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Speaker 1: So I think I really want to ask coach Quinn.
Speaker 3: You know, if I got a chance to play in
Speaker 3: his defense, what I would have been a Hall of
Speaker 3: fame definitely.
Speaker 1: Well think about it.
Speaker 3: Everybody they play, all the coners they're playing in his defense,
Speaker 3: they bought a lot, bought alid Hall of famers. They
Speaker 3: get the ball back. Charles Woodson, Green Bay, Richard Sherman.
Speaker 1: True, all right, I'm saying these guys.
Speaker 3: You know, all I'm saying is you are You are
Speaker 3: a product of your coaching.
Speaker 1: Oh, no, question about all the time. So I know
Speaker 1: you're gonna talk with him about this, but I want
Speaker 1: to ask you. Yeah. Look, let's be honest. Training camp
Speaker 1: has a vault. Yeah, and that's what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so how have you seen it change?
Speaker 2: Because you've kind of seen both sides where it started
Speaker 2: one way, and it's not to take anything away from
Speaker 2: the players now, but it is different.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, when I first got the training camp.
Speaker 3: First of all, we was in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. For the
Speaker 3: people that's Washington fan, they know how old well Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: And I never forget just coming to the training camp
Speaker 3: and it was just in Pennsylvania. It was like one
Speaker 3: oh five hot. I couldn't believe it. And Bruce Smith,
Speaker 3: I'll never forget it. Just turns around and say training
Speaker 3: camp is.
Speaker 1: About to crush your soul, just crush your soul. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is he? What is he talking about?
Speaker 3: Forty eight hours laid soul is crushed standing me soul
Speaker 3: crushed so bad because I'm waking up. I'm waking up
Speaker 3: at like six in the morning because we got to
Speaker 3: go way in and make sure we ain't lose too
Speaker 3: much weight the next day. This when too a days
Speaker 3: with two of days like we used to practice both
Speaker 3: of these practices. I'm talking about heart. So now you
Speaker 3: got to get up, you gotta get your weight. You
Speaker 3: got to make sure you gotta eat breakfast cause they
Speaker 3: got to keep the weight on you.
Speaker 1: You're losing like five, six, seven, eight.
Speaker 3: Nine pounds a day, but you're trying to gain it
Speaker 3: back doing your sleep it's just it's organized chaos. Said,
Speaker 3: it's finest, and it's your body getting pushed to the limit.
Speaker 1: Not all of your day out today, out today.
Speaker 3: Then they say, you know what, by the way, Saturday
Speaker 3: we're going to play the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: So it's just none stop.
Speaker 3: It was a test of wheels that you knew if
Speaker 3: a man made it out of training cat we had
Speaker 3: respect for everybody around the league because we know they
Speaker 3: had been tested in a way. Now it's one hard
Speaker 3: practice in the morning, walk through in the day. I
Speaker 3: understand they got one more game than we do. They
Speaker 3: trying to say these guys leg they got one or
Speaker 3: less preseason games. But just like my granddaddy generation did
Speaker 3: with us when he looked me in the face as
Speaker 3: I had my headphones on listening to a CD player
Speaker 3: and he was like, hey, you're sout. You know what
Speaker 3: our generation said the same thing. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 3: it's South. I just think and starat of working harder,
Speaker 3: we're leaning towards working smarter, and that's what the new
Speaker 3: generation is about.
Speaker 1: Were you ready? I mean were you ready for? I
Speaker 1: mean you can prepare, people can tell you about it,
Speaker 1: but you never known to you Now, no I.
Speaker 3: Was ready because I had just been built that way.
Speaker 3: And plus I was one of the few players that
Speaker 3: loved practice. So just try I forget you loved it,
Speaker 3: love practice. So I'm giggling, laughing, and everybody looking at
Speaker 3: me like this, jerk, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: One more day of football, dude, have fun doing it.
Speaker 3: We play a kids game, and I kept I reinforced
Speaker 3: it all the time to myself, do not get caught
Speaker 3: up in yourself thinking you are the sh No, you
Speaker 3: play a kid's game. Take your time and enjoy every
Speaker 3: step of it. So it never bothered me. But I
Speaker 3: seen player did it. They didn't like it, like they
Speaker 3: just they disdained training camp. I know player for a fact,
Speaker 3: a lot of players were tired because they just didn't.
Speaker 1: Want to do training camp.
Speaker 3: No more like if you would have told them no
Speaker 3: training camp, they would have played three more years. I
Speaker 3: know players that just flat out you know what I'm through.
Speaker 3: I cannot make it through that again.
Speaker 1: So we tend to forget. I know you don't.
Speaker 2: But but their guy's trying to make a team. You
Speaker 2: guys fighting for their jobs.
Speaker 1: Here, their career, your dream.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so well, folks, and the guys we know
Speaker 2: on the team. But man, that's one of the things
Speaker 2: I think that makes it so interesting that there are
Speaker 2: guys who will rise up, guys who will fall back.
Speaker 2: There's some serious competition.
Speaker 3: So it's always gonna be competition, and it's always gonna
Speaker 3: be that one vet. Oh, I didn't see that coming
Speaker 3: cut him. Well, maybe because somebody undrafted stepped in and
Speaker 3: say I'm ready to play now, and I'm cheaper than him.
Speaker 3: So it's these battles inside of these battles, and some
Speaker 3: guys I quite ain't aged until my position yet and
Speaker 3: I just need a little bit more time. Thank God
Speaker 3: for the practice squad. All right, Then you got guys
Speaker 3: that I'm ready to bubble now.
Speaker 1: I just ain't add my chance.
Speaker 3: And some guys gonna get chances by things that you
Speaker 3: can't You can't quantify. An injury here, opening here, a
Speaker 3: trade here, and now somebody steps up. That's the one
Speaker 3: thing about football and our appro sports. They say be
Speaker 3: ready always, so you don't have.
Speaker 1: To get ready.
Speaker 3: But when your number is called, you need to say
Speaker 3: I'm prison for class like you need. You will never
Speaker 3: get that chance again. Like, for example, a guy like
Speaker 3: Antonio Pierce we come in as rookies, he's undrafted. Nobody's
Speaker 3: sliding him to play. Within the next if ever, within
Speaker 3: two years, he's our store and linebacker. Al Right, within
Speaker 3: two more years, three more years, he's winning the super
Speaker 3: Bowl at the Giants. This how fast this career can
Speaker 3: take off or not take off?
Speaker 2: So how often have you seen a guy maybe midway
Speaker 2: through camp the struggle light hasn't come on, but then
Speaker 2: they do, and then it's off to the race after that.
Speaker 1: You see that all the time.
Speaker 3: You usually see it in free agents, because free agents
Speaker 3: move to another team.
Speaker 1: They gotta learn to see that.
Speaker 3: They gotta learn the locker room, they gotta learn the playoffs,
Speaker 3: they got learn to playbook. It takes them a second
Speaker 3: to like, all right, all right, all right, here go
Speaker 3: to best me.
Speaker 1: All right. So I've seen guys come out there the
Speaker 1: first two days.
Speaker 3: Like ugh, who is that he won't be on the team,
Speaker 3: to oh my god, he's he's finna hurt somebody, all right,
Speaker 3: So it clicks for some guy, And especially if it's
Speaker 3: a new defense like we have it, it's gonna take
Speaker 3: some guys a couple of days to figure out how
Speaker 3: he wants me to play. This where he wants me
Speaker 3: to play is because my last coach wanted me to
Speaker 3: take on this with my inside shoulder. Not this coach.
Speaker 3: He wants me to beat that block. Right, So it's
Speaker 3: what am I being asked to do? How fast can
Speaker 3: I acclimate to my teammates and how fast can I
Speaker 3: acclimate to the playbook?
Speaker 1: Mean a lot of joint practices this year. I love it.
Speaker 2: And you were saying that helped you more than anything,
Speaker 2: like I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Like in the preseason game, it's the bliss play calling
Speaker 3: you will ever see Cover three, verses four verticals, cover two.
Speaker 3: It's just so all right, we out here off of
Speaker 3: physical prowess. When we get into the practices with another team,
Speaker 3: these are mental battles against the offensive coordinator, the demonsive coordinator.
Speaker 3: They are sparring, Like while me and the wire receivers aspiring,
Speaker 3: they are mentally sparring, and that brings out the best
Speaker 3: in everybody. And like I can't I can't catch on
Speaker 3: to the other team's wide receiver to some of the
Speaker 3: quirks that he has. Like if I'm practicing with Terry
Speaker 3: every day, I know Terry habits. Well, I guess what
Speaker 3: I don't know Tyreek Hill's habits, Like I got a
Speaker 3: couple of days to figure this out. So it brings
Speaker 3: out the best thing you especially when you're talking about competing,
Speaker 3: especially when you're talking about challenging. But it actually brings
Speaker 3: out more for me for the coaching side of it.
Speaker 3: Now I can really get on the way length of
Speaker 3: my coach and how he wants me to do stuff
Speaker 3: and when he wants me to do it.
Speaker 1: Plus, isn't there something mental about yoways?
Speaker 2: Your guy say, I'm tired of taking on my teammates,
Speaker 2: Like does the something go off when it's an opponent?
Speaker 3: That what I would say, Like if I'm checking Terry
Speaker 3: or there practice, I know when he's finna run a
Speaker 3: dig route. I just seen him drop that inside hand
Speaker 3: fifty five million times, right, So now he getting to
Speaker 3: the point where he's dropping it his inside hand to
Speaker 3: run out routes against me because he knows I know
Speaker 3: things about him. Well, the other guy is all even,
Speaker 3: you gotta play within the defense, and you gotta play
Speaker 3: with this sideline, and you gotta know who you checking.
Speaker 3: I deck up the thing personnail wise, who am I
Speaker 3: up against? And I think that's why coaches love these
Speaker 3: practices with other teams because mentally you're gonna get tested.
Speaker 1: Physically they know what you got. Mentally, you will be tested.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about some of the guys on Let's start
Speaker 2: with the offense that you're really looking forward to watching.
Speaker 2: It can be Jaydon Daniels, it could be some of
Speaker 2: the So who do you really want to hone in on?
Speaker 3: I you know what, I'm not gonna get one of
Speaker 3: these guys that, ooh, we got these new toys for Christmas.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna play with my right I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: play with my g I Joe no more. I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna play with this wrestling man that don't even movies.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna appreciate my old toys. I think it's gonna
Speaker 3: be a big year for b Rob. Nobody's talking about
Speaker 3: b Rob, I know, because we got Ecklert, but they
Speaker 3: gonna be a team. And I think as much as
Speaker 3: Eckler's say, you know what, I'm gonna really benefit from
Speaker 3: not having to tote the load, I think b Rob
Speaker 3: is gonna benefit from that too. I think b Rob
Speaker 3: is gonna be one of those guys that really say,
Speaker 3: you know what, I want to cement myself is one
Speaker 3: of the top ten backs in this league because I
Speaker 3: have that type of ability.
Speaker 1: I see b Rob doing it.
Speaker 3: I can see I can see being senent senate, a
Speaker 3: guy just coming out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: You know how cool he did well. People didn't expect
Speaker 1: too much from Kud to Utah status.
Speaker 3: We just signed an h back out of Utah Stadium
Speaker 3: before you know what COOLi was a household name being sent.
Speaker 3: It has that ability to be that I don't do
Speaker 3: nothing great, but I do everything good type of offensive player.
Speaker 1: And don't forget about Terry.
Speaker 3: I've been watching Terry went up and down this field
Speaker 3: by himself for weeks. Haven't left here, ain't went nowhere.
Speaker 3: I think he's out to prove. And I'm so happy
Speaker 3: for him because the only thing that a lot of
Speaker 3: these wide receivers has had over him for his first
Speaker 3: four or five years in his career is they've.
Speaker 1: Had a quarter good quarterback. Right.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy his relationship with his new quarterback is
Speaker 3: about to start.
Speaker 1: It just and that's why I didn't play wide receiver jicks.
Speaker 1: You don't want to rely on anybody else.
Speaker 3: It's too dependable. Like I got to depend on my
Speaker 3: quarterback wanted to throw me the ball. Two to throw
Speaker 3: it to me in a place where I could catch it.
Speaker 3: Then I need my offensive line to block for him
Speaker 3: to give him the chance to throw me the ball.
Speaker 3: And then I have to also complete the catch. Just
Speaker 3: the five levels of dependability. It's a corner. I'm depending
Speaker 3: on one my rush, ye, two me.
Speaker 1: There me like there go.
Speaker 3: Then I'm the prisoner to my rush. But then it's
Speaker 3: all on me and they go to things that I like.
Speaker 3: But I think those guys can make some plays on
Speaker 3: the offense and on defense.
Speaker 1: Man Frankie Louver, I just can't. I can't.
Speaker 3: It's just I think we all got a man crush
Speaker 3: on them. I think all us one of our last
Speaker 3: names to be Louver. It's just such a good last name.
Speaker 3: But I think he's gonna be one of those guys
Speaker 3: jump out and I, like I said, I like to
Speaker 3: play with my old toys.
Speaker 1: James Davis. I called this to come back kids, Jam
Speaker 1: and Davis. This is the year he needs to do it.
Speaker 3: No, it's two of them, Okay, comeback kids? Are they
Speaker 3: gonna come back? Like Milly Bit did show y'all show
Speaker 3: y'all that they was not lip singing.
Speaker 1: It wasn't great. Jamin Davis, Emanuel.
Speaker 3: Forbes, you guy, all right, I think this, this, this,
Speaker 3: this with defense fits them to the t. And finally
Speaker 3: we get to see Jamin in a pass rush mode.
Speaker 3: I think that's gonna send him the double digit sacks
Speaker 3: we're seeing. We're gonna see Forbes for the first time
Speaker 3: be coached well, like everybody like see wy he's stunk.
Speaker 1: No, he didn't.
Speaker 3: Bad parents make bad kids, all right, he wasn't coached
Speaker 3: well last year. Watch what happens in this defense. So
Speaker 3: those two guys on defense.
Speaker 2: And in general where it's offense defense and not specific
Speaker 2: to annual force. But you see this a lot right
Speaker 2: where it takes Sometimes it just takes a while.
Speaker 1: Everybody's not. Everybody's not Michael Wave ready when they get today.
Speaker 1: Now I ever want to see j strack.
Speaker 3: Everybody don't push the Okay, I'm here, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3: But but people so used to seeing that that they like, oh,
Speaker 3: I can't Oh he went first round. I can't believe
Speaker 3: it was a time when I played well first rounders
Speaker 3: road the bitch do they understand that where they would
Speaker 3: draft a quarterback, and I started him.
Speaker 1: For two three years.
Speaker 3: Like it's a it's a league of development, and if
Speaker 3: my coach don't give me a head start in development,
Speaker 3: my development will be slow. I'm a prisoner to my
Speaker 3: head coach and my position coach. That's all I'll be saying.
Speaker 3: When guys don't start off, don't be shocked that they
Speaker 3: didn't start off, as everybody.
Speaker 1: Can't be Fred smooth and be a day one starter.
Speaker 1: They can't. They can't be ready. They can't do it now.
Speaker 2: Sometimes a splash play, Yeah, a highlight. We'll kind of
Speaker 2: saving up because you hear this whole time. A guy
Speaker 2: will flash right where maybe he's not consistent, but then
Speaker 2: he'll do something.
Speaker 1: You're like, man, that's untapped his right there. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: he just did?
Speaker 3: He on their field, But he just messed up three
Speaker 3: players in a row. And that this is what they
Speaker 3: call upside. When they say a player has upside. He's
Speaker 3: not there yet, but he has upside. That means he's flashed.
Speaker 3: That mean he's got around the tackle couple of times
Speaker 3: and got a sack when he couldn't get around attackle
Speaker 3: he jumped up and knocked the ball down. Oh he's
Speaker 3: Johnny on the spot, somebody else tipped the ball, he
Speaker 3: caught it.
Speaker 1: Like this guy.
Speaker 3: Seems to find the ball, but he ain't there yet.
Speaker 3: And there go to thing about it. It takes a
Speaker 3: good coaching eyes. And that's what I want to ask
Speaker 3: coach Quinn later, like how do you decipher when a
Speaker 3: guy is there and when he's not there yet, and
Speaker 3: when do you take the chance to say he might
Speaker 3: ain't got everything going, but I want to put him
Speaker 3: in and put him in the fire right now. We're
Speaker 3: gonna have a couple guys do that. We're gonna have
Speaker 3: a couple of guys started off slow. We have a
Speaker 3: couple of guys start off fast and might not make
Speaker 3: this team. And the guy that just constantly got better
Speaker 3: day in and day out, he was solidified spot. Because
Speaker 3: this is what I was always told by coach I'm
Speaker 3: gonna judge a'll fairly, but he go to truth, guys,
Speaker 3: I'm only going to keep the guys that keep me hired.
Speaker 3: I was like, that's the fairest thing I ever heard
Speaker 3: in my life. That's the realiest coach thing I've ever
Speaker 3: heard in my life. Because guess what players get coaches fired.
Speaker 3: Coaches get players fired.
Speaker 1: Why I was always asking coach, I ain't put what
Speaker 1: wasn't ain't in? He don't trust him, He don't trust.
Speaker 2: Him to keep him hired. Like I'm trying to win
Speaker 2: football game, I'm trying.
Speaker 3: Not only am I trying to win football games, I'm
Speaker 3: trying to feed my kids. Yeah, all right, So if
Speaker 3: I'm a coach, I'm only gonna put players in. Did
Speaker 3: I trust to keep me hired?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a tough task. That's a tough task.
Speaker 2: Before we get to the head coach. Can't wait to
Speaker 2: talk to Dan Quinn coming up here in just a
Speaker 2: few minutes. ESPN re released a list the top one
Speaker 2: hundred athletes since two thousand and There were some football
Speaker 2: players on there. Tom Brady was five, Patrick Mahomes was eighteen,
Speaker 2: Aaron Donald was twenty eight, Manny twenty six, Randy Moss
Speaker 2: twenty seven. A lot of great athletes on this list.
Speaker 2: Michael Phelps number one overalls.
Speaker 3: Michaeuld have fished Phelps, all right, come on, dmb native, Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, I gotta ask you this, Okay, No bias
Speaker 3: swimming ain't the most part. It's not correct. Even though
Speaker 3: he dominated with guys on this list, like Tom Tiger,
Speaker 3: mm hmm, Lebron step Serena.
Speaker 1: I know it's the fish Phelps is the fish Phelps.
Speaker 2: At the Olympic level and the work it takes to
Speaker 2: be a top end and to do it for as
Speaker 2: many times as he's done it.
Speaker 3: But I have to, you know, I got I'd like
Speaker 3: to judge at the least when not only they are
Speaker 3: an apex predator, but when it's another apex predator with them.
Speaker 3: With Tiger, you know we're gonna be right beside him,
Speaker 3: right with Lebron steph constantly throwing.
Speaker 1: In his hip, who with Phelps. It's just that's the thing.
Speaker 2: Don't you think it's just because we don't follow Olympics,
Speaker 2: Like if we were really into swimming, wouldn't we probably say, oh,
Speaker 2: you gotta watch out for this guy.
Speaker 1: This guy's always right there.
Speaker 3: I just don't feel like The Dark Knight is a
Speaker 3: great movie with doubt the joker.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's true.
Speaker 3: I think it has to be a hero in a villain.
Speaker 3: That's how Larry Bird and Massa Johnson say. The NBA
Speaker 3: like the w NBA were watching it right now with
Speaker 3: Caitlin like we're watching it. Somebody has to be the villain.
Speaker 3: Somebody has to be. But with Mike Phelps, it was
Speaker 3: just him.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's that much better than everybody else. May Deck's
Speaker 1: been doing the same thing. But I'm saying, but maybe,
Speaker 1: But to put.
Speaker 3: Him the best in the two thousands after leader all time?
Speaker 3: When I when I can say, where's your adversary? Like
Speaker 3: where's your word road block?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: Was you just that better than everybody? Look at Serena?
Speaker 1: Who is her number one competition? First of all, he
Speaker 1: started off her sister, it was she just took off.
Speaker 3: But also it was never it was so many people
Speaker 3: right and she but she had to beat them to
Speaker 3: get there. Like if we bring up Phelps, resume, where
Speaker 3: are the nachi's on the bell?
Speaker 1: Where's he took out this person? Oh? This person was
Speaker 1: great before Phelps took him out? Like wasn't there what
Speaker 1: was that when he won? What was it? The seven
Speaker 1: gold and his last stroke? He won by one hundredth
Speaker 1: of Yes, nobody knows that. The other guy you don't
Speaker 1: know who Jeff Wilson is, Like we don't.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying, Like for your story to be good,
Speaker 3: let me put it in, let me hip this down.
Speaker 1: For fair base.
Speaker 3: If we had to watch a movie today, okay of Phelps,
Speaker 3: would you watch the Michael the Fish Phelps movie? Would
Speaker 3: you watch the Serena Williams movie. Would you watch the
Speaker 3: Delano Messi movie, the Lebron James.
Speaker 1: Out of Tom Brady movie? But see, don't we know
Speaker 1: everything about Tom Brady? But guess what?
Speaker 3: Everything but his movie is gonna be so good because
Speaker 3: he got peaks and valleys. You know, he went to
Speaker 3: Michigan as a standout, drew us the quarterback that got
Speaker 3: drafted in baseball. He was second fielder at Michigan. Then
Speaker 3: to get drafted late in the first round and not
Speaker 3: be the guy like I.
Speaker 1: Think his movie I have more drama, Yes, but.
Speaker 2: It would be well, I was thinking like a documentary.
Speaker 2: I would be like, well, I want to know more
Speaker 2: about what what did I miss with Leo Messi and
Speaker 2: how he became where he missed?
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you? So the Messy movie better than Phelps? Yes?
Speaker 1: Probably like the Tom Brady movie better than Phelps.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think it's it's tom Brady fatigue,
Speaker 2: like everybody fatigued.
Speaker 3: Guess what, you only got fatigue because he's been so
Speaker 3: great for so long that's in a contact sport. The
Speaker 3: Lebron James movie, Like it's no competition there, right, Serena
Speaker 3: Williams movie.
Speaker 1: Serena would be more.
Speaker 2: Well, she's the thing out right now, right, I know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like, out of of these five, the
Speaker 2: top five, Phelps would be the fifth best, like Usain
Speaker 2: Bowl would be interesting to me. It's like because for
Speaker 2: four years we just like these guys fall out of
Speaker 2: our consciousness, right yes, and.
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden right there, it's like Kenny le.
Speaker 2: Decki, Simone Boles like, all great, I haven't thought about
Speaker 2: you in about three years.
Speaker 1: Nothing personal, but that's how generally sport. Yeah, Like like
Speaker 1: Simone Bows is.
Speaker 3: Just incredibly incredible, unbelievable, but she ain't served every day
Speaker 3: in the lunch room, right, Like I got the option
Speaker 3: for jello every time that's going Brady, That jello is
Speaker 3: always there. I know how it tastes, I know the flavor,
Speaker 3: the consistency is there.
Speaker 1: But like you say it, like.
Speaker 3: When you're when you got a pop up sport, that's
Speaker 3: what I call Olympics pop up sports. When you have
Speaker 3: a pop up sport, you're hot, den.
Speaker 2: Right, like were you paying attention to the US Gymnastics
Speaker 2: Championships in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: Probably not? I was not.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I would read about him like Simone's dominate,
Speaker 2: She's gonna make the team. We all knew, like we're
Speaker 2: gearing up. But I would not have paid attention to that.
Speaker 1: Thank you. So how could I put these people? If
Speaker 1: I'm voting, Okay, I gotta vote. How much do you play?
Speaker 1: All right? Right?
Speaker 3: I don't think I could put a player that plays.
Speaker 3: I competes every four years, but everything are competing. They're
Speaker 3: just not competing at the end. They're competing in world
Speaker 3: championships every year. We know United States Championships. It's just
Speaker 3: we don't follow it.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. We don't follow, but it's there.
Speaker 1: So how could I give Philips what? He went to?
Speaker 1: Three Olympics or four? I want to say four? Am
Speaker 1: I wrong? I could be right? Three or four? All right?
Speaker 3: When out of seen Tom do it weekend and week
Speaker 3: out for twenty years?
Speaker 1: Is he too low to five? Too low? Like's? But
Speaker 1: I don't know who to move? No, No, I know, right,
Speaker 1: it's to.
Speaker 3: The point where with Federal at six, come on, Federal
Speaker 3: been around so long listen, then you got some more
Speaker 3: bow and we ain't even got to this dude, tygerl
Speaker 3: tygerl was.
Speaker 1: I think he's too low. He's too low at eight,
Speaker 1: But you don't know who to move.
Speaker 3: I ain't gonna lie. I might and I know this
Speaker 3: is finna. I'm finna rough of some feathers here. I
Speaker 3: might replace Michael Phelps with Tiger bloods at one because.
Speaker 1: Tiger changed golf. Change again. Question.
Speaker 3: No, He's the face of modern golf, all right, everything
Speaker 3: the barl was, Tiger was on a meet a different level.
Speaker 1: Like he made a Is he the reason we got
Speaker 1: top golfs ride here?
Speaker 3: He made he made a sport fun that was made
Speaker 3: for seventy year old men.
Speaker 1: Yes, he made it mainstream. Let's look back at Arnold,
Speaker 1: Palmer and Jack.
Speaker 3: Like you say, you say golf, you say Tiger, yes,
Speaker 3: like he is golf. Like how many of these people
Speaker 3: epitimizes their sport? Now Phelps e pitimizes swim. But the
Speaker 3: that kids coming already. I'm a big d shambo fan.
Speaker 3: I call myself smooth dambo.
Speaker 1: I'm golf. But he ain't Tiger. No, no, no, Like.
Speaker 3: As much as I love Tom When you say football,
Speaker 3: it's other people that give it. It's our own identity.
Speaker 3: When I say golf, it's only one person that comes
Speaker 3: to mind, and it's Tiger, even though Messy I love Missy,
Speaker 3: but Ronaldo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like Pepe, I can go so far. I go
Speaker 1: so far. But what I just don't know it. And
Speaker 1: then you got you saying boat right behind Tiger.
Speaker 3: I just I'm not that high on putting track and
Speaker 3: field people that high over over players that do it
Speaker 3: weekend and week out. Like as much as I love
Speaker 3: you saying about fastest man in the world, I can't
Speaker 3: take nothing away from Steph Curry being the best shooter
Speaker 3: of all time.
Speaker 1: Hey, that's why you could make a case.
Speaker 2: And I didn't want to make people upset in the
Speaker 2: comments you could maybe you could make a case to
Speaker 2: put him over Kobe because he changed the complexion of.
Speaker 3: The spoilfe And I'm a Kobe guy, right, I'm a
Speaker 3: Kobe guy. But Kobe was a Michael Jordan clone. He
Speaker 3: was Let's be honest, we ain't seen but one Steph curve.
Speaker 3: Steph Curry made everybody six feet and underbelieve they could
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Speaker 2: this day O ball coaches here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, so many questions that we want to ask, and
Speaker 2: I think the one thing that I wanted to ask.
Speaker 1: You is how much do you enjoy the challenge of
Speaker 1: building a winner?
Speaker 2: Because there's obviously off season working the draft and here
Speaker 2: you are on the cusp of getting this build underway.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's absolutely what you want to think of. And
Speaker 5: there's so many things that's so far down the road
Speaker 5: that you don't I can't think that far, you know,
Speaker 5: like you got to work back from there and hit
Speaker 5: all the steps along the way. But there's an energy
Speaker 5: that gets created from that inside the building, outside the building,
Speaker 5: the way, the play style. So yeah, it's as fun
Speaker 5: as you could possibly imagine. When you get a whole group,
Speaker 5: you know, moving in the right direction together, it's a
Speaker 5: powerful force and I'm very much looking forward to doing.
Speaker 3: That most definitely coach and me myself. We all come
Speaker 3: back to training camp and everybody. You'll spect for everybody
Speaker 3: to be in shape. The physical point, you'll expect for
Speaker 3: them to be there. When it comes to the mental point,
Speaker 3: especially as the first year coach, you're trying to install
Speaker 3: your offense, you're trying to install your defense.
Speaker 1: How much goes.
Speaker 3: Into the mental preparation when it comes for you, your
Speaker 3: coaching staff, and I'll show you players.
Speaker 5: I think that's probably as big as anything, because you're right,
Speaker 5: the people are going to be in shape. And what's
Speaker 5: exciting if you walk around here right now, I've seen
Speaker 5: more people here getting ready for a camp that I
Speaker 5: remember in recent years.
Speaker 1: I went home.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they're not dragging into it or oh, man,
Speaker 5: we got a camp st like there's an excitement and
Speaker 5: an energy, man like, I can't wait to go and
Speaker 5: want to prove it. Part of that is creating an
Speaker 5: identity standards that you want. And so we've got a
Speaker 5: lot of players and coaches that have won the last
Speaker 5: game of the season, and their leadership is going to
Speaker 5: be vital to that because they'll know what that couldn't
Speaker 5: look like to have championship standards on and off. And
Speaker 5: so a lot of those standards are from the neck up.
Speaker 5: You know, how we do things, the intensity, the detail
Speaker 5: that goes into something. And so we're going to push
Speaker 5: ourselves to really high standards the way we practice, the
Speaker 5: way we compete, and if we do that right over
Speaker 5: and over and over, there'll be a lot of good
Speaker 5: that comes out of that.
Speaker 3: I've been seeing in Ota. I see, I see y'all
Speaker 3: building guys up like that. That's what I see. And
Speaker 3: if the fans are going to see do a training camp.
Speaker 3: When you come on this facility, the building is getting built.
Speaker 3: On the fields of being built. The stadium is being built,
Speaker 3: the coaching staff is being built, is building up the
Speaker 3: thing that we're trying to do right now.
Speaker 1: If I say one word is building everything up is
Speaker 1: what we just to do.
Speaker 5: I like that because and everything that we're going to do,
Speaker 5: like all of us here, aren't you know that we're
Speaker 5: coming into this building. We're not paid or to play
Speaker 5: or to coach. We're paid to win, yes, and h
Speaker 5: and coach to win. And so winning standards they're hard,
Speaker 5: you know, it's the difficult and you got to do
Speaker 5: it over and.
Speaker 1: Over and over.
Speaker 5: And that's the competition to push each other, to take
Speaker 5: yourself to heights that you wouldn't have been able to do,
Speaker 5: you know, on your own. So like there's a lot
Speaker 5: that happens in these next six weeks, and it's a
Speaker 5: fun time because you do get to prove it, you
Speaker 5: get to test and like you can also work really
Speaker 5: hard and have a really good time. Like those two
Speaker 5: things can be.
Speaker 1: Synonymous, they go together, symmetry.
Speaker 5: Yes, you do not have to be this, you know,
Speaker 5: head down, not talking to anybody.
Speaker 6: It's just the opposite.
Speaker 5: Man, there's energy that can come from getting other people better.
Speaker 5: By doing that, you yourself get better.
Speaker 1: Yep, ye, could you become a football family.
Speaker 3: Like I talked to Garrett Clark, I talked to Art
Speaker 3: Money and I'm not gonna sit down in the lunch
Speaker 3: room with him and I discussed. I asked him, of course,
Speaker 3: like I've been a part of a lot of good
Speaker 3: football teams. We never did what y'all did, what made
Speaker 3: y'all different? He was like, we won no football team, dude.
Speaker 3: He was a football family. And I think it really
Speaker 3: stuck with me because you watch out for your brother
Speaker 3: more than you do for the person you just work.
Speaker 5: With, yea one hundred percent and h I think rare
Speaker 5: competitors are way closer than people would ever think. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: most closer than your own family and a lot of it.
Speaker 3: No, no, because actually we understand each other more than
Speaker 3: our family actually does.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like that we are unbalanced a little bit, and
Speaker 5: I think that's okay. Cha.
Speaker 2: But along those same lines, you've always been known as
Speaker 2: a player's coach, but you hear that a lot, But
Speaker 2: you actually make a very concerned effort to connect with
Speaker 2: guys during the off season before camps. So when you
Speaker 2: get to the mental grind of these practices, how much
Speaker 2: does that help because you already have that bond, like
Speaker 2: I rre in this together.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the most important one, I get to facilitate
Speaker 5: the player the player connection. That's the a number one
Speaker 5: top of the pile, like or Fred could say years
Speaker 5: and men. I used to play with this guy, I
Speaker 5: played the I covered care whatever it might have been, like,
Speaker 5: there's this connection that.
Speaker 1: Will last forever, lifetime.
Speaker 5: And those kind of connections are really strong. And so
Speaker 5: that's why seeing a team get together this quickly gives
Speaker 5: me a lot of hope and encouragement knowing that they
Speaker 5: were together for X amount of time, you know, when
Speaker 5: the rookies got here as well.
Speaker 6: And so to see one of the coaches.
Speaker 5: Who had come as an intern that I would have
Speaker 5: thought you guys would have been together two or three
Speaker 5: years the way I saw people that maybe know, okay,
Speaker 5: we're hitting some markers, yep.
Speaker 3: And that's all about connectivity, right, Like it's about making
Speaker 3: sure everybody's on the same page. And it's one playing,
Speaker 3: one heartbeat, one sound. How do you get that message
Speaker 3: across because I play with different coaches. Coach Gill got
Speaker 3: his misses across a different way. Coach Shottenheimen, he got
Speaker 3: his misses across the coach. How do you say, you
Speaker 3: know what, I could take the heartbeat of this team
Speaker 3: and this is how I might should go about trying
Speaker 3: to get this done.
Speaker 5: I think it's finding what everybody's best can look like. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so that's what some of the individual ones. So how
Speaker 5: many guys on our team can have the best season
Speaker 5: they've ever had this year?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Collectively?
Speaker 5: And if the more we do that and know each
Speaker 5: other better, I can watch on things. Hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: watch Bread on his back pedal, like that's something he's
Speaker 5: working on. I'm gonna look at him. So how do
Speaker 5: we collectively do that and improve? And if you're really
Speaker 5: pushing it for one another, it's as fun as it
Speaker 5: is because now collectively people just start improving and getting
Speaker 5: better and battling for it and they understand each other better.
Speaker 5: But I think getting back to the first part about relationships,
Speaker 5: you have to, you know, crush any of the space
Speaker 5: in the gap to know where somebody's coming from. They
Speaker 5: might have had experience with a coach one time that
Speaker 5: wasn't good or and don't trust him, yes, yeah, and
Speaker 5: so like if you we all came from different places.
Speaker 5: If I grew up in New Jersey, Mississippi, Texas, so
Speaker 5: I can't know what that is like if I had
Speaker 5: that same experience, it'd be easier for me to get there.
Speaker 5: So just listening to what it might be some perspective,
Speaker 5: just listening and not always thinking your way is the
Speaker 5: only way. You know, Like what we did up in
Speaker 5: Jersey was this, and.
Speaker 1: You know, like it's plenty of ways to get the
Speaker 1: same job.
Speaker 2: You got that right when you strip everything away, it's
Speaker 2: the heart your football coach. Yes, So when you talk
Speaker 2: about rookies or veterans, is there a player or a
Speaker 2: group where you say, I just can't wait to coach
Speaker 2: this guy, this group.
Speaker 5: Man A lot of guys, I'd say that's fun because
Speaker 5: you know, like when you're a position coach, that's your
Speaker 5: focus and that's where you're at your TB coach, When
Speaker 5: you're a coordinator, you're that side.
Speaker 6: So as the head coach, you get to be a
Speaker 6: part of everything.
Speaker 5: So I guess as much as I am excited for
Speaker 5: the players, I'm as excited to see the identity take shape.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's.
Speaker 5: Not done in one day, and it's it's going to
Speaker 5: be built over time and you're going to see that
Speaker 5: get established. And now it gets our pattern of how
Speaker 5: we do things and how we play and the intensity
Speaker 5: and the speed, and then you will see that on
Speaker 5: a regular basis and that becomes who we are and
Speaker 5: then we don't have to take it up or down.
Speaker 6: This is just how we get.
Speaker 1: That's how we do things.
Speaker 6: This is just how we roll.
Speaker 1: This is how we roll.
Speaker 3: And just speaking of it, everybody like the break the
Speaker 3: specive preseason. I don't got this question so so many times.
Speaker 3: Do you care if y'all win in preseason?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: We care because I think when is a heavy yeah,
Speaker 3: now it is it to die for? No, it's but
Speaker 3: we want to come out. And I've always been asked
Speaker 3: this question. Do I get more from the private practices
Speaker 3: with another the team? Do I get more from a
Speaker 3: preseason game? Personally me as a player, I got more
Speaker 3: from suiting up against the Ravens three days. You know,
Speaker 3: it might be a couple of fights, list fit, it happens,
Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, I got more
Speaker 3: done because I feel like it was a bigger test
Speaker 3: and coaches were trying to hide lists in the in
Speaker 3: the in the public, I mean in the practice they
Speaker 3: did in the preseason game.
Speaker 5: I think you're right that what preseason is one term
Speaker 5: that maybe we can discuss, like one size doesn't fit all.
Speaker 5: You know, what this player may need is different from
Speaker 5: what the young player need. We need more reps for
Speaker 5: this player to see what they can do. It's a
Speaker 5: young player, we need maybe you know, five or six
Speaker 5: quarters of football to say he's ready to go into
Speaker 5: a game. For a guy who's played a lot of football,
Speaker 5: some of the practices are as important because now your
Speaker 5: skills are really sharp against somebody else.
Speaker 6: I also like it if.
Speaker 5: They're different schemes and what you do, yes, and so okay,
Speaker 5: we haven't seen this front. This is a different style.
Speaker 5: That's a different thing because when you're playing against your
Speaker 5: own team over and over, the competition is at excellent,
Speaker 5: the skill work is good, but oftentimes schemes are different
Speaker 5: and attacking you in different ways, and that's what can
Speaker 5: also help them.
Speaker 3: But we also creature as a habit, and I can
Speaker 3: learn your habits if I practice against Tiry every day, Yes,
Speaker 3: I know Tyrians, so where he would beat somebody else
Speaker 3: from another team, he wouldn't beat me.
Speaker 1: And that's what I like.
Speaker 3: I like to be uncomfortable, yes, in practice, and the
Speaker 3: only way I can be uncomfortable is not knowing everything
Speaker 3: about the guy across for me. Now, I got to
Speaker 3: ask you this because we lost the preseason game. So
Speaker 3: now it's only three and you got guys at the
Speaker 3: bottom of this roster from when the time I was
Speaker 3: in the league, guys made rosters that last preseason gainst.
Speaker 1: How hard is it to like really give.
Speaker 3: These guys a true shot knowing you got to ration
Speaker 3: these reps the way you have to.
Speaker 5: The way I look at us, there's like against another opponent,
Speaker 5: there's five guaranteed competitive arenas that we're going to be
Speaker 5: in twice against the Jets, twice against Miami, once against
Speaker 5: New England. That counts as five against someone else. And
Speaker 5: then all the other practices that are here. Some I'm
Speaker 5: open to the public and that those are performances too,
Speaker 5: yeah to say, are process of getting ready and going
Speaker 5: to do it. So those evaluations matter. But think of
Speaker 5: the practices and the games combine those is.
Speaker 1: One yeah, one season in the first season.
Speaker 6: So more reps, more time.
Speaker 5: So by trading one of the games and adding practices
Speaker 5: to it, I think you're we're still getting the opponent.
Speaker 2: We're still whenever you're a big name rookie or a
Speaker 2: big name veteran, that science of course you've come with
Speaker 2: these huge expectations. So as a as a coach, you
Speaker 2: see these guys all the time. You're not just looking
Speaker 2: at some practice clips or whatever. How do you push
Speaker 2: that aside? What do you look for personally when you
Speaker 2: talk about the development of a player.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think if the topic would be winning football,
Speaker 5: you know, not to say he had this many tackles
Speaker 5: or this many catches. You know they use that in
Speaker 5: the NBA some to say how many double teams did
Speaker 5: he create? Yes, you know, okay, like that didn't mean
Speaker 5: he scored every play he changed the whole game. Yes,
Speaker 5: And so winning football can be veiled in a lot
Speaker 5: of ways, and it's the discipline is technique. It's you know,
Speaker 5: like I might have been from a man a man
Speaker 5: seventeen snaps and they only went to him three times.
Speaker 5: But those other ones that look he was gardening him. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, they were covered like it wasn't an interception,
Speaker 5: It wasn't that. But I saw he did winning football.
Speaker 5: And so the comparison game can be easy. And that
Speaker 5: happens where it goes this player to this player, and
Speaker 5: certainly with rookies and especially with quarterbacks, where it selected
Speaker 5: all of those things. But winning football can be seen
Speaker 5: in a lot of different ways, and that's ultimately what
Speaker 5: we're looking for. Do they have the poise? Is there
Speaker 5: any penalties? You know, those are things that may go unspoken,
Speaker 5: but they're not unseen.
Speaker 1: And coach I totally get there. Now. I gotta give
Speaker 1: you this.
Speaker 3: I was more impressed, and I know that the succisis
Speaker 3: he had with the Falcons. I was just more impressed
Speaker 3: with the Seattle Seahawks because.
Speaker 1: I'm one of them guys. I'm a football story.
Speaker 3: Richard Sherman was not everybody pick coming out all right,
Speaker 3: Camp Champs was not very highly picked. You got Brandon Browner,
Speaker 3: who I thought you was rebuilding ode. How do you
Speaker 3: zero in on the tenant and say, you know what,
Speaker 3: it might not be everybody's cup of team, right, but
Speaker 3: I can get high end performances out of these guys.
Speaker 1: How do one do you identify these guys? Two? How
Speaker 1: do you nurture?
Speaker 5: Think? You want to find what does somebody do best
Speaker 5: yet and you start to build around that, and then
Speaker 5: you can start to build some system around that.
Speaker 6: And so for instance, for you, like if you.
Speaker 5: Were excellent playing Manda Man, that is where we're going
Speaker 5: to feature and so how do we feature you doing
Speaker 5: that over and over again? And then more people who
Speaker 5: can do those things. So it may have seemed like
Speaker 5: chaos sometimes at Seattle, but it was very disciplined in
Speaker 5: how we did things and very structured and very tough,
Speaker 5: and so we had really high standards for the guy.
Speaker 5: But we also had another safety named Earl Thomas, who
Speaker 5: was a fantastic coming out of the middle of the field.
Speaker 6: He was fantastic.
Speaker 5: So some of them were the very best in the
Speaker 5: world at what they did. If we had asked them
Speaker 5: to flip flop and cam, you'd be deep or will
Speaker 5: always be down, and it wouldn't It wouldn't have worked
Speaker 5: in the same way. If Richard had been an off
Speaker 5: corner for his entire career.
Speaker 6: He wouldn't have had the same impact. He was so.
Speaker 5: Long, yeah, so strong at the line of scrimmage that
Speaker 5: the receiver had to work to release so often, Hey,
Speaker 5: I need to be off the line to get him
Speaker 5: on the move because he had these long arms and
Speaker 5: would make the game really have to go wide and
Speaker 5: around him. So when you put people in the spots
Speaker 5: and find the things that they do remarkably well feature
Speaker 5: those things that could have been you know, like basketball,
Speaker 5: that'd be this three point shooter who can do it
Speaker 5: over and over again. We're not if he struggles playing
Speaker 5: some defense, Okay, we live with that knowing the things
Speaker 5: that he can him, yes, And so that's you have
Speaker 5: to dig and you have to experiment. And times like
Speaker 5: this at training camp are important because who can play
Speaker 5: manned many? Oh, you know, lots of reps? Lots of times. Okay,
Speaker 5: what about blitzing? What about zone? What does Luvu have?
Speaker 5: What is this person have yet, especially if they're new,
Speaker 5: we gotta find out.
Speaker 6: And there's Chin, there's you know Kwan, what's he look
Speaker 6: like as a blitzer? How about him coming out of
Speaker 6: the middle of field.
Speaker 5: So all of these evaluations are taking place every day,
Speaker 5: so every practice is a performance.
Speaker 1: That's a good problem. I have all those names.
Speaker 3: I gotta figure out what all these guys you can
Speaker 3: see and I know nobody ain't gonna see it, but
Speaker 3: I'm gonna see it.
Speaker 1: Training camp is south compared to when I came into
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 6: It's way different.
Speaker 3: Like do you ever get to the point Like I remember,
Speaker 3: we used to do three days and two of days
Speaker 3: and now I can only really work these guys once
Speaker 3: a day and.
Speaker 1: Now we got to walk through.
Speaker 5: Come on, coach, it's it's way different, dude. So uh
Speaker 5: the uh maybe you've been playing a little longer years,
Speaker 5: but it is uh, it is different. And uh the
Speaker 5: guys today what does that mean?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 5: Like they think this is the hardest thing that's ever
Speaker 5: because this is.
Speaker 1: Solidly no direct But like I told him, we did
Speaker 1: my training camp in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: This to original place we did it, and I remember
Speaker 3: my first two days out there with Bruce Smith and
Speaker 3: Dale Green, and I'm like, maybe I chose the wrong
Speaker 3: profession a lawyer. But how do you, as a coach say,
Speaker 3: you know what? Yes, I got to template down do now?
Speaker 3: Since I can't really lean on him more physically, do
Speaker 3: I have to build him up more mentally?
Speaker 5: I think I want to make sure the competition that
Speaker 5: practice is always on point. To make sure every time
Speaker 5: we're working on that, because if you get stronger even
Speaker 5: at that over and over and over again, like there
Speaker 5: isn't a space to take a playoff.
Speaker 6: That's not how it goes.
Speaker 5: And so you have to make sure they all count
Speaker 5: and you have to work skills and pre practices post
Speaker 5: practices because there's a lot of people to get ready,
Speaker 5: and how do we do that Just as many reps
Speaker 5: as we can in that time and working the skills hard.
Speaker 1: He's the head coach to washingt Commanders. Hate. We know
Speaker 1: you're very busy, man. We precate the time and have
Speaker 1: a great season.
Speaker 5: All right, man, I'm good to be on with you
Speaker 5: guys today and let's get this thing rocket.
Speaker 1: You would be a good lawyer, by the way, yes,
Speaker 1: I would be a good lawyer. I would have a
Speaker 1: rebuttals very will Thank you, coach. Thanks.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, when we were talking about the ESPN Top
Speaker 2: one hundred list, do you know had a huge issue
Speaker 2: with this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the nature Boy. Yes, I can't even read this.
Speaker 5: Whoo who.
Speaker 1: He was so angry that he was not on this list.
Speaker 4: Sixteen world titles, actually twenty two twelve hundred hour matches,
Speaker 4: fifteen years without a day off, a cultural icon, world
Speaker 4: wie sensation, Good lord, So many people have lost sight
Speaker 4: of what greatness truly is.
Speaker 1: I never pulled out with a calf muscle strain. Does
Speaker 1: a nature boy have a beef? Gent flying?
Speaker 3: First of all, we'll never hate on the nature Boy
Speaker 3: on this show, Not on this show, and no show
Speaker 3: that friends Smooth got anything to do with. You helped
Speaker 3: me get through those ten to ten age days in
Speaker 3: them young days where I was.
Speaker 1: In there thinking that wrestling was real.
Speaker 3: I remember my dad sent me down and say, son,
Speaker 3: let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a deer with nine feet? He said?
Speaker 1: I was like no. He was like, well, you ain't
Speaker 1: seen no real wrestling.
Speaker 3: So at the end of the day, once my hopes
Speaker 3: were crushed. Okay, and Jimmy's superfly snooker and all the
Speaker 3: rest of these guys were not who I thought. They
Speaker 3: were finding out your favorite athter least I impostas imagine that.
Speaker 3: Imagine like somebody came to you and said, you know,
Speaker 3: I know you look up to Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: But a script was wrote, Oh my god, can you
Speaker 1: imagine I correct? Did y'all lift those weights? Yes?
Speaker 3: Did y'all body take a pounding night in and night
Speaker 3: out on the road, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: But when we go out and play football and basketball
Speaker 3: and baseball.
Speaker 1: It's the best man wins.
Speaker 3: Yes, in the best man win, meaning ain't no predetermined script.
Speaker 3: I don't know I'm gonna win a championship before the
Speaker 3: fight start. WrestleMania one, you lied to me, Rick Fleil.
Speaker 3: WrestleMania two, you lie to me again because you knew
Speaker 3: what for the fight. Who was gonna win that fight? Yes,
Speaker 3: you are athlete. No, you don't deserve to be in
Speaker 3: the top one hundred. First of all, if it was
Speaker 3: a wrestler in the top one hundred, would it be
Speaker 3: the nature Yes?
Speaker 1: No, If there was a you wouldn't be a right, No,
Speaker 1: Greco Roman wrestler. No no.
Speaker 3: If you had to pick one wrestler through wrestling history
Speaker 3: all time to put in the top one hundred athletes,
Speaker 3: one wrestler athletically, whoever I'm talking about that British bull Dog,
Speaker 3: the Ultimate Warrior, whoever.
Speaker 1: Andre the Giant, the Giant. Yeah, I'm going with the Giant.
Speaker 1: That's fair, simple as that, because he had something you
Speaker 1: cannot buy. He's the biggest human being you have ever
Speaker 1: seen in your life.
Speaker 3: So I'm just saying it ain't that we don't respect wrestling,
Speaker 3: we don't respect your athletics.
Speaker 1: I think these on here are competitive at the least.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't compare the twoth. You a salesman. You're
Speaker 2: a salesman. You have amazing athleticism, you're a world class athlete,
Speaker 2: But you can't compare the tooth things.
Speaker 3: But you're selling me an invisible shoe. Have you ever
Speaker 3: wore one of those? It's called being bad footed? The
Speaker 3: same thing.
Speaker 1: Now here's she is.
Speaker 2: We're gonna we have a new game and it comes
Speaker 2: up with games each week for us. This one is
Speaker 2: called Commander Conundrum.
Speaker 7: Amander Conundrum. Cue the theme music.
Speaker 1: Oh, let's go woo woo doo. It's getting put in. Okay,
Speaker 1: you gotta get that again.
Speaker 7: So we're going to have I'm trying to think of
Speaker 7: the best way to explain this because I just thought
Speaker 7: of it in my head. But basically you I'm going
Speaker 7: to name you a list of eight players, all right,
Speaker 7: and okay, it's gonna be confusing, but five of these
Speaker 7: eight players fell in the top eight this category. Okay,
Speaker 7: so you're gonna have to weed out who who is
Speaker 7: not there?
Speaker 2: Ye?
Speaker 7: Who are the three the others?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 7: So should in commander's career passing leaders who fall in
Speaker 7: the top eight. Number one, we have Joe thisman number one,
Speaker 7: r G three No gust, thank you, I was not
Speaker 7: alive then, okay, Jason Camp, Sammy Vaugh.
Speaker 1: Number two, Norm Sneaz.
Speaker 7: Kirk Cousins. Kirk is number four, Doug Williams, who does
Speaker 7: not belong.
Speaker 1: Doug is not in the top passing because Doug didn't
Speaker 1: play long. He didn't play long enough.
Speaker 7: Alright, all right, that's one.
Speaker 1: Number one is joke.
Speaker 3: Number two is slinging samy Ba. Kirk Cousins is either
Speaker 3: number three or number four. All right, So that means.
Speaker 1: I think Jason Campbell's up there, Doug.
Speaker 3: I mean Jason is probably sitting at seven thousand yards.
Speaker 3: All right, So, uh, the two that's out are Doug
Speaker 3: Gus Farah started for how many years? Doug and Gus Farrott.
Speaker 1: There's gotta be one more, Doug, Gus Faroda snead sneak.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, you got two of them, right, Fred,
Speaker 7: you guys get one more chance?
Speaker 1: Is it RG three? Because he didn't play that long.
Speaker 1: It was a flash. You're right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: like we think of him, but he didn't play that Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. Let's go Bobby three steaks for five hundred.
Speaker 1: That's correct, Bobby three for five hundred.
Speaker 7: So here are the top eight you guys want to know.
Speaker 7: Joe thisman at number one, Sonny Jurgensen at number two,
Speaker 7: Sammy Bought number three, Kirk Cousins number four, Mark Rippin
Speaker 7: number five, Billy Kilmer number six, Jason Campbell number seven,
Speaker 7: Gus Farratt number.
Speaker 1: Eight, Oh slipped in? All right? All right, very good?
Speaker 7: All right. The next category is receiving yards Washington Receiving
Speaker 7: yard Leaders in History career one. All right, So here's
Speaker 7: my list you ready. He was Gary, Art Monk, Chris Cooley,
Speaker 7: Charley Taylor, Kier Garson, Terry McLaurin, Hugh Taylor, Bobby Mitchell, Jerry.
Speaker 3: Smith, No, Santana Moles. Alright, Jerry Smith is out of there.
Speaker 3: His name is Jerry and Smith. He is one of
Speaker 3: these dudes. All right, Pierre played here long enough. But
Speaker 3: do he have the stance to be with us?
Speaker 1: I want to say, who's below Pierre.
Speaker 3: Charlie, Oh, Charlie Taylor. But what they throwing the ball
Speaker 3: like that at that time?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna see he's well, let's see Art, Yes, yes, Chris, Chris, Yes, yes, Charlie,
Speaker 2: Bobby Mitchell.
Speaker 7: Do you guys want me to read through them again?
Speaker 3: I think the guys we're looking for the coprid is alright.
Speaker 3: Let's let's let's play elimination. Let's eliminate Art, Let's eliminate Cooley.
Speaker 1: All right, So we know Art Monk's there, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: know Chris Cooley is there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bobby Mitchell, I'm gonna say there, Yes, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: say there. I'm gonna say, Charlie Taylor to Charlie Taylor. There,
Speaker 3: so corporates is Pierre? And who else in the regular name.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 1: And then who else is not there?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: You mentioned Terry, right, so let's go Terry Pierre. And
Speaker 1: what was the last name? Uh? Who is this? Jerry Smith?
Speaker 3: Jerry the dude I made it cleans the other day.
Speaker 1: All right, then, how we do?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 7: Oh, remind me the names you said? Sorry, okay, here
Speaker 7: they were not correct. You weren't correct. I think you
Speaker 7: got one of them.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you said, who.
Speaker 7: What were the three you named?
Speaker 1: Here? Garson? Here?
Speaker 7: Garson?
Speaker 3: That was correct?
Speaker 7: He was not in the top eight?
Speaker 1: Yea. We who was this Jerry Smith? Is that right? Yes? Smith?
Speaker 7: Jerry Smith was in the top eight?
Speaker 1: Oh excuse me, mister Smith. Yeah, all right, agent Smiths.
Speaker 1: And we left out Terry Scary Terry scary.
Speaker 7: Terry is in the top eight.
Speaker 3: Already in five years he's been a ball, right, So
Speaker 3: I guess we should have said, uh, do you.
Speaker 7: Want the answer?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 7: Chris Cooley is not in the top eight. Neither is
Speaker 7: Hugh Taylor, who we.
Speaker 3: Didn't write down. We didn't write down here. We didn't
Speaker 3: write down here on.
Speaker 7: The least, so okay, all right, all right, So who
Speaker 7: was in the top eight, Art Monk, Charlie Taylor's number two,
Speaker 7: Gary Clark's number three, Santana Moss number four, Bobby Mitchell
Speaker 7: number five, Ricky Sanders number six, Jerry Smith number seven,
Speaker 7: Terry McLaurin number eight. Then number nine is Hugh Taylor.
Speaker 7: He played from forty seven to fifty seven. So I
Speaker 7: don't really know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I say like at some point we didn't have electricity.
Speaker 7: Chris Cooley was ten, Pere Garson was eleven.
Speaker 1: All right, that's a good group. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 7: Now this last one is a fun it's the fun
Speaker 7: this is for. And it is to list five out
Speaker 7: of eight characters who are Marvel and they are obscure.
Speaker 7: Now here's the twist. They're obscure Marvel characters.
Speaker 1: I know them.
Speaker 7: You think you can do it? Yeah, okay, and listen.
Speaker 7: If there's something wrong with these characters, I'm gonna have
Speaker 7: to go back and do my research. Okay, you're gonna
Speaker 7: pull up and I'm just afraid I'm afraid something. Okay.
Speaker 1: Quasar Quasar.
Speaker 2: Over one, Ksar Quazo.
Speaker 7: This one's k R k Are. The other one was Quasar.
Speaker 1: No, I know what you're talking about. Ksar.
Speaker 7: Yeah he is he is three D man who three
Speaker 7: D three D man matter eater lad.
Speaker 3: Matter eater lap is one? Three D man is d
Speaker 3: C or who the orb the orb? The orb was
Speaker 3: the used to hold the powerstone.
Speaker 1: I have no clue.
Speaker 7: Bro No, he's not okay, he's not marm Okay, I'll
Speaker 7: keep going. Kite Man, Oh.
Speaker 3: Kite Man is a kite Man is for real. He's
Speaker 3: a DC man. He's fifty.
Speaker 1: No, kite Man is a real hero.
Speaker 7: Dead Man and Chairman.
Speaker 3: Uh dead Man not so much. Chairman I have heard of.
Speaker 7: Okay, so who are we picking for? Not Marvel characters?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Kite Man is d C. Okay, all right? Uh ka
Speaker 3: crazy this marble? Uh chairman?
Speaker 7: Mm hmm you're putting down.
Speaker 3: Yep and uhm? Who is the Who am I missing that?
Speaker 1: You said? Give me?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 7: The third to them is o ks R three D
Speaker 7: man matter eater lad the orbit.
Speaker 1: Matter eat a lamp is d C.
Speaker 7: He's a dude, You're like an expert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, most definitely right. Well, don't be playing with me
Speaker 1: when it comes to that.
Speaker 7: I tried to make it.
Speaker 1: It was it was it was a little you know,
Speaker 1: when didn't come to TV.
Speaker 3: My coach God he gives me nothing, Like.
Speaker 1: You break up Game of throws, you break anything, I'll
Speaker 1: be like yeah, and it's like I'm doing anything with marbles,
Speaker 1: Like that's bread.
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