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Speaker 1: Lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle is

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Speaker 1: a production of the NFL and iHeart Podcasts.

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Speaker 2: We got lots to say, We got.

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Speaker 3: Lost to say.

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Speaker 4: What a begger here?

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Speaker 2: And we hope you stay because we got lost to say, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we got lost to say, now.

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Speaker 5: Here's Bobby that?

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Speaker 3: What's up? Everybody? Welcome to another episode coming up. We

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Speaker 3: have wide receiver Nico Collins, who is just a straight stud.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to him about his upcoming season with Texans

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Speaker 3: and mostly if he's like back from being injured. It's weird, Matt, Like,

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Speaker 3: when you're injured and you're a pro athlete, there's a

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Speaker 3: fine line of pushing it but also stopping so you

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Speaker 3: hit that line exactly right? Uh?

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Speaker 4: You know, I think it's probably something that every individual's

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Speaker 4: a little bit different. But you're always trying to push

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Speaker 4: and get back into like the OTAs the off season training,

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Speaker 4: and it's based on your injury and also the feedback

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Speaker 4: with your trainers, the medical staff and everything like that.

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Speaker 4: But the minute you do start pushing too hard and

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Speaker 4: then you set yourself back. Well, that's what you're trying

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Speaker 4: to avoid at all costs. So there's a happy medium

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Speaker 4: because obviously the recovery and these injuries now that used

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Speaker 4: to be nine months, You see guys coming back in

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Speaker 4: and recovery has changed dramatically, and also the different details

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Speaker 6: So you're absolutely.

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Speaker 4: Able to see guys come back at a much quicker rate,

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Speaker 4: But you just don't want to ever sacrifice that into

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Speaker 4: injuring yourself again and setting yourself back in the process.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like if it were a contract year,

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Speaker 3: like there are probably a lot of variables. If it's

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Speaker 4: One hundred percent? I mean, if you're coming up on

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Speaker 3: My last contract in media with the company iHeartRadio because

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Speaker 3: I had blood clotting in my brain. I had three

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Speaker 4: When you can't remember what a banana oh yeahs or

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't want them to go, Hey, we love

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Speaker 3: It could be the first time they're hearing it. I've

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Speaker 3: They showed me on a scan and he was like,

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Speaker 3: So if they were to say something now, I'd be like, ah,

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Speaker 6: This, dell. Yeah, I can't remember a banana?

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Speaker 3: Who exactly? How many time we talking about bananas every day?

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Speaker 3: D one athlete wife, that's awesome. Where for me, my

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Speaker 3: Yes, we're coming back with Nico Collins. We'll take a

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Speaker 3: Nico Collins, how are you feeling physically. Where are you now?

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Speaker 2: I'm in Houston, man, I just got back yesterday, starting

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Speaker 3: How's the hamstring? Like you still able to run on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good, feeling great. I can't wait for this year, man.

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Speaker 2: You know, a great team, you know, so Kny Kane

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Speaker 3: Is nice when there's a new ROC. Like how how

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Speaker 3: Like last year you went off like no doubt, you

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Speaker 2: I feel like we when I win, you know, a

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Speaker 3: Some of my friends up play pro basketball. They talk

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Man, I was anxious. Didn't know where to go,

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Speaker 2: you know. So, Man, I end up just being with

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00:19:24,256 --> 00:19:26,575
Speaker 2: my family around the time. Man, you know, getting the

429
00:19:26,616 --> 00:19:30,696
Speaker 2: draft house, being with my family, man, being my loved ones.

430
00:19:30,696 --> 00:19:32,176
Speaker 2: I feel like that that really helped me out, you know,

431
00:19:32,215 --> 00:19:34,735
Speaker 2: and just talking to my mom, my parents. You know,

432
00:19:34,776 --> 00:19:37,496
Speaker 2: it's just been telling me, you know, whatever team get me, man,

433
00:19:37,576 --> 00:19:39,936
Speaker 2: just make sure you you go and you know, make

434
00:19:39,975 --> 00:19:41,376
Speaker 2: your mard have fun with it, you know, and just

435
00:19:41,376 --> 00:19:44,096
Speaker 2: thank God for it all, you know, and just have fun,

436
00:19:44,136 --> 00:19:46,136
Speaker 2: you know, the same game be playing your entire life.

437
00:19:46,416 --> 00:19:48,815
Speaker 2: You know, it's just at the highest level. You know,

438
00:19:48,856 --> 00:19:50,775
Speaker 2: it's something you've been dreaming about your entire life and

439
00:19:50,776 --> 00:19:53,696
Speaker 2: it's finally here, you know, So taking a run with it, man,

440
00:19:53,735 --> 00:19:55,376
Speaker 2: you know, take advantage of your opportunities.

441
00:19:55,856 --> 00:19:58,975
Speaker 3: What teams did you meet with? And was the Texans

442
00:19:59,016 --> 00:20:01,136
Speaker 3: one of those teams you thought might pop up and

443
00:20:01,176 --> 00:20:01,575
Speaker 3: draft you.

444
00:20:02,656 --> 00:20:04,416
Speaker 2: Actually I was meeting with a lot of teams, man.

445
00:20:05,136 --> 00:20:08,936
Speaker 2: I'm met with the Tennessee Titans a lot, Jacksonville, Jacksonville

446
00:20:08,936 --> 00:20:15,296
Speaker 2: a couple of times, man, New York Giants, Yeah, Houston.

447
00:20:15,696 --> 00:20:19,176
Speaker 2: I ended up meeting with Houston, like it was later man,

448
00:20:19,056 --> 00:20:20,975
Speaker 2: and the interview was like five minutes.

449
00:20:21,016 --> 00:20:21,176
Speaker 6: You know.

450
00:20:21,936 --> 00:20:23,416
Speaker 2: They just asked me how I was doing, how I

451
00:20:23,495 --> 00:20:25,616
Speaker 2: was feeling, you know, and it was good. You know,

452
00:20:25,896 --> 00:20:28,295
Speaker 2: they like like my game things like that. So it

453
00:20:28,336 --> 00:20:29,495
Speaker 2: was short. It was short and sweet.

454
00:20:29,536 --> 00:20:29,656
Speaker 4: Man.

455
00:20:29,696 --> 00:20:32,535
Speaker 2: It wasn't nothing, nothing too crazy. But I feel like

456
00:20:32,616 --> 00:20:37,055
Speaker 2: just around the time, I wasn't expecting, you know, the Houston, Houston,

457
00:20:37,056 --> 00:20:39,815
Speaker 2: Texas to pick ups man, pick me. You know, it

458
00:20:39,896 --> 00:20:42,096
Speaker 2: was just it's a blessing you because around that time,

459
00:20:42,096 --> 00:20:44,975
Speaker 2: you know, Jacksonville there was you know, they was interviewing

460
00:20:44,975 --> 00:20:48,176
Speaker 2: me a lot, you know, like every day it's hard questions,

461
00:20:48,215 --> 00:20:50,256
Speaker 2: you know, just things like that. So I kind of thought,

462
00:20:50,256 --> 00:20:54,296
Speaker 2: you know, he's gonna be Tennessee, Jacksonville. Jacksonville is pretty

463
00:20:54,296 --> 00:20:57,455
Speaker 2: hard to with the interviews, you know, accident asking me

464
00:20:57,576 --> 00:20:59,416
Speaker 2: a lot of questions, you know, asking about the family

465
00:20:59,416 --> 00:21:01,256
Speaker 2: and stuff. So I really thought I was gonna either

466
00:21:01,296 --> 00:21:04,896
Speaker 2: Jacksonville Tennessee around this time for sure, but not jackson

467
00:21:04,975 --> 00:21:06,936
Speaker 2: Is definitely surprised me then, you know, that was my team.

468
00:21:07,416 --> 00:21:10,696
Speaker 2: I was not expecting. You know, they kept a short

469
00:21:10,735 --> 00:21:12,256
Speaker 2: interview and ended up.

470
00:21:12,136 --> 00:21:15,336
Speaker 3: Picking I'm from Arkansas, So for me to go to

471
00:21:15,336 --> 00:21:18,136
Speaker 3: school somewhere cold, that would not have been preferred. Now

472
00:21:18,136 --> 00:21:20,856
Speaker 3: you're from Alabama, how did you end up in Michigan

473
00:21:20,896 --> 00:21:22,896
Speaker 3: because that feels like a whole different climate.

474
00:21:23,256 --> 00:21:25,416
Speaker 2: Man, it's night and day, man, I say, Jim Harball. Man,

475
00:21:25,495 --> 00:21:28,216
Speaker 2: Jim Harball, he came down to the Big ten, came

476
00:21:28,215 --> 00:21:30,696
Speaker 2: down from the Big ten SEC country man and got me.

477
00:21:30,856 --> 00:21:32,936
Speaker 2: And I was, I was. I was blessing though to

478
00:21:32,936 --> 00:21:35,936
Speaker 2: be highly recruited a lot of teams in the SEC. Man,

479
00:21:36,016 --> 00:21:38,696
Speaker 2: pretty much, I had every team in SEC, and Michigan

480
00:21:38,816 --> 00:21:41,296
Speaker 2: is my only Big Ten. And it was just something

481
00:21:41,336 --> 00:21:43,296
Speaker 2: about coach Harball. Man. He stood out. He was different

482
00:21:43,336 --> 00:21:46,656
Speaker 2: from all the other coaches just his his you know,

483
00:21:46,856 --> 00:21:49,376
Speaker 2: just way he just came about the game, man. You know,

484
00:21:49,416 --> 00:21:51,376
Speaker 2: he cared for the players, you know, on and off

485
00:21:51,376 --> 00:21:53,416
Speaker 2: the field, for the families. You know. He was a

486
00:21:53,455 --> 00:21:56,495
Speaker 2: real football guy, you know. And it stood out. It

487
00:21:56,495 --> 00:21:58,335
Speaker 2: was different from the rest of the coaches in the business.

488
00:21:58,336 --> 00:22:01,056
Speaker 2: I went on, you know, So he came down, Man.

489
00:22:01,096 --> 00:22:04,496
Speaker 2: I went up there a couple of times for official visits, man,

490
00:22:04,576 --> 00:22:05,896
Speaker 2: and love the culture.

491
00:22:05,896 --> 00:22:05,975
Speaker 4: Man.

492
00:22:06,016 --> 00:22:07,376
Speaker 2: I think that was when they first went to Jordan

493
00:22:07,896 --> 00:22:10,256
Speaker 2: and so I just see myself wanting Jordan's I think

494
00:22:10,256 --> 00:22:13,096
Speaker 2: it was the first Jordan team college football all that time. Man,

495
00:22:13,136 --> 00:22:15,215
Speaker 2: So it was dope. Man. I feel like just me

496
00:22:15,296 --> 00:22:17,575
Speaker 2: going up there playing the Amazing Blue was different. You know,

497
00:22:17,616 --> 00:22:19,735
Speaker 2: coming from Alabama. You know, a lot of guys didn't

498
00:22:19,776 --> 00:22:21,256
Speaker 2: do that. You know a lot of guys normally stayed

499
00:22:21,256 --> 00:22:24,576
Speaker 2: in the state, either go to Alabama or Arburn, Georgia,

500
00:22:25,056 --> 00:22:26,896
Speaker 2: you know, Florida, they stay in the South. Man. But

501
00:22:26,975 --> 00:22:28,416
Speaker 2: I just wanted to do something different, you know, I

502
00:22:28,495 --> 00:22:30,855
Speaker 2: just wanted to go up to the north, you know,

503
00:22:31,016 --> 00:22:33,575
Speaker 2: playing the big Tin. You know, it's just see what

504
00:22:33,616 --> 00:22:35,336
Speaker 2: was different. She was out there, you know.

505
00:22:35,455 --> 00:22:38,575
Speaker 3: What about catching the ball in the cold though, Like

506
00:22:38,696 --> 00:22:42,816
Speaker 3: catching the football in the coal, you had to learn Yeah, yeah,

507
00:22:42,816 --> 00:22:44,136
Speaker 3: that's that's hard, right.

508
00:22:44,975 --> 00:22:47,535
Speaker 2: It's hard, man, because your hands are numb and the

509
00:22:47,576 --> 00:22:50,416
Speaker 2: football as hard as a brick, and it's coming fast.

510
00:22:50,416 --> 00:22:54,296
Speaker 2: You got to put your hands up catch it. It's terrible. Man.

511
00:22:54,376 --> 00:22:56,055
Speaker 2: I feel like that was my worst experience. Like that

512
00:22:56,096 --> 00:22:58,856
Speaker 2: winter in Michigan was probably my worst my freshman year.

513
00:22:58,896 --> 00:22:59,056
Speaker 6: Man.

514
00:22:59,056 --> 00:23:00,735
Speaker 2: Like I didn't I didn't know how to dress for

515
00:23:00,776 --> 00:23:03,776
Speaker 2: the cold. I had jackets. I was not doing it

516
00:23:03,856 --> 00:23:06,096
Speaker 2: for the weather man. You need a cold. I didn't

517
00:23:06,096 --> 00:23:08,616
Speaker 2: have no boots. I was going through it. Man, My

518
00:23:08,656 --> 00:23:10,856
Speaker 2: first win in December was it was they had a

519
00:23:10,936 --> 00:23:12,616
Speaker 2: call Mom like, Yo, can you send me like a

520
00:23:12,656 --> 00:23:17,176
Speaker 2: care package? I mean showing I need to go shop

521
00:23:17,215 --> 00:23:20,056
Speaker 2: for it. I need to stay warm here. But no,

522
00:23:20,176 --> 00:23:22,136
Speaker 2: it was the best decision I ever made, though, Man.

523
00:23:23,256 --> 00:23:26,096
Speaker 3: Watching you last season, just watching U the other wide

524
00:23:26,096 --> 00:23:28,335
Speaker 3: receivers run the NFL, like there are a lot of guys.

525
00:23:28,336 --> 00:23:30,495
Speaker 3: There are a lot of like dudes, but like you

526
00:23:30,536 --> 00:23:33,656
Speaker 3: were that dude, Like the whole season like you were

527
00:23:33,816 --> 00:23:37,416
Speaker 3: that dude. And everybody started to realize that about about

528
00:23:37,536 --> 00:23:40,336
Speaker 3: Game three where it was like, okay, he has separated

529
00:23:40,376 --> 00:23:43,096
Speaker 3: himself from everybody. Did you do anything last year leading

530
00:23:43,256 --> 00:23:46,015
Speaker 3: into the season there was different or is it just

531
00:23:46,056 --> 00:23:47,496
Speaker 3: a normal maturation process?

532
00:23:47,816 --> 00:23:49,775
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I didn't do anything different. I feel like

533
00:23:49,896 --> 00:23:52,455
Speaker 2: I build on I build on last year, my second

534
00:23:52,455 --> 00:23:54,376
Speaker 2: coming off my third year, and this year I feel

535
00:23:54,416 --> 00:23:55,896
Speaker 2: like I was just building it, you know, just finding

536
00:23:55,936 --> 00:24:00,256
Speaker 2: the things that was good for me. My third year,

537
00:24:00,296 --> 00:24:01,775
Speaker 2: I did it again. You know, I amped it up,

538
00:24:01,816 --> 00:24:04,176
Speaker 2: you know, just taking the games to another level, you know,

539
00:24:04,296 --> 00:24:07,455
Speaker 2: just trying to you know, learn stuff, learn from different people.

540
00:24:07,495 --> 00:24:09,936
Speaker 2: You know, I had you know, stuff on this joins

541
00:24:09,975 --> 00:24:11,775
Speaker 2: us this year, you know, just learning from him, you know,

542
00:24:11,936 --> 00:24:14,975
Speaker 2: just learning, you know, how to be become a great receiver.

543
00:24:15,215 --> 00:24:17,416
Speaker 2: I've been watching stuff for years, you know, middle school,

544
00:24:17,856 --> 00:24:20,856
Speaker 2: you know, throughout high school. You know, even now, I'm

545
00:24:20,856 --> 00:24:23,616
Speaker 2: still watching you know, guys like that man, just leaders,

546
00:24:23,776 --> 00:24:26,416
Speaker 2: you know, I lean on, ask some questions the best. Man.

547
00:24:26,536 --> 00:24:28,776
Speaker 2: Just find the ways to go about my game.

548
00:24:28,816 --> 00:24:28,936
Speaker 6: Man.

549
00:24:28,975 --> 00:24:31,015
Speaker 2: So I feel like there's always ways to improve in

550
00:24:31,056 --> 00:24:33,055
Speaker 2: your game and there's no seiling. So I feel like

551
00:24:33,056 --> 00:24:36,735
Speaker 2: for me, man, just strong for greatness and not gaining

552
00:24:36,816 --> 00:24:38,576
Speaker 2: place and not getting comfortable, you know, just because you

553
00:24:38,656 --> 00:24:41,576
Speaker 2: had a little you know, success is it's a blessing,

554
00:24:41,616 --> 00:24:43,136
Speaker 2: you know. But I feel like for me, you got

555
00:24:43,136 --> 00:24:45,856
Speaker 2: to continue to go, continue to remember like your goals

556
00:24:46,336 --> 00:24:48,095
Speaker 2: and you know, being worth for s you know, just

557
00:24:48,296 --> 00:24:50,735
Speaker 2: saying advantage of every opportunity. You know, that was that

558
00:24:50,816 --> 00:24:51,976
Speaker 2: was what I was doing. You know. You just never

559
00:24:52,016 --> 00:24:54,215
Speaker 2: know when the game could be done, you know. And

560
00:24:55,416 --> 00:24:57,735
Speaker 2: I feel I just I realized that, man, just flip

561
00:24:57,776 --> 00:25:00,136
Speaker 2: the switch. And I'm still continuing to realizing that now.

562
00:25:00,176 --> 00:25:03,016
Speaker 2: You know, just enjoying everything you know, because they could

563
00:25:03,016 --> 00:25:05,775
Speaker 2: be over them all never know. You know, So like

564
00:25:05,856 --> 00:25:10,856
Speaker 2: nah man just having fallen joined the process and love.

565
00:25:11,256 --> 00:25:14,176
Speaker 3: Got three final questions. And I'll talk about c J.

566
00:25:14,256 --> 00:25:17,495
Speaker 3: Stroud first. I mean Ohio State. So that's you know

567
00:25:17,536 --> 00:25:19,656
Speaker 3: a few years ago maybe you guys wouldn't gotten gotten

568
00:25:19,696 --> 00:25:23,056
Speaker 3: along so well. But what's he liked the facility? What's

569
00:25:23,056 --> 00:25:25,215
Speaker 3: he what's he like on the practice field?

570
00:25:25,495 --> 00:25:27,015
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a leader, man. I feel like he

571
00:25:27,056 --> 00:25:30,856
Speaker 2: was a born leader from day one since he came in. Man,

572
00:25:31,056 --> 00:25:34,536
Speaker 2: just his work at his leadership. He was there. Man,

573
00:25:34,576 --> 00:25:36,936
Speaker 2: he came in not even looking like a rookie. Man,

574
00:25:36,975 --> 00:25:39,216
Speaker 2: he came ready to lead. You know, because first two

575
00:25:39,256 --> 00:25:41,696
Speaker 2: years we was was a winner. You know, this program

576
00:25:41,735 --> 00:25:44,376
Speaker 2: it was probably maybe one of winning like five games

577
00:25:44,416 --> 00:25:46,696
Speaker 2: two years my first two years I was here, Man,

578
00:25:46,696 --> 00:25:48,775
Speaker 2: it was it was kind of our rebuilt year. It

579
00:25:48,816 --> 00:25:51,735
Speaker 2: was kind of hard. But you know, once we drafted CJ.

580
00:25:52,176 --> 00:25:57,215
Speaker 2: Will Man and uh Henry Man, I feel like this

581
00:25:57,495 --> 00:25:59,735
Speaker 2: entire team, that draft class was nice, bro and I

582
00:25:59,735 --> 00:26:01,896
Speaker 2: feel like we stepped it up. That's what we needed.

583
00:26:01,896 --> 00:26:04,856
Speaker 2: We needed that that those guys man to come in

584
00:26:04,896 --> 00:26:07,215
Speaker 2: and make it their for instance, they did and c J.

585
00:26:07,896 --> 00:26:09,856
Speaker 2: Every day in the building. Man, it's just you can

586
00:26:09,896 --> 00:26:12,455
Speaker 2: tell he's on the mission. You know. He he leads

587
00:26:12,455 --> 00:26:14,295
Speaker 2: the right way. He be there for you, man, and

588
00:26:15,416 --> 00:26:17,296
Speaker 2: there's no better guy to go out there and play.

589
00:26:17,376 --> 00:26:17,775
Speaker 2: Play for it.

590
00:26:17,856 --> 00:26:18,016
Speaker 4: Man.

591
00:26:18,056 --> 00:26:20,056
Speaker 2: You know he got your back. It's a great guy,

592
00:26:20,136 --> 00:26:24,015
Speaker 2: man and humble. He's only calm and collected, that's what

593
00:26:24,096 --> 00:26:26,256
Speaker 2: I call him. He's real calm, you know, and precious

594
00:26:26,296 --> 00:26:29,055
Speaker 2: high lights getting bright. You know the guy says the same. Man,

595
00:26:29,096 --> 00:26:30,176
Speaker 2: I feel like that's that's type we got.

596
00:26:30,215 --> 00:26:32,736
Speaker 3: You need it as a quarterback, right, final two questions.

597
00:26:32,936 --> 00:26:35,376
Speaker 3: Did you keep any balls from this season? Any special

598
00:26:35,376 --> 00:26:37,416
Speaker 3: moments where you kept the ball?

599
00:26:37,936 --> 00:26:40,256
Speaker 2: For sure? Man, I kept a lot of footballs. Man,

600
00:26:41,816 --> 00:26:46,495
Speaker 2: got a thousand yards and kept that first touchdown reception.

601
00:26:47,656 --> 00:26:52,936
Speaker 2: I kept that. But else my second, my second touchdown

602
00:26:53,616 --> 00:26:57,416
Speaker 2: I scored. I guess I think it was they got

603
00:26:57,416 --> 00:26:59,936
Speaker 2: called out first, one second, got a called back. I

604
00:27:00,016 --> 00:27:02,656
Speaker 2: was sick first, I was down, David. I know it

605
00:27:02,735 --> 00:27:05,335
Speaker 2: was my mom's birthday, so I had to I had

606
00:27:06,856 --> 00:27:08,255
Speaker 2: kept that ball, gave it to her. So it was

607
00:27:08,256 --> 00:27:11,576
Speaker 2: a great, great one. Uh, I was gonna keep the

608
00:27:11,816 --> 00:27:15,096
Speaker 2: Dallas ball that first play. I came back after my injury.

609
00:27:15,336 --> 00:27:18,015
Speaker 2: Uh ended up breaking like a saving the yard six

610
00:27:18,136 --> 00:27:23,055
Speaker 2: or nine touchdown got called back sick. So I was

611
00:27:23,696 --> 00:27:25,536
Speaker 2: you know, I still kept that ball because.

612
00:27:25,376 --> 00:27:26,015
Speaker 3: It counted me.

613
00:27:26,096 --> 00:27:26,255
Speaker 4: You know.

614
00:27:26,256 --> 00:27:29,616
Speaker 2: It's coming back from you know, just missing five games,

615
00:27:29,656 --> 00:27:32,536
Speaker 2: you know, and that that game against Dallas, and that's

616
00:27:32,576 --> 00:27:35,376
Speaker 2: being the first play batman and no, and they gave

617
00:27:35,416 --> 00:27:37,416
Speaker 2: me the ball the first play and you know I

618
00:27:37,455 --> 00:27:39,336
Speaker 2: took it to the house. I feel like that was

619
00:27:39,176 --> 00:27:40,656
Speaker 2: a it was a great feeling for me, you know,

620
00:27:40,856 --> 00:27:45,056
Speaker 2: just coming off injury, you know, good blowing injury, ham stream,

621
00:27:45,176 --> 00:27:47,296
Speaker 2: you know, and that being my first play back. Man,

622
00:27:47,336 --> 00:27:49,656
Speaker 2: you know I had to keep that, you know it

623
00:27:49,776 --> 00:27:51,416
Speaker 2: kind of it kind of my buoys might not count

624
00:27:51,455 --> 00:27:53,975
Speaker 2: nobody else, but you know that's that's something to remember,

625
00:27:54,136 --> 00:27:55,656
Speaker 2: you know. But I always keep a lot of my

626
00:27:55,696 --> 00:27:57,495
Speaker 2: footballs because you know, it's it's hard to score in

627
00:27:57,495 --> 00:27:58,176
Speaker 2: this league.

628
00:27:58,215 --> 00:27:58,416
Speaker 3: Man.

629
00:27:58,856 --> 00:28:03,056
Speaker 2: Just so like when you look back ten years from now, man,

630
00:28:03,536 --> 00:28:05,975
Speaker 2: tear your kids or you know, grand kids. You know,

631
00:28:05,975 --> 00:28:07,256
Speaker 2: this is what I was doing back in the day.

632
00:28:08,256 --> 00:28:11,576
Speaker 3: Final question, the easy one, like what's the expectation, what's

633
00:28:11,576 --> 00:28:13,776
Speaker 3: the ceiling for this year? You know, what's the goal

634
00:28:14,056 --> 00:28:14,416
Speaker 3: for sure?

635
00:28:14,416 --> 00:28:17,096
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like the ceilings is everybody selling

636
00:28:17,096 --> 00:28:18,336
Speaker 2: you know, we gotta get to that super Bowl. You

637
00:28:18,416 --> 00:28:20,616
Speaker 2: know it's ceiling. But I feel like our goal, man

638
00:28:20,735 --> 00:28:23,735
Speaker 2: is just continue to get better, continue to not be

639
00:28:23,816 --> 00:28:27,136
Speaker 2: the same every week, you know, improved, you know, and

640
00:28:27,975 --> 00:28:28,775
Speaker 2: it seemed to be us.

641
00:28:28,776 --> 00:28:30,255
Speaker 8: I feel like when were out there having fun, we

642
00:28:30,495 --> 00:28:32,975
Speaker 8: play our best ball, not thinking, you know, And I

643
00:28:33,016 --> 00:28:34,975
Speaker 8: feel like for us, as that might, that's gonna be

644
00:28:35,016 --> 00:28:37,616
Speaker 8: our challenge. Man, who out there having fun you know

645
00:28:37,735 --> 00:28:41,016
Speaker 8: and being enoughs man, being nuts and not thinking too much.

646
00:28:41,056 --> 00:28:42,376
Speaker 8: I feel like that that's when we had the most

647
00:28:42,416 --> 00:28:43,575
Speaker 8: fun and winning games.

648
00:28:43,576 --> 00:28:43,776
Speaker 4: Man.

649
00:28:44,536 --> 00:28:46,496
Speaker 2: The potential of this ceiling, this team this year, Man,

650
00:28:46,496 --> 00:28:49,176
Speaker 2: I feel like it's great, you know, and I can

651
00:28:49,176 --> 00:28:51,176
Speaker 2: feel it right now in the building, just you know,

652
00:28:51,296 --> 00:28:54,656
Speaker 2: first second week workout, you know, flowing the mindset from

653
00:28:54,656 --> 00:28:58,456
Speaker 2: the coaches to the players, you know, everybody, staff, you know, everybody. Man,

654
00:28:58,456 --> 00:29:00,376
Speaker 2: I feel like the energy is there. I feel like

655
00:29:00,416 --> 00:29:02,816
Speaker 2: the missions everybody know who the mission is. And we

656
00:29:02,856 --> 00:29:04,456
Speaker 2: don't want to have that feeling we had last year,

657
00:29:04,696 --> 00:29:06,616
Speaker 2: you know, getting to the same spot we did twice

658
00:29:06,896 --> 00:29:09,256
Speaker 2: two years back to back. End I proceed that, you know,

659
00:29:09,336 --> 00:29:10,736
Speaker 2: so we know what we gotta do we know what

660
00:29:10,856 --> 00:29:13,416
Speaker 2: it takes to to go to the next level and

661
00:29:13,456 --> 00:29:15,296
Speaker 2: go to the next game, you know. So I feel

662
00:29:15,336 --> 00:29:17,896
Speaker 2: like for us, it's a great feeling, it's great energy,

663
00:29:17,936 --> 00:29:19,376
Speaker 2: and I can't wait for everybody to get back.

664
00:29:19,896 --> 00:29:20,096
Speaker 7: Nick.

665
00:29:20,176 --> 00:29:22,376
Speaker 3: I appreciate you your fun to watch man. It's awesome,

666
00:29:22,536 --> 00:29:25,256
Speaker 3: awesome to see last year just killing Yeah, rooting for

667
00:29:25,296 --> 00:29:27,136
Speaker 3: you guys. So thanks for the time, Nico.

668
00:29:27,016 --> 00:29:29,456
Speaker 2: For sure, oh problem, thank you so much that we

669
00:29:29,536 --> 00:29:30,296
Speaker 2: go everybody.

670
00:29:45,336 --> 00:29:47,296
Speaker 3: Hey, man, who do you think has the craziest fan base?

671
00:29:47,816 --> 00:29:47,976
Speaker 7: Oh?

672
00:29:48,256 --> 00:29:49,936
Speaker 4: I mean the Bills have to be in there with

673
00:29:49,976 --> 00:29:54,656
Speaker 4: the Bills Mafia, there's no doubt about that. Philly Philly,

674
00:29:54,776 --> 00:29:57,376
Speaker 4: Philly and the Bills. I'd probably say those two. Maybe

675
00:29:57,416 --> 00:30:01,016
Speaker 4: the Las Vegas Raiders with the black Hole and everything.

676
00:30:01,176 --> 00:30:04,336
Speaker 4: Seattle Seahawks are it's a good one place to play.

677
00:30:04,376 --> 00:30:05,016
Speaker 3: That's a good one.

678
00:30:05,096 --> 00:30:08,416
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean because they've got they retired the number

679
00:30:08,496 --> 00:30:11,376
Speaker 4: twelve because of the Twelfth Man. That's their big deal

680
00:30:11,456 --> 00:30:14,056
Speaker 4: up there, and I think that they have to pump

681
00:30:14,136 --> 00:30:15,456
Speaker 4: artificial noise in that stateiument.

682
00:30:15,456 --> 00:30:15,936
Speaker 6: It's wild.

683
00:30:16,336 --> 00:30:18,296
Speaker 3: The twelfth Man is a good one, which I don't

684
00:30:18,296 --> 00:30:19,936
Speaker 3: think I would have gone there. I'm glad you did.

685
00:30:20,016 --> 00:30:21,696
Speaker 3: Did you ever play in Seattle?

686
00:30:22,696 --> 00:30:22,815
Speaker 7: Oh?

687
00:30:22,896 --> 00:30:24,176
Speaker 6: Yeah, multiple times?

688
00:30:24,296 --> 00:30:27,016
Speaker 4: And it as loud as can be and it's always dreary,

689
00:30:27,736 --> 00:30:30,576
Speaker 4: little bit damp, you know. And when they had the

690
00:30:30,656 --> 00:30:35,216
Speaker 4: Legion of Boom, that place was rocking. Marshawn Lynch, that

691
00:30:35,296 --> 00:30:35,816
Speaker 4: whole group.

692
00:30:35,856 --> 00:30:37,776
Speaker 6: I mean, they were a good, good football team.

693
00:30:38,376 --> 00:30:41,856
Speaker 3: How is it? And I guess I should say where

694
00:30:42,336 --> 00:30:45,176
Speaker 3: is it when it is so loud? Like, how is

695
00:30:45,216 --> 00:30:48,936
Speaker 3: there a difference in deafening and really loud and just

696
00:30:49,056 --> 00:30:50,776
Speaker 3: kind of loud? And does it affect play?

697
00:30:51,136 --> 00:30:53,776
Speaker 4: It does, because communication when it is so loud, particularly

698
00:30:53,816 --> 00:30:55,096
Speaker 4: when you get to some of these end zones, like

699
00:30:55,096 --> 00:30:59,816
Speaker 4: in Seattle, even New Orleans when they were at their height,

700
00:30:59,976 --> 00:31:03,056
Speaker 4: they were so loud, and particularly in the end zones,

701
00:31:03,096 --> 00:31:06,256
Speaker 4: that communication because so much is going on, particularly if

702
00:31:06,296 --> 00:31:09,376
Speaker 4: you're a quarterback in an offensive unit that you identify

703
00:31:09,616 --> 00:31:12,696
Speaker 4: the linebacker to set protections and set the front. That

704
00:31:12,896 --> 00:31:16,056
Speaker 4: everybody's got to be communicating and you're not using cadence.

705
00:31:16,136 --> 00:31:18,656
Speaker 4: You're all on silent count because if you use cadence,

706
00:31:18,896 --> 00:31:20,936
Speaker 4: everybody's going to jump off sides. And you see it

707
00:31:20,976 --> 00:31:23,576
Speaker 4: often if they try to use cadence and it's too loud,

708
00:31:24,056 --> 00:31:26,016
Speaker 4: there's just some guy that gets a little bit jumpy,

709
00:31:26,256 --> 00:31:29,096
Speaker 4: so you're waiting for that ball to move. So under center,

710
00:31:29,216 --> 00:31:32,456
Speaker 4: I literally would slap the center's butt, hed bob his

711
00:31:32,536 --> 00:31:35,696
Speaker 4: head and snap the ball. And that was the indicator.

712
00:31:35,736 --> 00:31:38,496
Speaker 4: And then the wide receivers on the outside, all they're

713
00:31:38,496 --> 00:31:40,536
Speaker 4: looking at is looking in to see the ball move.

714
00:31:40,776 --> 00:31:43,376
Speaker 4: They don't even concentrate on the slap or anything like that.

715
00:31:43,776 --> 00:31:45,536
Speaker 4: And then when you're in the gun, you're using a foot,

716
00:31:45,536 --> 00:31:47,776
Speaker 4: so you can go silent one, silent two, silent three

717
00:31:47,856 --> 00:31:49,096
Speaker 4: in some cases.

718
00:31:49,296 --> 00:31:50,696
Speaker 6: And everybody's got to be on it.

719
00:31:50,696 --> 00:31:53,256
Speaker 4: But it definitely changes your communication because when you're up

720
00:31:53,256 --> 00:31:54,936
Speaker 4: at the line of scrimmage you want to change protection.

721
00:31:55,616 --> 00:31:57,576
Speaker 4: That's when you see like the old school clips of

722
00:31:57,576 --> 00:32:00,656
Speaker 4: Peyton Manning running up and down the line communicating to everybody,

723
00:32:00,696 --> 00:32:04,856
Speaker 4: being very demonstrative. Well, that's because communication is key to

724
00:32:04,856 --> 00:32:05,296
Speaker 4: getting a.

725
00:32:05,776 --> 00:32:08,776
Speaker 3: When you say you use the foot and shotgun, what

726
00:32:08,816 --> 00:32:09,176
Speaker 3: do you mean.

727
00:32:09,856 --> 00:32:12,216
Speaker 4: So when you're standing back there the indicator, you either

728
00:32:12,256 --> 00:32:14,256
Speaker 4: have the guard or the center sometimes will look through

729
00:32:14,256 --> 00:32:17,656
Speaker 4: his legs and you're literally lifting your leg up one leg.

730
00:32:17,856 --> 00:32:20,936
Speaker 6: And that's silent one. Silent two would be two lifts.

731
00:32:20,976 --> 00:32:23,696
Speaker 4: So you go like this, he goes down, Bob's head

732
00:32:23,736 --> 00:32:26,416
Speaker 4: comes up, then he looks back down. Bob's it again,

733
00:32:26,576 --> 00:32:29,256
Speaker 4: or you have a guard tap him, And so that's

734
00:32:29,296 --> 00:32:32,216
Speaker 4: how you would start the cadence. You would use no

735
00:32:32,336 --> 00:32:34,016
Speaker 4: cadence whatsoever. It was all silent count.

736
00:32:34,216 --> 00:32:37,176
Speaker 3: So you're telling me their instance where the guard is watching,

737
00:32:37,216 --> 00:32:39,656
Speaker 3: so he can tell the center what the silent count is.

738
00:32:39,976 --> 00:32:42,856
Speaker 4: Yes, because I think it's a better method to be

739
00:32:42,896 --> 00:32:45,896
Speaker 4: honest with you. Because the sinner controls the front, he's

740
00:32:45,896 --> 00:32:50,416
Speaker 4: setting stuff after I will identify, Hey, the middle linebackers here,

741
00:32:50,576 --> 00:32:52,776
Speaker 4: so I set it originally, but he's talking to the

742
00:32:52,816 --> 00:32:56,096
Speaker 4: guards continuously, and it's getting passed down, like hey, watch

743
00:32:56,136 --> 00:32:59,096
Speaker 4: this guy coming down here or the game or whatever.

744
00:32:58,856 --> 00:32:59,216
Speaker 6: It might be.

745
00:32:59,256 --> 00:33:01,776
Speaker 4: So as the center keeps his eyes on the defense,

746
00:33:01,816 --> 00:33:05,296
Speaker 4: the guard looks back and all he does is he taps.

747
00:33:05,616 --> 00:33:08,016
Speaker 4: He taps the center on the side, and that now

748
00:33:08,016 --> 00:33:10,576
Speaker 4: the center knows it's time to go, and so he's able.

749
00:33:10,656 --> 00:33:12,416
Speaker 4: They're both able to get their eyes on the defense.

750
00:33:12,416 --> 00:33:14,136
Speaker 3: For the most part, I think I do feel like

751
00:33:14,136 --> 00:33:16,656
Speaker 3: I learned something, Like I feel like I'm mildly knowledgeable,

752
00:33:17,016 --> 00:33:19,216
Speaker 3: but I didn't know because I've seen the leg lifts

753
00:33:19,816 --> 00:33:22,816
Speaker 3: and knew that one or two, but I never knew

754
00:33:22,816 --> 00:33:25,776
Speaker 3: there were other eyes. It's like in your neighborhood neighborhood

755
00:33:25,776 --> 00:33:27,216
Speaker 3: watch where people are out at night, like we have

756
00:33:27,216 --> 00:33:29,776
Speaker 3: the neighborhood. The guard is the freaking neighborhood watch. For

757
00:33:29,816 --> 00:33:31,096
Speaker 3: the center of the quarterbacks.

758
00:33:31,616 --> 00:33:33,815
Speaker 4: Yeah, you'll see these guys look back like this, and

759
00:33:33,856 --> 00:33:35,376
Speaker 4: you'll see them just kind of put their hand out.

760
00:33:35,456 --> 00:33:37,136
Speaker 4: Sometimes they'll even put it out in front of their

761
00:33:37,136 --> 00:33:40,376
Speaker 4: face like this, So that that's the indicator that we

762
00:33:40,456 --> 00:33:41,096
Speaker 4: got to get going.

763
00:33:41,416 --> 00:33:42,896
Speaker 3: Another one of the teams I put up for fan

764
00:33:42,936 --> 00:33:45,416
Speaker 3: base is the Packers, because one, you got to be

765
00:33:45,456 --> 00:33:49,216
Speaker 3: crazy to go to games that cold. They are. They loud.

766
00:33:49,576 --> 00:33:52,216
Speaker 4: They're relatively loud. I mean, the coolest part about it

767
00:33:52,256 --> 00:33:58,136
Speaker 4: is a historic value of that place and so much history.

768
00:33:58,176 --> 00:34:00,696
Speaker 4: You're walking down all the locker room's green, but then

769
00:34:00,736 --> 00:34:02,936
Speaker 4: the Lambeau Leap and everything that they have.

770
00:34:03,056 --> 00:34:03,736
Speaker 6: They're loud.

771
00:34:04,216 --> 00:34:06,815
Speaker 4: But I wouldn't say there is lot as Seattle or

772
00:34:06,896 --> 00:34:09,375
Speaker 4: even a Kansas City. When Kansas City's rocking, that fan

773
00:34:09,456 --> 00:34:15,176
Speaker 4: base will get after you. There's some really loud stadiums,

774
00:34:15,176 --> 00:34:17,896
Speaker 4: There's no doubt about that. But I would say that

775
00:34:17,936 --> 00:34:21,496
Speaker 4: they're not as loud as like I said Seattle, Kansas City.

776
00:34:21,776 --> 00:34:24,616
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh gets loud too with the terrible towels I mean.

777
00:34:24,856 --> 00:34:27,416
Speaker 4: And the other part about Pittsburgh they travel. We've had

778
00:34:27,416 --> 00:34:30,856
Speaker 4: games in Kansas City before where there's more than half

779
00:34:30,856 --> 00:34:33,096
Speaker 4: the stadium dressed up in Steelers outfits. I'm like, I

780
00:34:33,096 --> 00:34:35,016
Speaker 4: thought this was a home game. What is going on

781
00:34:35,136 --> 00:34:35,536
Speaker 4: right now?

782
00:34:36,096 --> 00:34:39,216
Speaker 3: People liked this last week, Let's do another edition of

783
00:34:39,296 --> 00:34:41,656
Speaker 3: What Were They Like? Where I just picked somebody that

784
00:34:41,816 --> 00:34:43,576
Speaker 3: I think you knew, and you tell me what they

785
00:34:43,616 --> 00:34:46,776
Speaker 3: were like. And this week I pick tell me about

786
00:34:46,896 --> 00:34:47,696
Speaker 3: Doug Flutey.

787
00:34:48,256 --> 00:34:52,376
Speaker 4: Doug Flutey, this guy was a legend when I showed

788
00:34:52,456 --> 00:34:55,936
Speaker 4: up to New England. He's forty one years old and

789
00:34:55,976 --> 00:35:00,136
Speaker 4: he's not big in stature. I mean, he's probably five

790
00:35:00,176 --> 00:35:02,736
Speaker 4: to ten, might be generous five nine, but he had

791
00:35:02,776 --> 00:35:05,256
Speaker 4: an absolute cannon for an arm and I'll never forget

792
00:35:05,656 --> 00:35:08,136
Speaker 4: come in the first day I'm coming in as a rookie,

793
00:35:08,176 --> 00:35:10,416
Speaker 4: I'm walking up and he pulls up in like an

794
00:35:10,456 --> 00:35:12,656
Speaker 4: old school trans aam with an.

795
00:35:12,536 --> 00:35:13,536
Speaker 6: Eagle on the front.

796
00:35:13,656 --> 00:35:16,896
Speaker 4: He lived, he lived in the nineteen eighties, did like

797
00:35:16,936 --> 00:35:19,576
Speaker 4: he had the hair flow and he was like a

798
00:35:19,616 --> 00:35:23,856
Speaker 4: little kid. I mean, he loved every sport. He'd playing

799
00:35:23,896 --> 00:35:26,656
Speaker 4: pickup basketball, he played in a hard ball baseball league

800
00:35:26,656 --> 00:35:29,496
Speaker 4: Get forty one in the offseason, and he'd come in

801
00:35:29,536 --> 00:35:31,136
Speaker 4: and he'd tell you all of his stats. He was

802
00:35:31,176 --> 00:35:32,896
Speaker 4: like a little kid. He'd tell you all of his stats,

803
00:35:33,136 --> 00:35:35,896
Speaker 4: how many innings he pitched, the people he stole base

804
00:35:35,976 --> 00:35:39,896
Speaker 4: He'd go out to Finnway and before games he'd go

805
00:35:39,936 --> 00:35:43,016
Speaker 4: down there constantly and just shag balls for batting practice,

806
00:35:43,296 --> 00:35:46,376
Speaker 4: like he was a legend. And I'll never forget the

807
00:35:46,656 --> 00:35:48,936
Speaker 4: It was the end of the year that year. We're

808
00:35:48,976 --> 00:35:52,336
Speaker 4: playing Miami at home, and I got to play for

809
00:35:52,376 --> 00:35:55,576
Speaker 4: three quarters, and the crowd was getting frustrated because they

810
00:35:55,656 --> 00:35:58,736
Speaker 4: wanted to see Flutie. Like it's Boston, Boston College, like

811
00:35:58,816 --> 00:35:59,815
Speaker 4: he's a legend there.

812
00:36:00,376 --> 00:36:03,376
Speaker 6: And so Flutie could do this thing called the.

813
00:36:03,416 --> 00:36:06,216
Speaker 4: Drop kick, and it hadn't been done for god knows

814
00:36:06,216 --> 00:36:10,096
Speaker 4: how long, you know, thirty years, whatever it was. And

815
00:36:10,616 --> 00:36:12,896
Speaker 4: we go down and I throw my first touchdown pass

816
00:36:12,896 --> 00:36:15,136
Speaker 4: in my career to Tim Dwight on lower return route.

817
00:36:15,176 --> 00:36:17,936
Speaker 4: He falls in well, Doug Flutie runs on the field

818
00:36:18,656 --> 00:36:21,176
Speaker 4: and he's going to do this dropkick because Bill's a

819
00:36:21,176 --> 00:36:23,456
Speaker 4: big historian, so he's like, can you do this in

820
00:36:23,496 --> 00:36:26,176
Speaker 4: the game, and Doug's like, yeah, I'll do it. So

821
00:36:26,616 --> 00:36:29,096
Speaker 4: Doug lines up behind the center in a shotgun snap

822
00:36:29,176 --> 00:36:32,496
Speaker 4: and everybody is going wild and the defense doesn't know

823
00:36:32,536 --> 00:36:34,336
Speaker 4: what to think because we're in a field goal formation

824
00:36:34,456 --> 00:36:37,456
Speaker 4: with just Flutie back there. And he drops it, hits

825
00:36:37,456 --> 00:36:40,656
Speaker 4: the ground, kicks it through the uprights for a pat

826
00:36:41,056 --> 00:36:43,816
Speaker 4: does the dropkick. So now it's like super Bowl winning

827
00:36:43,856 --> 00:36:46,536
Speaker 4: type stuff. The crowd is all, now I come back

828
00:36:46,536 --> 00:36:48,416
Speaker 4: out for the next series for the two minute drill,

829
00:36:48,576 --> 00:36:49,576
Speaker 4: and they are booing.

830
00:36:49,856 --> 00:36:53,256
Speaker 6: They're so pissed off Doug Footie is not back in

831
00:36:53,296 --> 00:36:53,616
Speaker 6: the game.

832
00:36:53,936 --> 00:36:55,816
Speaker 3: I'm like, guys, I mean, he went in for the

833
00:36:55,856 --> 00:36:56,296
Speaker 3: drop kick.

834
00:36:56,336 --> 00:36:58,376
Speaker 6: It was awesome, but can I just can you give

835
00:36:58,416 --> 00:37:00,296
Speaker 6: me a little bit of support right here? No, no,

836
00:37:00,696 --> 00:37:03,976
Speaker 6: they're going flute flutey. It was great.

837
00:37:04,016 --> 00:37:07,016
Speaker 4: But he was a great teammate, funny as hell. I mean,

838
00:37:07,096 --> 00:37:09,496
Speaker 4: I will say in meetings he was one of those

839
00:37:09,496 --> 00:37:11,376
Speaker 4: guys that's old school, right. He wants to block it

840
00:37:11,456 --> 00:37:13,056
Speaker 4: up and throw it down. So we'd be going through

841
00:37:13,056 --> 00:37:15,576
Speaker 4: the game plan sometimes and after Britty would get the

842
00:37:15,616 --> 00:37:19,536
Speaker 4: gun going through his favorites. They'd get the fluty and

843
00:37:20,096 --> 00:37:22,216
Speaker 4: they'd be like, all right, so if you get in

844
00:37:22,256 --> 00:37:24,216
Speaker 4: there or if something happens, what do you want me

845
00:37:24,216 --> 00:37:26,016
Speaker 4: to Sorry. He's like, look, just block it up and

846
00:37:26,096 --> 00:37:26,816
Speaker 4: call goes.

847
00:37:27,176 --> 00:37:29,936
Speaker 6: I'll make it work. And he was just that kind

848
00:37:29,936 --> 00:37:32,416
Speaker 6: of dude. I was laughing my ass off though.

849
00:37:32,416 --> 00:37:34,256
Speaker 4: He's a funny, funny dude.

850
00:37:49,216 --> 00:37:49,936
Speaker 7: All right, you're up.

851
00:37:51,056 --> 00:37:55,136
Speaker 4: All right, Bear Girls, tell me some good Bear Girls stories.

852
00:37:55,576 --> 00:37:57,736
Speaker 3: So Bear Girls has the show, he has many shows,

853
00:37:57,736 --> 00:37:59,496
Speaker 3: but he has a Running Wild to Bear Girls, where

854
00:37:59,536 --> 00:38:01,976
Speaker 3: he takes out celebrities and takes them all over the

855
00:38:01,976 --> 00:38:05,336
Speaker 3: world to places and basically sees, if you can die.

856
00:38:05,656 --> 00:38:07,496
Speaker 3: That's what it felt like anyway. And I got a

857
00:38:07,536 --> 00:38:10,056
Speaker 3: call and says, hey, do you want to do Running

858
00:38:10,096 --> 00:38:14,336
Speaker 3: Wild with Bear Grills on nat gu on Disney Plus.

859
00:38:14,536 --> 00:38:16,296
Speaker 3: And I was like, I don't think so, Like I'm

860
00:38:16,296 --> 00:38:19,256
Speaker 3: good God, I don't not for adventure. I had enough

861
00:38:19,296 --> 00:38:21,616
Speaker 3: of that my whole life growing up. And they're like, no, no, no,

862
00:38:21,696 --> 00:38:23,976
Speaker 3: I don't think you understand, Like he only really asks

863
00:38:24,016 --> 00:38:25,816
Speaker 3: famous people and you're not famous, so that would be

864
00:38:25,856 --> 00:38:28,136
Speaker 3: cool for you to do. That's that's position. And I

865
00:38:28,256 --> 00:38:33,656
Speaker 3: said oh, okay, and so I begrudgingly said yeah, sure,

866
00:38:33,696 --> 00:38:36,616
Speaker 3: thinking we would go to like New Orleans or Las

867
00:38:36,696 --> 00:38:40,136
Speaker 3: Vegas into the a dune or something, and they were like,

868
00:38:40,176 --> 00:38:43,336
Speaker 3: all right, we're gonna go to Norway. I never been

869
00:38:43,336 --> 00:38:46,536
Speaker 3: to Norway, long trip, and it's like you'll be there

870
00:38:46,576 --> 00:38:49,576
Speaker 3: for two days. You're in the wilderness, it's cold, but

871
00:38:49,696 --> 00:38:52,776
Speaker 3: you'll land and off you go. And so I'm like,

872
00:38:52,776 --> 00:38:54,056
Speaker 3: all right, cool. So I got on a flight. We

873
00:38:54,656 --> 00:38:57,896
Speaker 3: fly to Norway. Let's like fly to Paris and then

874
00:38:57,976 --> 00:39:00,456
Speaker 3: Amsterdam and then a small town in Norway, and you

875
00:39:00,496 --> 00:39:03,096
Speaker 3: get off as beautiful by the way, but you land

876
00:39:03,136 --> 00:39:05,816
Speaker 3: and it's just right into the show. As soon as

877
00:39:05,816 --> 00:39:08,096
Speaker 3: I land, I throw my bags in a room and

878
00:39:08,096 --> 00:39:09,656
Speaker 3: they're like, all right, let's go. I haven't met Bear

879
00:39:09,736 --> 00:39:14,416
Speaker 3: or anything, and so I watched a couple episodes on

880
00:39:14,776 --> 00:39:16,576
Speaker 3: the way on the flight, just to kind of see

881
00:39:16,616 --> 00:39:18,856
Speaker 3: what was going on. And I'd seen a couple a

882
00:39:18,856 --> 00:39:21,096
Speaker 3: few years prior, but it wasn't like I watched all

883
00:39:21,176 --> 00:39:23,736
Speaker 3: the Bear Girls episodes. So a little bit had to

884
00:39:23,736 --> 00:39:25,456
Speaker 3: reintroduce myself to what was about to happen. And I

885
00:39:25,456 --> 00:39:27,256
Speaker 3: didn't like what I was introduced to because I was like,

886
00:39:27,256 --> 00:39:29,216
Speaker 3: I don't want to do this stuff. I hate heights.

887
00:39:29,256 --> 00:39:32,896
Speaker 3: And so we're in a foreign country and they're like,

888
00:39:33,416 --> 00:39:36,456
Speaker 3: just go and I he'll join you. And all of

889
00:39:36,496 --> 00:39:39,656
Speaker 3: a sudden, I see a helicopter flying over the top

890
00:39:39,696 --> 00:39:41,736
Speaker 3: and here's bear like hanging off the side of it,

891
00:39:41,776 --> 00:39:45,336
Speaker 3: and he's like all right, and the helicopters still running

892
00:39:45,456 --> 00:39:47,896
Speaker 3: and he's like, clip on right here, and I'm like,

893
00:39:48,016 --> 00:39:51,496
Speaker 3: what is that clip on right here? Nothing not met

894
00:39:51,576 --> 00:39:53,416
Speaker 3: him anything, all I here is this guy yelling at me,

895
00:39:53,616 --> 00:39:55,536
Speaker 3: and I clip on. All of a sudden, the helicopters

896
00:39:55,536 --> 00:39:58,096
Speaker 3: lifted us off right and we're like just hanging from

897
00:39:58,096 --> 00:40:01,296
Speaker 3: the freaking helicopter flying over nowhere. I'm like, oh my god,

898
00:40:01,416 --> 00:40:05,096
Speaker 3: I hate heights. And it's little literally a clip from

899
00:40:05,136 --> 00:40:08,016
Speaker 3: me falling to my death hundreds of feet. So we

900
00:40:08,096 --> 00:40:11,696
Speaker 3: finally land and it's freezing cold and it's raining the

901
00:40:11,736 --> 00:40:15,376
Speaker 3: whole time, and my adrenaline is pumping, but I don't

902
00:40:15,416 --> 00:40:17,416
Speaker 3: know why, because I don't know what I'm about to do,

903
00:40:18,096 --> 00:40:20,336
Speaker 3: and so we just start hiking. We have like twenty

904
00:40:20,376 --> 00:40:23,016
Speaker 3: miles to hike that day to get to our end destination,

905
00:40:23,656 --> 00:40:27,896
Speaker 3: and part of it is going through water and again,

906
00:40:27,936 --> 00:40:32,096
Speaker 3: it's probably thirty seven degrees and it's raining, and so

907
00:40:33,056 --> 00:40:36,376
Speaker 3: we go and it's wet, and I'm telling you, it's

908
00:40:36,416 --> 00:40:39,136
Speaker 3: not like there are producers following you around giving you

909
00:40:39,216 --> 00:40:42,976
Speaker 3: like TUTSI rolls or blankets. Like it's as legit as

910
00:40:43,016 --> 00:40:46,616
Speaker 3: it possibly can be unless you like tap out. And

911
00:40:46,776 --> 00:40:50,296
Speaker 3: so we're going and we're going through marsh and I

912
00:40:50,376 --> 00:40:52,976
Speaker 3: like fall and I'm wet. My whole leg's wet. It's

913
00:40:53,016 --> 00:40:56,016
Speaker 3: less than forty degrees. Bear's really nice. But again, we're

914
00:40:56,016 --> 00:40:57,416
Speaker 3: shooting a TV show and we're trying to get to

915
00:40:57,416 --> 00:41:02,016
Speaker 3: our place before dark, and we come across this disgusting

916
00:41:03,136 --> 00:41:06,936
Speaker 3: rotted goat and it's floating on the water. And what

917
00:41:06,976 --> 00:41:10,136
Speaker 3: we were looking for were like some birds or some plants,

918
00:41:10,176 --> 00:41:11,376
Speaker 3: because he was like, hey, we're gonna try to find

919
00:41:11,376 --> 00:41:13,656
Speaker 3: some birds to eat because then we'll cook them and

920
00:41:13,696 --> 00:41:15,616
Speaker 3: eat them because he's you know, he was in like

921
00:41:15,616 --> 00:41:18,256
Speaker 3: special forces in like the UK. And I'm like, great,

922
00:41:18,456 --> 00:41:20,576
Speaker 3: this part no problem with grew up in the woods

923
00:41:20,616 --> 00:41:23,536
Speaker 3: in Arkansas, hunting my whole life. Whatever you need. So

924
00:41:23,576 --> 00:41:26,256
Speaker 3: we're going through, but it's a rotted goat that's poking

925
00:41:26,296 --> 00:41:28,096
Speaker 3: out of this cold water, and so I have to

926
00:41:28,136 --> 00:41:31,656
Speaker 3: go and wade. I don't have any extra socks wade

927
00:41:31,696 --> 00:41:35,376
Speaker 3: to this goat. We drag it to the land and

928
00:41:35,416 --> 00:41:37,936
Speaker 3: Bear is smart enough to know, well, if that side's rotted,

929
00:41:38,096 --> 00:41:40,536
Speaker 3: the other side is going to be perfectly preserved because

930
00:41:40,536 --> 00:41:43,496
Speaker 3: the water's cold. So we pull it, we flip it over.

931
00:41:43,656 --> 00:41:47,416
Speaker 3: He's absolute right, it's perfectly preserved. And he's like, he's like,

932
00:41:47,456 --> 00:41:50,536
Speaker 3: I'll skin this. Cameras are with us, but the cameras

933
00:41:50,576 --> 00:41:52,176
Speaker 3: aren't allowed to like talk with this that we're not

934
00:41:52,176 --> 00:41:55,056
Speaker 3: allowed to talk to the cameramen at all. And he's like,

935
00:41:55,096 --> 00:41:56,416
Speaker 3: if you ever use a knife, and I'm like, oh,

936
00:41:56,456 --> 00:41:59,256
Speaker 3: I can clean this animal. He didn't know that. I'm

937
00:41:59,336 --> 00:42:02,096
Speaker 3: like a hillbilly like growing up, and he's like, you can,

938
00:42:02,856 --> 00:42:04,936
Speaker 3: you can clear an animal. However, I don't have to

939
00:42:04,936 --> 00:42:08,256
Speaker 3: have a good British accent, and so like I freaking

940
00:42:08,376 --> 00:42:11,056
Speaker 3: cleaned the goat, like half the goat, and yeah, I

941
00:42:11,096 --> 00:42:13,016
Speaker 3: was able to like to And he was so shocked

942
00:42:13,056 --> 00:42:17,416
Speaker 3: by that, and I think a little bit his outdoorsman

943
00:42:17,536 --> 00:42:20,096
Speaker 3: respect of me went up a notch. I didn't deserve it,

944
00:42:20,136 --> 00:42:22,016
Speaker 3: but it went up a notch and we're like going

945
00:42:22,056 --> 00:42:26,496
Speaker 3: off clip. It was miserable. I'm coming off like off ropes.

946
00:42:26,536 --> 00:42:31,936
Speaker 3: We're falling off four hundred feet cliffs. And we get

947
00:42:31,936 --> 00:42:33,456
Speaker 3: to the end of the night because you do a

948
00:42:33,576 --> 00:42:37,016
Speaker 3: full like twelve hours you sleep out in the in

949
00:42:37,056 --> 00:42:40,136
Speaker 3: the wilderness, and then you have another like six hours

950
00:42:40,176 --> 00:42:42,416
Speaker 3: the next day to get to the final spot. And

951
00:42:43,136 --> 00:42:45,176
Speaker 3: the best part of it was after I would like

952
00:42:45,216 --> 00:42:47,216
Speaker 3: I'd like kill myself all day. It felt like and

953
00:42:47,296 --> 00:42:50,016
Speaker 3: have died multiple times. It was just Bar and I

954
00:42:50,136 --> 00:42:51,936
Speaker 3: sitting at a fire, no cameras. They don't put you

955
00:42:51,976 --> 00:42:53,856
Speaker 3: in a hotel or anything. You literally are out there

956
00:42:53,856 --> 00:42:55,976
Speaker 3: in a tent. We just sat around and talked for

957
00:42:56,056 --> 00:43:01,016
Speaker 3: like four hours. Was like the greatest dude, like so

958
00:43:01,256 --> 00:43:04,976
Speaker 3: generous with the stories, but he's like talking about good

959
00:43:05,016 --> 00:43:09,176
Speaker 3: celebrit these difficult celebrities. Was so like open and like vulnerable,

960
00:43:09,696 --> 00:43:11,696
Speaker 3: Like I loved the dude. I ended up doing the

961
00:43:11,696 --> 00:43:15,456
Speaker 3: show the next season as well, but that whenever we

962
00:43:15,456 --> 00:43:17,776
Speaker 3: were leaving the next day, he was like, you already

963
00:43:17,816 --> 00:43:20,216
Speaker 3: get back on the helicopter, And there's a clip of

964
00:43:20,776 --> 00:43:23,056
Speaker 3: me getting back on the helicopter and the helicopter being

965
00:43:23,096 --> 00:43:25,416
Speaker 3: funny and like doing like one of those go straight

966
00:43:25,456 --> 00:43:27,736
Speaker 3: and then jerk and it like swings you and you

967
00:43:27,776 --> 00:43:31,736
Speaker 3: see me just swing out of the helicopter. Dude the worst.

968
00:43:32,536 --> 00:43:36,496
Speaker 3: He was super kind. I felt like I died many times.

969
00:43:38,496 --> 00:43:40,456
Speaker 3: It came back to live and did it again the

970
00:43:40,536 --> 00:43:42,096
Speaker 3: next year. I think there were only two people that

971
00:43:42,096 --> 00:43:43,976
Speaker 3: had done it twice. Me and Channing Tatum were very similar,

972
00:43:44,056 --> 00:43:47,696
Speaker 3: especially with our shirts off. But he couldn't have been kind.

973
00:43:47,736 --> 00:43:50,296
Speaker 3: And we keep in touch, and Bear Girls is as

974
00:43:50,376 --> 00:43:52,336
Speaker 3: nice as he seems on the show. So that's my

975
00:43:52,336 --> 00:43:54,016
Speaker 3: Bear Girls story.

976
00:43:54,176 --> 00:43:56,016
Speaker 6: Did I love that you did that show? Because I

977
00:43:56,016 --> 00:43:58,296
Speaker 6: would watch that show religiously, like.

978
00:43:58,216 --> 00:44:00,616
Speaker 4: I wonder if that would be fun to do. But

979
00:44:00,656 --> 00:44:02,296
Speaker 4: it did look like you guys were out in the

980
00:44:02,296 --> 00:44:05,016
Speaker 4: elements that I didn't know. It was two full days,

981
00:44:05,016 --> 00:44:08,216
Speaker 4: twenty miles of hiking, but they find random.

982
00:44:07,896 --> 00:44:09,896
Speaker 6: Food, You do all that stuff. But it's definitely a

983
00:44:09,976 --> 00:44:11,896
Speaker 6: mental grind, without a doubt.

984
00:44:11,976 --> 00:44:14,096
Speaker 3: Well, they also probably know what your weaknesses are and

985
00:44:14,136 --> 00:44:16,696
Speaker 3: they challenge you on them. So I hated heights. I

986
00:44:16,696 --> 00:44:19,176
Speaker 3: made a mistake of saying that. I was like, yeah,

987
00:44:19,176 --> 00:44:20,936
Speaker 3: I'm good everything, but heights. So it was all heights.

988
00:44:20,936 --> 00:44:22,336
Speaker 3: It was all freaking heights. It was like, what can

989
00:44:22,376 --> 00:44:24,376
Speaker 3: we find to throw him off of that will make

990
00:44:24,456 --> 00:44:28,815
Speaker 3: him possibly cry. And so yeah, if anyone's wondering, Bear

991
00:44:28,856 --> 00:44:32,176
Speaker 3: Girls and Doug Flutie a plus.

992
00:44:32,976 --> 00:44:52,736
Speaker 5: A plus A plus individuals, We're gonna draft our sports

993
00:44:53,096 --> 00:44:54,776
Speaker 5: movie team.

994
00:44:54,816 --> 00:44:59,336
Speaker 3: I will give you the category. Okay, there'll be five categories.

995
00:44:59,856 --> 00:45:04,416
Speaker 3: You draft your position. The first is of your sports

996
00:45:04,496 --> 00:45:08,176
Speaker 3: movie team. Your leader. Who do you draft to be

997
00:45:08,216 --> 00:45:10,096
Speaker 3: the leader of your team? Mmm?

998
00:45:11,136 --> 00:45:13,616
Speaker 7: The leader of my team.

999
00:45:13,736 --> 00:45:16,336
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with Roy Hobbs from The Natural, a

1000
00:45:16,416 --> 00:45:17,856
Speaker 4: movie that you've never seen.

1001
00:45:17,896 --> 00:45:20,496
Speaker 3: But I know what I've seen clips. I've seen clips.

1002
00:45:20,536 --> 00:45:21,896
Speaker 3: I mean he hits into the lights. I thought that

1003
00:45:22,016 --> 00:45:22,335
Speaker 3: was cool.

1004
00:45:22,616 --> 00:45:24,456
Speaker 4: I mean, not only is he a great baseball player,

1005
00:45:24,456 --> 00:45:25,736
Speaker 4: but he fought through adversity.

1006
00:45:25,816 --> 00:45:27,776
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know didversity huh? I don't know what's

1007
00:45:27,776 --> 00:45:28,296
Speaker 3: the audiversity?

1008
00:45:28,296 --> 00:45:29,296
Speaker 7: Oh? He got shot.

1009
00:45:29,656 --> 00:45:33,936
Speaker 4: Really yeah by a lady on a train that had

1010
00:45:33,976 --> 00:45:37,776
Speaker 4: like full mental issues wanted to want to be his girlfriend.

1011
00:45:37,776 --> 00:45:40,416
Speaker 4: But I have no idea what happened, but really set

1012
00:45:40,456 --> 00:45:42,696
Speaker 4: back his career. But he fought back from that adversity,

1013
00:45:43,016 --> 00:45:45,136
Speaker 4: made it all the way up to whatever he was

1014
00:45:45,696 --> 00:45:48,976
Speaker 4: and was a great teammate, great player, great leader, just

1015
00:45:49,096 --> 00:45:49,736
Speaker 4: all around.

1016
00:45:49,576 --> 00:45:51,256
Speaker 7: Good human being Roy Hobbs.

1017
00:45:51,296 --> 00:45:53,776
Speaker 3: I'm going with Shane Falco from the replacements.

1018
00:45:53,896 --> 00:45:55,376
Speaker 7: I do love that. That's a great call.

1019
00:45:55,536 --> 00:45:59,056
Speaker 3: The ultimate underdog quarterback. Nobody believed in Shane Falco. No,

1020
00:45:59,416 --> 00:46:02,776
Speaker 3: Shane Vacco freaking played though, and he balled. He bald hard,

1021
00:46:03,056 --> 00:46:09,296
Speaker 3: bald hard good ones. All right, next up your athletic freak.

1022
00:46:11,176 --> 00:46:11,536
Speaker 7: Okay.

1023
00:46:12,136 --> 00:46:15,096
Speaker 4: I mean I was thinking about this and I always

1024
00:46:15,136 --> 00:46:19,536
Speaker 4: remember watching Blue Chips growing up, and then I remember

1025
00:46:19,856 --> 00:46:24,016
Speaker 4: Shack was the actor in Blue Chips, was the guy

1026
00:46:24,056 --> 00:46:25,896
Speaker 4: that they paid for to come in be part of

1027
00:46:25,896 --> 00:46:26,256
Speaker 4: the program.

1028
00:46:26,296 --> 00:46:28,376
Speaker 7: Take him to national championship. You know the name?

1029
00:46:28,736 --> 00:46:32,576
Speaker 3: Yeah what Booby No, No, no, no, Neon Neon. He

1030
00:46:32,656 --> 00:46:37,616
Speaker 3: was Neon Neon, Yeah, Neon like boodoh Boudoir, Yeah, Boudoir.

1031
00:46:38,016 --> 00:46:39,496
Speaker 4: They way down to the gym and they're in that

1032
00:46:39,536 --> 00:46:41,256
Speaker 4: sweaty gym and he's just dunking.

1033
00:46:40,976 --> 00:46:41,776
Speaker 7: The ball over people.

1034
00:46:41,816 --> 00:46:42,856
Speaker 3: Blue Chips was so legit.

1035
00:46:43,136 --> 00:46:47,656
Speaker 4: It was a great movie, like a really good inside look.

1036
00:46:47,736 --> 00:46:50,855
Speaker 4: Penny was in it too, Yeah, Kenny Hardway was baller two.

1037
00:46:52,096 --> 00:46:55,136
Speaker 3: They get no freakier in a great way than Shaq. Yeah,

1038
00:46:55,456 --> 00:46:57,896
Speaker 3: and I had two A plus's on this one. I

1039
00:46:57,896 --> 00:46:59,416
Speaker 3: don't want to be the guy that picks two. No,

1040
00:46:59,536 --> 00:47:01,896
Speaker 3: please do Forrest Gump.

1041
00:47:04,976 --> 00:47:06,856
Speaker 7: That's a solid pick right.

1042
00:47:06,696 --> 00:47:08,416
Speaker 3: There, University of ball Obama.

1043
00:47:08,536 --> 00:47:12,536
Speaker 4: Like he just kept gone running kickoffs back gone marathon.

1044
00:47:12,776 --> 00:47:18,696
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, I mean dog didn't Forrest Gump? Wow,

1045
00:47:18,936 --> 00:47:21,696
Speaker 3: you get no freaky or athletically.

1046
00:47:21,136 --> 00:47:23,736
Speaker 4: No, because he's like weird too and he doesn't even

1047
00:47:23,776 --> 00:47:24,336
Speaker 4: know he's doing it.

1048
00:47:25,496 --> 00:47:27,216
Speaker 3: The other one that was right because I felt really

1049
00:47:27,216 --> 00:47:27,976
Speaker 3: good about forty Gump.

1050
00:47:28,056 --> 00:47:30,416
Speaker 7: Be honestly, I'll say that's all time right there.

1051
00:47:30,616 --> 00:47:31,816
Speaker 3: Bobby Bouche was number two.

1052
00:47:31,976 --> 00:47:34,656
Speaker 7: Bobby Bouche. I thought he'd be a wild card for you.

1053
00:47:34,576 --> 00:47:37,736
Speaker 3: Because he hits like Ray Lewis on steroids. Like Bobby

1054
00:47:37,736 --> 00:47:41,336
Speaker 3: Bouche took heads off, Yes he did. But Forrest Gump

1055
00:47:41,336 --> 00:47:43,296
Speaker 3: has got to be my freek that's a great call,

1056
00:47:43,536 --> 00:47:46,696
Speaker 3: all right. Next up in the draft, you're a wild

1057
00:47:46,776 --> 00:47:49,736
Speaker 3: card for any reason whatsoever? Which athlete would you have

1058
00:47:49,776 --> 00:47:50,216
Speaker 3: on your team?

1059
00:47:51,256 --> 00:47:51,456
Speaker 7: Oh?

1060
00:47:51,496 --> 00:47:55,096
Speaker 4: Happy Gilmore? Great one, Happy Gilmore? Are you kidding me?

1061
00:47:55,296 --> 00:47:59,656
Speaker 3: That's a good one. Well I'm going air Bud. It's

1062
00:47:59,696 --> 00:48:03,056
Speaker 3: a freaking dog, dude. I got a freaking dog who

1063
00:48:03,056 --> 00:48:06,416
Speaker 3: can play ball like no nobody else got a dog.

1064
00:48:07,176 --> 00:48:07,536
Speaker 7: You know what?

1065
00:48:07,616 --> 00:48:11,416
Speaker 4: The funniest part about this When you sent this, my

1066
00:48:11,416 --> 00:48:13,136
Speaker 4: wife and I had a conversation. This is going to

1067
00:48:13,176 --> 00:48:16,896
Speaker 4: be a great conversation. And she's like, what about airbud.

1068
00:48:16,936 --> 00:48:20,416
Speaker 4: I was like, I can't go with the dog, like, Honey,

1069
00:48:20,416 --> 00:48:21,376
Speaker 4: I mean.

1070
00:48:21,256 --> 00:48:23,216
Speaker 3: I go with the dog. You with the dog, and

1071
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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 7: Literally had that conversation.

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Speaker 3: Their bud's legit, Like, I just imagine talk about the

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Speaker 3: dog that can play ball. They'd be so distracted by

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Speaker 3: the dog they can't they can't focus.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and not only did that dog play basketball, played volleyball?

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Speaker 3: One button the red zone.

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Speaker 4: Oh, just go up, get it breaking ankles or biting

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Speaker 4: ankles one?

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Speaker 3: All right, coach? Who's your coach?

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Speaker 7: Oh? Man?

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Speaker 4: I went with uh oh, Jackie Moon, Will Ferrell. He's

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Speaker 4: semi pro, he's the owner. He also is a player,

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Speaker 4: he's pregame announcer, and he fought a bear. I mean,

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Speaker 4: does it get any better than Jackie Moon?

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Speaker 3: It does not, except I'm gonna give you close, not better,

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Speaker 3: but close. Mickey from Rocky because you need.

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Speaker 9: To get up, Get up bones, get up, get up

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Speaker 9: rock Like he's the guy that because I'm probably gonna

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Speaker 9: be like and he's like, get up bone, Airbud, get up.

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Speaker 3: Airbud would knock right.

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Speaker 7: He's the only dog that could knock Rocky out.

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Speaker 3: And finally, like, you're Enforcer, you're tough guy, who would

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Speaker 3: you draft there?

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Speaker 4: I went was Jean Claude van Dam from blood Sport.

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Speaker 4: I mean, let's be honest. I know he's not like

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Speaker 4: your typical team tough guy, but I mean the guy

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Speaker 4: went for like battle to the death wherever the hell

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Speaker 4: they were in blood Sport and fought that one guy

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Speaker 4: who was very intimidating, and he fought blind, I mean

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Speaker 4: pretty hardcore. He did remember that. Yes, he's like closing

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Speaker 4: his eyes so underappreciated, could just feel the wind in

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Speaker 4: his air and just block mind.

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Speaker 3: Forcer didn't love him, but with definitely accept him on

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Speaker 3: my team. Ivon Drago from Rocky four, It's great. I

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Speaker 3: want him roided up. I want every way he cheated

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Speaker 3: against America to be cheating for America with me and Airbud.

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Speaker 4: HGH, steroids and fetamines. I want the whole passage, all

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Speaker 4: of it. Yeah, and I want the girl that traveled

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Speaker 4: with him, the blonde that might have been with the

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Speaker 4: short hair.

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Speaker 7: I think she was more intense than he was.

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Speaker 3: One of my honorable mentions for the coach was just

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Speaker 3: se if you know who this is, Gordon Bombay, familiar,

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Speaker 3: go Gordon Bombay, give it to me mighty ducks.

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Speaker 7: Oh, that was a great call. My uh runner up

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Speaker 7: for a coach was Ted Lasso.

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Speaker 3: Great call. Didn't even get on my list and I missed.

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Speaker 4: That's a that is a great I mean inspiring fun

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Speaker 4: to play rings your little little cookie treat take treats.

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Speaker 4: And my other one for runner up of leader was

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Speaker 4: Roy from Ted Lasso, you know the hardcore.

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Speaker 3: My enforcer back up was another rocky clubber lang, which

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Speaker 3: was mister t. Oh, mister t. That was great. Did

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Speaker 3: you know, mister t you know all the chains he wore?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: Did you know why he wore that? Initially was because

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Speaker 3: he worked bouncer at a club and people would just

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Speaker 3: leave stuff at the bar and he's just cool. Collect

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Speaker 3: him away. I'm on his neck and that's where his

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Speaker 3: look came from.

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Speaker 7: Hey, anyway you can come up, bro, I'm down with that.

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Speaker 6: All right.

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