Speaker 1: I've seen rookies come in and see Bill coming down
Speaker 1: the hallway and they would literally like just bust the
Speaker 1: left right into a random meeting room because they don't
Speaker 1: want to look this man in his eyes. And I
Speaker 1: didn't think I was doing anything wrong because you don't
Speaker 1: know yet. I don't know yet, That's what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not as naive. I'm naive.
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna talk to Bill.
Speaker 1: Go talk to Bill.
Speaker 2: You if I was walking by here in the hallway
Speaker 2: as a second year or third year guy, just like
Speaker 2: what a dumb ass. Welcome to Games with Names. I'm
Speaker 2: Julian Edelman. They're Jack and Kyler, and we are on
Speaker 2: a mission to find the greatest game of all time.
Speaker 2: On today's episode, we are covering Week fourteen, twenty twelve
Speaker 2: Texans versus Patriots, aka the Letterman Jacket Game with Super
Speaker 2: Bowl Champion, National Champion and former NFL running back my
Speaker 2: teammate Steven Ridley, and we get into talking the infamous
Speaker 2: Letterman jackets.
Speaker 1: Bro, you're coming up in our shit swagging out rocking
Speaker 1: these jackets like this is about to be a cake walk.
Speaker 1: It was disrespectful.
Speaker 2: We also get into Ridd's love for LSU.
Speaker 1: Being blessed with the opportunity to go and play in
Speaker 1: Tiger Stadium. You had to earn your stripes at LSU football?
Speaker 1: Is life down there?
Speaker 2: And what it's like in Bill Belichick's doghouse? Just what
Speaker 2: the fuck are you doing? Give me a break. Just
Speaker 2: don't even bring your ass back up here, and Rid
Speaker 2: stays for a very special chill Line voicemail in this
Speaker 2: week's Chill Zone presented by Coors Light. You gotta stick
Speaker 2: around to the very very end. Let's Go. Games with
Speaker 2: Names is a production of iHeartRadio. December tenth, twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: Gillett Stadiumborough, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: The eleven and one Texans roll into the Bay State
Speaker 1: for a Monday night showdown.
Speaker 2: Wait what are they worried? This is the Letterman Jacket game?
Speaker 2: Massachusetts the base state I've never heard. I thought that's
Speaker 2: Rhode Island. Steve, Welcome to Games Names, Bro.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you having me on Madna know how long
Speaker 1: you're gonna wait to get me in here, but uh
Speaker 1: you know I'm here.
Speaker 2: Well, we've been waiting because we just wanted to accumulate
Speaker 2: all the stories that we lived through. But the specific
Speaker 2: game we're gonna hit today is actually a game that
Speaker 2: I reference all the time, and I'm so excited to
Speaker 2: actually go and talk about this story with someone who
Speaker 2: balled in this game. Come on, man, today we're looking
Speaker 2: at the Letterman Jacket game Texans versus the Patriots, Week fourteen,
Speaker 2: twenty twelve game and one sentence why this.
Speaker 1: Game and this game was It was special for so
Speaker 1: many reasons because I think we were both coming in
Speaker 1: two hot teams towards the end of the year. But
Speaker 1: ultimately we uh, we had a little little chip on
Speaker 1: our shoulder, man, because I think everything goes through Foxborough
Speaker 1: at that point in time. While we were bawling and
Speaker 1: those boys came in rocking the Letterman jackets and all
Speaker 1: the good stuff. Hey, it looked good for pre game,
Speaker 1: but as y'all see, as we get into this, man,
Speaker 1: we were all about the business. So that's why we
Speaker 1: picked this game. Because it was two good records, two
Speaker 1: good teams going at it, but ultimately it was Patriot's day.
Speaker 2: Man, Is this the greatest game of all time?
Speaker 1: No, come on, man, you gotta have actual game for
Speaker 1: it to be a good game like it was. It
Speaker 1: was something on camera for y'all to watch. But I
Speaker 1: don't think it was a munch of a game, so
Speaker 1: we everyone d it was one to remember for sure.
Speaker 2: It was for sure. What's life looking like these days? Man?
Speaker 2: Life is good?
Speaker 1: Life is good?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: Uh got married married in June. I gotta throw that
Speaker 1: out there first to my bride man, and uh, you
Speaker 1: know things change once you get married, but before.
Speaker 2: That, sure you're the rubber band ring guy. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know activities, huh.
Speaker 1: You know you gotta be safe with it. You know,
Speaker 1: I got the bling bling when it's Friday or Saturday night.
Speaker 1: But through the week, we just keep the rubber on
Speaker 1: and hunting, fishing and doing the outdoor stuff. We can't
Speaker 1: have the diamonds on all the time.
Speaker 2: Now, like can stuff?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 2: Like I remember my dad, he'd be working on cars
Speaker 2: with his with my mom's ring on. Oh G O G.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you go to turning those wrenches and get
Speaker 1: hung up on.
Speaker 2: Something, knocking that thing everywhere.
Speaker 1: Old school bro shout out to Pops man. He ain't soft.
Speaker 1: You know, some of these kids don't have no calluses
Speaker 1: on their hands. But uh, you know, get to talk
Speaker 1: about Pops car. You got some calous man the country
Speaker 1: boy from Misissippi. It is what it is. But uh yeah, dog,
Speaker 1: so it's it's good man. Life is, life is okay.
Speaker 1: We're transitioning, you know. Ball res hired up. I retired
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, so we're right at five
Speaker 1: or six years out and we just kind of found
Speaker 1: found him away.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Finally got out here to the West Coast permanently.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Spent many off seasons with this cat on the West coast.
Speaker 1: He's lucky he was born in the great state of California.
Speaker 1: I was just a country boy dreaming trying to get west.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, my bride was on this side
Speaker 1: for eight years before me. I was back and forth,
Speaker 1: and then I finally made it official two years ago
Speaker 1: and moved out here to the West coast. So get
Speaker 1: to pull up on this feller from time to time.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: So it's good.
Speaker 2: Love it, It's good, and I love it because we
Speaker 2: hung out a lot when we played together. You grew
Speaker 2: up in Mississippi, yes, sir, so, I spent a little
Speaker 2: time on the Mississippi River. Did a little research about
Speaker 2: the Louisiana purchase out in eighteen oh three, fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 2: I mean, what, well, I was just at I was
Speaker 2: at the Super Bowl, and I was interested in the
Speaker 2: Mississippi River. You're from Mississippi. You also went to school
Speaker 2: at LSU. Can you explain some of this LSU Louisiana crazy?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I was so interested with that area
Speaker 2: of the Super Bowl. How was it in Louisiana?
Speaker 1: All right? Shout out man, uh Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Purchase eighteen oh three fifteen million bucks all the way
Speaker 2: up to the Minnesota with the president. Huh what was
Speaker 2: the president? Who's the president? Well, you're with Thomas Jefferson.
Speaker 2: Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson, w stole that land?
Speaker 1: Look, okay, we speaking on the reel.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, I mean it was literally he who
Speaker 2: stole it from some other people. Okay, okay, okay, Well
Speaker 2: we don't want to get too deep into that.
Speaker 1: But hey, either way, either way, the South bro is real,
Speaker 1: you know, And uh, I gotta I gotta always throw
Speaker 1: out there my LSU Tigers without my platform at LSU,
Speaker 1: man going down there handling business, being blessed with the
Speaker 1: opportunity to go and play in Tiger Stadium. I tell
Speaker 1: people all the time, Man, we play in front of
Speaker 1: the best fans in all the football. No disrespect to
Speaker 1: the Boston no disrespect, but one hundred thousand screaming fans.
Speaker 1: Probably a good seventy five percent of them are wasted
Speaker 1: from Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night in the build up.
Speaker 1: But football is life down there. And I tell people
Speaker 1: all the time, man, it's like, uh, you know, you
Speaker 1: come up in the South, it's not very much to
Speaker 1: do country town. We grow up hunting, fishing, playing ball, right,
Speaker 1: riding quad.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: We's just like with country folks who're outdoor people. But
Speaker 1: that molds us to be some of the best ball players.
Speaker 1: And I might put a little wildfire on the jewels
Speaker 1: when I say this, but when you look into the
Speaker 1: athletes and the guys around the league, it's a whole
Speaker 1: lot of ballers that come out of that Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas.
Speaker 1: I'm not throwing Arkansas in there. We'll stick on Mis
Speaker 1: to Louisiana, bro, But really, hey, Ryan Dilett played in
Speaker 1: this game, finished dog.
Speaker 2: Yes in Arkansas, Texas. He's from Arkansas.
Speaker 1: From Arkansas, I think Maldog was from Arkansas. We battled
Speaker 1: it out through college man, and Malley was the fiery
Speaker 1: one coming in the stadium. He was talking noise like
Speaker 1: you know what, you gotta always look at your white
Speaker 1: boys man to come in and that really ball and
Speaker 1: do it. And Maul was a quarterback and Mao just
Speaker 1: kind of ran his mouth and talked noise like nobody
Speaker 1: had ever seen. But he was a gunslinger. Bombed the
Speaker 1: ball down there sixty seventy yards with ease, and he
Speaker 1: was just he was a wild child, bro.
Speaker 2: So God rest his soul. That's my dog forever. So
Speaker 2: he's he's not in the Southern. The South doesn't accept
Speaker 2: him though, because Arkansas.
Speaker 1: He's Arkansas. I'll get it to him.
Speaker 2: He's a legend.
Speaker 1: He's a legend of Arkansas, and he gets there. But
Speaker 1: Mississippi Louisiana, though, is uh is strong. Dude. You know
Speaker 1: you got that old Miss LSU rivalry. But you know,
Speaker 1: coming up, coming out of high school, I went to
Speaker 1: a small, little private school. Never thought the million years.
Speaker 1: I go Division one, send out those highlight films, send
Speaker 1: out three. I wanted to stay close to mom so
Speaker 1: she could make it. And the dream was always to
Speaker 1: get to LSU. So going back to that man, it
Speaker 1: was really one of those deals that if they ever
Speaker 1: offered to said, hey, they give me a shot, it
Speaker 1: was a no brainer. I was going. And it's by far,
Speaker 1: to date, the best decision I've ever made to go
Speaker 1: to college in Baton Rouge, because I tell people all
Speaker 1: the time, man, it's it's nothing like playing ball for
Speaker 1: the LSU Tigers. Man, when you're playing there and you're bawling,
Speaker 1: you're a god in Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Man, let me tell you something right now, rid talk
Speaker 2: to me. Okay, when you play in front of three
Speaker 2: thousand people in ken Ohio on your senior day, I'll
Speaker 2: tell you that's a fucking environment that you gotta see. Hey,
Speaker 2: all right, that's what you need to see. Stand up, kid.
Speaker 1: Look I'm laughing because bother teammate down the road, Roosevelt Knicks,
Speaker 1: went to kids saying, and you know, when I bring
Speaker 1: up these guys, I look at him, was like, they
Speaker 1: don't have many. But when I look at Jewels and
Speaker 1: I look at Rosie, man, these are guys that are
Speaker 1: they don't have the respect. But every one of y'all
Speaker 1: that I mean come out.
Speaker 2: Of La Grrison, Josh Cribs. I mean, in the fucking
Speaker 2: Mac Daddy love in the league.
Speaker 5: Come on, y'all, grind the Mac Big Ben, Max Crosby,
Speaker 5: Max Crosby.
Speaker 2: Well, I see whole conference as a team. Our whole
Speaker 2: conference is a team. Okay, you know, okay, Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: but l s U. I mean, I just remember you
Speaker 2: always talking how crazy the environment was you always, I mean,
Speaker 2: you clearly love l s U. And every guy that
Speaker 2: goes to l s U loves l s U, like
Speaker 2: the alumni that come from there. Can you speak about
Speaker 2: some of the guys you played with that went to
Speaker 2: the league and just that L s U freaking tree
Speaker 2: of guys that go to the league who we got
Speaker 2: in L s.
Speaker 1: U absolutely make the lists, absolutely, man. I guess I'll
Speaker 1: talk first on someone ones that came in with and
Speaker 1: then some of the ones that came behind about I
Speaker 1: want to talk about the ones who paved the way for.
Speaker 2: Me, who paid away.
Speaker 1: So when I came there as a as a recruit recruit,
Speaker 1: JaMarcus Russell was quarterback, Marcus Dwayne bow was at receiver.
Speaker 1: Early du set Glenn Dorsey, Tyson Jackson, Ali Hai Smith,
Speaker 1: Brandon LaFell. Jojo was a little bit younger than those guys,
Speaker 1: that I played with, Joe. These were guys that I
Speaker 1: was coming and watching the Lron Landrys, the Scholar Greens.
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all know there's number trended Holiday
Speaker 1: being a little rocket man, but these were guys that
Speaker 1: we played with. And if you look at the running
Speaker 1: back room, I called him my grandpapa was Jacob Hester.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if y'all know that guy, but
Speaker 1: he was one of the He was the baddest white
Speaker 1: boy that I knew before I met Jules. I'll say
Speaker 1: that man because because Hess was a running back, he
Speaker 1: was downhill bro, and I really learned so much from
Speaker 1: him because he was a fullback before he was a
Speaker 1: running back. So talk about that grit and the star
Speaker 1: power that you get out of the boot and you
Speaker 1: get out of Louisiana. I think it has a lot
Speaker 1: to do with how we grind down there, like we
Speaker 1: are really truly, it's always us versus them. But we
Speaker 1: are the type of people that I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: we're the dollars that you find at Notre Dame, but
Speaker 1: you're gonna find some hard working, die hard ball or
Speaker 1: nothing sold out individuals that just want to be great.
Speaker 2: I know you guys sho pay cuts when you guys
Speaker 2: got to the league. Well, I can't speak on all
Speaker 2: that because I was just trying to hold on Florida.
Speaker 2: Guys have t bow teams taking pay cuts. When you
Speaker 2: came to the Patriots, all you guys getting paid. Hey, hey,
Speaker 2: it's good.
Speaker 1: It's good when it's good. But I ain't gonna say that.
Speaker 2: Uh, I can't.
Speaker 1: You can't speak on it too much. And we can
Speaker 1: say that's good of your business man.
Speaker 2: Did they see you listen as a fullback early in
Speaker 2: l s U. Well, when we got their young age
Speaker 2: as a running back.
Speaker 1: They always wanted every running back to have a little
Speaker 1: bit of fullback in their DNA before they started holding
Speaker 1: the pill because when.
Speaker 2: You hold the pill, you hold the life of the team.
Speaker 1: But the physicality of the SEC and old school football,
Speaker 1: I have to bark and say that because they changed
Speaker 1: the game a lot, I've only had double digit concussions.
Speaker 1: I'm in full on agreements that it needs to be
Speaker 1: softened up a little.
Speaker 2: But that wasn't my day.
Speaker 1: In my day, we were two tight ends full back
Speaker 1: downhill playing smash mouth ball. But LSU always if you
Speaker 1: play the running back position. They put your fullback first,
Speaker 1: just to make sure that you'd go in there and
Speaker 1: kiss that line back in the mouth and you weren't
Speaker 1: scared to a contact. So that's how we came up,
Speaker 1: you know, we came up rough. We had a awesome
Speaker 1: string coach. I got to give it to Tommy Moffatt Man.
Speaker 1: He was one of the pillars of LSU.
Speaker 2: But he Tommy Moffatt developed.
Speaker 1: He's at Texas A and M as the head string
Speaker 1: coach now, but he was one of those pillars to LSU.
Speaker 1: Man that was there for twenty thirty years. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how long Coach Moffat was there, but we had
Speaker 1: those long days on the grind where it was one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten degrees out there. It's human as hell.
Speaker 1: You see the you see the use left from down there.
Speaker 2: Come on now, like, yeah, we wouldn't play. We played
Speaker 2: Louisian Lafayette in September once and it was smoking.
Speaker 1: It's brutal, bro Like you get out there and you
Speaker 1: literally see the waves coming off the field and we
Speaker 1: had what we called a one ten test, so we
Speaker 1: had to run twenty six one tiers. Everybody has a
Speaker 1: conditioning test. They have to pass the year starts, but
Speaker 1: that kind of let you know where your teammates stood.
Speaker 1: Because the one ten test was no joke. Coach Moffatt
Speaker 1: comes out there, hands behind the line, everybody's lined up
Speaker 1: off into linemen. Go your skill position, go, your running backs. Go.
Speaker 1: But when I tell you guys were falling out, I'm
Speaker 1: not even stretching the story a little bit. Excuse my language, mom.
Speaker 1: I watched the guy shit on hisself and not stop
Speaker 1: bro seriously from running this one ten test, because if
Speaker 1: you stopped and you missed one, it didn't matter if
Speaker 1: you were on twenty one or seven. You're starting over
Speaker 1: and you're doing this again. So nobody wanted to run
Speaker 1: that conditioning test even more than you had to. But
Speaker 1: this was the DNA of our team.
Speaker 2: You know you've been conditioning test because now, granted for
Speaker 2: the listener, they build these boys up to get to
Speaker 2: there throughout the offseason and then they get like two
Speaker 2: three weeks off where they get to go home and
Speaker 2: then they come back before the season that's when they
Speaker 2: hit it, or it could be before they leave for
Speaker 2: the season. So they build you up. So you've been
Speaker 2: working and you've been seeing guys shit and piss themselves
Speaker 2: to try to get to this point to this day.
Speaker 2: But like the conditioning test is always like you see
Speaker 2: men cry in college. In college, the pro ones are joke. Yes,
Speaker 2: when you go to college, we used to have to
Speaker 2: do ten three hundreds with a minute. They were we
Speaker 2: had like a minute to do the three hundred and
Speaker 2: you had like forty five seconds rest. I remember watching
Speaker 2: grown men cry because they didn't want to start this
Speaker 2: thing over and like guys are stripping and stuff. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's the conditioning test is supposed to take your soul
Speaker 2: in college.
Speaker 1: And it was effectively done in Baton Rouge year after year.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about you'd come out there, two pair of cleats,
Speaker 1: two pair of socks. You knew you were going to
Speaker 1: run through a pair. You see guys shucking clothes, like
Speaker 1: Jules says. But whatever it was, you didn't want to
Speaker 1: be the guy that didn't make it because you had
Speaker 1: to run it again. And number two, you let the
Speaker 1: position group down, so then.
Speaker 2: They show everyone on the team you didn't make it.
Speaker 1: That you didn't make it, be on that list, you
Speaker 1: didn't put that ground in, And then you gotta sit
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 2: And you go to the cafeteria to get your food.
Speaker 2: Looking at you ass like you get a guy like
Speaker 2: me and say, man, I don't think you should be
Speaker 2: in this line. Maybe you should go hit the fucking treadmill.
Speaker 2: That's that's really how it goes, Bro. You gotta earn.
Speaker 2: I mean, what the fuck are we doing. We're supposed
Speaker 2: to go to battle with this guy. You can't do
Speaker 2: the conditioning test.
Speaker 1: You ain't even ready.
Speaker 2: We're supposed to. We're supposed to be a two minute
Speaker 2: drill for the fucking super Bowl or National championship, and
Speaker 2: this guy can't make his fucking conditioning I gotta we're
Speaker 2: gonna rely on this guy?
Speaker 1: Can we depend on you?
Speaker 2: That's like the same thing if this guy was to
Speaker 2: cut the ball, like is he going green or red?
Speaker 2: We're gonna cut. We're gonna rely on this guy to
Speaker 2: cut the fucking bomb the wire. That's how important it is.
Speaker 6: You're the guy in fullmental jacket who like puts them
Speaker 6: on against the oranges over.
Speaker 2: That's you. You're the ringleader for that guy. No, I'm
Speaker 2: just saying, let's go conditioning test. Boys.
Speaker 1: It comes down to, like we say, earning your stripes. Bro,
Speaker 1: you had to earn your stripes at LSU, you had
Speaker 1: to come in that thing ready to play. The big
Speaker 1: dogs were out there and they weren't checking up. Some
Speaker 1: of them boys are running twenty six one tens and
Speaker 1: I remember one time, man, we were so physically in
Speaker 1: shape and the team was freaking This is another funny.
Speaker 1: So when we were out there freaking running, we had
Speaker 1: I think coach said if we had a certain percentage
Speaker 1: of the team passed, because nobody we never made that
Speaker 1: like one hundred percent, but he's like, if a certain
Speaker 1: percentage of the team passes, well we'll only run it once.
Speaker 1: And we smoked it and Coach Moffatt was pissed.
Speaker 2: That we won. He was like on the sideline.
Speaker 1: So we went from running twenty six to one tens
Speaker 1: and he made us run gassers after that. But I
Speaker 1: want to say we ran those twenty six one tens
Speaker 1: and gassers were from sideline to sideline. You'd have to
Speaker 1: go fifty yards over fifty yards back, but we'd have
Speaker 1: to do it twice, and so it was equivalent of
Speaker 1: running a down and back one hundred, but you go
Speaker 1: fifty at a time.
Speaker 2: It's harder because you start you have to break down
Speaker 2: when you got to touch lines and stop. You gotta
Speaker 2: rev it. You gotta slow the inje down, that ship up.
Speaker 2: It's not like you're cruising on that goddamn freeway. You
Speaker 2: can put that thing and cruise control and get on
Speaker 2: out there. That's the guy. The mileage goes down when
Speaker 2: you stop and start. Hell yeah, the same thing in
Speaker 2: the fucking body.
Speaker 1: It's one hundred because one tens. The secret is you
Speaker 1: get in shape. If you get out for the first
Speaker 1: thirty or four coast, you can coast on a cross
Speaker 1: down there.
Speaker 2: I always dug for the first like I would. I
Speaker 2: was always a rabbit, get out, get out.
Speaker 1: Jules is high energy, bro I mean, as you'll call
Speaker 1: the squirrel is what is the fucker never got tired
Speaker 1: bro ever And I mean, but it's just who he is.
Speaker 1: And so uh, I will get into that letter when
Speaker 1: I first laid my eyes on the man and the
Speaker 1: love that I have for this guy, before.
Speaker 2: We get out of it, before we get out of
Speaker 2: l s U. What are your thoughts on Brian Kelly?
Speaker 2: What's going on? Are we are we accepting him? Oh?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, you're part of your part
Speaker 2: of the brotherhood of their mouse. You, I'm not uh,
Speaker 2: what do you mean. I'm not against him, I'm not uh,
Speaker 2: I'm not all for him. You gotta win this year, though,
Speaker 2: right said you gotta win this year? Did we make
Speaker 2: it to the playoff?
Speaker 1: Hey, buddy, let's just look at the last few head
Speaker 1: coaches that we've had at LSU. We are not afraid
Speaker 1: to pay you to get the hell out of town. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna be real. Uh, we have ballers,
Speaker 1: and we know we have ballers. We're strong every year.
Speaker 1: We need coaches, we need leadership, and I think that's
Speaker 1: what they looked for in BK. And I'm not giving
Speaker 1: up on BK. I just say that BK's got his
Speaker 1: work cut out ahead of him, and I don't think
Speaker 1: he's too comfortable in Baton Rouge right now, even though
Speaker 1: he's the head man, because our standard is not where
Speaker 1: it's been the last year or two. Like it's like
Speaker 1: Natty or Buster around that place. And then if it's
Speaker 1: not Natty, it's like one or two wins and we'll
Speaker 1: let you make it until next year. So you know,
Speaker 1: those Boosters ain't afraid to throw that cash and make
Speaker 1: sure that we get the right people in there because
Speaker 1: we know that we have the players there and the
Speaker 1: culture is there, it's built, and we have a standard, Bro,
Speaker 1: and it's we believe the sec goes through through us,
Speaker 1: especially with Saban being going. For God's sakes, I mean,
Speaker 1: that was the only person that we had that was
Speaker 1: a giant that we knew. Every year, whoever win's at
Speaker 1: lsu Bamba game most likely is gonna be in your
Speaker 1: national championship talk what about Georgia. They're on the other side,
Speaker 1: Broy on the other side, But.
Speaker 2: Would say, who We're gonna win? Kelly's in a sticky situation.
Speaker 2: Sticky situation, Bro, not because of the humidity and baton
Speaker 2: rude room and.
Speaker 1: Baton rouge dude, because hey, it's a winner. Go home
Speaker 1: around there, Bro.
Speaker 2: Truly national title in two thousand and seven, you got
Speaker 2: it before we got to put a stamp on. How
Speaker 2: is winning the Natty in college?
Speaker 1: Man? It was awesome, It was awesome. I was a
Speaker 1: red chirt freshman, so I got to say that. So
Speaker 1: I think it all goes back to, like, hey, you
Speaker 1: have kids. I don't have kids yet, but it goes
Speaker 1: back to your upbringing and your your childhood when you
Speaker 1: come in as a freshman and the first year that
Speaker 1: you get there, Matt Flynn, Jacob Hester, Bradon LaFell, Demetrius Bird,
Speaker 1: those guys lead you to a national championship against Ohio State.
Speaker 1: Beannie Wells big back. Love me some big backs. I'm
Speaker 1: a big back myself, So remember big backs like Beannie Wells,
Speaker 1: Ted Ginting Jr. You know they had a squad. But
Speaker 1: where did they play? They came down to New Orleans?
Speaker 1: Is it home cooking? Hey, we're gonna ball out for
Speaker 1: our people. Didn't feel like a home game every time, Bro,
Speaker 1: it is home. It's an hour down the road. So
Speaker 1: if you got to see the Tigers in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: good luck.
Speaker 2: Now, would you take the would you guys take the
Speaker 2: Mississippi River or would you take a bus, because you
Speaker 2: could take the river from Baton Rouge all the way down, Bro,
Speaker 2: that'd be real festive, real festive. Would you imagine? Could
Speaker 2: you imagine a steamboat you guys are on. That'd be
Speaker 2: fucking hard lsu Tigers on the fucking steamboat coming down
Speaker 2: coming off the boat, Bro, like a bunch of bikers
Speaker 2: or something. I'm just saying, I think that's what they
Speaker 2: should do. Like a Viking, Hey, look at that? Would
Speaker 2: that would be kind of tight?
Speaker 1: A Southern Viking, bro we ride in by boat to
Speaker 1: any of the home games, close places.
Speaker 2: That'd be intimidated. If I was a Northern team and
Speaker 2: I saw a fucking steam a riverboat, steamboat whatever they
Speaker 2: call him, fucking like with a casino on there, coming
Speaker 2: with a whole bunch of crazy dudes trumpets and ship
Speaker 2: and a bunch of beads coming everywhere, I would fuck
Speaker 2: intimidate me. I think you guys need to do it.
Speaker 1: Could y'all tell this guy just left Marty girl in
Speaker 1: new orders for.
Speaker 2: The san Did he get it?
Speaker 1: Did he get a taste of the South?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: I went to Louis Armstrong Park, No big deal, fucking
Speaker 2: I'd walk through that bitch. That ship was sick. Took
Speaker 2: a picture, took a couple of pictures of statues me
Speaker 2: and Louis.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, look.
Speaker 2: Classic. Classic. I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 6: Right, I can't even it was awesome looking back at
Speaker 6: the seven LSU season because yeah, it was a two
Speaker 6: lost championship game, but the championship team, but those two
Speaker 6: losses triple overtime against Arkansas and then against Kentucky were
Speaker 6: some wild games that are totally in like games with
Speaker 6: names level memorable moment.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's now you say that. The Kentucky game where
Speaker 1: we went up there. I remember that being the prettiest
Speaker 1: grass I'd ever seen in my life, bro, But it
Speaker 1: was like really thick. Remember how Bill told us to
Speaker 1: London bring your spikes. I got benched that game, by
Speaker 1: the way, for not having my spikes. But when I
Speaker 1: went to Kentucky it really was like this thick.
Speaker 2: Grass Kentucky Blue Bubs, but they call it.
Speaker 1: It's awesome up there.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 1: The weather was nice, it was Chris, but we were
Speaker 1: the big dogs coming in. Never really underestimated anybody, but.
Speaker 4: Yere was that.
Speaker 2: So that was year we played them. I played him
Speaker 2: and we almost beat them. Yeah, yeah, I went I
Speaker 2: went crazy. We went to kent State, went to Kentucky.
Speaker 2: I think we were tied up halftime, and then they
Speaker 2: blew the Brakes office at the.
Speaker 1: End of the wouldn't Randall Cobb was that? Randall Cort was.
Speaker 2: There and the number four who was the tall Woodson
Speaker 2: the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2: Almost beating them is fifty six twenty. No, but we
Speaker 2: were at for King State, for Kent State, for Kin State. Hey,
Speaker 2: we were tied at halftime, bro, good fight? Or were
Speaker 2: we up at halftime?
Speaker 1: But they were?
Speaker 2: They look fourteen fourteen and a half. That was huge.
Speaker 2: We went up fourteen. Oh, I think we were balling.
Speaker 2: I was balling. Come on, No, you didn't know.
Speaker 6: You went seven oh and then they scored. Then they
Speaker 6: went up fourteen seven and then you tied it late.
Speaker 2: Hey, I mean that's resilient. That's called answering. That's building
Speaker 2: the lead. That's just a young Okay, we ran our bodies, bro.
Speaker 1: Y'all want to us enough?
Speaker 2: Jules?
Speaker 6: The stat line twelve for twenty eight for one hundred
Speaker 6: and twenty nine yards, touchdown, an interception.
Speaker 2: What was my rushing? Twenty four attempts one to thirty five?
Speaker 1: There you go, getting active on the wheels, buck active.
Speaker 1: See I'm talking about Hey, I didn't even know this
Speaker 1: cat play quarterback until you know. I got to talk
Speaker 1: to him a little bit. But hey, can't take it
Speaker 1: from him. Can't take it from him. He don't get
Speaker 1: it done one way or the other. They don't have
Speaker 1: a special teams receive a quarterback they give a joker
Speaker 1: the ball, let him do what he does.
Speaker 2: You you're a hunter. We're talking about Louisiana. You love
Speaker 2: the fucking outdoor shit. Do you ever hunt to with
Speaker 2: Matt Light?
Speaker 1: I have not hunted with Matt like yet. Me and
Speaker 1: Matt had talked about it a million times. You went
Speaker 1: to the shootouts, right, I went to his deal that
Speaker 1: he has up in Rhode Island. Yeah, the shootout man,
Speaker 1: they shootout made it one time. He had freaking army
Speaker 1: tanks and all kind of crazy stuff there. I got
Speaker 1: to get on the books with Matty, like.
Speaker 2: He's having something come up soon for I mean, Matt
Speaker 2: raises his money for everything. Yeah, but it's something for
Speaker 2: the Matt Loup Foundation.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Were you there when we found out he was hunting
Speaker 2: on the property.
Speaker 1: No, but I did see that video and as a
Speaker 1: true hunter at heart, he's brilliant because animals always find
Speaker 1: less pressured areas, meaning they're gonna go where they're not
Speaker 1: gonna be shot at. So of course they're going to
Speaker 1: camp out around the stadium where they think nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: kill him. In a real killer like Matt Light's like, huh,
Speaker 1: I know there's something in here, So hey, I tip
Speaker 1: my hat to Matty Ikes for that, because hey, bro,
Speaker 1: somebody's got to get it done.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on the Rabel higher man.
Speaker 1: Rabel coming back? I look at it, man, former player,
Speaker 1: just say with Mayo. You know, Mayo got his one
Speaker 1: year in, but I just always pull for any coach
Speaker 1: that was a former player, especially if it's New England,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So Rabel did this thing
Speaker 1: down in Tennessee. He had a little stint there and
Speaker 1: I think he ran a good program. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: for the organization, and you know this rebuilding phase that
Speaker 1: we're in. Nobody likes to say it, but it's the reality.
Speaker 1: You know, we're in a rebuilding stage our time there.
Speaker 1: The dynasty is definitely dead and gone, and so when
Speaker 1: you look at Rabel and him coming in, I'm not
Speaker 1: shocked by the hire at all. I think that they're
Speaker 1: going to try to piece together a few old names
Speaker 1: that are familiar and then probably get some new juice
Speaker 1: in there as well. But I think overall, it is
Speaker 1: what it is, man. It's it's a tough business to
Speaker 1: be in.
Speaker 2: Did you never played with Rabes? Neither did I? But
Speaker 2: what do you what do you remember hearing about Rabes
Speaker 2: like legend in the locker room. Did you ever hear
Speaker 2: about him anytime in the locker room or or the
Speaker 2: facility A little bit.
Speaker 1: I heard about him. I heard that he really was
Speaker 1: not a man that gave too many fucks about anything,
Speaker 1: Like he was kind of like outspoken.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like he was a challenger. He challenged guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've heard that about him. I've only met
Speaker 1: him like once or twice, but I heard he was
Speaker 1: just that that attitude that you need in the locker room,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? That was that was him.
Speaker 2: So it worked you, but and if you didn't work
Speaker 2: to his Like I remember hearing that ship. I think
Speaker 2: it's a great hire. I feel bad for Mayo of course, man,
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: With all that said, Raybels brought a team in Nashville
Speaker 2: to a one seed with Tannehill as the starting quarterback
Speaker 2: Championship game. I know they had a generational running back
Speaker 2: with Derrick Henry, but the King like that's still that's
Speaker 2: they went to. There were one seed.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about running a program. You know, hey, look
Speaker 1: this and go back. I got it. I got to
Speaker 1: give it to Mayo. That's that's his first year in
Speaker 1: so I hope he doesn't count as so without I
Speaker 1: help nobody else in the league count himself. But that's
Speaker 1: his first swing at it. Vrabel has run a program,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And so when you look
Speaker 1: at that, it's like you can't discredit any about his
Speaker 1: body of work. And he's not a good body of work.
Speaker 1: So he's familiar with the Pats.
Speaker 2: He's like him. I like him with Mickey D's too,
Speaker 2: because Mickey D's is back. Josh McDaniels Gucci, I call
Speaker 2: him Gucci.
Speaker 1: Mickey D's man called him Gucci because Gucci loved to
Speaker 1: have me the ball every now and then. If it
Speaker 1: was up to Tom and Jewels and the big fellow grunk,
Speaker 1: guess what, they're gonna spin that bitch out there eighty
Speaker 1: times a game every now and then, Coach McDaniel sprinkle
Speaker 1: in a few runs for the kids.
Speaker 2: So I love you, Coach McDaniels. I love you, Josh,
Speaker 2: I swear I do. What about Matty p going to
Speaker 2: Ohio State d C.
Speaker 1: Just Hey, you just told me, you just told me
Speaker 1: the news. I didn't know that. We just saw Maddy
Speaker 1: P here a few weeks ago.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: So that's dope. Matty P is defensive guru man, and.
Speaker 2: I'm happy for him.
Speaker 1: Get it.
Speaker 2: You gotta get some good media. Everyone hates on him
Speaker 2: too much. He's a fall guy for a lot of shit,
Speaker 2: I think on Matty P. Yeah, Matty P, I wentn't
Speaker 2: on the defense side of the ball. We weren't on
Speaker 2: that side of the ball, so we might not have
Speaker 2: seen that side. Coach getting on him. They don't Matty
Speaker 2: P knows football, Yeah, he does do that now. He's
Speaker 2: got like a photographic memory, so like that means he
Speaker 2: can remember all the situations he's been in.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's a nerd and defenses and ship I mean,
Speaker 1: let's be real. I mean, he's a hell of a defence.
Speaker 2: I don't understand how a lot of people, like a
Speaker 2: lot of people hate on him.
Speaker 6: He's jumped on a lot of grenades too, and you know,
Speaker 6: not doing well in Detroit. People didn't like that, and
Speaker 6: then a narrative built.
Speaker 2: Yeah, done that, I mean, I guess.
Speaker 1: But the outside has always got something to say. Gats
Speaker 1: we know that, yeah, they really do. And I think everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, this coaching world is tough you know, I
Speaker 1: see so many players that are jumping into it and
Speaker 1: they want to run with it and do it. And hey,
Speaker 1: just because you know ball doesn't mean that you're necessarily
Speaker 1: a leader of men, you know. And that's what you
Speaker 1: got to look at with a coach. You know, you
Speaker 1: got all not only just have your football IQ up there.
Speaker 1: You got to be able to lead guys, motivate guys,
Speaker 1: know how to hit that switch when the back off.
Speaker 1: You know, it requires a lot. So I look at
Speaker 1: Maddi pe Matty. Pee's been coaching for how long? Probably
Speaker 1: as long as I've been alive, So he's more than qualified.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think that long.
Speaker 1: Twenty years.
Speaker 2: You're twenty eight.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not that young, bro.
Speaker 2: What did you say?
Speaker 1: He's probably been coaching as long as I've been alive.
Speaker 1: That was sarcasm, But I'm just saying, like he's been
Speaker 1: coaching a long time. Would you just say him coaching
Speaker 1: twenty years?
Speaker 2: I was about to say twenty eight, like I've been
Speaker 2: thirty five years. He's been coaching thirty five years?
Speaker 1: Has he?
Speaker 2: I don't know how you're thirty. Seve just turned thirty
Speaker 2: shitty close enough close, and let's just do math. That's
Speaker 2: the Matty p thing to do. I'm doing the math
Speaker 2: checking you.
Speaker 1: So I think that's fair. But I think Ohio State
Speaker 1: they got they got a hell of a higher Bro.
Speaker 1: I mean, on the highest level. You look at the
Speaker 1: time that we were in New England and he was
Speaker 1: calling the shots. Our defense was strong, Bro, Look at that.
Speaker 1: Let's just talk about his defenses a little bit. Look
Speaker 1: at that linebacker court we had to bang it out
Speaker 1: with every day, with Brandon Spikes and Jamie Collins and
Speaker 1: Dante Hottawer and and Rob Ninkovich. Do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Big V in the middle, Devin mccordy, Patrick Chung.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, does he know talent?
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 1: I mean, so get him on the college level. Let's
Speaker 1: see what he can do with some kids that a
Speaker 1: commit he can do. Come on up, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? So good Gay, Good for Maddy p Man. Congratulations.
Speaker 2: Hey yeah.
Speaker 6: I think Chip Kelly, one year offensive coordinator now is
Speaker 6: the offensive coordinator for the Raiders.
Speaker 2: So Higo State's a pipeline he bounce around. Bro. Oh
Speaker 2: of State really is like stepping Matt for guys like
Speaker 2: to get there. It's the New Alabama Nick Saban.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Herb wasn't Herb there before he went
Speaker 1: back to it before he went back to Jacksonville. Ivermyer, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was up there for a little bit and then
Speaker 1: he jumped to jackson Let's say you're right. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like a pipeline Fanoman coach tapeline.
Speaker 2: We spent some crazy times in fox brou You gotta
Speaker 2: I heard when you heard you were coming on you
Speaker 2: you got a little checklist of things you want to
Speaker 2: go over. What do you got pull? Bring out the list?
Speaker 2: Bring it. Let me see the list.
Speaker 1: Man, I'm gonna shoot. We got man, I got the list.
Speaker 2: You gotta hear. I can know you got rid. You
Speaker 2: put out on a notesap which I have. I have
Speaker 2: a notes tap that I put a password to and
Speaker 2: I don't know how to find the password. I'm never
Speaker 2: gonna be able to get the notes, and I need
Speaker 2: these notes. I can't have you tried to squirrel eleven.
Speaker 2: I don't know, dude, I've put in all of I
Speaker 2: can't remember what state of mind I was when I
Speaker 2: did this. Locked yourself out, but I'm locked out. I
Speaker 2: need the fucking info. I feel like the guy from bitcoin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's funny.
Speaker 2: See this list.
Speaker 1: What do we got, man? We pulled up a list
Speaker 1: man I had. I had my best friend, man marketing agent.
Speaker 1: You didn't see Red without Moose. Moose has been around
Speaker 1: since day one. If y'all know any of Jills's best buds, Man,
Speaker 1: me and Moose are been rocking since college. Bro. We
Speaker 1: came to the first college class together at LSU. He's
Speaker 1: from rust and Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Ethiopian.
Speaker 1: Yes, well no, but it's the same close close enough,
Speaker 1: cluse enough man East. I mean, he's he's freaking as
Speaker 1: good as gold.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: But Moose sent me some stuff. He's like, rid, you're
Speaker 1: going Toto.
Speaker 2: The episode got some stewing, some of that that sour dough. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's like a sour dough.
Speaker 1: You put that season in in that gumbow is what
Speaker 1: he did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking about Ethiopian style food. Oh oh yeah,
Speaker 2: because we just went to his wedding. It's like it's
Speaker 2: like a stew and you have like a sour dough.
Speaker 2: The brand, the brand, Yeah, it's like it's not Peter,
Speaker 2: but it's it's Delici in Jarra and jar Remember we
Speaker 2: had that his wedding was cool. They had like traditional
Speaker 2: like Ethiopian. Dan came out in the all the all
Speaker 2: his family members were all in like traditional African you
Speaker 2: know stuff. It was crazy and it was beautiful at
Speaker 2: the top.
Speaker 1: Of freaking New York City where York, My boy, you
Speaker 1: came a long way. I gotta go ahead and give
Speaker 1: you a shot out. Him came a long way from
Speaker 1: Russell Louisiana and Moose and me have been hand in
Speaker 1: hand every step of the way since I first talked
Speaker 1: to Jules. He's been around. But he just sent me
Speaker 1: some little pointers that we're gonna have to talk about
Speaker 1: because he was like, were talking about what game and
Speaker 1: he was like, Man, make sure y'all throw this in
Speaker 1: because me and Jewels got more stories probably off the
Speaker 1: field on the field, but uh hey, we got we
Speaker 1: got some time to get into that. We go to
Speaker 1: the list, man, I guess we'll start with how Bill
Speaker 1: put me in fat camp, you know, like when I
Speaker 1: was overweight coming in as a running back, and uh,
Speaker 1: do you want to go ahead.
Speaker 2: And elaborate on that? Stores man, heavyweights? Man did he
Speaker 2: bring in Ben Stiller, Tony Tony Perkins bro to one
Speaker 2: of those deals Bill Chicks is Tony Perkins right now.
Speaker 1: Man, you get to New England and of course you're
Speaker 1: going in there and it's Bill Belichick and Bill's intimidating,
Speaker 1: bro Like, you gotta give it to him, man, like,
Speaker 1: he's he knows what he's doing. He's got a system
Speaker 1: in place, and you don't mess with him, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, You just don't you respect him. You're
Speaker 1: in the presence of one of the greatest to ever
Speaker 1: do it, if not the greatest coach ever do it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him his man he is because I
Speaker 1: played for a lot of ball coaches. But you know,
Speaker 1: you have that meeting where you come in there and
Speaker 1: you're a rookie. He gives you your playing weight. And
Speaker 1: he brought me into the office because I go to
Speaker 1: the weight room and coach Nash hop on the scale,
Speaker 1: really and I hopped on the scale?
Speaker 2: How much was it?
Speaker 1: And I'm leaving about.
Speaker 2: Two thirty five, two thirty eight somewhere the year is
Speaker 2: this rookie year.
Speaker 1: It's my rookie year.
Speaker 2: So he came in at two thirty eight.
Speaker 1: Came in. I played at LSU around two thirty you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like as a running back.
Speaker 2: But eight pounds is eight pounds.
Speaker 1: Eight pounds is a lot, Bro, eight pounds is a lot,
Speaker 1: and you wait till the story.
Speaker 2: Just go because you'll understand what's the weight, what's the way.
Speaker 1: So Nash gets in there coaching. Nash is our string coach,
Speaker 1: and he's like, really, hop on the scale. So I
Speaker 1: hop on the scale. I think I was tipping that
Speaker 1: thing at between two thirty five two forty sec running
Speaker 1: back between the tackles. I'm a big bat. Hey, I
Speaker 1: obviously did something right because Coach, you drafted me.
Speaker 2: Like what you saw.
Speaker 1: Nash is like Ridley, you got some work to do.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, you know, I ain't scared of work.
Speaker 1: Coach said, you gotta be at two twenty. I said
Speaker 1: two twenty. How I said, Nash, you're tripping. I talked
Speaker 1: to you're tripping, Bro. I said, nah. He said, don't
Speaker 1: ask me. I'm just telling you what the boss man said.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, which boss man we talking about?
Speaker 1: He said, you can go see the head man if
Speaker 1: you want to. There. I went, you know what I mean, like,
Speaker 1: what's the problem. I gotta go talk to coach and
Speaker 1: see what's up? Because what reason.
Speaker 2: So you went from weight room. Yeah, you took that
Speaker 2: long ass walk down those hallways to that entry door,
Speaker 2: and you saw Bears cross Bearge's office. I said, Bears
Speaker 2: is coach available? And I didn't think I was doing
Speaker 2: anything wrong.
Speaker 1: I might have been getting off on the wrong foot
Speaker 1: with Bill Belichick because here I am, as a rookie
Speaker 1: walking into his office trying to tell him what my
Speaker 1: playing weight would be.
Speaker 2: But what do I know.
Speaker 1: I'm a rookie, guys, you know what I mean. I'm
Speaker 1: just coming in, like, coach, come on. So Nash is
Speaker 1: telling me, I'm two thirty five on a light day,
Speaker 1: two forty if I finished leaving the breakfast buffet, eat
Speaker 1: my bacon and omelets and grits that I get every day.
Speaker 1: So he's like, we want you too twenty by a
Speaker 1: certain day. I can't even remember what he said, so
Speaker 1: I was like, man, that's impossible. I was like, there's
Speaker 1: no way I'm gonna be able to do that. So
Speaker 1: I walked back. I said, all right, coach, Nash, I'm
Speaker 1: head on up to go talk to Bill to see
Speaker 1: what's up, see if I can kind of work this out.
Speaker 2: He thought, you're going in there and negotiate a couple
Speaker 2: of pounds. Go talk to coach. Coach, you give me
Speaker 2: two to twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Hey, anything we beat it? Can we meet in the middle.
Speaker 1: And y'all when I tell y'all, coach is.
Speaker 2: So paint the picture? You walk in? What's it? Where's
Speaker 2: he is? He at his desk at his computer.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I leave, I leave our weight room, walk
Speaker 1: through the locker room, go buy our meeting the room,
Speaker 1: go down the all way. And of course I'm not really.
Speaker 2: As scared or because you don't know yet.
Speaker 1: I don't know yet. That's what I'm saying. Like I'm
Speaker 1: not as I'm naive. I'm you're gonna talk to Bill.
Speaker 1: Talk to Bill, you know, like not talk.
Speaker 2: Hey, truly, what I look back on things now, I
Speaker 2: was walking by you in the hallway as a second
Speaker 2: year or third year guy, just like what a dumb ass.
Speaker 2: So I cut out of the hallway.
Speaker 1: You saying all this to say, I have seen I
Speaker 1: want to get too far off track, but I've seen rookies, y'all,
Speaker 1: Like on my back end because I was there for
Speaker 1: four years, I've seen rookies come in and see Bill
Speaker 1: coming down the hallway, and they would literally like just
Speaker 1: bust the left or right into a random meeting room
Speaker 1: because they don't want to look this man in his eyes.
Speaker 1: Bro Like Sill comes down the hallway. I'm not making
Speaker 1: this up cut sweatshirt. It's like he's been in his
Speaker 1: office for three days. People are like, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So I walked down there and I'm like, hey, Bears,
Speaker 1: you can't get to Bill without going through Bears. But
Speaker 1: if you make that right into that office, you better
Speaker 1: have a damn good reason to go in there. And
Speaker 1: I had a damn good reason that day, coach, because
Speaker 1: I can't drop all this weight. How you try to
Speaker 1: get me to drop it? Let me show you how
Speaker 1: much he cared. I walked in, I.
Speaker 2: Said, coach, and he's at his death.
Speaker 1: He's at his desk. He's sitting at his desk behind
Speaker 1: his deck. I said, coach could come in and sit down.
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, Rid, come on in and sit down. Okay.
Speaker 2: Did he know you were coming or is he blindsided?
Speaker 1: He was blindsided? He was blindsided. Bears let me in.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Bears Check said, you know Steven's here to talk to you.
Speaker 2: Did you tell Bears while you were talking to him?
Speaker 2: I can't really remember those details. I definitely what did
Speaker 2: Bear did? Just there's you go? Sure? Bears looked at me.
Speaker 2: I guess I walked in.
Speaker 1: I was like, Bears his coach available, and he kind
Speaker 1: of looked up and I was like, I just need
Speaker 1: to talk to him real quick. I guess nothing.
Speaker 2: So Bill's sit you down.
Speaker 1: And when I walk in there, Bill's sitting behind his
Speaker 1: desk and he's like, come on in and sit. So
Speaker 1: I walked in and sat. I was like, what you
Speaker 1: got real? Said coach? Uh, I need to talk to
Speaker 1: you about this weight. I was like, I just waited,
Speaker 1: you know, and uh, Coach Nash told me at the
Speaker 1: weight that you have told him that you want me
Speaker 1: to play at. And I'm just making sure this is
Speaker 1: the right weight and this is not like a mistake
Speaker 1: like and he said, what's the number? I can't really
Speaker 1: remember what I had and nada YadA. I said, well,
Speaker 1: the number is.
Speaker 2: You could have gone right there. If you wanted to
Speaker 2: make the decision, you could have said to twenty five,
Speaker 2: because you if you if he didn't remember the weight,
Speaker 2: maybe he would have agreed at to twenty five. All right,
Speaker 2: you messed up? Go ahead?
Speaker 1: Should I should have had a better negotiation tactic, as
Speaker 1: though what Juill said. But I'm just in there trying
Speaker 1: not to die and starve myself out at this rate.
Speaker 1: So I go in and I say, well, coach, uh
Speaker 1: this weight that you want me at? I said, Coach
Speaker 1: Nash said, you want me at two twenty And I
Speaker 1: said that's impossible. So I'm just telling you right now,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. And I said, I
Speaker 1: don't know how you want me to get there. I said,
Speaker 1: I'll bust my ass and do whatever. But I'm like
Speaker 1: two twenty. I said, can I just tell you a
Speaker 1: little bit about me? Like like he doesn't already know
Speaker 1: you drafted me. The Patriots investigate everybody. They know everything
Speaker 1: about you before they even get you in the building.
Speaker 1: So I said, Coach, what did he say?
Speaker 2: I tell you about me?
Speaker 1: I said, can I tell you about me? And he
Speaker 1: was like sure, you know he's just dry, you know,
Speaker 1: he's not too much. I pulled out my driver's license
Speaker 1: and I pulled out my drivers It's true story. I
Speaker 1: pulled out my driver's license. I said, Coach, look, look,
Speaker 1: I just I just want to show you this, I said, Coach,
Speaker 1: and I promise this true store. I said, I just
Speaker 1: want to tell you, like, if you can look at
Speaker 1: my driver's license. I slid it on his desk. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm bold as a rookie. And he's like, what it was,
Speaker 1: this clown? You know what I mean? I said, these
Speaker 1: numbers that are on my driver's license from when I
Speaker 1: got my permit in high school to before I even
Speaker 1: got a driver's license, my permit, and on my permit
Speaker 1: at fifteen and a half years old, I was five
Speaker 1: eleven two hundred and twenty pounds. That's how much I
Speaker 1: weighed in high school. So I said, coach, you mean
Speaker 1: to tell me that you want me to drop from
Speaker 1: two thirty eight all the way down to two twenty
Speaker 1: And he looked at me and he said, kind of
Speaker 1: smacked those lips. Well read, I mean, really, I think
Speaker 1: it's only about five hundred and sixty three dollars per
Speaker 1: pound per day that you're overweight, So it's really up
Speaker 1: to you. And I said what, I'm like, what do
Speaker 1: you mean? He was like per pound per day and
Speaker 1: he doubled down on it. I was like, I can
Speaker 1: do quick math, bro, I'm third round draft pick. I
Speaker 1: ain't got money like that, So fat Camp I went,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I'm like, screw it, coach,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. If that's how we're gonna
Speaker 1: go about it, there's nothing not going to do.
Speaker 2: What's fat camp until.
Speaker 1: So fat Camp consisted of me coming in once I
Speaker 1: had to drop from two thirty eight to my weight
Speaker 1: when I was fifteen years old of two. It required
Speaker 1: me changing my diet with our beautiful nutrition Ted. First,
Speaker 1: Ted put me on this strip died. I had to
Speaker 1: come into fat Camp, which was running before practice. So
Speaker 1: we had to come in and either do our workout
Speaker 1: what like before practice in the mornings, or we had
Speaker 1: to go and do our workout after practice once we
Speaker 1: got off the field. I was always an early riser,
Speaker 1: so I came in early in the morning. So fat
Speaker 1: Camp I was basically in there with all the guys
Speaker 1: who were overweight that we're trying to cut weight. So
Speaker 1: I would have to go in every morning and I'm
Speaker 1: talking about it's still dark outside at five am and
Speaker 1: just hit the treadmill and run. And so that was
Speaker 1: the first time that I really I think the structure
Speaker 1: and I look back on that' like that structure and
Speaker 1: that discipline it. It made me a good pro because
Speaker 1: I legit dropped this weight for the simple fact that
Speaker 1: I was not gonna give up my money. And let's
Speaker 1: do the math. If I'm two thirty eight and the
Speaker 1: weight is two twenty, let's do that times five hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty three bucks times eighteen per day. Like my
Speaker 1: paychecks is gonna be pretty thin. You know, the Massachusetts
Speaker 1: state taxes weren't too forgiving, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't need to be giving away any extra eight.
Speaker 2: Point three now six point eight. It used to be
Speaker 2: there's some new shit.
Speaker 1: Something crazy. So I got on board with the program
Speaker 1: and coach didn't really like yell at me or nothing
Speaker 1: like that. But I don't know if I kind of
Speaker 1: rubbed them the wrong way from jump, but it was
Speaker 1: just like one of those deals. It shook me up
Speaker 1: as a rook. I'm like, how in the hell am
Speaker 1: I about to drop twenty pounds or twenty five pounds
Speaker 1: and you want me to run between the tackle bang
Speaker 1: it out with the Brandon Spikes of the worlds and
Speaker 1: the dry Males of the world linebackers at two fifty five?
Speaker 2: Were you were? You? Were you better? Two twenty as
Speaker 2: quick as a cat freaking nasty dude.
Speaker 1: Like what once I got to that playing weight up, Like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know Bill knows what the hell he's talking about.
Speaker 2: Who with you, dude? I think big Marcus Cannon was
Speaker 2: in Cannon the scale. Remember that one time Marcus Cannon,
Speaker 2: he used to have to weigh in all the time.
Speaker 2: He was always in fact can. He was just using
Speaker 2: fo all the time. Huge And he would go in
Speaker 2: and he would do it with a towel on his weight,
Speaker 2: and then he'd have a pencil right like here so
Speaker 2: he could leverage himself up. Huh. Yes, he could lean
Speaker 2: on it and lift it up and he would fucking
Speaker 2: make it. They caught him like three times. Kenny used
Speaker 2: to have to he was in fact camp like his
Speaker 2: whole career.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a grime, bro, because people don't really realize.
Speaker 1: It's like, man, once coach sets this, you know coach
Speaker 1: had just closed up either, No, that is your weight.
Speaker 1: So my four years in New England, I played it
Speaker 1: two twenty. But Bro, I never was like a top
Speaker 1: end guy. I never had like breakaway speed. So I
Speaker 1: always prided myself on living by five yards of carry,
Speaker 1: Like if I get five yards. Every time I touch
Speaker 1: his pill, that's halfway to a first down. I can
Speaker 1: bang it out with whoever DB's safeties. I used to
Speaker 1: hit those motherfuckers like speed bumps, bro, Like I wasn't
Speaker 1: even worried about. I was just downhill with it. But
Speaker 1: once you go out to the league and you had
Speaker 1: to lose that weight, you know, you became more of
Speaker 1: a pro, you know what I mean. And so Bill
Speaker 1: went back and after we didn't get the negotiation the
Speaker 1: first time, I think it was about halfway through the season,
Speaker 1: I'm like, coach, can I get a couple pounds, give
Speaker 1: me a little bit here there? He still didn't lighten up.
Speaker 1: But it was just like I learned to respect that, bro,
Speaker 1: don't question just do you know what I mean? Because
Speaker 1: it made me a hell of a running back, It
Speaker 1: really did, and I would have never been there. I
Speaker 1: never even thought about playing that light because I didn't
Speaker 1: think I had to pop behind my pads to be
Speaker 1: a first and second down back and a short yardage
Speaker 1: back like I was. But I was wrong.
Speaker 2: I can say that he's probably at that point in
Speaker 2: his career seeing about a thousand to year.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, correct, And that's the weight that he wants
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: He's seen the herschel them all.
Speaker 1: Seeing him all bro, so he wasn't worried about what
Speaker 1: I thought. You know, you just shut up rid and
Speaker 1: get on the field.
Speaker 2: We had to bleep a story from Bears that he
Speaker 2: didn't want out there. Can you can you? Can you
Speaker 2: talk about this story that I think you the gun story?
Speaker 2: What did we call this story?
Speaker 1: I'm a murderer story. Okay, this is how this goes down.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: As you'll can see on my hat, man, I'm a
Speaker 1: hunter dude through and through once. I love ball, I
Speaker 1: love killing greenheads.
Speaker 2: Your instagram is a dead duck museum.
Speaker 1: There's a dead duck museum. Shout out two four seven hunt.
Speaker 1: That's my guys, man. I found my family outside of
Speaker 1: my football family, with my homies.
Speaker 2: I gotta hear you love the Second Amendment.
Speaker 1: I gotta have it. I gotta have it, bro, Like
Speaker 1: I am a patriot to the heart. What do you
Speaker 1: mean my Second Amendment right? So give me my guns,
Speaker 1: give me my suppressors, give me my thermals. I love
Speaker 1: to hunt hogs at night. I love to shoot green
Speaker 1: heads in the swamp. It's just what we do, you know,
Speaker 1: what I mean. When im from Mississippi, born on the
Speaker 1: Mississippi River, there's nothing to do out there but hunt, fish, playball,
Speaker 1: race some cars, race some bikes, do some stuff that's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun because there is no city. We're in
Speaker 1: the sticks, so you gotta have it. But going back
Speaker 1: to this story, my other best friend, Moose is my
Speaker 1: road dog, my other roommate in college. His name is
Speaker 1: Jared Ee and he's from my hometown and his uncle
Speaker 1: is a zydeco legend. Zydeco music is a music that
Speaker 1: is played in the South. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact details, but it's just kind
Speaker 1: of a mix of country and.
Speaker 6: Creole African American style music, rhythm and blues.
Speaker 1: Love this guy because you're looking out for me. But
Speaker 1: zydeco is very rich in the rodeo community of the South,
Speaker 1: and so my buddy's family. My first four years in
Speaker 1: the league, I think they had this Zydigo festival going
Speaker 1: on in our hometown and so in this in when
Speaker 1: Zydego would come around, Bro, you would have lines down
Speaker 1: the hallway of people bringing in their horse trailers, bringing
Speaker 1: in their buggies. They had a drag strip set up.
Speaker 1: They had a rodeo ring, and Rid was the big
Speaker 1: dog coming back to the hometown. I'm rolling in with
Speaker 1: freaking all the quads on the trailer, big lifted trucks.
Speaker 1: You know I'm coming in. The homies are stopped stepping out.
Speaker 1: Somebody told me the other day and said, man, Rid,
Speaker 1: I'll never forget when you pulled up the zydago, you
Speaker 1: had about eight bikes on the trailer, and I'm just
Speaker 1: wondering where the fuck are all the riders at, Like
Speaker 1: I have more toys and just shit because I was
Speaker 1: a country kid that had made it. What else do
Speaker 1: you expect from somebody from the South.
Speaker 2: So how lifted was the truck?
Speaker 1: Oh? Bro, we're up there. We're probably eight or ten
Speaker 1: inches riding on forties, twenty fours on forties. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say this, I was the first person. You're gonna make
Speaker 1: me tap into my roots, bro, But I was the
Speaker 1: first person to drop a Dodge Commings engine and Afford
Speaker 1: F two fifty and then put an Alice in transmission
Speaker 1: in the power trucks country.
Speaker 2: So I'm throwing dodging the Ford and Fording mixed all
Speaker 2: three and I got the best of both worlds, of
Speaker 2: all three worlds. But back to the I'm a murderer story.
Speaker 1: We pull up to Zydago, and we pulled up to Zaydago.
Speaker 1: Like I say, it's a bunch of country folks rodeo
Speaker 1: riding bikes. What else do y'all think is out there? Guns?
Speaker 1: Of course, So as people are going into the Zydago,
Speaker 1: we've already parked and set up our deal. My buddy
Speaker 1: got a new pistol. My buddy Jared got a new pistol.
Speaker 1: He's the one that's running the festival in his backyard.
Speaker 1: We're sitting in his backyard. He has some targets set
Speaker 1: up where he sights in his rifle, sights in his pistols,
Speaker 1: whatever it is.
Speaker 2: Legal.
Speaker 1: We're out of the city limits in Mississippi. As long
Speaker 1: as you're out of the city limits, you can blaze
Speaker 1: like freaking you're sick of the sam I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like whatever you want to do. But we have the
Speaker 1: target set up, and of course Moos is filming and
Speaker 1: catching this because me and my partner are sitting there
Speaker 1: side by side, ear muffs on, shooting the targets. And
Speaker 1: I put a Rick Ross song because I've been playing
Speaker 1: with the social media way too long, long enough to
Speaker 1: get me in trouble. But I put a Rick Ross
Speaker 1: song behind it, Black Coffins, and it's in the name
Speaker 1: of the song was a hundred Black Coffins and it's
Speaker 1: by Rick Ross, and I put it in black and white.
Speaker 1: So it's like in this like slow mowing, and you
Speaker 1: just see me and my buddy up here shooting these
Speaker 1: targets and I literally just unloaded bah bah blah and
Speaker 1: probably missed the target every time. But I caught the
Speaker 1: video and I posted it on my social media. No
Speaker 1: big deal until Bears rings my damn phone and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this has never happened before, and why is he calling me?
Speaker 2: So Bear's cause me says, is it you have him
Speaker 2: saved in the phone? Or is it just random Bear's Nigerian.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I pronounced that the right way.
Speaker 1: Bill's secretary is what was in my phone. It's still
Speaker 1: in there right now. So when I saw this name
Speaker 1: come across my phone, my heart just hit my stomach
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this ain't good.
Speaker 2: How long after the post.
Speaker 1: Thirty minutes, it was like no time, I'm like to
Speaker 1: say that, hey, the page got like the FBI, broy,
Speaker 1: they don't miss nothing, okay. So he called me and
Speaker 1: I answered phonem like hello, he said, Rid, I said,
Speaker 1: what's up, bears, He says, coach wants to speak with you,
Speaker 1: Like all right, So I sat on the phone. Bill
Speaker 1: gets on the phone and he I guess he hops
Speaker 1: on and I was like hello, and Coach says Rid.
Speaker 1: I say, y'all gonna have to edit this because my
Speaker 1: mom's gonna punch me in the face for using this language.
Speaker 1: But you know, Bill loved them f bombs rick. Coach goes, Rid,
Speaker 1: just what the fuck are you doing? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: what you mean, Coach, the freaking post that you just
Speaker 1: put up there? Really think about it, man, you're unloading
Speaker 1: a freaking pistol on a video on your socials. I mean,
Speaker 1: we just had a guy I arrested. Give me a
Speaker 1: fucking break, I said, damn, Coach, like I wouldn't even
Speaker 1: thinking about it that way. You know, I'm just back
Speaker 1: home chilling with the boys, shooting targets. Better yet, just
Speaker 1: don't even bring your ass back up here. I was like,
Speaker 1: whoa that just get cut? Like how does this go down?
Speaker 1: So I looked at my boy, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I got fired or not, Like,
Speaker 1: what's good?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: So Bill hung up the phone or we kind of
Speaker 1: had some choice words. No, before he hung up the phone,
Speaker 1: we're gonna cut this part, but I got to condet
Speaker 1: this sort. See, y'all just choose if y'all want to
Speaker 1: say it or not. But when he told me, he said,
Speaker 1: just don't even bring your ass back up here, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh wow. So automatically I went into coach. I have
Speaker 1: the utmost respect for you. I did not know that
Speaker 1: I had messed up that bad. I said, there's targets
Speaker 1: in the background. We weren't doing anything wrong. I said,
Speaker 1: you're comparing me to a murderer because I'm shooting targets
Speaker 1: in the backyard. I said, but either way, I hear you,
Speaker 1: I will not be back there, and I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Let you know this.
Speaker 1: My faith is in Godden upstairs. I said, this is
Speaker 1: not the end of my career. If I am cutting.
Speaker 1: I hung up the phone. It was probably a dumb
Speaker 1: move to do that. But you hung up, bro, because
Speaker 1: I was like, I was blown away, Like you just
Speaker 1: called me a freaking murderer because I'm shooting at targets
Speaker 1: in the backyard. This is what we do on a
Speaker 1: regular bro, Like, this is life. So I hung up
Speaker 1: and probably wasn't the swartest thing to do, and within
Speaker 1: like I would say, thirty to an hour, I got
Speaker 1: another phone call and it was Bill and he says,
Speaker 1: you know what better Yet when you come here, do
Speaker 1: not even stop at my office. He says, you go
Speaker 1: straight upstairs and see Robert. I'm like, Robert, Robert, mister crab.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 1: Like, I'm like, I don't know. I don't know what. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how this goes. Because Bill, whether y'all
Speaker 1: know it or not, Bill moves the needle on everything
Speaker 1: round there. He's making all the calls for him to
Speaker 1: push me to the big Dog. I'm like, bro, I'll
Speaker 1: just stay in Mississippi. Hey, bro, I'll take the first off. Shit,
Speaker 1: how about that? Let me just stay right here where
Speaker 1: you told me to stay. So, Man, I call Moose.
Speaker 1: I'm like, moos, bro let me, I said, guess what?
Speaker 1: So I told him. Moose was like, I told you
Speaker 1: not to post that video.
Speaker 2: Rid dah da da da I'm like, what are you
Speaker 2: talking about?
Speaker 1: Him? Like? Either way, he told me, don't even come back,
Speaker 1: and then he told me to go see mister Kraft. Like, Bro,
Speaker 1: what the hell am I gonna do? Like, I don't
Speaker 1: know what's gonna go down. So a few weeks went by,
Speaker 1: we had to come on in for camp and stuff,
Speaker 1: and I showed up on the first day and I did,
Speaker 1: like Coach said, it's simple instructions. I just took my
Speaker 1: ass on the stairs. Where's mister Kraft's office? Scared to death, man,
Speaker 1: heart beating. I didn't know what to expect. So walk
Speaker 1: on in end and I'm on eggshells And first time
Speaker 1: I'm going to mister Craft's office. He's got like all
Speaker 1: this Patriot memobilia paper stacked up to here on the desk,
Speaker 1: and he's like the most soft spoken, nice guy ever.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, am I about to see his dark side?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: What is what is this?
Speaker 2: What's going to happen? So I'm talking he sit down
Speaker 2: and mister Kraft's at the desk.
Speaker 1: Bro. I come in. I'm sitting on the desk, bro,
Speaker 1: And I'm.
Speaker 2: So he does he like when you come in? Does
Speaker 2: someone tell him that you're coming in, uh, mister Stevens here.
Speaker 1: I don't remember that point he did.
Speaker 2: He did, He have glasses on and raise his head
Speaker 2: up to you and noses down a little.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no no. He met me at the door,
Speaker 1: and I kind of remember that slow motion walk in there,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it could be my last walking Patriots Stadium? Is this
Speaker 1: going to be like a little talk? Am I gonna
Speaker 1: be suspended? But I'm just walking in there, and the
Speaker 1: whole time my back's to him. I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: even know what I'm gonna say. Like, so I'm just
Speaker 1: coming in. I don't even know where to sit. So
Speaker 1: he walks around his desk, He's like, come on in,
Speaker 1: take a seat, you know, super nice, And I just
Speaker 1: sit down and I'm like, how are you, mister Kraft.
Speaker 1: He was like I'm okay, I'm okay, how are you?
Speaker 1: And I'm like in trouble. Obviously I'd have messed up.
Speaker 1: He was like, look and he kind of looked at me,
Speaker 1: and he looked over at the door and he got
Speaker 1: up again or whatever. It made sure the door was closed,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh shit, like I'm just like literally
Speaker 1: sliding down to my seat. I'm like, bro, you blew it.
Speaker 1: You straight up blew it. He says, Look, Stephen, we
Speaker 1: love you. Here said your great patriot says, you're a
Speaker 1: good kid. He was like, sometimes Bill can be a
Speaker 1: little bit harsh, and my heart just I was like, hell, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Bill can be a little bit hard. I'm like yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying too much, but in my mind
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, he can be, but I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to piss him off or step on the toes. And
Speaker 1: he's like, let me tell you a little story, like storytime. Cool.
Speaker 1: So at least I'm not pack up your shit and
Speaker 1: get out of here, like I least some whole nom.
Speaker 1: So he was like, I'm gonna tell you about the
Speaker 1: time that my family was born and raised in the Northeast.
Speaker 1: But I had a daughter. I can't remember exactly what
Speaker 1: he said, ya, because I was scared out of my mom.
Speaker 1: I had a daughter that was dating a guy either
Speaker 1: married a guy from the South, and he said it
Speaker 1: was the wildest thing to me. And he's just talking
Speaker 1: so slow, and I'm like, get to the point. Am
Speaker 1: I cut?
Speaker 2: Am I fired?
Speaker 1: Am I saved? Like, what's well. I had this daughter,
Speaker 1: and you know, I went down to visit her significant
Speaker 1: other's family and we went to church together. After church,
Speaker 1: everybody left church and came back to the house and
Speaker 1: they cooked food and they're hanging out just like country
Speaker 1: folks do. Like that's what we do every Sunday. It's
Speaker 1: like you're in the Lord's house. First, you're gonna eat
Speaker 1: some good grub and you're gonna spend time with the family.
Speaker 1: And this was his first time, I guessed to Texas.
Speaker 1: So he was saying how he got there. They went
Speaker 1: to church, they ate food, and he said, and the
Speaker 1: next thing I know, he says, I look up and
Speaker 1: I see the little kids on the back porch, and
Speaker 1: he says, Steven, they all have guns. It blew my
Speaker 1: mind to see these little kids actually doing what they
Speaker 1: were doing, comfortable with firearms. They weren't hurting anybody. But
Speaker 1: he was like, it's just the difference of the culture.
Speaker 1: I'm like, preach, mister Kraft. Yes, he was like, so
Speaker 1: Bill might not necessarily understand what's going on and where
Speaker 1: you're from, but you have to be aware of the
Speaker 1: time and the pressure that the team is under. And
Speaker 1: he's like, I think that's what Bill was trying to
Speaker 1: tell you. And I said maybe so. Hoh, so I'm
Speaker 1: not cutting by fired yet. So he said, well, here's
Speaker 1: what I'm going to tell you. You make sure when
Speaker 1: you go back down there, you go see coach because
Speaker 1: he told you to come straight and see me, right
Speaker 1: And I said, yes, sir, and I said, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what I did. He says, you make sure you go
Speaker 1: right back to coach and tell him that I got
Speaker 1: on you hard.
Speaker 2: I was like, what, I got the pass. I'm good.
Speaker 1: He's like, tell him I got on you hard, and
Speaker 1: he said, this is between us. He was like, I
Speaker 1: know you didn't mean bad, but he was like the
Speaker 1: team is really under a microscope right now. And he
Speaker 1: broke it down like that grandpa, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: and just kind of comforted me because I did. I
Speaker 1: messed up, you know what I mean. Like we had
Speaker 1: the team and everything that was going on with Chico.
Speaker 1: It's like we had this negative light on us and
Speaker 1: me being young and dumb. I'm out there shooting guns
Speaker 1: in the backyard and an older Stephen Ridley now looking back,
Speaker 1: I'm like, like Jules said her, like, how dumb can
Speaker 1: you really be you know what I mean, Like it's
Speaker 1: just but with age comes maturity, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And so when I look at it, I was like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, you know, like I really did almost messed
Speaker 1: it all up. So when I went back to Bill,
Speaker 1: I went back to coach and said, Coach apologized first.
Speaker 1: When I walked in there again, I'm sorry, didn't be
Speaker 1: doing it. I swell up there and talked to mister Kraft.
Speaker 1: He gave me his two cents. I understand where y'all
Speaker 1: are coming from. Whatever my punishment is, it's my punishment
Speaker 1: conduct detrimental, big fine, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: I think it was probably what like sixteen seventeen check
Speaker 1: something like that, you know what I mean. It was
Speaker 1: a chunk.
Speaker 2: It's a game check, and you know, Bill hit me
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't gonna be a free off. But
Speaker 1: to this day, Bill didn't know the words that we
Speaker 1: exchanged in that office. But mister Kraft really just put
Speaker 1: it in perspective for me to help me realize without
Speaker 1: the F bombs, without telling me never to come back
Speaker 1: to Foxborough. So it was just to have that dynamic
Speaker 1: that I kind of found some middle ground between the
Speaker 1: two and I was somewhat safe. I am forever thankful
Speaker 1: for for mister Kraft in the organization because he's he's
Speaker 1: the man for that, truly, misir.
Speaker 2: I've had one of those conversations with the Craft as well. Scary,
Speaker 2: but like you said, his wisdom pours out and he doesn't.
Speaker 2: He doesn't. It's not he's not there to punish you.
Speaker 2: He's there to fix a problem, yes, and help you
Speaker 2: get through it. Yes, Yes, because that's what I felt. Yes,
Speaker 2: And that's what it sounds like what he made you
Speaker 2: feel comfortable. Yes, he tried to recognize the problem. Yes,
Speaker 2: and then you know, it's a good, good, good way
Speaker 2: of going about it. I mean, there's a good cop
Speaker 2: back up. But on a serious question, before the video
Speaker 2: got taken down, how many likes did it have?
Speaker 1: Man? It was booming, dude, it was freaking booming. Like
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie because hey, you know, social media's
Speaker 1: come a long way. But like it's funny now because bro,
Speaker 1: I look up and Bill's got a Instagram and Facebook
Speaker 1: and Tom's got one. Bro, they were not even thinking
Speaker 1: about this shit back in the day. Like it was
Speaker 1: like a curse. So I really like I was playing
Speaker 1: on the ground, Jules was playing on the ground a
Speaker 1: little bit. We were all kind of doing our things,
Speaker 1: the young guys were, but like for them, that was
Speaker 1: like the enemy. Yeah, because Bill's typical saying that. He
Speaker 1: told everybody, when you come in, put everything in a drawer.
Speaker 1: We don't give the media nothing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: We put all of our problems, but all your bullshit aside.
Speaker 1: It's about the Patriot organizations, about football. We don't care
Speaker 1: if you got deals off the field. We don't care
Speaker 1: what you're trying to promote. Hey, bro, if it ain't
Speaker 1: football and this silver helmet, I'm not concerned with it.
Speaker 1: So it's just crazy to see him now because I
Speaker 1: see him on to evolve.
Speaker 2: He's got to evolve, and he evolved.
Speaker 1: But I think I was just a little bit too early, Bro,
Speaker 1: I was too early. I was causing problems for myself
Speaker 1: and didn't even realize it.
Speaker 2: But I got it that day.
Speaker 1: I definitely got it that day.
Speaker 2: Messed up so and shooting guns. That's what we do.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this quick break. Let's go
Speaker 2: back to December tenth, twenty twelve, and hit the pop
Speaker 2: culture around the game time. Number one movie was The Hobbit.
Speaker 2: Do you ever see that parts part that long too?
Speaker 2: You're a big Hobbit guy, Kyler? Right, well, I just
Speaker 2: looked like the dwarf. No, you like that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: I like Lord of the Rings movie. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 2: I mean. I didn't like the Hobbit movie. Like it's
Speaker 2: the same. I know you read the books, No I didn't.
Speaker 2: I don't read, but that's a I give the illusion
Speaker 2: that I read, but I don't actually read. Well. The
Speaker 2: number one song Diamonds by Rihanna, We all remember that.
Speaker 1: Brad like a diamond. That was a banger.
Speaker 2: That was a banger. Is that the Yeah, my daughter
Speaker 2: still loves that.
Speaker 1: That's a banger.
Speaker 2: Stoo a game in style? Yes? Why ci?
Speaker 6: I think cy five point four billion views on YouTube
Speaker 6: right now? Back in the gap today today? Oh wow, Yeah,
Speaker 6: huge video on YouTube all time.
Speaker 2: Wow. Silver Linings playbook, really good movie. Bradley Cooper was
Speaker 2: all over the super Bowl. He was at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Do you get a Philly cheese steak from him? I
Speaker 2: went to Angelo's in Philly, which I think he bases
Speaker 2: his cheese steak off of spectacular. I think it's called
Speaker 2: what is it, the sharp Cheddar sharp Cooper cheese. That's
Speaker 2: that's the cheese to you had a real Philly cheese.
Speaker 2: I haven't.
Speaker 1: We always made up to Philly? I think like preseason,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So I haven't remember.
Speaker 2: Are you there when Nico Kodovites took us to the
Speaker 2: Greek restaurant in Philly? Anytime every week, anywhere Nico would
Speaker 2: look for a fucking we'd go find one Greek restaurant
Speaker 2: and we'd be eating Greek food. Super Bowl Champion in
Speaker 2: twenty twelve, the Baltimore Ravens, Damn Man Natty Alabama? Oh
Speaker 2: so you do you hate? You hate Alabama?
Speaker 1: To my heart, bro, I did not rock with the
Speaker 1: Crimson and White at Oh. I just I put up
Speaker 1: with Hot Tower, you know what I mean? But he
Speaker 1: knows what it is right out of this day.
Speaker 2: What's the hate hierarchy for SEC teams from LSU?
Speaker 1: Alabama's number one?
Speaker 2: Alabama's one?
Speaker 1: Alabama?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that? Robvalry? You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Would they say the same about you?
Speaker 1: They got to with Auburn. Auburn, come on, Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: the best thing to come out of there, smoking dude.
Speaker 1: He was a problem. Speaking from my day, our day,
Speaker 1: it was always l Subama, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Whoever won that game? So that was a hate. I
Speaker 1: would say Bama number one. Number two would be I
Speaker 1: would say Old Miss just because it was close. But
Speaker 1: that was always a hard fought game. Old Miss always
Speaker 1: played up, you know, even if they might not have
Speaker 1: a shot, you know, to do anything in the conference
Speaker 1: or whatever, they were always gonna play as hard.
Speaker 2: You know who would have ran all over you? Who
Speaker 2: at out from Oklahoma? The MVP of this year in
Speaker 2: the National Football Adrian Peterson would have ran all over LSU.
Speaker 1: He is the goat. That was one of my favorite
Speaker 1: running He.
Speaker 2: Was a monster. He was MVP. This is the last time.
Speaker 2: I think this is the last quarterback MVP this year
Speaker 2: Trophy winner Johnny Manzel, Johnny Johnny.
Speaker 1: Football, Johnny Football, Johnny Cash, However you want to go
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: What was life like for Ridding? Twenty twelve?
Speaker 1: Twenty twelve? Twelve twenty twelve was my big year, I think,
Speaker 1: wasn't it. I think that was my second year in
Speaker 1: the league. I want to say I ended up I
Speaker 1: was top five back that year. You know, and uh,
Speaker 1: that's when I kind of.
Speaker 2: Twelve hundred and sixty three yards twelve touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Were going crazy. We're going crazy, bro, you know it was.
Speaker 1: It was one of those deals that I kind of,
Speaker 1: your rookie year is your rookie year. But that second
Speaker 1: year when I started getting some real touches and I
Speaker 1: felt like I was actually having an impact and they're
Speaker 1: putting the ball in your hands and you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna get that love. It was one of those times
Speaker 1: where it just kind of the light bulb went off
Speaker 1: of my head. I have the best quarterback to ever
Speaker 1: play the game. We got some receivers out here who
Speaker 1: have a route tree, and Tom will just turn off
Speaker 1: one side of the field if he likes one look
Speaker 1: over there. So like it ran registered with me. Then
Speaker 1: nobody gave a shit about me being in the backfield,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like they really didn't Versus
Speaker 1: me coming from LSU where we're two tight ends, we're
Speaker 1: full back. Everybody in the stadium knows we're about to
Speaker 1: do what run the football. So like twenty twelve was
Speaker 1: that year for me that it all kind of clicked
Speaker 1: and I realized that teams are scouting Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: our receivers for good cause because Tom had liked your
Speaker 1: ass up. So it's like, if I could do anything
Speaker 1: in the run game, it was enough, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. But we had a hell of a run game.
Speaker 1: The big boys up front I think had been together
Speaker 1: for a little while because that's when Matt Light was
Speaker 1: there my rookie year and.
Speaker 2: He retired in the shower in the Super Bowl right
Speaker 2: next to me.
Speaker 1: So I think that year in twenty twelve, you know
Speaker 1: Big MANK, like, uh, that was one of my favorite
Speaker 1: people ever, Logan Mankins because big big MANK was like
Speaker 1: a road greater upfront. Man, we had an O line
Speaker 1: where that was just mean. Cannon was young, it was
Speaker 1: Ryan Wendell. We had Wendy up there, had Dan Conley
Speaker 1: up there, Nate Solder Solder Young over yup. So me
Speaker 1: and Nate came in together. But twenty twelve was the
Speaker 1: year that that kid really kind of got got going
Speaker 1: in the league man, and I knew that I was
Speaker 1: actually somebody, So that was a that was a big
Speaker 1: time for me.
Speaker 2: Man, When did you feel like you could stick in
Speaker 2: the NFL, I'd have to say after twenty twelve, twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: After twenty twelve, Man, I really say that's when I
Speaker 1: said that I really was a problem, you know, because
Speaker 1: I knew that we weren't. Really I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: we didn't work on it. But like you say, Tom
Speaker 1: was we threw the ball, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: We were past offense. So they just come in there
Speaker 1: and have that kind of success that year and have
Speaker 1: somewhat of a balanced offense. Man, I was just so
Speaker 1: fortunate to be a part of it, just to be
Speaker 1: able to be in the same backfield with twelve, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And for him to take the
Speaker 1: ball out of his hands when he can single handedly
Speaker 1: change the game or run a game and hand it off. Man,
Speaker 1: it's a lot. So I used to used to mess
Speaker 1: with Tom and tell him, man, like, hey, on the
Speaker 1: goal line, he would quarterbacks sneak. I'm like, you're two
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar man, just hand it back here. Let
Speaker 1: me go ahead and stick that thing in there. Tom
Speaker 1: didn't Harry's competitor.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 2: I just thought, is Logan Mankins in the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 1: He should be.
Speaker 2: He's not in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: He should be, right, he should be.
Speaker 2: He was the most. He was the probably the the
Speaker 2: the best lineman I played with.
Speaker 1: He was a dog man. Log was wrangler Boots paid.
Speaker 2: He should be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6: Hall of Fame has got some problems I gotta work
Speaker 6: through and Terry not getting in. Come on, what are
Speaker 6: we doing here?
Speaker 2: Didn't play that long though, but he had a high
Speaker 2: peak and making Gates wait a year not being first ballot.
Speaker 2: They got some stuff. But Lacker went to a Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Did Keley with Cam? Yeah? Yeah, they're in the same
Speaker 2: they're they're like the same lay are in that same
Speaker 2: world bracket. Yeah, a lot of all pros to from
Speaker 2: should be in.
Speaker 7: I would think it was really good sideline the sideline
Speaker 7: like smart, Yes, Tampa two, he could play, he could,
Speaker 7: he could, he could cover you a little and I'm
Speaker 7: dropping back in the middle Ice remember watching the defense.
Speaker 1: We watched film on k be like thirty yards back
Speaker 1: and no time off the snap and coming down smacking folks.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he was he was a baller.
Speaker 2: But what was on your what was it? You have
Speaker 2: an eclectic taste of music? What was the pregame mix
Speaker 2: for Kid Rid in twenty twelve? What was it? The
Speaker 2: pregame mix man kid Rig. This kid Rid was like
Speaker 2: the young kid in the locker room with like the loud,
Speaker 2: freaking price speakers. He dyed his hair a certain color.
Speaker 2: He'd come in with like a diamond backpack on that
Speaker 2: he bought in London. Like what was on the pregame list.
Speaker 1: You leave out the jumpsuits in the one jumpsuits.
Speaker 2: Onesie and you hear them from give me three miles
Speaker 2: away when he rolls up because he's got the craziest
Speaker 2: exhaust system on his car. What is in the earphones
Speaker 2: before the game?
Speaker 1: To get kid Rig going, I brought Louisiana to Fox
Speaker 1: bro Bro. We were banging nothing but boosy. We were
Speaker 1: banging that Webbee, Big timers.
Speaker 2: Future. I would say, back then Future was hot brow.
Speaker 1: He was dropping hits, so he was doing this time.
Speaker 2: We did it. We did me and Future did ah.
Speaker 2: We didn't. We did a Zenya event together. Oh what
Speaker 2: Zenya is a suit company? I was he in person.
Speaker 2: I never met him, but we we talked. We didn't
Speaker 2: talk that much. We just got We just lost in
Speaker 2: the AFC Championship. It was for a super Bowl event
Speaker 2: for Zenya. I think, or it could have been Fashion
Speaker 2: Week and he was there.
Speaker 1: Well, dude, that was that was kind of what it
Speaker 1: was for me. It was like, uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: brought that. I brought that Southern flair to the locker room,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like we believe coming out
Speaker 1: of l s U. Man, it was like, you look good,
Speaker 1: you play good. You gotta be swagged out, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. You gotta have some good tunes and
Speaker 1: have the energy going. So I used to pull up
Speaker 1: the game day and the hummer, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: subs going beating the block down, holler at my people
Speaker 1: at the gate, Oh what's up?
Speaker 2: And it was just always gear doing a donut in
Speaker 2: there for the crowd. Hey that's another story too.
Speaker 1: Man. Hey remember when we had the big snows. You
Speaker 1: don't remember, So we had the big Snow store.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and we were all just ripping donuts in the
Speaker 8: parking the parking lot. And I do that every snow
Speaker 8: it crashed in the markets Canadon, did you before the game?
Speaker 8: Before the game, we're out there just going nut before
Speaker 8: a game.
Speaker 2: I do like on a Friday when there's no one
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 1: I think it was like before I want to say
Speaker 1: it was before the game because we had the snows.
Speaker 1: When we're taking those back roads. You know where you
Speaker 1: go through Foxboro, you know you had the little houses
Speaker 1: and everybody was like lived next to each other. So
Speaker 1: it's like a caravan. All the boys were taking the
Speaker 1: back roads to get to the stadium. So I see
Speaker 1: this parking lot that hadn't been hitting, no tread, no tracking.
Speaker 1: There I'm like fresh powder, whip it right right there
Speaker 1: in the hummer and there I go. I'm smashing on it,
Speaker 1: doing donuts out there. And the funny thing is, I
Speaker 1: remember it clear as day Wes Welker's houses in the
Speaker 1: backyard and Canada. I'm with donuts out there, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you see Walking's cannon come over the
Speaker 1: hill and his Toyota Tundra ramped over the hill and
Speaker 1: he's got pipes on his and he's like ah, And
Speaker 1: we're spinning out there and hitting them, just having a blast,
Speaker 1: until of course we lose control and I hit cannon
Speaker 1: and boom, smack it. And when I smacked it, I
Speaker 1: looked over and I swear you see the blind slide
Speaker 1: over like this, And Wes stuck his head out there
Speaker 1: and he was like, oh, y'all fucking idiots. He just
Speaker 1: closed the es and went on by his business. Because
Speaker 1: I really want to say it was either like before
Speaker 1: gave were apter it. But I remember seeing West the
Speaker 1: big old blue eyes, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: he's looking out the blinds. It's like, man, who I
Speaker 1: didn't know if it was a neighborhood of West, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: y'all are fucking idiots. Dude. It was funny, but hey,
Speaker 1: we're having a good time. But that was that was
Speaker 1: our Foxborough days.
Speaker 2: So basically that story just told me that when Bill
Speaker 2: tells us before training camp, don't drive like a fucking
Speaker 2: idiot in Foxbrill he was talking to you.
Speaker 1: He was talking about me. Okay, he was talking about me.
Speaker 1: He was he was hey, and speaking of the driving,
Speaker 1: I mean, are we gonna bring up the.
Speaker 2: Riding days or what? Man, Yeah, we used to when
Speaker 2: we used to ride. Dude, kid Rid had side by sides,
Speaker 2: the toys, quads, all the toys and he lived where
Speaker 2: do you live?
Speaker 1: In uh Man North out of Borough and then moved to.
Speaker 2: Mansfield, Mansfield where we driving the telephone power line. The
Speaker 2: power lines they had like a track that would go
Speaker 2: for miles awesome. I remember going out, what time we
Speaker 2: rid and this guy's ripping these things like ninety miles
Speaker 2: an hour, like it's a doom buggy, getting like forty
Speaker 2: feet of air on these fucking banees.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what are we doing? We got OTA's tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I'm over here on a little dirt bike. I'm like, ah, right,
Speaker 2: I'm a Chuck Duce and I'll see you later.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 2: I drove back.
Speaker 1: Oh you and Dola mic yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it was like I had I had the boys.
Speaker 1: I had talked. I talked in the buying a side
Speaker 1: by side and a player scrambler, and I talked Dolan
Speaker 1: and Jewels into getting these pit bikes. You still have them?
Speaker 1: And so I pulled up on Jewels what six seven
Speaker 1: months ago? I'm like, bro, the pit bikes is still alive.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, Bro, I got him cranked it up
Speaker 1: and we're riding down the road here. But those were days.
Speaker 2: By the way, it fourteen years later, thank god, no, yeah,
Speaker 2: but thank god they were driving. I went and I
Speaker 2: was driving the thing and the sprocket. These things are
Speaker 2: made in China, so they are as cheap as they
Speaker 2: come and I've had to try to I've tried to
Speaker 2: get them fixed at like ten different dirt bike shops
Speaker 2: are like, yeah, bro, we're not working on that. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what are you talking about? He's like, nah, dude, what
Speaker 2: fuck that is? What is that thing? And so I've
Speaker 2: been like Jerry rigging this thing and trying to like
Speaker 2: get it right. And I'm driving and thank god, I
Speaker 2: was going slow at the time, but then the sprocket
Speaker 2: broke and it locked on me. I was thinking, what
Speaker 2: if I was going like fifty miles an hour with
Speaker 2: ten seconds before I.
Speaker 5: Was on the pavement, on the pavement, no over over,
Speaker 5: it would have been dead. Look, and then from that
Speaker 5: day on, no games with names, No games with names.
Speaker 5: Let's jump into this game.
Speaker 6: Okay, so let's get into the twenty twelve Houston Texans.
Speaker 6: The record was twelve and four. Head coach Gary Kubiak.
Speaker 2: Same staff. This is the same coaching staff that went
Speaker 2: to Denver, won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: Oh defensive coordinator Wade Phillips and off its quarter coordinator
Speaker 6: Rick Dennison. They traded DeMarco Ryans or Demiico Ryans, excuse me,
Speaker 6: head coach to Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: Some dudes in this team.
Speaker 6: Matt shop is the quarterback, Arion Foster, running back Andre
Speaker 6: Johnson's on this team. And when Daniels JJ Watt rookie
Speaker 6: season for Whitney Marcellus, they started out real hot and
Speaker 6: eleven and one until you know the game we're talking
Speaker 6: about here.
Speaker 2: What do you remember about this Houston team.
Speaker 1: Huh the letterman jacket, you know what I mean, that's
Speaker 1: about it. And uh, I do remember we pretty much
Speaker 1: had our way with him.
Speaker 2: I remember this week of the game plan anytime we
Speaker 2: would play these guys, especially this year in the next
Speaker 2: couple of years, with the number one thing was we
Speaker 2: had to block jj Watt.
Speaker 1: Yes, that was everything, or not even that. You remember,
Speaker 1: coach just made a straight called Gucci or coach McDaniels.
Speaker 1: Wherever jj Watt was lining up, it was just an
Speaker 1: automatic check. We were going to the opposite way, like
Speaker 1: we just weren't even gonna deal with them. So I
Speaker 1: do remember now you say about that game coming out
Speaker 1: in pregame, that was my first time. This is what
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, Yeah, so it's my second year in the league. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's give his dude his flowers too. I remember coming
Speaker 1: out there for pre game. I'm always juice stuff. I
Speaker 1: didn't really care, like I say, sc mindset, killer, be kill,
Speaker 1: we're out here. I looked at this dude, JJ Watt
Speaker 1: and when I tell you a freak man, this dude
Speaker 1: looked like a Gi Joe doll out of a freaking
Speaker 1: freaking what is the toy store? I'm serious, man, Like
Speaker 1: he had these big arms that are like bolted on
Speaker 1: the side of him. And this guy got the shirt
Speaker 1: cut off and he's running a cross field for the
Speaker 1: warm up. He's a monster, but a grown ass man. Bro,
Speaker 1: you gotta give it to him. But he was just
Speaker 1: long and lanky. But I saw, of course our coaches
Speaker 1: are a dummy. But it's like, we're going away from
Speaker 1: this guy. And when I saw him pre game, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're damn right, we're going away from this guy because
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be too much going on
Speaker 1: in there. And he really was that problem, and he
Speaker 1: was a problem that year. But he's unblockable. I almost
Speaker 1: feel like he was like a Kalayis Campbell, you know,
Speaker 1: like one of those dominant forces. He was. He was sick,
Speaker 1: but he was a different level for sure.
Speaker 2: So this was JJ.
Speaker 6: Watt won Defensive Player of the Year this year also
Speaker 6: the Sack Town and he had twenty and a half sacks,
Speaker 6: thirty nine tackle for losses for forest fumbles.
Speaker 2: His Africa Jesus was that.
Speaker 1: When was that when Cushion was down there too?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, he actually missed this game because he got
Speaker 2: hurt early in the year. But this is peek Brant.
Speaker 2: They had a good defense.
Speaker 1: They were loaded. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Adrian Foster was fucking swifty, was smooth.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: He kind of reminds me of of like Kamara, just
Speaker 2: not like necessarily how they run, but like they were slick,
Speaker 2: like that slick. They're both slick players, where like they're
Speaker 2: good screen running backs. They're good like toss crack running backs.
Speaker 2: They can catch the ball out of the backfield, but
Speaker 2: they can they dip in and out of the tackles
Speaker 2: every so often. But when they do, it's impactful.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a big you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Adrian Fosster was like that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And I can't take anything from his game
Speaker 1: at all. He was to me, he had the combination
Speaker 1: of power and speedy. He didn't have to be so
Speaker 1: physical which is what Yes, yes, but I think he
Speaker 1: was a little bit bigger back, but yeah, a little
Speaker 1: bit back in the day. Yeah, he was one of
Speaker 1: those guys. If he got in space, it was guaranteed
Speaker 1: twenty yards minimum, you know what I mean. And so
Speaker 1: that's really what he did for his career. But he
Speaker 1: was nasty in Texas because everybody in the ballpark, I
Speaker 1: think knew he was getting the rock and he was
Speaker 1: still productive this year.
Speaker 6: Had four hundred yards fifteen touchdowns, do see. And Andre
Speaker 6: Johnson was on this team too, he also had sixteen
Speaker 6: hundred yard.
Speaker 2: We got it? Do you remember? Did we remember? I see?
Speaker 2: I didn't play this game. I broke my foot the
Speaker 2: week before.
Speaker 1: I was really wondering. I'm like, how are we gonna
Speaker 1: do a game, Jules, They're not even in the game.
Speaker 2: This is about you, baby, about but we'll get that.
Speaker 2: But what was the perception of did we know that
Speaker 2: they came in on with their letterman jackets? Was that?
Speaker 2: Was there a talk on the locker room? Yes, because
Speaker 2: if I was in the locker room, and if I
Speaker 2: was there, I probably would have been like, guys, we
Speaker 2: beat the funk out of these dudes. Oh yeah, this
Speaker 2: is high school Harry Ship.
Speaker 1: So I can't look. My memory is really bad. I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna make this up when I say double
Speaker 1: digit concussions. Have had a few, Okay, but I kind
Speaker 1: of somewhat remember. It was like a talk or maybe
Speaker 1: Sports Center or something had said that like somebody on
Speaker 1: the team was getting jackets made or something like they
Speaker 1: were making a big deal about it because they were
Speaker 1: coming out of h town and coming up there to
Speaker 1: the freaking to the brick, to the brick, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's what I called Beantown. It's brick Cole,
Speaker 1: It's freezing. So I guess it was something going around
Speaker 1: saying they were gonna hop off the plane with these jackets,
Speaker 1: and it's like, Bro, you're coming up in our shit
Speaker 1: swagging out rocking these jackets like this is about to
Speaker 1: be a cake walk. It was disrespectful, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So I remember Gucci told me he was like, real,
Speaker 1: when you get in there, he'said, I want you to
Speaker 1: kick that.
Speaker 2: Bitch Downie McDaniels.
Speaker 1: Guccie McDaniels, bro. And so that was the celebration. I
Speaker 1: used to kick the door down, And I can't remember
Speaker 1: was it JJ Watt he told me. Gucci told me this.
Speaker 1: He's like, when you get in there and score, he
Speaker 1: was like, because JJ used to always hit the salute, remember,
Speaker 1: so when you go back to it, man, I kicked
Speaker 1: the door down and I hit him with the salute,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I ain't none of that going
Speaker 1: on in here tonight. You know, I was talking talking
Speaker 1: to my shit. But when the OCA gases you up
Speaker 1: like that and tell you this, that kind of outie. Man.
Speaker 1: They stepped off with the freaking Letterman jackets. I think
Speaker 1: it was like twenty one to zero before the bus
Speaker 1: cooled off. It wasserve. Early in the second quarter. We
Speaker 1: beat their ass, bro, and uh, it was awesome. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you it was really awesome.
Speaker 2: There's only one way in and one way after. I
Speaker 2: take that highway one right up into Foxboro. They're gonna
Speaker 2: be hell of traffic, is gonna be cold, and you
Speaker 2: ain't gonna hear a fucking r. It's gonna be any ours.
Speaker 1: Well, we call that Fort Foxboro.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 2: It was real.
Speaker 1: It was real on the base. So it was just
Speaker 1: tight to even look back and think, Bro, how dominant
Speaker 1: we really were.
Speaker 2: Let's get into our team though, real quick go ahead.
Speaker 6: The twenty twelve million Patriots head coach Bill Belichick off
Speaker 6: its corner. Josh McDaniel's defensive coordinator Matt Patricia, coming off
Speaker 6: a Super Bowl loss to the Giants. Season before, notable
Speaker 6: rookie Chandler Jones, Dante high towered Navener, big draft Gronk
Speaker 6: also signed a big contract the year before, the largest
Speaker 6: tenant contract ever. Had some injury issues this year. This
Speaker 6: was also the year of the butt fumble was two
Speaker 6: weeks prior to this game, and then Jewels went down
Speaker 6: the week after. Some dudes, obviously Tom Brady, Stephen Ridley,
Speaker 6: some great running back room, Shane Vereen, Danny Woodhead had
Speaker 6: Brandon Lloyd Slater, Wes Welker's on this team. Dante Dante
Speaker 6: Stalwars dragged out the street for this game. We mentioned
Speaker 6: some of the line men Marcus can, Dan Connolly, Logan Mankins,
Speaker 6: and Neat Soldier, Sebastian Volmer we.
Speaker 2: Forget him earlier. Hes on this team.
Speaker 6: Wilferk's on this team. This was I think John Cordy's
Speaker 6: first year as a as a safety. Two Yeah, we
Speaker 6: put mccordy to safety this year. He played safety right,
Speaker 6: and then is that one so we got little dinner? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: yeah yeahs Arrington was playing a lot.
Speaker 1: Kyle Anryton, Yeah, Chung always Staple, Nate Abner, Derek Martin
Speaker 1: was one of the funniest individuals. I don't know ever
Speaker 1: talk about him, but he was a funny individual man.
Speaker 1: Shout out shout out.
Speaker 2: Dirty was that dirty b Lloyd was probably one of
Speaker 2: the best X receivers I played.
Speaker 1: With his his routes in his hands. He had like
Speaker 1: feather soft.
Speaker 2: Hands, yeah, and he was just he was so smooth
Speaker 2: with his route silky, he was any like he had
Speaker 2: dancer flexibility. Like that's how he got in and out
Speaker 2: of his breaks. He looked like the pink panther. He'd
Speaker 2: be like who.
Speaker 1: It was like you couldn't have drawn it, I guess,
Speaker 1: like you could not have drawn up a prettier route
Speaker 1: by receiver.
Speaker 2: They got his smooth hands and he was effortless.
Speaker 1: Like he wasn't even trying to move, but like his
Speaker 1: his form was just so nice. And then it's like
Speaker 1: he'd come out of stuff and if the ball was
Speaker 1: anywhere around, he could bend.
Speaker 2: His body just all kind of ways like a dancer.
Speaker 2: He was yeah, truly, like, yeah, he was a he
Speaker 2: was a fucking stud.
Speaker 1: It was he was.
Speaker 2: I always tried to explain to people about the running
Speaker 2: back room. Yeah yeah, explain to us the dynamic of
Speaker 2: the running back room with Ivan Fears Man that coach
Speaker 2: Coach Fears like, how do he had to basically like
Speaker 2: be the teacher for all you knuckleheads?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah he did. He did. Coach Fears was like, Pops,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Coach Fear is the old head.
Speaker 1: I think he had been with Bill for forever. And
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm running back room was loaded. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's just go back through it and say what it
Speaker 1: was our leader. I'm gonna say it was three nine.
Speaker 1: Danny would Hill like small guy dynamite, Big things come
Speaker 1: to small packages. You could throw Danny in any play,
Speaker 1: line him up at any position, and Danny knew it
Speaker 1: and was effective. But the running back room, he was
Speaker 1: heading that room. When I got there as a rookie,
Speaker 1: it was Ben Jarvis green Ellis, and then once Benny
Speaker 1: went on in Cincinnati, that's when I kind of stepped
Speaker 1: into it in twenty twelve and we started kind of
Speaker 1: figured out what I was capable of but our room
Speaker 1: was no doubt led by Danny Woodhead. He was the
Speaker 1: ultimate leader, ultimate teammate, kind of told us how it
Speaker 1: was coming in so Coach Fears would always throw it
Speaker 1: up there. So let me back up again. Brandon Bolden,
Speaker 1: Old Miss guy BB was a monster. Okay. BB did
Speaker 1: not lift weights. BB just ran all day, never got tired.
Speaker 1: But little history about BB. BB was from Baton Rouge,
Speaker 1: Louisiana and went to Old Miss to play running back.
Speaker 1: I was from Natchez, mississipp and left Mississippi and went
Speaker 1: to LSU to play running back. We were a year apart.
Speaker 1: He wore thirty four to Old Miss. I wore thirty
Speaker 1: four at LSU and we banged it out for four
Speaker 1: years in a row. So when Nate we drafted Brandon Bolden,
Speaker 1: when y'all talk about lick bro, I was like, there's
Speaker 1: no way Bill really just did that. And I looked
Speaker 1: up and BB's coming in the room, and it was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's up me and BB like to smoke a little
Speaker 1: button chill. I'm just gonna say like that was kind
Speaker 1: of that was our deal. We'll get another story going
Speaker 1: on now. One I don't want to get us in trouble.
Speaker 1: But our running back room was super tight. Just talk
Speaker 1: about the room. Danny was our leader. Shaneo was drafted
Speaker 1: ahead of me, so Bill the previous year, I guess
Speaker 1: in two thousand, what was that two thousand and six
Speaker 1: is when Bill drafted Grunk and Hernandez in the same
Speaker 1: draft class ten ten, twenty ten. Sorry, we came in
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven and he drafted Shane and me at
Speaker 1: running back. So he was going by the twos. And
Speaker 1: so when we come in, SHANEO is third down back, fast,
Speaker 1: got wheels, Shane got an open field. You can just
Speaker 1: go ahead and meet him at the goal line. He
Speaker 1: just had it and he was a safety valve off
Speaker 1: the backfield. He was the exact opposite of me. So
Speaker 1: when I look at it, it was like our running
Speaker 1: back room was so built that we were just any
Speaker 1: of us could go. So going back to coach Fears,
Speaker 1: I just remember we'd go through the game and it
Speaker 1: was badass because after you play in New England, and
Speaker 1: I consider myself a journeyman because I had to bounce
Speaker 1: around on a few different teams. Very rarely did I
Speaker 1: go to a room that was as loaded as we were.
Speaker 1: On this year. But Coach Fears really used to just say, hey,
Speaker 1: look every other series, we're going with a different back.
Speaker 1: He didn't care who was in there because we were
Speaker 1: all that good. And so it was really dope because
Speaker 1: we had a team concept that we were all unselfish.
Speaker 1: We all knew that we had one job to do,
Speaker 1: and I was to get it done as a running
Speaker 1: back room and not fumble the football. And that word
Speaker 1: still I get chills on my body because that was
Speaker 1: Rerid's biggest issue throughout my career. Bro. I ran hard,
Speaker 1: but the ball would get out, Bro, when I was
Speaker 1: fighting for the yards. But either way, Bill, with no hesitation,
Speaker 1: you knew what time it was. You put that ball
Speaker 1: on the ground, go ahead and sit on the bench. Bro,
Speaker 1: that's a day for you. You know, watch the game.
Speaker 1: But when you look at this room, it was so
Speaker 1: stacked that it didn't matter who we had in there.
Speaker 1: We had great leadership. Coach Fears always kept us like
Speaker 1: almost like a school mentality, Bro, like we were in class.
Speaker 1: Y'all get in here, so you know, and y'all know
Speaker 1: what Bill said and what we have to do, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna trickle down with everything. So It's like coach
Speaker 1: gives his orders. Ivan's gonna come in and coach us up.
Speaker 1: Make sure we know what we need to do, and
Speaker 1: we can't be embarrassing the old man, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like this is one of Bill's guys, and
Speaker 1: Bill's trust him, and you know, I look at it
Speaker 1: and say, this man, he was one of the few
Speaker 1: black coaches on the coaching staff, So you know, we
Speaker 1: tried to go hard for the man. And he'd been
Speaker 1: around for years. So when you look at it like that,
Speaker 1: we were a true family, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: We hung out a lot off the field, but we
Speaker 1: were just stacked up, dude, because Shane, Shane was a
Speaker 1: monster out of the backfield. And then even when you
Speaker 1: handed it to him, Shane would get loose quick. And
Speaker 1: there was no drop off between BB and me and
Speaker 1: there was no drop off between Danny Woodhead and Shane Veren.
Speaker 1: We just had depth for days.
Speaker 2: Who's most entertaining guy in the locker room in this locker.
Speaker 1: Room Chico and Hernandez. I will say that I got
Speaker 1: to give him his flowers.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 1: He had a personality that was out.
Speaker 2: Of this world.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 2: He was funny, he was funny, funny.
Speaker 1: I just always think about him saying, hey yo, Bill,
Speaker 1: Remember how I used to say that Ao Ao was
Speaker 1: there at Ayo Ayo Bill, And he come in and
Speaker 1: be loud and joking. But he was a baller. He
Speaker 1: worked hard. Chico had when you come to personality, it's
Speaker 1: like you have that guy that's like super loud, almost
Speaker 1: obnoxious and annoying. But he's so annoying that you have
Speaker 1: to laugh at him because you can't get over him.
Speaker 1: And he had Coach McDaniel's rolling. He had Bill laughing
Speaker 1: and then I just remember him and to leave, You
Speaker 1: remember him and to leave used to go at it
Speaker 1: after practice, and uh, they used to just bet that money.
Speaker 1: It was like we'd have our full practice and stuff.
Speaker 1: But Chico was such a competitor. Correct me if I'm
Speaker 1: wrong with jewels. But Chico used to go do drills
Speaker 1: with the receivers, like this dude was so talented. He
Speaker 1: had feet and hands of a receiver, but he had
Speaker 1: the body of a freaking tight end. But he also
Speaker 1: just love competition. So Talib comes in and to Leib's
Speaker 1: gonna gonna talk his shit, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: He's gonna bark and say he's gonna lock stuff down
Speaker 1: down and Chico and he would go at it probably
Speaker 1: two three days a week after practice.
Speaker 2: He used to have to do it with them to
Speaker 2: Tom would spin it out there.
Speaker 1: You know, it'd be like practice would be over and
Speaker 1: you'd look up and Bill's over on the sideline, just
Speaker 1: twirling the whistle, watching the show. But they'd be betting
Speaker 1: money on catching the rock against each other. But Chico
Speaker 1: leaving Florida, I knew he was a baller down in Florida.
Speaker 1: And then once I got to get up to New England,
Speaker 1: we hung out a little bit and got his personality. Man,
Speaker 1: he was the man bro, He really was. But he
Speaker 1: was just he kept he kept us laughing at all times.
Speaker 1: He really did. He was funny laughing.
Speaker 2: Or are you wanting to punch him in the face?
Speaker 1: Want to fight him? One of the two And he
Speaker 1: wasn't scared of that either.
Speaker 2: No, clearly not team asshole? Yes, who is a team asshole?
Speaker 1: Team asshole?
Speaker 4: Mmm?
Speaker 1: See no names on there? Bro, Like who would be
Speaker 1: the team asshole? Like just to call you want me
Speaker 1: to give it to you? Would you be the team
Speaker 1: ass probably?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: Always always, Hey, he's gonna be mad at me. But
Speaker 1: whatever coach said, dude, Jewels was gonna do okay. So
Speaker 1: Jewles was holding the standard. Like when Jewles came in,
Speaker 1: Jews came to work every day. I'll just say that,
Speaker 1: so kept the fire lit, kept the energy up, win,
Speaker 1: loser draw. I'd say Jewels was pretty vocal on freaking
Speaker 1: carrying your load, you know what I mean, Like you
Speaker 1: really did do that. I ain't gonna lie over his career.
Speaker 1: He was just one of those guys that just worked
Speaker 1: his ass off, and so I'd say team assole. He'd
Speaker 1: call people out, you know, and let you know when
Speaker 1: you're when you're when you're slacking. So I'll give you that.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the.
Speaker 2: I was an asshole, but I worked hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah you did, but you didn't.
Speaker 2: You can't say anything that a guy that's been here
Speaker 2: three hours before you woke up.
Speaker 1: Truly and already got the workout in, already caught balls
Speaker 1: on the.
Speaker 2: Jugs, you know what I mean. Like this dude was
Speaker 2: just he.
Speaker 1: I think he was up and grinding more than he
Speaker 1: was sleeping at that point in his career. And I'm
Speaker 1: not just saying that because he was here. It was
Speaker 1: just he was a scrappy white dude that really had
Speaker 1: to hold his own and he did that, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But I think he was a leader
Speaker 1: enough to call us out because I don't really see
Speaker 1: any like assholes on that literal Like we didn't have it, Tom,
Speaker 1: I mean Tom was Tom was zero bullshit policy, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But he wasn't really as Tom
Speaker 1: store you have twelve man first day, very first day.
Speaker 1: I got there coming out of LSU, we believe it,
Speaker 1: stepping in there and trying to go in and make
Speaker 1: a difference. Waen't scared of line up trying to do it.
Speaker 1: So I got in there and got behind twelve for
Speaker 1: the first time, and Tom turned around and looked at me,
Speaker 1: look forward again and look back now, RI get out here,
Speaker 1: keV come on and he sat me down before even
Speaker 1: handing me the first ball, told keV Faulk, come on
Speaker 1: in here and take the first running back real LSU
Speaker 1: back a goat a legend. Gotta give it to him.
Speaker 1: But he he did. He kind of humbled me on
Speaker 1: that very first day.
Speaker 2: Did he talk to you about that afterwards or anything?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Did he call you after he got drafted? The Patriots
Speaker 2: LSU or is there like a coolness with keV? Yeah?
Speaker 1: For sure, for sure. keV hit me up. Let me
Speaker 1: know that Jarvis Green had left there. Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: the LSU guys kind of welcomed me in when I
Speaker 1: when I got that call, so that would be a
Speaker 1: good story. But I got a better I got a
Speaker 1: better twelve store.
Speaker 2: It's off the.
Speaker 1: Field, and uh, because Tom never went out, kind of
Speaker 1: never did much. And I remember the first time Tom
Speaker 1: ever invited me to his crib. I gotta say that.
Speaker 1: I don't know what year it was, but we had
Speaker 1: done practice or something, and Tom was like red red
Speaker 1: dog and he's always rid y'all come here, And I
Speaker 1: ran over there. I'm like, what's up?
Speaker 2: Bro?
Speaker 1: He's like, look, I want you to come with me.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, what caught you? Where?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: Where? When? Where I need to be? So he was like,
Speaker 1: meet me in Boston, gave me an address. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know where I was going, didn't matter. I was
Speaker 1: going with twelve, you know, quarterback, invite me out. So
Speaker 1: I hauled lasted up up up the highway. Was that
Speaker 1: ninety five leave? Because everybody thinks Patriots Boston. No, the
Speaker 1: Patriots in Foxborough. That's a freaking our ride from Foxborough
Speaker 1: forty five minutes from first to Boston. But Tom gave
Speaker 1: me his address, and I remember texting Mom and Dad.
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, Tom just invited me to come over
Speaker 1: here to go meet him. I don't know where I
Speaker 1: was going. I didn't care, so I went on up
Speaker 1: and drive the boss. I don't know if he even
Speaker 1: remembers this, but I was like, got to his house.
Speaker 1: He showed me around the crib. I'm like, where are
Speaker 1: we going, bro, Like, what's the what's the move? He
Speaker 1: was like, man, just just come on a ride with me.
Speaker 1: So I hopped in the back of the car and
Speaker 1: we pull into We leave his house, go downtown. Tom's
Speaker 1: the man, rides through traffics everywhere. I'm thinking it's like
Speaker 1: a Red Sox game or something like that. And as
Speaker 1: we pull up there, Tom literally pulls up and cracks
Speaker 1: his window like this much and didn't even have to
Speaker 1: say much. They kind of knew who he was and like,
Speaker 1: let us ride on through. And then we parked across
Speaker 1: the street from the stadium and I'm like, the stadium's
Speaker 1: packed out, and I'm like, that's not a baseball game
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 2: What is the deal?
Speaker 1: But we go in there and park and we walked
Speaker 1: back across the street to the stadium. When we walk
Speaker 1: in there, it was a concert, So bring you back
Speaker 1: to this time and this day in time. Walk in
Speaker 1: and we go behind stage. Justin Timberlake is walking onto
Speaker 1: the stage. So I don't know if y'all remember Holy Grill. Okay,
Speaker 1: So they were performing in Fenway. Part of course Tom
Speaker 1: has the plug and he's inviting me in there. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm the man, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like Tom invited the running back up there, rling with
Speaker 2: QB one like oh, we're twelve.
Speaker 1: We're going to the to the stadium and get in
Speaker 1: there and he hollers at JT Oo JT da da
Speaker 1: h and they're like homies. I'm like, oh, how tight
Speaker 1: is that? The story gets better? From there, we go
Speaker 1: and watch JT go on. I think we might have
Speaker 1: watched like one song or something like that performer. Maybe
Speaker 1: it hadn't even started. And we walked back across to
Speaker 1: where his car was. So when we walked back across
Speaker 1: to where his car was, I walk in there and
Speaker 1: I'm following Tom wherever he goes and y'all it was
Speaker 1: almost like a movie. You know, this figure walks out
Speaker 1: and it's like, there's nobody in Boston, not really many
Speaker 1: people in America that are bigger than Tom Brady, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, who am I really seeing what I'm seeing?
Speaker 1: You know who it was?
Speaker 2: Who? Oh?
Speaker 1: Bro jay Z. I met jay Z for the first
Speaker 1: time with Tom Brady Dog and I realized how tight
Speaker 1: they really were. So when I walk up there, I'm shocked.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Bro, pick your jaw up. I act like
Speaker 1: you've been somewhere before, you know what I mean, like,
Speaker 1: get your shit together. You know. I got at least
Speaker 1: be cool a little bit. But I'm like, whoa man?
Speaker 1: Jay Z had on these gold chains. Bro, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about stacked up, almost touching his ear. And he comes
Speaker 1: in there and he DAPs off time and he was
Speaker 1: like and he called me Rid. I want to say,
Speaker 1: call me ridd He said, Rid, can I pick you
Speaker 1: up in fantasy this year? And before I could even
Speaker 1: say anything, I remember this time touched me and he
Speaker 1: don't even know. He's like, you're damn right, you could
Speaker 1: pick him up in fantasy this shit, And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I made it.
Speaker 2: I made it.
Speaker 1: I freaking made it. But I'm in here with freaking
Speaker 1: Tom and jay Z and they're performing the Holy Grail
Speaker 1: at the concert, and of course Twelve got backstay passing
Speaker 1: and just rolls in this thing like he's on in
Speaker 1: the stadium, which he did, and it was like one
Speaker 1: of those moments that I could say with twelve on
Speaker 1: the field, we have countless moments in my four years
Speaker 1: there that I could talk about, but that was one
Speaker 1: of those times off the field that I was like,
Speaker 1: it was super dope to just see because I figured
Speaker 1: out that him, jay Z, I want to say, Whatach
Speaker 1: Paul was there too? Was there? Maybe Kevin Durant maybe,
Speaker 1: and so I think he was there too, But it
Speaker 1: was like one of those times that was just like
Speaker 1: if you knew or you had that in, you were there.
Speaker 1: And I definitely didn't have that in. I was just
Speaker 1: rolling with the man. So that was a cool ast
Speaker 1: story that Twelve kind of let me know that I
Speaker 1: was kind of handling my business a little bit to
Speaker 1: even be with him off the field and him to
Speaker 1: take me to that to that out that was Bob.
Speaker 2: That's insane. Get to meet ho JT J.
Speaker 1: D sliding backstage way Park.
Speaker 2: It was just jealous. I was at I was at
Speaker 2: that concert. I was there.
Speaker 1: You wasn't backstage with me?
Speaker 2: Now one backstage. I wasn't there, But here was this
Speaker 2: twenty eleven not not yet he forgot und Yeah he's lying. No,
Speaker 2: all right, this jump into the game before we move
Speaker 2: on to the game.
Speaker 6: Just as a fan of a Newland Patriots, there's a
Speaker 6: very clear distinction in like the running back there's like
Speaker 6: a lineage of like the early down running backs, like
Speaker 6: the you know, first second down running backs, and then
Speaker 6: the pass catcher third down guys, you know, and you're
Speaker 6: kind of a part to that lineage, the Corey Dillons,
Speaker 6: the Blunts, the like you, and then the other side
Speaker 6: you have like the the Verenes and the Kevin Fox
Speaker 6: and the James Whites. Can you just kind of explain
Speaker 6: how that dynamic is like coached and how that exists
Speaker 6: inside the running back room.
Speaker 1: Yes, we had personnels personel groups. So when we say
Speaker 1: personnel groups, it's just like different formations people go in.
Speaker 1: You know, if we go three wides or go spread,
Speaker 1: go empty, or we go to goal line formation or
Speaker 1: too tight two tight ends with a full bat So
Speaker 1: basically it was just the God how many times we
Speaker 1: heard this say, it was a do your job type
Speaker 1: of deal. So we kind of knew our roles, knew
Speaker 1: our assignments, what we were there for, and what our
Speaker 1: specialty was. And that's what was so cool about being
Speaker 1: drafted by the Patriots. People always ask for you know,
Speaker 1: you have fun, and I can honestly say it really
Speaker 1: was not much fun because we were never satisfied. Bro,
Speaker 1: Like we were kicking ass and doing it, but it
Speaker 1: like we would be nine and one or something like that.
Speaker 1: I feel like we were freaking er to twelve around
Speaker 1: the facility because we weren't settling for anything but championship,
Speaker 1: Like that's what we were locked in on. But the
Speaker 1: dynamic and the running back room was kind of like, bro,
Speaker 1: it was a true like almost like special Forces, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like if like Jules said, you
Speaker 1: got somebody going there and defuse the bomb, you know
Speaker 1: it's a third down situation. We know we got to
Speaker 1: have this man. Ridd's big ass ain't in the game,
Speaker 1: like I'm on the sidelines chilling Shane O or Woo,
Speaker 1: He's gonna be in there because those are the guys
Speaker 1: who know how to run routes.
Speaker 2: And there's the thunderstand, there's the bomb diffuser, and then
Speaker 2: you're like the what are those jammer cars? I'm like
Speaker 2: the armor truck. Yeah, the armor truck that goes through
Speaker 2: goal line, Like.
Speaker 1: You know, you see rig coming the game on goal
Speaker 1: line situation, short yardage, first and second down. And so
Speaker 1: that's why always for me it got me in trouble
Speaker 1: care and the pill But I like, I really emptied
Speaker 1: the tank on every run because I knew that I
Speaker 1: was only in there for first and second down, and
Speaker 1: so third down come around, it would be either Danny
Speaker 1: or Shane's coming in. You know. If I stayed on
Speaker 1: the field, we stayed with that same personnel and I
Speaker 1: was tired, then BB would come on in or you know,
Speaker 1: give me a little relief. But man, we had a
Speaker 1: real family, and like we didn't care how it went down.
Speaker 1: We just knew that we didn't want Bill's recap of
Speaker 1: the game when he's talking about the plays or the
Speaker 1: moments that had changed the game. We just didn't want
Speaker 1: it to be the running back room, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So that's really how it was. We were
Speaker 1: so unselfish and we were just like we were a
Speaker 1: true team.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you mentioned the tank on every run. I
Speaker 6: was watching your highlights last night. It seemed like every
Speaker 6: single run ended with just the shoulder, just a little
Speaker 6: bit of extra just you know what, man like you possessed.
Speaker 4: I loved.
Speaker 2: Mississippi.
Speaker 1: It's just this that SEC ball, you know, Like I
Speaker 1: mean like we had to really we played ball in
Speaker 1: a time in the SEC when I know for a fact,
Speaker 1: I think it was at his pinnacle and uh, not
Speaker 1: to elaborate on that too long, but it's like on
Speaker 1: my team alone, I think we had ten players drafted
Speaker 1: out of just my class.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson was with me. I came out. Chad Jones
Speaker 1: don't know if y'all remember him, but the SEC at
Speaker 1: that time, Cam Newton was there. Julio Jones was there's.
Speaker 2: No American conference, but he said, what no American bro,
Speaker 2: good American conference.
Speaker 1: Get out of here, dude.
Speaker 2: If you go look at the SEC, we go to SEC.
Speaker 1: From the years of two thousand and seven and twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: Joe Hayden's the Percy Harvin's Florida's roster in itself was
Speaker 1: an NFL team was a poor NFL t under Urban
Speaker 1: Meyer Mo. They had Cam Newton was back up to
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow the max.
Speaker 2: You know what teams like a team? It was crazy.
Speaker 1: Georgia had no Sean Marino had uh Matthew Stafford had
Speaker 1: aj Green, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like these Josh cribs.
Speaker 1: That was way before your time, bro, See how you
Speaker 1: trying to claim all this. I played with James Oh
Speaker 1: my god, give the.
Speaker 2: James Jerrison was on our team, like in twenty eighteen seventeen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was way out of there by the end.
Speaker 2: But hey, Kent State, give it to them, bro, Jack Lambert,
Speaker 2: no big deal.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Bro, it was just it was a different
Speaker 1: style of running, bro, because we just had it. It
Speaker 1: was defensive smash mouth football back in the day. Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: so that was the that was the run style, Bro, Tyler.
Speaker 2: Let's jump into the game.
Speaker 6: So we kind of talked a lot about this, but
Speaker 6: mostly just both teams were riding a six game win streak.
Speaker 6: Houston was coming in best season fans on history, coming
Speaker 6: in eleven and one for a Monday night football game
Speaker 6: in Foxborough. We talked about a little bit earlier the
Speaker 6: Letterman Jackets. I want to give a little bit more
Speaker 6: context to that. So the idea came from nose tackle
Speaker 6: Sean Cody and linebacker Connor Barwin, and they said that.
Speaker 6: I used to say before the season, it feels like
Speaker 6: we're on a college team. Everyone gets along, we have
Speaker 6: so much fun. And this jacket you feel like you're
Speaker 6: on a high school team and where it's all about winning.
Speaker 6: It's all about being around a group of guys. This
Speaker 6: jacket is just another symbol of that. There are no
Speaker 6: names on it. You just have your number, your position group,
Speaker 6: and the tech his logo.
Speaker 1: That was cute.
Speaker 6: And that plan was to continue the jackets throughout the season,
Speaker 6: adding patches, adding certain things based off of individual performances.
Speaker 2: But you guys, beat the ship out of that idea.
Speaker 2: Can't come back from that.
Speaker 1: So was that the first game they pulled? Oh wow?
Speaker 1: And then they buried it right after that? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: Probably should have waited until next week. Yeah, it would
Speaker 2: come to the Patriots on the road.
Speaker 1: Bad call by whoever.
Speaker 2: That was god? Monday Night football, this game. Talk about
Speaker 2: Monday Night football? What does it mean to you?
Speaker 1: Monday Night was freaking It was always good to be
Speaker 1: on prime time. You know you know everybody was watching,
Speaker 1: you know, and as a kid you dream about getting
Speaker 1: out there and making it to the stage of the NFL.
Speaker 1: And during my four years in New England and we're
Speaker 1: kicking ass the way we're kicking ass. We had prime
Speaker 1: time games almost every week, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So that's why I say, I'm just I hit my
Speaker 1: knees and I saved my prayers. I'm just thankful for
Speaker 1: the time that I got in New England because you
Speaker 1: look at it now and it's like no prime time games.
Speaker 1: We had probably seven, eight, nine, ten of them a
Speaker 1: year and they were they were probably most likely wins,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So we just had a
Speaker 1: squad that was working together. We really were a team group,
Speaker 1: and man, we kicked the ass. But Monday night football
Speaker 1: is where you got a ball. I mean, you cannot
Speaker 1: come to Monday night knowing that you're on the field,
Speaker 1: you're a starter. They're gonna put the ball in your
Speaker 1: hands and not show up. So that was always my mentality,
Speaker 1: Come in, juice, come in and handle your business and
Speaker 1: make sure that we get the job done, and don't
Speaker 1: embarrass yourself on the.
Speaker 2: Public stage, on the big stage. Can't not in this game.
Speaker 1: No way Letterman jackets.
Speaker 2: When's the last time you wore a Letterman jacket? I
Speaker 2: should have a bomber that looks I designed a Letterman
Speaker 2: jacket with Joe's jeans. Actually it's kind of cool. A
Speaker 2: bomber your a rocket. Yeah, it's cool. We were thinking
Speaker 2: we should get some games and names Letterman jack It's
Speaker 2: after this maybe we'll know. Maybe the next ratings will
Speaker 2: be fucking terrible, you know what I mean? What if
Speaker 2: we get it just fucking murdered.
Speaker 6: I watched I watched like a deep cut YouTube video
Speaker 6: real late last night that there's like a Letterman jacket
Speaker 6: curse that anytime a pro team starts rocking him, shit
Speaker 6: goes bad.
Speaker 2: See, you can't wear a Letterman jacket.
Speaker 1: Texts started that BS.
Speaker 2: So we mentioned earlier this game. John Gruden's on the call,
Speaker 2: shout John Green. John Gruden was great on the call.
Speaker 2: Loved him. I was watching the highlights. You like Gruden
Speaker 2: was a caller, Yes, yes, on the TV call the caller, Yes, Gruden.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: I just did his podcast. He's fucking I was in.
Speaker 1: He's always on intense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just he just he knows how he knows
Speaker 2: he's done TV, you could, so we had forty five
Speaker 2: minutes to do his podcast. We were in and out
Speaker 2: per like timed, like he knows beats, but he also
Speaker 2: like he he knows the ship already. But he's been
Speaker 2: more fun with this barstool. It's been fun watching him.
Speaker 2: It's cool. It's cool, man, He's ah. My dad was
Speaker 2: a big fan of him.
Speaker 1: He was a Raider. You know, Dad's dial a Raiders fan.
Speaker 1: So gr Gruden's a legend around our household, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So, yeah, he's the man.
Speaker 6: This game started. Not a whole lot worth talking about
Speaker 6: this game, but started out real hot. Three touchdowns, first
Speaker 6: street drives, Hernandez. You mentioned that two touchdowns. Brandon Lloyd
Speaker 6: had thirty seven touchdowns by halftime. Patriots rerep twenty one nothing.
Speaker 6: You did have a red zone fumble though early.
Speaker 1: See what I'm talking about. I recovered young tripping dude.
Speaker 2: What's it like being in Belichick's like fumble doghouse? Doghouse
Speaker 2: not a pot oh dude? You know?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'm talking. I'm thirty six years old right now,
Speaker 1: and when I don't really watch that much football and
Speaker 1: be honest with you, like I was kind of scarred
Speaker 1: after the pro career because it was like, man, I
Speaker 1: know I had a decent career, but I had like
Speaker 1: some fumbles at some times, and like social media was
Speaker 1: just getting going and people were firing and saying some
Speaker 1: of the craziest stuff to you in socials, and it
Speaker 1: used to just like man, it used to eat at
Speaker 1: me bro like, I mean, it used to just eat
Speaker 1: me up. And I finally got set up one time
Speaker 1: and I laid into some little kid that fell off
Speaker 1: my DMS. I'm like a little turd. I didn't say,
Speaker 1: like that nice, but I'm like you little turd. I
Speaker 1: went in on like you don't know the half or
Speaker 1: thinks you know. His mom writes back a message I'm
Speaker 1: just letting you know, and I was like, mom, f
Speaker 1: you too, Like, for one, you need to control your
Speaker 1: little kid talking to me a grown man like this, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1: But it's like one of those deals. Man, when you
Speaker 1: fumble the rock, it's the most disgusting feeling that you
Speaker 1: can hide because you've let literally the hopes and dreams
Speaker 1: of the team. You're a running back. You got one
Speaker 1: job to do, and that's hold the pill and get
Speaker 1: the yaarders and get down and when you cough it
Speaker 1: up like that. Bill has a zero tolerance for that.
Speaker 1: I mean, and I remember I was not only bench,
Speaker 1: but it's like the whole following week of practice. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you even remember this. Remember he took
Speaker 1: the footballs.
Speaker 2: And greased him, greased.
Speaker 1: Them up with like bakleen and silicon, put baby powder
Speaker 1: on top of him and making his point that I
Speaker 1: blew it and had a fumble. Then you do a
Speaker 1: drill where you have two balls in each hand greased
Speaker 1: up the same way. Coach fears is on one side.
Speaker 1: Bill comes over there and he's on the other side,
Speaker 1: and that's when he's gonna actually coach you hard, you know,
Speaker 1: and make you realize that it's very important and it's
Speaker 1: not acceptable. So I got bench one time where he
Speaker 1: took me out. I didn't even get to dress. You
Speaker 1: remember that where I had to sit on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: I like scarred for this bro just off of a
Speaker 1: fumble turnover, but coach had me on the sidelines holding
Speaker 1: the rock, not even in pads.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 1: I had to sit and watch the game and it
Speaker 1: was sick. But I think like right after that, the
Speaker 1: next two games.
Speaker 2: He came in.
Speaker 1: He fed me pretty well, and I was freaking killing
Speaker 1: it because I was just pissed off and embarrassed. But
Speaker 1: Bill's doghouse is nowhere that any human being wants to
Speaker 1: be ever, ever, ever, dude ever. So I still love
Speaker 1: the coach.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 2: The thing about this game we did. We're doing a lot,
Speaker 2: a whole lot of no huddle, and that's because of
Speaker 2: JJ Watt. You know you you We were trying to
Speaker 2: capture a team in the same personnel group, get him tired,
Speaker 2: don't give him enough time to uh communicate. So that's
Speaker 2: and that's why we were going to huddle. Keep that
Speaker 2: personnel rakes, blew the brakes off of him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let me put a bone in this game. So
Speaker 6: twenty one and a half, twenty nothing in half, start off,
Speaker 6: third quarter early Stalwart had a sixty three yard touchdown
Speaker 6: off the street, big touch off the street. Loves when
Speaker 6: that first game was also, I love.
Speaker 1: He was one of those leaders that came into our
Speaker 1: locker room. Man, we spent some time. Uh he was
Speaker 1: just a quality dude. Yeah, he really was.
Speaker 2: That he understood that a lot of perspective from a
Speaker 2: life experience that he explained through for us young guys.
Speaker 6: And then also want to make sure to mention that
Speaker 6: Danny woodhead for giving out fumbles, also had a FuMB
Speaker 6: on the red zone.
Speaker 2: However, his was recovered by Lloyd. He Lloyd touchdown the
Speaker 2: one game I think you did. He passed out and.
Speaker 6: Scooped it up and score. It was scooped in then
Speaker 6: zone scored and you capped off Patriot scoring with a
Speaker 6: fourteen yeard touchdown.
Speaker 2: They had thirteen penalties for one hundred and twenty six yards.
Speaker 1: You know, we got our ass ripped.
Speaker 2: Final score forty two fourteen.
Speaker 1: Beat down.
Speaker 2: That was bad beat down. After math, we were really
Speaker 2: taught what championship football is.
Speaker 1: Brady James, unless you speak that real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Houston finished twelve and four, that's what he said. Twelve.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a defeating quote. This is cream season too,
Speaker 2: by the way, Oh, this is cream season. What cream
Speaker 2: season is a part of the season where the cream
Speaker 2: rises to the top. And you know, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. Only about sixteens each year that really
Speaker 2: have a shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then.
Speaker 2: Well it was developed through the pastorization period of the season,
Speaker 2: which is like week four to eight twelve. That's like
Speaker 2: when the milk trying to get up to the top.
Speaker 1: Cream to the top. Yeah. But like coach said, best
Speaker 1: football has we played after Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2: After Thanksgiving stream season is about to start.
Speaker 6: So this was a matchup in the playoffs too. Patriots
Speaker 6: also won forty one to twenty eight. Radio had fifteen carries,
Speaker 6: a two yards and a tug, then lose to the
Speaker 6: Ravens the NFC Championship game. Gary Kubiak would be fired
Speaker 6: after the later years later, JJ Watt was asked if
Speaker 6: he still had the jacket.
Speaker 2: He says, I don't think so. I hope not.
Speaker 6: I don't want to bring that up at all. Those
Speaker 6: were some bad days. Takes a man to admit to it,
Speaker 6: takes a man to a mid to it. We'll be
Speaker 6: right back after this quick break. All right, let's name
Speaker 6: the game and then score the game. Is this the
Speaker 6: greatest game of all time? Let's score it, rid What
Speaker 6: is the name of this game that you like the most?
Speaker 6: Off your dome or we have some.
Speaker 2: We have the Letterman Jacket game, the Letterman Loss, Texas
Speaker 2: fold Them, the Monday Night massacre, Houston humiliation. It's got
Speaker 2: to have something with the Leatherman jacket. I believe I.
Speaker 1: Disagree with you that quick, bro. I'm going with Texas.
Speaker 1: Fold them, bro, fold them up, get them.
Speaker 2: Out of there. That was a But the whole thing
Speaker 2: about this game is the letterman jacket. But this is
Speaker 2: your game. We'll go with the Texas. Texas fold them is.
Speaker 6: I think great wordplay, and props to Jack for doing that,
Speaker 6: But I mean I got to push back here too.
Speaker 2: This is one the letteran jacket game.
Speaker 1: No, give you that. I'll give that and let the
Speaker 1: big time story they came out with it, because, like
Speaker 1: you say that, for them to come out with that,
Speaker 1: you gotta have that. And I'll give you that back
Speaker 1: check on my words. But the texts fold them is.
Speaker 1: It's great, great, great, you know, great word play like.
Speaker 2: You said, Letterman loss, Letterman Jacket game, for sure, Letterman
Speaker 2: Jacket game. Give it to it all right, score the
Speaker 2: game is, this is the greatest game of all time.
Speaker 2: Let's score it. Steven steaks zero ten decimals. Okay. The
Speaker 2: stakes of this week twelve game or is it week
Speaker 2: what is this week twelve? No, they're eleven to one
Speaker 2: week fourteen game. But December week fourteen game. The stakes
Speaker 2: of this game, regular season game.
Speaker 1: I'll give it a seven seven six score seven six seven.
Speaker 1: I think we were focused on, or we were focused on.
Speaker 1: I think for them it was their super Bowl, trying
Speaker 1: to HiPE their self up like they were somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can only we can only we can only
Speaker 2: grade the stakes for our perspective. Seth on winning streaks
Speaker 2: to Monday night game late in the season. Some stakes
Speaker 2: here I'll go with. I'll go with the A seven, yeah,
Speaker 2: because this was, this is the start of cream season.
Speaker 2: Four point nine Jesus Jack, I'm this is this can't
Speaker 2: be right. Five back is four point nine? I have
Speaker 2: six point three, okay.
Speaker 1: Star power of this game, Monday Night football, Baby.
Speaker 2: Monday Night football, the players in it. Kubiak's a super
Speaker 2: Bowl winning catch coach in the future. You got Bill's staff,
Speaker 2: you got Tom Brady Watt, JJ Watt. Star power of
Speaker 2: this game, rid.
Speaker 1: Star power Monday Night. Well, i'n go with seven again seven,
Speaker 1: go seven because we have some big games, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But Monday night matchup, two good teams.
Speaker 6: Mattchup quarterback, a little bit of a ding. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with the six point four, Okay.
Speaker 2: Jacket Home had a seven point five and Foster.
Speaker 1: Had some ballers.
Speaker 2: On Earth they had some ballers. Dwayne Brown go hookies too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the gameplay of the game, the gameplay would be like
Speaker 2: the entertainment value of it, going back and forth like
Speaker 2: the gameplay.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, you explained that. Great, it's exciting game. Great
Speaker 6: stuff happens back and forth.
Speaker 2: You know, Or is it just a sillhacking?
Speaker 1: Nah? I mean I'm kind of stuck on my number
Speaker 1: there because I think for the Pats, for US seven seven,
Speaker 1: because for for our fans, we gave him a show,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It wasn't much of a
Speaker 1: game that you're sitting on your seat watching like it
Speaker 1: was closed. It was a beat.
Speaker 2: Then it was clinical from the Patriots side. I was
Speaker 2: watching this game and you could just see the it
Speaker 2: was very clinical, like we were having our way. It
Speaker 2: just not even that though, just like you could say,
Speaker 2: it was like a well oiled machine, methodical run game.
Speaker 2: This game, intermediate game, past, deep past, like everything was clicking.
Speaker 2: It just looked like a highly run machine.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a perfect game. Shout out Gucca
Speaker 1: on an offensive play call the game because the play
Speaker 1: action was killing him that.
Speaker 6: Watched down from Lloyd the play actions running down.
Speaker 2: It was beautiful, Bro, the whole we were pulling the
Speaker 2: go with the seven as well.
Speaker 6: Running at will. Yeah, Jack has a seven point one.
Speaker 6: I had a five point one. I thought it was
Speaker 6: a five for Patriots and zero for the Texans.
Speaker 2: Name of the game, the Letterman Jacket game. You gotta
Speaker 2: you gotta score the name of the game.
Speaker 1: Oh score the name of the game. Let's give it
Speaker 1: a uh we righting all the way down with the sevens, Bro,
Speaker 1: I'll give actually, look let him in Jacket game. I'll
Speaker 1: give it a nine because I mean that everybody remembers.
Speaker 2: I'll give it a a eight point two because you
Speaker 2: remember the Letterman Jackie a regular season game, and the
Speaker 2: Jackie game might not know who's scored. Looking Jack gave
Speaker 2: it to ninety seven. I had a seven nine. We
Speaker 2: might have to check in on Jack after that. All right,
Speaker 2: where's this at? Where's this rank? The final score is
Speaker 2: seven point one four? Where's the rank all time? That
Speaker 2: puts it.
Speaker 6: Fifty seventh, just below the twenty eleven Stanley Cup Final
Speaker 6: game seven Bruins Canucks, which is a criminal score, and
Speaker 6: then just above the two thousand and six NFC Wild
Speaker 6: Card game Cowboys versus Seahawks that I believe is.
Speaker 2: The eighty of these motherfuckers. Dude, we're closing in on
Speaker 2: one hundred. It's we're gonna do something eighty.
Speaker 1: Hey do your think, bro? Do you think the game
Speaker 1: just double tapping from afar? But I love I love
Speaker 1: the graand Bro, when I get to get to see
Speaker 1: the feed come down with the games and names, I'll
Speaker 1: keep killing it.
Speaker 2: Bro, It's great. Man, that was awesome.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 6: I think we got so many stories left from that list.
Speaker 6: You gotta come back now that you're California, got you
Speaker 6: gotta come back in definitely.
Speaker 2: I mean, and then I think it'd be cool if
Speaker 2: why don't we have Rid join us for the Chill Zone.
Speaker 2: Let's do it? Yeah, I want you want to do
Speaker 2: We got some questions. We actually threw in some questions
Speaker 2: from callers. So it's time for the Chill Zone, brought
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Speaker 2: Today we're hitting the old hotline, or should I say
Speaker 2: the chill line chill, Stephen Ridley again, that number is
Speaker 2: four two four two nine one nine zero. Let's get
Speaker 2: into it.
Speaker 3: Hey, this is Michael from Pengrom, Pennsylvania. Stephen Ridley, you're
Speaker 3: one of my favorite touchdown celebrations, drawing your door kicking
Speaker 3: it down. Was wondering what inspired that, man?
Speaker 1: What inspired the kick the door down celebration? Every defense
Speaker 1: in the league is trying to keep you out of
Speaker 1: the zone. That was my way of giving them a
Speaker 1: big middle finger and letting them know that guess what,
Speaker 1: it ain't stopping the kid when we got our mind
Speaker 1: made up and they're gonna turn around to hand it
Speaker 1: off because I know twelve is gonna punch it in
Speaker 1: if you let me get me a little bit of shine,
Speaker 1: hand me the rock. I gotta close it for the team.
Speaker 1: So I love to kick the door down and just
Speaker 1: give it to a defense. Let them know it is sweetness.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: It was intense too, draw it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the salute this this week, None of that.
Speaker 1: It's over.
Speaker 4: Hey, guys. Stalin from Nuthouse Nation, back at you again,
Speaker 4: rid Welcome to the nuthouse. I want to paint a
Speaker 4: scenario for you guys here we're having to cook out
Speaker 4: at the nuthouse. But Nutthouse cookout, you have all the
Speaker 4: time in the world to make sure this food comes
Speaker 4: out perfectly. Since we know you like to take your
Speaker 4: time and make sure it's good. You know we'll enjoy
Speaker 4: some ice cold corus light. We'll blast them bon Jovi,
Speaker 4: toss the pig skin around, hang out in the hot tub,
Speaker 4: whatever it is.
Speaker 2: We'll wait.
Speaker 4: So, Steven, what meal are you making for everyone? And
Speaker 4: Julian you have to cook up this as well.
Speaker 2: So what's the move?
Speaker 3: We going burger time?
Speaker 4: See the cookout? Boys?
Speaker 2: Cookout? What are you bringing to the cookout? Good? Good question. Dallan,
Speaker 2: that's awesome. Where's Dallin from? He's uh, we talked to
Speaker 2: him a lot.
Speaker 6: He's in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania kids, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's only right that I go ahead
Speaker 1: and plug the homemies. Do y'all read the hat. I'm
Speaker 1: cooking some duck poppers, dug poppers poppers at the cookout.
Speaker 1: Man poppers, Well, you can't kill him if you don't
Speaker 1: eat them. That's kind of the known rule. But hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cook some duck poppers for the nuthouse, I run,
Speaker 1: bro I got to.
Speaker 2: I'm as boring as they come for my cookout. Just
Speaker 2: hamburgers and hot dogs. See that's the Kelly shit. I
Speaker 2: love hamburgers and hot dogs, of.
Speaker 1: Course, of course, but that's why I got to bring
Speaker 1: that Mississippi and Louisiana to it. You know that good.
Speaker 1: I like kicking.
Speaker 2: I like barbecue chicken. Like try tip. You eat a
Speaker 2: lot of tried tips.
Speaker 1: Tips good?
Speaker 2: They don't even tried tip anywhere else?
Speaker 1: Can? I mean?
Speaker 2: But if I cook, if I cook some poppers, would
Speaker 2: you try? It's like poppers like wings that like when
Speaker 2: you like kind of fold them out.
Speaker 1: The poppers. How I do my poppers? Man? I get
Speaker 1: a duck breast and uh, we're gonna cut it up
Speaker 1: kind of like a nugget. Uh wrap it and creep,
Speaker 1: Uh put cream cheese a hallopeno, wrap it in bacon,
Speaker 1: and y'all just watch your fingernails because if I gonna
Speaker 1: bite down, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: So yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cook that up.
Speaker 2: I want a duck popper.
Speaker 1: I'm coming so popa top. Cheers, bro cheers, bobs, love it,
Speaker 1: love you.
Speaker 3: You know, nuthousees Evander culling in with a question for
Speaker 3: our boy Ridley. Do you ever get to meet Mike
Speaker 3: the Tiger when you're.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, man, Mike is uh, you can't be a
Speaker 1: Tiger without having your time with Mike the Tiger.
Speaker 2: Who's Mike the Tiger?
Speaker 1: Cut it out, juice, I don't know who tiger. Our
Speaker 1: mascot is a real live tiger, is it?
Speaker 2: What seven, same one for the last twenty fifty years. No,
Speaker 2: I mean he's just named every tiger Mike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's our mascot. I'm going to I'm not
Speaker 1: letting you hate on that.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: Look when I tell you the intimidation factor is a
Speaker 1: ten because at what we do for every game day,
Speaker 1: Mike comes out of his cage and we take Mike
Speaker 1: right over to where the visiting team runs out. So
Speaker 1: when you come out of your visit locker room, you
Speaker 1: gotta go by the cage and Mike the Tiger, and
Speaker 1: it's a real Bengal tiger and the sucker's probably how
Speaker 1: many seven eight, maybe one thousand pounds real cat, This
Speaker 1: cat sitting right there.
Speaker 2: So hell yeah he still put them on the field.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, they do.
Speaker 1: They have him on the field in the cage. Like,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. When you run out from pregame,
Speaker 1: you have to go by Mike.
Speaker 2: I went to school that was a really good school
Speaker 2: in the SEC, and I was going by that and
Speaker 2: I knew that was coming.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 2: I would I would get like a piece of hamburger
Speaker 2: meat and throw it at the tigers. So when we rode,
Speaker 2: when we would run by, he'd be occupied, be eating
Speaker 2: or something out. He wouldn't be doing shit.
Speaker 1: Mike's eating opponents, Bro. He wanted, but the little meat
Speaker 1: he want. He want a kid stay Julianeto. When they
Speaker 1: come in everything, he's gonna do something.
Speaker 2: Oh, he's gonna eat there. And they they have a
Speaker 2: nice they like set up nice habitat for him.
Speaker 1: Now too, what Yeah, Mike lives like a kid. Mike
Speaker 1: has a big cage right across from Tiger Stadium. Like literally,
Speaker 1: you come out to stadium and he's got like a
Speaker 1: man almost, Like how we have the Patriot Place or whatever.
Speaker 1: He's got a whole setup right there by the memorabilia
Speaker 1: where you can bow all the LSU stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got a huge he's got a great life.
Speaker 2: He's got a huge cage. It does. He does, but
Speaker 2: he said he's got a great life. He's got a
Speaker 2: huge cage.
Speaker 1: You're a hater, bro.
Speaker 6: We got we got Mike the Seventh. We got Mike
Speaker 6: the Seventh right now. Mike the Seventh his record seventy
Speaker 6: two and twenty nine. Shout out to Mike the sixth,
Speaker 6: who was there when you were there. He was ninety
Speaker 6: three and thirty Wow, two thousand and seven to his jokers,
Speaker 6: Live Long October eleventh, twenty sixteen. He got a chip too.
Speaker 6: Mike the sixth got a chip.
Speaker 1: So I don't I don't know, y'all have to look
Speaker 1: at this, but I want to say, like they kind
Speaker 1: of get tigers that might be like kind of sick
Speaker 1: or something like that, and then they kind of bring
Speaker 1: them back like you know what I mean, like like
Speaker 1: they rescue and get them healthy.
Speaker 2: And then I went to that, I went to that
Speaker 2: black Jaguar, white tiger that Mexico. What is this dude
Speaker 2: in Mexico that literally collects lions and tigers And it's
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's crazy. They're like just roaming around
Speaker 2: random other lions and tigers. This guy is in it
Speaker 2: with them in the Yeah Yeah Wild Steve with tigers
Speaker 2: skin version. Yeah, he's like hugging them and like batting
Speaker 2: them and playing with him. Yeah. I left that place
Speaker 2: going like, I don't know if he's going to be
Speaker 2: here very long.
Speaker 1: Buddy.
Speaker 2: He went into one. I went into one with a leopard.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I got to get me out. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: like Mendola, there was.
Speaker 6: A leopard that shared an exhibit with that one, and
Speaker 6: he was like, oh, if that one was in there
Speaker 6: was the black One's like, oh, that'd kill you in
Speaker 6: a second.
Speaker 2: So you just put him out and you can out
Speaker 2: with a nice one. Yeah, that's not what I want
Speaker 2: to hear. No, I'm not going last question here it
Speaker 2: what's up?
Speaker 3: Games? Names that James from New York? That question for Rid,
Speaker 3: what was it like playing those Friday night games in
Speaker 3: Death Valley back at LSU. Let me know, fake New.
Speaker 2: Yorker asking him, all right, get rid about Death Valley?
Speaker 1: Give you. I want the honesty. The honest answer is,
Speaker 1: And of course I'm biased, but I go back to
Speaker 1: the hundred and something thousand screaming fans that the motor
Speaker 1: homes pull in on Wednesday evening. They're cooking jumbali and
Speaker 1: gumbo on Thursday night, drinking Friday morning, all to catch
Speaker 1: the Tigers walk down on Saturday. There is no place
Speaker 1: in all of football, pro or college that is more
Speaker 1: lift than death balley on Saturday night. It's not. I'm
Speaker 1: just telling y'all. If I could ever take y' all there,
Speaker 1: I would love to. I love y'all your experience, but
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that, like once I got to the Pros,
Speaker 1: it was a it was a downgrade because the kids
Speaker 1: are sold out, and you know, once people have been
Speaker 1: boozed up for that long and they come in religiously
Speaker 1: week after week. The motor homes pile in. You see
Speaker 1: a line on Wednesday night of people coming in for
Speaker 1: a Saturday game. Where in the pros do you get that?
Speaker 1: You don't? And now they put the lights show in
Speaker 1: the stadium to where they're cutting off the lights. It's
Speaker 1: like a club in there and they're banging the boosy going.
Speaker 1: The culture's in. I mean, it's it's like no other.
Speaker 1: It's the best.
Speaker 2: It's the best sport and all of sports, even all
Speaker 2: like the English soccer hooligans out in freaking bumminghim or something.
Speaker 2: I was. I was fucking London.
Speaker 1: The only thing we're probably missing is that flame that
Speaker 1: you know, how they light the flames up and do
Speaker 1: all that stuff.
Speaker 2: That's the Olympic spread.
Speaker 1: No, I've seen the soccer except the things on show
Speaker 1: they said on fire. Hell yeah, like in those soccer games,
Speaker 1: I guess it's like that one area where you don't
Speaker 1: even want to be in that.
Speaker 2: Well have you not seen Philadelphia celebration they're lighting ship
Speaker 2: on fire.
Speaker 6: The only thing the soccer has like European football has
Speaker 6: on American football is that the chance and ship go
Speaker 6: throughout the play. Where like in football like okay, you stop,
Speaker 6: you gotta communicate, the crowd kind of stops, but the
Speaker 6: chance go on and on and on throughout the whole
Speaker 6: games kind of time.
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