WEBVTT - Derrick Brooks And The Greatest Linebacker Of All Time 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:08.479 From the King of Sports Books comes the Key Sports 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:19.000 Podcast Unleashed, presented by bet MGM. Here's your host, Joanna's 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:29.080 Papas and Olivia Arlan Decker. Welcome and everybody. This is 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.199 Unleashed by bet MGM, the King of Sports Books. In 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:36.159 super Bowl fifty six is officially set. And yes, I 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.040 had to write out fifty six because I can never 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.280 read the Roman numerals with Super Bowls. I always just 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.479 bypass it and usually say what city it was in 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.080 when referring to the Super Bowl. Honestly, we need like 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.400 flash cards. I'm really bad at the Roman numerals. Anyways. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:53.360 Congratulations to the Los Angeles Rams in the Cincinnati Bengals. Wow, 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:57.200 even just saying that out loud, who would have thought? 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:01.760 Did you think? No? I mean, no Brady, no Rogers, 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:06.119 no Mahomes, no Josh Allen. We're going with Matthew Stafford 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:10.040 and Joe Burrow Baby and fifty six actually the age 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.600 I believe of our upcoming guests. I just wanted to 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.720 point that out. It's a very random fact. You're always 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.839 good for a random fact. Don't kind of started on Dulye. 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.959 You told me about fossil fuels and dinosaurs and all that. Okay, 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.080 the Rams opened as a three and a half point 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.960 favorite on bed MGM on Sunday night, so you could 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.479 go as early as Sunday night and get a minus 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.880 three and a half. Now they are four point favorite. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.520 I'm sure that number will continue to move a couple 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.040 of points, so we're going to monitor that over our 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.680 next two shows. Although those Bengals have covered seven straight 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.959 games and outright one it's last five games as underdogs. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.600 I mean, it's incredible. I've got to say my early feeling, 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.000 if I'm to put money on this game today, I'm 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:57.240 taking the Bengals plus four, and if it creeps up anymore, 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.360 all the better. I think it'll be really close. But 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.320 we've got ends the time to think about it. Wow, 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.280 it's so much fun. I've also got to say I'm 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.680 happy in this game whoever wins. And I don't mean 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.200 to sound really soft. Both of my teams are out 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.000 of it, so I don't care. Honest, your team was 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.440 never even in the conversation. But I just I love 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.480 Joe Burrow in the Bengals. But I want this for 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:21.160 Matt Stafford. What's your like early feel? I want this 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.320 for Joe Burrow. I'm going to I think it's a 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:28.799 great game to put some money on for the quote 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.000 unquote underdog there on a roll. Just like you said. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.959 I love the story. I love the turtleneck, I love 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:39.440 the swag, I love I love his pedigree. The kid's winner. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.720 I love his confidence. It's all about Joe Burrow right now, man. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.440 And uh, everyone's gonna get Joe Burrow fever. You're gonna 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.919 see this kid on Wheati's boxes. He's gonna be everywhere. Yeah, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:52.720 you know, it's funny. When we were watching the game, 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.320 my mom says to me, do you think Joe Burrow 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:59.799 has ever considered a spray Tand she was dead serious. Now, 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.560 he is a little pasty, I will say that, but 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.040 as someone who uses a lot of fake tanning products, 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:06.720 I can always hook him up. Can I tell you 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.079 one quick Matt Stafford story, which is why I've been 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.920 a fan of him forever. Yeah, hopefully it doesn't involve you. Yeah, 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.240 it does involve me. Why would it not? And so 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.800 obviously he's a Georgia guy. He's the number one overall 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.359 pick out of Georgia. He married his college sweetheart, who 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.160 was a Georgia cheerleader. I went to Georgia. I was 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.640 friends with her cousin. Yeah, her her cousin was my 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.320 grade at Georgia. Anyways, one time when I was working 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.119 for the Atlanta Hawks, we had a game at Detroit 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.960 and the Pistons. I was in the hotel lobby and 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.240 I was walking out. I was gonna go meet some 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.840 of our ownership group and some of our media and 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.840 all that. We were having a big team dinner in Detroit. 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:48.480 So I'm walking down at our hotel in Birmingham, Detroit, Birmingham, Michigan, 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.080 and Kelly Stafford's in the lobby and she's really really 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.520 pregnant with twins there first, and I kind of went 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.920 up and introduced myself. I was friends with Merit in 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.240 college and blah blah blah, big fan of you, a 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.839 matt and blah blah. She was so nice. We talked, 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:06.000 talk talk. All of a sudden, a big truck pulls 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.000 up to pick her up, like one of those lifted 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.800 big trucks, and it's Matthew Stafford and he's coming to 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.880 pick up his wife. She was interviewing Nanny's. Anyways, we 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.560 say hi, thanks, great luck next season, blah blah. I 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:21.960 start walking a couple of blocks, snowstorm freezing Detroit, and 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.880 they leave. They pull away. All of a sudden, the 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.280 truck circles back around and they rolled down the window 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.320 and they say, Olivia, get in, we'll we'll drop you 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.960 off at your restaurant. I was like, Wow, are these 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.080 nice people? I jump in the car, we chat a 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.920 little bit. It was like three blocks. I get out 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.600 to go to my dinner and it's like Dominique Wilkins 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.760 and all of our Hawks people. And I sit down 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.479 and I'm kind of stunned, and I go, you guys 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.240 are never going to guess who just dropped me off 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.640 at this dinner. I was. It was so cool, And 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.400 that's my one encounter with them as a couple, and 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.960 I just think they are real salt of the earth people. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.559 What they did with that ticket giveaway for this last game, 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.400 I thought was really cool. How can you root against 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.320 a guy like that, well, you know, who knows? Maybe 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.880 he was moonlighting as an uber driver and did you 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.160 give him five stars? Were they good? I didn't, and 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:12.760 and he was a lion at the time. I'm a 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:14.520 huge Packer fan. I can't believe I got in the 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.080 car with a lion. Anyway, I wanted to share that story. 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.240 But just because they are, they're not, you know, fake ease. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.480 And in a world where so many of these people 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.479 are so fake, they are not so perhaps Matt Stafford 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.320 he never had won a playoff game and now he's 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.520 going to the super Bowl. It's pretty incredible. Two great stories, 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.880 two great stories. And Cooper Cups a great story too. 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:39.040 Underdog his his woman too stuck by him through all 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.920 those hard years for supporting him, for him to fulfill 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.359 his dream. Nobody saw him coming. Now he's arguably the 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:50.039 best receiver in the league. And also if bet MGM 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.240 is not on this already, they should be because I'm 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.640 trying to help you guys with your social media. There 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.200 was a clip of his wife running towards him at 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.479 the end after the victory and jumping his two into 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.120 his arms. If you don't make that into a dirty 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.800 dancing meme and put that song over it when she 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:13.440 jumps into his arms, then you know what, you're all fired. Wow. Yeah, 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.920 that was a great moment. I mean I live for that. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.279 The family coming out on the field to congratulate the player, 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.839 It's pretty incredible. Oh b J is also a great story. 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.560 O h D. That is a great story. O h D. 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.480 Has to give it up to oh b J. I mean, 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.239 the guys playing in his hometown, you know, written off 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.480 and now he's a huge part of that offense and 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:39.400 playing unbelievable. So it's incredible and you know he's gonna 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.640 go wild. I'm predicting the Super Bowl. You're gonna see 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.800 an unleashed O b J. Now that's the that's what 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.800 I worry about almost I worry. You know, it's Matt 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:53.479 Stafford's first time there, Cooper Cup oh b J. Like, wait, 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.040 did ob J win with the Giants? No? No, no, no, no, 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.920 no no, But that too soon? So yeah, but yeah, 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.280 you don't want anyone to try to do too much, 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.119 you know what I mean. Well, I think his role 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.720 with the Rams protects him from that a little bit 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.720 because he's really not the first option. So no, he's 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.240 not a quantity guy. He's a quality guy with him. Yeah, definitely. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.720 Well boy, we had a great week just watching these 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:25.160 incredible playoff games. It's been such a good playoff. Like 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:30.160 I again, major applaud to the NFL. This has been 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.200 a lot of fun to watch. 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We're getting 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:28.200 legal in every state. It's coming, and just send us 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.040 your your bad beat on Twitter. All right, there's so 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.920 much to get to. Let's do our favorite segment of 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:41.720 the show. Jannas papas it's time. It's time. Let's take 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:46.120 the chains off and unleak y'all. You're up first, my friend. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.800 All right, Olivia, we were so close to getting an 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:56.160 absolute star studded spectacle of a Super Bowl, as you mentioned, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.160 between the Chiefs and the Rams, but I gotta say 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.960 in this one. You know, I'm no Chiefs fan, but 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.760 I gotta say it wasn't so much that you know, 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.680 the Bengals one. It's more I think that the Chiefs lost. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.280 I mean, they were on the road to victory, but 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:20.400 big fat Andy Reid had other ideas. We don't listen 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.559 same on the show or height shame. I just did 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.719 because I'm fat too. So it's not you know, it's 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.920 fat on fat crime. It works. It's okay, I'm fat 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.839 too right now? Yeah you are. Um, I don't mean that. 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.520 I just mean you're pregnant right now. I feel like 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:38.040 Kanye the m As right now. Bengals. Um, So, I'm sorry, 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.240 but I'm happy for you and everything. But I'm gonna 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.280 let you finish. But just give me a second. The 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:48.360 Chiefs are the greatest offense of all time. Okay, first 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.640 of all, let's talk about leaving points on the board 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.640 at the end of the first half. Could have gone 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.680 up twenty four to ten, but instead Andy Reid let's 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.000 mahomes go for it. Or it was Mahomes is called 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.480 who knows and the play called didn't even make it 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.720 to the end zone. Maybe that was on Mahomes, Like 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.640 I said, but this is the playoffs. We know every 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.760 point matters. Just kicked the three, you know, get points 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.160 on the board. And then in the second half the 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.720 Chiefs took their foot off the gas that couldn't convert 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.760 third downs. Andy Reid was making sushi at gas station level, 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.280 bad decisions in my opinion, And now he wasted another 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:29.200 year of Mahomes in his prime, another year where you know, 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.760 the focus was on him and not Jackson. Mahomes probably 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:33.520 going to prison for whatever crime he's going to commit 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.040 in the future. The only reason I'm not more upset 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.520 is because I called it and I won the punishment 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.880 picks this week. I did take the Bengals because I'm 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:48.840 schmot so unlike Andy Reid again, I looked like a genius. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.080 I mean the guy, I mean Mahomes. It was like 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.640 the fumble and then basically through two interception passes, I 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.200 mean the one, it was almost like he didn't do 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.280 over like he said, guys, I'm gonna give you another. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.120 I'm gonna do that ag and and you guys can 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.320 intercept this one. So it was just brutal, brutal watch 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.240 They played horrible, but shout out to the Bengals. You know, 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.240 but I just gotta say, I think the Chiefs lost 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.440 this more than than the Bengals won. Yeah. It's almost 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.480 like when they won the coin toss in overtime and 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.319 they started with the ball. I was more nervous. It 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.440 was like, Oh, they just looked horrible in the last 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.839 couple of drives on offense and and Mahomes just scrambling 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.120 for his life, losing yardage. I don't know what was 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.160 going on. It looked obviously like Nolan was open, but 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:31.840 I don't know where. He didn't throw it away. He 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.200 just eating up clock and running backwards. It was it 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.760 was hard to watch as a Chiefs fan. It looked 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.280 Mahomes looked like he did during their losing streak, you 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.920 know what I mean. He went back, he regressed. I 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:46.640 don't know what's going on. And I've heard a lot 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.240 of people say, you know, we got plenty, plenty of 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.560 years with Mahomes. We don't have that many years with 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.120 Travis Kelsey. He's like thirty three, thirty four. I just 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.400 feel like, and then you look at free agents who 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.400 are up. I think Tyreek kills up this year. So 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.320 it was a shame to watch the Chiefs go down. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.200 I feel like they should be in this game, to 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.840 be honest, but they looked really uncharacteristic and they they did. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.920 They lost it. It was hard. It was hard to watch. 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.640 They actually looked like you'd expect that from the Bengals 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.720 who haven't been there. You know, they almost looked at 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.080 the team that hadn't been there making those types of 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.679 decisions and mistakes. So it was very ironic. It was 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.640 it was ironic. Okay, my turn, and this has been 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.719 the weirdest story to follow. It's obviously the one man 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.800 who could steal headlines from the Conference championships, not Antonio Brown. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:39.600 It's Tom Brady and his almost maybe now confirmed retirement 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.600 that was so weird to watch Tuesday morning. Tom confirmed 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.920 it himself. And I've got to say, for a guy 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.120 who pays the social media team probably a ton of money, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.000 I don't know, but they do such a good job. 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.720 I was wanting some like fireworks. I was wanting a 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:58.240 really good retirement video. Instead, he kind of put up 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.680 a low budget Instagram slide. It's of you know, like 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.880 he typed on his story, screenshot at it and then 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.520 posted it. Do you know what I mean? Was an IBM, 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.920 a typewriter. And also I kind of would have liked 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:15.199 a press conference retirement, not a Instagram post. Do you 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.520 know what I mean? I know exactly what you mean. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.560 I mean, come on, Tommy, You're not an influencer. You're 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.200 the greatest quarterback of all time. Like, let's get some cameras, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.600 let's get some lights, and let's make it very lebron 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.240 esque going to Miami. Yeah, I kind of would have 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.760 liked more of that. Obviously, he had his back against 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.640 the wall. I think he would have waited till after 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.040 the super Bowl to announce it. First of all, these 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.559 guys don't wake up and decide to retire, like when 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:38.840 he said, I'm going to think about it, I'm going 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.160 to think about it. No, he knew. I bet he 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.560 knew before training camp this year this is it. I 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.920 bet he told some close confidence this is probably it. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.880 If they had stayed healthy and A B had stayed 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.080 on the field, I think they could have had a shot. Man, 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.840 it's it's almost tough to watch him go out not 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.240 even making the conference championship, Like I wish he had 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.160 gone out last year after the Super Bowl win. Anyways, 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.520 but the whole thing was messy because Schefter broke the news, 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.240 ESPN ran with it, Bruce Arians didn't confirm it. Tom 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.400 obviously didn't confirm it. Tom's dad came out and said, 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.440 I haven't heard anything from him that this is not 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:18.000 confirmed yet. So sloppy, It was messy. It was like 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:22.400 me in college. I just don't really know why this leaked, 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.920 Why Schefter, who's such a pro, would have done that, 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.880 because it put Tom in a bad position, and it 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.720 made it made this whole thing sloppy. And I'm just 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.000 as a fan of football, as a fan of Tom Brady, 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.920 who's the face of the NFL the last twenty two years. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.960 You could almost argue he's the face of American sports 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.840 the last twenty two years. Like you go overseas somewhere, 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.600 everyone knows Tom Brady, you know, more than they know 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.400 like a Tiger Woods. Uh, you know what I mean. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.480 Tom Brady is an international superstar, and I wish he 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.600 had had a little more pomp and circumstance for his 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:04.160 retire It is that the right phrase, pomp and circumstance. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.760 we can we blame chef there a little bit here? 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.000 Can we blame the digital media is rushed to get 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.520 the first to the story. I mean, you'd think the 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.320 right thing to do would be to get a statement 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.080 from him right before you release that news. But you know, 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.520 it's like the media doesn't have any respect anymore, and 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.960 it pisces me off. I just thought the whole thing 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.760 was was not right, and I would love to ultimately 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.880 hear what led to this, because clearly someone confirmed it. 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.840 And then Ian Rappaport with the NFL. The NFL tweeted 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.280 like the verified NFL account tweeted, thanks Tom Brady for 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.800 all the blah blah blah. So I mean, it clearly 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.280 went through some levels of vetting. I just cannot figure 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.000 out how this went down because it seems very unfair 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.480 that Tom Brady didn't get to break the news himself. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.720 The timing he would have wanted would have been after 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.920 the Super Bowl, and I think with a proper press 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.480 conference anyways. Also, what's really shady is when Brady did 0:15:54.600 --> 0:16:00.320 finally instagram his retirement, not one mention of the Patriots, 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:04.760 not one mention, not a good look, which makes me 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.040 think that things there went down way messier than we know. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.160 We've heard over twenty years in New England that Brady 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.240 and Belichick never once got dinner. I think that's kind 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:18.280 of sketchy, and that Brady was trying to get a 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.600 b back with the Patriots. Beltic wasn't having it. We 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.200 know that's kind of a factor. There's a lot there. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.520 Brady kind of fell on the sword for the Flate gate. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:28.840 I don't think he feels like the Patriots had his 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.600 back so much. There's there's bad blood there. But you 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.880 know what just on a tangent, too, is you never 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.400 hear Brady talking about it, whereas I feel like I've 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.400 heard an earful from Aaron Rodgers the last couple of 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.080 years of the way he feels. And maybe that's the 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:45.040 difference between Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady, so that that 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.359 could be a whole another unleashed segment. What do you think? 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.680 I love it. I love it, and I love the 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:54.480 little insights you're giving because yeah, I mean that's the 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.560 elephant in the room, right, I mean, he did not 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.920 mention the Patriots at all. There's got to be some 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:07.520 bad blood, shady stuff there, shady stuff. Well, let's go 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.200 ahead and get to our guest. It's Derrick Brooks. He 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:14.160 is a living legend and he has coming to us 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.320 from the Senior Bowl, which is one of the big 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:23.400 shrine games where these college players get to talk, meet, interview, 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.879 and impress NFL scouts, and there are some big names 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.120 on this year's list. It's a little noisy where he's at, 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.320 but it's gonna be awesome to pick his brain on 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.520 his prolific career and the upcoming Super Bowl. Let's get 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:46.520 to Derrek Brooks. Let's go ahead and bring in our guests. 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.840 Over fourteen NFL seasons with the Tampa Bay Bucks, he 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.960 never missed a single game. That's incredible, a total of 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:58.440 two consecutive games. He's a former Defensive Player of the Year, 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:00.800 a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.199 College Football Hall of Fame, a Super Bowl champion, and 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.399 a National champion. Wow, I'm exhausted just saying that. I 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.240 imagine it was exhausting doing it. Derek Brooks, thanks for 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:14.880 joining us, my pleasure. Guys are happy to be here. Well, 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:16.960 we'll get to the Super Bowl and we definitely want 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.200 to talk about your prolific career. But first, you are 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:24.280 a Tampa Bay insider. What have you been thinking this 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:28.760 weekend and this week watching Tom Brady's retirement announcement, all 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:32.520 leading up to him announcing it himself. Well, I think 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:37.560 one I saluted by clapping. You know, job well done 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:42.000 for him to be in this position of influence, and 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.960 you think about all the relationships that he's been able 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:50.000 to have, uh during this time in the NFL. I'm 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.000 in awe, to be honest with you, the athletes, all 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:56.200 those things that speak for themselves and probably not gonna 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.200 see anyone eclipse those in my lifetime. But for me 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.160 to just say that, you know, he's affected this game 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:07.600 and built tremendous relationships through the competitiveness of being on 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:11.440 the football field is out standing. And again I salute 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.159 him and and I'm very grateful that he chose to 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.400 come to the Buccaneers two years ago help us win 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:22.040 our second Super Bowl. Derek, I gotta just emphasize that 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:26.920 you played every single game of your career at your position. 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:33.920 How's that even possible? What do you need? Well, You're honest, 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.720 I don't necessarily know if it's all about what I 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.960 eat or what I drink. I just think in my 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.320 career I made it importance to take care of my 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.320 body and make those decisions to do that and now 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.000 you know, taking care of your body is a science. 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.800 Guys are making that investment into doing it to live 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.720 live health your lives. But for me, I just stayed 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.200 on the routine. Uh, knock on some wood somewhere, because 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.399 it definitely was some love and accomplishing that. But to 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.919 go through and play every game of my career with 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:09.160 no major injuries and and pushing that clock every single day, 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.160 it's something that I took a lot of gratification into 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.159 really once I retired. While I was playing, it was 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.199 all about standing to the moment and making those decisions 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.960 as well as the investment into taking care of my body. 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:23.919 How do you do that the city like Tampa, how 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:28.960 do you avoid partying? I mean that's a tough well. 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:34.320 I was trying to go there by saying making wise decisions. Uh, 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:41.879 I made wise decisions, you know, through my entertainment actions. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:46.720 But for me again, never smoked. Man. I stopped drinking 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.760 in college. I mean that was part of it, but 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:52.920 it's it's more to that. I mean, from deciding your 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:56.320 eating habits. You know, you can't be eating certain things, 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.000 you know, late at night during the day. So yes, 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:01.560 it was a regiment that went it to It is 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.080 I treated everything every single day I got in the 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.760 cold to every single day I got in I signed 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.600 every single day that I was in that facility, and 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:13.640 I just built a habit in a routine working out yoga, 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.120 which I discovered later in my career, was something that 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.560 I enjoyed and I still do today. So as I said, 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:24.320 you know, it was those conscious decisions. And again knock 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.679 on wood, because you know there are positions that I 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:28.720 ended up on a football field that I see guys 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.800 getting hurt every single day when I played, and even 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:34.359 now that when I was in those positions, I was 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:38.200 blessed to walk away uninjured. Ye honest, I keep telling 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:40.800 you to stop smoking, drinking, eating late at night, you 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:44.280 start working out. That's all I keep telling you. You 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:46.480 know I've done all that. The problem is I'm gonna 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:50.600 be performing in Tampa, and I think there's just no 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:58.240 way to avoid eating unhealthy and going to strip. I'm 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:00.240 glad your wife doesn't listen to the show. I know, 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:09.840 but that's why I say best decisions. Yeah, yeah, Now, Derek, 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.040 I want to get to the teams you were on, 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:15.320 especially the O two season. You all allowed just over 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:18.480