Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? Sean Merriman A one hand effect.
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Speaker 1: Out with Sean Merriman. What's up, guys, We're back again
Speaker 1: with another Lights Out podcast with me Sean Merriman. And uh, wow, wow,
Speaker 1: waw wow. One of the guys who I love to
Speaker 1: watch but I hated to play against. And uh, we'll
Speaker 1: get into a little bit, but it was a game
Speaker 1: I recalled back in two thousand seven against the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikas when I was with the Charges. You know, it's
Speaker 1: got named Adrian Peterson. Uh, just straight breaking records. And
Speaker 1: you know, I had the pleasure of watching Ladinian Thomason
Speaker 1: every day in practice and I still say today he's
Speaker 1: you know, he's one of the best running back to
Speaker 1: ever played the game. So you see him every day
Speaker 1: and you get numbed to seeing greatness. And then you
Speaker 1: get a chance to see another, uh running back that
Speaker 1: is an all to a great running back, and that's
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson. I've never seen anyone that I've got a
Speaker 1: chance to play against run the way he did. We
Speaker 1: played him in two thousand and seven and continue uh
Speaker 1: to play as well as he's playing. Um, we talked
Speaker 1: about a long time ago and how long he wanted
Speaker 1: to play. Uh, he told me he wanted to play
Speaker 1: three four more years and this was too three years ago.
Speaker 1: Now he wants to play three four more years. But
Speaker 1: I'll let him break down into that. So if you're
Speaker 1: a Minnesota Vikings fan and a fan of Adrian Peterson, man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna love this one. Are you feeling? Man? That's crazy? Dog? Hey,
Speaker 1: I would. I was just telling him. Uh, he said,
Speaker 1: how many said did you a p play against y'all? Said, yo, listen,
Speaker 1: oh we did, and said, you're talking about that game,
Speaker 1: So I want it's like real talk, man. I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you about it. I know we talked about
Speaker 1: a long time ago at the at Temp Tebows, but
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven when we came out there
Speaker 1: and played, y'all, and I mean, obviously, we we know
Speaker 1: we come in to town, we know we have to
Speaker 1: deal with you anyway regardless, we know what was coming about.
Speaker 1: But I was like, man, it was there was a
Speaker 1: different kind of age of a Peters and dog that day.
Speaker 1: Like still to this day, I always when people ask me,
Speaker 1: I said, I really don't know what was going through
Speaker 1: his head or what happened before that game, because I
Speaker 1: don't think I've never seen anybody run that angry though,
Speaker 1: Like was that whole week he was just you was
Speaker 1: just ready to go. I was, man, I was pumped up.
Speaker 1: You know. It was a fact that I was going
Speaker 1: against you guys, you know, and of course like watching
Speaker 1: you guys growing up, that just made me more excited
Speaker 1: because I'm always I love playing against great defensive players
Speaker 1: and great defenses, and that you died were really good.
Speaker 1: But when I got home, I didn't even look at
Speaker 1: I was scared to look at my phone, but we
Speaker 1: got my phone is just going off. And then sit
Speaker 1: on the TV bus, you know, a p whatnot? I said, Yo, listen,
Speaker 1: anybody talked to me right now, I'm about to get
Speaker 1: piste off because I never man, it was one play
Speaker 1: y'all had y'all had you ran to the right, but
Speaker 1: bounced it. So I'm sitting outside and I thought I
Speaker 1: got the right tackle. I'm fully extended. I got hit
Speaker 1: my outside and I knew you was about the bouncing.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there watching because your should when you came up,
Speaker 1: you took a step and turn your shoulders almost fully
Speaker 1: towards the sideline, and I'm sitting there, I'm holding the tackle.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I'm about to get him. I'm about
Speaker 1: to get him. And you turn your shoulders and ran
Speaker 1: this way straight to the sidine and then ran up
Speaker 1: and I jumped and whipped room and they heard nothing.
Speaker 1: And look I went up and I looked up when
Speaker 1: I was laying down, and all I saw his clicks.
Speaker 1: I said, oh, ship, and I knew I was gonna
Speaker 1: be on the film gull was that chocolate bar hand
Speaker 1: and halftime? I just don't know. And then on top
Speaker 1: of that, LT was on the other side too. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you about that too, because was he
Speaker 1: was LT? Was he somebody that you know you kind
Speaker 1: of watched growing up too? Like, what's like you had
Speaker 1: your top three guys in that era? I mean obviously
Speaker 1: you got the you know, Walter Payton's and guys like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, but like out of that era between like
Speaker 1: you know, nineties, late nineties and early two thousands, what
Speaker 1: were some of the guys you you kind of watched
Speaker 1: growing up? Yeah, So LT definitely was the guy that
Speaker 1: I watched a lot. Uh, Emma Smith, because I grew
Speaker 1: up a Cowboys fan, so, um, I love watching him
Speaker 1: and uh Eddie George and Terrell Davis. You know, those
Speaker 1: were the guys that I pretty much kind of watched
Speaker 1: and you know, kind of patting my game after see.
Speaker 1: And you know that's crazy to me because um, when
Speaker 1: I got there too with the charges and I'm watching LT.
Speaker 1: Obviously I watched him on TV and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: so you know, I'm playing with them on the team,
Speaker 1: so I don't I don't really you see it every day, right,
Speaker 1: It's just normal for him to go right jump, you know,
Speaker 1: on the right foot and stuff like that. But after
Speaker 1: that game in two thousand and seven, I walked up
Speaker 1: and I'm never I'll never forget. I walked up to LT.
Speaker 1: I said, l L that do something else, man, Like that,
Speaker 1: I've seen something. I watched you every day in practice, man,
Speaker 1: but that dude was something else. And L love watching YouTube. Man.
Speaker 1: He told me after the game, because he I don't
Speaker 1: know if he ever told you, but he was coming
Speaker 1: off of the sideline even when you were running. He
Speaker 1: wasn't he wasn't sitting down. He was coming up there
Speaker 1: and watching you. I never knew that. Yeah, that's pretty cool, man,
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. Yeah. Lt was a guy that I
Speaker 1: love growing up. Man, And who would who would you
Speaker 1: say this? That was I guess because I'm trying to think, Man,
Speaker 1: you had like um was it was almost like you
Speaker 1: you ran a stride of like Eddie George, right, because
Speaker 1: that was one of the guys I always wish and
Speaker 1: I told Eddie, um, we used to have a show
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports and time ago. I would tell Mark
Speaker 1: Dan said, I said, if I wish we played you
Speaker 1: long time ago, and I would have stuck you right there.
Speaker 1: But he was he was just one of the guys.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, he would just kind of unreally
Speaker 1: and he I think was like around six three and
Speaker 1: two thirty and you guys. To me watching y'all run,
Speaker 1: it was like kind of similar because he kind of
Speaker 1: ran with his knees was always high. He was always digging,
Speaker 1: and uh that's when I seen you, man, I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is this is kind of crazy to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it was guys like it, you know Adie George
Speaker 1: that you know, because of course, come through high school,
Speaker 1: all people have to say was, oh man, he runs
Speaker 1: too high, he's too tall for this position. So you know,
Speaker 1: those taller backward guys. I already looked at that. I
Speaker 1: kind of looked at their games and seeing the success
Speaker 1: that they had, and I'm just like, man, I can
Speaker 1: do the same thing right, and you're still doing it,
Speaker 1: which is which is crazy? Man and um and I
Speaker 1: just told you. You You know, my producer, I said, a
Speaker 1: few years ago, we was at the temp tebow Um
Speaker 1: charity event for the golf tournament and we were riding
Speaker 1: back in the car and I remember you saying at
Speaker 1: the time and this is what probably about two maybe
Speaker 1: about two years ago. Now, I remember you saying at
Speaker 1: the time that you wanted to pay play like, you know,
Speaker 1: four or five more years or somewhere, you know, somewhere
Speaker 1: around there. And I'm not gonna lie to you. In
Speaker 1: my head, I was like, hold on, you know, four
Speaker 1: or five more years. I said, no, I said, it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's you can't fathm. You don't wanna say
Speaker 1: it's impossible, but you can't fath me. For one, the
Speaker 1: game is already hard. And then too, you play one
Speaker 1: of the toughest positions because of how how you know,
Speaker 1: how many collisions you do. So when you said that, man,
Speaker 1: I turned back around my seat. I didn't say that.
Speaker 1: I look back at my phone. I was thinking to
Speaker 1: myself full five years like, hell no that I was
Speaker 1: just going to my head. But man, that's you know
Speaker 1: now where the third, third, or fourth year end from
Speaker 1: the time you hay said that. Yeah, So how do
Speaker 1: you feel, man? What's um, what's your body been like?
Speaker 1: And how have things like change body wise and your
Speaker 1: mentality of it? Now? My body feels good, you know,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately, you know, I really don't get too many
Speaker 1: carriers here in the past. You know, well that that
Speaker 1: definitely helps out a lot as well, but um, just
Speaker 1: taking care of my body. Man. You know, I think
Speaker 1: mentally I still love the game. I'm still into it,
Speaker 1: you know, so that's the most important thing. And always
Speaker 1: telling myself about losing a love for the game and competing,
Speaker 1: then I would just walk away from it. But you know,
Speaker 1: I've been blessed with the talent and the ability. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't it's not declining, you know, I've yet to
Speaker 1: feel like, Okay, I came quite you know. It's some
Speaker 1: things that I lost, you know, um, but not completely,
Speaker 1: but not to the point where I'm just like, man, Okay,
Speaker 1: I need to go and hanging the clicks up. You know,
Speaker 1: I still can be productive um in a major way
Speaker 1: and and still running rock. How was it? How's it been?
Speaker 1: Because once, you know, once you make your name with
Speaker 1: the organization right now And I say this because I
Speaker 1: dealt with it leaving the charges and didn't go in
Speaker 1: the buffalo the bills. How how was it walking into
Speaker 1: a new locker room? Man? Because you you have made
Speaker 1: such a big name for yourself and a staple in
Speaker 1: the NFL, Like, how would you perceive walking to somebody else?
Speaker 1: You got the young kids looking up or saying certain
Speaker 1: things like how how how was that the first time
Speaker 1: you left Minnesota? It was it was cool? And be
Speaker 1: honest with you, you know, I always kind of wonder
Speaker 1: whether it would be like to play for other teams.
Speaker 1: You know, I never was that guy like, for instance, Larry,
Speaker 1: you know when I talked to him, you know, he's
Speaker 1: all about being with one team, retiring one team. But
Speaker 1: I've always been like, you know, I wouldn't mind playing
Speaker 1: for different teams just to get the field of the organization,
Speaker 1: the culture there. So going into New Orleans, man, it
Speaker 1: was they opened me. They you know, they opened the
Speaker 1: Orange to me and just embraced me, you know. And
Speaker 1: the best part of it was, like you say, these
Speaker 1: young guys, you know, just the respect that they have
Speaker 1: for me. Um, you know, and being able to be
Speaker 1: around those guys inspire those guys, those guys see how
Speaker 1: it works, and you know, be able to see how
Speaker 1: those guys you know work as well. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: when I left New Orleans, I probably signed maybe like
Speaker 1: twenty jerseys, like no line. You know, they would just
Speaker 1: go going to the trench, to the from the from
Speaker 1: the guys on the team. Yeah, from guys on the team.
Speaker 1: It was going through the equipment room like hey man,
Speaker 1: we gotta get this, we gotta get this. We you
Speaker 1: know it was gonna be this short, but we gotta
Speaker 1: get this before you head out, you know. So like
Speaker 1: and even til the day, you know, come here, um
Speaker 1: to Detroit at the beginning of the season, and you know,
Speaker 1: carry on Johnson, you know, Swift, Dean Swift. These young guys,
Speaker 1: you know, they looked up to me. You know, I
Speaker 1: ain't spurred him as they were as as they were
Speaker 1: growing up, you know Bow as well. You know. So
Speaker 1: it's cool to be around these guys and to continue
Speaker 1: to be doing it at a good level because it
Speaker 1: inspires them to be like man, you know they stay
Speaker 1: four or five years. It's the the stretch for running back.
Speaker 1: But hey, a p you'r fourteen. You know we can
Speaker 1: do the same thing. You know, So that's what it's
Speaker 1: really about to me. Has he has a locker room changed?
Speaker 1: I remember talking to UM and Antonio Gates right now.
Speaker 1: This is probably about maybe a year but a couple
Speaker 1: of years before he retired, and you know, he came in.
Speaker 1: I think Antonio Gates came in when he's two thousand
Speaker 1: three at four, and then he kind of came and
Speaker 1: when we came in and he had early you know,
Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen, fifteen, sixteen and up, and he was
Speaker 1: he always say, he said, lights man, every everything's different.
Speaker 1: You know, it was different from when y'all was in here,
Speaker 1: like now you know, everybody on social media and everybody,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like the whole Have you
Speaker 1: sense that like from coming into how things are now
Speaker 1: when you're gonna locker room? Yeah, it's totally different. It's
Speaker 1: totally different. And it's good that these organizations put rules
Speaker 1: in place because you know the ground, you know, ain't
Speaker 1: no telling at all. But you know, just even like
Speaker 1: the music these guys listened to. You know, the music
Speaker 1: guy listened to be a lot more flash year as well.
Speaker 1: They do all this dancing and all this stuff. I'd
Speaker 1: be like, man, because you know, we we normally used
Speaker 1: to go to the locker room. You got Pastor Troy,
Speaker 1: you got a little John, you got you know, I
Speaker 1: mean all the East Side, but you got all the
Speaker 1: street bangers, and you're getting hyped up. And now I
Speaker 1: see some of the guys like going like dancing, competing
Speaker 1: each other on the way in the locker room. May
Speaker 1: do I mean, I'm not dance. I'm going into rock somebody.
Speaker 1: I know. It's funny, man, but it's cool. Just the
Speaker 1: kind of season, how the coaches, it changed throughout the
Speaker 1: locker room from locker room the locker room, and over
Speaker 1: the years too. Yeah, that was it was funny. I was.
Speaker 1: I was just telling my producer Feto right before you
Speaker 1: came on. So I was in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: I think we were down to the Pro Bowl, but
Speaker 1: it was two thousand seven. Well, actually it's too parstiate
Speaker 1: this story, right, So the first part and I don't
Speaker 1: think I would talk to you about it, uh yet
Speaker 1: or maybe I have. When I met your dad, I
Speaker 1: met I met your I met your dad and elevator.
Speaker 1: So I was going over to workout in the morning.
Speaker 1: Uh this is probably like a Monday, Tuesday morning or
Speaker 1: something like that. I was going to get a workout
Speaker 1: in before practice. And I came over there and somebody
Speaker 1: was in the gym already, but I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: really know, you know who. He wasn't a player, wasn't
Speaker 1: a coach. And at first I thought it was not lying.
Speaker 1: I thought it was James Harrison in front of the
Speaker 1: from the back, because you know, had a clothes and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And I met him for the first time. Man,
Speaker 1: he came up and shook my damn hand and we
Speaker 1: came in there, and I don't know if it did
Speaker 1: it tell you that we got a quick workout in
Speaker 1: that day? He did? He did, Okay, yes, we gotta
Speaker 1: work out in. Man. So I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: all this ship makes sense, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: when I've seen him, and man, he was was he
Speaker 1: is that when you get that from man? Was he
Speaker 1: always like kind of on you? You know when he
Speaker 1: when when he when he when he came when he
Speaker 1: was you know, when he came down there to the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. Yeah, yeah, he was. He's always been like that.
Speaker 1: He's always been like that. Like still to this day,
Speaker 1: he'll called me, like you're doing all season. I'll wake
Speaker 1: up and I have a miscall or miss texts six
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, six thirty. Hey, I'm in a
Speaker 1: gym getting my workout in. Where you at what you're doing?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm getting better today. You know, I've been
Speaker 1: like I'm camping me. Yeah, you know, he he is
Speaker 1: still that in me. You know, I watched I remember
Speaker 1: going to the wine. I'm sea with him all the time,
Speaker 1: and I'll be out there of course, like playing basketball
Speaker 1: with the kids and stuff, but him and his people
Speaker 1: they be in the weight room working out, you know,
Speaker 1: and grinding, and it was something that was routine for him.
Speaker 1: It was, you know, and still steel still to this day.
Speaker 1: It's consistent, you know. So I know I get a
Speaker 1: lot of that from him, that mental toughness and that
Speaker 1: mindset to grind, that work ethic, and then my mom
Speaker 1: as well. So you know, it's crazy you said that,
Speaker 1: because it's a question. I always wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: because I know how close you out with your sons
Speaker 1: and your kids and stuff too. And well, my son,
Speaker 1: my son is ten years old, and I always go
Speaker 1: through the battle of like pushing him to go harder
Speaker 1: or kind of just stepping back because you know, he's
Speaker 1: already got enough pressure already, you know, carrying the last name.
Speaker 1: And you know, if I'm around and people expect him
Speaker 1: to do, you know, beat us immaculate athlete and do
Speaker 1: all this stuff, and I'm like, I just want to
Speaker 1: kind of sit back and let him do his thing
Speaker 1: and coach him up as needed. You know, everybody, even
Speaker 1: when I met his football games, they think how much
Speaker 1: just run on the field and start, you know, yelling
Speaker 1: and screaming, getting everybody hyped. But I kind of in
Speaker 1: a sense, I want to sit back because I don't
Speaker 1: want to be that that that you know what I mean, like, oh,
Speaker 1: you gotta do this, you gotta do that because I
Speaker 1: played in the league and you got you got status,
Speaker 1: and you got status. Do you ever or you just
Speaker 1: are you on your kids? You just you want to
Speaker 1: push them? And how does that? How does that work
Speaker 1: with you? Manus? I battle with that back and forth
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, you're You're right, man. It's tough, you know,
Speaker 1: but you know, I try to, um kind of come
Speaker 1: with the same approach as you you know, especially at
Speaker 1: this at this age right now, like age and he
Speaker 1: just turned nine, you know. Actual, he's five other boys.
Speaker 1: They're they're young, they're younger my oldest, my boys eleven.
Speaker 1: So you know, I try to do more talking to him,
Speaker 1: you know, because I don't want to feel like I'm
Speaker 1: forcing something on them. I want them to want to play, um,
Speaker 1: whatever sport it is, you know, So I want them
Speaker 1: to play. And then when I see that they're interested
Speaker 1: in it, then that's when I kind of pick it
Speaker 1: up a little bit, you know, the intensity and let
Speaker 1: them know. They're like, hey, if you wanna accompass X,
Speaker 1: Y and Z, then this is the type of work
Speaker 1: that you have to put in, you know. And when
Speaker 1: I see them not doing things right, I'll correct them.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll get on them from time to time,
Speaker 1: but I'm not just like down their throats about it,
Speaker 1: you know. I'm always just kind of telling them stories
Speaker 1: or trying to you know, let them know, like, hey,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to accomplash this, you have to work
Speaker 1: at this level because you have other kids that you're
Speaker 1: you know, you're competing against as well, You're not just
Speaker 1: competing against yourself, so they actually respond to it well,
Speaker 1: you know. So that's been working for me. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to follow my dad footsteps because I
Speaker 1: have a younger brother. He's called now, he's called he
Speaker 1: play and uh he used to play for Prime Time
Speaker 1: Lead down there in Dallas, and uh, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: he's nice. He's nice. But my dad was like down
Speaker 1: his throat like a drill SWORDI and I'm like, dag right, Nelson,
Speaker 1: you know, let him breathe a little bit, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then they carry that last name, you know. I
Speaker 1: mean like if you're if you're something out there playing,
Speaker 1: you got And I tell my son, is you got?
Speaker 1: You gotta expect for people to take their best shot,
Speaker 1: right because they always want to come it. Adrian Peters
Speaker 1: kid out there running the ball and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to go hit a piece, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: just whether it's cloud or whether it's whatever. That is, Like,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to bring your a game all the
Speaker 1: time because people know who you are exactly. So I
Speaker 1: I got to explain that to my son all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just kind of you know, that's kind of what
Speaker 1: it is, man, That what it is. So you know,
Speaker 1: that's why I went what I'm saying like as far
Speaker 1: as talking to him and explaining to him, like, you know,
Speaker 1: don't I want you to be better than I was?
Speaker 1: You know, but you gotta understand that the work you
Speaker 1: put in, you'll see the results from that, you know,
Speaker 1: So you can't really be mad at no one but yourself,
Speaker 1: you know. Don't let other ones put limitations on you,
Speaker 1: know that what other people think about you or what
Speaker 1: they feel you should be accomplishing, don't, you know, don't
Speaker 1: don't let that waiver in your mind or anything. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Know what you want to be
Speaker 1: or what you want to accomplish, lock in on it,
Speaker 1: put the work in, and then you'll see it. You'll
Speaker 1: see it manifest. So so what I'll be thinking, man like,
Speaker 1: because when I see you still running it, even when
Speaker 1: you break some of the long ones, I can't tell
Speaker 1: the difference from your fourteen or years you're six, So
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you feel it, you know, for the people,
Speaker 1: don't know and understand you've got the hot cub, the
Speaker 1: cold cub. You probably you know you probably have you know,
Speaker 1: your massus and stuff coming and things like that. Man,
Speaker 1: But I look and I'm like, how in the hell
Speaker 1: you know you're you're fourteen and you know you're still
Speaker 1: looking the same. How many more years you want to
Speaker 1: do this? Man? Like? What do you what else do
Speaker 1: you you got you want to do after this? How
Speaker 1: many more years you think you got anything? You want
Speaker 1: to keep going? Yeah? I feel like I have about
Speaker 1: four more years. You know, I'll be thirty six in March.
Speaker 1: Hold man, go ahead, man, listen, I'm telling you man,
Speaker 1: guys willing, guys willing, and you know, continue the best,
Speaker 1: been good health. My body feels good, man, Like my
Speaker 1: body was good for me. It's all. It's if. It's
Speaker 1: always been about just keeping my my conditioning where it
Speaker 1: needs to be, you know, yeah, being palable, being flexible,
Speaker 1: but keeping my legs strong. Yeah, well have you changed up?
Speaker 1: And how you how are you working and stuff now? Right?
Speaker 1: Because I know later on in my career even now,
Speaker 1: I'll squat and do certain things, but I'm not power cleaning.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not doing any of the big explosive
Speaker 1: movements anymore. Like has your workouts and body has changed
Speaker 1: when it come to that, Um, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know. I've tweeked some things and added some things
Speaker 1: as well. You know, I'll do a lot of bloodies now,
Speaker 1: and that's something that I wish at a younger age
Speaker 1: I would have kind of, you know, brought into my
Speaker 1: regiment of things to do. But I've learned that that
Speaker 1: right there. Who that opens up so much, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh, there's a full body strength, especially the core plate,
Speaker 1: you know. Um. So that's something that I've been doing
Speaker 1: a little different. Um, doing a little more yoga just
Speaker 1: to keep the body flexible. Man. I try to tell,
Speaker 1: is it regular yoga, hot yoga or the beak room
Speaker 1: I do regularly? Then I do the beak rom to
Speaker 1: do the big room, I dude. So I got into
Speaker 1: that my last year and it was something I wish,
Speaker 1: like you said, I wish I learned my first year
Speaker 1: or two. And nutrition to I think that was another part.
Speaker 1: I was just eating whatever, and I was drinking and
Speaker 1: doing all kinds, just doing whatever I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: Because you're young enough, you know, your body can bounce
Speaker 1: back from it. But if I knew what I knew
Speaker 1: at the last year or so of my career, I
Speaker 1: would have done beak room or even hot yoga night
Speaker 1: sixty or ninety minute because it it changed everything I'm doing.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel better now than I did, you know,
Speaker 1: ten years ago, because I do Yo, God, I do
Speaker 1: all this stuff. And uh, I wish I picked that
Speaker 1: up early on. Man, it would it would have changed
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's big time and that's
Speaker 1: that's that's what's helping me hit the team to have
Speaker 1: this longevity, you know, doing those things and you know,
Speaker 1: just staying consistent with it and uh and just being
Speaker 1: like you said, man, the nutrition party is big to
Speaker 1: just being more conscious of what you put in your
Speaker 1: body as well, because that's one thing I have noticed.
Speaker 1: I can't you know, I can't eat the same things
Speaker 1: that I used to eat. You know, I can it
Speaker 1: ain't with a little bit now just because of genetics.
Speaker 1: But I've noticed that I okay, am about to switch
Speaker 1: some things up as far as what I'm drinking or
Speaker 1: you know, the foods and stuff that I put in
Speaker 1: my body. Um, because the body, you know, the covers differently. Yeah. No, no,
Speaker 1: big time. So so what's next? Man? Like, I know you,
Speaker 1: you know you got three or four more years that
Speaker 1: you that you want to play. Um, and I'm not
Speaker 1: down nothing else but whatever you if you say for
Speaker 1: four more years and somebody asked me and said he's
Speaker 1: playing four more years, trust me? So what's what's that? Man?
Speaker 1: You got? You got some stuff going outside of that too, right,
Speaker 1: because I mean I've seen you at a different a
Speaker 1: couple of different charity advantage obviously the timp t bow
Speaker 1: one and I think we ran into each other a
Speaker 1: couple more. Well, Like what else, man, you got outside
Speaker 1: of football? Because uh, one of my biggest things I
Speaker 1: think that would help me is the last year or
Speaker 1: two that I knew I was kind of gonna start
Speaker 1: wrapping up. Obviously you got played way longer than I did,
Speaker 1: but I started wrapping my head around some of the
Speaker 1: things I wanted to do after right, Like you're not
Speaker 1: mentioned all, Okay, I want to be done, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, like in order to have that that
Speaker 1: violence in a way, UM, I started to kind of
Speaker 1: put things together to when I was done, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is what this is what I want to do,
Speaker 1: you know, for me. So you know, I own a
Speaker 1: jam down in Houston, me and Trent Williams. Um. So
Speaker 1: you know that's something that I'm thinking about kind of
Speaker 1: transitioning into you know, doing some personal training. Um. And
Speaker 1: I've always been you know, interested in real estate you know.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, so buying properties, flip them properly, remodeling
Speaker 1: properties and things like that too. I'm kind of really
Speaker 1: passionate about that. And you got a good eye and
Speaker 1: my wife as well, you know, so that's something that
Speaker 1: we have talked about, you know, us doing that to
Speaker 1: the together, you know, because because she's heavily and a
Speaker 1: lot of the stuff you got off the field right
Speaker 1: in the business. Um, things you got going. I think
Speaker 1: I've seen you too, y'all. Got you you post something
Speaker 1: with each other, not you long ago, um about some
Speaker 1: of the things you would YouTube were doing. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know she you know, she owns her ELIZABETHA Cosmetics you know,
Speaker 1: so she's into into that as well. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: looking at the do some franchise and you know from
Speaker 1: different things. That's kind of like you know, the things
Speaker 1: that we're you know, we've been talking and brainstorming about
Speaker 1: and getting things in place um. And not just for
Speaker 1: when I retired, but just for life in general. You know,
Speaker 1: think about that racial wealth UM scenario, you know, for
Speaker 1: for our kids and our Emily UM as well. So
Speaker 1: it's a lot of things that we got in the
Speaker 1: works right now. And so you know, whenever I do
Speaker 1: decide to finish and hang up the cleets, I really
Speaker 1: feel like it's gonna be either transition for me to
Speaker 1: just continue to roll in doing what I love to do,
Speaker 1: just have more time doing it, you know, because it's
Speaker 1: those things I do now, I'll just have more time
Speaker 1: to commit to it. That I tell, I tell anybody
Speaker 1: the hardest part man, and and and being done this.
Speaker 1: It's the time, right. We were so used to that regiment.
Speaker 1: And you know, when I retired, I got in the
Speaker 1: TV and I started doing the TV thing and I
Speaker 1: started doing M M A and stuff like that. But uh,
Speaker 1: it was it was different. It was like a weird
Speaker 1: time becaus like that's all you did for so long,
Speaker 1: and now you got this time to do something else. Man.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad, dude, that's that's a lot. I didn't
Speaker 1: know about the gym thing. I gotta come down there. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm match you supposed to meet a few guys out
Speaker 1: there and train with some mm A gems. Got a
Speaker 1: few mm A gems out there. Yeah, and see that's
Speaker 1: the thing too, Like we like my trainer and he
Speaker 1: actually when I met I met him. He's to miss
Speaker 1: Arnts and your trainer. Yea, his name James Cooper, And
Speaker 1: uh so yeah we have that. You got to come
Speaker 1: check out the gym. You come to Houston, and we
Speaker 1: got the m A. We got the m m um,
Speaker 1: the ring, you know, the cage, got a boxing ring
Speaker 1: in there, got the map, we got a hole set up.
Speaker 1: It's nice. So you're like, so you're training mm at
Speaker 1: all ever, Um, not really, I haven't trained in or boxing.
Speaker 1: You're boxing. I do a little boxing or whatnot, you know,
Speaker 1: so uh hey, I can definitely see myself getting into
Speaker 1: a boxing though. Really yeah, but I see I always
Speaker 1: say this. I say this every time because and and
Speaker 1: I took LT back when I was playing two and
Speaker 1: LT had hands. But I always say, man that I
Speaker 1: always believe a lot of m m A former football
Speaker 1: guys transitioning into either boxing or mm A. And I
Speaker 1: always say it, man, we're we're we're different breeds, like
Speaker 1: we we just are with different breed of athletes. And
Speaker 1: once we learn to start turning over your punches and
Speaker 1: learn how to strike from a distance and you get
Speaker 1: some skill with it, you're gonna have Adrian Peterson who
Speaker 1: decided to not, you know, keep playing football, to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I gotta play me eight years, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go fight. And you know, I'm talking to guys now.
Speaker 1: I get d ms from guys that are currently playing
Speaker 1: as thinking about being done and kind of transition back
Speaker 1: into m m A or some kind of combat sports. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that, Like m m A. You know, there's
Speaker 1: so many different you know, you've got people that got
Speaker 1: that know ty hondo and jiu jitsu. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you you really got to be prepared when you're going
Speaker 1: into that into the arena UM. So I couldn't see
Speaker 1: myself doing that, but I would kind of way more
Speaker 1: towards lean, more towards boxing more than anything. I ain't
Speaker 1: trying to get kicked in all that, you know in
Speaker 1: the head. And have have you ever sparked? Have you
Speaker 1: ever spared anybody before? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, like a
Speaker 1: like a full one sparring boxing boxing spar match Yep,
Speaker 1: how'd you do? I did good. I ain't up winning.
Speaker 1: You know, could you ever see you doing like a
Speaker 1: like an exhibition fight, like a charity something like that
Speaker 1: or whatever when you got done? Yeah, without doubt, without
Speaker 1: a doubt. I don't want to tell you guys, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit you as hard as you hit me.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not really trying to hurt you. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get work in, get the cardio.
Speaker 1: But if i feel like your intensity went up, then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and make sure you bring that
Speaker 1: back down. You got to though, especially it goes back
Speaker 1: to Adrian Peterson walking the gym, and you know, you've
Speaker 1: got a lot of people with pride or a lot
Speaker 1: of people want to, you know, do something against you
Speaker 1: because it's you. And I say that the parting partners
Speaker 1: all the time. I can go in and work my
Speaker 1: job and work on a little stuff, but if I
Speaker 1: feel any kind of time you're turning up, this whole
Speaker 1: thing going up in flames. So so so I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you, when you retired, I reach out to you
Speaker 1: for that charity boxing match, I'm gonna be putting it
Speaker 1: together I'm letting you know, all right, let me Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm good, there's no I'll be down for sure. All right. Hey,
Speaker 1: my dude, Man, I appreciate it. Bro, you're coming on.
Speaker 1: And uh, seriously, man, I if you I can't even
Speaker 1: wait to see in the next three or four years. Man.
Speaker 1: It's to me, it's just mind blowing that you continue
Speaker 1: to be explosive and continue to do what you're doing, man,
Speaker 1: And it's it's just insane to see. Man. So I
Speaker 1: appreciate you coming on, my dude, no problem for having me, man,
Speaker 1: and I can stay here first. The best is yet
Speaker 1: can come. These last two or three years. You know
Speaker 1: that they've been decent, you know, but I've learned a
Speaker 1: lot over these past two or three years. And coming
Speaker 1: back and coming back to next year, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: You're gonna see some of the old agent peace and
Speaker 1: for shore more consistently. I can tell you that. So, hey, dog,
Speaker 1: I ain't doubt nothing you're doing anymore. Trust men, trust me, bro, Hey,
Speaker 1: my dude, I preciate it. Man. I'm going to log
Speaker 1: out of here. Thanks for coming on, dude, I appreciate
Speaker 1: that for real. I take it easy, Burn. What's up, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for tuning in again. Um, look, we just went
Speaker 1: over a hundred and seventy thousand downloads and that's all
Speaker 1: because of you, guys. I appreciate that. Adrian Peterson, man,
Speaker 1: that was fun. Uh at least fun on this side
Speaker 1: now that we're interviewing, and I would get a chance
Speaker 1: to play against him anymore, but man, he still looks
Speaker 1: great and it's it's almost you know, it looks impossible
Speaker 1: what he's doing right now and how he's still producing.
Speaker 1: And he wanted to play another three, four or five
Speaker 1: more years. And I doubted him the first time when
Speaker 1: he told me to three years ago, and I'll never
Speaker 1: doubt him again. So just all around is one of
Speaker 1: my one of my guys. Thanks to him for coming on,
Speaker 1: and thank you guys for tuning in, keep subscribing, leaving
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Speaker 1: Happy holidays everybody, and hopefully having good time with your
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