1 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: Welcome again Real with Grady Jared, where me and my 2 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: co host Kelsey con Way talk about everything from football, lifestyle, 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: everything in between. Today we have a very special guest, 4 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: one of the best linebackers to ever play the game, 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: someone who's very near and dear to my heart, in 6 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: my family heart, Ray Lewis. And here's our conversation with 7 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame linebacker. And now, Grady, We're gonna 8 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: have a couple of guests on this show, but I 9 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: don't think that there's one guest that I am more 10 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: excited to talk to and have on this show than 11 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: the guests that we have on right now. And that 12 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: is a Hall of Fame linebacker, Ray Lewis. And where 13 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: do you even begin with his career? Right in the 14 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: legacy that he has, you have been able to be 15 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: close with him your entire life. How much of what 16 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: Ray has taught you, whether it's conversations on the phone 17 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: in person, how much of where you've gotten today came 18 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 1: from the lessons that you've learned from right you know, 19 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: because it's been so much, you know, almost immeasurable, just 20 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: because the impact obviously he has on the regular the 21 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: regular person that they don't even know. So for me 22 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: to have that close relationship with him as a young 23 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: child to an adult now, it's been it's been amazing. 24 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: From football talk, off the field talk. And I think 25 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: some of the biggest lessons that I've learned from him 26 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: is obviously just when we got time to put in 27 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: work together, and I'm sure he'd tell you, just just 28 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: just going. We just apply everything that we go through 29 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: in life through just that pain, that work we put 30 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: in the weight room and just overcoming and you know, 31 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: being ready for the next thing he was to teach us. 32 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: We used to think we'd be done with the workout, 33 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: me and my cousins, and he would just throw something 34 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: else in there. Or you know, we've done there, two 35 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: working out the day, it'd be nine o'clock, let's get 36 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: this third one in. Just because in life you always 37 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: telling you never know, you always got a big affected 38 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: and it was just so much deeper than football. And 39 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: these are just the lessons I learned that, you know, 40 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: ten years old, twelve years old, we would spring break. 41 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 1: We go to Florida. That's what we're doing for the 42 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: spreen break. We're going to work out. So um, just 43 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,359 Speaker 1: just things like that, it's just been I've been able 44 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: to apply my life and also know that there's always 45 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: a deeper spot that I can go to wherever in 46 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 1: the world I was training it or you know, going 47 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: to practice that because my body already been pushed to 48 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: a limit that nobody ever got it too there before, 49 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: you know, so just knowing that you can go harder 50 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,519 Speaker 1: and just just believe in yourself. Man. And so yeah, 51 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 1: I let him talk about it, and uh so, it's 52 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: just so much. It's it's it's so interesting because you know, 53 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: as a as a child, um, when I when I 54 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: used to just mess around with him all the time, 55 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: and then he grew up so fast, right, and then 56 00:02:55,240 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: he turned into this this animal very quickly. And it 57 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: was funny because the first time I said, I said, 58 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: come stay with your uncle, and he was like, I'm 59 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: packing my bags. And I never forget when we started 60 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: that journey, you know, him with my sons, and I 61 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: knew it was something in his eye that he was 62 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: not going to take a break. He would he would 63 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: literally give everything he had and then I would look 64 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: at him and you know what I'm talking about when 65 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: I'm talking about them bounds and all the things and 66 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: I was looking at him and I would say, nah, nah, 67 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 1: we got five more, No, we got ten more, right, 68 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: And every time it was always never becoming comfortable. Right. 69 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: Some of the lessons that I always wanted to teach 70 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: Jerry growing up, just like my son says, don't ever 71 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: become comfortable, because there's always a deeper level that you 72 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: can go to. But but the world is going to 73 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: tell you that you've made it. The world is going 74 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: to tell you that you're good and you can do 75 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. But when you have a 76 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: one on one battle with yourself. And this is where 77 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: he became really dominant because I started to see it 78 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: in him, and so all of the life lessons that 79 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: I gave him and me, the relationship with Mama, with 80 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: his mom Lisa and Mona, and the relationship we had, 81 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: we started to raise him to become everything that he wanted. 82 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: And it was my ability just to say I've done it, 83 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: I'm doing it. He used to follow me, right, He 84 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: used to come to all my games, he used to 85 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: come to all the Super Bowls. All that now I'm doing, 86 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: I'm doing the opposite. I started coming to his college 87 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: games and following him, and so our families just intertwined 88 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,479 Speaker 1: so much that our foundation was simple. Our foundation was 89 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 1: God right, the second one was family, the third one 90 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: was hard work, and the last one was always simple. 91 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 1: Never become comfortable. And that's why I'm really excited to 92 00:04:53,040 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: see this young man today the way it is. Yeah, 93 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: we just got finished talking to his college coach, who 94 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: literally reiterated exactly what you said about Grady about how 95 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: he never was comfortable. He was always jumping back in 96 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: line to get more reps. And obviously the lessons that 97 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: you've taught him have definitely left an impact on him. 98 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: So you've said that you've been following his games. I 99 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 1: don't want to put you on the spot, but curious, 100 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: is there a specific play in Grady's NFL career that 101 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: you think is probably one of the best. I mean, 102 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 1: you've seen a lot of good football. Yeah, but let 103 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: me let me let me answer that differently, right because 104 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,039 Speaker 1: he'll tell you this and here, and he's probably gonna laugh. 105 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: But I critique him harder than anybody. Yeah, So even 106 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 1: if he comes out and has his best game, right, 107 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 1: you're like in the super Bowl, just like in the 108 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: Super Bowl against against the Pages, right when he had 109 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: those three sex. I was like, look, I get all that, 110 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: but I need you to stay low, don't worry about 111 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 1: the guy in front of you. And yeah, it mean 112 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: it'd be so so critiquing, like be rushing, like what 113 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: you what you're looking at? Like with your eyes you 114 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 1: you're looking at the quarterback, trying to beat the man 115 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:17,919 Speaker 1: in front of you. You gotta beat the man in 116 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: front of you first, and then you know, and I 117 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: I know, but that next week, you know, I took it. 118 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: I think one game he was playing, I forgot who 119 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 1: we played the next week playing in Seattle, had a 120 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: really good game. And um, because and it's just that 121 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 1: being made aware of the smallst things because it happens 122 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: so fast. But if you because you as a rusher, 123 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 1: you're just thinking quarterback, quarterback, but just when you take 124 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: that time to deal with what's in front of you, it, 125 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:46,679 Speaker 1: um it can you know, it opens up better better 126 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: winning percentages, you know better if you you know, if 127 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: you're getting slide or you're getting one on one, you 128 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 1: can react faster. So so yeah, just those kind of 129 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: critiques like that has um been been really good for me. 130 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: So I want to take it to you on a 131 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: personal level. Yeah, seventeen years man as a middle linebacker. 132 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: In the times where football was people would say a 133 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: little more physical, big chootall for me, Um, for guys 134 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 1: around the league, Um, young guys coming up. What did 135 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: it take and for you mentally physically to be able 136 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: to withstand and exceed? You know, in those seventeen years 137 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: you got over thirteen fourteen, maybe fifteen Pro Bowls and 138 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: All Pros double digits? How do you maintain maintain that 139 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: level of success in grind and um? You know, what 140 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: does it take to be there? Honestly? Um, you know? 141 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: And it was interesting. I was just talking to Uh 142 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: I think the Tennessee Titans, our middle linebacker, And it 143 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: was interesting because he asked a similar question, Right, what's 144 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: the difference? And Jared, honestly, and I've told you this 145 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: many times, the difference is there are so many distractions 146 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: that you guys have nowadays that we didn't have. Right. 147 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: Social Media wasn't this huge explosion when we were playing football? Right, 148 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: So every day you remember it as a child because 149 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: when you started coming down the train with your uncle, 150 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: you was like, how are we doing another workout? How 151 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: are we doing another workout? Right? I never got comfortable 152 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: because we didn't have time to waste. Why because the 153 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: legacy was more important than the free time. Right Like 154 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: right now, you know every you know, you're on Twitter, 155 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: you're on Instagram, you're on all of these things, and 156 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: you have to kind of manage a totally different world. 157 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: My world was an animalistic world. My world was the 158 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,599 Speaker 1: same world that I taught you in that waiting me. 159 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: We got to give it everything we got. There's no tomorrow, 160 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,719 Speaker 1: right and at the end of the day, there will 161 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: only be certain people that you want to hear your 162 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: come out of their mouth, the great ones that came 163 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: before you. And that's and that's the difference, like I 164 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: set aside. You gotta think when me and the family 165 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: got together two thousand, bro, I was twenty four years old, 166 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: you know, but my life forever changed. And when it changed, 167 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: I stopped wasting time. I stopped dealing with people I 168 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: didn't need to deal with, and I figured out something 169 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: I never forget it. I saw Lawrence Taylor and we 170 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: was laughing and joking and he was like, well you rough, 171 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: he said, he said, you played the game right now. 172 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: Now you gotta remember now this me listen to the 173 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: LT say this right, and he was like, you played 174 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: the game rough. And then the first ruing out my mom, 175 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: Jared was lt, I'm coming, I'm coming. I want your crown. 176 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: And every day so people asked, how did our last 177 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: seventeen years? You noticed I invested in my body, I 178 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: invested into the build. I invested in not just being 179 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: a player. I wanted to be a student of the game. 180 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: I wanted to know the whole game. I just told 181 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: this story on Mike Noble Gays Show yesterday about me 182 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: and Paid Manner. Paid Manner forever change the way I 183 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: watched film by just some things that he said at 184 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl in ninety seven and ninety eight. He 185 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:23,679 Speaker 1: was he was like, I study you so much, and 186 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: I'm like, really, what the And and then I'm saying 187 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: to myself, when I study film, but I don't know 188 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: if I go as hard as you go. Yeah, if 189 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: you're being watched hard, you don't even realize how much 190 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 1: how hard you're being watched. You got to realize how 191 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: hard you being watched. And then when you become your 192 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: own critic, when you when you have some of I 193 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: had some of the best games ever, and I never 194 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,839 Speaker 1: forget a Jack Darrel and Mike Singletary. I used to 195 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: come into meetings and they used to be like, come on, man, 196 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: you grade it out almost a hundred, like you're good. 197 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: I was like, I don't care. I may mistake. I 198 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: know to play, and you got to talk about it. 199 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: So already I was already in critique mode right on 200 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: how I can be better, better, better, even though I 201 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 1: had great games. And that's why I think the consistency 202 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: of how I took care of my body, how I 203 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: approached the game, and how I saw the game, and 204 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: what I was actually chasing. What I was chasing was 205 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: being on this side of it and now being on 206 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: this side. I walk around and I listened to Lawrence Taylor, 207 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: and I listened to it Ronnie Lots, and I listened 208 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,679 Speaker 1: to all of these great and paid men, and all 209 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 1: these guys say the greatest to ever do it. That's 210 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 1: why I did it. That's why I gave up everything else. 211 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 1: And that's the difference, right. I tell people this all 212 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: the time, even given you, baby boy, you've heard this before. 213 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: Young guys like yourself in this game have to figure 214 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: out two things very quickly. The difference between de tours 215 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 1: and distractions right, because a d tour can take you. 216 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: An alternate route may take you longer to get there, 217 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: but it could be helpful. But every distraction and slows 218 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: you down from the ultimate goal. Yeah, yeah, Well is 219 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: there a Obviously Grady is such an impressive guy, But 220 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,439 Speaker 1: is there one thing that, whether it be what he's 221 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: doing off the field or what he's doing on the field, 222 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: that since since you've been able to see him grow up, 223 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:24,439 Speaker 1: that you think is the most impressive thing about Grady Jarrett. Yeah. Well, see, 224 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: if you know, if you know his mom, then it's 225 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: kind of you know, so it's for me because he's 226 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 1: he's a nephew to me, right, and so I have 227 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:43,719 Speaker 1: always been impressed by him never giving in to the 228 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: rhetoric or to what people say, how people viewed him. 229 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: He'll remember this when we went to Vegas and I 230 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: never forget me went in that weight room that day 231 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: and I looked at him and I saw him giving 232 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: me this look, and I was like, look, we're gonna 233 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,599 Speaker 1: go through it today. We're gonna go through it today. 234 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: But I saw something that continues to this day. Every 235 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 1: time he called me, He's always on his grind. And 236 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: the thing that excites me the most as an uncle 237 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,679 Speaker 1: is I I was one of the ones who breathed 238 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 1: that into him, like let me give you this. I 239 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: want to give you this, and I want you to 240 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: run with it. The off the field stuff. That's who 241 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 1: we are as a family, that's who we've always been. 242 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,839 Speaker 1: The impact that he makes giving back to people. He 243 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: was raised that way and that's exactly who he is. 244 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: So that that part just excites me because that's who 245 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 1: he is. But what shows me that he took every 246 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: lesson that I have for him, it is now it's 247 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: become his owner. He's his own man. And I'm telling 248 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 1: you when I watched him play man, I'm I'm always 249 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: jumping through the stream. I'm always jumping through the stream. 250 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: I called him at every day, like give him a 251 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: text out the day. That's what I'm talking about. Let's 252 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: get this thing done now. Yeah. Absolutely, So, now that 253 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 1: we have gone pretty in depth on Grady, Now now 254 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: the part that I've really been looking forward to. Grady, 255 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: just let me have my moment here. Okay, So I 256 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: grew up in Howard County, Maryland, which obviously, Ray you're 257 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: probably familiar with the area. Twenty five minutes from H 258 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: M ANDT Bank Stadium and in about sixth grade I 259 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: started following football. But football wasn't I didn't grow up 260 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: in a family where when I was a baby, I 261 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 1: was wearing a Ravens jersey. So I started following the 262 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: Ravens in middle school. And that was at the height 263 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: of your career and ed Reid's career were the dominant 264 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: Helodi nodded defense and I will never forget I was 265 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: so lucky to share this bond with my dad where 266 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: we kind of started loving the Ravens, you know, together, 267 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: and you obviously it be part of why I fell 268 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: in love with football. I got in football as my 269 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: career because of my love for it, and a lot 270 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: of it started with you know, players. But that's the 271 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: cool part about the sport is people can have such 272 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: a big impact on your fanship. And I know you 273 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: and Grady can talk a little bit more about how 274 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: that makes you guys feel. But I remember we would 275 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: get to the games to do the Ravens walk before 276 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: I look at my dad and say, Dad, we have 277 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: to get in so that we can see ray Lewis 278 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: come out of the tunnel and do his dance. Because 279 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: if you miss that it was essentially like missing the 280 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: entire game in Baltimore. So I've always wanted to ask this, 281 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: how did you come up with the iconic squirrel dance 282 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: intro that she did? And how did you pick the 283 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: hot in hair song and go with it? And yeah, 284 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: if you could just go into detail on how that 285 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: whole thing came about. And then it was I'm gonna 286 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: do I'm gonna do a really quick because there was 287 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: a military veteran UM retired military veteran NA Kirby Lee, 288 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: who lived in our hometown and he has some he 289 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: has some mental issues, and so he took he took 290 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: a liking to me in high school and he's he's 291 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 1: always just every time I came home, he used to 292 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: always dance, he used to always do something. He used 293 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: to always have a song. He's to always have something 294 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: for me. And if you see it on his arm 295 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: and on his chest, on his back, he got me 296 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 1: tattooed like all over him, right, And so I'm like, 297 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 1: so I saw the helping him out. I saw to 298 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: get him houses and clothes and just different stuff. I 299 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: just really wanted to help him out. And one day 300 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: I came home and there was this famous song in 301 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: Temple calls the Squirrel right, So he's to go, let 302 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: me see you squirrel, let me see it. So and 303 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: there was all type of dances that you could do 304 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: with it, like the all type of dances like me 305 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: and Sath used to do it in the locker room, 306 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: like just messing with it. Though. You used to just 307 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: play with it. And so one time I'm home. One 308 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: time I'm home and uh, he showed me. He showed 309 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:04,679 Speaker 1: me his version of it right, And I was like, 310 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 1: I was like, curb, who does this girl like that? 311 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: And I said, I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do that. 312 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that on TV. And he was like, no, 313 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: you're not, No, you're not. Said, I guarantee you'll do 314 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,640 Speaker 1: it on TV. The next week, I went, I went 315 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 1: into the I went into the meeting. I said, Marvel, 316 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: Marvin lewis my bages courting at the time. I said, Marvin, 317 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: when I when I'm introduced, I'm gonna do something when 318 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: I come out. You're cool with that. He was like, 319 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 1: I'm good. I came out of the tunnel and I'm 320 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: telling you, I was the last one call and I 321 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: came out of that tunnel. And this was when it 322 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,479 Speaker 1: was like no music at first, and I hit that 323 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 1: thing for the first time and the crowd lost their mind. 324 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, Jay, I'm telling you Twitter was 325 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 1: broken before Twitter, it was even out. It was crazy, 326 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: the emails. Oh, he had to dance every week and up. 327 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: And so then this guy by the name of Danny 328 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: used to run out video department and I went up 329 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: there and I would say, Danny, look, man, if y'all 330 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:12,880 Speaker 1: gonna introduced me, I got to come up with a song. 331 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 1: I gotta come up with a theme, I gotta come 332 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,120 Speaker 1: up with everything. And this is around two thousand, when 333 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 1: Gladia had first came out. So if you ever noticed, 334 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: when Russell Corl walked out in the coliseum, he would 335 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 1: always grab dirty and put it in his hand. And 336 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: so that's why my piece of grass was always laid 337 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 1: on the side, because I would always come grab my 338 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: grass before walking into the arena. And Nellie's song came 339 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: because me and Nellie are really good friends, and it 340 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: was just one of those songs that was really hot, 341 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: hot at the time, right, And then it started to 342 00:18:54,080 --> 00:19:00,120 Speaker 1: morph into this this whole production and then the stations 343 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: NBC and everybody was like, we want to block out 344 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: two or three minutes to raise dance. We want to 345 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,360 Speaker 1: put it in the live shot. And I'm like, well, 346 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm in concert and a show, and 347 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: that's and that's kind of how that's kind of how 348 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 1: the dance was created. Absolutely, I love it. It was 349 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 1: to the point where I was bummed when they introduced 350 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: the offense. I was like, can we just can we 351 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 1: just skip the offense every week? Oh my goodness. I 352 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: remember Coach used to coming in and say, look, we're 353 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: gonna introduce the offense, but we're gonna have you come 354 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: out last. Okay, either way, we're gonna let the offense. 355 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 1: Got it was, it was. It was fun. But I'm 356 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:45,919 Speaker 1: gonna tell you the best one for me. Um. I 357 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 1: think I've done a lot of them. But when I 358 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: came out Nah at the Super Bowl in Tampa, Um, 359 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,159 Speaker 1: Brian Billark Brian Billard's and he was he was. He 360 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 1: became up hand of it. So it was kind of cool. 361 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: And right before I got ready to do it, he 362 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: was like, go shoom, who we are? And I'm like, 363 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,199 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is freaking crazy. Can we go 364 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: out in the Super Bowl and I get to come 365 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: out the tunnel and do my dance and yeah, so absolutely, man, awesome, 366 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: awesome tribute. I travel to Africa, kids do the dance. 367 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 1: I travel anywhere around the world. People know that dance. 368 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: So it's it's awesome. Absolutely. I may or may not 369 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 1: have done it a few times in my life, but 370 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: you gotta do what it recorded. You gotta send me there. 371 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 1: But but nobody needs to see that. Hey, granny, have 372 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: you ever thought about potentially starting a dance after you 373 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 1: get sacks or you kind of like, stop my deal? 374 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: I don't know me. I'm talked about it. He definitely 375 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: talked about it. We did talk about it, and we're 376 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: talking about it. We're talking about I got I gotta 377 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,159 Speaker 1: come up with something. You know, this might be the year, 378 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: this might be the transition year. We're going to starting 379 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 1: something new, getting the fans ready, get them. I told him, 380 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: I don't know one show him there. I think. Listen 381 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: to me. I think you got to give them something, something, 382 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: got to give them what they want. Gotta give them 383 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: what they want. Um. Yeah, so I'm gonna switch to 384 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 1: something I think fans would be really interested in. Um 385 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: uh no secret you know you and Michael felt sharing 386 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: a very special relationship and being an all time olympian 387 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,679 Speaker 1: and um, obviously I know you guys are close. He 388 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 1: was at your retirement party at the house, so um 389 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 1: when we headed out of Mom's house. So he's support 390 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: you in every way. You know where you're tea. So 391 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 1: can you get give us, give us a little um 392 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: synopsis on you know how y'all got connected and you 393 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 1: know what what you know what you did for him 394 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 1: to help him get back to where he needed to 395 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,400 Speaker 1: be and coming at a high level. And um, so yeah, 396 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: just take that one and go. Yeah. Man, I'm excited. 397 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: I'm excited to see his book. Um when it comes out. 398 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,199 Speaker 1: You know, I just spoken his book and stuff. But 399 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: we met years ago, years ago, and Phelps was you know, 400 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 1: Baltimore kid, you know, and he ended up coming to 401 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: the game or whatever, and we ended up looking up man, 402 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: and I never forget it. The first day we started connecting, 403 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: it was like, look, we represent Baltimore like we are Baltimore. 404 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,439 Speaker 1: And that's how the relationship started. That's exactly how it started. 405 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: And then we saw it getting closer. And then after games, 406 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: how would go to his house and we were just oh, 407 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,160 Speaker 1: we just we just became brothers and we just started 408 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 1: connecting and connected connected, and then we started to really 409 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: have conversation with each other about you know, what the 410 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: end goal was, right, how of the legacy, like what 411 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: did we want the legacy to be? And I never forget. 412 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: I looked at him and I said, look, it's you 413 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 1: will be the greatest Olympian of all the time. Ever. 414 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,439 Speaker 1: We're not taking those shortcuts, bro, And I never forget. 415 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: He looked at me and he said, look, the greatest 416 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: defensive player to ever played the game. And I was like, bro, 417 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: we're going after it. So man, we started going after it. 418 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: And then we started to have really intimate conversations about 419 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: just some things at the time, you know that he 420 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: was dealing with when it came to depression and different 421 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 1: things like that. And then I had read this book 422 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: by Rick Warren, Purpose Driven Life. I had read that 423 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: book like almost eight times and it's a four the 424 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: day journal that Forever, forever changed my life. And I 425 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: told him, and I never forget the day he called me. 426 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: He was like, bro, I'm just going through it. I 427 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 1: was like, you got to come to the house. And 428 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: he came to the house and we went in the 429 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: back man by the pool, and he started telling me 430 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,400 Speaker 1: some stuff he was about to do. He gonna come 431 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 1: back and he gonna do this. And I looked at 432 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 1: him in the eye and I said, is this for you? 433 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:48,919 Speaker 1: You know? Because if this for you, then let's go 434 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 1: do it. But he was dealing with some stuff and 435 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: I said, brother, I'm gonna walk through this journal again 436 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 1: with you. And so we started this journey on this 437 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 1: forty day journal all over again, and just to hear 438 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 1: his excitement. Every day he would read a new chapter 439 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: and he would call me and say, bro, I cannot 440 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 1: believe this. And I'm like, yeah, I just keep going 441 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 1: and I'm reading it with you. So I'm right there 442 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 1: reliving it all over again. So there was this thing 443 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: that we went through as men, right that I always 444 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: say a lot of men the biggest crutch is they 445 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: won't share their deepest pains. We got to a point 446 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 1: to where we started to share our deepest pains. We 447 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 1: started to share those fears, we started to share those words, 448 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 1: those doubts, the stresses, and that's when we both I think, 449 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 1: grew as men to live life as a king. On 450 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 1: the other side, of it because now we started because man, 451 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: we started going back at each other and it was 452 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: so good and everything that we started to do, the 453 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 1: highs the lows. We was with each other. Bro, come 454 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: see me, text me this, text me that, Ay talk 455 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: to me about this, and to this say, man, we 456 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: just love each other. You know, palps his past and 457 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: he was one of the first people to reach out, 458 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: you know, to me and was like, I love you, 459 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: just know that, and we have to create more memories 460 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 1: and I want to create more memories soon with you. 461 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: So that relationship that me and this man has is 462 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: it's forever. It's forever. Jay and Phelps as a brother. 463 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: You know, I call his mama mama. He called my 464 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 1: mom and mama for years now and it's never changed. 465 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,479 Speaker 1: And they don't look at us no differently, man. So 466 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 1: it's a it's a brotherhood that's forever connected. Yeah. From 467 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 1: from you from your standpoint right, you've been able to 468 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 1: mentor one of the greatest Olympians of all time and 469 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,360 Speaker 1: Michael Phelps, You've had a Hall of Fame career, you're 470 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: currently mentoring one of the best players in the NFL. 471 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 1: And Grady, do you does that almost give you more 472 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,640 Speaker 1: joy than some of your personal accomplishments. The way you've 473 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: been able to impact others, it is the greatest joy. 474 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 1: People ask me all the time. That's a great question, right, 475 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 1: So people ask me, ask me all the time what 476 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 1: was the highlight of my career and what is the 477 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,439 Speaker 1: highlight of my life? The highlight of my life is 478 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: the impact that I have when people, the things that 479 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 1: I can do to give back to people, right, And 480 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 1: like I'm I'm always in a father mentality or a 481 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 1: big rether mentality. So what I did, what I do 482 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 1: for phelps, what for me, what I do for Jared, 483 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: what I do for countless other people, that's the highlight. 484 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,880 Speaker 1: Because what you do for people is how you will 485 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,239 Speaker 1: be remembered, right, And that's that's that for me. Just 486 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: like when I was playing with the Ravens, right when 487 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: you were a little baby, right, it was me. It 488 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 1: was me taking those guys that didn't understand the whole 489 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: game and making them understand it, making it stupid simple, 490 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 1: but making it fun for them. And then when you 491 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 1: get away from the game, I get man, I'm talking 492 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,919 Speaker 1: about own just a random number, I probably get seventy 493 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,679 Speaker 1: five eighty calls for texts a week from form of guys, 494 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: thank you for what you did for my career. Thank you. 495 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: I mean just just last week I talked to BJ 496 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,679 Speaker 1: SAMs and the Darius Webb and they just called me. 497 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,679 Speaker 1: It was like, Bro, you've faver changed my life. Like 498 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,679 Speaker 1: you you really installed I what I didn't know I 499 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: had in me. And so when you hear those things, 500 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: it's like, Wow, the career was cool, But blessing a 501 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: man is awesome, and so's it's an awesome thing. Man, 502 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: it's a it's a gift. It's a gift from God 503 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 1: and U and I like exercising it. Well, Ray, before 504 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,120 Speaker 1: we let you go, I think Grady and I would 505 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: be remissed if we didn't ask you about a coach 506 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,479 Speaker 1: who was very instrumental in your career who's not going 507 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:53,159 Speaker 1: to be coaching Grady in Dnpas, the Falcon's new defensive coordinator. 508 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 1: So could you just share with us a little bit 509 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: about why Dnps is such a great coordinator and why 510 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: the Falcons fans should be excited about him leading the 511 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: defense and what he can do for Grady. I'll tell you, 512 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 1: first of all, we talked me and him talking. We 513 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: text and talk all the time, because he's more like 514 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: a father figure for me. But what Dean did when 515 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: Dean got to came to Baltimore, what was interesting was 516 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: me and Ed was one of the few people that 517 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 1: he would always call and he would call me in 518 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: the office and he was like, what do you see? 519 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: How do you see it? And I think, if you're 520 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: a land of Falcon, what you should be really excited 521 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: about Jared, definitely you is that he gives you the 522 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: ability to dictate what you do best, like what counts right? 523 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 1: And so what does that mean exactly? So we went 524 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: into the last round of the playoffs eleven and twelve, 525 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 1: and it was interesting because he said, Ray, what are 526 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 1: we running? What defense do you want to run? I said, coach, 527 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 1: we got paid Man, we got Andrew Louve, we got 528 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: Tom Brady, and then we end up having having capped right. 529 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: We got all of these guys, I said, three of them. 530 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: Listen to me, we have to play a chess match. 531 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: You don't want to play them in a couple one. 532 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: You don't want to play them in a cup of three, 533 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: because they know they know those coverages, they know the 534 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: weakness of those coverages. Let's play them in what we 535 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 1: do best. Let's make them go to the long route. 536 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: And he's sitting in there watching film, watching film, watching film. 537 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: He came back to me, he was like, this is 538 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: the game plan. We're going where And it was just 539 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: interesting that him, Marvin Lewis and guys like that Jack 540 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 1: de Rio, who gets it, who understands the player perspective. 541 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: DEMPS understands the player's perspective. That's why, Jared, you're gonna 542 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: love playing for him. He's not a guy that's gonna 543 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: raw rah rah and curse you, or you come to 544 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 1: work every day, you bring you a lunch film. He's 545 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: a guy that's gonna look at you that you're gonna 546 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: love playing for. I love playing for DMPs for one 547 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 1: simple reason because it was a father given a son 548 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 1: the lessons to go just do what I do. That's 549 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: that's that's that's the way. That's the way he you. 550 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 1: And so when you walk into meetings, man meets was 551 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: meetings was different. Um, and I've had some coordinators that was, 552 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: you know, stressed out and listen that. But Dean Dean 553 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: is a calculated person. He is so well spoken and 554 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 1: uh and it's I'm telling you, it's an honor to 555 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: play for him, and that last ride I never forget 556 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. Um, he looked at him, he said, 557 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: in my ear he said. He said, general, Well we're running, 558 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 1: I said, Coach, I'm not playing zone. I said. I said, 559 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: helload the out. I'm hurt if I'm going out my 560 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 1: last ride, We're going out blasted. He said, what do 561 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: you want? I said, Cable zero train. Cable zero we ran, 562 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: We ran, we ran. Cable zero trains are four plays, 563 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 1: four players in the world. You hit me, bro, But 564 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: it was it was the confidence that he had in 565 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: me from my studying, knowing right that the one pass 566 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 1: that Cap had a lot of problems throwing is the 567 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: back should to fade. Right now he was playing against 568 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 1: a Brady or a Rogers, a Break or paid Many, 569 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: you can't play that same coverage against them because they're 570 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: too good at throwing that back should the fade man. 571 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 1: So for us to have that confidence in each other, 572 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 1: but more importantly, for Dean to always give you like 573 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: you you're in control of it. He's just there to 574 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 1: guide you. And I think that's what Atlanta Falcons fans 575 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: is really going to be excited about. Yeah. Absolutely, awesome, man, awesome, 576 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 1: thank you man, thank you. Um. You know, just us 577 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 1: having this conversation, you impacted that much more people who 578 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: ever gonna tune into this podcast. And uh, I'm gonna 579 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 1: call you later see soon, and UNA say, I'm gonna 580 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: say this boy, I'm I know we talked in conversation, 581 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 1: but I'm I'm I'm proud of you, right because everybody 582 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: doesn't accept the challenge. A lot of people talk about it, 583 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 1: but everybody doesn't accept the challenge. And Jason's five years old. 584 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 1: You accepted the challenge and so now right, you know 585 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 1: me always being dadded somewhere to you. Now, what's the 586 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 1: next level on how you get everybody around you to 587 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 1: play like you? That's the next mission. Because Jared is 588 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: now creative his name. But now it's sounds for you 589 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 1: to take that defense, take Dean pas and take that 590 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: defense and teach him something different me and know more 591 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: than what we know? Right? You know everything? All right? 592 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 1: God bless you. I love you. Call me later, all right, baby, Wow, 593 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 1: there's so much to unpack in that conversation we just 594 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 1: had with Ray. I don't even know where to begin, 595 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 1: but I think where I wanted to ask you about 596 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: now that we just heard how much Ray has impacted 597 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,960 Speaker 1: your life. I talked about how he impacted my love 598 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 1: for football. Is you're in a unique spot as a 599 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:03,239 Speaker 1: professional athlete where you don't realize it. Of course you 600 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: do realize it, but everything you do matters to people 601 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 1: that you don't know. So you you're taking the field 602 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: on Sundays in front of thousands of people watching you 603 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 1: on TV or in person. You're out to dinner and 604 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: people see you and it's oh, it's Grady Jarrett. And 605 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: you're in a position where you can literally change someone's 606 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 1: life just by the job that you have. How does 607 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: that feel to you? Do you enjoy being in that spot? 608 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: I just would love to hear your thoughts on that. Yeah, 609 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,200 Speaker 1: you know, being able to be blessed with this position, 610 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: I say it's a blessing because it really is. It's 611 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 1: something that you dream about and but for me, it 612 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:58,440 Speaker 1: just comes so naturally. And you know, like you said, 613 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:03,719 Speaker 1: everything you do matters. And being that person that is 614 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 1: the one that's looked too, you know, to bring um, 615 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,799 Speaker 1: you know, whether it's happening, it's joy, whatever somebody gets 616 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,960 Speaker 1: from watching me play football. I have a duty to 617 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 1: give my all, you know, and and just you know, 618 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 1: somebody listening to here today or somebody seeing me out 619 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,279 Speaker 1: getting something to eat, like just to have that small conversation, 620 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,160 Speaker 1: small interaction with somebody, it means the world to somebody, 621 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,240 Speaker 1: you know. And it took me a long long time, 622 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 1: a lot of work to get to that point. And 623 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: it's it's not me doing this to get to that too, 624 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,040 Speaker 1: so somebody can look to me. It just happened as 625 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 1: a byproduct of what God bless me with. And yeah, 626 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,399 Speaker 1: I just really feel like it's a it's a it's 627 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:49,759 Speaker 1: a true um blessing. Um. It's an opportunity for me 628 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,080 Speaker 1: to meet new people have impact in their lives. Like 629 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,839 Speaker 1: I had to tell one of my friends one time, 630 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 1: you know, we you know, just for somebody to go 631 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 1: out their way and say, oh hey met Grady Jared 632 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 1: or or that was a high day to day day 633 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,200 Speaker 1: or something like that, Like that's something that I couldn't 634 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 1: even you know, fathom, like you know, and um, like 635 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,920 Speaker 1: it's like coming out of high school or you know 636 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 1: whatever for that to be a reality. Man, it's just 637 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 1: it's just you know, I'm at a loss for words, 638 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:17,719 Speaker 1: you know, but it motivates me so much more to 639 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:22,000 Speaker 1: be better and to do right into you know, motivate 640 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,239 Speaker 1: the next you know, Grady Jared or whatever it may be, 641 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,439 Speaker 1: because you never know who's watching, and um that one, 642 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,640 Speaker 1: you know, the one thing you do to help somebody 643 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,320 Speaker 1: else may encourage somebody else to help somebody else. So 644 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,240 Speaker 1: it's like a chain reaction, man. So it's definitely a blessing. 645 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:41,719 Speaker 1: There's probably so many people that say would they watch you, 646 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,319 Speaker 1: and they say, I don't be like Grady Jared when 647 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,760 Speaker 1: I'm older. You know, I remember when I was watching 648 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 1: ray Lewis, I was like, this guy is what football represents. 649 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,680 Speaker 1: And I'm twenty eight years old now and I'm still 650 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 1: talking about how ray Lewis and acted my profession and 651 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,759 Speaker 1: what I'm doing now. And for you, I just think, like, 652 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:11,359 Speaker 1: what a cool opportunity. And people don't understand sports like 653 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,840 Speaker 1: you having a great game and the Falcon's winning. The 654 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,000 Speaker 1: amount of smiles that points on people's faces and then 655 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: their moods that has changed. I know, people like, all right, 656 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,440 Speaker 1: it's just a game, but like it's it's it's so 657 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,080 Speaker 1: much more than that. It can literally turn someone's day 658 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,400 Speaker 1: from the worst day that ever ever having to the 659 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,319 Speaker 1: best day. And it's not just what you do on 660 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:33,960 Speaker 1: the field, Like I know you do a ton in 661 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,600 Speaker 1: the community, and you know, we'll talk about that later on, 662 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 1: but like you have the power to physically dictate the 663 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,839 Speaker 1: mood of someone and you know their happiness of their day. 664 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,440 Speaker 1: And I just think, like, wow, what a cool opportunity. Absolutely, 665 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,240 Speaker 1: absolutely the reach that we have as professional athletes football 666 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,000 Speaker 1: players is just amazing. Like I remember going on a 667 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 1: USO trip a couple of years ago. We went over 668 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:02,520 Speaker 1: to like Hawaii, Guam and Japan and just you know, 669 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 1: and visits a military basis, and uh, just how in 670 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,560 Speaker 1: tune people are with you know, the game of football 671 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,759 Speaker 1: and being so happy to meet you. And and I 672 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,680 Speaker 1: think if we as players like we would understand that 673 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,759 Speaker 1: impact we have, um more of us will cherish this 674 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,920 Speaker 1: opportunity a little more and and and go harder and 675 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,880 Speaker 1: the things we do because it do matter, you know, 676 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,239 Speaker 1: everything you do it does matter. Like, just don't go 677 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,760 Speaker 1: through the motions in life like work with a purpose, 678 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, you're not just 679 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,239 Speaker 1: helping yourself, you're helping somebody you don't even know. So 680 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,200 Speaker 1: it's like live your truth and you know, speak that 681 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,400 Speaker 1: and the and and you know, it's just like I 682 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,719 Speaker 1: said earlier, the domino effect of affecting people in a 683 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,799 Speaker 1: positive way down the road. You I mean, whether you 684 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,960 Speaker 1: know it or not, you know you still you did 685 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,080 Speaker 1: you did something. You did. Guy's working and that's that's 686 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,200 Speaker 1: that's what that's what it's about, and bringing happiness, enjoy 687 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,359 Speaker 1: the people, and just going out of there putting your 688 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 1: best effort. You know, every game you're not gonna win, 689 00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,279 Speaker 1: but as long as you put your best effort, I mean, 690 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,880 Speaker 1: that's all that matter, you know. So for the fans 691 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,200 Speaker 1: that are listening, if they see Grady Jared out and 692 00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,080 Speaker 1: about in Atlanta, they can come up and introduce them 693 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,000 Speaker 1: Saucy or you're cool with that, Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely, 694 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,319 Speaker 1: it happens. It happens a lot. And U I mean 695 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,320 Speaker 1: like I like it because it was a point. It 696 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,440 Speaker 1: was a time in my life where you know, you know, 697 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,920 Speaker 1: just people really really recognize like that. So with me now, 698 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,200 Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not. I feel like I'm always 699 00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,840 Speaker 1: pretty open. People around me might think say I'm a 700 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,960 Speaker 1: little too friendly, you know, taking my time to talk 701 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,200 Speaker 1: to people or sign something here and there and so 702 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:32,799 Speaker 1: I mean, it's cool people coming to me at the 703 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,040 Speaker 1: gas station. Um, a lot of restaurants. I see me 704 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,359 Speaker 1: around town a lot, and so uh yeah, man, come 705 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,439 Speaker 1: on and say say what's up. Take. I love it. 706 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:45,160 Speaker 1: You're changing people's lives and it's it's incredible to watch. 707 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,399 Speaker 1: But before I'll let you go today, I gotta ask 708 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,840 Speaker 1: you something that came up in my head when we 709 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,160 Speaker 1: were listening to Ray Okay, he talked about what's next 710 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,000 Speaker 1: for you and for you that's leading the people around you. Right, 711 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:03,719 Speaker 1: So you've already gotten drafted. Yeah, you got your contract extension. Check, 712 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:08,279 Speaker 1: you've reached a Pro Bowl. Check. What is next for 713 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,560 Speaker 1: you in terms of what are you hoping to attack 714 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,680 Speaker 1: and what's next for you in your career? Um, what's 715 00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:19,640 Speaker 1: next for me is getting this team back to playing 716 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,040 Speaker 1: winning football and back and playing in the postseason and 717 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,360 Speaker 1: reaching pursuing the championship because I know we got it 718 00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,520 Speaker 1: takes to get there, and um that's you know me. 719 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,880 Speaker 1: That may take me getting on my comfort zone and 720 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,400 Speaker 1: spending more one on one time with multiple guys you know, 721 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,919 Speaker 1: whatever it may be, however the team turns out, and 722 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,800 Speaker 1: so me just being my best and using the lessons 723 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,200 Speaker 1: that I know to help impact other people, you know, 724 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,440 Speaker 1: and not just keep it to myself. And because you know, 725 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,600 Speaker 1: the fans in Atlanta, they deserve a great team and 726 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,040 Speaker 1: that we got what it takes. I'm excited about some 727 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,520 Speaker 1: fresh new energy and the build them and uh, like 728 00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,279 Speaker 1: I say, I'm here to serve whatever way I can 729 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,160 Speaker 1: to help us get back to winning football. Because as 730 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,560 Speaker 1: you know, the past couple of seasons, you know, as 731 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,839 Speaker 1: a as a as a in my in my personal level, 732 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,520 Speaker 1: it's been going. You know, I made two Pro Bowls 733 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,080 Speaker 1: the past two seasons at all Pro you know, and 734 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,919 Speaker 1: it's been you know, that's that's gratifying on a personal level. 735 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,359 Speaker 1: But at the same time, as a competitor, you had 736 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,920 Speaker 1: that feeling of you want to win games, you know. Um, 737 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,680 Speaker 1: you know for me four and twelve that's unacceptable. To 738 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:28,000 Speaker 1: seven nine seasons back to back, that's unacceptable. And especially 739 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 1: when I know what we got in the building, you know, Um, 740 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 1: so finding out finding that place where we can get 741 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,920 Speaker 1: over that hump and get get our confidence back, our 742 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,880 Speaker 1: swagger back to where people feel that Atlanta Falcons, and 743 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 1: I think that we can get there. I know we 744 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,360 Speaker 1: can get there, and I'm gonna do everything within my 745 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,080 Speaker 1: power to help us get to that point and maybe 746 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,120 Speaker 1: a new dance in the season to come. I don't know, 747 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,640 Speaker 1: they see now that's the real new transition if we 748 00:40:54,760 --> 00:41:01,040 Speaker 1: you know, all right beyond well, I'll be on the 749 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:05,319 Speaker 1: lookout for that. And I've been able to have a 750 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,480 Speaker 1: front seat of watching you grow from when you were 751 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,759 Speaker 1: drafted and just kind of seeing you take that leadership role, 752 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,279 Speaker 1: watching you be named captain at the stadium last year, 753 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,160 Speaker 1: it was pretty cool moment. So it was cool to 754 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:22,040 Speaker 1: listen to how Ray's advice has really ingrained in what 755 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,200 Speaker 1: you do. And you know, it's not just words, you're 756 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,319 Speaker 1: living it, So I think that's that's really that was 757 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,160 Speaker 1: really cool for me to kind of see that lessons 758 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,920 Speaker 1: learned from him and the way you guys interacted today 759 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,279 Speaker 1: for sure. Well that's it for Grady and I in 760 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,000 Speaker 1: our first episode of Getting Real with Grady Jarrett. A 761 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,920 Speaker 1: great conversation with Ray lewis great conversation with Grady, and 762 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,080 Speaker 1: we look forward to more. So thanks for tuning in 763 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,680 Speaker 1: and listening to us on our first episode of Getting 764 00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,240 Speaker 1: Real with Grady Jarrett. Absolutely, thank you, guys.