WEBVTT - Washington Commanders GM Adam Peters - Live From The NFL Combine! 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:01.920 I've been here for six days and I think I've 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:03.680 lost about five years in my life. 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:07.360 Man, what's handed? Man? You got Marshawn, be Small Lynch. 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.600 Doug Hendrickson and Gavin Newsome and you're listening to politickets 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:11.800 you know. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:13.000 To be you know to be. 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.160 So, Marshawn. I you know I got to tell you 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:19.240 from the Super Bowl. I see you on national commercial. 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.959 I see you on a Starbucks commercial. I get through 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.360 to NBA All Star Week and you're hosting one of 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.720 the coolest things I've ever seen, a community FanFest event 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.440 with the entire Oakland and the Bey area coming out. 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:34.600 You did it your way, a real way. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.520 On top of that, you're also in a little show 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.239 called Euphoria. Last I checked, it's the number one show 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.240 in the in the US. How you do so, Marshawn, 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.200 take me through your will win a couple of weeks 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.240 of all this incredible stuff you've done. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:53.600 I mean, shit, Brice, you can't just go put me 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.160 on the spot man, Fresh. 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:56.560 You know I apologize. 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.560 Look, I'm just saying Fresh. You know how I moved, man, Marshawn. 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.000 I want to ask, she's something real quicking in a 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.360 real note. You were close to someone very much uh 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.680 in your life, the former owner of the Seahawks, Paul Allen. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.920 And this past few days you received the Paul Allen 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:12.120 Humanitarian Award. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.440 Take me through that award and what that meant to you? 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.000 Man, Look fresh, you're gonna you're gonna have to let 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.320 me chew on something. You gotta let me eat one 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.280 time for the one time, man to But to get 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.119 that award was uh. 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:27.000 Was pretty big that. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.520 Like, as I was sitting there and me and Babs 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.520 was talking, and I look on the on the award 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.440 thing and I realized, like, you know, this ain't something 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.440 that I you know, I'm not really good at receiving ship. 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.120 But then when I seen like my name and it 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.720 had Paul Allen name on it and being award and 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.400 award in his name, that was big for me because, uh, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.320 you know, towards the end of my career, me and 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.880 him started to we had we started the conversating. Uh, 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.560 you know, like I said at the award show, like 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:06.560 this would actually respond to me, Like I mean, you know, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:08.840 we would have conversations and you know, I could ask 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.440 him questions about you know, whether it was some investments 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.800 that came out way or if I was looking for 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.760 real estate or should I be looking at like you know, 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.480 he he was. He would chop it up with me 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.240 because everything that I would hear about him was like, oh, 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.080 you know, Paul Ellen, he's no kind of different. You know, 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.200 you don't really talk to people, and you know all this, 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.360 that and the third. But I just remember him coming 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:40.519 to one of my foundation dinners that we were having, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.960 and the response that I got from a few people 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.880 that was up on the third floor was like, hold on, 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:48.959 he'd really coming to your event. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:50.240 And I was like, yeah. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.320 He said he was gonna play as his guitar and 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.200 hell is shit. And I'm like they like, well, you 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.880 know he don't come out right. I'm like, nah, I 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.240 didn't know. But we reached out and he said he 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.200 was gonna come MiB too, And I just remember the 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:09.400 first about the first but two three minutes he was there. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.519 I'm like, yeah, we taking shots of patrinity. 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.480 By the way, I was right with you, me, you, me, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:15.800 you him and Michael Bennett. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:19.560 Remember that Michael Bennett and you had your boy Joe 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:20.239 was there. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:21.880 Too, yep. 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.840 And I'm like they like, man, I don't know what 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.200 the hell is going on, but he took a shot 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.040 of patrinity with you. And then I mean, you know 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.480 we sat at the table and I mean I just 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.440 was chopping it up with him on some on some 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.440 cool on a year feel me like, what's up with it? 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.640 Bro? And the nigga was solid to me. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.520 So I don't understand, like you know, that was other 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.840 people's perception of me, but you know, for me, he 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.400 was solid. So being able to get this award, you 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.040 know what I mean? And his name is you know, 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.080 I mean, it's it's full circle for me, you know 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.760 what I mean. And and to me it's it's a 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:01.080 real life respect. And like I said, I mean, you know, 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.360 it made it a little easier to accept that award 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.520 because I know, you know what I mean, what it means. 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.400 And then I mean, you know all the philanthropy work 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.360 that he was doing. Like I remember he called me 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.120 one time. I remember you remember this too. He called 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.680 me and he was like, man, can you get into 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.800 Seattle tomorrow? And I'm like, yeah, wow, what's up? Like 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.359 I want to have a conversation with you. I'm like, 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.000 all right, cool, I'll be up there one time. Like, well, 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.800 I'm in the Philippines right now. I think I just 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:33.080 found the Japanese uh a Japanese fightership at the bottom 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.680 of the Philippine Ocean. But uh, I'll be in Seattle. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.880 I'll need you there, like at four o'clock or some shit. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.880 I remember getting off the phone like, hey, Fresh, I 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:43.400 gotta get to Seattle right now. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:43.960 We gotta go. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.040 You're like what, I'm like, yeah, man, Parly just called me, 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.240 told me we got to get up there. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.160 You're like, well, shit, we going? I say, yeah. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.400 This motherfucker just told me he was in the the 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.520 middle of the Philippine Ocean, found a Japanese cruise ship 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.880 and we went and got it on our private pe 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:02.919 you know what I mean. And we went up to 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.840 Seattle and we had an interesting conversation with that gentleman. 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.720 But I mean, you know that to get that award 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:10.680 was huge. 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.720 Everybody. What an incredible day for our politic and guests. 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.240 We have a former I want to say this same 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.160 high school as me, different time, the mean streets Mona 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:37.720 Vissa High School to junior college to UCLA football player 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:43.599 to then scout with the Patriots Broncos forty nine ers 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.760 and newly named last year general manager and executive the 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:52.840 Year of the Washington Commanders, the hottest gym in football. 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:58.880 Adam Peters guys, owed, what's up, Big Doug. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:05:59.600 Adam. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.159 I just told Marshawn, I keep telling about the mean 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:06.320 streets and Montaviston Creupatino, and He's like, come on, man. 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.560 Yeah, what the fuck mean about them streets. 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.360 There's a couple of blocks. There's a couple of blocks 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:12.720 that are. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.719 Tough, you know, Yeah, a couple of tough blocks. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.720 Yeah, we started getting into where the migos hanging out at. 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:19.080 Then you know what I mean? 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:21.760 Well, well, Adam. 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.400 Throughout these last fifteen years, as I was ever represented Marshawn, 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.320 I've told him that I grew up in the mean 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.440 streets of Creupatino and he came down one time to 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:29.240 my mom's house. 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.480 He's like, dude, mean streets. Come on, bro. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.920 But Marshawn, you'll love Adam. Adam is. Adam's like me, dude. 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:38.080 He's a state school, public school kid, grinder, scrapper, junior 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:42.800 college player at West Valley College to UCLA to now 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.680 the grind of an NFL scout and now a current GM. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.760 Marshawn, He's been battling for a long time. 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.359 Have you ever heard uh your back down? Your background 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:53.279 ran down like that? 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:55.719 Uh yeah, a couple of times. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.240 Yeah, yeah, you hear how it done. Just run your 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:02.279 whole background down. Yeah, you sound pretty pretty accomplished. 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.719 My boy, Well, he's like he's kind of bragging about himself. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.760 He's just like me. He did all this stuff. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.600 Yeeah, you feel well. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.760 I got to be honest with Marshawn. I saw Adam 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.480 yesterday and we had a few. Uh, we had a few. 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.000 We had a lout this way. We had a long 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.320 lunch for many, many hours, and for me, it lasted 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:20.320 about nine hours. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:21.120 Put it that way. 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.200 Adam had to go to work, but I had about 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.520 a nine hours lunch that turned into a lunch to 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.360 a dinner with a few cocktails in between. 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.800 I was going to ask you how many how many 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.000 drinks was involved in that? 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.320 There was a few right at him. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.640 There was a few. You had a lot. You had 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.360 a lot. I think was the night before I was 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:40.120 still struggling. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.880 Hey, my boy, my boy drank like a guppy. 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.040 Well, I want to tell you a funny story, and 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:47.840 I'm not going to name the other GM that was there, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.960 But there was a gem there Marshawn that came to 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.520 have a drink or two and he was going to 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.360 go to mass and there was a Friday Mass or 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:59.080 Thursday Mass, and let's just say he missed the Mass, 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.080 and he missed a few more things. So his intentions 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:07.800 were pure. But I think my my cocktail soda line 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.240 got the best of them, and he missed the mass, 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.080 so it's all good. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.880 Hey, I don't think that's something you should be bragging. 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:19.560 No, I know, I think what you're telling him about that, 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.000 But you know what, that happens a lot here, a lot, 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:26.040 a lot of things are missed here, but those types 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:31.000 of deals get done during those situations, not so much meeting, 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.079 but when you're hanging out and you're talking and you're 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.320 being honest with each other and being straight and so 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.480 I actually had a good conversation with him too. Hopefully 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.320 we'll get something done. But that's how this place is. 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.760 You know, Like you know, you're not in your regular meetings, 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:46.640 you're really not doing a lot of shit. It's when 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.120 you're kind of in the meetings. After the meetings is 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.080 when the real talk goes down. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.320 Well, Adam, before we get to that, you forget that 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:54.960 at him. I was like me and Marshaan is like 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.160 the origin story on things in life. And you know, 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.320 a lot of people don't know and their listeners, Like 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.480 you get done with UCLA, played football there, and then 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.640 instead of going to be a software salesman, instead of 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.520 investment banking, instead of whatever it may be, you get 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:13.040 into being a scout. How does one go from college 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.280 to a scout because a lot of people don't know 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:16.880 how that is? How did you do that when you 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:18.000 left UCLA years ago? 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.960 Yeah, it's really just the function of I didn't know 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:22.600 what I wanted to. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.119 Do, Like, I had zero plans with my life. 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.000 And I didn't really realize how not good I was 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:32.720 at football until I realized it really late. I always 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.200 thought I was better than I was so but by 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:36.959 the time I realized, Okay, I'm probably not going to 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.520 be doing this for a living, I wanted to stay 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.200 in that. I was a psychology major, and there's not 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:46.040 a whole lot of cool psychology jobs. It's really beneficial 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.680 learning about it because you can talk to people a 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:50.959 certain way and you understand people a certain way a 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:51.640 little bit more. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.959 But I wasn't going to be a psychologist, so I 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:55.240 was like, I want to stay in football. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:10:00.280 So the year after I finished playing, I was bill 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.760 still in school, so I decided to. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.600 Stay and start working in the in the football office. 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.640 So I worked in the football office with a dude, 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.480 Randy Taylor, who was our director of operations. Had some 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.000 great coaches, guys that are still in the lead today. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:17.720 You ever play for Vienname my Sean. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:20.839 I didn't get to play for him, but I got 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:22.600 a pretty good relationship with him. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.559 Yeah, So he was a coach, and then John Hembry 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:26.080 was a coach. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.600 Then my coach at the time was Don Johnson god 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.520 rest his soul is an incredible man and d line coach. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.880 So those guys kind of all took me under their 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.080 wing and allowed me to work there. And so I 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.880 worked there for you know whatever, six seven dollars an hour, 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.920 just doing whatever I could to, you know, go and 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.560 getting sandwiches, coffee and watching Tate. 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.000 So he was grinding, dud, Do you hear that? Real grinding? 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.440 So Adam, all your all your friends leave college. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.720 We're making one hundred grand, sixty grand, seventy grand, and 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.600 what was your salary starting out with the Patriots as 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.440 a scout it was. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.960 It was a hard negotiation. They said, you're making eighteen thousand. 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:04.439 I said, okay, eighteen thousand. 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.920 I drove out there. I said, all right, I'm not men. 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:12.040 So so I took a I took a Penske truck 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.960 from Westwood up to the Bay Area, loaded a bunch 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:17.840 of shit in there. It was towing My had this 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.520 like old accurate legend. This thing was actually awesome, six speed, 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.240 like I could hal ass in that thing. Yeah, throwed 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.560 that on the back, drove across the country to New 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.400 England and then, uh, ship. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.040 Hold on, hold on you you didn't even fly. 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:36.920 You drove, drove five days, made a few stops, almost 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.080 died a couple of times, right through a snowstorm and 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.000 snow yeah. 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.640 Oh yeah, it was during Uh it was during the spring. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.960 And hit a massive snowstorm on like I eighty, went 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.760 through like Montana and Wyoming, almost. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:52.800 Drove off the side of the road. 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:53.520 It was. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.199 It was a wild trip, but but it was all 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:56.600 meant to be. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:56.880 Man. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:58.760 It was cool and a lot of cool people in 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.040 New England. Won a lot of games, and then uh 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.080 really kick started my career. 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.920 As so you was you was over there when uh 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.320 when when I came and had my little run in. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:10.080 Uh in Buffalo. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.760 Then, yeah, I went to New England three to nine 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:15.600 and I started. 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.440 And you won't remember this, but obviously I knew you 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.839 really well because I became a West Coast scout in No. Six, 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:24.920 So I was scout in your area. So I was 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:26.880 coming to Cow all the time. I park up in 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.199 that bullpen. Yeah, seeing those meeting rooms when all those 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:31.920 fuckers were in the trees, you know. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.880 Hippie Hill, Baby, Hippie Hill. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.040 That ain't hippie hell man, it wasn't in the hill. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:40.160 It was in the trees. 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:44.280 In the trees. They filed them up. They built the community. Yeah, 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.600 in the tree. But I'm gonna tell you this. Them 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:47.600 trees still there. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:48.720 Yeah. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:49.880 They wouldn't take them down. 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:50.559 They didn't. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.280 They couldn't. They tried it. Yeah, man, look, let me 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.320 tell you an interesting story about that. Not to get 0:12:56.679 --> 0:13:00.160 not to get a sidetracked. But the police came. Men 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.240 was trying to get those people out the trees. Now, 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.520 like I said, they had a community up there. They 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:08.800 had buckets. I'm talking about trash buckets full of piss 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.360 and ship And when the police would come up to 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.560 they would throw that ship on the police, and when 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.640 we would come up for practice, you could smell all 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.600 that ship and fish just everywhere. 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:26.440 But those trees are still there till this day. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.680 Yeah, that was like a non negotiable when they built 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.360 the new stadium, the new stadium. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.160 Yeah, they couldn't. They couldn't kill those trees. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.280 They say, you building around these trees. These trees ain't 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:38.080 going nowhere, Adam. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.680 What people know back then early on, like what what 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.640 does the scout do? I mean, so you you were, 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.120 you're the West Coast scout. What's trying to find uh 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.480 the best player? I mean, what what did that job entail? 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.040 And that grind early on? 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.520 Yeah, I think you know it's it's it is a grind. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.760 And again, when you're in an area scout, you're not 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:56.640 making a lot of money. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:58.240 Just driving all around in my. 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.120 Area was huge, like all the way out you know, 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.480 up from the Bay Area, all the way up to Washington, 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.640 over to Idaho, down to Utah, all the way down 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:07.480 like New Mexico. 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.280 So I just drive around in a circle wall fall, 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.200 put like thirty thousand miles on my car all fall, 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.199 and just stop at these schools. Cows. One of them 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.800 went to a lot and just try to find guys, 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.880 and Marshawn was alone. 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.560 They don't they don't give you no budget to fly. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:26.040 Not in the area. Scout. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.160 Now you just drive. Now you get you get a 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:33.080 car stipend or you get like mileage. But not until 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:37.320 you're graduating to a national Scout or a director. You're 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.840 not flying anywhere. You're just drive and just just wearing 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.520 out your car. So you know, those drives are long 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.560 on the West coast man between the long fun Yeah, 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:47.560 so i'd get like. 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.320 Ship what I listened to? 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.640 I listened to, you know, like this, we can get 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.200 into this too, Marshawnuh, some Bay Area rap. But I 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.440 would just listen to shit fucking on a loop, listening 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.320 to mac drad for like hours and hours and hours. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.720 Well, look, man, you picked the good artist to listen 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.880 to if you're going to be driving from fucking Washington 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:09.800 to New Mexico. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.640 Like god damn. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:13.760 But Marshaun, you know what these scouts did back then. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.880 All they cared about is there damn Marriott points. They 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.160 all stayed in Marriott's because they all want to get 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.760 their damn points. And Adam's probably how many points of 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.880 Marriots you have right now, Adam, I use them all. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:27.040 Some guys liked them and they keep them forever. But 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:27.520 I would. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:27.960 I would. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.480 I'd get like a million points in a year and 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.120 then I would just use them all in the summer 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.480 for like my summer vacation. But some guys have like 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.360 tens of millions where they just sort them and I 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.280 don't know why they're going to use them, but I 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.200 would just I would just blow it all every summer. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.480 So the cool thing, Adam for the listeners is that 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:47.160 you know, I mean, there's thirty two GM jobs in 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.880 the world. Okay, it's probably one of the most coveted 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.720 things in the world. So for twenty some odd years 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.680 you were banging from New England to Denver to the 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.840 forty nine ers, and last year you got named the 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.400 general manager, which is the the kreme de la crem 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.480 in terms of a football other than owning a team, 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.200 it's the GM. Did you ever think that day was 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.720 not going to come? In terms of all the stuff 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.160 you went through, the grinds, the drives, the battles, the 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.520 late night dinners, the waffle houses, all the stuff you 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.000 went through, did you ever think that day wasn't going 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:19.400 to come. 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.040 Uh, you know, I always wanted to come. 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:23.800 But there was times, yeah, for sure, where I was 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.880 worried and I was like, man, I'm not gonna You 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.440 always have bumps in the road, right, you know, through 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.000 your school life, through your career, through your playing life, 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.080 and so there was a lot of times where you know, 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.880 I was really frustrated, either. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.240 With my performance or the situation or everything. 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.680 But I think what was cool was I was I 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.720 was very, very fortunate to be one with four grade organizations. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.240 Some started with New England it was like a dynasty 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.120 then and learned how to win and learn. 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.800 How to you know, work really fucking hard. Then go 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.560 to Denver and we were really good. 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.520 We won five Street Division titles, and learn from from 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.080 John Away, from Gary Kubiak, for Matt Russells, some really 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:04.480 like just really cool people. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.600 And then getting to San Francisco and being. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.000 With John and Kyle, and John's like, you know, the 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.320 biggest influence on my life and my career. 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.240 As a man, as a personnel, person, as a leader. 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.520 And so there was a lot of times where I 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.600 was worried and frustrated and everything, but but I was 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.159 really really lucky to be around. 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:24.679 A lot of great people and me to get this. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.240 So how they look at your performances based off of 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:32.480 the players that you recommend, Like, all right, we got 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.320 Marshall and Lynch right here. I think he'll be a 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.720 good fit here, I'll come in. I'm a good fit. 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.120 That's points to you, right yeah. So if I come 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.639 in and I'm ash and I'm trash, then it's like, 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:48.399 hey man, what what the fuck? You're losing points for that, 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:49.480 right yeah? 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.000 And it's and there's there's so much that goes into it, right, 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.960 not just how good you are as a player, and 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:57.520 you were, you were fucking awesome. 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.280 So look, give me to give me, give me the breakdown, 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.399 just and then use me as a player. 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:08.200 And this is riding on your GM job as you 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:08.640 know what I mean. 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.600 If this player worked, then we give you the opportunity 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.800