2: two years?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well for me, honestly, just just coming in his
Speaker 5: rookie not knowing how to you know, not know what
Speaker 5: you expect, not knowing what what everything was trying to
Speaker 5: find my footing. Having a guy like Adam who has
Speaker 5: had so much success for so long he was I
Speaker 5: appreciate he was super super communicative.
Speaker 4: Is that how you say that communicative communicator? I appreciate.
Speaker 4: I see what I was like.
Speaker 3: I just go over it.
Speaker 5: But he communicated super well about He was super open
Speaker 5: about about talking, Hey, this is how I see things?
Speaker 4: How do you see things? Just want to be on
Speaker 4: the same page.
Speaker 5: And having that urgency about it for me as a
Speaker 5: young guy coming in was super beneficial. And I was
Speaker 5: always wont to hear his opinions on stuff because you know,
Speaker 5: he had seen a lot more He's seen a lot
Speaker 5: more NFL ball than I had one to hear that,
Speaker 5: and him making himself available and then obviously that translates
Speaker 5: to the field of you know, it's a lot gets
Speaker 5: open a lot, So it's always just crafty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly exactly his own covers man.
Speaker 5: So I'm always uh, yeah, he he makes it makes
Speaker 5: it a lot easier for me to be a position.
Speaker 2: Look, you with Obama. You you've been to Carolina. You
Speaker 2: guys have ran in some country, you.
Speaker 6: Know, like, but you got a receiver to you didn't
Speaker 6: want sc right, Yeah, I mean Bama of the North.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 6: About they think about Mankato. Uh, it's a southern Minnesota. Wow,
Speaker 6: we can just call it's Minnesota state. It sounds a
Speaker 6: little better.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was born to eating prairie.
Speaker 2: But what we're not gonna do is ever say Minnesota
Speaker 2: anywhere is country. It's Canada. It's the very nice, polite people.
Speaker 2: But I mean, let's talk about the kid Xavier. I'm
Speaker 2: not even leg leget Okay, yeah that makes sense. When
Speaker 2: he talks, I cannot like. And I've been I've been
Speaker 2: to Opelousas, I've been to Lake Charles. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: throughout Louisiana. No, it's he's one of those like New
Speaker 2: Iberia types.
Speaker 6: My favorite thing is in receiver meetings is no one
Speaker 6: knows what he's saying except for me. So so Coach
Speaker 6: more will literally ask me a question, Xavier will respond
Speaker 6: and then Coach will immediate look to me like what
Speaker 6: did he say? And I have to translate and then
Speaker 6: everyone's like why are you the one who's translating. It
Speaker 6: doesn't make any sense, but for some reason, I just
Speaker 6: understand what he's saying.
Speaker 1: Ah, got it, got it? Hints why is the south
Speaker 1: of the North? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 1: So in a huddle, yeah, you called out a play.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: In practice he comes to you when he starts talking
Speaker 1: to you. Hey, I mean I've.
Speaker 4: Gotten better too.
Speaker 5: I honestly I feel like at first adjustment, but like
Speaker 5: I think, going to Bama, we had a couple of
Speaker 5: guys that I'm not gonna lie. He's he's the most egregious,
Speaker 5: but we've had a couple of guys that were closed.
Speaker 5: So I've gotten better. And when we have union meetings
Speaker 5: to this day, like he'll say something. Whenever he says
Speaker 5: something in union meeting, he'll say, you know, something like normal,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna try to do his voice, but something like okay,
Speaker 5: so I got an outside released on that and legit
Speaker 5: will be signed for two sakes. Everyone just start cracking
Speaker 5: up and like this is like week seventeen. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 5: I heard him, Like is everyone still this behind?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: So I think I've adjusted a little bit.
Speaker 5: It's just yesterday I seen him, Uh and it was
Speaker 5: like a little loud where we were at and it
Speaker 5: was dark. So I'm like, all right, bro, I'm not
Speaker 5: gonna lie man, like I can't Like normally I do better,
Speaker 5: I know, but like not right now, Like I can't
Speaker 5: even reach your lips.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie this. We can't have a conversation.
Speaker 1: I just want to know.
Speaker 2: Like, like we saw the viral clips of like Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: came around and he came in with the.
Speaker 1: With the coon. He tried it right there with the raccoon.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 2: I was like, I was like, yo, who actually, Like
Speaker 2: I've ate some wild stuff, Like I've gone to Japan,
Speaker 2: I've ate some wild stuff. I've gone to Korea. I've
Speaker 2: gone to you know whatever, Egypt. I've had some some
Speaker 2: some random meats. You know, I've gone to Liberia and
Speaker 2: had some bush meet pauls wild And then when I
Speaker 2: think about just like so he comes in with you
Speaker 2: know whatever whatever it was, it was raccoon right tried it.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the deal.
Speaker 6: So SO built a pretty good relationship with him over
Speaker 6: over the year, you know, and he's my guy. I mean,
Speaker 6: I love that kid. He's a great kid, works hard.
Speaker 6: He tried to do things the right way. So when
Speaker 6: you have a guy like that, you just kind of
Speaker 6: root for guys like that, right as you know.
Speaker 3: And so anyways, we build up a strong relationship.
Speaker 6: So over the season he's like, hey, man, like raccoon
Speaker 6: is so good, Like you'll like it, I promise you.
Speaker 6: I'm like, all right, like you know, we got a
Speaker 6: good relationship. I'll trust you. I'll try it. So, you know,
Speaker 6: he kept saying he's gonna bring in never did. Finally,
Speaker 6: around Thanksgiving time, brings it in to the locker room
Speaker 6: and it's like it's like he didn't have it in
Speaker 6: the cooler, like it was just like in a tupperware
Speaker 6: and he's like just like carrying it through the locker
Speaker 6: room like not cold, like this is just like you,
Speaker 6: this is room temperature.
Speaker 3: Raccoon. You tried it and I tried it.
Speaker 1: Did you try it? That's my last question. I did
Speaker 1: not try it.
Speaker 3: I have super spece.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Tap out and uh yeah, yes tomorrow I got nothing
Speaker 6: so I'll see them all. So anyways, I took a
Speaker 6: little pinch of it and I tried it.
Speaker 1: It was like it's like a pitch of dip and he.
Speaker 6: Swears that it's like good, and it's not good. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's not good. It's just like super well they obviously
Speaker 6: his I think it's his uncle who makes it and
Speaker 6: is like he swears, but oh, he's the only one
Speaker 6: that can cook, the only one I'll eat it from.
Speaker 6: And so I think they just put so much seasoning
Speaker 6: on it. It's like you're just tasting tasting seasoning, got it,
Speaker 6: you know, but like the actual meat is like it's disgusting.
Speaker 2: Ah, yeah, I figured, you know, I'm not I'm gonna
Speaker 2: lie like I get it. They say, like raccoons wash
Speaker 2: their hands for the eat. What is the guy to
Speaker 2: do what they're eating? You know, Like I'm I'm savage.
Speaker 2: I'm glad I tried it though, cause it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: you now know you never want any raccoon again.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and like it's it's kind of cool, like how
Speaker 6: many people have actually eaten raccoon?
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean yeah, it's not gonna be me.
Speaker 2: And I've had like random foods now, like I think
Speaker 2: I've had horse and I didn't like wow, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I hope I have never had dog.
Speaker 1: But then again, I've gone to some places where I
Speaker 1: never asked.
Speaker 6: I think it just makes it worse that you like,
Speaker 6: know what a raccoon is, you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: Like if it was just like here's some meat, like
Speaker 6: try it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you might partake. Yeah, I'm like, you've had that
Speaker 7: rabbit before, right, Yeah, I've had rabbit. That's fine with that,
Speaker 7: Like rabbits. Rabbits are fine, right, you know in my
Speaker 7: mind like eventually I'll have armadillo one day. I've had
Speaker 7: snake multiple times, crocodile, crocodile.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I think I've even had like shark somewhere blue whale,
Speaker 2: which will probably get me struck by peda. But of course,
Speaker 2: come on, my my six year old, no, my yeah,
Speaker 2: my six year old loves octopus. Goes out of her
Speaker 2: way to say, yeah, dad, give me the give me
Speaker 2: the legs, and I know exactly what she's talking about.
Speaker 1: I'm like, baby, Okay.
Speaker 2: We also lived in Spain for three months, so like
Speaker 2: I've opened up their minds to other things, you know,
Speaker 2: lived in Spain and somewhere she became a fan of
Speaker 2: of poopo, which is octopus, and she's.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, give it, that's funny. Yeah, monsters not what
Speaker 3: I was eating when I was six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, absolutely not.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out how to create a chip
Speaker 2: for these kids, cause these kids are growing up like
Speaker 2: the NIL era college kids, Like what do they actually
Speaker 2: have to want?
Speaker 1: Like the video game? Yeah they get those, like, you know,
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about a food. I was going
Speaker 1: to be there. Yeah, Like what where is their chip?
Speaker 1: Their house? Amazing?
Speaker 3: I know, I I often think about that.
Speaker 6: I'm like, maybe when I'm done playing that we should
Speaker 6: like move into like a you know, I don't know, yeah,
Speaker 6: small little place just yeah, like hey, this is this
Speaker 6: is like it's not just like you don't get to
Speaker 6: just do whatever you want and have this cake little easy,
Speaker 6: easy way in and out. But you know, I think
Speaker 6: you just try to install those those that foundation and
Speaker 6: and make sure that they understand, like you know that
Speaker 6: you have to work hard and work for the things
Speaker 6: you want, right, But it's hard to do.
Speaker 2: It's hard to do, Like you can work hard and
Speaker 2: do everything else, but you expect now to be rewarded.
Speaker 6: I know, I know, I agree, it's it's tough, but
Speaker 6: it makes you think differently when you have kids, right man.
Speaker 2: That's all I'm like, I said, I'm trying to figure
Speaker 2: this part out. I'm like, man, I've never had jay.
Speaker 2: So I got to college and I bought them. My
Speaker 2: kids came out like Jordan Brand athletes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, every year they got a new pair every year,
Speaker 6: like every three bucks.
Speaker 2: Like oh man, like we got the family set, you know,
Speaker 2: like it's it's a beautiful, awesome thing to do. But
Speaker 2: I'm like, where's their chip? Anyways, I'm thinking, I'm thinking
Speaker 2: in my in my line of working, I've seen you
Speaker 2: start to grow in the space, which.
Speaker 1: You never really did.
Speaker 2: When I say space, the media space, Like, so you
Speaker 2: see a future in the media, I mean the last
Speaker 2: few years you started you started dabbling.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I I really enjoy it. Definitely see a future.
Speaker 6: I don't know what that looks like. But yeah, I
Speaker 6: love talking.
Speaker 3: About the ball.
Speaker 6: I love meeting you guys talking about how they got
Speaker 6: to where they are. I love all sports. So I
Speaker 6: grew up playing four sports all the way through high school.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so.
Speaker 1: What's that Minnesota will be soccer?
Speaker 3: We I never played soccer.
Speaker 1: I was a soccer guy.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it was.
Speaker 6: I went to one soccer I have a soccer story,
Speaker 6: but I went to one soccer practice when I was
Speaker 6: probably five six years old, and my mom drops me off.
Speaker 3: I get there.
Speaker 6: The first thing we did was run laps around the
Speaker 6: entire field, and I immediately never went back, never went
Speaker 6: back to ever went to a soccer practice. Cover again,
Speaker 6: like that, that's not me. Like, give me a ball
Speaker 6: and give me a goal. I'm good, okay, But like
Speaker 6: so the four sports football, basketball, baseball, and golf.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yep yep.
Speaker 6: All the way through high school and then even even
Speaker 6: my first year of college, came back and played summer
Speaker 6: baseball just because I just I love to like I
Speaker 6: love the.
Speaker 3: Change of scenery. You know, I got a little add
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody's ever said, oh man, yours focus is so strong. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: it's it's fleeting.
Speaker 6: Yeah and so and so I just wanted to change
Speaker 6: the pace. And then that made me excited.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: When it went from football to basketball season, it was
Speaker 6: like a whole new challenge and got to lock in
Speaker 6: and you got to practice, and like you have this
Speaker 6: urgency to get better quickly because you have like two
Speaker 6: week break between football season and basketball season to like
Speaker 6: get your skills, you know, freshened up. Where most of
Speaker 6: the kids are just playing basketball. So they've been playing
Speaker 6: all fall ball and all that. It's like, no, I'm
Speaker 6: gonna find a way to be better than you with
Speaker 6: two weeks of practice.
Speaker 1: For sure.
Speaker 2: It's the competitive in you. Like that's how we stay competitive.
Speaker 2: I love the idea of like not singlely focusing on
Speaker 2: one sport. Yeah, kids these days are like oh yeah,
Speaker 2: like thirteen years old, like, yeah, I'll just play football,
Speaker 2: tackle football.
Speaker 1: How do you just play one sport?
Speaker 6: I I have parents come up to me all the time, like,
Speaker 6: you know, at watching my kids play sports.
Speaker 1: Hey, what do you what do you think of them? Yeah?
Speaker 6: What do you think about Like, well that too, but
Speaker 6: you know, you get to like what do you think
Speaker 6: about multi sports?
Speaker 3: Do you think they should be specialized or not?
Speaker 6: You know, but I always think it's like I wouldn't
Speaker 6: be where I am without the sports I played, like
Speaker 6: without basketball, Like most of what I do is from basketball, right,
Speaker 6: body control and you know, being able to feel the
Speaker 6: game and like feel the space around you is mostly
Speaker 6: from basketball.
Speaker 3: High pointing the ball and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Social awareness Yeah, yeah, absolutely. In soccer, you driven on
Speaker 2: the ball, you have to be aware of not only
Speaker 2: with the defender in front of you. But who's coming
Speaker 2: for you? Yeah from the side, wow, crazy from you know,
Speaker 2: from whatever the attack it is. I mean basketball, the
Speaker 2: same way as you're drilling up, dribbling up the court,
Speaker 2: you could have a trailer headed your way. You could have,
Speaker 2: you know, a guy that you you try to pass to,
Speaker 2: but oh man, you know you can't make a cross
Speaker 2: court of pass. I'm like if I did, if I
Speaker 2: just played football, just imagine just growing up a defensive lineman.
Speaker 1: How shifty are you going to be?
Speaker 2: Not so shifty if all you do is grow up
Speaker 2: as a wide receiver. Yeah, you're gonna be fast and catch,
Speaker 2: but like, are you gonna be able to be physical?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I always say like if I'm if I'm a scout
Speaker 6: or if I'm a GM. Yeah, the first thing I'm
Speaker 6: I'm watching is like, what what what they do in
Speaker 6: high school basketball? Like were they scoring points where they
Speaker 6: Like I don't want a guy that was a rebounder. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I want a guy that was like dog getting the paint,
Speaker 6: scoring points right, And like, that guy's gonna be good
Speaker 6: receiver probably, And I want to I.
Speaker 2: Want to know his mentality. Speaking of that, if you're
Speaker 2: if you're a GM, right, are you gonna be like
Speaker 2: the Ravens GM Eric da Costa, who who said they
Speaker 2: use Madden ratings as part of their player of euation.
Speaker 3: I am not using Man ratings for sure?
Speaker 1: What next? Pff?
Speaker 6: Uh definitely not pff no offensive pff people, But but
Speaker 6: uh no.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 6: I I just feel like there's so much of the
Speaker 6: feel is gone from scouting. It's all numbers and all
Speaker 6: the analytics, which some of that stuff is great, great,
Speaker 6: but like there's no feel anymore.
Speaker 3: You have some feel.
Speaker 2: Guys, get guys, get get put up on this draft board,
Speaker 2: gets after a combine, like he's got ten games worth
Speaker 2: the film, and he gets excellent combine numbers, and next
Speaker 2: thing you know.
Speaker 7: It's like, oh man, he's jumped the leaderboard, Draft Stock
Speaker 7: Rising Draft.
Speaker 1: He's gonna lock in for top fifteen. You're like, excuse
Speaker 1: the hell?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: And then and then a year later you're like, oh man,
Speaker 2: we had such high hopes for him. Don't give up now, No, no,
Speaker 2: you chose this man.
Speaker 6: Well, I also love the like oh yeah, like, well,
Speaker 6: we got good coaches, we'll coach them'll coach them, he'll, he'll, he'll.
Speaker 3: Learn the game.
Speaker 6: It's like, if you don't know, if you haven't like
Speaker 6: figured out the game by the end of your college career,
Speaker 6: like probably not going to just like magically fast out
Speaker 6: in the NFL. Absolutely, and the coaches are I mean
Speaker 6: obviously coaching.
Speaker 1: Coaching matters.
Speaker 3: Coaching matters officially now that I know, I was.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, no, you can always overcome coaching.
Speaker 2: I have officially had coaching in a position where I
Speaker 2: was like, you can't overcome this. Yeah, there's there's there's
Speaker 2: guys that try to outthink themselves in this game, and
Speaker 2: sometimes you have to let people be great with they're
Speaker 2: great at.
Speaker 6: And I think I think it depends on where you're
Speaker 6: at in your career too, Right, it's a bummer for
Speaker 6: guys to come into the league and not have any direction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not have like.
Speaker 6: Solid mentorship and coaching, because if you put your energy
Speaker 6: in it in the wrong direction, Uh, it can really
Speaker 6: it can do.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: You could be like if you if you had a
Speaker 2: coach that understood technique, formation, recognition and help you in
Speaker 2: those ways, you could become a better player. I'm I'm
Speaker 2: now one hundred percent confirmed. I appreciate you tapping in
Speaker 2: with me. In the pod. Thank you for being the
Speaker 2: player you are being consistent and crafty. I could keep
Speaker 2: keep on balling. I'm not going to ask you how
Speaker 2: many years are going to have left. Guy, I see
Speaker 2: you're gonna play in this game as long as you
Speaker 2: want to. So you know it's not it's not clearly.
Speaker 2: You know your mentality, your fortitude is whatever it's going
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Yeah, no, it's uh.
Speaker 6: You know how it is like towards the end of
Speaker 6: the year, you're like, man, I don't know if I
Speaker 6: can do this anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I got rebirth towards the end of
Speaker 1: the year. I was like hell yeah, I was like,
Speaker 1: give me all these reps I had for mine.
Speaker 6: Anyways, I had two weeks after the season. I'm like,
Speaker 6: oh this is I could play easy. My body's starting
Speaker 6: to feel good. I got my energy back.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: You know it's like the end of the season es actually,
Speaker 6: you know, like you have kids, like you have no
Speaker 6: energy and you get home and you're like, I got
Speaker 6: nothing for you. And so like having those two weeks
Speaker 6: after the season, like you just like boom, like oh
Speaker 6: this is awesome.
Speaker 8: I forgot what it's like to like be able to,
Speaker 8: like you get used to it, yeah, but anyways, appreciate it, yes, sir.
Speaker 8: What a blessing to be a blessing to people you know, Yes, sir.
Speaker 8: I hope, I hope you listeners are tuning in.
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