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Speaker 2: and on the Next Man Up. Been here before, but

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Speaker 2: is before you was a free agent. You just came

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Speaker 3: And how you feeling dump.

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Speaker 1: Blessed man, blessed, extremely honored for y'all to have it

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Speaker 2: Blessed is an understatement, brother, because it's been dope to

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Speaker 2: Because man, we have had injury after injury, but you

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Speaker 2: Say like a true commander, sait like a true leader.

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Speaker 3: Have you hunted?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I have hunted. I have hunted it.

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Speaker 3: You be hunting for those sacks.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, you got five and a half sacks now,

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Speaker 3: Of the best teams in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I'm just say there's a lot of historic French sides

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: So for me, it's like I kind of looked at

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean, There's been some great football players,

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Speaker 4: Man, So like I can't I'm not gonna mention nobody.

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Speaker 2: And I'm sure you've gotten a ton of fans this year, man,

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Speaker 3: Jacob.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate your time so much. And also, happy holidays,

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Speaker 2: my brother, thank you. I'm expecting my crossbow on the

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Speaker 3: My god, Jacob, Martin.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate you, Bro, appreciate you. But dot boom happy Holladays everybody.

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Speaker 5: It's the holiday, that's what's good. Can you know as

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Speaker 5: And now we're sitting in the background, and now we're

437
00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,560
Speaker 5: mumbling amongst each other. About how bad we hate the situation.

438
00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,440
Speaker 5: But I was always taught tough times don't last. Tough

439
00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,600
Speaker 5: people do yes. And we got to eight when you

440
00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,439
Speaker 5: offended them, when you have fended them, It's very much

441
00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:31,080
Speaker 5: similar to a relationship. I wish I could tell you

442
00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,320
Speaker 5: every day with your wife gonna be good days. You

443
00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,560
Speaker 5: know where ain't gonna be like that. But guess what,

444
00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,200
Speaker 5: it's the hard days that make y'all know y'all meant

445
00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,159
Speaker 5: to be together, right, because it's figuring it takes no

446
00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,840
Speaker 5: energy to enjoy good day. It takes a lot of

447
00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,320
Speaker 5: energy to figure out the bad ones. And the bad

448
00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:49,600
Speaker 5: ones make you appreciate your partner way more than a

449
00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:51,160
Speaker 5: good one. And it's what you do with the hard

450
00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,240
Speaker 5: time suit right, it's how you use them, how you

451
00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,439
Speaker 5: manifest because losses can't be lessons, especially when you are

452
00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,720
Speaker 5: a young team. When you have been in these situations

453
00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,760
Speaker 5: where wins weren't necessarily coming, players would developing, Young guys

454
00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:03,600
Speaker 5: would develop, And what is that message in the locker

455
00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:05,399
Speaker 5: room to understand, like, hey, we got to make the

456
00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:07,720
Speaker 5: most of this time. Well, we got this bad taste

457
00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,240
Speaker 5: in that mouth, do you ever want to taste this again?

458
00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,800
Speaker 5: Because I don't want to taste this again. How did

459
00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,400
Speaker 5: we get here? That's what we ask ourselves first. How

460
00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,159
Speaker 5: did we end up at this spot? Because in the

461
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,400
Speaker 5: beginning of every season, every team think they going seventeen

462
00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,040
Speaker 5: and oh, knowing none of us going seventeen and oh,

463
00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:25,879
Speaker 5: when we look at that schedule, we don't see no

464
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,280
Speaker 5: thing that we say a loss, right, we don't pick loses.

465
00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:31,520
Speaker 5: We look at the schedules that we're gonna win each

466
00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:33,280
Speaker 5: and every game. We're gonna take it one player at

467
00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:36,600
Speaker 5: a time. Well, guess what, some seasons start to unravel.

468
00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:40,080
Speaker 5: This season had start to unravel, and now we're looking around.

469
00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:42,280
Speaker 5: We're looking for answers. When you gotta look inside, you

470
00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,720
Speaker 5: gotta look in this locker room. We are the answer.

471
00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,440
Speaker 5: We weren't healthy. What can we do this off season

472
00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,120
Speaker 5: to make sure we donna go back through this again?

473
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,640
Speaker 5: What can I do as a player to protect myself?

474
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,440
Speaker 5: What can my other team may do to get much faster?

475
00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,560
Speaker 5: Did much stronger? Understand that much more of the game plan.

476
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,240
Speaker 5: It's all about internally looking and saying we're gonna fix

477
00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,200
Speaker 5: it inside. Looking outside, I ain't gonna get the job done.

478
00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,440
Speaker 5: And I hate to say this. It takes a little

479
00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,159
Speaker 5: luck for good seasons to have. If we saw that

480
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,960
Speaker 5: last year, the ball gotta bounce your way in health,

481
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,560
Speaker 5: the ball gotta bounce your weight on the field, the

482
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,240
Speaker 5: ball gotta bounce your way with scheduling, The ball gotta

483
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,320
Speaker 5: bounce your weight in so many variables in here that

484
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,320
Speaker 5: everything has to add up and be a perfect storm.

485
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,719
Speaker 5: And this year, that perfect storm has been a hurricane.

486
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,080
Speaker 5: And listen, and it's drowned in the city right now,

487
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,360
Speaker 5: and everybody miss, I totally understand. But the good part

488
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,960
Speaker 5: we live to fight another day. And the thing I

489
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,440
Speaker 5: can say is if you ever gonna get a win,

490
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,560
Speaker 5: it needs to be against the cowboys.

491
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:45,960
Speaker 2: Amen.

492
00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 5: You know, especially while they intact. We are not intact, right,

493
00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,639
Speaker 5: we are not in We're gonna have our struggle. We

494
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,919
Speaker 5: got so many gaffs to feel where they were they

495
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,879
Speaker 5: coming in here with Dak George Pick and City lamb furcusing. Uh,

496
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,639
Speaker 5: they are intact and they're ready to go, and they

497
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 5: ain't gonna take it easy on us. We need to

498
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,680
Speaker 5: be there on Christmas Day and understand, and I know

499
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:09,640
Speaker 5: a lot of people got their Christmas preod. They're gonna

500
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 5: open it up and it's gonna be tickets tickets to

501
00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,919
Speaker 5: the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Commander's game. You need

502
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 5: to take those tickets, go to Northwest Stadium where I

503
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 5: will see you, be seeing see you, and let's finish

504
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 5: what we started.

505
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 3: We started this year.

506
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,200
Speaker 5: It hasn't went the way we want to go, but

507
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,200
Speaker 5: you got to finish what you start, no matter what

508
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:29,560
Speaker 5: I tell my kids did all the time.

509
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,440
Speaker 2: And because there's a pride to it too, right, Yeah,

510
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 2: Like there has to be a pride there. And I

511
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:34,200
Speaker 2: think people are like, oh, what are you playing for?

512
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 2: They talking about draft all those different things, but that's

513
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 2: not the case when you're a player. And like I

514
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 2: look at our secondary. You talk about all those weapons.

515
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,400
Speaker 2: Our secondary, man, they've probably gone through it the worst

516
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 2: as far as injuries go. We lose two starters, but

517
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 2: we have a guy Mikey Sanders. Yeah really man ready

518
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,679
Speaker 2: to play four interceptions already. I saw a lists today

519
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 2: actually and had Mikey Santas on there and at the

520
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 2: bottom they had fresh Smoothcuse you had five in the season, yes,

521
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 2: four maybe a get there?

522
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,159
Speaker 3: Man? How cool would that be to see him hit

523
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,640
Speaker 3: that milestone? Because you know how tough.

524
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 5: No, it's hard to do, and I think it'll be

525
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,159
Speaker 5: good for him because I think what he is out

526
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 5: to prove the people is I'm an outside corner. Y'all

527
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 5: want to pincheonhole me and want me to because of

528
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 5: my size. Like how visually look I look like a nickel.

529
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,439
Speaker 5: I am an outside corner. That's where I thrive at.

530
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 5: That's where I play the best at. That's where I

531
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 5: can see the field at. And people What people don'

532
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 5: understand when you're playing a nickel, you're a part of

533
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 5: the run game. You are a hybrid lying back of

534
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,120
Speaker 5: slash deepensive back, and it can get tough in there.

535
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 3: Think about it.

536
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 5: Shun Springs was my my nickel. Do you understand how

537
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 5: big Blue was? Blue was two hundred and ten pounds big.

538
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,640
Speaker 5: He could he could take that, he could take that pounded.

539
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 5: So I think what Mikey is intellectually, he's so smart, physically,

540
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,479
Speaker 5: he's so gifted, and he understands the game. It slows

541
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,120
Speaker 5: down for him in the inside, I mean in the outside,

542
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 5: and I think it speeds up for him in the inside.

543
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 5: And I think that's something him and the coaching staff

544
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 5: have to really have a dialogue about because when I

545
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,920
Speaker 5: he just looks comfortable. He looks comfortable outside and no

546
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 5: matchup seems to bother him. Not the big receiver, not

547
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 5: the fast receiver, not the nothing bothers him outside.

548
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,399
Speaker 2: And he's so versatile. And a lot of times when

549
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 2: you are that versatile, it's hard because you're getting used

550
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 2: in a bunch of ways.

551
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 5: It's hard for you to measure in one thing because

552
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 5: they want you the minor and fourth thing. So when

553
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,640
Speaker 5: you are versative like that, come on the dude, play

554
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,120
Speaker 5: wide receiver. Like when he gets the ball in his hand,

555
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 5: you can see glimpses of that wide receiver. But when

556
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,360
Speaker 5: you are so versatile, it's sometimes coaches put a lot

557
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,159
Speaker 5: on your plate. And when they put a lot on

558
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 5: your plate, now I can't master one thing. Like in

559
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:42,640
Speaker 5: the NFL, you have to master one thing. If you're

560
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,920
Speaker 5: a corner, I'm a man man corner, you have to

561
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 5: mash the man. The man I'm his own corner. I'm

562
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 5: a good tackling corner. I'm a good press corner. Like

563
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 5: you have to master these things and be able to

564
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 5: repeatedly do them over and over again, no matter who's

565
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 5: staying in front of you, and I think that's what

566
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 5: he's doing. I think they put a lot on his plate,

567
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 5: and I think that's what coach. If we wanna do

568
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 5: this off season, take a lot. Office players say, just play.

569
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 3: Fast and Fred's funny, we talk versatility.

570
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 2: I think about you because we put a lot on

571
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 2: your plate here at commands say, Man, you were such

572
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 2: a great defensive back. But I feel like you get

573
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 2: more credit and love for the things you do in

574
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 2: on TV, what you do in the community, what you're

575
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 2: doing on the radio all the time. Man, is that

576
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 2: wild for you as somebody that just exceeded at the

577
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,360
Speaker 2: highest level to get the type of love you get

578
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 2: for being in media like that.

579
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 5: I think I had already set myself up for a

580
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 5: while I was playing. I already let them know that

581
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 5: I'm gonna keep it real with you. I'm gonna tell

582
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 5: the truth. It might come out of little awkward sometimes,

583
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,640
Speaker 5: but I'm gonna let you know how I feeling. I'm

584
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 5: gonna give you honesty, and if you honest with people,

585
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 5: they'll be honest with you back. And I think through

586
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 5: my journey of football and then going to the media,

587
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 5: and I've worked for basically every major media outlet in America.

588
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 5: So they are used to hearing the country boyd talk,

589
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 5: and they are used to hearing my dialogue.

590
00:25:58,560 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 3: They used to hearing my point of view.

591
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 5: In my point of view, I try to keep my

592
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 5: feet grounded at all times and my point of view

593
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 5: of things. And I always look and I always say

594
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 5: to myself, even when I'm dealing with my kids, what

595
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 5: would you have thought at fifteen? What would you were thinking?

596
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 5: If what was going through your head at fifteen? So

597
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 5: I try to keep the people prospect in everything I do.

598
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,119
Speaker 5: So I enjoyed that they actually listen to me, you

599
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Like, actually listen to me.

600
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 4: And I like to have fund.

601
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 3: I don't take Fred Smooth serious.

602
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,640
Speaker 5: And I think a lot of athletes, because we put

603
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 5: on a pedestal so young in life that they start

604
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 5: some of them started to take theirselves a little bit

605
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 5: too serious. And I think what made me always was

606
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 5: a people person was I never I never took Fred

607
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 5: smooth s heious. And I don't care about all that

608
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,399
Speaker 5: I'm just faster than you. Other than that, I'm not

609
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 5: better than you. I'm like, I'm not a better person

610
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 5: than you. I'm just me and you get to see

611
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 5: me on TV. And sometime when they see people in

612
00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 5: that box right there, they go from being human to

613
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 5: deal tsus huth right, And it changes the outlook of

614
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 5: how people. And that's why I think people say it

615
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 5: ain't always cool to meet your hero, because when they

616
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 5: meet some of these people.

617
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 3: They don't turn out to be the person that they

618
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 3: think they are.

619
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 2: And I think that's what people admire so much about you, though,

620
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 2: is in real time they've gotten to see the highest

621
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 2: seele going to see you overcome adversity. And one thing

622
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 2: I've gotten to watch you do is you remain the

623
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 2: same no matter what you go through. But you see,

624
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 2: sometimes somebody has one mistake and it's over. Yeah, they crash,

625
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 2: it's done, They crash, lose everything. You've managed to have

626
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 2: multiple mistakes, it still overcomes, still find ways to do that.

627
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,479
Speaker 2: I gotta imagine that's not missed on you at all.

628
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 2: Imagine you don't take that for granted.

629
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 5: I'm from Mississippi. First of all, I was always talking

630
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 5: about my mom and daddy. Just because you follow. You

631
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 5: gotta get back up. Now, getting back up is the

632
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 5: hard part, all right, But you gotta get back up.

633
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 5: You gotta hold your head up high. Every time you

634
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 5: go through something in life, that's when you learn. You

635
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 5: don't learn from goods good times. You don't put no

636
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 5: energy in good times. But the true test of a

637
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 5: man i woman is when things don't go your way?

638
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 2: What do you do? Then?

639
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 5: How do you rebound? How do you consume it? That's

640
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 5: the thing about it. You can consume it and be woe.

641
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 3: It's mean.

642
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 5: I can't believe something happening to me. All you can

643
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,199
Speaker 5: be like, man, that's myself. Back up, Let me get

644
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 5: back up, Let me rebuild what I just burnt down, like,

645
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 5: let me figure it out. Let me wean my way

646
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 5: through here. And I tell you what the bad times

647
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 5: also do. And this is what everybody needs. Bad time

648
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 5: purges you of the people that shouldn't be around you.

649
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 4: Amen.

650
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 5: So that what they say, sometime when the lightning hit

651
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 5: that the forest and burn it down just for other

652
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 5: things can grow.

653
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 3: That farest needs to be burnt down for new growth

654
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 3: can happen.

655
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 5: Well, new growth can't happen unless you break that thing

656
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,479
Speaker 5: down and rebuild it. You need new studs, you need

657
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 5: new plot woods, you need new sheet rock. You need

658
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 5: to know everything. But you can get there unless you fall.

659
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 5: And most people tell you how they got there. They

660
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 5: won't tell you about the dirty time. They won't tell

661
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 5: you about when things did not go the way I

662
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 5: want to. Well, I didn't have that luxury of living

663
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 5: my life private. My life was on that big streen

664
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 5: for everybody to see. So once you agree to that,

665
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 5: you got to agree to let them see. You reveal

666
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 5: yourself and.

667
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 2: When you're rebuilding yourself right, because it's easier sat than done. Yeah,

668
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 2: you can say, you know, hey, losses or lessons and

669
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 2: you have all these things that you can say, appliche

670
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 2: things you can say, but you have to do it.

671
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 3: You have to get through it.

672
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 2: And again we see so many people not what gets

673
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 2: Fred smooth back when you're in that hill, when you're

674
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 2: in that valley? What gets Fred smooth back up top

675
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 2: of What are the things you've leaned on to do that?

676
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 3: I think it's the lessons football that's taught me. It's

677
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 3: a corner. I play a flawed position.

678
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 5: That's a position where you go out there you could

679
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 5: be the best, but they all you always know, I'm

680
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 5: gonna get burned at some point, I'm gonna get burned,

681
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna have to get back up in front of.

682
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 3: Thousands of people, and millions of people watch you and

683
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 3: say do it again and again and again and again.

684
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 5: And my position is a position of failure. It's like

685
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 5: going to the battle's box. If I go three for

686
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 5: ten or four for ten, I'm an all star. That

687
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 5: mean this is a flawed job by flawed people. So

688
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 5: I am flawed. And as soon as you learn that

689
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 5: I am a flawed human being, you forgive yourself for

690
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 5: making mistakes. You say, I'm just gonna not do that again.

691
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be a better me. I'm gonna figure this out.

692
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 5: Like once you stop growing, I was taught you are dying.

693
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 5: Once you stop growing mentally and physically as a person,

694
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 5: you have made it to the end of your road.

695
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 5: So therefore that map gonna have to have some You're

696
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 5: gonna have to weave out of that lane. Sometime, you

697
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 5: have to weave back into that lane sometime. Life is

698
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 5: constantly evolving, Life is constantly changing. So if you ain't

699
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 5: evolving and you ain't changing, that mean you're gonna get

700
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 5: left behind.

701
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 3: My thing was always, Hey, it.

702
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 5: Won't I won't lose from not trying the only shot

703
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 5: that's miss truly, it's a shot not taking. Now, I

704
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 5: can take a bad shot, been on the court, Like, man,

705
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 5: why you take that shot?

706
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 3: I needed to know I need to try it, so

707
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 3: I don't have to try it yet check so I

708
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 3: need to try it.

709
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 5: So that's the thing about it, man, that Mississippi mentality

710
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 5: mixed with football that troubleshoot and I had to do

711
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 5: on the run.

712
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 3: It made life kind of easy when it came to

713
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 3: that point.

714
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 5: And do it with no shame. I was always one

715
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,719
Speaker 5: of those people. I'm not shamed of anything I've been through.

716
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 5: I'm a human just like you.

717
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 3: And again that's easy.

718
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 2: Just said, thing done And now you get to watch

719
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 2: your son, Yeah, do the same thing, go through the

720
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 2: same things. Now I have to ask you, because I

721
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 2: was reading this article. What popped up when I google

722
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 2: your aggs? Always google y'all names for y'all? Pull up

723
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 2: who's the best football playing smooth?

724
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 3: It's me steal you up? Well, really, I'll be honest.

725
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 5: My uncle Junior, oh Wow, who taught me how to

726
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 5: play football, was the best athlete.

727
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 3: Him and my mom.

728
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 5: Him and my mom, they brothers and sisters. My uncle

729
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 5: used to get me in the middle street. He'd get

730
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 5: like ten years away from me and he would just

731
00:31:59,200 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 5: throw the.

732
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 2: Ball it's hard as he could, and I would just

733
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 2: leave with black eyes out time I just get hit.

734
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 2: And it got to a point where I could just

735
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 2: catch no matter how hard he threw, I could just

736
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 2: catch it without even second guess.

737
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 3: He just whipped me into shape. And then my mom

738
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 3: she found out she was pregnant with me playing football

739
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 3: with my uncle Junr Like pick up a run in

740
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 3: the front yard. So a part of me felt like

741
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 3: I was.

742
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 5: Meant to do this, I was born to do this.

743
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 5: So its just the people around you make you who

744
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 5: you are. I'm scrowng because my grandmama, my uncle, my mom.

745
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 5: I'm scrown because of them and what they put inside

746
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 5: of me. And now your son is Now my son

747
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 5: gets to see it, and he has his own Virginia

748
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 5: swag to it. But he know he got them Southern

749
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 5: roofs to it. And now the one thing I can

750
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 5: say about my son, I like he want all the smoke.

751
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 5: Like some some some X athletes sons, they don't the.

752
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 3: Shadow to be right for sure. For sure, my son

753
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 3: wanted all he think I ain't did nothing.

754
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 5: He thinks he's the first to play at his level,

755
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 5: and I enjoyed it about him that says to me,

756
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 5: he has a confidence that he believe in hisself over everything.

757
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 3: I know he gets that off of this and love you.

758
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 5: I like it if you don't believe, how you gonna

759
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 5: make me believe for sure? Like how you gonna make

760
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 5: a fan believe you the best? Why receive you are

761
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 5: the best? Connem when you don't even believe in yourself,

762
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 5: We don't do that smooth.

763
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 2: And as much fun as you had on the field,

764
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 2: I feel like watching you be a dad and watching

765
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 2: you see your daughter as your sons find success.

766
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you you ever had more fun than what

767
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 3: you're having right now?

768
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 5: It's an only child growing up, I used to always

769
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 5: think I wanted to have my kids. How they're gonna

770
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 5: be more like me and more like they mom. How

771
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 5: they're gonna view life. They're gonna be grind like, they're

772
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 5: gonna be funny, and they all got.

773
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,239
Speaker 3: My personality, I all got my swag and they keep

774
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 3: a smile on my face.

775
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 5: This is what they do because Lord, the conversations we

776
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 5: have off the chain, and I just enjoy them like

777
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 5: I told him, I got to take my mom and

778
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 5: dad on this voorge. Now y'all are taking me on

779
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 5: this vorge. But the AAU, I tell it'll drain you.

780
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 3: Good lord, it's long, it'll drain you.

781
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 5: But watching them excel in sports in the time that

782
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 5: they put in and just following my directions, it does

783
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 5: a lot for me.

784
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 3: It does, it does, and I really appreciate it.

785
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 5: And I'm really enjoying the ride because now I'm sitting

786
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 5: back and joining this ride free. I get to go

787
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 5: to all these colleges. I can go on these college trips.

788
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 5: I get to do all this stuff with the new school.

789
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 5: But the fun part about it, all these universities we

790
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 5: go to. It's guys I played against the coaches now

791
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 5: like so it's like I'm living in this world that

792
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 5: revolving around my kids and I know everybody.

793
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,280
Speaker 3: So it works.

794
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 2: And when you're not being the dad, where you're not

795
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 2: running around here in the studio doing a bunch of

796
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 2: different things, you're servicing your community. Man, I don't know

797
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 2: how many times I pull up a photo or I

798
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 2: pull up an event and you're there. You're always there,

799
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 2: and you say it. You're from Mississippi. This is not

800
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 2: your commit this is your kids community. Why is it

801
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 2: so important, especially during the holiday season, for you to

802
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 2: give back to this community and just be such a

803
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 2: part of it, man, Cause I feel like DMV and

804
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 2: fresh with a synonymous.

805
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 5: Most definitely, these are the people that cheered me on.

806
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 5: These is the people that had my back through the highs,

807
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 5: through the lows. Why I can't have your back back? Like,

808
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 5: why I can't be there for you at one point?

809
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 5: Like the thing is, man, with people, Life is not complex.

810
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 5: People make it complex. Life is simple. Treat people how

811
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 5: you want to be treated. I want to be treated nice.

812
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 5: I treat people nice. It don't take fifteen minutes out

813
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 5: your day to make sure somebody else having a good day.

814
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 5: And if all I gotta do is have my presence

815
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 5: be here, all I gotta do is be there for

816
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 5: you on Christmas, give you some couple of extra gifts

817
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 5: that you probably won't go to get in here.

818
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 4: That does it for me?

819
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 5: Like I've always wondered with people, like why would the

820
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 5: simple Why would you make the simple things hard?

821
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 3: Like the Golden rule?

822
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 5: Treat people how you want to be treated and just

823
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 5: repeat it, just keep repeating it. That's always my theme, man.

824
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 5: And when you meet these people at a game, they

825
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 5: never forget that moment. Right, Well, guess what when I

826
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 5: meet you at a charity charity event, I never forget

827
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 5: that moment.

828
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 3: That's true because I know one.

829
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,760
Speaker 5: Day I always tell the young kids, girls and boys,

830
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 5: one day I'm gonna be asking for your autograph, and

831
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 5: I want you to say, I never forget Fred Smooth.

832
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 3: I came to one your charity event. You gave me

833
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 3: a prison, and I'll never forget that.

834
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 5: Like this way make me feel way more than I

835
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 5: came to your game and seen you make a play.

836
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 3: Right, That's that's that's useless in the big.

837
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 5: Scheme of things, But for me to be there for

838
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 5: them and get them a memory that they'll never forget,

839
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 5: and guess what it makes them.

840
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,919
Speaker 3: Do turn around and give again.

841
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 5: So it's just creating a cycle, that's all you're doing.

842
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 5: I had the cycle made for me with Steve McNair.

843
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 5: He used to come back to Mississippi, him and Jay

844
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 5: Wrights all the time do stuff for us.

845
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do the same thing.

846
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 5: So if it rubbed out on me from them, it's

847
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 5: gonna rub I'm gonna rub out on some of these kids,

848
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 5: and they gonna the cycle is just gonna keep on going,

849
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 5: and the giving gonna keep on going, and the people

850
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 5: that need it, that appreciate it, they will never forget

851
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 5: them times some of the best times in their life.

852
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 2: Smooth claws man. That's why it was perfect to have

853
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 2: you here on this holiday show. And one thing we

854
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 2: do on Command Center we do a fresh fight up

855
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 2: where you talk directly to the fans. So in this

856
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 2: episode right here, I want you to look at your

857
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 2: ISO cam. You got an IO cam, I think it's

858
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 2: right there. Look directly at your ISO cam and give

859
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 2: us a fresh fighter. For Christmas Day, we take on

860
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys.

861
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 3: I'm gonna reverse this thing because it's Christmas. It ain't

862
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 3: f fired up.

863
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 5: It's fred ice cold Christmas, and this was what I want,

864
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 5: all right for Christmas. I want you to open up

865
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 5: those press on Christmas Eve. I want you to eat

866
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 5: that Christmas breakfast, and then I want you to head

867
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:56,760
Speaker 5: the Northwest.

868
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 3: Stadium where I b C.

869
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 5: Santana, Moss, Be, Mitch Logan, paulsy London, Big Beg Fletcher,

870
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 5: all the guys will be there. We want to see

871
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Speaker 5: you in the house. We want to see you making noise.

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Speaker 5: We play the cowboys, you know, we hate they guts

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Speaker 5: and it ain't no better time to give them a

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Speaker 5: Christmas present than Christmas of an ale a hot ale

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Speaker 5: might serve with some hot coco.

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Speaker 3: So I mean child in Northwest Stadium on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 3: I might have gifts with me.

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Speaker 4: I might not. I had to move to.

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Speaker 3: Mic away from me because I just start laughing. Whatever

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Speaker 3: Frega sent that. Brother.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you, and I know this community appreciates you

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Speaker 2: so much because again, you take so much time to

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: You got so much things going on. You don't got

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