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Speaker 1: David flew out to Oakland the next day. This was
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Speaker 1: Leavonte David Nebraska Cornhusker, Nebraska black Shirt Dude is a legend.
Speaker 1: If he would have had a four year career at Nebraska,
Speaker 1: he would have been the greatest linebacker of all time
Speaker 1: coming out of Nebraska, which says a lot because it's
Speaker 1: one of the greatest universities of all time. Shout out
Speaker 1: the boys in Nebraska. Dujus stud Man came into the league.
Speaker 1: This is his eighth year and he is at nine
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six tackles stud linebacker. It baffles me
Speaker 1: that this dude hasn't made a Pro Bowl yet. He's
Speaker 1: made a Pro Bowl, but as an alternate, he hasn't
Speaker 1: been voted on the Pro Bowl unanimously, which is complete bullshit.
Speaker 1: And it sucks because he's in the category of outside
Speaker 1: linebacker with and when you're in the category of outside linebacker,
Speaker 1: you're in the category with all the you know, pass rushers,
Speaker 1: all the guys who get sacks and everything like that,
Speaker 1: who blitz off the edge, who put up you know,
Speaker 1: who had the stats in the in the sack section
Speaker 1: and tackles for loss and all that bullshit. But this man,
Speaker 1: Levante David, needs to be in a Pro Bowl, and
Speaker 1: he needs to be in the goddamn Pro Bowl this year.
Speaker 1: So if you get a minute, go and flood and
Speaker 1: if I what is it Pro Bowl? Just type in
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl ballot and vote for Leavonte David because this
Speaker 1: man is legit a pro he as you can tell
Speaker 1: him a little pissed off about it, because it's crazy
Speaker 1: to me. This man's in his eighth year and he's
Speaker 1: gonna hit a thousand tackles this year. I think Bobby
Speaker 1: Wagner just did that. They're like the same year. Dude's
Speaker 1: got eleven interceptions in his career, twenty two and a
Speaker 1: half sacks. Yeah, that's my fucking boy, dude, and I'm
Speaker 1: pubbing this because he We need to get his ass
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl along with a lot of other guys.
Speaker 1: But this episode's about Leavonte David. We were boys. We
Speaker 1: played together at Nebraska. We were alongside each other as
Speaker 1: black Shirts, had some awesome moments together. The dude isn't
Speaker 1: absolutely so you're gonna hear some great stories. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't say it enough. We need to get this
Speaker 1: boy to the Pro Bowl, and man, love that kid. Ude.
Speaker 1: Hey Levonte, if you happen to listen to this, shout
Speaker 1: out you, bro. I love and I miss you, dude.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see you in the off season
Speaker 1: at the team Jack, Evince and everything else. But without
Speaker 1: further ado, listen to Lavonte David episode Dudes. My Boys
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Speaker 1: Go check it out. Yeah yeah, guys, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the fucking deal Battle the Boys this week Titans and Raiders.
Speaker 1: It's pretty legendary that I'm gonna get Taylor and I
Speaker 1: are gonna get to share the field again. I think
Speaker 1: this will be our fourth time share in the field.
Speaker 1: We played against each other twice when he was at
Speaker 1: Michigan and I was at Nebraska. He was actually in
Speaker 1: one of my old photos. I'll have to post that.
Speaker 1: And then we played against each other when I was
Speaker 1: on the Redskins and I think he was a rookie
Speaker 1: on the Titans, and we got the win there. But
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool knowing, you know, I'll get to share
Speaker 1: the field again with him this week under circumstance is
Speaker 1: of you know, having this podcast together, being in other
Speaker 1: businesses together, just just I mean, he's like family, So it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be pretty special. It's gonna be cool. Ship.
Speaker 1: But again, without further ado le Bonte David episode Busting
Speaker 1: with the Boys. Uh, drop the fucking hook block. Yes, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you even when you move away like I
Speaker 1: don't want your low tone voice because you're your bottom
Speaker 1: lip really gets in the way of a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: Talking to Mike every time just for you.
Speaker 1: Your your bottom lip gets in the way of a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff. And I really don't want to be
Speaker 1: pissed off on this pod because I'm excited that you're here.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: Hey, what do you think?
Speaker 3: I love it, bro I love it.
Speaker 1: You boys got a pod man.
Speaker 2: It's blowing up to.
Speaker 1: Adapting provides overcome, man, you know what I mean. Not
Speaker 1: playing ball right now? Send it home? Chilling?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you good at this though you talk
Speaker 3: too much.
Speaker 1: So yeah, this is perfect. Okay, all right, this is
Speaker 1: my pot, guys, not yours. I take shots. But yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: that's how you guys were flying into town and I
Speaker 1: was like, yo, I gotta get Boogie on. Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: going to refer to Lavonte David as Boogie because that's
Speaker 1: that's what we call him. You know, I named my dog,
Speaker 1: that first pit bull after you. Boogie. Yeah, Boogie? How
Speaker 1: is Boogie Boogie? He's alive. I believe that was you know,
Speaker 1: I had to give him up, you know, my last year. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't bring that up. That last breakup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to give up Boogie. Yeah, but that
Speaker 2: was a great nickname for me though. I like that name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're a dog on the field, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: on the field back in your college days is what
Speaker 1: we're kind of referring to. Uh, we won't get into
Speaker 1: all that. I came a lot more prepared than this single.
Speaker 1: Let me let me get my notes out there on
Speaker 1: my phone. I got your water to talk about.
Speaker 3: I don't want that.
Speaker 1: I got it for you just in case I found
Speaker 1: out my truck. I'd already I found out my truck.
Speaker 1: We got notes, Yeah, I got notes. We gotta we
Speaker 1: got to stay on something, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: We gotta have some type of layout. Dude, Have you
Speaker 1: been seeing this assimilate stuff going? Is that? Is that
Speaker 1: how you say his name? Yes, Assimi Calichio assimilate from
Speaker 1: the Jets.
Speaker 2: I believe that's how you say it.
Speaker 1: Okay, it sounds solid. We'll go with that. Have you
Speaker 1: been seeing what's going on with that?
Speaker 2: I have seen it, but I didn't pay attention to
Speaker 2: it as much. But from what I've seen, it's a
Speaker 2: crazy deal.
Speaker 1: It's what is it? He was a starter, right, he
Speaker 1: was one of their starters. Yes, and he's saying that
Speaker 1: he injured his shoulder, and they, the team, the Jets,
Speaker 1: said it's not terrible. You don't need surgery. We can
Speaker 1: get you back out there and you can play on it.
Speaker 1: And he was saying, no, I can't. My shoulders, my
Speaker 1: shoulders bad, my shoulders messed up. I do need surgery,
Speaker 1: and like, we're not gonna pay for your surgery exactly,
Speaker 1: and he did you see what came out today?
Speaker 3: I did not see.
Speaker 1: By the time this comes out, I mean it'll be
Speaker 1: you know, it'll be past tense. But what came out
Speaker 1: today is he got surgery, right, he got surgery, and
Speaker 1: it was way more extensive. It was way worse in
Speaker 1: the operation than what was previously said. So to his point,
Speaker 1: he was saying it was bad. I need surgery, and
Speaker 1: the team was saying, no, yeah, you're good, it's not
Speaker 1: that bad. They went in and operated on it, and
Speaker 1: it came out like it came out to be worse
Speaker 1: than what it was. So now I think they're taking
Speaker 1: like legal action, like sue the Jets. Is that correct?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: They cut him? How they cut Yeah? Yeah, so they
Speaker 1: cut him. They cut Collechi or similar. Yes, they cut him,
Speaker 1: and I think now they're going to take like legal
Speaker 1: action on that.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's that's terrible.
Speaker 1: Do you see you see stuff like this going Since
Speaker 1: you've been at Tampa, this the first time I ever
Speaker 1: seen something like that. So even on Tampa, you've never
Speaker 1: seen a situation where a guy's like, I think I'm
Speaker 1: hurt worse than I am, and the team's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's not it's.
Speaker 2: Not as bad as what you haven't. I haven't because
Speaker 2: I've been wrong guys who's more professional I mean against professional,
Speaker 2: and they go get it second opinion to really make
Speaker 2: sure if that's the situation.
Speaker 1: But that's what they're saying. Assimilarly, they're saying that he
Speaker 1: the second opinion. When they got it, they were arguing
Speaker 1: saying it still wasn't that bad. They weren't gonna pay
Speaker 1: for the surgery.
Speaker 2: Oh nah, I've never seen nothing like that. You always
Speaker 2: go with the second opinion in I never seen.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because at the end of the day, the
Speaker 1: trainers have the trainers have the best in mind for
Speaker 1: the athlete, but at the same time, with the logo behind.
Speaker 2: Them, exactly what the organization.
Speaker 1: They're loyal to the organization, right, And what you see
Speaker 1: a lot of the times is like sometimes I've had
Speaker 1: injuries and I don't want to disclose them to the team,
Speaker 1: but I'll get my second opinion. I'll consult with my
Speaker 1: doctors away from the facility or all. Bet hey, I'm
Speaker 1: feeling this, I'll get on the phone with him and
Speaker 1: I'll try to talk to him my second opinion before
Speaker 1: I want to tell the team, because you don't know.
Speaker 2: What the team might do with your right, right, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it's depending on organization. Man. Honestly,
Speaker 2: it's like, who are you dealing with? You know, the
Speaker 2: people are good genuing people. They should be real with you,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, have you ever went through any of that where
Speaker 1: you got to lean on your second opinion more than
Speaker 1: the team.
Speaker 2: I actually went through that and then it came out
Speaker 2: the same thing what they said and what my second
Speaker 2: opinion said.
Speaker 1: So I went with that, right right. That was the
Speaker 1: same with me on the Saints. They kind of diagnosed
Speaker 1: my low sprained ankle and then you get your second
Speaker 1: opinion and they said the same thing. But you've had
Speaker 1: I've seen situations where so like we're vets. Now, right,
Speaker 1: and you're in training camp and you see these young
Speaker 1: guys and fifty three make the roster out of ninety.
Speaker 1: You have ninety guys on a team going into camp.
Speaker 1: They could have done the fifty three at the end
Speaker 1: of camp, at the end of training camp, at the
Speaker 1: end of preseason. And so I like to say the
Speaker 1: guys from fifty three to ninety, that's just how we
Speaker 1: will refer to them as guys that are in that
Speaker 1: fifty three to ninety that are probably gonna get cut. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: and say they get injured in preseason and you know, God,
Speaker 1: God bless them, dude. Like everybody's brainwashed. They want to
Speaker 1: make the NFL. It's their dream. When I was on
Speaker 1: when I was a rookie and I heard my hamstring,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to tell anybody anything, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like it was emotional. I wanted I didn't
Speaker 1: want the team to know. I kind of told the
Speaker 1: side a side trainer that I felt like it was
Speaker 1: my Mark Myery, like an intern or an assistant, and
Speaker 1: I'm like kind of telling him and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: just basically duct tape it. Just in a nutshell. Obviously
Speaker 1: there's a lot more into it than duct taping it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, do it to where I can play. And
Speaker 1: that's how guys are because their dream is to make
Speaker 1: the NFL. And I tell those guys, if they get
Speaker 1: injured and they think it's bad enough to get surgery,
Speaker 1: don't get don't put your ass on the field and
Speaker 1: put your ask at risk. You can't put your ass
Speaker 1: at risk. You can't because say if you have like,
Speaker 1: let's just say the assimilar and I'm not saying this
Speaker 1: is what happened, but let's just say you have a
Speaker 1: situation like him. You tear your shoulder, you feel like
Speaker 1: you have something wrong mechanically, and the minute that the
Speaker 1: team might know on your MRI that you have a
Speaker 1: tear in your labor. But a tear is also it
Speaker 1: can be a strain or a sprain. It's basically tearing
Speaker 1: of your ligament. If you look it up, that's what
Speaker 1: a definition of a sprain or a strain, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: If you have if they know you have a tear, right,
Speaker 1: but they might just tell you, hey, you just sprained
Speaker 1: your shoulder, right, and in your mind you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not a bitch. I'm not a pussy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do what I can, you know, because that's
Speaker 1: the game we play. I'm gonna go out there on
Speaker 1: the field. The minute you step on the field, if
Speaker 1: you're part of that fifty three to ninety and you're
Speaker 1: not in those future plans and they know that, they're
Speaker 1: probably gonna cut you. Yeah, and you don't play. The
Speaker 1: minute you step out there and practice, they can cut you.
Speaker 1: That's how Adam Hayward got done. Yeah, I mean he
Speaker 1: got his knee cleared. Was trying to get ready to
Speaker 1: go for training camp. He's going in New Year ten.
Speaker 1: My boy shot out here. Your boy too. Once he
Speaker 1: got cleared, within ten minutes, they sent him up to
Speaker 1: the front up. They're like, hey, go up, says they
Speaker 1: want to talk to you. Turn in your iPad. They
Speaker 1: cut him right before training camp, right before it started, dude,
Speaker 1: and his knee wasn't even fully healthy, and you know
Speaker 1: it probably should have been. We talked when we were training.
Speaker 1: In my mind it was like, your knee probably should
Speaker 1: be farther along than what it is. But if you
Speaker 1: tell them you're fine and make clear you and you
Speaker 1: sign something, the men you step out there, they can
Speaker 1: cut you. So I would tell guys, young guys, hey, listen, man,
Speaker 1: don't be a hero. Being honorable as fucking that's awesome.
Speaker 1: You should be honre If you feel like going out
Speaker 1: the honorable way, that's great. But it's not gonna get
Speaker 1: it's not gonna get you paid, it's not gonna get
Speaker 1: you any money. You're gonna get cut.
Speaker 2: They don't care about that.
Speaker 1: They don't care about you, dude. And I tell guys,
Speaker 1: I'm like, if you feel like you need surgery, listen,
Speaker 1: don't be a fucking hero. Get a second opinion. And
Speaker 1: if that second opinion says you need surgery, lean on
Speaker 1: that opinion.
Speaker 2: You don't want to risk it to mess it up
Speaker 2: even worse and obviously rich your chances of playing football
Speaker 2: a game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And like, if you're like undrafted, that might be
Speaker 1: the only chance you have to make any kind of
Speaker 1: money from the NFL.
Speaker 3: True.
Speaker 1: So if you say you go out the honorable way,
Speaker 1: you get cut, you never get called again, you never
Speaker 1: see a dime. Your injury is worse than what it is,
Speaker 1: and nobody paid for your surgery. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: pay for it on your own because you don't have
Speaker 1: the insurance with the NFL until you make the team
Speaker 1: versus if you do need to take care of it,
Speaker 1: and you know, guys might think you might be softer
Speaker 1: or pussy from it, but in your mind, you're like,
Speaker 1: I need to get this done because guys battle with that.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm worried about Hey, what's Levante think of me?
Speaker 1: If I go down this road and get surgery and
Speaker 1: we know I might be able to play on it.
Speaker 1: But if they pay for your surgery, you go on
Speaker 1: IR You get a split in your contract. So if
Speaker 1: you're a rookie, you go from like four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars, like two seventy or two eighty three
Speaker 1: hundred whatever you make that you get a credited season,
Speaker 1: you get in a crude season towards your benefits.
Speaker 3: You get to come back healthy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get to put it into your four to
Speaker 1: one K. You get to come back healthy, You get
Speaker 1: to be in a OTA's the next year, and you're
Speaker 1: not sitting at.
Speaker 2: Home cut exactly.
Speaker 1: It's a slippery situation, dude.
Speaker 2: This is very slippery. Man's risky. At the same time,
Speaker 2: you gotta be smart about it.
Speaker 1: I've had one of my boys. I won't say any names.
Speaker 1: But he was about to get surgery because he argued
Speaker 1: that he was injured and needed surgery. The team was
Speaker 1: trying to say, won't say which team either. The team
Speaker 1: was trying to say, uh, we're not paying for the surgery,
Speaker 1: kind of like the assimilate deal, like this isn't our injury.
Speaker 1: You got it from somewhere else. But he, you know,
Speaker 1: he got it to where he injured it in practice
Speaker 1: and he got a second opinion. Knew he was gonna
Speaker 1: get cut, right, So it's like, yo, if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get cut, I'm gonna make sure I cross every t
Speaker 1: and dot every eye and get every second opinion. I
Speaker 1: can eat a surgery. The GM or the owner, somebody
Speaker 1: calls him right before he's they were gonna pay for
Speaker 1: the surgery. They still didn't want to called him when
Speaker 1: he was going into surgery, and it was trying to
Speaker 1: talk him out of it, still saying we're not gonna
Speaker 1: pay for it. Obviously, they ended up taking care of it,
Speaker 1: putting him on I R. The team was still trying
Speaker 1: to yes, yes, yeah a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he knew he knew a game already.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's a vet. He's a vet. And then
Speaker 1: obviously all the guys kind of in the circle talk
Speaker 1: to like, at the end of the day, man, you
Speaker 1: got it, you gotta look out for yourself. Like it's
Speaker 1: there's some politics that goes into it, right, this is
Speaker 1: crazy game. But and I get it too from the
Speaker 1: trainer's side, just the logo side, because they're a functioning business.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, it's all a business
Speaker 1: in their mind. The trainer has got pressure that we
Speaker 1: have to get these guys out on the field. And
Speaker 1: then Levonte, like, let's say you're a guy that's not
Speaker 1: gonna make the team, right, You're gonna go up and say, hey,
Speaker 1: how's Levante like, can we can't? You know? Owner might
Speaker 1: say can we cut him yet? Yeah, And the trainer's
Speaker 1: like no, you know, he's got this shoulder injury. The
Speaker 1: trainer might know in his mind it's worse than what
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, and then it's like, well, how can
Speaker 1: we Like, it's your job to make sure he gets better.
Speaker 1: They feel pressure to make sure you're better, so they go, yeah.
Speaker 2: They got to report to those guys upstairs every.
Speaker 1: Day every day and they go down to you, Levonte,
Speaker 1: how's a feeling you're trying to play the game, saying, ah,
Speaker 1: you know it's not fully there yet. They're kind of like,
Speaker 1: come on, man, you know you just got a strain
Speaker 1: because they're stressed in their mind. I got a job
Speaker 1: on the line too. And then if you ought to
Speaker 1: not play, he's got to somehow walk upstairs and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know Leavonte's saying, you know, this is still wrong
Speaker 1: with him, and like it's not that fucking bad. Like
Speaker 1: make sure, like make sure he's saying it's not that bad,
Speaker 1: or make sure you know, have him like do your
Speaker 1: fucking job, you know what I mean, Because they don't know,
Speaker 1: the owner doesn't know.
Speaker 3: And injury don't know what type of injury.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. And then if you start doing like
Speaker 1: say stay as your shoulder and push ups, like that's
Speaker 1: a stupid kind of thing to measure. But like let's
Speaker 1: say you're doing rehab and you're like, oh, it's getting better.
Speaker 1: They know they have something to go up there. Hey,
Speaker 1: he says it's getting better, he's progressing this that the other.
Speaker 1: We should be able to be cleared by the end
Speaker 1: of the week. Then if you're clear by the week,
Speaker 1: they can let you go. But it's a business man.
Speaker 1: I apologize for getting off topic. That's like, that's a
Speaker 1: hot take. These days, dude, people are getting more and
Speaker 1: more in the know of injuries.
Speaker 2: Especially older guys.
Speaker 1: Also older guys and guys ourselves. I think they're getting
Speaker 1: smarter and more aware of what their value is, what
Speaker 1: they're worth, and they guys are starting to understand the
Speaker 1: game a little bit more. Not that it's a game
Speaker 1: to beat them or them versus us, but at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you got to take care of
Speaker 1: your own You got to.
Speaker 3: Take care of yourself. Man, this is life after football.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you want to be able to, yeah, walk
Speaker 2: them on with all your limbs and things like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I apologize for getting off topic.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 1: Some of that stuff's interesting. I know I've had my
Speaker 1: own stories, and once I'm fully retired, like I'll be
Speaker 1: able to get more and more juicy stuff. Right, But listen,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Busting with the Boys. That's not the intro,
Speaker 1: but welcome to Busting with the Boys. We're gonna start
Speaker 1: back in the beginning. Dude, you went to Miami Northwestern Bulls.
Speaker 1: You were on a team that was how many guys
Speaker 1: went D one nine on that squad because that was
Speaker 1: my year.
Speaker 2: You were my eight or nine, eight or nine one
Speaker 2: of them and they all went to the universe of Miami.
Speaker 1: Yeah except you. You were trash.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wasn't trash in high school.
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I know, you're the man now and more.
Speaker 1: It's like, will you're trash?
Speaker 3: I wasn't trashed in high school.
Speaker 2: I wasn't.
Speaker 1: What was What was the deal?
Speaker 3: Then my grades of trash?
Speaker 1: Well, then you're trash because how you fail fucking high
Speaker 1: school is beyond me.
Speaker 2: It was a good time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you have to legit put in effort to
Speaker 1: fail high school, dude, like you have to not show up.
Speaker 1: And if you're you're at Miami Northwestern. So coaches are
Speaker 1: definitely trying to cheat for you guys. Not really, you
Speaker 1: know they're trying to cheat. Well, we will talk about
Speaker 1: that in a minute. No, they're trying to cheat for
Speaker 1: you guys, Like you have to give so much effort
Speaker 1: to fail high school. You pass college. That's harder in
Speaker 1: high school. Okay, if you're trash in high school, like
Speaker 1: you're just you're just not trying. You just absolutely don't
Speaker 1: give a say.
Speaker 2: Okay, So my story is first of all. When I
Speaker 2: got to high school, I hung around a lot of
Speaker 2: older people, so I was kind of easily influenced not
Speaker 2: to go to class.
Speaker 3: So not good older people, I guess you could say that.
Speaker 2: I mean, some of those guys are still my friends
Speaker 2: right now to this day.
Speaker 1: Yeah another you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, so but you know that's all on me though,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't regret it, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw I watched the documentary from Miami Northwestern
Speaker 1: Rage the Raging Bull. You're the Bull, my bad, not
Speaker 1: Raging Bull?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry? Who is the d N in that movie?
Speaker 1: To in Charles, he's he didn't really pan out or nothing.
Speaker 2: No, really, he went to University of Florida. Issue happened there,
Speaker 2: and I don't know where he's at.
Speaker 1: Now, probably.
Speaker 2: He's That was.
Speaker 1: Line. Uh, that was just a joke for everybody fucking listening.
Speaker 1: It's a joke. God, we tell jokes on this pod.
Speaker 2: It's a joke.
Speaker 1: But you're the bull. I would see at halftime those
Speaker 1: coaches were you coached by them?
Speaker 3: No, well, the head coach was my coach one year.
Speaker 1: Those coaches had these kids in the shower at halftime. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fucking beating these dudes in the head. I'm talking slapping them,
Speaker 1: cussing them out for like losing or being behind in
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 3: Behind.
Speaker 1: Did that type of stuff go on when you were there,
Speaker 1: be honest, let him fly, you need a bone and bed.
Speaker 2: It was kind of like that. But the coaches, those
Speaker 2: type of coature was going by then. But honestly, bro,
Speaker 2: we were so good. It wasn't yeah because y'all were national. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we were so good. It never got to that point.
Speaker 2: We was never down like it was called the forty boys.
Speaker 2: It was always forty something to nothing every game played.
Speaker 1: Damn that's nice. Yeah. And then so you get recruited obviously, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know a little slip up. I guess with your grades.
Speaker 1: You go to Fort Scott for what Scott Community College?
Speaker 1: What's the difference between going to a juco and playing
Speaker 1: you had the skis, you had you Yoshi, Hardrick, Brandon, Kenny, JP, JPP,
Speaker 1: Jason Pierre Paul, All you guys are on a squad.
Speaker 1: Y'all beat y'all beat Cam Newton's team. No, we lost
Speaker 1: in the Natty, right, Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What was a plane at Fort Scott like compared Like,
Speaker 1: what's the Juico life like compared to uh Division one,
Speaker 1: Division two like all these other higher high end athletics
Speaker 1: in college.
Speaker 3: Juco life is basically still a high school kid.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I don't know, really, I really
Speaker 2: don't know how to say it.
Speaker 1: But it was it was.
Speaker 2: It was rough. It's grimy, grimy, bro it's rough as
Speaker 2: a grimmy business man. And uh, tell your story when
Speaker 2: I first got there. Okay, so I got there, I
Speaker 2: got I got there late, right, yeah, so you got
Speaker 2: the Fort Scott late. I got Fort Scott Lake so
Speaker 2: and going into camp grades. No, I just didn't know
Speaker 2: where I was going yet, so I got there late.
Speaker 2: So everybody already did their condition and everything. So everybody's
Speaker 2: in perfect shape, perfect shit, great shape. I wasn't in
Speaker 2: shape because I didn't know what I was doing. And
Speaker 2: I got a call from Eddie Brown. Antonio Brown's dad
Speaker 2: called me, said he wanted me to come up. So
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, forget it, I come up. I'll
Speaker 2: give it a try. So I went up.
Speaker 1: What did Eddie Brown do?
Speaker 3: He was a running backs coach and he was coaching
Speaker 3: up there.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Fort Scott.
Speaker 2: So he gave me a call, went there. We got
Speaker 2: there doing the conditioning test, the fucking conditioning test. It
Speaker 2: was four two twenties sixteen I had four two twenties,
Speaker 2: four to two twenties.
Speaker 3: Was it four to eight?
Speaker 2: It was eight two twenties, one of them four eight
Speaker 2: to two hundred twenty yards basically.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you run like across the field and back.
Speaker 2: It was like a big curve you're running around.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was ridiculous, bro, it was ridiculous. But yeah, it
Speaker 2: was four two twenties, sixteen one tens, sixteen fucking one ten,
Speaker 2: sixteen tens, and like twenty something forties, twenty something forties, bro,
Speaker 2: twenty something forty, the sixties.
Speaker 1: Are y'all resting? Like I'm saying, I'm saying, is it
Speaker 1: like you know how we did quarters? Did you have
Speaker 1: rest in between?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It's rest. I mean it's rest between each uh exercise.
Speaker 2: So like you get doe the one two twenties, you
Speaker 2: gotta rest, and then you do the six one uh
Speaker 2: one tens, gotta rest, and then you do the sixties.
Speaker 2: So I get to like the third two twenty, I'm
Speaker 2: fucking crawling on the ground.
Speaker 1: In the first set, in the first set, trawling on
Speaker 1: the ground.
Speaker 3: I'm crawling on the ground.
Speaker 2: I'm getting cursed out, bad, bad, I'm getting called all
Speaker 2: type of.
Speaker 1: Bees, soft bees, go ahead, a bitch, called a bit, yes.
Speaker 2: Bitch soft. You're from Miami. Everybody from Miami saw debatable.
Speaker 1: It is debatable.
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding everybody from Miami soft y'all, y'all don't know,
Speaker 2: y'all know how to work? Then oh man, getting killed
Speaker 2: getting killed.
Speaker 3: I'm crying, bro. I never got talked to like that
Speaker 3: in my life.
Speaker 1: Now, would you say, Fort Scott, what's that? What's that
Speaker 1: series on Netflix with the with the Juco.
Speaker 2: Fuck?
Speaker 1: What is that called? Nick? Look up Juco Juco? Netflix? Serious?
Speaker 3: What it's called?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: Because I just uh, Last Chance You, Last Chance You?
Speaker 2: Is it like that?
Speaker 1: Is it like that at Fort Scott? Yes? Really, I
Speaker 1: think it was worth Okay, give me a story from
Speaker 1: your head coach degrading one of the guys, you know,
Speaker 1: because you know in uh Last Chance You, the guy
Speaker 1: said I'm your hitler. Now told it to like a
Speaker 1: Jewish kid, right, didn't he bloss Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think he said like yeah, he never said anything
Speaker 2: like that, but he did say I'm a bitch and
Speaker 2: his daughter, his four year old daughter could.
Speaker 3: Beat me in this condition test while you're crawling crawling. Yes, bro,
Speaker 3: it was bad.
Speaker 2: It was bad. Bro.
Speaker 3: They never got talked to like that in my life.
Speaker 3: So I'm pissed off. I'm pissed.
Speaker 2: I get up, I walk away like I'm done. I'm
Speaker 2: not doing this ship no more. I'm done quitting.
Speaker 1: Is there is there organization in Juco? Like there is
Speaker 1: that like when you played in Nebraska? Or is it
Speaker 1: kind of like high school where you don't get done
Speaker 1: practice you go into a shitty locker room.
Speaker 3: Yes, citty locker.
Speaker 2: Room is terrible, going to dorms. Dorms is terrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The food was not good. It was It was bad, Bro,
Speaker 3: it was bad.
Speaker 1: You'all have like meetings and ship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had meetings, but meetings in classrooms and things
Speaker 2: like that, like with desk.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a life.
Speaker 3: But it really prepared me mentally.
Speaker 2: I think I when I feel like when you figured out, like,
Speaker 2: that's when I figured I was really mentally tough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, going through that, and then you go to Nebraska,
Speaker 1: go to Nebraska? What made you choose Nebraska?
Speaker 2: But I choose Nebraska because I wanted to stay away
Speaker 2: from home. I didn't want to come back home. Why
Speaker 2: didn't you want to come back home. I kind of
Speaker 2: felt comfortable being away from home, making the name for
Speaker 2: myself being away from home. Okay, so being in the Midwest.
Speaker 1: Why why do you feel like if you were going
Speaker 1: to be at home that would that would hurt you.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Just at that point in my life, I just didn't
Speaker 2: want no distractions, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had an opportunity to go.
Speaker 1: To South Florida, right because close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had the opportunity to go to South Florida.
Speaker 2: Talked to my parents, I told him I wanted to
Speaker 2: go to South Florida actually, but it was like, nah,
Speaker 2: we don't think that's a good opportunity for you.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously because of South Florida.
Speaker 2: At the time, they were good, but they weren't on
Speaker 2: a big stage yet, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 2: then they felt like Nebraska was a better opportunity because
Speaker 2: I mean, definitely, yeah, you know, better opportunity.
Speaker 3: You know, you guys just beat lost in Texas.
Speaker 2: I mean around that time he had that one second game,
Speaker 2: lost a big and Sue was a big name. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he was all over.
Speaker 1: Will Compton was a huge fucking household name.
Speaker 2: Not just yet, but yeah, yeah, you got. They had
Speaker 2: a great defense. You know, Bo and Carl came to
Speaker 2: my parents house. I wasn't there, but when they when
Speaker 2: I got there, they met with him or whatever. They
Speaker 2: told me they were so excited, you know, they wanted
Speaker 2: me to go there. So that's why I decided to
Speaker 2: go to Nebraska. And then obviously, you know, I knew
Speaker 2: people there would be K and then Yoshi.
Speaker 1: We just didn't get j p P.
Speaker 3: Just didn't get j p P.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a little squad y'all brought over man Me.
Speaker 3: And JPP was the opposite. I wanted to go away,
Speaker 3: but he wanted to come back.
Speaker 1: He went to close to home. Yeah, Yo, what did
Speaker 1: what did what did fucking what did coach JP and
Speaker 1: coach both say that they say, Yo, you'll probably play?
Speaker 1: They did they mother?
Speaker 3: They said you have an opportunity to play when you
Speaker 3: come here.
Speaker 1: Well it's not that shouldn't have been true because fucking
Speaker 1: I was the starter at the time. So that's why
Speaker 1: I asked that question, like, Yo, what did they tell
Speaker 1: you behind closed doors? You know you'll come play?
Speaker 2: When I got When I got there, uh, we was
Speaker 2: in a meeting room.
Speaker 3: We're going over plays and.
Speaker 2: Stuff like that, and like some of like the stuff
Speaker 2: that he was like that I was getting with some
Speaker 2: of the stuff that you guys was running.
Speaker 3: So he was fucking ecstatic.
Speaker 2: Was happy and I'm telling like the terminology and everything.
Speaker 2: He's happy, you know.
Speaker 3: He said, hell, no, I got to take you to bowl.
Speaker 3: So we went in the boat and he threw up
Speaker 3: a defense and I got it all right with fits
Speaker 3: and everything, and.
Speaker 2: Like that's when I got offered all nice and it
Speaker 2: was like, you got a chance to play here, and
Speaker 2: then we really want you here. So I said, okay,
Speaker 2: I consider it. I mean I didn't know about Nebraska. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you know, I said, I consider it. Then that's
Speaker 2: the time went on.
Speaker 1: Using all American too, because when you were coming, I
Speaker 1: was nervously full transparency because you you're a juke. You're
Speaker 1: a juco guy. Was I was like a sophomore talking
Speaker 1: before Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, we did talk sort of.
Speaker 1: I was sort of fake, like I was just massaging.
Speaker 1: I was ready to find my sneak dude. I was
Speaker 1: gonna out this dude and be the starter. I was crazy, Yoshi,
Speaker 1: because they came before you Yoshi was b Cander too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they would talk. They would hype you up big time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was fired up there, fired up for you to
Speaker 1: come to and you're gonna love him. Yeah, help him out,
Speaker 1: like y'all help this motherfucker out there.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what was it like? What was it like
Speaker 1: coming to Nebraska and at first, because we'll get into
Speaker 1: what happened at first being behind me and Fish because
Speaker 1: you were I was.
Speaker 2: I was. I remember this picture was in camp. It's like,
Speaker 2: you know how Egg had the lines. We had to
Speaker 2: be behind opposition, and I was like the fourth guy line.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was we had we had the first
Speaker 1: two teams on the main field, and Levante was in
Speaker 1: the third group and third the threes and fours they
Speaker 1: went on another field.
Speaker 2: I remember the first day, first day, I hated it.
Speaker 1: You balled though practice.
Speaker 2: I was like fucking I was just going balls out.
Speaker 3: And then the next day I was on the first field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was on the first field, and so I was,
Speaker 1: what were you a junior? So we were sophomores and
Speaker 1: we were it was I was a starter maybe Fish,
Speaker 1: it was you.
Speaker 3: It was me and Fish and Fish was a starting
Speaker 3: dime though Fish.
Speaker 1: Was the starting dime. So it's me and Sean Fisher,
Speaker 1: and then behind that was you and Zoe and Lavonte
Speaker 1: and Zoe, and then in dime it went Sewn Fisher
Speaker 1: nerd you know, academical american shot out Shan Fisher. It
Speaker 1: was Sean Fisher, me and Levante. Yeah, and I was
Speaker 1: salty that Fish was the starter, and you were probably
Speaker 1: salty that we're ahead of you. So in training camp,
Speaker 1: Sean Fisher, Niles Paul shout out Niles.
Speaker 3: I ended up started getting the first team base because.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when there's three backers, yeah, yeah, when there's three
Speaker 1: back yeah. But Niles Paul cracks Dejon Gomes in practice
Speaker 1: into Sean Fisher. It was one of those days where
Speaker 1: offensive defense is battling its training camp. You're knocking each
Speaker 1: other out, you hate each other. Yeah, Niles knocks Dijon
Speaker 1: Games into Sean Fisher's leg, breaks his fucking leg. Bad deal.
Speaker 1: So then now it's the Levante and I starting, and
Speaker 1: I'm the starting dinebacker, and I'm like, okay, it's the
Speaker 1: boys time to shine.
Speaker 3: I was nervous because it happened so fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it happened fast as fast.
Speaker 3: It was just climbing two weeks out.
Speaker 1: Of the first game, and it's me and Boogie, and
Speaker 1: Boogie and I are studying together and stuff, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm helping him out and uh, he's fucking bawling. He's
Speaker 1: a levanteers an also player, you know, from day one,
Speaker 1: and uh. And then the next week, the week going
Speaker 1: into the game, opening week, game going into game week, dude. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a Thursday practice. Helmets only.
Speaker 3: Physically, helmets, nothing thing.
Speaker 1: Physical, Dude. I had a I had ran on a
Speaker 1: wheel wear out with Rex burkehead like a few days before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I kind of hurt my foot a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 3: Was like, he kept saying, man, my foot is bothering me.
Speaker 2: My foot is bothered.
Speaker 3: I'm like, don't start that ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, don't Yeah. And I was like, hey, Mark,
Speaker 1: like Mark Meyer trainer. I was like, hey, can we
Speaker 1: get an X ray for shits and gigs? Like I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, you're thinking, you're like you're I'm
Speaker 1: thinking in my head like I'm not a pussy, Like
Speaker 1: I'll be fine, don't start that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: not a bitch, dude. Yeah, I'm like Mark, let's get
Speaker 1: X rays. For shits and gigs. X ray came back
Speaker 1: clear that Thursday with the Helmets practice practice, I take
Speaker 1: off on a stick route and my foot blows out.
Speaker 1: I break my fifth metatarsal. Just it feels like somebody
Speaker 1: took a shotgun, stood over it and just fucking took
Speaker 1: a buckshot dude, over and over into my foot. I
Speaker 1: start limping, like I just have a sprained ankle, crazy spatted.
Speaker 1: I'm like, JP's like, hey, you comp, You're gonna be good.
Speaker 1: I was like, this fucking hurts, dude, and then I
Speaker 1: try to like walk back out there. I'm like, nah,
Speaker 1: this ain't happening. Like, let's go get an x rays
Speaker 1: X like, Yo, are you fucking serious right now? And
Speaker 1: our linebacker coach and I'm like I'm sorry, man, like,
Speaker 1: let's just go get it looked at it. I should
Speaker 1: be fine for Saturday. This is Thursday, obviously, not as
Speaker 1: I'm walking to get it x rayed, I started to
Speaker 1: be like, yo, I can't even fucking walk anymore, dude.
Speaker 1: Find out I break my foot. Lavonte goes from third
Speaker 1: Lavonte goes from being on the third and four string
Speaker 1: field to being the starter game opener versus I don't
Speaker 1: know Western Kentucky and one of the days of my life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Lavonte goes from like least a fucking starter, dude, And
Speaker 1: I remember at Bow everyone is nervous as ship. Because
Speaker 1: we lost Nervous. We lost Fish as a starter. We
Speaker 1: lost our starters, Me and Fish. We lost the starting
Speaker 1: dime which was Fish, and the backup dime, which is me.
Speaker 1: At the time, I was gonna be the starter. And
Speaker 1: now Levante, fresh from fucking Juco bullshit.
Speaker 2: The communicator who got every boike lined up, this guy
Speaker 2: you lost him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell Levante, hey, you got this on this place.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I wasn't saying ship, so I was just laying
Speaker 3: him doing all the talking.
Speaker 1: And then you get hurt and Levante, I'm I'm in
Speaker 1: a wheelchair, sucking up in the press box, taking notes
Speaker 1: for the backers and like communicating. Still yeah, uh, look,
Speaker 1: you have thirteen tackles and balls. Dude didn't even fucking
Speaker 1: mean to but he's just balling.
Speaker 2: Just went we was talking about on the way here,
Speaker 2: playing fast. I didn't know what the fuck I was doing,
Speaker 2: so I was just going, dude.
Speaker 1: And then the legend of Lavonte David gross I come
Speaker 1: back I think it was like come back from a
Speaker 1: broken foot, like week eight and my job, hey at
Speaker 1: the I believe yeah, kasit er Oklahoma State.
Speaker 3: I think it's Oklahoma Oklahoma State.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and my job is not there anymore. No one
Speaker 1: tells no one says, hey, will uh, your job was
Speaker 1: taken over. Nobody tells you that stuff. Dude. In football man,
Speaker 1: Levante's bawling, and the rest is history. My man goes
Speaker 1: on becomes like top what your top? Whatding tackles in
Speaker 1: Nebraska history War top five? Okay, I was gonna say
Speaker 1: top ten, but I guess you know, for sure, stud,
Speaker 1: I don't know Levante balls the legend of Levonte David
Speaker 1: because you know, I wanted. I gave up, I faked
Speaker 1: an injury my foot and allowed him to be what
Speaker 1: he is today.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there's a part of me that feels like I
Speaker 1: am responsible part of his greatness. Yeah, part of this
Speaker 1: greatness man, right right right.
Speaker 2: Right, Like I said, one of the worst best days
Speaker 2: of my life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it was. It was awesome. Then
Speaker 1: we've obviously became boys. Uh you miss me, I do
Speaker 1: miss you.
Speaker 2: Bro I do.
Speaker 3: We had fun on the field, Yeah, we had a
Speaker 3: lot of fun off the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we did, and we all headed. We keep
Speaker 1: telling the stories up the podcast.
Speaker 2: You can't keep that on.
Speaker 1: My favorite play, Levante, that's a big one. What's your
Speaker 1: favorite play in Nebraska? Your favorite play that you ever had?
Speaker 2: My favorite player in Nebraska, man, my favorite player in Nebraska. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would say the Ohio State.
Speaker 1: Really, so we were down what twenty seven nothing? Really,
Speaker 1: we were down twenty seven nothing. Everybody's leaving here. It
Speaker 1: is right here, twenty seven nothing third and five because
Speaker 1: I was injured. Display remember that was out. Hey, you'll
Speaker 1: come get the fun back. Yeah, play damn oh that
Speaker 1: was it. Twenty seven to nothing, third quarter, eight minutes left,
Speaker 1: third and five. Who was at Braxon Miller Baller, We're
Speaker 1: getting our ass, We're getting our ass. Fucking pounded dude
Speaker 1: and shout hey, Vrabel's on the sideline here, so shut
Speaker 1: out Vrabel because we had the greatest comeback in school
Speaker 1: history that night. Levonte Braxton breaks the shit out of
Speaker 1: Sean Fisher's shut out fish and Levonte tackles this dude
Speaker 1: and fucking rips the ball out and takes it himself. Now,
Speaker 1: my favorite play, I was on the sideline is play
Speaker 1: getting checked for like concussions. You probably had one, but
Speaker 1: I was. I came back, the boy came back ready
Speaker 1: to go cete all ct he was bitching this now,
Speaker 1: I had over ten tackles, So don't disrespect me.
Speaker 2: Like respect.
Speaker 1: But my favorite play because I remember seeing it, this one.
Speaker 1: I was kind of out of it, so I didn't
Speaker 1: know what happened. I was just hype. We came back
Speaker 1: in Beatlehouse State down twenty seven, greatest come back school
Speaker 1: history win, like thirty four to seven. Yeah, thirty four
Speaker 1: straight points? But would you say straight points? You know
Speaker 1: how say it? Though? Say it in the mic? Thirty
Speaker 1: four straight points, straight straight points? There you go straight.
Speaker 1: You know there's there's one video out there, Blossos shoot
Speaker 1: it to you. I did a voice memo back. I've
Speaker 1: been posting throwback. I've been posting those throwback Thursday videos
Speaker 1: of Nebraska in the locker room. Yea that it's funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I would mess with Levante because he says like
Speaker 1: straight like then Miami boys, man, they're like straight scretch
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yo, what do you say You're saying
Speaker 1: stretch or scretch? Yeah? Yeah, And I came into the
Speaker 1: locker room after practice because we were stretching buddies. Yeah, normal,
Speaker 1: and uh, Levante came in and I was like, I
Speaker 1: brought my phone over and I started recording. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, Levante, say say stretch. He's like scratch and
Speaker 1: we just start dying laughing and maybe you had to
Speaker 1: be there because Boss isn't laughing very hard.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: But my favorite play Iowa. We played Iowa. We're playing
Speaker 1: Iowa and they come out. I believe they're in empty.
Speaker 1: But this guy runs I think another stick rout stick
Speaker 1: route and bodies the tight end, bodies into Levante right
Speaker 1: and pushes off Yeah, pushes off on. Levante pushes his
Speaker 1: little bitch ass down. Dude pushes his ass down. Lavante
Speaker 1: throws his hands his hands up. Levante has time to
Speaker 1: fall down, throw his hands up to the ref, realize
Speaker 1: the ref doesn't call it. It's his slow, big white
Speaker 1: tight end and uh Leavante gets up and chases this
Speaker 1: dude down after falling, throwing his hands up, no flag,
Speaker 1: gets up, runs him down and I'm watching from the
Speaker 1: other side of the field. Lavante strips and reaches around
Speaker 1: and strips and rakes it out and takes the ball
Speaker 1: from him and just sprints to the sideline like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: look at me, look at me. Yo. That was well,
Speaker 1: I know because it was a push off.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, hell nah did they have it?
Speaker 1: Could you find it? Nick?
Speaker 2: It's probably Yeah, we definitely couldn't do this job.
Speaker 3: Dude, I'm doing the.
Speaker 2: Highlight another play too that stands out once we get
Speaker 2: to this after this, Yo, this is just.
Speaker 1: This is just the Levante podcast fucking tribute dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, man, I mean I ain't seen a
Speaker 3: longe time.
Speaker 1: No, I know, we all catching up. It's like we're
Speaker 1: still It's like we're sitting on the back deck having
Speaker 1: some seltzers, having some seltzers, some bone and beab having
Speaker 1: a stogy and just telling old stories.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had some.
Speaker 2: Good times from Great Nebraska Day.
Speaker 1: Yeah we would. Uh. I take those videos after the
Speaker 1: Bowl game of you packing Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: Hey Bookie you uh this is it man, you got
Speaker 1: any thing to say? Don't do this, man, don't do.
Speaker 3: Another the Penn State game.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's me and you. Yeah. I can't take too
Speaker 1: much credit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, shoot you you cleared it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's a cross dog blitz, so you send
Speaker 1: your two inside backers. I think it was either at
Speaker 1: the center of the guard and I'm first, so I'm
Speaker 1: like the guy who gives it up, who lays his
Speaker 1: laugh on the line for the guy behind him to
Speaker 1: make the play. It's like it's fourth down, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's another memorable play. It's like fourth and one and
Speaker 1: I like, shoot, I like, you know, hit the center
Speaker 1: of the guard, whatever kind of freeze Levante up and
Speaker 1: it's just you and uh Silas Red. Yeah. Yeah, stunned him, dude,
Speaker 1: and we beat them. We come back and beat them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we beat them.
Speaker 1: They Yeah, there was or we made it stand. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but that was a memorable play too. So
Speaker 1: fast forward. I got all these highlights up here. So
Speaker 1: now you're uh, you're in the league. Second round pick.
Speaker 1: Who I made backers were in front of you, like
Speaker 1: nine backers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, uh my backer class was one of
Speaker 2: the best class.
Speaker 1: You went early in the second round.
Speaker 2: I went mad. It was a Luke Dante hot tower.
Speaker 1: Bobby Zach I'm not being disrespectfully that, I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to look stuff up. Keep talking, Bobby Wagner, Zach Brown,
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner's in that class too, oh Man, Bobby Man
Speaker 1: roommate Zach Brown, Yeah, Zach Man. Zach trained to get
Speaker 1: it coming out. He was right in front of you,
Speaker 1: wasn't he.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael Kendricks, now you Bradham, we had a bunch
Speaker 2: of guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a fucking class right there.
Speaker 3: Sa Man still balling to this day too.
Speaker 1: Yoh, Honestly, we've been having a lot of fun. But
Speaker 1: be be be serious. How much does it piss you
Speaker 1: off that you haven't outright made a Pro Bowl. It
Speaker 1: pissed me off, be honest, It pisses me off. Before
Speaker 1: before I got alternate, I was no disrespect. He's an alternate,
Speaker 1: and uh, whoever was ahead of him was playing in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, right, Yeah, so you got to go
Speaker 1: d Thomas Davis stud salute him, but outright making the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. Dude, you've had you've had this is year
Speaker 1: what eight year? Eight? So you've had I'm looking right now,
Speaker 1: you've had You've had seven seasons. Yeah, six of them.
Speaker 1: You've had over one hundred tackles. Yeah, five of them.
Speaker 1: You've had over one hundred and twenty tackles.
Speaker 3: I should have made a Pro Bowl. At least four,
Speaker 3: legit four.
Speaker 1: But you're not out there like that, dude. That's your
Speaker 1: fucking problem. You don't have. You don't have like you know,
Speaker 1: you don't have like a personality like this. You don't
Speaker 1: got a podcast. You you don't tell jokes and act
Speaker 1: stupid on social media like your boy.
Speaker 2: Everybody think.
Speaker 1: I'm mean, you need to let me run your social
Speaker 1: account and we will bring you, will take you. You'll
Speaker 1: be a pro bowler every year from here on out.
Speaker 2: No, man, you might get out of him.
Speaker 1: Not to toot my own horn, but just like I'm saying,
Speaker 1: just to put you out there in front of more eyes, dude,
Speaker 1: you get out of hand.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 1: I do know I try to see too much I take.
Speaker 1: I try to see humor and way too much stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh well, Jay Mitch the one who told me about that. Man,
Speaker 3: Jay Mitch got on me about that about it.
Speaker 1: I need to post more you do because that unfortunately
Speaker 1: some of it is a popularity contest. Yeah, and you're
Speaker 1: just not out there like that right here. Bring bring
Speaker 1: up bring up his stats, please? What are you? I
Speaker 1: know you know this because obviously all of us have
Speaker 1: a little bit of like self absorption to us what
Speaker 1: you're you're one of the You're in a crew of
Speaker 1: players that have like a certain amount of interceptions and
Speaker 1: fumbles or tackles or something in like a time span,
Speaker 1: Like what is that?
Speaker 3: Think is uh in history of linebackers?
Speaker 1: I think it's only three guys, and I'm one of
Speaker 1: the three, one of three of what what's a static
Speaker 1: is like.
Speaker 2: Having over a certain amount of tackles, a certain amount
Speaker 2: of interceptions, and a certain amount of sacks in a
Speaker 2: matter of games.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, probably games or seas of them. Did
Speaker 1: you know you're in the top twenty five all time
Speaker 1: in the NFL history for tackles for loss already? Really
Speaker 1: you're You're twenty fifth since the stat has been kept,
Speaker 1: But I think I think guys have went back since then.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, but it's on one of those.
Speaker 3: Like what is that?
Speaker 1: I apologize shit going on outside the bus, But you're
Speaker 1: tied actually with Sue right now with one hundred and
Speaker 1: eight tackles for loss all time. Wow, and you're I'm
Speaker 1: talking guys that are retired, you're still currently playing. You're
Speaker 1: at like one hundred and eight. And I remember it
Speaker 1: was like the year one of the years you should
Speaker 1: have went it was you and JJ Watt were tied
Speaker 1: for most tackles for loss since the stat has been
Speaker 1: kept now, was in like two thousand, you know, one
Speaker 1: of those big years he didn't.
Speaker 3: Make the Pro Bowl, Probably talking about thirteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably thirteen, because I mean from thirteen all the
Speaker 2: way up to probably like you have one.
Speaker 1: Year, we had like eighty something total tackles year, But like, uh,
Speaker 1: who what's made you the most mad? Tell me the
Speaker 1: tell me tell me the one year you've actually been
Speaker 1: the most mad, And you're like I should have been.
Speaker 2: In over one year I was the most mad? Was
Speaker 2: maybe last year? Probably last year, or I mean it
Speaker 2: didn't really matter to me in thirteen because I may
Speaker 2: all pro with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all pro is a big deal, a pro probably uh,
Speaker 1: probably last year.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I really was supposed to make it.
Speaker 2: Who do you think I should have got in over
Speaker 2: this person? I'm not. I'm not for the blast I tried.
Speaker 2: I'm not, but I had like one hundred and twenty tackles.
Speaker 2: This person had like forty something tackles.
Speaker 1: Bro forty something total tackles. Yes, we can find that.
Speaker 1: We just show it on the YouTube, Like, just glance
Speaker 1: it on the YouTube real quick.
Speaker 2: It was crazy, bro. But well, what sucks is too,
Speaker 2: is I respect that person that as a player, you know,
Speaker 2: and as a person too. Yeah I met him before.
Speaker 2: But yeah, same time, you know, it's kind of not fair,
Speaker 2: I know, because.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like, Yo, why is this more popularity contest
Speaker 1: compared to who's actually really fucking balling?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And honestly, what sucks for you is you're considered
Speaker 1: an outside backer. Yeah, and you're a four to three
Speaker 1: outside backer and an undersized one. And that's not that's
Speaker 1: not like saying anything negative, but you're a smaller, undersized
Speaker 1: packer outside backers. So you're in the class with you know,
Speaker 1: like von Miller, Khalil, Mack, David, You're you're in with
Speaker 1: those guys who are considered outside backers even though they're.
Speaker 2: Pass rushers rush.
Speaker 1: I think they need to they need to do something
Speaker 1: to where it's like pass rushers and just you know,
Speaker 1: Mike's Mike and Wills and four threes should be just
Speaker 1: considered inside backers siders.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah, but now I'm
Speaker 2: considered inside backer.
Speaker 1: So since you're in a three four yeah, yeah, How
Speaker 1: do you like playing for coach Arians?
Speaker 2: I love it? Man, He's a great dude. Man, he's
Speaker 2: one of those when you want to coach, you want
Speaker 2: to coach that's straight for a straight shooter. He's a
Speaker 2: straight shooter.
Speaker 3: Straight, straight shooter.
Speaker 1: He's a great fucking shooter, a great shooter.
Speaker 2: And I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: Is that that's that different from the coaches you've had
Speaker 1: in the past. What head coaches is for you on
Speaker 1: the Bucks four because y'all been trash, that's you know,
Speaker 1: it just is what it is. I've been on some
Speaker 1: shitty teams too.
Speaker 2: Fore head coaches will How does.
Speaker 1: Coach Arians compare to the ones in the past. Oh, man,
Speaker 1: because he's a great shooter.
Speaker 3: He don't shoot a coat. Uh, you don't try to
Speaker 3: hide things. He lets you know what it is.
Speaker 1: What is something different that he's brought to this organization
Speaker 1: this year compared to what since you've been in the wagon?
Speaker 2: Confidence?
Speaker 3: Man, swagging confidence.
Speaker 1: But give me an example. What does that look like?
Speaker 1: Give me an example. You're like, oh, fuck, I didn't
Speaker 1: know he was like this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, whether it's a schedule change or there's something organizationally,
Speaker 1: or whether it's something team meaningwise, just give me something
Speaker 1: that's like, Yo, this fuck. I didn't even know this existed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ah so I never we So you ever heard
Speaker 2: cattlepulls thet like they measure like the speed that you're
Speaker 2: going to practice with, how much run are you doing
Speaker 2: in practice? Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I never had the GPS stuff.
Speaker 2: The GPS stuff, I never had that. I never had that,
Speaker 2: and now we got them this year. So monitor a
Speaker 2: lot of.
Speaker 3: Guys and it keeps guys healthy.
Speaker 2: So we never had we haven't had like in the
Speaker 2: years past, we had a lot of you know, tough
Speaker 2: injuries with HAMD screens and guys going in and out
Speaker 2: or whatever. But now this year, because you have we
Speaker 2: have a whole staff the money to that stuff and
Speaker 2: the good nutrition staff and money that stuff, and like
Speaker 2: it's like this is probably one of the most healthiest,
Speaker 2: healthier years that I've been around. They keep really they
Speaker 2: take care of guys on the field.
Speaker 1: So this whole staff like this, this staff designated to
Speaker 1: the GPS. They basically monitor and collect data from practice
Speaker 1: and games and see how much how much you guys run,
Speaker 1: how fast you run from like ten miles an hour
Speaker 1: to fifteen or above fifteen, and how much you're jogging
Speaker 1: and walking.
Speaker 2: If you're getting too many reps, they're gonna back you
Speaker 2: down to eat you up, like, hey, you got to
Speaker 2: chill out.
Speaker 1: You're getting like you had this much in the game,
Speaker 1: you had this much volume in game, We're gonna tape
Speaker 1: you down.
Speaker 2: To practice exactly, damn for real. Wonderful, bro, he said.
Speaker 1: Wonderful, Bro, wonderful. In your injury rate, you feel like
Speaker 1: it's probably went down because of it.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm probably the healthiest I've been in
Speaker 3: a while, and.
Speaker 1: You think a lot of it is due to the
Speaker 1: stuff he kind of brought in.
Speaker 2: Ye, just the practice tempo, the way things again going,
Speaker 2: the way things are going, the way they take care
Speaker 2: of you off the field, the way they monitor stuff, everything, Bro,
Speaker 2: it's all collective thing with the coaches, the staff, everything.
Speaker 1: Everybody communicates.
Speaker 3: A lot of nobody communicates. Everything is structured. You go
Speaker 3: home a little earlier than on what I'm used to,
Speaker 3: so you get rest. So it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Bro. That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Man, And they don't know a lot of people. They
Speaker 1: don't have the kind of that insight on like what
Speaker 1: the differences and coaches are head coaches and what teams get,
Speaker 1: what teams do do differently, I think it matters when
Speaker 1: you had to have a head coach that cares about
Speaker 1: healthy and staff that's designated to that.
Speaker 2: Honestly, they cater to you.
Speaker 1: Cater to you nice bro.
Speaker 2: I mean, is it's still on you to take care
Speaker 2: of yourself, no doubt, it's always up to the problem.
Speaker 2: Make sure you're taking care of yourself too, right.
Speaker 1: That's one thing I really liked at the Saints too.
Speaker 1: They had a they had and I liked. I liked
Speaker 1: it at the Skins and the Titans as well, but
Speaker 1: the Saints they seem to be on top of fucking
Speaker 1: everything right, and they're in your division, so your little rivalry.
Speaker 1: But I saw I understood why they're successful like they
Speaker 1: are earing and you're outright, because they have they have
Speaker 1: nutritionis and not just one, they have two. They have people,
Speaker 1: and they allow them to have a budget and do
Speaker 1: what they want to do, what they think is best.
Speaker 1: Not I gotta get it cleared. Not they the people
Speaker 1: ahead of them and trust them. Hey do what you
Speaker 1: gotta do, here's your budget, do whatever you gotta do,
Speaker 1: give them everything. Same with the training staff. Same with
Speaker 1: like they have a cryo room, not just a cryo tank.
Speaker 1: They have a crowd room, they have sleep room or
Speaker 1: float tank rooms, soundproof rooms, float tanks. Yes, you go
Speaker 1: into the soundproof room, touch it, sign up on the list.
Speaker 1: They have all of it. But they have a lot
Speaker 1: of ship that's pretty dope. It's pretty I know, the
Speaker 1: Redskins kind I got some of that.
Speaker 2: Wee have a room and a fertility and then we'll
Speaker 2: have a float tank and things like that.
Speaker 1: Have you ever done flow tank? I've never done it,
Speaker 1: but I heard him try it. You should fucking try it, dope. Yes,
Speaker 1: float tanks are the real deal. It's got like hundreds
Speaker 1: or one thousand pounds of salt which helps with like
Speaker 1: your tissue, you know, ebbs and salt, magnesium saw or
Speaker 1: magnesium sulfate helps with your tissue, your skin, all that
Speaker 1: stuff for recovery. And you just the water is so
Speaker 1: shallow that you just float and hover because there's so
Speaker 1: much salt beneath you. It helps recover. You fall asleep.
Speaker 1: You're in there an hour. Yeah, you got to quiet
Speaker 1: your mind because you have none. You're not gonna be
Speaker 1: on your phone. You're trying to calm your mind and
Speaker 1: kind of meditate, fall asleep and just recover. You're trying
Speaker 1: to black you out, close out all your senses. It's dope.
Speaker 3: And somebody suggested it to me.
Speaker 1: What time are we at right now? Six six forty? Okay?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Because we my dog here, he flew in. Uh, And
Speaker 1: I fucking love you for it. I knew I could
Speaker 1: count on you, but I was gonna try this new
Speaker 1: attempt on like teams that fly in if I'm still
Speaker 1: not playing, try to identify a player that flies in
Speaker 1: on away game, see if they come on the bus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so that's why I was like, Yo, when
Speaker 1: do you land, I'll try to be there right when
Speaker 1: you land, and then you know, try to take the watch.
Speaker 3: And I was proud of you for doing it too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is something that fits you, bro.
Speaker 3: You think so Yeah, you talk much?
Speaker 1: Damn Hey, it's perfect. Hey, set him up, set him up,
Speaker 1: bring his ass back down, humble him. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's perfect. No, it's fun, man, you know, we
Speaker 1: don't don't who knows it's gonna We have some talks
Speaker 1: in the works right now with some networks. Uh, who
Speaker 1: knows what's gonna happen, but we have a blast of him. Man,
Speaker 1: we're trying to get a mobile. As you see, it
Speaker 1: doesn't run, but once it gets mobile, envision. Like my
Speaker 1: idea is taking it coast to coast and like say
Speaker 1: next year if it's mobile, Yeah, I'm not doing ship
Speaker 1: yeah uh, just driving this thing to Tampa to Tampa
Speaker 1: and having you like if you guys have like a
Speaker 1: Thursday night game, bring the bus to Tampa and then
Speaker 1: getting you on the bus before the game the day
Speaker 1: before the game or some shit, dope bro, and kind
Speaker 1: of be more up to days. I don't know, we're
Speaker 1: dabbling with a bunch of You always had a.
Speaker 2: Good mind for things, man, even back in college. You
Speaker 2: just always throw these suggestions at you and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: You know you used to always talk to me about
Speaker 2: well I didn't play football always.
Speaker 1: It's a conversation there is needs to be had, right
Speaker 1: because you know it's gonna end. Yeah it is. You
Speaker 1: You've been fortunate, You're you're part of the true one
Speaker 1: percent of Like you have a second contract, you're probably
Speaker 1: going a third because your studs, you know, God willing,
Speaker 1: and you're healthy right. Uh, but guys don't sit down
Speaker 1: with themselves and think about it enough. I don't think
Speaker 1: you literally here's to put in a perspective. You spend
Speaker 1: How old are you? You're or my age? You're thirty
Speaker 1: in February January January my fault. Uh, I'm thirty years old.
Speaker 1: I didn't come into the league until twenty three. You
Speaker 1: have a career that on average last three and a
Speaker 1: half years, four years, four years, we'll say, four seasons.
Speaker 2: Four seasons.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna undrafted our At the time, I was an
Speaker 1: undrafted cat, so to me, I was thinking this could
Speaker 1: be done in a year. But the average career is
Speaker 1: four seasons, and you spend I started playing football in
Speaker 1: second grade, So how old is second grade? Eight years old?
Speaker 1: We'll say eight years old. I started playing I played
Speaker 1: football from eight to twenty three. A lot of fucking
Speaker 1: math boys. Fifteen years, right, fifteen years of my life.
Speaker 1: Pretty much all of my life. I have been convinced
Speaker 1: and dreamt of playing in the NFL and blueprinted on
Speaker 1: at a young age that I wanted to be the
Speaker 1: next Walter Payton. I wanted to be on TV and
Speaker 1: play and play in the NFL. You spend your whole
Speaker 1: life daydreaming and preparing to play a career they called
Speaker 1: a career in the NFL for four years done at
Speaker 1: twenty seven. You spent your whole fucking life playing football,
Speaker 1: only knowing football, and then at twenty seven, I'm thirty now,
Speaker 1: but say the averages all yeatta, say you're twenty seven,
Speaker 1: and then you're in the real world. Everything gets pulled
Speaker 1: out from underneath you and you're not a NFL player anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your jokes are as funny, you're not as good looking,
Speaker 1: you're not as cool. Yeah, you're not of status anymore.
Speaker 1: People don't. It's not that it matters to be cared
Speaker 1: about like that. There's a part of you. Yes, you're
Speaker 1: self absorbed, absorbed, a little bit, absorbed, absorbed a little bit,
Speaker 1: and you have a little bit of a confidence and
Speaker 1: swagger about you since you're playing the league. But your
Speaker 1: ship doesn't stink anymore when you're out of the league, right,
Speaker 1: and you spend your entire fucking life to play, to
Speaker 1: try to play a career a dream for three four years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was funny because I was talking about the
Speaker 2: same exact thing one of my teammates. It's talking about
Speaker 2: taking advantage of being in the league, right, using your resources,
Speaker 2: you know, like reaching out network with other people with
Speaker 2: big businesses and stuff like that, because once you're not
Speaker 2: in the league anymore, they're not going to care about you,
Speaker 2: probably not even gonna know who you are, honestly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm to use the bus this bus example.
Speaker 1: Obviously I have Taylor, he's a pro bowler. People give
Speaker 1: shit all the time. But at the same time, from
Speaker 1: my stance, if this isn't started, if this has started
Speaker 1: a year or two later, it doesn't matter near as much.
Speaker 1: If I, say a year or two, like I probably
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna play much longer. It's just the reality
Speaker 1: of my circumstance. Not that I want to play until
Speaker 1: the wheels fall off. I want to walk away from
Speaker 1: the game on my own terms, right, And so if
Speaker 1: I were to start this a year or two out
Speaker 1: of the league, it doesn't hit the same whether or not,
Speaker 1: that's just the reality because I'm not you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not in the I'm not in the
Speaker 1: public eye as much. The funny, humorous will Leader Captain
Speaker 1: Will that people like or seem to enjoy it wears
Speaker 1: off and if you start something when you're already out
Speaker 1: of it. That's when you see guys it seems like
Speaker 1: they're not begging for stuff more, but they hit you
Speaker 1: up and you're kind of like you have a different
Speaker 1: flavor about them, you know what I mean. Or some
Speaker 1: of the heroes you've met that used to play ball,
Speaker 1: and you're like, why you're still hanging around Nebraska, or
Speaker 1: why you're still hanging around the facilities like you used
Speaker 1: to do it? Let the new guys do it. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't matter as much anymore, so I do. I
Speaker 1: think it's extremely important that guys take time to think
Speaker 1: about what they do off the field and do it
Speaker 1: while you're playing.
Speaker 3: It's a great point too.
Speaker 2: Even though I'm in the league, but I go to
Speaker 2: that and go back to Nebraska, nobody know who I am.
Speaker 2: They were by the people who's at Nebraska right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they'll know who you are now because you
Speaker 1: are a All Pro. You're your stud football player Levonte
Speaker 1: David who they can hang their cap on because you
Speaker 1: play good when you were there. You're still playing in
Speaker 1: the league, so you're still relevant. If you were to
Speaker 1: come ten years later and you never went back to Nebraska,
Speaker 1: people would know who you were and say, yo, you
Speaker 1: remember Levonte. Yeah, but you don't have the same same access.
Speaker 1: You don't got the same juice. Yeah, you don't. So
Speaker 1: it's important for guys that do that, that do think
Speaker 1: about shit while they're playing. Do it while you're playing,
Speaker 1: do it while you got a little bit of juice
Speaker 1: right now, litle bit. So that like, that's kind of
Speaker 1: what this stuff is. Were you at what's up? Blossy
Speaker 1: fifty five? I love it, dude. We got we're solid
Speaker 1: right now, we're cruising. Yeah, what else do we have?
Speaker 1: What else is on? What else is on tap? Top?
Speaker 1: How many times you made the top? One hundred three times?
Speaker 1: I believe? Were you on this past year?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, sorry that I'm not completely up to date with
Speaker 1: the boy. I do watch it from a far fucking
Speaker 1: roode hardest ship for you.
Speaker 2: It's all good man.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, past.
Speaker 2: Three years.
Speaker 1: I haven't been on there the past three years. You haven't.
Speaker 1: I thought you were a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: Dude, yeah, twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: But the boy Levante, he does. Man, he needs more.
Speaker 1: You need more. You got respect, but you need more
Speaker 1: public respect. Yeah, so people do.
Speaker 2: I'm a shoot out to the social media world, you know,
Speaker 2: trying to get on it and stuff like that. But
Speaker 2: as you know, I don't be on Twitter during the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, you know I understand it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: I really do. Like when you're playing, you have people
Speaker 1: chirping you. I know, Nick, my best friend this on
Speaker 1: the bus right now. Nick, he would uh. When we
Speaker 1: were at like Nebraska pretty much every walk every year,
Speaker 1: Nick would always like, you know, you type in the name,
Speaker 1: you see what people are saying. There's the years people
Speaker 1: love you, and there's the years where people are shitting
Speaker 1: on you to trash you. I get it, man, you
Speaker 1: know it doesn't matter. You do gotta you gotta protect
Speaker 1: your mind because you gotta stay focused, because you gotta big.
Speaker 1: The golden mind is to win a championship.
Speaker 2: I started to tell you the reason why I did it.
Speaker 2: I started it. It's crazy, it's funny story. You already
Speaker 2: know about it. I'm sure your rookie year. Okay. I
Speaker 2: started doing it because in twenty thirteen was playing the
Speaker 2: Jets first game. I could talk about it because I'm
Speaker 2: over eight years or years later. And also I was
Speaker 2: all pro that. Yes, I don't care nah, but uh yeah, thirteen.
Speaker 2: You're playing the Jets Geno Smith. Like prior, he was
Speaker 2: running out of Oh yeah, you shouldn't have hit his
Speaker 2: ass man. Look so during the game. Earlier in the game,
Speaker 2: he was running up the sideline. Nobody wanted to touch
Speaker 2: him because he was close to the sideline. I thought
Speaker 2: he was running out. Then he kept running up.
Speaker 1: And got extra yards. Quarterbacks. Man, there are some sneaky
Speaker 1: basked they know bro.
Speaker 2: So this time it was towards the end of the game.
Speaker 2: The end of the game, so I'm gonna spy him.
Speaker 2: So once I'm chasing him to the sideline. So as
Speaker 2: soon as he's about to step out, one labe was
Speaker 2: in the air. I pushed them and it was on
Speaker 2: their sideline. It was second level.
Speaker 1: Listen, you ain't gotta tell me. I watched it. He
Speaker 1: was out of bounds. Yes, he was bring the play
Speaker 1: up type of Levonte David Gino Smith.
Speaker 3: It was this is gonna pop up quick as hell too.
Speaker 1: He was out of bounds. I remember watching that game live.
Speaker 1: I remember watching it live real time, and I was like,
Speaker 1: my exact reaction, Levante, what in the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1: Because they were down?
Speaker 2: What it was down? What two points, one point two
Speaker 2: points and kick the field goal lost ball one.
Speaker 1: Levontake gets a penalty very into the game. Levin Ta
Speaker 1: gets a penalty pushing it, hitting the quarterback out of bounds.
Speaker 1: They get, you know, the ball moves up there and
Speaker 1: field goal range and kickingfield gonna win the game. What
Speaker 1: happened on social media?
Speaker 3: I got cute?
Speaker 1: Cute? What are a couple What are a couple of
Speaker 1: tweets that's saying out that made you like, I'm deleting
Speaker 1: this up. They need to get your dumb ass off
Speaker 1: the team. You're fucking stupid. You anything racial?
Speaker 3: Of course?
Speaker 1: You know one time when one time I got called
Speaker 1: like uninbred, uninbred fucking cracker or some ship. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was dark, dude, it was dark. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, look, Levante, you're the first video Levante David's
Speaker 1: big mistake letting the Jets win the game.
Speaker 2: Now, y'all tell me if you out of bounds right here, Andy,
Speaker 2: thing is.
Speaker 3: They changed the rule about that the next year.
Speaker 1: Look at your hands out. Hey, what's he saying to you? Yo? Hey,
Speaker 1: rewind that I wanted to fight so bad? Here okay,
Speaker 1: here's here's here's a here's the situation. Fourth quarter. Okay,
Speaker 1: the ball is on, the ball is backed up, not
Speaker 1: backed up, but on their like forty yard line. Twelve
Speaker 1: seconds left in the fourth quarter. Tampa Bay's up seventeen
Speaker 1: to fifteen. Gino Smith scrambles to the right clearly, okay,
Speaker 1: go back.
Speaker 3: He wasn't clearly running.
Speaker 1: He's crossing the fifty going for the first down, third
Speaker 1: and five, clearly heading out of bounds. Lavonte is kind
Speaker 1: of trailing him. Okay, you're neck and neck with him,
Speaker 1: but running upfield. Yeah, and you hit him out of
Speaker 1: bounds as he's already stepping out of I think it was.
Speaker 2: It was just it was on the sideline and it
Speaker 2: was real dramatic.
Speaker 1: So yo, how is that? How you really still to
Speaker 1: this fucking day? Don't think?
Speaker 3: Of course, it wasn't out of bounds, bro.
Speaker 1: And so it's at the fifty yard line, it's a
Speaker 1: fifteen yard Yeah, they're on the thirty five. They kick.
Speaker 1: They kicked the field goal with seven seconds left to
Speaker 1: win the game. And you let your team down, your
Speaker 1: rookie year.
Speaker 2: I didn't live my team down.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I'm watching this live at the
Speaker 1: UH at nebrask after a workout on a Sunday workout
Speaker 1: after a game. Really, we were all sitting in the
Speaker 1: like the training table watching the game. Oh you're right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and we're all like, oh my god, what the what
Speaker 1: is they doing? Look at you man with that pissed
Speaker 1: off bro, that puffy bottom left wood.
Speaker 2: I wanted to fight that whole sideline.
Speaker 1: Who's what's your what's your favorite memory in the NFL?
Speaker 2: My favorite memory, bro? Oh, my favorite memory my rookie year.
Speaker 2: My first interception was on Peyton Many.
Speaker 1: Oh, let's go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my very first interception was on Peyton Many. That
Speaker 2: was awesome. I still have that balls all deflated.
Speaker 1: And would you say this team this year right now?
Speaker 1: And you're gonna have to say yes obviously because this
Speaker 1: will air. This will air in probably December. Honestly. I
Speaker 1: want to air this thing around Pro Bowl voting, and
Speaker 1: you should probably sneak back on the old social just
Speaker 1: during that time, just so you can put all your
Speaker 1: stuff up or have somebody do it for you. But
Speaker 1: I want to push this around that time because people
Speaker 1: need to fucking be more proactive and voting. This this
Speaker 1: savage in the Pro Bowl. I mean, look at you
Speaker 1: right here, you gotta you get a skin in your
Speaker 1: neck now ya. I love the beard game. I love
Speaker 1: it's so I'm so proud seeing you grow up in
Speaker 1: front of my eyes. You got a beard? Now you
Speaker 1: gotta go to what do you go here?
Speaker 2: What is this?
Speaker 1: What is that a roller?
Speaker 3: It's a watch? How much was that a watch?
Speaker 1: Look at that gold zooming on that bloss Look at that?
Speaker 1: Is that a rollie? Dude? That's no folly. I know
Speaker 1: that much the way you want to see. You are
Speaker 1: stunting on them boys. Man, Hey, thanks for coming on, dude.
Speaker 1: I gotta get you back this yeah, this right here
Speaker 1: or the podcast because I love football. Bro, Do you
Speaker 1: wish it was me out there in fifty one? Right now?
Speaker 1: We'reing fifty one. Unfortunately, make a clip and shout out
Speaker 1: Vin mentor dude that we were I you got to
Speaker 1: meet him on our Uh we were visiting the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: But I watched I watch him now because we're like
Speaker 1: the single in the same situation. Uh, he's warning fifty
Speaker 1: one playing next to you, and I'm like, fuck, Like, man,
Speaker 1: if we would have the boys back and you're playing
Speaker 1: with Sue, what's a you? You you happy playing with
Speaker 1: Sue again. Bro, I love playing you feel like a
Speaker 1: black shirt connection. Like, it's dope that we're back kind
Speaker 1: of on the same team.
Speaker 2: It's kind of cool because you never played with missed one.
Speaker 3: I missed him.
Speaker 2: When I got there, I told him. I told him
Speaker 2: this day pass like Sue, if would have played with you,
Speaker 2: you would have been no more.
Speaker 1: Oh just chirping it.
Speaker 3: He got back on me though, he was like, where
Speaker 3: you went second? Yeah, if you would have played with me, you.
Speaker 2: Win first round.
Speaker 1: Dude. I appreciate you, brother. I'm gonna get you back now,
Speaker 1: but you know I want you to get fined. This
Speaker 1: was fun, dude, Yeah? Fun? Hey was this? Uh?
Speaker 2: This is real?
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. That's how we want to make it.
Speaker 1: I want people to feel like their guards down. They
Speaker 1: can say some stuff, whatever they want to say, talk
Speaker 1: about to talk, ship, tell stories.
Speaker 2: We ain't get deep, though, but we didn't get deep deep, but.
Speaker 1: We raised some Hell yeah, yeah, we had enough out there.
Speaker 1: Is this your favorite? Did you like this one more
Speaker 1: than your barschool appearance? Barstool?
Speaker 2: I like better?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, du bullshit?
Speaker 1: Bro?
Speaker 2: I like it? Bro?
Speaker 1: Do you like it more? You say you're bullshitting. Look
Speaker 1: at the camera. Look at the camera and say it's
Speaker 1: kind of like the same thing, isn't it. No, No,
Speaker 1: look at the camera and say, shout out Busting with
Speaker 1: the Boys, dude, best best podcast out.
Speaker 2: Shout out Busting with the Boys man, one of the
Speaker 2: best podcasts out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no doubt dude, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Shout it Busting with the Boys.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: My boy will come then.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me, bro, best podcast out man,
Speaker 2: keep it rolling.
Speaker 1: We'll cut that up too. Hey, did you see what
Speaker 1: we did? Uh the Jalen Ramsey. Did you see him
Speaker 1: shout us out in his press conference?
Speaker 3: I did see that part something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we put him on the screen things like he
Speaker 1: was like, shout out busting with the Boys. Yeah, everybody.
Speaker 1: We all went nuts, dude, I mean everybody went nuts.
Speaker 1: It wasn't fucking We made the content ourselves with Taylor
Speaker 1: and I went like, he's a stud dude, he's awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's awesome. He just got traded to l A, but
Speaker 1: he's awesome. Man, He's he's a boy man, he's for
Speaker 1: the boys. But all right, let's get you back