Speaker 1: All right, part Scott, are you feeling festive today? I'm
Speaker 1: always festive. I'm always in a good mood. I actually
Speaker 1: just came back from my twelfth annual Christmas party in Baltimore,
Speaker 1: bell in my elementary. We'll have some fun there with
Speaker 1: the kids. Was able to give them their presence and
Speaker 1: have some fun at skys On in Timonium, Maryland. What
Speaker 1: skys On that skys On the trampoline park. So you
Speaker 1: go inside like you got all the different trampolines and
Speaker 1: the whole inside traveling. It's real. It's really huge out
Speaker 1: here too. It's a botch of them out here too.
Speaker 1: You gotta go to you gotta check it out. And
Speaker 1: so how many, um, how many kids were impacted by
Speaker 1: this this year? Your your Christmas party and well fifty
Speaker 1: and even doing it for twelve years. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about bart Scott, how you've been involved, especially down there
Speaker 1: in Maryland after starting out with the Baltimore Ravens fifty seven.
Speaker 1: Let's see, I do fifty seven kids every year? What
Speaker 1: you provide for their Christmases or what I do for
Speaker 1: the Christmas el so what what the what we do
Speaker 1: is whatever they want for Christmas? Um? It's the selected students.
Speaker 1: Whatever they want for Christmas, they pick it out and
Speaker 1: have some shoppers that go out and get it and
Speaker 1: we have fun that way, we go out and get it,
Speaker 1: we get it to them, We have a usually have
Speaker 1: some type of party, and then afterwards I usually give
Speaker 1: about three bikes, anywhere from three to five bikes. Um
Speaker 1: that people that the kids that are selected by the
Speaker 1: teachers pick out. I think one of perfect attendance because
Speaker 1: to to you have to first be there. To be
Speaker 1: able to to learn, you have to show up. Showing
Speaker 1: up as half of and anybody can show up doesn't
Speaker 1: take any talent, doesn't take any brain power to show up.
Speaker 1: So I do that and it's been fun. Man. I've
Speaker 1: been doing this for for a while and I just
Speaker 1: kind of stuck to it. I always wanted to kind
Speaker 1: of be involved with the community, but I didn't want
Speaker 1: it just because I left the community. One thing, even
Speaker 1: the last thing you want to do with kids is
Speaker 1: let them down. So how old are the kids we're
Speaker 1: talking about? Um there their elementary, so they're anywhere from
Speaker 1: the public schools on both public school public schools, it's
Speaker 1: eitherywhere from five to fifth grade to like eleven playing
Speaker 1: eleven yea. So it's it's it's a good thing, man.
Speaker 1: I really enjoy it. I have a good time with it.
Speaker 1: And they remind me what this stuff is all about.
Speaker 1: So fifty seven kids, huh, So they gotta have good grades,
Speaker 1: they gotta have a time. That's gotta show up. You
Speaker 1: let the teachers down there picked from many school so
Speaker 1: how many? It just won school's one school. I let
Speaker 1: the kids. I let the kids pick. How do you
Speaker 1: decide on the school? Well, I've been to the the same
Speaker 1: school twelve years, same school, And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like when I made a commitment to him, I don't
Speaker 1: want them to think, oh, he went to the Baltimore
Speaker 1: he left the Baltimore Raves, came New York Jets. He's
Speaker 1: going to forget about us. You know. He was just
Speaker 1: doing that while he was here, because you know that's kids.
Speaker 1: Kids have people come in and out of their life
Speaker 1: all the time, you know what I mean. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to be that person. Skies on part Scott getting
Speaker 1: on the trampolines at all. Absolutely, you know. So we're
Speaker 1: running around, running around Bouston, having fun, doing some things
Speaker 1: like that. You know, we had a good time do
Speaker 1: Allmant Elementary School in Baltimore City. And it's spent seven
Speaker 1: years already since since I left Baltimore. Why why is
Speaker 1: Baltimore left such an imprint? I mean, it was just
Speaker 1: it was just where I started, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: where I became a professional, where I learned the game
Speaker 1: UM and it was a kids in need and that's
Speaker 1: what I learned about getting out in the community. Tuesday,
Speaker 1: we had to get out in the community, go somewhere
Speaker 1: and do something. And everybody there is doing something. You
Speaker 1: know that whether Steve Smith, Tory Smith, whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: that organization really focuses on the community because there it's
Speaker 1: not like there's anything else there. It's just baseball and football.
Speaker 1: It's not basketball, it's not soccer, is not celebrities all
Speaker 1: over the place. Can you find something similarities between where
Speaker 1: you grew up and Baltimore. It's a small it's a
Speaker 1: smaller Detroit man, that's see what it is and empowers
Speaker 1: We know about the riots that they had UM not
Speaker 1: too long ago, and you know, I just like it's weird.
Speaker 1: I've never remember I start something, I have to finish it.
Speaker 1: And I felt like it wasn't finished. I never quit anything.
Speaker 1: So I made a promise to these kids, and I
Speaker 1: make sure that it comes out of my checking account
Speaker 1: because I think it's more intimate that way, opposed to
Speaker 1: raising money to get it. It always comes out of
Speaker 1: my my my account, so I could feel it as well,
Speaker 1: you know, so I can provide it for the kids,
Speaker 1: but I feel it when I get that, I feel
Speaker 1: like I personally did I didn't get money from somebody
Speaker 1: else to do it. I did it myself. So it
Speaker 1: takes a village though. But because you're out here, you
Speaker 1: got a full time job all over the place. You're
Speaker 1: working for the jazz here and CVS. So who helps you?
Speaker 1: I'll get this thing going U. Valerie Walderman, who's the
Speaker 1: secretary at the Ravens, she kind of helps everybody out.
Speaker 1: You want to find a player, you want to see
Speaker 1: where he's at, what he's doing. You call about and
Speaker 1: we all take care of how we love about the
Speaker 1: death um. She not only does that, she does my
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving um um dinner I do down there as well.
Speaker 1: She does Jamal Jamal has a fee fifty three families.
Speaker 1: You know. Um ed Ree still comes back and does
Speaker 1: this charity. Johathan Auden comes back from Vegas to do
Speaker 1: his charity. So you know, everybody's invested in that community.
Speaker 1: Everybody has like a raven still comes back. I know,
Speaker 1: Ray still does this stuff. You know, so players leave,
Speaker 1: but they always come back during a certain time of
Speaker 1: the year to do. What Torry Smith still does is
Speaker 1: he's in San Francisco. You will ever bring your kids back?
Speaker 1: Actually I did. I took him yesterday. Actually, my kids
Speaker 1: were saying, if you looked on that picture, my kids,
Speaker 1: that's my son in the background. He was sucking helium act. Well,
Speaker 1: so what were the ages to see? Are your kids
Speaker 1: who were there in Baltimore, Well all three of them, three,
Speaker 1: eight and eleven, So they you know they what do
Speaker 1: you so? What are you telling them? Do you say
Speaker 1: anything about it? The set up the stage before you
Speaker 1: go into the school. Well they heard me. They heard
Speaker 1: me address to kids, and they heard me talk to
Speaker 1: the kids about the season of giving. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not always about you know, giving something materialistic, but sometimes
Speaker 1: it's about it you give what you can. It's about
Speaker 1: you're loving each other, being nice to each other, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to um get you if you can't give. If
Speaker 1: you can't give money or you can't give a present,
Speaker 1: give your time. Um, be patient with your love when
Speaker 1: your brothers, your sisters, when you go home, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to assist your parents and things like that, you know,
Speaker 1: and then just try instilling them the values of having
Speaker 1: humility but yet taking pride and everything that you do.
Speaker 1: Now you're three year olds. He's a baby man, you know,
Speaker 1: he's just going around hitting everybody. So so you're eight
Speaker 1: and eleven, like that's when bart started making a little
Speaker 1: bit of money, especially you're you're eight year old mother,
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't remember those early days. But now that
Speaker 1: they're getting a little bit older, loven Um, does it
Speaker 1: hit him a little bit? You think that what these
Speaker 1: kids don't have and maybe what you provided at home, well,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think they really understand. Their starting
Speaker 1: to understand that that's my purpose of taking them down
Speaker 1: and understand that for some kids and maybe the only
Speaker 1: time all year in which they get an opportunity to
Speaker 1: say hey, I want this this and they get it. See,
Speaker 1: because what I didn't want's go get a bunch of basketball,
Speaker 1: a bunch of random toys and say hey, pick a
Speaker 1: present right, because what happens is, you know, that's somebody
Speaker 1: to give you a toy, you want to be appreciative
Speaker 1: of it. But what if you don't like that toy
Speaker 1: and you don't want to be selfish the I don't
Speaker 1: like it, you just kind of take what you get.
Speaker 1: But you know, you get a kid of basketball, but
Speaker 1: he likes wrestling. It's like, what you is he going
Speaker 1: to get out of that exactly? So I make sure
Speaker 1: that I get exactly and they shut towards the rest
Speaker 1: down for me, for my shoppers, for the fifty seven kids.
Speaker 1: You know, the kids don't they never go, I know,
Speaker 1: but for the shoppers, they the seven lists, Yeah, my
Speaker 1: shopper and they get specifically exactly exactly. So when they
Speaker 1: opened up, they say, oh, this is just what I wanted,
Speaker 1: Mr Scott. And that's to me, that's that's more fulfilling
Speaker 1: because you know, they're getting exactly what they want. So
Speaker 1: if they don't get another present, they got they got
Speaker 1: exactly what they want. And it really doesn't matter. I
Speaker 1: don't ask them how much. It causes no limit, you know,
Speaker 1: for what it is. But the kid asked for something
Speaker 1: that's like cheap or something twenty thirty dollars. Then they
Speaker 1: can keep getting, they can get more, you know, they
Speaker 1: get more. So I think they make like three or
Speaker 1: four things that they want and they get exactly what
Speaker 1: they want. And then you know, if a kid to
Speaker 1: get something that some kids want a guitar, you know.
Speaker 1: I think some kids they wanted Matt in two thousand seventeen,
Speaker 1: and one kid want the iPad, some type of Amazi iPad. Whatever.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, but it just makes me feel good
Speaker 1: that I can let them know that despite especially now
Speaker 1: in this country with it's such a big divide, and
Speaker 1: you know, you got sexism, racism, uh, you know, the
Speaker 1: political climate is stuff, you know, And I'm glad you're
Speaker 1: bringing this up. He's making a transition because I'm I
Speaker 1: was very frustrated this morning. I went into a large
Speaker 1: coffee establishment and I ordered the Christmas Blend. That's what
Speaker 1: it said on the sign, said Christmas Blood. Now, the
Speaker 1: person who was taking care of me, the employee, said
Speaker 1: why isn't it the holiday blend. Why isn't it the
Speaker 1: Quasa blun. Why isn't it the Hanakah blank? And I said,
Speaker 1: I'm reading the sign. It said Christmas blend. This is
Speaker 1: your establishment. So I was nice about it. Whatever, gave
Speaker 1: me the coffee. And then she said at the end,
Speaker 1: after she gave me my coffee, she said, happy Hanaka.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, whoa, I really like, where's your manager
Speaker 1: at all? Just happened here? Yeah, exactly because I think
Speaker 1: they took in Starbucks. I think they took the Santa
Speaker 1: Claus off, right, don't even know. Yeah, this was a
Speaker 1: cup that's been brewing for a couple of years. So
Speaker 1: they took like the Santa Claus off and just made
Speaker 1: it the red cup because they some people are talking
Speaker 1: about defending, like come on, man, like whether you believe
Speaker 1: in Christmas and what it means, Like we can't get
Speaker 1: so specific, you know with a holiday. If it's a
Speaker 1: holiday and they're showing they want to put a jolly
Speaker 1: white guy on the cup, who cares, man, It's not
Speaker 1: about the person on the cup is what is supposed
Speaker 1: to represent. It's opposed to represent the season of giving,
Speaker 1: you know, sharing with each other, loving each other, being
Speaker 1: actually to each other. And it sounds to me like
Speaker 1: she was man sarcastic. Yeah, joy to the world, man,
Speaker 1: But I listen back. You know, you don't have to
Speaker 1: celebrate Christmas. That's that's fine. I literally ordered to drink
Speaker 1: that said Christmas brund. Was this a black person? No? No,
Speaker 1: If I went in what she said happy quanza, I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe because that's a forgetting versions. I have
Speaker 1: no idea. I have no idea. I just don't understand
Speaker 1: where we're at sometimes. Yeah, I mean I was a
Speaker 1: young person too, and I'm thinking to myself, why are
Speaker 1: you so mad? People feel like they can say whatever
Speaker 1: they want to know what was every so mad about.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. They listen, if you don't like
Speaker 1: working at Starbucks and do better, Like, what do you want?
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do? I didn't do.
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything. I just flaver guest. I almost
Speaker 1: tweeted it out, but then I thought I thought that
Speaker 1: that would cause a stir on Twitter, so I didn't
Speaker 1: get into it. You might, you might need it, just
Speaker 1: you might need to go up there and talked to
Speaker 1: her manager. I listened. That was very rude because I
Speaker 1: can tell us bothering you because you brought it all
Speaker 1: the way here. It's like, like, I'll be damned. I'm
Speaker 1: the customer. Yeah, well the customer me. I never listen.
Speaker 1: Marty Lions always says this, and I think you have
Speaker 1: this similar approach, even though we've never talked about it.
Speaker 1: You always can change a person's day by just the
Speaker 1: way you talk to them and just by saying hello.
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to go all, oh, this is
Speaker 1: the way everybody's got to be. But just just have
Speaker 1: some courtesy, man, Like this is your job. You're in
Speaker 1: a customer service business, Like, you're here to serve people. Well,
Speaker 1: what a smile? Do it with humility, do it with
Speaker 1: dignity and pride. That's another thing with serving people too,
Speaker 1: is that you're probably really generous with tips. I even
Speaker 1: if you get bad service at a restaurant, I'm always
Speaker 1: that's where I go um at the hotel when you leave,
Speaker 1: I always leave about five bucks or something like that,
Speaker 1: because I don't think those people get paid a lot
Speaker 1: of money. I think now, but I don't know how
Speaker 1: to do it now that I get a house, you're
Speaker 1: putting a garbage out to the curb. Back in old days,
Speaker 1: you give tip. Now, how does it work now? What
Speaker 1: are the rules? I don't know, man, I don't know
Speaker 1: because I are like that that they get paid by
Speaker 1: they get paid by their employer or is that something
Speaker 1: that I'm supposed to do. I like tipping at the restaurants.
Speaker 1: I like this. It's always amazing to me that people
Speaker 1: expect to get a tip for on their job. It's
Speaker 1: like me coming to the Jets and say, hey man,
Speaker 1: about Christmas time, get little extra bonus look kicking like,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't get it. I don't understand. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't ask CBS, hey man, you know Christmas, you
Speaker 1: know what's up with the bonus package. But you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's amazing to me that people expect to get
Speaker 1: a tip just because to give him a tip. Hotels
Speaker 1: are the worst. I think, Yeah, let me get that
Speaker 1: for you. No, I don't want you to get that
Speaker 1: exactly because guy's gonna cost me. Yeah, you're not getting
Speaker 1: it because you care, you want to extually help. You're
Speaker 1: getting because you want to put your hand out right,
Speaker 1: Like it's ridiculous speaking about the National Football League around
Speaker 1: the holiday time and things like that. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of guys. I've been doing this now what this is
Speaker 1: my seventeenth NFL season. A lot of guys take care
Speaker 1: of the equipment staffers. Were you a guy would I
Speaker 1: brought that. I brought that here. I brought that here.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they still do it, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know either, but that I always thought that
Speaker 1: was a h esture because also that's a that's a
Speaker 1: tough job, man, that's the guy you beat up on.
Speaker 1: I need some socks. Hurry up, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: You know, and those are people that you know that
Speaker 1: take care of you. That's the ultimate customer service. Making
Speaker 1: sure your stuff is hung up right, you know, making
Speaker 1: sure you got the type of gloves that you wanted,
Speaker 1: your locker, make sure your choose a right. You know.
Speaker 1: I brought that here. That wasn't here. I brought that
Speaker 1: with the Ravens. I mean, and it wasn't when you
Speaker 1: couldn't go around collocton or when you just had to
Speaker 1: take we had it. We we used to have a
Speaker 1: sheet when you take it out and tell how much
Speaker 1: you want to take out your check. Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: go one by one down the roster. Well, we know
Speaker 1: we put the sheets in your in your in your
Speaker 1: in your locker, you fill it out. But we've also
Speaker 1: done it with you know, in Baltimore, we used to
Speaker 1: do it also with cash, like those guys would be
Speaker 1: kicked up because guys were putting up two grand, three grands.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, so listen, we got we have We
Speaker 1: have a great equipment staff excellent, and Melanie and all
Speaker 1: those guys. You you're sitting there, you hurt and you're
Speaker 1: asking them for something. You on all kinds of nice cake.
Speaker 1: You calling script dog. We used to put like five,
Speaker 1: I used to. I used to go like five. I
Speaker 1: would go like a thousand to like the top guy.
Speaker 1: Then the guys that worked underneath from five hunted like
Speaker 1: the guys you know. But if if some trainer then
Speaker 1: they really didn't work with me, then I just get
Speaker 1: my guys, you know what I mean. So I might
Speaker 1: jog or Zuff or somebody like that. Then I go
Speaker 1: to the training room. Bam, there you go. Then I go,
Speaker 1: you know. And also like the gift of change with
Speaker 1: the coaches, always get always get my possessition cop something.
Speaker 1: Oh that's nice. Yeah, we all we always just get
Speaker 1: stuff together. We're just pull money. Get by Bob being
Speaker 1: hooked up. Bob, Bob was getting hooked up. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys love Bob. Bob still talked about like two weeks
Speaker 1: a week and a half ago. Yeah, absolutely defensive coordinate
Speaker 1: of the Kansas City Chiefs flying Kansas City, probably on
Speaker 1: the way to the playoffs again. Yeah, tremendous guy, military buff.
Speaker 1: You ever talk military with that guy? Yeah? Absolutely, I
Speaker 1: mean guy someone one time. He got me a he
Speaker 1: got me one year, a helicopter ride over the city.
Speaker 1: Then you were really Yeah, we got bob watches. Bob.
Speaker 1: If I was on board, your gifts gonna be good.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make sure you'll give one. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: Ragley give you got Bob? Did you take his wife
Speaker 1: over the No? No, no, no, no, he got me one.
Speaker 1: He didn't. He bought me a helicopter ride in uh
Speaker 1: in the city. He gave me a book on helicopters. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he had me one year. That's outstanding. Man. We got
Speaker 1: we got Bob some nice watches, Like what kind of stuff?
Speaker 1: How do you like the ride of the helicopter ride
Speaker 1: over the city. It's cool, man. Helicopters kind of weird though, man,
Speaker 1: It's like you feel like it's not smooth. It's kind
Speaker 1: of weird. They did that for Calvin Pace and as
Speaker 1: free agent fits that way back in the day, when
Speaker 1: he was leaving Arizona and Calvin wasn't feeling it. He
Speaker 1: liked that. Yeah, something he talked to calvinot. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: better make sure you got one of these big heavy ones,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I want to Speaking of pace, obviously,
Speaker 1: the Jetson resigned him an off season guy, kept himself
Speaker 1: in good shape and things like that. I wonder what
Speaker 1: the next stop is for him, and you get a
Speaker 1: chance to talk to him. Still Cavin a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, he didn't say what's next. I think he's just,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to figure out what's next Atlanta, tak
Speaker 1: care of his daughter and then and that's the process,
Speaker 1: figuring out what you want to do next. I ran
Speaker 1: to Shine Green into the mall in the mall yesterday.
Speaker 1: He's trying to do real estates and real estate with
Speaker 1: his uncle. Stuff like that. Now, you know, guys are
Speaker 1: still around, Guys are still doing well. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: glad that guys are still doing well, and they're trying
Speaker 1: to make a smooth transition to other things. Speaking of
Speaker 1: smooth transitions, what do you think about bah Pole is
Speaker 1: he's taking over the bell cow duties here because Matt
Speaker 1: Forte dealing with the knee injury, and he's tough, tough dude,
Speaker 1: because I think he's playing through a torn meniscus, he
Speaker 1: told reporters, and he's there to spell BA. But wow,
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, two nights, but all over
Speaker 1: the field, well, I think that I think allows earned
Speaker 1: the right to uh. I think it allows earned the
Speaker 1: right to uh be the guy. I think he's earned
Speaker 1: the right to like his play on the field for
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, I think he's earned the
Speaker 1: right to be the lead back here. I mean, and
Speaker 1: that's not a knock on map Fort Terry anything. That's
Speaker 1: just a testament to what he's been able to do
Speaker 1: and how he's able to play even in the everybody
Speaker 1: knows he's getting the ball right, still productive. And what
Speaker 1: impresses me about a lot of more than anything, it's
Speaker 1: his um, his bliss, pick up, his past protection. You know,
Speaker 1: his willingness is always square up, stepping there and take
Speaker 1: on whoever comes in. You know, I figured that out
Speaker 1: when I first got here and when we uhould go
Speaker 1: against guys and you know, guys kind of see me
Speaker 1: didn't want to go, didn't know what I was going
Speaker 1: to do and they would go against certain guys that
Speaker 1: they knew what was gonna do it for next move
Speaker 1: or something like that, you know, or you know, I
Speaker 1: used to have like this little chop club that they's
Speaker 1: always worried about. And you know, he would sitting there
Speaker 1: and then sitting there and taking man. And that's that
Speaker 1: was early. That was his rookie year. I mean, so
Speaker 1: you know, I'm definitely a big fan of Alapau. What
Speaker 1: do you like most about his physical skill set? You
Speaker 1: just talked to out him as a blocker, because that
Speaker 1: was his forte no pun intended early in his career
Speaker 1: was that, hey, this guy can always be on the
Speaker 1: field and third situations because he is great and blitz
Speaker 1: pick up. Now, when you see him with the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands, why is he so affective either on
Speaker 1: the ground or is the receiver? So me me watching
Speaker 1: him the last two years, I've seen the player that
Speaker 1: I saw on his highlight tape from Louisville. So now
Speaker 1: I see that he's got it all figured out. That
Speaker 1: he's running, he's not thinking, he's reacting, you know, And
Speaker 1: it took him a couple because the first couple of
Speaker 1: years he he didn't run and hit the holes, and
Speaker 1: seemed like he was like cruising. It seemed like he
Speaker 1: wasn't going all out. But now you can see like
Speaker 1: the progression him understanding the defensive fronts, understanding where the
Speaker 1: holes are going to be, thinking to two moves ahead,
Speaker 1: setting up his blocks before he just hit the hole
Speaker 1: that he's supposed to hit. And that comes with time,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it takes longer for others than than than
Speaker 1: it does. You know, take some longer than others. And
Speaker 1: I can tell that he's at that point. It's amazing
Speaker 1: though it's there's six seasons, but he has so much
Speaker 1: tread on his tires because he's never been together the guy.
Speaker 1: And you can tell because you know, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a point when you're an athlete where it's all athleticism.
Speaker 1: Then the mind catches up to the body. And I
Speaker 1: can tell he's at the point where his mind has
Speaker 1: caught up with his body so they can work in
Speaker 1: sync with each other, post to his body doing something
Speaker 1: in his mind not processing it fast enough. Do you
Speaker 1: like his attitude because I think he's kind of got.
Speaker 1: I think he's got like his business. Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: I think he you know how some offensive players. I'm
Speaker 1: not naming any names. I was always drawn to defensive
Speaker 1: guys because you guys are a little bit different. This
Speaker 1: is no knocking offensive guys, but different personality, different personalities.
Speaker 1: Sumperment now, but is not a guy who wants any
Speaker 1: media coverage. He could be fine. I've never really seen
Speaker 1: them talk to know that's not his deal. But with
Speaker 1: that being said, he's got to be beloved in a
Speaker 1: lot locker room because he never out there saying, man,
Speaker 1: I needed pall more. Look at what I do when
Speaker 1: I had the ball. Man he just show up. He's
Speaker 1: not a self motor man. Just comes up, does his job,
Speaker 1: do whatever you ask him to do. And he don't
Speaker 1: complain about it. I've never seen him complaining, ever heard
Speaker 1: him complaining. You know, but people don't realize he's still
Speaker 1: he's still. He's more talkative and when you get into
Speaker 1: the circle, when when you're earn his trust and you
Speaker 1: may realize but he's a soft spoken, quiet guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he doesn't really want and some guys just don't want that.
Speaker 1: They don't want the microphones, cameras or whatever about his
Speaker 1: business that you have to be a comfortable individually you
Speaker 1: gotta be comfortable in your skin. He is a businessman
Speaker 1: and uh wow, he's been so much fun to watch
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks. And why is he
Speaker 1: so stung in your mind? Does he have like old
Speaker 1: man strength. I'm not taking away from anything he does
Speaker 1: in the offseason because because body doesn't look you look
Speaker 1: at him physically, yeah, not ripped up. He's like a
Speaker 1: soft like type of body type, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: like Carmelo. I don't know mass. It was more about positioning,
Speaker 1: and it's it's about willingness, yeah, and want to And
Speaker 1: I think he wants to. I don't think he's afraid
Speaker 1: of anything, and he's not afraid to stick his head
Speaker 1: in there and do what you gotta do. I talked
Speaker 1: to when the summer. He said what I like to
Speaker 1: do before the season. I was like going down to
Speaker 1: Louisville because he loves it doting there and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of hills, so he does a lot of a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm a hill guy too. Oh yeah, so he does
Speaker 1: a lot of help build one in my backyard. Yeah
Speaker 1: what happened? Man? You gotta learn how to run low
Speaker 1: and at a certain position. Yeah, you know, to be
Speaker 1: able to run because you can't stand straight up if
Speaker 1: you run up a hill. So he runs like he
Speaker 1: runs up a hill when you look at him, like
Speaker 1: when you saw him drive that guy on the tape
Speaker 1: that we did for the show ye before today Saturday, Saturday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: next pluck. You know, every once while we're in there
Speaker 1: doing our production meet and I'll see myself sew myself
Speaker 1: a couple of times they have and the boys giving
Speaker 1: you a holler. Yeah. Man, know they they're so busy.
Speaker 1: You should put a camera in the area. That's what
Speaker 1: that That would be the real show what you're talking
Speaker 1: about there. So when guys got the hair down, they're
Speaker 1: talking the stories, you're hearing that thing. So you got
Speaker 1: an all Jim Brown Hill in the backyards. Not yeah, Walter,
Speaker 1: Walter Payton, Absolutely, I absolutely do. I built it, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean I built it. It depends on what parts
Speaker 1: you want to start on. But if you started all
Speaker 1: the way from the bottom, it's about But do you
Speaker 1: train at your place? Yeah, you gotta get out of
Speaker 1: the house to train. No, no, no, I just I
Speaker 1: just had my whenever we finally broke camp. Then we
Speaker 1: broke it. We we brought like you would see maybe
Speaker 1: twenty professional athletes trained at my house. Yeah, boxing up
Speaker 1: the hill, training up the hill. I got built the sandpit.
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, yeah, it's it's real. Backpaed up the hill,
Speaker 1: box up the hill, resistance bands up the hill, running
Speaker 1: through cone, coming over up. Bernard Hopkins one yearself gotten
Speaker 1: knocked out, she got accorded to him, he got pushed.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to laugh. I know, be half my friend, man, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying. Your friends will be Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: call him. You know what I have to an illustrious career.
Speaker 1: I can't even believe a guy's boxing a fifty one.
Speaker 1: But Along Islander by the name of Joe, by the
Speaker 1: name of Joe's you can't stop. Are all like Long
Speaker 1: Island guy's name Joe Joe Smith. Um, but Joe had
Speaker 1: just came off a impressive Yeah, Joe is very limited
Speaker 1: though he doesn't have any boxing skills. You need to
Speaker 1: set up a job, you know, Joe with all that power,
Speaker 1: needs to get a new trainer, somebody that can teach him.
Speaker 1: You know how to set it up, Buddy mcgird or
Speaker 1: you know, one of the He needs to get one
Speaker 1: of these good trainers to help him make the next step,
Speaker 1: the next stip. But what do you what do you
Speaker 1: think about the Bernard just boxing until he's fifty one?
Speaker 1: That is just your box at fifty look good. But
Speaker 1: what happens is he had a long layoff and you know,
Speaker 1: just like a season, right, people like, man, how can
Speaker 1: this guy he looks like a different player, right, But
Speaker 1: if you realize he just finished playing in January and
Speaker 1: in September he's saying he's done. So that's not a
Speaker 1: whole year what I'm saying. So it was weird because
Speaker 1: one guy can be like trash like man. He aids
Speaker 1: so fast like man that was only eight months ago
Speaker 1: where he was just wowing us. But it happens that
Speaker 1: fast man in the boxing, not gonna imagine. Only happens
Speaker 1: happens even fast when you lose your punch. And he
Speaker 1: never was a big punch when he wasn't so it's
Speaker 1: not like George Farmer, George former. Last thing, he lost
Speaker 1: his punch and he had to make sure he had
Speaker 1: he had to speed to get it there, and he
Speaker 1: caught more. He baited it to him with a punch.
Speaker 1: He was standing right there for because he thought he
Speaker 1: couldnt big Georgia um Hopkins just amazing. After after September eleven,
Speaker 1: two thousand one, he fought um Felix Trindada at the Garden,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, and he knocked out Hablic was the
Speaker 1: most impressive one because he felt like the ghost was
Speaker 1: the man at that time. Then hey, listen, I know
Speaker 1: yellahy hit him in the ribs. But Oscar was still
Speaker 1: he still was older than Oscar, so we can't give
Speaker 1: not like he's fighting old guys. He was the old
Speaker 1: guy that was a liver shot man. Yeah, I got what,
Speaker 1: I get what it takes to get up. He couldn't
Speaker 1: move man. One of the dirtiest guys in the game.
Speaker 1: And I quote Bernard all the time. He always tells me,
Speaker 1: um was was was made last long and was born.
Speaker 1: And I always say Ray Jones was made, I mean
Speaker 1: was born because he had all the natural skills. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but when that it wrote it because he wasn't made.
Speaker 1: It couldn't last as long as be hop because when
Speaker 1: they fought and and Roy beat Bernard Hopkins, we would
Speaker 1: have thought Roy Jones would be considered the greater fighter.
Speaker 1: I think now out of caution, shoudow of a doubt.
Speaker 1: People consider Bernard Hopkins a greater boxer or fighter. Roy Jones.
Speaker 1: You know, Roy Jones was special, like special he was.
Speaker 1: He was unbelievable. But you know he didn't run the
Speaker 1: race long. What is made last longer than what is born.
Speaker 1: That is tremendous advice from be hop I mean bottom line,
Speaker 1: and that doesn't take anything away from his career. Yeah, everybody,
Speaker 1: every great go out like that. Joe Lewis went out
Speaker 1: like that. Lead went out like that. Larry Holmes went
Speaker 1: out like that. Larry Holmes, I mean, Mohammed I'll leave same.
Speaker 1: Moldly went out like that. Yeah, so all these guys.
Speaker 1: You know, My whole thing is it usually doesn't und
Speaker 1: well for anybody, for any He pushed Press's luck because
Speaker 1: after Gene Pascal, he he had that great fighting beat
Speaker 1: that young champion you know, you know, top two contender
Speaker 1: in his division. You know, he beat him. He should
Speaker 1: have just dropped the mic and left, but now he
Speaker 1: wanted to fight. He started with pablic And we've seen
Speaker 1: this before because remember when Roy Jones, it started with Tarber.
Speaker 1: Tarber called him, he got caught and knocked out. Then
Speaker 1: he fought Glenn Johnson got got knocked out with his
Speaker 1: with his foot stuck in the air, and then he
Speaker 1: still fight. He just fought like maybe a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, and you know he don't need because he
Speaker 1: trained fighter. I actually like Roy Jones as a commentator.
Speaker 1: I just sometimes sometimes you like, but I feel bad
Speaker 1: for these guys who get put to sleep, because that's
Speaker 1: the thing with Roy Jones. He's about to put to
Speaker 1: sleep a number of time like he wasn't. Once you
Speaker 1: go to sleep once, it's easy to go to sleep again,
Speaker 1: oh man. But uh yeah. So that's a little boxing
Speaker 1: minute for that. So for the Jets against the Patriots
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, we talked about his rise. What do you
Speaker 1: want to see from Petty? This week? He's got two
Speaker 1: more starts as he tries to put his name into
Speaker 1: the equation for the starting quarterback job here in two
Speaker 1: thousand and seventeen. He wants to be part of that
Speaker 1: conversation what do you want? What do you want to
Speaker 1: see from him? You just want to see continue growth,
Speaker 1: understanding what defenses are doing to him. You want to
Speaker 1: see him at control little line of scram see him
Speaker 1: be able to check out a bad place. You want
Speaker 1: to see him throw the ball one time in rhythm.
Speaker 1: You want to see him trying to find some chemistry
Speaker 1: with Marshall and instead of missing some of these throws,
Speaker 1: making some of these throws the chemist Marshall, I think,
Speaker 1: because like why is it there with Anderson because exactly so,
Speaker 1: it's like not understanding Tennessee's body language. You know, in football,
Speaker 1: it's all about the non verbal communication. He said, he's
Speaker 1: seeing the field better. You can you can you see
Speaker 1: that when you're watching Come on, like it's gonna be
Speaker 1: like that. It's gonna be up and down. He's in
Speaker 1: the middle of the year. Everything is not suited exactly
Speaker 1: to what he's capable of doing. They weren't really able
Speaker 1: to kind of start him slow. When you get in
Speaker 1: and in like this, you still gotta try. You got
Speaker 1: more of the packaging and when if it was early
Speaker 1: in the season, you're build them up to the preseason.
Speaker 1: So he has to work with that. He's got to
Speaker 1: take something away from from the way he started again
Speaker 1: against Miami. They went down the field and scored. The
Speaker 1: previous week, he said he was nervous before uh the
Speaker 1: forty Niners game, and he said it was getting to
Speaker 1: me a little bit, just because he's so excited. Probably
Speaker 1: had anticipation, but he came out and he took a
Speaker 1: step forward just by coming out and leaning them down
Speaker 1: the field, connecting with Robbie Intererston at four the yar touchdown.
Speaker 1: Where the game kind of changed early was that first
Speaker 1: turnover the strip sack because the Jets weren't scoring terror
Speaker 1: territory again there in that second possession. That's a big thing.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't do this this week Saturday against
Speaker 1: the Patriots. He can't turn football over. You have no
Speaker 1: chance because they thrive more than any team in the
Speaker 1: league on capitalizing your mistakes turnos, and they're gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna drop eight and make them find They're gonna put
Speaker 1: pressure on and mix it up and make him have
Speaker 1: to find the open guy. And that's the hardest thing
Speaker 1: for young guy because all he wants to take is
Speaker 1: his check. Now, if you go check down, negative play
Speaker 1: is going to be incombent that that the offensive line
Speaker 1: make sure they don't get any procedure penalties because you
Speaker 1: can't put a young guy like that behind the sticks
Speaker 1: because the patrols are gonna give you the five yard
Speaker 1: the four yard, but they're not gonna get a big stuff.
Speaker 1: But Polichick is always known for taking away your top option.
Speaker 1: So with Bryce right now, his top option is the
Speaker 1: speech to Robbie Intererston. And also now you're seeing what
Speaker 1: as we talked about before, what Paul could do. How
Speaker 1: how do you how do you think who approach it's
Speaker 1: it always starts with being able to take away Brandon Marshall.
Speaker 1: You have to take away the the best, the best
Speaker 1: guy that they have, you know, I mean you have
Speaker 1: to do that first, so they'll be clearly safety over
Speaker 1: the top. It would be too safety. It's too safety
Speaker 1: to go see if you can run the ball. And
Speaker 1: what they're probably gonna do is probably run blitz early
Speaker 1: in and don't understanding that you're going to usually hand
Speaker 1: the ball all and then try and get in the
Speaker 1: manageable second down because you don't want to get the
Speaker 1: third and loan. So you know they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: throw a little bit on first down just to to
Speaker 1: keep them on it. Light in the box. Uh, what
Speaker 1: kind of advice would you give the young guys who
Speaker 1: are playing their second ball game against the Patriots, guys
Speaker 1: like they're in lead That great film breakdown. So he
Speaker 1: should have learned by that because the Patriots don't change,
Speaker 1: they just execute, you know, So he's going to see
Speaker 1: that same thing. They're going to try and make sure
Speaker 1: that he's made the correction, and when that play presents itself,
Speaker 1: he's going to have to make sure and show that
Speaker 1: he's you know, he has some growth. You're seeing Dian
Speaker 1: Lewis become more of a force for them again, which
Speaker 1: is no surproblems always. Yeah, they're away from the company.
Speaker 1: And then Jordan Jenkins had his first career full sack
Speaker 1: last week, and I think he's doing some good things
Speaker 1: in the outside linebacker. He's a rookie. And then we
Speaker 1: broke down Justin Bursts as well. Justin br is gonna
Speaker 1: get some work because this was going to go Deepah
Speaker 1: that speech, and who knows if they're gonna have Floyd up.
Speaker 1: They have Floyd up, that's gonna be tough. You think
Speaker 1: they'll try to go get Hogan on Bursts then, I
Speaker 1: mean they got they got it. They got a host
Speaker 1: of people. Yeah, I mean if Floyd is eld I
Speaker 1: know he was down last week. Floyd is the number
Speaker 1: one on anybody's team. So Christmas steven. Then finally, uh
Speaker 1: Christmas plants. After NFL Today wraps up staying in the city.
Speaker 1: You're coming back. I'm coming back. You know, the kids
Speaker 1: got to see the tree dogs and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, We'll be back next week for our final
Speaker 1: show of two thousand and sixteen.