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Speaker 3: Everybody?
Speaker 4: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's episode,
Speaker 4: no practice but Zach Thomas goes into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: On We're gonna go ahead and play my interview with
Speaker 4: Andy Cohen, who covered Zach during his entire career, plus
Speaker 4: some more audio sound bites from his media availability on
Speaker 4: Sunday here at the Baptist Health Training Complex. From that place,
Speaker 4: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is the Draft Time Podcast, Maggie Geffish Fish.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and get to my interview with Andy Cohen,
Speaker 4: and then we're gonna go ahead and play those sound
Speaker 4: bites last time we hear of me on the podcast.
Speaker 4: Right now, Here's Andy Cohen and joining the Draft Time
Speaker 4: Podcast now. Is the legendary man behind Dolphins Digest, more
Speaker 4: than forty years of covering the Miami Dolphins and the
Speaker 4: author of the column on Miami Dolphins dot com covering
Speaker 4: the career of Hall of Fame linebackers Zach Thomas. He's
Speaker 4: Andy Cohen. Andy, it's been a long time, my friend.
Speaker 3: How are you doing.
Speaker 1: It's been too long, Travis. I'm doing wonderful. How are
Speaker 1: you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm doing really well. A lost change to you and
Speaker 3: I last spoke.
Speaker 4: I think I think I had a second kid along
Speaker 4: the timeline there, and so life comes at you fast,
Speaker 4: and you know, we were exchanging emails putting this podcast together,
Speaker 4: and you said something Andy that was very flattering about
Speaker 4: doing a podcast with me, and I just wanted to
Speaker 4: put it on the air here and just tell you that,
Speaker 4: you know, The first time we met was the first
Speaker 4: game that I ever covered for part of that you know,
Speaker 4: fan site covering games and coming down being part of
Speaker 4: the whole process that Jason Jenkins put together, the Great
Speaker 4: Light Jason Jenkins, and you sat in front of me,
Speaker 4: and you were so gracious with your time and answered
Speaker 4: every question I had, And I was so nervous that day.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to tell you.
Speaker 4: For you to say that in the email about coming
Speaker 4: onto my podcast, I just wanted to put it back
Speaker 4: to you and tell you how much that day meant
Speaker 4: to me and how you treated me that day, sir.
Speaker 1: Actually what I said was it was on my bucket
Speaker 1: list to be on your podcast. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: so easy for me to treat people that way because
Speaker 1: I was you at one point in my career.
Speaker 5: I started covering the.
Speaker 1: Dolphins in nineteen eighty and Edwin Pope was calm mist
Speaker 1: of the Miami Herald then, and he was a legend,
Speaker 1: and he treated me like I meant something. And I
Speaker 1: learned a lot from that, because if somebody like Edwin
Speaker 1: Pope in his position in the sports world can treat
Speaker 1: a young aspiring writer the way he treated me, well,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good lesson to learn. And once I
Speaker 1: can tell that somebody cares, and once I can tell
Speaker 1: that somebody is talented, it's no problem at all being
Speaker 1: nice to them and answering their questions.
Speaker 5: And you certainly fit in that category, Travis.
Speaker 4: Well, I really appreciate that, and I hope that someday
Speaker 4: down the line, someone says, I'll say thing about me,
Speaker 4: because that's the highest praise that they can give somebody.
Speaker 3: And, like I said, really appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Andy.
Speaker 4: So I'm happy to have you on here. I'm excited
Speaker 4: to read the story. First of all, do you have
Speaker 4: a title for the piece yet?
Speaker 5: I don't. I send it to the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I suggested Tackling greatness, because that because that has two meanings.
Speaker 1: And he was the best tackler, the best peer tackler
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. And the way he tackled greatness was
Speaker 1: working harder than anyone else, studying harder than anyone else,
Speaker 1: preparing harder than anyone else. When when he came to
Speaker 1: a game on a Sunday, Travis, he was so prepared
Speaker 1: for that game it boggled my mind some weeks. Some
Speaker 1: of the tendencies, formations he picked up by staying late
Speaker 1: at night at home and just studying.
Speaker 4: It's I think I've mentioned this in the podcast a
Speaker 4: few times. It's my favorite type of football player, and
Speaker 4: it's why I gravitate towards certain guys and like, for instance,
Speaker 4: I think our quarterback to a tongue about low is
Speaker 4: the same way right now. So that's why I'm such
Speaker 4: a big fan of his game. And it's been that
Speaker 4: way for a long long time. And you know, Andy,
Speaker 4: before he came on the air here, I asked you
Speaker 4: how you've been and you mentioned been writing a lot,
Speaker 4: not necessarily about football, but just writing in general, and
Speaker 4: writers are going to write, right, and.
Speaker 3: I was curious.
Speaker 4: I wanted to hear your process about how you put
Speaker 4: this piece together, because I'm sure you know, when you
Speaker 4: take on a piece of this magnitude and someone that
Speaker 4: you just know so much about and there's so many
Speaker 4: anecdotes you can drop in, I have to imagine there
Speaker 4: was just thoughts and ideas and stories of times with
Speaker 4: Zach flowing through you as you prepped for this piece.
Speaker 1: You know, there was I covered every he played home
Speaker 1: and away playoffs, and it was atriad just like it
Speaker 1: was to cover every game Dan Marino played and Jason
Speaker 1: Taylor ever played. But the thing about Zach that really
Speaker 1: amazed me is that I went through his plays and
Speaker 1: a lot of his great plays, and the thing about
Speaker 1: Zach is that greatness was his norm. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: you can single out five plays and say this was
Speaker 1: by far the most remarkable plays of his career. He
Speaker 1: did that every Sunday, Travis. It was crazy. You know,
Speaker 1: I would look at game books and you know, sure
Speaker 1: you can point out two thousand and one September he
Speaker 1: intercepted Neil O'Donnell Tennessee, returned to thirty four yards and
Speaker 1: somersaulted into the end zone, which was the first time
Speaker 1: I'd ever seen him summrsault. And as I wrote in
Speaker 1: my story, he got a perfect ten on the summersault,
Speaker 1: as you would imagine. But there aren't a lot of plays.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are a lot of plays where he
Speaker 1: did remarkable things, but it was an every week occurrence.
Speaker 1: It's so hard to say this was the best of
Speaker 1: Zach because really, every Sunday we got the best of Zach.
Speaker 1: And because of that, it's not like you can signal
Speaker 1: out a great Marino to duper or Marino to Clayton
Speaker 1: pass or just a remarkable game turning moment.
Speaker 5: Zach Thomas was there every week.
Speaker 1: They lost to Baltimore in the playoffs at the end
Speaker 1: of that two thousand and one season twenty to three.
Speaker 1: I believe he had twenty two tackles in that game.
Speaker 1: That was an all time They lost twenty to three,
Speaker 1: and he had twenty two tackles in that game. And
Speaker 1: I remember interviewing after the game and he said, doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what I do. I mean, he was so distraught.
Speaker 1: But this was the internal makeup of Zach. It's so
Speaker 1: hard to pick out the great plays because there were
Speaker 1: great plays every Sunday.
Speaker 4: In the longevity too, right, Because like I've had this,
Speaker 4: I've asked this question to you know, Set and Oj
Speaker 4: for the Fish Tank, or various people that have been
Speaker 4: around Zach for a long time, and I always go
Speaker 4: back to two thousand and five, and this goes back
Speaker 4: to what you said about the way he prepped and
Speaker 4: how he got ready his first year in a new
Speaker 4: defense under Nick Saban and really a change from a
Speaker 4: four to three to a three to four.
Speaker 3: And it's the opening day.
Speaker 4: Of two thousand and five and he is basically three
Speaker 4: of four stops on a goal line stand against Denver Broncos.
Speaker 4: You know, ten years into his career at that point.
Speaker 4: So he just did it from the day he showed
Speaker 4: up until the day he left.
Speaker 1: My other thing, one of the things, Travis, that really
Speaker 1: set him apart was his first step. So many great
Speaker 1: athletes don't take the right first step and have to
Speaker 1: overcome that with their quickness, with their thinking. Jack Thomas
Speaker 1: was remarkable how many first steps he took that were
Speaker 1: the right first step, and that put him in a
Speaker 1: you know, I counted, I went through some of his highlights.
Speaker 1: He must have deflected twenty passes, twenty five passes in
Speaker 1: his career. Several of them were intercepted. Well, that's not
Speaker 1: a fluke him deflecting passes. That's a guy that pairs,
Speaker 1: that knows where the ball is going, and that takes
Speaker 1: that first step and makes it the right one. And
Speaker 1: to me, that first step is what made Zach Thomas
Speaker 1: such a great player.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no false steps for the linebacker, right. He definitely
Speaker 4: personified that to a t That's why he's going to
Speaker 4: Canton And another part of getting that, you know, resume
Speaker 4: for the Gold jacket is what a player does away
Speaker 4: from the football field. You have to be a certain,
Speaker 4: you know, a certain level of man to earn that honor.
Speaker 4: I'm curious what you think it is about Zach's character
Speaker 4: that makes him a gold Jacket honoree.
Speaker 1: He was just he cared so much. You know, he
Speaker 1: lived his life as an underdog. He was the eighteenth
Speaker 1: linebacker taken in the in the and in the fifth
Speaker 1: round of the nineteen ninety six draft. It's crazy when
Speaker 1: you think about how many teams pass on Zach Thomas.
Speaker 1: But he used that as a motivating force, and he
Speaker 1: was a humble man. He would have a great game
Speaker 1: and make some remarkable plays and I would approach him
Speaker 1: by his locker after the game and he would look
Speaker 1: at me and say, Andy, but you didn't see the
Speaker 1: ones I missed. And there were three or four plays
Speaker 1: I left there out there on the field, and I've
Speaker 1: really got.
Speaker 5: And I'm telling you, he was remarkable.
Speaker 1: And they won the game, and he was everywhere, and
Speaker 1: he still was that hard on himself. And I think
Speaker 1: that critical nature is what drove him to be a
Speaker 1: great player. And year after year and game after game,
Speaker 1: you know, I said, he didn't earn the Hall of.
Speaker 5: Fame on one play for one game.
Speaker 1: He earned the Hall of Fame for every play, for
Speaker 1: every Sunday, for every game.
Speaker 5: And that's that's to me was what made him such
Speaker 5: a deserving person in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: You know, as I was telling you before this interview,
Speaker 1: when the game's over, there are certain go to players
Speaker 1: you always want to go to in.
Speaker 5: The locker room.
Speaker 1: Zach Thomas was one of those players because he had
Speaker 1: a way of framing a game that was that was
Speaker 1: remarkably unique and on and I would never cover a
Speaker 1: game without going to Zach Thomas's locker after the game.
Speaker 5: You know, you ask him.
Speaker 1: About a play and he would start talking complexities like
Speaker 1: way over your head, and then he would say who
Speaker 1: am I talking to?
Speaker 5: What am I saying? And then he would simplify it.
Speaker 1: And when he was and when he simplified it, even
Speaker 1: a person like me said, wow, I totally understand what
Speaker 1: he did and why he did it on that play.
Speaker 1: So there were so many different tentacles to what Mack
Speaker 1: made Zach Thomas special. The person he was off the field,
Speaker 1: the person he was on the field, the person in
Speaker 1: the locker room, the person he was at home and
Speaker 1: the person behind the scenes who would be up until
Speaker 1: two o'clock in the morning studying Peyton Manning's tendencies the
Speaker 1: line of swimmers, like anyone could figure that out. And
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning later in his career spoke about Zach and
Speaker 1: I have this in my column about how he would
Speaker 1: line up in the line of scrimmage and Zach Thomas
Speaker 1: is calling out the play based on the formation, and
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning, who's no dummy himself, would look at it
Speaker 1: and say, how does this guy do that? And the
Speaker 1: way he does it is that he works harder than
Speaker 1: anybody else when everybody else is asleep.
Speaker 5: He was up studying film.
Speaker 4: And attracts too, because if you go back and look
Speaker 4: at Peyton Manning's numbers versus everybody else and the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 4: it was a big, big valley of his performance when
Speaker 4: he would play against Zach and this Dolphins defense. So
Speaker 4: attracts that Zach was all in that playbook and knew
Speaker 4: what he was doing. And when you say that, like
Speaker 4: about how he prepared and how it was, so you know,
Speaker 4: critical of his own performance in the three or four
Speaker 4: plays that didn't go his way. I just think about
Speaker 4: all the greats and they all kind of shared that trait, right,
Speaker 4: Like I think about Kobe Bryant going to the gym
Speaker 4: at four am to go get you know, three hours
Speaker 4: of shooting him before the rest of the team rolls
Speaker 4: in for practice. It kind of reminds me of that,
Speaker 4: and you know, it's what an honor it must have
Speaker 4: been to be around a guy like that every single day.
Speaker 4: And I want to conclude with this question for you here, Andy, Okay,
Speaker 4: who do you think.
Speaker 3: Zach Thomas was to the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4: I know it's a kind of a broad question, but
Speaker 4: if you could, maybe in your best writer speak, tell
Speaker 4: us in general, who was Zach Thomas or the Miami Dolphin.
Speaker 1: He was everything to the Miami Dolphins. He was a leader,
Speaker 1: he was the heart, he was the brains. He showed
Speaker 1: so many young players the right way to prepare. He
Speaker 1: was just every way you looked at him, Travis, he
Speaker 1: was just a class act, a good person, and somebody
Speaker 1: who at five foot ten and you know they list
Speaker 1: his weight is two thirty five. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure he was ever two more more than in his
Speaker 1: two twenties, but in any event, he was five to ten.
Speaker 1: For him to accomplish the things he did says so
Speaker 1: much about the fabric of the person and the desire
Speaker 1: of him. It really is remarkable and a lot of
Speaker 1: people will be happy when Zach Thomas is inducted into
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, but know this, he is so
Speaker 1: deserving and that's where he belongs.
Speaker 3: Well, I can't wait to watch his speech.
Speaker 4: I cannot wait to read your article up on Miami
Speaker 4: Dolphins dot com title TBD.
Speaker 3: Will see what turns out to be.
Speaker 4: But Andy Cohen, Andy, thank you so much for your
Speaker 4: time today and your daily generosity. Again, cannot wait to
Speaker 4: read the story and glad to see you doing well.
Speaker 1: My friend Travis, I can check this off my bucket list.
Speaker 5: Have a wonderful day.
Speaker 3: You're too kind, Thanks Andy.
Speaker 6: Okay, for sure, it's been an awesome process that you know.
Speaker 6: It's humbling, you know, especially even come back in this
Speaker 6: building right now.
Speaker 2: Just to.
Speaker 6: Be there to represent everybody here in the whole building,
Speaker 6: all you guys, because you know, I know every one
Speaker 6: of you guys, you know, and it's I know every
Speaker 6: one of you who are supporting us, even when you're
Speaker 6: asking tough questions seriously, and even now, I know you're
Speaker 6: supporting this team, you want this team to win, and
Speaker 6: for me, I finally got that win. You know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying when it comes to being a Hall of Famer, because.
Speaker 2: That's all I played for was for the wins.
Speaker 6: It wasn't it wasn't for the accolades any of that stuff.
Speaker 6: It was always just about the wins. And and and
Speaker 6: this is this is definitely a win, you know. And
Speaker 6: I'm very proud, you know. And it's good to see
Speaker 6: everybody in here, man, just to be part of it.
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Zach.
Speaker 6: Did it get to a point where like maybe dang
Speaker 6: finally happened about that day time?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: Man, I don't think I ever got to that point,
Speaker 6: you know, because, uh, looking back at it, I just
Speaker 6: always looked back when I was done playing. I was
Speaker 6: just always grateful that I played a game for so long,
Speaker 6: twenty eight years of football, man, and and it was
Speaker 6: so good to me. And and uh and I always
Speaker 6: just look back anytime I ever thought that, man, a
Speaker 6: game knows me nothing. I remember when I was eight
Speaker 6: years old with big dreams from a small town. It
Speaker 6: was a small town country boy.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: And for me to ever be like, oh, man, be.
Speaker 6: Negative about something that's not me man, and and and
Speaker 6: I know that in this game, Uh, you got to
Speaker 6: rely on so many different things and got a little
Speaker 6: lucky along the way with health, with players around me,
Speaker 6: great coaches, a.
Speaker 2: Great high school coach.
Speaker 6: Crazy, how he taught me to read on a napkin,
Speaker 6: and it got me labeled instinctive and smart. Crazy man.
Speaker 6: I mean you guys you laugh at that because you
Speaker 6: know me. I'm not not the smartest guy in the
Speaker 6: room right now.
Speaker 2: But uh, it's wild how I played out.
Speaker 6: And the timing was perfect when it come to that,
Speaker 6: I never really thought of it because there's when the
Speaker 6: guy's going in, you respect so many the Hall of famers,
Speaker 6: even going in before you. I think Jason Taylor being
Speaker 6: so dominant, you know what I'm saying. I wasn't going
Speaker 6: to go in right after Jason. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: He was so good at.
Speaker 6: His game that yeah, he probably you know, they pushed
Speaker 6: me back a little bit, right so, but I'm proud
Speaker 6: to represent our teammates.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: It definitely just makes me proud, you know, because everything
Speaker 6: we fought for.
Speaker 2: Was the championship.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna lie, man, And I feel like, if
Speaker 6: you get that championship, it makes your road a lot easier.
Speaker 2: So you had to do.
Speaker 6: Something right if you didn't get the championship. And I
Speaker 6: feel like I played the game right and didn't never
Speaker 6: get the championship, and you know, look back at it,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't want to change a thing, but I wanted
Speaker 6: to win for you guys. I wanted to win for
Speaker 6: the fans. They deserve it.
Speaker 4: Here's Zach touching on one of the most important moments
Speaker 4: he can recall back in his career.
Speaker 3: That opening national anthem.
Speaker 2: Was there a moment.
Speaker 6: I think, and I go back to it, and I've
Speaker 6: said it before, like that national anthem and we're making
Speaker 6: me choke up, Dave, But that national anthem, that first game.
Speaker 2: Special, I think that was.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 6: Let me see her. I've been trying to read tips.
Speaker 6: I'm not crying when it comes to the induction, and
Speaker 6: so if I look at your feet and I look
Speaker 6: at your eyes, forgive me. But I know when I'm
Speaker 6: talking about my family, I'm gonna be looking at feet.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, even Jimmy. But I think
Speaker 6: that moment is the National Anthem was the time I
Speaker 6: knew I had to start and chance and I wasn't
Speaker 6: gonna let it go. So I feel like that was
Speaker 6: the moment that I knew, all right, let me drink water.
Speaker 6: You know, it's You're right, that's what I don't want.
Speaker 6: I'm going first, and I don't want to take away
Speaker 6: from any of the inductees behind me, because you want
Speaker 6: to respect them in their time. And I got twenty
Speaker 6: eight years of football to think. Everybody in twelve minutes,
Speaker 6: it's not happening, man. But the thing is is I
Speaker 6: want to make it under twelve and even if I
Speaker 6: have to fumble through it or stumble through it, cry
Speaker 6: through it, I'm gonna make it happen because you know,
Speaker 6: you got to respect these guys time. And I'll get
Speaker 6: my points in. I'm not I'm going to miss a
Speaker 6: lot of people to think, which is it's tough because
Speaker 6: you know, like I said, twenty years of football, so
Speaker 6: many people impacted me. It's it's tough to take thank everybody,
Speaker 6: and so I might have to do some riding, call
Speaker 6: people up. I'll thank Harvey right now because I don't
Speaker 6: have any my speech.
Speaker 4: Zach was asked which part of the process of getting
Speaker 4: fit for the Hall of Fame, getting the bus done,
Speaker 4: getting the jacket fitted.
Speaker 3: What was your favorite part so far.
Speaker 6: Opening up the jacket, when it came to the house
Speaker 6: with the kids. Man, that was special.
Speaker 2: Kids.
Speaker 6: You know, they didn't they didn't see me play.
Speaker 2: Which which was good because that's just.
Speaker 6: Talking about timing. I wouldn't have any time to be
Speaker 6: a dad during football. Mean, I mean, Ritza being here,
Speaker 6: she knows that I was all in. She didn't see
Speaker 6: me much either, and so I'm happy it was perfect timing.
Speaker 6: But I think the process of opening up at the house,
Speaker 6: having the kids.
Speaker 2: There, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 6: That's pretty cool, even being here at the press conference,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, that's you know, that's what
Speaker 6: makes me proud.
Speaker 2: Process of making the bust.
Speaker 1: And how did it turn out?
Speaker 5: You placed?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'll tell you what. Yeah, they did a
Speaker 2: great job.
Speaker 6: I mean, I mean they pretty much just had to
Speaker 6: make a square. I mean, you know, so I don't
Speaker 6: say it was too hard on them, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So we heard all the peers that Laud and zach
Speaker 4: and thought he should have been in the Hall a
Speaker 4: long time ago. Who did Zach appreciate the most coming
Speaker 4: to talk about the quality of his game and how
Speaker 4: he belonged in Canton in the Hall of Fame with
Speaker 4: the rest of those all time great players.
Speaker 6: Oh wow, I would start with Kevin Mawaan. You know,
Speaker 6: I had so many Hall of famers that knew before
Speaker 6: they even announced it that called me. But when it
Speaker 6: came to Kevin, he was such a great player. Him
Speaker 6: to put me in his induction speech was pretty powerful.
Speaker 6: That's respect right there, you know. And so he'll definitely
Speaker 6: be in my speech, even being a jet. But I
Speaker 6: think him calling me being so happy for me because
Speaker 6: we used to battle. I think he's in a speech
Speaker 6: that we battled against each other sixteen times. And yeah, man,
Speaker 6: he was really good at what he did. Man, he
Speaker 6: only made me better.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and finish up here with Zach talking
Speaker 4: about what he thinks about this year's team and their
Speaker 4: chances to make a deep run of the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I love the question. We got.
Speaker 6: We got a great talent on this roster. We got
Speaker 6: a great head coach and offensive coordinator, probably the best
Speaker 6: defensive coordinator on the on the team now. But none
Speaker 6: of that means nothing if you don't win this building,
Speaker 6: you don't win on that practice field, and uh and
Speaker 6: they know that. It's it's a choice that they'll make
Speaker 6: and we'll see how great they want to be. I'm
Speaker 6: I'm cheering for them, but I know this is you
Speaker 6: gotta have talent to win and we got it. So
Speaker 6: I think Chris Greor has done a great job with
Speaker 6: this roster. It's exciting, man. I'm I'm I'm more excited
Speaker 6: this year than any year.
Speaker 5: It's a choice that they make. What do you mean
Speaker 5: by that.
Speaker 2: It it chooses.
Speaker 6: I mean a choice that they make would be more
Speaker 6: How good they want to be is off their sacrifice,
Speaker 6: minimizing outside distractions, everything that affects your prep. You know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. Being grateful, you're gonna have days, you're
Speaker 6: gonna be negative. Reboot, you gotta be more positive to
Speaker 6: not affect your prep. Everything is because everybody just always
Speaker 6: thinks it's hard work. It's smart work, to be honest
Speaker 6: with you know. Once you figure that out and take
Speaker 6: care of yourself, take care of your body, having your
Speaker 6: family understand that. Hey man, my focus is on one
Speaker 6: thing and that's to go win, get the best out
Speaker 6: of myself.
Speaker 2: Every day.
Speaker 6: I feel like when you get to that point, that's
Speaker 6: the choice you choose if you want to go to
Speaker 6: bed earlier or not, just so you can be better
Speaker 6: and more sharpen the practice the next day, or in
Speaker 6: the media rooms, you choose that, you know, same thing
Speaker 6: we choose with distractions with nowadays phones crazy, right, these
Speaker 6: kids they know those distractions right always on these phones, man,
Speaker 6: you know. And so I feel like you choose if
Speaker 6: you want to get in the extra filmwork, you want
Speaker 6: to get in the extra prehab. You choose those things,
Speaker 6: and that's what makes the difference in the end, you know.
Speaker 6: And I feel like that's the choice that you make.
Speaker 6: You choose if you want to be grateful, you know.
Speaker 6: I mean I used to drive to work and I
Speaker 6: would be a little negative or something, and I just
Speaker 6: would look around and like most of these people are
Speaker 6: going to jobs they hate, right, And I would reboot
Speaker 6: my mindset.
Speaker 2: I see people pissed off at the light.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, Like that would help my
Speaker 6: mind set.
Speaker 2: Let me, I'm playing a game.
Speaker 6: What am I going to cry about after a loss
Speaker 6: or something?
Speaker 2: I'm going in to make myself great.
Speaker 6: Get a chance to see you play, or what's it
Speaker 6: gonna be like for them to see you go into
Speaker 6: the hall.
Speaker 5: What do you think their reaction is going to be?
Speaker 2: Yours?
Speaker 5: The family?
Speaker 3: Just how it's gonna be follow you guys.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll have to find out. We're just.
Speaker 6: You know, they don't look at them. Yeah, we'll have
Speaker 6: to find out.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: I just feel like I'm just gonna be proud that
Speaker 6: they can, you know, experience something they might look at
Speaker 6: when they get older and be like, wow, you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying, like, we're proud of.
Speaker 2: You, dad. I think right now it's kids. Hey, you know,
Speaker 2: they're just ready to go take a picture with Tyreek
Speaker 2: or two.
Speaker 6: They're not they're not even thinking about that.
Speaker 4: All right, There you go, Zach Thomas, you heard him
Speaker 4: say it. They're himself first up to speak in Canton
Speaker 4: on Saturday, twelve minutes for a speech, probably gonna go
Speaker 4: longer than that, but check it out. NFL Nework will
Speaker 4: have that coverage for you guys, and we'll recap it
Speaker 4: all kind. I have Seth and Juice from the Fish
Speaker 4: Tank on the podcast to talk about that, and we're
Speaker 4: also going to talk about the scrimmage on Saturday at
Speaker 4: hard rock stadium plenty to come your way here on
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