Christian McCaffrey Talks NFL Comeback Player Of The Year, 49ers Injuries & Fatherhood | Bussin'

Summary

Bussin’ With The Boys | Ep. 367: Christian McCaffrey – NFL Comeback Player of the Year, 49ers Injuries & Fatherhood

Date: February 10, 2026
Podcast: Bussin’ With The Boys
Host(s): Will Compton, Jeremy Clump
Guest(s): Christian McCaffrey (San Francisco 49ers RB, 2025 NFL Comeback Player of the Year)

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Overview

This episode centers on San Francisco 49ers star running back Christian McCaffrey, days after being named 2025 NFL Comeback Player of the Year. The Boys talk through the realities of overcoming injury, the 49ers’ wild season full of adversity and injuries, the culture in San Francisco’s locker room, McCaffrey’s approach to health and recovery, and how fatherhood has impacted his life and mindset. The show is a mix of classic Bussin’ banter, deep football talk, and authentic life lessons.

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Key Topics & Discussion Points

Setting the Scene & McCaffrey’s Loyalty (38:16)

• Rumors Refuted: McCaffrey kiboshes rumors about him not coming on the show, emphasizing his loyalty to “the boys.”

  “Rumors. Rumors. It's fan talk. It's media talk... I knew the whole time I'm showing up.” – Christian McCaffrey (38:41)

• McCaffrey OG Status: Will recounts McCaffrey buying Bussin' merch even before being formally connected—a true “boy.”

Winning Comeback Player of the Year (39:44)

• Surprise Factor: McCaffrey explains he wasn't tipped off about the win and had limited time for his speech.
• Speech Pressure: Discussing nerves, desire for authenticity, and wanting to create a future memory for his daughter:

  "Clip it so that she can go back when she's older... This was for me in 15 years." – Christian McCaffrey (41:03)

The 2024 Injury Gauntlet & Comeback (41:40)

• Offseason “Ringer”: McCaffrey goes into detail about relentless rehab, daily grind, and not getting a full offseason due to injuries (calf and more).
• Brotherly Support: Training with his brother Luke was a critical motivator.

  “Some days when you're alone and you're hurting, it's like, man, I don't know if I can make it today. And then you see him running, and you're like... that mental competitiveness continued to push me.” (43:41)

The Aging (and White) Running Back Narrative (43:54)

• Humorous Banter: The Boys touch on the trope of “aging white running back” with classic self-deprecating humor.
• Deeper Truth: McCaffrey shares that doubts creep in for all players, regardless of age or background; the key is daily commitment and blocking out the noise:

  “Having to go through that stuff beforehand definitely taught me... all the noise you’ll have to listen to... those don't have to be true.” (46:46)

49ers’ Season: Depth & Resilience (49:11)

• Team Not “Just Me”: McCaffrey deflects credit, highlighting breakout games by backups and late-season additions (shoutouts to Mac Jones, Kendrick Bourne, etc):

  “You're never alone...I watched the tape and I could see you got guys out here balling.” (49:59)

• Kyle Shanahan’s Role: The Boys argue for Shanahan as COY due to how he managed injuries, integrated new players, and maintained standards.

  “What he did with our team this year... the way he gets these guys to play from day one, there’s a high standard.” (52:33)

Handling Quarterback Controversy & Locker Room Culture (54:21)

• Unwavering Unity: Despite the Mac vs. Brock debates, the culture stayed focused: “It was a good obsession over our individual jobs...(not) the noise.” (54:21)

Impacts of Team Injuries (55:10)

• Losing Stars: The conversation covers major injuries to George Kittle (Achilles), Nick Bosa, Fred Warner, and others.
• Leadership in Adversity: McCaffrey emphasizes how leadership doesn’t disappear with injuries – guys like George and Fred stayed active and positive.

  “It sucks. It really does. Having to watch your team play football is a pretty miserable experience...It was so cool to see the leadership from George when he wasn’t playing.” (56:08)

The Cell Tower/Power Station Injury Theory (60:02)

• Player Perspective: Media/fans blame 49ers injuries on environmental factors near the team facility (the infamous “cell tower”).
• McCaffrey’s Take:
  • Too many variables to blame injuries on one thing.
  • Discusses everything from WiFi, sleep, phone cases, biohacking, and ritual tweaks (some real, some tongue-in-cheek).
  • Stresses not becoming neurotic: “If you think it’s a big deal, drink a little more water, add some electrolytes... For me, it’s over.” (73:26)
• Bigger Picture: “The biggest effect on athletes in today’s day and age is stress... sometimes snag that pizza. If that’s going to give you (some relief)... there’s a middle ground.” (72:16)

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Fatherhood & Life Balance (85:18)

• Life Perspective: McCaffrey’s daughter is a grounding presence amid the grind.

  “Good day, bad day, doesn’t matter. You come home and you’re like, this is what life’s about.” (85:52)

• Marriage & Support: McCaffrey acknowledges his wife’s critical role:

  “Whatever I have to do for football, I do it. And she holds it down.” (86:54)

• Dad “Superpower”:
  • Will: Can zone out and soothe a crying baby until sleep.
  • CMC: “The best parts about being a dad is...I'll put her down for a nap, and you're right there with her...I get a nap.” (88:21)
  • Realness: Admits he doesn’t have a single “dad superpower” yet—just learning as he goes.

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McCaffrey on Training, Recovery & Variability (77:27)

• Sample Offseason Day:
  • Contrast baths (hot/cold), pool mobility, nutrition, running, napping, lifting, pool work at night.
  • Bed by 9-10pm, up around 7-8am.
• No Universal Formula:
  • Stresses that every player's path is unique.

  “There's not a set program... There's too many variables that go into it. What are your mechanics?... I'd love to be able to do that (rest all offseason) – I can't. That's just not me.” (80:59 – 82:08)

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Locker Room Stories & Lighthearted Nostalgia

• Julius Peppers Story: Rested muscles all offseason, yet a freak on the field.
• Luke Kuechly: One of the smartest and most athletic teammates, always struck the right practice balance.
• Youth Sports Memories: Vivid detail on playing baseball, rec center vibes, seeds, snow cones, little league stories, and even grade school crush drama.

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Key Quotes & Standout Moments

• On Recovery & Pressure:

  "You just show up every day, man, and...eventually you start to feel good, and you're like, okay, I'm back. I can do this." — CMC (46:46)

• On Team-First Mentality:

  "You're never alone...that was one of the coolest parts about this team this year — how unbelievable the depth was." — CMC (49:59)

• On the ‘Substation’ Theory:

  "There are too many variables to say the power station is what’s causing an injury...I turned off the WiFi, sometimes. But, I'm not a doctor, not a scientist...For me, it’s over." — CMC (61:11 – 73:26)

• On Fatherhood:

  “You come home and you’re like, this is what life’s about...” — CMC (85:52) “I get a nap. Like, this is fantastic.” — CMC, on dad hacks (88:21)

• Running Back Stereotypes:

  “I think that's the exact mindset a white running back needs to have.” — Jeremy Clump (44:51) “Endangered species never know they're endangered, man. Like the snow leopard.” — CMC (45:02)

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Notable Timestamps

• Comeback Player Award & Reflections: 39:44 – 43:54
• Injury Gauntlet & Comeback Process: 41:40 – 46:46
• 49ers’ Depth, Shanahan COY Debate: 49:11 – 53:57
• Quarterback/Locker Room Dynamics: 54:21 – 55:10
• 49ers Injuries & Environmental Factors: 60:02 – 73:52
• McCaffrey’s Routine & Training Philosophies: 77:27 – 82:08
• Luke Kuechly, Julius Peppers, Practice Stories: 83:13 – 84:50
• Fatherhood, Marriage, and "Dad Superpowers": 85:18 – 89:20
• Youth Sports and Childhood Nostalgia: 92:38 – 98:02

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Tone and Vibe

The tone is classic Bussin’—irreverent, warm, and quick-witted but underpinned by honest, sometimes vulnerable conversation. CMC matches the energy: humble, introspective, direct, with moments of self-aware humor (“I don’t know, I’m spewing nothing”). The Boys keep things light, but also get real about the psychological grind of football.

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Episode Summary Takeaways

• McCaffrey’s resilience on display—overcoming injuries through obsessive routine, trust in trainers, and a daily commitment mentality.
• Team culture matters: The 49ers’ depth was tested but their standards and unity, led by Kyle Shanahan, carried them through.
• Fatherhood brings perspective as CMC learns and grows, grateful for his supportive wife.
• The locker room stays light, even when discussing “substations” and injury conspiracies—the guys laugh, biohack, and above all, chase every edge.
• No blueprint for greatness—every player’s road is different; the secret is sticking to what works for you, learning, and never stopping the search for small advantages.
• The episode closes on classic childhood and sports nostalgia—reminding listeners that for the best athletes, the roots are simple: loving the game, loving the grind, loving life.

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Quote to go out on:

“It's about chasing every edge you possibly can. That's what it is.” — Christian McCaffrey (76:12)

Transcript

[Will Compton]

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[Christian McCaffrey]

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[Will Compton]

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[Christian McCaffrey]

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[Will Compton]

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[Christian McCaffrey]

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[Jeremy Clump]

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[Will Compton]

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[Christian McCaffrey]

All right, we're good. Be like busing with the boys. Hanging with the fellas.

[Jeremy Clump]

Betting on a game. No woman's gonna tell us what you do. And I've been over here just drinking beer and making that noise, baby.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I'm hanging with the fellas. Busting with the boys, bro.

[Will Compton]

Welcome to another episode of Busting with the Boys. This is episode 367, the Christian McCaffrey episode.

[Jeremy Clump]

Beautiful episode. A wonderful episode.

[Will Compton]

Break down with the Boys. Our Super Bowl. I'll be honest with you, I'm hot right now on the bus. We've been, we've been rocking some interviews for the last, what, five hours?

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, it's been a classic Monday, usually. So that's the day after the super bowl, usually. This is when the boys have like good two week break, a nice little time to relax, decompress from the season. And then we had A guy. Come on. That can only do it today because he goes out to do something else that we're not going to say because his episode hasn't come out yet.

[Will Compton]

And it is a banger.

[Jeremy Clump]

It is a banger. We did a recap that came out yesterday that you guys are watching with Clay. Clay Matthews and Delaney Walker. Banger.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

So it's been a good, solid day of bus with the boys. But you can just tell, you can feel it. We're running on E a little bit right now.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. For all of our super bowl recap. Talking about the super bowl game halftime show, all that stuff that was on our bus with the boys football recap yesterday with Delaney and Clay Matthews. Today we'll be diving into Christian McCaffrey. Hint some stuff up here at the top. You guys know the drill. Always a little bit of house cleaning going on. But also, if you're a fan of busting with the boys these next five weeks. Good week to be a bus with the boys.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. Yeah. Hell of a run. Yeah. I think even more than five weeks because we had some. A couple banked ones that people are gonna be like. Oh, maybe a couple. Yeah, yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Six, seven weeks.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, we might be in that. We're like in a little month and a half piece where I feel like everyone's gonna enjoy it every single week. People for the first time, people who've been here for many times. It's gonna be incredible.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. But it's about 80 degrees in here. And we, as always, we are brought to you and presented by the FanDuel Sports Book. You know them, you love them. The FanDuel Sportsbook. America's number one sportsbook. The Winter Games are here. And FanDuel is ready for them. Because every four years, winter sports take over. Curling matches that start slow and somehow get tense fast. Speed skating decided by inches. Hockey games that feel different from the opening face off. And so much more. That's why betting the Winter Games on FanDuel makes sense. From game lines to medal counts to finding your angle on the events you care about most, FanDuel gives you more ways to stay connected to the action. The Winter Games are on. And there's no better way to follow them than what they bet on. Fanduel. Fanduel. Play your game.

[Jeremy Clump]

Play your game. Winner games. Winter Games. Talking about that. Hockey team, USA Hockey. Four nations.

[Will Compton]

Got to get that.

[Jeremy Clump]

Get back against Canada, boys. Got to have it. Come on, man. GTHI Gotta have it. Got to have it.

[Will Compton]

Come on in, Matt. Oh, thank you, my friend.

[Jeremy Clump]

You got to be kidding me. Look at that. True classic envelope. You know what that means?

[Will Compton]

Gunner of the month.

[Jeremy Clump]

Gunner of the month in my hands right now. We'll hit that at some point, dude. But, hey, super bowl weeks in the books. Super. Super bowl week is an absolute sprint. You go through 20 weeks of the season, whatever, since middle of August, essentially, and you're going every single day. We're going every day. Whether we're going to ESPN or traveling out to a college football game. Boys are sitting there having the locker room for the dad's podcast for Willie C. We hit the bus with the boys recap show and busing. Like, it has been a crazy year for us, and this is kind of like when the new year starts. But San Francisco, man, as chaotic as it is, insanely fun.

[Will Compton]

They ripped. People are talking about, oh, they cleaned up the city. Look, I. I come into your house and you clean the house. Just because I'm coming over. I leave your house. I'm like, oh, it's a nice house, right? I'm gonna say, it's a nice house, right?

[Jeremy Clump]

San Francisco. People are gonna say, hey, there's a lot of homeless there. And, like, I didn't see it when I was there.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we'll see a whole lot. Yeah, I saw a few.

[Jeremy Clump]

So I saw a couple danglers hanging out there.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. By the way, shout out. Here's a clean take. I know. We're doing clean take by Kevin's Natural Foods. Here's a clean take. The best team in the NFL won the super bowl this year. That's my second best clean take on this show.

[Will Compton]

Clean take. The super bowl sucked.

[Jeremy Clump]

There you go. Yeah, super bowl did suck. It wasn't that fun to watch.

[Will Compton]

I got a clean day.

[Jeremy Clump]

That's a clean observation. Oh, my God.

[Will Compton]

Observation.

[Delaney Walker]

That was so loud.

[Will Compton]

God damn, dude, I near died. I gotta put this mic up in my mind.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You're about to get pink.

[Will Compton]

Ey, you got a clean day.

[Jeremy Clump]

Get to know her.

[Will Compton]

Sorry for the ladies out there.

[Jeremy Clump]

Ain't no ladies listening. Sorry to the figment of my imagination of women watching this show. Dog, that smells so bad.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, that's my bad.

[Jeremy Clump]

Clean take. My bad. It was an accident.

[Will Compton]

Clean take. My fault, dude.

[Jeremy Clump]

Clean take. You're gonna get pink eye from your microphone.

[Will Compton]

Like, I felt like I had something last week, the way that contact scratched my eye.

[Jeremy Clump]

Oh, my God.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You still dealing with that?

[Will Compton]

No, I just. I'm out of. That was my last pair of contacts, and they're dailies. I wore the dailies for, like, three months.

[Jeremy Clump]

That's insane. Yeah. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So I tried putting them in. They kind of burned. So I'm just like, well, I just got to get some more contacts.

[Jeremy Clump]

It's all right. Yeah, get some more. You had rocking the glasses. I think it's a nice little look for you too.

[Will Compton]

Thank you, man. Yeah, thank you.

[Jeremy Clump]

Clean. Clean take. Dude, we read out. We're at a Fanduel event. It's me, Will Gronkowski, Russell Wilson, Saquon Barkley, by the way, Fanduel. Let's talk about the way you guys introduce us. Maybe we should be a little more. A little more love on our careers. But there's a little, like, Maui gym or a glasses company, and they give us free glasses and wheels. Looking a couple nice Hawaiian glasses here. Very nice. We get in the cars, like, forgot my glasses. He says, let my glasses.

[Will Compton]

Everybody's gonna last. They're like, oh, we're gonna uni up tomorrow at the. The Fanduel party and bud light party. And I was like, yeah, I forgot I left my glasses in the Uber or the car service, whatever we had.

[Jeremy Clump]

Hey, clean take. Alcatraz ripped.

[Delaney Walker]

Hey, you left your glasses. Top five car ride of my life.

[Jeremy Clump]

I think just the g. Oh, the car ride back. I know, dude. Also clean take that. That. That town, whatever we drove through, although we couldn't see it because it was nighttime. Probably top five, most beautiful town we've ever seen.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Imagination was going crazy.

[Jeremy Clump]

Crazy, dude.

[Will Compton]

That's imaginative, too, because it's. You couldn't see it.

[Jeremy Clump]

Couldn't see it.

[Will Compton]

Taylor's just assuming that town was gorgeous.

[Jeremy Clump]

I literally said at one point, we're at a stoplight. M. You guys should drop me off right here and leave me. I would have a fine life. Yeah, I know I would.

[Will Compton]

Clean take.

[Jeremy Clump]

Clean take. Clean take.

[Will Compton]

Shout out. No free shout out to Alcatraz, though.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, Alcatraz ripped.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

And I was so. I mean, I've been there a bunch of times. My mom's from that area, so we would go up there and see fam.

[Will Compton]

I'm just laughing about the people tuning in. Who's tuning in for Christian McCaffrey. It could be their first time listening to us, and I'm just ripping ass within the first few minutes.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, that wasn't fun for me because usually your toots don't smell. That was rancid. Usually. I'm breathing. I'm breathing. I'm breathing, buddy.

[Will Compton]

Who's hitting it hard, huh? Hey, if you're here, make sure you subscribe and Follow.

[Jeremy Clump]

That's only. Yeah, please, guys. Yeah, Alcatraz went hard.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, just comment. Nice fart.

[Christian McCaffrey]

No.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, but yeah, man. What else is up? Dude, Been a long time.

[Will Compton]

What? I got the. I alluded to it on the pod where we just had with so and so we can't say who, but bro, official.

[Jeremy Clump]

Official friend of the podcast. Not official will be official, but I got the.

[Will Compton]

I got the plunge active in the house. And I gotta say, I'm just so obsessed with the setup. Yeah, I got cooking in the house right now, boys. I got the. The plunge. No free shout outs to plunge.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yep.

[Will Compton]

When I was putting it together, Churro was out of dinner. So it's just kind of. I put Scotty down already. For whatever reason, I was obsessed with just getting this thing all the way done right and started ripping it, plugged it in, hit the little button, it starts going. And I'm kind of looking behind, making sure all the. All the hoses are intact and everything else. And Rue all of a sudden's like talking about that, you know, there's some water and I look up and she's kind of got that little cleaner net where she's getting something. I'm like, yes, we don't stop, you know, don't be splashing too much. And she's like, no, dad, water. And it's like starting to flood the room. Oh no, it's starting to get out. It's leaking one of the tubes almost to the door. And so I panic, I rip out the cord and everything else and I go and get like six towels. I'm damping everything down. She goes and gets her rain boots on. She's like, I can't touch the water. She runs in, puts rain boots on. I'm like, hey, don't jump and splash in the water. And yeah, I was in a little bit of a panic because I'm thinking I got this, I got this plunge, right? It's filled all the way up with water. Sure it's inside?

[Jeremy Clump]

Yep.

[Will Compton]

So if there's a leak and I have no clue where it's coming from, like, what am I going to do? How am I going to fix this? Fortunately, I watched a couple of YouTube videos and really I just had to like re tighten the hose. But I thought I was like intact, but it, dude, it started to like get all over the floor and everything else. But that little hot cold combo I got rocking. Dude, it is a dream.

[Jeremy Clump]

Talk to me. Oh, the sauna. Okay, I didn't know if your cold tube went hot and Cold like it does. Crazy. What does?

[Will Compton]

The little chiller. Yeah, it got this new, this newer chiller that's with it and it can heat up to like 100 degrees a little.

[Jeremy Clump]

Oh, see, a little hot tub too.

[Will Compton]

It can if you want to turn into a hot tub now.

[Jeremy Clump]

But yeah, we get the hot tub.

[Will Compton]

Going outside right now.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, well, I gotta operate it right now, huh? Man, My boy Willie moved into his house. He spent about three days there. He's been there for two weeks. You're about to head off to vacation too?

[Will Compton]

No, I know. I was sitting there last week in San Francisco, low key, kind of just missing the house. I just want to go back to the house and just kick it, sit around.

[Jeremy Clump]

Go sit in different seats because you haven't been there yet.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, I got a goon I haven't gooned yet.

[Jeremy Clump]

We got. It's going to be mid March and Will's going to walk up to Charl and be like, man, how dope is this house? You'd be like, we've been here for four months. What are you talking about? But yeah, nothing like, dude, clean take, move it into a new spot.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Why do you think? Why do you think I do it so often?

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, Mitch knows. He eating that. Eating a new spot every three months.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Come on.

[Jeremy Clump]

Kind of moving around a little bit.

[Will Compton]

I might have a spot open for you now.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah, trying to move in a Willie spot.

[Jeremy Clump]

Oh yeah? You trying to move to Post Road?

[Christian McCaffrey]

No, I can't afford that.

[Jeremy Clump]

Oh, sorry. Yeah, yeah, sorry, my bad.

[Will Compton]

Properties out there.

[Jeremy Clump]

We got a handful of them things in Nashville, huh?

[Will Compton]

There's a couple.

[Jeremy Clump]

Dude, we. After our Super Bowl. So Tuesday, Taylin hits me up. She's like, hey, are you going to Vegas for after, like Saturday, Saturday night? I was like, well, I wasn't planning. I was planning on coming home and spending time with the family. She's like, you're already out there. You might as well just go out for like a one night and just see if you can get something done. So right after we did the form energy thing, which by the way, I want to put this on everybody's radar, doing that form energy thing and seeing all of those individuals get after in the heart rate monitors and the polar. No shout out to polar, but they had a whole bunch of stuff going on. I think it would be sick if they do that again next year if busing did it for sure. And it's like a 45, 50 minute workout and it's all about your heart rate. I think it'd Be awesome if bus and had our own little team. And we just did it for the love of the game. Put that in the back of your heads. I know a lot that I just put that on you guys, but just put that in the back your head. So anyway, we finished that. We ripped over the airport, have some airport sushi, hang out a little bit and go to Vegas. And boys, we beat their ass in one night. Fruitful, fruitful, fruitful. Sniped them, stayed at Caesars for the first time. Shout out Nicky boy from Caesars. Got him that I sniped a little. A little piece on them real quick. Hit up Dana. Hey, where's the move? Tonight he goes, meet me at Red Rock. Home base. Get to Red Rock. They're all sad at me. They're sad, disappointed at me that I'm not staying at Red Rock. I get it. I'm dating somebody else for a minute. She's pretty, by the way. And beat their ass too. How does this a nice little deal?

[Will Compton]

Dang. So is Red Rock. They're going down. They going down a notch.

[Jeremy Clump]

No, no, no, no. I love it. Red Rock will always be home.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

But I'm married to one woman. Her name is Taylin. All right. As far as my casinos go, like, I love Red Rock. That'll always be home. But I am okay. I can venture around a little bit.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Vacation.

[Jeremy Clump]

It's a vacation.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

I'm gonna venture a little bit. You're in the strip. It's a little bit different. A little bit of. A little bit of a vibe. My room, I had like a Wyoming king bed. It was crazy. I rolled around that thing. I did three rotations before I made it to the other side.

[Will Compton]

That's insane.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. As a big boy. He's a big boy. So it was a nice little setup.

[Will Compton]

Is. Do we know form's gonna do it? I don't.

[Jeremy Clump]

I don't know. Because. Well, the way the form thing worked at. Worked was we obviously got up in the morning, ripped over late night too. The boys, Red fanduel and the Bud Light party. Post Malone. Green Day. Very cool. Very fun event.

[Will Compton]

The Post Malone.

[Jeremy Clump]

He was great dude. He sent an amazing live. We go to Green Day. It's like, oh, these guys sound like you put them on Spotify. They. They were awesome. It was awesome. And we're all kind of our little punk rock vibes coming out. We're all just loving. We're headbanding the corner, having fun, talking to a bunch of who's who in the zoo. And so we had a late night there. Get back to hotel, have what, like five hours of sleep maybe something like that. And go to this form thing. Chandler's there, Sal for cell is there. Me and Sal get up, we start talking. We're on this like little bridge. We talk for a little bit, go down. Disco Lines is there. Who? He like, walks like. We're sitting in the back. We're about to go on. He comes up, he goes, hey, you play for the Titans? It's like, yeah, his boy is like a Titans fan. So we start chopping it up a little clump. FaceTimes Matt Malone. Because apparently Matt Malone's a huge Disco Lines fan.

[Christian McCaffrey]

They look alike.

[Jeremy Clump]

They look alike. They. We put a couple posts up. Disco Lines is commenting like kind of a bro. Disco Lines is kind of a bro.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

All of us were just kind of. We were just kind of watching. Oh, I just looked around. All of us are just banging.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. Oh, dude, the music had you get.

[Will Compton]

Moving that dude right there.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, look at him. That's Disco Lines. Those are two brothers talking on FaceTime right there. Yeah. How crazy is that?

[Will Compton]

No, just Matt. Just a big fan of his.

[Delaney Walker]

Big fan. He starts the convo to Matt. He's like, what's up, you handsome? It was awesome.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. But yeah, dude, that and then the whole event was essentially the most in shape people I've ever seen in my life getting after it. While me and Sal and Mike just have microphones. We're like, ah. All right, team blue. And it was just. It was awesome.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Great time cruise out of there. About 10 or 4 was over. Made our flights. Yes, sure.

[Delaney Walker]

Quick question. Is that literally the size of a.

[Jeremy Clump]

Wyoming king size bed? I think it's like that, dude. It was. I'll say this, I'm not sure if it was a Wyoming king, Alaskan king, how those things work. Yeah, it was way bigger than a king size or a California king. Way bigger. Like my feet, I had like this much room at the feet, which I've never had in my life. I mean, there was, you know, there's like sets of pillows and like, usually a king has like two sets of pillows with maybe a little spacer in the middle.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Three long sets of pillows across. It's very cool, man.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You gonna get one?

[Jeremy Clump]

No, not my. My house. You mean you've been to my house, but have you been in my master bedroom? When we build in the house, it was like, let's build a smaller master bedroom with a thought process of you don't. You. You sleep in there. You don't want it. There's not really a hangout. And then I go to this motherfucker's house right next to me. He's got a little sitting area and stuff. I'm like, should have built a bigger master, man, because that's kind of nice. It's a little sitting area. Those little fuzzy. Like, you have, like. What are those little, like. Like, golden doodles for chairs, man? Like, you got some cool. Like, it's just kind of sitting over there.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. It's a nice aesthetic with a little fireplace behind it.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

When I walked in, I was like, oh, my.

[Jeremy Clump]

And I'm walking around. Not to gas your house up more, but he's got a great little, like. You know, a Porsche has that, like, forest green like that. That's kind of like an iconic Porsche color. They have, like, that with, like, golden accents. And I'm, like, kind of pointing it all out. And Charles, like, oh, I wasn't familiar that you were, like, into interior design. She didn't know my background. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

She didn't know that you had that in your bag.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Charles obsessed with those green colors.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. And, hey, I think it is the best accent color you could have in a house at this moment right now. What's coming back? No, that's not it. What's coming back is we've kind of gone through a phase with houses, like the contemporary look, the whites and the blacks, and there's not a whole lot of color. And then recently, like, Home Alone, the Home Alone house just sold. It was remodeled, and it's all white and black, more contemporary. And I feel like humans are getting back to, like, let's have homes with some more character involved in it. And I feel like yours is the perfect blend between, like, a modern type of home with, like, you know, you have your woods, your earthies, but you also have nice accents, which kind of just juices me up because. Yeah, they. Look at that. That's the house now. Kind of makes you sad, doesn't it?

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

You'd much rather live in that top one. Right, Right. That one down there. That's an Airbnb. You scroll up, you're like, I'm at grandma's house. Yeah, I feel good about that. Wallpaper is coming back, dude. Every piece of our house that has wallpaper, I always kind of feel warm and fussy when I'm around it. Yeah, my kids got some nice wallpaper. My. You guys are kind of living.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, we have wallpaper in like the bathrooms and stuff. Yeah, I'm just like. I mean, yeah, if that's what you want.

[Jeremy Clump]

Clean take, wallpaper bathrooms, funky wallpaper bathrooms. Hit hard. Dang.

[Will Compton]

Clean take.

[Jeremy Clump]

That's a clean take.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Extremely clean. Thank you. Thank you. Also the homeless in San Francisco.

[Will Compton]

If you could switch anything for. If you can look at the next year's super bowl, what's a change you would like to see two teams that.

[Jeremy Clump]

Are the same level.

[Will Compton]

No, no, no, no. I'm talking about our week. Bustle with the Boys week.

[Jeremy Clump]

Can I say the thing that was put on game at us on a street. If I could change one thing about our super bowl week from here on out, it would be that this bus is at Radio Row, that our bus is either in the building or on the side of the building.

[Will Compton]

But like maybe like one of the just popular areas where we were seeing a bunch of guys.

[Jeremy Clump]

Right. Like you have a stage and maybe it's like dressed like the bus, but like having a bus with the boy set up there.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

On the outskirts. We got to do that next year.

[Will Compton]

Agreed.

[Jeremy Clump]

The amount of people that run through and like our shows will look different for sure for those next five weeks. But like you're able to get like a Miles Garrett and a Justin Jefferson and who like all these like big time guys walking through. Hit like 20 minutes with each of them one episodes. Like three of those guys. Yeah, that would be awesome. Even if we like go live for.

[Will Compton]

Five years, they might have to go live.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

That was the one thing I think about is is there a spot where we could go in a day or two later?

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, going Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

[Will Compton]

Right. Because a Saturday does make sense. But by the time I hit basically Thursday, I'm just itching to get home.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, I'm with you to where you.

[Will Compton]

We. We push it back a day. Just have a little bit more fuel in the tank by the end of the week. I felt like we had good fuel the entire time.

[Jeremy Clump]

Well, Sunny D was alive and well a few times, but yeah, for the most part, the actual juice itself was good. Boys were vibing think. I think if I could change another thing too. It's decision fatigue. Like when we're. The handful of times we're trying to figure out where to eat. I'm. I'm looking at the group chat and I'm obviously like, I'm saying we need to be better. I'm guilty of this. I didn't say in the group chat. I'm thinking I'll just go eat on the eighth floor. Again, I really don't give a. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

That'S where I was at. We need to coin somebody in the group outside of Clump. That is the dinner person.

[Jeremy Clump]

The dinner person. Exactly. They pick it every night.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

We have a standing resi somewhere.

[Will Compton]

The resi set up.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. And it's dialed because we hit a couple good spots. But when we're sitting there.

[Will Compton]

And we could have been way better.

[Jeremy Clump]

We had to leave an hour for Fanduel. But you know, are we gonna go down by Fanduel or should we eat somewhere? We can't really eat somewhere anymore because now we're. It takes so much time to get around San Francisco. I think. Man. Grab a Damn sandwich on 8th. On the 8th floor.

[Will Compton]

The 8th floor was nice. No free shout outs to the Ritz.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. Clean.

[Will Compton]

Take your foot. On the eighth floor was great.

[Jeremy Clump]

Clean. Take Leo.

[Delaney Walker]

Leo from the Ritz.

[Jeremy Clump]

Shout out Leo from the list.

[Delaney Walker]

He just took care of us. He always made sure.

[Jeremy Clump]

Man.

[Delaney Walker]

That last day with the banana.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. Ye. Yeah, bro. Dude. Leo. Leo. He was the guy at the front desk whenever you get off the elevator. We hooked him up with some true classic.

[Will Compton]

Oh, I love that.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. Was that $300?

[Delaney Walker]

$300?

[Jeremy Clump]

True. Class.

[Delaney Walker]

He actually just text me and said when that goes live, let me know. He wants to show his family.

[Jeremy Clump]

That's awesome.

[Will Compton]

That is so cool.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. That he'll be a part of the vlog and everything like that.

[Will Compton]

Do you have something to add?

[Delaney Walker]

We got saved by the food at the Fanduel party. Cuz that night turned into. We might not eat. We get there, we don't know if there's food.

[Jeremy Clump]

Right.

[Delaney Walker]

That food kind of ripped at the Fanduel party. Those bows.

[Jeremy Clump]

Oh my God. Yeah, it was solid. And chicken. Whatever the chicken nugget thing on the side was. They saw mine was cold, but mine was cold. This is warm.

[Will Compton]

Like the little. The little fried chicken. The fried chicken. Yeah, bro.

[Delaney Walker]

That food though.

[Jeremy Clump]

Nice little setup, dude. We had our. We had our yearly meeting with the workaholics guys. They were awesome. And then they were fun.

[Will Compton]

I had no clue. We're sitting there, I'm like, oh, this is gonna be on Netflix.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. I was like, I thought we were just cutting it over.

[Jeremy Clump]

Hanging out with the boys. Yeah, we. We went to the volume party. Which by the way, if you've been to the volume party the last four years, like we have, this year was incredible.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Peak.

[Jeremy Clump]

So much fun. Like it's. I think it's the first time we like stayed longer than 30 minutes.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And there were so many people, so.

[Jeremy Clump]

People that talk to get to know, like, networking opportunities. And then Michael Klein, he's like, hey, I'm go to the New Heights party. Do you want to go? And I was like, oh, I'd love to go see Trav and the boys go over there, and workaholics guys are there. Me, Durs, and Blake were, like, chopping it up, like, 30 minutes, just hanging out.

[Will Compton]

They were everywhere, bro. Adam was on our team for the booze ponies at the dozen.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And Blake and Dur came. They were. They were backstage chilling.

[Jeremy Clump]

Dude, those guys are awesome.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Party.

[Jeremy Clump]

We had do. What Joe Burrow was at was at the New Heights party.

[Delaney Walker]

He said, Mitch said, who else showed up to the New Heights party? That wasn't on the list, but got on there, got in there.

[Jeremy Clump]

I don't know.

[Will Compton]

The boys.

[Jeremy Clump]

Oh, the fellas.

[Delaney Walker]

Oh, Delaney, Texas.

[Jeremy Clump]

So the fellows ripped off. They were getting after at the volume party, decided to go to. Where'd y' all go?

[Will Compton]

Rubicon.

[Delaney Walker]

Rubicon with Pete and George.

[Will Compton]

It was awesome.

[Jeremy Clump]

And then I cruised over with Jack Klein and then Klein's boss, so I can't remember his name, but we cruise over to New Heights for a little bit, and they just pop up. They're in the little. The one roped off area with Delaney, and it's just them all just chilling in there. I see Burrow. I might Clump. Go get Burrow on the podcast.

[Will Compton]

How much juice does job, buddy?

[Jeremy Clump]

I'm on the phone with Taylor. This might be the most handsome cat ever. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Like, this dude, he's got the swag, the match.

[Jeremy Clump]

He got the hair going. He's got everything, you know, when, like.

[Will Compton]

You get ready, he's got everything, everything.

[Jeremy Clump]

When you're putting intention into going out and you, like, kind of get dressed up nice and you kind of look in your. Do your hair, and your hair looks really good. And then you go to a party, and a photo is taken of you an hour later, and your hair looks way up, and it's way different. Joe Burrow looked like he just got out of the bathroom from getting ready the entire night. It was the wildest thing. His hair didn't move, but, yeah, it looked wavy. Didn't look restricted, but it was set right where it needed to be. It was beautiful to see.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Absolutely beautiful. So Clump goes up to Joe Burrow, hey, we want to get you in the pod club. Walks back up to me and goes, he ain't coming on the pod Tell.

[Will Compton]

Us what happened, clump.

[Delaney Walker]

I just walked up to him, like, introduced myself, and then I kind of said, hey, we'd love to get you on bus with the boys. And he looks at me as, I ain't coming on. He said, I'm going to be honest with you. I don't do podcasts, so there ain't no way I'm coming on bus. And I was like, hey, man, all good. Nice to meet you. I walked to Taylor's, like, what'd he say? He ain't coming on the pod.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. And then Taylor, I walked over to him. I go, hey, I heard some terrible news. He's like, what are you talking about? I was like, I heard about a bad thing about you just now. And he looks over at club, looks at me, goes, man, it's not you guys. He, like, knew exactly what I say. But the way he Joe, bro, shut us down was, in a way that's, like, incredibly refreshing.

[Will Compton]

The way he Joe beed.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

The way he Joe be so authentic.

[Jeremy Clump]

Because he's like, yeah, I don't like doing podcasts. If I did him, I'd probably be great, but I just don't. I just don't want to do podcasts. And I'm like, hey, it's all good. And then he started going, well, you know, if you catch me on the right day. And I was like, joe, listen, if we're going to be the guys that see each other once every year, we kind of dap up and walk past each other and we pretend to be boys. Like, let's not. Let's not be liars to each other, is it? No, seriously, if you catch me on the right day, I'll go. Clump pops up. What about if we come to camp? He goes, if you guys come in camp, I'm definitely not going. Just like that. Just like that. I'm definitely not going to. And it's like, all right. When we come to otas, and he, like, leans back, he's like, I could see myself coming on the show. If it's OTAs, I bro, we come to you. We set up exactly where you want. You just walk in and we hit it for 30 minutes. He goes, gotta catch me on the right day. I go, I kind of need more than that. I can't just show up in Cincinnati. He's like, well, I'm not gonna make a deal with you right now. I was like, that's totally fair, but you will hear our names.

[Will Compton]

We just carve out five days to go during OTAs. Not knowing which day it's gonna happen.

[Jeremy Clump]

That would be funny. Just five days in Cincinnati.

[Delaney Walker]

We got interview Joe.

[Jeremy Clump]

Joe got it. I went from, hey, Taylor, who's your white Buffalo? Probably Vince Fawn to Taylor, who's your white buffalo? It's Joe Burrow now.

[Will Compton]

Now you want it.

[Jeremy Clump]

He made me want it.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Now I understand what all those girls are thinking. You know, I got somehow. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

I gotta get him, you know?

[Jeremy Clump]

He's so hot, dog. He is. What's he doing, man? Oh, I make $500 million, and I'm super hot. The your problem, man.

[Will Compton]

Clean take. So hot right now.

[Jeremy Clump]

Clean take. Joe Burrow's up to something, man. Joe Burrow's hot. The cleanest take. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Y.

[Delaney Walker]

Of all time.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Burrow's so hot right now.

[Christian McCaffrey]

This B. This bus would probably be hotter if he ever came on.

[Jeremy Clump]

If he came on. It didn't matter what the temp was in the bus right up to the top.

[Christian McCaffrey]

So hot.

[Jeremy Clump]

He probably doesn't sweat, does he?

[Will Compton]

You're probably right.

[Jeremy Clump]

Joey B, man. Joe, come on our show, dude. If you're a Cincinnati fan, please tell Joe to come on our show. That's the new white Buffalo. Yeah. It has to be. It has to be. What do we think for Jo B. Let's just get out of here.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Start the CMC podcast.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And we got bangers. We can say who we got in the Rolodex. Not this one. Not the one we did earlier today, but people saw photos.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Landed Patrick Willis.

[Jeremy Clump]

Bang.

[Will Compton]

Banger. Really good banger. So if you're saying. If you're a San Francisco person tuning in right now, Patrick Willis was a banger.

[Christian McCaffrey]

With.

[Jeremy Clump]

Especially us being Delaney. Like, Will made a call 10 minutes before the podcast started, was like, yo, Willis is coming on. You guys are teammates. Like, I think he'd be more comfortable if you came. Delaney being who Delaney is is like, I'll be there.

[Will Compton]

He said, drop the pin.

[Jeremy Clump]

Shows up before Patrick Willis. And Patrick Willis was on time. Then, you know, getting around San Francisco, it's like, what are we doing, dude? 10 minutes, not even storytelling. He keeps it 100. Keeps it 100.

[Will Compton]

Then we got Russell Wilson on banger. Bo Jackson, and we got a go ahead, keep going. Fill the air.

[Jeremy Clump]

Banger. CMC was in that thing. Who am I missing? I know we had one other person. That's right. And then we just. We did Braves. That podcast was absolutely incredible. Heartbroken for the boy.

[Christian McCaffrey]

And then this. The. The other guy we had on before we left.

[Jeremy Clump]

Right. Oh, yeah, we're just. Oh, yeah, yeah. We got a nice little lineup.

[Will Compton]

We got shout out to all the.

[Jeremy Clump]

Boys on this bus who booked them all too big time, working hard. Shout out clumpy boy for doing that. Yeah, nice work.

[Will Compton]

And we got good validation and confirmation from Russell Wilson, too. So glad I did. That was refreshing. Hey, it was a fun pod.

[Jeremy Clump]

It was good.

[Will Compton]

You know, we. We've said a couple. We've joked around about it.

[Jeremy Clump]

We've joked around about Russ. Yeah, we have.

[Will Compton]

And Russ is pretty hot.

[Jeremy Clump]

Russ was savvy, too. I think it was like, 20 minutes in, he got our guards down. He says, I know you guys have talked a little on your podcast. I was like, oh, so you do consume.

[Delaney Walker]

Russell Wilson looking at me and saying right before he left, persistence is key. Was one of the greatest moments of my life, man.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, that was awesome, because you were the guy that was kind of running everybody down, like, sprinting, I think. Was it Deion Sanders Jr. Yes. Yeah. He kind of body bagged you.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah, I got body bagged a few times.

[Will Compton]

Tough to watch.

[Jeremy Clump]

He ran away, came back. He's like, yeah, give me the time of day.

[Will Compton]

And he just kind of kept walking. He's kind of, like, looking over. Oh, it's. It's a tough.

[Jeremy Clump]

It's not worth it.

[Will Compton]

It's not worth it.

[Jeremy Clump]

You're trying to. Trying to just get gas, Will. And I got Bough bodied by one individual at the Pro bowl, too. I'll give you a hand. He scootered away from us pretty quickly.

[Will Compton]

Oh, Michael Parsons. Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Okay.

[Delaney Walker]

I'll just drop his name.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, if you like.

[Will Compton]

Trying to get him a dab, and he just wasn't in at all. Like, he was admitting to the dap or giving much.

[Delaney Walker]

You got to get him on the pod to talk about it.

[Will Compton]

Oh, he ain't coming with the boys. He ain't coming.

[Jeremy Clump]

I think that as much as I want Joe Burrow, you know, Miles Garrett, though.

[Delaney Walker]

I'm gonna talk about Miles Garrett.

[Jeremy Clump]

He's a homie.

[Delaney Walker]

He was a homie. Dropping the glasses.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, bro. We got to do that pod in gray shorts.

[Jeremy Clump]

Have to.

[Will Compton]

You have to.

[Jeremy Clump]

Have to do it in gray shorts.

[Delaney Walker]

Mendoza.

[Jeremy Clump]

Here's. Here's an issue. Come on. Here's the problem. I think a lot of these athletes are hearing from their teams that busting with the boys wants them to come on.

[Will Compton]

That is very.

[Jeremy Clump]

Because we. We checked a couple that said no to us, and they're like, I had no idea. It's like, oh, you didn't yeah. You look at one, and you don't know which one of their teammate it. And then you see them kind of do that.

[Will Compton]

It's one of those things. It's so chaotic for super bowl week. So I understand, right. If they don't hear that bus is booking them, because they got teams, like, I'm sure they got brands they're working with. Those brands want them to do certain interviews or go here or go there. So everybody else, they kind of tell no. So it doesn't trickle to the player, which sucks in our world.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yep.

[Will Compton]

Because we're like, man, if we could just probably talk to this dude, I bet he'd come on.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. And that's.

[Will Compton]

That worked. Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Got that done. I feel like that happens more times.

[Delaney Walker]

More times than not when I. I.

[Jeremy Clump]

Did the booking for a very short.

[Delaney Walker]

Period of time, but it was around the super bowl last year.

[Will Compton]

And that super bowl is always crazy, man.

[Jeremy Clump]

As soon as y' all DM them.

[Delaney Walker]

They'Re like, yeah, I'm there.

[Jeremy Clump]

Oh, my gosh. I know. But how do you get. I guess. Yeah, that's a new world that we kind of need to figure out is, like, the booking standpoint, like, how do we go about getting that done a little more clean.

[Will Compton]

It's really in those, like, I mean, really. The Super Bowl. Right. It's really just in the Super Bowl. That's always our hardest issue. Stuff doesn't get booked up, really, until the week of because there's so many lists that come through the pipe. Like, here's a list we won on priority. Here's who we want to go out to. You never want to corner yourself in an interview you don't want to be in because somebody that we really wanted is now saying yes, and they could.

[Jeremy Clump]

Pop up, like, 24 hours before. Like, Russ wasn't booked until one hour before we did it. Yeah. An hour before we did it. That was a true, like, clump persistence thing. Like, before Russ was booked. I look at clump, and I go, hey, I think we need to reevaluate the way we. You approach guests. It's a lot. It's a lot.

[Will Compton]

I know there's an ex. Like, there's examples. We're probably thinking of when. When you're thinking that way. But also, Russ, it was like, I knew he's into coming on. Whenever he saw us at the fans report, he's like, hey, I just want you to know, like, we're trying to figure out. Figure out something. I was just trying not to put any pressure because, again, One benefit was that we were in the same hotel together.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So you can't help but pass each other.

[Jeremy Clump]

True, true.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Introduce yourself. But again, we're not trying to play like B2.

[Jeremy Clump]

Right, but that's why you have Clump. Yeah, that's why you got. You need a guy like Clump to go and be that guy. Because we're not going to be those guys.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Because the one time I did put myself out there a little bit. Get you on bus and what's going on? They scooted their ass away from me and it wasn't fun.

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Last time I do that.

[Jeremy Clump]

That wasn't a fun feeling for me. You know. Anywho, we feel good about it, boys. Great.

[Will Compton]

Some. We got a couple.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Oh, we need to do a couple pieces.

[Will Compton]

We gotta hit, huh?

[Jeremy Clump]

Oh, damn. Yeah, we gotta do gunner of the month. Of the month about to take place right here. So obviously a massive year is taking place, but this month in general has been absolutely incredible. Let's see, our gooner of the month for January is Jeremy Clump. Oh my. On the bus right now club. How do you feel?

[Will Compton]

Speech.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah, it's been. Been a fun month. I appreciate you guys. I feel like this year in general was awesome. I'm. I'm glad football season's over because, you know, you see like that finish line. But super excited for like even things like the super bowl. Already having plans for new things. Super excited for this year. Again, some things in the works that it's gonna be a fun ass year. But love you guys. It's been fun. This is the best time. I had so much. I mean, being away from my wife and kids obviously sucked, but like, what a week. That guy. It was so hard to come home and be like, hey, babe, I know it sucked, but I had a great fun time. It was so much fun hanging with the boys. It's a great time. So yeah, I appreciate y'.

[Jeremy Clump]

All.

[Delaney Walker]

Let's get more guests in 2026.

[Jeremy Clump]

Let's get. Let's book more guests in 2026. Also on the horizon, which it's not nothing more than our dumb brains, but we have some massive stuff on the rising. For you, the fan. For you, the audience member. This year is the year of the audience. That that phrase has been coined by William Earl Compton. We have something in the pipeline. We gotta check a couple more boxes. And once we do, trust me, boys and girls, you're gonna love it. You're gonna love it. Up to something right now. Big hugs, tiny kisses. Let's get into this episode with the one, the only Christian McCaffrey Great White Hope.

[Will Compton]

This postseason is upon us and there's really nothing like it. But the postseason can be stressful. Crushing losses, wild upsets, your unhinged six game parlay falling apart at the literal last second. Things can get rough and it can leave you feeling a little sour. But you got to look on the bright side. Once your team is out and headed off to decompress, you can finally relax. Now you can actually enjoy the postseason without all the heart palpitations. That's why we're partnering with Jim Beam. We want to help you turn that lemon of a loss into delicious, tasty Jim Beam and lemonade. Because it's really the perfect bevy for the offseason. Refreshing, perfect sweetness, little bit of tang on your tongue and best paired with stress free watching. So gather the boys and grab some Jim Beam and lemonade to make the rest of the postseason just a little bit sweeter. Refresh your season with Jim Beam and lemonade best enjoyed together. Please drink responsibly. Jim beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon 40 alcohol by volume 2025 James B. Beam Distilling.

[Jeremy Clump]

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[Will Compton]

The postseason is upon us and there's really nothing like it. But the postseason can be stressful. Crushing losses, wild upsets, your unhinged parlay falling apart at the literal last second. Things can get rough and it can leave you feeling a little sour. But you gotta look at the bright side. Once your team is out and headed to decompress, you can finally relax. Now you can actually enjoy the postseason with all of the heart palpitations. That's why we're partnering with Jim Beam. We want to help you turn that lemon of a loss into delicious, tasty Jim Beam and lemonade. Because it's really the perfect bevy for the offseason. It's refreshing, it's got the perfect sweetness and a little bit of tang on your tongue. Best paired with stress free watching when your team is out. So gather the the boys and grab some Jim Beam and lemonade to make the rest of the postseason just a little bit sweeter. Refresh your season with Jim Beam and lemonade best enjoyed together. Please drink responsibly. Jim Beam Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey 40% alcohol by volume 2025. James B. Beam Distilling Co. Clermont, Kentucky. What do you do when the headlines.

[Ben Higgins]

Don'T explain what's happening inside of you? I'm Ben Higgins and if you can hear me is where climbing culture meets the soul. A place for real conversation. Each episode I sit down with people from all walks of life. Celebrities, thinkers and everyday folks and we go deeper than the polished story. We talk about what drives us, what shapes us and what gives us hope. We get honest about the big stuff. Identity when you don't recognize yourself anymore. Loss that changes you Purpose when success isn't enough enough Peace when your mind won't slow down. Faith when it's complicated. Some guests have answers. Most are still figuring it out. If you've ever felt like there has to be more to the story, this show is for you. Listen to if you can hear me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Jeremy Clump]

Special guest today on bustin with the boys man individual who's been through adversity. He's done everything in the in the league could possibly but more than anything, a guy that is for the boys. More than anyone could possibly say after this week there was rumors flying around everywhere. Christian McCaffrey is not going to do busting with the boys. What if he doesn't? What does that mean for the culture? Sure enough, it was all just a rumor mill.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Rumors. Rumors. It's fan talk. It's. It's media talk. It's all the speculated stuff that makes the show fun to watch. But at the end of the day in the back of my head I knew the whole time I'm showing up up.

[Will Compton]

Yeah we they could put you as limited participation all week long I'm playing in the game but you're gonna make the light of cane.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah you'll do whatever it is some Wednesday you might have something happened whatever it's it's, it's gonna might affect Thursday. Friday it's not affecting Sunday I'll be here with the boys in the chair.

[Jeremy Clump]

I like to, I like to picture you just laying in your bed and just kind of scrolling and seeing Christian McCaffrey for the boys question mark a bunch of things people wondering you're just smiling to yourself. Knowing.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Small smirk.

[Jeremy Clump]

I'm about to shock the world.

[Will Compton]

People forget that CMC was like an OG without being an OG to us. Like, he bought the merch on his own.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

Because Ionitis was his teammate in Carolina. And I remember they were. I think they were traveling to a game, and they were on the plane, and Matt snaps a photo. He's like, cmc wanted me to send this to you. And he's like, rocking our hat.

[Jeremy Clump]

He was a boy before.

[Will Compton]

He was a boy before. Yeah. Before the relationship even started.

[Jeremy Clump]

Right.

[Will Compton]

He was a homie.

[Jeremy Clump]

And we've gone probably, what, a minute and a half into this podcast, and we have not even mentioned that this young man. One comeback player of the year.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Within 24 hours.

[Jeremy Clump]

Dude, was it. Was that surprising to you, or did they kind of tell you before?

[Christian McCaffrey]

No, it's surprising. Some people will tell you, like, hey, just be prepared in case it happens. But.

[Will Compton]

So that way you can work on a speech.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah, so you can work on a speech. I worked on it. I didn't say I, I, I had a lot I wanted to say, but they give you minimal time, so I don't know. But it was, it was cool. Huge honor. Definitely.

[Will Compton]

When they're telling you to, like, get prepared and you're kind of thinking of speech, do you have, like, nerves or anxiety thinking about, oh, I'm gonna walk up there like, you want some. Maybe I want some stuff of substance. Like, do I want to hit him with a joke? Do you feel, like, a little bit of anxiety of, like, I'm about to go up there in front of everybody?

[Christian McCaffrey]

It's, it's some, it's a, you know. Yeah. I think I always played close to the chest with, with that, you know, get your thank yous out. But it is a cool honor, too. I mean, it really is. So, you know, you want to be genuine and meaningful. And I think I had a few jokes lined up, and then I looked at some of the past winners and they made the jokes, and I'm like, I can't be recycling jokes every other year. You get. You know what I mean?

[Will Compton]

Can't recycle jokes.

[Jeremy Clump]

You gotta be original.

[Christian McCaffrey]

So I just stayed away from the jokes.

[Will Compton]

Smart man.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Focus on the wife. Shouting out the family.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Shout out the wife. Shout out the family. Mention the daughter. Clip it so that she can go back when she's older. Maybe she's got Instagram. It's my birthday. She throws that up.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. You're not going to understand this now.

[Christian McCaffrey]

It Wasn't for. It wasn't. It was. This was for me in 15 years.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

That's what that was for.

[Jeremy Clump]

Everyone's gonna think, how, what a good dad.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Oh, man, this guy's incredible.

[Jeremy Clump]

This is a 15 year play in your head. We need that to happen. Have you had a chase like, when reflect on. Because I remember last year we were talking about all the stuff going on. Was it public what you had? Because I don't want to say anything right now. That wasn't public.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I kind of went, yeah, I went through the ringer last year for sure. Had a lot going on. I kind of get, you know, I gave my trainers a real big project. I was like, hey, look, here's what's going on. Can you get me back? And, you know, had. It was all day, every day. You know, when I. When I think about this season, I. I think mostly about January 1st until training camp, because that felt just so ch. It was just so challenging, you know, in all ways.

[Will Compton]

So are we talking about the calf?

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, yeah. Yes.

[Will Compton]

The injury last year?

[Jeremy Clump]

The injury last year. All that stuff you go through. I don't know if it's public, if you. And he's like, yeah, that, like, James.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff. Yeah, I was like, because he's talking.

[Will Compton]

My brain's trying to work.

[Christian McCaffrey]

No, it's just there was one thing after. After the other that I just, you know, had to deal with. And it was one of those things where it felt like you just couldn't catch a break. And then, you know, when the season ended, it's like, obviously people tell you to take a break, all that stuff. But I was addressing so many things that it was like, look, you really don't have time, like, if you want to come back. Like, I didn't want to Ms. Otas. I wanted to come back for Otas, like, ready to go. But I could hard. You know, I got to the point where I could train, like, train and healthily, probably like a week before ota. So it was rehab, rehab, rehab. Then you go to OTAS and you're still rehabbing. Right. But you're going through the. The practice and you're managing and. And then camp, there's only. Or the summer before camp, there's only so much time. So it was a long, grueling process. But one of the cool things I got to do with my brother Luke, so he trained with me all. All off season. I swear that kept me going. Man, it was so fun to train with my brother. I've gotten to play with my other two brothers, but I haven't. I've never played with him. And then. But. But being able to train with him this year was. I mean, I can't even tell you how awesome it was just having a training partner, somebody to push you that obviously is your brother. And, you know, some days when you're alone and you're hurting, it's like, man, I don't know if I can make it today. And then you see him running, and you're like. It's that mental competitiveness that continued to, like, push me throughout so much of these training sessions that. That I really think played a big role.

[Will Compton]

How old are you now?

[Christian McCaffrey]

29.

[Will Compton]

29.

[Jeremy Clump]

He's old.

[Will Compton]

So when. But when these injuries. Yeah, when these injuries happen, how frustrating is it for you? Because when they were kind of piling up and popping up last year, it's almost like universally like, okay, he's getting a little bit older. White running back is. Are we seeing. That's.

[Jeremy Clump]

You know, what it has to do with.

[Will Compton]

Come on.

[Jeremy Clump]

You're not supposed to be here, man.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I'm not supposed to be here.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you're right. Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

You're not supposed to be here.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. And so that, like, goes into.

[Christian McCaffrey]

But, I mean, in nine years later, it's like, it can't be that. Oh, I'm not. Yeah, but. No, I know. You're right, though.

[Jeremy Clump]

People won't say. I'm just saying it's not like, hey.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You'Re getting older, you've had some injuries, you're white.

[Jeremy Clump]

Wait, what?

[Will Compton]

Just contextually, that part didn't make sense, especially I think. I think it was number two on my list.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I mean, think of all the stuff you had to go through last year being.

[Jeremy Clump]

Mindset. That's the exact mindset a white running back needs to have, too. He doesn't realize how big of a deal it is.

[Will Compton]

All right, so endangered species never know they're endangered, man.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Like the snow leopard.

[Jeremy Clump]

What were you asking?

[Will Compton]

Christian knows how I was feeling last year. I'm like, oh, the whiteness is catching up to. But the mortality of a.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Catches up to us at some point to get you.

[Will Compton]

It's.

[Christian McCaffrey]

It's in. It's inevitable.

[Will Compton]

Inevitable.

[Jeremy Clump]

Get you.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Did you feel whiter this year?

[Will Compton]

Oh, God, I'm starting to sweat.

[Jeremy Clump]

My gut's hurting.

[Will Compton]

But this idea.

[Jeremy Clump]

Finish your question. Finish your question.

[Will Compton]

The mortality of, like, yo, this could be the beginning of the end for Christian McCaffrey. Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

You know, there's a handful of black Running backs are, like, good. Yeah. We told you. We told you this wasn't gonna last forever.

[Christian McCaffrey]

We're just waiting. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But even as a player, like, no one even, like, from the front office level or people that brought you in, like, I wonder if they're thinking, my mortality is coming to life now.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah. You know, we can wipe away the.

[Will Compton]

Laughter we just had.

[Jeremy Clump]

I'm still thinking about Trent Williams sitting there, but I told y'. All.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah, no, yeah. I think, look, especially when you're going through a rehab process, I. It really doesn't matter if it's. You're in year nine or in year four. Like, I had similar thoughts, you know, when I was. Because I had. I had a tough injury year in Carolina, a couple. A year and a half, really. And all those same thoughts come back, you know, whether you're older or not. And so I think part or whiter, you know?

[Jeremy Clump]

You know.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I always felt like if I could just show up every day and see what happens, and. And I think being. Having to go through that stuff beforehand definitely taught me a lot because it showed me that it is possible and that all the noise you'll have to listen to and those thoughts in your head, those don't have to be true. And so I tried to just as as much as possible, even if. Even though it was so difficult, I tried to just lock in and show up every day and train my ass off and rehab as hard as I could and just see what would happen. I think. I think that's the only way to do it. It's the only way to be sustainable mentally and emotionally through the off season. Otherwise, you're just gonna ride this roller coaster of emotions where you're listening to everything and, you know, even yourself. Yeah. There's doubts. You know, there's doubts. There's a lot of uncertainty, like, am I even gonna be healthy for this next? Like, you. You know, there's all those things come into play, but you just show up every day, man, and. And eventually you start to feel good, and you're like, okay, I'm back. I can do this.

[Jeremy Clump]

When did it start to click? During the off season. You're like, okay, I'm gonna be that mindset of, okay, I'm back. I can do this.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I think in the summer when I was training, like, after OTAs, there's just one day where you run in routes and you're like, all right, I feel like me again. Yeah, I feel like me again. Like, don't get me wrong. Would I rather a full offseason yeah. Like, again, there's only so much time to train. So I'm excited I came out healthy this year because now I can, you know, I'm going to be months ahead of where I was last year, and if I do it right, I think there can be massive advantages to that. So, you know, I'm excited. Ending the season hurt and having to go through all that stuff is, you know, it just prolongs, you know, getting to your peak, you know, that's why I felt like this year I, I, I toughed through a lot. But now that I'm healthy, I'm excited for the off season.

[Jeremy Clump]

How surprised are you that you are healthy? Because literally no one, you're, no one on your team was healthy at one point and it was like, all right, give Christian the ball in 50 different ways for this game. Like the Rams game, or was it Rams or Seattle that you just had like 50 fantasy points, were sitting there streaming the game. It was like a Thursday night game and everyone's hurt. I think Kittle had a groin at that point. I think Trent was out. Fred Warner just got hurt. Nick was out. Like every, like, casual fan who can name a player on the 49ers was essentially hurt and done for the season. And it was just you. And you just became the Bell cow for the entire year.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah, I mean, I think that again, I think that's some of the stuff you read, but I don't, I'd never saw it as it was just me at all. You know, like, Mac Jones balled his ass off. We had, we had backups come in here, you know, off the street. Guys like Kendrick Bourne had 184 yards in that Thursday night game. Like that. That's not like, you know, yeah, you're not alone. Right. There's like some guy just had 184 yards. DeMarcus Robinson's out there balling, and he missed the first three weeks and he comes like all of these. Juwan Jennings is out. Like, you're not, you're never alone, you know. I know, like, there's, there's your, you know, the big guys and the big names that you think, that you think of when you think of starting, you know, starters in the NFL. But I think that was one of the coolest parts about this team this year was how unbelievable the depth was and the rookies.

[Jeremy Clump]

There's.

[Christian McCaffrey]

We had guys come in who made serious noise that have never played in meaningful games. And you could see the standard that the guys like George, the guys like Fred, you know, the, the guys like Brock and all these guys have set for so long, you could see it trickle down into the, you know, the younger guys and the second string guys to where, you know, you can't replace guys like that. You know, it's a team effort to replace guys like that when they get hurt. But that's why it was so fun to be a part of. You know, I never felt like, oh man, that wasn't the case for me because I watched the tape and I could see you got guys out here balling, you know, and selling out. So that was. Made it fun.

[Will Compton]

Wasn't it wild too? Just all the injuries that were taking place. Like at the end of the year, you guys bring in Eric Hendricks, who goes from playing a few snaps to where he's basically starting the entire games, either the last game of the season, the playoff game. It was nuts to kind of see because you guys were like the team. The NFC west was the best division in football this year. You guys. What'd you guys record end up at the end of the regular season? 1212 wins. Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah, 12 and 5.

[Will Compton]

12 and 5. But just knowing that you guys were always the team, that's like they're not talked about or at some point it's going to catch up to them because they're winning games. But you weren't talked about like Seattle, you weren't talked about like the Rams. All these other teams who are playing well are playing at a high level. What was it like? Just kind of each week it felt like a different team was on the field.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah. Again, I think that was the coolest part because it's not like we didn't know all that noise was going on.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I mean, I think. And we had a lot of young guys too, and so that can be tough as a young player coming in, having to hear all that for the first time in your career and block it out and just ball and show up to work every day in practice. And they really did that. Man, I found so much inspiration from a lot of our backups and younger guys this year, more than I'd say I ever have. Because normally, I mean, you guys been a part of teams, you lose all those guys, like it's easy to hang and hang it up and be like, ah, you know, maybe I can have some good individual stats or whatever and see what happens. And next, you know, that was never the case, man. I think that's a huge testament to, to the staff and getting guys right. All the position coaches. Kyle's Unbelievable. You know, in my opinion, he's the coach of the year. And what he did with our team this year, not just. Not just, you know, the. The scheme and all that stuff, but the way he gets these guys to play from day one, there's a very high standard and, you know, again, obviously didn't end the way we wanted, but it was a team I'll always remember.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. So you don't think Vape should have won coach of the year?

[Christian McCaffrey]

No, I think he's equally deserving, but I'm biased.

[Will Compton]

Damn.

[Jeremy Clump]

Link.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I. Personally, I. I think, you know, when you look at. I just. Kyle's my guy, dude. I mean, I.

[Will Compton]

That's.

[Christian McCaffrey]

That's somebody, you know, obviously traded for me, believes in me, gives me the rock. I. I think he's the best football mind I've ever been a part or been around. But I. I also think when you look at the adversity that our team had to face this year, and there's a lot of coaches that I don't know if they win 12 games and go to the playoffs and win a playoff game and have, you know, serious shot at a run. So with a week 14 by, you know, all that stuff. All that stuff is. It's not nothing. Right? It's. It's not everything, but it's not nothing. And Power Station, he just did a hell of a. He did a hell of a job with all that stuff.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, did.

[Will Compton]

It is.

[Jeremy Clump]

It's a. It's a phenomenal argument for Shanahan to win it because you're. When you're losing this talent on the field, you're not just losing that, but you're losing, like, the leadership in those meeting rooms as well. And for Shanahan to have, like to scheme up these plays with these guys, like rookies and guys people don't really know of very much, like, scheming them open. Mac Jones comes in. He was at the Patriots. No one really believed in him. He was kind of like, in that, you know, we'll see how the 49ers are dead. And then he balls out to the point where he's at the press conference and people are saying, hey, when Brock Purdy comes back, do you think you should be the starter? Basically? And he handles that incredibly. It just seems like every year that goes by, even though you guys still have the cell phone tower and you guys get injured all the time, you guys just are a rock as far as a locker room goes. Like, everybody that goes in there, like, they. Like the 49ers don't become the player. The player becomes the 49ers. Like, the culture stands no matter what, who's on the field, which is just badass.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah, it's well said.

[Will Compton]

How was the dynamic. How was the dynamic being around when Max Bowen, like, that team's having fun? You know, everything's all good inside the locker room, but seeing it unfold. Mack had an unbelievable answer when somebody asked him directly about it on handling, whether his role with the team and everything else. But from your vantage point, how was that dynamic being around it? When the noise was at its loudest.

[Christian McCaffrey]

It was as good as you could imagine. Like, legitimate love for each other, legitimate love for football, respect between the entire room and, you know, as far as outside of the quarterback room, you know, I think it was just this. This great understanding that, dude, I don't care who's in the game or what game or who we're playing, we all have our own individual jobs to do and just. It was a good obsession over our individual jobs. Hey, whoever's at quarterback, Mac or Brock, be in the right spot so he can hit you. You know what I mean? Like, don't, don't. Again, it was just the blocking out of the noise that I think was a sign of a good culture and a mature team.

[Jeremy Clump]

With all the injuries that took place, the one that looked like was like the most devastating to the boys was George Kittle and the Achilles and everything like that. What was like, you.

[Christian McCaffrey]

We.

[Jeremy Clump]

We've all been on the field. When guys get hurt, there's like a serious injury that takes place, and there's kind of like a moment of pause. Like, three, four plays go by, and everyone's like, like, kind of looking behind their shoulder a little bit, making sure they're good. But with George, just because he loves football so much in, like, such a pure way, it feel like. It felt like way different than anybody than anybody else as far as his leadership, the way he is a leader on the team and plays and all that. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

[Will Compton]

When you put Georgia in my head, Fred. I mean, Fred.

[Christian McCaffrey]

One.

[Will Compton]

It was like, no.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. There wasn't one that was more devastating than the other. And we lost Bosa pretty early. We lost George week one. We lost Brock after week one, and. And then we lost Fred. I think three weeks later, lost Bosa. I don't. I forget what week early. Ricky dealt with some struggles. There wasn't one more devastating than the other. You know, anytime and I think it's because we've all been through it before. When you can't play, man, it's. It's grueling, you know, it sucks. It really does. Having to watch your team play football is. Is a pretty miserable experience, especially when you love football as much as all those guys I just mentioned do. And I've been there, man, It's. It sucks. You don't feel like you're a part of the team. You kind of just feel like an outsider watching. And it was so cool to see the leadership from George when he wasn't playing, the leadership from Fred when he wasn't playing, how they were still active in the locker room, still active in meetings, still had so much hope there, you know, all the feeling of the outside of, like, oh, I'm so sorry. Like, nobody felt like that. You know, you talk to George about his injuries and, you know, oh, I'm fine. I'll be just fine. You know, he's as upbeat as anybody. I'll be just fine. I'll be back and sit, whatever it is, six weeks, I'll be fine. I'll be ready to go. Even his Achilles stuff. Yeah, I'll be. I'll be ready. Week one, yeah, he's, like, dialed in and happy, and you're like, oh, now we have hope. But I think if you have leaders like that and they do it the other way, where it's depressing and it's a. You know, even that mentality, as hard as it probably is for them to put a smile on, in a lot of moments, they do it. And I think they do it so that we don't see how sad they are, and we continue to have hope that, hey, we can still do this. And there's, you know, Fred's coaching up the other guys. Bosa's helping Mikel out. Then we lose Mikel, which was a huge shot, but that room is still playing hard. So it's, you know, as much as it sucked, it was a great reminder for me of the fundamentals of football. Will always win games, and that's a good culture. You know, blocking and tackling, playing as hard as you can and practicing as hard as you can and selling out.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

George said his wife's mad at us.

[Jeremy Clump]

Why?

[Will Compton]

Because we did the whole, would you do anything for. We were talking about super bowl, and I was like, would you go on IR and, like, week. Last week of the season if it meant the team could win the Super Bowl? And he was like, yes. And I'm like, I don't know why she's mad at me. The football gods obviously didn't deliver. Yeah, they're into the bargain. But he sent me the clip. I'm like, I was like, I just put laugh out loud what I, what I do. And he sent the clip. He's like, yeah, you guys are on her shit list. And I'm like, that's fair. But if I could pass the blame, I put that on the football gods. Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

We probably shouldn't have asked the question. I think we could, that's where we could kind of fall back.

[Will Compton]

Would you, would you take a season ending?

[Christian McCaffrey]

No. It's a bad question.

[Jeremy Clump]

It's a bad question.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

We're not gonna, we're not gonna ask that. We're not gonna ask that question.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Bad ball.

[Jeremy Clump]

We're not gonna.

[Will Compton]

Don't blame the gods. That's all that's on us.

[Jeremy Clump]

That's on us. And we'll take full responsibility for George Kittle's injury this year.

[Will Compton]

God, Claire, we are sorry.

[Jeremy Clump]

We are.

[Will Compton]

We are sorry.

[Jeremy Clump]

That's.

[Will Compton]

So what was your first welcome to the NFL money.

[Jeremy Clump]

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[Will Compton]

Hey, let's, let's, let's just, let's just ask Power Station. Let's Pretend the cameras are off. Let's be in the locker room. Game me up on the eml.

[Christian McCaffrey]

It's like, son, once you start, there's no going back. Doing a will right now because we've.

[Will Compton]

Been in the locker rooms. We all know whether. Whatever, whatever. When you find anything that can allow you to be 1% better, any edge, anything that can bring you down, anything, you want it out of your. Out of your life. So as this stuff is blowing up, I'm like, surely there's got to be something to this. And there's no way, knowing the rabbit holes that we go down in the off season to eliminate. You know, you're getting the joke. So you turn off the WI fi or you go and I guess cut the router, cut the wires, or you don't want any. Any WI fi around you while you.

[Jeremy Clump]

Sleep, which, by the way, is a heady place play. That's a heady play.

[Will Compton]

Where the. The necklace.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I don't want to be known.

[Will Compton]

Yes.

[Jeremy Clump]

But if it's becoming news to the public, you know, the boys are in the locker room, like, sitting there being like, hey, I thought I felt my hamstring a little tighter when I signed here last year.

[Will Compton]

The minute they get off the practice field, there might be grounding mats all over the locker room. They're like, all right, get on this immediately.

[Jeremy Clump]

Have to, need to.

[Will Compton]

But knowing, like, understanding that, that, that that game within the game, within the game from a player side, like, like, what are the thoughts on the power station?

[Christian McCaffrey]

Here's the deal. There's too many variables to say that, like, this power station is what's causing an injury. There's too many variables.

[Will Compton]

I agree.

[Christian McCaffrey]

NFL football. NFL football. Listen, at the same way as, you know, not drinking water is bad for you, right? So you're going to drink water, but.

[Jeremy Clump]

What kind of water?

[Christian McCaffrey]

But we have our phones attached to us all the time, right. That's also bad for you. Do people, you know, Is that. Is that what it is? Is it? Is it. Maybe you didn't get enough sleep. Maybe you took a wrong hit. Now you're compensating. You didn't feel it, but now you're. Fred got rolled up on. That's not like a, you know, what are you gonna do? That's. That's just. That's brutal. There's. And in my opinion, right, like, I look at everything as something like the lights in this room, that light right there, is that dehydrating in a weird way? I don't. I don't know, but maybe it is. And so for me, like, you mentioned, I turned the WI fi off. I don't always do that. I mentioned it to Fred a couple times, and he went out and telling the world that I turned my WI fi off.

[Will Compton]

What? Turning the WI fi off? Like, just turn it off on your phone, or you go. And you are the right one shutting it down.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Here's the deal again. I'm not a doctor, not a scientist. I've done the same amount of research as probably anybody else, and I have yet to come to any solid conclusions worth publicizing on a podcast. Right? So. So that's where I'm at.

[Will Compton]

But you're on bus. And so there's a lot.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Let me tell you this right now. Like, if I. If. If I wasn't on the Niners and someone was like, hey, dude, knowing all this, do you want to go play for the Niners? I would jump to go play for the Niners. Yes. This, this. And. And that's where it's frustrating for us, because we're like, dude, like, I read something. It's like, free agents. Are. Are. Is this something free agents should consider before signing the Niners?

[Jeremy Clump]

I'm like, no, that's. That's like, hey, shut the hell up.

[Christian McCaffrey]

About the power station. Like, we want to get good guys to come.

[Jeremy Clump]

There's nothing.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You know. You know, Fred trains there all year round. He's been healthy seven years. Guys train there all year again, people forget. Guys go off into their own states in the off season and do their own training, and there's. And, you know, you're not with the team all the time. What happened in practice? Did something happen? You get rolled up on a little bit in practice. Like, is it. I look at.

[Will Compton]

As.

[Christian McCaffrey]

We had a really shitty year when it comes to injuries. Some years are like that for a lot of teams, you know, and to say that it's caused by one thing I think is too broad of a statement.

[Jeremy Clump]

I. Hey, I agree with that. That part right there that you guys. Because there's. Do you have an airstag?

[Will Compton]

You got a little error.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I had it.

[Jeremy Clump]

I had it on the top.

[Will Compton]

You got something else.

[Jeremy Clump]

Show us your phone.

[Will Compton]

He said, I got something.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I got a case on my phone.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Blocks.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Huh?

[Jeremy Clump]

Blocks. EMF blocking, a regular phone case.

[Will Compton]

Just a couple.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Some stuff underneath.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, I. I don't disagree with you that, like, one thing cannot be.

[Christian McCaffrey]

It's never one thing.

[Jeremy Clump]

It's never one.

[Christian McCaffrey]

And I think as somebody who's gone through injuries, you can drive yourself mad. Trying to figure out, you know, yeah, hey, I need to do this differently. It's like, you better be right about your assumption, otherwise you're going to change a lot of stuff that you really didn't need to change. You know, what if you just got unlucky? What if, you know, and that's where it's. That's where it's so difficult. And I think that's the biggest challenge for us is knowing what to do and when to do it and kind of trusting that process throughout an off season.

[Jeremy Clump]

And, dude, when you start to go through the, like, the biohacking world and just like, finding out more and more about health, like being in high school, you didn't because your dad but us to be like, yo, kfc, like, that's chicken. That's protein. You'd eat that. And then you, like, get another level. Like, oh, by the way, do you guys know fried chicken's bad for you? And then you kind of like, like.

[Will Compton]

Or like, hey, stop eating white bread. Enriched bleach flour. Oh, I gotta look and see if it's enriched.

[Jeremy Clump]

Right? Then you start learning about gluten and all these.

[Christian McCaffrey]

All these different things. Yeah, you can.

[Jeremy Clump]

So there's layer after layer after layer. And so, yeah, when you get injured, that's when the brain and like, the conspiracy theory brain of yours are always trying to get better. What's enough? And to me, it's like, if I could take every bad variable, I absolutely would. But then everything, the phone, the cell phone tower, you know, the sheets, it's a. Is it 100 cotton? No, it's a tri blend. And that means there's this in there and you just. It's everything, dude. Everything.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You've done your research. Oh, dude, you just mentioned a lot of stuff.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, because we, we, like. That was kind of like one of the foundational pieces of our friendship was like, when we started talking about podcasts, Big Rogan, blah, blah. Hey, Ben. Do you know about Ben Greenfield? Yeah, I do. So we started doing accountability, Billy buddy stuff where it's like, like we're doing hgh, like protocols from sauna and cold tub. And then you start to learn about water. Like, generally water is good for you, but by the way, microplastics and all this, you have to get a filter. But then there's Kangen water. All these things.

[Will Compton]

Hey, if we're going to be in a hotel room during training camp, the entire hotel room set up, you get the red light, you got a cooling pad, you got. You're doing all This.

[Jeremy Clump]

I legit have crystals in my bedroom block emf.

[Christian McCaffrey]

And I know people are gonna go, listen, that you. But. Yeah, but that's what I mean. Like, it's because I feel like sometimes when we start talking about health and wellness, you get the comments like, these guys are idiots. These guys went to college. This guy went to Stanford. He's an idiot. I'm like, our body is our job. Being healthy 100% of the time is our job. That's what you do for a living. You'll look at anything and everything. And that's where I've gotten to the point of, is this electrical substation such a big deal? Like, again, knowing what I know, there is too many variables that happen for you to say, yeah, this is a major whatever. So. But no, I mean, I would say, too.

[Will Compton]

And I'll just speak. I'm speaking for myself. There is a lot of variables. But as that thing potentially being a variable, there is, like, you know, I would say from my own player's perspective, there's an appreciation that some of it is, like, getting some traction to at least just allow people to talk about, think about it, dive into it to learn a little bit more on, you know, that being the case. Because when people are telling me, it's like, oh, yeah, you know, we'll be sitting there talking with Delaney, and I'm like, is it true? I won't even look at you, so that way you don't feel like you're part of it. And I'm like, is it true that this power station, all the trees and planes and stuff are, like, dead compared to these other side? He's like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And I'm like, that's. You're just happy that it's a conversation being talked about on behalf of the players, because once.

[Jeremy Clump]

And Christian's not here, right?

[Will Compton]

He's not here.

[Jeremy Clump]

If you're the ownership of the 49ers and your goal is to hoist a Lombardi Trophy. Hoist a Lombardi trophy. It's like, we need to do everything we possibly can to make sure our players are ready every single Sunday in the fall. And if this is contributing negatively to this, then we should probably look at maybe relocating. Not San Francisco relocation, but just, like, let's move a couple blocks away.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Jeremy Clump]

Right. That's it. Right. You want to bring them back in?

[Will Compton]

Yeah. So you're.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I'd love to come back in if you'd allow me.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

If you want to be. I was more of like, a. I.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Would love to come back because we. This is because I think it's, it's, it's a twofold, right? Like guys live in apartment buildings. Well, that's flooded with wi fi and 5G. Even if you turn yours off in your room, you still have all these other places, right? So it's again like game. That's if we're, if we're, if we're.

[Will Compton]

He's right. If I'm literally.

[Christian McCaffrey]

If we're going into this. And that is, you know, and so where I, where I like to do my research now is because being around all of these things that us three don't know about, being around all the non scene energy, the 5G, the. That's inevitable. If you live in a city, you're around it. If you have your phone on you at all times and you're looking at the screen, you're around it all the time. You watch tv, it's all the time. How can you combat it? Is more the question. Like, okay, let's just say it is something. Well, what does it do and why does it. Cause it, it's like, ah, maybe it, you know, it might pull Electro. I'm making stuff up. I'm just talking because I'm an idiot and I don't know anything. But maybe it's pulling electrons from you, from your cells, which are big in hydration. It's why grounding is important. You're charging the electrons which allow you to hold water, hold electrolytes. It's all in the language. Electromagnetic field, electrolytes, magnetic field. Magnesium, a great mineral, helps with muscle recovery, helps with water retention. All these things, right?

[Will Compton]

He's cooking.

[Christian McCaffrey]

If that's what it's doing. And it's. Maybe you need to up your electrolyte intake and that's it. Maybe that's what it is, right? So it's. And that's where it's like, okay, is it a huge factor? Not if you hydrate properly. Okay, well then hydrate properly. It's something that simple. So I think sometimes we get, you know, we come up with these massive conclusions that really go back to the simplest things when it comes to health and wellness. And you mentioned the challenge of how many things out there, there are.

[Will Compton]

Are.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You listen to a podcast, it tells you one thing. You listen to another, it tells you another. You read stuff. Well, now it's saying it's not true. The food pyramid, all these things. We're evolving every single day. So for someone to say, I have the answers, like I'd like, you know, There's a lot of people saying they have the answers. Who do you listen to? And again, that's the challenge. And so I think understanding physics, understanding biomechanics, biochemistry, understanding that stuff will help you yourself, because now you know what things do.

[Jeremy Clump]

So. I don't know.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I mean, again, I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm spewing nothing.

[Will Compton]

I'll tell you what, the haters are out there swinging at air, watching you just cook right there.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

No, no.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

That is a standard education popping up.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Again, I don't know anything. I'm not a doctor, I'm not a scientist, and I don't know anything.

[Jeremy Clump]

Right.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I'm just saying. Yeah. This is all hypothetical.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

And if I'm a young player, when we were as all of us young players, and you gravitate, gravitate towards veterans or guys who have success in the league, and you're like, I need a mimic. Like, one of mine was like, Ryan Kerrigan, he was one of the cleanest guys out there as far as work ethic, eating, and everything else. And you're kind of watching his habits. If I'm sitting there as a young cat on the P squad or my rookie year, and I'm hearing Ryan on a podcast talking about, yeah, it's to the point. If you're staying in an apartment or a hotel, and I'm sitting there living in an apartment or a hotel, I'm thinking, I got to get my ass out of there.

[Jeremy Clump]

Get out of here as fast as possible. Yes.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Or, again, I can't go live close to the equator where the sun is at its purest form because it has less layers of atmosphere to run through. I can't go live there. I. I live. I live in the US So. So what can. It's not about, like, you got to get out of the hotel. Hey, if you're in a hotel again, like, in the morning, get outside a little bit. Go get your feet in some ground and. And. And look at this. Whatever you got. I mean, I. Listen, I don't. I don't do that every day either. I mean, I do get out in the sun first thing in the morning. I. I like the way I feel when I do it. I do my hot tub, my cold tub, all the pool stuff, whatever. I like being outside first thing in the morning, but I'm not like, you know, I need to get away from all this again. It's inevitable. It's part of our life. So it's just. It's more about how you can manage those things more than anything.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. Two things are important. Educate yourself as much as you want on these things. Because like, everybody wants to be healthier. Whether they do it or not is irrelevant. But people in general, like, hey, do you want to be healthy? They would say, yeah, I want to be healthy. And the next thing is, is like, once you have the information, do as much as of it as you want. But at some point it's gonna be like, you've got to live your life as well.

[Will Compton]

At some point you gotta order that pizza at midnight.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, exactly. Eventually there's gonna be a mint chocolate chip.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Ice cream.

[Jeremy Clump]

That's it.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I think the biggest effect on athletes in today's day and age is stress. And I think the more you can manage that stress, which means sometimes snag that pizza.

[Will Compton]

Snag.

[Christian McCaffrey]

If that's gonna give you, like, I mean, there's a middle ground, don't get me wrong, but I. Every time I've been so neurotic about every little thing all the time. You can never really enjoy the whole reason of why you're here. You know what I mean? And so that's why it's. When you're. I give a long answer about the substation, but that's why I don't. I'm not. I hate when people make it as if, like, this substation is the biggest deal on the planet. It's like, hey man, just drink a little bit more water if you think it's a big deal with electrolytes in it. And, you know, try not to be as you're on your phone as much. Next, the conversations. For me, it's over. Like, and also, and also, like, you see guys come in all the time. We had a lot of injuries. We also had a lot of guys healthy who played a lot of snaps and didn't have anything wrong with them the whole year. What about them? Why didn't. Why didn't it affect them? That's like, that's a genuine question that needs an answer. So that's why I was like, you know what, man? I don't know.

[Jeremy Clump]

You know what? It sounds like. Sounds like Christians had a long week on Radio Rail.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I just. This is bad. Know.

[Jeremy Clump]

Sounds like it sounds like it sounds like people have really been just like only asking you about this.

[Christian McCaffrey]

We can edit this in post and just. Can we redo the question.

[Jeremy Clump]

Dude, but yay, you're. You're right. Like, if it's an issue, do something that you think would negate the, like, Level out the issue. Move on. Onward.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Onward, man.

[Jeremy Clump]

That's it. How does Christian McAffert relieve stress? Talk about the pizza. We know you're a mint chocolate chip guy. If you're like, man, I had a long season.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I like cookies and cream better than mint chocolate chip.

[Jeremy Clump]

I thought you said.

[Christian McCaffrey]

But I also do like mint chocolate chip. And you didn't like mint chocolate chips.

[Will Compton]

Taylor combated that with, like. He just likes vanilla and sprinkles.

[Jeremy Clump]

Vanilla sprinkles and caramel is my favorite.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Sprinkles is where I draw the line. Can't do it. Completely deters it. First off, it's not. It doesn't. It's not. It's. It shouldn't be a texture that goes on ice cream.

[Jeremy Clump]

It's sad for me to see a grown man lose his childhood.

[Christian McCaffrey]

That's never was in my childhood. Didn't like it as a child. I understand.

[Jeremy Clump]

What, you have ice cream in your childhood.

[Christian McCaffrey]

No, see, I gave. I gave my dad a bad rap. My dad would let us have ice cream.

[Will Compton]

Hey, again, how were the family conversations after?

[Christian McCaffrey]

My dad's like, dude, you guys exaggerate the shit out of these stories I'm getting rid of.

[Jeremy Clump]

So funny.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You didn't fucking go to bed at 7:30. What are you talking about? I'm like, yeah, I made for a better story.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, the coke can in the woods, that's real.

[Christian McCaffrey]

That was real.

[Will Compton]

Getting tackled by one arm.

[Christian McCaffrey]

That was real. Yeah, but you know what? This is. What didn't get understood contextually was we loved it. Like, we were all over it. Like, dude, what else? You know what I mean? Like, I didn't want to get Jersey tackled. I'm. Oh, my God, we're taping our pads. Next thing, my whole team was taping the pads. So he's like, look, he wouldn't have done it if we didn't love it. You know what I mean? Like, and obviously sometimes you're like, dude, what are we doing? But again, I was like, I. You know, he said, I'm not supposed to be here. Like, I always felt like that. Like, I need to do everything under the sun to be as best as I can. That's how he was in his career, you know, he was the same way. He's like, hey, man, I need. He would, you know, again, he'd cut the little things off his cleats just to kill dead weights, you know, and wear the kicker pads to make them that much faster. Like, that's how he thought and that's how he played and, you know, helped win three Super Bowls and do all these things. And I'm like, man, that sounds fun. I'd rather do that than not. Why don't I listen? And we really did own it. We're like, dude, what else can we do that would help, you know?

[Jeremy Clump]

Ed McCaffrey hates cell phone towers.

[Will Compton]

Chase every edge you can, dude.

[Jeremy Clump]

Every edge you possibly can.

[Christian McCaffrey]

That's what it is. It's about. It's.

[Will Compton]

It's Jason.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Edges. That's it.

[Will Compton]

What else we got?

[Christian McCaffrey]

I'm talking weight. You guys gave me to talk too much. I'm.

[Jeremy Clump]

That's the show, man.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I'm spewing right now.

[Jeremy Clump]

You're. But you're also spitting, I think.

[Will Compton]

I think you putting a good bow.

[Christian McCaffrey]

No food straight. Probably quad espresso at this point.

[Jeremy Clump]

Just going. You're just on caffeine today. Just caffeine, intermittent fasting, finding the edges.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Not on purpose, though. Like, again, I'm not training right now. It's the week of the Super Bowl. It's hectic. Radio row. I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I had a 6pm coffee yesterday. That goes against all my rules, but it felt good.

[Will Compton]

I feel like a guy who can hit caffeine late at night. So go to sleep easy.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah, I. I mean, I slept great.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

I'm a cut out. Try to cut off by noon, but you get in these situations, like super bowl weekend, it's just like longer nights, earlier mornings.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

That's when I'm like, you know what? It's all out the window at this point.

[Will Compton]

What does when you are in it. What is a regimented Christian McCaffrey day in the life look like for you when you're on your own too? Not like it. I'm not talking, like, during the week of football or anything else. Like, when you're at your peak. The thing that you. Yeah. In the off season where you're, like, excited to fucking get it going.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah. I. Honestly, man, it was really cool last year because I. My trainers, I just. Whatever they tell me to do, I do it. And it's. It really. It's long days. So we structured it as, you know, you wake up, I do the. You know, I usually go contrast. Hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, cold. And then I'll do some pool mobility stuff in the morning and then eat, digest. That's important, though. I don't even go right to the run, you know.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. 30 to 45.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah. I just give myself enough whenever, you know.

[Delaney Walker]

All right.

[Will Compton]

What time does the Day start.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Is there like a. I like sleep, man. I'm not great at sleeping in, but I try to sleep as long as I can. I, I.

[Will Compton]

So what time are you going to bed, though?

[Christian McCaffrey]

I try to go to bed like 9, 9 to 10. Okay, 9 to 10 ish.

[Will Compton]

Okay.

[Christian McCaffrey]

If I were to, if I were to do it right, I, I feel like going to bed with the sun, waking up with the sun. Yeah, that's a good way of life. Yeah, I feel like way of life and, but no, I don't do that. I go 9, 9 to 10 ish. I wake up around 7 to 8, go through that whole process, eat. I'm usually running at like 10:30 ish. So we'll do all our field work, whatever that is. I'll come back, eat again, treatment, nap, maybe come back and lift in the afternoon, eat again. Any treatment? Usually there's not a whole lot of treatment after the lift. And then at night, do like a little pool, pool, flush workout.

[Jeremy Clump]

Kid loves pool, man.

[Will Compton]

You don't know how big it is. I mean, you're, you've been a cat, been at the top of the game for a long time. So I, I feel like, even though it seems small explaining all that, I feel like any like young athletes or anybody that gravitates towards listening to what your daily routine can be, I feel like that could be like bible for them. Like, this is how CMC does it.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah, well, well, this is what I'll say too, because. And this is why I'm like, I, I get that question a lot. Like, how do you train? Train? And people like, I want to copy how you train. I'm like, it really is not that simple.

[Will Compton]

Right?

[Christian McCaffrey]

Because I'm at a, I'm at my own spot in my career, my own spot in my journey physically. And you know, you get high school kids that you might have to do something completely different than late than me. And there's not like a, there's not a set program of training where this is what you should follow from January till August. It's not that easy, man, because, you know, there's again, I keep saying that it sound redundant, but there's, there's too many variables that go into it. What are your mechanics? Like, you might need mechanical changes that take two weeks to fix before you even start to do this program. Right? Like these drills. There's meaning and purpose behind the drills. And that's why, like anything, I'm not a trainer. So I need a trainer. I need somebody to watch me and correct Me when I. Where I'm wrong. Otherwise you're developing bad habits. And so that's part of training, too. Like, you know, oh, what do you do for training? It's like, dude, if you really want to know, like, spend an off season with us. That's the only way to really understand, you know, how I do it. But again, I. I've. I said this the other day. Like, I've played with hall of Famers. First ballot, who. They did it completely different than me. Their first ballot. Hall of Famers, like, some just clearly, whatever they did work, like, or they just trained differently. They still train hard, but they trained, but they committed to a program. Them, they trusted it and they did it. And I think that's more important than me saying, you should do three sets of ten here, force it. Like, that's. I think that can be. That can be dangerous to give because. Yeah, it can be dangerous because usually.

[Will Compton]

Evolved over time and developed.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah, for sure. It changes all the time.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Listen to guys like Clay Matthews talk about, like, Julius Peppers, who just kind of walk in the weight room, dude, pick up the.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I got a Julius Pepper story. I played with him in Carolina.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was lucky against him when you guys. He was in Carolina. Yeah, dude. I remember him getting. I remember getting a three point stance, like, one of the first snaps of the game, and he got in a three point stance. And I looked at my form and his form, and I was like, this is. Yeah, this is unfair.

[Christian McCaffrey]

No. Yeah, yeah. Like, that's somebody. That was like the first guy I saw when I walked in the locker room when I got drafted, and I was like, I was 20 and I look at Julius Peppers and I was like, all right, you gotta lock in, because that's crazy. But I remember a couple years later, I was like, hey, man, what do you do to train in the off season? It's like the first time I ever talked to him. He's so intimidating. He's the nicest guy ever, though. And he goes. He's got like the Andre the Giant voice, and he's like, the off season's for resting the muscles. I was like, dude, oh, my God. He didn't do shit, did he? I don't know what he did.

[Jeremy Clump]

Clearly, he just rested your muscles. His muscles.

[Christian McCaffrey]

One of the few combos I've had with him.

[Jeremy Clump]

God.

[Christian McCaffrey]

But no, that was. Yeah, that's. That's how he did it. And again, you know, that's. Julius Pepper is one of the best football players of all time. I personally, if I just rested my muscles. That's when that would show. So I. I can't do it. I mean, I. I've. I'd love to be able to do that. I can't. That's just not me. So. No, but that. That's what I mean. That's why it's like, dude, I train differently than other guys. I ask other guys all the time. What do you do for training? I play bas. Basketball. Like, damn, that's sick.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, they just go out and play different sports.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You think these guys are worried about a substation?

[Jeremy Clump]

No shot.

[Will Compton]

Not at all.

[Christian McCaffrey]

No, not. Not one bit.

[Jeremy Clump]

I was always the craziest thing when dudes were like, go have fun to train. Like, I'm gonna go play basketball.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I'm gonna play basketball.

[Jeremy Clump]

What, do you go to the beach and play spike ball?

[Christian McCaffrey]

I run. I run routes. I run routes. I'll do ladders and play hoops. I'm like, that sounds like the best off season of all time.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, just have a good time. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Was it. Didn't. Wasn't it Julius Peppers who. Who told Luke Keakley that he's getting the hall of Fame? God, that's big time, man. Shout out Luke. Friend of the show, friend of the boys.

[Christian McCaffrey]

The best.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Would he do that in practice all the time when he would just call out plays 24 7?

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Was just. Was he one of the guys, like, Max Crosby, they would say, like, hey, during practice, if you want to get something done, just like, take him out of practice for a little bit.

[Christian McCaffrey]

This is what I'll say about Luke, and this is why, to me, he's first off. He's a first ballot hall of Famer. I mean, he's probably. He's. He's classic Luke. I mean, I'm obviously honored. I get pissed off because I'm like, that's a first ballot, not a second. That's a first ballot hall of Famer. It's one of the best football players I've ever seen. He could have wrecked every practice, but he understood the need to give the offenses a look. And he was the best practice player I've ever been around. Like, he wasn't. He. He would do his job, and on tape, you'd be like, well, Luke would have made that tackle, but he. But he tagged off. Or he, like, let you finish the play. Like, he wasn't like, it when it was time to go. I mean, he'd kill you. He'd do whatever he wanted. And I think I mentioned this the other day on another Show. But Luke was, was, is such a special player because people talk about how smart he was. Like, oh, Luke is so smart. He calls out plays. He knew where the play was going. But people don't give him enough credit for how physically unbelievable he was. Like, I would watch him box, jump, boxes his height and run like 4, 4. Like he was insane. He was an unbelievable athlete. Shredded all the things that you would want in a linebacker. He was those two. But because he was so smart, that's all people talk about. But he was an absolute freak, man.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. You know why? He's a head up guy. That's what they'd be like. Oh, he's, he's a, his brain is his superpower.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You gotta be smart.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Gotta, gotta be smart. But, yeah, you're right.

[Christian McCaffrey]

No, I mean, whatever the reasoning is, I think, you know, I, I got to see, I think we all got to see it. Who played with him firsthand? Like, when you combine his intelligence with that athletic ability you have Luke Keakley, you know?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, he's a, he's a monster. Mount Rushmore backers.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. How is you talking about your daughter, your kids, daughter? How is your, your mindset changed since, like, having a kid? Like, when you're, when you're young and you're playing like the off season's yours, you go train, you hang out the boys, and then you end up married, kids, the whole thing.

[Will Compton]

Especially when you have a regiment that's dialed in around your life, and now.

[Jeremy Clump]

This kid's like three, four months old. Whenever it is during the season, you're like, you come home and it's like, I usually do, I remember, usually do this, but I have to have time. Like, it's very difficult having kids. When I was playing, it's like, it's very difficult to find that balance. How have you found that balance in the game?

[Christian McCaffrey]

Well, I think coming home and watching her smile at you, notice the world. Like you can't help but spend 30 minutes or an hour with her. It's. It's the greatest gift you could ever ask. It's like it truly is. Good day, bad day, doesn't matter. You come home and you're like, this is what life's about. You know, you're playing with her and holding her, and it's such a good reminder about how much bigger life is than football. But, you know, I honestly, I got to give a lot of credit to my wife because whatever I have to do for football, I do it. And she holds it down. To be honest, with you, you know, I, I, you know, we all have a certain amount of time we can play the game. And I'm like, look, I'm gonna maximize this. This is what needs to get done in order for me to play on Sunday, you know, and I try to be proactive with it. I'm not like scheduling stuff at 7pm you know, when I don't need to. If I can do it earlier so that I can spend some time with him at home, I will. But no, she holds it down for sure. She always lets me, hey, do, do what you need to do. Like get right.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. It's so important having a partner. That is the position of life that you're in. How it is not for long. And then eventually you're going to have to hang up. This isn't like I can just do this forever. And for them to understand that and take on, you know, 80, 90% during the football season, like people who have that, like you and I have had, or I had, you have, is. It's extremely special to have that. And it just, it just breeds success long term in a marriage. And then you two have each other's back.

[Will Compton]

How's the, how's the swaddle game?

[Christian McCaffrey]

Swaddle game is not great.

[Will Compton]

No, we did, we got, we got the Velcros.

[Christian McCaffrey]

She's done with swaddling, to be honest. Okay, so she's not in the swaddle.

[Jeremy Clump]

Anymore, but now you're watching the film on your swaddling. How could you?

[Christian McCaffrey]

I just knew it wasn't great. I could tell it wasn't great. I'll be. But my wife's was in fantastic. Like, unbelievable. And I always felt like mine was different and definitely worse. But that was, that's good for her character. Like, you can't just be so perfectly swaddled all the time.

[Jeremy Clump]

Like smart.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You need a little bit of adversity.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

And that was my. Yeah, no, Yep. Exactly.

[Jeremy Clump]

What is that?

[Christian McCaffrey]

She'll be better for it.

[Jeremy Clump]

What's the quality you have?

[Will Compton]

Go ahead. I was just gonna say she's sleeping through the night. She.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Six months.

[Will Compton]

That's great. That's awesome.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Sleeping great for the wife. Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

What's your, like your superpower quality that you have as a father? Early in the game, my mind was kids up late at night, wife's super tired. You need someone to put that baby to sleep. I can turn my brain off and just stare at a wall for two hours while this kid just cries in my arms. And that baby would eventually go to sleep.

[Christian McCaffrey]

That's. That's underrated. One of the best parts about being a dad is is. Or you get the nap. Like, oh, yeah, I'll give her the nap. I'll put her down for a nap. And you're right there with, you know, like, I get a nap. Like, this is fantastic.

[Will Compton]

And quiet, too.

[Christian McCaffrey]

So it's. And no, because you. Because she's asleep. No one bugs you. So you're napping now.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

In peace.

[Jeremy Clump]

So the superpower is taking a nap with your kid.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

It's a good dad hack.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah. I don't know if that's my super. Superpower would be. I don't know, man.

[Will Compton]

Need time to think about it. You haven't had food.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Haven't had food.

[Will Compton]

You haven't had food.

[Christian McCaffrey]

12 espressos.

[Will Compton]

12 espressos.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I'm good, though. I don't have one. I don't have one superpower. I think it's more good at a lot. Haven't perfected one quality, and I'm willing to look you guys in the face and tell you that.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, that's good.

[Will Compton]

Jack of all trades.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I'm still new.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Absolutely.

[Will Compton]

We getting the rollover. She rolling over.

[Jeremy Clump]

Over.

[Will Compton]

We crawl.

[Christian McCaffrey]

She's rolling. She loves rolling. She loves moving. She likes jumping on her little, you know, the.

[Jeremy Clump]

The little bouncy.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah, the bounce. Loves jumping.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Love jumping. But I'm trying to get her to crawl before she wants to stand. So I'm trying to get her to respect progressions, get her to crawl before she slips off.

[Jeremy Clump]

Right. You know, get the right dorsiflexion in the foot. You want the correct angles.

[Will Compton]

We can't.

[Jeremy Clump]

Bad habits. We can't have that. So you have to have a trainer.

[Christian McCaffrey]

That's why I'm here.

[Jeremy Clump]

How are we going to be with sports? Are we going to. In the words of Dave Lawan, my father, we're going to give them every opportunity to love sports.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I think sports are the best way for a kid to grow and develop and succeed in society.

[Will Compton]

Agreed. Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Love that. Whether you're good or not, it doesn't even matter if you're good or not. I actually think it's good if you're bad.

[Jeremy Clump]

My oldest. I think I made a mistake, and I'll tell you my mistake. I'll be vulnerable with you.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Please, Please.

[Jeremy Clump]

I was putting them in, like, gymnastics, like my kids. You see how tall I. I didn't really have body control until I was, like, about 16 years old. And that's when things Started to really work out for me before then. It's a Bambi on the ice. I couldn't figure it out. My poor kids, they have that trait as well. So my oldest put her in soccer. She's. She's asking the coach if both teams can just share the ball for a little bit. I put her in, you know, gymnastics. The kids are this tall, she's this tall. It just looks a little bit different. So I'm like trying to press her on. Hey, let's go outside. Let's throw the ball, let's go kick the ball, let's go do these things. And then I'm watching playoff hockey with her last April, and I'm sitting there and I'm just giving her a whole thing. Like, if you want, you could be great if you want to play sports. I'm just telling you like your old man did it. I can see it in you. And my daughter sits back and she just goes, you know what? Then I think I'm just gonna be me. And that was the moment. I was like, we're done here. This is. We don't have a fighting chance right now.

[Christian McCaffrey]

How'd that feel?

[Jeremy Clump]

Felt like my. I just lost a lot of money because I have to pay for school. That's what, that's what it felt like. It was heartbreaking. But also now she's in Jiu jitsu, which is kind of beating ass. Dude. It was. That's the thing about winning. She has like crazy perspective for an eight year old. She sits back and just kind of dials it in. But yeah, we got her in Jiu Jitsu and she does. She's all about that right now. She's like, she likes individual sports, so.

[Will Compton]

She'S getting in sport.

[Jeremy Clump]

She's getting in sport. Yes, singular.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Jiu Jitsu is the sickest thing for a kid to do, though.

[Will Compton]

Like, that's.

[Christian McCaffrey]

That is cool.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

At least it's not. I mean, I hate. By the way. Never mind. I can't say that's going to come back to haunt me.

[Jeremy Clump]

Don't worry about that.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Might come back to haunt me if I say at least. Because my daughter, you never know, she might be like, I don't want to play sports.

[Will Compton]

You're right, you do.

[Christian McCaffrey]

So let me just stop there.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Because I don't care what my. You know, I also am going to stop there.

[Will Compton]

That's my, you know, maybe I do. I. I'm stopping.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Let me just respect time.

[Jeremy Clump]

Being an individual myself, who has been in sports my entire life. And like all I really knew was sports. Having a kid that is, like, into piano, into art, songwriting class, doing a little bit of jujitsu, like, she's doing so many things that's, like. It becomes fun because you're doing. You're now doing things that, like, hey, I can't help you, but I can, like, be a part of these things with you. And that is a very fun thing as a father.

[Christian McCaffrey]

The best part about growing up, the best part about football growing up was playing basketball and baseball. Because if you loved football, you waited. You didn't. You weren't doing it all the time. Like, you got to escape it, put your mind on something else, then go to baseball or track, whatever it was, then, you know, come back to it. So I completely agree with you. I think doing a bunch of different stuff's important.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. You'd be itching as a young buck, as a young jit, just waiting for football season to come back around, because baseball, basketball, you could do those things all year round. And then as you get older, it gets forced on you a little bit more. Fall ball, you know, summer, but you're playing all throughout the season. Then if it's snowing in the wintertime, a dad has got a massive warehouse or garage to where you're hitting batting cage, or you're throwing the heavier baseball.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I always hated the indoor batting cage practice.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you get.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You get.

[Will Compton]

You get the gas heater.

[Christian McCaffrey]

It's just me. You're like. Like, it's always dark, lit, like some gritty warehouse, which I respect the setting, but it always felt like we should be doing something else. Like, this should be another sport time. Like baseball season's baseball season, and it's not baseball season. This would be in, like, you know, the fall or whatever.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

It's not in the fall anymore, is it?

[Jeremy Clump]

Spring, Spring, spring, spring.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah. And you'd be like, you know, I shouldn't be doing BP right now. I should be playing something else in. Outside. Yeah, in the snow. Because you're right outside.

[Will Compton]

It's, you know, quiet. You might have the gas, that huge heater just blowing, and then you just be hearing the crack of the bat and everything else. But it felt a little bit more transactional than then. You're in there actually playing sports with the fellas.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah, I never. Arizona was. We go outside.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You went to the. There's always, like, a couple vending machines at the front.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You know what I'm talking about. A couple vending machines. There's the water. Water fountain. It's like, kind of broken, but you can still get some out of there.

[Will Compton]

You hear the mound kind of hitting the concrete because there's just a, you know, a manufactured mound out there.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah. It's like your boy's dad loves this.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Like a little too much. He's the pitcher and he's, like, loving it.

[Will Compton]

Talking about your hips and your step and your bass and all of it constantly. Oh, I can feel those moments right now. I'm reliving them.

[Christian McCaffrey]

It's like you hear the crack of the bat and you hear another one a couple bays down.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Older guys are four. Four bays down.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Having bp, talking about your hands. Just getting them over good times.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Can't catch pop flies either, which was always a weird.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Love pop flies.

[Will Compton]

Love pop flies. Big pop fly guys.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Pop flies. Much better than grounders.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Take one off the chin.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Bleeding all over the place.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Get hit in the mouth. But then you get to play pepper.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Pepper's good game.

[Jeremy Clump]

What's pepper?

[Will Compton]

It's like all the boys are, like, lined up along the fence and essentially like, you know, coaches out there, and it's a game. You're trying to be the last one standing, but they're hitting, like, these little ground balls and you can't bobble at all, right?

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Okay.

[Will Compton]

And the minute you bobble, you're. You're eliminated. So then it keeps going down and down. The pressure rises, the spotlight gets a little brighter. It's like, who can be the last man standing? You might catch. Your boy might catch an easy one. You might get out on a hard one, and you're just devastated because you're like, man, ain't nobody feeling this.

[Jeremy Clump]

Play the game as coach. Like him better than me. He wanted me to fail right here.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

That's where you weed that out. Sounds like my childhood wasn't as dope as your guys. It's just like that memory lane I saw you guys go back in time for a minute.

[Christian McCaffrey]

I wish I appreciated baseball more as a kid because I always thought, man, baseball's boring. Baseball is boring. But, like, it really is just a built in schmelt with your boys.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Like you're just hanging out with your buddies, chewing seeds. Like, if you ever wanted to hang out with your buddies, play baseball with your buddies. And I didn't play in high school. I ran track instead. And looking back, I'm like, I wish I could have just shown up for the meets and then played baseball, right?

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Because all of my football buddies played baseball. And. And when track went in and they were still in it. We'd go and throw like a. A. A grill at right field, and we would grill brats. Cheddar brats. And we would just talk to whoever the opposing team's right fielder was, and it was like, it's awesome. Baseball is awesome.

[Will Compton]

A great pastime. You're right, too. Especially when new flavors of seeds are coming out. And your boy, I got some buffalo. You're like, buffalo.

[Christian McCaffrey]

The weather. The weather was good.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. They pull out a massive bag.

[Jeremy Clump]

First time someone pops up, pickle flavor on you. Like, I don't know if that's. That's gonna.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah, no shot. Then you have it, and you're like, holy pickle rips.

[Jeremy Clump]

Now you're kind of searching for pickle.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Mix of flavor bake.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Wasn't a mixed guy.

[Will Compton]

I was gonna say I wasn't a mixed guy. The mix of seed sounds crazy.

[Jeremy Clump]

That does sound fire.

[Will Compton]

Or in little league, like, you get done with your game, and they're like, oh, everybody's getting a snow cone at the concession stand. You're all just sprinting to get.

[Jeremy Clump]

There'd be two diamonds, and then right in the middle will be a concession stand. And you go get yourself nerd ropes and a hot dog. And you're like, the boys were truly living right now.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

That's what it was all about.

[Will Compton]

Mixing seeds.

[Jeremy Clump]

Hey, when you said nacho and ranch mixing seeds, though, I thought that was a nice little move. That has the potential. I've never done it, but.

[Will Compton]

No, I do think that's a nice conversation. I. I do think that sounds like a nice combo. But just hearing mixing seeds, because you're reminiscing. I'm just thinking all these different seeds in your mouth. Hey, I guess, though. Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. How about recess, man?

[Christian McCaffrey]

Dude, the smell of metal on your hands. Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

From the bars, playing that one game where you just throw the ball in the air. Whoever catches it got to tackle them.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

You toss that in there, trying to.

[Will Compton]

Throw a peek at your crush, and the minute she makes eye contact with you, you look away.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Playing tag. Playing tag with your crush. You tag her, she goes for some other dude. Devastating news.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

And she's running away, and you're like, there are tag backs.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You're like, no, I tagged you. You understand that? You understand what's going on here?

[Jeremy Clump]

Know what the game is right now? Right?

[Will Compton]

Writing notes back in the day.

[Christian McCaffrey]

And then you just.

[Jeremy Clump]

You leave.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You leave the game of tag and you just go with the boys to go play full on tackle football. Because you're pissed off.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Hoping that she's watching.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah. And you have 12 touchdowns. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

You make, like, a hell of a play. You kind of walk over like, yo, does she know I'm the alpha on this field right now? Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You have sweat stains. I like, oh, notes.

[Jeremy Clump]

Notes ripped.

[Will Compton]

You walk. You're, like, walking by and you're like.

[Jeremy Clump]

What would you rather on these notes?

[Will Compton]

A lot of different things, man. It might be, I might be in the relationship, and you're writing notes back and forth. I might be, you know, chasing where you got the yes or no box.

[Jeremy Clump]

Oh, you.

[Christian McCaffrey]

That's a forced response.

[Jeremy Clump]

How about aim?

[Will Compton]

I was a MSN messenger, cat.

[Jeremy Clump]

Whatever. It's on the computer.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So was aim. Was there moments where you could, like, something like crazy happen, then you immediately sign off and then sign back on, and your username might be. I just got hacked.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Not.

[Jeremy Clump]

Not having the stones to talk to a girl at school. But then you go on like, aol.

[Christian McCaffrey]

And you start messing up the craziest game ever.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

In person. And you're like.

[Jeremy Clump]

100%.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You give her that half hug.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You go up to your boys.

[Will Compton]

Who's that?

[Christian McCaffrey]

That's my girlfriend.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But, yeah, then you're on.

[Jeremy Clump]

You literally would ask girls out on aol, like, you want to be my girlfriend? Yes. I got. Immediately. I got to go. Lyl. I'm out of here.

[Will Compton]

G2G.

[Jeremy Clump]

Yeah. Yeah. You hit them with the Lyl, and then you kind of wait to see if they respond and say it back. And then they don't. They're like, I got to get out of here.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Clump]

Oh, you got a roll.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Just look at the time.

[Will Compton]

You got a roll.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Yeah. Where you going, dude? I got.

[Jeremy Clump]

Do you have something to do today?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, you'd be asking. You'd be asking.

[Christian McCaffrey]

Pizza at 2:15, like, an hour drive.

[Will Compton]

Will you flash me?

[Jeremy Clump]

How insane is it getting around this town?

[Will Compton]

Hey, you heard me. You'd be on. You bet. Will you flash me like this? So and so's father. And then that's when you sign all the time. Back on Got hacked.

[Jeremy Clump]

Christians got to go. Christians got to go. But, like, question Bud Light.

[Will Compton]

Question people. Do anything for an ice cold Bud Light. What would come Christian McCaffrey do anything for?

[Jeremy Clump]

Can't say. Family.

[Will Compton]

Maybe he can in this instance. Okay.

[Christian McCaffrey]

You can't take my daughter.

[Will Compton]

There we go.

[Jeremy Clump]

Hell of a show.

[Will Compton]

Hey, you're the man. Thank you, bro. Appreciate you making this happen.

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