WEBVTT - Highlight Reels: Storytime with NFL Legends 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:05.519 We're bringing you another compilation of some of my favorite 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:07.280 stories from games. 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:10.920 With names, and that's called now. Terry Bradshaw on the 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:12.920 Greatest play in NFL History. 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:15.880 So why did we pick this game the immaculate reception. 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.440 Well, it's the most famous play still to the voted 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:24.480 on by whomever sports writers or coaches or fans as 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.920 the greatest play in the history of the NFL, which 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.280 is we're talking to one hundred years of history. So 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.280 it's pretty amazing. Hard to believe it's still the number 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.040 one play because, as I said, there are a lot 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.080 of plays. But I think because of the history Julian 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.239 of the Steelers and eventually the rivalry between the Raiders, 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.680 and the fact that had so much controversy in it, 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.960 the fact that the owner Arn't Rooney left the press 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.560 box went to the locker room to stand up and 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:56.680 shake our hands afterwards, telling us. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.000 Hey, great season, great season. 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:00.200 He didn't even see the play. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.760 He didn't know we won. Yeah wow. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.520 I guess for all of those reasons, that's the reason why. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.520 Next up, Howie Long on his nineteen eighty four Raiders 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:15.200 defense and key matchups that led to their Super Bowl victory. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.080 They were a physical team that forced you to match 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.800 their physicality, and few teams could do that. And you know, 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.320 you think about their wide receiving cores. You know Garrett 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:30.160 Monk or Monk, Hall of Famers, Hall of Famers, good 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.960 as guy, Lady Warren and Walker. You know those the 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:38.200 tight ends were. You know, they were guys who were committed. 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.200 They go two three tight ends, they load up, and 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.520 the first thing you're thinking about, particularly in the three 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.720 man front, is we've got to stop the run. We've 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:48.680 got to stop the counter. I've got to beat the 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.680 polers on the back side. So I cheatd maybe three 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:57.480 inches outside on the guard to make that block for 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:01.840 Bostic all the all the hard and Stark is going 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.840 to try to get a hand inside while the center's 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.079 blocking back in the guard tackle poll and you know 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.440 I was they couldn't. They had id say they couldn't. 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.000 They struggled to run that away from me, so they 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.200 had to run it to me. And fourth down I'll 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.639 never forget. You know, we there was a fourth and 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.200 big fourth and one in the game, and you know 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:29.360 they flipped me over to Jojacobe because look, you're gonna 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:35.600 Jojacobe six whatever, six eight three twenty Jesus Hue, He's 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.040 just a big man. Eighties to these are big men. 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:38.959 He's a big man. 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.520 And we talk about the game getting so much bigger. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:42.720 I mean, that's a big man. 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.519 Well, Joe was an exceptionally big guy, and we knew 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.359 where the ball was going. They knew where the ball 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.000 was going, and I'm inside eye on Joe, on Joe, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.600 and you know, everyone around me was like, you know, 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:56.919 you know, this is it. This is kind of a 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.000 huge moment, and you know, we stuff it on fourth 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.360 down or on third and third and short or fourth 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.080 and d I'm not sure exactly what it was, but 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.440 it ended up being one of the bigger players in 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.600 the game. Derek Jensen blocks a punt. That's a big thing, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.680 and I run to start the game, and ironically enough 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.799 backed up second. I think it was second and long. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.040 It was the play that ended up beating us. Earlier 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.320 in the year, it was Joe Washington on a screen. 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.160 So we're in the other side though. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.320 Charlie Sumner, who was an old bear or a legged 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.200 old bear. You know, there were a lot of bears 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:37.160 on our staff. Guys that played with Doug Atkins really 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:41.800 really tough guys, and Charlie was a great coordinator, and uh, 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:43.280 we were simple. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.800 We didn't we We ran. 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.080 Maybe two blitzes a game because our corners didn't have 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.120 to even get in the huddle because they were in 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.600 cover one or you know. And our guy from Mike 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:59.400 Haynes Haynes and Lester Hayes, and they were two very different. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:04.440 Lester was a converted linebacker playing corner from Texas A 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:09.400 and m I think, and Mike Haynes was poetry and 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:15.000 you know, just mirrored what it was kind of like Reevus. 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:16.720 It was kind of like that kind of thing. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.240 It was like, well, was he a smart did he 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.840 study a bunch? Because usually what I always saw off 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.240 with the best corners that I played with, they could 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.280 cheat because they knew situationally what concepts you would run, 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.640 said they would run the route for you because they 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.720 were so dialed into formation. You know, Like that's what 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:39.359 I saw with like the best I don't know, but 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.200 there's some guys I don't know that just you just 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:42.320 say cover him. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.200 Lester in my mind, who should be in the Hall 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:50.760 of Fame. Was a weekend in Vegas. Yeah, you know 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.640 it was. He was up and on you, and it 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.840 was all or you know, I'm hit me on a sixteen, 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:02.880 you know what I mean. Yeah, Mike was it was 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:07.000 like he was just looking in a mirror and just 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.200 cover the shit out of him. Yeah, and could do 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:11.320 it all day long. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.960 Up next, Matt light on his early football journey. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.400 Small little town, big farming community. I'd never seen a 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.480 game until I played the one, right, so I didn't 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.640 know Prudue was in the big ten. I'd never seen 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.560 a college game. My dad severe polio growing up, right, 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.760 we didn't do sports. We were into the outdoors, you know, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.480 pre eighteen hundred encampments, running around doing crazy stuff, hawking, 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.840 knife competition, hunting, fishing. 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.240 Did ESPN stuff like where they would do like the 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:39.520 Axcene and loved it. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.479 Yeah, it was the best. Man. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:42.560 I used to watch it. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.080 You ever watched you guys know who Marty Stalfer is? 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:51.120 You ever heard that name? No, I'm Marty Stalfer. Welcome 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.960 to Our Wild America. That's like my favorite show growing up. Dude, 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:56.560 he like take you out and show you neat thing, 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.160 like here's a pine Martin. They're really clever and he 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:00.880 like filmed him. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:02.200 I mean it was awesome. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.680 Dude, it's almost like Bob Ross meets you know, like 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:06.960 David Attenborough. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:07.280 David. 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.240 Yeah, there we go without the British accent. David Attenborough 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.760 is a badass, So, sir, sir, by the way, Sir 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.520 David Attenborough. So anyway, that was my world. Man, growing up, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.720 small little town. I had no idea to get a scholarship. 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.840 You didn't play high school You played high school football? 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:21.760 Oh yeah, man, I played well. My mom did not 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.400 want me around. So like like I played pee wee, 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.080 I was. I was in football in my life, but 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.080 and terrible, really terrible. I was a tight end. I 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.120 went to Purdue as a tight end for some unknown reason. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.720 I never did anything athletic. Ever, I was never a 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:35.760 tight end in high school. 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.839 You keep on saying that, bro, you're like an undersized tackle. 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:41.120 You have to be athletic. 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.320 Well, no, I I can, I could I have. I 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.239 have decent short space quickness, I think is what they said. 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.159 You know, here's an awesome one. Right, So for you, 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.600 how did they describe you for the combine? 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.279 Do you remember that you do. 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.719 Remember the right up for your worker than fast doesn't 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:56.480 have a position. 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.200 Do you guys have this right up can you guys 0:06:58.240 --> 0:06:59.160 research this right up? 0:06:59.279 --> 0:06:59.599 Yeah? 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.120 Yeah, okay, go ahead, keep going. 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:05.360 Quicker than fast doesn't have a position played against shitty talent. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.440 This is depressing. I wasn't going this route. Get it 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.800 out though, get it over with because they were wrong. 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:13.720 They were dead wrong. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:15.520 Yeah they were. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.960 But the but they describe things right, Like what I'm 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:18.680 getting at is. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:23.119 White guys smart, white works hard. 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:28.480 Yeah yeah, guy, guy, yeah, guy. I love how all 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.000 white guys are guys. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:30.720 You know what I mean? 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:32.600 Like blazing speed. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.520 Nope, he's an effort guys. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:35.560 The game's a gym rat. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:36.800 Loves the game is in there. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.320 I'm looking here. Ken State staff comments on Julian Edelman 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:44.720 from Fall two thousand and eight, upper echelon worker, knows 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.560 his physical limitations. 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.840 He likes better, likes to be s what's that mean? 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:51.160 Bullshit? 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.640 Wonderful start a podcast yelling at people. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.000 We do love the bullshit. Once the ball in his hands, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.240 football in things will help him as a wide receiver, 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.400 has the feet to play defensive back. 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:05.320 They're right about that. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.520 Most competitive guy I've ever coached. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:09.600 The see that seed. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.720 But that's pretty good remarks, you know, mine said? All right, 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:17.040 So there's a lot of things that that you can 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:20.640 say about offensive lineman. Right, they talk about lower body strength, 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.480 has a good wing span, real good punch, great drive 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.600 off the ball, initial contact, you know, drops his hips. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.720 I mean, there's all kind of really short spaced quickness. 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.560 Blah blah blah blah blah. None of that was said 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.960 for me, you know, you know mine said, I swear 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.920 to God. Basically mine was, He's coachable. 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:39.880 That's it. That's it. He's coachable. 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.320 And I don't even know why that would even translate 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.400 to anything that would actually help me get drafted, But 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.559 basically I was coachable and having never seen anything, never 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.960 seen a draft in my life, when I got drafted 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:53.320 by New England, I thought I was going to some 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:54.199 other country. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:55.880 I didn't know where New England was either. 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.800 I had no clue. Man, I wouldn't have been able 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.240 to throw at dart and come close. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:00.720 Now I knew me because of Madden. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.920 I didn't know where Foxborough was though, never heard of it, 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:05.560 because you guys were winning Super Bowl. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:06.719 So I used to play with the guys there once 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.760 in a while. Yeah, became relevant. Yeah, So that was 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:11.199 my world. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.160 Man, I didn't know anything about the game of football. 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.880 You know, blessed to do it. And and honestly, man, 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.280 you know, just just the people we got in those 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.840 early years, especially man like the you know, I think 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.600 back on these guys, these guys like Roman Fifer and 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.800 Grant Williams and man, so many guys that you know, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:35.880 the uh Rodney man. Oh man, you know, Jermaine Wiggins, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.840 you know, gosh, man, we had Mike Compton's we had 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.880 we had all these guys that we didn't have our 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.240 you know, we weren't individually announced. You know, that was 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.800 a big deal. But that's because none of us, you know, 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:51.880 were above the other. 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:53.400 Yeah, you know what I mean. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.160 Like I used to always say this man Bill could 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:57.839 do it the way he did it, and he could 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.920 drive all of our dicks in the dirt every single 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.400 day because we were all in the same pit of despair. 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.360 If if there was somebody that was up on a 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.439 ledge looking down on us, that was a teammate, it 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.240 wouldn't have worked, you know, when you and by the way, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.679 there were times that he did show some favoritism and 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.440 that's when things got ugly in the locker room. 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:20.679 Defense on defense, but but but if we had a 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.320 good practice on offense, we had a bad practice as 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.680 a team. Yeah, like if we dominated the defense, we had. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.200 A bad practice, no doubt. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.880 Next we have Lashawn McCoy talking about his iconic snow 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.240 game performances. But the elephant in the room leading up 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:38.439 to this game the weather. 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:39.280 Yeah it was. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:39.920 It was ugly. 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.400 It was sixteen point seven inches of snow. Didn't stop 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.839 the entire game. Nine inches during the game. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.840 Nine inches as Buffy, this is crazy. I said, boys, 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:52.240 let me get the rock. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.280 I got you, you said in that pregame, and get 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.600 the rock, said in front of the whole team, the 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.520 pre team where that of the offense. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.640 Offense, boys, let me get the rock. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:05.320 It was a cool game. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.400 The cool thing about the snow where people don't understand 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.160 is that I love it so much because when I 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.240 get tackled, it's like falling on pillows. 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.920 Yeah, the big factors hit me. It don't hurt. Think 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.400 about that hurt And they can't get the attraction. But 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.000 I can sign me up. It's an advent. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.200 I always played well on the snow as well as 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.679 I house to punt in Chicago in the snow. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.680 Did you did you play any like like college games 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.760 and so yeah, Northern Illinois. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.520 I went to schooling in Ohio, Kent State. Is this 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.960 the best snow game of all time? 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:38.800 No? 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.600 You had another, another good one. I had twenty yards 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.600 in the snow before. But before this or after before? 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:51.720 What was you were with Philly? Who did you play? Detroit? Detroit? 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:52.480 You never seen that game? 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.800 That megatron they always show he has all the snow 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.600 on his helmet. That's that's the game. I think that's 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:01.000 the game. This is two hundred and then what was 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.920 this one forty? Did you have one forty or. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.440 One fifty fifty two? I believe so? 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.720 Are you the the greatest snow running back of all time? 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:09.800 Sorry? 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:11.480 I don't know. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.200 I mean, I don't know other facts that's playing this though. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.280 You know I'm gonna say yes. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.840 I'm saying yes, not a It's not a bad answer. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.240 It's not a bad answer now, guys, but I don't know. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.079 I'm a humble guy, man, I'm humble. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:27.400 Come on now now. Reggie Bush on winning the Heisman. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.920 He's the cutback the Heisman moment, I think so, I 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.160 think it is. I think that was a moment that's 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.440 when you knew you had it? Were you still nervous? 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:35.800 Game? 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.720 Is when I felt like I had solidified it because 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.679 it was still you know, talk about you know, some 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:42.120 other guys. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.920 I think Adrian Peterson was up for the Heisman Trophy 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.240 this year. I think young Vince Young. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.079 D' Angelo Williams was the Angelo. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:51.600 Angelo. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.120 Shout out to D'Angelo and Vince, my guys. And that's 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.560 what I love about, you know, games like this. You know, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.520 there's I've built friendships with eyes now that you know, 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.360 I played against Vince Young and they beat us, and 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.240 me and him are you know cool now friends? And 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.480 so you know, it's just it's just it's great. That's 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.320 why I love the game. But I was cool Vince 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.040 until I hit him and I broke my back. Fucking 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.960 this wasn't like, this wasn't college Vince when he was 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.920 thin and so this is Philadelphia, Evince. I was playing 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.920 defense and you know Vince was a little thicker. I 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.560 hit him square in the middle and broke my back. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.720 I led the league in ice hot packs from there 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.280 on out. That's what my leading stat was. Oh my god, 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:38.040 that's funny, man. Hey, everybody get them. Welcomed them moments where. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.959 You know I hit him, Oh yeah, he was staying 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.319 in a brick wall brick. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.520 And I you know, you go high, you get a 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.040 penalty because I was playing corner at a corner blitz. 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:49.160 Wait he was playing corner. 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.600 Yeah, I played corner with New England for a while, 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.240 so I had a corner blitz. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:58.040 And why don't I read? Why am I not play 0:13:58.160 --> 0:13:58.600 like four or. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.840 Five games at corner when we into Super Bowl? Might 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.280 have sound like it was a couple of years. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:07.680 I'm like, the Super Bowl AFC Championship, I had, like 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:11.640 why we were We were getting guys off the street, banged. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.120 Up, guys hurt. I do remember this now we were 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:14.800 banged up. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:19.040 Next up, Antonio Gates on learning the game from scratch. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:23.360 Walk me through how you transitioned in like that first 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.880 training camp, that first whenever you got there, the mini camp. 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:28.240 Talk me through that. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.640 Because I couldn't even get into a fucking receiver stance. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.600 Bro I watched my rookie mini camps. I watched my 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.560 rookie mini camp recently or like a year ago, and 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.280 I'm sitting here looking like the hunchback of Notre Dame 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.240 trying to take off on a release. Walk me through 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.400 how you transition because you didn't even play the spy. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.040 Right, what dude, Like, you know what I'm saying, It's 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.800 the same for everybody. Man, it's the it's the you know, 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.040 it's the progression. It's stages, right, you know that's stage 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.360 one for me and you that ain't that don't change, 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:04.560 you know. For me, it was even you know, probably 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.920 more complicated, you know, the range of which I had 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.120 to come from because I didn't play college football. But 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.360 I think it served me somewhat on an advantage because 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.160 I didn't have any what I would like to consider credit. 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.960 I didn't have any bad habits. I'm like, you're a 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:26.040 fresh canvas, right, So I was learning from a clean slate. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.280 But I'm like, gosh, right, but unlike you know, unlike 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.240 people that's like you know what I'm saying. They come 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.320 in and they already learned how to run, you know, learn, 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:35.440 So now you're trying to change what you learned in 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.760 Kent State, say a god, come from miskan Or, Ohio. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.840 They changing what they've already learned for three or four years. 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.360 And I didn't have to change nothing. I just had 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.680 to learn it from the first time. So I felt 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.880 like it was somewhat easier for me. Like credit. You 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.360 better to have no credit than bad credit. Right, So 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.200 it was like I felt like I was it was 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.400 a little easier transition. Now it wasn't easy. I just 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.080 felt like it was easier. I didn't get in the stands. 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.400 You know what I'm saying, right, I couldn't understand. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:09.680 Motion, remember right, yeah right, I'm not Yeah, I'm trying 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:10.800 to see what covers of that, right. 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:12.480 So I got to a point I was so bad. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.360 They just told me to just stand up, just do 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:15.360 what you want to do. Days. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.400 Yeah, iuld stand up at the end of the line, 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.920 I would do whatever because they got to be worried 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:21.640 about what I'm doing at this point, why I'm worried 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:22.480 about what they're doing. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.120 So yeah, it got to that level. But the idea 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:31.640 was I just remember learning watching who. I thought. Like 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.200 when you said watching who, I thought, who is your guy? 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:37.720 I mean, we had a guy called Eric named Eric 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.000 Parker who played receiver from Tennessee and he was our 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.320 starting receiver. And obviously you know we had Keenan mc 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:48.600 carter came along, but Eric Parker to me initially was 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.400 a guy who ran robs to the tea, dropped his weight. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.720 I mean, coming at you full speed, drop his way, 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.080 and I mean two or three steps he coming out. 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:01.960 He ain't overstepping to come out like everything your tone. 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.000 I'm like, this is why he's starting simple, this is 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.199 why he's starting right. And then I was as I'm 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:09.720 mature and I got a chance to go to the 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.280 Pro Bowls and I start watching Marvin Harrison. He was 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.440 another guy that I would watch in practice and like, 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:19.280 this is crazy to me. This is perfect to me. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.800 You know, even though I'm playing tight end, I'm still 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.640 with the vision of what I think a perfect rot 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:25.480 runner looks like. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:26.560 Now. 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.879 Vernon Davis on his NFL Draft and Combine experience. 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:34.600 Going to the draft, it was, man, it was like 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.080 I just kept hearing that song by eminem you only 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.760 get one shot. I missed your chance to you know, 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.960 opportunities come once in the lifetime. That song just kept 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.679 going off inside my mind. Then when I got to 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.600 the Combine, I started listening to that song and I 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:49.920 just I knew I was only going to get one 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.840 shot and if I didn't capitalize on it, that was it. 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.480 Because being at Maryland, you know, I wasn't. Yeah, I 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.600 was up for the MACKI every week and things of 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.080 that nature. Sure, but they didn't talk about me much. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:06.320 It was always Mercedes Lewis. Mercedes Lewis. He was, you know, 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.240 he was the big shot when it came came to 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.000 the tight end position, and I knew that I had 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.359 to go to this combine and I had to outperform everyone. 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:16.920 And I did. 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.480 And in between that time, after I had my performance 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.920 and getting drafted, oh that was all that was. My 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:26.320 agent was coming up to me. He's like, you got 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:27.760 a shot. You got a chance to get drafted the 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.679 top top ten, top ten, it's always top ten. But 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.880 I would go to these meetings and I started meeting 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.040 with these teams, you know, you meet with the teams 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:37.960 and things of that nature. And I met with the 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.159 Jets and I knew they had the fourth pick they 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:41.880 were get they had the fourth pick in the draft. 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:43.359 I said, I'm about to be I'm about to be 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.920 top four. I'm about to be tight And they loved me. 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:47.640