WEBVTT - Lots to Say: 5x Pro Bowl DE Jared Allen 0:00:05.496 --> 0:00:07.696 Lots to Say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle is 0:00:07.736 --> 0:00:10.576 a production of the NFL and iHeart podcasts. 0:00:12.096 --> 0:00:13.496 We Got Lots. 0:00:13.536 --> 0:00:21.736 Just we got lost? Just what better here? 0:00:21.896 --> 0:00:24.456 And we hope you say because we got. 0:00:24.336 --> 0:00:29.456 Lost, Yeah, we got lost. Just say. 0:00:31.456 --> 0:00:32.696 Here's Bobby in that. 0:00:34.336 --> 0:00:35.936 Jared Allen coming up in a few minutes. 0:00:36.856 --> 0:00:39.016 Here, you have a song you would listen to before 0:00:39.016 --> 0:00:40.815 you like a specific song you would listen. 0:00:40.696 --> 0:00:41.376 To before games. 0:00:42.415 --> 0:00:44.296 Depending on the mood I was in, I went. 0:00:44.175 --> 0:00:48.496 Through like this BDM like techno phase, kind of really 0:00:48.535 --> 0:00:51.976 get myself fired up. Then I went through a little 0:00:51.976 --> 0:00:56.736 bit of like ACDC Thunderstruck. Then there was a little 0:00:56.736 --> 0:00:58.655 bit of Dave Matthews in there every now and then. 0:00:58.696 --> 0:01:00.616 If I was in that the kind of like comp 0:01:00.696 --> 0:01:03.376 calm yourself down but kind of at the same time. 0:01:03.296 --> 0:01:07.496 Give you good vibes. So I went through I was 0:01:07.576 --> 0:01:08.655 kind of all over the map. 0:01:08.976 --> 0:01:11.936 If I did your Spotify rapped songs you listened to 0:01:12.096 --> 0:01:16.216 going into a game, what song or what one and 0:01:16.296 --> 0:01:18.656 two songs would be there? 0:01:18.816 --> 0:01:20.136 And I can I can give you a second to 0:01:20.176 --> 0:01:21.376 think before I go on stage. 0:01:21.376 --> 0:01:25.456 I have the same exact playlist and I go before 0:01:25.536 --> 0:01:28.776 my music hits to do my act, which I have 0:01:28.816 --> 0:01:30.136 a song I come out to, but I listen to 0:01:30.136 --> 0:01:33.416 Seven Nation Army White Stripes. I love that song, don't don't, 0:01:35.056 --> 0:01:37.576 because that's like I need to have this mix of 0:01:38.216 --> 0:01:40.456 I need to be up and fired up. But if 0:01:40.456 --> 0:01:43.296 I'm too fired up because I've got to communicate, too 0:01:43.416 --> 0:01:45.576 fired up is not good, right, So I need to 0:01:45.576 --> 0:01:47.496 come out with energy, but I need to be focused 0:01:47.496 --> 0:01:49.576 and that song doesn't just know. 0:01:49.736 --> 0:01:51.096 It hits it hits hard. 0:01:51.456 --> 0:01:53.256 That would be my number one on the rap list 0:01:53.296 --> 0:01:55.256 of songs that I would go that I go out to. 0:01:55.416 --> 0:01:56.816 Is that one. Yeah. 0:01:57.096 --> 0:01:59.376 The interesting part a lot of times I would listen 0:01:59.416 --> 0:02:04.456 to music, and when before the pre pregame, right, I'd 0:02:04.456 --> 0:02:05.096 listen to music. 0:02:05.576 --> 0:02:06.656 As I came into. 0:02:06.496 --> 0:02:08.376 The locker room is usually when i'd take out my 0:02:09.096 --> 0:02:11.376 take out my EarPods or whatever it might be, and 0:02:11.376 --> 0:02:13.215 stop listening to music and then go through the game 0:02:13.216 --> 0:02:15.736 plan one more time and get kind of just locked 0:02:15.776 --> 0:02:19.216 in focus, especially because a lot of people don't realize 0:02:19.616 --> 0:02:23.576 you're usually scripted for those first twenty plays, so you 0:02:23.736 --> 0:02:26.175 know what's going to be called in the first twenty 0:02:26.176 --> 0:02:29.216 plays of the game. Now that might differ a little 0:02:29.216 --> 0:02:31.696 bit just based on situational football. You're in third down, 0:02:31.776 --> 0:02:33.416 third and one, third and two, but you have your 0:02:33.456 --> 0:02:36.376 list of third down calls from third and three to six, 0:02:36.736 --> 0:02:39.256 six to nine, ten plus. So I wanted to get 0:02:39.296 --> 0:02:41.895 locked in. So even if you had a communication problem, 0:02:42.016 --> 0:02:45.696 I usually could call the first ten plays because I 0:02:45.736 --> 0:02:48.376 had them rehearse in my mind. And so I wasn't 0:02:48.376 --> 0:02:51.016 one of those guys that would get completely distracted with 0:02:51.696 --> 0:02:54.736 music because I was one of those players that just 0:02:54.776 --> 0:02:57.776 wanted to come and focus in on what the task 0:02:57.816 --> 0:02:59.696 at hand had to be. And especially if there was 0:02:59.856 --> 0:03:02.056 checks early on the game, this is a team that 0:03:02.216 --> 0:03:04.576 is either max pressure, max splitz. Okay, I got to 0:03:04.576 --> 0:03:06.576 be prepared to check with seven man protection what it 0:03:06.656 --> 0:03:08.856 might be, and I'd just rehearse it in my mind 0:03:08.976 --> 0:03:11.136 and go through it before we'd go out. So I 0:03:11.216 --> 0:03:14.616 wasn't always that kind of guy that would listen to 0:03:14.736 --> 0:03:16.256 music before the game. 0:03:16.496 --> 0:03:21.576 The big fight for our high school football was we 0:03:21.576 --> 0:03:23.696 were a diverse team. We were the only team that 0:03:23.736 --> 0:03:28.136 had black guys in our county, and so the black 0:03:28.136 --> 0:03:29.775 guys would always want Tupac and the white guys would 0:03:29.776 --> 0:03:30.496 always want a CDC. 0:03:30.576 --> 0:03:31.096 Hill's bells. 0:03:31.496 --> 0:03:33.976 So before every game we'vel had to flip a coin 0:03:34.256 --> 0:03:36.296 and whatever it was on. And it wasn't contentious at all, 0:03:36.496 --> 0:03:38.376 but whatever it landed on, and some of the black 0:03:38.376 --> 0:03:40.136 guys up wanted ACDC, some of the white guys ended 0:03:40.176 --> 0:03:41.816 up wanting TUPAC, depending on how the game went the 0:03:41.856 --> 0:03:44.656 last week. But we flipped a coin every game and 0:03:44.696 --> 0:03:46.496 whatever it landed on. That's why we went out to 0:03:46.536 --> 0:03:49.416 either TUPAC or ac DC. Hell's bells. I want to 0:03:49.416 --> 0:03:51.736 hear those songs. It reminds me of that time, like 0:03:51.856 --> 0:03:55.256 walking out. For sure, I give you my Since we're 0:03:55.296 --> 0:03:59.016 both elite athletes and very high level football players. This 0:03:59.456 --> 0:04:01.056 we'll land on this before we get to the segment, 0:04:01.096 --> 0:04:04.456 but because we have Jared Allen coming up in a second. First, 0:04:04.496 --> 0:04:06.616 I'd like to say to everybody, I do not think 0:04:06.656 --> 0:04:10.056 that I am any sort of talent at the game 0:04:10.096 --> 0:04:12.736 of football stop like Matt Castle is. So when I 0:04:12.776 --> 0:04:15.336 tell this story, it's not me acting as a football peer. 0:04:15.416 --> 0:04:17.856 I just need people to know that are a football 0:04:17.896 --> 0:04:21.256 not a football pier. But so I was captain of 0:04:21.296 --> 0:04:22.336 our high school football team. 0:04:22.416 --> 0:04:27.456 Yes you were knucks Knucks and again high energy guy motor. 0:04:27.536 --> 0:04:31.096 You know a lot of after technicians, good hands, good hands. 0:04:32.056 --> 0:04:33.575 As captain, we go out for the coin toss and 0:04:33.575 --> 0:04:36.575 we're playing this team called Sparkman, who I think they 0:04:36.575 --> 0:04:38.335 were like nine to no. I believe we were eight 0:04:38.376 --> 0:04:41.295 and one at the time game. And so we're up. Yeah, 0:04:41.335 --> 0:04:43.216 like we're going and I'm fired. I was a little 0:04:43.215 --> 0:04:44.695 too fired up. And we go and they flipped a 0:04:44.695 --> 0:04:49.255 coin and they win the coin toss, and so they 0:04:49.496 --> 0:04:52.056 say we'll defer, and so they look at me and 0:04:52.056 --> 0:04:55.815 they go, okay, they deferred. Uh what I said, Uh, 0:04:56.015 --> 0:05:00.536 we will kick off, and they're like the ref looks 0:05:00.575 --> 0:05:05.695 at me and goes, no, no, no, they deferred to 0:05:05.815 --> 0:05:07.775 the second half. They get to make their decision the 0:05:07.815 --> 0:05:10.056 second when we come out for the second half. So 0:05:10.176 --> 0:05:12.496 what do you want to do now? All I remember 0:05:12.616 --> 0:05:15.176 is coach Gandalff going, if we get the chance, we 0:05:15.215 --> 0:05:17.296 want to kick and we're gonna we're gonna stop them. 0:05:17.575 --> 0:05:21.176 And I'm like, we want to kick, and the ref 0:05:21.176 --> 0:05:24.496 looks at me and he goes okay, And that was 0:05:24.655 --> 0:05:28.616 so all right. They've like they deferred the second half 0:05:28.936 --> 0:05:32.255 and Mount Pine has decided to kick, and I still 0:05:32.296 --> 0:05:34.376 I'm just so fired up to go play defense. That 0:05:34.815 --> 0:05:37.015 and I didn't eve play defense, by the way, I played 0:05:37.176 --> 0:05:38.815 only like dying package. 0:05:39.936 --> 0:05:42.135 And so what is your coach doing? Oh no, no, 0:05:42.376 --> 0:05:44.775 here's why he did. I walked off. He grabbed me 0:05:44.775 --> 0:05:45.575 by the face mask. 0:05:45.815 --> 0:05:49.415 Now, luckily, pretty smart guy as far as like standardized 0:05:49.416 --> 0:05:51.655 tests life, I've been a pretty smart person. 0:05:51.976 --> 0:05:53.975 He and I remember everybody could hear it. 0:05:53.976 --> 0:05:56.376 He grabbed me by the face mask and said, you're 0:05:56.376 --> 0:05:58.775 the smartest mother effort on this team. And that's the 0:05:58.815 --> 0:06:01.215 dumbest effing thing I've ever seen in my history of coaching. 0:06:02.096 --> 0:06:05.176 We lost that game by six points. Oh no, you 0:06:05.496 --> 0:06:06.536 been stung worse. 0:06:06.736 --> 0:06:08.855 Yeah, we lost it by one possession. 0:06:08.895 --> 0:06:11.176 You know, believe it or not, I'm not lying to you. 0:06:11.815 --> 0:06:14.416 That happened to us. One of the captains on our 0:06:14.455 --> 0:06:17.135 team did the same exact thing. When I was with 0:06:17.176 --> 0:06:18.455 the Kansas City Chiefs. 0:06:18.135 --> 0:06:20.535 In the NFL. It happened. We kicked off twice in 0:06:20.575 --> 0:06:22.496 the first half. There's no way in the second half, 0:06:22.575 --> 0:06:23.856 No way. True, that's my hero. 0:06:24.215 --> 0:06:25.575 We need to find out who that is because I 0:06:25.575 --> 0:06:27.496 need to talk to whomever it is to take. 0:06:27.416 --> 0:06:30.815 Hold is probably me the smartest guy that was. 0:06:31.376 --> 0:06:33.736 No, I don't even remember who it was did we 0:06:33.936 --> 0:06:34.495 kicked off? 0:06:35.215 --> 0:06:39.336 Are both half? I'm positive that is the best news 0:06:39.376 --> 0:06:41.936 I've had all day. So you're not as dumb as you. 0:06:41.976 --> 0:06:45.415 Oh I am, but acted that somebody did that professionally. Wow, 0:06:45.496 --> 0:06:46.496 what a day this is. 0:06:46.616 --> 0:06:47.975 It happened. We are fired. 0:06:47.976 --> 0:06:50.416 It happened again. Jared only coming by and just a 0:06:50.416 --> 0:06:52.216 little bit. Thank you guys for being here. Thanks for 0:06:52.655 --> 0:06:55.135 subscribing to the show. Please please go over to if 0:06:55.135 --> 0:06:58.776 you're getting this on the NFL feed a Buybone show feed, 0:06:59.215 --> 0:07:00.656 go over to our own feed. 0:07:00.736 --> 0:07:03.096 It's called Lots to Say and hit subscribe. 0:07:03.096 --> 0:07:05.655 Please, we would love that. We need it. We need money. 0:07:05.736 --> 0:07:07.455 Let's just be we need it. We need the money. 0:07:07.976 --> 0:07:24.936 Thank you. You're gonna be honest. I wish I knew 0:07:25.016 --> 0:07:27.576 Jared Allen. I don't. This is your buddy. How do 0:07:27.616 --> 0:07:28.975 you know Jared? Well? 0:07:29.016 --> 0:07:30.576 I played against him for a number of years and 0:07:30.616 --> 0:07:33.095 then when I went to Minnesota he was there, so 0:07:33.136 --> 0:07:35.256 we became teammates and he was right next to me 0:07:35.296 --> 0:07:35.976 in the locker room. 0:07:36.256 --> 0:07:36.816 Great time. 0:07:36.856 --> 0:07:39.056 But when I called him up, I was like, hey, 0:07:39.416 --> 0:07:40.496 would you come on be here. 0:07:40.496 --> 0:07:42.056 I know that he loves to talk. 0:07:42.496 --> 0:07:44.856 He'd be a great guest and he's got great stories 0:07:44.936 --> 0:07:48.296 and he's a future Hall of Famer. So he was like, absolutely, 0:07:48.376 --> 0:07:50.376 and that's that's the cool part is when you have 0:07:50.416 --> 0:07:53.215 relationships with guys like that and they're just completely open 0:07:53.376 --> 0:07:54.616 and real and authentic. 0:07:55.056 --> 0:07:57.416 And so he came on without a doubt. It was awesome. 0:07:57.456 --> 0:07:58.696 Here he is Jared Allen. 0:08:01.776 --> 0:08:03.616 I would like to say that I have been advocating 0:08:03.816 --> 0:08:05.176 and many many. 0:08:04.976 --> 0:08:07.536 Many super small circles that it's effecting on the Hall 0:08:07.536 --> 0:08:08.576 of Fame drives me insane. 0:08:09.096 --> 0:08:10.535 I appreciate that. That's a heck of a way to 0:08:10.536 --> 0:08:12.735 start this segment too, because a lot I could go 0:08:12.776 --> 0:08:13.376 off about that. 0:08:13.896 --> 0:08:15.816 I do believe it. 0:08:15.456 --> 0:08:17.096 Give it to us. I don't know. 0:08:17.256 --> 0:08:19.696 I don't know you, but I believe I say it. 0:08:19.696 --> 0:08:21.376 It's even about me having a relationship with you. 0:08:21.536 --> 0:08:23.456 It's it's a travesty that you weren't on the Hall 0:08:23.496 --> 0:08:23.696 of Fame. 0:08:23.736 --> 0:08:26.376 I appreciate that. Yeah, I'll be honest, I really I don't. 0:08:26.536 --> 0:08:28.016 I tell you all the time, and I think people 0:08:28.056 --> 0:08:29.535 that know me, no, I don't. I don't think about 0:08:29.576 --> 0:08:31.616 it except when they bring it up, you know, three 0:08:31.655 --> 0:08:33.976 weeks out of the year, and they they have this 0:08:34.136 --> 0:08:37.496 unique way of making grown men get all like emotional 0:08:37.535 --> 0:08:39.616 about something that you have zero control over. I think 0:08:39.655 --> 0:08:41.576 that's what pisses me off the most about it. It's 0:08:41.616 --> 0:08:44.016 like you get me excited for something and I have 0:08:44.096 --> 0:08:47.975 no control over it. So, yeah, I had no expectations 0:08:47.976 --> 0:08:49.776 of getting in the first year, as as I've been 0:08:49.776 --> 0:08:51.456 a first ballot as the first ballot finalist's been on 0:08:51.456 --> 0:08:52.575 the now for five years. 0:08:52.655 --> 0:08:56.055 Unfortunately, collecting final ballads for the Hall of Fame is 0:08:56.096 --> 0:08:56.616 not a good thing. 0:08:57.736 --> 0:09:02.415 Time sucks. Everybody gets the same. 0:09:03.055 --> 0:09:05.215 So you know what I this last year. 0:09:05.736 --> 0:09:09.536 I'll be real honest, just from the standpoint is statistically, 0:09:09.616 --> 0:09:11.856 there's nobody on the list that's not that's better than me, 0:09:12.216 --> 0:09:13.215 right right me? 0:09:13.295 --> 0:09:14.616 SUGS is up this year. But if you. 0:09:14.576 --> 0:09:18.496 Compare my average per year, you know, you know, you 0:09:18.535 --> 0:09:21.696 can hear the years I played to everybody on that list, 0:09:22.295 --> 0:09:23.856 nobody is better than me. 0:09:23.896 --> 0:09:25.576 And that's to me, And that's what I actually told. 0:09:25.616 --> 0:09:26.536 That's all the fatim I said. 0:09:26.535 --> 0:09:28.175 You can't sit here and tell me this is based 0:09:28.216 --> 0:09:32.136 on my merit, because statistically then I'm in. But so 0:09:32.175 --> 0:09:34.376 it's basically it's a popularity contest and either someone in 0:09:34.415 --> 0:09:36.016 the room doesn't like me or my presenters, and I 0:09:36.016 --> 0:09:38.256 get So the part I get frustrated with is there's 0:09:38.256 --> 0:09:41.655 no there's no they don't give you any guidelines, right, 0:09:41.655 --> 0:09:44.736 there's no basis for who, why, what where? When there's 0:09:44.736 --> 0:09:46.655 no real what's the word I'm looking for? 0:09:46.816 --> 0:09:48.616 So they're voting on the pope, they don't only tell 0:09:48.616 --> 0:09:50.776 you what the vote is. Yeah, yeah, you know what 0:09:50.816 --> 0:09:51.816 they're looking for. Yeah. 0:09:51.856 --> 0:09:54.136 And when you said, presenter, how does that work? So 0:09:54.175 --> 0:09:57.136 you have somebody that represents you to the committee, correct, 0:09:57.175 --> 0:09:59.936 so you go in and advocate on your behalf? 0:10:00.136 --> 0:10:02.415 Yeah, so I I I it's one of my voters 0:10:02.415 --> 0:10:04.496 in Minnesota. Right, soone right, I'm going in as a Viking. 0:10:04.535 --> 0:10:07.016 Well I had vote my very first year, no joke, 0:10:07.055 --> 0:10:08.896 and I don't I don't know the guy, but I 0:10:08.935 --> 0:10:12.576 got rested sould my my I had uh uh Minnesota 0:10:12.616 --> 0:10:16.016 and chiefs was going in uh presenters and my presenter 0:10:16.055 --> 0:10:18.616 in Kansas City died. He was a young man, Like 0:10:18.655 --> 0:10:20.216 I was like, are you are you kidding me? I 0:10:20.256 --> 0:10:23.056 mean that's how that's how it happened. And so I 0:10:23.055 --> 0:10:26.136 haven't talked to the new guy in Kansas City. I 0:10:26.216 --> 0:10:28.256 didn't talk last year. I didn't talk to anybody late last year. 0:10:28.295 --> 0:10:31.016 But so that's what happens is you're you're you're your 0:10:31.096 --> 0:10:34.575 voter for that, you're that team. Basically, you know, they 0:10:34.655 --> 0:10:36.815 come in and some some of the good ones will 0:10:36.816 --> 0:10:38.815 collect all this data on your but so the team 0:10:38.856 --> 0:10:41.696 will put together these kind of sheets, these profile sheets 0:10:41.776 --> 0:10:43.975 of why you know, where you rank all time and 0:10:44.216 --> 0:10:46.976 all these different categories, uh, and try to give it 0:10:46.976 --> 0:10:48.776 to your presenter and then it's their job to argue, 0:10:49.096 --> 0:10:51.336 basically argue you in stand on the on the soapbox 0:10:51.376 --> 0:10:54.136 for you and and see where you're in. And you 0:10:54.136 --> 0:10:55.656 know people had different poll in the room. I mean 0:10:55.696 --> 0:10:57.616 you got the Dungeons, you got you got Dungee in there. 0:10:57.616 --> 0:10:59.856 Who's got a lot of pool? You got Bill Polly 0:10:59.856 --> 0:11:01.256 in because you got a ton of poll. 0:11:02.336 --> 0:11:04.575 I have to say I actually ran into uh, Steve 0:11:04.616 --> 0:11:06.056 Hudcheson at the Titans the d of the day and 0:11:06.096 --> 0:11:08.496 I'll never forget he got it. We were in the 0:11:08.496 --> 0:11:11.736 Super Bowl Minnesota, right and he was up for the hot. 0:11:11.776 --> 0:11:13.936 That might have been his first, first, first, or second bout. 0:11:13.976 --> 0:11:15.415 But back then they used to bring you out to 0:11:15.496 --> 0:11:17.376 the hall or to the to the Super Bowl. All 0:11:17.415 --> 0:11:20.336 fifteen finalists and then you get dressed in your tuxedo, 0:11:20.415 --> 0:11:22.935 wife's all dressed up, and you either get a phone 0:11:22.935 --> 0:11:26.096 call saying sorry, I get on the plane, or you know, 0:11:26.175 --> 0:11:27.576 you come down and you get you go to the 0:11:27.616 --> 0:11:29.175 Wars ceremony, you get a Hall of Fame. So I 0:11:29.216 --> 0:11:31.295 see Steve and the dude's just dejected. Right, Steve is 0:11:31.295 --> 0:11:34.256 already drunk anyways, but he he was just like and 0:11:34.336 --> 0:11:37.136 I was, and I see him, and I'm like, you know, I, 0:11:37.216 --> 0:11:39.016 you know, playing with them all those times close for 0:11:39.055 --> 0:11:39.416 as everyone. 0:11:39.535 --> 0:11:41.295 I was like, I'm not even going down, but I could. 0:11:41.295 --> 0:11:42.295 I've never understood it. 0:11:42.816 --> 0:11:44.776 And then I finally understood he got anything on his 0:11:44.816 --> 0:11:46.535 third or fourth, I think third time. But then you 0:11:46.655 --> 0:11:48.176 were talking to Day He's like, Brian, I was like, 0:11:48.256 --> 0:11:48.976 I get it now. 0:11:49.016 --> 0:11:49.896 I give that that emo. 0:11:49.976 --> 0:11:50.456 Beau's like, you. 0:11:50.456 --> 0:11:53.016 Don't really care, but then you care in that brief moment. 0:11:53.096 --> 0:11:54.776 Then you're so pissed off that you allowed somebody to 0:11:54.816 --> 0:11:56.415 let you care about something that really doesn't. 0:11:56.175 --> 0:11:56.815 Affect your life. 0:11:56.896 --> 0:11:58.656 You know, from a standpoint of my wife's not gonna 0:11:58.655 --> 0:12:00.536 love him anymore, my kids aren't gonna think I'm cooler 0:12:00.696 --> 0:12:01.856 the dogs, and I gonna start. 0:12:02.016 --> 0:12:05.856 I definitely, I'm not gonna lie have been better. 0:12:12.616 --> 0:12:15.655 So, yeah, it's it's a weird it's a weird process. 0:12:15.696 --> 0:12:16.496 It's a weird deal. 0:12:16.576 --> 0:12:18.896 But I appreciate you saying that I deserve to be 0:12:18.935 --> 0:12:21.056 in and we'll see, we'll see what happens. 0:12:21.096 --> 0:12:22.935 There is somebody and I know who it is, and 0:12:22.976 --> 0:12:24.136 I will not say who it is, but they have 0:12:24.216 --> 0:12:27.216 kept it's a single person, an entity that has kept 0:12:27.216 --> 0:12:29.176 me from hosting the c M A Awards, which is 0:12:29.175 --> 0:12:32.455 the big yeah and so so and I and I 0:12:32.496 --> 0:12:34.856 am like I do the A c MS and like 0:12:34.976 --> 0:12:36.256 reab it did it and I did it like a 0:12:36.295 --> 0:12:38.535 second string up. I'm part of that television broadcast. But 0:12:38.535 --> 0:12:40.016 it's not the same as hosting the awards. I know 0:12:40.055 --> 0:12:41.535 the person's kept me posting CMAS. 0:12:41.655 --> 0:12:42.815 Do you know that? Don't say who it is, But 0:12:42.816 --> 0:12:43.696 do you know who's keeping you on? 0:12:45.456 --> 0:12:45.696 No? 0:12:45.776 --> 0:12:49.415 I don't, well yes and no. And part of it 0:12:49.456 --> 0:12:53.856 is is you know less he hears it. Part of 0:12:53.856 --> 0:12:56.616 it is my presenter, right, my presenters, is what it 0:12:56.655 --> 0:12:58.736 sounds like pretty much. Yeah, Well that's the other thing 0:12:58.776 --> 0:13:00.256 about the process. I don't get like we should be 0:13:00.256 --> 0:13:02.055 able to choose our presenters, right, right, I have a 0:13:02.096 --> 0:13:04.536 team representer. Maybe you don't even get to choose somebody 0:13:04.535 --> 0:13:06.056 that knows me well, you get to choose which team 0:13:06.096 --> 0:13:09.136 you want, right, got so like last year, I know 0:13:09.216 --> 0:13:11.856 there was a big push and I love I love Peppers, 0:13:11.856 --> 0:13:13.535 I love Freenie. Pepper's one of my favorite players. The 0:13:13.535 --> 0:13:15.695 white Frenizing is the reason why I became the highest 0:13:15.736 --> 0:13:18.055 paid defensive player in the league in the history of 0:13:18.055 --> 0:13:19.976 the NFL at the time, because he broke the bank 0:13:20.136 --> 0:13:22.256 like Dwight started getting paid. Right, is the one that 0:13:22.295 --> 0:13:24.535 got defensive players to get paid like quarterbacks. 0:13:24.616 --> 0:13:24.776 Right. 0:13:25.295 --> 0:13:28.096 So, I mean, I nothing I would ever say anybody's 0:13:28.136 --> 0:13:30.016 up for the Hall of Fame is well deserving my book, Right, 0:13:30.175 --> 0:13:32.256 I'm kind of one of these things like, man, either 0:13:32.415 --> 0:13:33.736 if you're gonna be on the file listid I put 0:13:33.776 --> 0:13:33.935 them in? 0:13:33.976 --> 0:13:35.295 Put them in, or don'tut them in. Don't put me 0:13:35.336 --> 0:13:36.776 on the list just to keep me on the list forever. 0:13:37.295 --> 0:13:40.656 But again, so you go through and and I know 0:13:40.736 --> 0:13:43.256 there was a big push, you know, for Dwight to 0:13:43.256 --> 0:13:46.055 get in last year where they were having you know, 0:13:46.336 --> 0:13:50.735 other Hall of Famers were having video conferences with voters, 0:13:51.216 --> 0:13:53.055 and I'm not I'm not I'm not about that. I'm 0:13:53.055 --> 0:13:54.616 not going to kiss the ring. I'm not bound down 0:13:54.696 --> 0:13:55.976 like I'm not. You know, it's like, if you want 0:13:55.976 --> 0:13:57.816 me in on my merit put me in. If not, 0:13:58.496 --> 0:14:00.376 no harm, no fail. I really it is what it is. 0:14:00.776 --> 0:14:02.695 So I know there's there's that aspect, So I don't 0:14:02.696 --> 0:14:05.096 I don't know if there's one particular, one person keeping 0:14:05.136 --> 0:14:05.336 me up. 0:14:06.055 --> 0:14:08.296 I just think it's uh, the nature of the beast. 0:14:08.376 --> 0:14:09.976 And and you know, when you play the game the 0:14:09.976 --> 0:14:12.456 way I played it, you know you kind of get which, 0:14:12.576 --> 0:14:14.656 which is crazy because the characteristics that I want to 0:14:14.655 --> 0:14:19.256 teach my kids that I think are positive hustle, try hard, right, 0:14:20.376 --> 0:14:23.856 you know, basically just you know, being out there making 0:14:23.896 --> 0:14:26.296 sure the fans know that I appreciate them showing up, 0:14:26.296 --> 0:14:28.096 but I love what I do. It actually ends up 0:14:28.136 --> 0:14:30.816 being a negative because they come back and say, like, oh, 0:14:30.296 --> 0:14:32.616 he got on the sacks, says he hustled more than 0:14:32.616 --> 0:14:37.336 other people, Like what that diminishes my talent? Oh he 0:14:37.416 --> 0:14:40.576 tried harder than everybody else. A lot of I'm all right, 0:14:40.576 --> 0:14:41.936 I guess I'm just the try hard hustle. 0:14:42.856 --> 0:14:43.016 You know. 0:14:43.096 --> 0:14:45.496 That's the label, guy, It's a label. But the thing 0:14:45.496 --> 0:14:50.616 that I always appreciate about is when you play the game. Though, 0:14:50.936 --> 0:14:53.976 the most exciting part for me was always to watch 0:14:54.096 --> 0:14:57.335 your youthful enthusiasm, Like you had fun when you played 0:14:57.336 --> 0:15:00.816 the game, and that that permeated throughout the entire team, right, 0:15:00.856 --> 0:15:02.616 and when you did your sack and you did the 0:15:03.296 --> 0:15:05.656 bull or whatever the heck you do, right, I mean 0:15:05.896 --> 0:15:08.416 that that's the type of stuff that you know, not 0:15:08.536 --> 0:15:11.216 everybody has that there. They have this workman like mentality 0:15:11.256 --> 0:15:13.136 and they're told to act a certain way or do 0:15:13.216 --> 0:15:17.016 it a certain and a certain method of Look, this 0:15:17.096 --> 0:15:19.336 is how you're supposed to act. But just how you 0:15:19.376 --> 0:15:21.776 went out each and every day and we had fun, 0:15:21.936 --> 0:15:23.936 Like that's what made you a great teammate, but that's 0:15:23.976 --> 0:15:27.816 also what made you such a lovable player in the NFL. 0:15:27.936 --> 0:15:28.136 Man. 0:15:28.656 --> 0:15:31.976 Yeah, I last year short not to have fun, you know. 0:15:32.176 --> 0:15:33.936 I got to remind myself of that retirement. 0:15:34.016 --> 0:15:38.736 Sometimes you do your homework. 0:15:38.976 --> 0:15:43.816 Oh my gosh, real life issues. No that, But I 0:15:43.816 --> 0:15:45.616 mean I literally was fortunate. I told my dad when 0:15:45.656 --> 0:15:47.496 I was eight years old, I was gona play professional football. 0:15:47.736 --> 0:15:49.816 Most parents are like, all right, Johnny, like go read 0:15:49.856 --> 0:15:51.656 the books. My dad would drop me off. My dad 0:15:51.736 --> 0:15:53.455 trained rain and cutting horses. So I managed ranches and 0:15:53.576 --> 0:15:55.336 my dad, the rancher lived at the time, was about 0:15:55.336 --> 0:15:57.776 a mile or so from the gate up to our 0:15:58.536 --> 0:16:00.696 double wide trigler because we were high class back then, 0:16:01.416 --> 0:16:06.256 and so I was what was I ten some of 0:16:06.296 --> 0:16:07.136 your and I would run. 0:16:07.456 --> 0:16:09.496 He would make me run every night up to the hill. 0:16:09.576 --> 0:16:10.576 And his whole philosophy is. 0:16:10.536 --> 0:16:12.616 Like, you want to be in the pros, you better eat, sleep, 0:16:12.656 --> 0:16:15.776 drinket because somebody out there is doing more than you are, 0:16:16.016 --> 0:16:18.256 so you better better make sure you're doing the most 0:16:18.296 --> 0:16:21.056 you could ever do. So most parents are like, yeah, okay, 0:16:21.296 --> 0:16:22.736 have fun, you know, go to go to school. My 0:16:22.776 --> 0:16:24.056 dad was like, you want to be in the boroughs, 0:16:24.216 --> 0:16:26.416 let's get it, and he uh it was. It was 0:16:26.456 --> 0:16:29.296 a hard nosed on it, and but that was that 0:16:29.376 --> 0:16:30.656 was all I ever wanted to do. And so when 0:16:30.656 --> 0:16:33.095 I when I got to play professional football as a 0:16:33.136 --> 0:16:36.936 living and make a living doing it, man, that's there's 0:16:36.976 --> 0:16:39.016 no great. Even on days that sucked, even training camp 0:16:39.056 --> 0:16:40.576 days when you want to be just bitch and complaining 0:16:40.576 --> 0:16:42.736 because it's training camp. You look back and you're like, 0:16:43.256 --> 0:16:44.776 you know, I'm getting paid money to play a game. 0:16:44.816 --> 0:16:45.376