WEBVTT - EA Podcast: Episode 27 with Bart Scott 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.120 All right, part Scott, are you feeling festive today? I'm 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.200 always festive. I'm always in a good mood. I actually 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:10.000 just came back from my twelfth annual Christmas party in Baltimore, 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.360 bell in my elementary. We'll have some fun there with 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:14.520 the kids. Was able to give them their presence and 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.560 have some fun at skys On in Timonium, Maryland. What 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:21.439 skys On that skys On the trampoline park. So you 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.919 go inside like you got all the different trampolines and 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.440 the whole inside traveling. It's real. It's really huge out 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.080 here too. It's a botch of them out here too. 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:29.920 You gotta go to you gotta check it out. And 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:35.680 so how many, um, how many kids were impacted by 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.640 this this year? Your your Christmas party and well fifty 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:41.880 and even doing it for twelve years. So let's talk 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:47.199 about bart Scott, how you've been involved, especially down there 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.920 in Maryland after starting out with the Baltimore Ravens fifty seven. 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.920 Let's see, I do fifty seven kids every year? What 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.120 you provide for their Christmases or what I do for 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.280 the Christmas el so what what the what we do 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.680 is whatever they want for Christmas? Um? It's the selected students. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.280 Whatever they want for Christmas, they pick it out and 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.720 have some shoppers that go out and get it and 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:12.720 we have fun that way, we go out and get it, 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:14.280 we get it to them, We have a usually have 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.280 some type of party, and then afterwards I usually give 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:22.559 about three bikes, anywhere from three to five bikes. Um 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.520 that people that the kids that are selected by the 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.399 teachers pick out. I think one of perfect attendance because 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.280 to to you have to first be there. To be 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.760 able to to learn, you have to show up. Showing 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:37.759 up as half of and anybody can show up doesn't 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.200 take any talent, doesn't take any brain power to show up. 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:42.759 So I do that and it's been fun. Man. I've 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.840 been doing this for for a while and I just 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.440 kind of stuck to it. I always wanted to kind 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.800 of be involved with the community, but I didn't want 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.120 it just because I left the community. One thing, even 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.120 the last thing you want to do with kids is 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.680 let them down. So how old are the kids we're 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.440 talking about? Um there their elementary, so they're anywhere from 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.560 the public schools on both public school public schools, it's 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:11.160 eitherywhere from five to fifth grade to like eleven playing 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.600 eleven yea. So it's it's it's a good thing, man. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.160 I really enjoy it. I have a good time with it. 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.239 And they remind me what this stuff is all about. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.720 So fifty seven kids, huh, So they gotta have good grades, 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.720 they gotta have a time. That's gotta show up. You 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.360 let the teachers down there picked from many school so 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.320 how many? It just won school's one school. I let 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.480 the kids. I let the kids pick. How do you 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.679 decide on the school? Well, I've been to the the same 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.800 school twelve years, same school, And that's what I'm saying. 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:43.320 Like when I made a commitment to him, I don't 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.119 want them to think, oh, he went to the Baltimore 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.800 he left the Baltimore Raves, came New York Jets. He's 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:49.600 going to forget about us. You know. He was just 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.320 doing that while he was here, because you know that's kids. 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.400 Kids have people come in and out of their life 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.080 all the time, you know what I mean. I didn't 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:01.280 want to be that person. Skies on part Scott getting 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.200 on the trampolines at all. Absolutely, you know. So we're 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:08.040 running around, running around Bouston, having fun, doing some things 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:09.799 like that. You know, we had a good time do 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:14.280 Allmant Elementary School in Baltimore City. And it's spent seven 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:19.400 years already since since I left Baltimore. Why why is 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.480 Baltimore left such an imprint? I mean, it was just 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.919 it was just where I started, you know, and it's 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.240 where I became a professional, where I learned the game 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.919 UM and it was a kids in need and that's 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.480 what I learned about getting out in the community. Tuesday, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.320 we had to get out in the community, go somewhere 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:40.160 and do something. And everybody there is doing something. You 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.560 know that whether Steve Smith, Tory Smith, whatever, you know, 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:50.360 that organization really focuses on the community because there it's 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:55.520 not like there's anything else there. It's just baseball and football. 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.960 It's not basketball, it's not soccer, is not celebrities all 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.520 over the place. Can you find something similarities between where 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.560 you grew up and Baltimore. It's a small it's a 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.880 smaller Detroit man, that's see what it is and empowers 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.920 We know about the riots that they had UM not 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:18.279 too long ago, and you know, I just like it's weird. 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:22.320 I've never remember I start something, I have to finish it. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.880 And I felt like it wasn't finished. I never quit anything. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.040 So I made a promise to these kids, and I 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.400 make sure that it comes out of my checking account 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.200 because I think it's more intimate that way, opposed to 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.640 raising money to get it. It always comes out of 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.240 my my my account, so I could feel it as well, 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.640 you know, so I can provide it for the kids, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.480 but I feel it when I get that, I feel 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.800 like I personally did I didn't get money from somebody 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.440 else to do it. I did it myself. So it 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.320 takes a village though. But because you're out here, you 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.280 got a full time job all over the place. You're 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.440 working for the jazz here and CVS. So who helps you? 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.360 I'll get this thing going U. Valerie Walderman, who's the 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:05.720 secretary at the Ravens, she kind of helps everybody out. 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.159 You want to find a player, you want to see 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.640 where he's at, what he's doing. You call about and 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.400 we all take care of how we love about the 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.200 death um. She not only does that, she does my 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:19.680 Thanksgiving um um dinner I do down there as well. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.600 She does Jamal Jamal has a fee fifty three families. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.800 You know. Um ed Ree still comes back and does 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.560 this charity. Johathan Auden comes back from Vegas to do 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.640 his charity. So you know, everybody's invested in that community. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.000 Everybody has like a raven still comes back. I know, 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.159 Ray still does this stuff. You know, so players leave, 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.359 but they always come back during a certain time of 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.000 the year to do. What Torry Smith still does is 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.200 he's in San Francisco. You will ever bring your kids back? 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.159 Actually I did. I took him yesterday. Actually, my kids 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.120 were saying, if you looked on that picture, my kids, 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.920 that's my son in the background. He was sucking helium act. Well, 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.120 so what were the ages to see? Are your kids 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.920 who were there in Baltimore, Well all three of them, three, 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.359 eight and eleven, So they you know they what do 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.400 you so? What are you telling them? Do you say 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.520 anything about it? The set up the stage before you 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.440 go into the school. Well they heard me. They heard 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.440 me address to kids, and they heard me talk to 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.760 the kids about the season of giving. You know, it's 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.240 not always about you know, giving something materialistic, but sometimes 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.440 it's about it you give what you can. It's about 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.400 you're loving each other, being nice to each other, you know, 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:26.400 trying to um get you if you can't give. If 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.680 you can't give money or you can't give a present, 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.800 give your time. Um, be patient with your love when 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.920 your brothers, your sisters, when you go home, you know, 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.320 trying to assist your parents and things like that, you know, 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.520 and then just try instilling them the values of having 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.159 humility but yet taking pride and everything that you do. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.680 Now you're three year olds. He's a baby man, you know, 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.200 he's just going around hitting everybody. So so you're eight 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:54.080 and eleven, like that's when bart started making a little 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.440 bit of money, especially you're you're eight year old mother, 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.640 and they wouldn't remember those early days. But now that 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.760 they're getting a little bit older, loven Um, does it 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.920 hit him a little bit? You think that what these 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.840 kids don't have and maybe what you provided at home, well, 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.040 I don't I don't think they really understand. Their starting 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.120 to understand that that's my purpose of taking them down 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.400 and understand that for some kids and maybe the only 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.560 time all year in which they get an opportunity to 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.800 say hey, I want this this and they get it. See, 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.720 because what I didn't want's go get a bunch of basketball, 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.720 a bunch of random toys and say hey, pick a 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.600 present right, because what happens is, you know, that's somebody 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.360 to give you a toy, you want to be appreciative 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.680 of it. But what if you don't like that toy 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:39.720 and you don't want to be selfish the I don't 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.280 like it, you just kind of take what you get. 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.760 But you know, you get a kid of basketball, but 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.040 he likes wrestling. It's like, what you is he going 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:51.040 to get out of that exactly? So I make sure 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.400 that I get exactly and they shut towards the rest 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.600 down for me, for my shoppers, for the fifty seven kids. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.680 You know, the kids don't they never go, I know, 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.800 but for the shoppers, they the seven lists, Yeah, my 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:07.000 shopper and they get specifically exactly exactly. So when they 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.120 opened up, they say, oh, this is just what I wanted, 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.760 Mr Scott. And that's to me, that's that's more fulfilling 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.320 because you know, they're getting exactly what they want. So 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:20.480 if they don't get another present, they got they got 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.680 exactly what they want. And it really doesn't matter. I 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.320 don't ask them how much. It causes no limit, you know, 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:26.960 for what it is. But the kid asked for something 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.400 that's like cheap or something twenty thirty dollars. Then they 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.280 can keep getting, they can get more, you know, they 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.000 get more. So I think they make like three or 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.320 four things that they want and they get exactly what 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.400 they want. And then you know, if a kid to 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.800 get something that some kids want a guitar, you know. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.600 I think some kids they wanted Matt in two thousand seventeen, 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.320 and one kid want the iPad, some type of Amazi iPad. Whatever. 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.280 It doesn't matter, but it just makes me feel good 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.640 that I can let them know that despite especially now 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.960 in this country with it's such a big divide, and 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:02.320 you know, you got sexism, racism, uh, you know, the 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:06.280 political climate is stuff, you know, And I'm glad you're 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.480 bringing this up. He's making a transition because I'm I 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.800 was very frustrated this morning. I went into a large 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:17.800 coffee establishment and I ordered the Christmas Blend. That's what 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:23.080 it said on the sign, said Christmas Blood. Now, the 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:27.920 person who was taking care of me, the employee, said 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.040 why isn't it the holiday blend. Why isn't it the 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:35.360 Quasa blun. Why isn't it the Hanakah blank? And I said, 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.679 I'm reading the sign. It said Christmas blend. This is 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.880 your establishment. So I was nice about it. Whatever, gave 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.400 me the coffee. And then she said at the end, 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.720 after she gave me my coffee, she said, happy Hanaka. 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.679 And I'm like, whoa, I really like, where's your manager 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:56.200 at all? Just happened here? Yeah, exactly because I think 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.720 they took in Starbucks. I think they took the Santa 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.680 Claus off, right, don't even know. Yeah, this was a 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.920 cup that's been brewing for a couple of years. So 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.839 they took like the Santa Claus off and just made 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.800 it the red cup because they some people are talking 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.640 about defending, like come on, man, like whether you believe 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.640 in Christmas and what it means, Like we can't get 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.520 so specific, you know with a holiday. If it's a 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.240 holiday and they're showing they want to put a jolly 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.640 white guy on the cup, who cares, man, It's not 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.400 about the person on the cup is what is supposed 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:32.120 to represent. It's opposed to represent the season of giving, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.480 you know, sharing with each other, loving each other, being 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:36.199 actually to each other. And it sounds to me like 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.760 she was man sarcastic. Yeah, joy to the world, man, 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.760 But I listen back. You know, you don't have to 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:47.959 celebrate Christmas. That's that's fine. I literally ordered to drink 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:53.679 that said Christmas brund. Was this a black person? No? No, 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.360 If I went in what she said happy quanza, I 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:02.160 don't know, maybe because that's a forgetting versions. I have 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.840 no idea. I have no idea. I just don't understand 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:06.920 where we're at sometimes. Yeah, I mean I was a 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.600 young person too, and I'm thinking to myself, why are 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.440 you so mad? People feel like they can say whatever 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.280 they want to know what was every so mad about. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:16.680 I don't get it. They listen, if you don't like 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.600 working at Starbucks and do better, Like, what do you want? 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.280 What do you want me to do? I didn't do. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.840 I didn't do anything. I just flaver guest. I almost 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.160 tweeted it out, but then I thought I thought that 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.160 that would cause a stir on Twitter, so I didn't 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:30.640 get into it. You might, you might need it, just 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.280 you might need to go up there and talked to 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.160 her manager. I listened. That was very rude because I 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.120 can tell us bothering you because you brought it all 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.920 the way here. It's like, like, I'll be damned. I'm 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.319 the customer. Yeah, well the customer me. I never listen. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.280 Marty Lions always says this, and I think you have 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.840 this similar approach, even though we've never talked about it. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.520 You always can change a person's day by just the 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.200 way you talk to them and just by saying hello. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:58.320 And I'm not trying to go all, oh, this is 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.199 the way everybody's got to be. But just just have 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.520 some courtesy, man, Like this is your job. You're in 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:09.360 a customer service business, Like, you're here to serve people. Well, 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.840 what a smile? Do it with humility, do it with 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.800 dignity and pride. That's another thing with serving people too, 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.960 is that you're probably really generous with tips. I even 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.439 if you get bad service at a restaurant, I'm always 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:26.720 that's where I go um at the hotel when you leave, 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.760 I always leave about five bucks or something like that, 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:31.679 because I don't think those people get paid a lot 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.439 of money. I think now, but I don't know how 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.280 to do it now that I get a house, you're 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.960 putting a garbage out to the curb. Back in old days, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.400 you give tip. Now, how does it work now? What 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.920 are the rules? I don't know, man, I don't know 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.280 because I are like that that they get paid by 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.880 they get paid by their employer or is that something 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.600 that I'm supposed to do. I like tipping at the restaurants. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.320 I like this. It's always amazing to me that people 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.600 expect to get a tip for on their job. It's 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.480 like me coming to the Jets and say, hey man, 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.360 about Christmas time, get little extra bonus look kicking like, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.640 I don't. I don't get it. I don't understand. You know, 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.240 I don't ask CBS, hey man, you know Christmas, you 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.400 know what's up with the bonus package. But you know, 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:21.320 sometimes it's amazing to me that people expect to get 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.120 a tip just because to give him a tip. Hotels 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.760 are the worst. I think, Yeah, let me get that 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:28.240 for you. No, I don't want you to get that 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.079 exactly because guy's gonna cost me. Yeah, you're not getting 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:32.800 it because you care, you want to extually help. You're 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.679 getting because you want to put your hand out right, 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:39.040 Like it's ridiculous speaking about the National Football League around 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.960 the holiday time and things like that. It's a lot 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.880 of guys. I've been doing this now what this is 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.439 my seventeenth NFL season. A lot of guys take care 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:53.160 of the equipment staffers. Were you a guy would I 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.880 brought that. I brought that here. I brought that here. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.320 I don't know if they still do it, but I don't. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.440 I don't know either, but that I always thought that 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.200 was a h esture because also that's a that's a 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.280 tough job, man, that's the guy you beat up on. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.040 I need some socks. Hurry up, you know what I mean? 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:09.240 You know, and those are people that you know that 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.880 take care of you. That's the ultimate customer service. Making 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.040 sure your stuff is hung up right, you know, making 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.040 sure you got the type of gloves that you wanted, 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.040 your locker, make sure your choose a right. You know. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.040 I brought that here. That wasn't here. I brought that 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.400 with the Ravens. I mean, and it wasn't when you 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:27.040 couldn't go around collocton or when you just had to 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:28.960 take we had it. We we used to have a 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:30.560 sheet when you take it out and tell how much 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:34.120 you want to take out your check. Yeah, so you 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.960 go one by one down the roster. Well, we know 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:38.640 we put the sheets in your in your in your 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.760 in your locker, you fill it out. But we've also 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.640 done it with you know, in Baltimore, we used to 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.960 do it also with cash, like those guys would be 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.200 kicked up because guys were putting up two grand, three grands. 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.600 Oh yeah yeah, so listen, we got we have We 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.000 have a great equipment staff excellent, and Melanie and all 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.120 those guys. You you're sitting there, you hurt and you're 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.400 asking them for something. You on all kinds of nice cake. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.600 You calling script dog. We used to put like five, 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.800 I used to. I used to go like five. I 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.920 would go like a thousand to like the top guy. 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.960 Then the guys that worked underneath from five hunted like 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.040 the guys you know. But if if some trainer then 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.680 they really didn't work with me, then I just get 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.240 my guys, you know what I mean. So I might 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.080 jog or Zuff or somebody like that. Then I go 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.760 to the training room. Bam, there you go. Then I go, 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.000 you know. And also like the gift of change with 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.480 the coaches, always get always get my possessition cop something. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.760 Oh that's nice. Yeah, we all we always just get 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.720 stuff together. We're just pull money. Get by Bob being 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.960 hooked up. Bob, Bob was getting hooked up. Yeah, you 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.720 guys love Bob. Bob still talked about like two weeks 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.440 a week and a half ago. Yeah, absolutely defensive coordinate 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.800 of the Kansas City Chiefs flying Kansas City, probably on 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.400 the way to the playoffs again. Yeah, tremendous guy, military buff. 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.840 You ever talk military with that guy? Yeah? Absolutely, I 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:03.080 mean guy someone one time. He got me a he 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.240 got me one year, a helicopter ride over the city. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.880 Then you were really Yeah, we got bob watches. Bob. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.000 If I was on board, your gifts gonna be good. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.760 We're gonna make sure you'll give one. No, no, no, 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.720 Ragley give you got Bob? Did you take his wife 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.320 over the No? No, no, no, no, he got me one. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.640 He didn't. He bought me a helicopter ride in uh 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.680 in the city. He gave me a book on helicopters. Yeah, yeah, 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.640 he had me one year. That's outstanding. Man. We got 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.520 we got Bob some nice watches, Like what kind of stuff? 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.320 How do you like the ride of the helicopter ride 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.560 over the city. It's cool, man. Helicopters kind of weird though, man, 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.680 It's like you feel like it's not smooth. It's kind 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.840 of weird. They did that for Calvin Pace and as 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:45.600 free agent fits that way back in the day, when 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.600 he was leaving Arizona and Calvin wasn't feeling it. He 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:53.120 liked that. Yeah, something he talked to calvinot. Yeah, you 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:54.880 better make sure you got one of these big heavy ones, 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.880 you know, I mean, I want to Speaking of pace, obviously, 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.840 the Jetson resigned him an off season guy, kept himself 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.400 in good shape and things like that. I wonder what 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:04.480 the next stop is for him, and you get a 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.480 chance to talk to him. Still Cavin a couple of 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.760 weeks ago, he didn't say what's next. I think he's just, 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.640 you know, trying to figure out what's next Atlanta, tak 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:14.920 care of his daughter and then and that's the process, 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:16.679 figuring out what you want to do next. I ran 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.960 to Shine Green into the mall in the mall yesterday. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.119 He's trying to do real estates and real estate with 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.679 his uncle. Stuff like that. Now, you know, guys are 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.160 still around, Guys are still doing well. You know, I'm 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.560 glad that guys are still doing well, and they're trying 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.040 to make a smooth transition to other things. Speaking of 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.840 smooth transitions, what do you think about bah Pole is 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:39.360 he's taking over the bell cow duties here because Matt 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.800 Forte dealing with the knee injury, and he's tough, tough dude, 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.320 because I think he's playing through a torn meniscus, he 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.920 told reporters, and he's there to spell BA. But wow, 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.840 the last couple of weeks, two nights, but all over 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.399 the field, well, I think that I think allows earned 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.879 the right to uh. I think it allows earned the 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.560 right to uh be the guy. I think he's earned 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.280 the right to like his play on the field for 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.080 the last couple of years, I think he's earned the 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.320 right to be the lead back here. I mean, and 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.720 that's not a knock on map Fort Terry anything. That's 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.000 just a testament to what he's been able to do 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.320 and how he's able to play even in the everybody 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:20.399 knows he's getting the ball right, still productive. And what 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.080 impresses me about a lot of more than anything, it's 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:26.199 his um, his bliss, pick up, his past protection. You know, 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.600 his willingness is always square up, stepping there and take 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.239 on whoever comes in. You know, I figured that out 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:32.879 when I first got here and when we uhould go 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.399 against guys and you know, guys kind of see me 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.159 didn't want to go, didn't know what I was going 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.119 to do and they would go against certain guys that 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:41.720 they knew what was gonna do it for next move 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.119 or something like that, you know, or you know, I 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.000 used to have like this little chop club that they's 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.199 always worried about. And you know, he would sitting there 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.639 and then sitting there and taking man. And that's that 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.080 was early. That was his rookie year. I mean, so 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:57.359 you know, I'm definitely a big fan of Alapau. What 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.439 do you like most about his physical skill set? You 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:03.000 just talked to out him as a blocker, because that 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:07.280 was his forte no pun intended early in his career 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.320 was that, hey, this guy can always be on the 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.560 field and third situations because he is great and blitz 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.520 pick up. Now, when you see him with the ball 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.919 in his hands, why is he so affective either on 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.200 the ground or is the receiver? So me me watching 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.960 him the last two years, I've seen the player that 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.080 I saw on his highlight tape from Louisville. So now 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.159 I see that he's got it all figured out. That 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.800 he's running, he's not thinking, he's reacting, you know, And 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.240 it took him a couple because the first couple of 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.080 years he he didn't run and hit the holes, and 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.679 seemed like he was like cruising. It seemed like he 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:43.879 wasn't going all out. But now you can see like 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.399 the progression him understanding the defensive fronts, understanding where the 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.119